“Ah, right this way.” She walked to the gate of the house and opened it, followed by the door.
“The house isn’t that much of a stick to Japanese decor, so you can leave your shoes on if you’d like.” She makes her way to the kitchen to boil the water, and prepared two cups for them.
“I’ve been meaning to try the tea Yukiko-san brought during her previous visit from London.” It was true, Hakase and Kudo-kun didn’t really like tea. So she didn’t have any chance to try the tea when they all got back from the London case and all.
“Anyway, speaking of London. Have you heard about that bombing incident at Wimbledon with Minerva Glass?”
“Ah yes, I did…” Hakuba said as he took his shoes off, anyway, more out of habit than anything. He made sure that the door was firmly closed and locked behind him – as he was prone to do – and then stepped after her to look around. It’d been some time since he’d visited the professor, but while the structure was the same, everything else about the house seemed more… personable.
It was likely Haibara-chan’s influence, he decided, and the involvement of the shounen tantei. How wonderful it must be for the detective to have company so often, he thought, and wandered slowly over to where Haibara was.
“Ghastly that it happened, but I’m mostly disappointed that I wasn’t able to be there for it. I love Wimbledon, and it seemed like such an interesting case… oh, such a shame that I missed it. But at least things turned out all right, didn’t they?"
Ah, to talk of home again! The halfbrit couldn’t have been more pleased.