Officer Takagi followed Suzuki Sonoko's gaze and actually recognized her.
He said to Jiang Xia, "The young lady beside Mr. Shirakawa is Konno Yuri, a waitress at his family's restaurant."
"No!" Suzuki Sonoko narrowed her eyes suspiciously.
"What kind of waitress would naturally link arms with her boss and comfort him when his girlfriend has died? Look at that other waiter in uniform by the wall—he's standing so far away with an expression like it has nothing to do with him. That's how most employees should be acting."
As she spoke, she raised a hand and pointed over the crowd, accurately indicating a waiter standing inconspicuously in the distance.
Although the male waiter looked utterly ordinary, for some reason, Suzuki Sonoko had noticed him the moment he approached. Then, puzzled by why she had paid attention to such an unremarkable waiter, she took a few more looks... and remembered his existence, as well as the style of his uniform.
Jiang Xia followed Suzuki Sonoko's gaze and indeed saw an "ordinary waiter." When Suzuki Sonoko pointed him out from afar, the onlooker's expression twisted for an instant before quickly returning to normal.
Seeing this, Jiang Xia smiled amicably at him.
The "ordinary waiter's" brow twitched again. A moment later, he took a deep breath, rudely ignored the Great Detective's friendly smile, and silently withdrew from everyone's sight.
Uzo was one thing, but that high school girl could spot me at a glance too?
Vermouth, still disguised as a waiter, slipped behind a pillar. She checked herself from head to toe several times, then took out a mirror and examined herself, finding it hard to believe.
Has my disguise technique really deteriorated to this extent?
After unexpectedly encountering that wig on the street earlier, Vermouth had become suspicious, then gone through