"Headquarters?"

Hearing this title read out of the mouth of Otaki Goro, Takato couldn't help but look very surprised:

"Hattori Heiji's father, Hattori Heizo? Why do you want to see me? ”

The head of the Osaka Prefectural Police Headquarters, that is, Hattori Heiji's father, is the police inspector Heizou.

However, as the supreme leader of the Osaka Prefectural Police Headquarters, apart from the fact that he knows Hattori Heiji, he can be regarded as having a connection with him, and I really can't think of any reason for this police inspector to name him.

And obviously, just knowing Hattori Heiji was not enough for the police inspector to let Officer Otaki pick him up as soon as he came to Osaka.

In this regard, Gao Yuan couldn't help but ask this question.

And Otaki Goro didn't explain immediately, but just motioned for Takato to follow him and said:

"Mr. Wise, time is limited, let's talk in the car."

As he spoke, Goro Otaki walked in front and asked Takato to follow him.

So, although it feels a little strange, but since it was Otaki Goro who came to pick him up, then he had no reason to refuse, thinking that the Osaka Prefectural Police might have something to find him, Takato took Xiao Wai and walked out of the station together, and under the guidance of Otaki Goro, he got on his private car that Otaki Goro parked outside the station-

"Huh? Mr. Zhizhi, who is this child? ”

Seeing that Xiao Ai was following Gao Yuan, thinking that when he met Gao Yuan last year, he was still alone, and Otaki Wulang asked with some curiosity.

"She's the sister of a friend of mine."

In the face of the inquiry, Gao Yuan naturally replied in the words he was used to saying for a long time, and then after sitting in the back seat with Xiao Ai and Otaki Goro started to start the car, Gao Yuan asked:

"By the way, Officer Otaki, what the hell happened, why did the Hattori Police Inspector want to see me? Also, was it Mr. Maori, who was also called over? ”

After thinking about it carefully, he arrived in Osaka a few hours later than Maori Kogoro and them, and it is possible that with Conan's situation together, they may not have encountered any incident, so in the face of such a situation, it seems to make sense that Officer Otaki will come to pick him up when he is a step late.

So, based on this line of thought, Gao Yuan asked.

It's just that, next up Otaki Goro's answer denied this possibility-

"It's true that something happened.,It's just the Minister of Hon.,It's just Mr. Wise.,Mr. Mori and they.,It should be with Heiji that they're visiting Osaka right now......"

Otaki Goro said with some seriousness, and seemed to be a little apologetic, and couldn't help but add embarrassedly:

"In this way, Mr. Wise is also a guest invited by Pingji, but before you can have a good time, we will take up your time for the first time, and I am really embarrassed......"

"No...... Since I'm tired of the Hattori inspector of the Osaka Prefectural Police Headquarters coming to invite me, I guess something very important happened, right? And only I was invited, but not the Maori detectives who came before me...... Is it because the incident is related to me? ”

Listening to Otaki Goro's words, Takato thought briefly for a while, and then replied, feeling that the incident mentioned by Otaki Goro seemed to be a little unusual-

"It's an important case, and it's a bit related to Mr. Wise......

In this regard, Otaki Goro did not deny it, and then said:

"Hmm...... Come to think of it, let's start from the beginning! ”

As he spoke, he saw Goro Otaki slowly tell about the recent murder incident in Osaka Prefecture-

"Half a month ago, there was a murder in Toyonaka City, and the deceased was a middle-aged man named Hidetoshi Nagao, who was the manager of a convenience store. He was killed in a park on the way from the convenience store where he worked to his home, and was found the next morning with no witnesses. The cause of death was a short knife through the heart. At present, no suspicious suspect has been found through investigation. ”

Seriously, Goro Otaki said.

And in this regard, listening to the lofty story, I can't help but have a sense of déjà vu-

"Pierced in the heart with a short knife......"

Muttering, Gao Yuan expressed interest in this.

"That's right."

Nodding, Goro Otaki continued:

"The local police station has done a serious investigation, but there is nothing to be done about this incident...... And last week, there was a similar murder in Hirakata City-

"The deceased's name was Tayo Nishiguchi, and he was an izakaya proprietor. She was also attacked on her way home from work at night, stabbed through the heart with a short knife, and there were no witnesses......"

"Serial killings?"

Listening to what Otaki Goro said, Takato couldn't help asking:

"Aside from the fact that the deceased were all stabbed through the heart with a short knife, what else do the two incidents have in common?"

"Yes!"

Nodding, Otaki Goro seemed surprised by Takato's acuity, and immediately replied:

"I don't know why, the short knife pierced through the wallets in the pockets of the two of them's jackets and pierced into the heart! For this, after the first incident, there were details about the wallet, which we did not release to the public, so it is unlikely that the second incident was a copycat, it should be the same murderer! That is, continuous killing! ”

With some sighs, Goro Otaki continued:

"However, there are no witnesses to the two incidents, and the locations are more than ten kilometers apart, and the interpersonal relationships between the two victims are currently being filtered, and no common ground has been found, so the investigation of the incident has been at a stalemate......

"In both incidents, the short knife that the murderer stabbed into the deceased's heart pierced the deceased's wallet first, so what was in the wallet?"

Hearing this, Takato was basically convinced that this was the original incident he knew, but he still didn't know the reason why Hattori Heizou found him-

"How perceptive you are, Mr. Wise!"

At this moment, hearing Takato mention the contents of the wallet, Otaki Goro was completely surprised, and then couldn't help but say:

"The police who investigated the two murders separately investigated the two murders for a long time, but found nothing. In the end, because of the possibility of serial killings, after the files of the two murders were handed over to the headquarters today, the head of the headquarters and the minister of Yuanshan immediately pointed out the suspicions in the wallets, and then found that the wallets of the two deceased had the driver's licenses of the deceased. Therefore, under the instructions of the Minister, we immediately conducted a detailed investigation into the matters related to the driver's licenses of the two deceased. It turned out that 20 years ago, before they got their driver's licenses, they had all taken lessons at a driving class in Hyogo Prefecture! ”

Speaking of which, Otaki Goro's expression looked very serious-

"In addition, we also found out that twenty years ago, the driving training class where the two deceased were located, on the day of graduation, one of the instructors of the driving training class died of drunk driving! In this regard, we realized that this serial killing incident may be related to this incident back then......

"And this time, the Minister intends to invite Mr. Akechi...... We found out that among the people who participated in the driving training class with the two deceased, there was also a very dangerous person-

"Jiichiro Numabuchi!"

Solemnly, Goro Otaki said the name.

And in this regard, Xiao Ai, who had listened to the story of Otaki Goro and didn't react much to the incident itself, was suddenly stunned after hearing the name......

(End of chapter)