I'm in Mihua, and all the ladies like me.

"It seems...a bit?"

Serabel recalled it carefully.

One thing to say is that since returning from Izu, Masumi Sera's attitude toward him seems to have been a little off.

For example, I no longer come to him to stick with him when I have nothing to do. I don’t deliberately sit next to him when eating. I don’t even use meat, eggs, green onions, and chicken on him.

Not pure at all, not steely at all...

"How about now."

Akai Marie stared lazily into Serabel's eyes, her fingertips scratching back and forth on the latter's shoulders.

"I said I was going to make you a late-night snack. It's been almost three hours, and Zhenzhun didn't even knock on the door once. Do you think she didn't make any noise when she heard about late-night snacks in the past?"

Emmm~

That seems to be the case too?

A look of confusion rarely appeared on Serabel's expressionless face.

"What should I do?"

"I don't know. Anyway, let's maintain the status quo."

The British girl is full of breath, but has a bad attitude.

"Okay, turn off the lights and go to bed."

"...Sleep here?"

"Just sleep here."

End.

……

At the same time, it is located in a single-family luxury villa area on the other side of Tokyo.

The bright car lights followed by the low sound of the engine drove away the darkness of twilight along the way. A classic coupe that looked a bit old and was popular in the last century stopped in front of one of the villas.

Under the light of the overhead street lights, together with the orange body contour lights on the car door, it illuminated the name plate of the householder on the low wall in front of the main entrance of the villa yard.

——Black Feather House.

The car door opened, and a slender calf that should belong to a 17-year-old girl stepped out of the back seat door and stepped firmly on the ground.

Then there was the voice of a certain phantom thief lady.

"Thank you, Grandpa Terai. I'm sorry that you have to send me back so late."

"It's okay, it's okay. Miss, you haven't come back so late, which makes me a little worried. Even if I sleep, I can't fall asleep."

The driver's window rolled down, and what emerged from the car was a kind-hearted old man with a thin face, wearing glasses, and his hair was completely gray and bald.

"Oh, by the way, miss..."

"Huh? What's wrong?"

After saying goodbye, Kuroba Qianzi, who was about to take out the keys and open the door to go home, heard a voice coming from behind, and her hand movements suddenly stopped.

Looking back, I saw that the old man's face seemed to be hesitant to speak.

"Ah, it's okay... I'll go back first then. Good night, miss."

"Good night, Grandpa Terai."

Although she always felt that something was not right, the Kaitou Girl politely said good night.

After pushing open the courtyard door and entering, hearing the sound of the car engine behind her gradually disappearing, Kuroba Qianzi let out a long sigh.

In fact, she didn't have to come back so late.

Logically speaking, all you need to do is take Pu Si Qinglan back to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, and then make a record according to the procedure. Anyway, it is impossible to continue working overtime to write the report at such a late hour. The rest can only be left to the person who is actually the The Shiratori police department who are on vacation can just finish it when they come back to work tomorrow.

As a result... just when she finished writing the notes and was about to run away, she received an alarm call from a certain XBZZ.

The caller was a drinker drinking in an izakaya on the street. He said he saw someone stabbed in an upstairs window across the street.

Then he was pulled out of the police again.

Fortunately, the murderer was stupid. When the police car arrived, he was still busy disposing of the body at the crime scene, and he was caught on the spot.

But it took another two hours to come and go.

It can only be said that being a police officer is really hard work. Fortunately, she doesn't plan to be a police officer in the future... Oh, to be precise, she doesn't have to work as a social worker.

Anyway, even if you have to go to work, you will definitely not be a police officer!

Momo said something harsh in her heart, and Kuroba Qianzi took out another key from the keychain, inserted it into the keyhole of the main entrance of the villa, and turned it.

But with just this slight twist, she felt that something seemed a little wrong.

Generally speaking, you will lock the door before going out. If you want to open it, you have to turn it at least one and a half times.

But why did it open after only half a turn?

The thief girl felt alert and gently opened the door. As expected, she saw a pair of unfamiliar female flat-heeled shoes in the dusty area of ​​the entrance. There was also a faint smell of alcohol in the air.

Looking up, there was a bottle of red wine and a goblet placed on the dining table in the living room, as expected. There was also a plate that had not been cleared away after the meal, and there was a vague sound coming from the direction of the bathroom. The sound of water.

Shall I wipe it?Forget it if you break into an empty house, you still eat, drink, and take a shower at someone else's house, right?Do you really think of this place as your home?

As the saying goes, anger springs from the heart and turns to evil. Kuroba Qianzi picked up the shoehorn on the shoe rack against the wall of the dust area with his backhand. He took off his shoes and quietly walked towards the bathroom.

The sound of water continued in the bathroom, which was perfect cover.

Just when Kuroba Qianzi leaned against the door, her hand on the door handle, ready to rush in at any time to catch the other party off guard, something happened that caught her even more off guard.

The bathroom door was suddenly opened from the inside, and then a naked figure with water droplets on her skin ran out from inside with small steps.

From the temperament point of view, she should be a woman in her mid-30s, but she still has a face as beautiful as a twenty-year-old girl, and a body that has been completely matured by years.

Especially the short burgundy hair made the thief girl who held the shoehorn high in her hand subconsciously exclaim.

"O-Mom?!"?

Chapter 153 Mom will do it next time!

Ten minutes later, it was still inside the Kuroba residence.

In the living room, Kuroba Chikage, who had put on a loose yukata after taking a shower, was sitting at the dining table.

