Conan's Corpse Picker

He couldn't help but glance at Jiang Xia next to him, suppressing his shock: Fortunately, detectives are born to defeat criminals, and with Jiang Xia by his side, at least he doesn't have to worry about being planted and taken away.

However, try to put Uzo's perspective...

Okiya Subaru suddenly realized something.

——Would it be possible that Wu Zuo could not have expected such a simple response of "holding Jiang Xia's thigh"? ?

Okiya Subaru: "..." A few hours ago, I just listed Jiang Xia as a life-saving thigh.Immediately afterwards, Wu Zuo's cat came to the door and brought him to this coffee shop to "encounter" with Jiang Xia.

Such a coincidence, on the contrary, made Okiya Subaru thump in his heart.

...What does Uzo want to do?

Years of rich movie-reading experience, let Okiya Subaru's mind, can not help but emerge a scene of a natural situation:

The persecuted protagonist is struggling to survive under the siege of the terrible boss.When he was desperate, he suddenly met a good man who seemed very righteous and was willing to lend a helping hand to him.

So what will happen next?

According to Okiya Subaru's experience, there is only a 10% chance that "the good guy and the protagonist join forces to defeat the big boss".

And the remaining 90% is that the seemingly reliable good guy was suddenly killed in person, the boss sneered behind the scenes, and then everything slipped further into the abyss of despair.

……

"Uncle Okiya, what's the matter?" A voice suddenly came from the side, "Your face seems ugly."

Okiya Subaru came back to his senses and found that it was Conan who spoke.Across the table, Jiang Xia was also looking at him with his chin propped up.

Mao Lilan was studying the menu, and only raised her head when she heard Conan's words.She took a serious look at Okiya Subaru, and she really didn't find that this graduate student seemed uneasy... She didn't know whether it was Conan who was too sensitive, or the child was just talking nonsense.So he also looked at Okiya Subaru, wanting to hear what he had to say.

Okiya Subaru sighed inwardly: The child's sense is really keen.

However, what he was thinking was obviously hard to say.

So Okiya Subaru followed Conan's question and changed the subject nonchalantly: "It's nothing, I just remembered that a woman was killed just now."

"!!" Behind the bar, Hideshi Katsumura shook his hands.He thought of the body of the proprietress he had hidden in the store, and almost blurted out the sentence "I didn't kill it!"

Fortunately, before he spoke, Conan suddenly realized and nodded:

"I heard from brother Jiang Xia and sister Xiaolan that it's your neighbor. My condolences."

Okiya Subaru nodded absently.

"..." Hideshi Katsumura breathed a sigh of relief, and his heart, which had jumped to his throat, sank back again: It's okay, it's okay.

...Speaking of which, can't this group of people finish talking at once, they always have to gasp... Riddler get out of the shop quickly!

He wished he could kick these guests out of the door.

But in order to hide the crime, Hideshi Katsumura could only bear the humiliation and put on a business smile.

He picked up the tray and came to the table of annoying guests: "Your drink has arrived."

Then put a glass of juice in front of Conan, and put a cup of coffee in front of Jiang Xia and Mao Lilan.

When he withdrew his hand, Katsumura Hideshi could not help showing a sneer because he was standing by the table, his position was high, and no one could see his expression:

When he was making coffee just now, he poured countless times more coffee powder than normal.These students are better off taking the first sip, and then running to find other shops to kill time-there is another coffee shop not far north along the intersection.

……

Eiji Katsumura delivered the coffee and left with the tray.

He was expecting his script to work, and he didn't realize that behind him, a reflection flashed across two pairs of glasses.

Conan and Okiya Subaru stared at his back from behind the lens.One was thoughtful, the other thought of something, his eyes fell on the coffee in front of Jiang Xia, his pupils trembled slightly.

Jiang Xia also glanced at Hideshi Katsumura and sighed inwardly.

——Perhaps there were too many of them, but the "store manager" didn't think of "poisoning and killing all these people!" It's disappointing.

While thinking, Jiang Xia reached out and touched the cup.

The coffee was not hot, but warm—the "store manager" seemed to not want them to keep it for too long, so he deliberately adjusted the coffee to a temperature that could be eaten directly.

"..." Idle is also idle, Jiang Xia hesitated for a moment, stretched out his hand to the coffee cup, intending to taste the legendary super bitter coffee exclusive to tough guys, how bitter can it be.

But before they touched each other, there was a loud bang beside them.

——Okiya Subaru accidentally knocked over the water glass, and a handful of water just splashed in front of Jiang Xia, and spilled into the glass.

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"Sorry, my hand slipped."

Okiya Subaru apologized, and stretched out his hand to drag the coffee cup in front of Jiang Xia to himself: "This cup is mixed with water, give it to me."

Mao Lilan was taken aback, seeing that Jiang Xia was out of drinks, she hesitated to push her coffee over.

At this time, Conan also fell to the ground with an oops, and "unfortunately" knocked the cup of coffee to the ground-although Conan didn't know what happened, but he understood Okiya Subaru's reaction and realized that this mysterious graduate student, It seems that there is something wrong with that cup of coffee.

The two cups of coffee left the high school students in an instant.

Eiji Katsumura, who tried to drive away the students who are afraid of hardship with bitter coffee: "..."

