In the coffee shop on the corner of Yuejian Road, in the booth by the window, Mu Yuan held a small handful of coffee beans and stared out the window.

Since the guests and waiters in the store had already finished taking notes and had just left the scene, there was no need for him to go back to that familiar corner.

"Crunch...... Crunch ......"

With a crisp cracking sound, a faint smell of vanilla cream toffee diffused.

Caffeine is a central nervous system stimulant that is often used to dispel drowsiness and has a refreshing effect.

But in fact, for coffee drinkers, sometimes just smelling the aroma of coffee can have a similar effect.

This is an acquired reflex, which can also be said to be a trick left by the subconscious.

Heartless people are the best at taking advantage of this kind of trick.

And this coffee bean called "Shirley" has the best refreshing effect.

Of course, this is a change that only happened after Mu Yuan crossed.

Before the crossing, the effect of "Lychee Orchid" was even better.

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Smelling the fragrance of "Shirley", Mu Yuan rarely began to think about ways to solve the case.

Of course, that's not to say that Kudo Shinichi can't.

If we only talk about insight and reasoning ability, Kurosawa can construct a close relationship between the two based on the story he tells and how well he knows the Mayumi family, and then we can accurately find out Kurosawa's modus operandi from the videotape......

Shinichi Kudo really lives up to his reputation as a high school detective.

But in this case, the detective's reasoning alone cannot make the suspect confess.

Kurosawa's unscrupulous confidence does not come from himself.

Even if Twilight Thirteen were asked to ask the questions that Mu Yuan had instructed now, it would be useless.

The best time has been missed.

However, Mu Yuan is not worried about whether the case can be solved in the end.

He had found another key to being able to pull out all of Kurosawa's confidence.

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"Two vile and ugly plays."

Mu Yuan stared at a yellow-haired man outside the cordon and muttered softly.

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(To observe the emotional changes of others because of a word, a noun, an object, or even a color or smell through the mottling in the circle of the heart, and to read the thoughts of others from there, is like an instinct for those who have no mind.) ）

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"That woman who doesn't have a dream doesn't want to become a world-renowned pastry chef."

Kurosawa's voice suddenly calmed down, and it seemed that it was no longer as aggressive as it had just been.

He lowered his head, the cigarette between his fingers burning silently......

"When I first met her, I was just an ordinary barista with little money on me, so I had to open my own coffee shop in the countryside outside of Tokyo."

"And she's just a rural female high school student who came to work for a summer job, and she doesn't know how to dress up or stand out."

"There aren't many young people in the countryside, so even if you only sell entry-level specialty coffee, the business starts to deteriorate after the novelty wears off."

"It was a fool's decision to open a specialty coffee shop in the middle of nowhere."

"Soon, there was a problem with the store's funding chain, and I had to start laying off employees."

"The other clerks chose to leave after settling their salaries, and she was the only one ......"

"She rejected the salary I was offering, but made a request to me."

"She said that as long as I promised her to use the oven in the store as she pleased, she would work for me for free during the summer vacation."

"To be honest, the coffee shop really needs a young and beautiful female high school student like her to be a waitress, otherwise business will only be worse."

So I agreed to her request, and she started teaching herself her beloved pastry chef course using the equipment in the store.

"That's her hobby, and it's really just a hobby, because she never even thought about making money from what she makes, but always gives it to me and the other customers in the store for free."

However, everyone didn't expect that it was because of the novelty desserts she made that the business of the store gradually improved.

"At the end of her summer vacation, there are even customers who have to drive hours from Tokyo to taste the coffee and desserts in my shop."

"That's when I realized I couldn't pass up this opportunity."

"So, on the last day before her summer vacation ended, I sent her an invitation to run the coffee shop with me as a partner."

"And yet...... Again, she refused. ”

"I thought she was a high school student and she didn't know how much it was, so I explained to her that we would be able to open a store in Tokyo in just one year, and in a few years we would be able to open a store all over the country!"

But she refused.

"I was disappointed, and even hated her, because without her desserts, my coffee shop would not have been able to open."

"All day, I thought about how to get revenge on her, withholding her wages, scolding her for being selfish, and laughing at her for being a country man who had never seen the world...... All kinds of methods, I have thought of them. ”

"But she actually said to me at the end of the day......"

"Pastry is just her hobby, and she doesn't want it to become a career, but if I want to learn, she can teach me...... Can she teach me? Can she teach me!! ”

Kurosawa raised her head suddenly, and her eyes were already bloodshot red.

That indescribable expression, like crying, laughing, like self-deprecation, and like ...... Finding salvation.

For a while, whether it was Kudo Shinichi, who wanted to make him confess, or the criminal police who wanted to arrest him, they were a little speechless.

They could only wait for the man in front of them to continue to finish speaking.

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After a long time, it was not until the cigarette in his hand was about to burn to the filter that Kurosawa Qin spoke again:

"That day, I practiced until 11 p.m., and finally learned her best dessert."

Although the texture and taste are not as good as hers, the coffee shop business is barely able to survive."

"In the beginning, every weekend, she would come to the store and work as a free waitress and teach me a good dessert or two after work."

"It wasn't until half a year later that I finally learned all her specialty desserts, and she stopped coming to my shop because of her education."

"At the time, I thought that this might be the end of the connection between the two of us."

Kurosawa paused for a moment, then continued in a calmer tone and at a faster pace:

"The business didn't take off as quickly as I expected, and although it was still booming, it quickly hit a bottleneck."

"The remote location has become a dead end for the coffee shop, and I have to start looking for other ways."

"In those years, I worked hard to compete, go all over the country to study, and then compete...... Unconsciously, I have grown from an unpopular barista to a nationally famous barista, winning one championship after another. ”

"My coffee shop has changed from a small shop rented in the countryside to a high-end store rented in the business district of Tokyo, and now it is my own specialty coffee shop next to Tokyo Tower."

