Before the time was about to reach midnight, Hayasaka Tomoko had already taken out the prepared birthday cake and put candles on the cake, ready to light the candles.
In this regard, Xiaolan couldn't help but praise this exquisite strawberry cream cake.
“I went to Ginza specially to buy this!”
Hearing Xiaolan's praise, Hayasaka Tomoko couldn't help but respond, so Xiaolan looked at the candles on the cake that hadn't been lit yet, and wanted to help and said:
"Then I'll go find matches."
"No, I've already borrowed a lighter from Sawai."
Tomoko Hayasaka was already prepared. She took out a lighter and started lighting the candles on the cake.
Seeing this, watching the candles on the cake being lit one by one, Xiaolan couldn't help but said with some joy:
"Every time I light the candles on the birthday cake, I get so excited no matter how old I am!"
"You can only say this kind of thing until you are twenty."
But listening to Xiaolan's words, Hayasaka Tomoko couldn't help but look a little serious.
"Ah? Is that like this?"
Regarding this statement, Xiaolan felt a little surprised for a while, as if she could not understand the meaning of Hayasaka Tomoko's words.
"That's right."
In this regard, looking at Xiaolan, who is still a high school student, Hayasaka Tomoko seemed to be someone who has been through it before, and said with sincerity like a big sister:
"Once you're twenty years old, adding just one candle a year will make you hate it so much!"
Hearing what Tomoko Hayasaka said, Xiaolan had no choice but to smile helplessly——
While we were chatting like this, midnight arrived, and at this moment, the fax machine in the room received a fax on time from Takamura Masao, a professor at the Faculty of Literature at Toto University.
"As promised, it came on time at midnight on Asami's birthday!"
Seeing a document coming out of the fax machine, Chinatsu Miyazaki took the lead in coming to the fax machine and couldn't help but say while looking at the content on it.
"Look, it was right for us to rent a villa with a fax, right?"
In this regard, Manabu Sawai said that he felt very right in choosing to rent this villa to celebrate Asami Uchida's birthday.
"Asami, it's a fax from Mr. Takamura."
After Chinatsu Miyazaki waited until the fax was completely transmitted from the fax machine, she picked up the fax paper. Chinatsu Miyazaki said to Asami Uchida that she hoped she would see the blessing from the teacher soon.
But at this time, Asami Uchida was already asleep on the sofa——
"No? What should I do with this cake?"
After hearing the news that Asami Uchida had fallen asleep, Tomoko Hayasaka felt a little embarrassed and said.
"And wait, aren't we going to the karaoke bar in front of the station?"
Miyazaki Chinatsu also said with some embarrassment.
"Yes, we have already made an appointment."
Morimoto Yoshinobu couldn't help but say.
"That's really no idea. Let's cut the cake during the day."
Faced with the current situation, Sakai Manabu sighed and suggested this:
"Anyway, from now until midnight, it's Mami's birthday. Let's just go to the karaoke bar and sing."
At the same time, Xiaolan silently took out a blanket and covered Asami Uchida who was sleeping on the sofa.
"I have no choice but to do this."
Noguchi Shiba thought about this for a long time and felt that this was the only way to go, so he agreed aloud.
And soon, everyone had no objections and all agreed, leaving Asami Uchida to rest alone in the villa while the others went to the karaoke bar in front of the station...
…
"Well, as far as my impression goes, there is no deviation in the plot at all."
At this moment, Gao Yuan silently observed the current situation, feeling inexplicably lucky in his heart——
As long as there are no deviations in the plot, it is completely easy to prevent subsequent events from happening.
According to the plot of the original work, before everyone went to karaoke to sing, Manabu Sawai had already made a simple ignition device using the fax machine in the villa and the burning candles on the cake, so that the villa could be set on fire remotely.
And its own purpose is to create such an incident, create a scene of a hero saving a beauty for himself, and want Asami Uchida to notice him from now on...
I have to say that this is somewhat naive and a plan that does not care about the consequences.
Just like in the original work, when everyone rushed back from the karaoke after discovering that the villa on the top of the mountain was on fire, the fire in the villa was already so big that Sakai Manabu himself did not dare to enter the villa. If it weren't for Xiaolan and Conan who bravely rushed in
In the sea of fire, Uchida Asami almost died here.
Therefore, in order to prevent this kind of thing from happening, just remove the ignition device before leaving the villa.
In this regard, as long as there is no deviation in the event, it is actually very simple to prevent the event from happening——
Just, why?
