Chapter 356: Strange "Bourbon"
When the three children heard that Huibara Ai was leaving, their ears twitched.
They immediately shifted their gazes away from Conan and looked at Haibara Ai in unison, ready to reach out to her like they did to Conan and push her back into her seat.
...But Haibara Ai is different from Conan. The mysterious and cold female classmate makes the children love her but also a little afraid of her.
In the end, the three pairs of hands that had nowhere to put had to fall back to their original positions and held down Conan who wanted to take advantage of the chaos to leave with Haibara Ai.
…
Jiang Xia waited and waited, but he didn't expect that instead of the group of murder attractors he wanted, he only saw a familiar figure.
Haibara Ai looked around as she walked out of the school gate, and soon her gaze fixed on the other side of the street.
She pressed the baseball cap on her head, crossed the street, and trotted to Jiang Xia.
Jiang Xia nodded at her, then looked behind her, not seeing the other people: "Why are you the only one out?"
Huihara Ai hesitated for 0.5 seconds between the naughty kid and Jiang Xia: "They don't seem to want to go to the movies, so they changed the duty to today... Why don't you go back first?"
Jiang Xia probably wouldn't bother with the kids about standing him up. In that case, it felt a bit too much to make him wait here.
After saying that, Huibara Ai looked up at him.
Jiang Xia really didn't show any anger. He was just stunned for a moment, then said in a good mood: "I understand. You can go back first."
…Now that you know, why don’t you go home for dinner?
Haibara Ai tilted her head in dissatisfaction, but seeing that Jiang Xia was still leaning on the motorcycle and had no intention of going home with her, she didn't want to urge him, so she nodded and left with her small schoolbag on her back.
Jiang Xia took out his cell phone and checked his email and address book.
He said he was free today, so he really was free today... Anyway, there would be no cases to pick up elsewhere, so why not wait here? With the Junior Detective Team and Conan here, maybe there will be a terrified scream from seeing a dead body nearby soon...
…
Conan didn't make it.
After being harassed by the kids for a while, he was reluctantly elected and became the person in charge to face Jiang Xia directly.
Conan, with a pair of crescent eyes, took out his almost dead phone and dialed Jiang Xia's number: "Hello? Um... We got into trouble during the day and were temporarily left behind to clean up. How about calling it quits today?"
He slightly amended his excuse - if they were really assigned to be on duty today, then the kids should have thought of using this reason to reject Jiang Xia in the morning, but they didn't. So if he said that he was assigned to be on duty today, it would be easy to be considered a lie, or a temporary accident would be the easiest excuse to reject Jiang Xia... That's right, a qualified detective would also seek rigor even when lying.
"It's okay." Jiang Xia said in a good-natured manner on the other side of the receiver, "I'll wait for you."
The other three children who were eavesdropping beside Conan's ear: "..."
Conan tried to persuade her a few more times but to no avail, so he had to hang up the phone.
Then he looked at the three students who were squatting in the corner, drawing circles and growing mushrooms, and advised: "Why don't you just go. It's just a movie. Just don't make any noise during the movie and go home after the movie."
"..." Mitsuhiko glanced at Yuanta silently. He believed that he could abide by the etiquette of watching movies, but he was worried about his classmates. Jiang Xia seemed to have always regarded them as a whole. What if...
After thinking for a while, Guangyan held his chin up, his eyes rolled, and he came up with a new idea: "In this case, after we finish cleaning, we will hide in the campus for a while. When the time comes for the children to go home, Brother Jiang Xia will not be able to take us to the movies!"
"Oh, that's right!" Ayumi and Genta slapped their palms, suddenly realizing.
Conan: “…”
...Forget it, as long as you are happy.
He put his phone away and walked towards the tool room to get the tools he needed for cleaning.
On the way, when passing by a position where he could see the school gate, Conan casually glanced outside and saw a familiar figure waiting on the opposite side across the empty campus.
Conan felt complicated for a moment.
During that time when he and Jiang Xia were still unfamiliar with each other, when he first heard that Jiang Xia was hanging out with bad boys, he imagined Jiang Xia coming to school with a baseball bat, a car lock, or something like that, blocking the door and beating people up, and then accidentally killing someone and disguising his crime, giving Detective Kudo a difficult question of choosing one out of three...
I didn’t expect that I had never seen Jiang Xia blocking the door in junior high and high school, but I saw him once at the entrance of an elementary school... By the way, why did Jiang Xia want to stay with those naughty kids so much?
Was it to repay the professor for helping him, or was it because the children's vitality made him feel comfortable? Conan walked back with the cleaning tools, lost in thought.
