Conan's grammatical investigator

Facing the scrutinizing gaze of Manager Matsumoto, Toru Amuro kept his expression in check, but the shirt under his coat was already soaked with sweat.

He never expected that he would be questioned and searched by the police just when he was passing by the scene of the crime.

When did the detectives at the Metropolitan Police Department become so strong in execution?

If I had known, I wouldn't have left the mall through the garage just now...

In fact, when Toru Amuro left the mall from the garage, he parked his car in the underground garage. On the other hand, he wanted to see the progress of the police investigation.

As a result, he was suspected in this inexplicable way, and even the aura of "the teacher is a detective" was not easy to achieve.

Now he had no excuse to refuse Manager Matsumoto's search.

Because once you refuse, even though the police do not have a search warrant and cannot forcefully search you, the police will definitely increase the intensity of their investigation afterwards.

I could ask Kuroda Bingwei to help me, but this would undoubtedly expose my identity as a public security officer.

Even within the police, the more people who know your true identity, the more dangerous you are.

But if he was found to be carrying a pistol now, the situation would be even more dangerous.

Everyone present will know that he is more than just an ordinary detective assistant!

After a brief thought, Toru Amuro chose the former option.

If you just expose your identity as a police officer to one or two people, at least the situation is controllable.

"sorry, I……"

Just when Toru Amuro was about to blurt out the word "reject", Shuichi Akai, who was behind him, suddenly reached out and pushed Toru Amuro's lower back.

"Hurry up and get searched. I want to go back soon..."

With Akai Shuichi's simple words and actions, Toru Amuro suddenly felt that his waist became much looser.

The pistol is missing.

It's Shuichi Akai!

Akai Shuichi took advantage of the moment when he stretched out his hand to push Amuro Toru, used the clothes in his hand as a cover, and took away the pistol Amuro Toru had on his back waist with lightning speed!

So fast!

Toru Amuro was a little surprised by Akai Shuichi's actions, but right now it was more important to deal with the police in front of him.

He smiled calmly and spread his hands, "Since my cousin said so, let's search you quickly..."

Manager Matsumoto frowned. He didn't notice Akai Shuichi's little move, and turned his head to signal Shiratori to come forward and search him.

The results of the search were as expected by most people, and no suspicious items were found.

Faced with this result, Manager Matsumoto still had a serious expression on his face, "Thank you for your cooperation."

"It's nothing. The police and citizens are cooperating..." Toru Amuro said with a smile on his face, "Officer, can we leave now?"

"can."

With the approval of Manager Matsumoto, Toru Amuro pushed his wheelchair and left the scene slowly with his "cousin".

Looking at Toru Amuro's leaving figure, Manager Matsumoto couldn't help but stop him.

"Um...have we met before?"

Amuro Toru turned around, was startled for a moment, and then shook his head.

"I don't think so, officer..."

Manager Matsumoto nodded and stopped talking.

As Toru Amuro pushed the wheelchair, he breathed a sigh of relief after slowly leaving everyone's sight.

Could it be that he was recognized by the management officer?

No...probably not. Otherwise, if that person knew he was a police officer, he wouldn't insist on searching him.

Although Toru Amuro is a secret police officer of the Public Security Bureau, he has at least spent some time in the police academy and the Metropolitan Police Department.

Although it happened many years ago, some senior police officers may still remember him.

It seems that it is better not to show up too much in front of the police in the future...

Toru Amuro pushed Subaru Okiya to his Mazda RX-7, first put Subaru Okiya in the back seat, and then put away the foldable wheelchair.

At this time, Miwako Sato, who had gone to bring the portraitist outside the garage, happened to run over and passed in front of the white RX-7.

She turned her head when she heard the sound and saw a car of the same model as the car her father left behind.

A brief glance at the dark-skinned man who was putting the wheelchair in the trunk also made her feel inexplicably familiar.

She subconsciously wanted to ask if the two had met before.

But I still wanted to have a mission and not be distracted, so I ran away quickly.

Bang!

At this time, Toruya Amuro, who was closing the back cover of the car, glanced at Sato who was running away from a distance.

He was vaguely impressed by the female detective who stopped in front of his car.

Many years ago, on the day I graduated from the police academy, two female college students happened to come to the school gate. It seems that it was at that time...

Suddenly, Toru Amuro looked startled.

Thinking back to the day he graduated from the police academy, he also remembered that at the graduation ceremony that day, some senior officials from the Metropolitan Police came to observe the ceremony.

