Kawakami now regrets going out early in the morning. He can only wait in the convenience store when it rains heavily.
Although the convenience store had public umbrellas that could be lent out by friends, Kawakami just hesitated for a moment and the umbrellas were taken away by others.
It's not that I can't buy one. Kawakami doesn't feel sorry for the money to buy an umbrella. What he really hates is the rain.
There is water everywhere. Even if you have an umbrella, the water will get on your clothes and shoes, leaving some traces. Although rain can interfere with surveillance, Kawakami is very good at hiding from the camera, so this advantage is better than nothing for him.
Wait a minute... maybe the rain will stop soon? Kawakami took a lemon candy.
The consequences will be bad soon.
The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and soon the scene outside the glass was no longer visible clearly. If he had taken an umbrella and left before, Kawakami would have been able to overcome the inconvenience of the rainy day, but now...
Tsk, there is no organizational task anyway, so I won’t give in. I won’t go out until the rain stops.
The cashier asked him kindly: "Do you need me to get you a chair to sit on, sir?"
"No need, Miss Enomoto." Kawakami replied politely. He knew the cashier Azusa Enomoto.
"The Female CEO's Almighty Soldier"
During the year in Yoneka Town, Tsuji Kawakami often saw her working part-time in different places. If he hadn't confirmed that Azusa Enomoto was just an ordinary person, Tsuji Kawakami even thought that this girl was related to the winery intelligence team.
Mainly because Bourbon often works part-time with this girl.
Azusa Enomoto opened her eyes wide in surprise, as if she didn't understand why a stranger knew her name. Then, after a moment of slowness, she remembered that she had brought the nameplate with her.
But she was at the checkout counter, and the other person was at the door. From such a distance, this gentleman could still see her. He had very sharp eyes... just like Mr. Amuro.
Thinking of Mr. Amuro, Azusa Enomoto was slightly disappointed. Mr. Amuro accidentally fell down the stairs and fractured his right leg. So after a few days of work, I had to give up my part-time job.
The convenience store owner is not tolerant of clerks who are unable to work. If Azusa Enomoto hadn't offered to replace him, Mr. Amuro would have lost his job.
Kawakami took another look at the cashier Azusa Enomoto, who was staring at him, but his eyes were unfocused, and he was probably in a daze.
He is very sensitive to other people's eyes, and he is actually a little uncomfortable being looked at like this.
The gray-haired young man turned his head and continued to look at the city under the heavy rain.
At the same time, he made a cross on the ground with a small jump, and after a while, he drew squares along the four corners of the tiles.
It was raining so heavily and there were no people on the street.
Just as Kawakami was lamenting the purity of the rain, two orange-red things suddenly popped into his sight.
These two round things...are they raincoats?
The word "round" is actually not very appropriate. The two unknown objects are more like spheres cut in half from the middle. One half was taken out separately and the cut surface was attached to the ground.
There is a small protrusion on the upper branch of the hemisphere, which should be a human head.
It looks like a raincoat. This weird raincoat must be homemade. Kawakamiji thought.
The two hemispheres moved slowly towards the convenience store, one behind the other.
Kawakami has a very good ability to recognize people. Thanks to his hyperamnesia, he can confirm the identity of a person through his small movements and walking posture with a very high accuracy.
However, this does not mean that Kawakamiji can still accurately recognize the person wearing a hemispherical raincoat.
Therefore, when the two were very close to the convenience store, he recognized the smaller orange-red hemisphere among them, which was Kudo Shinichi whom he had not seen for a long time.
As for the other person, Tsumugi Kawakami has never met him, but judging from his appearance and dress, the little detective must have mentioned it to him...
The initial estimate is that it is Dr. Agasa, Kudo Shinichi’s neighbor. Quite a personality, with a surname of A Li and a first name of Doctor.
"Haha, Shinichi, my invention is pretty good, isn't it!" Dr. Ali asked with a smile, "It rained so hard, but I didn't get wet at all!"
The two people were standing outside the door of the convenience store. There was a curtain on the door, so the place where they stood was protected from the rain.
"It's indeed good." Shinichi replied in a dull voice, "But how are we going to get in like this?"
"Don't worry about it, it's up to me!"
Dr. Ali pressed the button inside the raincoat, and the raincoat that expanded into a hemisphere was folded up like an umbrella and stuck to his body. Kudo Shinichi saw this and followed suit.
Standing in the convenience store, Kawakami was amazed. Such an invention is not very high-end, but it is quite interesting.
According to custom, Kawakami stood at the pillar next to the door. The pillar was about 50 centimeters wide, which could just cover his figure.
