Conan's other me

Chapter 72 Purse Suspicion (End)

Feng Yuan pushed the photo on the table in front of him.

"I've already seen..."

Hattori Heiji said casually.

However, Kudo must have his deep meaning in doing this, so Hattori Heiji still looked at the photos carefully.

Although 20 years have passed, these people in the photo were already adults at that time, so they can be roughly distinguished.

But... Swampy is really unique looking...

Hattori Heiji thought.

Feng Yuan was a little helpless.

Numabuchi Kiichiro's face swallowed Hattori Heiji's sight like a black hole.

He had no choice but to point his finger at Inaba Teji on the photo.

Hattori Heiji was stunned.

……

"...that's just your guesswork."

After a moment of silence, Hattori Heiji said.

Obviously because the person in the photo looks exactly like Sakata Yusuke, Kudo speculates that Sakata Yusuke is the son of the deceased who died in an accident 20 years ago, and then suspects that he is the serial murderer.

"Ah."

Kudo didn't deny this either.

"It could also just be a coincidence that the body fell on the police car."

"Yeah. It might just be a coincidence that I went to the toilet at that time."

"..."

Hattori Heiji's face became increasingly ugly.

He knows Sakata Yusuke better than Kudo.

Although he didn't pay special attention to it, Sakata Yusuke came to be his driver after all, and someone mentioned Sakata Yusuke's family situation to him.

So...if the so-called coincidence is not a coincidence...

That Kudo's guess is very likely to be true.

You are a policeman...

Hattori Heiji exhaled, folded the photo expressionlessly and stuffed it into his pocket.

"Leave this to me."

Hattori Heiji said seriously, turning his head without waiting for Fengbara to respond.

"Hey, Sakata! Time to go!"

"Ok?"

Uncle Mori, who was having a friendly discussion with Yusuke Sakata, froze for a moment, and Conan also looked over.

"Where are you going?" Sakata Yusuke asked.

"Go to Goji Soutaro," Hattori Heiji completely recovered his normal appearance, "Just like you said, that guy from Numabuchi might be after Goji, right? Then go ask him and see if he knows something."

"Aren't you going to ask Okazaki Sumie first?"

"Wouldn't it be more convenient to ask Xiang Si directly?"

"But…"

"Let's go, I'm so annoying." Hattori Heiji said dissatisfied, "Just arrange for someone to ask Okazaki."

"…it is good."

Sakata Yusuke hesitated for a while before agreeing.

Uncle Mori looked at Hattori Heiji, "Hey, what shall we do?"

"You don't have to go there," Hattori Heiji said to Uncle Mori, "Uncle, you are here for tourism after all. I will ask someone to drive over to pick you up later."

After talking to Uncle Mori, Hattori Heiji was about to leave with Sakata Yusuke.

When Conan saw this, he wanted to follow, but was punched on the forehead by Uncle Mao Li, and he had to watch helplessly as his good partner left him like this.

But he didn't give up. When Uncle Mori was a little bored and his attention was no longer on him, Conan secretly pulled Fengyuan aside.

"Hey," Conan said, "you and Hattori must have something to hide from me, what's going on?"

"Want to know?"

Conan had a bad premonition in his heart.

But he does want to know.

"Do me a favor and I'll tell you."

……

Inaba Teji is the father of Sakata Yusuke, and he always drives carefully.

So Sakata Yusuke didn't believe that his father would drink and drive.

So he worked hard to become a criminal police officer and wanted to investigate this matter.

And when he found Kiichiro Numabuchi, because he looked almost exactly the same as his father, Kiichiro Numabuchi mistakenly thought that Toruji Inaba had come to revenge, so he said everything.

It turned out that those people were upset that the coach was too strict, so they got the coach drunk, drained the brake fluid, and put him in the car... This is how the car accident 20 years ago happened.

And since the retrospective statute of limitations for homicide in Japan is only 15 years, which has already passed, Sakata Yusuke decided to make these people pay the price by himself.

But plans went awry.

Detectives found out about the driver's license earlier than he expected.

In order to avoid being suspected, he had no choice but to lead the matter to Numabuchi Kiichiro in advance.

But then he lost his chance to kill Okazaki.

