Chapter 1

Kogoro's luck

Kogoro Mouri wasn't very busy lately. Even though he was one of the best detectives in Japan, who was nicknamed "Sleeping Kogoro" for literally solving the hardest cases in sleep, he hasn't had a client in months.

"Damn" he sighed and slammed the newspaper on the table, obviously

disappointed and frustrated by the horse race results.

"No clients in months, the horse I put 500000 yen on hasn't won, and Yokou-chan is sick so her show is canceled" he muttered while putting on his jacket.

As he was walking down the stairs and was about to leave the apartment, who was also his detective agency, a black envelope sticking out of the mailbox caught his eye.

"Only for the eyes of detective Kogoro Mouri" he read out loud. "A client?" he thought, as he opened the envelope in excitement and began reading.

Dear Mr. Kogoro Mouri

I would really need the help of a detective because of my current situation and since your detective skills are very renowned I chose you.

I can't give you all the details of the manner via this letter so I invite you and a person of your choice to be my guests on my cruise ship.

I am including the first half of your payment to this letter, and the other half upon completing the job.

The "Oceanus" will take off on the 5th May at 17:00 pm.

Yours sincerely Ryou Ishikawa.

"Ryou Ishikawa...Ryou Ishikawa" he kept saying, this name was so familiar to him, but he couldn't remember where he heard it. "Well, Ishikawa is a very common surname so that must be it ..." he thought.

As promised in the letter a check was included. Kogoro became very elated after carefully counting the zeros and realizing about the huge amount of money he was going to get for just one case. "50 million yen for solving one case, that guy must be really desperate ..."he said and kept staring at the beautiful number written on the check. He headed back to the apartment, the "smell" of money made him forget everything including his morning coffee at the Poirot, where he was going before the letter made his day.

Upon entering the apartment he threw his jacket on the sofa, opened a can of beer and sat down at his work-desk, still gazing at the check and smiling like a child in a candy store while thinking about how to spend the loan.

Soon he started daydreaming about the Hawaii vacation he always wanted.

"The sun…The beach…Lots of girls in bikinis…Yes!" he thought while his face started blushing, partly from the third beer he drank in less than 15 minutes and partly because of his love for girls in bikinis.

However his dreaming of bikini girls and drinks on the beach was interrupted by the clang of the door.

"I am home!" a child voice happily said, but Kogoro wasn't very delighted to see the little boy.

"Ah…It's only you?" he mumbled while drinking some more beer.

"Well Ran-neechan said she has to go to the Beika shopping center to buy something, so I came alone" Conan replied.

"Damn! That means I'll have to wait for my meal one hour or even more…" Kogoro shouted as he turned on the TV and threw himself on the sofa.

"Your hunger surely didn't stop you from drinking 4 beers on an empty stomach and the ashtray is full also…" Conan thought to himself when he passed by Kogoro's

work-desk.

"Any new clients?" said Conan with a sarcastic look on his face.

"Oh, yeah a letter came in from some rich guy, he's paying me 50 million yen for solving the case" he explained.

"50 million yen? Are you sure?"

"There is a letter on my desk, but don't you play around with the check!"

Conan hurried to the desk. His excitement was immense because he, Kudo Shinchi was the puppet player behind Kogoro Mouri and if there weren't those men in black who shrunk him into a 7 year old kid with the alias Conan Edogawa he wouldn't have to wait months to put his deduction skills to a new test.

He grabbed the letter from the desk and started reading out loud.

"…so I invite you and a person of your choice to be my guests on my cruise ship" that's when it struck him. "And a person of your choice" he repeated. "Damn, I won't be able to be on this case, he surely won't bring the brat that always sniffs around murder scenes and touches corpses…"

He finished reading the letter and sat down on the chair by the window. He was very disappointed, he was so long without a case and when it finally came he couldn't be there. He was desperate; he needed to find a way to get on this cruise ship. Ten minutes of thinking suggested that the only way was to ask Kogoro to take him on the trip.

"Uncle…It says here in the letter that you can bring one extra person…so I was wondering who you are going to bring?" he asked, embarrassed and frustrated at the same time.

"Yeah, I won't bring anyone, finally one case I can solve without anyone bothering me, and by that I mean little "know it alls" who can't mind their own business"

"The little "know it all" is going out then if you don't mind!" he shouted and slammed the door while he was leaving.

"The old guy is never going to solve the case on his own and I don't think he even understands that he will have to face someone who was never beaten before." he thought while on his way to professor Agasa's house.