After solving three reasoning questions in a row, the shooting came to an end.
"I'm going to the restroom, I'll be back soon." After Matsuo Takashi finished speaking, he took out his phone from his pocket and hurriedly left the studio.
Watching the other party's departing figure, Lin Yi couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, thinking to himself: After I've shown such a strong reasoning ability, you still choose to act against the wind.
Putting aside everything else, just this action alone makes me admire your courage.
The shooting was temporarily over, and Kogoro Mouri also breathed a long sigh of relief. He came to Lin Yi's side and said in a low voice, "Not bad... Lin Yi, if it wasn't for..."
Before Kogoro Mouri could finish speaking, Lin Yi raised his hand and pointed to the microphone clipped to his collar, signaling him not to continue.
Only then did Kogoro Mouri realize that if he spoke here, the sound engineer would also be able to hear it, and he abruptly stopped.
"You performed very well, you didn't lose my face. Very good, very good."
As he spoke, Kogoro Mouri patted him on the shoulder in a pretentious manner.
Kogoro Mouri's unreliability left Lin Yi speechless.
When he used to see Kogoro Mouri burst forth, he would still wonder if Kogoro Mouri was pretending to be a pig to eat a tiger, and was usually just pretending to be stupid.
However, after a long period of contact, Lin Yi realized that Kogoro Mouri wasn't pretending to be stupid, but was genuinely stupid.
Well, you can't really say he's stupid, it's more accurate to say that he's usually very carefree.
Maybe it's because he rents out the shop on the first floor, so he has income even if he doesn't work.
So, he has a damn good attitude.
When no one comes, he drinks, smokes, gambles on horses, and kills time.
He often stays up late for no reason, and then when he gets up the next day, he can't muster any energy to do anything.
It was as if Lin Yi was seeing himself during high school summer vacation: waking up to eat and play games, sleeping when tired, waking up hungry to find food, regaining energy to play games again, exhausting his energy before falling asleep again, repeating this process, without caring about time at all.
Irregular living habits can easily make a person become decadent.
Kogoro Mouri is like this, he ruined himself.
No matter how excellent his performance was in the police department before, it's all in the past. Messing around will ruin even a good soup.
Kogoro Mouri went from being a social elite to the decadent uncle he is today, which is understandable considering what he's been through.
He lost his job not long ago, and his emotions were at an extreme low.
Eri, despite her leg injury, specially made a loving meal for Kogoro, but Kogoro couldn't control and express his emotions, and roared, "Instead of wasting time on this, you should go and rest!", trying to get Eri Kisaki to rest.
The result is obvious: Eri Kisaki thought that she was injured but still had to cook for him, and not only did he not appreciate it, but he even yelled at her?
So, she immediately quarreled with him, and when her temper flared up, she started to separate.
Anyone who encounters this situation will have their mentality explode.
Once the mentality explodes, there's no need to say anything, drinking, smoking, and staying up late come one after another, like relatives visiting before the New Year.
After this combination punch, no matter how excellent you are, you will become decadent.
Once you enter a state of decadence, it's not easy to escape from this quagmire.
The vast majority of people can't even do the most basic thing of going to bed early and waking up early, let alone get rid of decadence.
Lin Yi guessed that after experiencing great ups and downs, Kogoro Mouri had an epiphany in life: "I'm already married, I have a daughter, and my family doesn't have to worry about food and drink, so why should I work so hard? Life is short, be good to yourself."
Kogoro Mouri entered the life of an old man in advance, and was not very interested in ordinary things. He only used a portion of his strength to do anything, and whether he succeeded or not depended on fate.
Once he encounters an emergency, such as his friends and relatives encountering a case, he will cheer up and enter a serious mode.
Kogoro Mouri was, after all, a policeman, and he has enough rich experience in solving cases in his head. Once he explodes, showing extremely strong reasoning ability is not unacceptable.
It's just that after the emergency is over, Kogoro Mouri will naturally enter the old man mode again.
As for why Kogoro Mouri didn't lower his face to ask to reconcile with Eri Kisaki... it's even simpler.
You can't even say "I love you" to your mother in person.
It's even more impossible for Kogoro Mouri, who loves face, to lower his face and beg Eri Kisaki to reconcile.
Not to mention that Eri Kisaki has already made a name for herself in her industry.
His wife is more famous than him.
Asking for reconciliation in this situation will definitely be poked in the back by others.
Kogoro Mouri, as a chauvinistic Japanese man, can't possibly lower his face and take the initiative to ask Eri Kisaki to reconcile.
During this period, Lin Yi repeatedly observed and tested him, and finally confirmed that Kogoro Mouri was a person of "intermittent ambition, continuous muddle along", and only then did he dare to start playing his little tricks on Kogoro Mouri.
While thinking wildly, Takashi Matsuo had already returned to the studio.
He was covered in sweat, constantly wiping it with a handkerchief.
"Huh?"
Lin Yi deliberately made a suspicious sound to attract Kogoro Mouri's attention.
"What's wrong?" Kogoro Mouri asked.
"Why is Mr. Matsuo so sweaty? That amount of sweat... did he go for a run during the break?" Lin Yi used a curious tone to leave a deep impression on Kogoro Mouri first, as a foreshadowing.
So that he can think of this point as soon as something happens, and use this point as an entry point to start reasoning, so as not to go astray.
"I didn't expect Mr. Matsuo to be such a health-conscious person."
Kogoro Mouri said with some admiration.
"..."
Lin Yi felt a toothache. He now understood Conan's helplessness.
Why did Conan change from subtle reminders in the front to simply shooting him unconscious in the back, and would rather risk being seen through than roll up his sleeves and do it himself... there was a reason.
"Mr. Mouri, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting."
Takashi Matsuo walked over wiping his sweat: "Let's continue."
"Don't you need to rest for a while? You're sweating profusely," Kogoro Mouri said kindly.
"Then... let's rest for another minute, then I'll tell you about the next activities."
Lin Yi didn't say a word and walked straight back to his seat.
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