She was holding a glass of red wine with half of it left in her hand and was sipping it in small sips. Moisture was exuding all over her body, and the attractive blush on her cheeks was smeared by the alcohol like burning clouds on the horizon in the evening. .

The hem of the yukata under the table can be covered up to the waist, and the long white legs without any care are closely overlapped together, seemingly exposed but not exposed.

This is a woman who was a little too beautiful when she was young.

She is obviously a mature woman, but even without any makeup, she is still a resounding beauty, with an oval face with delicate skin, and with a little makeup, she is sure to captivate the nation.

It’s a pity that only my daughter can see such beautiful scenery...

With half-mooned eyes looking at a certain "former Kaitou Lady" who was still pretending to sip red wine across the table, Kuroba Chiko couldn't help but twitch the corner of her mouth slightly.

She decided to be the first to break the silence.

"...So mom, why did you come back from the United States?"

"Well, can't you?"

Kuroba Qiankage seemed to have expected that she would ask this question, and asked back as soon as the words came out of her mouth.

"But mom, weren't you still working in Las Vegas before, and you didn't even make a call when you came back." Kuroba Qianzi held her forehead.

"Yeah, it's work."

Kuroba Qiankage burped on the spot without covering her mouth in a very unladylike way, and took out a tissue from the paper box nearby to wipe her mouth.

"Qian-chan, do you know what work is? Work is labor in exchange for reasonable remuneration. The two parties are equal partners. If I want to do it, I can do it. If I don't want to do it, then I can quit my job... How can I say that I can't leave even if I want to? The truth is, it’s not like indentured labor.”

"As for why I didn't call, I saw the news yesterday when I was booking a flight that you seemed to have gone to Osaka to pick up those eggs. I was afraid that it would affect Qian-chan's work, so I didn't. Tell me in advance~"

"..."

After hearing what her mother said above, and thinking that she was dragged to work overtime to arrest criminals two hours ago, Kuroba Chiko felt a little tired.

You must know that the real Shiratori police officer is still on vacation. To a certain extent, she acted as a person who should have been on vacation and voluntarily worked overtime. As a result, after voluntarily working overtime, she was arrested and had to work additional overtime.

Can't BYD Japan abide by the labor laws a little bit?

Shaking her head to get rid of the messy thoughts, the girl decided to get down to business.

"So mom, the reason for your return to China this time is..."

"Oh, there's no special reason. I just want to go back to China and see my dear daughter~"

Mrs. Qianying's tone was very light in the first half of the sentence, but in the second half of the sentence, the conversation suddenly changed.

"But since Qian-chan is sitting here fine now, then this operation should also go smoothly. Did you find anything good? Let mom taste it?"

"No, no, don't think about it."

The thief girl waved her hand to dismiss this heartless old lady who could even call it a coincidence when she returned home to see her own daughter. She leaned forward slightly with her upper body and held her chin with one hand.

"Besides, it didn't go very smoothly. I didn't say anything about it, and I almost got raped."

"Oh?"

Upon hearing that his daughter almost overturned the car, a serious look flashed in Kuroba Qianying's eyes.

However, considering that from the perspective of consequentialism, there was no overturn, she thought about it and returned to her previous lazy state.

"Tell me in detail~"

"Yes……"

Chiko Kuroba began to talk about a series of things that happened in the past two days from Osaka to Tokyo.

The former Phantom Thief Lady spent 5 minutes to sort out the context, and nodded thoughtfully while her daughter finished telling the story.

"Shi Kaobing, I've heard of this person before, but I didn't expect Qian-chan that you would actually go up against her this time."

Then she remembered another thing.

"By the way, who was the person who stopped you, Qian-chan? Someone from the police?"

"Uh... he's probably a no-name detective hired by the Suzuki Foundation from some unknown agency."

Kuroba Chiko said this deliberately, her blood pressure rising as soon as she mentioned it.

But who is Kuroba Qianying?

It is said that a wise son is better than a father. If this sentence is put to her, it means that a wise daughter is better than a mother.

If the former's makeup and voice-changing skills were perfectly inherited from her father, then all kinds of stealing skills and styles were completely inherited from her mother.

Including issuing notice letters before taking action, etc., she taught them all.

Although at first glance, the notice letter seems to be a bit of a self-declaration, but if the other party falls into the trap and does not correctly interpret its meaning, it can actually play a very misleading role.

In other words, if you want to prevent it accurately, you must perfectly decipher all the hints in the notice letter.

So then again, Qianzi's notice letter style was completely inherited from her mother, so Qiankage knew the difficulty level of deciphering the hints in the notice letter best.

"Can a shady detective still decipher the contents of the notice letter?"

The Phantom Thief Lady took another sip of red wine, shaking the glass without comment.

Then she saw her daughter rolling her eyes expressionlessly.

"No, he didn't decipher it at all. He said what I wrote was too mysterious and couldn't understand a single word, so he simply stopped reading."

After saying that, Chiko Kuroba stood up and turned the chair over, and sat down imitating the stable performance of Serabel's ward at that time, and reproduced the phrase "if you want it, you have" in a not-so-standard London accent. to take it", add a sentence at the end, word for word.

"Yes, he was sitting on the rooftop like this, waiting for me to come over."

"Pfft~"

Kuroyu Qianying couldn't hold it back and laughed out loud.

"Qian-chan, what kind of warning letter did you write at that time for your mother to hear?"

"Ugh……"