Stay away from Conan

Chapter 59 Accepting the Commission

Early in the morning, in a coffee shop, a girl with short brown hair ordered a cup of black coffee and sat in the shop, as if waiting for something. Soon, Masami Hirota came to the store in a hurry, looked around the store, walked to the table where the girl with short brown hair was, and sat down.

"What's wrong? Shiho, you called me here in such a hurry? Didn't you just meet me yesterday?"

Hirota Masami asked with some confusion.

The girl took a sip of coffee, carefully took out a note from her pocket, and handed it to Hirota Masami.

Taking the note, Masami Hirota saw that it contained an address on Shikoku Island.

"This is?"

"His hometown address."

The girl said with some seriousness, "Sister, please help me check the cause of his death. Apart from my sister, I really have no one I can turn to."

"That's no problem."

Hirota Masami said, lowering his voice, "But why do you suddenly want to investigate this now?"

The girl was about to answer when she suddenly saw a man wearing a blue windbreaker walking towards the store outside the transparent door of the coffee shop. Then the girl got up in a slight panic and walked into the restroom of the store.

Seeing the girl's abnormal behavior, Masami Hirota felt very strange, so she followed the girl's gaze and turned to look at the door of the coffee shop. She saw the man in the blue windbreaker walked into the shop and bought an iced Americano. Then he took him away and left.

Naturally, Masami Hirota recognized the man. He was the man who rushed to the booth after the incident at the "Fusa Painting" new product sale yesterday.

After the man left, the girl slowly walked back to her seat with a calm face. Seeing this, Hirota Masami seemed to have discovered something terrible, and came to the girl's side, asking curiously.

"Hey, Shiho, that person is the one from the new product launch yesterday! You can't be..."

"Sister, don't think too much. Don't you think he looks like that person?"

The girl said with a calm expression.

Masami Hirota thought for a moment and finally shook her head.

"Really."

Seeing Hirota Masami's reaction, the girl seemed relieved, and took another sip of coffee.

"Then, could you please help me check, sister, who was that person just now?"

On the other side, the person who left the coffee shop just now was naturally Gao Yuan, and what he was wearing was naturally a windbreaker named "Hermit". It was washed and dried by the washing machine last night, and then ironed by himself. It was ready to be worn. .

Because he found a reliable detective agency, Gao Yuan, who wanted to make money, set out early today to go to the location of the detective agency called "Detective Mediation Agency".

In Japan, a country where private detectives are a legal profession, there are many professional private detectives who make a living in this way. But as a detective profession, in addition to the necessary abilities, you also need to be famous to be able to receive commissions more easily, which is difficult for newcomers to the industry.

However, there are only a handful of famous detectives, but the commissions are endless, so in the middle, things like intermediaries naturally appear.

In Tokyo, a large number of agencies that engage in detective commissioning can be found on the Internet. However, considering that there will be many shell companies or unscrupulous companies among them, in order to reduce the difficulty of screening, Gao Yuan used "crawler software" last night. After extensive screening of the retrieved information, I finally found this "Detective Mediation Agency" that should be quite formal.

According to the address mentioned in the message, Gao Yuan came to the door of a large European-style apartment with "Sandglass" written on the door plate, which means "hourglass".

Pushing the door open, the wind chime at the door immediately rang a crisp sound.

But Gao Yuan discovered that this place seemed to be a coffee shop. The soft lighting sets off the beautiful decoration, which has a somewhat classic taste, but there are very few places in the store. Apart from the bar, there are only a few round tables and chairs - this makes Gao Yuan a little embarrassed, after all, he still has purchases from other stores. of unfinished coffee.

At the bar, Gao Yuan saw a man in his thirties or forties, wearing the ubiquitous black-rimmed glasses. His whole temperament looked very frivolous, and he did not look like the owner of a coffee shop. , nor does it seem like a character related to the profession of detective.

There was also a boy wearing a baseball cap and a girl wearing a maid outfit inside the store. However, because there were not many customers in the store, the boy was mopping the floor aimlessly with a mop, while the girl was stroking a cat in her arms attentively. .

Besides himself, the only other person who looked like a guest was a middle-aged lady sitting at the bar.

Because Gao Yuan came in, the man wearing glasses at the bar looked at him, and then said naturally: "Welcome."

Somewhat unsure, Gao Yuan walked to the bar and asked in a low voice: "Is this a detective agency?"

"Yes, let me introduce myself. My name is Kizui Fourou, the owner of the coffee shop and detective agency."

The man Kizui Hōro replied, "Excuse me, do you have any entrustment?"

"No, I'm actually a detective, and I want to come here to accept some commissions."

Gao Yuan said.

Hearing this, Kizui Franzhi held his eyes and looked at Gao Yuan with some curiosity.

"Excuse me, what is your name?"

"Wise and lofty."

After hearing Gao Yuan's name, Kizui Fran thought for a moment: "Yeah. It's a name I've never heard of."

Gao Yuan had nothing to say about this situation. After all, the cases he had solved before had not caused any repercussions from the outside world. But yesterday was the only case he encountered in front of the media, and all the limelight went to Kudo Yukiko.

"It's like this. We will divide detectives here into three levels: 'Pine', 'Bamboo', and 'Plum'. The payment standards for detectives at different levels are also different. Now I don't know your specific abilities, Detective Akechi. I really can't. Even if I grade you, I don’t know what entrustment I should entrust to you.”

Kizui Franzhi said helplessly, and then he seemed to have thought of something and pointed at the lady sitting at the bar.

"By the way, there happens to be a ready-made client here. I haven't decided which detective to introduce to her yet. Why don't you give it a try first?"

After looking at the lady who was sitting at the bar and looking a little anxious, Takato nodded in agreement, so Kizui Hōro came to the lady and introduced her.

"Ms. Hirata, this is Detective Akechi. If you have any entrustment, you can tell him."

"Hello, Ms. Hirata, how can I help you?"

Gao Yuan walked up to the lady named Hirata and asked.

Seeing a detective coming to her side, Ms. Hirata seemed to have grasped some life-saving straw. She said to Gao Yuan in a panic and excitement: "Detective Akechi! Please save my husband!"

After saying that, he stood up and bowed to Gao Yuan.

Gao Yuan felt a little embarrassed after receiving this great gift. He asked Ms. Hirata to calm down and asked, "Excuse me, what happened to your husband?"

"He was taken as a murderer and arrested by the police!"

Ms. Hirata said with a somewhat desperate tone.