Bai Cangyang couldn't figure out the reason, so he could only ring the doorbell of Professor Hirota's house with doubts.
After a while, Hirota Masami came down smelling of alcohol and opened the door for him.
"It's Bai Cang! Come in quickly."
Bai Cangyang followed Professor Guangtian into the room.
He came to visit Professor Hirota today and also wanted to take away a magnetic disk.
Professor Hirota has a habit of saving everything on magnetic disks.
Not only the photos taken when traveling, but also the students' transcripts, test papers and even correspondence with him, he would scan and store them on magnetic disks.
Bai Cangyang once took a photo of a man disguised as a woman. The photo was taken at a university event with Professor Hirota.
The magazine he worked for recently had a project on "models with unexpected looks", so he wanted to ask Professor Hirota to borrow the magnetic tape containing the photo of him dressed as a blonde beauty.
But when he made this request to Professor Hirota before, what was sent was not the magnetic disk he wanted.
Instead, it was a photo of him and Professor Hirota before plastic surgery.
Along with the photo was sent a note that said: Nothing else can express your true face better than this photo.
Of course, it was impossible for him, who had always avoided his former face, to hand this photo to the magazine's editorial department.
That could be a devastating blow to his modeling career.
Just imagine, a handsome model has had plastic surgery. Before plastic surgery, he was just a plain-looking young man with pockmarks on his face. If others know about this, it will inevitably lead to disgust and prejudice.
"Professor...that photo you mentioned before, can you lend it to me..."
In Masami Hirota's study, Professor Hirota, whose face was red and walking a little unsteadily, was taking a sip of wine from a wine glass.
And Bai Cangyang chased after him, using a pleading tone, hoping that the professor would lend him the photo of the woman disguised as a man.
Hirota was already smelling of alcohol and burping.
He had drunk a lot tonight, and he looked at Bai Cangyang drunkenly, narrowed his eyes slightly, and said with ridicule:
"I have forgotten which disk I scanned the photos of you disguised as a woman into."
"If it's the photo I sent you before, I can get it right away."
"Would you like me to send it directly to the editorial department of your magazine?"
In Hirota Masami's opinion, the student in front of him was not named Shirakura Yo before, and his appearance was not as handsome as he is now.
He knew that this student had always had an inferiority complex about his own appearance after becoming a model, so when Bai Cangyang asked him for the photo of a man dressed as a woman, he specially sent Bai Cangyang's previous photos to this student.
He also attached words of encouragement, hoping that Bai Cangyang could be more confident and stop using disguises to cover up his true self.
But these words sounded a little different to Bai Cangyang's ears.
He suddenly became angry and thought that Professor Hirota was deliberately making things difficult for him.
In his mind, the photos he sent before became a naked threat.
In just a moment, he was so angry that he almost lost his mind.
Full of anger and worry that his future might be ruined by the old man in front of him, his mind was buzzing. He picked up the empty wine bottle on the table next to him and was about to hit Professor Hirota's unsuspecting back of the head.
Smash it away.
But when he raised the bottle and was about to take action, the words of the man he just met at the door suddenly flashed through his mind.
"You really don't have to worry too much about having plastic surgery, what's important is what's on the inside."
"Impulse is the devil."
The man's voice echoed in his mind, and his movements stopped.
Bai Cangyang held up the wine bottle, his expression changed, and finally he let out a long sigh and slowly put the bottle down.
He struggled internally for a long time, and finally asked with a wry smile:
"Professor, can you really not lend me that photo? I am going to send these two photos to the editorial department..."
"Oh? This doesn't look like you!"
Hirota Masami turned around and looked at his student up and down as if he had discovered a new world.
"I thought there was no way you could show your original photos to others no matter what!"
"Is it possible that the sentence I sent you before enlightened you? Are you finally able to face yourself confidently?"
Professor Hirota clicked his tongue in surprise.
The bitter smile on Bai Cangyang's face deepened: "Stop teasing me..."
At this time, he also calmed down from the anger just now. Combined with Professor Guangtian's words just now, he immediately understood the good intentions of this elder.
He had to admit in his heart that if it weren't for what the man in black said to him, he would have done something he regretted.
Hirota Masami patted the student on the shoulder: "This is a good thing. But I'm not lying to you. I really forgot where to put your photo of a man dressed as a woman."
"How about you look for it yourself?"
How could Bai Cangyang not know at this moment that he had completely misunderstood the professor? He whispered with guilt in his heart:
"Okay, then I'll trouble you, Professor."
"No trouble! I'm not the one looking for it anyway, hahaha... burp!"
Hirota Masami smiled and burped again.
"By the way, your senior brother Morioka and I have an appointment to play chess later, so you should find him first. I have to take a rest and sober up, otherwise I won't be able to play against that kid!"
Bai Cangyang lowered his head in shame.
…
Dr. Agasa, Conan, and Haibara drove for nearly three hours to Shizuoka, where Professor Hirota lived, and then parked their cars some distance away from Hirota's house.
Because they didn't know whether the organization was targeting Professor Hirota, they decided to proceed in the safest way.
When they rang the doorbell of Hirota's house, Hirota Masami was having a great time playing chess with his student Morioka. It was Shirakura Yorai who opened the door for the three of them.
Hirota Toshiko, who had gone out to attend a gathering in the town, had also returned home and was surprised that her husband was in such good spirits tonight.
In addition, Professor Hirota said that Mr. Agasa would come to visit him later, so Hirota Toshiko simply started preparing for a midnight snack.
Bai Cangyang, who almost accidentally killed Professor Hirota, attacked her with a guilty conscience.
"Is it Mr. A Li? My husband told me that you were coming."
Hirota Toshiko said hello to Dr. Agasa.
"My husband has two students coming to visit, so why don't we all have something to eat together. I specially prepared some food for a midnight snack."