Chapter 186 New Ghost’s Request. Please vote for me (ˉˉ)

 After observing the situation, Jiang Xia tapped her fingers on her knees.

Xiaobai and the others received the order, let go of the new ghost that was surrounded by people, and floated back again.

The new ghost secretly breathed a sigh of relief and slowly moved a little further away.

 …

Jiang Xia started to listen to Chairman Nagato’s entrustment again.

“Unfortunately, I don’t have a photo of her. We met in elementary school. At that time, cameras were not as common as they are now.” Chairman Nagato smiled:

"It's strange to say that I don't even know what she looks like now, but I suddenly miss her very much - she was such a lovely girl. Haha, if my deceased wife heard these words, she might He’s about to rush over and hit me.”

Chairman Nagato coughed a few times and did not make things too difficult for the detective: "However, although there are no photos, I found some information about Hinata."

 He called out to the female secretary next to him.

  Hinata Yuki was obviously well prepared.

She flipped through the information in her hand and whispered softly: "The lady's name is Akagi Kotomi. She is from Kanagawa Prefecture. She didn't get married until she was 29 years old. She and her husband only had one child. When the child was five years old, their family of three suddenly all No news."

Conan, Mao Lilan: "…" There are no photos, but I know how old someone is when they get married... This kind-faced old man must be some new breed of stalker.

Jiang Xia looked very professional, her expression did not change, and she nodded: "Okay, I'll remember it."

 …

At this moment, the door was suddenly pushed open, and two people walked in one after the other.

 —These are the two daughters of Chairman Nagato.

 The youngest daughter, Nagato Yasue, has smooth black hair. She looked into the room with her gentle eyes, scanning everyone, and quickly smiled: "Dad, did you invite guests?"

 Hand without waiting for Chairman Nagato to answer.

Beside her, Nobuko Nagato looked at the female secretary Hinata Yuki with an unkind look, and said in a strange tone: "Not only are there guests, but there is also a vixen sneaking in."

"Nobuko." Chairman Nagato stopped helplessly, "I lie here unable to move every day. If I don't ask Hinata to come over, how can I convey various news to the company. Do I count on you?"

"Huh? Old man, what do you mean! Am I worse than this vixen?!" Nagato Nobuko was furious and wanted to rush over and slap Hinata Yuki hard.

However, before taking action, she glanced out of the corner of her eye and suddenly noticed a handsome young man in the room. She didn't know where the old man found him.

　　　…”

Nagato Nobuko and Jiang Xia looked at each other for a moment, snorted coldly, and retracted their hands as if nothing had happened.

She glanced at her sister next to her and walked straight to the door: "Be careful, Kang Jiang - if you get too close to this vixen, be careful of her taking away your precious husband."

"Sister, Hinata is not this kind of person..." Nagato Yasue shook his head and followed her, and the two sisters quickly left the bedroom.

 …

Chairman Nagato looked at the bedroom door and shook his head: "Sorry, Hinata. Nobuko is just a little anxious because she is quite old and no one has come to propose marriage..."

Jiang Xia: "..." Is there a possibility that one of the reasons for her anxiety is that she has a father who speaks too straightforwardly...

Hinata Yuki didn’t take the insult just to heart.

 She lowered her head and looked at her watch, and her words were still so soft: "It's time for me to go back to the company."

"Okay." Chairman Nagato sighed and suddenly remembered something, "By the way, I plan to announce your engagement to Hidetomi to everyone tonight - well, you still have a chance to regret it. If it was you because of him His disfigurement and sympathy for him..."

"It's not sympathy." Hinata Sachi turned around with a smile. The smile was genuine, but the meaning of the smile was extremely complicated. "My parents passed away because of the fire. After that, thanks to Hideomi who always took care of and comforted me. He was also killed in the fire just to save me. Burnt...our destiny has long been firmly cast together by the fire, and we will never be separated."

 … “…never.”

She walked out of the door very lightly, and her figure disappeared at the door.

Jiang Xia looked away in disappointment. He couldn't see his ghost for the time being - the new ghost left with Hinata Sachi.

 Chairman Nagato seemed to be very lonely, and kept asking them to talk about his "first love". After talking for a while, the door clicked and someone came again.

This time, it was a frail man wearing a knitted hat and his face covered in bandages, with only a pair of eyes exposed. The man pushed the bedroom door open a crack and looked inside coolly.

 “Who?!” Mao Lilan was startled by the ghostly appearance, swooped behind Jiang Xia, and grabbed Jiang Xia’s shoulders tremblingly.

