Chapter 60: The Flower Fragrance Murder Incident

Ever since he was drugged by the gangsters and made smaller, Shinichi Kudo, who goes by the pseudonym Conan Edogawa, has been looking for the mysterious group of men in black.

He didn't know anything about the rest except that the other party was dressed in black and in the name of wine. Without the slightest clue, it is not easy to find the two gangsters he has seen in the vast sea of people, so he pretends to be a child and sneaks into the house of his childhood sweetheart Mori Ran, and uses Mori Kogoro's detective profession to approach the crime scene.

There are many gangsters in contact, and he is very sensitive to malicious eyes and murderous aura.

Just now, Edogawa Conan's small body seemed to be wrapped in a cold current, and the absolute zero gaze made him creepy, and he immediately raised his head to look in the direction of his feelings, just in time to meet the gaze of Kamimori Shizuha, and took in her frowning appearance.

It was decisively decided to list her as a suspicious person!

Conan Edogawa pretended to be playing in the form of a child and tried to glue the bugging device to Mori Shizuha's clothes. But Mephistopheles could not do what he wanted, and immediately took Mori Jingyu into the banquet hall.

Conan Edogawa, who wanted to catch up later, was dragged by Ozaki Tsui, Okano's assistant Tsui Ozaki, who was a child brought by Mori Kogoro, of course, with Mori Kogoro, and children were not allowed to run around in the venue. Mori Kogoro came here to premeditate the murder, and at this time he had to meet Okano Rika himself, who received the threatening letter.

Edogawa Conan secretly said that it was a pity, but thinking that Mori Jingyu was a guest at the banquet, there would always be a chance to get close to it later.

He turned back to Ozaki and asked, "Who is she?" ”

"Huh? Which one? ”

"It's the sister who was standing there just now, wearing a kimono with a very smooth peony pattern and two shiny hairpins on her head."

"She...... It doesn't seem to be our guest, maybe someone brought in the female companion, who looks a bit like the star Mori Yangyu, by the way, she was with Dr. Mephistopheles just now, it must be his fiancée Mori Jingyu. What's wrong? ”

"Nope." Edogawa Conan wrote it down in his heart.

Before the host appeared was the time for the guests to communicate, Dr. Mephistopheles was undoubtedly the most popular, as soon as he appeared, the air in the venue became different, and many obsessive eyes floated from all sides, and someone immediately stepped forward to talk.

Helplessly, the dean didn't pretend to anyone, and gave all the tenderness to the sweetheart around him. In the past, when he attended a banquet alone, he didn't mind having a few drinks with the "customers" of the hospital, and the other party would automatically transfer the assets to his name immediately, but since he had his sweetheart as his companion today, he didn't want to waste time on other insignificant roles.

The dean's indifferent expression instantly shattered the brainless glass hearts, and they had no choice but to give up the space to the unmarried couple who silently showed their affection, and hid back in the corner to clean up the fragments of their hearts.

There are a few stars in the entertainment industry who want to get close to Mephistopheles on the grounds of Mori Jingyu, but Miss Sen is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and the seniors who usually have no communication suddenly have an intimate attitude, and their bright eyes glance at her fiancé from time to time, no matter how dull they are, they know that this is the rhythm of prying her corner! I can't bear it!!

Quickly sent away all the people who came forward to talk, and those who did not want to go were also dragged away by the friends who strongly asked to "share weal and woe", and their radius of two meters was empty, provided that they ignored the group of people who looked at the wall from time to time two meters away, and the atmosphere was quite weird.

After talking to Toshika Okano, Conan Edogawa followed Mori Kogoro to the venue, his eyes swept back and forth several times but he didn't see the luminous object he expected, and finally stayed outside a strange human wall.

It's weird!

Although the opening is a time for guests to mingle, there is no need to squeeze so tightly, right? How many layers of people are crammed here? And why don't they talk and just gather around? I can't see the situation inside at all, and I can't hear the movement inside!

