Pontocho, located between Kamogawa and Kiyamachi-dori in Nakagyo Ward, Kyoto City, is a small alley a few hundred meters long that sells the legal geisha industry – it is worth mentioning that it is said to be the traditional birthplace of the kabuki industry, so there is even a geisha statue on the other side of the river next to Pontocho.

"Is this a brothel area?" Gray Yuan Wai suddenly looked at a small shop on the side of the road. "Look there—"

With the direction that Gray Plains was pointing, Qianyu and the others really saw a place that looked a bit like a brothel.

"Don't worry," Fujiwara said lightly. "Just because there's a brothel doesn't mean we're going to a brothel — we're going to a teahouse." (The composition of Pontocho is very complex, geisha houses, brothels, tea houses, bars, restaurants, etc.)

"And where are we going today?" Yuma was obviously still a little worried because of Gray Hara's reminder.

"It should be just ahead—" As Fujiwara said this, the surroundings suddenly fell into a small window of silence for some reason, and out of nowhere, the sound of an instrument suddenly recalled, which was quite obvious in this slightly silent window of time.

“Tsuki wa oboro ni Higashiyama——”

"月はおぼろに Higashiyama (hazy moonlight Higashiyama)" Hotaru, who was pulling Fujiwara's arm, reacted quickly, and she was already humming along in a low voice at the first time.

"Do you still dance?" Fujiwara looked at Hotaru with a slightly surprised look.

"I've practiced some of the simpler Kabuki dances a little," Hotaru nodded. "If Fujiwara wants to see it, I can give you some easier performances in the future!"

"Are we going to see Kabuki?" Takeda also asked a little nervously at this time - after all, he is not as experienced as Fujiwara, and he is still a little resistant to a place like Kabuki.

"Are you demonizing Kabuki?" Fujiwara glanced at him. "Kabuki are often flamboyant girls, but I think the right way to appreciate them is to focus on the art they perform rather than their skin."

"Ah, yes to ......," Takeda sneered.

Just then, a voice came from behind them that surprised all of them.

"Thousand feathers? Little mourning? ”

"Huh?" A stunned look immediately appeared on Qianyu's face, and then he turned behind him where the voice came. "Little ...... Sister Xiaolan? And everyone? ”

Behind them, it was the ultra-luxurious lineup that everyone present knew - Conan, Maoliran; Hattori Heiji, Toyama and Leaves; Sonoko Suzuki (I admit my punctuation is doing things)

"Huh?" Fujiwara raised an eyebrow and stared at Hattori's face with a suspicious look - while there are many other shops here, the most famous is definitely the Kabuki industry...... Girls probably won't choose to come here to play, which means that it was probably Hattori Heiji who brought them here?

"Why are you here?" Mao Lilan was surprised.

"Uh......" Chiba glanced at Fujiwara, then shook his head to indicate that he didn't know. I don't know yet...... Wait a minute, Sister Lan, what about you? ”

"Did the Kansai detective bring you here?" Ash raised an eyebrow and looked at Heiji Hattori, who was out of condition—but then she noticed that Heiji Hattori had a slight ...... on his face The resentment of being wronged.

It looks like this guy really didn't bring them here this time.,Edogawa probably isn't the type to bring them to this kind of place.,Could it be that one of the three girls is leading the team?

"Hmm-" Moriran had a strange look on her face. "Shall we ...... How about going together? Not far, just ahead. ”

"Ahh

Who does this young lady want to capture? Could it be that it is rumored that the Kanto high school detective Shinichi Kudo, who has always had a very good relationship with him?

……

Not far away, tea house [Sakura House]

"Yuki wa shitoshito maru mado ni" When the group led by Moriran to the downstairs of this teahouse, several people who came with Moriran, as well as Fujiwara, Hotaru, and Ashbara, all had subtle expressions - although their judgments of the people Moriran came to find were different, but there was no difference in one thing.

The people here are in big trouble, and they can even be said to be dead.

However, they were not obligated to mourn for that person, and Hotaru even hummed the song with gusto. "Snow はしとしとまる窓に (round window even if the snow is flying)"

"So, you guys are here to visit Kyoto, so you brought Sister Heye over after you came to Kyoto with Uncle Maori?" Chiba asked Moriran. "Then why is Brother Heiji also there?"

"I'm here because of the case," Hattori Heiji glanced at Chiha. "A case of Hotaru Genji, that's why I came to Kyoto to investigate clues."

"That's pretty much it," Moriran looked at the room above where the song was coming from, and then opened the main entrance of the teahouse and led everyone inside. "Now, let's go find the detective we're probably trying to figure out!"

When they came upstairs, it seemed that the song was about to end, so Maoliran didn't take everyone into it for the first time, but just listened silently outside.

"Gi-on Koishi-ya da-ra-ri-obi-o-" is accompanied by shamisen, and the melodious singing voice presents the final fragment of the song to the guests in the room. Of course, here's the final clip, which Hotaru told them all the time.

"Only Garden Love しやだらりの帯よ (Gion Love is like a long belt hanging)-" After the hum was finished, Hotaru nodded at Moriran. "Alright, that's the end of the whole song."

At this moment, there was a round of applause in the room.

"Great!" The unscrupulous voice belonging to Mori Kogoro came out. "Miss Suzu Senga is really the best in Japan!"

"I'm really honored that you can like it~" A female voice with a similar vocal pattern to the previous song sounded - it seems that this should be the lead singer and dancer.

Outside the house, Mao Lilan's fists were already clenched, and the corners of Conan's mouth, who had caught the action, had twitched.

"Come on, pour Mr. Maori a drink!" In the room, an unfamiliar male voice sounded.

"Okay~" Chiga Suzu replied, and after a burst of footsteps, her voice rang again. "You please use ~"

"Ahhh Mori Kogoro's voice, half panicked and half excited, sounded. "My Mori Kogoro is now like I've ascended to heaven!"

Without warning, Maorilan, who was standing outside the house, erupted and questioned as he opened the door.

"Okay!" Looking at Kogoro Mori, who was so frightened by her question that he squirted out half of the sake he had drunk, Mori Ran's face was full of questioning. "You'd better try to climb up for me!"

"Hmm~" Looking at the menacing Mao Lilan, Gray Yuan Wai seemed to have discovered some new continent, and made a sound that represented what she found interesting.

……

The song that Chiga Suzu sang was "Gion Kobu" in 1930. It is a classic piece of music performed by geisha dancers in the Kyoto area, and the last two lines of the last paragraph appear in the original book. (You can probably understand it by going to Chaya to translate it yourself...... Conan's official translation is really so white that it explodes, which directly ruined the elegance of this piece, and caused me to almost not find this tune...... ）