Jiang Xia seemed to hear his own bones making a muffled "crunching" sound. The corners of his eyes twitched and he almost reached out to touch the stick, but he forced himself to hold it back.

 Conan also noticed the movement. He glanced at Jiang Xia with envy and fear: From the looks of it, Jiang Xia's body is really strong...

“Haha, don’t be afraid.” Chairman Nagato waved towards the door, “This is the dog—Hideomi Nagato.”

“…Hideomi?” Mao Lilan was startled, remembering the conversation between Chairman Nagato and Hinata Yuki just now.

  She is a fairly smart person after all, and she quickly figured out the cause and effect: it sounds like Hinata Sachi encountered a fire when she was a child, and Nagato Hideomi rescued her from the fire, but he himself was unfortunately burned. After that, he also kept taking care of Hinata Yuki, the only survivor, and the two slowly came together.

Mao Lilan: "..." In this case, with his face covered in bandages and his head wearing a hat, it makes sense - many people don't like to have their scars exposed to others.

She calmly let go of Jiang Xia's hand and looked at Nagato Hideomi: "Sorry, um, I just saw a figure at the door and was startled."... She tried hard to pretend that she was not frightened by that scary dress. , that would be too hurtful.

Nagato Hideomi was taciturn and shook his head, not minding this kind of thing.

He was about to leave when a man with shiny hair came out from behind him.

The man put his hand familiarly on Nagato Hideomi's shoulder, looked into the room, and said frivolously: "Are there guests?"

As if bitten by a poisonous snake, Nagato Hideomi swung his hand away and turned away.

Shimura Guangming, who was thrown away by him, was startled: "...Why are you so angry? You are in a bad mood today?"

He quickly shook his head and stopped thinking about it. He took a gift box and walked to Chairman Nagato's bedside: "Dad, happy birthday, little things are disrespectful."

“Thank you.” Chairman Nagato smiled and reached out to take it.

Shimura Mitsuo held the box and did not let go.

He suddenly came closer and whispered: "In return for the gift, can you abdicate early and give me the throne of chairman?"

 The elderly chairman: “…”

　　He only has one son and two daughters. None of the three can succeed, and none of them can support the Nagato Consortium. So a while ago, Mitsuura Shimura got married, married Yasue Nagato, and became the son-in-law of the Nagato family. He changed his name to "Mitsubishi Nagato" so that he could inherit the family business in the future.

　　Shimura Mitsuyoshi has known Nagato Hideyoshi since childhood, and he seemed to be a good boy at first. However, recently, Chairman Nagato discovered that he seemed to have made a mistake.

 He sighed and was about to say something. However, Mitsuura Shimura had already let go of the gift box, straightened up, and left with a big smile: "Haha, just kidding, don't take it seriously." Mitsuura Shimura had a busy schedule during the day, so he ran here and there for a formality, and left quickly.

 And deep in the corridor, in the shadows that he couldn't see.

　　A pair of eyes hidden behind the bandages stared at his back. The eyes of "Nagato Hideomi" were full of murderous intent.

Hideomi Nagato and Mitsuki Shimura are indeed close friends, but "Nagato Hideomi" is not.

—The current Nagato Hideomi is pretended by Hinata Sachi.

Two days ago, she finally proposed to Hidetomi Nagato and was about to marry the benefactor who had rescued her from the fire and been with her when she grew up.

　One day ago, when she was delivering breakfast to Nagato Hideomi, she discovered the corpse of Nagato Hideomi who committed suicide by taking poison.

Beside the body, there was a suicide note, which contained a cruel fact - in fact, the fire that burned Hinata Yuki's parents to death twenty years ago was caused by Shimura Mitsuomi and Nagato Hidetomi.

 The two happened to be in high school at the time. At first they were just burning things for fun, but unexpectedly the fire suddenly got out of control. Later, Mitsuura Shimura fled in panic, while Hidetomi Nagato rushed into the fire and rescued a little girl.

In the days that followed, Nagato Hideomi lived with guilt and devoted himself to accompanying Hinata Yuki who became an orphan. Two days ago, after the two verbally agreed on the engagement, Nagato Hideomi suddenly felt that his behavior of concealing the truth was very despicable, and he couldn't help but commit suicide.

Hinata Yuki looked at the suicide note with cold hands and feet, feeling like the sky was falling. The horror of finding the real murderer, the sadness of the sudden death of his lover, the anger of being deceived for twenty years...all kinds of intense emotions were mixed together, and finally settled into full murderous intent.

She decided to use this incident to formulate a complete method to kill Shimura Mitsuo - Hidetomi was already gone, Shimura Mitsuo, a hypocritical accomplice, should also go down to accompany him!

