[Toru Amuro] Those years when I worked at Poirot

"Eh? Suicide by jumping off a building?" Miss Enomoto stopped her foamy hands from washing the dishes, and turned to look at me in surprise, "You witnessed the whole process? Oh my god, is it okay?"

Her tone was more concerned about me. After all, a girl living alone would definitely be terrified when she saw her peers fall into meat sauce. After being in a daze for a moment, he replied thoughtfully:

"Well, I'm really scared. I didn't sleep last night." I pointed to the bruise under my eyelids, "But I always feel that something is wrong. Did she really commit suicide?"

It is eleven o'clock in the morning, and the morning peak period is over by ten o'clock. While cleaning the tableware, we adjusted our mood to welcome the noon peak.Enomoto told me that Mr. Amuro took a day off, but when he learned that it was the first day of work for the new clerk, he decided to come over as soon as he was done with work.

Very thoughtful, huh?she added finally.I smiled dryly, thinking that if you knew his true identity, Miss Enomoto would probably faint from fright.

Starting at eleven o'clock, guests came up one after another.Sure enough, as she said, the store is not big, but there are many customers, and sometimes there is a queue.Many of them were packed away.To be honest, I quite like this working mode. I am only busy in the morning, noon and evening, and there are not many customers at other times, so I can have a lot of free time.

At about twelve o'clock, I finally saw the protagonists of this comic - Xiaolan and Yuanzi, as well as Conan's classmate.

"Ah, you are the girl who will succeed Azusa! You look so cute!" Sonoko approached me very familiarly, and Xiaolan also smiled at me friendly.Conan blinked his big Kaziran eyes and looked up at me.

I took a deep breath and tried my best to leave a good impression: "Hello, my name is Natsume Shue. I will be Poirot's new waiter from today. Please give me your advice."

Both of them looked very happy, and it seemed that I had a good relationship with them.In fact, I wondered at the beginning why Ms. Enomoto fell in love with me, who was inexperienced. It took a long time afterwards to realize that she had a feeling of "love at first sight" for me, and felt that my aura and temperament were in tune with this place.

"This is the brat with stinky glasses stored upstairs." Sonoko rubbed (or patted) Conan's head, and Conan gave her an annoyed look.

"Good afternoon, Ms. Natsume, my name is Edogawa Conan." He said with a childish and naive expression, which made me laugh.

"Hello, Conan-kun, please give me more advice in the future. I heard that you are the right-hand man of the big detective Maori upstairs. If I encounter any difficult problems in the future, you must help me." I bent down , said with a smile, making his tone sound like he was coaxing a child.

I didn't expect a word to become a prophecy, but that's something for another time.

"Speaking of a famous detective, Qiu Jiang, you can talk about the suicide incident you encountered last night with the Maori detective." Enomoto said, and he had already started to call me by my first name.

"Suicide incident?" Hearing this, Conan sucked it up like a leech smelling blood.

"Hmm..." I hesitated, not knowing whether to say it or not.Coincidentally, a police car passed by and stopped, and Officer Takagi, whom he had seen last night, came out of it.

"Sure enough, it's here." He said to me as soon as he opened the door, and then he saw Conan and the others.

So, after ten minutes, everyone already knew what happened last night.

"Hearing what you say, it seems like it was really just suicide." Conan said to himself, suddenly his eyes lit up, and he raised his face and asked, "Um, uh, Officer Takagi, when you went upstairs, where was the door of the deceased's room?" Is it locked?"

"That's right, it's locked. We called the administrator to open it, but it wasn't locked, so I haven't dared to make a conclusion. If it was locked from the inside, it can be concluded that it is suicide. But not everyone They will lock the door before going to bed, especially someone like her who is so upset that she wants to commit suicide." Officer Takagi said rationally.

Conan nodded: "Then besides the deceased and the administrator, does anyone else have a room key?"

Gao Mu: "I went to investigate today. The deceased was a foreigner, and his relatives were all in Hokkaido. Of course, the colleagues in the company didn't have any, but she had a boyfriend. The two had lived together before, and they were breaking up recently. He still has The key to the dead man's house."

I was a little surprised: "But I didn't see any man's things in her room yesterday."

Takagi: "Because the relationship deteriorated, that person moved out two months ago. But—"

He stopped suddenly, and when everyone was eagerly waiting for something to say, he lowered his voice: "Last night, her boyfriend came, and the administrator remembered it very well. Because the two always quarreled, they were reported to the police by the neighbors. So he was very impressed with that person. But he remembered that the person came around nine o'clock, and left angrily before nine twenty."

The case has such a follow-up, which I did not expect.

Conan: "Then is it possible for him to come out through the front door and enter through the back door?"

Takagi: "Well, the administrator is not sure. But the man has a solid alibi. After he left, he got into a taxi. Because he kept cursing and asking for a receipt, the driver remembered it very well. Moreover, he They also showed us the receipt, and the time was indeed from 10:[-] to [-]:[-]. According to Ms. Natsume, the deceased fell from the building at [-] o'clock, so he cannot be the murderer."

Conan lowered his head, thinking about something.

"Could it be that he tied up the deceased and designed some mechanism to let the deceased fall on time at 10 o'clock, and make an alibi?" Yuanzi boldly imagined.

"Well, I've considered this too, but the scene looked like a very ordinary home, and the autopsy report also showed that the deceased was undoubtedly killed by a fall, and there was no physical or physiological injury before the fall. There was only a small amount of alcohol in his body, and there was no Poison ingredients."

"Looking at it this way, it's really suicide. But I always feel that the room is a little strange, but I can't explain why..." I muttered.

