7.

People say that childhood is the shortest time, just like the popcorn in the movie theater, it is full when you take it in, and you don’t feel that you have eaten much during the period, but when the spotlight is turned on, the box in your hand is still empty.

But this is not the case for Rin Toyama. —Probably because he lived a very fulfilling life, so when he entered high school in uniform, he felt a feeling of "finally growing up".

The rain just now was too short, and instead of taking away the heat of the September day, it suppressed the water vapor, making the surroundings extremely stuffy.

When Hattori Heiji entered through the back door, there were not many people in the classroom.The window on the side of the playground was wide open, and the breeze blew the dampness after the rain, and the textbooks on the table were blown, and the papers rattled, as if to express protest, but unfortunately, its owner didn't hear it.

Toyama Rin's head was resting on his right arm, and his left hand was pressing the English materials handed out from the previous class. Amidst the noise of the two girls in front of the classroom, he remained silent and motionless. He must have fallen asleep.

[Why is this guy always sleeping——]

Hattori Heiji tried to find some clues from Rin Toyama to determine whether the other party stayed up late last night, but he couldn't see anything. ——He sleeps simply because he is bored.

Rin Toyama's uniform jacket was draped over the back of the chair, and he only had a breathable white shirt, and he turned up the slightly long white cuffs to reveal half of his arms.The black hair was blown a little messy by the wind, but the half-covered look that fell on the corner of the brow made him look better.

Hattori Heiji put the things in his hand on his own table at the side, and then took out a can of Coke with tiny drops of water from the plastic bag.

The feeling of the cold metal sticking to the skin made Rin Toyama wake up from his dream instantly.

He reached out and touched his face, looked up from the desk, and saw Hattori Heiji standing beside him, bending over and looking at him with a smile, on his right hand was the crime tool that disturbed his lucid dream just now.

"What you want." Hattori Heiji shook the can in his hand to signal the other party to take it, but as soon as Toyama Rin stretched out his hand, he quickly retracted it, and then handed it forward when the other party lowered his arm.So repeated several times.The slender fingertips only touched the cold drops of water.

"...Do you want to fight?"

Hattori Heiji had an expression of "you come, I'm not afraid of you".

Rin Toyama raised his eyebrows, straightened up, stood up and moved the stool away, and then put on a fighting standby action——

Aikido?seriously?

Hattori Heiji, who didn't have a sword in his hand, chose to throw the can directly to him. Toyama Rin obviously didn't think Heiji would compromise so easily. He froze for a moment. Coke slipped on his fingertips and almost fell to the ground.

"Tsk, why do you have so many things to do with something. I'll go by myself next time." Rin Toyama accused mercilessly.

"Hey! I ran a long way to buy it!"

"The vending machine downstairs is broken?"

"Yeah. A large group of people gathered outside the convenience store. It was so hot that I was sweating all over." Hattori Heiji folded his arms and watched his friend raise his head and down half a bottle of Coke in one breath, his protruding Adam's apple rolling up and down , and then return to calm.

Yeah, they've all grown up.Once this semester is over, you will be a sophomore in high school.

Hattori Heiji seemed to want to say something more, when a few boys came in through the back door, and when they saw him, they came up to him and hooked him around his neck.

"Hatbu solved the case again yesterday, and it was published in the newspaper. ——'Kansai's Famous Detective', hahahahaha."

"This guy, I really don't know how his head grows. Give me a little IQ!"

yesterday?

Rin Toyama remembered that he went to the largest bookstore in the city to buy tutorial books with Hattori Heiji after school, and not long after entering, he heard a scream from the leftmost area of ​​the bookstore, and then a working girl looked Palely, he ran to the cashier and said that today's foreman fell into a pool of blood and was not breathing.

Hattori · Heiji, a famous high school student detective who died wherever he was, rushed to investigate the scene of the crime. After 10 minutes, the familiar Otaki police officer arrived, and what happened next was far away. Shan Lin doesn't want to say more, after all, he himself has experienced hundreds of cases, from the surprise at the beginning to the present, he has completely calmed down.

Anyway, Hattori Heiji can handle it, and if he can't, there's his dad.

So Rin Toyama said hello to Police Officer Otaki, and then he took his schoolbag and Heiji's schoolbag and sat in the coffee shop opposite the bookstore to do his homework. The companion who was traveling with him called to look for him.