The ding-dong sound that Chairman Nagato heard at night was Hinata Yuki practicing his killing technique.

  In the corridor.

Hinata Yuki looked at Shimura Guangming's retreating figure, and the murderous aura in his body slowly expanded again.

At her feet, two ghosts stuck together were circling around her anxiously, but they were completely unable to appear in her field of vision.

　　　…”

 The two ghosts looked at each other for a long time, and suddenly seemed to have made up their minds.

They dragged their less nimble bodies, like dancing a tango, and moved towards the direction of Jiang Xia.

 …

 At this time, Jiang Xia had finished discussing the entrustment.

 But he did not leave—in the evening, Chairman Nagato had a small birthday party, and the old man warmly invited them to stay here one night. Leave after the party.

 Jiang Xia did not refuse.

 Conan and Mao Lilan didn’t leave either—Moori Kogoro’s class reunion was a three-day and two-night trip, with the focus being on the fireworks celebration tomorrow night. Today is a day for rest, so if you don’t go back to the hotel, your schedule won’t be delayed.

Moreover, they still prefer to play with their peers than the uncle classmates on the other side: here are Jiangxia and Hattori Heiji. We can play cards together when we are bored.

 …

 It is still some time before evening.

 So the Nagato family arranged a guest room for them to rest.

Jiang Xia entered his guest room without closing the door.

After waiting for a while, he saw one...two...a fused ghost holding each other in the crack of the door, panting and floating in through the crack of the door. He raised his hand and touched the non-existent hot sweat.

Jiang Xia closed the door and looked down at them.

 The two ghosts stopped at the feet of the spiritual medium, suppressed by the natural pressure, and lowered their heads in embarrassment.

But thinking about their young daughter, the ghosts gradually gained courage. They tugged on Jiang Xia's trousers and muttered, trying to communicate with the psychic: Can you save Xiaoxing? She still has a long life, and she shouldn't be wasting her youth in prison because of that **** who set her on fire.

"Of course." Jiang Xia squatted down, got a little closer to them, and communicated kindly, "However, you still have to protect your children by yourself - I will lend you the power you need, as long as you are willing to sign a small contract…"

 …

 The time soon arrived at night.

 The housekeeper set up a small table on Chairman Nagato's bed and placed the exquisite birthday cake on it.

Chairman Nagato looked at his children surrounding the bed and happily blew out the candles.

 "Bang -" "Bang -" There was a sound, and beautiful colored paper flowers were flying in the air.

Nagato Yasue smiled and said, “Happy birthday, Dad!”

"This kind of small birthday party is much more comfortable than that kind of banquet. It should have been done long ago." Chairman Nagato smiled and leaned on the bedside and suddenly said, "The Nagato family has always been sparsely populated and very lonely. Fortunately, today, we are about to add a member—"

He raised his hand to signal to Hinata Yuki next to him, and said with a smile: "Hidetomi and Miss Hinata are engaged." After saying that, he looked at his eldest daughter who always called Hinata Yuki a "vixen" and said, "That's why I asked Yuki to come to our house. Stay longer so that she can adapt to the lifestyle at home sooner."

Mitsuura Shimura followed his line of sight, saw Nagato Nobuko, and said with a smile: "After all, the only one left in the family is Nobuko herself. Haha, I didn't expect Hidetomi, who was disfigured, to get married earlier than you. .”

Nagato Nobuko turned pale, turned away, and slammed the door with a loud bang.

Chairman Nagato was used to her temper. He sighed and shook his head: "By the way, where is Hideomi? Why didn't you come here?"

"You must be shy, there are guests at home today." Mitsuura Shimura also walked to the door, "I'll call him."

 …

 The few people left in the room shared the birthday cake. Hinata Yuki's hands were very skillful and he divided the cake into several pieces evenly.

 Chairman Nagato didn't take a few bites before he was already sleepy and fell asleep. No one was surprised—he was, after all, an old man in poor health.

Jiang Xia also got a piece of cake.

While eating, he took advantage of the chaos to take a cup of tea from the side and drank half of it.

As soon as he put down the cup, a phone ring suddenly rang next to him - the landline in the room rang.

 Everyone followed the sound and looked over.

Seeing that Jiang Xia had a cake plate in one hand and a fork in the other, both hands were occupied, and he wanted to help answer the phone, so he subconsciously pressed the hands-free button with his knuckles.

The next second, Mitsuura Shimura’s screams came from the loudspeaker.

"I'm in the room directly below you! Someone suddenly turned off the lights and attacked me from behind..." He looked like he was in pain and shouted, "Help—!"

 (End of this chapter)