Conan: I'm really not the mastermind behind the scenes

Conan Edogawa and Miwako Sato began searching in the living room.

The search process was very slow. Although the environment here was better, there was garbage everywhere, which hindered the search progress.

As Edogawa Conan searched, he slowly realized something strange: this room was mostly filled with household garbage, such as rice balls or lunch box packaging bags, which theoretically would be more likely to breed mosquitoes, but he didn't see any when he searched through it just now.

Was this place cleaned recently?
Thinking of this, he threw another empty lunch box back on the ground and planned to check the cabinet in the corner. At this moment, he noticed that there was something strange about a packaging bag at his feet.

"This is……"

Edogawa Conan bent down to pick up the bag, and as soon as he got it he felt that the weight was wrong. He immediately checked the bag and found that there was something stuffed inside.

"Conan-kun, what did you find?"

Miwako Sato, who had to follow him in the investigation because she didn't bring a flashlight, was the first to see his actions and came over.

"There's something in the trash." Edogawa Conan took something out of the bag: "...a tablet computer?"

Miwako Sato lowered her head and carefully examined it: "This is the same model as the one given to the police!"

Edogawa Conan was puzzled: "How do you know?"

Judging from her tone just now, the public security department was reluctant to cooperate, and based on their usual style, they would not share their intelligence with the investigation department.

"Because the police didn't tell us too much, they just asked us to find out where the tablet came from."

Sato Miwako said unhappily, and added: "This is a new tablet that a certain American company launched a month ago, and it was released simultaneously in Japan. Takagi and I learned about Kadokawa's news from a nearby specialty store, so we rushed here."

He didn't know this information just now. Edogawa Conan asked: "Has Kadokawa been to the store?"

Miwako Sato nodded. "On Wednesday night, he came to the store with a tablet and asked about the price. The clerk probably saw that he was poorly dressed and thought he was a thief. Kadokaya ran away at the time, and the clerk chased him all the way to his doorstep, and then persuaded him to leave. The clerk was deeply impressed by this incident, and told us everything when we asked."

"Did he tell me what the person who persuaded him to leave looked like?" Conan Edogawa asked quickly.

Sato Miwako was silent for a moment: "Well... at that time we were only thinking about asking for news about Kadokawa and didn't ask about this in detail. But it doesn't matter, we can go back again after the search here is finished."

"..."

Conan Edogawa was a little speechless, but he soon stopped dwelling on this point and lowered his head to look at the tablet again: "He ran to ask the price, which proves that he didn't buy the tablet himself, so someone else gave it to him."

I’m afraid the person who brought the tablet is the one who actually planned this live broadcast of the kidnapping... Could it be the hooded guy in the video?

Edogawa Conan quickly thought about and organized the existing clues, and tried to press the home button of the tablet.

He just tried it casually, but he didn't expect that the screen would light up as soon as he pressed it.

"There's still electricity?" Sato Miwako's face was illuminated by the light from the screen. She looked at the target with an expression full of disbelief. "The power has been out for a long time here..."

Edogawa Conan looked at the remaining battery power and doubts also arose in his heart. He briefly browsed through the installed software on a few pages, and then clicked on [Recent Projects].

There is no documentation inside, just a video.

Without waiting for Sato Miwako to speak, Edogawa Conan clicked directly.

Blue sky, white clouds, and flying in the square are banners with yellow background and red letters, which read [Protest against the police running for the criminal US military! ]

Conan Edogawa instantly realized when this happened - during the embassy bombing, the people living near the garrison base were unwilling to be repeatedly questioned by the police and staged a protest.

Xiaolan was injured that day, but he didn't know about it until the next day.

Conan Edogawa looked at these angry people with a complicated expression, and then he saw a familiar man appear in front of the camera, and he was interviewed by reporters.

"I'm a new recruit at the Metropolitan Police Department. My name is Daizo Eto."

