Conan: Chief of Rice Flower's Science Points

Chapter 25 Unexpected Disaster
At 9:30 in the evening, Shiraishi slightly parted the shutters and looked outside a few times - there were basically no reporters outside the police station.

only……

With Shiraishi's Lv7 [Counter-Reconnaissance], he easily spotted the two hiding bastards by looking out the window!
[Counter-reconnaissance] and [Tracking and Surveillance] are a pair of very corresponding abilities. As long as [Tracking and Surveillance] are added together, [Counter-reconnaissance] only needs "10%" of the points to be added to the same level as [Tracking and Surveillance]...

Of course, although Shiraishi's "Follow-up" is Lv7 on the panel, the actual effect it produces is Lv7 (-4).

It can only play the effect of Lv3, which is similar to the ordinary "Police Academy Pass Level", weaker than the average level of "Search One"...

There is no way. It is difficult for a little giant who is two meters three hundred kilograms tall and weighs three hundred kilograms to hide himself. Even if he does nothing, he is already very conspicuous.

Even with this, he can still achieve the effect of Lv3, which shows that he is very skilled...

The reason why points are "wasted" in this aspect is mainly for [counter-reconnaissance]!
"You are really persistent." Bai Shi curled his lips.

Ambush if you want...

Shiraishi is not planning to leave work now. Not only is he waiting for news from the Criminal Division, he is also working overtime.

The chief's job is not easy either, especially in a large police station like Beika Town.

To sum up, it is "stamping, shaking hands, waving"...

Normally, major cases are rare, but the director has to deal with a lot of documents, and most of his working time is consumed just by "stamping" them every day.

Shiraishi is relatively better off now. After all, Ebihara has not retired yet. Every day, he mainly teaches Shiraishi how to classify documents, so that he knows which ones need to be read carefully, which ones need to be read quickly, and which ones... just snap and seal them!
This also gives Shiraishi two new abilities, [Official Document Arrangement] and [Official Document Speed ​​Reading], but both are only at Level 2. If Shiraishi has extra points like before, he will definitely add them together now.

In addition to this kind of desk work, the director also has to meet with important people in the jurisdiction frequently, do public relations, and accept public relations, which is the so-called "handshake".

In addition, in order to gain the "favorability" of residents in the jurisdiction, public activities are organized every month to increase the company's presence in a commercial way, which is also known as "waving".

……

Now, Shiraishi has no time to do the last two items, he is working overtime to "stamp" them!
After all, Bai Shi had just taken office, so he was not careless with all the documents...

It’s not that I don’t trust Director Ebihara, but... as a "newcomer", Shiraishi always feels uneasy when he sees someone stamping a document without even reading it!
In this way, it is easy to work overtime until the evening, especially today when I was busy with case matters during the day.

dong dong dong-

There was a knock on the door.

"Come in."

Just then Aoki walked in.

"Thank you for your hard work. Did you find anything?" Shiraishi could tell at a glance that Aoki's face looked a little conflicted.

"We did discover it...but sorry, it wasn't us who discovered it." Aoki said helplessly.

"Oh?" Bai Shi looked over curiously.

"It's like this... We found that Miki Law Firm seemed to have some important witnesses and had submitted them directly to the prosecution. The witness has now been questioned by the prosecution. We want to get in touch with the witness, but the prosecution..." Aoki's tone was a little embarrassed.

Shiraishi nodded, signaling him not to say anything - this was not Aoki's problem, it was because he was unwilling to listen to the prosecutor's orders, and of course now the prosecutor would not cooperate! "But this witness should be unfavorable to Tsubokura." Aoki then told the situation he had inquired about.

"Miki Law Firm... I remember it was the law firm assigned to Tsubokura by the court at the beginning, right?" Shiraishi's Level 7 [Memory] can not only remember people, but also documents.

He had read the case files before. After Tsubokura was sued, he did not have the money to hire a lawyer himself, so the Bar Association assigned him to Miki Law Firm to provide a lawyer.

