People live from five to nine in Conan

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"That woman who has no dreams would never want to become a world-renowned pastry chef."

Kurosawa Qin's voice suddenly calmed down, and it seemed that she no longer had the aggressiveness just now.

He lowered his head, the cigarette between his fingers was burning quietly...

"When I saw her for the first time, I was just a little-known ordinary barista. I didn't have much money. I could only open my own coffee shop in the countryside outside Tokyo."

"And she is just a rural female high school student who came to do a summer job, she doesn't know how to dress up, and she is not very conspicuous."

"There are not many young people in the countryside, so even if they only sell entry-level specialty coffee, after the novelty wears off, the business in the store will start to go from bad to worse."

"It was a stupid decision to open a specialty coffee shop in the middle of nowhere."

"Soon, there was a problem with the capital chain in the store, and I could only start laying off staff."

"Other clerks chose to leave after paying their salaries, only her..."

"She rejected my offer of salary, but made me a request."

"She said that as long as I promised her to let her use the oven in the store, she would work for me for free during the summer vacation."

"To be honest, the coffee shop really needs a young and beautiful female high school student like her as a waiter, otherwise the business will only get worse."

"So I said yes to her request, and she started teaching herself her beloved pastry chef course using the equipment in the store."

"That's her hobby, and it's really just a hobby, because she never even thought about making money from what she made, but always gave it to me and other customers in the store for free."

"However, no one expected that it was because of the novel desserts she made that the business in the store gradually improved."

"At the end of her summer vacation, some customers even drove for hours from Tokyo just to taste the coffee and desserts in my shop."

"That's when I realized I couldn't pass up this opportunity."

"So, on the last day of her summer vacation, I extended an invitation to her to run the coffee shop with me as a partner."

"However... she refused again."

"I thought she was just a high school student and she didn't know how much it was, so I explained to her that we can open the store in the urban area of ​​Tokyo in just one year, and we can open the store in a few years." All over the country!"

"But she still refused."

"I was very disappointed and even hated her a little bit, because without her desserts, my coffee shop would definitely not be able to continue."

"The whole day, I was thinking about how to get back at her, withholding her salary, scolding her for being selfish, laughing at her as a countryman who has never seen the world... I have thought of all kinds of methods."

"But she actually said to me when she got off work..."

"Pastry is just her hobby, she doesn't want to turn her hobby into a career, but if I want to learn, she can teach me... can she teach me? She can teach me!!!"

Kurosawaqin suddenly raised his head, his eyes were already bloodshot red.

That indescribable expression seemed to be crying, laughing, laughing at himself, or... looking for redemption.

For a moment, both Kudo Shinichi, who wanted him to confess, and the criminal policeman, who wanted to arrest him, were speechless.

They could only wait for the man in front of them to finish speaking.

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After a long time, until the cigarette in his hand was about to burn to the filter, Kurosawa Qin spoke again:

"That day, I practiced until eleven o'clock in the evening, and finally learned the kind of dessert she is best at."

"Although the texture and taste are not as good as hers, the business of the coffee shop is finally barely maintained."

"Every weekend at the beginning, she would come to the store, work as a free waiter, and teach me one or two special desserts after get off work."

"After half a year, I finally learned all her specialty desserts, and she stopped coming to my store because of her studies."

"At that time, I thought that the connection between the two of us might end here."

Kurosawa paused for a moment, then continued in a calmer tone and faster speed:

"The business in the store did not take off as quickly as I imagined. Although it was still booming, it soon encountered a bottleneck."

"The remote location was ultimately the culprit for coffee shops, and I had to start looking for other options."

"In those years, I desperately participated in competitions, went to study all over the country, and then participated in competitions...Unknowingly, I also grew from a low-level barista to a famous barista known throughout the country, and won one after another. champion."

"My coffee shop has also changed from a small shop leased in the countryside to a high-end store rented in the business district of Tokyo, and now to this boutique coffee shop that is open next to Tokyo Tower and belongs to me alone."

Kurosawa Qin looked at the cigarette in his hand, and suddenly slowed down his speech.

"I thought we'd never see each other again."

"But unexpectedly, just a year ago, she suddenly appeared in front of me again, begging me to give him a job."

Kurosawa Koto turned his head slowly, looked at Kudo Shinichi with bloodshot eyes, with an unusually calm expression.

Kudo Shin shuddered for a moment, because he seemed to see Mu Yuan's shadow in these eyes.

That look without human emotion... Oops!

Kudo Shinichi thumped in his heart.

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"I agreed." Kurosawaqin put the cigarette close to her mouth without inhaling, "even gave her the position of store manager."

"This time she didn't reject me like she did before, but unfortunately, her pastry chef's level is still at the same level as before."

"But even so, she still brazenly made that request, hoping to add her name to my entry for the World Barista Competition."

"so……"

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"So you killed her!"

A young criminal policeman couldn't help but speak.

Kudo Shinichi raised his hand, but he didn't have time to stop it.

Kurosawa looked up at the criminal policeman, and after a while, a weird smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Crack!" The cigarette butt that fell on the ground was stamped out by Kurosawaqin.

He stood up, stared straight at the young detective and said, "Say I killed Mayumi, do you have evidence?"

Without giving the young detective a chance to speak, Kurosawa turned around and looked at Kudo Shinichi, and continued: "I said that I poisoned Mayumi to death, what is my motive?"

Then he quickly looked at Mu Mu Shisan and said: "Or in the eyes of your detectives and the police, everyone is a crazy murderer, and they will kill people just because the other party makes a slightly excessive request?"

"You have been handling cases like this all these years, have you?"

