Conan: Chief of Rice Flower's Science Points

Chapter 87 Another Bustling Day in Beika Town

"Mr. Yoshii Daijiro, I think he also wants you to study law, right? Mr. Daijiro looks like a rather domineering person. You must have worked really hard."

Shiraishi did read his information. Hiroya Yoshii studied psychology in college, but it was not a serious major. He dropped out in his freshman year!

As for the reason for dropping out...

Although it was not written, Shiraishi had already tried to find out - it should be the opposition of Daijiro Yoshii!

Hiroya Yoshii applied for psychology without telling his father, but he eventually dropped out.

Kawai stood aside, looking at the director in confusion - why was he chatting with him about family matters?

"No, my father is a very good official, and I am very proud of it... Otherwise, I would have been forced to plead guilty last time," Yoshii said provocatively.

"Actually, there's nothing wrong with studying psychology. My bachelor's degree at the University of Tokyo was also in psychology, and I switched to law when I got my master's." Shiraishi was very humble and did not mention that he also had a bachelor's degree in health sciences and a master's degree in forensic medicine.

"Huh? That's really amazing." Yoshii said sarcastically.

"Compared to Mr. Daijiro, it's nothing..." Shiraishi said as he observed Yoshii's reaction.

At this time, Bai Shi finally discovered some of his psychological fluctuations - although his facial expression was well controlled, the little finger of his right hand twitched unnaturally!
Seeing this, Bai Shi's mouth blossomed even more...

"Mr. Daijiro seems very strong...ah, but I'm actually an orphan, so sometimes my fantasy of a father is someone like Mr. Daijiro."

"Mr. Yoshii, you don't know what life is like in an orphanage, right? There are days when you can't even rebel..."

"I can feel Mr. Daijiro's love for you. No matter what, don't do anything to disappoint him in the future... There's no need to deny anything. Just think of it as me talking about your rebellious period."

"By the way, you'll probably have to stay for another day... You don't have to wait for forty-eight hours. You'll be released before the break tomorrow night. If you're bored, I can help you find some books to read."

……

After Shiraishi and Kawai came out of the interrogation room, Kawai looked confused. Finally, when they were in the corridor, he couldn't help but ask, "Director! Why are you so... so..." to him?

If Kawai didn't think he knew Director Shiraishi, he might have thought that this was just "dirty bureaucratic dealings."

but……

It was precisely because she thought she knew the director somewhat that she was confused and didn't understand why Shiraishi was so friendly to this guy.

"80% of abnormal psychology is rooted in stress in childhood, and this stress is often the family environment. The mother died early, the father was authoritarian and lacked communication with his son...a very typical family environment." Shiraishi said something irrelevant at this time.

"Eh? So what? Can this... influence him?" Kawai became even more confused.

"Some people cannot be reformed... nor are they worthy of reformation." Bai Shi said with a smile.

Kawai's expression became more and more confused.

"Okay, help me deliver the books to Yoshii's detention room later. If Section Chief Kunikida asks, just say that I prepared the items to meet the suspect's normal needs. If you have any questions, you can come to me." Shiraishi said, and took Kawai to his office - the books were a pile that Shiraishi had prepared in advance!
The items provided to suspects under interrogation are also clearly regulated and cannot exceed "normal needs."

Otherwise, there will be suspicion of "bribing the other party to obtain the desired confession"!

If any other detective wanted to send a book to Yoshii, Kunikida would definitely not agree. It doesn't make sense to describe "books" as a "normal need".

but……

Shiraishi did this, and even sent a young policewoman to deliver it. Kunikida probably wouldn't come directly to Shiraishi to ask - after all, this wasn't a matter of forcing a confession.

……

Shiraishi was about to go home after get off work when he suddenly received a message from Ayako.

[Ayako: Are you off work? ]

Because I knew that after Shiraishi became the director, he would work overtime for cases and usually would not work beyond ten o'clock, so I sent the message at ten o'clock.

【Shiraishi: Yes.】

[Ayako: Can you come and keep me company? There seems to be a pervert around here recently, and I’m a little scared to be alone at home.]

[Shiraishi: Aren’t there still servants? ]

Ayako:……

When Ayako heard what Xiao Hei said, she was speechless, and immediately sent a photo taken by a neighbor to prove that she was not talking nonsense... as if I was making up an excuse to get you to come!
[Ayako: "The airplane-headed monster is sneaking around the cat climbing frame.jpg". ]

Shiraishi:……

[Ayako: My neighbor sent this to me at night. There really is a pervert hanging around nearby! ]

Go to someone else's house late at night to steal the cat climbing frame...

This is not a perversion, what else could it be?
[Shiraishi: "Akasaka's ID photo.jpg". ]

Ayako:? ? ?
[Shiraishi: We are police officers from the police station... The incident happened near your home?] Although I saw in the files before that Yoshii Hiroya's villa is also in Minato Ward, but... there are many villas in Minato Ward, Shiraishi didn't expect it to be such a coincidence.

