ALL NOVEL Chapter 26: Chapter 26
He was considering whether he should use the skill enhancement scroll on this ability, continuing down the path of boasting without looking back.
"How handsome..."
Sonoko, resting her chin on her hand, gazed at Lin Yi with a fixed stare, clearly in love mode: "I feel like... there's nothing you can't do..."
Ji Yi smiled and showed humility.
"It's my turn... so I'll just shuffle the cards normally."
Ran took the cards and carefully split them into two piles, holding one corner of the cards with each hand, and gently placed them down.
She placed one card on the left, then one on the right, and continued this way, slowly laying down the cards.
However, halfway through, Ran used too much force, and the cards went flying everywhere.
"Ah..."
Ran, with a depressed expression, complained: "Why can't I shuffle the cards... why?"
"Maybe it's because you've practiced karate too much!" Sonoko said sarcastically and handed the organized cards to Lin Yi: "Let Lin Yi do it."
Lin Yi didn't show any shyness, took the cards, shuffled them in an ordinary way, and then suddenly spread the cards out forcefully, closing them quickly and repeating the process twice.
"Tap!"
He placed the cards in the palm of his left hand and spread them out along his arm, one by one.
As soon as he closed his left hand, the cards flipped one by one due to the domino effect.
With a sweep of his right hand over his left arm, he gathered all the cards and placed them neatly on the table.
He took the last card and placed it under the first, lifting it slightly, and the cards flipped again, showing the domino effect once more.
Before the cards had completely flipped over, with one final move, Lin Yi gathered the entire deck in his hand.
With four fingers of his right hand holding the cards and his thumb pressed against them, he lifted them slightly and let one card fly out in front of Ran.
With another flick of his thumb, another card fell in front of Sonoko.
With a third flick of his thumb, the cards were placed neatly in front of him.
With a soft "shush," the fifty-three cards lined up orderly in front of the three people.
When the last card fell, Lin Yi gestured for the others to look: "Look at the cards."
Ran and Sonoko finally recovered from their surprise.
Sonoko, trembling with excitement, quickly pulled her phone out of her bag, opened the camera, and excitedly said, "Quick... do it again... I want to record it!"
"That's amazing…!"
Ran and Sonoko leaned in, watching the video they had just recorded, and couldn't help but show expressions of admiration.
It made sense for Sonoko to be excited since she easily falls in love.
But for Ran, with her more reserved character, to also show an expression of admiration was promising.
Seeing the look on Ran's face, Lin Yi felt very satisfied.
Isn't this shuffling move impressive? Is it an exclusive move of the card-playing God?
He remembered when he saw Gao Jin's shuffling move; he was amazed!
"It's incredible..."
Sonoko carefully saved the video and then looked at Lin Yi with sparkling eyes: "Why do you have to shuffle the cards so impressively?"
"Yeah, yeah."
Ran, who was relatively more reserved, was also captivated by the charm Lin Yi displayed. Although her eyes didn't shine as brightly as Sonoko's, there were still little twinkling stars in them.
Lin Yi smiled shyly: "That's all... do you want to keep playing?"
When Ran and Sonoko saw Lin Yi blushing, both girls couldn't help but laugh. This talented boy, who was so easy to embarrass, gave them the opportunity to explore his personality more deeply.
"Okay, okay, let's keep playing."
The girls, considering themselves sisters, immediately thought about how to get the most out of Lin Yi.
The idea was to play a "wild card" game.
After he loses, they could ask him all sorts of questions.
...
On the other hand, at the art museum.
Shinichi and the police continued to investigate the crime scene.
After reviewing the footage, just as Lin Yi had said, Shinichi focused entirely on the pen that the owner, Manaka, had thrown before dying.
He found the personnel from the identification department and confirmed again the pen at the crime scene.
He finally understood why the tip of the second pen was retracted.
Because that pen was not really the one that the owner, Manaka, had used!
Is it possible for someone who is about to die to throw a pen like that?
Would they care if the pen tip can retract or not?
Furthermore, he had already reviewed that part of the video recording repeatedly, and the owner, Manaka, made no move to retrieve the tip of the pen.
When things reached this point, Shinichi had already identified the culprit.
No surprises, it was Director Ochiai!
However, what complicated things for Shinichi was that he hadn't seen Director Ochiai with the pen that didn't write.
After sharing his thoughts with Inspector Megure, he asked his subordinates to discreetly search Director Ochiai's office, but they didn't find the pen that didn't write in his office either.
Not even in the office, nor in the entire art museum; the police searched everywhere and didn't find the pen that Shinichi mentioned.
"Hmm? How strange? Why isn't it here?"
After receiving this news from Megure, Shinichi frowned, very confused.
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