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"It is now certain that the person who knew Mr. Iijima's habits, had a strong hatred for Natsukawa Sora, had plenty of time to commit the crime, and was captured by surveillance equipment entering the tea room is you, Kubota."

"Report to the police. We have found this in the garbage bag. Test results show that it is indeed cyanide."

"Kubota didn't wear gloves. We'll know if we check his fingerprints."

When the final evidence was handed over, everything seemed so clear.

Maori Kogoro waved his hand and pointed at Kubota, whose face was pale. The other party's emotions collapsed instantly, and he shouted in a struggle:

"I really don't know!"

"I thought it was drugs!"

"What did you say?!" Inspector Megure's eyes suddenly became sharp and he asked.

"So it was you who put the medicine into the cup?" Kogoro Mouri also asked.

"I really didn't know it was fluoride," Kubota struggled for a long time and gradually lost his strength. He stumbled to his knees and said:

"I originally wanted to make him unconscious and then attract the museum's attention so that I could take advantage of the opportunity..."

"What do you want to do with this opportunity?!"

“The museum has valuable things, a lot...”

"So you wanted to take advantage of Natsukawa's coma to attract attention and then rob him?" Kogoro Mori immediately understood what the other party meant and asked.

"This isn't robbery, is it?" Kubota continued to defend himself, but no one believed what he said: "It's just some paintings."

Director Ochiai, who had been smiling the whole time, suddenly looked cold, and he looked at Kubota as if he had seen something disgusting.

"Why do you keep saying this drug is a sleeping pill?" Conan couldn't help but ask, while looking at Noel cautiously, and he breathed a sigh of relief when he found that Noel didn't seem to notice him.

"When I bought it, they said it was a drug!" Kubota explained tremblingly, "I really didn't mean to kill anyone.

"Who did you buy the medicine from?" Inspector Megure frowned. If what the other party said was true, then there would be new changes in the case.

"It's you, Boss Manaka." Noel, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke.

"I didn't expect you like to slander others so much." Boss Manaka snorted coldly and no longer pretended to be calm.

"My friend just sent me a message that a laboratory reagent was stolen, and one of the members seems to be related to you."

"You investigated me?!" Boss Manaka said angrily.

"Oh, my friend mentioned to me before that Boss Manaka seemed to have been involved in a lot of inappropriate business competitions, so I asked him to keep an eye out for me. As a result, he happened to find out that Boss Manaka had contacted a laboratory before, and a test reagent containing □ in their laboratory was missing."

"You can contact that laboratory. Their monitoring equipment should be much more advanced than our museum."

Noel said this as he showed Inspector Megure the laboratory address sent by his "friend" on his cell phone.

"Inspector Megure, we did receive a call from a laboratory reporting an incident, and someone has already gone to investigate and monitor the situation." The police's efficiency is not that high, but they always find the right spots.

"In other words, you secretly contacted Kubota, knew his plan, and deliberately sold the poisonous cyanide to the other party as poison?" Inspector Megure confirmed the intelligence of the other investigators and determined that it was Boss Manaka who stole the reagent.

"The next step is to compare the reagent you stole with the poison we just found to see if they are the same."

Boss Manaka's face instantly turned miserable. Obviously the result was self-evident. As a businessman, there was no way for him to perfectly separate cyanide from the reagent.

"You bastard, have you ever thought that if he poisons the wrong person, it will implicate more people?" Kogoro Mouri became angry instantly. After all, several people had already drunk this tea.

"That's why Boss Manaka didn't drink a single sip of tea." Noel had been observing Boss Manaka from the beginning, so he naturally noticed this.

"Come to think of it, there are six teacups today, because we are the unexpected ones." Conan also spoke, looking at Boss Manaka with some anger in his eyes.

"That means there will be two cups in the middle, one is poisonous and the other is not."

"The chances of Brother Xia Chuan drinking tea containing cyanide are only one cup."

"Asshole!" If Inspector Megure hadn't come to stop him in time, Maori Kogoro would have punched Boss Manaka in the face.

"So even if it's someone else instead of me who drank the tea, you wouldn't mind, right?" Noel's expression froze slightly, and he looked at Boss Manaka expressionlessly.

This means that there is a 50% chance that the poisonous tea came from the protagonist and his group.

I wouldn't even do such a thing, but you are such a brave little cannon fodder.

"By the way, my friend also collected some of your past "business methods" and hopes that you can stay in there for a few more years."

The case ended when Manaka and Kubota were led away by the police with pale faces. Noel looked at Maori and his group and said with a guilty look, "I'm sorry. I wanted to introduce you to the art museum, but now this has happened and I dragged you into it."

"It's okay," Xiaolan smiled gently, "It's a good thing you're here, isn't it?"

"Indeed," Noel thought of something and smiled, "If it weren't for the angel, I might have passed away unfortunately."

