Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

"Ms. Tomoda, we ordered two fruit plates. Would you like to chat with us?"

With the help of Miss Tomoda, they ordered two fruit plates, and Mr. Mochizuki asked the girl to stay. Seeing her glance at Mr. Shinjo and then nodded in agreement, Matsuda and the others perked up and prepared to ask and collect information.

"Ms. Tomoda, you got into college, right? Which college?" Miwako Sato, who considered this woman a suspect, asked in a normal tone, "Your family is not willing to pay for your college tuition?"

In fact, for those prospective college students who have no money to pay for college tuition, they can try to apply for a student loan, but the interest rate is frighteningly high, so no one brought up this point.

Conan mentioned Beika University and Haido University before because he felt that if Miss Tomoda was admitted to a good school, then even if her income after graduation did not meet the highest standard, it would be more than enough to pay off her debts within five years. So he subconsciously judged that the school this woman was admitted to should be relatively ordinary.

"I haven't seen my parents since I can remember. Someone has been paying for my living expenses, but that stopped at the end of last year."

Ms. Tomoda did not feel offended by Miwako Sato's questions, and she generously shared her own experiences. She was bullied in elementary school because no one came to every parent-teacher meeting, and in junior high school, she was ostracized by all the girls in the class because two handsome boys in the class competed to confess their love to her.

"But there are people who care about me, such as teachers at school and seniors in high school clubs. They make me feel that there are more kind people in this world."

When Miss Tomoda saw Mr. Shinjo coming over again, she wanted to stand up awkwardly, but Mao Lilan held her hand and asked her to sit down.

"Please sit down and relax, Ms. Tomoda. I think Mr. Shinjo must be busy and will sit back down later."

"Thank you."

Everyone frowned and looked at the old butler. Even Wangyue lost his patience and asked Xincheng to quickly explain what was going on.

"I was just asked by Miss Murakami to make room for other guests. After all, I don't have that much money to book a table booth."

The old man was also holding a tissue and two packs of disposable transparent covers for wine glasses.

"We have some on the table, do you want to get it, Grandpa?"

Seeing that Mouri Ran had no intention of letting go of Miss Tomoda and asking her to save a seat for Mr. Shinjo, Conan stood up and ran to ask the manager for two chairs, then pulled Jin Yuanguang to sit on a chair and asked the butler to come over to Matsuda and the others.

"That woman's attitude was very bad when she was urging us to sit down. I took the things on the table and asked her to make an extra trip. It can be regarded as a small punishment." The old man touched his beard which still smelled of orange wine: "I'm curious, how are the questions over there going?" "If you weren't causing trouble at your old age, I think these people would have solved the problem for me." Mochizuki rolled her eyes and was about to chat with Miss Tomoda about her recent situation. When she looked up, she found Murakami, who had mocked her before, walking towards her.

"Youtian, we're out of orange wine. Go mix some more."

The woman who came over from the booth where Xincheng had just sat looked at Xincheng and took away the paper towels and cover that originally belonged to this table with some disdain: "This old man just ordered several glasses of wine and drank the last of the orange wine. He clearly asked me to place the order, but he actually put the bill on you!"

"Huh?" Everyone looked at Xincheng in surprise.

"What's wrong? I only know Miss Tomoda here." Mr. Shinjo snorted, "These people are all the same anyway."

He looks like a proud old man, but everyone knows that he really looks down on all the employees in the store.

"Okay, go and make the cocktails. I have a few customers here who want to place orders!" Murakami, worried that the customers would leave without getting a drink, hurriedly urged Miss Tomoda.

"ok, I get it."

Miss Tomoda nodded helplessly. She looked at the rim of her lemonade cup, took the lid handed to her by Amuro Toru, removed it and placed it on the soda water cup, then went back to mix the cocktail.

"what happened?"

Jin Yuanguang saw Amuro Toru rubbing his hands.

"No, the two covers that Mr. Xincheng brought over feel a little cold..."

Toru Amuro remembered that when he first came, their lids were at room temperature, but the lid that Mr. Shinjo brought was cold. This made the undercover agent subconsciously feel that something was wrong. He was afraid that there might be some conspiracy. He wanted to take another one to take a look, but found that it had been opened by Mr. Shinjo and covered his cup. He was speechless.

[The girl built this for safety, what is this old man doing...] (End of this chapter)