Conan: The Heart Thief

"Eh? Is that so?" Sayuri Matsumoto was stunned. If the groom was changed from a childhood sweetheart to a famous detective, it would not be impossible to consider. In the detective world, childhood sweethearts have to take a back seat to detectives.

"Detective Lin, I'm sincere and not just trying desperately. Would you like to consider it?" Manager Matsumoto had a fierce face and tried his best to give Lin Xiao a look, which was as funny as it could be.

Lin Xiao was quite amused and said, "Manager Matsumoto, calm down. Even if I agree, your daughter will not agree."

"That's true..." Manager Matsumoto sighed and had no choice but to give up and let his daughter marry Takasugi Toshihiko.

However...Sayuri Matsumoto misunderstood.

"Detective Lin, if you really think so, I can consider it. Junyan is still in contact with his ex-girlfriend, so why don't I help them and cancel the wedding?"

Chapter 236 Sayuri Matsumoto's Self-Strategy

Lin Xiao was shocked. Wasn't Sayuri Matsumoto obsessed with her childhood sweetheart? She wanted to marry him even though she was almost poisoned to death. She actually wanted to cancel the wedding!

Faced with the expectations of Matsumoto and his daughter, Lin Xiao was struggling with how to answer.

Suddenly, bad news came...

It turned out that the groom had a quarrel with his ex-girlfriend and was thirsty, so he picked up the lemon tea and drank it over and over again. He had no idea that his lemon tea had been replaced and was poisonous.

So, after drinking the lemon tea, the groom fell to the floor in the lounge with blood coming out of the corner of his mouth.

After the incident, Inspector Megure and his colleagues immediately investigated the scene.

"Officer Megure, I have made an assessment. I preliminarily believe that the reason why Takasugi Toshihiko collapsed was probably because he drank the lemon tea mixed with sodium hydroxide."

The officer from the Identification Division reported to Inspector Megure.

"Oh, it was a food accident. It was an accident."

Inspector Megure immediately gave a conclusion.

"Inspector Megure, don't jump to conclusions so early."

"Eh?" Inspector Megure turned his head and saw a beautiful girl in a high school uniform. She was Lin Xiao's disciple.

"You, you, you... who are you?"

"I am Lin Xiao's disciple, Shiliang Zhenchun. I can also be considered a high school detective."

Then, Sera Masumi pointed to the important evidence she found and showed it to Inspector Megure: "Officer Megure, look, what is that."

Inspector Megure took a closer look and said, "Ah, this is... a capsule that hasn't completely dissolved yet?"

The identification police carefully picked up the small half of the capsule shell with tweezers, which made Lin Xiaofeng, who was watching, look strange. Such an obvious thing was invisible, and the detective had to remind you. The Japanese police are really doomed.

"So that's it. The murderer must have put sodium hydroxide into this capsule and then put the capsule into the lemon tea to confuse the time of poisoning."

At the same time, after staring at the wreckage of the capsule for a while, Inspector Megure analyzed: "So, the suspects at the moment should be the three people who had contact with Takasugi Toshihiko after he got the lemon tea and before he was poisoned - Lin Xiao, Takenaka Kazumi, and Matsumoto Sayuri!"

Lin Xiao narrowed his eyes: "If you count me, Officer Megure is also a suspect."

Officer Megure said with sweat on his forehead, "Okay. Then include me in the list."

Officer Megure stroked his chin and fixed his eyes on Takenaka Kazumi: "Lin Xiao and I can't possibly murder Takasugi Toshihiko. Matsumoto Sayuri is Takasugi Toshihiko's fiancée, so that's also impossible. Then, it's only you, Takenaka Kazumi!"

"I have always loved Takasugi Toshihiko. Even though I was dumped, I didn't give up!" Takenaka Kazumi was very dissatisfied with the accusation made by Officer Megure. "I think it must have been done by Lin Xiao."

Takenaka Kazumi raised her finger and pointed at Lin Xiao's nose: "It was him. I saw him poisoning the lemon tea while I was arguing with Takasugi Toshihiko."