"I originally thought that Brother Kong was a rather aloof type of person." Xiaolan knew that the other party was joking and couldn't help laughing.

Because last time you came without warning, you scared me.

Noel smiled gently, but in his heart he complained expressionlessly, God knows I was frozen that day, I was so frightened that I was caught off guard.

"How can this boy be gentle?" Kogoro Mori couldn't help but complain. During the whole process, the other party only gave a business smile during the conversation, and had no expression at other times. He looked stupid.

Conan nodded. He also noticed that when Noel was facing the police or other people, his smile was more or less perfunctory. Only when he was facing himself and his group... or Xiaolan, his smile was gentler?! Conan immediately looked at Xiachuankong, and as expected, he saw Xiachuankong speaking to Xiaolan in a gentle tone:

"I wonder if you have time tomorrow. I would like to treat you to dinner."

"Sister Xiaolan has to go to class tomorrow!" Conan came over immediately. He now understood that he must not let Natsukawa have the chance to be alone with Xiaolan.

"What about after school?"

"But Sister Xiaolan agreed to accompany me to the video game arcade!" Conan said immediately, pulling on the corner of Mouri Ran's hand and showing a coquettish smile, making Xiaolan reluctantly agree to this promise that did not exist in the first place.

"Well, next time there's a chance..." Noel sighed regretfully and shifted his target to the detective in the blue suit:

"Come to think of it, Conan is really smart."

I almost forgot about this!!! Conan finally realized what he had overlooked and froze.

"Yeah, I think so too." Xiaolan nodded in agreement: "I used to think he was Kudo Shinichi..."

"Indeed, he looks very similar. My friend told me a few days ago that he hasn't seen Kudo Shinichi, who dominated the headlines in the news, for a long time."

"Brother Shinichi seems to have encountered a particularly difficult case recently." Conan nervously covered up his original form.

"I see." Noel nodded and said, "I thought I had encountered something, like an evil organization or something..."

"Kong-ge!" Conan interrupted anxiously, "Can you accompany me to the bathroom?!"

“The museum is so big I can’t find it!”

"Okay." Noel agreed, took Conan's hand, said hello to Xiaolan, and left.

"You..." After making sure that Xiaolan and the others couldn't hear him, Conan's expression quickly became serious and he looked at Noel.

"Don't worry, I will keep it a secret for you." Noel said immediately before the other party could say anything.

"What did you find out?" Conan had to be alert, realizing that the other party might have discovered that he was Kudo Shinichi.

"I know you are the legendary..." Noel deliberately prolonged the last syllable, and seeing Conan's nervous expression, he continued:

"Genius kid!"

"Ah?" Conan's face was full of shock. His mind went blank. He could only listen to the other party's self-explanation:

"My brother is the same as you. He is very smart. He always takes care of me even though I am older than him."

"I understand. If you are too smart, you might be excluded by your friends."

"My brother doesn't even like going to school. The knowledge is too easy for him. Although I still hope he can make friends."

"I will definitely keep it a secret for you, don't worry."

"Eh?" Conan looked at the man who made the promise and wondered if he was too nervous. He looked a little silly, a bit naive. He seemed to be a very nice person.

"Thank you, Kong." Conan breathed a sigh of relief and realized that a normal person would never think in this direction.

"If you need any help, you can call me anytime."

"Of course, it would be even better if Xiaolan was here too."

Damn it, this guy has set his sights on Xiaolan after all. Conan was speechless for a moment and decided to put away his previous comment.

———

After seeing Conan and his group off, Noel immediately called his own Hikaru.

"Xiao Guang,"

"Has it been reported in the news?" When Noel heard Xiaoguang asking about what happened at the art museum today, he helplessly discovered that there were already rumors outside.

"You're here to pick me up? I'm not a child anymore."

"Okay, okay. I'll listen to you."

As Noel spoke, he took off his suit jacket, revealing a Tom and Jerry under the seemingly formal white shirt. He casually ruffled his hair to cover his eyebrows, stretched his body lazily, and walked towards the station where his guardian was about to arrive.

"So what's going on?" When Morofu Jingguang got off the train at the station, he saw Noel sitting there and greeting him with a smile.

"Someone wants to poison me. It's a business competitor." Noel threw his hands up helplessly and said:

"Why is Xiaoguang so worried? He is just an ordinary person."

"But you only took less than half a dose of medicine yesterday. This is very dangerous." Zhu Fu Jingguang said seriously.

"So fierce..." Noel muttered, then reached out and suddenly picked up Morobushi Jingguang. Looking at his flustered expression and wide-open cat eyes due to the accident, he smiled and said:

"This place is close to the mall, let's eat outside tonight."

"This is to celebrate your enrollment tomorrow. You don't have time to care about me!"