I'm on the scramble

The dark-skinned young man in the uniform of the Whirlpool Cafe slowly turned his head and showed her a bright smile.

"Welcome, I want cappuccino, right?"

The deacon-style white shirt and black vest set off his tall and slender abdomen and back. When he smiled slightly, it was like sunlight leaking through the cracks in the shade of trees, and the charming light golden spots swayed gently in the wind.

Ah Li stared at him for a long while, before uttering a question: "Why are you here?"

Toru Amuro replied with an unchanged smile: "Because of the accident last time, the Poirot Coffee Shop will not be able to be renovated so quickly for a while. Adults with difficult lives have no choice but to find more part-time jobs in order to make a living. The first time I came here, I found that the store manager wanted to hire a waiter, so I came to try it."

Ah Li was speechless.

That's why he was successfully hired, right? This is a talent who can go anywhere.

"Amuro-kun's craftsmanship is really superb. He can perfectly replicate the demonstration made by the store manager just once! It is exactly the same as the aroma brewed by the store manager!" The waiters and sisters in the coffee shop are all holding trays, He couldn't help but blushed and stared at the light blond youth with a heartbeat.

At this moment, Ah Li really wanted to drag Dazai over to have a look. The young ladies who usually disliked him so much admired other handsome guys, it must have pierced his heart very much.

Thinking of this, Ah Li, who squeezed happiness from a guy at the bottom of a certain detective agency's food chain, felt a little better, and didn't pursue the fact that he appeared here, and tolerated a little bit of drilling in the territory designated by his cat. Into another puppy.

So Amuro's eyes naturally fell to her side, and for some reason, his smile faded slightly.

"What does the lady want?"

For a moment, Jinghua was very afraid of his gaze, and subconsciously hid behind Ah Li, whispering in an inaudible voice: "Same as Miss Li."

Ah Li thoughtfully repeated it for her.

Amuro nodded happily: "Okay, please wait a moment."

Then I saw him return to the backstage, relay the order to the store manager and start making coffee together.

Ah Li and Jing Hua took advantage of the opportunity to sit down in their seats and take a rest, waiting for the coffee to be packaged.Seeing that Jinghua's expression was not right after meeting Anshi, she couldn't help asking curiously: "What's wrong?"

Jinghua shook her head and said it was okay, but she still looked gloomy: "That person, I feel very similar to someone from the Mafia..."

"...Mafia?" A Li rested his chin on one hand, and looked in the direction of the kitchen in a strange way. After thinking for a moment, he muttered, "I think he looks like someone with another identity."

Not long after, Amuro handed two cups of cappuccino to Ari.Ah Li defenselessly reached out to pick it up, but when he touched the bag, he felt a pulling force, and his hand froze in the air at the same time.

"The one next to me, if I remember correctly, should be the "girl who claimed to have killed 35 people" in the last tram accident, right? "

Amuro whispered while looking at the girl wearing a rabbit ear headband, her purple-gray eyes were unpredictable.

These words are tantamount to exposing people's scars again, Jinghua pinched the fingertips of the phone tightly, trying to crush all the uneasiness left in her heart.

But Ah Li admitted nonchalantly: "Yes, she is now an intern of our detective agency."

The unhesitating protection easily broke the ice, causing the girl involved to be startled, and her eyes were once again stained with a little light of hope.

As a result, Amuro's expression changed slightly: "But she has a criminal history, so is it okay to do this?"

Naturally, what he was talking about was that Quan Jinghua is currently wanted by the government. Perhaps in the eyes of others, he was really meddling in asking such a question, but due to some special factors, he had his own set of concepts that separated justice and evil. He still said it.

"Of course I know, it's just that everyone will go the wrong way sometimes." A Li didn't bother to answer too much, and snatched the cappuccino from his hand.

"My dad once told me personally when he was doing the formal adoption procedure: If you have done a lot of bad things in the past, then you have to do a lot of good things in the future to make up for it. People don't need to stay in the past all the time."

This ingenious teaching caused the two people next to him to show a look of astonishment.

"Your father...?" Amuro opened his lips slightly, inquiring rather unclearly.

"He is my adoptive father now."

The girl with cat ears in front of him spoke truthfully.At the same time, she carried the bag behind her back, her raised head was full of purity, her snow-like skin was set against her rose-colored lips, and as she opened and closed, she softly spun what she had obtained from another man in the past, Consciousness from previous guidance to the present.

"It was he who told me that my ability is not a product of revenge, nor is it a tool for hurting others, but an innate power to protect important things. Don't you do it with your own will? Do you have to judge yourself as evil if you do something wrong? Can you guarantee that you are absolutely good if you have a good-sounding reason to cover it?"