When he returned to the classroom, he looked at the three children with a reproachful look and decided to try to persuade them to go to the movies together while cleaning.
…
At the school gate, Jiang Xia's fingertips were moving rapidly on his cell phone.
He replied to messages from clients; he browsed photos of cats sent by guests for easy search later; and he also found excuses to greet a few guests whose names were familiar to him, in order to increase his presence so that when these VIP clients encountered a case, they would think of him as a reliable detective first, and would actively invite him over when there were signs of a case.
Time passed unknowingly. A little brother was going to travel with his family recently, so Jiang Xia re-divided the cat-hunting territory during this period.
After sending the message, he looked up as if he sensed something and saw a familiar car passing by him.
After driving five or six meters, he stopped and backed up.
The white Mazda stopped precisely beside him, with the window rolled down.
Amuro Toru's face appeared behind the car window. He looked at Jiang Xia in confusion: "What are you doing standing here?"
As he said this, he turned around and looked at the elementary school on the other side. After his eyes moved back and forth between Jiang Xia and the elementary school several times, Toru Amuro seemed unable to understand the relationship between the two and became even more confused.
Jiang Xia looked at the extremely clear murderous aura lingering around Amuro Toru, and for a moment his expression became even more confused than Amuro Toru's.
But soon, as the car window opened and a gentle breeze blew, Jiang Xia smelled the familiar scent of apples.
The ghost in his body noticed the abnormality earlier than he did.
The mermaid looked at "Amuro Toru" blankly, then looked at her arms. In her arms, she was holding a piece of murderous aura that smelled exactly like the murderous aura on "Amuro Toru" - this was plucked from Vermouth before, and Jiang Xia gave her a small piece after the mermaid's soft and hard resistance. She usually held it as a toy, and it was the mermaid's new favorite recently.
"..." Jiang Xia gently sniffed the high-end apple scent and murderous aura, then took a closer look at "Amuro Toru" in the car and fell into deep thought.
He suspected that the boss was Vermouth in disguise, and he already had evidence, and could even pin the man down and capture him on the spot.
However, before reaching into the car window and tearing off the disguise on Vermouth's face, Jiang Xia had other ideas.
"..." As the saying goes, now that I'm here... Instead of exposing it right away when we meet, it's better to pretend that I haven't noticed anything, remove all the murderous aura from Vermouth, and then watch her continue to send murderous aura to me every now and then.
Jiang Xia looked at the people in the car and answered the previous question in a natural tone: "I promised my neighbor that I would take a few children to the movies for him."
Hearing this, Toru Amuro looked down at his watch, then glanced at the empty school, and reminded, "It's past school time."
Jiang Xia explained patiently: "They are on duty today and will be out later."
"I see..." "Amuro Toru" nodded thoughtfully and didn't ask any more questions.
The car drove away quickly.
Jiang Xia was slightly startled as he looked at the back of the car going away.
...leaving now?
That's it? ?
After a moment of confusion, I heard the sound of tires rolling on the ground approaching.
——"Toru Amuro" with murderous aura is back again, and brought a big bag of crispy and fragrant wraps.
"Amuro Toru" opened the passenger door and waved to Jiang Xia casually: "Come in and have something to eat. The kids are cleaning and playing at the same time, so they can't remember the time. I don't know how long it will take for them to come out."
Jiang Xia: “…”
He suspected that even if he couldn't see the murderous intent, he must have discovered by now that the "Toru Amuro" in front of him was a fake.
The real thing is not so idle. If I remember correctly, it should be the time when Amuro Toru is busy delivering packages...
Thinking of this, he glanced at the "Amuro Toru" in the car who was trying to blend in with their team with a natural look. He lowered his head and got into the car, glancing at the steaming paper bag on the armrest.
The burrito is quite fragrant... Never mind, this "Amuro Toru" is currently more considerate than the boss, so I'll just pretend I didn't notice anything and talk about it after I finish eating.
…
Jiang Xia opened the bag, picked out the one with the best-looking packaging from the pile of burritos, took it out and unfolded it.
Then, while eating, he continued to look towards the school gate, ready to intercept the Junior Detective Team who might slip away at any time, and did not pay attention to the strange look of "Amuro Toru" next to him.
——Vermouth stared at Jiang Xia who was eating, feeling quite complicated.
She recalled her previous inference that "Uzo was wary of the organization's cadres," and looked at how Uzo was eating the burrito brought by "Amuro Toru" with peace of mind... Relying on the fact that she was now wearing someone else's skin, she said sarcastically, "Aren't you afraid that the burrito is poisonous?"
(End of this chapter)
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