"Of course, don't tell Xiaoqing that I told you these words?" Keiko Hatoyama, who was sitting opposite, said with a smile again.
"Huh? Why?" Xiao Karasuma asked doubtfully after hearing this.
"Because... the little sister who has been looking sad just now always wants to help, isn't it?"
"No, it can't be done! Sister Keiko!"
After being teased by Hatoyama Keiko, Kokarasuma immediately blushed and waved his hands quickly:
"These are all analyzed by you, Sister Keiko! Even if I want to help or something... I can't say that I came up with them myself!"
"Ah~ I just can't, it's not that I don't want to~ So, Karasuma-chan is still~"
"Wow! Sister Keiko, you laugh at me! You laugh at me! I, I..."
"Okay, I was just joking with you. Looking at you, tears are about to burst out..."
Seeing that Karasumaru's eyes were almost red, Hatoyama Keiko stopped in time, took out the drawing paper on the easel, stood up and walked towards her on the bench opposite.
"Really, didn't you investigate these things yourself? I just helped you sort out the information. How come it all becomes my property when it comes to your mouth?"
Sitting next to Karasuma, Keiko Hatoyama raised her hand to wipe the tears from the corners of Karasuma's eyes with a gentle voice.
"Because, these are what you thought of, Sister Keiko, and I didn't even think of it..." Xiao Karasuma replied in a serious tone.
"These are all very simple reasonings. I've just seen them a lot before, so I was able to notice them before you did.
Even without me, if you sit down and think quietly for a while, Karasuma, you will still be able to notice the details, right? "
"Not at all……"
Kokarasuma muttered in a low voice, but Hatoyama Keiko didn't say much more on this topic and turned to talk about another thing.
"Although Xiaoqing also cares about people, sometimes he can be rather blunt in his actions."
Hearing Keiko Hatoyama suddenly talk about boys, Karasuma looked at her with some confusion.
"In Xiao Qing's eyes, Xiao Wuwan, you are also a person who needs protection. Especially the case that happened this time is not ordinary. The death of the deceased was so strange. I am afraid Xiao Qing has already decided in his heart that this incident may not be ordinary. , he won’t want to involve you.
He is always like this, wanting to bear everything on his back, and treating everyone around him as someone who needs to be protected..."
When Hatoyama Keiko said this, the incident three years ago suddenly appeared in Xiaokarasuma's mind.
That was the first time she saw the boy, and it was also the time when the boy saw his mother's tragic death...
Out of some instinctive intuition, Karasuma suddenly realized in his heart.
The idea that "boys include everyone around them as objects that must be protected" as described by Hatoyama Keiko may have been born from that time...
"I think you know very well, Xiaowuwan, that Xiaoqing will allow you to help with the investigation in the morning, just because he has other things that need to be investigated. He knows that even if he stops you now, you won't listen, so he will temporarily Allow your little willfulness.
When Xiao Qing finishes his work, he will definitely kick you out of the investigation, Xiao Karasuma. Especially when Xiao Qing knows that you have not found anything useful in the investigation, he will kick you out without hesitation. Get out, am I right? "
"Hmm..." Xiao Karasuma nodded.
She knew very well the temper of that wooden man when he was investigating a case. To say he was unhuman would be an understatement. He was simply "inhumane" and looked like a machine!
She could even imagine that when she met the boy this afternoon and told him all the information she had investigated, he would say "You are useless" with a cold look on his face, while waving to the two strong detectives. The scene where she was driven away ruthlessly...
"But Xiao Qing is not without his weaknesses. Do you remember what happened on the set half a year ago? Xiao Qing does have extraordinary reasoning abilities, but his knowledge base is not broad enough.
Many times, Xiao Qing may delay the investigation progress of the case because of his lack of some useless knowledge..."
With that said, Hatoyama Keiko folded the drawing of Karasuma with a pouty expression in her hand and handed it to her.
"Isn't this your sister Keiko's?" Xiao Karasuma asked after accepting the drawing paper.
The incident on the set half a year ago was indeed her deciphering the message that the murderer wanted to convey with that violet flower at the last moment.
But Karasuma also knew later, and Keiko Hatoyama also knew that little bit of useless knowledge. Even if she didn't expect it at the time, Keiko Hatoyama would eventually point it out.
Similar situations had happened countless times before she came to Japan...
It can be said that Hatoyama Keiko is the boy's "walking knowledge base", making up for the boy's only shortcoming in reasoning about those complicated cases.
"That's what I said, but it won't work these two days."
Hatoyama Keiko shook her head slightly and said helplessly.
"Grandpa, the medical team he brought from abroad has arrived. If nothing happens, I may stay in the hospital for the next two days..."
"Eh?!"
Keiko Hatoyama was not in good health. Although Karasuma never asked about this in detail, she was always aware of it.
"St-hospitalize?!"
However, when Keiko Hatoyama said she was going to be "hospitalized", she still subconsciously shouted out.
After all, at least before today, Hatoyama Keiko had never had to be "hospitalized".
This made her inner worry surge instantly.
"Don't be nervous, just go get some... new tests and treatments."
Hatoyama Keiko raised her hand and gently touched her head, still smiling and comforting:
"It is said that I am hospitalized, but in fact it is just that it is more convenient to be treated in the hospital. After these two days, I will be out..."
"Then, then this matter..."
"Xiao Qing went out early this morning. I originally wanted to tell him at noon, but I heard that he was still investigating, so I couldn't go over and disturb him.
Because the time for treatment is this afternoon, I can only ask you, Karasumaru, to do this for me. "
"Well, I understand."
"At the same time, I also hope that you, Xiaowuwan, can temporarily replace me in the past two days and help Xiaoqing investigate this case.
With Xiao Qing's character, he will definitely be surprised if you tell him what I just said to you. At this time, Xiao Karasuma, you take the opportunity to propose that you and Xiao Qing go to investigate that classmate Kyoko. Given the situation at home, he wouldn't refuse.
Of course, you can't relax because of this. What you are investigating this time is a murder case after all. You must follow Xiao Qing at all times and don't run around, okay? "
"Um!"
"Well, it's almost time now. Let's go back to school. If it's too late, maybe Xiaoqing can't find you and leave on his own."
"I got it!"
After being enlightened by Hatoyama Keiko, Kokarasuma suddenly felt that he had a great responsibility and immediately stood up to leave without delaying for a moment.
"After the case investigation is completed, I will go to the hospital to see you as soon as possible!"
Karasuma-chan is indeed a young girl full of energy.
I don't know why, although Sister Keiko's words were very serious, Xiao Karasuma felt vaguely that there seemed to be something wrong with it.
Perhaps it was this kind of mentality that made Karasuma, who had already run more than ten meters away, stop again and suddenly look back.
Behind him, Keiko Hatoyama was still sitting there with a smile.
The breeze blew, the cherry blossom petals fell, and the pure black kimono on Hatoyama Keiko's body was slightly stirred...
This is a scene that Karasumaru is already familiar with.
But the abnormality in her heart never disappeared...
But at this moment, she didn't think too much, but smiled happily at Keiko Hatoyama, then turned around and left quickly.
It was not until several years later that she finally grasped the source of this anomaly.
Shirakawa Kiyo does care about the people around him, doesn’t Hatoyama Keiko do the same?
Bai Heqing doesn't want people around him to be in danger, so is Keiko Hatoyama willing?
Sister Keiko actually lied to her that day.
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(End of chapter)
