Traveling back thirty years to Conan, intercepting Princess Eri

Chapter 19: Ginger is still spicier when old

The Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigation Division evacuated, taking away the murderer Teru Hoshino and the body of the deceased Hayato Doi.

As soon as the cordon was removed from the gymnasium and the security tape was lifted, students rushed over and tried to find out what was going on from people they knew.

The Dean of Academic Affairs no longer used the bamboo sword to drive away the students. In fact, he was also very curious. Wasn't it suicide? How did it become murder? And how did the criminal get caught so quickly?

Confused, the Dean of Academic Affairs also squeezed into the gymnasium and found the Vice Principal: "Principal Inoue, what's going on? That student who was taken away..."

Although the murderer has been caught, if this matter gets out, it will ultimately damage the reputation of Teitan.

Vice Principal Inoue was in a bad mood, and the Dean of Academic Affairs' question hit the nail on the head.

"Is this something you should be concerned about? I just told you to kick all the students out and send them home!"

"Why are all these students still in school?! You can't even do this, you idiot!"

"This……"

The Dean of Academic Affairs looked aggrieved and asked, "When did you say that?"
He didn't dare to ask any more questions, and quickly picked up the bamboo sword and drove the students away.

Here, after teaching his subordinate a lesson, Vice Principal Inoue felt a little better.
"Seal off the judo club's activity room and do not use it for the time being."

"I'm going to find the principal now. I can't be the only one worrying about Teitan's problem!"

……

Mika High School, the principal's office.

The white-haired old principal stood on the balcony, looking out at Teitan's campus.

Vice Principal Inoue stood behind him, reporting on the murder in the gymnasium.

After understanding the general situation, the old principal did not respond immediately, but asked: "What are you going to do?"

If I knew, would I still come to you?

Vice Principal Inoue complained in his heart and said casually,
"It's definitely impossible to conceal this, but we can use our connections to ask the biggest media outlets not to get involved. Even if the rest do report on it, the impact will be limited."

"With so much going on in Tokyo every day, this incident will be forgotten in a matter of ten days or half a month."

"Forgotten? How could it be that easy?" the old principal said expressionlessly. "Even if people truly forgot, someone will remind them when enrollment comes."

Although schools are not enterprises, they are in competition with each other. What they mainly compete for is students, especially outstanding students.

Every year during the enrollment season, schools will try their best to compete for high-quality students.

Such a big problem has occurred at Teitan, which is tantamount to handing a knife into the hands of its competitors. There will definitely be schools that will take advantage of the situation.

"So what do you mean?" Vice Principal Inoue asked dissatisfiedly.

Old fox, don’t just think about pushing the troubles onto me!
The old principal is old, and all the daily affairs of the school are managed by Inoue Jinzhen.

He had been coveting the position of principal for a long time, but the old man in front of him had been occupying the position and refused to leave, which always made Inoue very angry.

"There's an idiom in Sinology: 'It's better to open up than to block,'" the old principal said softly. "Since we can't hide it, then let's not hide it. Let the media report it freely."

"Principal? This..." Vice Principal Inoue said in surprise, "If we let them report it, the school's reputation will definitely be greatly affected." At this moment, he even doubted whether the old man in front of him had become completely senile and confused?

Otherwise, how could he say such a thing?
"Besides that, we naturally have to have other solutions," the old principal asked with a smile. "You just said that this murder case was actually investigated by our first-year students, and they found the murderer?"

"That's right," Vice Principal Inoue nodded doubtfully. "The student's name is Hayashi Shuichi, from Class A, Grade 1. He's acquainted with the officers from the Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigation Division. I heard he's helped them solve other cases before."

"Tell the news media everything you just said," the old principal said, a gleam in his eyes. "Although Teitan has a classmate murder case, it also has a talented young detective. Even the Metropolitan Police Department relies on his strength to solve the case."

"This..." Vice Principal Inoue was stunned after hearing this.

Such a good idea, why didn’t I think of it before!
Tokyo is so big that all kinds of murders happen every day. The case at Teitan Stadium is actually not that surprising when viewed in the whole of Tokyo.

Compared to the frequent homicides, the news media are obviously more willing to report on hotter topics.

After pushing Lin Xiuyi to the front stage, he can be used to divert people's attention.

In this way, even if someone brings up the past again in the future, when people hear about the Teitan Stadium murder case, the first person they think of is not the deceased or the murderer, but the genius young detective who solved the case.

In addition, Lin Xiuyi can be made into the living signboard of Teitan. A genius boy, isn’t this the best recruitment advertisement!

"I will contact the news media," Vice Principal Inoue said with respect as he bowed and left.

Only at this moment did he understand what it meant that old ginger is still spiciest.

……

Teitan Campus,

Although the gymnasium was unsealed, the only people who witnessed Lin Xiuyi solving the case in the activity room were the teachers and the police officers from the Investigation Section.

Students who could not find out any useful information gradually lost interest and dispersed to continue their club activities.

The same thing happened to Fujimine Yukiko, but she wanted to return to the drama club, but on her way back, she accidentally ran into Hayashi Shuichi and his two companions who were preparing to go home.

Unable to contain her curiosity, Yukiko Fujimine asked the three people what had just happened in the gym.

Kogoro Mouri was still angry about Hoshino Teru tarnishing the spirit of sports and was in no mood to speak.

Kisaki Eri reached out to adjust her glasses and started pretending to be a nerdy girl who wasn't good at speaking.

Seeing that neither of them spoke, Lin Xiuyi had to speak up himself and briefly recounted the case without mentioning the role he played in it.

"...I see," Yukiko clenched her fists in anger. "That Hoshino Teru is such a jerk. Just for a spot in the competition, he not only injured a member's leg, but also killed his childhood friend."

"Well, he is indeed a bastard..."

Lin Xiuyi responded with a few words, and seeing that it was already very late, if he didn't go home, the izakaya would not be open tonight, so he hurriedly said goodbye to Yukiko.

Without waiting for Yukiko to reply, Hayashi Shuichi hurriedly pulled Kisaki Eri and Mouri Kogoro and ran away.

"Hey, you...you're an asshole too!"

Yukiko stamped her feet in anger. She was just about to ask why the police let the three of them in.

Who knew that before he could even open his mouth, Lin Xiuyi ran away!
(End of this chapter)