Corpse collector in Conan

Hattori Shizuka pretended to be an ordinary client. After she finished speaking the lines she had planned in advance, she bowed slightly.

She didn't know that Amuro Toru and Jiang Xia had recognized her identity, nor did she realize that during the gap between her lowering her head and bowing, the two people took the opportunity to exchange a confused look.

As the mother of Hattori Heiji, Hattori Shizuka has always been very curious about the "Esuka" in the mouths of her son and husband - her son always describes Esia as like a monster, but her husband admires her very much. In addition, Toyama Kazuha also seems to have an impression of Esia. Quite good.

The polarized evaluations given by people around him undoubtedly aroused Hattori Shizuka's interest. So she made slight adjustments to her trip to Tokyo.

——Originally, she only needed to arrive tomorrow to attend the wedding of her friend's son.

But now, Shizuka Hattori decided to come one day early to see Jiang Xia first. In the process, he tested his abilities, observed his character, and then saw who among his son, husband, and promising future daughter-in-law wore colored glasses.

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In order to achieve this goal, when Hattori Shizuka spoke, he used Tokyo dialect that sounded very authentic at first glance. And he deliberately hid the surname "Hattori" that easily reminded Jiang Xia of Hattori Heiji, and only said that his surname was "Ikeha".

In addition, she also used a band-aid to cover the mark of the wedding ring on the ring finger of her left hand on the pretext that she hurt her hand due to poor cooking skills, pretending that she was single - this was not only a cover-up of her identity as "Hattori Heiji's mother", but also Jiangxia's One of the little tests of ability.

Hattori Shizuka came to this office for the first time. And her son Hattori Heiji has never seen Jiang Xia in the detective agency.

Therefore, Shizuka Hattori didn't understand the usual status of the office, and she didn't feel there was anything wrong with Toru Amuro immediately calling to help her find Jiang Xia after hearing that she wanted to find Jiang Xia. I just feel that this firm has a very service-oriented attitude, or maybe after the boss saw her dress, he thought she was a wealthy big client and offered potential VIP treatment in private... Similar things have happened to Shizuka Hattori in the past. Quite a few.

In short, at present, Hattori Shizuka is completely unaware that his true identity has been recognized.

Jiang Xia silently looked at this elder who had fallen off the horse before meeting him but was still focusing on the performance. He had no choice but to pretend that he didn't notice anything and accompany her in the performance according to the normal procedure.

When Toru Amuro saw Jiang Xia coming, he stood up and gave him the seat opposite Shizuka Hattori.

After that, the boss of the detective agency did not leave the office, but began to pretend to find tea to make tea, and stayed in the shop for this reason - he was a little curious about why Shizuka Hattori came here.

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Hattori Shizuka sat down elegantly, exchanged pleasantries for a while, and then began to tell her pre-rehearsed commission.

She took out a well-preserved old photo from her bag, placed it on the table, and then turned it to an angle suitable for Jiang Xia to see.

Jiang Xia lowered his head and looked at it for a moment, and found that it was a group photo of members of the Kendo Club. The club members looked young, probably not in high school yet. A boy with thick eyebrows in the middle is holding a trophy and grinning happily. Next to him are a circle of six club members.

"I would like your help to find the person in the middle."

Hattori Jinghua stretched out her hand, and her green-white fingertips touched the man holding the trophy a little softly: "His name is Shibata Shiro." After saying this, she thought for a while and added, "This photo was taken in the second grade of junior high school—— That was thirty years ago. His appearance and height may have changed a lot."

Jiang Xia nodded and began to ask some routine questions, pretending that he was carefully collecting clues.

When two people communicate.

Next to him, Toru Amuro moved softly to reduce the noise so that he could hear clearly every conversation between the two people in the room.

...not that he is interested in the gossip about the wives of high-ranking police officials. Mainly because as an intelligence officer, he feels that he should remain highly sensitive and vigilant to all kinds of abnormal information.

Toru Amuro listened carefully and thought: Shibata Shiro, this is a man's name... Speaking of which, Mrs. Hattori suddenly came to Jiangxia anonymously, maybe not because she heard Jiangxia's information from Hattori Heiji, but because she heard about Jiangxia from Hattori Heiji. It's really because of Jiang Xia's reputation as a detective.

This actually makes sense. First of all, judging from Hattori Heiji's behavior at the door of the detective agency last time, although he knew Jiang Xia, he was obviously not familiar with Jiang Xia. In addition, many high school students of this age are still at the end of their rebellious period and may not tell their parents about their situation.

In other words, there is a possibility that Shizuka Hattori does not know that Heiji Hattori knows Eka at all. To her, Jiang Xia is just a strange Tokyo detective.

If this is the case, then it is very intriguing that Mrs. Hattori did not call the police or find a detective in Osaka, but went to Tokyo and deliberately concealed her name to issue a commission... Oh, she also specially covered her left ring finger with a band-aid. , to cover the traces of the wedding ring?

……interesting.

Amuro Toru took a sip of black tea with great interest.

A second later, he looked down at the water stains on the rim of the cup and was slightly startled.

...This tea seems to be brewed specially for guests.

Toru Amuro paused for a moment, put the tea cup aside calmly, and washed the cup again for the guest.

It has been a long time since he helped anyone in his own firm, and he is not very skilled in business.

Having said that, these chores should obviously be done by Jiang Xia, an employee in theory, but why is he doing it instead...

Toru Amuro looked at Hattori Shizuka who was chatting happily with Jiang Xia, and then thought about how she cherished her words like gold before Jiang Xia appeared, and sighed quietly in her heart. Bosses these days really have less and less human rights.

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"A while ago, I accidentally lost the medal I won in the Summer Cup Kendo competition when I was in my third year of junior high school. For me, apart from the medal, the only souvenir that can record that time is a photo.

"Before I graduated from junior high school, I accidentally used that photo as a bookmark and put it in the book I borrowed from Mr. Shibata. I forgot to take out the photo when I returned the book.

"When I thought about it again, Mr. Shibata had already moved, and the contact between us was also cut off." Hattori Shizuka lowered her head slightly, looking a little embarrassed, and acted very focused, "So I want to ask Find Mr. Shibata and help me retrieve that photo."

When Toru Amuro, who was not far away, heard this, he came up with a new guess with great interest:

Compared to this photo, Mrs. Hattori may have used the photo as an excuse to find her first love.

——Looking for your first love decades ago is actually a prosperous business for private detectives here, second only to finding cats, dogs and mistresses.