Stay away from Conan

Siling Group was originally involved in the auction of Fujiang Group, but in the end, Siling Group withdrew from the final bidding, which allowed Suzuki Group to successfully purchase the collections of Hijikata Toshizo without any setbacks.

However, because he knew some details, Gao Yuan realized that the timing of Siling Group's withdrawal from the auction was a bit coincidental, so...

Before, because of his identity, he didn't want to take the initiative to contact Siling Group, so he didn't take any action, but now with what happened last night, Gao Yuan realized that the reason why Siling Group just withdrew from the auction might be worth referring to, and now Yukina Mitarai is right in front of him, so...

After a little thought, facing the current situation, Gao Yuan knew that Yukina Mitarai's actions just now must be due to the sequelae caused by the discovery of Kaito Kidd's infiltration into Siling Group, so he thought that he might be able to find out something from Yukina Mitarai by taking this opportunity.

So thinking like this, Gao Yuan couldn't help but ask Yukina Mitarai in confusion:

"What's going on with this person?"

In response, seeing that Gao Yuan was referring to Yukina Mitarai's behavior just now, Yukina Mitarai couldn't help but explain:

"Cousin, actually... you shouldn't blame Uncle Jinzong. It's because someone pretended to be you to approach us before, which made Uncle Jinzong more cautious this time. Please... don't take it to heart."

As a result of this explanation, Gao Yuan seemed a little surprised, and then he continued to say:

"Pretending to be me? Could it be... Kaito Kidd?"

"Yes, it was Kaito Kidd. He came here for unknown reasons, pretending to be you to approach us, but was discovered by the second uncle."

Yukina Mitarai continued to tell the story.

Then, when Kaito Kid was mentioned, Gao Yuan seemed to have thought of something. After thinking for a while, he continued the topic:

"When did that happen? By the way, because Kaito Kid appeared last night, Hattori Heiji went to chase him, so he hasn't come back yet... They all happened in Hokkaido, is there any connection?"

As Gao Yuan led the topic to this point, because it also involved Kaito Kid's actions, Gao Yuan naturally told everyone about Kaito Kid's target last night and the two short swords forged by Toshikawa Ronglong in the items of Hijikata Toshizo collected by the Fujiang Group.

Therefore, after listening to all this, Yukina Mitarai naturally told everyone what she knew, because the Shiling Group was also preparing to buy the items that the Fujiang Group had put up for auction, but it happened that after Kaito Kid tried to approach the Shiling Group but was discovered, Mitarai Souaki expressed that he would no longer participate in the auction and withdrew from the auction.

So, after hearing this, Gao Yuan couldn't help but understand and asked:

"So, it was Mr. Souaki Mitarai who proposed that the Siling Group finally withdraw from the auction? Why is that?"

This is what Gao Yuan really cares about.

"Yeah. But it was also my second uncle who originally proposed to buy these things. I don't know why he suddenly withdrew... But I think Uncle Jinzong might know, because this matter has always been handled by Uncle Jinzong."

Yukina Mitarai replied.

And after hearing this, Gao Yuan didn't want to ask Jinzong Mitarai, thinking that since it was Souaki Mitarai's decision, why not just ask Souaki Mitarai.

However, this is not a matter for him to ask. Looking at Yukina Mitarai in front of him, Gao Yuan thought about it and couldn't help but prepare to ask Yukina Mitarai about this matter, hoping that she could help ask why Souaki Mitarai wanted to buy the collections of the Fujiang Group, but suddenly didn't buy them.

Thus, facing Gao Yuan's request, Yukina Mitarai nodded in agreement without any hesitation.

So, seeing that this matter had made progress, Gao Yuan prepared to say goodbye first, not to disturb Tetsu Moroha and the others' play, and to go to the nearby area to look for Hattori Heiji.

In this regard, after Gao Yuan said goodbye to everyone and was about to leave, Yukina Mitarai suddenly noticed Xiao Ai who was following Gao Yuan, and seemed to think that she was a little familiar, but seeing that Gao Yuan had gone far away and it was not convenient to ask, she asked Tetsu Moroha and the others what was going on with the child who was following Gao Yuan. After all, it was the first time she saw such a child around Gao Yuan, but Yukina Mitarai felt that she seemed to have seen her somewhere.

Therefore, for this question, Tetsu Moroha told Yukina Mitarai that Xiao Ai was the sister of Gao Yuan's friend and was now staying at Gao Yuan's house. Then, since Gao Yuan did not give her an answer about the relationship between Gao Yuan and Yukina Mitarai, Tetsu Moroha asked Yukina Mitarai curiously about this matter.

In this regard, Yukina Mitarai also summarized some of the situations in the previous Hokkaido incident very simply. In short, Gao Yuan, who came to the Shiling Group to investigate, was accidentally discovered. In the end, it was discovered that he was also the blood of the Yukina Mitarai family, and in terms of seniority, he was naturally Yukina Mitarai's cousin.

Hearing this, Ooka Hongye and Tetsu Moroha were also a little surprised. They didn't expect that there would be such a thing. However, after talking about these, the three of them also began to prepare to play in Hakodate...

...

"Hey, Heiji, where did he go? He obviously valued this game very much, but I don't know what he did when Kidd appeared..."

At the same time, when Gao Yuan and Tie Zhu Yu left the competition venue, Conan and Kazuha followed Hattori Heiji into the venue even though they didn't see his name at the registration office, wanting to see if Hattori Heiji was really not there.

However, they didn't see him at the competition venue, so they went to the backstage of the venue for the teams to rest, but they didn't see him in the backstage lounge of Kaikata High School. Kazuha was helpless and leaned against the wall in the corridor, sighing.

Conan, who was following them, could only smile bitterly.

However, just at this moment, passing by the courtyard outside the corridor, Kazuha suddenly heard the sound of a samurai sword swinging from outside——

"Hmm, this sound?"

The sound was sharp and crisp. Kazuha often heard the swinging sound made by Hattori Heiji when practicing kendo, so he subconsciously responded to this sound——

"Heiji? Is it Heiji? What are you doing there?"

Somewhat anxiously, Kazuha ran from the corridor to the door leading to the courtyard, and saw a young man in his twenties, wearing a black kendo uniform, standing there practicing Iai.

So, after seeing that the other party was not Hattori Heiji, Kazuha was inevitably very embarrassed, knowing that he had made a mistake.

And the young man who was contacting Iai obviously realized that Kazuha who ran over seemed to have called him just now, but it seemed that he recognized the wrong person, and he couldn't help but wondered with some surprise.

"Sorry, I recognized the wrong person."