My Restaurant's Guests are All Abnormal

Chapter 441: Chapter 301 Conan This Man Is Too Slow

"Ah!" Ayumi Yoshida’s scream pierced through the tranquility of the restaurant, making Chen Ze involuntarily cover his ears. The sound was even more unbearable than the most grating noise; had he not known better, Chen Ze might have thought it was the wail of a banshee from World of Warcraft.

"Manager!" Conan was anxious. He truly hadn’t expected Gin to shoot so directly, without giving any chance at all.

"Ah, I’m fine, but customer, a temper like yours is really not quite acceptable. Besides, we do not accept this form of payment in our restaurant," Chen Ze said steadily with a bit of helplessness. Although he knew Gin’s temper and manner of doing things well enough to anticipate some strange actions, he hadn’t expected it to escalate to gunfire.

"Oh? Sorry, this was just a little experiment, nothing more," Gin said, looking at the scene before him with some surprise.

"This..." Now with the face of a major star, Ai Haibara was astonished by the purple barrier that had appeared so abruptly and blocked Gin’s bullet.

For the first time, the fear Ai Haibara felt when facing the organization was replaced by the curiosity of a scientist. If it hadn’t been for Gin and Vodka being present, she would have been barely able to stop herself from rushing forward to examine this miraculous barrier and figure out what scientific principles it was based on.

"So, customer, since your experiment is complete, shouldn’t you settle your bill now? Our restaurant firmly does not allow credit," Chen Ze said with a smile, unconcerned.

In fact, with the Magic Circle in place, Chen Ze was no longer so fearful of these villains. What a joke, even Hastur’s attacks couldn’t harm Chen Ze; he was fearless now.

"...Well, the only thing of interest I have on me is probably just this thing, here," Gin said, glancing at Chen Ze before pulling out a metal box from his bosom. Upon opening it, inside were red and white alternating capsules.

Conan’s pupils contracted sharply. He gripped the chair tightly. This thing... this thing wasn’t it the drug that Ai Haibara had told him about, the one developed by the organization?

Ai Haibara also looked at the red and white capsules. She silently watched the drug for which she had contributed a significant amount of time and effort—APTX4869. Although she did not know whether there had been any new developments with this drug, if she could obtain it, she should be able to deduce an antidote. If so, she might be able to revert to her original self.

Chen Ze took the drug. Having recently revisited Detective Conan, he of course knew what the drug before him was all about and understood its immense allure to Conan and Ai Haibara.

But this drug was the Black Organization’s secret weapon, so Chen Ze really hadn’t expected Gin to take it out and give it to him.

"What use is this thing?" But business is business, and Chen Ze had to ask, meanwhile confirming that this thing was indeed what he thought it was.

"Poison. If you make that person ingest it, they will die, and after death, the toxic components will decompose, undetectable," Gin explained patiently, then looked at Chen Ze, waiting for his response.

"Okay, although it’s quite far from an interesting item, it seems that you really don’t have anything else." Chen Ze pocketed the APTX4869.

"...We will meet again," Gin said with a glance at Chen Ze, then he and Vodka left the place.

"Mr. Manager!" Conan rushed up almost impatiently, his eyes directly conveying to Chen Ze how desperate he was to get his hands on the poison Chen Ze had.

"Conan, if you want to know about the curry incident, come to the kitchen and I’ll tell you," Chen Ze said, smiling as he ruffled Conan’s head before leading him into the kitchen.

"Hey, Ayumi, do you know?" Ai Haibara suddenly felt playful and looked at Ayumi as she began to speak leisurely.

"Eh? What is it, Haibara?" Ayumi turned her head, looking puzzled at Ai Haibara. fɾeewebnoveℓ.co๓

"Well, there are some men in the world who don’t like women. Instead, they have a fondness for little boys like Conan, often taking them to secluded corners to look at goldfish or something..." Ai Haibara said slowly, and Ayumi’s expression turned to one of sheer horror.

"But our manager is definitely not that kind of person." Seeing the horrified Ayumi, Ai Haibara laughed happily and quickly added another sentence, otherwise letting these kids in might affect Conan’s request for APTX4869 from the manager.

"Really, Haibara, you’re too bad," Ayumi finally relaxed, realizing she had been teased.

"Sorry, I can’t give it to you, Conan," Chen Ze said, smiling as he refused Conan’s request.

"But this drug is really important to me, you know I shrunk because of the organization’s drug. Only by getting this drug can I..." Conan was anxious to explain, he really needed that poison.

"Only then can you? Only then can you confront the people of the Black Organization and reveal their crimes? But do you have any evidence collected? Kids don’t easily arouse suspicion, but even so?" Chen Ze still refused Conan.

Not to mention the anime has progressed to over a thousand episodes, yet when it comes to the main plotline about the Black Organization, Conan is almost like those who say they won’t proceed and really don’t— he’s clueless.

In the end, Chen Ze only took one of Conan’s suspenders, the magical one he often used to perform Detective Studies.

"Betty, it’s about time to prepare for dinner," Chen Ze said, checking the time, as it was almost dinner time.

All that was left was to call down Lafra, and then they could begin preparing tonight’s dinner.

"Conan, why didn’t the manager give you the drug?" Ai Haibara asked, looking curiously at Conan. If she didn’t know the great detective’s character, she might wonder if Conan had offended Chen Ze.

"He doesn’t want to give it to me, and I think he makes sense, I know too little about the organization’s people. Even if I changed back, it would be useless," Conan said, crestfallen, as he suddenly realized he really hadn’t gathered any critical evidence about that organization despite always solving cases.

Because he was looking down, Conan didn’t see Ai Haibara frantically signaling him with her eyes.

"Change back? Conan-kun, can you tell me what exactly you’re talking about?" Suddenly, a female voice came from behind, startling Conan.

Conan turned stiffly to see a smiling Ran looking at him with a ’kind’ expression.