"Hello?"
"Hi, Haku-chaaaaan~!"
"Kuroba-kun, don't get me wrong: It's not that I don't appreciate your call, but it's four o' clock in the morning here, so I hope it's urgent!"
"Whooops, my apologies! I totally forgot about the time lag-"
"Yes, and pigs might fly."
"-and you must be really tired when you even refrain from naming the exact time down to minutes, seconds and milliseconds."
"I didn't do it on purpose because I didn't want to expose myself to ridicule. Why are you calling, Kuroba-kun?"
"Wow, now I'm hurt, Haku-chan. Do I need a certain reason to call you? Can't I just do it because I miss you?"
"You do?"
"Nah, not really. Aoko misses you, though. I rather miss dyeing your hair."
"How kind of you."
"Yup! So, what's up? You haven't been here for months. What keeps you occupied in London?"
"There is a certain case-"
"Cases, cases, cases! Do you know what your problem is? You detectives are obsessed with cases!"
"We detectives? You don't know other detectives beside me, do you?"
"What? No, I don't. Geez, you must be really tired – now you're even hallucinating! I never said something about other detectives."
"Uh-huh ..."
"Seriously, when we come to visit you next week you have to put back your cases and all, I don't feel like getting entangled in a homicide."
"Wait- what?! You're going to visit me? And next week already?!"
"Why, yes."
"But, but ... why didn't you tell me that earlier?!"
"Oi, be grateful that I told you anyway! Aoko wanted to surprise you! The trip was her idea, obviously. She wanted to see you again, I wanted to know whether all brits are as stiff and formal as you, Koizumi ... I don't know for sure why she's coming, but you'd better be careful, she's in her kinky mood again and might be searching for another sex slave-"
"Pardon?!"
"-and Keiko comes, too."
"Uh-huh ..."
"Oi, Hakuba, I have a question!"
"Go on."
"It's about the Buckingham Palace Guards. Is it true that they have to stand still the whole~ day and that they always have to keep a straight face?"
"Well, yes. Why- oh bloody hell, no!"
"So, no matter what I do, they won't react to it? Even if I, say, start a striptease-"
*beep* *beep* *beep*
"Hakuba? You're still with me, Hakuba? … Tss, gone already. How rude."