Detective Conan's Cafe Owner

Chapter 138 Mask
There is no curse on the mask.

This point, Qingming can be sure, because he can curse himself, so he has a better understanding of curses.

But he couldn't analyze the other curse.

Conan.

Under the halo of death, accidents will happen wherever you go.

As long as there are places where he appears, dead people are a normal thing. Occasionally, serial murders and the like will appear. Even if there are no dead people, something will happen.

Or is it worth setting off firecrackers to celebrate if no one is dead?

But this time it was dead.

In the middle of the night, a large group of people ran around the villa, yelling, and it took half an hour for them to calm down.

More than an hour later, the Mumu Police Department led a team here.

"So it's you again."

The somewhat sleepy Megure Police Department looked at Mori Kogoro, Conan, and Xiaolan expressionlessly.

Recently, this family can be seen almost as long as the police go out.

It's the same now.

At night, I slept well at home, but was woken up by the phone, and ran over with a group of subordinates, so I saw the Maoli family again.

And, what cursed mask is there in the dead man's house?

No no, that's not the point.

The point is that the real curse was invited to the house.

Aiming at the Maori family.

Then he sighed helplessly, and directed his policemen to start investigating and collecting evidence.

Police and detectives are investigating the case.

The others changed their clothes and waited in the restaurant.

Haruka Nagara, Mamoru Matsudaira, Masaki Katagiri, Fuyuya Aikawa, and the twin maids Shimokasaho Nami and Shimokasami Naho.

Of course there are Qingming and Xiaolan.

Qingming didn't care about other messy things, just talking to Shimokasaho Nami and Shimokasaho Naho who were clinging to each other and standing in the corner with their hands clasped.

What are you talking about?

Xiaolan felt a little curious about this.

There was nothing else to do, so I just walked over there.

"Qingming."

First he yelled.

After Qingming and the two maids focused their attention on her, they asked.

"What are you talking about?"

"It's nothing."

With a faint smile on Qingming's face, she shook her head slightly.

He looked at the two maids again.

"It's just inviting Ho Nami and Minaho to work at my place."

"Oh."

Xiaolan nodded understandingly.

She also remembered that when she first arrived here, Qingming said that she came here to find a maid. At that time, she wondered why Qingming would come to this kind of place to find a maid...

"Ok?"

Xiaolan suddenly felt something was wrong.

How did Qingming know that he would definitely find a maid here?Did you know in advance that something like this would happen?
"No no no."

Xiaolan shook her head, denying her own scary thought.

Qingming is a good person.

At least she thinks Qingming is a good person.

Although he doesn't go to school and always does some pranks, this can only show that Qingming's character is a bit bad, and it doesn't mean that he is the kind of cold-blooded person who knows that someone will be killed, but still watches. .

"impossible."

Xiaolan came to such a conclusion and was willing to believe it.

But is it really impossible?
I have to say that in Xiaolan's world, everything is so beautiful, and she is willing to believe in the existence of beauty, so she believes that her friends will not do bad things, and she also believes that her friends are not the kind of indifferent and cold-blooded people.

Unfortunately, Qingming is an exception.

It looks like a sunny boy, but if you cut it open, it must be dark inside.

How dark is it?
Looking out through the window now, the outside world is as dark as Qingming.

Even, darker than that.

The so-called "Sunshine Boy" is just a disguise, a disguise used to deceive ignorant girls, loli, and young girls, including Xiaolan. This kind of disguise has already deceived many people.

And the next, or the next two victims, are obviously Shimokasaho Nami and Shimokasaho Naho.

Unfortunately, they were targeted by Qingming.

What's even more unfortunate is that they failed to see through Qingming's true face at all.

……

Everyone wears masks.

Like Qingming, or Su Fang Hongzi.

To some extent, Qingming and Su Fanghongzi may be regarded as the same kind of person, a kind of superficially good person, or a hypocrite?
However, they are different after all.

Of course Qingming is not a good person, but he never said that he is a good person, nor would he intentionally do some good deeds.

Su Fang Hongzi is different.

She is a "philanthropist", a "philanthropist" who often does good things, and is very famous.

But now, the mask of this "philanthropist" has been removed, revealing his original face: using charity to enrich his own pockets and amassing money wantonly.

The one who removed the mask was Aikawa Fuyuya.

A few years ago, Su Fanghongzi ran away after killing someone with a car, and the crime was placed on his mother.

Then his mother committed suicide.

It wasn't until not long ago that he learned the truth from the diary left by his mother back then.

So today, Su Fang Hongzi was sent to hell without mercy.

Perhaps she will repent in hell?

It doesn't matter.

The important thing is that another case was solved by Mori Kogoro (Conan), but Qingming still didn't show much in this case.

He's not a detective, he's just a coffee shop owner.

Anyone who expects a coffee shop owner to investigate a case and make a big splash must be doing something wrong.

Anyway, it's dawn.

……

morning.

The guests and the police left here one after another.

Qingming got into Kogoro Mori's car. After all, they were going home, and the first floor of their house was a coffee shop.

On a new day, it is natural to go to a coffee shop.

Xiaolan sat in the passenger seat.

Suddenly remembered something, turned his head to look at Qingming who was sitting behind.

"Qingming."

"Ok?"

Qingming, who had been looking at the scenery outside the car window, turned to look at her.

On his face, there was still that deceptive, sunny smile.

"what happened?"

"Didn't you want Ms. Hoonami and Ms. Minaho to work as maids in the manor? Did they agree?"

"Of course, they will come to me in a few days."

Qingming nodded.

This point has already been agreed, and Shimokasaho Nami and Shimokasami Naho both agreed to work at the manor.

They were looking for new jobs anyway.

And wherever they work is work, and they are professional maids, and Qingming pays them very well, so they agreed.

But there are still many things that need to be dealt with later, so they will go to Qingming again in a few days.

"That's really good."

Xiaolan also smiled.

Conan, who was sitting in the back seat with Qingming, looked at Qingming suspiciously.

Qingming, who basically never leaves the coffee shop, came here suddenly just to find two maids to go back?
It's too weird.

But he didn't expect Qingming to do anything other than this, so he didn't think much about it.

Xiaolan continued to speak.

"By the way, Qingming, you'd better go to school tomorrow."

she said so.

Then, without waiting for Qingming to find an excuse, he directly stated the reason.

"Because the school festival of Didan High School is coming soon, as a member of class B of the second year, you can't be absent. The absence of Shinichi is already very annoying."

Speaking of Kudo Shinichi, Xiaolan was upset for a while.

That guy disappeared for such a long time, and he didn't know where he went, what he was doing, and he basically had no contact.

Very hot.

"Oh."

Qingming nodded, seemingly thoughtful.

For some reason, Conan felt that Qingming seemed to glance at him, but when he looked carefully, he found that Qingming was just looking at the world outside the car window.

"I see."

Qingming yawned and talked.

"I'll just go there. I haven't seen Naoko for a long time. Well, speaking of it, should I bring Naoko to Ah Zi?"

This seems possible.

(End of this chapter)