Detective Conan: Knifeman? I'm a good citizen of Beihua

Seeing Shirakawa Akane's speechless face, Hagiwara Kenji couldn't help but burst into laughter. He pushed Matsuda Jinpei aside and pushed Shirakawa Akane forward, "Our little Shirakawa won't drop his gold beans."

As Bai Chuanqiu was pushed forward, he couldn't help but frown: "I think you two are the childish ones."

Hagiwara Kenji: "Haha! Mainly because I noticed that Shirakawa was fascinated by the moon!"

"What's that Chinese saying?" Matsuda Jinpei recalled. "I think it's... 'Looking up at the bright moon, looking down I miss my hometown'?"

Baichuan Qiu: "...You know quite a lot."

Hagiwara Kenji chuckled: "Look how timely we showed up. Shirakawa was homesick, and it just so happened that I showed up with Xiao Zhenping. What a beautiful scene~"

Bai Chuanqiu was stunned for a moment, then smiled silently: "This family is not that family."

Hagiwara Kenji Nishiko held her heart and said, "Could it be that Shirakawa-kun isn't looking forward to the appearance of me and Jinpei-kun?"

Baichuan Qiu looked away: "Yeah, it's just so-so."

Matsuda Jinpei's half-moon eyes: "Tsk tsk."

Hagiwara Kenji: "Tsk tsk."

Shirakawa Akane:

"I have to hurry home, please leave quickly and don't disturb my peace."

Matsuda Jinpei and Hagiwara Kenji stayed close by: "I promised to take you home, so I must see you go home."

Baichuan Qiu: "..."

Are they drunk?

So childish.

The white-haired young man lowered his eyes and looked at the gradually elongated figures of the three people on the dim street. In his ears was the chattering of two childish ghosts, which broke the silence of returning home alone and brought a hint of noisy clamor.

The corners of the young man's mouth rose imperceptibly.

Even if the sky is dark and the road is murky, there seems to be no loneliness or desolation.

——The moon today is so round.

……

A few days later.

Café Poirot.

"Good morning, manager! It's a new day!"

Azusa Enomoto pushed open the door of the cafe and greeted everyone with full energy.

"Good morning."

Baichuan Qiu raised his head, "Xiao Zi is full of energy again today."

Azusa Enomoto raised her head: "Of course!"

Amuro Toru came out from the kitchen and greeted her, "Good morning, Miss Azusa."

"Good morning!"

Azusa Enomoto walked to the staff area, put down her handbag, and then said, "By the way, Manager, I happened to see that the Iroha Sushi restaurant next door is recruiting new employees today."

"The sushi restaurant next door?" Shirakawa Qiu paused while wiping his glass, then sighed, "Things are slowly getting better here, too."

Perhaps because of the halo of being the protagonist, business on their street is getting better and better. Not only do they have customers from other places, but they also have customers who order takeout from time to time.

If they hadn't recruited Toru Amuro in advance, they would have been too busy to handle everything.

It was the first time that Shirakawa Qiu loved the protagonist's halo so much.

Amuro Toru followed up, "Yeah, ever since Manager Shirakawa launched the Maori Detective Coffee collaboration, the store's popularity has skyrocketed."

Enomoto Azusa analyzed seriously, "And it's strange, it seems that the store manager wasn't in the cafe a few days ago, and even with the collaboration with Detective Mori, the store wasn't that busy. But in the past few days when the manager has been in the cafe, the store's business has doubled..."

She suddenly clapped her hands and suddenly realized: "So, the store manager is actually a lucky cat!"

When the store manager is here, business is good; when the store manager is not here, business is bad.

Baichuan Qiu: "..."

Is it possible that business was bad a few days ago because Conan was not there, and business has been good these days because Conan stays in the detective agency upstairs every day?

It has nothing to do with him! And how come he is not a human being?

Bai Chuanqiu said unhappily: "It has nothing to do with me, it's just a coincidence!"

When talking about lucky cats, Shirakawa Qiu thought of the calico cat that often disappeared from his shop.

"By the way, where has the Captain been wandering around lately? I haven't seen him in the past few days since I came back."

Bai Chuanqiu walked out of the counter and happened to see the cat food placed at the door. The food was neatly arranged there, as if it had just been poured in. "And it didn't come back to eat."

Azusa Enomoto recalled: "The captain came back a few days ago, but I haven't seen it in the past few days."

Amuro Toru was a little worried: "Is it in some trouble?"

This kind of free-range breeding is still too dangerous.

Bai Chuanqiu held his chin in his hand and said, "It's quite smart. It usually doesn't run out of this area. It shouldn't encounter any danger."

Shirakawa Qiu has never heard of any cat abuse in the area, so he feels relatively relieved.

Azusa Enomoto joked, "Maybe the store manager will stand at the door and shout a few times, and the captain will come back after hearing the sound."

Baichuan Qiu was also laughing: "Okay, then I'll go out and try——"

He walked to the door and just opened it when he saw a man squatting not far away.

And in front of that person was the captain they had just talked about.

"Eh? I really can't explain it."

Baichuan Qiu muttered and walked out.

Squatting in front of the captain was a man in his fifties, of medium build, with a square face, a big mustache, two big buck teeth, and an eye patch on his face. He looked... shifty.

The other person stretched out his hand, as if preparing to give the captain something to eat, and was muttering something.

Bai Chuanqiu's heart tightened, worried that it was some bad guy, and immediately shouted -

"Captain."

The calico cat in front of the man was licking its paws, looking very leisurely. When it heard Baichuanqiu's call, it slowly wagged its tail and walked towards Baichuanqiu at a leisurely pace.

Following Baichuan Qiu's words, the man also raised his head, stood up and walked over.

When he got closer, Shirakawa Qiu realized that the other person looked older than he had imagined. His face was a little wrinkled, and with two pointed buck teeth in his mouth, he looked very much like... a naked mole rat (search is not recommended).

It's so ugly that people don't even want to take a second look.

Of course, Baichuan Qiu was not the type to judge people by appearance. He bent down, held the captain in his arms, and said calmly, "Hello, this is the cat in our store."

The man immediately said embarrassedly: "Sorry, I thought it was a stray cat, so I wanted to feed it something."

He then took the initiative to show the food in his hand: "This is the boiled egg I left over from breakfast. Because the egg white is difficult to digest, I only plan to feed it a little bit of the egg yolk."

Bai Chuanqiu glanced at him and softened his tone: "Is that so? Thank you very much, but our captain doesn't like eggs. I'm sorry to have cost you money."

The man immediately smiled and withdrew his hand: "It's okay, I was presumptuous."

Bai Chuanqiu looked at the man and, out of politeness, introduced herself: "My name is Bai Chuanqiu, and I'm the manager of the coffee shop next door. If you don't mind, you can come to our shop and get a free sandwich."

"No, I have an interview to attend soon." The man nodded with a smile.

"My name is Wakita Kanenori, and it's nice to meet Manager Shirakawa."