Conan’s Corpse Picker

 Chapter 20612061【Devil Boss】

Hashimoto Maya answered the phone and said "hello" cautiously.

There was a pause on the other side, and a charming female voice came: "Oh, I thought it was my husband who would answer the phone. Who are you?"

Hashimoto Maya took a breath silently. husband? Is this woman the wife of lawyer Xun?

 Why did Lawyer Xun deliberately let someone else answer his wife’s phone call...Wait a minute! Is the person talking to him across the street a living person?

 Maybe it’s because he has experienced too much recently. In the blink of an eye, an extra script appeared in Maya Hashimoto’s mind:

 The woman is dead and was killed by Lawyer Xun. Then the lawyer recorded his wife’s voice in advance and set up the scheduled dialing and playback.

Lawyer Xun later made an appointment with a detective to come to the room, and deliberately asked the innocent detective to answer the call so that the detective could later provide an alibi that "Mr. Xun's wife is still alive at this time."

 Hashimoto Maya: “…”

He couldn't help but feel horrified when he thought that he was talking to a dead man, especially when Uzo's puppet strings were floating behind his back.

For a moment, Maya Hashimoto wanted to throw the receiver back to the phone, then run away quickly to perform a full-body disinfection on herself.

 But when an ordinary person answers the phone, how can he instantly think of a case? This is not normal.

 So as a normal person, he must pretend not to notice and act like an ordinary innocent citizen to the end.

Thoughts are racing in my mind, and I can hardly think. But fortunately, when Maya Hashimoto was with Ireland, she often answered the phone as a secretary.

He blurted out a set of words to explain the situation: "Hello, I am George... Well, I am Maya Hashimoto, a client of Lawyer Tatsumi. Mr. Tatsumi is in the bathroom at the moment."

"That's it." The woman was about to speak when she suddenly remembered a piece of crisp music, like the sound from a music box.

She was busy for a while, turned off the sound, and spoke again: "Mr. Hashimoto, right? Please tell my husband later and ask him to call me back as soon as he is free."

Maya Hashimoto: "Okay...huh?!"

 Why did she call me Mr. Hashimoto? She, is she a living person? !

 The sentence "Are you still alive?!" almost blurted out.

 But before that, Maya Hashimoto caught a glimpse of the flashing light on the landline and immediately fell silent.

—As a well-known barrister, Lawyer Xun’s phone has an automatic recording function set up, and this function is running at this time. If he really didn't control his words just now, and if something happens later... then he has obviously booked a suspect's iron seat.

"'Hmm' what?" Mrs. Xun couldn't help laughing, "Why are you so stupid? I just want you to help spread a message. Is there any problem?"

Maya Hashimoto: “…” is really a living person!

He was a little dazed. At this moment, the bathroom door behind him was pushed open with a click, and Lawyer Xun walked out after washing his hands.

He heard Maya Hashimoto’s voice through the door being a bit strange, and couldn’t help but look over and asked, “What happened?”

"Nothing." Maya Hashimoto came back to her senses as if she was electrocuted, and handed the receiver to him, "Your wife is looking for you."

Lawyer Tatsumi took it, hesitated for a moment, covered the phone, and asked Maya Hashimoto in a low voice: "She didn't say anything strange, did she?"

"No, no." Maya Hashimoto didn't want to get involved with the couple at all, "I'm not very good at Japanese, so I misunderstood the words just now. Now I understand, your wife just asked me to transfer the call to you. "

The mixed-race appearance, which is very British, did give him the opportunity to use this excuse to get through. Moreover, the phone has a recording function, so you can listen to whatever you want to know again later.

Lawyer Tatsumi didn’t ask any more questions in the end. He looked at Maya Hashimoto and answered the phone. The couple whispered a few words over the phone, and Lawyer Xun sighed: "Okay, I have a temporary job, and we will talk about anything after we finish talking."

 After saying that, he hung up the phone.

"I'm so sorry." Lawyer Xun turned to look at Jiang Xia and Maya Hashimoto, "It's okay now, let's talk about the commission."

 He walked to the sofa and sat down, looking very tired.

Jiang Xia glanced at Maya Hashimoto and took the opportunity to ask: "What happened just now?"

Although Xiaobai had been lying on the phone receiver to eavesdrop, he broadcast it in real time. But as an ordinary materialistic detective, Jiang Xia certainly shouldn't have heard anything. Seeing the strange behavior of Maya Hashimoto, he, a good boss, should ask more questions.

Maya Hashimoto didn't expect that after dealing with lawyer Tatsumi, he would also have to deal with detectives, but anyway Jiang Xia suspected that he had not been around for a day or two. Maya Hashimoto said: "I really just heard wrong. I haven't had a good rest in the past two days. I'm mentally exhausted." A little dazed."

As he spoke, he secretly thought: When Jiang Xia hears him like this, maybe he will be willing to give him a holiday and let him go home to rest? After all, this is his nominal boss now. If Jiang Xia insists...

Jiang Xia heard this and looked over with sympathy: "Is it because there are too many cases and there are too many corpses that you come into contact with, so you can't adapt?"

Hashimoto Maya felt hopeful when he heard the words, and felt happy. He nodded secretly and continued his misery: "Yes, I have been exposed to more cases this time than in the first twenty years of my life combined."

Jiang Xia patted him on the shoulder and said sincerely: "This is the only way to become a detective. You have seen too little before - so be it. From now on, I will try my best to come to you whenever I encounter a case, and the police will do the same if there is a case. Contact you. If you practice like this for a while, you will definitely become a good detective in your own right, you will no longer lose sleep over these things, and you will be better able to help victims redress their injustices."

 Hashimoto Maya: “…”

If you are a young man who really wants to be a detective, and suddenly encounters a great opportunity from your boss, you will definitely be very happy.

 …It’s a pity that he is not.

 To him, this kind of boss is the devil.

 …Having two different types of devil bosses at the same time, what kind of evil did you do in your previous life?

Beside him, Lawyer Xun sat on the sofa and sighed for a while, and suddenly realized that the two detectives were not looking at him.

 He was silent for a moment and had to say: "Mr. Jiang Xia?"

Jiang Xia came back to his senses and whispered to Maya Hashimoto: "The murder case is very important, but you should also take other commissions seriously. This is the basic quality of a detective - let's go and listen to what Mr. Tatsumi has to say."

 …

 The two of them sat opposite Lawyer Xun.

　　The barrister who was in a hurry just now now has more time. He wiped his face, as if it was hard to say but he had to say: "Actually, I want to ask you to help me catch the rapist."

Maya Hashimoto immediately thought of the woman on the other side of the phone call just now: "Caught in rape?"

 (End of this chapter)