A Tribute to Sherlock Holmes[Comprehensive]

The place for dinner was chosen by Izumi Hiratsuka, an Italian restaurant in the underground shopping mall.

The restaurant is small and the location is in a rather unassuming corner.However, the built-in interior of the hall is very exquisite, and the environment is not lost to some high-end restaurants at all.That night, apart from Izumi Hiratsuka and Shinichi Kudo sitting in the corner by the window, there were no other customers in the restaurant, and the atmosphere was so quiet that it was comfortable.

Kudo Shinichi glanced around the restaurant very quickly. The elegant decoration set off a kind of classic and quiet beauty. I really didn't expect such a restaurant to open in an underground street.

"Hiratsuka, thanks to you for finding such a place."

The girl covered her lips and smiled, showing a bit of shyness on her face, "To tell you the truth, this is actually where I work part-time."

"So it is."

"I told Sister Sami in advance that I would come over, ah, Sister Sami is the store manager, Sami Kusuki. So today it's just the two of us, which means I'm taking advantage of my position to book the place for you, but..." Izumi Hiratsuka paused , looked around, with a little doubt on his face, "But it feels a little weird, apart from the two of us, Sister Zuomi is not here."

"It's a little strange indeed."

A store that is normally open has no one watching.

"I feel that sister Sami has misunderstood something..." Hiratsuka Izumi muttered in a low voice.Thinking that maybe the store manager Nanmu wanted the beauty of adults, so he deliberately vacated the space for two people to be alone?

"When did you tell the store manager that we're coming?"

When Kudo Shinichi asked this, he felt it was very subtle.

He took the initiative to invite dinner with reasonable reasons, and greeted the store manager in advance.It was such a development that everything seemed to be planned, but there was nothing wrong with it.

He narrowed his eyes, and the girl in front of him seemed to be holding his face in embarrassment, and then explained softly: "Actually, I came to see you today because I originally planned to treat you to dinner, and I told the store manager before going out. alright."

Kudo Shinichi couldn't find a reason to refute Izumi Hiratsuka, the girl's words were logical, but there was an inexplicable contradiction.He stared carefully at Izumi Hiratsuka for a few seconds, and there was no evil conspiracy aura on his soft face.

Maybe... He really thought too much.

Seeing Kudo Shinichi staring at him, Hiratsuka Izumi stretched out his hand and waved in front of his eyes, "Kudo-kun, what are you worried about? Are you still worried about having no food when I'm here?"

"Eh?"

After finishing speaking, Izumi Hiratsuka stood up from his seat, folded his hands in front of him, and then slightly bowed, "Sir, if you read the menu, can I order for you?"

"puff!"

Kudo Shinichi was amused, the way the girl turned on the work mode actually had a different kind of cuteness.He couldn't help but looked Hiratsuka Izumi up and down again, with a professional smile and normative words and deeds, is she always like this when she is working?

"Kudou-kun! Please cooperate with me." Hiratsuka Izumi lost his face, took the menu from Kudo Shinichi's hand and tapped on his head, "Okay, stop laughing! I'll go Kitchen, come right back."

"Ah."

Compared to Izumi Hiratsuka, this store is even more strange.If Izumi Hiratsuka hadn't explained that she had greeted the manager Kusuki, the place would have been like an empty shell of an Italian restaurant.

Kudo Shinichi didn't think about it any more, and silently waited for Izumi Hiratsuka.But the latter left, but did not come back after a long time.

Even if you cook ready-made dishes yourself, it should be ready, right?

The atmosphere in the restaurant became more and more weird, Kudo Shinichi decided to go to the back kitchen to take a look.

The store manager isn't here, the waiter isn't there, and if Izumi Hiratsuka goes to the kitchen by himself... maybe the chef isn't there either.

Is this still a restaurant?Even if the space was specially set aside to invite him to dinner, he and Hiratsuka Izumi would not be the only ones left in the entire store, right?

The door of the kitchen was hung with a sign that non-staff should not enter. The door panel was only partially covered, and the orange-toned light in the front hall printed a light mark on the ground inside through the gap.

No one answered when he knocked on the door, Kudo Shinichi simply walked in.

He was very surprised by the scene he saw when he entered. The back kitchen turned out to be twice the size of the front hall, with room to spare.The light here is much darker than the outside, which makes people uncomfortable.

After walking a few steps inside, I felt something under my feet.When I looked down, I realized that the coffee beans had been scattered all over the ground, as if something had happened.

"Hiratsuka?"

Kudo Shinichi shouted, but no one responded, only his own echo sounded in the empty space.

He quickly scanned the overall situation of the back kitchen. It was not so much a kitchen, but more like a messy mixture of a kitchen and a storage room.The layout of the entire space is relatively complicated, and the zigzagging loops are really uncomfortable to look at.

In the dead silence, Kudo Shinichi's footsteps became the only sound.

The increasingly weird atmosphere had to make Kudo Shinichi more vigilant, and he suddenly had a rather bad premonition.Under such an atmosphere, even the slightest sound would become a very abrupt existence.