[Ayako: Very close, about 500 meters.]

Close, but not right next to it.

【Bai Shi: I’ll come find you.】

Although there shouldn't be any clues, but... since Yoshii's house happened to be not far away, Shiraishi decided to go over and take a look.

Originally, Shiraishi planned to do so, but...

Just as Shiraishi was driving on the coastal road and had not yet left Beika Town, he suddenly heard an explosion!

Shiraishi:? ? ?
Kudo Shinichi hasn't even grown up yet, but Beika Town is already so bad?

Bai Shi heard the sound and thought it should be the direction of Mihua Port, so he quickly slowed down and turned around!

Even if the explosion was heard in someone else's jurisdiction, Shiraishi would definitely go to check it out, let alone Mihua Port.

When Shiraishi arrived at the scene, he saw three patrol officers had already arrived. They and several other people who should be port staff were using fire extinguishers to spray a burning car - this was obviously the one that exploded.

Seeing a patrolman who was obviously afraid of fire and was not using the fire extinguisher correctly, Shiraishi took the fire extinguisher from him and sprayed it at a closer distance, while asking, "What's going on?"

"You...ah! Director..."

The other party had his fire extinguisher snatched away from him. Just as he was about to question him, he suddenly realized that it was a very big one. Suddenly he realized... it was Director Shiraishi!

"Chief, we don't know the specific situation. We were on duty when we heard an explosion. When we arrived, we found that the car was on fire. However, I remember that the car was parked here when we were patrolling just now, and we didn't see any suspicious people when we came over." The patrolman immediately reported.

"Rice Flower Port" is not very big, especially in Dongdu...

Large cargo ships will definitely not go here. What dock here are some fishing boats and some small cargo ships that are diverted here after unloading from Dongdu Port. Therefore, there are many warehouses - equivalent to the external warehouses of Dongdu Port, and the rent is much cheaper than the warehouses near Dongdu Port.

The Toudou Port Exchange is not far from here, and you can even see the fire from here.

Surrounded by several fire extinguishers, and not from a tram, the fire was put out soon, and at the same time...

Several port staff members went to the side to vomit, and the three patrolmen also looked uncomfortable - on the driver's seat, there was a charred corpse that had completely merged with the seat...

There were already several police cars parked nearby. When the patrol officers saw the chief was there, they moved more efficiently and had already set up a cordon.

A patrol officer wanted to go forward and inspect first, but...

"Wait, let me do it." Bai Shi put on gloves and walked forward himself. He lay on the ground and observed the underbody of the vehicle.

At the same time, he said to the patrol officers around him: "Although the fire has been going on for so long, the possibility of a second explosion is not high, but after the explosion, we must first check whether there are any bombs, especially... whether there are any unexploded bombs."

After making sure it was safe, Bai Shi signaled the patrolman holding the camera to take a picture of the car door first.

Just as Bai Shi was about to open the car door, he suddenly heard hurried footsteps from behind.

Bai Shi turned his head and saw that the leader was a man wearing glasses and with forked eyebrows, followed by several big men who were also wearing professional suits.

"Wait, Chief Shiraishi, right? We will take over this case from now on." The man with glasses said, showing his ID - not from the Investigation Division, but... Public Security!
In the Eastern Island Country, "public security" and "police" are completely different in nature.

Although there is a "Public Security Department" under the Metropolitan Police Department and Prefectural Police Headquarters, in reality the "Public Security Police" are usually directly under the National Security Council.

They are not responsible for public security cases and are more like "spies" than "police".

Several police officers were also very domineering at this time and began to take over the scene - generally speaking, they had this attitude even for the "Search Section".

If the public security department comes forward, they have the highest power of investigation, but...

Shiraishi bent down slightly, staring at the leader's face and the ID he showed: "Public Security? Inspector Kazami, right? Have we met before somewhere?"

"Um...anyway...we are in charge of this place...Director Shiraishi doesn't have to worry about it..." Kazami stepped back guiltily.

"Oh! That's right, it was when I was the director for one day." Shiraishi had such a good memory that he could recall it immediately whenever he wanted to - wasn't this the leader of Okino Yoko's cheering group? Because he was more popular among the people at that time, this guy was dancing for support while glaring at him!

Seeing this, Yuya Kazami's subordinates thought that "the overbearing Director Shiraishi was making things difficult for Director Kazami", so they came closer...

However, Feng Jian saw this and quickly said, "Ah... No! You recognized the wrong person... Don't just stand there, go and fix the clues!"

Apparently, Kazami doesn't want others to know his other side, especially his subordinates...

"Really? Maybe I remembered it wrongly." Bai Shi showed a smile that showed he knew everything but didn't say anything.

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Dongdong: This is the event mentioned in the first episode of the remake. It happened after the aquarium murder. Gin killed a fake wine in Beihua Port...

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