Ghost Detectives in the Detective World

"Of course it's not that criminal. How could a dead person commit a crime!"

Matsuda put on his coat as he gave the instructions.

"Sato, come with me to Beika Park. That car just drove out of there not long ago, and Conan and the others have already caught up with it."

"Takagi, go find Inspector Megure and contact the traffic department to intercept a white car that came from near Beika Park."

"What's the license plate number?" Takagi asked.

“It’s not clear yet,” Matsuda said, pulling Sato toward the office door. “I’ll contact you if there are any new developments.”

……

On Sato's red Mazda.

"Sit down!"

Knowing that another little girl had been kidnapped, every minute of delay increased the danger.

Sato floored the accelerator and sped off.

The journey, which normally takes half an hour, was completed in less than half the time it took her to reach Mihua Park.

As soon as I arrived, I saw Mitsuhiko standing anxiously by the roadside.

"What about the rest?"

Matsuda rolled down the car window and asked a question.

Mitsuhiko, however, had already opened the back door and climbed in on his own.

"Officer Matsuda, Conan and the others have gone that way!" Mitsuhiko said hurriedly.

Following the direction he pointed out, Sato sped off again.

Soon, at a street corner, they saw Genta.

"Conan rode his skateboard and turned at the bridge ahead."

As Yuan Tai spoke, he climbed onto the Mazda.

Just then, Matsuda's phone rang; it was Yumi calling.

"The Ministry of Transport has set up checkpoints at several nearby intersections specifically to check white vehicles,"

Yumi asked, "How's the situation on your end?"

“Genta just said that the suspect’s car turned off from the bridge,” Matsuda replied.

"Turn over from the bridge? I think Teitan Junior High School is nearby?" Yumi thought for a moment.

At that moment, Sato's car caught up with Conan, who was riding a nuclear-powered skateboard.

"Officer Matsuda, it's that white car up ahead!" Conan shouted, pointing ahead.

Matsuda glanced at the license plate number and immediately notified Yumi.

Sato, on the other hand, stepped on the gas again and sped straight ahead.

At the street intersection ahead, several Ministry of Transportation patrol cars noticed the situation and joined the pursuit of the white car.

Soon, the white car was blocked on the edge of the street.

"Stop! Don't move! Hands over your heads and get off the bus!"

Sato jumped out of the car and pointed his gun directly at the two kidnappers in the front row.

Matsuda quickly came to the back of the car, and as soon as he opened the trunk, Ayumi saw him and rushed over to him.

Chapter 32: Clearing the Name of the Police

"Officer Matsuda! Wow..."

Ayumi was clearly terrified and immediately burst into tears after throwing herself into Matsuda's arms.

"It's okay, it's okay."

While comforting her, Matsuda looked at the dismembered head in the trunk, but the more he looked, the more uneasy he felt.

The two kidnappers in the front row, with their hands behind their heads, got out of the car and complained, "Hey, what are you doing? We're not criminals!"

"You are suspected of kidnapping and dismemberment, aren't you criminals?" Conan said righteously. "We heard everything you said through this detective badge."

"That's right, there's a body and a pile of cash in the back of your car! Those are all evidence!" Mitsuhiko said sternly.

"Who are you? And those are all..." The two kidnappers were about to explain.

"Wait, don't..."

Matsuda tried to stop it, but it was too late.

Sato and several other police officers stepped forward and immediately knocked the two men to the ground.

"what happened?"

Sato pinned the criminal down and subdued him before looking up at Matsuda.

"Sigh," Matsuda sighed, took the bloody human head out of the trunk, and shook it up and down.

"These kids seem to have made a mistake. This thing is just a paper prop!"

"What?" Conan was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly asked, "Where are the banknotes?"

"They're all fake toy banknotes!" Matsuda took out a bill and threw it in front of Conan.

"This……"

Sato looked at the two kidnappers who were already tied up and felt embarrassed.

