Chapter 579: Your client died? Mine too

When Toru Amuro heard the words "high school detective", he instinctively looked at "Jiang Xia".

Then, thinking of the familiar people from Jiangxia whom he met along the way, another figure flashed through his mind and the corner of his eyes twitched slightly.

Amuro Toru looked at the maid: "...The high school detective you mentioned, is he the dark-skinned Kansai detective?"

The maid immediately understood who he was referring to and shook her head. "You mean Mr. Hattori? Actually, his name was originally on the guest list, but I heard that he was busy studying for his midterm exams soon, so he sent the check back and didn't come."

"..." Amuro Toru breathed a sigh of relief silently.

Then he vaguely remembered something and looked at "Jiang Xia": "Are you going to take an exam soon?" How come I have never seen you studying...

Speaking of this, Toru Amuro suddenly realized that he hadn't seen Jiang Xia's report card for a long time. When Jiang Xia first came to the agency, Toru Amuro checked his relevant information and found a stack of test papers with perfect scores that were blinding.

...I don't know how Jiang Xia's grades have changed after being a detective for so long and skipping classes for so long. The college entrance exam is still very important. Don't let him mess around for a while and end up failing from a perfect score...

Kidd was suddenly called out and stood up slightly. He had looked up some of Jiang Xia's affairs, and said calmly, "Don't worry, the commission is more important. And I can remember the knowledge after reading it once, so it's not a big problem."

The real Jiang Xia, wearing the vest of Matsuda Jinpei, nodded secretly in his heart: Not bad, you imitated it quite well...

Next to him, Harufumi Mogi laughed at the childish topic of "midterm exam".

Then he turned to the maid: "Where is your master who loves detectives? Now that we are all here, it is time for him to show up."

The maid also thought the party was a little strange.

She hesitated for a moment and shook her head. "The schedule the master gave me didn't say when he would show up... Maybe he didn't actually plan to show up. I haven't seen him once in all these days."

Mogi Harushi was startled: "You haven't seen him either?"

"Yes. We usually communicate via email. The interview a few days ago, um..." The maid chose the right adjective, "was a wonderful interview."

——She was not a long-term servant of this family, but a temporary employee specifically in charge of this dinner party.

Today, the maid had been waiting alone in this gloomy villa for a long time, and she couldn't help feeling a little scared.

Facing a group of puzzled detectives, she bit her thumb and explained in a low voice:

"The salary for this job is quite good, so many people come to apply. I was very nervous at first, but when I entered the interview room, I found that there was no interviewer in the room, only a computer, and the information related to the dinner was placed on the computer desk.

“When the interview started, no one showed up. Only an instruction popped up on the computer screen - the host asked me to read the materials on the table carefully.

"I was halfway through reading when I suddenly heard a ring. When I looked up again, the words 'You have been hired' popped up on the desktop..."

A group of detectives: "..."

...What a perfunctory interview.

Is the admission criterion based purely on appearance? If so, then this interview was indeed very "amazing" as she said.

Jiang Xia listened silently, thinking of what the mysterious villains should look like, and laughed softly. He took off his sunglasses and put them in his pocket, saying something that sounded right, but was actually completely useless:

"It seems difficult to meet the 'master' directly. However, it seems more interesting this way..."

Hearing him speak, the maid tilted her head slightly and looked at Jiang Xia, wanting to ask who he was.

——If she remembered correctly, the young man in black was the only one who was not on the guest list. So she had no impression of "Kurosawa Sa".

...In other words, no matter from which perspective, Jiang Xia, who was using a pseudonym, was an uninvited guest.

However, before she asked the question, the maid thought about it and felt that it would be impolite to directly ask the other party where he came from. It would be like chasing the guest away, which would easily make people embarrassed.

"…" Forget it. Although this person is dressed a little gloomy, he doesn't look like a bad person. Moreover, if the host feels that this is inappropriate, he will definitely find a way to tell her, or directly come out to drive her away... It's better not to act on my own.

She ended up saying nothing.

…

The other detectives did not object to Jiang Xia's existence - compared to this strange young man who looked non-threatening, the Kaito Kidd, who signed the invitation letter as "the phantom child abandoned by God", was the target of their trip.

The group of people briefly introduced themselves. Jiang Xia reported his pseudonym "Kurosawa Sa" behind Chikan Granny, and was temporarily assumed by the others to be Chikan Granny's companion.

Jiang Xia often came to this villa and was already familiar with every corner of it. Now he felt as comfortable as if he were back home.

Seeing the other detectives finish their conversation and start to look around instinctively, he also looked around.

Then his eyes quickly fell on the door through which a group of people came in.

——In the middle of the gate, there was a streak of dark stains slanting diagonally, which, combined with the old wooden door, made it look extremely dirty.

Jiang Xia just took a look and someone beside him said naturally, "This should be bloodstains from the early years."

Jiang Xia was startled, turned around, and saw the ghost-like Amuro Toru behind him: "..."

It seems that Toru Amuro has not given up on the idea of ​​chatting and getting information.

No matter what an intelligence officer's true personality is, he or she should at least be extroverted when necessary.

After successfully starting the first sentence, Toru Amuro was about to follow up on this topic and bring up the question that really interested him.

But at this moment, another person in the corner of the hall continued what he had just said.

"—To be exact, it should be a blood spatter adhering to the door at a 45-degree angle.

"In addition, there were blood stains on the wall in the form of columns and blood stains on the floor in the form of drops... The blood was almost everywhere in this building - it was clear that this was not an amount of blood that could be shed by just one or two people."

Following the unhurried voice, a woman walked out from the small door beside the stairs.

Amuro Toru frowned when his conversation was interrupted, turned around and saw a familiar-looking detective.

——Ikumi Gunda.

This was a neighbor near their detective agency. In addition, the two parties had just met in the vampire villa a few days ago.

Qiangtian Yumei shook the small spray bottle containing the luminol reagent in her hand, looked at "Jiang Xia", and said with a smile:

"I didn't expect to meet you again so soon. I thought I would be busy with Mr. Torakura's investigation and wouldn't be able to come to this dinner, so I turned down the invitation. But I didn't expect the client to suddenly pass away..."

(End of this chapter)