"Really? Brother Lin, did you really poison the lemon tea?" Inspector Megure asked. If the murderer was really Lin Xiao, he would not bend the law for personal gain.

Lin Xiao rolled his eyes at Inspector Megure and said, "Just check the surveillance and you'll know."

Lin Xiao clearly remembered that in the anime, there was a camera in the bride's preparation room, and Conan solved the case based on the surveillance video. I just don't know why these stupid detectives haven't checked the surveillance video until now.

After being reminded by Lin Xiao, Inspector Megure came to his senses and checked the surveillance video.

Soon, Inspector Megure found the person in charge of the auditorium and got the surveillance video.

Everyone gathered together to watch the video, and the truth became clear.

In the surveillance video, Takasugi Toshihiko took two cans of lemon tea, opened them, inserted straws, and poisoned one of the cans of lemon tea.

Then, Takasugi Toshihiko took it and prepared to give the poisonous lemon tea to Matsumoto Sayuri.

Before Sayuri Matsumoto could drink, Kazumi Takenaka started arguing with Toshihiko Takasugi.

During the fight, Lin Xiao and Inspector Megure appeared. Inspector Megure went to mediate the fight, while Lin Xiao took the lemon tea. However, he did not drink it. Instead, he replaced the poisoned lemon tea. This is why Sayuri Matsumoto was fine after drinking the lemon tea, but Toshihiko Takasugi was poisoned after drinking the lemon tea.

After watching the surveillance video, everyone suddenly realized that Takasugi Toshihiko's poisoning was entirely his own fault.

"Hey, hey, hey... why did you suddenly appear, Brother Lin, and adjust the position of the lemon tea!" Inspector Megure was very puzzled.

"I saw the lemon tea on the table and felt thirsty, so I picked it up and prepared to drink it, but suddenly I realized that these two cups of lemon tea were prepared for Ms. Matsumoto Sayuri and her fiancé, so I gave up."

"So that's it."

Inspector Megure believed it. The other detectives believed it too.

However, Matsumoto and his daughter knew that Lin Xiao must have done it on purpose.

Matsumoto Kiyonaga patted his daughter's shoulder and said, "Sayuri, now you should know who is the man you should love."

Sayuri Matsumoto blushed and nodded, humbly admitting her mistake: "Dad, I know now."

Even though the truth was revealed, Manager Matsumoto was still depressed.

"But why did Takasugi Toshihiko do this? How did my daughter do that to him? Why did he want to murder my daughter?!"

Lin Xiao was able to explain a few things to Manager Matsumoto's questions.

Lin Xiao coughed, and then explained to everyone the origin of the incident.

"Ahem...Manager Matsumoto, this is all because of you!"

"because I?"

Manager Matsumoto was confused.

"Many years ago, Takasugi Toshihiko was still a child, and had not yet been adopted by the Takasugi Group. One day, Manager Matsumoto, you were so focused on chasing the criminal that you didn't notice Takasugi Toshihiko's biological mother under the car of the murderer. You ignored Takasugi Toshihiko's call for help, which resulted in the death of Takasugi Toshihiko's biological mother.

Because of this incident, Takasugi Toshihiko hated you and decided to take revenge on you by making you lose the person closest to you!

So, Takasugi Toshihiko planned to kill your daughter at the wedding."

Not only does he kill someone, he also destroys their heart. Takasugi Toshihiko is so vicious. Everyone felt the evilness of human nature and took a deep breath, speechless.

"What a vicious man." After listening to Lin Xiao's explanation, Manager Matsumoto was furious. "It wasn't me who killed Takasugi Toshihiko's biological mother. It was that criminal. Even if he hated me, he shouldn't have hurt my daughter!"

Sayuri Matsumoto was shocked when she heard the truth.

"Why? Why would Detective Lin know about this? I'm the only one who knows about this."

