Conan's Distillery: A Semi-Workaholic's Slacking-Off Life

Chapter 80 Heiji Hattori: I hate the accelerator.

[If you've died somewhere, just say so. Don't come back, never come back. —Gin]

[(?_?) Mind your own business. — Coindus]

Gin, his face grim, turned off his phone screen.

Just how much does Jundu really not want to do missions with him? He only wanted to help Jundu change his lazy and slacking-off habits.

Now, as soon as he shows any sign of trying to get him to do a task, Jundu immediately runs far away, avoiding him at all costs.

Gin let out a helpless sigh—

That brat is so hard to manage.

—A remote mountain area in Tottori Prefecture—

Bai Yexiu turned off his phone screen, picked up the sack that seemed to contain a human body from the ground, and dragged it laboriously into a pre-dug pit.

He was ordered to come to Tottori to hunt down a traitor, and now his task is to bury the body.

Bai Yexiu wiped the sweat from his forehead, picked up a shovel, and skillfully buried the body.

But suddenly, as if guided by some intuition, Bai Yexiu looked sharply towards the direction of the main road—three people could be seen coming towards him from afar.

Bai Yexiu immediately put down the shovel and walked away, pretending that he had never done it.

I'm so unlucky.

Bai Yexiu hid behind a tree, peeking out half his head to look at the three uninvited guests, his eyes full of displeasure.

But when Bai Yexiu saw their faces clearly, he couldn't help but be stunned.

It was Heiji Hattori, Kazuha Toyama, and an American man.

Bai Yexiu's lips twitched, his eyes glancing at the corpses that weren't completely buried not far away.

With so much grass and bushes blocking the view, they shouldn't be discovered so quickly...

But as it turns out, fate did not grant Bai Yexiu's wishes.

"Huh? Heiji, look at that bush over there..." Toyama Kazuha squinted at the unusual bushes in the distance.

"Oh my, what a coincidence, Heiji." Byakuya Xiu suddenly stepped out from behind the tree.

He was still using Ryuzawa's identity, and he didn't want the corpse near him to be discovered so quickly. It would be better for an unsuspecting passerby to discover the corpse in front of Hattori Heiji than for Hattori Heiji to find it.

"Ryuzawa, what are you doing here?" Hattori Heiji was stunned.

Bai Yexiu looked at him with a slightly embarrassed expression, while Hattori Heiji instantly seemed to have a sudden realization: "Oh~ I understand. Are you done?"

"I had just finished, and then I heard your voices." Bai Yexiu continued the fabrication, going along with his story.

So that little rascal was relieving himself in the bushes...no wonder he suddenly popped out...And...he's actually quite good-looking...

Kazuha Toyama stroked his chin as he sized up Byakuya.

The American man standing nearby chuckled and asked, "And who is this?"

"I almost forgot, let me introduce you..." Hattori Heiji began enthusiastically introducing Byakuya Osamu to Toyama Kazuha and the American man.

But just as they were getting into their presentation, a small truck, panting heavily, drove past them. Hattori Heiji immediately stopped talking and chased after the departing vehicle, shouting, "Wait!!"

As a result, the car continued driving forward as if it hadn't heard anything, so Hattori Heiji grabbed the helmet from the motorcycle and threw it forward...

The helmet hit the front of the car with perfect accuracy, prompting Bai Yexiu to applaud for him from the side.

The result was that the car reversed, and a hand reached out from the window and grabbed Hattori Heiji by the collar: "What are you doing?! Who else is clapping... Hattori? It's you?"

Inside the car, Kogoro Mouri's gaze shifted to Shiro Yashu, who was clapping beside him: "What are you doing here?"

"Hi~" Bai Yexiu smiled and waved.

……

A group of people sat together in the small truck.

After both parties explained the requests they had received, Hattori Heiji looked at Byakuya Xiu curiously: "By the way, Ryuzawa, you still haven't said what you're here for?"

"I came to visit relatives, but I've already finished. I'm about to go back to the hotel." Bai Yexiu lied without batting an eye.

However, saying he was visiting relatives wasn't entirely a lie in a way. His ancestral home was about a kilometer away, but Bai Yexiu didn't want to go there. A little further away—about four or five kilometers—was where he and the boss lived.

"You're from the Ryuzawa family, aren't you?" Takeda Yuzo, who was driving, suddenly interjected. "Besides the Takeda family and the long-abandoned Byakuya family, there's only the Ryuzawa family, which is a bit further away."

"So Ryuzawa-kun's hometown is Tottori," Ran Mouri exclaimed in realization.

"Then, Uncle, why did the Byakuya family's house fall into disrepair?" Takeda Yuzo's interjection piqued Conan's curiosity.

“The Baiye family is quite mysterious in our area,” Takeda Yuzo said in detail. “Anyway, no one in our area has ever seen a member of the Baiye family leave their home more than a few times. But what’s strange is that they are unexpectedly rich, and all the family members are good-looking, although they look like they are about to die.”

More than ten years ago, the entire Bai Ye family suddenly committed suicide overnight, and their bodies were not discovered until more than ten days later. Since then, the place has been abandoned… Perfect, you see—”

The car suddenly stopped, and Takeda Yu pointed to an intersection on the right—

At the end of the intersection stood a large Gothic-style villa. Its magnificent iron gate was now locked with a large padlock, and the area around the entrance was covered with withered yellow leaves, clearly having been forgotten for a long time.

“This house is now considered a haunted house; nobody wants to buy it, and the government doesn’t know why it hasn’t been demolished,” Yuzo Takeda added, before continuing to drive.

Suddenly, the car jolted violently, as if it had run over something, and Takeda Yuzo's expression gradually turned fearful.

After only a moment's hesitation, Takeda Yuzo suddenly stepped on the gas and quickly drove away from the Byakuya family's residence.

The sudden acceleration caused everyone in the car to sway and fall over.

Kogoro Mouri almost fell out of the car, but Ran Mouri caught him in time. Heiji Hattori grabbed Byakuya's arm, while Conan fell into Byakuya's arms due to inertia, and the American man also fell onto Heiji Hattori's lap due to inertia.

"Why did it suddenly speed up..." Hattori Heiji complained.

Bai Yexiu turned his gaze to the receding mansion, and relaxed his right hand, which had been clenched into a fist in his pocket.

All he knew was that he didn't like this place.

"That house is really eerie. Look just now, there might still be something on the road." Takeda Yuzo stepped on the gas again, and the car accelerated once more, giving the people in the car another shock.

Hattori Heiji, clinging to Byakuya's arm, muttered with displeasure, "I hate the accelerator."