"Mr. Masuo, Madam, what's wrong..." Takagi Wataru hesitated to speak.
"Oh, I have some business at the bank, so I made an appointment with my wife to meet here. Hasn't she arrived yet?" Masuo Keizou was sweating on his face and kept looking at his watch to confirm the time.
It seemed like a reasonable explanation at first, but Masuo Keizou looked up and found that everyone in front of him was looking at him suspiciously.
He was suddenly frightened and looked at his watch again: "Strange...are you still sleeping?"
He looked around in panic, pointed to the telephone on the table and said, "Can I borrow the phone?"
"Please." Sato Miwako sneered in her heart. She had already concluded that there must be something fishy about the man in front of her, and she stared at him intently, wanting to see what tricks he had up to.
"Bililili——du——"
Masao Keizou looked at his watch again and saw that the call was connected.
"Hello? Masuo's house." A slightly panting female voice came from the other end of the phone.
Before Masuo Keizo could speak, a big hand stretched out from the side and snatched the receiver from his hand.
"Hey! What are you doing..." Masuo Keizou's eyes widened.
Yuan Huaiyu ignored him, picked up the receiver and started talking, and pressed the hands-free button.
"Hello? Mrs. Masao?"
Holding down the head of Masuo Katsura, who had a ferocious face and wanted to rush to grab the microphone, Yuanhuaiyu spoke very fast.
"Don't worry about who I am, but I suggest you stop all your actions from now on and check to see if there is anything wrong around you."
"What are you talking about? Crazy..."
Mrs. Masuo, who was doing her daily exercise on the other end of the phone, cursed, but subconsciously stopped stepping on the exercise bike and looked around.
"There is something wrong...Ah!!! What is this!"
A high-decibel scream penetrated the office of the 1st Investigation Division of the Metropolitan Police Department, attracting several policemen who were doing their own things to look over.
The two police officers, Takagi and Sato, felt nervous and gathered around the phone. Also following their actions was Conan, who had a solemn face.
"What's wrong? Mrs. Masao, are you okay?" Takagi shouted loudly.
After a long time, a trembling and frightened voice came from the phone: "I...I'm fine...I almost died..."
She collapsed and cried: "Help me... someone is trying to kill me!"
Yuan Huaiyu handed the microphone to Officer Takagi. Officer Takagi took the microphone and asked anxiously: "Mrs. Masuo, I am the police officer you contacted yesterday! What happened? Are there any bad guys over there?"
The sound of deep breathing came from the phone, and Mrs. Masuo finally managed to calm down.
With lingering fear, she glanced at the bookcase that had just been pulled to the point of being smashed down and the sharp knife above the bookcase facing her back, and said:
"Mr. Police, please come and protect me quickly... I also want to tell you about the bank robbery in person!"
Sato Miwako made a quick decision and shouted into the microphone: "Mrs. Masao, we will be there right away. Please hide in a safe place!"
She looked at Takagi Sheba: "Takagi, hurry up, without further ado, let's go!"
"Uh...but Mr. Masuo?" Takagi Wataru looked at Katsura Masuo who looked ashen and was sweating like rain.
"It's okay, just leave it to Officer Shiratori. Officer Takagi, hurry up and go to Masuo's house with Officer Sato, don't let anything happen. We'll explain it to you here."
Yuan Huaiyu winked at Gao Mushe.
"Then I'll leave this to you, Officer Shiratori! Takagi, let's go!" Sato Miwako saw that Yuanhuaiyu had made arrangements, so she didn't waste any time, pulled Officer Takagi and rushed outside.
"Ah! Yes!" Officer Takagi was halfway through, and finally realized that Yuan Huaiyu's look just now meant that he should seize the opportunity to be alone with Officer Sato.
Shiratori Rensaburo looked at the two figures running away with a confused look on his face, turned to look at everyone in the office, and asked with twitching eyes:
"Who can tell me what's going on..."
Yuan Huaiyu cleared his throat: "Since you asked the question sincerely... ahem, I'm sorry to interfere."
He pointed at Masuo Keizo: "Roughly speaking, the branch president who was robbed a few days ago may have planned to murder his wife for some reason, and I found out at a glance. Then two police officers, Takagi Sato, are rushing to Masuo.
I will protect Mrs. Masuo."
Officer Shiratori: subway, old man, mobile phone.
Hey hey hey, can't you break up a sentence?
After a while, Shiratori Rensaburo finally learned what had happened through the young detective team's words.
"But...Mr. Yuan, why did Mr. Masuo kill his wife?" Officer Shiratori looked at Yuan Huaiyu.
Yuan Huaiyu narrowed his eyes: "If I guess correctly, it should be because the previous bank robbery was planned by this president, and the robber was an acquaintance of Mr. President. And Mrs. Masuo was taken hostage.
At that time, I discovered that the robber was probably a friend of my husband, and wanted to report it to the police, so Mr. Masao decided to kill him. This is the most reasonable explanation I can give."
"Then...how did he kill people from a distance in the Metropolitan Police Department?" Shiratori continued to ask.
"How do I know? But judging from the fact that Mr. Masuo is very concerned about time, he probably arranged some means related to Mrs. Masuo's daily habits, right?"
Yuanhuaiyu looked at Masuo Keizo with a warm smile: "It doesn't matter if you don't say anything. When your wife comes here with the police, everything will come to light."
Masuo Katsura's pupils were slightly dilated, and he looked at Yuanhuaiyu as if he were looking at a monster. Finally, he couldn't hold on any longer and fell to his knees with a "plop".
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"By the way, Officer Shiratori, didn't I hear that you are going on vacation? You haven't set off yet?"
After the police put Masao Keizou on a silver bracelet and took him away, Yuan Huaiyu asked Officer Shiratori as if making small talk.
"Yes, I originally planned to take a rest after solving this bank robbery case. But now it seems that thanks to you, Mr. Tuoyuan, I will be ready to leave soon."
Because of the incident just now, Shiratiao felt a little more awe and grateful to the man in front of him whom he met for the first time, and answered with a smile.
He pointed at the ceiling with gloating: "It's just that those guys who searched the second class upstairs were not so relaxed!"
"How do you say this?" Yuan Huaiyu asked knowingly.
The Young Detective Team and Dr. Ari also looked over curiously.
"It will be announced soon anyway, so it doesn't hurt to tell you now - Kaitou Kidd has sent a notice letter."
"Kaitou Kidd?!"
The children exclaimed in unison.
"Yes, Section Two has also transferred a lot of manpower from us, so we look deserted now." Officer Shiratori said.
Conan's mind was like an electric shock, flashing back to the unknown words that Kaito Kid, who was dressed as Doi Takuki, said to him in the previous case of the magician.
【Goodbye, detective.】
[Goodbye before the bell rings at the end of the century...]