The voice from the darkest corner where the lights intersected in front made him tense even more. He held his breath and stepped forward cautiously, but he didn't expect that at this moment, his arm was pulled by someone, and he was forced to hold his breath. Strangely, he pulled him under the table closest to him.

The sudden force did not have time for Kudo Shinichi to prepare himself mentally, he lost his center of gravity and crashed directly.Probably because the impact was a bit too forceful, and the girl's painful gasping sound could be heard next to her ear.

Although the voice was very small, it was still easy to recognize that it was Izumi Hiratsuka.Izumi Hiratsuka suppressed his voice very much, as if afraid of being discovered.

Kudo Shinichi also realized that something was wrong with the situation at the moment, so he cooperated quite silently.But when he was forcibly pulled down, he happened to bump into the softness of the girl's chest, and his posture was a little awkward.The arms around him held him tightly, and because of the small space, he could only maintain this posture to ensure that he was not exposed.

Izumi Hiratsuka's hair hanging on his chest made Shinichi Kudo's cheeks itch, so he had to raise his head slightly to adjust the angle of his pressure.In the dim light, the girl's brows were furrowed, and the gentle and beautiful face was only dignified and restless.

At that time, footsteps sounded from a place where the two of them could not see.The sound of the leather shoes hitting the ground was slightly rough, and it was preliminarily determined that it should be a man.

The sound of footsteps did not approach the hiding place of Izumi Hiratsuka and Shinichi Kudo, but after getting away, it was the sound of opening and closing the door.After that, the footsteps disappeared completely.

At this point, Izumi Hiratsuka let go of Kudo Shinichi, and then, he sat down on the spot, gasping for breath in relief.

"what happened?"

As Kudo Shinichi asked, the moment he stood up, he saw a pair of legs in front of the cupboard behind the desk.When he stepped forward, he saw a woman lying motionless on the ground.

When I touched the woman's carotid artery, it had already lost its pulse.At this point, Kudo Shinichi said to Izumi Hiratsuka who was still in a daze: "Hiratsuka, call the police, she is dead."

After hearing Kudo Shinichi's voice, Hiratsuka Izumi suddenly came back to his senses.She immediately followed the former, and when she saw the corpse, she screamed uncontrollably: "Miss Zuomi?!"

"Is she the store manager?"

"Correct."

"Call the police first, and be careful not to touch anything at the scene."

Shinichi Kudo, who has turned on the detective mode, exudes a completely different aura from that of an ordinary high school student. He is wise, calm, and has an inexplicable sense of reliability.

I checked the situation very quickly. Besides the door I just entered, there is another door in the back kitchen, which is where the footsteps disappeared just now.Obviously, that person escaped through this door.

"Is that the guy who did it just now?"

Izumi Hiratsuka guessed like this, and what he got was naturally Kudo Shinichi's denial.

"Judging from the stiffness of the corpse and the condition of the spots on the corpse, her death time is not long, at most it will not exceed 3 hours."

Kudo Shinichi frowned, the current situation was very chaotic, and the clues were completely unclear.However, judging from the death time of the corpse, Hiratsuka Izumi is the most innocent person, because during the time of death, Hiratsuka Izumi was with him all the time, and he himself is the best alibi.

The cause of death could not be detected from the surface of the corpse, so we could only wait for the people from the first search team to come and investigate further.

"Hiratsuka, what happened here just now, why did you hide under the table?"

"I felt very strange when I came in. I called Sister Zuomei, but I heard the sound of the gun being loaded. The man didn't leave, and I didn't dare to come out. I thought you should be fine outside, after all, relying on In the direction of people coming and going, I didn't expect you to come in."

"Then do you know who the escaped person is?"

"I don't know..." As she spoke, Hiratsuka Izumi's expression became heavy, she hesitated for a while, and then said again in a low voice: "It can only be them..."

"who are they?"

Kudo Shinichi was asking, but the girl suddenly raised her hands and grabbed his arms, looked up into his eyes, and said very seriously as if exhorting: "Kudo-kun, wait for the police to come and finish the routine. After the investigation, don't have anything to do with me anymore."

"What do you mean?"

"Sister Zuo Mei is also involved by me now. You should be very clear about those people. If they find you, you will definitely die."

The girl seemed to have thought of something that frightened her, and her word order was chaotic and illogical.But it is still not difficult to capture the key points she wants to express from her words.

"Are they... referring to the organization?"

Mentioning the two words of this organization, Izumi Hiratsuka suddenly shouted out of control, his voice trembled violently, as if he was very frightened, "It's Chablis!"

The author has something to say: The store manager who gets lunch as soon as he comes out.

Speaking of which, when I was writing the time of death, I went to Baidu to check the formation of corpse plaques, and Mom hi jumped out of a pile of corpse pictures to scare the shit baby.So in the end I gave up and chose to be vague [Hey!

And my spring sister's acting skills.