“…… Is this what it looks like? Suzuki Sonoko, who couldn't help but be shocked after listening to Okita Soji's words, looked in the direction of Karasawa in disbelief, "Growing up like Karasawa, you don't have many friends at school?" Do you have a lot of handsome guys in high school? It's too strict......"

"Not really. If you really talk about popularity, I have the impression that Tang Ze is quite popular with girls? On Valentine's Day, the shoe closet and drawers are stuffed with chocolates...... "Soji Okita recalled, "but I don't think I've seen any classmates with whom he has a good relationship other than me." ”

"None of them?"

"I don't think there's a ......"

With a "bang", Tang Ze threw the drink heavily in front of the general secretary of Okita: "Don't talk nonsense Okita-kun, it's noisy." ”

"Look, it's like this." Okita pointed at Tang Ze's angry face, "Our relationship is indeed not bad, right?" That's not the attitude he has when he speaks to anyone else. ”

No, it's annoying at all, right......

Seeing Tang Ze helplessly shaking his head and sitting back in his seat, Suzuki Sonoko, who always felt that he had experienced some of the ways they got along, twitched the corners of his mouth a few times.

"You transfer schools quietly, and suddenly people don't come to school, and you can't find any news when you ask the teacher. I managed to find your address, and then I found that your house was actually in the ruins of a fire......" Okita Soji glanced at Tang Ze's expression and sighed heavily, "I thought you had some accident." ”

"What's the weird rumor at school?" Tang Ze, who immediately understood what he meant, raised his eyebrows.

"Aren't you quick to react?" Accustomed to Tang Ze's speaking style of directly breaking the truth when he disagreed, Okita pouted, "You didn't even leave a word of explanation, and suddenly disappeared, there must be a lot of rumors." ”

"Look at your expression, they don't speak very well." Tang Ze, who was not surprised, threw the sugar cube into the coffee and nodded very calmly, "It's not surprising." ”

"But, it's too exaggerated to say that you were involved in a murder case, imprisoned or even dead or something?" Soji Okita hugged his arms, not looking very happy.

"The fact that you came to my house to look for me didn't have any positive effect. Seeing the ruins, their rumors will only be more exaggerated. Karasawa, who was well aware of the atmosphere at Izumishin High School, shrugged his shoulders.

"Well...... Okita Soji looked to the side, "They've all started to put vases in your seats......"

"I knew it." Tang Ze reacted flatly, lowered his head and stirred the coffee by himself, "Human nature." ”

"Hey, it's obviously because you don't even leave a contact information for everyone, and there is no way to find you." Speaking of this, Soji Okita raised an eyebrow, "yes, I've been in the same class with you for two years, and you didn't even give me an email address, and you've only been in Tokyo for a few months, so why do they know everything?" Damn, it's not fair! ”

Tang Ze brought the coffee to his lips and took a sip silently, without answering his protest.

Of course, that's because it's useless to tell them their contact information, and if something really happens, it will only add to their troubles and make them also be included in the list of the organization's investigation.

And the facts that have happened confirm that Tang Ze's idea is not groundless.

His contact information at the time, along with his social media accounts, was taken and destroyed by the organization, and he came to Tokyo with a completely blank new mobile phone number.

Shinichi Kudo and Heiji Hattori, who each walked back to the table with two drinks, looked at Soji Okita for a while, and then observed Tang Ze's expression for a while, and exchanged glances with each other.

I feel that Okita Soji's statement is not fake, and the two of them are indeed familiar with each other. For people who are completely unfamiliar, Tang Ze has always only said a few honorifics with a detached smile, and it is impossible to speak like this.

But Tang Ze's statement seems to be true, he didn't leave any chance for his former classmates to come into contact with his real life......

The two detectives, who somehow felt that they were balanced, nodded in satisfaction and sat down again.

"Having said that, Tang Ze's real situation is not much better than your classmates guessed, right?" Yuan Shan and Ye, who had been watching for a long time, said, "The crime of injury is still a felon, this is not an easy situation to deal with." ”

Even though Tang Ze has a probation method of protecting and observing minors, his life has been really affected, which is an indisputable fact.