...Is your Mercury retrograde today?

The corners of his eyes twitched slightly, and he glanced at the coffee box behind the bar: just now, in order to make the coffee as bad as possible, he poured all the remaining coffee powder in the box.

Although the store should still have stock.But the proprietress was sloppy and her things were piled up in such a mess that Hideshi Katsumura couldn't find any other coffee powder for a while.

……

Okiya Subaru prayed for Akai Hideichi to come and save people quickly, while picking up the coffee he got from Jiang Xia, pretending to smell the aroma of coffee, but actually sniffing it secretly.

"……"Um?There is no bitter almond smell. Didn't Wu Zuo plan to have someone assassinate him?

...However, it cannot be ruled out that the store manager has injected other poisons.

After all, Okiya Subaru has been to this store before, and he ordered coffee a lot during that time.

And he remembered that the coffee he drank before tasted significantly different from this time - the acting store manager must have tampered with it.

……

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Jiang Xia glanced at Subaru Okiya with slight doubts, always feeling that he just sprinkled water on purpose - I don't know what kind of big scene this little boy who is very distracted has imagined... Could it be that Subaru Okiya intuitively felt that "the store manager "Not a good person, so he started his delusion of being persecuted?

The coffee was not finished.

Jiang Xia opened the menu, thinking about whether to order something else or another cup of coffee.

But Okiya Subaru acted as if he was determined not to let him order, and started to chat: "Our laboratory is going to do a project about detectives recently - it's rare, why don't you tell me about your usual experience in solving crimes?" ?”

——I heard that detectives like to talk about this.It can not only sort out the thinking of solving the case, but also review the glorious history and enjoy the praise of others, which is more face-saving.And Okiya Subaru thought to himself: Jiang Xia has solved so many cases, chatting a little longer is enough to last until the acting store manager shows his feet.

……

"My experience in solving crimes?" Jiang Xia did not continue to order.

He raised his head from the menu and looked at Okiya Subaru thoughtfully: "What do you want to hear?"

Conan also secretly looked at Okiya Subaru, and felt that the problem was very big: a graduate student in engineering, what does he do as a detective?

That new topic can never be something like "how to save effort to build a burial ground".

Conan: "..." Speaking of which, engineering is not all about civil engineering.Okiya Subaru covered up so white that he didn't bask in the sun much at first glance, and he didn't seem to be developing into this industry.

If it was Conan himself, he might start asking questions at this time.

It's a pity that Okiya Subaru asked Jiang Xia.

"..." Conan glanced at Jiang Xia, realizing that this neighbor who is always nice to acquaintances must have noticed Okiya Subaru's abnormality at this time, but I'm afraid he won't expose him—oh, he's too considerate, but he doesn't it is good.Mostly unfriendly to the curiosity of onlookers...

The two actually chatted about past cases.

Conan listened intermittently, and while listening, relying on his status as a "bear kid", he dragged the coffee in front of Okiya Subaru to him in the chaos, and lowered his head to study.

—no bitter almonds, nor some other distinct poisonous smell.

However, this cup of coffee tastes too strong, and I don’t know how much coffee powder was thrown into it. Even if it was sprinkled with water by Okiya Subaru just now, the taste is still strong, not to mention the almost pure black color-these characteristics are enough to cover up the possibility of adding coffee. something in it.

Conan: "..." Is there something wrong with the coffee brought by the store manager?

But how did Okiya Subaru know?

Conan withdrew his gaze from looking at the coffee, and under the nervous gaze of the "store manager", he began to turn his eyes, looking at every hidden corner of the store.

……

Okiya Subaru actually wanted to find an excuse to take the high school students out of this dangerous shop.

But in the end, he still didn't move.

... It's not because Wu Zuo asked him to come to this store, but now that Wu Zuo didn't let him go, he didn't dare to move.

Just calm down and think rationally—"Wu Zuo wants to assassinate Jiang Xia and frighten my younger brother" is actually just a speculation, one of countless possibilities.

And for Uzuo, compared to "Okiya Subaru" who is only for entertainment, Jiang Xia's "unveiler" who can cooperate for a long time seems to be more important.Wu Zuo should not kill Jiang Xia just because "his little brother hugged Jiang Xia's thigh".Even if he really minded, I'm afraid Wu Zuo wanted to kill that innocent little brother.

Okiya Subaru: "..." In this case, if I want to run rashly.Maybe there is nothing wrong with it, but if you run, you will go straight to the underworld.

...Also, don't act rashly yet.

First try to pass the time.Wait to see if Akai Shuichi will come, or see if Uzo has any further instructions.Make plans later.

Just thinking about it in a cold sweat, at this moment, the wind chime at the door jingled.

——This coffee shop, which was originally deserted, has customers again.

……

This time, two middle-aged people came in.

Both of them were wearing suits, like social animals of a nearby company.One of them even brought a sketch, as if he was busy with work.

"I'm Yuu Ohara who made an appointment yesterday."

The older man nodded towards the "store manager".He seemed to prefer the bright place. After speaking, he led his companions to the table closest to the French windows and sat down.

Eiji Katsumura, who is strong in welcoming guests: "..." Why did things turn out like this...