Senichi's approach is very unscientific, but very in line with the Detective Conan World's Logic.
Anyway, Senichi just did it like that, and trying it out won't make him lose anything.
The key is that after a chat, there really was some gain!
In the idle chat with a few small ones, Senichi steered the conversation towards the topic of where everyone was planning to go for the weekend.
Excluding Genta's foodie plan, Mitsuhiko, Ayumi, and their families going out, and Haibara's plan to stay at home.
And Senichi finally learned about Conan's plan.
It turns out that Kogoro Mouri won the jackpot this week and was rewarded with a family trip for three. So, the three of them planned to go to the Kanmon Strait for a vacation on the weekend.
Hearing this, Senichi already had a basic idea in his mind.
No escaping it, a case is bound to happen this weekend!
Not to mention the high probability of a case happening when the regular trio travels together...
Come on, let's take stock of which trip didn't have a case. The ancient internet meme "wherever you go, death follows" is not just an empty saying.
And there's also a little-known fact here, that is, the Mouri family is good at winning prizes.
From this perspective, Kogoro Mouri, in addition to having bad luck in gambling, is also a lucky person.
In order to let the entire Japan enjoy the "Grim Reaper's all-encompassing" service, basically every time there's a lottery or something on the street, they can win the top prize for a trip.
But after winning the prize and going on a trip, a murder case is bound to happen.
"What? Are you planning to go too?"
After the three little ones went home separately, the atmosphere between the three people relaxed again. After all, they were all comrades, and the conversation became noticeably more relaxed during the chat.
Finding a gap, Senichi looked at Conan and said his plan, "By the way, I also plan to go to the Kanmon Strait with you guys."
Conan suddenly heard the news that Senichi planned to travel with them and couldn't help but be surprised, "Just you?"
"Yeah, I'll go with you first, just to familiarize myself with the situation." Senichi smiled and said, "After that, I'll drive with Ayako after making a reasonable plan."
"It really is quite a lovey-dovey situation..." Haibara said in a teasing tone after hearing it, "But it seems like it hurts someone more."
"Hey! That's going too far!" Conan, with dead fish eyes, stared at Haibara, indicating that she shouldn't continue this shameful teasing.
Whenever Conan thinks about his elementary school student body, he can't help but burst into tears, especially when there's someone crazy throwing dog food on the side, this kind of harm multiplies.
"I'm just stating the facts," Haibara shrugged.
"But I always feel that Detective Senichi, you have some ulterior motive," Conan, with sharp eyes, looked at Senichi with some suspicion, "You don't have any other plans, do you?"
"Did you discover it?" Senichi's heart tightened when he heard Conan's words, but on the surface, he instead showed a smile, "I do have a purpose for going to the Kanmon Strait with you."
"What is it?" Conan's eyes lit up when he heard this, "To track down a criminal, or is there some noteworthy case?"
"No, none of that."
Senichi shook his index finger, lowered his head, and looked at Conan with a playful tone, "The reason I'm going to the Kanmon Strait with you guys? It's because I think a case will happen around you... so just to be on the safe side..."
"Hey hey hey!!" Conan immediately interrupted Senichi's words when he heard them and looked at Senichi displeasedly, "The way you say it makes it seem like I'm the cause of the case!!"
"Isn't it?"
Senichi looked at Conan teasingly, "Since I've known you, many cases have had you in them. As an elementary school student, don't you think that the number of times you've encountered murder cases or other incidents clearly exceeds the number of cases an ordinary person encounters in a lifetime?"
"It's just a coincidence!" Conan retorted, not in a good mood, "And Uncle Mouri is a detective, and his profession makes it easy for him to encounter cases. And often, he's used by cunning criminals, wanting to use Mouri as an alibi to achieve their goals. So, there are often cases happening around him. Your reasoning applies to Ran too!"
"Well? Even if that's the case." Senichi nodded indisputably, earning an annoyed expression from Conan. With Senichi's playful joke, Conan also realized that he had over thought it and dispelled his doubts, believing Senichi's explanation.
While Senichi had a teasing and triumphant expression on his face after successfully teasing, internally, he actually let out a sigh of relief.
He knew that, with the passage of time, if some of his actions became a bit too frequent, it might attract Conan's attention. At this point, if he didn't handle the cover-up properly, things could backfire.
So, a long time ago, he began planning for this day. His strategy was to present the truth directly to Conan.
Sometimes, people are strange. Even when the other person has spoken the truth, due to inner suspicion, they still refuse to believe it as a fact.
Senichi's move was evident in this regard. After stating the truth in what seemed like a joking manner, Conan indeed did not believe Senichi's explanation.
"What? Do I always encounter cases? That's just the calling of a great detective!"
Conan, with dead fish eyes, complained, looking quite displeased.
In his opinion, cases were something that ordinary people encountered a lot too. From childhood to adulthood, his classmates, friends, or passersby on the street had all encountered plenty of cases. It's just that everyone didn't actively seek out cases like he did, so they didn't have the same impression.
After all, he didn't earn the title of the "Great Detective of the East" for nothing!
Seeing Conan's expression that seemed to say, "superstitious and not believing in science," Senichi knew his plan had succeeded.
Conan had been blinded by a single leaf, and this answer would become his most honest response. But Conan... would never believe that Senichi's unusual actions were indeed as simple as they seemed!
This was the plan Senichi had thought of. The smarter someone is, the more likely they are to overthink and get trapped in a strange cycle of errors, unwilling to believe that what's in front of them is the truth.
If it were someone with a simpler mind, maybe they would have accepted Senichi's explanation. However, this was the brilliance of Senichi's approach. By using humor and joking to dispel others' suspicions, he had turned his abnormal behavior into something extremely normal.
Even if Senichi were to continue with this reasoning in the future, everyone would just get used to it.
Alright, the plan worked!
After asking Conan to pass a message to Kogoro Mouri, Senichi directly drove to the train station to buy Shinkansen(bullet train) tickets on the same schedule as the three of them. He was ready to travel together as a group tomorrow.
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