Obviously you are with Conan this time, right?
According to usual experience, when you and Conan are involved in a case in the original work at the same time, the development of the case will be somewhat deviated, right?
But since there is no deviation in the current situation, if you know the plot, you must prevent the incident from happening in advance...
Thinking like this, Gao Yuan took advantage of the fact that everyone was basically out and ready to go, so he came to the fax machine and secretly unplugged the communication line of the fax machine. In this way, the fax machine could still be used even though it was still powered on.
It has its own copy function, but it is completely impossible to fax content from other places to this fax machine.
So, after finishing this, Gao Yuan looked at Uchida Asami who was still sleeping on the sofa, and then went out.
And because at night, several boys from the Mystery Research Club drank, but Gao Yuan had nothing to drink, so Gao Yuan drove the van rented by the people from the Mystery Research Club and took everyone to the karaoke bar in front of the station.
In the store, it was not yet one o'clock in the morning.
"It's not even one o'clock in the morning..."
After looking at the time displayed on his watch, Gao Yuan parked the car in front of the karaoke shop in front of the station, but subconsciously, he seemed to feel that something was wrong.
"I'm going to buy a pack of cigarettes, you go in first."
At this moment, when everyone got off the car and was about to enter the karaoke shop, because the cigarettes on his body were almost smoked, Sawai Manabu saw the convenience store in front of the station and was going to buy cigarettes from the convenience store.
In this regard, Gao Yuan couldn't help but say:
"Then I'll go buy something too."
With that said, after turning off the car and locking it, Gao Yuan followed Sawai's lead and walked towards the convenience store.
Regarding this situation, no one else said anything. They just waved their hands to Takato and Sawai Manabu, signaling to come back quickly. Under the leadership of Morimoto Yoshinobu, everyone headed towards the reserved box.
Go inside.
As for Gao Yuan and Sawai Manabu, after getting off the bus, they quickly walked to the convenience store.
Because in the original work, Manabu Sawai used the fax machine in the convenience store in front of the station to send a fax to the fax machine in the villa, causing a fire, so when he saw Manabu Sawai going to the convenience store, Gao Yuan naturally
Followed.
Moreover, after entering the convenience store, Gao Yuan immediately saw the fax machine placed inside the convenience store——
Therefore, so far, Gao Yuan has really not found anything different from the original work, except that Kogoro Mori was supposed to follow Conan and the others and became himself...
Thinking like this, after entering the convenience store, Gao Yuan first paid attention to Sawai Manabu's movements, and then came to the beverage counter. After casually grabbing a few cans of coffee, he saw that Sawai Manabu was really just in front of the cashier.
Apart from buying a pack of cigarettes, he left the convenience store without doing anything else. Takato immediately paid for a few cans of coffee and followed Sawai Manabu's pace.
After walking out of the convenience store, Sawai Manabu immediately opened the package of cigarettes, took out one cigarette, held it in his mouth, lit it with his portable lighter, and stood at the door of the convenience store and started smoking -
—
"Coffee?"
In this regard, seeing him standing in front of the convenience store smoking like this, it seemed that he had no intention of leaving for a while. Gao Yuan, who had bought several cans of coffee, naturally took out a cup of coffee from the plastic bag when he came to him.
The can of coffee was handed to Sawai Manabu and he asked.
Hearing this, Manabu Sawai, who was smoking, seemed a little surprised to see Gao Yuan's active inquiry, but then he took off the cigarette from his mouth and said:
"No need. Coffee is not as refreshing to me as smoking."
Saying that, Manabu Sawai put the cigarette into his mouth again and took a long puff. He had just lit the cigarette for a while, but with this puff, a clear part of it burned back.
"Really."
Seeing that the other party had no intention of accepting the coffee, Gao Yuan was minding his own business, opened the can of coffee and drank it himself, without any intention of going to the karaoke shop immediately.
"By the way, Mr. Mingzhi..."
However, I don’t know if it was because he saw Gao Yuan that he didn’t go to the karaoke shop immediately. Sakai Manabu took the initiative to talk to Gao Yuan and asked:
"How did you and Asami meet?"
"ah?"
Pure sugar-free American coffee went down his throat. When he heard Sawai Manabu take the initiative to speak, Gao Yuan, who was slightly bitter, was slightly surprised, and then answered:
"It was a school beauty pageant from before. Miss Uchida and I were both judges..."
"Is it the competition jointly organized by many universities in Tokyo?"
