Chapter 17901797 [The Evil Cat]
Hibiki was stunned for a moment, then laughed dryly, "Oh, that. Actually...actually I was testing him. If he still wanted to get back together, he would definitely notice that I wasn't wearing the ring. Unfortunately, it seems like a superfluous move now."
Jiang Xia glanced at her hand, took a sip of the juice, and thought it was no big deal: This was a lie. In fact, Hibiki lost the ring accidentally. Just now on the beach, she was wearing glasses while drying her hair, and she was looking around for the lost ring.
Maori Kogoro probably already noticed this, so he quietly went to the beach to look for it. When he found the ring and brought it back to Kisaki Eri, the facts would speak louder than words, and the two of them would naturally resolve the misunderstanding about "not noticing the ring", and then...
Just when he was halfway through his thought, Jiang Xia suddenly saw a dark cloud-walking snow cat appear in a corner of the corridor.
Along with its appearance, there was a very light "ding" sound of metal falling to the ground.
——The hungry cat picked up a shiny ring from somewhere. At this time, it had completely forgotten the task that Jiang Xia asked it to do, which was to find murderous people on the beach. Driven by instinct, it was happily playing with the expensive ring.
Jiang Xia: “……?”
In a noisy coffee shop, the noise of a cat fluttering around is not too loud, but the fact that "something is moving in the corridor" will gradually attract other people's attention.
Seeing that Fei Yingli had noticed something and was about to turn her head over, Jiang Xia silently put down the juice cup.
Then he took over the eating cat's body in a lightning speed, picked up the ring, turned around and ran away, barely avoiding being seen by the people at the table.
…
Jiang Xia shrank into the corner with the ring on. After a few seconds, he turned around and secretly observed the reactions of everyone at the table.
Seeing that they didn't notice any unusual movements here, I immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
Now doesn't seem to be a good time to take out the ring - if the cat found the wedding ring but Kogoro Mouri didn't, then even if the middle-aged detective later lost face and said that he had gone to the beach to look for the ring but just couldn't find it, Kisaki Eri would probably just think it was a false hindsight.
When these two people fall out, I wonder if Mao Lilan will still be in the mood to go to the island with them...
Thinking of this, Jiang Xia decided to care about his classmates' mental health.
He asked the food cat to hide the ring and find a chance to throw it near Maori Kogoro. He returned to his main body and took a sip of the juice on the table.
Everything happened in just a few seconds. Everyone else's attention was still on the angry Hibari Eri, and they didn't notice that Jiang Xia had suddenly gone offline for a short while.
Kisaki Eri finished her coffee leisurely and was about to leave, but suddenly she saw a few young and beautiful students walking towards her.
There are 5 people in total, one man and four women.
Jiang Xia also noticed the movement here. He looked up and recognized that three of them were the high school students who had staged the real-life Romeo drama not long ago.
The other two looked a little unfamiliar. They should be the "two seniors from the drama club" mentioned by Kinda Eimi.
Although Eimi Chikada knew the two seniors who were already in college, the atmosphere between them was a bit strange.
Finally, it was the senior who spoke up. The long-haired senior swept her eyes through the crowd and finally landed on Jiang Xia. She smiled gently and said, "Hello, I'm Toda Takako."
Then she pointed to the short-haired woman next to her: "This is my good friend and sister, Haru Matsuzaki."
"Hello~" Matsuzaki Haru also looked outgoing and cheerful. She smiled sweetly and said politely, "Thank you for inviting us to the island. This is my first time to a private island."
Suzuki Sonoko moved her body, quietly separating Jiang Xia from their gazes, and then held her head high and said, "Actually, I am the person in charge of this trip to the deserted island... no, Mitajima. I'll trouble you to direct the drama this time."
Before the two female college students had time to say anything, two other male college students of similar age came up behind them.
One of them had dark skin and an unwelcome shoe-horn face.
The dark-skinned man stroked his chin, looked at Jiang Xia critically, then looked at Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko, and finally turned around and muttered to his friend next to him: "I thought they were all girls, but I didn't expect there was a boy mixed in - this guy looks even more gigolo than you, be careful, don't let your precious fiancée and sister be abducted by him."
Jiang Xia: “…” Aren’t your whispers a bit loud?
Conan: "..." What do you mean by "mixed with a man"? What about me? Including me, there should be two. What kind of college student can't even count!
A boy was not angry when he was called a "gigolo". Instead, he felt a little shy because of the word "dear fiancée".
He blushed and waved his hands: "Don't say that. He is still a student and probably just wants to concentrate on rehearsing the drama. Besides, I think he looks familiar, like a celebrity."
The little black-faced man turned around suspiciously and looked at Jiang Xia again: "Celebrity?"
"I know, I know!" the short-haired senior student spoke up. She was the younger sister of the "pretty boy" just now. "Jiang Xia is a famous detective. My mother likes news about solving crimes. He can often be seen on TV."
"Haha, no wonder. I seldom went home after college, and only watched TV a few times, so I don't remember it as well as you do." The pretty boy said something to his sister, then turned to Jiang Xia and pointed at his good brother whose painting style was incompatible with others, "Hello, my name is Matsuzaki Masahiko, and this is my friend, Kawazu Kunio."
Jiang Xia shook hands with him, but the little black-faced guy next to him was not very friendly and tilted his head, pretending not to see it.
The long-haired senior felt the tense atmosphere and looked at her watch. "Let's go have lunch together first. I've booked a restaurant over there. It's semi-open-air and you can feel the cool sea breeze, which is very suitable for the current weather."
When the little black-faced man heard her speak, he changed his cold look and was the first to respond: "Okay!"
Her speech became cute, as if she was echoing the sweet voice of the long-haired senior.
Suzuki Sonoko saw the problem, her gossipy soul burning, and whispered in Jiang Xia's ear: "I seem to smell the scent of a love triangle! This black-faced boy should like the long-haired senior, but from what he just said, the long-haired senior is the fiancée of the pretty boy... It seems that we won't be bored on the island these few days!"
Jiang Xia finished the remaining juice in the glass and agreed: "It's worth looking forward to."
…
It was indeed lunch time, and soon, the group followed the long-haired senior to the restaurant she had booked.
The hotel was built relatively close to the edge of the beach. It was called a hotel, but in fact it was a small self-built restaurant. The dining tables were placed under the eaves, and you could see the beach not far away just by looking up.
(End of this chapter)
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