He's in Detective Conan, and he's the mastermind behind everything.

I don't know what I want to say or do yet, so I'll just let it go for now.

Watching their retreating figures, the others wore smiles of maternal affection. However, less than a minute later, loud cries for help came from the direction of the restroom from Takagi Wataru and his companion.

The group looked at each other in bewilderment and hurriedly ran over, only to hear muffled groans and the sound of metal clashing along the way.

When they rushed into the bathroom, the first thing they saw was Takagi Wataru and the other man lying in a pool of blood.

A group of Yakuza were escaping through a window, and two policemen gave chase, but many more were anxiously searching for Sato Miwako.

In the end, Inspector Megure found her first in a cubicle. He glanced at her, then quickly closed the door, his eyes filled with rage.

What kind of scum would do something like this!

Chapter 50 The Sins of the Police?!

Fortunately in misfortune.

Because Takagi Wataru and Shiratori Ninzaburo arrived in time, Sato Miwako, who was unconscious on the toilet, was only slightly naked and had not yet experienced that kind of thing.

According to Sato Miwako's description after waking up, someone had been lying in ambush in the bathroom, and as soon as she entered, someone covered her mouth and nose with a towel from behind.

The towel contained ether, and she was taken down without any resistance.

"It's Cedar Kiyoko!"

As soon as her consciousness returned to normal, Miwako Sato shouted it out almost immediately.

When she saw Takagi Wataru and the other man lying unconscious on a stretcher being carried into an ambulance, her eyes turned icy cold, as if she wanted to kill them. Even Inspector Megure didn't dare to step forward to comfort her.

Furthermore, Inspector Megure also felt that this deduction was reasonable, and that Kiyoko Yukimatsu did indeed have sufficient reason to retaliate against the police, especially against Miwako Sato.

Furthermore, the preference for defilement over murder is more likely to be the approach a woman would choose.

If it weren't for this, even if Takagi Wataru and his companion had arrived in time, all they would have found was a corpse.

In short, the reasons are:

From an outsider's perspective, if Kiyoko Yukimatsu is truly innocent, then what the police have done to her these past few days is arguably the most excessive thing imaginable!

An investigation, a round-the-clock follow-up investigation!

Visit them, visit all their interpersonal relationships!

To put it simply, it might not be very clear, but the key point is that Yukimatsu Kiyoko is a high school girl, a seventeen-year-old girl!

The police's high-profile investigation of her is bound to generate a lot of rumors.

From what Inspector Megure knows, many people already look at her with strange eyes, believing that she is the real culprit who cruelly murdered her father.

What's even more outrageous is that some guys actually harassed her, asking about her prices!

It is said that Kiyoko Yukimatsu was a school beauty, the kind of ice queen.

And now, it is undoubtedly socially dead!

Kiyoko Yukimatsu's ability to not break down or commit suicide demonstrates an extraordinary level of mental fortitude. And if she wanted to take revenge on the police responsible for all of this, to unleash the karmic fire stemming from their sins, that would be perfectly logical!

In fact, when Inspector Megure first led the police investigation, he was careful to control the impact in this regard.

But things got complicated later on, so he mainly followed Shinichi Kudo around, leaving the task of visiting connections to Miwako Sato.

Ugh.

He knew that Sato was fiercely opposed to evil and that she was very disappointed in Yukimatsu Kiyoko's self-destructive behavior, but he never expected that Sato would so bluntly ask Yukimatsu Kiyoko's classmate... ask such a question.

That's probably why.

When Inspector Megure reprimanded Miwako Sato from behind, he learned that when she was following Kiyoko Yukimatsu in Shinjuku, she was harassed by several drunk men. She finally lost her temper and knocked them all down for questioning, only to find out that a man had paid them to do so.

The man was someone Miwako Sato had seen just ten minutes earlier, chatting with Kiyoko Yukimatsu.

This was therefore seen by Miwako Sato as a shameless provocation, which led to what happened next.

Time is brought back to the present.

Sunday morning at 9:10.

Shinichi Kudo and Juzo Megure arrived outside the detention room. Miwako Sato looked at Shinichi Kudo with a rather cold gaze.

Why are the police not allowed to arrest Kiyoko Yukimatsu?

"No evidence."

Shinichi Kudo calmly said, "According to the investigation, although the Muddy Association did receive a high-paying job to take action against you yesterday, the channel used by the other party came from President Shimada, who died in an accidental fall. The identity of the employer cannot be confirmed."

"That president Shimada's death must have been orchestrated by someone behind the scenes! There couldn't have been so many accidents!"

“This happened a week ago, and the person has already been buried, so there’s no way to investigate.”

Hearing this, Inspector Megure said somewhat awkwardly, "Brother Kudo, I'm really sorry. Because it was a yakuza-related case, and no one questioned his cause of death or called the police, we didn't pay much attention to it."

Shinichi Kudo shook his head: "It's a special case, and the Metropolitan Police Department has limited manpower. But, there should be an investigation by now."

"Have!"

