Ghost Detectives in the Detective World

"Is this the place where you saw people shooting here?"

Matsuda clenched his fist and threatened, "You're not making a false police report again, are you?"

"This time it's definitely true, I saw it with my own eyes!" Conan instinctively covered his head and protested. "By the way, although I didn't see him shoot, I saw it very clearly, he was definitely holding a rifle!"

"You said the same thing last time!" Matsuda sneered. "You're saying this calculator was left behind by the man who was threatened?"

Matsuda picked up the calculator that Conan and the others had found and looked at the numbers on it.

"By the way, Inspector, there probably aren't many people in the Metropolitan Police Department who can snipe from this distance, right?" Matsuda looked at the river and estimated the distance.

His shooting skills weren't particularly good, but among his classmates from police academy, there was one who was exceptionally good at shooting.

"Well, there probably aren't many," Megure scratched his head and thought for a moment. "Even Mori, who used to be the best marksman in the Metropolitan Police Department, was only good at close-range pistol shooting and didn't seem to know much about sniping."

"Let's investigate each department to see if anyone has recently gone missing or lost contact," Matsuda suggested. "There shouldn't be many snipers in Japan who can hit at this distance. Checking them one by one shouldn't take too long."

"Don't forget, there are also Olympic athletes!" Conan reminded him.

“Oh, right,” Megure suddenly remembered, “Speaking of Olympic athletes, I remember there was a former Olympic rifle shooting athlete in the Metropolitan Police Department!”

……

Upon returning to the Metropolitan Police Department, Matsuda and Megure immediately began their investigation.

Soon, they found Koichi Yamabe, a former Olympic rifle shooting athlete who was now just an ordinary police officer.

"How is it?" Matsuda asked.

“No,” Inspector Megure shook his head. “The leaders in Yamabe said they still can’t get in touch with him.”

"Do you have a photo?" Matsuda thought for a moment. "Didn't Conan say he'd seen that person before? Maybe he can recognize them directly!"

……

That evening, upon receiving an urgent message from Inspector Megure, Mori hurriedly took Conan to the Metropolitan Police Department.

“That’s right, it’s this person!” Conan confirmed, pointing to the photo.

"Is it really him?"

Matsuda scratched his head, picked up the calculator on the table, and entered the numbers he had found at the scene that day.

"Do you also think this calculator is a clue left behind by that person?" Conan leaned over and asked.

Matsuda ignored him and continued to ponder the meaning of the numbers.

Conan also wanted to think about this clue. Although he had memorized the numbers, he still felt that something was not right.

"Officer Matsuda, let me see too!"

While acting cute and charming, Conan reached out and snatched the calculator away.

"You brat, you..."

Matsuda stared at the calculator that Conan was holding upside down, then suddenly paused, and hurriedly got up and left.

"Hey, where are you going?" Inspector Megure asked in surprise.

"Maybe he just needed to pee," Conan remarked.

With no other option, Inspector Megure continued, "It has now been confirmed that the person who was kidnapped and forced to shoot is indeed Officer Yamabe Koichi, but that's all we know for now. We have no idea when they took action or where they did it."

“I think the location where they committed the crime should be in a place with similar terrain to the other side of the river,” Conan said, “like a road with an S-shaped bend.”

"So, we'll have to search all over Tokyo and the surrounding areas..." Mori said, sounding a bit annoyed.

"If all else fails, this is the only option."

Inspector Megure nodded helplessly, and seeing Matsuda return with a map, he immediately gave the order.

"Go immediately and notify the other officers to cancel their leave and get back to work!"

Seeing that many of his colleagues' holidays might be canceled in an instant, and most importantly, his own holiday was just around the corner, Matsuda suddenly felt a pang of sympathy.

"I don't think that's necessary, Inspector Megure. I already understand the meaning of the code on the calculator."

what?

Conan immediately looked at Matsuda; this guy had beaten him to it again!

"Really, Matsuda-kun?"

Inspector Megure also breathed a sigh of relief.

If he were to call all the other officers back, he, as the person in charge, would probably be cursed to death by everyone in their hearts.

"Officer Matsuda, what do those numbers mean?" Ran asked.

