Conan's other me

Chapter 38 Detonating the Skyscraper ([-])
Moriya Teiji was the one who met in the reception room.

Hattori Heiji and Conan wanted to go to the previous exhibition room, but obviously there was no reason to mention it directly, so they planned to investigate this room first.

Officer Shiratori told Moriya Teiji about Hattori Heiji's reasoning and the police's thoughts.

"Protect me?" Hearing Officer Shiratori's words, Teiji Moritani looked very surprised.

"Yes," Police Officer Shiratori said. Hattori Heiji and Conan took the opportunity to search for clues in the room. "The recent arson attacks were all aimed at the buildings you designed. In today's bombing, a bomb was placed on the bridge you designed."

"So, we suspect that the criminal is deliberately targeting you," Officer Shiratori continued, "and judging from the amount of gunpowder in the bomb, there is still a lot of gunpowder that was stolen before flowing out, so you are still in danger now."

"I don't need your protection."

"Mr. Moritani is an outstanding architect in Japan. If you are hurt, our Metropolitan Police Department will be responsible. I hope Mr. Moritani will be more considerate."

Hattori Heiji glanced at Officer Shiratori in surprise.

Moriya Teiji pondered for a moment before agreeing.

Hattori Heiji felt something was wrong.

Officer Shiratori's words sounded low-key, but his tone was firm.

Glancing at the criminal policeman in plain clothes standing at the door, Hattori Heiji hesitated for a moment, and pulled Conan to the side of the sofa.

He took out his mobile phone, typed a few lines, and Hattori Heiji handed the mobile phone to Conan.

It was the same as when talking to Fengyuan before.

Conan took the phone, and it said: "What's going on?"

"I don't know." Conan replied.

"It's not protection at all, it's house arrest, right?" Hattori Heiji continued typing, "Are all the police in Tokyo this stupid?"

"...and didn't say no to let go." Conan tried to defend himself, after all, Moriya Teiji just sat there with his eyes closed and rested, neither asking nor doing other actions.

"So the police also suspect Moriya Teiji?"

"This should be."

"Then what are you doing here? Procrastinating to find evidence? Looking for the remaining gunpowder?" Hattori Heiji typed, and then got entangled.

Speaking of which, he himself wanted to do the same.

However, although detectives often do this kind of thing, if the police come to search the house without any formalities, it will cause great adverse effects.

What's more, this is the home of a top architect.

Conan and Hattori Heiji have similar ideas.

He also guessed that all this had something to do with Feng Yuan.

After all, that guy Fengyuan likes to secretly call the police behind his back.

Teiji Moritani kept his eyes closed, and when Conan saw this, he touched Officer Shiratori and pulled his clothes.

Officer Shiratori just gave him a meaningful look.

Conan understands.

Hattori Heiji also understood.

Officer Shiratori seemed to be trying to drag Teiji Moritani here.

And the little kid Conan was brought in just to make "Protection" look more believable.

Thinking of this, the two had no choice but to spend their time here.

Although the atmosphere was very strange, both Teiji Moritani and Officer Shiratori showed great patience.

They didn't even eat dinner.

When Hattori Heiji and Conan fainted from hunger, it was already dark, and Conan suddenly remembered that he had an appointment with Xiaolan soon, and his face turned ugly.

At this moment, Teiji Moritani, who seemed to be asleep all this time, finally opened his eyes.

"How did you guess that?"

Hattori Heiji and Conan looked up.

"What?" said Officer Shiratori, still looking refreshed. "We're only here to protect you."

"Protection like this?" Moriya Teiji sneered, pointing to the two police officers who walked behind him after he spoke.

Officer Shiratori was silent.

"Is it Kudo Shinichi?" Moritani Teiji continued to ask.

"...Yes." Officer Shiratori said, looking at the time.

"Hey. How did he think of it? For the sake of my cooperation, let's talk about it."

Hattori Heiji was a little eager to try, but thinking that he had already told Officer Shiratori before, he gave up the idea of ​​performing reasoning.Moreover, he also wanted to hear what that guy Kudo had to say.

Conan complained to Fengyuan in his heart.

So everyone on the field seemed to be waiting for Officer Shiratori to speak.

Police Officer Shiratori looked at the time again, and then said: "Okay——just like I told you before, the criminals are deliberately targeting the buildings you designed earlier."

"But at the same time, the criminal is also targeting Mr. Kudo."

"And the only thing that can connect you with Mr. Kudo is the case of Nishitama City. It just so happens that Mr. Kudo remembers very clearly that the mayor at that time stepped down because of his reasoning, and your Nishitama City reconstruction plan was thus abolished. Therefore, we think that it is more likely that you will hate him than you will be hated with him."

"And your targeted buildings are all your early works. Although geographically, there are your later works between them, but those works have not been affected."

"So you have become our suspect."

Officer Shiratori did not tell from the perspective of Kudo Shinichi.

And it's very simple.

"Isn't this about the same as me?" Hattori Heiji whispered to Conan.

Conan thought for a moment.

He was not very impressed with the case in Nishitama City, but he also knew that Fengyuan's memory was deeper than his own.So he is not surprised that Fengyuan can think of Moriya Teiji because of this.

Emperor Moriya sneered: "As expected of him, he thought of me just based on this. However, this is not evidence - you are holding me here because you want to find evidence?"

Officer Shiratori was taken aback for a moment, and just as he was about to speak, he heard Teiji Moritani continue: "Haven't you ever thought that I'm also delaying time?"

What do you mean?
Everyone was puzzled.

In fact, from the very beginning, Moriya Teiji noticed something was wrong.

Officer Shiratori's tone, as well as the position of him and his subordinates, made him realize that he might have been spotted.He has no doubt that if he disagrees with the so-called protection, this group of people will directly control him.

However, this behavior also made him guess that the police hadn't found any evidence yet and just wanted to hold him back.

And it just so happened that he himself had a reason to hold back the other party, so Moriya Teiji agreed to the so-called protection.

The object of "protection" suddenly said something strange. Officer Shiratori signaled his subordinates to control Teiji Moritani, and looked at the phone again.

"Kudo Shinichi should be dating his little girlfriend now, right?" Moriya Teiji smiled coldly, allowing himself to be handcuffed, "Don't you guys want to find the remaining dynamite? Why don't you let Kudo Shinichi find it by himself?"

"He's near those explosives!" Moriya Teiji glanced at the clock, "I've left enough time for him—one more minute!"

(End of this chapter)