"You bastard!" The young detective couldn't help but said again: "When the autopsy results come out, you won't be able to laugh anymore!"

"Oh? The autopsy result?" Kurosawa raised his eyebrows, "What is the result? The on-site inspection showed that he was frozen to death, and was it tampered with other results for the merits of the murder?"

"Then I really won't be able to laugh anymore, because I'm afraid I would have died laughing."

"In addition, I hope you can really get the autopsy approval hahahaha..."

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Kurosawa Koto's laughter echoed in the coffee shop, Kudo Shinichi and Meguro Shisan's faces turned ashen.

They were all tricked by the suspect in front of them!

What this man was looking for in his memories just now was not salvation at all!

He is completely cutting off his nostalgia for the past!

This kind of behavior of hypnotizing yourself with modified memories, hypnotizing yourself to believe in false memories, is actually not uncommon among suspects.

But neither Kudo Shinichi nor Megushisan expected that Kurosawa Koto would be so courageous that he dared to do it in front of the two of them, and even used his mouth to read it in person in front of a group of criminal police and famous detectives. Out of his tampered memory.

This is undoubtedly more effective than simply modifying in memory!

It can be said that today's Kurosawa Koto, no matter what happened in the past of the two of them, will no longer be half shaken by Mayumi's affairs.

In this matter, he is... not a person at all!

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"This guy!" Kudo Shinichi gritted his teeth, but still grabbed Meguro Shisan, who was about to speak, and said in a deep voice, "It's useless, Megure Police Department."

"Tone and attitude cannot be the basis for suspicion. Whether his confession is true or false, it just explains his relationship with Ms. Mayumi. In this way, it is completely reasonable for him to know what is going on in Ms. Mayumi's house. Even if you and I both Knowing that it is him, if no clear suspect can be found, it is absolutely impossible to apply for a compulsory autopsy approval if the family members cannot agree."

Seeing that Mumu Shisan's expression did not change, Kudo Shinichi added: "And even if the application is approved, the autopsy result will not be poisoned."

"What, what!?" Mu Mu Shisan, who wanted to get rid of his old face and get the administrator to agree to the autopsy, was stunned.

Although his reasoning ability is lacking, he is still an experienced old detective after all. After combining the questions Muyuan asked him to ask, Kudo Shinichi's reasoning and Kurosawa Koto's reaction, he is completely sure that Uchida Mayumi was poisoned to death by Kurosawa.

But Kudo Shinichi actually said that the result of the autopsy was not poisoned?

Mu Mu Shisan was a little unbelievable.

Kudo Shinichi continued: "From Kurosawa Qin's attitude just now, it can be seen that he is not afraid of the police conducting an autopsy. There may be two reasons behind this. One is that he concluded that the police cannot obtain permission to conduct an autopsy Second, even if the police conduct an autopsy, the result of the autopsy will not be poisoned. His reliance may be one of them, but I think... it is more likely to be both!"

"Brother Kudo, this is impossible, if poison is really used, how could the autopsy fail to find it?" Memu Shisan frowned.

Kudo Shinichi shook his head, "Did you forget the police department, Kurosawa Koto won the world championship with Liquor Chocolate, and alcohol can not only make the drug enter the blood of the human body faster, but also greatly speed up the body's reaction to the drug." Absorption and decomposition speed."

"It's been a whole night since Ms. Mayumi ate the chocolate, and I don't know how long it will take to wait for the autopsy permission and complete the autopsy. Or drugs that oxidize to harmless products, the final autopsy results..."

"Probably just the result of an accidental death like heart attack, organ failure!"

"So even if it is the police department, you really forcibly applied for the autopsy approval letter, you can only lose your job in the end."

"Ah, this..." Mu Mu Shisan said in confusion with cold sweat all over his face: "Then what should we do now."

"Huh..." Kudo Shinichi sighed, and reluctantly pouted towards the window, "Isn't there still that guy?"

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In the booth by the window, Mu Yuan grinds the coffee beans expressionlessly.

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Chapter 12 The Detective Who Blamed Himself

Kudo Shinichi sat outside the booth by the window, staring blankly at the handsome monk who could crush coffee beans with his fingers, and cursed "pervert" in his heart.

This time, he fell.

Thinking about it carefully, Kudo Shinichi felt that he was not completely without chance.

If he had just been more patient, looked a little longer, and waited for Kurosawa to show his flaws first, instead of throwing it on Kurosawa's face immediately after figuring out the modus operandi, trying to make the other party directly guilty plea...

Maybe with some ingenious language traps, you can find an opportunity to search the other party's house;

Or wait until the police find out the details of the deceased's family before taking action...

He must have a chance to successfully solve the case.

but now……

Kurosawaqin's psychological defense has been fully established, and further investigation and questioning by the police will definitely encounter all kinds of traps, obstacles, and difficulties.

All this is caused by his impulse.

Although no one would blame him for this, Kudo Shinichi was still very depressed.

Why are you so impulsive this time?

Kudo Shinichi glanced over Mumu Shisan beside him, and then looked at Mu Yuan sitting by the window again, gradually having an answer in his heart

——Probably because I don’t want to experience it again, the feeling that someone else has solved the case inexplicably while I am still excitedly collecting clues.

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"Student Kudo, you can actually try again. Although it is still impossible to solve the case, you can really work harder!" Mu Yuan looked at Shinichi Kudo, who was no longer shining with stars, and said sincerely.

"..."

Although Kudo Shinichi really wanted to say thank you to Muyuan by biting Muyuan's thigh, but he held back in the end.

After all, he has heard such "unintentional" words a lot, and his resistance has already been tempered.

So he just wanted to bite it, and didn't put it into action.