Chapter Seventy-Three—The Concealed Patient

"Qianyu, how did you know there was something behind this?" Conan asked curiously.

"Look at the book for yourself," Chiba showed Conan the book he had pulled out. "'Ducasse's Storm', you look at the things next to him, 'The Battle of Hastings', 'The Genealogy of William the Conqueror'"

"Just say what you want to say." Grigory glanced at the book. "If you don't say it, we don't know what you want to express for an hour."

"The Ducasses were royal families of the Byzantine Empire and ruled Byzantium in the mid-11th century. How could a book about Byzantium, the easternmost part of Europe, be placed in the middle of a book about the war in England, the westernmost part of Europe? This book should have been placed next to Alexios... ”

"What is Alexios?" Officer Twilight wondered.

"Alexios Komnenos, the Byzantine emperor of the mid-11th century, was the one who overthrew the Doukasses and brought about the restoration of the Komnenian dynasty." Chiba opened the black notebook. "Let's pay attention to what's in the book."

"It's a diary... Qian Yu looked at it and frowned. "Whew-"

"What's the matter, boy," Grigory hurriedly walked over to Chiha. "Any shocking topics? Then you shouldn't be watching it yet. ”

"No," Thousand Feathers showed Gregory what she had seen. "The negativity of the content is so strong...

"Oh... Gregory took the diary, flipped through a few pages, and sneered. "Depressed to death—oh?"

From a certain page a few months ago, the narrative style of the diary suddenly brightened up.

"Interesting," said Grigory, returning the diary to Chiba. "It's so interesting."

"Wen Feng is so happy, she has found a boyfriend?" After reading a few pages, Qian Yu frowned.

"Or, there's another possibility, she's not getting happy, she's just not depressed anymore." Grigory thought about it and was confident. "For example, if she is taking a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (author: this drug is used to treat depression), and then the person who rescued her does not know and gives her a relatively less dependent demerol, then the two will have adverse reactions, causing euphoria, delirium, high fever, convulsions, and respiratory depression, which is the reason for the symptoms that the patient is experiencing."

With that, Gregory turned around and left.

"Mr. Gregory?" Officer Twilight was a little surprised.

"The cause has been found," Grigory said, after a pause. "Aren't you going back?"

However, it's not that simple.

"What are you kidding?" On a bench outside the intensive care unit, a man who claimed to be Junko Mitsuhara's boyfriend was indignant at Grigory. "If Junko had taken antidepressants, do you think I might not know?"

"You want proof, don't you? Okay," Gregory said, pulling out a filled syringe, and Chiba, who was beside him, saw this and immediately pushed open the door to the intensive care unit. "Let's take a look."

"What are you going to do?" The man panicked. "Who are these two boys?" (He was referring to Chiba and Conan)

"It's just a little ampheta. Those two boys? They are the ones who discovered the cause, and you should be grateful for their insight. Gregory injected the liquid from the syringe into the patient's first batch of artificial skin, which he had just replaced. These amphetamines can wake her up and tell us everything. ”

While waiting for the amphetamine to take effect, Chiba and Conan each dragged one

A few minutes later, Junko Mitsuhara woke up.

"Miss Junko, hello, I'm your doctor, name, since you now have a tube stuck in your neck and can't speak, I don't have to tell you." Gregory said to a dazed Junko Mitsuhara. "Now, let me ask you a few questions, and if your answer is 'yes,' you blink your eyes, and if you don't,' blink twice, understand?"

Mitsuhara Junko blinked.

"Have you ever taken a monoamine oxidase inhibitor — I mean an antidepressant — ?"

Mitsuhara Junko blinked.

"This..." The man was surprised, but then reverted to the same gentle expression that Grigory had put on before telling him about the diagnosis. "It's okay, Junko, it doesn't matter, I still love you."

Just as the man finished saying this, Mitsuhara Junko's expression suddenly became very frightened, a large number of beads of sweat came out of her face, and the index on the electrocardiogram next to her also soared instantly.

"Family out!" Gregory reacted immediately, telling Junko Mitsuhara's boyfriend to leave, while pressing the button to call the nurse. "She's having a tachycardia."

Watching the nurses busilate Mitsuhara Junko, Gregory glanced at Chiba and Conan. "I don't even know what to say to her boyfriend right now."

"But it's strange," Conan said uncertainly. "We only found a few bottles of treasure in her house, and we didn't find a daily meal?"

"Wait... The corners of Chiha's mouth twitched. "What are you talking about?"

"Boy, here you go." Gregory glanced at Conan.

"Tachycardia, fever, sweating, these are the symptoms of delirium tremens," Conan explained to Chiba. "It's alcohol withdrawal symptoms. In other words, our Miss Junko Mitsuhara may be an alcoholic. ”

"She?" Chiba was taken aback. "Drunkard?"

"I don't think she's an alcoholic, but the problem is that there's no other cause for delirium tremens." Conan spreads his hands. "In a sense, you could also say, Sherlock Holmes tells us: she's an alcoholic."

"I'm curious if her boyfriend will say she never drinks." Qian Yu shook his head and said with a little sarcasm.

Five minutes later, Qian Yu couldn't describe his feelings.

"Alcoholism? Are you kidding me? Straight does not stick to wine! "Junko Hikarahara's boyfriend looks like he's about to collapse, and he feels a little crazy even when he talks.

"I told you, it's true." Grigory said coldly.

"Oh my God..." The man leaned against the wall in a dejected manner.

"Do you think you're after Minami Takayama (Japanese singer)?" Grigory reproached. "How can man be perfect?"

"Junko's illness, can you cure it?" The man asked in a deep tone.

"As long as the intravenous drip of alcohol is fine, there is nothing incurable." Grigory's eyes narrowed slightly. "You're in a funny tone."

"Please tell Junko," the man's body left the wall, looking at Gregory with an indifferent face. "I'm glad she's okay."

With that, the man left without looking back.