Although he felt that Hattori Heiji might have doubted himself, he followed Hattori Heiji to Goji Soutaro's house as he wished, and he decided to seize the opportunity to kill this most difficult target.

Finding an excuse to leave temporarily, Sakata Yusuke came to the dark warehouse alone, holding a rope in his hand, waiting silently for Goji Soutaro to arrive here according to his instructions on the phone.

With the sound of footsteps, Sakata Yusuke's nerves tensed a little like the rope in his hand.

嗏

"No matter how long you wait, Koji won't come." Hattori Heiji walked into the warehouse with his hands in his pockets, "Mr. Sakata."

"Ping, Pingji!"

"Are you the serial killer?"

"Are you kidding?" Sakata Yusuke squeezed out an embarrassed smile, "I just think this warehouse is very rare, just come in and have a look..."

"I should have thought of it earlier." Hattori Heiji said, "First of all, the body fell on the police car. You brought us there, and then you pretended to go to the toilet when we were about to leave. In fact, you sneaked out and called to arrange for the body to fall from it."

"You also called Okazaki to come to the scene at that time. She has already said everything, and someone left her a threatening message."

"And when I proposed to go to Goji directly, you raised an objection," Hattori Heiji continued, "You want to go to Okazaki first. I guess you plan to find an opportunity to kill her at that time."

"But to your disappointment, I didn't give you this chance. You had to follow me to find Xiangsi first, and you wanted to kill him first... after all, the opportunity is rare."

"That's why you took the initiative to be our guide. Xiangsi is a member of the government council. He is too eye-catching when he goes out and is followed by bodyguards. You want to guide me to find Xiangsi. You came here as my driver, and you will not attract suspicion even if you walk around."

"...when did you find out?"

"I asked someone to investigate you." Hattori Heiji did not answer, but changed the subject, "Although you changed your surname because your mother remarried...but Tejiji Inaba is your father."

After all, this is not what he discovered.

If it wasn't for that guy Kudo's reminder, he might have been led by the nose by that guy Sakata.

So Hattori Heiji was not very interested in explaining the process of discovery.

and…

Before coming here, everything was just speculation, or speculation that he didn't want to be confirmed.

There was silence in the warehouse for a while.

"I don't know what happened 20 years ago," Hattori Heiji said, "but...turn yourself in."

The police under my father used me to complete the murder plan...

If he didn't want to confirm all this with his own eyes, Hattori Heiji would never have come here.

He hoped that Sakata Yusuke could wake up in the end, and also hoped that he could surrender himself to reduce his criminal responsibility...

But something unexpected happened to him.

"Sorry, Heiji." Sakata Yusuke said while pulling out his gun and aiming at his temple, "It's too late."

Sakata wants to commit suicide.

Hattori Heiji panicked.

He just hoped that Sakata Yusuke could surrender himself, but he never wanted to drive him to a dead end.

So he wanted to rush forward to stop it, even if he might get shot in the chaos...

But at this time, an unexpected voice came from him.

"Yusuke Sakata! Put down the gun for me!"

"Yes!"

Hearing the sound, Sakata Yusuke put down the gun almost subconsciously, but then remembered that he was going to commit suicide.

But he didn't have time to think about it anymore.

There was the sound of neat footsteps in the originally silent warehouse, and a group of policemen came over.

The leading majestic man walked straight to Sakata Yusuke and stared at Sakata Yusuke closely.

"I am disappointed."

Sakata Yusuke showed a look of shame.

"The cherry blossom badge on your criminal police card is also disappointing."

Sakata Yusuke lowered his head, allowing his colleague to take the gun from his hand.

Hattori Heiji, who had experienced a sudden turning point, couldn't help shouting.

"dad!?"

……

Hattori Heiji's father Hattori Heizang was naturally notified by Conan.

With the voice of Uncle Maori.

Numabuchi Kiichiro was also captured under the confession of Sakata Yusuke.

Hattori Heizo expressed his gratitude to Uncle Mori in his residence that night.

Although he didn't remember such a thing at all, the sleeping Mori Kogoro had long been used to it, and he was very experienced in it, and he responded skillfully.

"It feels...it seems quite interesting to call the police."

Sitting in the car on the return journey, recalling Hattori Heiji's expression, Conan whispered to Fengyuan.

(End of this chapter)