Conan: Chief of Rice Flower's Science Points

Chapter 96 Explosion
"Hey, hey, hey, brother Shiraishi..." Megure couldn't help but roll his eyes when he heard Shiraishi's provocative words.

"Inspector Megure!" Kuroki looked at Megure expectantly.

Seeing this, Megure hesitated for a moment and said, "Since Tsuchida has said so...Okay! Come with me...for a surprise inspection!"

"Dancing" places are also considered as sex industries in the East Island Country, and they need special business licenses. However, this outdated regulation has long been ignored. It is usually used as an excuse for the team to "investigate another case"...

After all, no matter how much we advocate freedom of nightlife, one thing that cannot be denied is that these nightlife venues are where violent organizations have concentrated activities, and some are even the lairs of violent organizations!

At Shiraishi's reminder, Megure decided to use this as an excuse to conduct a surprise inspection - according to the results of Kuroki and Kanzaki's investigation, the [Arakawa Group] is now very suspicious...

Immediately, Megure personally led the team, together with Kuroki, Kanzaki and Takagi, and also called many people, and went to Kamurocho.

"Brother Shiratori, I'm leaving Chief Doi to you!" Megure handed the protection work to Shiratori.

Shiratori is the director of the Souichi 3rd Department and is about to be promoted to "Inspector" and is just waiting to pass the exam.

Although the Arakawa Group seems suspicious now, we can't just ignore Doi.

"Yes!" Bai Niao responded immediately.

In addition to Shiratori, those who stayed behind included Sato Miwako, who was also a "professional inspector", and several police officers including Chiba - all of them were "patrol officers". There were no "patrol officers" among Souichi's front-line police officers.

"Director Shiraishi, will you also go to the scene later?" Shiratori looked at Shiraishi tentatively at this time - he certainly couldn't give orders to Shiraishi, but as the person in charge, he had to understand Shiraishi's movements.

"No, since Director Doi is most worried about his wife, I'll stay." Shiraishi said, looking at Doi.

Doi was stunned at first, then said: "Then I'll leave it to Director Shiraishi..."

Shiratori seemed to have gotten the hint at this time: "Well, although the previous murders were all aimed at the officials themselves, we still have to be on guard... Detective Sato, Detective Chiba, the two of you should stay and protect Mrs. Doi."

Sato hesitated when she heard that. She wanted to go to the "front line", that is, the event site, but since Shiratori had said so, she did not refuse.

So, in Doi's house, in addition to Mrs. Doi, there was also Secretary Komine arranged by Doi, as well as three police officers, Shiraishi, Sato, and Chiba. They did not retreat from the outside execution, and there were other police officers at the event site to provide support.

……

After Shiratori and other detectives left, the live broadcast of the event continued on the TV at home, and Secretary Xiaofeng watched it nervously.

At this time, Sato asked doubtfully: "Chief Shiraishi, do you really think...Inspector Takei is a suspect?"

Although Sato and Shiraishi are not familiar with each other, they know each other. And because her father was a detective who died in the line of duty, Sato is particularly sensitive about the possibility that Inspector Takei may be involved in the case. If a police officer really did such a thing, Sato would not be able to understand or forgive him.

And Sato certainly knew that Takei was only the head of the fourth department of Section 3 three months ago, and... he was the partner of the department director Shiraishi!
"It sounds suspicious, doesn't it? Now Tsuchida, the only one who has seen the criminal group, has already identified him." Shiraishi paused and said, "But..."

"But?" Sato asked immediately.

"But what do you think is the criminals' purpose?" Bai Shi suddenly asked in guidance.

"Purpose? Isn't it just to retaliate for the cancellation of the negotiations..." Sato was stunned when he heard this.

"No, it's not about that, or... not just about that, there's a more confusing thing. Why did they let Tsuchida appear in the case?" Shiraishi asked more specifically.

Chiba on the side wondered: "Huh? Of course it's to frame Tsuchida..."

Shiraishi shook his head and said, "Framed? Then why did he let Tsuchida be detained by the police station in advance?"

"If not, Tsuchida would never agree." Chiba said as a matter of course.

He would never agree to let President Tsuchida take the blame for the murder!
"No, no, no, what's the point of agreeing to this? Expecting you to believe that 'wall-walking technique' rhetoric, and then get scolded by the prosecutors, and then... Tsuchida won't be prosecuted, and the case becomes an unsolved case? Is there such a possibility?" Shiraishi said a little frivolously.

"Uh...they are here to confuse people and affect our investigation!" Chiba thought of another reason.

"So, the criminals wanted to give you a little headache, so they sent an important witness who had met their gang to the police after giving him a little verbal threatening?" Shiraishi translated Chiba's guess.

Chiba:……

Chiba stopped talking at this time, and Sato frowned, obviously realizing the unreasonableness of this.

