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Today I feel like a real detective—— Shinsuke thought as he changed trains from Hibiya to Ebisu.However, even if something came out of Kashimoto's mouth, he still couldn't see the truth clearly.Every clue is tangled together, like a knotted ball of wool, which makes people feel helpless. There is also the matter of Chengmei... No, it should be said that it is a matter of 30 million. What is going on?Shinsuke's head hurts just thinking about it. He left the station from Ebisu and headed south. Shinsuke called to confirm the location of "Seagull", and the phone number was found in the phone book.

After passing the bowling alley, we walked about 20 meters and arrived at our destination. The location of this store was one step higher than the road, so stone steps were laid at the entrance. The space of this store is not very spacious, there are only three small tables plus the bar, and the seats at the bar seem to seat less than ten people.There are currently seven people sitting side by side in front of the bar with their backs to Shinsuke, and everyone looks like a regular customer.Only one seat in the store was occupied, and on the other two tables, only small candles were flickering.

Shen Jie chose the table closest to the bar and sat down. The chair was a high chair, and the height of sitting was not much different from that of standing.His gaze fell on the wall, where there were many photos of yachts sailing on the blue sea. A man who looks like the boss is sitting behind the bar. He has a rough but neatly trimmed beard, and his long hair is simply tied into a bunch hanging down his head. His entire face, neck, and arms exposed by rolled up shirt sleeves are all as dark as chocolate. shine. It was not the man who was in charge of ordering for Shinsuke, but a girl in her twenties who was wearing a blue T-shirt.The girl was also as tanned as the boss, but Shinsuke could tell that her perfect complexion was artificial, presumably from a tanning machine at a beauty salon.

"Give me lute and bitters." The girl simply answered yes, and then turned to walk away. Behind the bar, the boss pretends to listen carefully to the guests.In fact, he must have been secretly watching the first-timer out of the corner of his eye and listening to what he ordered, and if he couldn't do that he wouldn't be an expert. "Ah, wait." Shinsuke stopped the girl who was about to leave, "Do you know that there is a person named Kiuchi who often comes here?" "Mr. Kikuchi?" "No, it's Mr. Kiuchi." "Mr. Kiuchi... I don't know." The girl tilted her head.

"It's okay, just don't know." The girl left after saying sorry.Shinsuke didn't think there was nothing to gain, because when he said the word Kiuchi, he found the boss behind the bar and glanced at him instantly. Shinsuke instinctively came to the right place.The boss brought over the gin and bitters. "It looks delicious!" When Shinsuke said that, the boss smiled slightly.Before the boss's smile disappeared, Shinsuke took the first sip. The strong and smooth bitter taste gently spread from the tip of the tongue to the entire mouth, and then the aroma of the wine overflowed into the nasal cavity.

"Great," he said. "thanks." "Mr. Kiuchi..." Shinsuke asked, "What do you drink?" The smile on the boss's face did not disappear, but it was mixed with a puzzled expression, guessing who the guest was. "Are you a friend of Mr. Kiuchi?" the boss asked. "If you say you are a friend, you should be considered a guest!" "guest?" "I work in a bar in Azabu." Shinsuke took out the business card of "Myoga", "He used to go there often." "Ah, so that's the case." Judging from the boss's expression, he was obviously relieved, probably because he knew that the other party was just a colleague, so he let go of his original guard.

"I heard about this store from Mr. Kiuchi, and he told me to come and see it." "Then I ask for your advice." The boss seemed a little shy. "Has Mr. Kiuchi come here often?" "No," the boss shook his head. "I haven't seen him lately." "That's it! Since when did he not come?" "Well, when?" The boss showed a thoughtful look, but he didn't know if he was really thinking about the question he was muttering in his mouth, or whether he should reveal it.Because this seems to involve the privacy of the guests, as a professional bartender, you should not rashly bring the private affairs of the guests as a topic.

So Shinsuke tried to say, "As for our store, he hasn't been here since the car accident happened." When the boss knew that Shinsuke knew about the car accident, he seemed to relax his vigilance, "It's the same here, almost after that, I haven't seen him again." He nodded and said. "I heard you both own a yacht together?" "That's right, after the car accident, I kept in touch with him for a while, but maybe he doesn't want to go on a cruise! He told me that it's okay not to ask him out. This is also human nature, and he should be punished." It's a big blow!"

"Yeah!" Shinsuke said after taking another sip of his cocktail. "I heard that the matter of getting married is also in vain!" "Yeah!" The boss nodded, Shen Jie thought to himself, he really knew about it.The boss's slender eyebrows drooped into a figure eight. "That's a pity. The two of them used to come together a lot." "Is he and his fiancée two people?" "Ok." "I remember the fiancee is...Miss Uehara." "Yes! Miss Uehara Midori, do you think she is beautiful too?" "No, I haven't seen it, but it seems to be the daughter of the president of the Imperial Capital Construction?"

"Yes. Everyone still quarrels with him, saying he is a little boy! She is a girl who loves flowers very much. Every time she comes here, she buys me flowers almost every time. There just happens to be a flower near here. point." The customer at the bar called the boss over, so he said to Shinsuke, "Please take it easy," and then went back to the bar. Shinsuke raised the glass of gin and bitters and let the light shine through. Uehara Green...? Looking at it like this, the only harvest here is this, and I don't know if it is green "green".After the car accident, Kiuchi cut off almost all the people he knew before.

Shinsuke carefully checked the words that Kashimoto and the boss had said one by one in his mind, and there was only one thing that made him worry about it. A few days ago, Kiuchi clearly said to Shinsuke, "I don't have any sense of crime at all!", but both Kashimoto and the boss said that he was hit quite hard. Which one is his truth? The cocktail glass was empty, Shinsuke wanted to order something more, but felt that it would be useless to stay any longer. At this time, the working girl came over, holding something in her hand. "Well, the boss said please take a look at this." She said and put it on the table. It was a photo album. Shinsuke looked at the bar. "That's the photo of the last voyage with Mr. Kiuchi and the others," said the boss. With the blue sea in the background, men pose on the deck of a yacht, each with a face as dark as the boss's, including Kiuchi.His skin is also very tanned. Although the legs under the white shorts are very thin, but the muscle lines are obvious, no matter how you look at it, he looks like a man of the sea. There are several such photos, one of which shows Kiuchi hugging a woman's shoulder. "The woman with Mr. Kiuchi is..." "It's Miss Uehara Midori." The boss said. Shinsuke glanced at the photo again, Midori Uehara was wearing a light salmon red T-shirt, her round face gave off a healthy impression, she should have applied sunscreen, but at first glance she didn't seem to have any makeup on, and she didn't have the luxury of the president's daughter. Shinsuke closed the photo album and took it to the bar counter, "Thank you." "These photos were supposed to be edited for him, but they couldn't be given to him." The boss smiled wryly. Shinsuke left the shop after paying for a glass of gin and bitters.He pressed his cell phone while walking, intending to contact Kotsuka, but the call was still not connected. What the hell happened—he put the phone back in his pocket whining. Just as Shinsuke was on his way to the station, he raised his head inadvertently, and suddenly found a flower shop nearby. Of course, the flower shop was closed, and the sign came into his eyes. Shinsuke stopped walking.What stopped him was the name of the store on the signboard. After a few seconds, a thought popped into his mind, and he turned away. When he rushed into "Seagull", the working girl was startled, "Ah, did you forget to take something?" "The photo just now..." Shinsuke said to the boss in the bar. "Please let me look at the photo just now!"