Conan’s Corpse Picker

   Chapter 587 Your client died? mine too

   Amuro Toru heard the word "high school student detective" and instinctively glanced at "Jiang Xia".

   followed closely, thinking of Jiang Xia's acquaintances he met along the way, another figure flashed in his mind, and the corners of his eyes twitched slightly.

  Toru Amuro looked at the maid: "...The high school detective you're talking about, is that the dark-skinned Kansai detective?"

The maid immediately understood who he was referring to and shook her head: "You mean Mr. Hattori. In fact, his name was originally on the guest list, but I heard that he is about to take a mid-term exam recently and is busy studying, so I sent it back. The check, no one came."

  "..." Amuro breathed a sigh of relief.

   Then he vaguely remembered something and looked at "Jiang Xia": "Are you going to take the exam soon?" Why have I never seen you studying...

   Speaking of this, Amuro suddenly realized that he hadn't read Jiang Xia's report card for a long time. When Jiang Xia first came to the office, An Shi thoroughly checked his relevant information and found a stack of exam papers with full marks.

  ...I don't know how Jiang Xia's grades have changed after being a detective for so long now and skipping classes for so long. The university entrance exam is still very important, but don't mess around with him for a while, from full marks to failing...

   Kidd was suddenly cued and stood up slightly. He had checked some Jiang Xia matters, and said calmly: "Don't worry, entrustment is more important. And I can remember that knowledge after reading it once, it's not a big problem."

   Really Jiang Xia was wearing Matsuda Jinping's vest, and nodded secretly in his heart: It's okay, it's like learning...

Beside   , Motegi Haruka laughed a few times at the naive topic of "midterm exams".

   Then he turned to the maid: "What about your master who likes detectives? Now that we're all here, it's time for him to show up too."

  The maid also thought the party was a bit strange.

She hesitated for a moment, then shook her head: "On the schedule the master gave me, it didn't say when he would show up... Maybe he didn't plan to show up--for so many days, I haven't seen him once. "

   Motegi Haruka was startled: "You haven't seen him before?"

   "Yes. We usually contact us by email. The interview a few days ago, um..." The maid chose the appropriate adjective, "It was a wonderful interview."

  ——She is not a long-term servant of this family, but a temporary candidate to be in charge of this dinner party.

  Today, the maid waited for a long time by herself in this eerie villa, and it was inevitable that she would feel a little dizzy.

   Facing a group of suspicious detectives, she bit her thumb and explained in a low voice:

"This job is very well paid, so there are a lot of applicants. I was very nervous, but when I entered the interview room, I found that there was no interviewer at all, only a computer, and there were dinner-related events on the computer table. material.

   "When the interview started, no one showed up, only an instruction popped up on the computer screen - the host asked me to carefully read the materials on the table.

   "I saw halfway through and suddenly heard a bell. When I looked up again, the words 'You have been hired' popped up on the desktop..."

   A group of detectives: "..."

  ...a perfunctory interview.

   Could it be that the admission criteria is simply to look at the face? If that's the case, then indeed, the interview was "wonderful" as she put it.

   Jiang Xia listened silently, remembering what mysterious villains should look like, and laughed lowly, took off his sunglasses and put them in his pocket, saying the lines that sounded right, but were actually completely useless:

   "It seems difficult to see the 'master' directly. However, it seems more interesting..."

   Hearing him speak, the maid tilted her head slightly, looked at Jiang Xia, and wanted to ask who he was.

  ——If I remember correctly, the young man in black in front of him was the only person present who did not appear on the banquet list. So she has no impression of "Kurozawa" at all.

  ...that is to say, no matter from which aspect, Jiang Xia, who is wearing a vest, is an uninvited guest.

   However, before the question was asked, the maid thought about it and felt that it seemed impolite to directly ask the other party's origin. And that is just like chasing guests, but it is easy to embarrass people.

  "..." Forget it, this person is a bit gloomy even though he is dressed up. But it doesn't look like a bad person, and if the owner thinks it's inappropriate, he will definitely find a way to tell her, or just come forward to drive the guests... You should not make up your own mind.

   She ended up saying nothing.

  …

The other detectives didn't object to Jiang Xia's existence. Compared to this unfamiliar young man who seemed less threatening, Kidd, the phantom thief who signed the invitation letter "The Son of Phantom Abandoned by God", was the target of their trip. Target.

   A group of people briefly introduced themselves. Jiang Xia reported his pseudonym "Heizawa Zuo" behind Qianjian's mother-in-law, and was temporarily acquiesced by others as Qianjian's mother-in-law's companion.

  Jiang Xia often comes to this annex, and he has already seen it all over the place, and now he is as comfortable as he is home.

   Seeing that the other detectives had finished their communication and began to look around instinctively, he also looked around.

   Then his eyes quickly fell on the door where a group of people came in.

  ——In the center of the door, there is a series of dark prints slantingly splashed, and with the old wooden door, it looks extremely dirty.

   Jiang Xia just glanced at it, and a sentence came naturally from the side: "This should be the bloodstain from the early years."

   Jiang Xia was stunned, turned around, and saw the spirit-like Anshitou behind him: "..."

   Amuro Toru doesn't seem to have given up on talking and telling stories.

   No matter what the true personality of an intelligence officer is, at least they should be able to be extroverted when they should be extroverted.

After    Amuro Toru successfully caught up with the first sentence, he was preparing to follow this topic and elicit questions that he was really interested in.

   But at this time, in a corner of the hall, another person picked up what he just said.

  " - to be exact, it should be a splattered bloodstain stuck to the door at a 45° angle.

   "In addition, there are column-shaped bloodstains on the walls and dripping bloodstains on the floor... The blood is almost everywhere in this annex - it can be seen that this is not the amount of blood that one or two people can shed."

   With the slow voice, a woman came out from the small door by the side of the stairs.

  Amuro frowned when he was interrupted to chat, turned around and saw a familiar detective.

  ——Gun Tian Yumei.

   This is a neighbor near their detective office. Besides, the two sides just met in the vampire villa a few days ago.

   Gun Tian Yumei shook the small spray bottle containing the luminol reagent in her hand, looked at "Jiang Xia", and said with a smile:

   "I didn't expect to meet again so soon - I thought I would be busy with Mr. Hukura's investigation and couldn't come to this dinner, so I turned down the invitation. But I didn't expect the client to die suddenly..."

   (end of this chapter)