Among them was a man with a scar across his eye and a police rank.

The police officers who graduated that day all discussed privately that this police officer had a fierce look on his face and seemed difficult to talk to, and they didn't want to be assigned to work under him after graduation...

And Manager Matsumoto is the police officer!

Amuro Tohru now understood why Manager Matsumoto had an impression on him.

A long time has passed, and Matsumoto himself may have forgotten that at a certain police academy graduation ceremony, he saw a graduating student representative with the best performance in history come up to the stage to receive his diploma.

However, thinking of the graduation ceremony that day, Toru Amuro couldn't help but think of the five-person team from the police academy.

Now, more than half of the five people have died.

Although Zhu Fu Jingguang is still alive, in this situation, it is really difficult to tell whether he is an enemy or a friend.

Amuro Toru sat in the car with a melancholy look on her face, thinking about Zhu Fu Jingguang's affairs in her mind.

At this moment, a cold and hard-to-kill guy was handed over from the back seat.

Toru Amuro glanced to the side and saw Akai Shuichi returning the pistol to himself.

He looked stunned and reached for the pistol.

"Thanks……"

Toru Amuro thanked Akai Shu sincerely. If it weren't for his superb acting skills and superhuman skills, he would have had to take the risk of exposing his identity.

But this also made him more suspicious of what happened on the rooftop that day.

Even Shuichi Akai who lost his memory was so terrifyingly powerful, let alone Shuichi Akai who was undercover in the organization at that time.

What happened on the rooftop that day?

Was it true that Zhu Fu Jingguang was not dead at that time? It's just an illusion of death made in front of oneself...

It's a pity that Akai Shuichi has lost his memory now, and there is no way to solve the doubts in his heart.

At this time, Akai Shuichi slowly analyzed: "The policeman was suspicious of you. It should be because you, as a detective assistant, showed no interest in this case..."

Amuro Toru was startled and then understood.

At that time, I was so anxious to leave the scene and go find Qin Zhibo to find out more, that I ignored this small detail for a while.

This loophole was caught by Matsumoto, an experienced case manager.

Toru Amuro frowned, feeling a little dissatisfied with his performance.

Once Zhu Fu Jingguang was involved, his brain was still not calm enough, so he made such a low-level mistake.

Akai Shuichi continued: "So do you really know some inside information about this case?"

"Otherwise, you wouldn't have left the scene in such a hurry..." After experiencing peaceful coexistence with Toru Amuro under the same roof these days, Akai Shuichi also roughly understood the character of this "cousin".

Although sometimes he is considerate and approachable, and sometimes he is a jerk, these are not his true colors.

His true face is that of a decent person with a sense of justice in his heart.

Occasionally late at night several times, Shuichi Akai overheard Toru Amuro receiving calls from his subordinates to help solve some difficult cases.

Shuichi Akai didn't quite understand the division of labor within the Japanese police, but if he was a secret policeman with a special mission, logically speaking, he should be able to refuse to do his own special work.

But in fact, Toru Amuro would not be stingy with his help every time and would not come back until late at night.

When I don't have any tasks, I have to summarize case information on my laptop, and I have to stay up late until very late.

This made Akai Shuichi stay vigilant at the beginning, and then slowly let down his guard.

But so far, Akai Shuichi can still occasionally feel the vague hostility from Toru Amuro.

This is also the side that Akai Shuichi thinks Toru Amuro has as a jerk.

Faced with Akai Shuichi's speculation, Toru Amuro did not want to reveal the inside story he knew.

Let’s not talk about the fact that Akai Shuichi has lost his memory now and cannot provide any substantial help in the matter of Morofu Jingguang.

Even if he didn't have amnesia, he would not provide information to an FBI.

"I don't have to worry about it anymore..."

"Let's go back."

Toru Amuro unceremoniously rejected Akai Shuichi's invitation to form a team, started the car, and drove out of the garage.

……

On the other side, not long after Amuro Toru and Okiya Subaru left, Sato rushed over with the portrait artist.

Manager Matsumoto immediately ordered the portraitist to paint on site as quickly as possible to draw the criminal's portrait for evidence collection in the mall.

As for the descriptor of the criminal's appearance, it was Judy who could clearly describe the appearance of the "blond man".

In fact, Judy didn't quite see the appearance of the "blond man" based on her first glance in the mall.

But she remembers "Michael" who appeared at the dock during the full moon incident very clearly.

All she had to do was describe what Michael looked like.

