Chapter 2910 2922 [Murder Program] Asking for monthly tickets (づど)
"I really want to make this place prosperous again with this little guy." The falconer sighed and touched his falcon. Suddenly he remembered something, and his tough face became a little more embarrassed:
"Speaking of which, I have a request... Could you please tell your classmates about this store so that more customers can come here to play?"
Several female high school students were stunned for a moment and then smiled and said, “Of course!”
Jiang Xia and the others did not say anything. Conan and Hattori Heiji looked at each other, and recalled what they had overheard in the toilet before, feeling helpless: the falconer who loved Takehara Café might not know that while they were trying to maintain the business, the shop had been quietly sold by the owner.
Just as I was feeling somewhat emotional, a man came down the corridor.
The old farmer who was popping popcorn just now passed by and said with a smile: "Have you finished your falconry experience? Pack up and come eat hot pot."
The short-haired woman was standing on the other side, having been watching for a while. When she heard the old farmer's words, she remembered something: "It seems there is still one show that has not been shown yet."
The falconer was startled, then he slapped his forehead and said, "Indeed, I almost forgot."
The high school students became curious: "What show?"
The short-haired woman smiled and kept the secret: "This is our Takehara Cafe's major program. You can only see it when the weather is good. You are lucky to have caught a sunny day."
As she spoke, she raised her hand and pointed toward the mountain: "Our eagle will fly to the opposite mountain, and then return with glory with the prey it has caught!"
"Wow!" Several high school girls looked at this round and cute eagle and felt that one should not judge an eagle by its appearance.
Seeing the guests' expectations, the falconer felt a little embarrassed. He was afraid that this would be regarded as false advertising, so he explained honestly:
"It's not that exaggerated. In fact, I hung a piece of bait made of rabbit skin and raw meat in a small open space on the mountain in advance. This little guy will fly all the way to the bait and 'catch' it back."
Jiang Xia looked at the eagle, which felt very good in his hand, and then looked at the deep mountains in the distance: "For such a long distance, it's already very good."
The falconer's liking for the detective suddenly doubled, and his confidence also swelled.
He held the eagle on his hand, aimed it at the distant target on the mountain, and then made a gesture of sending it flying, and whispered, "Go."
It was obviously not the first time for the eagle to catch this bait that had been set out long ago. It flapped its wings and flew sleekly towards the distant mountains.
Everyone watched its graceful back and felt that the scene was so cute and beautiful.
…
The eagle's silhouette gradually disappeared into the distance, and soon the heavy bird became a tiny dot in everyone's eyes.
It was getting closer and closer to its target in the forest, but just before it pounced on the lure, its feet tripped without warning - with a flapping and wailing, the eagle deviated from its original route and fell headfirst in the air.
However, at this time, not many people noticed this heart-wrenching scene - at the same time the eagle behaved abnormally, a gunshot rang out in the woods.
Several high school students were startled, stood up suddenly, and looked at the forest in front of them vigilantly.
There are no popcorn machines now, so the loud noise just now...
Someone fired a gun?!
"…But it's normal to hear gunshots." Suzuki Sonoko was frightened at first, then came back to her senses.
The optimistic high school girl remembered something and laughed: "Didn't the store owner just go into the mountains with his hunting rifle to hunt wild boars? Since he fired the gun, it seems that we will have wild boars to eat soon!"
As if to refute her words, the next moment, at the edge of a clearing in the forest, a figure rushed out from the bushes and fell to the ground outside with a thud.
The way he fell flat on his face gave people a very bad feeling.
Jiang Xia narrowed his eyes and looked over there, and said softly: "Judging from his clothes and figure... this should be the shop owner who went out hunting just now."
Suzuki Sonoko, who was waiting to eat the wild boar: "..."
Suzuki Sonoko: “?!!”
…
Some time ago.
High school students are leisurely enjoying various activities.
In the woods, Calvados was still in shock.
——He never thought that even though he had come to the deep mountains and forests, he would still encounter a murder case happening suddenly right in front of him.
...or a shooting incident that almost involved him.
Calvados watched in silence as the murderer shot and killed the store manager, watched in silence as the murderer dragged the body away, watched in silence as the murderer completed a series of conspiracies and tricks...Finally, as the murderer buried his head in the woods, the forest became quiet and peaceful again.
Ten or so seconds later, he suddenly came to his senses from this rare audience perspective and belatedly remembered his mission for the day.
“Oh no!”
Calvados felt something was wrong and suddenly turned his head to look at the swing in the woods where his target was just sitting. Then he found out... the target was still sitting on the swing, still swinging and creaking.
Calvados: “……?”
After a brief moment of confusion, Calvados did not retract his "terrible" assessment, but instead felt that things were somehow worse.
——How could there be an idiot who would stay where he is after hearing the gunshots? Is the information wrong? Is this guy deaf?
Or maybe the breeze in the forest was so comfortable that Chizo Ogura fell asleep in a trance, and when he was awakened by the gunshots, he thought he was dreaming?
He held the sniper rifle, puzzled.
My brain was humming with activity when a faint reminder came from the side: "The target hasn't left yet."
"I see," said Calvados impatiently, "I'm not blind."
Vodka said "oh" and closed his mouth silently.
——He was actually very curious about how many roles Uzo had arranged for Calvados, and even more curious about what would happen if Calvados rushed down now... But some kind of innate keen intuition secretly reminded him not to say too much, otherwise he might get into trouble.
Thinking of this, Vodka shook off a few bugs that had quietly crawled up his trouser legs, and was as quiet as a chicken, pretending that he was just a mission mascot.
No one urged him, but Calvados himself hesitated beside him.
Although there was a murderer and a corpse that appeared inexplicably...but the target of silencing was still at the scene.
If the interlude of murder in the middle is cut out, then his plan to silence witnesses from beginning to end seems to require no changes.
But how can we really cut off what is actually happening before our eyes?
In an instant, an indescribable sense of absurdity made Calvados' whole body tense up.
(End of this chapter)
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