Chapter 2669-2681 [Ally]
The speaker may not mean it, but the listener may take it to heart. The police officer's casual complaint made Hashimoto Maya suddenly alert.
He couldn't help but look down at Inspector Megure: "..." As your new brother, I advise you to stop here and don't think too much about it - I don't want to suddenly receive a mission to assassinate a Metropolitan Police Department official, or to not receive such a mission but inexplicably carry out an independent execution.
"Yes, this is too coincidental. It's as if someone deliberately arranged it."
Hashimoto Maya's fleeting guilty feeling was caught by some elementary school students who were observing him closely.
Conan's eyes moved obscurely between Hashimoto Maya and the front desk. Finally, he looked at the front desk and said in a long voice: "Brother, there are so many empty rooms, but why did you insist on letting the deceased uncle go to the box located in the blind spot of the surveillance?"
"You kid, why are you talking so weirdly?" The receptionist muttered and had to explain:
“I wanted to lead the guest to Box 1, but he didn’t stop at the door but walked straight back.
"Some guests have their own preferences for the location of the boxes. I remembered this and didn't bother to stop him. I followed him to box No. 5...
"In short, if I have to say it, it was he who chose the place of death. I am innocent."
Inspector Megure was skeptical. At this time, Jiang Xia nodded and said, "It seems that the deceased was following us before he died. Theoretically, he would prefer the hidden room No. 5 to the busy room No. 1. What the receptionist said should be correct."
The receptionist nodded in agreement like a chick pecking at rice, looking at him with shining eyes.
"As expected of the God of Wealth, his words are always sweet!" Thinking about the short-lived fullness of the night, the receptionist secretly calculated, "When the case is over, I have to give this high school student a discount card and invite him to patronize often - this is much more useful than the fraudulent fortune cat on the counter. My parents will definitely be very happy to know that I am so smart."
Unlike the receptionist who was secretly happy, an elementary school student next to her touched his chin and frowned.
Conan: "..." Jiang Xia's ability in reasoning is beyond words, and he had already thought of this reason before Jiang Xia opened his mouth. But...
"If the truth behind 'accidentally leading the deceased into the death box' is really so ordinary, then what on earth was Hashimoto Maya so nervous about just now?" Conan always felt that he couldn't let his guard down. "Think about it carefully - there must be something hidden in this matter that I don't know."
…
The suspicion of the front desk clerk was temporarily ruled out, and everyone looked at the surveillance again.
After a fast forward, suddenly, the door of another box was opened - two muscular men left the box laughing and joking, and went to the bathroom together.
...Although they knew that the shorter one was a woman, the shocking scene on the screen still made everyone quickly look away and politely give way.
Only after the two people disappeared from the screen did they secretly breathe a sigh of relief and their eyes returned to the screen.
Soon, another person came out.
"This is..." Inspector Megure leaned in to identify it for a moment and recognized it, "Mr. Hashimoto? Why do you look so flustered in the surveillance video? What happened?"
Maya Hashimoto looked at her embarrassing self through the screen: "..." This is hard for me to explain... But from another perspective, it is easy to explain - just lock you in a box and let that elementary school student go in and sing a song, and you will know why I look like that.
However, he was a seven-foot-tall man, but he was scared away by a song of an elementary school student... This sounded a bit embarrassing. If he really said it, it would sound like he was making excuses.
So after thinking for a moment, Hashimoto Maya said, "I...I'm going to the bathroom too."
——He'll just make do with this explanation for now, pretending that he doesn't want to expose the truth about the elementary school student's awful singing, and is protecting Conan's fragile face and heart.
And if these people still want to get to the bottom of the matter later... then don't blame him for really coming up with the "go listen to Conan sing for me" plan.
Fortunately, Inspector Megure didn't think too much about it, and Jiang Xia was considerate and didn't say anything.
Only the hateful elementary school student opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something. However, before he could speak, two female high school students acted like lightning and covered his mouth. It seemed that they knew the reason why Hashimoto Maya left the box.
The two sides looked at each other, and Hashimoto Maya smiled at them gratefully: "..." Compared with that elementary school student whose human nature was evil, the other colleagues were suddenly made to look like good people...
…
Following Hashimoto Maya, the old man in Box No. 1 also left the box, turned through the corridor and went to the blind spot of the surveillance camera.
Officer Gao Mu held the notebook in his hand and answered skillfully: "Are you going to the bathroom too?"
But this time, the answer was different.
The old man in fishing gear shook his head and said, "I'm going to buy cigarettes."
"Buy cigarettes?" Inspector Megure was a little confused at first, but then he remembered - at the end of the corridor, at the door of the bathroom, there was indeed a vending machine with a lot of cigarettes on the shelf.
The old man immediately added: "But I didn't buy it - the vending machine didn't have the cigarettes I usually smoke. I hesitated for a while, but finally gave up."
The time he disappeared from the surveillance camera was indeed very short, only two minutes. Soon the old man returned to his box and pushed the door open.
"Mr. Honma and Mr. Arimoto have just returned to the private room." Inspector Megure checked the record he had just written and suddenly found a problem, "Mr. Hashimoto, did you stay in the bathroom for a long time?"
Hashimoto Maya: “…” That kid has the attitude of a microphone tyrant. Who knows how long he wants to sing…
Hashimoto Maya glanced at Conan, paving the way for her to reveal the truth later: "I... I had a stomachache at the time."
Inspector Megure hummed, said nothing, and continued reading.
After a long while, Hashimoto Maya finally appeared on the surveillance screen. He came back from the direction of the toilet, paused for a moment in front of the high school students' box, and seemed to stick to the door to listen, and then pushed the door open and walked in.
Inspector Megure: “…What are you doing?”
Two female high school students: "..." Although it was already guessed, it seems that Mr. Hashimoto is indeed avoiding Conan's song.
When I think of Hashimoto Maya preferring to be suspected rather than reveal the truth about the elementary school student's bad singing...
Mao Lilan was touched. She considerately helped Hashimoto Maya to smooth things over: "Maybe he was worried about disturbing us while we were singing. I am quite introverted. If someone opened the door while we were singing, I would feel embarrassed to continue singing. Mr. Hashimoto is such a good person."
Conan: “?”
...Why did you start too!
(End of this chapter)
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