I am in Mihua, and the ladies all like me

Never mind. It’s hard to say.

Serabelle lowered her head and tightened her arms slightly, pressing her face against the girl's delicate earlobe. Her eyes passed over her fair and delicate shoulders and fell on the laptop screen. The fragrance of shower gel lingered on her nose.

Mary Akai ignored his little action tolerantly and opened a document that was just created today on the computer desktop.

"This is the poster I designed. Take it to the copy shop tomorrow to get it printed."

"Well?"

Serabelle glanced at the contents of the document and couldn't help but raise her voice slightly.

Akai Mary glanced back: "What's the problem?"

"No, I'm just a little curious. Is this the latest promotional method?"

Serabelle pointed to the laptop screen.

He originally thought that the promotional poster that Akai Mary would come up with should be something like "For plumbing and air conditioning repairs, please find Master X, phone number: xxxxxxxx", but surprisingly, the fact was exactly the opposite.

The style of the finished promotional poster can be said to be quite exaggerated, or in a more EQ sense, cool.

In the picture, he is holding a pipe and wearing a classic Sherlock Holmes suit. It doesn't feel like a detective promotional poster, but more like an idol debut!

And Serabel had no recollection of having taken this photo. It was obvious that he had carefully cut out and synthesized some of his previous photos.

"It's nothing, it's just a means of publicity."

Mary Akai looked at the finished poster on the screen again and again, and was obviously very satisfied with her work.

"Although many people now look down on people who use gimmicks to hype themselves up, the fact is that in this era, if a person with no foundation or background wants to gain fame as quickly as possible, using gimmicks to hype himself up is indeed the only reliable way."

The saying "Good wine needs no bush" is no longer applicable in this era.

"Of course, as I said before, gimmicks can only help you gain popularity in the shortest possible time, but if you really want to operate for a long time, you still need to have enough hard power."

“It takes countless successes to build a golden signboard, but it only takes a small failure to mess it up.”

Akai Mary brought up this sentence again.

Serabelle rubbed her face and said, "What about Masumi? I thought Sister Mary, you would design one for Masumi as well."

"She has to go to class and doesn't have that much time." The female investigator gave a very convincing reason.

Serabelle thought so too, and after a two-second pause, she changed the subject.

"Speaking of which, during dinner, Masumi mentioned something about the second daughter of the Suzuki Group. Sister Mary, you didn't seem to take it seriously?"

"It's not that I don't care, but it's meaningless even if I care."

Akai Mary said lightly.

"Now let me ask you, Bell, do you think that establishing a connection with the second daughter of the Suzuki Group will really help us track down the black organization?"

"really……"

Serabelle thought about it.

This is actually a very simple truth. It is true that the eldest daughter of the Suzuki Group is now engaged to the son of another group. The only person who may be able to take charge of the Suzuki Group in the future is the eldest daughter Sonoko who is still in high school. But after all, she has not taken charge of the Suzuki Group yet.

What's more, for a consortium as big as Suzuki, there are all kinds of complicated conflicts of interest. How could it possibly use resources to investigate a mysterious organization that is hard to find just because its eldest daughter has a good relationship with an outsider?

You can figure this out by just thinking about it with your knees.

"Understand?"

Noticing the change in expression on the boy's face, Akai Mari spoke softly.

"Of course, I'm not going to dismiss all possibilities. Maybe there's a very small possibility that Miss Sonoko is a person of character who would risk her life for her friends, but this possibility is so small that it can almost be ignored. In short, you can try to get in touch with her, but don't hold too high hopes for this line."

"I understand." Serabell nodded.

"And I have another piece of information about the Suzuki Group."

Mary Akai moved her mouse to close the email page and entered the name "Suzuki Jirokichi" in the search bar on the homepage.

This was obviously a very famous guy. Serabelle noticed that a whole column of search options popped up below before she finished typing in the name.

The female investigator pressed the enter key without looking away, and the webpage instantly jumped to the character encyclopedia.

"Suzuki Jirokichi, as a special advisor to the Suzuki Group, is the elder brother of the current chairman of the Suzuki Group, Suzuki Shiro. In fact, compared to his younger brother Suzuki Shiro, Suzuki Jirokichi is the one who built the Suzuki Group from scratch. However, he was not born with a strong desire for power. When he reached middle age and the Suzuki Group grew stronger, he handed over all power to his younger brother, with whom he had a very good relationship. From then on, he began to travel the rest of his life, dabbling in various fields and winning countless awards. Today, at the age of 72, he is still unmarried, but he has only one regret."

"No children?" Serabelle guessed.

"He hopes to catch Kaito Kidd in his lifetime but has not succeeded so far." Mary Akai revealed slowly.

Kaitou Kidd...

Serabelle was not unfamiliar with this name. She had often heard other investigators mention it when she was in MI6.

It is said that he is a mysterious thief who is active in countries around the world and specializes in stealing various precious treasures. His appearance, gender, age, height and weight are unknown. The only feature is a white evening dress and a glider cloak that can transform into a white bird soaring in the sky.

This thief also has some very strange quirks. Before each theft, he will always send a Riddler-like warning letter in advance. The more heavily guarded the treasure is, the more it will arouse his desire to challenge, and he will return the treasure every time he succeeds.

Highlight a taunt.

So every time this thief succeeds and makes the headlines, the news will become the topic of conversation among MI6 investigators for at least two or three days.

It’s not that they care much about this Kaito Kidd, but they mainly want to use it to mock the security strength of other countries. This is their real purpose.

The question is, Kaito Kidd has never broken through Britain’s security, can other countries do it?

But it would be rude to ask again, because Kaito Kid has never been to the UK...

