Ke Xue: My standards for dating are not problematic!

Chapter 371 Ai's Friend! Naomi Algent

Beikacho, Kitahara Chinese Restaurant.

After leaving the apartment, Kitahara Natsuhiro went straight to the restaurant.

By this time, the restaurant already had quite a few customers, including some foreign tourists.

During this time, their Chinese restaurant has built up a good reputation and has even become a popular tourist attraction in Beika Town.

Many people come here specifically to eat or even take photos.

And everyone who comes here says it's delicious, with mostly positive reviews, but there are also some negative ones.

However, these negative reviews weren't about the taste being bad, but rather about the restaurant being too small, too crowded, and having a mediocre environment.

There's nothing we can do about it; the restaurant is only so big, and there are quite a few customers every day, so it naturally looks crowded.

However, the dishes were flawless and received unanimous praise from everyone.

After all, the head chef of this restaurant is Amuro Tooru, the king of part-time jobs. With him around, there won't be any problems with the food at this restaurant.

Moreover, Kitahara Natsuhiro would come over to help from time to time, so there was naturally no problem!
However, having more foreign guests wasn't necessarily a good thing, as it made Amuro Tooru a bit paranoid, always secretly checking the outside to see if any organization was conducting investigations there.

There's no way around it; this is Amuro Tooru's main job as a member of the Japanese Public Security Bureau, his side job is as a member of a black organization, and only as the head chef of a restaurant is he a shill.

That's why he's being so cautious.

However, while Amuro Tooru was subtly glancing outside, there was someone else in the kitchen secretly observing him.

And this person was none other than Rum the One-Eyed, the second-in-command of the black organization who had infiltrated the organization.

Rum had known for a long time that Amuro Tooru was Bourbon within the Black Organization, but he still harbored suspicions about this guy, even suspecting that he might be an undercover agent sent in by another organization.

This is normal, because the people who can be trusted in the black organization are all trained from childhood, and those who join the organization halfway through will not be given much important responsibilities unless they are very capable.

Amuro Tooru and Kir are examples of this; they are quite capable, which is why they became codenamed members of the organization, but this does not mean that they became the core of the organization.

At this point, they were still unable to penetrate deep into the organization's core; they could only carry out tasks.

Therefore, Rum suspects Amuro Tooru, Kir, and even everyone else.

That's just Rum's nature; there's nothing you can do about it.

"Amuro, what's wrong with you lately?" Kitahara Natsuyu turned to look at Amuro Tooru and couldn't help but tease him, "Why do you seem a little absent-minded? Have you gotten a girlfriend? Is that why you keep looking outside?"

Upon hearing this, Amuro Tooru's heart skipped a beat, but he remained expressionless: "How could that be? I have no intention of finding a girlfriend or getting married."

"It's just that recently, we've had a lot more foreign customers in our shop, so I'm worried that they won't be used to the food here, and that will damage our reputation."

"Boss, you should know very well that the store's reputation is our lifeline. I've worked so hard to get to this point, so we can't let it all fall apart here!"

girlfriend?
My girlfriend is this country. I need to protect this country in their place, so I will never have a girlfriend in my life, let alone get married.

The "they" that Amuro Tooru was referring to were naturally four of the five members of the police academy group.

However, all four of them are dead, either shot or killed by bombs, and some died in car accidents.

These were all Amuro Tooru's friends, but they are all gone, so Amuro Tooru will take their place and protect this country!
However, this country doesn't need Amuro Tooru to protect it, nor can he protect it anyway.

Because the people protecting this country are American soldiers from across the ocean, not Amuro Tooru!

"I see," Kitahara Natsumi knew perfectly well, but still went along with Amuro Tooru's words and said, "Don't worry."

“Outsiders’ tastes are different from ours. They pursue the natural flavor of food, or even healthy food, while our restaurant’s food is cooked to make the flavor more layered.”

"It's impossible to please everyone in this situation, and some things are beyond our control, so don't worry."

"Moreover, we don't rely on these foreign tourists, but on our neighbors!"

Hearing this, Amuro Tooru smiled and said, "That's true. It seems I was too nervous."

“After all, this is a restaurant you built from scratch, so your feelings for it are complicated, which I can understand,” Kitahara Natsumi said with a smile.

“Yes.” Amuro Tooru nodded, said nothing more, and began to work diligently.

Rum, who was working nearby, overheard their conversation. His eyes flickered, and it was unclear what he was thinking.

Of course, Amuro Tooru didn't know, but Kitahara Natsuhiro did.

However, Kitahara Natsuhiro had no urge to pry into Rum's current thoughts.

After all, Rum was just an insect that could be crushed at will. If it weren't for watching the show, Rum would have been killed long ago.

"Alright, let's get to work!"

Soon, Kitahara Natsuhiro also began to work hard.

Meanwhile, inside the restaurant.

Akemi Miyano, Azusa Enomoto, Ai Haibara, Ran Mouri, Sonoko, and Conan are all busy.

There was no way around it; there were just too many customers.

As for Yukiko, she comes to the store less often now because starting a company has been put on the agenda, and she has become very busy.

Therefore, I will come to the restaurant much less often, or even not at all.

Of course, it doesn't matter if Yukiko doesn't come; Conan is enough.

Conan originally thought he was coming to help his mother with her busy work, but it turned out that his mother didn't come at all today.

But he still shared some of the work with Xiaolan, I'm so amazing.

It has to be said that Conan really took on a lot of work here, especially in the part of entertaining outsiders.

The increase in the number of foreigners has led to a need for translators and similar services.

Although Ran and Sonoko are both high school students and their English is good, so communication is definitely not a problem, there are too many languages ​​in foreign countries, and there are some that they don't understand.

