Conan’s Corpse Picker

When Toru Amuro heard the term "high school student detective", he instinctively glanced at "Eka".

Then, thinking of the acquaintances of Jiang Xia he met along the way, another figure flashed in his mind, and the corners of his eyes twitched slightly.

Toru Amuro looked at the maid: "...is the high school detective you are talking about the dark-skinned Kansai detective?"

The maid immediately understood who he was referring to and shook her head: "You are talking about Mr. Hattori, right? In fact, his name was originally on the guest list, but I heard that he was about to take the midterm exam recently and was busy studying, so he sent it back Check, no one came."

"..." Toru Amuro breathed a sigh of relief silently.

Then he vaguely remembered something and looked at "Jiang Xia": "Are you about to take the exam?" Why have I never seen you studying...

Speaking of this, Toru Amuro suddenly realized that he hadn't seen Jiang Xia's transcript for a long time. When Jiang Xia first came to the office, Amuro thoroughly checked his relevant information and found a stack of full-score test papers that were blinding.

...I don’t know how Jiang Xia’s grades have changed now that he has been a detective for so long and has been absent from classes for so long. The college entrance examination is still very important, but don’t follow him for a while and go from perfect score to failed...

Kidd was suddenly cueed and stood up slightly. After all, he checked some things about Jiang Xia and said calmly: "Don't worry, entrustment is more important. And I can remember the knowledge after reading it once, so it's not a big problem."

Jiang Xia, who was really wearing Matsuda Jinpei's vest, nodded secretly in his heart: Not bad, he learned quite a bit...

Next to him, Motegi Harushi laughed a few times at the childish topic of "midterm exams."

Then he turned to the maid: "Where is your master who likes detectives? Now that we are here, it's time for him to show up."

The maid also found the party a bit strange.

She hesitated for a moment and shook her head: "The schedule the master gave me didn't say when he would show up... Maybe he didn't actually plan to show up - I haven't seen him even once in so many days. "

Motegi Harushi was startled: "You haven't seen him either?"

"Yes. We usually communicate by email. The interview a few days ago, um..." the maid chose the appropriate adjective, "it was a wonderful interview."

——She is not a long-term servant of this family, but a temporary employee specially responsible for this dinner.

Today, the maid waited alone in this gloomy villa for a long time, and she was inevitably a little scared at this time.

Facing a group of puzzled detectives, she gnawed her thumb and explained in a low voice:

"This job pays quite well, so there are many people applying. I was very nervous at first, but after entering the interview room, I found that there was no interviewer in the room at all, only a computer, and dinner-related information on the computer table. material.

“When it was time to start the interview, no one showed up. Only an instruction popped up on the computer screen—the host asked me to read the materials on the table carefully.

"I was halfway through reading when I suddenly heard a ringtone. When I looked up again, the words 'You have been hired' popped up on the desktop..."

A group of detectives: "..."

...What a perfunctory interview.

Are the admission criteria purely based on looks? If that's the case, then the interview was indeed, as she said, "amazing."

Jiang Xia listened silently and remembered what the mysterious villains should look like. He laughed softly, took off his sunglasses and put them in his pocket, and said lines that sounded right but were actually completely useless:

"It seems that it is difficult to meet the 'master' directly. However, it seems more interesting this way..."

Hearing him speak, the maid turned her head slightly and looked at Jiang Xia, wanting to ask who he was.

——If I remember correctly, the young man in black in front of me was the only person present who had not appeared on the banquet list. So she had no impression of "Kurozawa Zo" at all.

...In other words, no matter from which aspect, Jiang Xia wearing a vest is an uninvited guest.

However, before the question came out, the maid thought for a moment and felt that it would be impolite to directly ask about the person's origins. Moreover, it is almost like chasing away guests, which can easily make people embarrassed.

"..." Forget it, this person is a bit gloomy anyway. But he doesn't look like a bad person, and if the host feels that this is inappropriate, he will definitely find a way to tell her, or directly come out to chase away the guests... It's better not to make decisions on your own.

She ended up saying nothing.

…

The other detectives did not raise any objections to Jiang Xia's existence - compared to this strange young man who seemed less threatening, the Kaitou Kidd who signed the invitation letter as "The Son of the Phantom Abandoned by God" was the one they were targeting during this trip. Target.

A group of people briefly introduced themselves. Jiang Xia gave her pseudonym "Kurosawa Zuo" behind Qian Jian Granny's back, and was temporarily defaulted by others to become Qian Jian Granny's companion.

Jiang Xia often comes to this villa and has become familiar with every place. Now he feels as comfortable as if he is back home.

Seeing that the other detectives had finished their exchange and began to look around instinctively, he followed suit.

Then his eyes quickly fell on the door where a group of people came in.

——In the center of the door, there is a line of dark marks splashed diagonally. With the old wooden door, it looks extremely dirty.

Jiang Xia just took a look, and someone said naturally from beside him: "This should be blood stains from the early years."

Jiang Xia was startled, turned around, and saw the spirit-like Toru Amuro behind him: "..."

It seems that Toru Amuro has not given up on chatting up information.

No matter what their true personality is, intelligence officers must at least be extroverted when they should be.

After Toru Amuro successfully made the first sentence, he was about to follow this topic and lead to questions that he was really interested in.

But at this time, in the corner of the hall, another person took up what he had just said.

"——To be precise, it should be a splatter-like blood stain adhered to the door at a 45° angle.

"In addition, there were columnar blood stains on the wall and dripping blood stains on the floor... The blood was almost everywhere in every corner of the villa - this shows that this is not the amount of blood that one or two people can shed."

Following the slow words, a woman walked out of the small door on the side of the stairs.

Toru Amuro frowned when his conversation was interrupted. He turned around and saw a familiar detective.

——Ikumi Gunda.

This is the neighbor near their detective agency. In addition, the two parties had just met in the vampire villa a few days ago.

Gunda Ikumi shook the small spray bottle containing luminol reagent in her hand, looked at "Jiang Xia" and said with a smile:

"I didn't expect to meet again so soon - I originally thought that I would be too busy with Mr. Tokura's investigation to come to this dinner, so I declined the invitation. But I didn't expect that the client passed away suddenly..."