Nagai Hikaru's Ke Xuexing

Chapter 232 7 years ago

Seeing the man kneeling down to confess, Takagi Shigeru walked over to Nagai Hikaru in a very good mood and said, "Nagai-san must have seen this earlier, so you sent Hamura-san to the coffee shop to check, right? You really are a cell phone detective. When the other detectives are not around, you will step up and solve the problem."

Nagai Hikaru was very helpless: "No, no, I just saw that they all had coffee and we didn't, so I asked Shuichi to buy a few cups."

"No need to explain." Takagi Shigeru blinked unilaterally, "Nagai-san is shy again, I understand."

Watching Takagi Wataru walk away, Nagai Hikaru looked at Hamura Shuichi: "Why did you ask the clerk that question?"

"I didn't ask." Hamura Shuichi said with a smile, "I just said it casually. This coffee shop is a subsidiary chain of Karasuma, and they have never used instant coffee. When I entered the apartment building, I heard Ms. Katsumata say that the taste was not good, so I felt something was wrong."

“…I see.” Nagai Hikaru nodded.

Conan touched his head and walked over to Nagai Hikaru: "Is the case solved just like that? The alibi is too perfunctory."

"Yeah, none of these police officers asked for the store address and then ran to ask a question. No wonder the case can't be solved without a detective." Taking out his cell phone to check the time, Nagai Hikaru walked to Sato Miwako and asked, "Officer Sato, can we go back now?"

"Yes, the case has been solved."

Miyamoto Yumi came over and said, "Ms. Xiaoguang, dinner, I want to treat you to dinner."

"Really, no need, Miss Yumi, maybe next time. Today's work has made me a little tired."

"Okay...ok." Yumi Miyamoto walked away very embarrassedly.

Conan took Nagai Hikaru's hand and said, "Are you going back?"

"Yeah, by the way, where's the donut I bought for you? Is there a portion for Xiaolan in it?"

"I asked Huibara to take it back for me." Conan replied, "I walked a few steps and saw Miss Yumi following me. She dragged me along to follow Taiko Meijin, and we saw you and him entering the donut shop together."

"...Ms. Yumi suspects that he is cheating on her?" Nagai Mitsuru was surprised.

"Yeah, and then Huiyuan also said that men don't cherish what they get."

Nagai Hikaru curled his lips and said, "You have a rich imagination."

"But how come you are so familiar with celebrities?"

"I'm not familiar with him. We only met a few times ten years ago." Nagai Hikaru had already greeted Officer Sato and was about to leave with Conan in his arms.

Arriving at the foot of the apartment building, Nagai Mitsuru saw thick smoke rising in the distance: "Where is the fire?"

Conan immediately wanted to rush over to take a look, but Nagai Mitsuru lifted him up by his schoolbag: "Well, even if there is a fire, it is the job of the firefighters. It has nothing to do with you."

"Ah...but..."

"I'll take you back later. Xiaolan should have prepared dinner. By the way, how is Xiaolan's portrait?"

"It was finished yesterday, but something happened. The painter's assistant would attack the model after each painting. Because he was jealous of the models being painted by the painter..." Conan shook his hand, looked at the place where the fire was, and continued to answer, "I have a picture of that oil painting in my camera. Let me down first and I will send you the picture."

Finally reaching the parking lot, Nagai Mitsuru opened the back door and threw Conan in, then got in himself: "Really, I never thought that playing shogi is so complicated."

"Xiao Guang...you know the relationship between the celebrity and Akai, right?" Conan suddenly asked.

"I know."

"Why do you have a different attitude towards celebrities than towards Sera? It seems like you have no ill feelings towards celebrities at all."

"…Maybe it's because he doesn't look like that guy at all. In terms of appearance or personality." Nagai Hikaru tapped his cheek. "I don't associate him with that guy at all, so I feel okay."

"So, Xiaoguang, you are completely a visual person." Conan took out his mobile phone and sent a photo to Nagai Hikaru.

Nagai Hikaru looked at the profile of Mao Lilan in the photo and exclaimed: "Great, just like the photo."

"Xiao Guang, your taste for oil paintings lies only in how realistic they are." Conan was speechless and continued to scroll through his phone. He finally clicked on the latest news release about the place where the fire had just caught fire and began to read it carefully.

"What do you think about me paying him to draw a picture for me?" Nagai Mitsuru was tempted.

"No, that Kasuga teacher has decided not to continue painting portraits and will only paint landscapes from now on."

Nagai Hikaru sighed.

"It seems that the culprit of the fire just now was also Hishinuma."

"What? A timed ignition device?"

"Well... a man died over there too." Conan nodded, "But now he has been caught. By the way, we are going skiing together next week, do you want to go?"

"Next week? Skiing?" Nagai Mitsuru looked confused: Didn't the summer vacation just end?

"Yes, it's the ski resort nearby. Professor Agasa will drive us there." Conan turned and looked at Nagai Hikaru.

"Is Xiao Ai going?"

"I don't know, but if you go, she will definitely go." Conan chuckled, "I find that you treat her better than me now."

Nagai Hikaru pulled Conan's hair hard: "What do you think about every day?"

Conan looked out the window with half-moon eyes and didn't want to pay any attention to Nagai Hikaru.

"I can't go next week, but please be safe when you go out." After sending Conan back to the Mouri Detective Agency, Nagai Mitsuru went straight home.

