With this spread of thought, Katsumi Uehara paused as he walked upstairs, and glanced sideways at the bottom of the stairs at the detective duo who were racking their brains to deceive people.

Squeeze it further, open up the pattern, and don't limit your eyes to this one possible case - in the future, all cases with Conan's participation will be thrown to him, won't this perfectly solve the problem of a mountain of closing reports?

Thinking of this, Katsumi Uehara subconsciously reached out to his chest, feeling the heart beating warmly in his chest, as if it was also praising the ingenuity of this plan, which is unparalleled in the world.

"I'm such a genius."

Slowly exhaled a breath, and after smoothing the abruptly increased heartbeat, Katsumi Uehara paced to the door of the master bedroom on the third floor under the guidance of the maid, and then suppressed the distracting thoughts in his mind, raised his hand and knocked on the door-

"Tuk-tuk."

"Please come in."

As soon as the neat knock on the door fell, a clear voice was heard from inside. Katsumi Uehara, who felt a little familiar, pushed the door in, and the sight that greeted him made him a little more surprised.

The large bedroom layout can be called classical luxury, and at first glance it is expensive materials. Like him, the urban beauty in a pale green suit stood in front of the bed with a stack of documents in her hand, and her eyes under the short brown hair were more surprised when she saw the comer.

"Officer Kami, Officer Kamihara?"

"Are you...... Hinata-sama? After searching around in my mind, it was a little strange to think of Katsumi Uehara, who was an urban beauty.

If memory serves, when I met him and Miwako at the cake shop before, this woman introduced herself as the secretary of the chairman of the Nagato Group. However, he was obviously called by the chairman, why was this secretary surprised to see him?

"Oh? It turns out that Officer Uehara still knows Yuki? In that case, it would save me a lot of effort to introduce it. On the big bed, a fat old man leaned on the head of the bed, and couldn't help but cry out with joy when he saw this.

A simple face, fat limbs, and a kind temperament.

Judging from his appearance alone, this old man, who is only sixty years old in the strict sense, does not look too old, and the temperament revealed between his words and deeds is somewhat similar to that of Dr. Asasa.

It's just that unlike Dr. Asasa, this old man is a giant who can shake most of Japan's architectural and economic circles by stomping his feet-

Chairman of the Board of Directors of Nagato Group, Michizo Nagato.

"I had a relationship with Miss Hyuga when I was in a cake shop before, but I didn't know each other."

Katsumi Uehara, who came back to his senses, smiled slightly, took out a delicate small gift box from the pocket of his suit with his right hand, and handed it to Hinata Yuki, who obviously existed as the old man's deputy: "A small gift, I wish you a happy birthday, President Nagato." ”

"Broke the bank, Uehara Police Department." Nagato Michisan happily waved his hand at Hinata Yuki, who wanted to stop talking, and accepted it: "Sure enough, as Shiro said, he is young and promising, and he is a talent." ”

Shiro, who can be so affectionately called by a person of Nagato Michizo's level, is probably only Shiro Suzuki.

Suzuki Sonoko's father, the head of the Suzuki Foundation, the Japanese chaebol-level giant in the world, the super word in the superpower, and the most important thing is that he is still in good health.

"President Nagato is in love." Pretending to be obedient is something that Katsumi Uehara is familiar with.

In the face of this kind of chaebol helmsman who has been dealing with people for half his life, it is better for him to pretend.

"You don't have to be modest." Nagato Michizo, who looked very satisfied, turned his head to the female secretary Hinata Yuki who was standing next to the bed and ordered, "Yuki, you go and inform the board members of my decision comment first." ”

"Yes, President."

Hinata Yuki, who was holding a stack of papers, glanced vaguely at Katsumi Uehara and turned away on his high heels.

What does the president have to say to him?

Why is he coming and I don't know?

Two doubts swirled in Hinata Yuki's heart, and the moment she closed the door, her face had become preoccupied.

Compared to Heizou Hattori, the head of the Osaka Prefectural Police Headquarters who had long known that she would come to celebrate her birthday today, Katsumi Uehara's appearance was not in her plan.

The reason why she was able to face Hattori Heizou and not be worried was purely because she knew that this man had a lot of opportunities, and he would simply come over to celebrate President Nagato's birthday and leave, even if there was an investigation, he would not be able to investigate the whole process in person.

But Katsumi Uehara is different, this man is clearly invited to investigate something, but she doesn't know anything.

