Transmigrated into Conan, his ability is Rhodes Island

"I understand, Miyano-senpai. Please be careful too."

After hanging up the phone, Akihara indicated to the other party that they could continue.

It seemed that Akihara's calm demeanor gave Eda a boost of confidence, and she forced herself to calm down and continue her story.

"As I just said, our breakup wasn't because of the long distance, but... but because he suddenly seemed like a different person. I felt like something was wrong with his mental state..."

“When I left my hometown to work here, he told me not to worry, that he could work part-time and save money over there, and that he would come to see me when he had time off…”

"Then one time I contacted him... He said he hadn't slept for several days and had become very delusional... One minute he was telling me he was going to come see me, the next he said he was going to see a friend for drinks, and he felt his friend was trying to harm him..."

“I was a little scared, so I asked him what was wrong? Had he been under too much pressure lately? He was still able to think clearly at that time and replied that it was possible, and if he couldn't sleep that night, he would see a psychiatrist…”

Qiuyuan: I always said that staying up late is harmful to people in every way.

System: You spoilsport, don't complain at a time like this!

"What's next?" Akihara adopted the demeanor of a patient listener.

"The situation got increasingly out of control... His mental state deteriorated, so I called him and asked him to come see me so I could accompany him to see a doctor. I even made an appointment with a psychiatrist through me..."

"He started rambling incoherently, completely forgetting that he had ever said he was going to see a doctor. I didn't know... I was so angry then. I said something harsh to him for the first time. I said if you keep doing this, we're breaking up... He... he kept talking about how he dreamt I died, how sad he was, and then he wished me a peaceful Obon festival... Finally, he said, 'Nori, it's time to come pick you up...'" At this point, Nori broke down in tears. "I... I was so scared, so I hung up the phone..."

"For the next few days, I was constantly scared and my mental state was not very good... Mitsue probably saw that I was in a bad mood and invited me to a social gathering... You know what happened next."

After listening to Eda's tearful account, Akihara Kazumitsu handed her a tissue while calmly analyzing, "Persistent delusions, possibly accompanied by persistent hallucinations, confused thinking, confused behavior, and a severely impaired way of perceiving reality... seem to be typical symptoms of bipolar disorder or schizophrenia."

For a moment, Masano forgot to cry. "So, he really is sick, right?"

“It’s basically confirmed, but his illness progressed too quickly, strangely quickly…” Akihara pondered for a moment. “Were there any warning signs before he fell ill?”

Masano shook her head. "I don't know...maybe, but we were already living in different places at that time and communicating by phone..."

The system has stopped eating melon seeds and is now cracking open a bag of them. "What do you mean by 'the disease is progressing too quickly'?"

"There were no warning signs beforehand, and he suddenly went crazy like this. One possibility is that he suffered some major shock, another possibility is..." Qiu Yuan's voice, explaining to the system in his mind, paused for a moment.

"What is it?" the system asked curiously.

Akihara looked at Shizuno, who seemed to have improved somewhat after confiding in her friend, but her face was still pale. She had put her glasses aside and occasionally dabbed her red and swollen eyes with a tissue.

“Ms. Zhizheng, please think back carefully. On the first day he started acting strangely, did he tell you what he had been doing before? And could you elaborate on the part about ‘going out for drinks with friends’ that you just mentioned?”

"He never mentioned anything about what he did besides his part-time job... I'd heard him talk about that friend of his before. Like I just said, he's a very sociable person, he gets along with everyone, and this person is one of his many friends. His surname is something like Urashima, and from what he said, he seems to be unemployed, but he often drags him out drinking. In front of me, he always acted like he had a good relationship with that friend, but... but... that time he called, and vaguely said that his friend wanted to harm him, I just thought he was talking nonsense..."

"Excuse me, just a moment." The two were talking when a shadow was suddenly cast on the table. Akihara looked up and saw the bartender walking over with a cocktail in his hand, smiling.

“I don’t recall we ordered any other drinks.” Akihara glanced at the mandarin-colored liquid in the glass on Kubo’s tray, with a slice of pineapple stuck in the rim. The pineapple leaf looked like a bird about to take flight.

"This is what that lady ordered for you." The bartender gestured in one direction, giving Akihara a teasing look that said, "You're quite the ladies' man."

Akihara looked in the direction he pointed and saw a sexy woman in a red dress with exquisite makeup smiling at him from behind the bar.

Akihara returned a polite smile, accepted the glass, and casually sniffed it. The herbal bitterness and tropical fruit sweetness seemed perfectly normal. But…

Akihara asked Masano to stay seated and not move. He then picked up his drink, a gentle smile on his face, and walked gracefully toward the bar.

He put down his wine glass, pulled up a chair, and sat down. The young woman raised an eyebrow, adjusted her posture, and looked at him.

Akihara looked directly into the other person's eyes, his smile unwavering, and his tone incredibly gentle. "Who ordered you to do this?"

The woman was clearly taken aback by Akihara's question and stood frozen in place, as if caught off guard. "You... what are you saying?"

"Poison me, huh? Do you think the police will believe you were instructed to do it without any knowledge?" Akihara looked at her calmly.

The woman was clearly flustered. "No, no, that guy just now, he said he was your friend and wanted to prank you. He gave me that bottle of wine and said he would pay me if I bought you a drink... I really didn't know!"

Where is that bottle of wine?

"Here it is!" The woman quickly called over the bartender, who brought out a bottle of rum from behind the bar. Under the bar lights, the rum reflected a soft yet dangerous light.

“Madam, I believe you are innocent.” Qiu Yuan offered a sweet treat after giving a harsh rebuke. “Tell me, what did the person who gave you this bottle of wine look like? How long ago did he leave?”

“He…he was wearing a hood and a mask, so I couldn’t see his face…but from his voice, he seemed to be a young man around twenty years old. Also, he’s definitely not a regular here; if he were, I would recognize him…” The woman pondered. “He’s been gone for about twenty or thirty minutes.”

Akihara glanced at the time and deduced that the person had almost followed them into the bar. Therefore, Mitsue's car accident was either an accident or she had an accomplice.

Akihara stood up. "Okay, thank you. I won't hold you responsible. Have a nice night."

On the way back to the booth, Akihara asked the system to put away the bottle of rum. As the system did so, it asked, "How did you know that drink was suspicious? Could you smell it?"

"No, I was just trying to scare her, but it turned out there was a real problem."

System: ...You won't be popular with women if you act like this.