Akai Mary took a deep breath and said, "If everything goes well, you may be able to establish a relationship with the real core of the Suzuki Group through this matter, and then you may be able to get help from the Suzuki family. Of course, the same principle still applies. This line can only be a small probability surprise at best, so don't count on it too much."

"understood."

Serabelle nodded without asking why.

Feeling that she had said almost everything, Akai Mary gently closed the laptop screen, then curled up her legs, turned around and jumped off the bed, and began to pack the computer and power supply into her bag one by one.

"Anyway, this is roughly the plan for now. I'm going back to sleep first, and you should get some rest early too."

"what……"

Serabelle's eyes fell on the bedside table beside her, and she raised her hand to pick up a box of ultra-thin umbrellas that had been half used.

"Aren't you going to take this Sister Mary back with you?"

"It's okay, just leave it here with you."

The light blonde girl glanced up and said, then her tone became a little annoyed.

"I brought this box with me when I left from the UK. I wanted to bring two more boxes, but my family hadn't bought new ones for a while, so this was the only box left."

"Well, it's available in any 24-hour self-service convenience store in Japan." Serabell didn't care.

"Remember to buy it while Zhenchun is in school."

The female investigator did not forget to give instructions.

Chapter 17: Moving Armor

The first day after arriving in Tokyo passed by, and time quickly came to the next day.

It is a desperate Black Monday for the vast majority of office workers who have already entered society and started working.

After all, we just experienced a beautiful and short weekend. The thought of having to work intensively for five consecutive days, compared with the beauty of yesterday that has passed, is enough to make people feel suffocated.

Of course, this also applies to students.

In the second-year Class B classroom of Teitan High School, the dark cloud brought by the continuous yawning hung over the classroom. Most of the students had dark circles under their eyes, which were the result of fatigue accumulated after a weekend of partying.

Except for one person.

That is Suzuki Sonoko.

She actually had some dark circles under her eyes because she was so engrossed in watching TV series last night that she kept watching until after midnight. When she came to her senses and noticed the time in the upper left corner of the tablet, she quickly turned off the video and went to sleep. After lying in bed for less than six hours, she was woken up by the alarm clock again. Logically, she should have been in a state of fatigue.

However, at this moment, Miss Sonoko not only did not show any signs of being tired, but she looked extremely radiant, as if she was wearing three pearls all over her body.

[High spirits] has been activated.

Tuk, Tuk, Tuk...

The time passed by minute by minute on the clock hanging right above the blackboard in front of the classroom. The sound of high heels stepping on the floor came rhythmically from far away in the corridor outside the classroom.

The classroom door was open, and a graceful figure in an OL suit walked in from outside, followed by the teacher's usual friendly voice.

"Good morning everyone, how was your weekend?"

In fact, there is no need to say more, the pair of panda eyes below have already answered everything well.

Then the female teacher said something that Miss Sonoko had been looking forward to since she woke up this morning.

"Okay, before the morning class starts today, please welcome the new students who are about to join our class with applause!"

There are new classmates?

Except for Suzuki Sonoko, everyone else in the classroom was slightly stunned, including a certain unicorn JK.

But Xiaolan reacted quickly.

Could this new classmate be...

Wow!

Warm applause instantly resounded throughout the classroom. The girl with tiger teeth, who had met at the door of the Rice Flower Café yesterday, strode in from the door, came to the podium, and smiled brightly towards the audience.

"My name is Masumi Sera, I'm good at Jeet Kune Do, please give me your guidance~"

Then she turned towards Xiaolan and Sonoko and waved vigorously.

"Hello, we meet again, Ran-san and Sonoko-san."

Xiaolan was still a little reserved, but Sonoko just smiled and waved back casually.

"Hello hello~"

"So you two know each other. That makes things much easier."

Seeing this situation, the female teacher had no idea what to do. She pointed to an empty seat near Yuanzi and Xiaolan.

"Then you can just sit there, Sera-san."

"Hah~yi."

The morning class, which was interspersed with small episodes, passed quickly. When the bell rang, the female teacher on the podium had just walked out of the classroom, and Miss Sonoko immediately got down from her seat, ran to Masumi Sera and patted her shoulder boldly.

"Well, I knew Sera-san would be assigned to our class."

"Eh? Why?"

Xiaolan, who arrived a little later than Sonoko, couldn't help but ask curiously when she heard this.

Logically speaking, although many schools in Japan, including kindergartens, elementary schools, and junior high schools, have begun to reduce the number of classes due to the declining birthrate, high schools will not be affected so quickly because they are relatively far away. Normally, one grade can still be divided into many classes, such as ABCD.

To be so sure that you will be assigned to your class among so many classes, could this be the legendary power of money?

"Of course that's because..."

"Because this class has one less student than the other classes, right?"

As soon as Sonoko opened her mouth to say this, Sera Masumi finished her sentence.

The answer was indeed true and so certain that Miss Sonoko was stunned.

"Eh? How did Sera-san know that?"

"It's nothing. You can tell by looking at the desks."

Masumi Sera raised her chin slightly and pointed to another empty desk next to Xiaolan's seat not far away.

"It's that empty seat. Although at first glance it seems like someone just happened to be absent today, if you look closely you will find that the desk has been wiped very clean. Someone must have cleaned it regularly to keep it so tidy."

"Because it is very clean, there must be someone who cleans it regularly. If that's the case, shouldn't there be a shortage of people?" Sonoko didn't understand.

"But it's too clean." Sera Masumi said.

"If it was a normal desk that someone used, no matter how clean it was, there would always be some traces left, such as eraser crumbs, draft paper, etc. But there was no such trace in that desk."

"That is to say, this desk was used by someone not long ago, but recently that person suddenly stopped coming to school due to some reasons, and this has been going on for at least half a month. Fortunately, this guy is quite popular in the class, so someone has been insisting on helping to clean it."