"The Metropolitan Police Department takes the case of missing U.S. soldiers very seriously and has indeed dispatched a number of additional police officers to investigate the case, but this does not mean that we ignore the needs of our own people."

"He is an extremely dangerous criminal. He has committed more than just kidnapping. He has also started to attack Japanese citizens! The day before yesterday afternoon, he shot and killed a Japanese citizen on the tallest building in Tokyo!"

"Here, I can promise you that we will solve this case as quickly as possible, will not waste too much social resources, and will not disturb the public too much. Every important node of our investigation will be announced in a timely manner. We guarantee the transparency and authenticity of the information!"

"As for the crimes committed by soldiers stationed in Japan, our Japanese police will also vigorously investigate in the future - no matter who it is, as long as they break the law, they will be judged fairly!"

Eto Daizo stood in the sun.

He answered with a powerful and righteous voice, as if he was the embodiment of justice. Edogawa Conan fell silent.

Miwako Sato was unaware of this and did not notice the strange reaction of the boy next to her.

She looked at Eto Daizo on the screen and sighed, "This is a video of Eto-kun being interviewed before. I heard that he was scolded after the interview."

"..."

Edogawa Conan came back to his senses, he stared at the screen and murmured: "I understand."

"What?" Sato Miwako looked at him.

"Kadokawa's uncle passed away half a year ago. He has lived alone in the past six months and has done nothing... I'm afraid it was this video that stimulated Kadokawa to suddenly take action."

Edogawa Conan whispered.

People have emotions, which makes them prone to emotionality. Only very few people can remain rational at all times.

Ordinary people would feel uncomfortable seeing someone they simply hate, let alone someone who is the enemy who killed their mother.

——A person who caused his family to be torn apart but escaped legal punishment by relying on his superior family background, now appears in the media as a righteous image and appears before his eyes again.

So Kadokawa couldn't stand it anymore.

Edogawa Conan's grip on the tablet continued to tighten.

From the moment he entered the house, he felt dead.

The room without water and electricity, the mountains of garbage, and the only clean altar made it impossible for him to see that the people living here had even a glimmer of hope in life.

Who is it? He knows about Eto’s past crimes and finds Kadoya precisely many years later to stimulate him to seek revenge.

What kind of evil person would push a person who has already lost hope completely into the abyss?
What does that person want?
Conan Edogawa turned off the video and quickly checked the tablet for other information, trying to find any other clues about the whereabouts of Eto Daizo.

Although this public security officer had committed crimes in the past, Conan Edogawa did not want him to die.

If he died, Kadokawa Nobuyuki would become a murderer, and Conan Edogawa didn't want to see his former classmate fall to this point.

He was going to stop him.

——He wants to save him.

"Officer Sato! Conan-kun! I found a few recent receipts here. In addition to water, they also show some equipment!"

While the two were checking the tablet, Takagi Wataru ran over from the next room holding a few receipts.

Edogawa Conan raised his head quickly: "Let me see."

Perhaps his tone was too urgent, Takagi Shi was stunned and subconsciously handed over the receipts.

Edogawa Conan took it and scanned it quickly.

"…oxygen tank?"

……

Metropolitan Police Department.

FBI police liaison officer Robert Otto checked the time on his phone again. It was already two o'clock in the afternoon.

Ten minutes ago, Jinpei Matsuda left with another Japanese police officer from the explosive ordnance disposal team, leaving only him and Aoyagi Akimitsu.

After all, this is someone else's territory, and there are some sensitive things in the room. Otto doesn't want to stay any longer, but Aoyagi Binguang just sits there quietly.

This colleague sneezed several times an hour ago and might have a cold, so he stayed there to avoid the rain.

Otto felt that he was in good health. Just as he was thinking about how to say goodbye, he saw Aoyagi Binkou suddenly stand up from the sofa.

"Are you leaving?" he asked in surprise.

Qing Liu Bingguang looked at the sky outside and picked up his umbrella: "Let's go. It's boring to stay here. I'm going to the nearby park. You can go back first." (End of this chapter)