Conan: Chief of Rice Flower's Science Points

Chapter 208 What’s going on with you in Beika Town?

Atsumi's family was not in Beika-cho, but in a luxurious villa in the Ekoda district, which was closer to Kasumigaseki...

Considering his powerful position in the political arena of East Island, this level of luxury is not surprising.

At this time, the search headquarters was set up at his home, not at the local police station...

In addition to the Fourth and Fifth Divisions of the Investigation Division, which are Megure, Amemiya and their subordinates, Shiraishi also saw Inspector Takahashi of the Special Criminal Division of the Investigation Division - the Special Criminal Division mainly deals with crimes such as kidnapping, hijacking, and intimidation.

With them around, all kinds of monitoring equipment are naturally available.

And because Hitomi Kanzaki was involved, the public security personnel from the press conference also followed.

……

At this time, the outside world has become a mess!

Kanzaki Hitomi and Fujimine Yukiko actually reported a murder case at the press conference...

Although the police have temporarily suppressed all related reports, but... the press conference was live!
At this time, people were already discussing the matter, and the Sanyun Life Insurance case once again came into everyone's attention.

Therefore, the police were very clear at this time - first, they must solve the case as soon as possible and issue an announcement to the public, otherwise more and more outrageous rumors will appear; second, before solving the case, the impact of the case must be suppressed!
For this reason, the police need to temporarily restrict the appearances of Hitomi Kanzaki and Yukiko Fujimine. Otherwise, it is easy to imagine that as soon as they show up, there will definitely be a large number of reporters interviewing them.

"What? We have to stay here until the case is solved? Are you kidding? What does the kidnapping case in this house have to do with us? Why do you want to restrict our freedom?" Kanzaki was very resistant to the police's request.

but……

Although she said "we", Yukiko persuaded her: "Ms. Kanzaki, after all, this is a kidnapping case... I believe the police will solve it soon."

"I can't accept it! Why should I delay my concert after returning home for this family?" Hitomi Kanzaki turned a deaf ear to Yukiko's advice.

In addition to participating in the Red and White Song Festival, Kanzaki also has other performances when he returns to Japan this time.

"That's enough! Please stop yelling!"

At this moment, another woman dressed in casual clothes walked out. Although Shiraishi didn't know her, looking at the atmosphere between her and Kanzaki, he could guess who she was. It was most likely... Kanzaki's love rival Atsumori Takami!
Sure enough, after seeing Atsumi Takami, Kanzaki instinctively touched his wrist through his gloves, and then said to his agent more firmly: "Help me call a taxi, I'm leaving now, I can't give anything for a child who has nothing to do with me!"

"You..." Guimi also glared at her fiercely at this time.

When the atmosphere was about to become awkward, Shinichi suddenly popped up. Originally, he was just "Megure's assistant detective". In such a large-scale operation, the police would not let him get involved. After all, the person directly responsible for the case was Chief Odagiri, who was commanding remotely from the Metropolitan Police Department, and the on-site commander was Counselor Uno. It was not something that a mere Inspector Megure could have a say in, but...

Because Yukiko was also invited, his son is now benefiting from this!

"Aunt Kanzaki, your performance will be the day after tomorrow, right? I must solve this kidnapping case before the day after tomorrow, please..." Shinichi still didn't understand what the problem was.

especially……

Bai Shi felt that if he didn't call her aunt, things might be easier.

Yukiko quickly pulled her older son away and said to Kanzaki Hitomi with a smile, "Ms. Kanzaki, your biggest slogan is [I will not obey the law, I will only obey the sighs of the weak], right? Now a little life has been kidnapped, isn't he the weakest of the weak? It just so happens that I also have a lot of things I want to ask Miss Kanzaki, so I'll take this opportunity..."

Yukiko tried to persuade with her own ideas and offered a way out, but Kanzaki Hitomi didn't buy it!

Kanzaki Hitomi sneered and said, "Oh, Ms. Fujimine, you are also a veteran actor..."

The word "well" suddenly popped up above Yukiko's head.

"You don't want me, a junior, to teach you what personality and reality are, right? Of course, that's just my personality, personality!" Kanzaki said righteously.

Hearing her speak so directly, many detectives at the scene showed dissatisfied expressions - it's okay to deceive people with the character setting...but to cause trouble at a time like this?
Only the public security personnel breathed a sigh of relief at this time - it's just a character setting? It's not real, so we are relieved...

Shiraishi looked at Kanzaki Hitomi impatiently. Just now at the press conference... including now, Kanzaki Hitomi looked very elegant. Whether it was the temperament brought by her "dignified demeanor" or her inner temperament, she looked noble and elegant.

but……

Seeing her lose her moral character now makes people feel disillusioned.

