I'm in Detective Conan, and the system has appointed Batman.

One thing after another happened, leaving him no time to properly understand what a modern city is really like.

Regarding the frequency and number of heinous murders occurring here, it's alarming.

Ashiya could only mutter a few complaints to himself.

"Seriously, why is the death rate so high in this country?"

"It's like being haunted by some Grim Reaper or some other monster..."

He could only shake his head helplessly and then say.

"Besides that, there's only the black mask."

“I heard that the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department seems to have a file on the Black Mask. If we can get our hands on that Black Mask, I think it’s not impossible to use it as a medium to find the location of the main Black Mask.”

"I remember the person wearing that black mask, wasn't he your temporary subordinate?"

"His name is Kazami Yuya?"

“I remember when you were attacked, it was Kazami Yuya who gave you emergency treatment, but I didn’t see any information about any magical items on him at that time. I guess he hid them somewhere.”

Is it Kazami Yuya's black mask?

Wasn't that thing already broken?

Upon hearing this, the members of the gold watch group turned their heads and glanced at Ashiya.

If he remembered correctly, Kazami Yuya had put on a black mask and left when he last fought that supervillain called Red Hood, and afterwards wrote in his report that it was damaged for unknown reasons.

However, this matter was rather sensitive, so the members of the gold watch team did not upload it to the internal database.

It now seems that Ashiya was misjudged.

However, this misjudgment is not a big deal.

There are still quite a few black masks inside the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.

During the internal strife within the East Star Society, when Hamaichi Misao became the second president of the East Star Society, the Reorganized Steel Society took advantage of the chaos to plunder the East Star Society's assets, which led to Batman's heavy blow.

Back then, the reorganized steel industry wasn't as roadside-like as it is now.

Many of them possessed black masks left over from the Steel Society, genuine magical artifacts. Although they didn't know why they had lost their original functions, they retained only the ability to communicate with each other within a certain range.

But it is also a genuine magical item.

Of course, after Batman wiped them all out, all those magical gadgets fell into the hands of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, which was cleaning up the battlefield. The black mask that the Reorganized Steel Society wears now is just a replica of the original black mask.

There was absolutely no magical effect.

If Ashiya needs a black mask as an aid, then giving him one wouldn't be a problem.

Having said that, Hakuba Saguru naturally had nothing more to ask.

His fingers kept tapping on his thigh as he pondered the truth of the matter. Through the eavesdropping device hidden on his body, the entire conversation of the group was transmitted into the Bat Cave.

Noah's Ark then relayed these messages to Chen En's earpiece.

At this very moment, Chen En, who was dealing with matters concerning the future operation and development of Chen En Enterprise with Dr. Agasa, naturally received this information and frowned slightly.

He truly hadn't anticipated why Koizumi Akako's investigation in this area had made little progress...

It turns out that the black mask was a mysterious local artifact before the black ship sailed into the sea and Western magic was introduced.

Now that we know the specific ingredients of the Black Mask, perhaps if we go to see Koizumi Akako again, she might give us some unexpected answers...

Chapter 1325

Inside the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.

Ashiya, who originally wanted to find Kazami Yuya and get the black mask, had to give up the idea after learning that Kazami Yuya's mask was already broken. Instead, he went to the logistics department with the Gold Watch Group members.

He abandoned his original plan to meet with Kazami Yuya one more time.

As for the logistics department, it was naturally inconvenient for Hakuba Saguru to go there.

Although he is the son of Superintendent General Hakuba, he is also a police consultant in name only at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.

However, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department is still a subordinate department of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. There is no reason for the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's advisors to act with impunity within the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, even with the approval of members of the Gold Watch Group.

However, the members of the Gold Watch Group did not leave Hakuba Saguru alone in the corridor.

Knowing that Hakuba Saguru had always been interested in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's internal intelligence, he simply contacted his friend, an investigator in the Public Security Planning Division, to come and chat with Hakuba Saguru.

Although this investigator is usually quite busy.

However, he has been unusually relaxed these past two days. After all, his actions during this period have all been aimed at capturing that high-ranking undercover agent within the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, but that high-ranking undercover agent has not revealed any flaws so far.

The investigator still can't figure out how that high-ranking undercover agent saw through his plan.

This is really quite illogical.

