"You lured me here just to entrust me with a task?" Heiji looked indifferently at Shiho Miyano.
Shiho Miyano threw the stick she was holding, and a trace of sadness appeared in her cold and pretty eyes: "I want to ask you to help me investigate the death of Masami Hirota."
"Masami Hirota? What are you to her?"
Shiho Miyano abruptly raised her head to look at Heiji: "You know Masami Hirota?"
"I don't know her." Heiji shook his head.
"You're lying, if you didn't know her, you would have asked directly 'Who is Masami Hirota?', and not 'What are you to her?'." said Shiho Miyano with agitation.
Heiji sighed, leaned against the wall, put his hands in his pockets, and looked at the sky at a forty-five-degree angle: "I'm her boyfriend."
Suddenly, a gust of wind rushed at him, and Heiji took a step to the side to dodge it.
"Bang." The next moment, a stick directly hit the place where he had been standing.
Shiho Miyano held the wooden stick, her pretty face was cold, her beautiful eyes shone with frost, and she looked at him furiously: "I won't allow you to insult her."
Heiji looked helplessly at Shiho Miyano, raising his hands slightly: "Don't get agitated, I just wanted to see if you only knew how to be cold and distant, it seems you also get angry, at least you're normal."
Shiho Miyano's anger gradually dissipated, and she recovered her cold and distant appearance: "Masami Hirota is the sister of a colleague of mine, I want to know the exact cause of her death."
"Didn't they say it in the newspaper? She committed suicide out of fear of her crime."
"No, she didn't commit suicide." Shiho Miyano suddenly shouted with agitation.
"The news said she committed suicide." Heiji said with a serious expression.
"No, she was murdered, she was murdered."
The wooden stick fell to the ground.
Shiho Miyano suddenly leaned against the wall, and tears began to fall one after another.
"I want to find the killer, I want revenge."
Sadness filled the deserted alley.
Heiji walked right past her: "Let's talk about the details calmly at the coffee shop."
Nagoya Coffee Shop!
Heiji and Shiho Miyano sat in a relatively discreet spot.
"What do you want to drink?"
However, Shiho Miyano remained seated in her place, staring out the window distractedly.
"Bring her a cup of tea, and I want a cup of black tea."
Heiji simply ignored this cold and distant woman.
"About Masami Hirota's matter…"
Shiho Miyano looked sharply at Heiji, with a hint of expectation in her pretty eyes: "Can you help me?"
Heiji was speechless, apparently this woman had automatically ignored him.
"First, why are you looking for me? I'm just a high school student."
Hearing this, Shiho Miyano looked at him, her pretty eyes with a touch of coldness: "I've read all the reports about you, the title of 'the Holmes of our era' is a bit exaggerated."
Heiji almost choked, and after barely calming down, he looked at Shiho Miyano in a bad mood: "Do we have a grudge?"
"No." Shiho Miyano shook her head.
"Then, couldn't you be a little more considerate?" Heiji was resigned.
"I can't, Holmes doesn't exist, a fictional character is perfect, you can't compare to him." Shiho Miyano said indifferently.
Heiji was speechless, silently stirring the ice cubes in his black tea: "If so, why are you looking for me?"
"Seeing is believing, through the bank robbery incident, I believe you are not famous in vain, at least your reasoning ability is very strong."
"Thanks for the compliment." Heiji said weakly.
"You're welcome."
This woman was too cold and distant, and also somewhat naive, which left one very helpless.
Heiji took a deep breath and his expression became serious: "I really do know Masami Hirota."
Suddenly!
A light shone in Shiho Miyano's eyes: "You know my… Masami Hirota?"
"Yes." Heiji nodded, with a touch of nostalgia in his expression: "I really am her boyfriend, but I'm her ex-boyfriend."
"That's not true, my sister did have a boyfriend, but his name wasn't Heiji Hattori." Shiho Miyano said indifferently.
Heiji smiled faintly: "Your sister?"
Shiho Miyano's face suddenly turned cold: "Are you testing me?"
"Don't worry, your sister told me everything. Her real name is Akemi Miyano, she has a younger sister named Shiho Miyano, and you both work for the Black Organization."
Shiho Miyano's eyes widened, and her breathing quickened: "Do you really know my sister?"
If this information hadn't been told by Akemi Miyano herself, there was only one possibility: Heiji Hattori was also a member of the organization. But thinking about his identity, Shiho Miyano immediately dismissed that idea.
Therefore, there was only one possibility: everything Heiji Hattori said was true.
"I told you, but you didn't believe me."
Heiji calmly drank his black tea.
Tick, tock, tick, tock!!!
Tears splashed on the glass table, like spring flowers opening, with a crystalline shine.
Heiji was a little stunned, Shiho Miyano was crying, crying heartbrokenly, her face bathed in tears.
"Wipe it."
SLAP!!!
Shiho Miyano sharply slapped Heiji's hand away, and the tissue paper fell slowly.
"Why, why did you leave my sister? Did she not deserve your love?"
Shiho Miyano's tears fell like rain, at that moment she no longer had the air of a cold and distant queen, but was clearly a tsundere sister who felt indignant for her older sister.
[Have I gone too far?]
Heiji felt a little helpless, if he told Shiho Miyano the truth now, she would probably kill him.
"It was your sister who asked me to leave, she was worried that the men from the organization would chase me, so she broke up with me decisively."
Heiji put on an expression of bitterness.
Shiho Miyano sobbed slightly, and the look with which she saw Heiji had a touch of warmth: "Don't blame my sister, she surely didn't mean it, the organization is a chaos, she did it to protect you."
A cold sweat ran down the back of Heiji's neck: She believed it so easily? Has her IQ disconnected?
Actually, Akemi Miyano's identity was so deeply hidden that, not to mention others, even the general cadres of the organization did not necessarily know her real name, much less that she had a younger sister.
To know it in such detail, apart from Akemi Miyano having told him personally, the hypothesis that Heiji Hattori was a member of the organization was hard to sustain.
"Bro… brother-in-law, can I call you brother-in-law?"
Heiji suddenly spat out the tea he had in his mouth, luckily he reacted quickly and turned his head to the side, otherwise he would have spat directly in Shiho Miyano's face.
"Don't worry, it's possible we won't see each other again, I just wanted to apologize on behalf of my sister."
Shiho Miyano had made a decision in her heart.
[Brother-in-law???]
The cold sweat on Heiji's forehead increased, feeling that the situation was getting out of his hands. But at this moment, he had to hold on until the end, otherwise, who knows what crazy thing Shiho Miyano might do.
"Um…"
His brain went blank, he suddenly didn't know what topic to talk about.
"Brother-in-law, have you been searching for the truth about my sister's death?" Shiho Miyano sounded somewhat sad.
"Miyano's… uh, Akemi's death, I've found a small clue."
"Brother-in-law, do you know who killed my sister?" Shiho Miyano looked at Heiji with excitement.
The corner of Heiji's mouth twitched, he couldn't quite handle the appellation "brother-in-law". However, upon seeing the warmth in Shiho Miyano's eyes, he couldn't help but sigh slightly: Well, I'll talk about this later.
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