"Isn't this a bit ridiculous? The future heir of a top-notch consortium uses his own mobile phone number to buy a bomb?"
"Who knows, as the police, all we can do is to follow the existing clues and pursue them all the way. Moreover, if Toshihiko Takasugi is really the murderer or accomplice who bought the bomb, how do you know whether he used his own mobile phone number?
Are you playing in the dark under the lamp?"
On the elevated highway with dense traffic, the sultry pink EVO stood out and successfully caught the attention of many drivers along the way. In the driver's seat, Katsumi Uehara, who was driving to the Takasugi Foundation headquarters building, was obviously still a little confused about Takasugi Toshihiko who was found by his colleagues.
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The heir to Japan's top conglomerate, his fiancée seems to be the daughter of Matsumoto Kiyonaga, the manager of the First Investigation Section. With this background and power, even if he really wants to kill someone, he won't make such a big fuss.
In Katsuki Uehara's view, pouring people into cement pillars or putting sacks on them and sinking their bodies in Tokyo Bay is the correct way to kill people like this. It is better to do it yourself without having to do it yourself, and to ensure that even if you are investigated, you will be investigated.
Not on your own head.
But now this unfolding was really making him a little confused.
Framed?
Or are you really just playing in the dark?
With lingering doubts, the pink EVO was stopped by the security guard outside the Takasugi Group headquarters building——
"Hello sir, please show me——"
The polite security guard knocked on the car door. Before he could finish his words, he saw the man in the driver's seat slowly rolling down the window and showing his ID that should have scared him.
"Police, check the case, can you let us in?"
Katsuki Uehara smiled politely, and the security guard bowed even more politely: "Excuse me, please come in, please come in."
"Do I sound scary?"
Katsumi Uehara drove slowly into the parking lot and closed the door after getting out of the car. He was puzzled.
He is obviously synonymous with a gentle and warm man, but why does that security guard look like a god of trouble?
"Who knows, maybe your hairstyle reminds him of the school bully and gangster in his school days?" Glancing at the ponytail fluttering in the wind behind the man's head, Sato Miwako raised an eyebrow, and then looked at the former.
Byakugan stepped forward and walked into the main entrance of the Takasugi Consortium headquarters building.
"Hello, which floor is Mr. Takasugi Toshihiko on?"
"Madam, sir, do you two have an appointment? If not, we will--"
Miwako Sato showed her ID silently, and the lady at the reception desk quickly changed her words: "23rd floor, general manager's office, police officer."
"Thanks."
Miwako Sato put away her documents and turned around and left without any hesitation.
"It looks like you scared people too."
As they approached the elevator, Katsumi Uehara's words of not forgetting to regain her position made Miwako Sato roll her eyes, but the corners of her mouth raised in a subtle way.
After enjoying a crowded elevator ride, Miwako Sato and Katsumi Uehara stepped out of the elevator after arriving on the 23rd floor. The lady who was the assistant to the general manager's office was checking the documents in her hand when she saw someone walking out of the elevator and headed straight here.
Come on, I couldn't help but put down the A4 paper in my hand.
"Please wait a moment. Do you two have an appointment?"
"Police, we have something to ask Mr. Toshihiko Takasugi. Could you please inform him, Miss?" Miwako Sato showed her all-purpose police officer pass again.
"Police...Police? Oh, okay, please wait a moment. Our general manager is talking to someone right now. I'll go over and say something."
The assistant, who was obviously stunned for a moment, nodded after regaining his composure.
In no more than three minutes, the assistant who appeared in front of them again immediately brought Miwako Sato and Katsuki Uehara into the general manager's office.
“Tuk-tuk-tuk.”
"Please come in."
There was a certain calmness in his young voice that was not suitable for his age. After pushing the door open, a tall young man in a purple suit immediately caught the eye of Katsumi Uehara——
Visually, he is about 1.8 meters tall, tall and thin, with a relatively dark complexion. He has a handsome face, but his hair style looks like a protruding piece of seaweed, which is about the same as Shiratori Rensaburo's coral head.
The aesthetic taste of these top rich second generations is somewhat shocking.
However, in addition to Takasugi Toshihiko himself, there are also several figures familiar to Uehara Katsumi who come into view with him.
"Uehara Criminal?"
"Officer Sato?"