"It's anyone else, it's absolutely impossible for Tang Ze, he won't do this kind of thing." Soji Okita frowned and said with a serious face, "I never believe that Tang Ze will be a juvenile delinquent who has committed a serious crime. ”

After confirming from Hattori Heiji that it was Karasawa himself who entrusted him to the school to investigate, Soji Okita immediately asked Hattori Heiji to take him to Tokyo to meet Karasawa himself.

He never imagined that his classmates, who had been missing for a few months, would face such deep malice.

Especially thinking of Tang Ze's habitual appearance, which doesn't seem to care about everything, Tang Ze almost seems to be able to predict that his current life will collapse at any time, so he doesn't need to pay much attention to it.

The more Okita recalled, the more he could find many clues, and he couldn't help but think about it too much.

"That's right, Tang Ze can't be that kind of person." Moriran and Suzuki Sonoko nodded in agreement.

"What is the breakthrough point of the case you mentioned earlier? Have you finally locked down the people involved in the case? Seeing that the whole table had reached an agreement with the same hatred, Kudo Shinachi looked in the direction of Hattori Heiji.

"At present, the biggest obstacle is still the issue of access to the dossier. Since the case has been closed, and because of the juvenile crime involved, the file is kept strictly confidential, and it is still difficult to find out what evidence the other party used as the basis for the verdict. When Hattori Heiji said this, he reached out and patted Okita Soji on the shoulder twice, "So, when I heard Okita's words, I finally found a possibility of a breakthrough." ”

"Tang Ze was on his way out of school on November 2 when he encountered the case in which he was falsely accused of being a victim, right?" Soji Okita raised an eyebrow, "Then I may be able to find relevant witnesses." ”

"You mean, eyewitnesses who were at the scene of the crime?" Tang Ze was stunned, frowned and recalled for a moment, and pressed his temples, "But I remember, it was already late at that time, and on my way home, I remembered that I didn't prepare the ingredients in advance because of the event, so I simply went to find a commercial street and had dinner before going home." And then on the way home......"

"Impossible, Tang Ze, if this case really happened, then it can't be what you described." Soji Okita frowned deeply and retorted firmly, "Because I was the last person to see you on November 2nd. ”

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"Scotch whisky?" Chewing on the rusty codename, Ireland frowned and recalled for a long time, shaking his head heavily, "I've heard of him, but I've hardly worked with him, I used to mostly follow Pisco." ”

Ireland has known Kenzo Sashiyama since he was a teenager, and he has worked hard in the organization with the other party for many years, but Kenzo Sashiyama was 71 years old when he died, and when the two of them met, they were already over half a hundred years old.

No matter how sober the high-level leaders of the organization are, they won't let the young people in the prime of life not use it, and let Kenzo Kashiyama go to the front line to do the task of the action group, right?

On the contrary, Ireland often handles some similar black work for Kenzo Kashiyama, and his personal ability is basically cultivated in these affairs.

Therefore, it is not difficult to extrapolate that there are not many opportunities for him and other members of the action team to cooperate, and the main area of activity is also around Kenzo Kashiyama, and the relationship with a few young whiskeys who have been in the organization for five or six years is very ordinary.

"That's good, it looks like they won't get in the way of you." Admiring the newly printed photo in his hand, Belmode kept smiling between his lips, "But I'll give you a piece of advice, don't mess with Kumel lately." He and Bourbon are afraid that there will be big moves in the near future. ”

Ireland squinted his eyes as he glanced at the phone's earpiece.

Does this sentence mean that Bourbon will make any new moves, or that Kummel may have some new conflict with Bourbon?

It sounded like an opportunity to his advantage, but Belmode warned him to stay away......

After analyzing it in his heart for a moment, Ireland straightened the corners of his mouth and said coldly: "What, what new mess has happened between the two of them?" ”

She doesn't care if the two of them will make a new mess, and she can't let Ireland bump into Shinichi Kudo head-on until Cool Guy turns back into a child.

