Stay away from Conan.

"How do you know this?"

Faced with Gao Yuan revealing details about the second shooting, Officer Shiratori couldn't sit still and quickly stepped forward to question him, seemingly wanting to know how he knew about it.

Meanwhile, the other officers present, those who heard Gao Yuan's words, all turned their gazes over. Clearly, Gao Yuan's words had taken them very seriously. Even Inspector Megure, who had hurried away to avoid Kogoro Mouri, quickly returned, seemingly wanting to know the details.

At this point, Gao Yuan glanced around at the people around him, seemingly feeling that since this was, after all, Officer Shiratori's sister's engagement party, it wouldn't be appropriate to discuss such matters so openly under these circumstances. Therefore, Gao Yuan looked at Inspector Megure and couldn't help but say:
Are you sure you want to talk here?

Faced with this situation, Inspector Megure couldn't help but become slightly serious.

Indeed, as Gao Yuan said, there are too many people and too many eyes here to talk about it.

Therefore, Inspector Megure couldn't help but wonder if he should find a nearby space to talk to Takato about the situation. Just then, Toshiro Odagiri, having heard about the situation, rushed over. Looking at everyone present, he finally fixed his gaze on Takato and said:
"Ming Zhi Gao Yuan? I've long admired your name. Since you seem to have some thoughts on this matter, why don't you... discuss it with us in detail?"

His tone was slightly authoritative, as if he was expressing an attitude that brooked no refusal.

Gao Yuan wasn't surprised by this situation, since he had already anticipated this outcome since he chose to say those words at this time.

"of course can."

Gao Yuan nodded slightly in response, then his gaze involuntarily turned to Kazato Kyosuke, and he said:
"Let's also invite this psychologist along; he might know some things."

In this way, Kyosuke Kazato is brought to the forefront. At least in this situation, restricting the opponent's range of actions is Takato's convenient choice.

This surprised Kyosuke Kazato, and even Inspector Shiratori seemed somewhat confused, but Toshiro Odagiri didn't think much of it and simply asked Kyosuke Kazato:
"OK?"

Given this question from Toshiro Odagiri, Kyosuke Kazato clearly had no room to refuse, so he could only calmly agree.

Following Gao Yuan's words, Odagiri Toshiro instructed Inspector Megure and the others to find a private room near the banquet hall so they could question Gao Yuan about what he actually knew.

Meanwhile, out of curiosity, Conan and Kogoro Mouri also wanted to go over and listen, but the police were still very wary of the matter being spread, so they were stopped by the police officers.

And so, in a small room outside the banquet hall, which was set up as a temporary questioning location for the police, Toshiro Odagiri and Inspector Megure, the leading police officers, had no choice but to confront Takato and Kyosuke Kazato.

Kazato Kyosuke seemed somewhat puzzled by his current situation, his gaze involuntarily shifting to Takato's side, equally perplexed. While he wasn't entirely unable to understand the circumstances, he couldn't afford to reveal any weakness before things settled down. His mind was racing, trying to figure out what had gone wrong, why he was being suspected, and whether someone had gathered evidence against him.

Therefore, before Gao Yuan could reveal everything, he could not say anything, and he had to pretend to be completely unaware.

Therefore, after all preparations were complete, Odagiri Toshiro began to ask Takato:
"Alright, Mr. Akechi, you can now tell me what you know."

At this point, Gao Yuan, with a calm expression, began to recount the details of the incident:
"As far as I know, when the second police officer was found, he was holding a police handbook, right? As for the first officer, Narasawa, his murder was witnessed by Mr. Mori and his team, so they rushed to the scene immediately. When Mr. Mori asked Narasawa who the murderer was, Narasawa, who was still alive at the time, tried to grab his right breast pocket when he was unable to speak."

"Therefore, based on this, the police judged that what Officer Narasawa wanted to say was that he had a police handbook in his right breast pocket. So naturally, when the second murdered officer also had a police handbook in his hand, the police immediately assumed that this matter concerned internal police affairs, right?"

This was just a general explanation of the original plot as he understood it, as well as the situation he had investigated and verified over the past two days. It seemed that he wanted to go a step further and have the police confirm it for him personally.

Having clearly explained the situation at both incident scenes, Inspector Megure looked at Toshiro Odagiri, momentarily at a loss for words.

After all, once the police realized that this matter might involve internal matters, they were ordered to keep quiet about the case. Therefore, outsiders should not have known this much. So, the fact that Gao Yuan can say these things now can only mean that the police have not done their job properly.

Regarding this, Toshiro Odagiri's attitude was simply to set it aside for the time being, not to inquire how Takato obtained the clues, but only to say:
"Indeed, what you said is entirely correct. So, what was the result? What are your thoughts on this matter?"

Thus, Odagiri Toshiro clearly understood Gao Yuan's unspoken meaning, as if he felt that the police's approach was flawed.

Therefore, in response to this question, after confirming that the details were correct, Gao Yuan asked in return:
"Are you sure there's no problem? Didn't your police thoroughly examine the police handbook in the possession of the second murdered officer?"

"Of course, we checked the contents immediately..."

Inspector Megure replied.

"I'm not talking about the information inside the manual, but the way that police manual was held in someone's hand. Didn't you ever have any doubts? Is that really how the deceased would have looked if they had taken it out and put it in their hand before they died?"

Suddenly, as soon as Gao Yuan uttered these words, the expressions of Odagiri Toshiro, Inspector Megure, and the others present immediately became serious... (End of this chapter)