Ke Xue: This police officer is too martial

Chapter 66: Important Things Are Hard to Find
Shortly after.

The residence of diplomat Tsujimura.

Seeing Makino coming, Inspector Megure immediately stepped forward and explained the current situation in person: "The deceased is Tsujimura Isao, 54 years old. The cause of death is poisoning, but the specifics are..."

Before Inspector Megure could finish, the dark-skinned young man at the side suddenly spoke up: "The deceased's lips and the tips of his hands and feet have turned purple, and there are bleeding spots on his conjunctiva. It is obvious that he died of suffocation. Based on these circumstances, he should have died of a poison that can instantly paralyze the nerves and cause death."

After saying that, the young man walked up to Makino and said, "You are Inspector Makino, right? I've seen the news about you. Those media outlets have exaggerated you too much. I don't think you are that great at all!"

Makino: "?"

Although he already knew Hattori Heiji's personality, but... has this guy always spoken like this?
Why does it sound a bit unpleasant?

If you want to do this, don't blame me!
Without waiting for Makino to speak, Inspector Megure, Officer Shiratori and others on the side glared at Hattori Heiji angrily, their eyes full of anger.

After seeing the angry expressions of Inspector Megure and others, Maori Kogoro who was standing by immediately stood in front of everyone and looked at Makino awkwardly: "I'm so sorry! Inspector Makino, please ignore this kid!"

After saying this, Kogoro Mori also glared at Hattori Heiji with a vicious look.

From the moment they met, this kid spoke like a gunpowder, almost choking everyone.

No wonder he is always unimpressed by these so-called "high school detectives"...

After seeing everyone's gaze, Hattori Heiji smiled awkwardly and immediately bowed to Makino to apologize.

He didn't expect that these police officers respected and loved Inspector Makino so much.

This look is as if it wants to tear me apart alive.

It seems that this Inspector Makino is indeed very powerful...

No wonder my dad values ​​Superintendent Makino so much that he even wants to recruit him to the Osaka Police Department.

Seeing Hattori Heiji apologize, Inspector Megure breathed a sigh of relief and introduced him to Makino: "He is a high school detective just like Kudo."

At this point, Inspector Megure leaned close to Makino's ear and whispered, "This guy is the son of Hattori Heizo, the chief of the Osaka Police Headquarters."

Makino nodded but said nothing.

Compared to Hattori Heiji, he cares more about the disappearance of Conan.

He has been here for such a long time, but he hasn't seen Conan yet.

It looks like... Kudo Shinichi is about to appear~
Seeing that Makino didn't care about Hattori Heiji's rudeness, Inspector Megure continued to talk about the case.

When Maori Kogoro and his friends came, the study was locked. There were no windows in the study, so if they wanted to come in, they could only go through this door.

There were two keys to the study, one in the hands of the deceased's wife, Tsujimura Kimie, and the other in the deceased's pocket.

As soon as Inspector Megure finished speaking, Hattori Heiji said, "Okay, I already know the method of this locked room murder case!"

After saying this, Hattori Heiji immediately demonstrated the criminal's method of killing and pointed out the criminal in this case - the victim's father, Tsujimura Toshimitsu.

Under the gaze of everyone, Tsujimura Toshimitsu simply lowered his head and admitted his crime.

When he saw Tsujimura Toshimitsu admit his crime, Hattori Heiji's mouth immediately raised with pride.

At this moment, Makino walked up to Inspector Megure, who was acting as the victim, and chuckled, "Hattori Heiji, is this the locked room technique you deduced?"

The next moment, Makino gently pulled Inspector Megure's trouser pocket.

Under Hattori Heiji's astonished gaze, the key fell out.

"How is that possible?! I clearly let the fishing line pass through this double pocket just now!" Hattori Heiji immediately stepped forward and carefully checked Inspector Megure's trouser pocket.

He knew what Makino meant. When they found the key, it was clearly deep in the victim's trouser pocket.

But now, the key was only on the surface of the trouser pocket and had not successfully fallen into the deep part of the pocket.

Makino explained, "As long as the deceased is sitting, his trouser pockets will be wrinkled, which will prevent the key from falling in. Your method will not succeed. This is not a complicated closed-room murder at all, but a simple method using sleeping pills and 'eyewitnesses'. Don't you agree, Mrs. Tsujimura Kimie?"

Upon hearing this, everyone's eyes immediately turned to Tsujimura Kimie.

Before Tsujimura Kimie could speak, Hattori Heiji pointed at Tsujimura Toshimitsu who was standing beside him and said, "But this old man has already pleaded guilty?!"

Makino shook his head and said calmly, "He had already guessed who the criminal was. He confessed only to help Tsujimura Kimie escape punishment."

After finishing speaking, Makino turned his head to look at Tsujimura Kimie and continued, "Mrs. Tsujimura, can you let us check your keys?"

Tsujimura Kimie: “…”

After a moment's silence, Tsujimura Kimie handed the poison needle to Makino and smiled weakly: "The police officer is right, I did kill him..."

"What?!" Hattori Heiji looked at Tsujimura Kimie in disbelief, his mouth wide open.

Amid everyone's surprised gazes, Tsujimura Kimie fell to his knees, ready to speak out his motive for murder.

At this moment, Kudo Shinichi staggered into the study room: "Hattori's reasoning is wrong, actually... huh?!"

Seeing the scene in front of him, especially Tsujimura Kimie who was kneeling on the ground and crying, and Makino beside him, Kudo Shinichi blinked awkwardly.

Wait, does that mean the case has been solved?

But he finally changed back...

After a moment, Inspector Megure asked in confusion: "Brother Kudo, why are you here? But the case has been solved."

Xiaolan shed a few tears excitedly: "Shinichi! Where have you been? Do you know how worried I am about you?!"

Hattori Heiji on the side also looked carefully at Kudo Shinichi in front of him, with a hint of thought in his brows.

Makino took the opportunity to carefully observe the expressions of Inspector Megure and Kogoro Mori.

Although both of them looked surprised, there were slight differences between them.

The look in Kogoro Maori's eyes seemed different from that in Inspector Megure's...

Makino frowned and thought to himself, "Could it be that Maori Kogoro has really discovered Conan's true identity? No way?"

……

A few minutes later, outside Tsujimura's residence.

Mrs. Tsujimura got into the police car, and Inspector Megure and others also left in the car.

As it was already late, Makino planned to go straight home after returning to the Metropolitan Police Department.

Seeing Makino getting ready to leave in the car, Hattori Heiji scratched his head and said, "Officer Makino, I'm so sorry for what happened just now. I've actually heard about you from my dad a long time ago, but I didn't expect you to be as good as the rumors say! I won't lose to you next time!"

Makino shook his head, glanced at Conan in the distance, then thought of something and said calmly: "There is no winner or loser in reasoning, because there is only one truth."

Hattori Heiji was silent for a moment, then chuckled and touched his hat: "You're right, I really care too much about winning or losing, so I'm not calm enough!"

After seeing Makino off, Hattori Heiji stopped under the street light and lowered his head to think.

He always felt that he had missed something today, and there was an itchy feeling in his heart. It was like the feeling that not only did he fail to solve the old puzzle, but he even had many new puzzles...

The so-called famous detective Kogoro Mouri doesn’t seem to be that great?

Why did Kudo Shinichi suddenly appear and disappear?

And that kid with glasses...

(End of this chapter)