Traveling back thirty years to Conan, intercepting Princess Eri

Chapter 8 Are you interested in being a detective?
"You work here?" Inspector Samezaki looked around the store and finally set his sights on Lin Xiuyi. "It looks like business isn't going well."

"Something happened a while ago, so we were closed for a while," Lin Xiuyi explained simply. "What would you four like to eat?"

"If there's anything filling, bring it up quickly," Officer Matsumoto said with an impatient look on his face.

"We've been busy all day," Officer Morimura said with a smile, "and everyone is starving."

There was still a lot of curry rice left, and since the shop was about to close, Lin Xiuyi simply served it all to the four people.

The four police officers from the Metropolitan Police Department picked up their spoons and began to eat voraciously.

"Well, this curry is delicious," Megure Jusan said in surprise, "I saw no one in the store before, and I thought..."

At the end of his words, he chuckled dryly, apparently realizing that he had said the wrong thing.

Lin Xiuyi didn't care and poured each of them a glass of cold beer as requested by the four people.

"Gulu, Gulu..."

Officer Matsumoto picked up the beer and drank it all, then he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Great! Give me another drink, boy!"

"Drink less," Inspector Samezaki reminded him, "You have to work overtime when you get home. The materials for that morning's case must be submitted tomorrow."

"Don't worry, Inspector," Officer Matsumoto waved his hand nonchalantly, "I always get more energetic the more I drink."

Inspector Samezaki didn't say anything more. The Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Division was notoriously short on staff and had a lot of work to do. The officers had to relax occasionally so that they could do their work better.

……

Inspector Samezaki was the first to finish his curry rice. He drank oolong tea while watching Lin Xiuyi clearing the dishes and asked,
"Mr. Lin, have you decided what to do in the future?"

"Go to a good university first, and then take the civil service exam," Lin Xiuyi replied casually.

"Civil servant..." Inspector Samezaki's eyes lit up. "Are you interested in becoming a detective? You're very talented at reasoning cases. If you could join the Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigation Division, you'd definitely be able to fully utilize your talents."

"Sorry, I don't plan to be a policeman," Lin Xiuyi refused directly.

Inspector Samezaki frowned and was about to ask the reason when Officer Matsumoto beside him slammed the table in anger.
"What do you mean, kid? What's wrong with being a policeman?"

"I have no prejudice against the police," Lin Xiuyi shook his head, "I just don't want to live a life that is too tiring."

"Is life too tiring?" Officer Morimura didn't quite understand.

"This officer, Megure, just started work today and has to work overtime tonight," said Lin Xiuyi. "I would rather do something easier than being a police officer with a heavy workload."

"Tsk, so useless," Officer Matsumoto curled his lips.

"I want to be a police officer!" Kogoro beside him couldn't help but say, "It would be even better if I could join the First Investigation Division and become a detective."

"you?"

Inspector Samezaki couldn't help but chuckle when he thought of Maori's panic when he saw the body that morning.
"If you want to be a criminal police officer, you can't be too timid."

"I'm not a coward!" Maori Kogoro retorted indignantly. "This morning was the first time Kogoro saw a murdered body, so it's normal for him to feel a little uncomfortable," Lin Xiuyi defended his friend.

"What about you?" Officer Morimura looked at Hayashi Shuichi with a strange expression. "You looked calmer than Megure at that time."

"Ah?" Inspector Megure raised his head in surprise, "Senior, I..."

"You didn't even dare look at the body. Do you think we didn't notice?" Officer Matsumoto said angrily. "The captain asked you to take the reporter's statement because he didn't want you to be too stressed on your first day."

"So that's how it is," Officer Megure was stunned for a moment, then quickly assured, "Inspector, don't worry, I will definitely adapt to... the corpse as soon as possible."

"Okay, don't take Matsumoto's words too seriously," Inspector Samezaki said with a smile. "When this guy first saw the murder scene, he reacted even worse than you did. He just vomited..."

"Inspector, that was a dismemberment case," Officer Matsumoto argued.

"When I first saw a dead body, I didn't feel much better," Officer Morimura recalled. "It was only because I was worried about being looked down upon that I forced myself to look closely at the body."

Having said that, Officer Morimura looked at Hayashi Shuichi again, obviously still waiting for his answer.

Generally speaking, normal people will feel scared when they see a corpse for the first time. This is caused by many factors such as biology, psychology, culture and society.

On the contrary, those who appear calm are the outliers. These people either have physical or psychological problems, or it is definitely not the first time they have seen a dead body.

Officer Morimura was concerned about this issue and was obviously somewhat suspicious as to whether Hayashi Shuichi had any psychological or physical problems. After all, such people are often potential criminals.

Lin Xiuyi was a criminal policeman in his previous life, so he immediately understood Officer Morimura's purpose.

But he couldn't tell the other party that in his previous life he was used to seeing crime scenes and dead bodies, which was why he acted so calm.

"When I was four years old, my parents took me out for a ride and we had a car accident," Lin Xiuyi quickly thought of the reason. "They both died in front of me, and I was the only one who survived."

"When I first met Shuichi in kindergarten, he was quiet and didn't like playing with other children. He was often alone," said Eri Kisaki, who had obviously noticed Officer Morimura's anomaly and helped to prove his point. "The teachers at the kindergarten all said that Shuichi might have developed autism because of his parents' car accident."

"Thanks to Eri and I who often pestered Shuichi, he finally returned to normal and started talking more," Kogoro Mouri didn't think too much about it and proudly showed off his contribution.

That's not autism at all! Lin Xiuyi was a little amused.

The truth is, when Lin Xiuyi first traveled through time, he couldn't understand the Japanese spoken by the people around him at all. The only few Japanese words in his mind were "Yametie" and "Iku".

So I could only keep silent and secretly listen to what people around me said. It took me half a year before I could communicate in basic Japanese.

"I see." Officer Morimura's wary gaze suddenly turned to sympathy. "I'm sorry to have reminded you of the past."

……

After paying the bill, Inspector Samezaki stood up and left with his three men. When they reached the door, he asked the others to go out first, and turned around to look at Hayashi Xiuyi who was clearing the dishes.

"Mr. Lin, I hope you can..."

Before he could finish his sentence, there was a sudden sound of shattering glass outside the store.

"Inspector, two women were fighting on the balcony of the apartment building opposite and smashed the glass!" Officer Megure poked his head in to report.

(End of this chapter)