Early in the morning, in the coffee shop, a girl with short brown hair ordered a cup of black coffee and sat in the shop, as if waiting for something. Soon, Masami Hirota came to the store in a hurry, looked around the store, and walked to the table where the short-haired girl with brown hair was.

"What's wrong? Shiho, called me in such a hurry? Didn't you just see it yesterday? ”

Masami Hirota asked with some puzzlement.

The girl took a sip of coffee, and cautiously, took out a note from her pocket and handed it to Masami Hirota.

Taking the note, Masami Hirota saw that it was written with an address located on the island of Shikoku.

"What is this?"

"The address of his hometown."

The girl said with some seriousness, "Sister, please help me find out the cause of his death." I really don't have anyone to ask for other than my sister. ”

"That's fine."

Masami Hirota said, lowering her voice, "However, why do you suddenly want to investigate this now?" ”

The girl was just about to answer, but suddenly saw a man in a blue trench coat walking towards the store outside the transparent coffee shop, and then the girl was a little panicked, got up and walked into the toilet in the store.

Seeing the girl's abnormal behavior, Masami Hirota felt very strange, so she followed the girl's gaze before, turned her head to look at the door of the coffee shop, and saw the man in the blue trench coat walk into the store, buy a cup of iced Americano, and then take it away.

Masami Hirota naturally recognized the man, he was the person who rushed to the booth after the incident at the "Fusa-e" new product sales site yesterday.

After the man left, the girl slowly walked back to her seat with a calm face, and when Masami Hirota saw this, she seemed to have found something terrible, and came to the girl's side, and asked curiously.

"Hey, Shiho, that person is the one at yesterday's new product show! You won't be ......."

"Sister, don't think about it. Don't you think he looks a lot like that guy? ”

The girl said with a flat expression.

Masami Hirota pondered for a moment, then finally shook her head.

"Yes."

Seeing Masami Hirota's reaction, the girl seemed to be relieved, and picked up the coffee and took a sip.

"Then, can you please ask my sister to help me check who that person was just now?"

On the other side, the person who left the coffee shop just now was naturally Gao Yuan, and the person he was wearing was naturally a windbreaker named "Hermit", which was washed and dried by the washing machine last night, and then ironed by himself.

Because he found a reliable detective agency, in order to make money, Gao Yuan set off early this morning and went to the location of the detective agency called the "Detective Mediation Agency".

In Japan, a country where private detectives are a legal profession, there are many professional private investigators who make a living from it. But the profession of detective, in addition to the necessary abilities, also needs to be famous to be easier to receive commissions, which is difficult for newcomers who have just entered the industry.

However, there are only a handful of well-known detectives, but there is a steady stream of commissions, so in the middle, such a thing as an intermediary naturally appears.

In Tokyo, a large number of units that are commissioned by detectives can be found on the Internet, but considering that there will be many shell companies or unscrupulous enterprises, in order to reduce the difficulty of screening, Gao Yuan used the information retrieved by "crawler software" last night to conduct a large number of screenings, and finally found this should be a fairly formal "detective mediation office".

According to the address mentioned in the message, Takato came to the front of a large European-style apartment with the door number written "Sand glass", which means "hourglass".

Push the door in, and the wind chimes at the door immediately sound crisply.

But Gao Yuan found that it seemed to be a coffee shop. The soft lighting reflects the beautiful decoration and has a classic taste, but there are few places in the store, except for the bar, there are only a few round tables and chairs, which makes Gao Yuan a little embarrassed, after all, he still has the unfinished coffee in his hand that he has bought from other houses.

At the bar, Gao Yuan saw a man in his thirties and forties, wearing a black-rimmed glasses that can be seen everywhere, and his whole temperament looked very frivolous, neither like the owner of a coffee shop, nor like a person related to the profession of detective.

There was also a boy wearing a baseball cap and a girl in a maid's costume, but because there were no customers in the store, the boy dragged the floor aimlessly with a mop, while the girl was very attentive to petting a cat in her arms.

In addition to herself, there is only one middle-aged lady who is sitting at the bar now.

Because Gao Yuan came in, the man with glasses at the bar looked at him, and then naturally said, "Welcome." ”

Somewhat unconfident, Gao Yuan walked to the bar and asked in a low voice, "Is this the detective's mediation office?" ”

"Yes, introduce myself, my name is Franc Tripi, the owner of the coffee shop and detective agency."

The man, Franco Tripi, replied, "What kind of commission do you have?" ”

"No, I'm actually a detective, and I want to come here to take some commissions."

Gao Yuan said.

Hearing this, Franco Tripi helped his eyes and looked at Takato with some curiosity.

"Excuse me, what do you call it?"

"Be wise and lofty."

After hearing Takato's name, Franco Tripi thought for a moment: "Yes." I've never heard of a name. ”

Gao Yuan has nothing to say about such a situation, after all, the cases he solved before did not cause any repercussions in the outside world, and the only time he encountered a case in front of the media yesterday, the limelight was all given to Yukiko Kudo.

"That's right, we will divide detectives into three levels: 'Song', 'Bamboo', and 'Mei', and the payment standards for different levels of detectives are also different. Now I don't know the specific abilities of Wise Detective, I really can't rank you, and I don't know what to entrust to you. ”

Franco Tripi said helplessly, and then as if he had thought of something, he pointed to the lady sitting at the bar at this time.

"By the way, there happens to be a ready-made client here, and I haven't figured out which detective to introduce to her yet. Why don't you try it first? ”

Looking at the lady who was sitting at the bar, looking a little restless, Takato nodded in agreement, so Franco Tripi came to the lady and introduced her.

"Ms. Hirata, this is a wise detective, you can tell him if you have any commission."

"Hello, Ms. Hirata, how can I help you?"

Takato walked up to the lady surnamed Hirata and asked.

Seeing a detective coming to her side, Ms. Hirata seemed to have grasped some life-saving straw, and said to Takato in a panic and a little excited: "Wise detective! Please save my husband! ”

As he spoke, he stood up and bowed to Gao Yuan.

Receiving this gift, Gao Yuan was a little embarrassed, asked Ms. Hirata to calm down, and asked, "Excuse me, your husband, what happened to you?" ”

"He was taken as a murderer and taken away by the police!"

Ms. Hirata said with a tone of despair.