Conan: I Am Not a Snake Spirit

"Oh, these meatballs look really good!"

In front of the snack bar, Mori Kogoro exclaimed intentionally, and then quietly moved back.

Well, take this opportunity to sneak... secretly...

"What would you like to eat, teacher?"

A calm and chilly voice came from behind him, Kogoro Mori froze and turned his head slowly.

Um? Wait, his apprentice feels a little different. It seems that the color of the clothes is too warm, and even the eyebrows and facial contours have softened a lot. There is still no expression on his face, but he always feels quite harmless.

It can't be called sunlight, but it just feels pure and harmless.

"What do you want to eat," Chi Feichi asked repeatedly, "I'll buy it for you."

Maori Kogoro:"……"

Humans are indeed visual animals, there is no change in listening to the sound, but I feel that his apprentice is much gentler.

It made him... awkward and unaccustomed to it.

The female shop assistant turned her head and saw Chi Feichi, she immediately smiled and said, "It's very different from the feeling just now, it suits you very well!"

"Thank you," Chi Feichi said, "Thank you for your hard work."

"You're welcome," the female clerk looked at Kogoro Mori, "I think this gentleman will like this surprise too!"

Mori Kogoro was confused, "What surprise?"

Chi Feichi confessed calmly, "I told them, I want to give you a surprise, please don't let you leave first."

Maori Kogoro:"……"

No wonder he was being watched so closely, damn it!

gentle? harmless? This kid clearly deserves a beating!

The point is that he may or may not be able to beat... irritating!

The next second, Mori Kogoro turned around and walked towards the clothing store. When he passed by Chi Feichi, he said angrily, "I have a surprise for you too!"

Ten minutes later, the master and apprentice walked down the street.

Mori Kogoro was wearing the suit and trousers before, but he put on a black shirt and a dark brown windbreaker. He wore sunglasses on his face, with a cold face and a serious aura.

Chi Feichi walked aside in silence.

His teacher is really similar to Takatori. Their height, body shape, face shape, and mustache are almost exactly the same. There is a slight gap in their eyes, but it can't be seen at all when wearing sunglasses. In addition, the dressing style is a lot more serious. Now he Mr. Ka is exactly the same as Takatori Yano.

Fortunately, without prior confirmation of the meeting, Gin and the others would not take the initiative to say hello when they met him, otherwise he was really worried that Vodka would treat Moori Kogoro as Takatori Yannan when he passed by a certain alley. Say hello without hesitation...

Seeing that Chi Feichi followed without saying a word, Maoli Kogoro couldn't get angry, "Take you to Lemon Bar, and try his super spicy cheese!"

...

Lemon bar.

There was no one else in the bar, just a man in a waiter's gown standing behind the counter.

The man with dyed brown hair combed back into a big back, dead fish eyes, thick but bloodless lips, tall and thin, was wiping his wine glass with a towel, when he noticed someone coming in, he raised his head to say hello, "You two, welcome... hey? Mister Morley?"

Mori Kogoro was recognized after taking off his sunglasses, and sat in front of the bar, "Boss, it seems that there are still no customers today."

Chi Feichi sat down beside him, looked at the man, and then quickly looked at the wine cabinet behind the man.

He has no memory of this case.

But if the gangster's target is Mori Kogoro himself, "Kimura" is probably a cover that does not exist at all, then the bar owner who said he has seen "Kimura" is very suspicious.

Moreover, Mori Kogoro took the wrong coat in this bar, and the other party is the only one who can manipulate and create the existence of 'Kimura'.

It's just that the more people who need attention, the less they can stare and observe. He doesn't have Conan's small stature and age that is easy to be ignored.

"It's still early," the man smiled, "Mr. Maori still wants to eat super spicy cheese?"

"Yes, please prepare a portion for two," Mori Kogoro turned his head and explained to Chi Feichi, "I came here originally to drink with the one-year anniversary free drink ticket, but I tasted his The cheese I made is so delicious that I will never forget it, and recently I have become obsessed with spicy appetizers!"

The shop owner turned around and was busy, "Mr. Mao Li, you have won the prize, I don't know this is..."

"That's what I mentioned the night before yesterday, my big disciple Chi Feichi," Mao Li Kogoro introduced, and then looked at Chi Feichi who was sitting next to him, "It's a pity that you didn't come with me the night before yesterday gone."

"I had to sort out the documents at home the night before yesterday, and I couldn't get away." Chi Feichi still looked at the wine bottles in the wine cabinet, "Otherwise I would come, just because of the name of this bar."

"Huh?" Mori Kogoro was curious, "Lemon? What's wrong with the name?"

"Because of the song," Chi Feichi didn't elaborate, looking at the man, "Boss, can you give me a glass of Sazerac?"

"Ah?" The man turned around and smiled sheepishly, "I'm sorry, my store has only been open for a year, and the previous bartender resigned because of family problems, so..."

"No wonder it's not easy for you to make food and mix wine by yourself!" Mori Kogoro sighed.

"Can I do it myself?" Chi Feichi stood up.

The language is to ask, but the movement of his getting up has already made ordinary people embarrassed to refuse aloud.

After all, it is still under the nose of the boss that the guests make their own drinks. There is no reason to refuse this kind of thing, even if the wine mixed by the guests is undrinkable, as long as the guests pay the bill.

