Looking at that breathtaking profile, Usui Ritsuko froze for a moment, her gaze gradually turning strange.
Her eyes shifted back and forth between Jiang Xia and Mouri Kogoro several times before finally settling slowly on Jiang Xia.
—A younger, more handsome, and more famous Detective.
With someone like him sitting right beside her, why did she have to drag that utterly unappealing, somewhat repulsive mustached old man back to her room?
Perhaps the few drinks she had downed had softened her reason. Usui Ritsuko's plan gradually began to loosen.
"It's not that I don't want to lower my standards, but if I remember correctly, Kisaki Eri seems to have a very good relationship with this young Detective too. The way she looks at him is so fond, like an elder looking at family—like his own mother. She even made a clipping collection just for him."
Usui Ritsuko rubbed her chin as she considered it slowly. "And Jiang Xia is a celebrity, one with plenty of fans and a bit of an idol aura. If this underage Detective gets caught up in a romantic scandal, it'll be enough to give Kisaki Eri a headache for quite a while."
"If it doesn't work, I can always go find Mouri Kogoro tomorrow and carry out the plan. That lecherous old man will come running to dinner with me if I so much as crook a finger, but chances to sit at the same table as Jiang Xia won't come often."
It would have been fine if the thought had never occurred to her, but now that it had taken root, she looked Jiang Xia up and down, and the more she looked, the more tempted she became.
While everyone else at the table was still drunk, she stood up and gracefully changed seats