Hattori covered his wrist and retreated back to his original position, his pupils slightly shrank, and he looked at Chu Ming with much more vigilance.

Shinichi stepped forward and slightly sideways to block Hattori. He looked at Chu Ming with fear in his eyes: "Granburch, you clearly said last time that as long as I don't ask about the organization's information, you won't do anything to me."

Although Shinichi didn't intend to be obedient, he would still check if he got any information from the organization. But the question was, how was what he did this time related to the organization?

So he asked this question with confidence.

Chu Ming leaned back in his chair with a half-smile on his face: "I remember I reminded you last time that Gin was looking for you, but the famous detective's ears may not be very good, and he seemed to not listen to my advice."

Shinichi was confused, and he hastily argued, "I listened, and I didn't do anything!"

Chu Ming clapped his hands: "You did nothing, great detective, you're really good at playing around, even using a body double? Why, you can't be with your girlfriend, so you send her someone who looks similar to relieve her longing?"

Ignoring the grievance that was about to overflow from Shinichi's eyes, Chu Ming waved his hand and threw a photo on the table: "Don't quibble, don't you detectives all talk about evidence? I have evidence."

Hattori leaned over to take a look at the photo that Chu Ming casually threw out. In the photo, Yada Makoto's version of Kudo Shinichi was standing with Xiaolan. Their eyes met. The setting sun was shining obliquely, casting a layer of gold around them. The shadows of the two were stretched out and disappeared in the afterglow of the setting sun.

The whole photo captures a very good atmosphere, and at first glance it looks like a young couple in love looking at each other affectionately.

——It would be better if the person in the photo was not Makoto Yada.

Shinichi looked at the photo, and jealousy almost overwhelmed him, but he still managed to calm down and explained to Chu Ming: "This is not me, and I didn't arrange it. This person had a misunderstanding about me before, so he had plastic surgery to look like me..."

"Whether it's you or someone else in the photo, it doesn't matter anymore. The problem now is that Gin was looking for you, and now he sees this photo. If he didn't have a mission, the person standing in front of you would be him." Before he could finish his words, Chu Ming interrupted him, "Because of the things caused by your stand-in, my wonderful vacation was interrupted, and I'm in a very bad mood now."

Seeing Chu Ming's words that seemed to be full of smiles, Xinyi's heart skipped a beat: "So..."

"I'm in a bad mood, so I want to find someone to play some interesting games with me." Chu Ming raised his hand and lifted the two upper covers of the table. Below was a chessboard embedded inside the table.

"Shogi?" Hattori frowned as he looked at the table where the chess pieces were already placed. "As long as we play with you, will you let us go?"

"Of course not. It's between you two. The winner can pick one of me to take away." Chu Mingchao leaned back, his eyes full of interest sweeping over Hattori, and said meaningfully, "After all, only the winner is qualified to take away his treasure, isn't it?"

"Then...what about the loser?" Shinichi knew how bad Granburch was and had a bad feeling in his heart.

"The loser? Of course the loser will stay here forever to accompany his treasure~" Chu Ming's voice rose strangely, his eyes full of excitement.

Hattori looked at the group of people on the other side of the railing and remembered something: "What about the others? Why did you arrest so many people?"

Chu Ming's words were full of self-righteousness: "Of course the more people there are in the game, the more lively it is. These people are very important~"

Looking at Hattori and Shinichi who were asking questions, Chu Ming was a little impatient: "Are you stalling for time, waiting for that guy named Fujino to tip off? Sorry, he is probably sleeping in the room you were in before. Come on, you two, if you don't start, I may not even be in the mood to play games."

Without the mood to play games, the promised rewards would naturally be meaningless. Hattori and Shinichi could both hear the implication of his words, and after looking at each other, they sat on opposite sides of the table.

Chu Ming pointed at the chessboard, full of anticipation: "Let's start."

In fact, he was not very good at playing shogi. At most, he knew the rules. Therefore, he was not very concerned about the details of the game between Hattori and the other man. He just yawned and leaned back in his chair leisurely.

Seeing that Chu Ming was not very focused on the game, Hattori and Shinichi began to slowly delay time, planning to end up with a draw.

Chu Ming knew their plan very well, but he did not stop them from being clever.

Watching the two of them take one of my pieces, and then I give you one, the situation repeated three times and ended in a tie. Chu Ming raised his eyes and glanced at the two of them: "Draw?"

Shinichi glanced at Chu Ming's face and tentatively asked, "Since we couldn't decide the winner this time, why don't I play another round with him?"

Chu Ming raised his hand to stop them and sneered: "Another round? If you insist, it's not impossible, but I don't have enough chess pieces~"

Shinichi and Hattori exchanged glances, not knowing why Granburch suddenly looked very easy to talk to: "Why are there not enough chess pieces? We just--"

Before Shinichi finished asking, Chu Ming stood up and made way. Just now, in order to reach a draw in the end, Hattori and Shinichi did not choose to attack after capturing the other's chess pieces, but just placed them on their own chessboards, so now there are only a few chess pieces on the chessboard.

Chu Ming asked loudly: "Can you see clearly? Let's start."

On the other side of the railing, Lafitte, who was already sleepy from waiting, adjusted the mask on his face, pulled out a gun from his arms, and fired at the positions of the crowd corresponding to the positions of Hattori and Shinichi that had been captured.

Here is a diagram of the room division, which may be more intuitive. The people caught are placed according to the positions of the chess pieces.

Looking at the crowd that fell down, Shinichi and Hattori's eyes were red with anger: "Stop it, what are you doing! Stop it!"

Chu Ming watched the two of them rush to the railing and desperately shook it. The devil whispered behind him: "Why are you in such a hurry? Isn't this your own choice? The pieces that were captured can also be attacked. It was you who chose to deal with me and get a draw. Otherwise, so many people wouldn't have died."

Looking at the two teenagers who turned around and glared at him, Chu Ming said leisurely: "Why are you looking at me like that? I never intended to hide it from you. When you came in and saw the chessboard, you should have found that the positions of these people are arranged according to the chessboard. Your girlfriends are in the positions of the king and jade generals. And I have also reminded you implicitly that only the winner can take away the treasure."

Chu Ming said as if he had suddenly realized something: "Oh, I see. The two detectives are so smart, they must have seen through my trap. So you must love your girlfriends too much, so you deliberately used other people's lives to save them? Oh my, this is such a touching love story. Isn't it better than a TV drama?"

Chu Ming was reaping a lot of points, looking very touched, totally ignoring the lives of Shinichi and Hattori who were listening to these heart-wrenching words.

[I've been stuck on writing for several days. These days, I've been taking time to study how to play shogi, but after a few days of thinking about it, I haven't figured out anything, so I just skipped the details QAQ]

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