This is also a normal practice. Generally, those who do not have the money to hire a lawyer will be coordinated by the Bar Association and arranged to work with these large law firms.

Of course, it was impossible for Sanmu to personally take charge of such a lucrative case, so he simply gave it to a junior lawyer in the law firm.

This "young lawyer" was also a greenhorn. Because of the disagreement on "defense of innocence" and "defense of sentence", he actually went behind the law firm's back and asked Gu Meimen to take over. According to gossip, Gu Meimen's commission was also paid by the young lawyer at his own expense.

It was precisely because of a lawyer of Gu Meimen's caliber that the doubts in the case were revealed.

Otherwise, the job of an ordinary criminal lawyer is generally to "persuade the defendant to plead guilty, maintain a good attitude, and seek a reduction in sentence"... They have no fighting spirit to defend the defendant, and they just do their job to get by. It can even be said that this is a disguised form of plea bargaining!
Shiraishi had criticized Shirai before - the details of his case handling were so rough, as if he was sure that Tsubokura was only a "designated public interest lawyer"!
In this regard, Shiraishi is not sure whether Tsubokura was wronged or not, but Shirai was not wronged at all for being criticized.

"Miki Law Firm... has witnesses that are unfavorable to the defendant? Was it because of this that they did not plead not guilty before? That's not right... Then why did they let their young lawyer do whatever he wanted?" Shiraishi felt that Miki Law Firm's behavior was very strange and completely illogical!

Miki Law Firm is the defendant's defense party and will not take the initiative to expose witnesses that are unfavorable to the defendant. Otherwise, it will definitely be detrimental to the reputation of their law firm. Therefore, concealing this witness is in line with their formal logic.

But what happens next?
Why did he allow his young lawyer to conduct the innocent defense?

Even hiding it from your own people?

However, Aoki explained, "Oh, we have also investigated this... That Kumimon was also from Miki's office before, but later he fell out with Miki... I guess Miki deliberately wanted to trick Kumimon. The reason why the lawyer for this case was replaced by Kumimon was probably also Miki's plan."

In order to find the "witness" that the police had never encountered, Aoki made efforts from both the prosecution and the Miki Law Firm. Of course, he also realized that the behavior of the Miki Law Firm was strange, so he investigated this as well.

"Huh?" Bai Shi was speechless for a moment, then he sighed: "That really is an unprovoked disaster..."

[Reasoning] There is also a Level 7 Shiraishi. According to the current clues, I have figured it out in my mind!

Miki is also an experienced lawyer. If he takes it seriously, he will certainly find that this case is full of doubts and the prosecution materials have big loopholes!
But at the same time, he discovered an important witness that even the prosecutors and the police were unaware of—one that could prove the defendant guilty!
So... Miki might have deliberately taken this opportunity to bring "Kenji Kumimoto" into the game!

After Gu Meimen became the defendant's defense lawyer and discovered loopholes in the prosecution evidence, Miki took the initiative to hand over the "unfavorable evidence" he had to the prosecution.

In this way, the defense lawyer has been replaced. Handing over the witness to the prosecution at this time will not damage the reputation of Miki Law Firm, but will also make friends with the prosecution. More importantly... it will pit Kumimon, who has a grudge against him!
Thinking about it this way, for Beika Town, it was a complete "misfortune" - being involved in a conflict between lawyers, and as a result, Bang Bang got punched twice...

"However...if this witness can really prove Tsubokura's guilt, it would be a good thing for us. I hope Section Chief Shirai is just anxious for the moment." Aoki comforted Shiraishi at this time.

"The witness that Miki Law Firm could find was actually not found by Section Chief Shirai before... There's no need to be so anxious!" Shiraishi was even more dissatisfied with Shirai now - it's not that there were no clues, how come a clue that a law firm could find didn't get found by you? Are you focusing on the shameful interrogation techniques?
dong dong dong-

Just then, the knock on the door rang again.

Akasaka walked in holding a notebook.

What surprised Shiraishi was that Fuji Seiko, who was wearing plain clothes, also followed...

(End of this chapter)