Hearing Gao Yuan's answer, Sakai Manabu was thoughtful, and then knowing about this competition, he said:
"So that's it..."
"What's wrong?"
In this regard, seeing Manabu Sawai taking the initiative to ask about Asami Uchida, Gao Yuan took advantage of the situation and asked:
"You seem to be very concerned about Miss Uchida's appearance?"
"Really……"
Hearing this question, Sakai Manabu couldn't help but smile bitterly, flicked the cigarette butt, was silent for a moment, and then said as if he was drunk:
"Actually, to tell you the truth, I confessed my love to Asami before, but she decisively rejected it... I feel a little embarrassed to say it. I have never encountered such a thing before, so I am somewhat unwilling to do so. I feel,
There must be someone in Mami's heart who would be like this, so when I saw Mr. Akechi coming to Mami's birthday party, I thought Mami liked you..."
"Ah……"
Feeling very surprised by this, Gao Yuan replied helplessly:
"You think too much."
"Yes, so I can see it too!"
Sakai Manabu said this, then continued to smoke, seemed to feel a little helpless and touched his head, shook his head and said:
"Ah, it seems that I drank a little too much. What are you talking about..."
Looking inexplicably embarrassed, Sawai Manabu said this, but his face seemed to be somewhat relaxed for some reason. Sawai Manabu finished smoking the cigarette in his hand, pressed the cigarette butt against the trash can, and stubbed out the cigarette butt.
, then threw it into the trash can, and started walking towards the karaoke shop——
"Hey? Won't Mr. Akechi leave?"
Dazedly, looking at the cigarette butt that Sawai Manabu had just put out, Gao Yuan froze on the spot and did not move. When Sawai Manabu saw Gao Yuan not moving, he asked slightly unexpectedly.
"ah……"
Hearing Sawai Manabu's inquiry, Gao Yuan was surprised for a moment, then he held his stomach and said:
"My stomach feels uncomfortable and I need to go to the toilet. Sawai-san, can you help me bring the coffee in?"
"oh……"
Seeing Gao Yuan hand the bag of coffee in front of him, Sakai Manabu took it without asking any questions and walked towards the karaoke shop alone.
And after watching Sakai Manabu leave and seeing him enter the karaoke shop, Gao Yuan suddenly turned around and ran towards the villa on the mountain——
wrong!
How wrong!
The plot deviation has already appeared!
I cared too much about the difference from the original work, but forgot one more important thing——
The feasibility of the method!
In the original work, Manabu Sawai uses the fax machine in the convenience store to send a fax to the fax machine in the villa, so that the paper is uploaded from the fax machine. At the same time, Manabu Sawai puts a cake under the fax machine, puts candles on the cake and
Ignite it, so that as the paper on the fax machine hangs down, it will be ignited by the candle flame, thus taking this as an opportunity to cause a fire.
When I read the original work, I felt that this method seemed feasible.
But the problem is, now that I am immersed in it, as a person who has experienced it, this method is not feasible at all!
Just like cigarettes, how long can a cigarette burn? The candles inserted on the cake are very thin candles. Once lit, it will burn to the bottom in no more than ten minutes!
In this way, even if the plot of the original work happened intact, and Manabu Sawai set up the ignition device one second before leaving the villa, but ten minutes later, the candle would burn out!
From this point of view, there are only two results.
One is that as the candle burns out, because the candle is inserted on the cake, there is no new combustible material, and the flame disappears directly!
Secondly, the cream on the cake itself is flammable, and the last flame from the candle burned directly to the cake!
But generally speaking, the flame of this small candle is unlikely to ignite the cream.
In the original work, Sawai Manabu spent a long time in a karaoke shop before going to a convenience store to send a fax. But now, with the candle's flame, it is impossible to burn it for so long. So no matter how you look at it, the original work
This method is not feasible at all at the moment!
Therefore, it is not that there is no deviation in the event, but that the deviation exists from the beginning!
In this way, according to the above analysis, if Manabu Sawai really arranges the ignition device, there will be only two results -
Either the candles have now gone out, or the cake has been set on fire and a fire has broken out.
Although the possibility of the latter happening is very small, and the former does not need to be taken care of, since there is a deviation in the plot, I am not sure what kind of drastic changes this deviation will cause.
Therefore, instead of leaving Asami Uchida alone in the villa and worrying about any accidents, it would be better to wake her up directly and let her come to the karaoke shop with everyone!
Therefore, Gao Yuan must return to the villa as soon as possible now...