Chapter 712: Countdown to Heaven

"Are you really not coming with us, Karasawa? Although the banquet may not be anything fun, the food will definitely be good."

"No, I wasn't included in the invitation. It would be too abrupt to just run over there."

"Hey, is that so? What a pity. I wanted to introduce Kitagawa-kun to you. Speaking of which, it seems that you have never met Kitagawa-kun. Every time you meet him, you happen to be away..."

"Kitagawa, Yusuke, right? I've seen him on the news. Does it match your aesthetic, Sonoko-san?"

"That's not bad..."

Looking at Karasawa's face in the mirror, whose style was far different from Kitagawa Yusuke's, but not any less attractive, Suzuki Sonoko lowered her head in embarrassment.

In fact, she didn't say anything when she met Hattori Heiji at the school festival. If they really discussed mate selection, she was indeed more inclined to sports boys. Whether it was Kitagawa Yusuke or Karasawa, she tended to admire them. The other guy is good-looking, but he has no regrets about not being able to seduce him.

Therefore, she was a little embarrassed when she was asked to praise another handsome guy of similar level in front of Tang Ze.

"I understand, I understand. You just think he looks better, so you can cuddle up with the rabbits and get close to him." Tang Ze patted her shoulder reassuringly, expressing his understanding, "Your true defensive type should be that. A sporty person with a healthy complexion, a stronger body shape, and a very strong appearance, right?”

"Hey, can you tell?" Suzuki Sonoko held her face and exclaimed in a low voice.

Oops, even Karasawa can easily detect the subtle differences in her preferences. Could this be the reason why she failed to hook up with any pool noodle...

"I feel it a little bit." Karasawa, who didn't want to say anything, simply replied and waved to Shimabukuro Kimie behind him.

Not to mention that Suzuki Sonoko is obviously more optimistic about Hattori Heiji when faced with so many models of Kudo Shinichi. Just by looking at Kyogoku's actual situation, you can guess her true preferences.

Some people may think that this is because it is rare for Kyogoku to actively pursue her opposite sex, but in fact this is not a necessary condition for their mutual affection.

As the daughter of the Suzuki Consortium, if she really wants a good-looking licking dog, Suzuki Sonoko can raise a pond at will. You see, the financial situation may not be worthy of her Yosui Reika, right?

Will they really consider Kyogoku's pursuit, in addition to the other party's indeed sincere character, there is also the fact that Kyogoku is indeed the type that is attractive to Suzuki Sonoko.

Suzuki Sonoko may be very easy-going in many aspects, but she has no tolerance for aesthetics.

"Let me see..." Kimie Shimabukuro, who changed her hair color slightly and dyed her hair Tiffany blue, which is more eye-catching than pink, walked over, checked the condition of Suzuki Sonoko's hair, and nodded, "Okay, basically Now that it’s done, go clean it up a bit and I’ll help you with the final details.”

When Suzuki Sonoko heard this, she had no time to worry about how Karasawa came to this conclusion. She hurriedly got up and went outside to rinse the hair dye from her hair.

Watching Suzuki Sonoko's bouncing back, Shimabukuro Kimie turned her head and pushed up the big bright yellow glasses on her face: "Do you have any plans? You asked me to come here to style this young lady... …”

"Actually, I don't have any plan. I just feel that if I don't take the initiative to intervene, Gin's blind face will cause me trouble again." Karasawa looked at the photo of Suzuki Sonoko placed in front of the dressing mirror, raised his eyebrows, and casually placed it Thrown into the trash can.

Suzuki Sonoko was very dissatisfied after seeing the predicted photo of herself ten years later that day, so she wanted to change her look before going to the banquet. Karasawa figured it out with a few provocative questions.

Although the second young lady of the Suzuki family has no shortage of styling and beauty resources, after all, she didn’t care much about these aspects in the past. So when Karasawa suggested that she could ask May, a makeup artist who has helped her several times, to help her design, Suzuki Sonoko naturally readily agreed.

