Chapter 79 Chapter 79 Women only affect the speed of detective reasoning...

Olga woke up reflexively - she was very familiar with this red beam of light.

Turning around, Olga met Kudo Shinichi's gaze. She saw worry in his eyes. Clearly, they were thinking the same thing.

Then, the actor who played the Archangel Michael on the stage was suspended by a wire.

Screams erupted from the audience—the red blood on the actor's chest soaked through his snow-white clothes.

Kudo Shinichi immediately ran towards the lobby, and Kudo Yukiko also looked in that direction with concern. Olga, however, felt as if the dust had settled and yawned instead.

Well, I'm not here to kill her anyway. So it doesn't matter.

*

In the end, Olga went backstage with Kudo Shinichi and the others and met the four actresses who were anxiously waiting for the results in the dressing room. They were all on the stage when the incident happened.

Olga casually glanced at the four people, and understood. She waved to Kudo Shinichi, who was watching from the side with his chin in his hand.

Kudo Shinichi was interrupted from his thoughts and looked a little confused, but he still walked over: "What's the matter?"

Olga lowered her voice: "The murderer is——"

“No spoilers!”

Who would have thought that Kudo Shinichi would actually lower his head, close his eyes, and cover his ears, as if to say, "I don't want to listen, I don't want to listen."

Olga: “…”

Okay, detective persistence.

Olga won't spoil the story. But afterwards, it was Kudo Shinichi who kept staring at her, with a deep look on his face, which made Olga feel a little uneasy.

Then, Kudo Shinichi suddenly and mysteriously pulled Olga aside. Just as Olga thought he was about to say something, he suddenly suggested, "Hey, Arthas, let's have a race."

"ha?"

He looked away a bit vaguely. "Uh—that's right. Let's write down the names of the criminals we think we're going to kill on slips of paper. After we catch the murderer, we'll open the slips and see whose reasoning is correct."

Olga: “…”

Kudo Shinichi felt a cold hand on his forehead, which froze him awake.

Olga looked at him with a caring look: "Are you okay?"

Kudo Shinichi: “…”

Even if his emotional intelligence was low, Kudo Shinichi knew that Olga meant to reject his proposal.

*

In fact, Olga eventually agreed to this hopelessly stupid proposal. The reason was simple—if she didn't agree, Kudo Shinichi would have been following her around, muttering about the known clues and his own reasoning.

Olga knew that this guy was determined to fight her and would not give up until the winner was decided.

Olga sighed as she wrote down the criminal's name on a slip of paper. She wondered what the point was in such a thing. After all, she wasn't like a detective, relying on evidence to deduce the truth.

But Kudo Shinichi was very happy, as if the fact that she, his "destined opponent", agreed to the invitation greatly stimulated his enthusiasm for reasoning.

There's nothing much to say about the process of reasoning. Finally, Olga opened the note, and the name written on it was exactly the same as Kudo Shinichi's deduction.

"How on earth did you deduce that?!"

Kudo Shinichi widened his eyes in disbelief, looked at the note, then looked at Olga, and finally grabbed his hair twice, making his already messy short hair even more messy.

"I told you, it's intuition." Olga crumpled the note and threw it to Kudo Shinichi.

Kudo Shinichi caught it reflexively. Unable to find a trash can for a while, he simply followed Olga with the paper ball and asked her about her "reasoning method".

intuition?

He doesn't believe it!

It might be possible to guess the murderer once, but twice in a row?

Kudo Shinichi felt that Olga was treating him like a fool.

*

Olga, of course, relies not only on intuition but also on observations of people's expressions and body movements. Some systematically refer to this approach as behavioral science, or more commonly, profiling.

Of course, behavioral science couldn't be used as evidence in court; it could only be used to assist in the investigation. So Olga never had any evidence from the beginning to the end, and she had never had any interest in reasoning.

Another five minutes passed, and Olga could no longer stand Kudo Shinichi chattering behind her.

At that time, Kudo Yukiko was talking to a local PD detective not far away. Olga stopped and turned around.

Kudo Shinichi, who was so absorbed in reasoning, almost bumped into her.

"Hey—" He touched the tip of his nose that was almost hit, and said in a complaining tone, "Why did you stop so suddenly?"

Olga gritted her teeth and smiled.

This kind smile gave Kudo Shinichi a bad feeling.

The next second, the premonition came true.

Olga kept approaching him, looking very calm.

But Kudo Shinichi couldn't remain calm. Since the two of them were so close, their noses were practically touching, he could only look around with red ears while backing away in a panic.

In his panic, he didn't have time to think about Olga's behavior, nor did he have time to pay attention to the terrain, so he retreated until he had nowhere to retreat - his back was already against the wall.

