Chapters 3532 and 3544 [The Innocent Vodka] Requesting monthly votes (`)
After a pause, Hanzaki Jiro explained, "But my manager likes to drink, and I bet he's drunk at home again this morning. There's just no way to deal with him, hahaha."
"..." Suzuki Sonoko whispered to Jiang Xia, "This guy is too talkative, and Officer Takagi said he was very irritable yesterday, so why is he like a different person today?"
Hanzaki Jiro was still diligently searching various places, while his mouth never stopped: "I called him several times to urge him, but he didn't answer - so I can be sure that he must have passed out drunk at home!"
Even Ran Mouri sensed something was wrong. She whispered to her classmates, "Shouldn't we suspect something's happened if we can't get through on the phone? How can we be so sure he's drunk? And why are we repeating it so many times..."
Jiang Xia nodded: "It is indeed a bit strange."
Even the slow-witted Officer Takagi next to him sensed something was wrong: "If your manager isn't answering the phone, why don't you go to his house? You should know where he lives."
"I know, but his house is just too far away," Hanzaki Jiro laughed. "It takes an hour and a half to drive there, so I'm too lazy to go that far. Anyway, he'll definitely answer the phone once he sobers up."
Conan listened carefully to what the man was saying while scrutinizing him. Suddenly, the perceptive fake elementary school student noticed something: "There seems to be something stuck to your trouser leg?"
"Hmm?" Hanzawa Jiro looked down and said, "Oh, it's shampoo! I must have accidentally gotten some on my hair when I was cleaning the bathroom this morning."
As he spoke, he kept asking Officer Takagi, "By the way, what time is it now?"
Officer Takagi was getting a headache from his incessant chatter, but when he heard him ask, he still checked his watch: "It's one o'clock, exactly 1 p.m.
"What?! It's already one o'clock!" Hanzawa Jiro became even more boisterous. "Then I need to find your police ID right away! Losing this will definitely cause you trouble at work!"
Officer Takagi sighed, "I don't need your help. Go do your own thing. I just wanted to ask if you found it."
"I see..." Hanzawa Jiro hesitated for a moment, then suddenly noticed a restaurant in the distance, and his eyes lit up:
"How about this, I'll treat you to lunch at that restaurant—look, they're having a buffet today! For just two thousand yen, you can eat as much as you want for two hours!"
Officer Takagi's eye twitched slightly: "Thank you, but I'm not in the mood for food right now. Go ahead and eat."
"Alright." Hanzawa Jiro scratched his head in disappointment, but quickly perked up again. "Then I'll go eat by myself! — I'm determined to make my money back in these two hours!"
As he spoke, he struck a starting position, then dashed over with exaggerated movements and entered the store.
"..."
Silence fell over the spot.
A moment later, Jiang Xia looked at the store and said, "The advertisement looks pretty good. I should have come here to eat."
Ran Mouri felt that her classmate had missed the point: "Mr. Hanzaki, have you been doing too many plays?"
Sonoko Suzuki was much more direct: "That's ridiculous. What normal person would invite someone to dinner at a time like this? And to go to a buffet and then specifically tell us... Could this guy have done something bad and is trying to get us to be his alibi?"
Conan hesitated and said, "It can't be that bad. Even an elementary school student couldn't come up with such a flimsy alibi. I think it's more like what Ran said. He's too focused on his celebrity status, so every move he makes is like a performance."
Officer Takagi, however, was more concerned about something else: "If neither he nor his manager found the police ID... then it means my ID is very likely still around here!"
As he spoke, he rolled up his sleeves and began searching diligently.
Sonoko Suzuki and Ran Mouri had already searched the area, so they didn't go over to help anymore. Instead, they decided to try a different approach.
Ran Mouri glanced at a clock tower nearby, then looked in the direction of the hotel: "Speaking of which, there are clocks in this park, so why did Mr. Hanzaki, who lives nearby, specifically ask us for the time?"
Conan: "That is indeed a bit strange, but..."
"I understand!" Before he could finish speaking, Sonoko Suzuki exclaimed, "It must be that Hanzaki got angrier and angrier after the argument yesterday, so he decided to kill the manager!"
Conan sighed: "But..."
Ran Mouri seemed to remember something and pointed to her ankle:
"Didn't that Mr. Hanzaki have a shampoo stain on his trouser leg? He said he got it while cleaning the bathroom, but when you clean the bathroom, don't you roll up your trouser legs to avoid getting them wet?"
Sonoko Suzuki's gaze sharpened: "So, Hanzaki did go to the bathroom today, but not to clean; he did something else—"
"For example, he invited his agent to his home early in the morning, under the guise of reconciliation, and got the target he wanted to kill drunk."
"After the manager fell asleep, he carried him to the bathroom and threw him into the bathtub filled with water. The stuff on his trouser leg was from the shampoo bottle he accidentally stepped on when entering the bathroom, which sprayed onto his skin."
"As the manager was drowning, Hanzaki rushed to the park, trying to find someone to create an alibi for him. If I'm not mistaken, he would then go home, and under the cover of night, fish out the already drowned manager, transport him to the manager's own home, and put him back into the bathtub to create the illusion that the manager had died from drunkenness."
“Even if the police had doubts about this ‘accident’ after the incident, Hanzaki had an alibi for the time of the victim’s death, so he could successfully get away with it!”
As Ran Mouri listened, she couldn't help but clench her fists: "Officer Takagi helped them break up the fight, but he wants to use Officer Takagi to create an alibi... This guy is going too far!"
Conan quickly stopped him: "This is just Sonoko's speculation—think about it carefully, how many times has she guessed correctly?"
With a thud, Conan had a shiny bump on his head.
Sonoko Suzuki withdrew her fist, displeased, and said, "Are you underestimating the value of my position as 'Detective Jiang Xia's First Assistant'?"
Conan: "..." If an idiot like you is the first assistant, then what about all those suspicious people coming and going around Jiang Xia?
After briefly cursing the vodka who always pestered Jiang Xia as "Mr. Yamada," the fake elementary school student covered his head and persistently continued:
"And Sister Xiaolan, you just said that you should roll up your pants legs when cleaning the bathroom to avoid getting them wet, but in reality, not everyone has this good habit."
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