It's not that he has to intervene, but Karasawa mainly feels that if he doesn't intervene at all, Suzuki Sonoko will happily run to the venue with the same hairstyle as Miyano Shiho to suck sniper bullets, and the intensity of the explosion has already been exceeded. Tangze, who had doubled his fortune several times, felt that he still shouldn't take the risk.

If Gin's hands were itchy and he wouldn't feel well unless Shirley shot him twice, then he would naturally give Gin this chance.

"Okay, sometimes when you have control freak symptoms, you look like the mastermind behind the scenes, leader." Shimabukuro Kimie sneered a few times and patted Karasawa on the shoulder.

Due to May's personality, she is wearing a pair of high heels with blade-like heels. She is now slightly taller than Karasawa, and the photo shoot is very smooth.

"Aren't we supposed to be the masterminds behind this?" Tang Ze raised his eyebrows.

Just as Shimabukuro Kimie was about to say something back to him, Suzuki Sonoko, who had washed her hair, rushed back to the room with a towel on her head.

"Teacher May! I've finished washing! Please hurry up, time is almost up..."

She couldn't help but pause when she saw Shimabukuro Kimie sitting with long manicured fingers resting on Karasawa's shoulders.

This fashionable and eye-catching makeup artist is cool and classy. She is good in both aesthetics and technique, but her aesthetics towards the opposite sex are a bit too harsh...

Suzuki Sonoko, who was in a delicate mood, deliberately cleared her throat. With a sense of mission to protect her friend's moral integrity from the strange aunt, she squeezed past the two people and sat back in the hairdressing chair.

"Please hurry up! If you don't hurry up, I won't be able to catch up with the gathering!" Suzuki Sonoko, who knew her actions were stiff, closed her eyes and shouted regardless.

Anyway, she is not a prostitute for nothing. If she wants to find an acquaintance, she should pay. Just treat her as a young lady.

Shimabukuro Kimie shook her head in confusion, glanced reproachfully at Karasawa, who had created too many strange settings for this identity, and stepped forward to straighten Suzuki Sonoko's head.

"Okay, leave it to me, tonight's party star."

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"Ah, why is this young lady procrastinating?"

Sitting in the driver's seat, Mouri Kogoro looked at his watch frequently, then looked at the setting sun that was about to sink to the horizon, and complained softly.

Nishitama City is not very close to Yoneka Town by car, and if we delay for a while longer, it may take more than double the time to pass through the bustling downtown area with a lot of people during the evening rush hour.

The relationship between him and Tokiwa Mio was slightly stalemate due to the unsuccessful commission, but because of this, it would be rude to be "showing off" and being late.

"Okay, I just asked her, and she said she will be here soon." Mao Lilan, holding a bouquet of flowers, retorted for her friend, "Yuanzi also has her own things to be busy with."

"Hey, troublesome rich lady..." Mouri Kogoro muttered again. After all, he was short-handed and finally shut his mouth honestly.

Regardless of Suzuki Sonoko's purpose in establishing this fund to support public security work, he, a detective who has encountered too many murder cases and has inevitably dragged down his commission, has indeed received a lot of financial and work support.

"I'm really looking forward to tonight's banquet!"

"The food will be sumptuous, right? I remember the last time I visited, they had arranged a lot of tables."

"It's the kind of dinner you see on TV, where there are waiters coming and going with wine glasses for everyone to take, right? Ah, this is the first time I've seen a real banquet."

"Will there be eel rice?"

"...It's impossible to prepare something like this at a banquet, right? Do you want those who attend to stand and eat with bowls?"

"It's okay if you don't have it. It's okay if you have something delicious!"

A few elementary school students sitting in the back row of the SUV chatted enthusiastically about the evening's activities. Haihara Ai, who was paying attention to them, withdrew her gaze in amusement, leaned against the flower bed, and glanced at the Polo Cafe behind her.