"it's actually really easy,"

Matsuda entered the numbers into the calculator, then turned the calculator upside down and placed it in front of the others.

"Look at these numbers now, what have they become?"

"This one……"

Before Megure and Mori could react, Conan understood instantly.

"291heiseie! It's the Heisei Limited Express at 1 PM on the 29th!"

“That’s right, I already checked the map.”

Matsuda spread a map with railway lines on the table and pointed to one of them.

"Look here, doesn't this S-shaped bend in the railway track look a lot like the one we saw on the river? And tomorrow at 1 p.m., this is also the route the Heisei Limited Express will take!"

……

Once the time and place are determined, the rest becomes much simpler.

On the 29th, Matsuda and Megure, along with several police officers, lay in ambush near the sniper position.

As it approached one o'clock, they indeed found Officer Yamabe Koichi, his girlfriend, and the three kidnappers who had taken them hostage.

The three thugs were clearly unaware that their plan had been leaked.

I was very relaxed the whole way.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Inspector Megure and Matsuda rushed out from their hiding place and quickly subdued two of them.

However, the third assailant reacted extremely quickly. Realizing something was wrong, he immediately drew his gun and took Officer Yamabe's girlfriend hostage.

"Don't come any closer! Release my companion immediately, or I'll shoot this woman dead!"

"Don't act impulsively,"

Megure quickly stopped the other officers.

“Eri, don’t be afraid! I will definitely save you!” Officer Yamabe shouted.

"Hao Yi..."

Yamabe's girlfriend also looked at her boyfriend with deep affection.

Damn, they're still showing off their love at a time like this!

Matsuda sighed, suddenly feeling a little reluctant to save them.

“It’s alright, Inspector,” Matsuda walked directly toward the assailant, “Even if this guy wanted to shoot, he’d have to be able to…”

Before Matsuda could finish speaking, the assailant had already pointed the gun at him and pulled the trigger.

"Damn it, I told you not to move!"

Why not use luminol in Chapter 35?

"Matsuda..." Inspector Megure shouted excitedly, then realized something was wrong. Why was Matsuda still walking forward? He hadn't been shot.

Yeah, I didn't even hear a gunshot!

The assailant was also taken aback when the gun failed to fire!

Taking advantage of the opening, Matsuda quickly rushed forward, subdued the assailant, and then snatched the pistol, saving Officer Yamabe's girlfriend.

"The safety on the gun isn't even off, and you still want to fire?" Matsuda mocked.

"How can it be……"

The thug stared blankly at the pistol that was now in Matsuda's hand.

He remembered clearly that when he threatened the hostage, the safety on his pistol should have been off!

Unfortunately, he probably couldn't figure out this problem even if he racked his brains.

Actually, just to be on the safe side, Matsuda brought Narumi along for today's operation.

To enable her to move around in the sun, Matsuda even spent 500 merit points to exchange for a ghost umbrella for Narumi from the system.

This thing has no other function besides allowing ghosts to walk in the sunlight, so it doesn't require much merit.

Just now, when the criminal was holding a gun and threatening the police with hostages, Cheng Shi was actually standing next to him with an umbrella. Afterwards, he directly turned off the safety of the criminal's gun.

Matsuda saw this, which is why he dared to step forward directly.

……

"Officer Matsuda, thank you so much!"

After learning that it was Matsuda who had deciphered the code he left behind, Officer Yamabe once again brought his girlfriend to thank Matsuda.

"It's alright, we're all colleagues, no need to be so polite."

Matsuda grew increasingly annoyed as he watched the guy holding his girlfriend's hand after escaping from the robbers.

Even couples get to take time off, so why do I have to work shifts?

Just as things were starting to sour in Matsuda, his phone rang.

When I picked it up, I was surprised to find that it was a call from Prosecutor Kujo.

“Officer Matsuda, someone asked me to convey their gratitude to you regarding the Oni Tiger Gang case,” Reiko Kujo said.

"Someone's here?" Matsuda was taken aback.

"It's the prosecutor that the Ghost Tiger Gang wants to retaliate against; he's my colleague," Kujo explained briefly.