The two were now in an empty corner behind the stage, where a heavy curtain hung down, concealing a naturally semi-enclosed space. The stage's dome was high, with countless metal trusses strung across the air.

The light in here is very dim, with only some light leaking in through the curtains from the front desk.

Olga's face was close before him. She was facing away from the light, and Kudo Shinichi could only see the corners of her lips curled up in a sinister arc.

Olga put her hands on the wall. Now, Kudo Shinichi was completely isolated in a small square corner.

His Adam's apple slid up and down nervously, but he didn't have any romantic thoughts because of this wall-dong. Instead, he was really a little scared.

Unlike Mao Lilan who would directly use karate to greet people, Olga's smile alone is enough to be creepy.

Kudo Shinichi knew that this comparison was inappropriate. After all, the only thing that Ran Mouri and Olga had in common was probably their gender.

Oh no, Olga just denied her gender a dozen hours ago...

Kudo Shinichi was thinking about all sorts of things when he suddenly felt a warm air flow past his ear, which made him alert.

Then he heard Olga's voice, which she had deliberately lowered. Her voice was pleasant, with a rather cold quality. She said:

"Mr. Detective, you've asked so many questions, now it's my turn."

Kudo Shinichi immediately became extremely nervous and could almost hear his heart pounding.

Although he still didn't dare to look Olga in the eye, after all, they were too close. But he decided that no matter what question she asked, he must answer it correctly!

Olga ignored Kudo Shinichi's childish attempt to compete and asked him casually, "Who do you think Holmes would save first if Irene and Watson fell into the water at the same time?"

Kudo Shinichi: “…”

This is a question Olga once asked Kudo Shinichi. At that time, he couldn't argue with Olga's twisted logic, but it didn't matter. Now he has already made up for his psychology knowledge!

So, Kudo Shinichi's eyes lit up and he began to talk incessantly with full confidence, focusing on analyzing Holmes's character to Olga, and trying to prove that he was definitely not an antisocial personality.

"Don't be misled by the inexplicable TV series!"

This time, Olga listened to Kudo Shinichi's essay with extraordinary patience and even clapped a few times without any hesitation.

Then, she raised her eyebrows and deliberately leaned forward, getting closer to Kudo Shinichi.

Now, they were really stuck together, to the point where they could almost hear each other's breathing.

Kudo Shinichi immediately fell silent again. He held his breath and stood straight like a primary school student who had made a mistake. Of course, ignore his completely red cheeks.

His eyes were wandering and he didn't look at Olga. He was just trying to remind Olga to pay attention to social distance when he suddenly caught a glimpse of the corners of her lips rising a little more.

Then, Kudo Shinichi heard her say in a bad yet cheerful tone: "It's a pity that Watson has Mary, Irene has Norton, and Holmes has nothing."

Speaking of his idol, all those little thoughts in Kudo Shinichi's heart disappeared. He met Olga's eyes with a burning gaze and announced loudly and solemnly:

"A detective doesn't need love! Women only slow down the detective's deductions!"

"Wow, Shin-chan are you serious?"

Suddenly, Kudo Yukiko's voice rang out from the side. Kudo Shinichi turned around and saw Kudo Yukiko and Mao Lilan approaching. Kudo Yukiko's face was full of teasing and amusement, while Mao Lilan stared at him with eyes wide open in disbelief, as if she was about to cry.

And the source of all evil, Olga——

She had already opened the distance between them, standing two steps away from him with her arms folded, watching the show leisurely like an audience member. Just looking at her eyes, Kudo Shinichi felt that she was probably more interested in this "performance" than the previous "Golden Apple".

Damn Arthas!

*

Olga left in a hurry after receiving a phone call. Of course, she still said goodbye to Kudo Yukiko and others politely, which made Kudo Yukiko admire the "other people's children" again.

Watching the champagne-colored Lamborghini disappear from view, Kudo Shinichi withdrew his gaze, and then suddenly remembered: "Don't they say that people under the age of eighteen need to be supervised by an adult when driving?"

But Olga was clearly driving away alone just now!

Kudo Yukiko glanced at Kudo Shinichi with some disdain: "This shows that Alsace-chan is bold and careful."

Kudo Shinichi: “…” Ah, yes, yes, yes.

After all, his own mother was a person who didn't obey traffic rules. She had just been chased by the police today. So Kudo Shinichi didn't expect her to find anything wrong with Olga's behavior.

After a while, Kudo Yukiko suddenly came up to Kudo Shin's side mysteriously, covered her face with one hand and asked him quietly: "Hey, Shin-chan, do you particularly admire Alsace-chan?"

"ha?!"

Kudo Yukiko, however, looked as if she understood everything, and said cheerfully, "Ah, I didn't expect you to admire Arthas-chan only in terms of reasoning. It would be even better if you admired her in other aspects."