"What are you doing? We're just here to perform at Teitan High School's anniversary celebration. Everything in the car is a prop, and what we just said was just part of the performance!"

The two "kidnappers" finally had a chance to speak and immediately shouted that they were innocent.

"Ha ha……"

Conan looked at the dark faces of the police officers and could only offer a dry laugh.

"Kid, do you know what the consequences are for making a false police report?!"

Matsuda raised his fist and delivered several large bruises to Conan's head!

……

Teitan High School's anniversary celebration begins.

"Dear students, I am honored to be invited to give a speech at the opening ceremony of the school anniversary celebration..."

Matsuda stood on the stage, watching hundreds of students below speak eloquently.

The reason things have turned out this way is because the place where they just surrounded the two "kidnappers" is not far from Teitan High School.

Suddenly, a large number of police cars appeared at the school gate.

The principal of Teitan naturally had to come out and take a look.

Once you realize it was just a misunderstanding, you could have let the matter drop.

But after seeing Matsuda, the principal changed his mind. He hoped that Matsuda, the famous detective, could give a speech to the students of their school.

In this matter, the police were in the wrong and almost ruined someone else's school anniversary celebration.

Now that he heard the principal's request, Matsuda naturally couldn't refuse.

Fortunately, he wasn't intimidated by this kind of speech. For ten minutes, he talked about the students of Teitan High School and the future of society in clichéd terms.

He finished speaking quickly. Matsuda was about to step down when...

Suddenly, a girl in the audience stood up and asked loudly, "Officer Matsuda, what are your thoughts on detectives?"

"I heard that detectives help solve most of the cases in the Metropolitan Police Department," another boy said.

“Didn’t our school’s Shinichi Kudo help the police solve a lot of cases before?” said a female fan of Kudo.

"The police these days are so incompetent! Didn't they just make a blunder at our school gate? They almost arrested the wrong person again!"

As the students began to discuss the matter, their tone mostly leaned towards praising the detective and belittling the police.

Matsuda felt it was time to teach these children a lesson, so he coughed lightly. When the students looked at him, he smiled and said...

"That student just asked me what I think of detectives?"

"In fact, I have no prejudice against detectives, after all, the work of police officers and detectives is fundamentally different."

"Our job responsibility as police officers is to protect the safety of citizens and maintain social order."

"Detectives, on the other hand, are paid to do things; their responsibility is simply to handle the requests made by their employers."

"Secondly, for detectives, if they are not certain even with a 10% certainty, they will hesitate, because they know that if they make a wrong judgment, they will damage their reputation as detectives."

"But for the police, even if there is only a 0.1% chance that a citizen will be harmed, we will still step forward! We care more about the safety of citizens than our own honor!"

"That's the difference between a police officer and a detective!"

"Some students mentioned the misunderstanding at the school gate earlier. That's right, we made a mistake. We believed the person who reported it, which led to our actions just now!"

Matsuda glanced at Conan and continued.

"But have you ever considered what would happen if, after receiving a report, we police officers didn't act immediately, but instead acted like detectives, investigating and thinking things through? What if it wasn't a misunderstanding, but really criminals?"

"Students, if you were the ones trapped in the car just now, would you prefer the police to first verify the situation before coming to rescue you, or would you prefer them to respond immediately upon receiving your call?"

Matsuda's question immediately silenced the students.

Many students were thinking, "Yeah, if it were us, we'd definitely hope the police would arrive quickly too."

"I can tell you with certainty that, for us police officers, even if it's a case reported by a child, as long as there's even the slightest possibility that they might be in danger, we will never ignore it!"

Matsuda Yoshimasa said loudly and firmly, "But can a detective do that?"

As soon as he finished speaking, thunderous applause erupted from the audience.

The two students who had deliberately mentioned the detective earlier also started clapping.

"Officer Matsuda is so handsome! And what he said makes so much sense!"

Garden looked like a lovesick girl.