Chapter 311 The boss's status, please give me a monthly ticket ()
Hattori Shizuka pretended to be an ordinary client. After she finished speaking the lines she had prepared in advance, she bowed slightly.
She didn't know that Toru Amuro and Jiang Xia had recognized her identity, nor did she notice that while she was bowing, the two of them took the opportunity to exchange a puzzled look.
As the mother of Hattori Heiji, Hattori Shizuka has always been very curious about the "Jiang Xia" mentioned by her son and husband - her son always describes Jiang Xia as a monster, but her husband highly praises her. In addition, Toyama Kazuha also seems to have a good impression of Jiang Xia.
The polarized opinions from people around her undoubtedly aroused Shizuka Hattori's interest, so she made slight adjustments to her trip to Tokyo.
——Originally, she only needed to arrive tomorrow to attend her friend’s son’s wedding.
But now, Hattori Shizuka decided to come a day earlier to meet Jiang Xia first. In the process, she would test his ability, observe his character, and then see who among her son, husband, and the future daughter-in-law she favored was wearing tinted glasses.
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In order to achieve this goal, Shizuka Hattori spoke in what sounded like authentic Tokyo dialect. She also deliberately hid her last name "Hattori", which would easily make Jiang Xia think of Hattori Heiji, and only said her last name was "Ikenami".
In addition, she also used the excuse that she hurt her hand due to her poor cooking skills, and covered the mark left by the wedding ring on her left ring finger with a Band-Aid, pretending that she had been single since birth - this was both a cover-up for her identity as "Hattori Heiji's mother" and a small test of Jiang Xia's ability.
This was the first time that Shizuka Hattori came to this agency. And her son Heiji Hattori had never seen Jiang Xia in the detective agency.
So Shizuka Hattori didn't know the usual state of the agency, and she didn't think there was anything wrong with Amuro Toru calling her to find Jiang Xia immediately after hearing that she wanted to find Jiang Xia. She just thought that this agency had a strong service spirit, or the boss saw her dress and thought she was a wealthy client and privately offered potential VIP treatment... Shizuka Hattori had encountered many similar things in the past.
In short, at present, Hattori Shizuka has no idea that her true identity has been recognized.
Jiang Xia silently watched this elder who had revealed her true identity before they even met but was still concentrating on her performance. She had no choice but to pretend that she hadn't noticed anything and acted with her according to the normal process.
When Toru Amuro saw Jiang Xia coming, he stood up and gave him the seat opposite Shizuka Hattori.
Afterwards, the boss of the detective agency did not leave the office, but began to pretend to find some tea and make some tea, and stayed in the store with this excuse - he was a little curious about why Hattori Shizuka came.
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Hattori Shizuka sat down gracefully, exchanged greetings for a while, and then began to tell her about the commission she had rehearsed in advance.
She took out a well-preserved old photo from her bag, placed it on the table, and then turned it to an angle suitable for Jiang Xia to view.
Jiang Xia looked down for a moment and found that this was a group photo of the members of the Kendo Club. The members looked young and probably not even in high school. In the middle, a boy with thick eyebrows was holding a trophy and grinning happily, and around him were six other members.
"I'd like you to help me find the man in the middle."
Hattori Shizuka stretched out her hand and lightly touched the man holding the trophy with her white fingertips: "His name is Shibata Shiro." After saying that, she thought for a moment and added, "This photo was taken in the second year of junior high school - that is, thirty years ago. His appearance and height may have changed a lot."
Jiang Xia nodded and began to ask some routine questions, pretending that he was seriously collecting clues.
When two people communicate.
Next to him, Toru Amuro lowered his movements to reduce the noise so that he could hear every word of the conversation between the two people in the room.
...It's not that he was interested in gossip about the wife of a high-ranking police officer. It's mainly because as an intelligence agent, he felt that he should be highly sensitive and vigilant to all kinds of abnormal information.
Toru Amuro listened carefully and thought: Shibata Shiro, this is a man's name... Speaking of which, Mrs. Hattori suddenly came to Jiang Xia anonymously, perhaps not because she had heard information about Jiang Xia from Hattori Heiji, but because she really came for Jiang Xia's reputation as a detective.
This actually makes sense. First of all, judging from Hattori Heiji's behavior at the door of the detective agency last time, although he knew Jiang Xia, he was obviously not familiar with Jiang Xia. In addition, many high school students of this age are still at the end of their rebellious period and may not tell their parents about their situation.
In other words, there is a possibility that Shizuka Hattori doesn't know that Heiji Hattori knows Jiang Xia. To her, Jiang Xia is just a strange Tokyo detective.
If this is the case, then Mrs. Hattori did not call the police or find a detective in Osaka, but instead went to Tokyo and deliberately issued the commission under a concealed name. This is very intriguing... Hey, she also put a Band-Aid on her left ring finger to cover up the trace of the wedding ring?
……interesting.
Amuro Toru took a sip of the black tea with great interest.
A second later, he looked down at the water stains on the rim of the cup and was slightly startled.
...This tea seems to be brewed specially for guests.
Toru Amuro paused for a moment, calmly put the teacup aside, and washed a new cup for the guest.
He hadn't worked as an assistant in his own firm for a long time and was not very proficient in his work.
Then again, these chores should obviously be done by Jiang Xia, a theoretical employee, but why is he doing them instead...
Amuro Toru looked at Shizuka Hattori who was happily chatting with Jiang Xia, and thought about how she was very frugal with words before Jiang Xia appeared, and sighed in his heart. Bosses these days really have less and less human rights.
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"A while ago, I accidentally lost the medal I won in the Summer Cup Kendo Competition when I was in the third year of junior high school. For me, apart from the medal, the only souvenir that can record that time is a photo.
“Before I graduated from junior high school, I accidentally used the photo as a bookmark in a book I borrowed from Mr. Shibata, and forgot to take the photo out when I returned the book.
"When I thought of this matter again, Mr. Shibata had moved away, and the contact between us was also cut off." Hattori Shizuka lowered her head slightly, looking a little embarrassed, and acted very focused, "So I would like to ask you to find Mr. Shibata and help me get the photo back."
When Toru Amuro, who was not far away, heard this, he came up with a new guess with great interest:
Compared to this photo, Mrs. Hattori might have used the photo as an excuse to find her first love.
——For private detectives here, searching for first love from decades ago is actually a prosperous business second only to finding cats and dogs and catching mistresses.
(End of this chapter)
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