"Ms. Kanzaki, since you know this is your character setting..." Yukiko also became a little dissatisfied. Although she still smiled ritualistically, her face fell and she took two steps closer and said, "Then you should know that the higher the character setting you establish, the more careful you should be about its collapse!"

Yukiko's voice became more and more cute, but Shinichi shuddered after hearing it - of course he could hear the threat from his mother. Yukiko's gloomy smile at this time clearly said: Kanzaki Hitomi, you don't want your personality to collapse, right?
“You…” Kanzaki also retreated a little after hearing this—these guys wouldn’t really expose me, right?
"Just these two days...don't delay my performance the day after tomorrow!" Kanzaki gave in angrily.

Megure stepped forward at this time: "Before that, please let us keep your cell phones."

Yukiko handed over the phone without caring, and Kanzaki glared at her and then handed it over as well.

"Megure, who is this young man?" Counselor Uno asked with a dark face.

"Counselor, he is..." Megure was about to speak, but Shinichi took the initiative to say, "I am Kudo Shinichi, a detective!"

Uno:……

"Is there the high school student who recently assisted the police in solving cases? Yeah, I see, that's good... Okay, you can go." There was no way Yuno would let a high school student get involved.

"Eh? This..." Shinichi was about to make an excuse, but Yukiko said, "Oh... You want us to stay here temporarily? I'm so scared... It would be fine if we were accompanied by family members, otherwise..."

Uno:……

Hearing Yukiko say this, Yuno felt helpless. Just now, Yukiko had been actively cooperating, but if she started to make trouble now...

At this moment, without Yuno having to make any decision, an old man with a strong spirit came over and said, "Young man, I'll leave it to you!"

"Eh? Councillor Atsumori..." Uno looked over in surprise when he heard that.

At this time, Atsumi said bluntly: "Enough! You police officers have never been as useful as a high school student before! At least he discovered the criminal's plain clothes before, and found clues pointing to the press conference in time!"

Congressman Atsumori was a very stubborn person, and he scolded the police without mercy.

Because of the previous failure and the pressure from "above", Yuno didn't dare to argue with him about such matters.

"Why are there so many more people?" At this time, Atsumi looked around.

Upon seeing this, Uno hurriedly introduced Kazami and Shiraishi to him. He only said that Kazami and others were from the Security Bureau of the National Police Agency and did not mention "Public Security". Indeed, Kazami also held a position in the Security Bureau of the National Police Agency.

"Security Bureau?" Atsumori instinctively realized that Kazami was most likely from one of those "secret" departments, but it had nothing to do with him, so he didn't say much.

"And this is the director of the Beika Agency, Kuro Shiraishi." Uno introduced Shiraishi again.

"Yihua Police Station... Is the public security in Yihua Town always so bad?" Atsumi was not afraid of Shiraishi at all - after all, the political bigwigs had long been accustomed to the confrontation of "momentum", and Shiraishi was not deliberately showing deterrence now, so he naturally would not be scared by Shiraishi's figure.

Shiraishi humbly accepted Atsumori's accusation: "Don't worry, Senator Atsumori. Our office will do its utmost to cooperate with the kidnapping of your great-grandson..."

Uno, who was standing by, breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this - Shiraishi, this guy, finally matured.

But immediately, Shiraishi said, "I think the identity of the criminal must be related to the murder case of Mikumo Life Insurance. I just saw that it happened in Beika Town... Although I hadn't come to Beika Police Station at that time, this is also my duty. I will definitely investigate it thoroughly, and then the identity of the kidnapper will definitely surface..."

"Director Shiraishi!" Uno called him from the side.

At this time, Shiraishi was also looking at Atsumi with a smile.

"Hmm? Officer Uno, is there any mission that requires my cooperation?" Shiraishi asked knowingly as he looked at Uno who was staring at him.

That’s right, Bai Shi was definitely testing him on purpose…

And the results were also found out!
As expected, when I mentioned "Mikumo Life Insurance" just now, the old man Atsumi Liuzo's expression changed slightly...

This kidnapping case is different from the general pursuit of money, but is directly related to the investigation of a murder case that occurred in August!

If we analyze it in the most "coincidental" way, the criminal is the family of the victim of the "Mikumo case". The reason why they kidnapped the great-grandson of Congressman Atsumori is because he has great influence. The reason why they chose to make it public at the press conference of the Beika Community Center is because Kanzaki Hitomi and Fujimine Yukiko have a lot of traffic...

However, Bai Shi doesn’t think that all the connections are just “coincidences”!
For example, just now, Shiraishi discovered with a little probing that there must be a connection between Congressman Atsumori and Mikumo Life Insurance.

As for whether it was a coincidence that the kidnappers specifically chose Kanzaki Hitomi, who had a grudge against the Atsumi family, Shiraishi still didn't know, but...

Bai Shi glanced at his phone at this time, and then said silently: "Excuse me." Bai Shi said, and went out to answer the phone.

(End of this chapter)