Stay away from Conan.

Kiichiro Numabuchi...

After hearing this name, Xiao Ai instinctively felt frightened——

Because, this person is a member of the organization!

At that time, she was still a member of the organization, Shirley, when she was developing that drug for the organization, she had heard of this person's name, and even read his detailed personal information...

Although, before he escaped from the organization, Numabuchi Kiichiro had already escaped from the organization, but...

lofty……

Worried, Xiao Ai looked at Gao Yuan in a puzzled and dignified way——

"Why, the reason why the Osaka Prefectural Police specifically sought out Takato was because of Numabuchi Kiichiro..."

At this moment, Xiao Ai only felt a kind of fear of the unknown, afraid that Gao Yuan would be involved in some terrible incident unknowingly, and it was still something that could be known by the police...

In this way, just when Xiao Ai was worried in a daze, but because he was in Otaki Goro's car at the moment, and Otaki Goro was there, Xiao Ai didn't say anything, Takato beside him, after hearing the name Numabuchi Kiichiro, suddenly came to a realization——

Ah, indeed, if it was the original work, the first time this name appeared was indeed in this case in Osaka, but I had already heard this name as early as last year...

Thinking of this, after realizing that Xiao Ai next to him was surprised and panicked after hearing the name from Otaki Goro, Gao Yuan couldn't help but pat the back of Xiao Ai's hand propped on the seat, trying to calm her down—

After all, although Kiichiro Numabuchi is a member of the organization, he is already a person who has escaped from the organization at this moment...

So, after realizing that Gao Yuan was comforting herself, from Gao Yuan's expression, Xiao Ai seemed to understand something——

It's like Gao Yuan knows everything about what he's worried about...

For this, I couldn't help but feel even more puzzled. Although Xiao Ai didn't understand the reason, the originally nervous mood was a little calmer at this moment.

At this point, seeing that Xiao Ai seemed to have stabilized, Gao Yuan turned to Otaki Goro and asked:

"Kiichiro Numabuchi? Is that the murderer who committed consecutive murders while being wanted?"

"Yes."

Nodding his head, Otaki Goro replied:

"Since his crime was discovered again in Tokyo last year, he has been wanted for three consecutive days and committed several murders in the Tohoku, Kanto, and Kinki regions. He is a very vicious and cruel gangster! And there are clues showing that Koichiro Numabuchi seems to have fled to Osaka recently, so the incident that happened this time may have something to do with Kiichiro Numabuchi!"

Having said that, Otaki Goro calmed down the fact that it was very difficult to mention this serial murderer, and then turned to say:

"As it happens, last year in Tokyo, it was you, Mr. Akechi, who helped the Tokyo police discover the whereabouts of Kiichiro Numabuchi's crime. So after learning that Mr. Akechi would be arriving today, the head of the department wanted to invite you over to see if your knowledge of Kiichiro Numabuchi could help us catch this terrible gangster as soon as possible! If he is allowed to operate in Osaka, given his situation, I don't know how many more incidents will be committed!"

In this regard, after listening to Otaki Goro's words, Gao Yuan finally fully understood why Hattori Heizo wanted to see him——

It turned out that it was because of the incident last year, and because I helped the police in the investigation, I finally found the trace of Koichiro Numabuchi, so Hattori Heizo wanted to ask himself to assist in the investigation?

"It turns out...that's the case. But if I have to say it, I didn't have direct contact with Koichiro Numabuchi in the incident last year, and I was able to find Kiichiro Numabuchi in the end, and it was entirely dependent on the police investigation..."

Thinking back to the incident last year carefully, Gao Yuan couldn't help but say this after thinking——

If I remember correctly, the incident that Police Officer Otaki mentioned was a copycat crime for a serial murder incident that was taking place in Tokyo. The deceased was a young woman. Before she was about to die, she happened to be met by herself, but because the other party had a hearing impairment, when she finally questioned her in front of her, she answered questions that were not the ones she asked at the time. As a result, some twists and turns occurred in the investigation of her incident.

But in the end, after discovering this and finding out where the deceased was killed, and allowing himself to successfully deduce the murderer's trajectory, the police finally found the murderer's trace during the investigation process——

That is, Kiichiro Numabuchi who has a criminal record for murder!
However, after learning that the murderer was Kiichiro Numabuchi, he realized that the imitation crime might be related to the organization, so he did not participate in the follow-up investigation, so why...

Thinking of this, Gao Yuan was still a little puzzled, so he asked this question.

In this regard, after hearing Gao Yuan's answer, Xiao Ai on the side couldn't help but be surprised. She didn't expect Gao Yuan to be involved in the incident related to Numabuchi Kiichiro before it really happened.

However, when Gao Yuan said that he did not have any positive contact with Numabuchi Kiichiro, Xiao Ai was slightly relieved.

As for this, Otaki Goro smiled slightly after listening to Gao Yuan's answer, and said:
"Mr. Akechi is also too modest. If Mr. Akechi hadn't been keenly aware of the key to the incident and discovered the monitoring problem in the incident where Kiichiro Numabuchi was discovered, I'm afraid that Kiichiro Numabuchi would not have been found at all in the end. Therefore, although Mr. Akechi has never had direct contact with Kiichiro Numabuchi, your arrival will definitely provide us with important help in tracking down Kiichiro Numabuchi's whereabouts!"

Hearing what Otaki Goro said, Gao Yuan just nodded and didn't say anything more, and Xiao Ai wanted to tell Gao Yuan some things, but because Otaki Goro was present, he had to wait for a while.

As for Otaki Goro, after finishing what he said just now, since Gao Yuan didn't say anything more, Otaki Goro couldn't help saying with some emotion about this incident:
"Hey... I really didn't expect that this incident would involve Kiichiro Numabuchi who was fleeing... Considering the relationship between the two deceased, the ministers think that this incident may have something to do with the drunk driving death of the instructor of the driving training class that happened 20 years ago. And more importantly, in the driving training class 20 years ago, in addition to Kiichiro Numabuchi, there was also Koji Soutaro, a member of the prefectural council... Just because these two people may be involved, this incident is not easy to handle..."

But at this moment, rather than listening to Otaki Goro's narration, Gao Yuan is seriously recalling the incident in the original work——

If I remember correctly, this incident happened after Hattori Heiji invited Conan to Osaka in the original work, but when the relationship between the deceased was found, there should have been more than two victims.

But now, according to Otaki Goro, the Osaka Prefectural Police Headquarters is only based on the fact that the murderer deliberately pierced the dead man's wallet with a short knife when he killed the man, and noticed the driver's license stored in the wallet, thus directly investigating the incident 20 years ago...

If I remember correctly, Conan and Hattori Heiji in the original work, but later, after experiencing the occurrence of the two incidents, I gradually realized this.

It can be seen that the investigation progress of the Osaka Prefectural Police is much faster than the original work...

Is this because of a deviation?

still is……

"Ah, that's right. We are worried now that Kiichiro Numabuchi should have accomplices..."

And when Gao Yuan was thinking, Otaki Goro suddenly mentioned this matter... (End of this chapter)