"Crime is a set of fixed theories based on group interests, but the concept of good and evil is not. No one is qualified to brand another person as 'evil' forever."

"For me, Jinghua is the same for her."

The girl who spoke these words did not have an expression on her face that forced her self-concept into the other party. This was not a debate, but a dialogue in which she calmly stated her own thoughts.But it was this point of her that easily caught his eyes.

After a while, Amuro sighed helplessly.

"I'm sorry, I was the one who said too much." He raised his eyes suddenly, and even made a joke, "You don't have to worry, I won't call the police."

The light-blond young man's eyes gave Ah Li a nostalgic and distant feeling at the moment, as if she was groping for a fragment of memory in the river that had lost its color.

Such an expression made Ah Li vaguely think of something, and many thoughts rippled in his mind.

And just when she was about to catch a certain ray of light, Amuro on the opposite side suddenly patted her head, making her come back out of consciousness.

"I didn't agree with you touching your head!"

Ah Li held the bag in one hand, and covered his messed-up head with the other dissatisfiedly, just like a cat unwilling to cooperate and being rua bared its fangs and tried to bite someone.

For Amuro, the feeling of the fangs grinding on his hands was neither painful nor itchy, and he could still smile at her without distraction and said, "I'm so sorry, next time I will ask for your permission in advance."

Ah Li: "...Who allows you to decide on your own that there will be a next time!"

In order not to be really beaten, Amuro changed the topic in time: "By the way, I saw a helicopter landed on the main road outside the store this morning, and a team dressed as foreigners went upstairs to visit your office. A visiting client?"

The feature he described made Ali immediately suspicious: "...a foreigner?"

Since he is a foreigner, there is only one possibility.

Leaving in a hurry from the whirlpool cafe, Ali took Jinghua to the elevator, and accidentally found a straw hat left by the elevator door.

"Isn't this Xianzhi's hat? This kid is too careless..."

Ari muttered and picked up the straw hat, went straight to the fourth floor and pushed open the door with the nameplate of "Armed Detective Agency".I haven't seen you for half a day on a public date with Jinghua, and the atmosphere inside seems to have become a little serious.

"Everyone, I heard that a 'guest' came while I was away?"

Separated from Jinghua, she directly sat back on her desk, lifted the lid of the paper cup and gently blew on the coffee, and then took a sip cautiously. Unexpectedly, when the tip of her tongue touched the hot liquid, she immediately felt as if she had been suffocated. She retracted as if being pricked by a needle, and cried out 'pain, pain, pain'.

"Ali, why don't I have a share." Luanbu smelled the aroma of creamy coffee wafting from the side, turned around and saw that she was eating alone behind her back, and muttered in dissatisfaction.

"Didn't you have wave soda, and you still want to grab it from me—"

Ah Li retorted that this sentence certainly cannot easily overcome the difficulty of Master Ranpo.He still stretched out his hand to snatch it from Ah Li, but if Ah Li couldn't compete, he just gave him the cappuccino, the cat's tongue was still hurting.

So Luanbu logically held the cup of cappuccino she brought back and blew lightly, while leisurely looking at the newspaper in his hand.

The detective agency suddenly became lively. Jinghua, who came back from a date, shared with Dun the photo taken with Ali. When Dun wanted to reach out to take it enviously, she took it away with a blank expression in the blink of an eye, leaving behind Dun was stunned.

Seeing the two of them coming back, the others also came to Ah Li's side, filled with righteous indignation and answered her question just now.

"Miss Li! Have you heard of it? People from [Group] came to the detective agency this morning!"

Upon hearing the name 'Group', Ah Li couldn't help cheering up: "What's going on?"

Naomi, who was in charge of pouring tea at that time, looked worried, and she could still see the afterimage of the previous unpleasantness from her mature and beautiful face.

"There were probably three of them here, and when they came, they belittled the detective agency from the beginning to the end, saying, 'It's the first time I visited a company without an apron', 'The building floor of this company is too low', 'I can't recognize the brand of teacup porcelain ' and so on, like a nouveau riche looking down on ordinary people. They even said they would buy the entire detective agency!"

"Tsk, they are indeed very rich." Based on Naomi's few words, Ah Li could imagine the face of the capitalists on the opposite side, and couldn't help but smack his lips.

"Even if this is the case, it's too much." Even Tanizaki said the same, the previous weak appearance became a little tough because of the attitude of the visitor.

"Rather than a discussion, it's better to say it's a condescending order. They didn't leave people dignity at all, and they just threw the money on the table, saying that if the money is not enough, you can add more, and then put the money in their hands. Take your watch off."

To be honest, the appearance of the group of people is just like the classic villains in the animation. It is completely the script of saying to the protagonist, "I will give you 500 million to leave my daughter", thinking that everything is omnipotent because of money.

