Stay away from Conan.

Chapter 341 Atsuko Deben
"The phone line was fixed and our plan failed."

"Not counting, after all, the main drama hasn't started yet."

"What are you going to do?"

"I heard Yuanzi and the others say that the wise one is a detective... Don't you think that with a detective around, our play will be more exciting!"

"But... the phone line... what should I do... Even if I can try to break it again, the other party can still fix it..."

"This is simple, just add another scene..."

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"Chikako, it's time to eat!"

When Ayako Suzuki came to the door of Chikako Ikeda's resting room, she knocked on the door a little harder, but she seemed worried about disturbing her rest, so she said in a low voice.

Soon, there was a sound in the room, and then Chikako Ikeda opened the door, appeared in front of the door, and said with a slightly tired expression:
"I'm sorry, Ayako. I'm not feeling well, so I won't eat dinner for now."

In this regard, seeing Chikako Ikeda's really unhappy face, Ayako Suzuki couldn't help but asked worriedly:
"What's the matter? Zhijiazi? Did you get caught in the rain just now? Could it be that you caught a cold and got sick?"

"Well... I don't think so."

With a wry smile, Chikako Ikeda waved her hand, "I just feel a little tired and want to take a good rest."

"Is that so?"

Hearing what the other party said, Suzuki Ayako still showed a slightly worried expression.

"Oh, Ayako, I'm fine."

Chikako Ikeda couldn't help but continued to comfort Suzuki Ayako, "It's just that I've been busy recently, and I finally came here to relax, so I want to take a rest."

"That's right."

Hearing this, Suzuki Ayako's expression was slightly relieved, "Then I won't bother you, I will save some dinner for you."

"Well, then trouble you."

Saying that, Chikako Ikeda closed the door and walked back into the house.

So, Suzuki Ayako had no choice but to go back downstairs, sat back at the dining table and said with some self-reproach:
"I... seem to have disturbed her rest..."

"What's wrong? Could it be that Chikako fell asleep?"

Hearing this, Kakutani Hiroki couldn't help asking.

"She seems very tired, so she won't come to dinner for now."

"Really, everyone finally got together, what kind of temper is she playing?"

Regarding this, Ota Katsuki said with some disdain, "She probably just doesn't want to hang out with us!"

"Ota, are you thinking too much? I guess Chikako is just too tired."

Kakutani Hiroki couldn't help but comfort him.

"Humph."

Hearing what Kakutani Hiroki said, Ota Katsuki couldn't help but twitched his mouth, and said in a disdainful tone:
"Jiaogu, are you still talking for her? Why, is it possible that you two got back together again?"

"Ah, no..."

Facing Ota Katsuki's words, Kakutani Hiroki couldn't help but smile wryly——

"Huh? Mr. Kakutani and Ms. Chikako used to be lovers?"

After hearing the conversation between the two, Sonoko couldn't help feeling curious, and whispered to Suzuki Ayako who was beside her.

"Well...they were dating during college..."

Reminiscing for a while, Suzuki Ayako also replied in a low voice.

"Huh? I really can't tell..."

Xiao Lan who was on the side couldn't help but also said in surprise.

"Kakutani, I advise you to give up on Zhijiazi, what kind of woman she is, don't you know it yet?"

At this time, Ota Katsuki said to Kakutani Hiroki with an appearance of someone who had come here, as if his elders taught him.

"Ota, it's too much for you to say that!"

Kakutani Hiroki couldn't help saying angrily about this.

"What, did I say something wrong?"

Ota Katsuki said disdainfully, and then looked at Takahashi Ryoichi aside:

"Takahashi thinks so too."

As he said that, he saw Ryoichi Takahashi lower his head involuntarily, without saying anything, so Katsuo Ota turned to Atsuko Amamiya again:

"And Atsuko..."

"Okay Ota!"

Speaking of this, Atsuko Amamiya couldn't help interrupting Ota Katsuki's words, lowered her head, and said in a low voice:

"That's a thing of the past after all. And your habit of speaking ill of people behind your back..."

"OK OK!"

Seeing that the atmosphere of everyone chatting became worse and worse, Suzuki Ayako couldn't help saying:
"What's the matter today? We finally got together, why can't we spend it happily? Let him pass the troubles of the past!"

Hearing this, the few people who had been offended by Masaru Ota's words couldn't help but feel relieved, and each ate the meal in front of them, and the culprit Masaru Ota didn't continue talking.

"By the way, Mr. Wise, do you want to drink the bottle of red wine you brought back?"

At this time, seeing that the atmosphere of everyone's meal became relaxed, Suzuki Ayako remembered that Gao Yuan was taking a bottle of "59 Years" "Lafite" red wine from the warehouse before, so she couldn't help asking Gao Yuan for a suggestion.

"No, forget it, I don't really feel like drinking today."

Gao Yuan couldn't help but smiled and refused - tonight might not be peaceful, and he didn't plan to drink to cause trouble.

And the rest of the people didn't seem to have the desire to drink, so Suzuki Ayako's proposal to warm up the atmosphere ended without a problem.

Looking at the peaceful atmosphere at the dining table, Gao Yuan couldn't help being very interested in the topic that Ota Katsuki had raised before, and always felt that there seemed to be something going on here——

After all, in the original work, it was because Chikako Ikeda plagiarized Atsuko's novels that Chikako Ikeda won the Best Newcomer Award, which led to Atsuko's suicide.In order to avenge Atsuko, the murderer of the original work planned the "Bandage Monster Incident" and killed Chikako Ikeda.

Although Atsuko is still alive, these members of the club obviously have complaints about Chikako Ikeda, so it seems that Chikako Ikeda is not very popular with the club members.

If someone planned the "Bandage Man" incident this time, then perhaps it was because of this.

However, now that Suzuki Ayako told everyone not to discuss this topic any longer, Gao Yuan would not be ignorant, and deliberately raised this topic during meal time, and continued to freeze the atmosphere that had finally settled down.

"By the way, Miss Yugong, I heard that you are a novelist, right?"

During the meal, Gao Yuan suddenly asked Yugong Dunzi who was a little curious.

"That's right!"

Takahashi Ryoichi interrupted with a smile at this moment:
"Atsuko's novel has just been published recently! She debuted under the pseudonym 'Deben Atsuko'!"

"Takahashi..."

Regarding Ryoichi Takahashi's explanation, Atsuko Amamiya said shyly.

"That's right! To tell you the truth, I really like reading novels!"

Gao Yuan couldn't help but said:

"I don't know what kind of work Ms. Amamiya's works are?"

"It's... a reasoning class..."

Lowering her head, Atsuko Amamiya said with some embarrassment.

"Really! In fact, my favorite thing to read is mystery novels! Then I must read them when I have time..."

Gao Yuan was talking, and when he wanted to learn more about something, a white light flashed outside the house, and suddenly, all the lights in the villa went dark——

"Oh!"

A clear reminder sounded——

It was the sound of glass breaking. At this time, as the lights of the villa were turned off, it came from the second floor...

(End of this chapter)