Conan’s Corpse Picker

Unfortunately, Subaru Okiya failed to receive the expectations from his boss.

He was thinking about something else.

Okiya Subaru forced a smile: "It may not be the same one, maybe this colorful cat likes to visit... Well, why do you call it Xiao Hei?"

——If I remember correctly, "Xiao Hei" was the name Uzo gave the cat, and Mao Lilan actually knew it.

Okiya Subaru: "..." Is it possible that Usa's current status in society actually interacts with these high school students, so Usa used his unscrupulous acting skills to deceive innocent students and become their friends?

However, the situation seemed to be different from what Okiya Subaru imagined.

When Mao Lilan heard this question, she did not answer, "Because this is my friend's cat. He said his cat was called this name."

She just smiled sheepishly and said: "Because except for the four paws, the whole body is black, so I called it Xiao Hei... Although it is not good to name the cat without authorization, it often visits various houses, and several of my All my classmates had seen it, but it was inconvenient not to know its name, so everyone later called it Xiaohei."

Okiya Subaru: "...?" W-this cat would actually visit other people's homes!

Although I have heard from Uzuo a long time ago that Xiao Hei is free-range. But I didn't expect it to spread to such an extent. Subaru Okiya thought before that cats like to come to his house, maybe because he is Uzo's subordinate. This is the only benefit of following Uzo, but who knows...

…

Okiya Subaru pushed up his glasses and suppressed the messy thoughts in his mind.

——If you think about it carefully, maybe Uzo doesn’t have just one cat, but a litter of cats with the same coat color, and lets them visit each house every day to collect information. Then I kept one specially to contact my subordinates... Thinking about it this way, it seemed a little better.

However, there is something more urgent than this.

Okiya Subaru: "..." Usa Cat took him out today and came to this cafe. What on earth was he going to do?

…

Subaru Okiya thought of the bloody warning he received two hours ago and how he was almost taken away by the police as a suspect, and he had a vague feeling about it.

He couldn't help but glance at Jiang Xia next to him, and suppressed his shock: Fortunately, detectives are born to defeat criminals, and with Jiang Xia by his side, at least he didn't have to worry about being framed and taken away.

However, try to put yourself in Uzo’s perspective...

Okiya Subaru suddenly realized something.

——Would Wuzuo not be able to predict his simple response of "hugging Jiang Xia's thigh"? ?

Okiya Subaru: "..." A few hours ago, he had listed Jiang Xia as his life-saving weapon. Immediately afterwards, Wuzuo's cat came to the door and took him to this cafe to "encounter" Jiang Xia.

Such a coincidence actually made Subaru Okiya's heart skip a beat.

...What does Uzo want to do?

After many years of rich experience in watching movies, Subaru Okiya couldn't help but imagine a natural scene in his mind:

The persecuted protagonist struggles to survive under the siege of the terrifying boss. When he was desperate, he suddenly met a good man who seemed very righteous and willing to help him.

So what happens next?

According to Okiya Subaru's experience, there is only a 10% chance that "the good guys and the protagonist team up to defeat the big boss."

The remaining 90% is when the seemingly reliable good guy is suddenly killed in front of him, the boss sneers behind the scenes, and then everything slides further into the abyss of despair.

…

"Brother Okiya, what's wrong?" A voice suddenly floated from the side, "Your face seems ugly."

Okiya Subaru came to his senses and realized that the person speaking was actually Conan. Across the table, Jiang Xia was looking at him with her chin propped up.

Mao Lilan was studying the menu and raised her head when she heard Conan's words. She carefully looked at Okiya Subaru, and she really didn't find anything about this graduate student looking uneasy... She didn't know if it was Conan who was too sharp, or if this kid was just talking nonsense. So I also looked at Okiya Subaru, wanting to hear what he had to say.

Okiya Subaru sighed inwardly: Children's senses are really sharp.

However, what he was thinking was obviously difficult to express.

So Subaru Okiya followed Conan's question and changed the topic as if nothing happened: "Nothing, I just suddenly remembered that a woman was killed just now."

"!!" Behind the bar, Hideshi Katsumura shook his hand. He thought of the body of the proprietress that he had hidden in the store, and almost blurted out "I didn't kill her!"

Fortunately, before he spoke, Conan nodded in realization:

"I heard that Brother Jiang Xia and Sister Xiaolan said they were your neighbors. My condolences."

Okiya Subaru nodded absently.

"..." Hideshi Katsumura breathed a sigh of relief, and his heart that had jumped into his throat sank again: It's okay, it's okay.

...Speaking of which, can't these people finish their conversation at once without gasping for breath... The Riddler, get out of the store quickly!

In his heart, he wished he could kick these guests out.

But in order to hide his crime, Hideshi Katsumura could only bear the humiliation and put on his business smile.

He picked up the tray and came to the table next to the annoying guest: "Your drinks are here."

Then a glass of juice was placed in front of Conan, and a cup of coffee was placed in front of Jiang Xia and Mao Lilan.

When he retracted his hand, Hideshi Katsumura took advantage of the fact that he was standing at the table and in a high position so that no one could see his expression. He couldn't help but sneer:

When he made coffee just now, he poured countless times more coffee powder than normal. It would be better for these students to find the drink unpleasant at the first sip and then run to find another coffee shop to kill time - there is another coffee shop not far north along the intersection.

…

Eiji Katsumura finished delivering the coffee and left holding the tray.

He was expecting his script to work, and he didn't realize that behind him, two pairs of glasses flashed a reflection.

Conan and Subaru Okiya stared at his back from behind the glasses. One was thoughtful, and the other thought of something. His eyes fell on the coffee in front of Jiang Xia, his pupils trembling slightly.

Jiang Xia also glanced at Hideshi Katsumura and sighed inwardly.

——Perhaps there are too many of them, but this "store manager" didn't even think of "poisoning and killing all these people!"... It's disappointing.

While thinking about it, Jiang Xia reached out and touched the cup.

The coffee was not hot, but lukewarm - the "store manager" didn't seem to want them to stay for too long, and actually adjusted the coffee to a temperature that they could drink directly.

"..." Idle is also idle. Jiang Xia hesitated for a moment and reached out to the coffee cup, intending to try the legendary tough guy's exclusive super-bitter coffee to see how bitter it can be.

But before they touched it, there was a sudden clanging sound next to it.

——Okiya Subaru accidentally knocked over the water glass, and a handful of water just happened to be thrown in front of Jiang Xia and spilled into the glass.