[Death] Acacia inkstone

"Captain, you really don't want to intervene in the Karakura Police Station?" Kaoru Sakurai lowered his body and leaned over the pool table. He hit the black ball into the pocket with a beautiful low club. Just right.

Dong Shilang held the suit jacket that he had taken off in one hand, and leaned against another pool table: "If the criminal investigation team is full of people like you, I don't think it is necessary."

Kaoru Sakurai scored another red ball while Dongshiro was talking. She walked around the pool table a few steps and leaned over to take a look. The next ball was far away from the bank, so it was not easy to hit. .

"Captain, don't you realize that I'm very responsible?" She came over and picked up the pole next to him, then returned to the pool table to refocus: "I sacrificed my rare weekend time to investigate the case. "

With a crisp bang, Kaoru Sakurai looked at the black balls bumping around on the table with a dejected expression.

"The case investigation you are talking about is coming to the billiard hall to play snooker all night?" Toshiro sighed secretly in his heart. He put the suit in his hand on the back of the chair and went straight to Kaoru Sakurai She took the cue in her hand: "Also, if you hit the ball while talking like this, the error rate is very high."

"It was just an accident just now. I could have cleared the stage with one shot." Kaoru Sakurai stood aside with his arms folded, watching Dongshiro with a slightly depressed look one by one. Not many goals scored.

"Captain, you are really good." In just a short while, Shiro Dong hit only one black ball on the stage. His whole process before that was very smooth, and his shots were also clean.Although Kaoru Sakurai knew that the captain was known as a genius, he still couldn't help complaining at this moment: "Even if I have practiced for ten years, I will still lose to you. Captain, how can you let mediocre people like us live... "

The difficulty of hitting the last ball was a bit high, even Shiro Dong had to stop for a while.

"If your turnover rate is lower, you can actually win." Shiro Dong frowned, looking at the positions of the black ball and the cue ball on the table - he was not sure about scoring it.

"Do one thing and do one thing well." He bent down several times, and finally put down the club in his hand: "This shot is too difficult."

Kaoru Sakurai watched Toshiro pick up the suit on the back of the chair and put it on, and suddenly felt a little confused in his mind: "If you do one thing, do one thing well..."

"What's the matter?" Toshiro straightened his tie, but when he turned around, he saw Kaoru Sakurai's dazed and absent-minded expression, and felt that it was very inconsistent with her usual style of doing things.

"To love someone is to love someone well." Her voice was not high, but it was enough for him to hear.

"What?" Dong Shilang was confused by her sudden sentence.

"I feel like I've heard this sentence somewhere before." Kaoru Sakurai rubbed her temples. She has been having weird dreams one after another recently, and her sleep quality has seriously declined: "I think it's very familiar, but I can't think of it." I don't know who said it, and I don't remember when I heard it."

"That might just be an illusion." Shiro Dong glanced at her helplessly: "You just watched too many TV shows."

"No, captain, I think I must have heard this sentence, and it feels like I heard it a long, long time ago." Sakurai Kaoru put on a serious expression rarely: "Besides, a serious and responsible person like me People who work, will they spend their precious time watching dog blood soap operas?"

"When you heated the milk this morning, you told me for sure that you added sugar instead of salt."

"That...that was an accident, Captain." Sakurai Kaoru laughed dryly, she was still sleepy when she woke up this morning, and when she was making breakfast, she mistakenly mistaken a can of salt for a can of sugar.She didn't dare to recall the complicated expression on the captain's face when he drank the first sip of milk, and she didn't even dare to calculate how much she had left in this month's salary.

Dongshiro obviously also remembered the taste of the salted milk made by Kaoru Sakurai. Although his expression didn't change, it made Kaoru Sakurai very nervous.

"Captain, don't worry, I will see the seasoning bottle clearly when I cook next time." After thinking about it, she thought it would be better to be more straightforward. Although the captain always threatens her with salary deductions, he rarely actually implements it. .

Dongshiro smiled helplessly at her answer.For the past few days, he has been coordinating the affairs of Jinglingting and the secular world. Today he managed to spare the night and planned to calm down and sort out this series of cases, but Kaoru Sakurai mysteriously... Pulled to the billiard hall.

It's not an exaggeration to call this smile a wry smile.

"Captain, I know you think I'm wasting time." Kaoru Sakurai picked up the cue he had just put down, and unexpectedly leaned back on the table:

"The male owner of the family that was exterminated in this world came to this billiard hall the night before the incident."

Dong Shilang frowned in disbelief, this was not written in the police report.

"A small amount of chalk was detected on the sleeve of the deceased's suit. Chalk is used to prevent the slippery rod when playing billiards. This thing is basically a necessity for playing billiards, so as long as he came to the billiards hall, even if he took off his coat to play , It’s not surprising that the clothes get a little bit dirty.” Kaoru Sakurai began to dribble with one hand, the angle of the black ball was really tricky, she just wanted to try her luck.

