Chapter 2966-2978 [Okiya Subaru and Hashimoto Maya]
Officer Shiratori looked down at his watch: "..." It had only been a short time since they arrived at the scene, but the mystery of the body hidden in second-hand furniture, which was so troublesome at first hearing, had already been solved.
...Luckily, I was smart enough not to propose the bet again, otherwise I would have lost face twice today.
While I was muttering a few words in my heart, Jiang Xia and the others came over and stopped at the door of the store.
The detective who made people love and hate him looked into the store and asked casually like a leader who came to inspect: "What's going on here?"
Miwako Sato happened to be passing by. She stopped and introduced, "It's like this. A group of graduate students had a dinner here to celebrate the birthday of one of their students. But just after they blew out the candles and were about to cut the cake, the birthday boy suddenly fell to the ground..."
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One hour ago.
Subaru Okiya kept track of time and reluctantly came to this semi-self-service hotel, carrying his bulletproof and blade-proof backpack.
To be honest, he didn't want to attend any kind of banquet. But the reason for today's dinner was to celebrate the birthday of a senior in the laboratory. If he refused...
Subaru Okiya's mind flashed with the image of his senior shouting, "How dare you reject me? Do you look down on me?" while stabbing him with a knife, and the image of his senior's bootlicker shouting, "I love her so much, but you dare to reject her!" while swinging a stick at him.
In the end, he decided to come and see for himself - it is better to be nervous for a meal than to offend someone for no reason and then be nervous for the rest of your life.
When they arrived at the box, the professor just walked in, and before them, two other people had already arrived here.
One of the short-haired senior students placed the flowers she brought in the middle of the table: "How are they? Do they look good? This table is too big and there seem to be not enough flowers. How about I go to the flower shop next door and buy some more."
The professor found a nearby stool and sat down. Hearing this, he waved his hand and said, "That's enough. Buying too much will only get in the way. If you like to be fancy, you can hang some balloons there."
He raised his hand to gesture, but the stool under him was a little limp, and as he moved, the chair tilted to one side.
Subaru Okiya subconsciously supported the frail old man, but failed to hold on to the bag on the chair. The backpack fell to the ground with a thud, and the contents of the bag rolled out.
A waitress who was passing by the door heard the noise and ran in to help put away the scattered things in the bag. She apologized, "There is indeed a problem with this stool. We had already put it in the utility room, and I don't know who moved it back. Please sit on this chair over here."
She pulled over a good stool, and together with Subaru Okiya, helped the professor sit down, then left and continued to work.
Not long after, senior Togashi came back with his order.
After the three of them sat down, a few minutes later, the protagonist of the birthday party and two other classmates arrived late and took their seats.
After eating and chatting for a while, Togashi-senpai filled his stomach and went out for a while, bringing back a few gold-rimmed high-heeled glasses on a tray.
He looked at Okiya Subaru and blinked: "Okiya, where are the things we prepared before?"
Subaru Okiya opened his backpack and took out a bottle of beautifully packaged foreign liquor - this was what the two of them had picked out at an import store after they had scheduled the party.
"Wow, German wine!" The birthday girl's eyes lit up. She changed her usual picky temper and said softly to Subaru Okiya, "Thank you, how did you know I like this brand?"
Senior Togashi snorted proudly: "Shouldn't you thank me too? We bought this together."
The birthday girl smiled with her hands covering her lips, she really liked the feeling of having this kind of care put into her.
Okiya Subaru didn't dare to say much, but just smiled modestly, keeping his low presence in the crowd. Soon, the wine he brought was opened and poured into each goblet one by one.
Finally, we toasted, sent blessings, served cakes, turned off lights and blew out candles...
When they finally completed the process and started cutting the cake, the birthday girl suddenly made a hoarse sound, then covered her throat and fell to the ground.
Everyone: “!!”
Okiya Subaru, who had just seen Miss Spider passing by the window and hastily averted his gaze, said: "?!!"
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"That's pretty much it."
Sato Miwako summarized what everyone in the laboratory said, repeated it to Jiang Xia one by one, and then said:
"We have just tested the food and supplies on the table. So far, only the high-heeled glass that the deceased used to drink has been found to contain poison. All other glasses and the bottle of wine have not been poisoned."
Jiang Xia had already entered the box while listening to her. He looked at the deceased's seat and asked, "Why are there two wine glasses?"
As he was speaking, he suddenly felt an itch on his face - the dry food cat hugged his face and patted it. After he pulled the mini ghost down, the dry food cat meowed and pointed happily to the corner.
Jiang Xia looked in the direction it pointed and saw the group of people having dinner with different expressions. Suddenly, a familiar color caught his attention in the gap between several young people.
"Huh?" Jiang Xia walked over, pushed aside the crowd and looked inside, and saw Okiya Subaru sitting quietly in the corner.
Jiang Xia: “…”
Okiya Subaru: "..."
After staring at each other in silence for a moment, Subaru Okiya patted his clothes, stood up, and greeted him reluctantly.
Jiang Xia looked at this graduate student who was so low-key that he almost managed to get away with it, and was silent for a moment: You are quite good at hiding...
But as a famous detective, he certainly couldn't care about such a small matter, so Jiang Xia just nodded and said politely: "It's not too long, I have to thank you for lending the car to Dr. Agasa and Conan last time."
Okiya Subaru: “…” Don’t mention it, it makes me sad just thinking about it.
"Mr. Okiya?" Several other high school students who came to join in the fun also noticed this familiar graduate student. Suzuki Sonoko sighed, "What a coincidence, two murders happened in one night, and there happened to be acquaintances in both cases."
Jiang Xia hadn't thought much about it at first, but when he heard what Suzuki Sonoko said, he stroked his chin and his eyes immediately wandered between Hashimoto Maya and Okiya Subaru: Speaking of which, these two cases were a bit coincidental. Could it be that the combination of two subordinates with average physiques would bring other unexpected gains?
As he made note of this, he pretended to be a detective.
Soon, Jiang Xia pulled out the graduate student hiding in the corner, and under the pretext of being an acquaintance, he asked him a question that the police could have explained: "Why were there two drinking cups in front of the deceased?"
Next to him, Hashimoto Maya looked at Jiang Xia with interest and became quietly alert.
(End of this chapter)
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