The name of a man, the shadow of a tree. Compared to the sleeping detective Kogoro Mori, she is still more afraid of the police in police uniforms.

"Very beautiful woman, right, Uehara Police Department."

After Hinata left, Nagato Michizo, who was sitting on the bed, withdrew his gaze, and his tone was slightly emotional. Hearing this, Katsumi Uehara raised his eyebrows and nodded in agreement: "Indeed." ”

"She is the daughter of my first love, and she will marry my son Xiuchen next month."

Coldly, Nagato Michizo suddenly came out with such a sentence, which directly shattered the divergent associations in Katsumi Uehara's heart.

The daughter of first love? Married to your son?

What is this? If I can't get you, let my son get your daughter?

When it comes to playing, the people of your consortium will play.

Speculating in his heart about the drunken life of the people in the consortium, Katsumi Uehara, who was still silent on his face, listened to the old man's speech obediently and did not interject much.

"Fortunately, she is very smart and virtuous, and she will definitely be able to help Xiuchen support this family in the future, so I am very worried about her safety."

——？！

Katsumi Uehara's pupils shrank when he heard this at first glance, and he frowned, "President Nagato, do you mean that someone wants to be unfavorable to Miss Hinata?" ”

"I don't know."

The old man shook his head and said with a solemn expression: "But what I can be sure of is that someone must be going to attack the people in our family. Otherwise, I wouldn't have heard those strange sounds at all last time in the middle of the night.

"And those voices came out shortly after she moved in."

"President Nagato, you mean, someone who lives in this manor?" Katsumi Uehara, who understood the sound outside the strings, took out a notepad and pen from his pocket and asked.

"Yes."

"Do you have a rough range of suspicions?"

"If I have to say it, there is one, but it's just a suspicion."

"Who?"

"My second daughter's husband, Nagato Mitsuki." At the mention of this name, the kind look on the old man's face disappeared in an instant.

"Nagato, Hikari?"

Katsumi Uehara flipped through the information recorded in advance on the notepad, which showed that Nagato Mitsumi was the husband of Nagato Yasue, the third daughter of Nagato Road, and was now the president of Nagato Construction Co., Ltd., which could be regarded as a high-ranking position in the Nagato Foundation.

"Yes. He was my son Hidetomi's teenage playmate, and I can say that I grew up watching him almost with my own eyes. It is precisely because of this that I was still very happy when the former Guangming was willing to join our Nagato family. Bright he is very capable, Kang Jiang only needs to do his duty as a virtuous helper to sit back and relax. ”

The old man Nagato, who talked about this son-in-law's past, looked remorseful: "But what I never expected was that now he has swelled to the point where he dares to covet the position and power of my chairman."

"My son, Hidetoon, burned his face in a fire when he was in high school, and he didn't want to show up and take over the group. Therefore, if this wedding takes place as scheduled, then Bright will face the luck of representing Hidetomi to compete with him. ”

“……”

I understand, co-authoring is another trouble for family property.

Katsumi Uehara, who was writing and drawing on a notepad, raised his eyebrows, and he already knew in his heart: "I understand, I'll do my best to investigate clearly, President Nagato." ”

"I'm sorry for you, Uehara Police Department."

Looking at Katsumi Uehara, who was a talent, Nagato Michizo sighed with emotion: "How nice it would be if you were my son-in-law." ”

He said this with a somewhat implied mind.

The rescued eldest daughter of Suzuki Shiro's family was allowed to go out to marry, so the youngest daughter, Suzuki Sonoko, could only recruit a son-in-law.

He's different.

In addition to a younger daughter who has already recruited a son-in-law and a son who is about to get married, he also has an eldest daughter who has not yet found Ruyi Langjun.

As long as Katsumi Uehara is willing, it will be fine for him not to change his surname, as long as he has a son who changes his surname to Nagato in the future. After all, Katsumi Uehara is such a smart and capable gene, and he feels a pity if he doesn't have a Nagato surname.

The Japanese foundation has always been the concept that my son may be a waste, but the son-in-law I took the trouble to recruit is definitely a character.

Although his eldest daughter is a bit older, she is 39 years old this year. But there is a saying, how to say it, people of their level, if a man is fluttering with colorful flags outside, as long as he doesn't bring it home, he will turn a blind eye and it will pass.

After all, Katsumi Uehara is not the kind of scum who is incompetent.

Katsumi Uehara, who knew the meaning of the strings and knew the meaning of the strings, just smiled: "You have a good reputation, President Nagato." ”