"Sorry, my hand slipped."
Okiya Subaru looked apologetic as he reached out and dragged the coffee cup in front of Jiang Xia over to himself. "This one's been watered down. I'll take it."
Mouri Ran froze. Seeing that Jiang Xia no longer had a drink, she hesitantly wanted to push her own coffee toward him.
Just then, Conan also let out an "oops" and toppled sideways, "accidentally" knocking that cup of coffee onto the floor—though Conan did not really understand what had happened, he had caught Okiya Subaru's reaction and realized that this mysterious graduate student seemed to think there was something wrong with the coffee.
In an instant, both cups of coffee were far away from the high school students.
Katsumura Eiji, who had tried to drive off the students who hated bitter flavors with bitter coffee: "..."
...Was he having terrible luck today or something?
The corner of his eye twitched as he glanced at the coffee tin behind the Bar Counter. To make the coffee as undrinkable as possible, he had poured all the remaining grounds from the tin into it.
The shop should have more in stock. But the owner was a messy person who piled things everywhere, and Katsumura Eiji could not find the other coffee grounds anytime soon.
As Okiya Subaru prayed for Akai Shuichi to hurry over and save them, he picked up the coffee he had taken from Jiang Xia. Pretending to savor its aroma, he secretly sniffed it.
"..." Huh? There was no Bitter Almond Scent. Could it be that Uzo had not planned to send someone to assassinate anyone?
...Still, he could not rule out the possibility that the store manager had used some other poison.
After all, Okiya Subaru had been to this shop before and had ordered