Even Ah Li felt offended, with a look of condemnation on his face: "Excessive! Do you think you can send us with this little money?! But... let me ask, how much did they give?"

She, who was all petite and shrunk into the chair, rubbed her hands in a serious manner.

"..."

Everyone's eyes changed immediately after this sentence.It's a pity that it wasn't speechlessness, but the panic caused by staring at the figure behind her, Dun hurriedly stammered and reminded her: "President, president..."

behind her!

At that moment, Ah Li's face-changing speed was comparable to turning pages.

The moment she turned her head away, she smiled innocently and sweetly at the silver-haired man behind her, boldly expressing her position.

"Of course! No matter how much they give, I'm going to say to those ignorant Yankees 'Give me your bloody money'! You're right, Dad!"

The corners of the mouths of the colleagues who were paying attention to the changes in her expression twitched, but at the moment, Ah Li is thinking about only the president.

Fortunately, Fukuzawa Yukichi didn't pursue her cautiousness, put her hands in the sleeves of her kimono, showing her mischievous and helpless indifference.

In front of cat lovers, everything cats do is of course forgivable!

"Li, is that the newcomer you submitted the report to?" Fukuzawa Yukichi couldn't help but look at the girl in kimono in the office when he mentioned the matter of recruiting newcomers earlier.

Jinghua's movements involuntarily became restrained, and she nodded slightly at him: "President."

For some reason, the two of them inexplicably created a sense of tension as a son-in-law meeting his father-in-law.

As one of the reasons, Ah Li's mind was relaxed, and he didn't see this, so he just turned his chair as usual and rushed over to hug the president acting like a baby.

"Father, this child looks pretty good, you can rest assured to 'leave it to us'."

Fukuzawa Yukichi, the cat's father, couldn't resist his daughter's enthusiasm, and his face couldn't help becoming more tense, as if he wanted to draw his sword and wait for the battle.The eyes that could scare the girl's eyes to spurt blood to death went straight over the top of Ah Li's head, looking at Quan Jinghua, and found that she had been staring at their interaction.

"Cough...it's fine."

Fukuzawa Yukichi blushed, and he was not willing to push Ali away, so he could only maintain this posture and nodded calmly, as a recognition of the matter.

He only heard him ask Ah Li: "It seems that you have also heard about the arrival of the 'Group', and they will not let it go, Li, you and Kunikida are in charge of the security plan to prevent your colleagues from being harmed. .”

"No problem." A Li, who was staying in his father's arms, arched his head and readily accepted the task.

I don't know if it's because she stayed close to the president for too long, just when she opened her arms and wanted to raise them high, suddenly there was a sour bubbling voice from a famous detective behind her.

"Ali, I don't want this anymore, you come and drink it for me."

Turning around, he found that Ranbu was pushing away the paper cup that had previously contained the cappuccino with an unhappy expression on his face.

"What, you were the one who said you wanted to drink, and now you say no..."

Ah Li complained, but still walked back to take the cup of creamy coffee in his hand.Now that the price is so expensive, he is still picky, so he might as well drink it up by himself, and leave nothing to Luanbu!

However, just after opening the lid and tentatively sticking out her tongue, she was surprised to find that she was able to successfully receive such a temperature.

"Why didn't it get hot so soon..." Ah Li tried to gulp down a sip, and a circle of sweet milk froth immediately floated on her lips.

"Of course."

The famous detective turned his chair around, and the handsome face under the brim of the hat was full of feline disdain and arrogance, and he snorted lightly at her words: "Lord Ranbu has been bragging for a long time."

Ah Li's movement of drinking coffee stopped in the air for an instant, and the pair of round almond eyes exposed outside reflected Luanbu's figure.

But Luanbu turned his head just in time, and the pair of red phoenix eyes exposed by the newspaper were raised, and they were level with her.

For a while, this feeling was weird, probably because when he was invisible, he was all in his eyes, and when the real eyes were filled with his figure, that figure suddenly produced a quality, which was so heavy that people couldn't help it I want to push him out of sight a little bit.

But reality always backfires, even though he thinks so in his heart, Ah Li is very embarrassed and cannot look back.

She was too greedy to let him fill her entire eye socket.

It seemed that he had been stared at by Qingmei for too long, and he moved uncomfortably in the chair, his expression unavoidably tinged with anxiety.

"Okay, I admit that I secretly took a sip just now."

Ah Li, who drank half of his cappuccino slowly, couldn't help but raise his cup high during this sentence, blocking the upper half of his face.

"...It's okay." She blushed and whispered, "I don't mind."

Suddenly, the people around who couldn't stand it let out a violent cough untimely.