"So, shouldn't this be your own problem? What's the matter with your alumni seniors? ”

Tokyo, Rice Flower Town, Iroha sushi restaurant.

Take off the down jacket and pull the neckline of the turtleneck sweater and pull the chair and sit down, and the asahi who has recovered the man's body is no longer the sound of the royal sister, and the very juvenile honne listens to Katsumi Uehara, who is holding a pen and sketching on the menu, raises his eyes in surprise.

"What? Am I wrong? ”

The camouflage of long hair has been removed, the slightly soft facial features are neutralized by neat inches of hair, and the figure under the brown and black turtleneck sweater is no longer concave and convex.

This can be called a magic show that can be called a big change of man, and Katsumi Hara is amazed: "Who are you on the side of?" I'm telling you this to let you follow along and help me count people in private, not to let you reason with me with the facts. ”

"It's you who complains that the alumni seniors don't promote you, I just followed your train of thought and analyzed it."

After untying the knot, Aji's real mood was obviously good, so he spread his hands helplessly, and his eyebrows were full of ridicule: "But if you can show more in the past year, you won't even participate in the Keio Alumni Association within the Metropolitan Police Department, and the ability I showed at the Moon Shadow Island Medical Clinic is obvious to all." ”

"Correct, I participated once, and then I didn't go if I felt bored."

After sketching out, Katsumi Uehara pushed the menu and pen in front of his friend, and lazily corrected: "This line of work is different from your doctors, as long as I don't make any extremely outrageous and unforgivable mistakes, I can be promoted in the end, and the salary is not low, so there is no need." ”

"Is a fictitious job a job?"

"Why, the extra base salary is not money?"

"It's the first time I've seen a professional police officer like you who doesn't pursue and loves to complain." Ma Sheng, who ticked two items at random, shook his head: "Just lie down and wait for the pie to fall from the sky, right?" ”

"It's rare and strange for you, there are more policemen in the Metropolitan Police Department than me, and many of them are in high positions."

Katsumi Uehara, who snapped his fingers and beckoned the waiter at the sushi restaurant to come over, didn't care: "Otherwise, how do you think the Metropolitan Police Department spends so much money every year." ”

Aso thought about it, but it was the same reason: "No wonder that high school student named Shinichi Kudo can be hailed as the savior of your Tokyo police." ”

It's easy to understand if it's a bunch of wine bags and rice bags, of course, this doesn't rule out that there are factors that the media deliberately disgusted the Metropolitan Police Department and even praised Kudo Shinichi.

"But you can actually not compare to them." Thinking back to all the things on Moon Shadow Island, Aso Shimi, who handed over the menu to the waiter, glanced at his friend, "Otherwise, wouldn't the skills you have cultivated in the police academy be in vain?" ”

"I won't refuse when a case comes to my door, but I'm just too lazy to be as active as my colleagues." Katsumi Uehara felt that Aji probably had a slight misunderstanding about himself.

"I'm more curious if a character like yours will be a legendary thorn in the police academy."

"It's not."

"Have you ever been in a fight?"

“…… Hit. ”

Ma Sheng, whose campus life has been a backwater since he was a child, suddenly lit up when he heard this: "Tell me in detail? ”

"There's nothing to say, it's just that we beat the first place in our class with a sack before graduation." Katsumi Uehara obviously doesn't want to talk more about his past black history, after all, being punished is not something to show off.

It's just that his words made Aso really stunned: "You are not the first in your class?" ”

Judging from the performance on Moon Shadow Island alone, he always thought that Katsumi Uehara was the first in the same class.

"Of course not, I'm third." Katsumi Uehara shrugged his shoulders and did not shy away from his past achievements: "Shooting and fighting are a little worse. ”

“…… Are you still a little short of fighting? What kind of immortal are the first two? "It feels a little strange to hear the truth of the ahma.

Shooting is okay, after all, the gunfight on Moon Shadow Island doesn't feel intuitive, but Katsumi Uehara has really seen the results of the fight.

"No, you're not as good as the first place in martial arts, how did you beat him?"

"Don't you say it, put it in a sack." Katsumi Uehara, who had no martial virtue at all, took a sip of tea and said it confidently.

“……”

Thinking about it carefully, it seems that this is really his style of masaki, and the corners of his eyes twitched a few times.

It's just that a dignified police academy was the first to be put down by a sack...... Although I was curious about what conflicts had happened between the two people, Aji Minoru, who didn't seem to want to talk more about this topic, didn't continue to ask.

After all—

"Boss, old rules, a special sushi, a draft beer!"

While the two were talking, a figure with an extremely loud voice opened the curtain of the sushi restaurant, walked in with a big grin, and sat down nearby.

"Yo, it's a Maori detective. Today is actually premium sushi, it seems that the horse race is profitable. Seeing that it was an old acquaintance, the manager of the sushi restaurant walked out of the kitchen and said with a smile.

"Haha, no, no. It's just that a kidnapping case was solved a few days ago, and the other party just paid me a large sum of money privately out of gratitude, and came to celebrate. ”

The middle-aged man with two mustaches on his lips spoke in a very relieved tone, and his smug laughter also attracted the attention of many customers in the sushi restaurant.

Among them, there is Katsumi Uehara.

"What are you looking at, you know that uncle?"

Asa, who was sitting directly opposite his friend, was holding a mustard dipping dish, and when he saw this, he couldn't help but joke: "I don't know what beauty I think you're in, I can't take my eyes off it." ”

"I know him, but unfortunately he doesn't know me."

Katsumi Uehara, who came back to his senses, took the plate with a smile, and tapped the sushi plate with one end of his chopsticks: "Do you know who he is?" ”

Assan, who took a bite of sushi, blinked: "It's big?" I look at the material of the suit is very ordinary. ”

"The police academy has been the record holder for shooting results for at least 20 years now." Katsumi Uehara's right thumb vaguely pointed to Uncle Shimi, who was talking to the store manager: "I've seen a picture of him when he was young in a notebook. ”

"Him?"

Seeing this, Aso couldn't help but look at Maori Kogoro twice.

The beard is unshaven and obviously not taken care of it very carefully, the material of the suit is ordinary, and the temperament is obviously a little decadent, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like a genius in Katsumi Uehara's mouth.

"Are you sure he's a cop?"

"It was, and it was, and it was in the third line. I guess I was my senior, and I left more than 10 years ago. ”

Asashi was solid and suddenly understood.

Since he is a genius senior, there is nothing to say, in his shallow understanding, even if a genius like this leaves his job, he should leave a lot of legends, and as a junior who works in the same department, it is not surprising that Katsumi Uehara will recognize this face.

"Huh?"

Mori Kogoro, who had just finished talking to the owner of the sushi restaurant, vaguely felt as if someone was talking about his past behind his back, so he couldn't help but turn his head and look at the sushi restaurant hall a few times.

Not many guests at a glance.

Katsumi Uehara, who was talking to Aso Shi, happened to raise his eyes and meet the gaze of Mori Kogoro.

Eyes are divided at the touch of a button.

Mori Kogoro scratched his head, and the doubts and confusion in his heart dissipated in the draft beer and sushi served by the sushi restaurant owner.