Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

"Chief, all the parents of those children have come to us. Some work at the Municipal Bureau, and others are from other departments."

After Hattori Heiji and the other two entered through the main gate, Otaki, who had been waiting there, immediately came up to them and, after glancing at Kudo Yuji, explained Kazami's situation.

It seems that Kazami led a group of people to storm the security headquarters and forcibly take control of the headquarters, but they were quickly overtaken by Otaki and his men.

"This guy seems to have something wrong with his head. He actually thinks he can directly command headquarters based on verbal orders from Tokyo alone. Who is this rich kid?"

“His surname is Kazami…” Hattori Heiji glanced at Kudo Yuuji, who seemed to be gloating, and frowned.

"Speaking of problems with the brain, it should be the Prime Minister of the Eastern Capital who sent him who has some problems with the brain."

"That Minister Qingshan disappeared after we parted ways with him at the temporary emergency hospital in Xicheng District. When we went to check the hospital's internal surveillance footage, we could only see that the elevator completely lost its surveillance signal after he entered the elevator."

The data inside the elevator showed that it had gone to the morgue floor, but all other hospital surveillance cameras were working properly and did not capture any trace of Qingshan.

"Does the hospital have any secret passages inside?"

“Nothing has been found yet, but there might be.” Otaki said in a low voice, “That guy went to see the remains of Sasaki Kiyose and the other victims in that building. Our people are still cleaning up the apartment building.”

Regardless of whether Qingshan is to the east or the north, there's no reason for it to expose itself because of the disappearance of the corpse, so there must be something wrong with the corpse.

"Continue the search and report any new developments."

Hattori Heiji arranged for Otaki to leave and took him to sit in the highest office of the Criminal Investigation Department, while the Kudo brothers sat directly opposite him quite naturally.

Heiji Hattori accessed the Criminal Investigation Department head's computer with the highest-level password and began checking the records of Takuya Ono's classmates, who were being held in the control room. "Most of the students are not at peace."

Conan, who had circled behind him, pointed to several students whose images had been shrunk to a small size. They were all looking down in a panic, and compared to the other nervous students, it was as if they had their problems written all over their faces.

"Because they know what they've done, but they don't know that we know."

Hattori Heiji coughed, picked up a blank piece of paper from the table, and wrote down everything he had just discovered at Kamisuke's house in chronological order.

“It’s not difficult to find out the source of the bomb.” Hattori Heiji seemed to be talking to himself. “Even with the natural gas pipeline in the West District as a backup, the power of this explosion was still too great.”

"It's probably more difficult than you think."

Yuji Kudo pointed at the camera, at Ms. Uchitake, who was being led by several criminal police officers to various detention rooms to meet with her former students, pondering her expression and words.

The woman never mentioned anything related to Ono; she only comforted the students, asking if they were frightened by today's explosion.

What job did Takeshi Uchitake take after resigning from his previous job?

Conan suddenly asked about this, and it was also strange that Uchitake-sensei, as the second suspect after Ono, suddenly resigned and quickly left the place where her daughter died.

"It seems to be... a small company that sells used cars." (End of Chapter)