After squeezing forward twice in a row to no avail, he was kicked out of the circle again, and Conan stood up in frustration and patted his clothes, giving up the idea of continuing to rush forward, and instead distracted himself from the other guests in the venue. After all, they came this time to solve the matter of Toshika Okano receiving a threatening letter.

As soon as he turned around, he saw Maori Kogoro uncovering the lid of the plate on the table without authorization, and the look of never seeing the world was really not ordinary ugly, Xiaolan couldn't look at it to stop him from reaching for the dishes on the plate. What was even more humiliating was that some hotel staff stepped forward.

"Excuse me, are you Detective Kogoro Mori?"

"yes." Mori Kogoro finally realized that his behavior was inappropriate, and his old face flushed.

"I'm sorry, is there something I can ask you for?"

Hearing that he was not being held accountable for moving the plate before the host opened the table for the stage to speak, Mori Kogoro was stunned. Later, I learned that it was almost time to open, and this helper went to Manager Shiraki's lounge to call someone, but no one opened the door, for fear that he would be responsible, so he came to Mori Kogoro.

Mori Kogoro went with him to Manager Shiraki's lounge, opened the door with a spare key, and saw that Manager Shiraki was already lying on the chair dead, so he immediately notified the police.

However, the guests in the venue did not know about it, because Toshika Okano did not agree with the police's mention of canceling the banquet, believing that she had invited so many famous people to make a murder and interrupt it halfway, which would affect her reputation and future. She insisted that the banquet go ahead and that the police could search for the killer but not alarm the guests.

Toshika Okano turned around and asked the master of ceremonies to announce the opening of the drinking party, but he just canceled Manager Shiraki's speech.

Mori Jingyu had already had dinner with Mephistopheles before she came, and Amy's skills were quite good, so she refused Mephistopheles to fetch a buffet for her, and only took a glass of champagne and slowly sipped it, chatting with Mephistopheles in a low voice.

Until Toshika Okano appeared again, the crystal lamps in the ceiling were temporarily turned off, leaving a few dim lights to illuminate, and the spotlights were on the stage.

The master of ceremonies stood up and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, I'm very sorry for keeping you waiting. Toshika Okano's World Art Festival Award Commemorative Solo Presentation Starts Now! ”

The curtain rises on the stage, and Toshika Okano and her assistants bow to the audience before performing her avant-garde art of flower arrangement. The human wall surrounding Mephistopheles also automatically spread out a corner, so that Mori Jingyu, who was surrounded in the middle with Mephistopheles, could see the situation on the stage.

The Mori family likes to arrange flowers in fact, Mori Baiyu, Sen Jingyu is only limited to appreciating the finished product rather than the process, so she doesn't understand the art of flower arrangement. She came today mainly to be curious about how the flowers bloomed.

The flowers that Rika Okano planted in the pot were indeed all in the bud state, and after she planted them, the flowers began to bloom slowly.

Unexpectedly, a child suddenly ran up to the field and sprayed the flowers on the stage with a watering can for a while, but the flowers shrank back.

The change made everyone in the venue stunned, and Sen Jingyu also stayed for a few seconds, blinking at Mephistopheles: "What is that?" Flowers don't bloom? ”

Mephistopheles took her hand and explained softly: "Liquefied fluorine, which can freeze in an instant, Okano Rika freezes the open flowers for flower arrangement, and the flowers will bloom again at room temperature." ”

The first time I went on a date to see the Quidditch World Cup, but because it didn't meet the preferences of my sweetheart, she couldn't make her happy, the second time she went to the wizarding world and she focused on the candy that the old bee treasured, and the third time I thought there would be no more accidents to see an ordinary person's flower arrangement, but I didn't expect to run out of trouble again, Mephistopheles looked at the stage with cold eyes.

Mori Kogoro then ran onto the stage with a group of policemen, who were supposed to stop Conan from continuing to misbehave, but was put down by Conan with an anesthetic needle, and began to stage "Sleeping Kogoro" again.

