Stay away from Conan

Chapter 443 Shiho's Excuse

At this time, seeing Amano appear in the room, Mimi was obviously a little surprised.

"Sorry, I'm rude!"

Mimi said, without waiting for Amano to come over, she ran straight to the wooden box, stuck her head in, and carefully checked the contents of the wooden box.

"What's wrong? Did you find anything?"

Amano sighed helplessly and asked.

And Mimi seemed to find nothing, then Amano also came over, stuck his head into the box, and took out a puppet, raised his head——

"How is it, very cute?"

Shinichi saw that the puppet in Amano's hand was the long-haired puppet with beautiful eyes that he saw during the rehearsal.

Then, he saw Amano holding the puppet's control board and gently waving it a few times, and the puppet bowed to Mimi elegantly.

But Mimi turned her face away.

"Are you not interested... Forget it. It's my turn to perform, so I'll excuse you first."

Amano climbed onto the platform of the elevator, and the elevator board began to rise slowly.

As Amano ascended from the lift to the stage, the applause from the venue reached a climax.

"Really popular!"

Shinichi couldn't help but say.

"It seems so."

Meimei responded with an indifferent look.

"After Mr. Amano's performance, it was No. 1 and No. 2's self-introduction and talent show. After that, it was No. 3's Miss Hualian's turn to go on stage. She should have climbed the lift from here, and then been suspended by the wire and flew into the air, right?"

Shinichi asked Meimei while looking up at the ceiling.

"Yes. This performance was thought up by my mother. She said she had seen a similar performance in Las Vegas. Although I thought it was dangerous and tried to stop it, Hualian also felt that if she wanted to widen the gap with other contestants, she had to do this, and she didn't listen to my advice at all."

Meimei said with some dissatisfaction on her face.

"So it was your mother who came up with the idea."

Shinichi's tone was full of curiosity, and he couldn't help but say.

"Yeah."

Meimei nodded and checked Amano's wooden box again.

Shinichi was also looking in from the side.

"Come to think of it, although it's just an ordinary puppet, it can do somersaults and come down the stairs by itself. Isn't it amazing? Ah, that one over there is a puppet stepping on a ball."

Looking at the puppet in the wooden box, Shinichi still remembered the rehearsal just now, and couldn't help but explain it excitedly.

"Hmm..."

And Meimei may have lost interest immediately after confirming that Hualian was not inside, and began to look around again.

"Don't you think that the puppet held by Mr. Amano looks a bit like Miss Hualian?"

At this time, Shinichi suddenly said this.

"Are they similar?"

Meimei showed no interest in this, and at this time, the art director ran over in a panic:

"Miss Meimei, haven't you found Miss Hualian yet?"

"I'm very sorry, I can't find her anywhere."

Meimei also said in a panic.

"This... What should I do? There are less than fifteen minutes left before Miss Hualian goes on stage! If this goes on, the director will definitely kill me!" The art director looked at his watch with a sad face, anxious and at a loss. "I will definitely find her out, please wait a little longer." Meimei bowed and apologized with a sad face. "Then I'll leave it to you. Miss Hualian is the strongest contender for the victory. I hope she can go on stage no matter what, so that the atmosphere on the scene can be more exciting. Otherwise, we will be in trouble." The art director left this sentence and ran back from the direction he came from just now. "Um, Mr. Maori's assistant? Can you please check Hualian's room again? Maybe she has returned to the lounge. Here is the room card." Meimei said, handing the room card to Shinichi, and then said: "I will check the rooms of other contestants one by one." "I know." Shinichi nodded, took the room card and ran to the elevator... "I can't find the pastry chef anywhere..." In the corridor of the hotel, Dr. Agasa was also very embarrassed and said to Shiho beside him. "Yes. Maybe he has finished his work today, so he has left work a long time ago." Shiho said a possibility with an indifferent expression, and then couldn't help saying: "Doctor, if we continue to search like this without any clue, I'm afraid there will be no results, otherwise..." "Ai, why don't we go to the kitchen again? Maybe the pastry chef has returned to the kitchen now!" Dr. Agasa had a pleading tone and could only say this in the end. In response to this, Shiho sighed helplessly and said expressionlessly:

"I'm afraid it will be futile to continue looking. Moreover, according to that lady, the cake made with that recipe will be sold in the pastry shop in Yamate under the name of Hualian in the near future. When the time comes, we can just go and buy some samples and bring them back."

"Ah! That's right!"

Hearing what Shiho said, Dr. Agasa couldn't help but say:

"There is also a way to get cake samples directly! Alas, it's a pity that I didn't find a way to keep some cakes from Miss Hualian before..."

"You're not a doctor yet. You've eaten too much. It's only a few pieces in total..."

Giving Dr. Ari a blank look, Shiho couldn't help but said:

"Besides, if you don't control your diet properly, your health will be very worrying."

In response, Dr. Ali smiled bitterly, scratched his head, and said with a helpless smile:

"Ah... well... right... right! When we left, I remembered there were a few pieces of cake left, otherwise..."

As he said that, Dr. Ali couldn't help but change the topic, and then Shiho looked at Dr. Ali's expression coldly. In the end, he could only sigh helplessly and turned around:

"Okay, then doctor, you can continue to search in the kitchen to see if you can find the pastry chef. I'll go back to Miss Hualian upstairs to see if I can find the remaining cake samples."

"Ah good."

With a wry smile and looking at Shiho's leaving figure, Dr. Ari responded, and then continued walking towards the kitchen.

Shiho, who finally found a way to leave Dr. Ari, pretended to be nonchalant and came to the entrance of this safe passage.

After pushing the door open and entering, Shiho was about to run towards the B3 floor downstairs——

Then, just as Shibao entered the safe passage and closed the door of the passage, a small hand suddenly reached Shibao's right hand from behind the door on one side and gently pulled Shibao's right hand.

This situation suddenly startled Shiho, and his whole body couldn't help but tremble——

"Hey! Where are you going!"

A somewhat anxious tone, a slightly childish voice, came from Shiho's side, and the words were a bit serious.

After hearing this voice, Shiho, who was a little frightened, couldn't help but froze for a moment, lowered his head and looked at the owner of the small hand that suddenly appeared——

Through the faint light in the security passage, I saw a somewhat familiar long-haired little girl wearing a children's dress looking up at me with a serious face.

And why does the white children's dress on this little girl look... so familiar!