This place is close to the door, making it easier to escape in special circumstances; he can observe the situation outside, but people outside cannot see him.
Therefore, Kudo Shinichi and Dr. Agasa did not discover him.
Kawakami Tsumugi took the initiative to show up and opened the door for these two people.
"Long time no see, Shinichi." He greeted with a gentle smile, "And this, is this the inventor Dr. Agasa?"
Before Kudo Shinichi could say anything, Agasa had already laughed out loud at the sound of "inventor":
"Hahahaha... You are Shinichi's friend, right. I am the inventor Dr. Agasa."
"My dear, Tsumugi Kawakami, please give me your advice." Kawakami introduced himself, "Although I have never met you before, judging from this raincoat, you are indeed an inventor with many ideas."
Kudo Shinichi on the side could not help but twitch the corner of his mouth, his head covered with black lines.
Obviously, this guy Kawakami Tsumugi has once again exerted his potential as a social psychologist to "talk about people and tell ghosts".
"The rain has almost drained away, you can come in first." Kawakami said.
The two walked into the convenience store. At this time, Dr. Agasa had already begun to introduce the raincoat he invented. Kawakami just had to listen in a relaxed manner.
"Such a raincoat needs an umbrella support inside. If it is made of metal, it should be very heavy."
"Indeed." Dr. A Li felt the same way. "I used plastic, and light metal has not been developed yet."
The conversation between the two about raincoats came to an end, and Kudo Shinichi asked just right: "Did you not bring any money?"
"why do you say so?"
"You are very clean. You must have come in when the rain wasn't heavy. You were the only one stranded in the convenience store. The public umbrella at the door of the store was empty. You probably didn't get the public umbrella. In this case, you can definitely buy an umbrella——"
"Ah. Actually, you didn't consider that there is another situation..." Kawakamiji said.
"what's the situation?"
"For example, I hesitated repeatedly between buying an umbrella and waiting for Yuting. The more I hesitated, the harder the rain fell. The harder it got, the less I wanted to leave... I just kept it."
"...You don't seem to be such a hesitant person."
Kawakami replied, "I am actually indecisive. In fact, you don't know me very well."
Kudo Shinichi was silent for a moment. He really didn't know Kawakami Tsumugi very well.
Looking back now, his relationship with Tsumugi Kawakami was almost always established at crime scenes.
This guy seemed to take a keen interest in watching the crime, and then asking questions while the prisoner knelt on the ground and cried bitterly as he recounted his crime.
Afterwards, Kudo Shinichi did not invite Kawakami to visit his home or have dinner together, but Kawakami always declined for various reasons.
He could feel that this guy had a strong sense of alienation, not just for him, but also for others.
This made Kudo Shinichi feel uncomfortable, as if he was just a tool for Kawakami to accumulate thesis materials.
Kudo Shinichi recalled that the only time Kawakami Tsumugi asked him for a more personal request was to find a cost-effective rental house.
He spent a week helping Kawakami find his ideal target, but when he was looking at the house, he found the body of his former tenant.
Then the ideal target turns into a haunted house in seconds.
Not long after, Kawakami informed him that he had been admitted to Nanyang University for a doctorate in social psychology and could stay at the school. This time, his personal request came to nothing.
Seeing the sudden silence between Shinichi and his friend, Dr. Ari calmed things down with a smile: "Why don't we talk about my new invention..."
"Okay." Kawakami said as he was doing.
The impact of the sentence "Actually, you don't know me very well." seems to have been covered up.
But Kudo Shinichi was still thinking about it.
From a certain point of view, detectives are all species with strong curiosity, little sense of boundaries, and extremely strong ability to act. In Kudo Shinichi, he also has a love of being obsessed with others and sincerity.
He could feel that Kawakamiji was very interested in reasoning and did not hate him. He also admired his reasoning ability.
Kudo Shinichi even had a feeling that Kawakami Tsumugi's reasoning ability was no worse than his.
When you meet an opponent in chess, you should be sympathetic to each other. Why is Kawakami Tsumugi always so alienated from him?
If it were someone else, they might have retreated from the relationship, become distant, or try to maintain this kind of relationship that was neither salty nor indifferent. But Kudo Shinichi is Kudo Shinichi, and he wanted to find an opportunity to ask this matter clearly.
Perhaps, this time is a good opportunity. At this time, he met Kawakami Tsumugi for the first time at a non-criminal scene...
Facts have proved that flags cannot be set randomly, almost this thought-
Something heavy fell down from the blurry rain curtain and fell to the ground. The three people in the convenience store heard the sound and looked toward the door.
Blood overflowed from under the heavy object and spread on the ground along with the washing force of the rain.
It was a corpse.