It's not dinner time yet, and the cafe has not yet reached its peak flow, but it is already a third full.

No matter how you look at the waiters walking through it, there is no sign of Karasawa and Toru Amuro.

Yuan Jiaming was detained by Karasawa, and the banquet was marked as a target by the Phantom Thieves. The organization tonight must be extremely busy...

"Haihara. I did some research. In addition to serving as the chief engineer and technical supervisor of the TOKIWA Group owned by Tokiwa Mio, Hara Jiaming is also one of the directors of the company and holds a certain amount of original shares..." Conan intervened. Kabuto had completely different expectations for tonight's banquet, "Tell me, how likely is it that this company itself is related to the organization?"

Taking into account Kitagawa Yusuke's identity, the influence of the Twin Towers Building on his teacher Hosui Kisaragi, and his behavior at the Metropolitan Police Department two days ago, it would be unreasonable to say that the sign that appeared on the outer wall of the building had nothing to do with him. Too likely.

However, considering the factor of Yuan Jiaming, no one can tell whether the target of their declaration of war is the company's top executives themselves, or the deeper shadow behind them.

"Maybe that's the case." Haihara Ai nodded and returned his gaze to Conan's face, "The organization has been recruiting young people with high potential in many fields such as finance, biomedicine, and applied chemistry from a very early stage. People. For well-known reasons, it now also includes the field of psychology. Companies such as TOKIWA Group that develop information technology are definitely in their observation sequence.”

"Well, Representative Oki Iwamatsu, and Ms. Tokiwa Mio..." Conan frowned, and began to speculate on these rich and powerful guys with the greatest malice.

The power of an organization is sometimes like cockroaches. When you see one, it's hard not to wonder if there is a nest behind it.

"They only consider the fields they are engaged in. Their level may not be good enough to attract the attention of the organization, but they are relatively young and can be regarded as people with potential." Haiyuan Ai thought of the fluttering The pattern of the Phantom Thieves fluttering among the clouds slightly raised the corner of his mouth, "Looking at it this way, tonight's banquet is really the closest place to heaven for them."

"You mean, if the Phantom Thieves are really targeting them, the organization will not let them go?" Conan's eyebrows jumped, and he suddenly looked forward to the banquet in the evening.

No matter what form the organization takes to prevent these people from speaking out, this will become the front line of confrontation with the organization.

"Of course. Just like me, as long as you join the organization, anyone who tries to withdraw will be regarded as a traitor and be killed." Haiyuan Ai tilted his head and said with some pity, but inevitably said indifferently, "To them For me, this is the countdown to heaven.”

After being targeted by the Phantom Thieves and having their personalities modified by them, they naturally became a hidden danger that could reveal the organization's secrets at any time and needed to be eradicated.

Maybe, at this moment, the organization's snipers or assassins have blended into the crowd at the banquet, or are staring at them with a scope from a distance, ready to harvest their lives.

"I don't want to use the word retribution to describe them, but... this is the price of crossing the red line. Their only way to survive is probably to cooperate well with the Phantom Thieves and find a protective umbrella for themselves first, probably."

Conan and Dr. Agasa looked at each other and fell silent at the same time.

Just then, the humming sound of the engine approached rapidly, and a striking and exaggerated bright red sports car turned the corner and stopped next to their car.

"Hi, hi, wait for a long time!" Suzuki Sonoko adjusted the silk scarf around her neck, tidied her hair that was slightly fluffy and messy in the breeze of the convertible sports car, and got out of the car with a smile on her face.

"Hey, Sonoko?! Your hair is..." Mao Lilan looked at Suzuki Sonoko's burgundy hair and her slightly retro hairstyle in amazement, and even felt a little strange.

There is no change in the length of her hair, and she has not even removed the headband that she never leaves. However, she has done some processing on her red hair, using the headband to make a playful air bangs above her forehead, and the short hair at the back is blown fluffy and soft, with delicate and fine waves, which makes Suzuki Sonoko's appearance rise to a higher level.