The parody show, which looks similar to Kudo Shinichi, is a kind of plausible rumor that fools the students of Teidan High School and the sharp-eared reporters that it is extremely suspicious to put it in the hands of the organization members who know the news of Kudo Shinichi's "death".

She couldn't let anyone who couldn't get the bottom of it find out.

"They have recently had a strong demand for partisanship. How's it going, is it that after being bumped by Kumel once, he suddenly got a lot busy? ”

Belmode, the culprit who led to Ireland's poor arrest, spat out a smoke ring and shook the pot lightly.

Well, although it was some slanderous rumors from her head that made them restart the assessment of the business in Ireland, which caused him to be too busy lately to trouble Kumel......

But that's exactly what Kummel asked, isn't it? And she wasn't wrong.

"He really did it." Ireland let out a heavy sigh.

Sure enough, following Kumel unabashedly before, it was still too aggressive.

You can't take this pair of perverted colleagues with a slight......

"Okay, I see, I'll keep an eye on it." Ireland responded to her instructions in a deep voice, and then added, "I have to ask for your cooperation in organizing the task over there." ”

"It's a pity, if you hadn't revealed your intentions in front of Kumail, maybe he would be a better person to work with......" Belmode raised the corners of his mouth in a hypocritical expression, "After all, he's a detective, and it's easier to get closer to the police than you, isn't he?" ”

"That's really thankful." With a sneer, feeling the woman on the other side of the phone start the sarcasm again, Irish Whiskey hung up.

"Well, that's a bad temper." Listening to the long busy tone on the phone, Belmode chuckled twice and continued to look at the young men and girls standing in the crowd in their hands.

A person with an impatient temperament cannot threaten her smart children.

Oh, Kumail, and of course too, clever little friend.

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"According to what you mean, on November 2nd, Tang Ze returned to his home normally?" After listening to Okita Soji's statement, Kudo Shinichi couldn't help but be surprised.

"Yes. My family and Karasawa's family don't go along the way, so although we go home together after school, we will basically be separated halfway through. Soji Okita explained earnestly.

“…… You can't call it home together, it's you who insist on going with me. "I'm just going home normally." ”

Okita ignored Karazawa's protest and continued: "On November 2nd, the last day Karasawa appeared, he and I parted ways as usual, and then I found that the textbooks I borrowed from Karasawa in the afternoon were not returned to him, so I turned back and found the door of Karazawa's house all the way. ”

"Am I at home?" Tang Ze, who was already too lazy to complain that it was not borrowed at all, and it was completely taken by Okita himself, asked rhetorically.

"Yes, you were at home." Soji Okita nodded solemnly, "You opened the door and took the things." ”

…… By the way, I refused my request to go to your house for dinner, so I won't talk about it.

"If you're right, it must have happened after I left. You never leave home for no reason. ”

"It's true." Tang Ze, who was aware of the secret surveillance surrounding him in his life, never took any risks, nodded.

Hattori Heiji, who had been listening to it for a long time with his chin in his hands, raised his head and added, "Didn't Tang Ze have any abnormal behavior at that time?" ”

"Abnormal performance......" Okita held his chin and tried to remember, and after a while, he hesitated and said, "Well, does it take too long to open the door?" From the time I rang the doorbell and told him what I was here to the time he came to open the door for me, it felt like more than ten minutes had passed...... But Tang Ze's family is very big, I thought he had other things to do. ”

"No, it can't be." Tang Ze, who realized the problem, also tightened his brows, "I don't have many walkie-talkies with doorbells at home. So if you hear me answer...... At that time, I should have been standing at the door. ”

Even though there is only one door apart, it still took more than ten minutes......

The detectives, whose brains were spinning quickly, widened their eyes at the same time and gave each other a look.

In other words, Tang Ze's state at that time must have been very wrong, maybe...... The attacker was at Tang Ze's home at the time.

Then Tang Ze's calm refusal to Okita Soji is most likely for another purpose.

- I don't want Soji Okita to be exposed to the eyes of threats.

At that time, what kind of mood was Tang Ze in who looked at the Okita Soji who unexpectedly appeared in front of him, and personally rejected this only possibility of being rescued?