It was because of this that Shiraishi thought that this criminal must be a very smart one, but now... Shiraishi thought of a new possibility!
"So... can we make an assumption that Tsuchida was a chess piece that appeared to give the police some wrong information? As for the 'wall-walking technique' at the beginning, it was just to enhance credibility and give the police a puzzle to solve!

"It's like the trick wire in a bomb, disguised as the correct wire to dismantle it, making people think that everything will be over as long as they dismantle it, but in fact... Hmm? Detective Sato, what's wrong with you?"

As Shiraishi was talking, he suddenly noticed that Sato's face didn't look good...

"Nothing..." Sato suddenly remembered something, shook his head, and returned his gaze to the present. He was stunned and said, "Wait! So... Inspector Takei was framed?"

"Not really... going to a dance hall in broad daylight, and with people from the Arakawa group, tsk tsk tsk..." Shiraishi said with a gloating tone.

Sato:……

bang-

Just then, some noise suddenly came from the kitchen on the first floor.

"Hmm?" Sato immediately reached for the holster on his waist - because the "murderer" was very cruel, Megure asked the detectives to go out with guns. Mrs. Doi was also on the first floor at this time, and she was scared when she saw this. Secretary Komine was about to go forward to check, but was stopped by Sato: "Wait, I'll do it!"

"It's still me..." Chiba tried to show his masculinity, but was ignored by Sato.

"Who is it? Is anyone there?" Sato shouted twice outside the kitchen door, but there was no response from inside.

So Sato turned his head and winked at Chiba, and Chiba immediately asked Mrs. Tsuchida and Komine to stay away. Then Sato held the door handle with one hand.

At the same time, Bai Shi also walked forward.

The next moment, Sato opened the door fiercely, but...

At this moment, Bai Shi suddenly became alert, and a strong sense of threat caused his adrenaline to surge!

After his [Physique] returned to Lv10, his [My Style of Fighting], which had been not very useful, appeared on Shiraishi again under the stimulation of adrenaline, and his muscles instantly contracted to a high degree...

When Sato opened the door a crack, he saw smoke rolling out. The next moment, as if in bullet time, he saw the smoke slowly rolling back!

Sato immediately understood what this meant - the air contracted before the explosion...

But it was too late to react. Even if he wanted to turn around and remind Chiba and Shiraishi to escape, he couldn't do it.

But at this moment, Shiraishi rushed forward, pulled Sato over in an instant, and used the handle he was still holding to close the door. At the same time, he immediately pounced down, pressing Sato and Chiba under him!
BOOM——

The explosion sounded, and the glass of the Doi family's villa shattered...

"not good!"

When the executioner saw it outside, he rushed to the explosion site.

……

Kamurocho, an illegal dance hall...

"Routine inspection! Don't move!"

"Hmm? It's the guy who was looking around at the door yesterday..."

"Boy, who are you?"

"Police! You are being arrested for violating the Entertainment Venue Management Act!"

Kuroki took the lead and took down Takei directly...

In a blink of an eye, the cadres of the [Arakawa Group], including Inspector Takei, were escorted out by the police officers. No one resisted at this time - Megure had mobilized a lot of people, even the mobile team!
"Megure, you know what you are doing, right?" When Takei was escorted out, he glared at Megure who was giving orders outside.

"Should I ask you this question?" Megure had already read Tsuchida's new confession and looked at Takei seriously.

"Heh, Inspector Megure, don't think you'll just let it go like this!" Takei said fearlessly.

When he was being escorted to the police car, Takei paused as he passed by Kuroki, looked at the two of them and said, "You're from the Beihua Police Department, right? Tell that bastard... wait for me!"

"Huh?" Kuroki and Kanzaki were wondering when Takei was taken away.

"The 'bastard' he's talking about is..." Kuroki was still confused.

"You don't know?" Gao Mu looked at him in surprise.

"What?" Hei Mu continued to be confused.

"Three months ago, Inspector Takei was the head of the Fourth Department of Section 3. The head of the department at that time was... Chief Shiraishi." Takagi reminded in a low voice.

"Huh?" Kuroki suddenly felt as if he had been tricked by the director.

"And I heard that... Director Takei and Department Head Shiraishi were partners at the time." Takagi reminded.

Kuroki, Kanzaki:......

Just when Kuroki felt something was wrong, Megure suddenly raised his voice and shouted into the phone, "What?"

boom--

Megure said as he hit the police car.

"Got it! Let's go back immediately!" Megure said and hung up the phone.

"Inspector Megure, what's wrong?" Takagi hurried over and asked.

"An explosion just happened at the Doi family... the casualties are unknown!" Megure's face looked very ugly.

Kuroki and Kanzaki were also shocked when they heard this, because... the director was still at Doi's house. They then hurried back with Megure.

(End of this chapter)