"How about it? It still suits my hair color, right?" Suzuki Sonoko touched her temples and was very happy, "Red and blue are also a good match, right?"

"Sonoko..." Mao Lilan heard that she didn't say a few words and started to show her true colors again, and she was a little amused, "Then you shouldn't wear this kind of Chanel-style clothes, you should wear a kimono directly."

Kitagawa Yusuke himself doesn't have a very suitable formal suit, and too formal clothes may not be suitable for his identity and age. Wearing a more formal kimono like Kisaragi Minemizu is a very decent and character-reflecting choice. It is predictable what Kitagawa Yusuke will wear tonight.

"Oh, that would be too deliberate. Don't be so flattering." Suzuki Sonoko shook her head and snorted, "Besides, even if I wear a kimono, I don't think Kitagawa-kun will show any expression."

Describing Kitagawa Yusuke as dull or uninformed is a bit of an overestimation of his situation. Whether he has the concept of love in his eyes may be a mystery.

Tang Ze, who got off the car behind her, nodded secretly.

That's not the case. If the good buddy is a steel straight man, then the poor buddy is a living alien. It's not a question of whether he has this nerve or not. He may not have a nerve, or he is a nerve.

"Thank you, sister May, please send me here. Tang Ze, you have worked hard, go back and rest early!" After showing off, Suzuki Sonoko caught a glimpse of the bright car body like fire in her peripheral vision, came to her senses, quickly grabbed Tang Ze, and pushed him towards the direction of Polo Cafe.

One thing is one thing, the styling that Ms. May gave her is very good, and her strange hobby of little boys is another.

Shimabukuro Kimie cast a look of confusion at Tang Ze from behind her colorful sunglasses, pushed her glasses, and just waved casually: "It's a small matter. Have fun tonight, girls, any party should be proud of your presence."

She stepped on the accelerator again, looking at the street in front of her that gradually changed with the acceleration, and raised a bright, even arrogant smile.

She also has her own feast to go to.

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"Inspector, do we really not need to go to the banquet hall to take a look..."

Takagi Wataru, who was leaning against the car, looked up at the building that was reflected in the red light of the sunset, and asked again unwillingly.

Because they could not hinder the normal entry and exit of the participants, nor leave strange signals to the media, they communicated with Tokiwa Mio again and again, and could only drive in from the sparsely populated side door and park the car in the parking space at the back.

Standing in the vast square of the building, only the sunset fireworks and the cold industrial masterpieces were left, which made Takagi Shigeru feel disappointed and irritated.

High up in the building, the traces created by the powerful Phantom Thieves through some unknown means have not been completely eliminated. The faint outline of the flame is more gorgeous in the sunset.

It is also more disturbing.

"No, since Miss Tokiwa has expressly prohibited irrelevant people from entering the building, we can only wait here." Megure Jusan shook his head seriously, but the messages on his mobile phone communicating with various departments did not stop.

No matter who it is tonight and what kind of trouble it is, any riot in an 80-story skyscraper will cause immeasurable pressure on firefighting and personnel safety, and he has no choice but to prepare for it.

I really don't know what Tokiwa Mio is insisting on, and why she has to hold this press conference.

Are some competitions in the capital market really worth risking so much? Once a serious public opinion change occurs in the venue because of the Phantom Thieves, the danger it brings cannot be solved by a few points of floating profit in the stock price.

"At this point, we have done all the preliminary preparations we can do." Shiratori Renzaburo stood on the other side of the car, looking at this landmark building that he did not like like a sharp blade piercing the surface of the earth, sharply and aggressively protruding into the sky, and couldn't help sighing, "I can only pray that nothing will happen. The venue on the 75th floor, what if..."

"Shut up, don't say the key words!" Police colleagues including Megure Jusan shouted at the same time.

This is just like not being able to eat mangoes and drink Wangzai at work. Some things will come true once they are spoken out!