After a crisp collision sound, she showed a satisfied smile at the bag where the black ball fell: "The host is wearing an expensive suit to the billiard hall, and he is a person who is used to living a high-class life." , the demeanor is always different, I think the boss may still remember him."

"This is the place?"

"To be precise, it's this table." Kaoru Sakurai leaned against the table: "A person like him would definitely not go to a middle-level billiard hall and below. , I finally found it."

Winter Shiro remained silent.Although the situation on the day before the crime was indeed not to be underestimated, he didn't find anything unusual after he came here, and seeing Kaoru Sakurai's leisurely look, he didn't think she could make any progress.

"This billiard table was booked a week before the incident, but the boss said that it was a woman who called to make the reservation, and he only had an impression of it because of the high deposit." Sakurai Kaoru winked at him.

"You mean..." There was something in her words, Dong Shilang knew what she was referring to.

"The master came here on an appointment with a woman, but the boss said he didn't remember that he had a female companion with him that night, and this person died the next day." Kaoru Sakurai stared straight at him when he said this, And smiled at him.

It was a very standard social smile.He was very surprised that she could do so thoroughly in order to integrate herself into the present world.

What surprised him even more was that she actually stepped towards him gracefully, took his arm skillfully, and said in a gentle voice:

"Honey, go back today first. We'll come back next time."

Toshiro is already used to Sakurai Kaoru's unreasonable playing of cards, so he had no choice but to follow her pace and walk towards the door, even when she smiled and said goodbye to the owner of the billiard hall, she nodded slightly to express polite.

"There's someone." Out of the billiard hall, Kaoru Sakurai lowered his voice, but still kept his arms around him calmly.

"When?" From the moment she stared at her abnormally and smiled mechanically at him, Dongshiro knew that she must have discovered something, but he was still confused about it.

"It was almost when I walked towards you. I think he didn't hear our conversation, and probably just regarded us as ordinary people who came to practice." She held his hand and trembled slightly: "That's it Keep it up, I don't know if he's watching us."

Dong Shilang continued to walk side by side with her on the bustling street, and after another 20 meters, they could reach the turning intersection.

The noisy voices of people and the endless stream of cars are mixed together to set off the bustling night of the city.

But Kaoru Sakurai had no time to distract himself from enjoying it.She seemed to be walking side by side with Dong Shilang casually, but her palms were already covered with cold sweat.

"Today's night is so beautiful." She raised her head slightly, and she hadn't seen such a star-studded night sky for a long time.How many late nights she has been running around because of work, although today is the same.

She felt that her head was becoming more and more dizzy, and her body was a little weak. She gritted her teeth and took a few steps, but finally retreated after turning the corner:

"Captain, you haven't touched a black ball once today, you are so lucky."

She seemed to be relieved, she closed her eyes and fell on him, losing consciousness.

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The moonlight poured down through the half-open window, and in the silent night, Toshiro sat by the bed and watched Kaoru Sakurai who was unconscious.

He looked at her pale face, and couldn't help but think in his mind that she had promised him that nothing would happen again.But just now she risked herself under his nose.

He sighed.

He couldn't take her to the hospital, because they didn't belong to this world; he couldn't go back to the pool hall to find out, because her reaction told him he couldn't go there, and he couldn't leave her behind. No matter and turn back alone.

Beads of sweat kept oozing from her forehead, and he wiped them off with a towel several times, but it still didn't help.Sakurai Kaoru lay flat with her hands folded, but her lips were tightly pressed.

He suddenly realized that she was probably having a nightmare.

Toshiro suddenly remembered that not long after she graduated, that is, when she just joined the [-]th squad, she often had some gloomy and depressing strange dreams so that she often couldn't sleep at night.

He still remembered that Huayuan Izumo had joked about her at that time, saying that her behavior was the psychological trauma left by Takigawa Aoba's sudden escape.

"Captain?" Kaoru Sakurai suddenly woke up from the dream, but when he opened his eyes, he caught a glimpse of his captain's thoughtful and deep look.

"You're awake." Her voice was steady without any ups and downs, but she could see that he was somewhat anxious.

"It's LSD." She rubbed her aching temple: "I just felt that something was wrong with that black ball. There was no way I couldn't miss it the previous time."

"You also said that it was because I was distracted while hitting the ball while talking, but it was actually because the ball was tampered with."

"LSD?" Winter Shiro repeated these three letters coldly, and the image of her leaning over to hit the black ball that was left on the table in the end appeared in her mind.

"LSD, is the famous, or the notorious □□ diethylamide, which is commonly known as - hallucinogen."

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