Ghost Detectives in the Detective World

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"Heh, is it really okay to slander your boss behind his back like this?" Conan threatened, "What if someone reports it to us..."

"Kid, are you looking for a beating?" Matsuda clenched his fist.

"Hey, why do you bully me every day!" Conan shouted, covering his head with his hands. "I'm just a seven-year-old kid!"

"Do you think you're a seven-year-old?" Matsuda looked at him with a sneer.

"W-what do you mean?" Conan couldn't help but take a step back. Did this guy already know something?

Just then, a young woman with some freckles on her face pushed open the door and walked in, panting.

"Little Lily, I've bought her!"

The woman raised her arm and showed Xiaobaihe the plastic bag she was carrying.

"very good, thank you."

Matsumoto Sayuri jogged over and excitedly opened the bag.

"Lemon tea, lemon tea..."

"Okay, don't drink it directly like that, it will smudge your lipstick."

The woman took a straw out of the bag and handed it over.

The two then talked for a while, and it turned out that the groom was the woman's ex-boyfriend.

Even now, Sayuri still feels somewhat guilty about this, but the woman seems completely unconcerned.

Chapter 47 Vita Lemon Tea, Better Than Smoking Marijuana

After the woman left, Xiaobaihe looked at the plastic bag: "Oh right, there's one more can, anyone want it..."

Sonoko immediately raised her hand, as if about to say something.

Matsumoto Sayuri suddenly seemed to remember something and handed the other can of lemon tea she was holding to Matsuda.

"I remember Officer Matsuda mentioning that people in your hometown also like to drink lemon tea."

"Thanks."

Matsuda took the lemon tea; although he didn't want to use a straw,

But Sayuri had already handed him the food, so Matsuda had no choice but to insert the straw and take a sip.

Well, this is incredibly sweet. While it may not be as sweet as Vita Lemon Tea, it's not far off.

"Officer Matsuda also likes this kind of drink?" Ran asked in surprise.

"I wanted to drink it too," Sonoko muttered to herself.

"Are there places in Japan where people particularly like to drink lemon tea?" Conan asked, puzzled.

"Vita Lemon Tea is better than smoking marijuana, that's what a lot of people in my hometown like to say," Matsuda said with a look of emotion.

"Heh," Conan said disdainfully, "To compare this thing to drugs, the people from your hometown are really quite bored."

"Boom!"

Matsuda skillfully punched Conan on the head.

"That's called sentimentality. You brat, if you don't understand, don't talk nonsense!"

At that moment, Xiaolan suddenly realized that the camera she had brought was almost out of power.

So she and Sonoko went out to find an electronics store to buy batteries.

Inside the room, only Matsumoto Sayuri, Matsuda, and Conan remained.

“Speaking of which, little brother, you really do look like one of my former students.” Sayuri bent down and took off Conan’s glasses.

Conan noticed Matsuda's gaze and quickly spoke up to explain, "How could that be? Matsumoto-sensei, you must have misremembered!"

"Really?" Sayuri pinched Conan's cheek and tugged at it. "It really looks like him. Every time I see this face that's so similar to my first love's, I can't help but want to tease him."

"hehe,"

Conan chuckled twice and quickly snatched his glasses back.

“By the way, Officer Matsuda,” Sayuri suddenly looked at Matsuda and asked, “What if one day you were chasing a criminal in your car, but along the way, because of your pursuit, the criminal ran over and killed an innocent pedestrian…”

"You want to ask me if I feel guilty?" Matsuda shook his head. "First of all, you've got the wrong person. It was the criminal who killed the person, not me."

"Secondly, it is the duty of the police to chase criminals. I will feel sorry for the dead passerby, but I will not blame myself for his death."

"Matsumoto-sensei, why are you suddenly asking these questions?" Conan looked up and asked in confusion.

"N-nothing, it's just that I was thinking about some things from the past..."

Lily shook her head. She took her lemon tea, walked to the windowsill, and stared blankly at the sky.

Matsuda sighed, placed the unfinished lemon tea on the table, and whispered to Conan,

"Oh no, I'm increasingly convinced that today's wedding is going to go wrong."

"Hehe, I think you're just having that occupational hazard of being a detective!" Conan replied.

"Bang!"

The door to the room was suddenly pushed open forcefully.

"What are you being shy about at a time like this? You're the groom!"

Amidst the jeers, a frail-looking man in a tuxedo was pushed in, staggering.

"Toshihiko?"

Sayuri looked at the man who came in with surprise.

It turns out this guy is today's groom.

He really does have the appearance of a weak and pretty boy, no wonder Inspector Matsumoto didn't like him.

Matsuda silently complained.

"Sayuri..."

The man stared at the beautiful bride, momentarily stunned.

Then, as if noticing something, he suddenly strode forward and snatched the lemon tea from Sayuri's hand.

Why are you still drinking this kind of food that has no nutritional value?

Just then, the two girls returned with the batteries they had bought.

Sonoko seemed to recognize the groom. As soon as she saw him, she exclaimed, "Aren't you the heir to the Takasugi Group?"

"You are the second young lady of the Suzuki family..."

The groom looked at the garden, talking as he casually placed the lemon tea on the table.

"The wedding time is almost here," the person in charge of the wedding announced as they came in.

"You go first, Junyan," Xiaobaihe nudged the groom.

"Ah good……"

The groom, Gao Binjun, paused for a moment, then gave Xiaobaihe a deep look.

He left with Xiaolan and her group.

Matsuda wanted to go out too, but just as he reached the door, Sayuri called him back.

"Officer Matsuda, do you remember the question I just asked?"

Seeing Matsuda nod, she continued,

"What if that passerby could have been saved, but you ignored her while trying to catch the thief, ultimately leading to her death?"

Xiaobaihe's eyes were full of conflict as she spoke.

Although Matsuda was puzzled, he still answered first: "It depends on the situation. If I noticed it but didn't do anything about it, I would naturally feel guilty. But if I didn't notice it, then the answer is the same as before."

"I see... It's a pity that some people don't think that way."

Little Lily bit her red lips and picked up a can of lemon tea from the table next to her.

"I hope this will ease the hatred in his heart," she murmured softly, then bit the straw and drank the lemon tea.

"Did something happen?"

Matsuda remembered that there was a can of lemon tea on the table that belonged to him, so he picked it up and took a few sips.

"The policeman you mentioned in your question, could it be Matsumoto... um?"

Before he could finish speaking, Matsuda suddenly felt a burning sensation rising from his esophagus to his stomach!

"Officer Matsuda?"

When Matsuda suddenly clutched his stomach, Sayuri was taken aback.

She glanced at the lemon tea in her hand. Then it suddenly dawned on her—this bottle didn't seem to be hers!

"Oh no!" Little Lily was instantly stunned.

The lemon tea in her hand fell to the ground, the metal can making a crisp sound!

The sound of the fall brought Sayuri back to her senses.

She shouted urgently, "Help! Officer Matsuda has been poisoned!"

"what?"

Conan and the others, who hadn't gone far from the room door, immediately rushed in.

"What happened? How could Officer Matsuda be poisoned?"

Ran and Sonoko looked at Matsuda, whose brows were furrowed in worry.

One person rushed over to help him up, while the other dialed the emergency number.

"What exactly is going on?"

Today's groom, Takahiro Kobin, was also staring blankly at Matsuda.

"...What did you add to your lemon tea?"