But Conan is different. This kid speaks all languages ​​and is a natural translator. He's amazing.

So Conan saved Kitahara Natsuhiro a lot of trouble here!

However, Conan doesn't receive any salary, but he can get a meal here, which can be considered as payment for Conan.

"So busy, so busy, I'm really too busy!" Conan, holding a menu and a notebook, approached a customer and began speaking fluently in a foreign language.

Foreigners were amazed when they heard Conan speak fluent foreign languages, exclaiming that Japanese children are truly amazing!
After hearing these compliments, Conan scratched his head sheepishly and said that he wasn't that good.

Just as Conan was being praised, a woman at a certain seat observed the restaurant and then locked onto one person—Ai Haibara. "Is that you, Shiho-kun?!" Naomi Argent looked at Ai Haibara's familiar face and couldn't help but exclaim in her mind.

Naomi Algent is of Japanese and Italian descent. She was classmates with Shiho Miyano when she was a child in the United States and was even protected by Shiho Miyano a few times. However, the two later separated due to family reasons.

But Naomi Algent has never forgotten Shiho Miyano; in fact, she keeps her firmly in her heart.

Today, she saw a woman here who looked remarkably like Shiho; this woman was none other than Ai Haibara.

However, one was named Shiho Miyano and the other Ai Haibara, and she wasn't sure if the woman she saw was a friend from her childhood.

As for her, she was a tourist visiting Japan.

She knew that Shiho Miyano was from Japan, so after graduating and starting work, she came here to travel, hoping to find Shiho's whereabouts.

She really wanted to find Shiho, reunite with her, and even repay the kindness she had shown her in the past.

"It seems that we can only use that thing," Naomi Algent thought to herself.

That thing is a technology she developed, but it's still under development and can already be used to some extent.

As for this technology, it is naturally facial recognition, but this is different from previous facial recognition methods.

Even if you take a photo of someone's child, you can accurately find that person as an adult. However, it is still under development and the function is not yet very powerful. You still need to do some comparison.

However, she felt that the current situation was sufficient.

After all, she had always remembered Shiho Miyano's appearance, and the girl in front of her had a face that was almost identical to Shiho Miyano's when she was a child.

Their face shapes were the same, and even some of their expressions were extremely similar, which made Naomi Algent begin to have doubts.

However, taking photos secretly is not advisable, and she has no intention of doing so. In fact, some things can be resolved without taking photos secretly.

Therefore, Naomi Algent took action.

She waved and called over a waiter, but it wasn't Shiho Miyano; it was Sonoko.

"Miss, what would you like to order?" Sonoko said in fluent English.

After working for a while, Sonoko has become quite familiar with these procedures.

Upon hearing this, Naomi Algent replied in fluent Japanese, "Hello, may I ask who that lady is?"

The person she was pointing at was naturally Ai Haibara.

"That lady?"

Sonoko looked in the direction Naomi Algent was pointing and saw Ai Haibara smiling at the guests.

"Ah, you mean her? Her name is Ai Haibara, she's Masami's younger sister. Do you know her?" Sonoko said, "Ai studied abroad, maybe you know her. Should I call her over?"

Everyone in the restaurant knew about Ai Haibara's studies abroad, so it's perfectly normal for her to have a few foreign friends; there's nothing wrong with that.

Upon hearing this, Naomi Algent said, "Then I'll trouble you."

"You're welcome."

Sonoko smiled, then left and went to Ai Haibara's side: "Ai, that lady over there seems to know you. Is she a friend of yours from when you were studying abroad?"

"My friends from when I was studying abroad?" Ai was taken aback when she heard this.

Although she was studying abroad, she didn't have any friends at all. Because of her connection with the criminal organization, she didn't have much contact with other people.

Because she knew that too much contact would implicate them because of her, she never made friends, and didn't even have many friends to talk to.

Throughout her entire study abroad experience, she remained quite withdrawn.

But some of her former classmates still recognize her, after all, she is still very pretty. Beautiful women are recognizable, unless they are the beauties next door who have undergone minor cosmetic surgery!

"Where?" Ai asked.

Upon hearing this, Sonoko pointed to Naomi Algent, who was not far away.

Ai followed Sonoko's finger and looked in that direction, where she saw Naomi Algent sitting and drinking water.

The moment she saw Naomi Algent, an image flashed into her mind.

During the day, she was about to take the school bus to school, but after getting on the bus, she saw several people bullying a girl, and she then helped the girl out of the situation.

She remembered that the girl's name was something like...
Naomi Algent!
Yes, that’s the name.

Ai Haibara has an excellent memory; she remembers even things from the past very clearly.

So she does remember Naomi Algent.

Now, Naomi Algent's childhood appearance overlaps with that of a girl not far away.

No way? !

Ai Haibara looked at her and thought to herself, "Could she be Naomi Algent from when she was a child?"

"She actually remembers this!"

As Ai Haibara was sizing up Naomi Algent, Naomi Algent was also sizing up Ai Haibara, and she saw a glimmer of light on Ai Haibara's face.

That glimmer of light made her realize that the person in front of her was Shiho Miyano, the girl who had protected her when she was a child.

"I knew I hadn't misremembered!"

At that moment, Naomi Algent stood up from her seat and walked towards Ai Haibara.

not good!

Ai thought to herself as she watched Naomi Algent walk over.

When she was studying in the United States, she used the name Shiho Miyano, but now she uses the name Ai Haibara.
"Naomi Algent!"

“You still remember me!” Naomi Algent exclaimed with delight.

"Of course I remember." Ai Haibara smiled, then stepped forward, took her arm, and said, "This isn't the place to chat, let's go somewhere else!"

"it is good."

Naomi Algent and Ai Haibara arrived at their seats and began to talk!

(End of this chapter)