In the huge office, the three figures sitting on the sofa surprised both Katsumi Uehara and Miwako Sato——
Mouri Kogoro, Mouri Ran, and the child who lives in their home, Edogawa Conan.
"Detective Mori? Why are you here?"
After looking at each other, Uehara Katsumi gave Miwako Sato a look that was a little confused.
"It's like this. Detective Maori accepted the commission from the wife of a subordinate of my group, so he came to ask some questions."
Takasugi Toshihiko, who was supposed to be the middleman to introduce them, never expected that today's team of police officers and detectives actually knew each other, so he simply omitted the middleman.
"The wife of a subordinate? The wife of Mr. Nobu Miyazawa, the manager of the financial department?" Katsuki Uehara narrowed his eyes slightly, and then quickly returned to normal.
Such a quick reply stunned Takasugi Toshihiko who was making tea: "Is it possible that you two police officers are also...?"
Did you check it out with the police?
On the sofa, Conan Edogawa, who was stubbornly insisting to follow Kogoro Mouri because he was curious about this thing, blinked and looked at Uncle Mouri next to him and at the policeman over there.
This eucalyptus...
"Yes? Detective Mouri, have you received a request from Mrs. Miyazawa?" As a police officer, Miwako Sato's reaction speed is no problem. When Toshihiko Takasugi said this, her eyes subconsciously looked at the middle-aged uncle on the sofa.
"Yes, Mr. Miyazawa Nobu's wife, Ms. Miyazawa Yuka, is my client." Mouri Kogoro, who straightened his tie, slowly stood up and briefly explained how his client entrusted him to investigate the case.
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Uehara Katsumi and Sato Miwako looked at each other and looked at each other.
Sato, who didn't know the details of Mori's group, thought it was a coincidence, but Katsumi Uehara, who knew the details of this group, was scratching his head.
Why does this guy still have something to do with Kudo Shinichi?
"Mr. Takasugi, regarding——"
Ring ring ring!
Just as Sato Miwako was about to speak and ask Mouri Kogoro and his group to avoid it, a call came from Takasugi Toshihiko's cell phone on his desk, interrupting her.
"Excuse me, I'll take a call."
Although there was no note, Toshihiko Takasugi temporarily interrupted the chat, picked up his phone and pressed the call button: "Hello? I'm Takasugi, may I ask -"
"Let the police in your office answer the phone, young master of the Takasugi family."
——?!
The electronic voice coming from the other end of the phone made Toshihiko Takasugi shrink violently: "Who are you?!"
The sudden heavy sound shocked everyone in the office, and they all looked at him with doubts.
Seeing this, Takasugi Toshihiko decisively pressed the speakerphone, and the neutral electronic sound from the receiver immediately made everyone eclipse——
"You don't need to know who I am, just give the phone to the police."
Conan's face on the sofa suddenly became solemn. Under his gaze, Uehara Katsumi took the mobile phone from Takasugi Toshihiko's hand and said, "Who are you?"
"Oh? There's a new person? It sounds like it should be the police."
Hearing the unhurried electronic music, Hara Katsumi couldn't help but take a look at the surrounding office environment: "Did you buy the bomb?"
"The results of the experiment are pretty good, but I don't know if you police are satisfied or not."
After hearing this, Miwako Sato was about to speak immediately, but Katsumi Uehara put his index finger to his lips to signal her to stop talking. Then, he immediately pointed at Kogoro Mouri beside him.
"My colleagues and I are not satisfied with this."
"Pretend to be a policeman and use a voice of suppressed anger" - the words that were typed on the screen of his mobile phone made Kogoro Mouri quickly regain his former state as a detective after a brief trance. He glanced at Uehara Katsumi and immediately
The performance was lifelike.
"Haha, don't say that, I'm not hiding, Mr. Police Officer." The electronic voice that followed didn't seem to realize that Mouri Kogoro was not a police officer, but a detective.
Katsumi Uehara and Edogawa Conan on the sofa stared at each other at the same time——
Then, almost at the same time, two people, one large and one small, ran out of the office at the same time!
However, perhaps because he was not used to his smaller body, Conan, who had just started to take steps, directly bumped into Uehara Katsumi, who was also rushing to the door of the office——
In other words, Conan, who had no time to brake, took the initiative and hit Katsumi Uehara's knee socket.