"Sorry, sorry, next time if you encounter this situation, you don't have to wait for me, go home first."

"Anyway, it's homework everywhere."

Hattori Heiji scratched his head and apologized to Rin Toyama again.

"There won't be a next time."

"..." Believe me, I'm an idiot.

Toyama Rin threw Hattori Heiji's schoolbag over, sighed and walked away. —He thinks he is a pretty good-natured person.Since Hattori Heiji took over the case from looking for cats to looking for people and then looking for criminals, he has been released a lot of pigeons.Although the other party would put his hands together and bow to apologize to him every time, but the next time a homicide happened, Pingji would forget everything.If the same thing happened to other people, this idiot should have been blacklisted long ago.

What if I find a girlfriend in the future?

Toyama Rin glanced at Hattori Heiji, who looked smug in front of his classmates, and suddenly sympathized with him. ——People with low EQ and high IQ are afraid that they will end up alone with a room full of detective novels.If a girl really happened to fall in love with him, she would probably have to fall in love with the corpse and the police car at the same time.

Oh, and speaking of girlfriends...

Rin Toyama bowed his head slightly, and looked at the white letter paper with only a corner exposed in his chemistry book in his desk.

This is what he found after returning from the break of the second class. The handwriting was obviously written by a girl, and the content was to ask him to meet behind the gymnasium during lunch break.

It's not that he's self-indulgent, it's really that this familiar routine doesn't allow anyone to think about anything else. ——What else is there besides confession?Anyway, Rin Toyama couldn't think of it.

He looked up at the clock hanging in front of the classroom, put the half-drunk Coke on the table to press the papers and textbooks, and walked directly to the back door.

Hattori Heiji caught the movement of his friend from the corner of his eye, and he immediately struggled out of the topic of solving the case.

"Where are you going? Have lunch first!"

"To the bathroom, I'll be back in a while."

Rin Toyama waved his hand, and found an excuse for himself to flash out of the classroom. ——He didn't mean to deceive Hattori Heiji.The main reason is that the guy will feel unbalanced after knowing this.

I am also a famous Kansai high school student detective!How come no one wrote me a note asking me to go out and meet other than looking for a cat! —Probably so.

When Rin Toyama came to the front of the woods, a girl in school uniform was already waiting here. ——Short hair, very fair, with a golden school badge pinned to the shirt pocket.He has never spoken to this girl, he just knows that she is in the same grade as him but not in the same class.

"Toyama-kun." Seeing Toyama Rin appearing in her field of vision, the girl happily raised her arms and waved, and greeted loudly. "I'm Rei Harada from the class next door, can you date me?"

It was the first time he had seen such a passionate confession, and he hadn't even walked up to her.

Rin Toyama's footsteps paused, a slight look of embarrassment flashed across his face, and then he continued to take a few steps forward.

The girl was still smiling, very confident.

Compared with handing over the love letter to him with his head down and blushing, and then running away quickly, he really likes the kind of girl who is carefree, lively and confident, but it is a bit...

"It's okay, you can answer me this question after a while." Facing Rin Toyama's silence, the girl was not discouraged.She seemed to expect the boy to hesitate, so she wasn't surprised. "I just want to get to know you today. To be precise, I want you to get to know me. ——You play the violin very well. I also went to the last competition."

"...Thank you." Apart from these words, Rin didn't know what to say.

When he returned to the classroom, Hattori Heiji was quietly sitting on his seat, with his hands in his pockets, staring out the window in a daze.

"Peace."

"Ah! I'm back! I'm starving to death!" The dark-skinned boy immediately came back to his senses, took out two lunch boxes from his desk, and handed one of them to Rin Toyama.

Because Ginshiro is participating in training, and Xiang Ji has been in Australia for the past few days, Rin Toyama is very cheeky about eating at Hattori's house. Anyway, he doesn't eat less of his own rice Heiji.

"Why so long?"

"Spoken a few words with someone."

Heiji paused while holding the chopsticks, then changed the subject and asked Toyama Rin to go to the bookstore again this afternoon. After all, neither of them bought a book because of the case yesterday.

"After the club activities, I don't have any problems." Rin pretended not to notice anything, and lowered his head to eat. "Doesn't the Kendo Club need to practice today?"

"I just adjusted the time last weekend, and I am resting today."

"Then I'm hooked too." Rin Toyama pushed his bento box to his friend, motioning him to take the fish inside.

