"Sit down. The water dispenser is outside. If you want to drink, pour it yourself. Remember to close the door when you go in and out."
Picking up a newspaper with the headline "Sleeping Detective: Kogoro Mori" written on the front page and throwing it on the table, Katsuki Uehara reminded him.
"..."
Conan was a little confused.
How are you sure he is Kudo Shinichi?
He hasn't said a word yet.
"Judging from your reaction, I must have guessed it right." Katsuki Uehara shook his head. Unless he had seen it with his own eyes, this would indeed be quite bizarre.
"After the Shinkansen bombing, I once found a bug wrapped in chewing gum on the seat where the bomber was riding.
"After testing, it was found that the bug contained the fingerprints of one and only one person, and that was the fingerprints of high school detective Kudo Shinichi who had disappeared for a long time."
——?!
Conan's heart was shocked when he suddenly heard Katsumi Uehara mention this, and he looked at the man in shock.
Seeing his performance, Katsuki Uehara grinned and smiled even more happily: "My expression at that time should be similar to yours now, because I checked and found that Kudo Shinichi did not board the Shinkansen, but
Why was there a bug with his fingerprints on the bomber's seat?
"After the serial killer confirmed that there was a bomb, I checked again with all the people who had interacted with the prisoner.
"It was shocking to find that, apart from the woman who wanted to buy the gold information, the only people left who interacted with the two bombers were the Maori family and a few children.
"I have found the corresponding information for all those people, but only you, Edogawa Conan, I can't find the household registration information no matter how much I check.
"Since then, I have had a bold guess in my mind. In order to confirm this guess in my mind, I deliberately placed the evidence box on my table just to see if Kudo Shinichi would realize it.
I have a problem with my fingerprints, so I came here to change the bug and replace the bug."
Having said this, Katsuki Uehara spread his hands and raised his eyebrows and said: "The fact is, you came to change the bug. Then, I thought of a question.
"In Serial Murder, Takagi, who discovered Kirino's daughter, once said that there was another Kudo Shinichi who disappeared from the campus for more than ten days like Kirino Sakurako.
"Although this idea is quite absurd, after I carefully compared the time point when Detective Mori became famous, the time point when Kudo Shinichi disappeared, and the time point when you appeared in Tedan Elementary School, I gradually confirmed this fact."
"Excluding all impossibilities, no matter how incredible the remaining fact is, it is the unquestionable truth."
After closing the door and lowering his head slightly, Conan's lenses glowed with light, and he said self-deprecatingly: "Actually, I also wondered why your evidence box was placed on the table, but my anxious mentality still prompted me to put it first
The bug was replaced."
Considering the ability shown by Uehara Katsumi, Conan has no doubt that these words are false.
This is also the reason why he felt that he needed to hide himself in front of this policeman before.
However, he still had one last doubt at the moment: "But, Uehara Police Department, there is no record of my fingerprints in the police station, and I have wiped all the fingerprints at home. Where did you get my fingerprints for comparison?"
of?"
"Well..."
Katsuki Uehara smiled and said, "What do you think?"
"...Dr. Ali." Thinking of what he had told the police about Dr. Ali's invention, Conan suddenly fell silent.
Should this be counted, or did he expose Dr. Ali himself?
"While in the hospital, Sato told me that my life was saved thanks to the help of a child named Edogawa Conan. He used Dr. Agasa's invention to determine my position in the water.
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"So, after looking through the dossier of this case, I started to investigate you. After all, your appearance is really incredible. In addition, you made me sleepy and simulated my voice today..."
"...Indeed, now that I think about it, I was really too impatient."
Conan, whose identity was revealed, sighed: "Uehara Police Department, what I am going to say next is very bizarre."
"I am a professional, no matter how bizarre the situation is, I can bear it."
"Yes, I am high school detective Kudo Shinichi. The reason why things turned out the way they are now can only be traced back to that day.
"That day, my childhood sweetheart Xiaolan and I went to the amusement park and accidentally witnessed the underground money transactions of a mysterious organization..."
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Mika Town, the home of Dr. Agasa.
The sleepy-eyed Dr. Ali yawned profusely. After completing the summary of the last experimental data, he slowly walked out of the basement in his slippers——
"Huh? That's weird, my window is not closed?"
The cold wind with snow blew in through the unclosed window, and Dr. Ali, who was shivering from the cold, hurried over and closed it.
Outside the ice-covered house, the blond girl put on her helmet the proceeds of her infiltration, got on a heavy motorcycle and headed straight for her private stronghold.
In a high-rise apartment in Tokyo, Belmode, who had returned to her den, took the lead in testing the fingerprints she obtained from the front desk of the Today Game Exhibition Hall and from Dr. Agasa's house. The comparison results made her face extremely ugly.
On the coffee table in the living room, there is also a stack of photos that she secretly took after sneaking into the Metropolitan Police Department in disguise - the conclusion file of "Moses Parting the Sea".
"At that time, she disappeared for more than ten days like Kirino Sakurako... Kudo Yusaku called the school to ask for leave..."
Newspapers from when Mouri Kogoro rose to fame are piled next to the photos, and then from when Edogawa Conan entered Teitan Elementary School.
"The last time Kudo Shinichi appeared in public was at Dorobiga Park in Yoneka Town. If I remember correctly, gin and vodka were also there at that time, and a piece of eucalyptus was left behind by the police, which almost delayed the transaction time.
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Belmod's face became increasingly ugly as his thoughts gradually became clearer.
Aptx-4869.
The drugs developed by that damn woman are usually used as murder weapons by Gin and others.
But that medicine... was it successful?
Or is being smaller an unintended side effect?
As a user of the first generation of tissue medicines, the eternally youthful Bermod knew very well what the real research direction of Miyano Hiroshi and his wife was.
"Gin..."
Belmod's expression turned cold when he thought of that man.
If he were to know that Kudo Shinichi was not dead yet, according to Gin's character, it would probably be not only Edogawa Conan but also Maori Ran who would suffer...
As for the policeman today...
Belmode frowned, put down his wine glass, and at the same time bent down to pick up a photo of Katsumi Uehara from the coffee table.
Unlike Megure Thirteen, who was ridiculed by Gin and others, the abnormalities this man showed after waking up from anesthesia at today's game exhibition deserved her vigilance.
It is very possible that Uehara Katsumi now also knows about Kudo Shinichi - it was told to him by the exposed Conan himself.
So, will he keep it a secret?
Or will he inform the higher-ups of the police about this matter?
Belmod narrowed his eyes and thought for a while, then took out his mobile phone and dialed a number——
"Gin, how's it going? After bombing the bar, was there any reaction from the police?"