"Miss, Binga contacted his subordinates and wanted to surrender to you through them." On the way back, Shuichi Hamura dropped a bomb.

Nagai Hikaru was shocked: "Binga? Isn't he Rum's confidant? Seriously?"

"Binga said that Rum seems to have been hunted by Gin-sama's men recently." Hamura Shuichi organized his words in his mind, "Rum has been assassinated several times recently, although he escaped. But he felt the crisis in Japan and wanted to transfer some of his property abroad. The boss has recently stopped providing funds to Rum."

"Stopped? I see." Nagai Hikaru nodded to show that he understood. "What does Binga mean?"

"He feels that there is no future in following Rum, and wants to change to someone else. But he also knows that traitors will not be treated well no matter where they go, so he does not want to be a traitor. He will just change his master and continue to work, and will not betray the whereabouts of his former master. Miss, if you are willing to have him, he will come, if not, forget it."

"Rum knows too much. Although we haven't told him much about the recent lab events or the organization..." Nagai Hikaru thought for a moment, looking at the scenery outside the window where the buildings were gradually becoming sparse, "Binga... Let's make an appointment to meet him next week when Conan and the others go skiing."

"Yes, Miss, I will pass it on."

When he got home, Nagai Hikaru had not had dinner yet, but it was already past eight o'clock. Gin was a little surprised that Nagai Hikaru came back at this time without having dinner.

"I met a famous Taiko person. That guy's fiancée suspected that he was cheating on me..." Nagai Hikaru complained as he threw away his handbag.

"Taikoku Meijin?" Gin raised his hand to catch Nagai Mitsuru who was falling straight down on him, and could see that he looked a little tired.

"Haneda Hideyoshi." Nagai Hikaru suddenly remembered something. "Yes, Haneda Hiroshi's sworn brother, did you know?"

Gin had no memory of this man, so he simply shook his head: "I don't know, is it related to the organization?"

Nagai Mitsuru fell on Gin and adjusted his posture to make himself more comfortable: "Seventeen years ago, the organization's archives recorded that he died at the hands of Rum, fed APTX4869."

"Seventeen years ago?" Gin put his arm around Nagai's bare waist and lifted him up a little, then shook his head, "Seventeen years ago I didn't have a code name yet."

"You mean you had already joined the organization at that time?" Nagai Mitsuru was surprised. Gin was only twelve years old at that time.

"At that time, I had just been brought to Japan by the organization."

Nagai Hikaru looked at Gin expectantly, hoping that he would say something more.

Gin raised his left hand to cover Nagai Hikaru's eyes: "Does the fact that Rum killed Haneda Hiroshi have anything to do with what you are going to do now?"

"Not yet... but I have a feeling that this incident will make Rum fall flat on his face." Nagai Hikaru smiled and raised his hand to cover Gin's hand that was blocking his face. "By the way, did Brother Jin send someone to hunt down Rum?"

"Why would I chase him?" Gin looked confused. "He hid himself. I thought the gentleman wanted to let him go."

"Oh~~" Nagai Hikaru said in a playful tone, "This Binga is quite interesting."

Gin grabbed Nagai Hikaru's hand with his backhand: "Binga?"

"Do you have a grudge against him?" Nagai Hikaru heard the surprise in Gin's voice, and smiled as he held Gin's hand tightly and asked, "Do you want to kill him?"

"If it's useful to you..."

Nagai Hikaru took Gin's hand and stroked his face: "It doesn't matter how useful someone is to Jin-nii-san."

"Since it doesn't matter, you can do whatever you want." Gin smiled and curled a strand of golden hair hanging down from Nagai Hikaru's face with his fingers, "You can always have everything you want."

"Miss, you can have a small cake first. Dinner is being prepared in the kitchen." Shuichi Hamura walked over and put a plate of strawberry cake and a cup of coffee on the coffee table in front of the sofa.

Nagai Hikaru turned his head to look at the cake: "Is it strawberry again? I'm a little tired of strawberries recently. Let's prepare chocolate next time, Shuichi."

"Yes, Miss."

Taking a sip of the coffee on the coffee table, Nagai Mitsuru nodded with satisfaction: "I like to add more sugar and milk to my coffee."

The brown-haired woman with glasses across the table smiled and said, "I rarely drink anything too sweet. It's not good if I gain weight."

Nagai Hikaru, who was wearing a black dress, put down her coffee cup, raised her hand to tuck the golden hair behind her ears, and asked with a smile: "Oh, do you pay attention to your body management? Binga."

"Of course. No matter what, for people like us who often dress like women, it would be very incongruous if we looked fatter or more burly, right?" Binga smiled gently, crossing his hands on the table and propping up his chin. "But Bordeaux, you are cuter in real life than in photos. You look much cuter when you move."

Nagai Mitsuru shook his head and sighed: "Ah, I won't worry about gaining weight, because I have a small frame, so I can hide fat very well." Then he looked around the environment of the cafe. The lights were dim, the tables were some distance apart, and there were old Hollywood posters on the walls.

"This is a converted bar, so the atmosphere is a bit quaint." Binga tilted his head slightly, "Does it make you uneasy because it's too dark?"

Nagai Hikaru shook his head: "I'm just surprised you chose this place. It's very close to the former Metropolitan Police Department."

"Yes, it's also very close to the previous Tokyo Summit site. It should have been another prosperous commercial center in Tokyo. But after the bombing of the Metropolitan Police Department, the business here has not been very prosperous."