Inspector Megure immediately took out his phone and called a colleague, then relayed the message a moment later:

"The president of Shimada was also involved in loan sharking before his death, and Masato Yukimatsu was one of his clients. Many people had seen him. Furthermore, after learning of Masato Yukimatsu's death and the 500 million yen insurance claim, the branch of the Muddy Mischief Association repeatedly harassed Nami Yukimatsu at the Yamada Okao residence."

Sato Miwako's eyes sharpened: "This proves that he is connected with Yukimatsu Kiyoko, right?"

"That's possible, but what about Yukizaki Nami?"

Shinichi Kudo didn't want to talk too much with the irrational woman, so he pushed open the iron door of the detention room and went inside. Miwako Sato also wanted to go in, but Juzo Megure held her shoulder down.

“Sato, there’s a call record on Yukimatsu Nami’s phone, isn’t it? It’s the Muddy Association. She seems more suspicious. You’re here because of that. Why are you bringing up Yukimatsu Kiyoko again?”

Kiyoko-kun...sigh...

Did you know that the 500 million insurance payout has already been released, but she only received 30 million?

With pressure from the police, the insurance company acted very efficiently, paying the insurance money to Kiyoko Yukimatsu yesterday at noon, and she then handed over the lion's share to her mother as promised.

This is why, after Takagi Wataru and his companion were attacked last night, even though Sato Miwako made a strong accusation against Yukimatsu Kiyoko, no action was taken against her due to a lack of relevant evidence.

Of course, no one arrested Yukimatsu Nami at that time; she seemed to be far removed from the incident.

It wasn't until this morning, when Shinichi Kudo discovered a crucial clue in Tojo Shuntatsu's death, pointing directly at Nami Yukimatsu, that the police decided to summon and interrogate her.

Then, Kogoro Mouri made a fatal mistake, and the summons was simply turned into detention.

After that, the police checked Yukimatsu Nami's phone and were shocked to find that she had contacted the Muddy Association the day before, and there were also bank card transfer records. When all the clues were put together, the truth was about to be revealed.

which is:

Dissatisfied with her previous detention by the police, Yukimatsu Nami hired yakuza to retaliate against the police after receiving insurance money!

Even though Yukimatsu Nami tried every excuse to say she knew nothing, she ran out to have fun with her girlfriends as soon as she received the insurance money yesterday at noon.

Despite multiple pieces of evidence, she remains the prime suspect.

Sato Miwako knew all this, of course, but she glanced at the detention room and pursed her lips tightly: "I just feel that it doesn't seem like it."

"What doesn't look like it?"

Chapter 51 The famous detective is terrifyingly strong!

When questioned, Miwako Sato sighed softly.

“Yukimatsu Nami doesn’t seem like the kind of person who would do those things. In the two hours she was in the detention room, she first shouted and cursed at us police, and then she begged for mercy, saying that she didn’t want a single penny and just wanted us to give her a way out.”

How could someone with such mental fortitude be the mastermind behind everything?

Inspector Megure pressed on, "What if this is just her disguise?"

These days he's been spending all his time with his younger brother Kudo, hearing all sorts of strange ideas and criminal methods, and now he feels like there's more to everything than meets the eye.

Miwako Sato shook her head: "Inspector, you've all taken that course in police academy, right? Criminal psychology."

Although I'm not very good at this, I can tell that Yukimatsu Nami's mental breakdown was a very natural process. I've been standing here for two hours, and the more I listen, the more I feel that she is the one who was framed.

If this is acting...

All I can say is, she's amazing, and I'm utterly incompetent as a police officer.

Inspector Megure fell silent upon hearing this. To be honest, he and his younger brother Kudo shared this feeling, which was why they had previously focused their investigation on Kiyoko Yukimatsu.

But, it's still the same problem.

What is she planning?

"If Kiyoko Yukimatsu simply wanted to kill her father, there would be no need for her to go through the trouble of buying personal accident insurance; we would probably have closed the case long ago. And if she was after money, why did she only take 30 million?"

Moreover, of that 30 million, 20 million was handed over to a real estate agent last night. Considering the enormous debt she carries, she has no future at all.

"That's just her giving up on herself; who knows what she's thinking?"

"Sato!"

Megure Juzo, who has always had a kind and gentle demeanor, is now genuinely getting angry.

Even if there were evidence, that would be one thing, but nothing is confirmed yet. Saying things like this, are you really trying to drive Kiyoko Yukimatsu to her death?!

Miwako Sato opened her mouth, but kept her head down.

"Feel sorry."

Inspector Megure sighed softly and said nothing. He could understand Sato Miwako; after almost having something like that happen to her, no one could remain calm.

Especially since three years ago, another man she had feelings for also died right before her eyes.

Last night, it must have overlapped with the past to some extent.

With the two factors combined...

Sigh, shouldn't we give Sato a break for a while and arrange some psychological counseling for her?

All I can say is that it's wonderful that Takagi and Shiratori are out of danger, in every way.

"Reporting, Inspector!"