He agreed to meet with Hakuba Saguru and have a brief chat, naturally intending to use Hakuba Saguru, a high school detective who was supposedly recognized by the local police in England, to see if he could come up with any new ideas.

Hakuba Saguru was also somewhat unfamiliar with the Investigator.

He served as a nominal advisor to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.

Naturally, it's about understanding the internal structure of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.

However, he had never met this undercover investigator from the Public Security Planning Division before. Now, on their first meeting, his first impression of the undercover investigator was... that he looked like a typical office worker, nothing special.

However, the investigator was quite impressed with Hakuba Saguru.

The high school detective who had returned from England looked exactly as he had expected; he had an extraordinary presence just by looking at him. However, it seemed that he wasn't carrying his usual falcon.

Otherwise, she should be quite good in terms of temperament.

"Investigator, I'd like to ask about the previous Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department operation?"

"The previous order issued by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department was to protect a convoy of vehicles from its departure point at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department until it left the Tokyo metropolitan area. Why then did a second convoy of vehicles appear?"

Don't you think this is going to be unnecessary?

When Hakuba met the investigator, his first question was about the embarrassing incident that had happened earlier.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's plan to carry out separate operations seems illogical no matter how you look at it.

According to the information he received from Chen En.

The codenamed member in the convoy that the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department initially requested assistance from was Pisco, while the member in the second convoy that set off without the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's knowledge was another Dale member, Calvados.

In that case, wouldn't it have been better to concentrate forces on transporting Pisk's convoy from the very beginning?

This way, all the attackers can be captured in one fell swoop.

After all, no matter how many people there are, if they were to attack the convoy that transports Pisco, which is under constant surveillance by Batman, the only outcome would be total annihilation.

He found this completely incomprehensible.

However, upon hearing this, the investigator smiled and then answered directly.

"The purpose of doing this is, of course, to lure out the mole within the higher-ups."

“Detective Hakuba, I believe that when you were in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, you must have had some information channels of your own, and you should be able to know that there is definitely a mole in the upper echelons of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department or the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.”

"The longer this mole stays in our two institutions, the greater the harm he will cause, so it is necessary to find and eliminate him as quickly as possible... This is one of the measures I have taken."

"The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department was not informed in advance about the second transfer convoy."

"In other words, if there was a leak during the transport of the second transfer convoy, it is absolutely impossible for a high-ranking official in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department to be the mole who leaked the information; the mole could only be a high-ranking official in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department."

"At that time, we just need to investigate which high-ranking person other than me had access to the intelligence on the second transfer convoy."

"The scope of high-ranking moles within the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department can be basically determined."

...So, has the mole within the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department been found?

Upon hearing this, a look of surprise appeared in Hakuba Saguru's eyes.

If he remembered correctly, Chen En's side was also investigating a high-ranking mole within the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.

However, they have never been able to find out exactly who it was.

Is the investigator's method really that effective?

He remembered that the second transport convoy, which departed from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department without their knowledge, was also attacked, and the people inside were almost rescued.

Based on this, it seems there is indeed a mole within the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's upper echelons, and the suspects should be narrowed down.

Hakuba asked earnestly.

"If that's the case, then who exactly is the mole within the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department?"

Upon hearing this, the investigator coughed awkwardly twice before speaking.

"We don't know yet."

Hakuba Saguru: ?

When I type a question mark, it's not that I have a problem, but that I think you have a problem.

Didn't you just say that this method could be used to narrow down the scope of high-ranking moles within the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department?

If that's the case, why can't you be sure who the mole is in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department? At least you should have a general idea of ​​who it is, right? A post-incident investigation should yield results, right?

Or is it just that you deliberately didn't tell him, an outsider?

Just as Hakuba was pondering this, Investigator Ri immediately revealed the reason.

"According to my investigation, apart from myself, no other high-ranking member of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department handled matters related to the second transfer convoy dispatched from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department that night."

"So unless I myself am the mole hiding in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, this operation can only be described as a failure... Obviously, I am not the mole."

I think it's hard to say.

Hakuba Saguru stared at the investigator for a while, inwardly complaining.

Generally speaking, those who pretend to be wage slaves are the ones who are most ruthless behind the scenes.

However, he also knew that what the investigator said was mostly true.

The investigator was clearly not the mole.