Tuesday, June 21

"I always think you two are so weird today......" Conan stared at Chiba and Gray Plains as he got out of school.

"I think it's a little bit like that, too," Ayumi was embarrassed. "But I don't know what's wrong."

"yes!" (Yes, yes!) Mitsuhiko and Motota agreed.

"What's wrong?" Thousand Feathers tilted their heads.

"That's not how you usually get along with Ashbara-san," Conan said as he looked at Ashbara-san and Chiha, who were walking side by side. "Although you used to have a good relationship, at that time, you and Gray Plains seemed to avoid getting too close to each other, consciously or unconsciously, and once you got too close, you would distance yourself like a reflex. But now you..."

"It's your fault—" Chiba returned

"Wait a minute," Conan said as if he had thought of something, and leaned into Chiba's ear. "Do you mean...... Did you do anything yesterday? ”

"When did you evolve the Eight Po attributes?" Thousand feathers with white eyes. "Chew your tongue and you'll go to hell."

"No, no, no, it's not tongue chewing," Conan played. "It's just a reasoning enthusiast wondering if his reasoning is correct. So, now can you tell me? What happened yesterday? ”

"I refuse!" Thousand feathers with white eyes.

"Qianyu-san, you can't ......," Mitsuhiko said at this moment. Did you succeed in confessing to Gray Yuan? ”

For a moment, the entire team fell silent.

"It seems...... Mitsuhiko is right? Conan looked at Qianyu in a little surprise and said. If it weren't for the fact that you were told to be right, your reaction would definitely not be like this - if you usually say something about this kind of gray plain classmate, you will immediately deny it loudly. ”

Conan bumped Chiha's shoulder, revealing a somewhat grim smile that seemed to Chiha. "Aren't you going to tell us something?"

The auxiliary unit then gives the results, indicating that there is a reason why Chiba thinks this smile is eerie - because if Conan is not looking at Chiba at his side, but looking forward, then the facial features of this smile are very similar to the standard "eerie smile".

Just before Qianyu was about to refute, Gray Plains spoke.

"Now that you have the answer in mind, what else are you asking us to do?" Gray Yuan Wai stopped and said lightly to the people who had also stopped quickly. "If you think so, then yes, you won't believe what Tachibana and I say. Also, do you remember why we're here? ”

"It's to buy the raw materials and pencil erasers that the doctor needs and are running out of pencils." When Yuan Tai said this, he suddenly reacted. "Ahh

"If you go any further, you're going too far." Gray Yuan Ai stood at the door of the convenience store and said.

"It's this convenience store," Chiba glanced at the door number.

"Qianyu, haven't you been here?" Mitsuhiko was surprised.

"That's right," Chiba nodded. "I have a lot of drawing pencils at home, so it's slow to run out."

"Then why does Gray Plains know about this?" Mitsuhiko asked again. "She probably hasn't been here either, has she?"

"His drawing pencils are his, not mine." Gray Plains replied. "I don't usually use pencils, so that's why I'm here to buy them."

Right now......

"Are you still going to lie to me now!" A stern reprimand was heard from the convenience store.

“？” Confused about the situation, everyone walked into the convenience store.

"But I really didn't do it!" The girl's weak voice came from a room connected to the convenience store a few seconds later.

Everyone followed the sound and saw the store manager staring angrily at the female employee who was a little weak but resolute - judging by her appearance, it was likely that she was a high school student who had come out to work.

"Then tell me, why is it that every time you lose something, it's when you're on duty alone?" The store manager asked. "Do you think I'm a liar? Yes? ”

Before Qianyu could guess what was going on, Yuan Tai had already rushed up.

"Uncle, how can you be so rude to this sister?" Motota asked. "Be respectful to the lady!"

"Uh......" Qianyu's brow twitched. Got in trouble......"

"Who are you?" The manager was startled, but immediately became angry when he saw that it was just a child. "Here's an adult talking, go aside!"

"We are a group of junior detectives!" Motota said with a wave of his fist.

"The Junior Detectives? What is that? The store manager frowned. Listen, I don't have time to play with you guys—"

"The Junior Detectives?" A person who was originally buried in the music area stood up and looked at Yuantai, and then at Qianyu and the others. "It looks like it's really them! The boy detective group that rescued the kidnapped Shiina Nagano! ”

"Are they really them?" With this exclamation, many people in the convenience store looked at this side.

"Rescue Shiina Nagano?" Only then did the store manager look at Yuan Tai and the others again. "You ...... Is it really that boy detective group? ”

"Mr. Storekeeper," Conan said politely. "Do you have any problems? Maybe we can solve it! ”

"Hmm......" The store manager gritted his teeth, and after glancing at the female employee fiercely, he said angrily. This is not the first time, and in recent times, every time Nanagawa - that is, she - is on the last shift alone, when she counts the supplies the next morning, she will find that something is missing here. ”

"What's missing?"

"Bento, udon, DVD, oolong tea, etc.," says the store manager. "It's all used by high school students to eat, drink, and have fun when they have parties, right?"

Qianyu's brows furrowed - it seems that this sister is indeed quite suspicious......

"Last month, I couldn't bear it anymore, and I also dragged her here and criticized her harshly, but she flatly denied it. Because the convenience store was very short of staff, I ignored her for the time being, and just secretly watched the place every night until the last employee on duty closed the roller shutter door, to see if someone really sneaked in and stole something while she wasn't looking. And I didn't lose anything here until yesterday, and I thought she had changed her ways after being scolded by me, but ......" Speaking of this, the store manager couldn't help but point to Nanagawa.

"However, last night she was worthy of the last shift, and she lost a bunch of things this morning!"

"Excuse me," Chiba asked. "What's the amount of things you lost?"

"Today, I should have lost ......," the store manager recalled. 4 ready-to-eat bento, 2 DVDs, 3 bottles of oolong tea, 4 udon noodles. ”

[Taking food is a very uneconomical act, and taking both food and DVD is a stupid act. Chiba frowned. [If you need to eat, you can take the food, and if you want money, you can take the DVD.] What's the deal with both? 】

"Give us a moment and let's think about it." Qianyu pondered. "If I were Miss Nanakawa and I wanted to get something, I would only choose between a filling, low-value bento box and a DVD that could sell for money. The former alone means that I can't afford to lose too much, while the latter means that I'm a ruthless person who knows how to calculate value – and that's a complete contradiction. ”