If the boss refuses when all the customers stand up, it means there is some reason why he can't go behind the bar.

"No problem!" The man readily agreed, looking at the wine in the wine cabinet, "The wine with the brand on it is bought by the customer, and the rest can be used as you like."

"I'm really sorry, Boss," Mouri Kogoro said, "I've caused you trouble."

"It's okay." The man smiled, then turned around and put the cheese on the plate.

After Chi Feichi turned around and went to the bar, he took the wine without a wooden sign and introduced it aloud, "Sazerac is known as the first cocktail in North America. The traditional recipe is French cognac wine, Abis, bitters , sugar, and garnish with lemon zest..."

Sazerac is not unpopular, the owner doesn't know, either the bartender has really left, or the bar has been open for less than a year.

And the wine cabinet itself can also see a lot of information.

From the gap inside the wine cabinet, you can tell how long the wine cabinet has been used. Even if you wipe the inside and outside of the wine cabinet every day, there are always corners that you ignore.

This wine cabinet is at least three years old.

From the number of bartending utensils and food making utensils, you can tell how many people used to work here. For example, there used to be two bartenders here, so there will be more than two sets of bartending tools. The remaining one is working, and the extra set of bartending tools will not be discarded or put away, but will be used as a spare tool.

The tools are complete, there are two pestles of the same style, there should be only one bartender in the past.

From the use of cups, saucers, etc., the usual passenger flow can be judged.

This does not depend on the degree of cleaning, traces of use, or the proportion of damage, but on the way it is placed. If there are usually a lot of people in the store, at this point in the evening, the boss should put a large number of cups in a convenient place. .

Generally, the most prepared bars are all kinds of wine glasses, and then there are plates for small meals, and some bars will also prepare some knives and forks for eating cakes.

This bar doesn't seem to have many customers at ordinary times... No, it should be said that it is pitifully small. There are only two rows of cups on the outside, a total of ten, and a stack of eight saucers.

What's more interesting is that among the stack of plates, there is actually dust on the two lower edges, and a layer of dust has accumulated on the innermost knife and fork.

Explain that the boss expects no more than ten customers today, and there are not many customers coming every day recently. If there are five plates for the boss to eat, even if not every customer will order food, the number of customers will be even less .

In addition, the ten glasses placed on the outside are only antique cocktail glasses, champagne glasses, and beer glasses, although they are polished clean.

In bars, Martinis and Margaritas are often ordered cocktails, and they all have specific glasses. A bar did not pack out two Martinis and Margaritas in advance. The boss really Want to do business?

Or, the boss knew that Mori Kogoro was keen on beer and shochu, and he didn't know how to order cocktails, so he put it away?

The bar has been open for at least three years. Although the owner said that he took over for a year, it is not even Sazerac who does not know. That is to say, the owner may not have taken over the bar for a year. It has only been open for a few days, but Mori Kogoro has received a coupon for free drinks for the first anniversary...

It's like a bar just for one person, or rather, a trap just for one person.

Kogoro Moori watched Chi Feichi pick out a bottle of wine, turned around and put it on the operating table, feeling a little emotional.

After changing into warm clothes, his apprentice seemed to be in a better mood. He was actually in the mood to make drinks by himself, and he explained so patiently.

"Need to prepare vintage cocktail glass, mixing glass, pestle..."

Chi Feichi was looking for something, and when the bar owner turned around and brought two plates of cheese to the bar, he quickly opened the wine bottle with the wooden signboard of 'Kimura' with his left hand, using the cover of his body when he got up to pick up the pestle.

Feichi poked his head over to look, but couldn't smell the smell, "Master, it's fake wine, it doesn't smell!"

Chi Feichi took a closer look, took the pestle in his right hand, operated with one hand in his left hand, quickly put the cap on the bottle, put it back in place, turned his head, and asked the bar owner who turned and looked over with a calm face, "Do you have any ice cubes?" ?”

"Yes," the man helped to get the ice bucket, "in the freezer."

Chi Feichi put the pestle on the operating table and went to get ice cubes from the refrigerator.

Wine, even if it is light, will have a special smell, such as grassy and fruity.

The bottle with the wooden plate with the name 'Kimura' on it was not fake wine, but boiled water!

If that person named 'Kimura' really existed, and he spent money to buy a bottle of boiled water here, and asked the boss to put it away, so that he could drink the boiled water every day, wouldn't he be out of his mind?

He thought that the boss asked him to come to the bar because he had no ghosts in his heart. Now it seems that he overestimated the other party. The other party didn't think he could find anything at all, and he didn't want to cover up or prevent others from approaching the wine cabinet.

Not even willing to prepare a bottle of real wine, and put it in plain water as wine, it's really perfunctory.

The man took the ice bucket to help pack the ice cubes, but Chi Feichi had no idea that Chi Feichi observed the inside of the freezer layer and the freezing condition of the ice cubes.

All are three ice cubes.

This is a bar opened for Kogoro Mori alone, and it's a real hammer.

The owner of the bar probably waited for his teacher to come to the door, and after his teacher left, he closed the door perfunctorily, and then opened it for a while the next night to see if his teacher would come. At one o'clock, it was estimated that his teacher would not come, so he closed the door to rest, completely avoiding the bar's business hours from eleven o'clock to two or three o'clock in the morning, so there were not many customers who bumped in blindfolded.

They didn't come here to run a bar at all.