Chapter 586 Karasuma Renya Ask for monthly votes ()
The white horse scout was hit head-on by the eagle that failed to take off, and its wings were hit several times, leaving its body covered with feathers.
After a moment of shock, he hurriedly hugged Watson, who had failed to take off and was now flapping his wings trying to find a place to land.
Then he looked at the eagle in surprise, followed the eagle's line of sight, looked at Jiang Xia, and frowned in confusion: Why is Watson so excited today? Could it be that he heard "Kid" in his words, and Watson thought it was some kind of attack command, so he pounced on Kidd?
...But, Bai Ma thought, when he captured Kidd, he rarely brought Watson with him. He had never done this kind of training before. It was impossible for Watson to awaken the skills against the thief by himself.
...Or is it that the young man in black has something else on him that attracts eagles, such as a unique smell of blood?
…
Jiang Xia glanced calmly at the fluttering eagle, then looked away indifferently.
Then he secretly glanced at the Mist Tengu who was quietly clinging to his hand, living like a fluffy glove.
After taking a look, he found that the eagle was tied up and then he saw the lively mermaid swimming left and right and began to tease the eagle.
"…" Why are you bullying him? He's a cute furry eagle. If he gets bald because of the mermaid, he won't have a chance to rub his baldness anymore...
The eagle on the opposite side suddenly shuddered.
The white horse touched it and stroked its fur.
At the same time, looking at Watson's head moving around, he found that it was no longer staring at Kurosawa, but occasionally looked elsewhere, with his eyes wandering.
"?" After a moment of confusion, Bai Ma Tan began to think about other reasons.
- For example, Watson's strange behavior today has nothing to do with Kurosawa, but is just because he has some disease and his mental state has become strange, or... is there something hidden in this annex that can make Eagle excited?
While Bai Ma Tan was busy treating the eagle.
Others were also thinking about what happened to the host just now.
——Based on Kidd’s usual behavior, it is indeed hard to imagine that he would do something like this today.
Although the words "the phantom child abandoned by God" on the invitation can indeed be related to "Kid", it now seems that someone may have sent the invitation letter in order to recruit detectives, pretending to be this popular thief.
Therefore, compared to the treasure, everyone is more curious about the secretive host - not only did this person use a "dummy" to attend the dinner on his behalf, he also never had any contact with the maids and attached great importance to hiding his identity.
…Just as I was thinking about the maid, the door of the restaurant was knocked twice by the person involved.
The maid gently opened the door, then returned to the dining cart she had pushed over and began serving food to the guests.
…
Jiang Xia looked at the fragrant food in front of him and sniffed it calmly, but he couldn't smell anything. Although the puppet looked and felt the same as a human, the internal structure was different. Food and water would be preserved in the body. In other words, not only would the food have no taste, but when the puppet disappeared, it would also easily leave traces.
"..."Facing a table full of sumptuous food, Jiang Xia sighed in his heart.
Then he silently moved the soup closer to himself.
Although I can explain my hunger strike by saying "I have no appetite in the haunted house", in this kind of situation, not eating anything would seem very strange, and I would be easily targeted as the mastermind behind the event... I might as well just pretend to drink some soup, and put the bowl close to my mouth, pretending to drink it but not actually drinking it, but food doesn't have such a good perfunctory effect.
Beside him, Toru Amuro looked at his hands fiddling with the soup bowl and questioned directly:
"Just now the host said that this is the 'Last Supper'... It feels unlucky to say this just as the game begins. I wonder if the food was poisoned."
Across from him, the fat food detective laughed:
"What are you afraid of? I made all these meals myself, and of course I washed the ingredients carefully."
Bai Matan was holding the eagle, which was peeking into the air, in one hand, and with the other hand he was picking off the eagle feathers that had gotten on his face and body from the fluttering of the eagle. He looked a little flustered.
But he still had the temperament of a young master, and was listening carefully to what others were saying: "Even if you prepare the food yourself, the tableware is already here. It would be safer to wipe it before eating."
Grandma Qianjian didn't seem to care much about these things, and her whole body gave off a Buddhist aura that indicated that she was determined to live as long as possible.
She turned her head and watched Jiang Xia slowly move the bowl of soup. She pushed her own bowl over as well, feeling an inexplicable sense of compassion as if she was giving a dying person his last meal. "If you don't have an appetite for other dishes, I'll give you this bowl too."
Jiang Xia: "..." No. Don't add any more weight to the puppet.
But he nodded first, took it politely and put it aside... Anyway, no one was there to see if he had really finished drinking it.
…
Puppets don't feel hungry, but the humans next to them don't.
They had traveled all the way here, and by now they were all starving.
Considering that people would have more energy to reason after eating, and since the host wanted them to hunt for treasure, he would not poison them right from the start, the group wiped the tableware at hand and started to eat.
…
The meal was finished quickly.
Until the end, no one was poisoned and fell to the ground. Everyone gradually felt relieved.
After a while, Grandma Qianjian, who was the slowest eater, also finished her meal and wiped her mouth.
At this time, the organizer's gloomy voice sounded again:
"Are you all satisfied with the dinner? Well, let's get back to the point - you must be very curious about why I chose this huge villa as the stage for the game.
"On that point... First, please take a close look at the cutlery next to you."
Jiang Xia put down the almost untouched soup bowl and picked up the knife beside him.
On the handle of the knife was a circular family emblem, which showed a crow with a large head and belly and a distorted body. It looked funny and somewhat gloomy.
“…”
If I remember correctly, this should be the family emblem of the boss's family.
How tasteless. However, something as old as the family crest should have been designed by the ancestors of the Karasuma family. I hope the current boss's aesthetic taste can improve...
As he was thinking, Jiang Xia glanced at Amuro Toru. He didn't know if the police had found out that the boss was from the Karasuma family...
Amuro Toru looked normal, and there was no murderous aura coming from him. He was holding a teacup beside him, examining the bottom—the family emblem engraved there was the largest and clearest.
Suddenly noticing the gazes from the side, he put down the cup and looked back in confusion.
Jiang Xia calmly withdrew his gaze: It seems that there is no...
…
The smooth-headed plastic "host" paused for a moment, giving the guests time to examine the family crest.
Then he said, "This is the family crest of the Karasuma family. You must have heard of Karasuma Renya, the wealthy man who died mysteriously half a century ago."
(End of this chapter)
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