Nightfall, Tokyo, Metropolitan Police Department -

When Mori Kogoro and others returned to Tokyo from Osaka, Officer Twilight, who received the news, sent Miwako Sato and Wataru Takagi to take Mori Kogoro and others to the Metropolitan Police Department.

For the clues that he learned from Sawaki's confession, Officer Twilight is also very anxious and wants to talk to Mori Kogoro.

In this regard, when Mori Kogoro and the others arrived, Officer Twilight immediately met with Mori Kogoro in the office-

"Officer Twilight, what the hell is going on? Why did Sawaki get involved with Sho Murakami? ”

In a hurry, after seeing Officer Twilight, Mori Kogoro asked in confusion.

After all, the incident before the beginning, it was found that the murderer was using playing cards to count down, and according to the characteristics of the other party's use of playing cards, plus the fact that the people who attacked were all around Kogoro Mori, the police quickly found out that Murakami Zhang, who had just been released from prison, met the characteristics of the murderer.

But later, as the investigation deepened, after finding out that the murderer was Fair Sawaki, he understood that Fair Sawaki used playing cards to carry out the countdown attack, which was itself to divert attention and cover up the object he really wanted to kill, and Mori Kogoro himself was not actually among his revenge figures, but just happened to use the people around Mori Kogoro to mislead the investigation.

Therefore, it stands to reason that there should be no inevitable connection between Sawaki Fair and Murakami's abbot, why now, Sawaki Fair said that the reason why he chose to commit the crime was actually from Murakami's abbot?

In this regard, Mori Kogoro seems to be very concerned.

And Officer Twilight looked at Maori Kogoro, who was so anxious, and replied seriously:

"Hmm...... This is really beyond our expectations, when we find out that the murderer is fair to Sawaki, and the purpose of his murder is to avenge a specific number of people, then obviously, you will be involved in the incident, but Sawaki fair wants to confuse the public, then naturally it is not consistent with what we analyzed at the beginning, the murderer is aimed at you, so the judgment that the murderer is Murakami is obviously wrong.

"So at the beginning, after we arrested Sawaki Fair, we didn't associate him with Murakami Zhang, after all, they didn't have any interpersonal intersections......"

With that, Officer Twilight paused for a moment before continuing:

"But I didn't expect that, according to Sawaki's confession, before the crime, that is, on the day after Murakami was released from prison, he met Murakami Akira who came to visit your office, so they accidentally got in touch!"

"What?"

Hearing this, Maori Kogoro looked very surprised, and replied unexpectedly:

"After Murakami was released from prison, did he come to visit me? Who is it? How come I don't remember? ”

Saying this, thinking back to the day when Murakami was released from prison, and after that day, all the people he received in the detective agency, there should be no Murakami Akira among them, or ......

Did he come to visit in disguise?

"On the day Akira Murakami was released from prison, Uncle Maori was playing mahjong outside, right?"

However, seeing that Mori Kogoro was puzzled by this, Conan on the side suddenly remembered the situation that day and replied like this-

Conan has a clear memory of that day, not only when he and the children of the detective group were playing divination games in front of the station, but also that night, Xiaolan invited her mother, the lawyer, to dinner with Uncle Maori to a French restaurant.

And it was during the day that day, Maori Kogoro seemed to run out to play mahjong all day, and when he came back, he was told by Xiaolan.

In this regard, hearing Conan mention this, Xiaolan also remembered it, and couldn't help but say:

"Yes, Dad, I was playing mahjong outside that day, and I wasn't in the office at all...... And I went shopping with the garden that day, and Conan was playing outside with the group of children, so there was no one in the detective office that day! ”

"That's right!"

Hearing Xiaolan say this, Maori Kogoro finally remembered it, and suddenly realized:

"I wasn't in the office that day! How could I meet Murakami who came to visit! ”

"That's right!"

However, when Mori Kogoro said this, Officer Twilight nodded affirmatively and continued:

"According to Fair Sawaki, he was just outside your detective office and met Murakami Akira who had just been released from prison and wanted to visit you. At that time, because no one was in your office, Murakami was still waiting outside for a while, but when he saw this scene, Fair Sawaki invited him to dinner as your friend.

"And according to the whereabouts of Murakami Aki, who was asked by Wise Brother Takagi to investigate before, it seems that Murakami did call a taxi after he was released from prison, and then got off in front of your office, so this is basically true."

"Huh? Why is that? ”

Kogoro Mori asked in confusion as to why Fair Sawaki invited Akira Murakami.

"According to Fair Sawaki, when he was thinking about how to commit the crime, he happened to meet Murakami Sho, and he saw that Murakami seemed to hate you, so he wondered if he could use him to achieve his goals. As a result, he didn't expect that Sawaki's own intentions were also seen by Murakami when they were eating later, and then Murakami gave him such a suggestion. ”

Speaking of this, Officer Twilight was extremely serious, and after a pause, he said in a very solemn tone:

"At the end of our interrogation of Sawaki Fair, he said in person that he was just using you and the people around you in this incident, so in the end, those friends around you basically did not threaten their lives. But if you want to change to Murakami, then this time ......"

At this moment, Officer Twilight didn't say the rest of the words, but everyone present had already realized the seriousness of the problem-

The idea of using playing cards to count down and choosing someone from Mori Kogoro's side to carry out the attack was proposed by Murakami Aki, and Sawaki only used this to confuse his actions and did not kill people other than his real target.

But if Murakami really intends to take revenge on Mr. Mori, and will also use the people around Mori Kogoro, then it is obvious that the other party will not keep his hand like Fair Sawaki......

Thinking of this, Maori Kogoro couldn't help but clench his fists indignantly-

"Akira Murakami! This guy! ”

"This ...... It's horrible......"

Although there has been no specific incident yet, because there has been an incident created by Sawaki Fair before, many people around him have been involved and injured, Xiaolan can't help but say very scared.

And in this regard, Conan's expression also became extremely solemn-

It's been so long since Murakami was released from prison, but there is no movement at all, is he brewing something?

In case, he really ......

"Uncle Maori, shouldn't we keep everyone around you on our toes now?"

So, Conan seriously suggested.

"Yes!"

didn't wait for Maori Kogoro to respond, but Xiaolan first replied:

"I need to inform my mom so she can pay attention to her safety recently......"

With that, Ran asks Officer Twilight if she can borrow a phone.

So, Officer Twilight lent her phone to Xiaolan and asked her to make a call-

"Oh no, no one answered Mom's phone!"

However, not long after, Xiaolan, who went out to make a call, came back in a panic and said this to Officer Twilight and the others......

(End of chapter)