Hattori Heiji knew that he didn't eat the strange taste of any aquatic products except seaweed, so he didn't feel guilty about taking those saury.But at this time, he would complain about whether Rin Toyama was Japanese. He didn't even eat fish, and then contributed the chicken nuggets in his bento box.

"You two look like an old couple." A male student wearing glasses pointed out sharply, "Just date."

Toyama Rin and Hattori Heiji didn't bother to talk to him at all.

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After school in the afternoon, Toyama Rin really enjoyed the Aikido club activities, and went to the bookstore yesterday with Hattori Heiji.

The police in Osaka Prefecture have done a good job in the aftermath, so there is no evidence that a murder has occurred here, but compared to earlier yesterday, there are a lot fewer people who came to buy books.But it should gradually get better in the future. After all, this is the largest bookstore in Neyagawa, and there are many hard-to-find titles here.

After yesterday's reasoning, the store manager already knew Hattori Heiji. When he saw him coming in, he put down the things in his hand and thanked the young man again. It wasn't for Hattori Heiji's sharp eyes that spotted the ribbon scraps in the victim's cuffs, maybe he is the one sitting in the detention center now.

Therefore, the grateful store manager said that today Hattori Heiji's bibliography is all free, and of course Rin Toyama who is traveling with him is also.But Rin refused, on the grounds that he didn't do much to help yesterday.

The store manager still wanted to insist, Hattori Heiji patted Toyama Rin on the shoulder: "This guy is very principled, uncle, don't embarrass him."

So the store manager said very movedly: "Hatto-kun's friend is also a good person."

Inexplicably, Rin Toyama, who was issued a good person card, was embarrassed for a few seconds, and then went to find the book first. ——His English was a little poor, so he stayed in the place where the English books were placed for a while.

After he found it, he went to see Hattori Heiji, and found that the other party had been addicted to the ocean of mystery novels and couldn't recover.Oh, it's better to say that Heiji "drowned" in it.

According to Toyama Rin's experience, if such a Heiji calls him away without giving him an hour, he will definitely talk all the way, so Rin didn't waste time on his friend.He started to browse the titles of the books he was interested in from the bookshelf on the far right, and went to the best-selling table that was temporarily erected in the center.

Placed directly above is a novel with a pure black cover, which is a new work by a popular author recently. Next to it is a cardboard with a brief outline of the book written on it.

Toyama Rin was originally indifferent to this No. 1 novel, but when his eyes swept over the word du【】pin, he stopped.

In this book, there is actually a scene of quitting【】du.

It was as if the dusty box had been opened suddenly.Rin Toyama's heart trembled for a moment, and then began to beat rapidly.It was as if a hot stone had slipped into his stomach, causing his brows to frown.

Rin Toyama bowed his head slightly, picked up the sample book on the top of the shelf, and found the place he cared most about. He had just read a few words when he heard someone coming over.So he immediately put the book in his hand on its original position, and looked towards the place where the footsteps came——

It turned out to be just a passing stranger.

【What am I afraid of?What if someone saw me reading this book? 】

Rin Toyama put his fingertips into his hair and rubbed it fiercely, the smile on the corner of his mouth was a bit bitter. ——He feels that he is now a guy who wants to peek at pornographic photos in public, and his sneaky appearance is really embarrassing.

It's better to look at it like a normal person, no one will know what is going on in his heart.

After confirming that Hattori Heiji was still addicted to mystery novels, he let out a breath, picked up the book again, and read more than 20 pages in one go.

"Rin!!! I found a great novel—"

Hattori Heiji's voice startled Rin Toyama, and his hands holding the pages of the book trembled, but fortunately, he controlled himself and did not throw the book in his hand back to its original place with a "snap" like before.

He suppressed the tension in his heart and looked up at his friend, while slowly closing the pages of the book in his hand, as if he was reading a very boring Mandarin textbook just now: "What's wrong?"

"What are you looking at?"

"Look at what the latest bestsellers are talking about. ——If you think it's great, then buy it, and I'll pay for it." Toyama Rin pretended to be calm and put the things in his hand back to the original place, with The tutorial book I wanted to buy went to the counter.

Hattori Heiji blinked, glanced curiously at the slightly warped novel that Rin Toyama had just put down, and then froze.

He suddenly remembered the conversation between Hattori Heizo and Jinghua that he had overheard.

"That will haunt him. From then until he dies."

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