Officer Twilight, who was in the first section of the search, saw this familiar formation, and immediately exclaimed excitedly: "Brother Maori, I know, have you found out where the clues to this case are?" ”

"Actually, it was exactly what I meant to interrupt this performance." Conan tunes the voice changer to Kogoro Mori's voice and puts the black cauldron on his head.

Sure enough, Toshika Okano was instantly angry, she invited so many celebrities, including Dr. Mephistopheles, who she loved so much, who wanted to show her most proud moment to everyone, but was destroyed like this, so angry that she couldn't care that she was standing on the stage now, and shouted: "Is that what you mean? If you destroy me like this, I won't give up with you! ”

"When the closed petals bloom, you know when your life must end?"

"What did you say?"

Officer Twilight was confused and interjected, "Brother Maori, can you explain it a little more clearly so that everyone can understand?" ”

"Officer Twilight, please seal all the flowers used for performing flower arrangements, and wrap them in two or three layers to prevent air from seeping out. Because these flowers hide the secret of the mysterious death of Manager Shiraki, as for this time, even if it is an attempted murder case. Move fast! ”

As a result, the police hurriedly found plastic bags and put away all the flowers on the stage, and the audience was already talking in a whisper, but everyone was a face-saving person, not to mention that there were police staring at them, and it was not easy for them to make a move to escape.

Someone wanted to take the opportunity to come over to pay their respects, but unfortunately they were still frozen in place by Mephistopheles's eyes, and then they laughed dryly and continued to pay attention to the reasoning on the stage. After all, there is a murderer by his side, and he is not at ease if he doesn't see the murderer being pulled out and locked up in a small black room.

"The flower arrangement show is ruined." Mori Jingyu pursed her lips. She wasn't curious about the murder at all, and her only thoughts were: "Is it my delusion?" It seems that these policemen have been really incompetent recently, and they have been instructed by a detective to turn around. Why do people still pay taxes? Just spend money and ask the detective to forget it. ”

The two times I encountered a homicide, the police were the foil, showing the majesty of the detective. If they can't count on the supernatural case, why can't this kind of murder case using normal means take their turn to be in the limelight? Are they going to be in a relationship or cheating, graduating from the police academy and mixing in a Tokyo search lesson?!

Having said that, she does often go to the scene of the murder to remove the spirit, but in such a short period of time, she will encounter two non-supernatural homicides, and there is this Maori Kogoro at the scene, I have to say that it is a kind of fate, a bad fate!

"The flowers are all wrapped, Maori brother. Okay, you can get started. ”

"Both the method of killing Manager Shiraki and the plan for the subsequent anticipated murder were carried out using the theme of Miss Okano's avant-garde flower arrangement, that is, the sudden bloom of closed petals." But the murderer is not Rika Okano, but her assistant Ozaki Tsui, in order to avenge her sister Haru Ozaki.

Rika Okano turned out to be a student of Haruru Ozaki, but she stole the avant-garde flower arrangement skills that Haruru Ozaki came up with, and teamed up with her patron Shiraki to attack Haruru Ozaki to publish her art, forcing Haruto Ozaki to death.

Ozaki's words explain the motives and processes of her crime, and also expose the unbearable nature of Toshika Okano, although the plan was thwarted and failed to kill Toshika Okano, but still tore off her halo and discredited her.

When the police took Ozaki away, Toshika Okano knew that she was finished, and the invited guests in the venue were all witnesses, and the eyes that looked at her were all disdain and contempt, although they couldn't hear what they were talking about, but their eyes fully showed that she never had a chance to stand on this glamorous stage again.

It's over.

Rika Okano didn't dare to look up at those disdainful shì, and subconsciously wanted to look for Dr. Mephistopheles in the venue, but unexpectedly saw the boy who was following Mori Kogoro sneaking up on Dr. Mephistopheles.

"Imp! What are you going to do with Dr. Mephistopheles?!! ”

Toshika Okano roared, and all eyes in the venue were suddenly focused on Edogawa Conan, and the pinprick-like feeling was good*.