Conan looked at me sensitively, but I could only shrug my shoulders: "Sorry, I'm still not sensitive enough, I really can't remember."

At this moment, Lan suddenly remembered something, raised his watch, and shouted: "Oops, there are still 10 minutes, we have to go."

"That's right, that's right, if you're late, that mustache uncle should complain again, hurry up, kid with glasses." Sonoko dragged Conan's arm and was about to pull it out.

"But, but the case is not yet—" Conan struggled unwillingly.

"What kind of case is it? It's just suicide." Yuanzi walked out without any explanation.

As a result, Conan was dragged away with a face of reluctance.

The three of us smiled awkwardly at each other, Officer Takagi ordered a coffee latte and took it away.Before he left, he agreed to tell me the progress of the investigation, probably because I got mixed up with Conan and the others, so he naturally regarded me as a reliable person.

At around one o'clock in the afternoon, Ms. Enomoto finally explained some safety issues to me, then reluctantly left and flew to the international airport.

Next, I hurriedly made coffee, milk tea, and ice cream by myself. Fortunately, the guests were all busy and no one urged me, but I was also sweating profusely.

By the time I was completely free, it was almost three o'clock.

At this moment, a tall figure moved in as if without breath, and I was sure that I didn't even notice the sound of the door opening.

It's him.

Toru Amuro.The public security undercover code-named Bourbon.

"You are Miss Natsume, right? I am Toru Amuro, please give me more advice in the future." He smiled, his teeth were set off by his dark brown skin, and his teeth were whiter and more orderly. I was caught off guard by his handsome appearance that suddenly approached.

"You... well, Mr. Amuro. Please give me your advice." I tried my best to maintain my composure.

If I had to describe him with a plant, I would choose sunflower.I can't say why, but I think it fits his temperament very well.

He went to the lounge to change and put on a white apron.

"You have been busy all day, there are not many guests at the moment, please go to rest, and then leave it to me." He smiled, looking sunny and harmless to humans and animals.

"Hmm..." I wanted to say something polite, but I really felt my back hurting and my arms hurting, so I nodded, "Then I'll be fine."

I chose a seat at the door and sat down, made a cup of coffee myself, took out a hamburger that was replaced by a customer at noon, and ate it.

I glanced at him out of the corner of my eye, and each time I was caught, I was rewarded with a smile so bright that I couldn't even look in his direction.

Does this guy have eyes in 360 degrees?How can you feel my gaze even when you turn your back.

All I could do was look out the window, and as I swallowed my last bite of the burger, the door swung open, revealing a trio of high school girls.

The three of them saw me through the glass before entering the door, and sat directly opposite me.

"Hi, Miss Natsume." Sonoko greeted first.

"This is Shiliang, Shiliang is pure, our classmate." Xiaolan is still a little bit of a stranger, conscious that she has only known me for a day, and her words are very polite.

"Hello, Miss Shiliang." I hurriedly wiped the crumbs from the corners of my mouth.

"Hello, hello." She smiled heartily.I don't know if it's an illusion, but intentionally or unintentionally, she always glanced towards Amuro with a sharp expression.

"Seliang-san is a female high school student detective." Sonoko said, "We just talked about the incident you encountered, and she was very interested."

Thus, what may well have been nothing more than a suicide is fully recounted for the second time today.

"So, which aspect do you think is suspicious?" Shiliang asked, his dark green eyes fixed on me eagerly.

I frowned for a while: "It seems to be a decoration at home. By the way, I have a question for you girls."

"what?"

"Do you put on lipstick before going to bed?"

"Of course not!" They replied in unison.

"And what about a lip balm that can be used as a lipstick?"

"This varies from person to person. Occasionally I sleep with it on to moisturize my lips." Sonoko replied, and Xiaolan nodded in agreement.Shiliang said that he only uses colorless lip balm all the time.

"Well, I thought so too. The deceased was wearing a light-colored lip balm. It would be suspicious if it was lipstick, wouldn't it?"

"Indeed."

"Is there anything else suspicious?"

Suddenly, a bolt of lightning exploded in my mind, and I suddenly remembered what I had always thought was suspicious.

"Next, I want to ask a question that I think is very important. Please think carefully before answering me." I lowered my voice and said in an emphatic tone.

Seeing my serious expression, the three of them straightened up and glanced at each other.

I felt that this question was a bit cryptic, and it was not easy for others to hear, so I made a gesture to get closer, so the four of us girls seemed to be plotting something, and the four heads formed a tight circle.

When I asked this question, the three of them were a little surprised when they heard it, but they all thought about it seriously.

I don't know if it was because he suspected that we were doing something "illegal" or because he was trying to get close, Amuro appeared beside us as silently as when he entered the door, approaching us with a bright smiling face.

"Hey, why do you all have serious faces, have you encountered any problems? Can I help?"

"Yes, I'm sorry, Mr. Amuro," I swallowed, carefully choosing my words so as not to disrupt the harmony of our long-term work, "You really can't help us with this problem——"

"Huh? Don't underestimate me. Don't look at me like this. I'm also a detective's apprentice. Just now, Miss Zi said that you encountered an incident, and I've been very curious. If you have any questions, please let me express my opinion. Maybe there will be Help." He looked a little hurt, and his tone became pitiful.

I sighed.

"Mr. Amuro, do you really want to help answer the question I just asked them?"

He nodded quickly, still smiling.

Xiaolan's face was flushed, Yuanzi grinned awkwardly, and Shiliang squinted his eyes as if watching a show.

I sigh again.

"I just asked them about the order of undressing before going to bed and whether to put the corset on the bottom or on top...you probably...can't answer."

I saw his smile froze instantly, and the corners of his mouth twitched faintly.