The agent beside them failed to notice President Kana's suppressed fury. He rose to his feet, deeply moved. "What a delightful reunion! Who would've thought you all shared such a connection? Oh, right—for today's signing ceremony, I specially prepared a gift."
He took out a beautifully packaged bottle of red wine and stepped forward to present it to Mrs. Kana. "This is wine brewed at our own manor. It may sound like I'm bragging, haha, but you can't buy it anywhere else."
"Thank you." Mrs. Kana patted her husband's tense arm and sighed softly. "Let's handle the important business first, all right?"
The secretary went to a cabinet nearby, took out a number of wineglasses, and arranged them one by one on the table, just enough for this bottle of red wine to open the signing ceremony.
The crimson wine flowed into the glasses. Hashimoto Maya, who had been glued to Jiang Xia's side, unexpectedly took a humble step back at that moment. He stood off to the side like a waiter unqualified to join the banquet, pretending to be part of the background as he smiled and applauded.
Conan and Mizunashi Rena's eyes twitched at the same time. They studied the red wine on the table, their hearts full of suspicion. What was going on? Could there be something wrong with the wine?
Hashimoto Maya actually had no idea whether the wine was poisoned—he only knew that in a scene like this, on Uzo's stage, someone would usually let out a pained howl after everyone happily raised their glasses, struggle for a moment, then collapse with a thud.
Though murderers always had all sorts of ways to make poison hit precisely the person they wanted to kill, based on past experience, innocent bystanders did sometimes get caught up in