Chapter 276 The Mystery of the Convenience Store
June 21, Fire Sunday (Tuesday)
"I always feel that you two are so weird today..." After school, Conan stared at Qianyu and Haibara Ai.
"I feel a little bit too," Ayumi said. "But I don't know what's wrong."
"Yes!" (Yes, yes!) Mitsuhiko and Genta also agreed.
"What's wrong?" Qianyu tilted his head.
"This is not how you usually get along with Haiyuan-san," Conan said, looking at Haiyuan Ai and Qian Yu who were walking side by side. "Although you had a good relationship before, at that time you and Haiyuan both seemed to be interested.
They unintentionally avoid getting too close to each other, and once they get too close, they will distance themselves like a conditioned reflex. But now you..."
"This is your fault——" Qian Yu still
"Wait a minute," Conan seemed to have thought of something and leaned into Qianyu's ear. "Could it be that... you did something yesterday?"
"When did you evolve the eighth-mother attribute?" Qianyu rolled his eyes. "You will go to hell if you chew your tongue."
"No, no, no, this is not talking nonsense," Conan said playfully. "This is just a reasoning enthusiast who wants to know whether his reasoning is correct. So, can you tell me now? What happened yesterday?"
"I refuse!" Qianyu rolled his eyes.
"Qianyu-san, you won't..." At this moment, Mitsuhiko said. "Did you succeed in confessing your love to Haibara-san?"
For a moment, the entire team fell silent.
"It seems... Mitsuhiko is right?" Conan looked at Qianyu with slight surprise and said. "If you hadn't been told what you were thinking, your reaction would definitely not be like this - usually about things related to Haibara-san.
If so, you will immediately deny it loudly."
Conan bumped Qianyu's shoulder and showed a smile that seemed a bit sinister to Qianyu. "Aren't you going to explain something to us?"
Then the auxiliary unit gave the results, indicating that there was a reason why Qianyu thought this smile was eerie - because if Conan was not looking at Qianyu beside him, but looking forward, then the facial features of this smile would be the same as the standard "eerie"
"Sen's Smile" is very similar.
Just before Qianyu was about to refute, Haihara Ai spoke.
"Since you already have the answer in your mind, why do you still ask us?" Hui Yuan Ai stopped and said calmly to everyone who also stopped. "If you think so, then that's it, regardless of me.
You won’t believe anything He Ju says. Besides, do you still remember why we came here?”
"It's to buy the raw materials the doctor needs and the pencil erasers that are almost used up." When Yuantai said this, he suddenly reacted. "Ah!"
"If you continue to move forward, you will have gone too far." Haihara Ai stood at the door of the convenience store and said.
"This is the convenience store," Qianyu glanced at the door number.
"Qianyu, haven't you been here before?" Mitsuhiko asked in surprise.
"Yes," Qianyu nodded. "I have a lot of drawing pencils at home, so I use them up very slowly."
"Then why does Haiyuan know this place?" Mitsuhiko asked again. "She probably hasn't been here either, right?"
"His drawing pencil belongs to him, not mine." Haihara Ai replied. "I don't usually use pencils, so I came to buy it."
At this moment...
"Are you still lying to me now?" A stern reprimand came from the convenience store.
"?" With confusion about the situation, everyone walked into the convenience store.
"But I really didn't do it!" The girl's soft 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 bit weak but had a very firm attitude - judging from her appearance, she was probably a high school student who came out to work.
"Then tell me, why do you always lose something when you are on duty alone?" the store manager asked. "Do you think I am easy to deceive? Ah?"
Before Qianyu could guess what happened, Yuantai had already rushed forward.
"Uncle, how can you be so rude to this sister?" Yuantai asked. "Be respectful to ladies!"
"Uh..." Qianyu's brows twitched. "I'm in trouble..."
"Who are you?" The store manager was startled, but immediately became furious when he saw that it was just a child. "The adults are talking here, go ahead!"
"We are the Junior Detective Team!" Genta said, waving his fist.
"Young Detective Team? What is that?" The store manager frowned. "Listen, I don't have time to play house with you -"
"Young Detective Team?" A person who was buried in the music area stood up and looked at Genta, then at Qianba and others. "It seems like it's really them! The boy who rescued the kidnapped Nagano Shiina
Detective team!”
"Is it really them?" With this exclamation, many people in the convenience store looked this way.
"Rescue Nagano Shiina?" The store manager then looked at Genta and others again. "Are you...really that young detective team?"
"Mr. Store Manager," Conan said politely. "Have you encountered any problems? Maybe we can solve it!"
"Well..." the store manager gritted his teeth, gave the female employee a hard look, and said angrily. "This is not the first time. In recent times, every time in Qichuan - that is
When she was working the last shift alone, she would find something missing when she was counting supplies the next morning."
"What's missing?"
"Lunchboxes, udon noodles, DVDs, oolong tea, etc.," the store manager said. "These are all things that high school students nowadays use to eat, drink and have fun at parties, right?"
Qianyu frowned - it seemed that this sister was indeed quite suspicious...
"Last month, I couldn't bear it anymore. I pulled her here and severely criticized her, but she denied it. Because the convenience store was short of manpower, I left her alone for the time being.
She just secretly monitors this place every night until the last employee on duty closes the rolling shutter door to see if anyone really sneaks in and steals things here when she is not paying attention. And then here
Nothing was thrown away until yesterday, and I thought she changed her ways after I scolded her, but..." At this point, the store manager couldn't help but point at Nanagawa.
"However, last night she was the last one to go, but this morning she lost a bunch of things again!"
"Excuse me," Qianyu asked. "How much is the amount of stuff thrown?"
"Today, if it was lost, it must be..." The store manager recalled it and said. "4 ready-to-eat lunch boxes, 2 DVDs, 3 bottles of oolong tea, and 4 udon noodles."
[Taking food is a very uneconomical behavior, and taking food and DVDs at the same time is a stupid behavior.] Qianyu frowned. [If you need to eat, just take food, if you want money, just take DVDs.
Okay. What’s the point of taking both?】
"Give us some time, let's think about it." Qianyu said thoughtfully. "If I were Miss Nanagawa, and I wanted to get something, I would definitely only get lunch boxes that fill my stomach and are of low value.
Choose one of the two money DVDs. Only taking the former means that I cannot bear to cause too much loss, while the latter means that I am a cold-blooded person who is good at calculating value-this is a complete contradiction."
Chapter completed!