The detectives who thought of this looked at Soji Okita, who had not yet reacted to the situation, and did not express this inference.

It would be a little too cruel to let Okita know that he might have missed the opportunity to save Karasawa.

"Sure enough." Tang Ze calmly picked up the coffee cup and took a sip silently, "All my memories of that time are not trustworthy." ”

"Tang Ze......" understood the huge shadow behind this matter, and the rest of the people at the table looked at him with some uneasiness.

It is difficult for a patient who cannot learn to forget to deny the correctness of his memory what it means, but they also understand that it is not as simple as a frivolous memory error.

But Tang Ze is clearly not one to get stuck in these emotional issues.

"Those people tampered with my memories, tampered with them to the point that even the memories of that day were fictitious, there must be a reason." Under the warm light of the café, Tang Ze's blue eyes flashed like sparkling waves, "That means that I must have seen something that day, saw something, and they urgently needed something I had forgotten." ”

Hidden in the shadows, the devil's tail, is finally about to be caught by him!

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"I'm going back to school tomorrow.,Your school has a school festival today.,Tomorrow must be very busy.。 I won't bother you much. ”

Standing on the side of the road, waiting for a taxi to pick him up and take him to the airport, Soji Okita put on his cap again.

I have to say that today's incident still gave him some inspiration, for example, in Tokyo, if he doesn't hide his appearance, he may cause some strange misunderstandings or something.

"So ......"

Okita turned his head and looked at Tang Ze's current expression, and stopped talking a little.

Tang Ze, who had always been a first-class air reader, looked at his hesitant expression and sighed silently.

This is one of the reasons why he is reluctant to get too close to Soji Okita.

His situation is so delicate that it shouldn't affect any ordinary person, but Okita Soji seems to never be limited by his words, and the more frustrated he becomes, the more courageous he becomes, as if he can't feel his expetiation in the open and in the dark.

Tang Ze is really the worst at dealing with this kind of person.

"Phone, take it out."

"Huh?" Okita Soji, who had not yet spoken, was stunned.

"Don't you want contact information? Don't use your phone to memorize, you have to memorize it yourself? Tang Ze raised his eyebrows.

"Oh, oh! Good! Soji Okita was surprised for a moment and smiled brightly.

After successfully exchanging mobile phone numbers and email addresses, Okita pressed the mobile phone with a smile and made a "yes" gesture to Tang Ze: "I'll just say, we must be friends, right?" ”

"Really, I've lost to you." Shaking his head, Tang Ze still said in passing, "Don't talk nonsense when you go back to the things you talked about today." It would cause unnecessary trouble to be known to others before the evidence is formally secured. ”

"I understand!" With a zipper gesture on his lips, Soji Okita blinked, "I've always kept my friend's secret secret, you know." ”

Tang Ze smiled, raised his hand and patted him on the back: "Are you tight-lipped?" If I hadn't asked you, everyone would have known what you said. ”

"I just don't understand you. It's a good thing to be brave and brave, I should have promoted it for you! Soji Okita crossed his arms and retorted unconvincedly, "In short, as long as it's useful, don't be polite to me." If the case does start to be retried, testify in court and help you find more evidence, even if it is to help you ask for a letter from the whole school or something...... I'm going to do it. ”

“…… Really, I've lost to you. ”

"There's no way, who let me, owe you a life!" Soji Okita laughed and patted Karasawa on the shoulder twice, "Come on, don't give up your efforts!" ”

He also knew that chasing after the other party inexplicably, as if he didn't stop if he didn't become a friend or something, was actually a very borderless thing, and he didn't really have no emotional intelligence to feel Tang Ze's deep rejection and estrangement.

But at the moment when he was about to be hit head-on by the speeding vehicle, he threw away his bag and books, and flew over desperately, knocking him away, Tang Ze, under the effect of adrenaline, like slow motion, saw every minute so clearly.

Including Tang Ze's face, the anxiety and concern that could not be faked.

So he said it all, whoever is a juvenile delinquent, Tang Ze, is absolutely absolute, it can't be ......!

(End of chapter)

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