"So, Detective Lin showed up and switched the lemon tea just to save me? When did he start paying attention to me, and I didn't even notice it?"

"…I am so stupid. I can't see the man who truly loves me, but I love a man who hates me to the core!"

Chapter 237 The Golden Apple of Eternal Youth

After the incident, the ambulance promptly sent Takasugi Toshihiko to the hospital for emergency treatment. His life was saved, but because his stomach and throat were burned, he had problems eating and speaking, and his life was worse than death.

Of course, Sayuri Matsumoto could not get married, and everyone comforted Sayuri Matsumoto.

Sayuri Matsumoto smiled bitterly and accepted everyone's kindness, but now she only had Lin Xiao in her heart.

As for Lin Xiao, he combined all the personality masks he had recently obtained at once and obtained a new and powerful personality mask.

Idun: The goddess of youth in Norse mythology, who is also in charge of the golden apple that keeps the gods young. She is gentle and kind, and believes that everyone is a good person, and never really hates anyone. She was once robbed by a giant, so the gods could not get the apple of youth, and the gods began to age, causing great panic.

Specific Abilities: Golden Apple: Eternal Youth.

Lin Xiao was immediately happy when he obtained the personality mask of Eden, who controls youth. Even if one day in the future, Conan turned back into Shinichi and time returned to normal, he would be able to let his wives gain eternal youth and never have to worry about aging again.

Sayuri Matsumoto, who was standing by, saw Lin Xiao's vague smile of understanding and thought that Lin Xiao was happy that she couldn't get married.

It turns out that Lin Xiao likes me so much. However, I am so much older than him. Is there really no problem with this kind of relationship?

Thinking of this, Sayuri Matsumoto fell into worry.

Xiaolan and Sonoko still thought that Sayuri Matsumoto was still obsessed with Takasugi Toshihiko, and tried to persuade her.

Xiaolan: "Sayuri-sensei, your fiancé is shooting himself in the foot. You should never be sad for such a bad person."

Sonoko: "Yes, yes... Teacher Sayuri, if your fiancé is rescued, you should not marry him!"

Sayuri Matsumoto looked at the two students who cared about her so much and smiled slightly.

"Ran, Sonoko, the teacher is not that stupid. The teacher will not be sad for a bad guy like Takasugi Toshihiko, nor will she be stupid enough to continue to marry him."

After hearing Sayuri Matsumoto's reply, Xiaolan and Sonoko were relieved. However, they were very confused as to why Lin Xiao knew the story of Sayuri Matsumoto and her fiancé.

Zhenchun was also very curious about this. Such a secret matter could not be known by reasoning. What method did Lin Xiao use?

So, Xiaolan, Sonoko, and Majun came to Lin Xiao together and asked for the answer.

Lin Xiao had no answer to this question. He could only smile mysteriously at the three people and let them figure it out on their own.

Smiling without saying anything was Lin Xiao’s answer.

Of course the three were not satisfied with Lin Xiao's answer, but since Lin Xiao was unwilling to say it, there was nothing they could do.

……

The next day, during lunch break, Sayuri Matsumoto asked Lin Xiao to meet her on the rooftop of the teaching building.

Sayuri Matsumoto works in the junior high school department of Teitan High School and is actually in the same school as Lin Xiao.

"Detective Lin, I came all the way here to thank you. If it weren't for you, Detective Lin, I would be the one lying in the hospital now."

"Teacher Sayuri, this is just a coincidence. There's no need to thank me specifically."

"It's not a coincidence. I noticed it right away... Detective Lin deliberately swapped the cans of lemon tea. It was all for me, right?"

Sayuri Matsumoto said this very seriously.

And the distance between him and Lin Xiao was getting closer and closer, almost within reach.

Looking closely at Sayuri Matsumoto, she is indeed a beauty, and a very traditional Japanese beauty. She reminded him of a Japanese female star, Nanako Matsushima.

"Detective Lin, you did this all for me, right?"

Sayuri Matsumoto's tone suddenly became aggressive.