Traveling back thirty years to Conan, intercepting Princess Eri

Chapter 21 Today’s young people

Tokyo, Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigation Division.

After finally dealing with the reporters, many police officers collapsed in their seats exhausted.

Many people feel that dealing with reporters is much more difficult than going out on field work. At least when they go out to investigate a case, they don’t have to constantly remind themselves whether they have said anything wrong.

Of course, not everyone thinks this way.

Matsumoto Kiyonaga kept thinking about what the reporters had just said in his mind. He could no longer contain his anger and swept all the documents on the table to the ground.

"Damn it! It's all that Lin Xiuyi's fault! If it weren't for him, these reporters wouldn't be here..."

"Okay, Matsumoto," Officer Morimura said helplessly. "Those reporters weren't hired by Lin Xiuyi. If you want to blame them, you can only blame them for having a very sensitive nose. I don't know where they got wind of yesterday's case."

"Senior, I also don't think it's Hayashi Hideichi's fault," said the rookie Inspector Megure, who squatted down and picked up the documents. "Hashi-kun was just trying to help catch the murderer. He definitely didn't want this to happen."

"Megure, you bastard!" Officer Matsumoto said angrily, "Didn't you understand what those reporters just said? They were saying that we, the detectives in Section 1, are incompetent people who only rely on children and are good-for-nothings!"

"Since it was the reporters who said it, they should be blamed," a thin-cheeked police officer said soothingly. "If you find their words offensive, then we should find ways to improve our own case investigation and reasoning skills. In yesterday's case, if the police had found the murderer first, would these reporters still say the same thing?"

"Sato is right. If we want to win the respect of others, we must first improve our own abilities!"

Inspector Samezaki pushed open the door and walked into the office of the first division. Looking at the dejected police officers, he shouted in dissatisfaction,

"What? Are all the officers in the Investigation Division incompetent trash? They don't even have the confidence to defeat a sixteen-year-old kid?"

"We are not useless!" Officer Matsumoto was the first to stand up and retort, and the other police officers also stood up one after another.

"If you're not useless, then go and work hard on the case!" Inspector Samezaki slammed the table. "Then use your findings to tell those reporters who is truly protecting the safety of the people of Tokyo!"

"Yes!" All the police officers responded in unison.

Seeing that his men had finally regained their spirits and were no longer as listless as before, Inspector Samezaki breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Sato, come with me to the meeting."

"Yes!" The thin-cheeked police officer stood up and walked out of the office with Inspector Samezaki.

"I didn't expect so much to happen after just two days of leave," Officer Sato, whose full name is Sato Masayoshi, laughed bitterly. "Is that high schooler, Hayashi Hideichi, really that powerful?"

"That guy really has a good brain," Inspector Samezaki praised, "especially when it comes to investigating and reasoning about cases. Sometimes I even feel like he's more experienced than I am."

"You mentioning that reminds me of that young novelist, Kudo Yusaku, who also helped us with quite a few cases," Officer Sato sighed. "He was only a freshman, but these young people are really amazing these days. We weren't as capable as they were when we were in school."

"The most infuriating thing isn't this, but the fact that none of these guys who are good at reasoning want to be detectives," Officer Samezaki said gloomily. "Don't these young people know what responsibility is these days?" "Inspector, are you trying to recruit someone to our Investigation Division again?" Officer Sato said with a smile. "I remember you tried to recruit Kudo Yusaku back then, didn't you?"

"What's the point of me trying to get them into the Investigation Division? The key is what they want," Inspector Samezaki snorted. "Kudo Yusaku turned me down back then, saying he wanted to write detective novels, which he's loved since childhood. And now this Hayashi Shuichi has also turned me down, saying he wants to become a civil servant and do some easy work. He doesn't want a life that's too tiring."

"The smarter you are, the more you think," Officer Sato said self-deprecatingly. "Back then, all I wanted was to punish evildoers and uphold justice. And with that little bit of passion, I unwittingly entered the police academy."

"You're talking like we're all idiots," Inspector Samezaki waved his hand. "Okay, enough of that. How's Miwako doing? Is she feeling better?"

"I'm fine now," Officer Sato replied. "I'll need two more days of rest in the hospital and then I'll be discharged."

"I'm glad you're okay," Inspector Samezaki kindly reminded, "No matter how busy you are at work, you should pay more attention to your daughter at home. Don't make her like my daughter Mihai, who always looks unhappy every time she sees me."

"Thank you for the vacation this time, Inspector," Officer Sato said sheepishly, "I will definitely make up for the work I owe these two days as soon as possible. By the way, Inspector, are we going to..."

"It's called a meeting, but it's actually just a scolding," Inspector Samezaki sighed. "Those reporters made such a commotion this morning, the higher-ups must be pissed."

"I'm getting scolded right after my vacation," Officer Sato shook his head in distress and could only follow his boss to the meeting room.

……

Rice Flower Town,
Lin Xiuyi and the other two were walking on their way to school without knowing anything.

Among the three, Eri Kisaki is devoted to studying and rarely watches TV. Kogoro Mouri gets up as late as he can every morning. Sometimes he doesn't even have time to eat breakfast, so how can he have time to turn on TV and watch the news?

As for Lin Xiuyi, when he first traveled through time, he still maintained the habits of his previous life and would get up early every day to do morning exercises. Later, he was led astray by Maori Kogoro. Thinking that he had worked hard all his life in his previous life, he should be a little lazy in this life, so he also started to sleep in.

"By the way, Shuichi, Eri," Maori Kogoro, carrying his schoolbag and holding his hands behind his head, looked at his two friends with a nonchalant look and asked, "Yesterday the teacher asked us to write about what we want to be class committee members. What did you two write?"

"Nothing was written." Lin Xiuyi yawned.

"Me too," Kisaki Eri shook her head, "Being a class committee member will interfere with my studies."

"I guessed that you two would be like this," Maori Kogoro said speechlessly, "One of you only cares about making money, and the other only cares about studying. If you keep going like this, what's the point of three years of high school? So, I... hehe."

"Hey, what are you doing?" Kiyori frowned. "You're not going to write it for us, are you?"

"That's right!" Maori Kogoro laughed proudly, "Eri, since you have such good grades, I chose you as the study committee member. As for Shuichi, since you are good at everything, I just chose you as the class monitor!"

(End of this chapter)