Conan's Winery is all my vest

Chapter 349 Matsuda Jinping: Is that little golden retriever smiling at me?

Matsuda Jinpei, who had finished smoking a cigarette, was watching with great interest at the new friend he just made...

That's the scene where Hoshino Takuya was being accosted by a passionate girl.

However, the vigilance and sensitivity cultivated from years of police experience made Matsuda Jinhei suddenly have a pinprick feeling that he was being watched by someone at this moment.

who is it? !
Matsuda Jinping suddenly turned his head and looked towards the source of that line of sight.

I saw the foreign boy sitting next to Haruko Nomura who was persistently trying to talk to Takuya Hoshino, looking at him curiously.

...Is that the foreign boy named Theodore?
Matsuda Jinpei was holding a cigarette uncertainly, it's impossible... Isn't he already dead and turned into a ghost that only Hoshino Takuya can see?

When Matsuda Jinpei was thinking about it like this, even the playful smile on his lips dissipated quite a bit.

It should be... just an illusion, right?
Matsuda Jinpei shook his head amusedly, that childish boy should have just happened to look in this direction.

After three years of experiments, Matsuda Jinpei is basically certain that he is already a spirit body invisible to normal humans.

During the long and lonely time when Matsuda Jinpei woke up again after his death, only Hoshino Takuya, who didn't seem to be a purebred human being, could see himself.

what am i thinking...

After Matsuda Jinpei persuaded himself, he chuckled and wanted to look away, some habits and ideas left over from his time as a human being, it seems that he has to correct it slowly...

after all.

He is no longer human.

But at this moment, Matsuda Jinpei's pupils suddenly shrank, and his entire spiritual body froze in place.

Just now, he clearly saw it—that foreign boy with a bright smile, blinking his eyes like a sea, and smiling shyly at him.

He was just—was...was I laughing? !
Matsuda Jinpei looked back uncertainly, and he found that there were no other people or things on the tables behind him except for the cups left by the previous customers who had left.

Could it be... Can this young man named Theodore see me?

He just now... Could it be that he was saying hello to me?
Matsuda still felt a little ridiculous about this idea that came to him suddenly.

How is it possible... Matsuda Jinpei thought to himself, I am a ghost now...

"Little vampire..."

Matsuda Jinpei hesitantly called his nickname to Hoshino Takuya who was concentrating on boiling sugar juice, which made Hoshino Takuya look up at him suspiciously.

"Theodore with the light blond hair. Are you familiar with it?"

Hoshino Takuya did not expect that Matsuda Jinpei would ask him this question, he froze for a moment and then shook his head very slightly, he and Brandy had only met each other a few times.

If Hoshino Takuya and Brandy knew each other, they barely knew each other.

But to say that Hoshino Takuya and Brandy are acquainted, it is somewhat worse.

In fact, even now, Hoshino Takuya's understanding of brandy is only superficial, and it is limited to the superficial information that everyone can investigate.

The more in-depth investigations into Brandy's identities that were undisguised on the surface, and the more detailed the knowledge, the more Hoshino Takuya couldn't see through Brandy.

Brandy is like a mirage that majesticly appeared on the sky of the ocean in a certain heaven. He looks open and does not hide his existence and identity, but the closer he gets, the more confused he becomes. Who is he?
What kind of person is he?

What was he thinking when he was smiling?
Even if he knew the brandy gin, he might not be able to give the answers to these questions.

Brandy, who has escaped the shackles of natural laws, birth, aging, sickness and death, can be said to be a very unique and unpredictable one in any aspect of the human race.

Matsuda Jinpei, who has been paying attention to Hoshino Takuya's movements, naturally noticed Hoshino Takuya's slight shaking of his head. Isn't the little vampire and the little golden retriever very familiar?
This result was somewhat beyond Matsuda Jinpei's expectations. Ever since Matsuda Jinhei followed Hoshino Takuya to the tavern and opened for business, Matsuda Jinhei had never seen any unnecessary expressions on Hoshino Takuya's face.

Indifferent, restrained and calm, if he hadn't seen the other side of the silly little vampire last night, Matsuda Jinhei would have been deceived by Hoshino Takuya's seemingly indifferent expression.

However, Matsuda Jinpei, who has always been very perceptive, noticed that Hoshino Takuya treated brandy differently as soon as the brandy came in.

Whether it's a greeting that seems unfamiliar, or a reminder to repay the debt, the little smile in Takuya Hoshino's eyes shows this point.

Matsuda Jinhei listened to Brandy casually teasing about the business of the Garan Tavern run by Hoshino Takuya. He originally thought that the little vampire should be more familiar with this young-looking guest.

However, at this time Matsuda Jinhei learned that the relationship between Hoshino Takuya and Brandy was different from what he had imagined.

Matsuda Jinhei hesitated a little, whether he should tell Hoshino Takuya the somewhat absurd guesses he had made because of what he saw just now.

Hoshino Takuya saw that Matsuda Jinpei kept silent after asking himself a strange question, and he couldn't help but look at Matsuda Jinpei who looked hesitant in a strange way.

"What's wrong?"

Although Hoshino Takuya said this to Haruko Nomura who was smiling and asking him if he was free tonight, Hoshino Takuya's eyes were on Matsuda Jinhei who was sitting in the other corner.

Haruko Nomura naturally didn't notice Takuya Hoshino's small movements, she thought that Takuya Hoshino, who had always been indifferent, suddenly became interested in talking to her.

The girl with exquisite makeup, her lips covered with light pink lip glaze curled up in a shy and excited arc.

"If Brother Hoshino has no other arrangements tonight..."

The eyelashes were stained with a little sparkle, and Haruko Nomura's voice was soft and lively, "Then Hoshino-san, would you like to go to a midnight movie with me? I'll treat you—"

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　　Well, I'm debt free, (laughs)
　　
　
(End of this chapter)