"He has obvious foreign characteristics...the chin is slightly wider...the face is slightly longer...the cheekbones are not very prominent..."

"Blonde hair... naturally curly hair... the ends of the hair just reach the earlobes... bangs three to seven points..."

Judy is a professional and so is the portrait artist.

The two professionals met and quickly sketched the basic appearance of the "blond man".

When Mao Lilan saw the portrait, he was shocked and said: "That's him!"

"I've seen this man! He was the one who told me that the old man with the bomb strapped to his body was the bomber!"

The policemen were stunned, and Manager Matsumoto quickly asked what was going on.

Mao Lilan told the story of today's shopping mall bomb case, especially how the blond man played with the red T-shirt, thus revealing the true identity of the bomber.

"Hmm..." Administrator Matsumoto pondered, and then asked: "Since this man has touched those red T-shirts, his fingerprints should be on the T-shirts, right?"

But Mao Lilan shook his head regretfully, "That shouldn't happen, I remember he was wearing gloves at the time..."

At this time, Conan also ran to the side of the portrait that was about to be completed. When he stretched his head to take a look, his pupils immediately shrank in shock.

As expected, he is the "brother-in-law"!

As someone who had been almost face-to-face with Michael, Conan recognized at a glance that the person depicted in the portrait was the brother-in-law whom he longed for.

At the same time, it is also the only relative left in this world that Hui Yuan Ai misses...

Originally, Conan felt a little guilty towards Haibara Ai for failing to save Haibara Ai's sister Miyano Akemi.

Now if Michael cannot be kept in the hands of the organization, it will be an even greater regret for him throughout his life.

What's more, this brother-in-law was his savior.

But now with his identity and status, no one believes what he says.

Unless the real murderer is found, and then Maori Kogoro is anesthetized to reason.

But now even he himself has no idea about the identity of the murderer, the method of breaking through the wall, and the motive of the murder.

Manager Matsumoto here picked up the portrait and took a look at it. After remembering the appearance in his mind, he decisively ordered his subordinates to print out multiple copies of the portrait and give it to witnesses for confirmation.

In this way, the man's whereabouts in the mall today can be roughly determined.

Now, regardless of whether the "blond man" is guilty or not, it is a key clue to break through this major police assault case.

……

Half an hour later, Shiratori and Sato collected information one after another and returned to the underground garage to report.

After a large number of on-site interrogations by witnesses and confirmation of portraits, the trajectory of the "blond man" in the mall has been outlined.

The blond man entered the mall roughly when it opened this morning.

From morning to around one o'clock at noon, the man had been sitting in the beverage shop opposite the mall gate, reading magazines and newspapers.

Because he was the only foreigner in the store and stayed there for a long time, the clerk remembered it very clearly.

After that, it was probably the man who arrived on the third floor, happened to encounter a bomb threat, and took action to solve the bomb incident himself.

When the bomb threat was about to be resolved, another clerk met a man on the 6th floor.

According to the clerk, the man was already looking for "Chiba" at that time.

And this "Chiba" is also quite strange, asking some irrelevant insurance questions.

After that, only Judy saw the blond man walking towards the underground garage with "Chiba".

After listening to his subordinate's description, Manager Matsumoto held his chin and said thoughtfully.

"It seems that this person's target has been Chiba from the beginning..."

"But why does Chiba obey him so much?"

At this time, Mouri Kogoro suddenly had an idea and raised his hand: "Could it be that this person threatened Chiba with a gun and said, 'You must follow him, otherwise you will shoot' or something like that..."

Hearing this guess, Mumu next to him looked a little speechless, "I had this guess before you came, but Conan said this idea is untenable..."

When Mouri Kogoro heard this, he curled his lips. Judging from the shape of his mouth, he was muttering, "What does a brat know?"

Just when everyone felt that the clues seemed to have come to an abrupt end, Takagi suddenly ran over from a distance, panting.

"Report! I found a major clue!"

Mu Mu's face suddenly became excited, "What clue? Tell me quickly!"

Takagi Wataru stood still among the crowd and quickly reported: "I got a testimony from a clerk in a men's clothing store in the mall. This blond man brought a young man to buy men's clothing in the morning."

"Bringing young people to buy men's clothing?"

Takagi Shita nodded, then looked a little hesitant, "And this young man is..."

"Who is it?" Mu Mu quickly urged.

Takagi Wataru immediately said solemnly: "It's high school detective Kudo Shinichi!"

Conan on the side was suddenly shocked.

what?

The young man is actually myself?