The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan.

"We have discovered such a crucial clue. If we don't inform the department, if the local councilman gets wind of something and the operation fails..." Yusuke Sakata, who had calmed down a little, cleared his throat and glanced at the smiling man. Tang Ze.

After letting go of one kind of guard, another kind of murmuring came to mind.

He indeed informed the superiors of the department in order to lure away these children who were gradually approaching the truth.

Since the reason for going to look for Sotaro Goji was sufficient, there was no need to take them with him.

When the target is naturally drawn out, all you need to do is turn your attention to Numabuchi Kiichiro, and everything will come to an end naturally.

However, he was sure that he secretly sent emails and messages to his senior under the pretext of going to the toilet. How did Tangze discover this?

Also, has he discovered all his actions today...

"That's not the reason for you to report directly, really..." Everything is ready now. As long as they find Sotaro Goji, and with the clues they have, the truth is right in front of them. At this time, the feeling of being involved in the operation makes me feel... Hattori Heiji was very unhappy.

"Furthermore, Hattori, it's okay for you to participate. You are an assistant who has been following up on the case. However, if the two of them..." Directly ignoring Conan, who could not be seen with a straight face, Sakata Yusuke directly put his fear His eyes fell on Tang Ze.

Hattori Heiji followed his gaze and was about to retort when the words came to his throat but he couldn't continue.

Indeed, Karasawa has a very embarrassing identity, and this is Osaka, which is closer to Kyoto than Tokyo. It is unpredictable whether there will be participants in the case among them, and whether anyone will be aware of Karasawa's identity. of.

Is Karasawa, who tries to avoid calling himself a detective just because of his identity, really suitable to be involved in a case involving a campaign scandal?

"That's right." Hattori Heiji finally stopped retorting, and Sakata Yusuke smiled, "Let the adults handle the matter. Let's do this Heiji, I'll send the two of them to the police station first. Let other police officers take them to your home to meet their parents, and then the two of us will go to the township council member to continue questioning, how about?"

The past few hours of Karasawa's teasing had made him frightened, and he really didn't want to be in the same room with this weird guy anymore.

He vaguely felt that Tang Ze had actually confirmed his identity and was monitoring his actions throughout the process. However, he was unable to catch any substantive evidence, so he tried to use a cat-catching-a-mouse approach to make him nervous. , revealing flaws.

Things had reached the most critical step and there was no room for error. He didn't want to take the risk and continue.

"...Okay." After glancing at Karasawa, Hattori Heiji pushed his hat helplessly and accepted this compromise method, "As for Councilor Goji, where are the police officers that I contacted before?"

"He still refuses to see guests and is unwilling to cooperate with the investigation." He had already called him, and Yusuke Sakata, the real culprit who caused this situation, answered firmly.

"Stubborn guy." He complained softly. Heiji Hattori walked around to the other side of the car and was about to open the passenger door. When he glanced over, he noticed Karasawa's silent look.

It seems like he wants to communicate quietly with himself...

With this thought in mind, Hattori Heiji smoothly moved forward, opened the rear door on this side, and sat in the back row, pushing aside Conan, who had already sat in his seat safely, blankly to the side.

Soon, Tang Ze also sat up, completely forming a situation of being sandwiched between two sides, crowded in the back seat of the vehicle.

"Hey, hey, you two..." Looking at the empty co-pilot, Conan pushed the two guys close to each other on the left and right, and twitched the corner of his mouth.

"What's wrong?" Not only did he not follow the force to move away, but he hugged Conan's shoulders and shortened the distance. Hattori Heiji asked in a low voice, "Suddenly mysterious, what happened?"

Tangze also followed his example, reaching behind Conan's back, grabbing Conan's other arm, and said softly: "Two questions. First of all, you told me before that you called me here because the case has something to do with me. A similar place. Where exactly is it?"

Hattori Heiji hesitated for a moment and was silent for a moment. He glanced at Yusuke Sakata, who was habitually adjusting the rearview mirror and preparing to start the vehicle. He said in a lower voice than before: "Representative, as we investigated, , is a politician who has been riddled with scandals but has never been found guilty. At the beginning of the investigation, due to the death of Hidetoshi Nagao, I discovered some clues during the process of screening his interpersonal relationships."

"Oh? You want to say that he really has a record of falsely accusing a minor?" Karasawa, who suddenly became interested, looked at Hattori Heiji intently.

"Although the situation is slightly different from yours...but we found a very similar method." At this point, Hattori Heiji's eyes couldn't help but flutter, and he avoided looking at Karasawa, "Just like The circumstances of the investigation of your case are not much different. The person in charge, the prosecutors involved, the records of filing lawsuits, etc. recorded in the file are all very different from the actual situation. At least, the people who signed the document themselves, They all said they were not impressed by the case."

Tangze slightly understood some of the unspeakable implications of his words, and pointed it out directly: "Are there many such cases?"

"There are six or seven cases where this kind of suspicious record has existed since a long time ago. The time Nagao Hidetoshi resigned after taking the blame was just one of them. If the cause of Nagao Hidetoshi's death had not been investigated, it was suspected that he might have had a relationship with his former employer. I won't even notice the disputes." Thinking of the contents of those cases, Hattori Heiji's expression darkened.

"Won't this operation attract the attention of the outside world?" Conan raised his head in surprise, "Anyway, politicians like him have a lot of media attention."

"Yes, so in order to prevent the details of the case from being exposed, they will make every case involve some minors." Hattori Heiji snorted coldly.

Tangze raised his eyebrows and quickly understood what he meant.

Once a minor is involved, whether as a victim or a suspect, the relevant case content must be prohibited from being disclosed in accordance with the law, and this adds a lot of ambiguity and room for manipulation to the case.

Just like Tangze's outrageous case, which was made out of nothing.

However, this means that in order to protect himself and not be involved in various cases, Goji Sotaro will always be surrounded by underage "subordinates" like Nagao Hidetoshi who can take the blame for him.

"That's it...it's indeed a very useful method." Tang Ze nodded, squinting his eyes, "I think there must be some precedent for them to discover that this method is so useful and easy to use. To the point where such path dependence arises…”

He didn't have any additional thoughts, such as that the Osaka police force had been completely infiltrated by the organization.

With the help of this additional information, Karasawa can basically confirm that Sotaro Goji has little to do with the organization.

The similarity between his case and this case is more similar to that it was done by familiar police personnel who accepted this "commission" from the organization.