Conan: I'm Not a Model Worker in the Winery

Chapter 191: Sonoko's Love Story

Shizuoka Prefecture.

Izu Seaview Hotel, around 7pm.

"You're so slow, Mr. Michiwaki..."

Sonoko looked at her watch.

Perhaps because of the sudden heavy rain, Michiwaki Masahiko, who was supposed to pick them up for dinner at a haunted restaurant in the evening, did not show up.

Mao Lilan smiled and comforted: "Maybe it was delayed because of the rain, let's wait a little longer."

While they were talking, the dark-skinned, bespectacled guy at the hotel suddenly opened the paper door, placed an umbrella at the door, and then retracted his head without saying a word.

This action stunned Xiaolan and Sonoko.

"Does this mean... for us to use?"

Sonoko blinked.

Conan rolled his eyes at this time and said jokingly: "Maybe this big brother is also interested in Sister Sonoko~"

"Eh?!"

The possibility Conan mentioned made the bachelor Sonoko blush.

"You are really amazing, Yuanzi!"

As Sonoko's best friend, Xiaolan of course encouraged her strongly.

But now it was Sonoko's turn to feel embarrassed. She scratched her red face and said, "Don't talk nonsense, Xiaolan..."

"That's right, Sonoko already has Mr. Michiwaki now." Mouri Ran said with a smile.

But at this point, Xiaolan remembered something and said with some worry: "Speaking of which, Mr. Lie ran out before it rained, and he didn't bring an umbrella..."

"Yes, I don't know where Mr. Lie went..." Yuanzi felt a little sad looking at the rainy day.

Just at this moment, she touched her pocket and found that she had forgotten her wallet. "Ah... Xiaolan, my wallet is missing. Wait for me, I'll go get it!"

"Ah good……"

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The dark-skinned guy had just entered the workshop and was about to start his own business when he saw Yuanzi coming in hurriedly.

After weighing the pros and cons for two seconds, he finally decided not to become a perverted stalker, but to continue his work quietly...

However, the hotel's landline suddenly rang.

The dark-skinned guy was stunned for a moment, paused, turned around and picked up the phone: "Hello, this is..."

"Ah~ There's a suspicious person upstairs!"

Before he could finish his explanation, the cheerful voice on the phone said with a smile: "Oh, by the way, a little girl went up there just now, be careful!"

After saying that, the other party hung up the phone without waiting for the dark-skinned guy to respond.

The dark-skinned guy stood there in a daze, holding the phone.

Upstairs, the little girl who went upstairs...

"Oops!"

Immediately, the dark-skinned guy didn't care about anything else, left from behind the counter and quickly went upstairs.

Coincidentally, at this time, Xiaolan and Conan just came in from the door, wanting to see if Sonoko had taken her things, and happened to see the dark-skinned guy running upstairs.

Xiaolan looked at the familiar figure, but couldn't remember where she had seen him before: "Why does he look so anxious?"

Conan, who had a keen sense of the case, seemed to have sensed something at this time. He didn't know if it was God who gave him a spoiler, so he immediately stopped the case and shouted to Xiaolan:
"Let's go up, Xiaolan! Sonoko might be in danger!"

"--Eh?!"

Xiaolan's reaction was not slow at all. After a brief moment of shock, she immediately ran upstairs.

However, the dark-skinned guy in front of them was much faster than them. Just as the two of them rushed upstairs, the dark-skinned guy had already arrived at the door of their room.

Seeing that the door was closed but there was no garden, coupled with the warning from the stranger on the phone just now, he suddenly felt inexplicably angry. For a moment, he forgot that the door was a sliding door and directly knocked the door panel over with his knee.

Mao Lilan, who had just arrived upstairs, exclaimed: "What are you doing!"

But her shouting did not stop the dark-skinned guy at all.

As a hotel staff member, the dark-skinned guy was very familiar with the layout of the room. The moment he kicked open the door and found it was pitch black inside, he turned on the light.

The scene in the room afterwards made him furious—

Yuanzi was actually pressed to the ground by a man who covered her mouth!

This man has a knife in his hand!

"asshole!"

The dark-skinned guy was angry.

The man who was about to stab Yuanzi with a knife probably didn't expect someone to suddenly break in so violently. He was stunned for a moment, and before he turned around to see who it was, he was hit on the right face by a dark elbow.

Before he could even let out a scream, the dark-skinned guy kicked the other person in the head, knocking him unconscious.

The knife was also thrown aside as the man fell down...

The dark-skinned guy didn't care about the other person's life or death at all. He hurried to Yuanzi, who was in doubt and coughing with his hands covering his neck: "Hey, are you okay?"

"Cough, cough cough...it's okay..."

……

When Mouri Ran and Conan arrived at the scene, they were stunned to see this scene.

What's going on here?
I seemed to hear someone screaming just now...

Conan looked at the unconscious man lying against the wall and the knife on the ground, then glanced at the black-skinned guy who was patting Sonoko's back. He roughly knew what had happened and breathed a sigh of relief.

He pulled at Mao Lilan's trouser leg and said, "Hey, Xiaolan, isn't this Mr. Michiwaki? Wow! There's a knife next to him!"

"?!"

Xiaolan turned her head belatedly and realized that the man lying there was the one they were waiting for, Masahiko Michiwaki.
"What's the matter?"

Sonoko saw who the other person was the moment the lights were turned on, and said in a choked voice: "I don't know either... I came up to get my wallet, but when I came in, I saw a figure rummaging through our luggage and trying to kill me with a knife! Why did Mr. Michiwaki do this..."

The dark-skinned guy patted Yuanzi's shoulder silently, not knowing how to comfort her.

Conan looked at him and suddenly asked, "Hey, brother, how did you know someone broke in?"

Mao Lilan and Sonoko were startled and looked at each other.

The dark-skinned guy was stunned for a moment. "Well, someone just called the hotel and said that a suspicious man came in upstairs, so I came to take a look..."

"Hey! So, big brother came here in such a hurry because he was worried about Sonoko-san?"

Conan narrowed his eyes and smiled slyly.

Yuanzi was stunned for a while, and suddenly his old face turned red.

This person is worried about her?!

At this moment, Mao Lilan, who had been staring at the black-skinned boy, suddenly exclaimed, "You, you can't be!"

"Kyogoku Makoto-senpai?"

Sonoko was stunned by Xiaolan's address, "Ah? You know Xiaolan?"

"Because he is the champion of the All Japan Karate Tournament!" Xiaolan looked at Kyogoku Makoto with some surprise, "He is known as the 'Kick Prince'."

For a moment, the eyes of the three people were all focused on Kyogoku Makoto's face.

The latter's face turned red at this time, and his glasses no longer reflected the light. He looked at Yuanzi and hesitated for a long time:
"Well, how about calling the police first?"

(End of this chapter)