Kurosawa looked at the cigarette in his hand, and his speech suddenly slowed down.

"I thought we'd never see each other again."

"But unexpectedly, just a year ago, she suddenly appeared in front of me again and begged me to give him a job."

Kurosawa turned her head slowly, looking at Kudo Shinichi with bloodshot eyes, her expression unusually calm.

Kudo Shinichi shuddered for a moment, as he seemed to ...... from these eyes I saw Mu Yuan's shadow.

That kind of look without human emotion...... Oops!

Kudo Shinichi chuckled in his heart.

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"I promised." Kurosawa held the cigarette to her mouth and didn't smoke it, "and even gave her the position of store manager." ”

"This time she didn't refuse me like she did at the beginning, but unfortunately, her level of pastry chef is still at the level of that year."

But even so, she brazenly made that request, hoping to add her name to the entries for the World Barista Competition.

"So ......"

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"So you killed her!"

A young detective couldn't help but speak.

Kudo Shinichi raised his hand, but didn't have time to stop it.

Kurosawa looked up at the detective, and after a moment, a strange smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Smack!" The cigarette butt that fell to the ground was extinguished by Kurosawa Koto.

He stood up, stared straight at the young detective and said, "Say I killed Mayumi, do you have any evidence?" ”

Without giving the young detective a chance to speak, Kurosawa Koto turned to look at Kudo Shinichi again, and continued: "What is my motive for saying that I poisoned Mayumi?" ”

Then he quickly looked at Twilight Thirteen and said, "Or in the eyes of your detectives and the police, everyone is a crazy murderer who will kill people just because the other party makes a slightly excessive request?" ”

"Haven't you been handling cases like this all these years?"

"You guy!" The young detective couldn't help but say again: "When the results of the autopsy come out, you won't be able to laugh anymore!" ”

"Oh? Autopsy results? Kurosawa raised her eyebrows, "What result, the on-site test is freezing to death, and it has been tampered with for the sake of murder merit and other results?" ”

"Then I really won't be able to laugh in the future, because I'm afraid I'll die of laughter a long time ago."

"Also, I hope you can really get the autopsy approval letter hahaha......"

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Kurosawa's laughter echoed through the coffee shop, and Kudo Shinichi and Twilight Thirteen's faces turned blue.

They were all tricked by the suspect in front of them!

What this man was looking for in his memories just now was not salvation at all!

He is completely cutting off his nostalgia for the past!

This kind of hypnotizing oneself with modified memories to the point of believing in false memories is not uncommon among suspects.

But neither Kudo Shinichi nor Twilight Thirteen expected that Kurosawa was so bold that he dared to do it in front of the two of them, and even used his mouth to read out his tampered memories in front of a group of criminal police officers and detectives.

This is undoubtedly more effective than simply revising it from memory!

It can be said that today's Kurosawa Qin, no matter what happened in the past of the two, will no longer be shaken by Mayumi's affairs.

In this matter, he has ...... It's not a personal person at all!

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"This guy!" Kudo Shinichi gritted his teeth, but he still grabbed Twilight Thirteen, who was next to him and wanted to speak, and said in a deep voice, "It's useless, Twilight Police Department." ”

His tone and attitude cannot be used as a basis for suspicion, and his confession, whether true or false, just explained his relationship with Ms. Mayumi, so that he knew that the affairs of Ms. Mayumi's family were completely reasonable. Even if you and I both know that it is him, if no clear suspicion can be found, if you can't get the approval of your family, it is absolutely impossible to apply for a mandatory autopsy approval. ”

Seeing that Twilight Thirteen's expression did not change, Kudo Shinichi added, "And even if the application is granted, the result of the autopsy will not be poisoning." ”

"What, what!?" Twilight Thirteen, who wanted to show his old face and get the management officer to agree to the autopsy, was stunned.

Although his reasoning ability is lacking, he is still an experienced old detective after all, and after combining the questions asked by Makito and Kudo Shinichi's reasoning and Kurosawa's reaction, he can already be completely sure that Mayumi Uchida was poisoned by Kurosawa.

But Shinichi Kudo actually said that the results of the autopsy were not poisoning?

Twilight Thirteen was a little incredulous.

Kudo Shinichi continued: "It can be seen from Kurosawa's attitude just now that he is not at all afraid that the police will conduct an autopsy. There may be two reasons behind this, one is that he concluded that the police could not obtain permission to conduct an autopsy, and the other is that even if the police conducted an autopsy, the result of the autopsy would not be poisoning. His reliance may be one of them, but I think ...... It's more likely to be both! ”

"Brother Kudo, this is impossible, if it is really poisonous, how can the autopsy not be detected?" Twilight Thirteen frowned.

Kudo Shinichi shook his head, "Have you forgotten the police department, Koto Kurosawa won the world championship with wine chocolate, and alcohol can not only make drugs enter the body's bloodstream faster, but also greatly speed up the body's absorption and decomposition of drugs." ”

"It's been a whole night since Ms. Mayumi ate the chocolate, and it doesn't take much time to wait for the autopsy to be cleared and the autopsy completed, in which case if Kurosawa was using a drug that could easily decompose or oxidize into harmless products, the final autopsy result would ......"

"It's probably just an accidental death from heart disease, organ failure, or something like that!"

"So even if you really force the police department to apply for an autopsy certificate, you can only lose your job in the end."

"Ah, this ......," Twilight Thirteen said in a cold sweat, confused, "so what are we going to do now?" ”

"Whew......" Kudo Shinichi sighed, and reluctantly pouted to the window, "Isn't there still that guy?" ”

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In the booth by the window, Mu Yuan was grinding coffee beans expressionlessly.

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