Chapter 768: Merciful Uzo
Conan pricked up his ears to eavesdrop, while tugging Jiang Xia and whispering, "Did you receive a commission?"
I don't know when Haibara Ai put on a hood, and she came over quietly like a cautious red mushroom.
She wasn't interested in the commission, but compared to Conan, Huihara Ai knew more - she was worried that this was another mission from the organization. If that was the case, she thought she'd better run away quickly to avoid running into someone familiar with the organization who might be passing by.
Jiang Xia looked at Conan, then nonchalantly rubbed Haibara Ai's fluffy red hood a few times, in revenge for the bad things Haibara Ai said about him to his cat vest the morning before.
After rubbing out the static electricity, he withdrew his hand and said seriously: "It's a somewhat troublesome commission..."
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Jiang Xia briefly recounted what had happened before.
After saying that, he looked up and found that Masao Koda and Subaru Okiya beside him had ended their conversation at some point.
At this time, Masao Koda was ringing the doorbell again and again, urging Yoshikazu Watanuki to go out.
Okiya Subaru took the opportunity to approach Jiang Xia and spoke to him with a gentle expression: "You like children, too."
In Okiya Subaru's eyes, Jiang Xia is undoubtedly a golden channel leading to "mission accomplishment" and his friendliness is very real.
In addition, this sentence was also Subaru Okiya's way of covering up the fact that he kidnapped a child so that this sharp detective would not find out the problem.
——Although I won’t be arrested by the police unless I’m caught violating the law, what if Uzo is particularly strict?
Subaru Okiya didn't dare to bet on Usa's kindness, so he could only try his best to do everything to the best of his ability. He didn't dare to paddle at all, for fear that he would poke Usa's minefield while paddling... and then he could conceive of his suicide note again.
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Jiang Xia heard him talking and nodded, with the same friendly attitude: "They are all very smart children." Then he glanced at the young detectives who had shrunk behind a corner in the distance, then glanced at Conan, and suppressed his conscience, "They are all very sensible too."
When he stared at them, the three heads that were secretly looking in from the corner of the wall quickly shrank back.
Subaru Okiya hummed, and began to try to steer the topic back to the "corpse": "However, telling these things to children can easily cause psychological trauma to them."
"Generally speaking, that's right." Jiang Xia touched Conan's head: "But he is... ahem, my classmate's distant cousin. My classmate is a detective and doesn't shy away from these things. He always takes this kid to the crime scene, so he has gradually gotten used to it - sometimes, a child's perspective can also reveal some valuable clues."
Okiya Subaru: "..." Jiang Xia's classmate + detective...
A person quickly emerged in his mind—Kudo Shinichi.
In the past, Subaru Okiya didn't have much interest in detectives and murder cases.
But ever since his roommate who was having seven affairs at the same time walked out upright and was carried to the funeral home sideways, Okiya Subaru couldn't help but subscribe to a newspaper on the subject and occasionally browse through the related information.
Therefore, he was more familiar with these high school detectives from the same region, and naturally remembered the story that "Kudo Shinichi's ghost possessed a classmate" which was once hyped up by the media.
Thinking of this, Subaru Okiya realized that Kudo Shinichi was dead, and from what Jiang Xia had just said, the two had a good relationship.
He then added politely: "My condolences."
Jiang Xia's eyes drifted towards the horizon, he nodded, and sighed, as if mourning for his good friend who had gone to heaven.
Okiya Subaru also sighed in his heart: A young man who can feel grief and miss others, and is so humane, is like a real person.
In comparison, Wu Zuo doesn't look much older than Jiang Xia. The difference is like that between a human and a devil...
Subaru Okiya stood next to Jiang Xia, feeling the breath of a normal young man, in order to gradually erase the psychological shadow left by Usa.
Next to him, Conan was worried that Jiang Xia had a strong conscience and did not want to lie, so he accidentally revealed the fact that "Kudo Shinichi is still alive", attracting the attention of the Black Organization.
But now it seems that the matter was successfully covered up - Jiang Xia was looking up at the sky just now with a wandering look in his eyes. This escaping look of being forced to lie just fits the key word "escape" and can be interpreted as "escaping from the reality of his friend's death."
In short, after a simple greeting, all three of them felt that the communication was pleasant.
Only Haibara Ai, looking at Jiang Xia's awkward lying, always felt that something was wrong.
...However, since Jiang Xia didn't give any warnings, this incident should have nothing to do with the organization. She took off her hood hesitantly, and then silently smoothed her messed up hair.
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Subaru Okiya successfully struck up a conversation and was about to take advantage of Jiang Xia's evasive attitude towards the "death of a friend" to shift the topic to the "corpse" that Masao Koda was looking for.
But before he could open his mouth, a tense voice came from the side.
——Masao Koda was staring at the yard through the iron gate.
Seeing Watanuki Yoshikazu finally come out of the small door at the side of the house reluctantly, Koda Masao gritted his teeth and reminded the temporary accomplices around him: "He's coming out."
Okiya Subaru was stunned and had to temporarily stop his plan to talk to Jiang Xia. He looked through the iron gate and into the yard of the villa.
A gray-haired, burly old man came out with a bad look on his face.
Masao Koda glared at him as he approached - in Masao Koda's eyes, Yoshiichi Watanuki must be the enemy who killed his sister.
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Yoshikazu Watanuki looked at the group of people outside through the fence gate and frowned.
As he walked, his hand seemed to naturally reach into his pocket and put the baseball in his hand into his pocket.
Just now, Yoshikazu Watanuki had been staying on the second floor of the villa, spying on the group of children playing ball on the construction site.
Therefore, he also saw the baseball flying into his own yard.
The reason he came out so slowly was that after hearing the doorbell, it took him a while to find the ball in the yard.
——Yoshikazu Watanuki planned to use this baseball to negotiate with the children, asking them to move away and not approach this area again.
As for the adult who played with the child... that's even simpler. Just tell him that if he trespasses into the construction land again, I will call the police, and you will be able to drive these annoying guys away.
Unexpectedly, when they found the ball and were about to come out to negotiate, two more people appeared outside the courtyard gate.
Watanuki Yoshikazu looked carefully for a moment, and his eyes soon fell on Koda Masao. He recognized the man who had been pestering him for more than a month, and showed a vigilant and disgusted expression.
Watanuki Yoshiichi did not mention baseball again. He clenched his fists and walked to the door aggressively, looking at Koda Masao: "I have told you many times that the worthless woman has never been to my place! You are a paranoid peeping Tom, stay away from my house!"
(End of this chapter)
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