Well, that was an interesting reaction. How much of an age difference was there between Edogawa and Hattori?

"My apologies."

He supposed he would have used 'Hattori-san' instead of 'western detective-kun' if the other had been female. The idea was still very strange, and he pushed it to the back of his mind, to mull over later.

"Is Hattori-san female in your world?"