Conan: Naruto

After two seconds.

Kotaro Ichikawa stood up, waved to Dongfang Haoyue and Kudo Shinichi, and signaled them to follow with his eyes.

Haoyue and Xintian nodded innocently, followed by them to the bathroom.

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Eight seconds later.

Restrooms on the first floor.

"The money is collected."

Ichikawa Kotaro closed the door, took out ten [-] yen bills from the inside pocket of his jacket, turned to Dongfang Haoyue and Kudo Shinichi, and handed them five bills each.

Kotaro exhorted solemnly:

"Remember, you must never tell what you just saw."

"Uh-huh!"

Dongfang Haoyue nodded with a smile, took the banknotes handed over by Kudo Shinichi, folded Xinyi's banknotes with her own banknotes, and put them into the pocket with a thick pile of banknotes on the inside of her jacket.

"very good."

Ichikawa Kotaro nodded slightly, opened the door, stepped out, and told him without looking back:

"Follow me...I'll take you to the courtyard to find the Maori detective."

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after a while.

The courtyard is leaning against the floor-to-ceiling windows of the villa and the open space in front of the temporary podium.

"Everyone."

Ichikawa Kotaro stood in front of the standing microphone on the podium, looked at the audience, and said calmly:

"Thank you for coming to the banquet for my birthday.

I plan to resign as chairman in the near future and sell all the shares under my name and the right to operate the company to Asahi Industries. "

"what?"

Everyone in the audience looked at Kotaro Ichikawa in disbelief, and was amazed for a moment.

A middle-aged man wearing a gray suit, white lining, and black tie stood not far from the left front of Kotaro, and anxiously reminded:

"Uncle, if you sell the company... what will happen to the rest of us!!!"

"I have made up my mind, there is no need to persuade me."

Kotaro Ichikawa looked at the man in gray without any doubt.

"Uncle, after the company is sold...how do you plan to deal with the huge cash of billions?"

A middle-aged man wearing a dark blue suit, white lining, black tie, black square glasses, and a beard stood to the right of the man in gray, looking at Kotaro Ichikawa with a solemn expression.

"What I do with it is my freedom."

Kotaro Ichikawa looked at the middle-aged man, and told him indifferently:

"I'm under no obligation to give the money to anyone in there ... not even my daughter."

"what?"

Ichikawa Kazuju and Ichikawa Mizue, who embraced their hands and were as steady as Mount Tai, began to panic.

Dongfang Haoyue and Kudo Shinichi, who were standing not far from their left rear, looked at Kotaro Ichikawa, and thought sympathetically in their hearts:

"Anyone who finds out that his own daughter wants to poison himself to death will probably be as ashamed as Mr. Ichikawa and no longer believe in family affection..."

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after a while.

The living room on the first floor of the villa.

Dongfang Haoyue and Kudo Shinichi sat side by side on the wall sofa on the left side of the gate, and Ichikawa Kotaro sat on the sofa chair next to the wooden round table in the center of the room.

"Haoyue."

Kudo Shinichi stared intently at Ichikawa Kotarou with his eyes closed and recuperated in the distance ahead, leaned his body to the left, put his mouth next to Haoyue's ear, and boldly guessed in a low voice:

"I suspect that Mr. Ichikawa wanted to pretend to be poisoned and died of poisoning, and take this opportunity to test the reaction of his second daughter, Ms. Mizue."

"what?"

Dongfang Haoyue subconsciously made a sound of surprise.

He regained his composure, put his mouth next to Kudo Shinichi's ear, and carefully analyzed in a low voice:

"Could it be that the reason why Mr. Ichikawa didn't call the police before...was just trying to test his second daughter?"

"Not only that."

Kudo Shinichi guessed thoughtfully in a low voice:

"In order to avoid being found out, when Mr. Ichikawa disappeared in front of everyone just now...he probably secretly hooked up with Dr. Okano."

"It makes sense~"

Dongfang Haoyue glanced at Okano who was sitting on the right side of Kudo Shinichi with the first aid kit on his lap, suddenly realized and whispered:

"If Dr. Okano sees through Mr. Ichikawa's suspended animation, then Ichikawa will naturally be unable to test Ms. Mizue's mind."

"Just in case... let's turn on the camera first."

Kudo Shinichi reached into his coat pocket and pressed the small camera switch in the pocket, allowing the lens to shoot the scene ahead through the small hole in the pocket.

Dongfang Haoyue also turned on the camera, which had been improved by Dr. A Li, and which already had the function of moving the lens by itself to lock key figures.

1 minutes later.

"I have absolutely nothing against the decision Dad made."

Mizue Ichikawa sat on the sofa chair to the right of Kotaro Ichikawa, looking at Kotaro with a smile.

"I agree with my sister."

Ichikawa held the wooden box containing the red wine in both hands and walked towards Ichikawa Kotaro, looking at Kotaro with a smile.

Two seconds later, Ichijo stood opposite Kotaro across the round table, speaking gracefully:

"In order to commemorate Dad's new journey in life, I specially bring this bottle of famous wine from [-] for you to taste."

Ichikawa put the wooden box on the table, opened the wooden box, took out the red wine and displayed it in front of Ichikawa Kotaro, flatteringly said:

"If we don't know how to appreciate fine wine, we would be a bit reckless if we drank this bottle of wine. In my opinion...

Only when a father who is good at tasting fine wine drinks this bottle of wine, can he truly reflect the value of famous wine. "

Ichikawa Kazuju removed the cork with a corkscrew, put it on the table, and poured the liquor into the goblet in front of Ichikawa Kotaro without any haste.

Dongfang Haoyue and Kudo Shinichi stared at the wine bottle intently, and confirmed that the red wine on the table was the wine that had been poisoned by Yizhong earlier.

Haoyue and Xinyi raised their spirits, ready to interrupt Ichikawa Kotaro from drinking the poisoned wine.

next second.

"Dad, please drink."

Ichikawa looked at Kotaro Ichikawa respectfully, and gently picked up the goblet and handed it to Kotaro.

Kotaro nodded slightly, and took the goblet calmly.

On the other side, Mori Kogoro, standing not far from the right front of Ichikawa Mizue, looked at Ichikawa's sensible approach, and sincerely praised:

"Miss Yizhong is quite filial."

Dongfang Haoyue and Kudo Shinichi heard Kogoro Mori's undisguised and loud comments, they quickly stretched out their hands to cover their mouths, and tried their best to suppress the eager laughter.

After half a minute.

Kotarou Ichikawa was speaking freely, while holding a goblet with half a sip of red wine in his hand, he slowly walked forward.

He casually walked to the left of Dongfang Haoyue, turned to face a pot of green plants on the wooden cabinet in the corner, used his body to hide the sight of everyone, and poured all the red wine into the soil that cultivated the green plants.

Haoyue turned sideways in time, allowing the camera to clearly capture this scene.