Detective: I'm Sato Miwako's Informant

"What is it? Tell me quickly, what exactly happened?"

The man laboriously pulled the glove onto Hattori Heiji's hand:

"Nobunaga..."

After uttering those words, the man stared wide-eyed and then breathed his last.

"Hey! Hey!!!"

Are you alright?!

Cheer up!!!

Unfortunately, no matter how much Hattori Heiji called out, the person was no longer responding.

Conan frowned as he looked at the man, especially at the badge pinned to his body, and a guess gradually formed in his mind.

The police arrived quickly.

It was the same officer, Oarai, whom they had met yesterday.

Shiraishi and his friends bought umbrellas at the store and squeezed into the crowd to look at the corpse next to the Heavenly Guardian Pavilion.

It was nighttime, and it was raining. The fact that someone had died made everyone feel a chill.

Kazuha rubbed her arms, looking worried. "What's going on? This has happened two days in a row..."

Xiaolan nodded: "I just heard them say that it seems to have fallen from upstairs."

Sonoko looked up at the tall castle tower and said, "I find it strange that someone would go up to the top floor so late at night and in the rain?"

Xiaolan and Heye nodded in agreement.

The top of the castle tower is covered with tiles, making it quite difficult to get up there. So, going up there late at night would certainly raise suspicions.

Yukiko glanced at Osamu Shiraishi and asked, "What do you think about this?"

Shiraishi Xiu frowned, shook his head, and said, "I don't know."

"Aren't you supposed to be a great strategist? How come you didn't know?"

"Come on, even the best reasoning has to be logical! I know nothing, and I don't know what happened. You're asking me to make inferences out of thin air."

Shiraishi Osamu rolled his eyes at the woman, who always seemed to be looking for trouble at times like these, but he continued:

"Let's wait and see. It's better to ask them after the police have finished their investigation."

Yukiko nodded and didn't argue about the matter.

Moreover, with someone dead right in front of them, those people around the square will probably have a hard time leaving; they might have to wait until the police investigation is over before they can leave.

Shiraishi Osamu looked around at the police station and the crowd, but couldn't see Hattori Heiji or Conan. He wondered what the two of them had done, or if they had discovered some clues...

However, he didn't really know much about it, so it would be better to ask the police later. Although he was a policeman in Dongying, it shouldn't be difficult for him to ask about the case.

Meanwhile, on this side...

The scene of the death.

Inspector Daiko and Kogoro Mouri are here.

Kogoro Mouri said, "Speaking of which, Inspector Oarai has really had a tough time. You've had to handle cases personally for two consecutive days."

Inspector Daiko examined the body for a while before turning back and saying, "This is my job, but I do admire you. How did you know the deceased's name was Kato Yuji?"

"I was looking at his badge!"

"badge?"

Officer Oarai lowered his head again and glanced at the badge pinned to Kato Yuji's body:

"It looks like a paulownia flower. Is there anything strange about this badge?"

“That’s the family crest of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, 57 paulownia trees and 3.9 paulownia trees.”

Kogoro Mouri wore a confident expression, as if he had done something extraordinary.

"Toyotomi Hideyoshi?"

Officer Oarai said he wasn't quite right in the head, and Hideaki Toyosaki knew that, but what did that have to do with knowing the other person's name?

He racked his brains for a while to think of any connection between the two sides, but it seemed there was nothing that could be linked together. He could only look at Kogoro Mouri with a puzzled expression.

Kogoro Mouri laughed:

"The reason I knew him was because they were in a tour group and they were certain that he was the one who played Toyotomi Hideyoshi. They had already confirmed his appearance."

After saying that, he looked at the four people he had met not far behind him, the three men and one woman he had met at the castle tower that afternoon.

Chapter 0273: Hesitant to Speak

Upon hearing this, Officer Daiko looked at the three men and one woman and asked directly, "What exactly do you mean by 'Toyotomi Hideyoshi'?"

Fukushima Toshikage said, "To make the tour more fun, our members draw lots to decide which Sengoku period character they will play, which is a kind of half-joking punishment game. Today I am playing Akechi Mitsuhide."

Yuhiro Kasuya: "I play Tokugawa Ieyasu."

Kyosaka Shigehiko said, "I'm playing Oda Nobunaga."

Katagiri Maho said calmly, "I am the wet nurse. As for Mr. Kato, he is playing the role of Toyotomi Hideyoshi."

"So that's what Toyotomi Hideyoshi meant!"

Inspector Daiko stared with dead fish eyes, his lips twitching violently twice, but he still asked with a skeptical attitude:

"However, none of your group members have arrived here yet, so how do you know it's him?"

Kasuya Yuhiro stepped forward and said, "Because he suddenly disappeared, we've been looking for him." Kyosaka Shigehiko added, "We thought that since he was wearing such bright clothes, we should find him quickly." Katagiri Maho nodded, "Yes. We just never expected him to fall so dramatically from there." Mouri Kogoro stroked his chin and asked, "Do you know what Kato-san's motive was for committing suicide?" Fukushima Toshikage and the others shook their heads, their faces showing confusion.

"suicide?"

Officer Oarai looked at Kogoro Mouri with great surprise, wondering why he would say that Yuji Kato committed suicide.

Moreover, he hasn't even figured out what happened yet, which feels a bit strange.

Kogoro Mouri smiled confidently: "The rain this evening wasn't light, and it's impossible for an ordinary person to get onto the roof. Besides, he was wearing a wool coat that's easy to catch fire, which is the best evidence that he went up onto the roof and set himself on fire."

"Uh...but..."

Inspector Daiko hesitated for a moment, but finally spoke:

"How come people keep dying wherever you go? Are you possessed by some kind of ghost?"

Kogoro Mouri's face fell, and he lowered his voice, whispering:

"It wasn't me. Actually, you should be talking about the bureau chief's son."

"Huh? Heiji's here too?"

"Yes, but he just ran into the castle tower with Conan."

Upon hearing this, Officer Da Long looked up.

All you could see was the massive silhouette of the castle tower and the drizzling rain, and then nothing else could be seen.

He had no good ideas about the bureau chief's son and could only shake his head helplessly.

"Officer Oarai."

Hearing someone call his name, Inspector Daiko turned around and saw Shiraishi Osamu and the others walking towards him. He also saw a familiar girl and smiled.

"Kazuha, it's you!"

"Uh-huh."

Kazuha nodded obediently.

Osamu Shiraishi approached Inspector Oko, took out his police handbook, and handed it to him.

"Officer Oarai, could you tell me what happened?"

"Uh……"

Inspector Daiko glanced at the police handbook in his hand, then at Osamu Shiraishi, and nodded in sudden understanding:

"Officer Shiraishi, I've heard so much about you. Here's what happened..."

He began to recount everything he knew in its entirety, without adding any of his own ideas, simply reconstructing the course of events.

"Is that so..."

After listening, Shiraishi Xiu roughly understood, and there was a huge loophole in it that he noticed immediately.

It's nothing like what Kogoro Mouri said, that it was a suicide attempt; it looks like something premeditated.

Inspector Oko asked expectantly, "Inspector Shiraishi, have you noticed anything?"

Shiraishi Osamu nodded: "I'd say so. Because..."

Just as he was about to continue speaking, he glanced at Kogoro Mouri, then at the four members of the tour group, and his tone changed as he was about to speak:

"It's just a little bit, it's useless to say it or not. I don't think it will be of much help to you."

"Officer Shiraishi... um..."

Officer Oarai wanted to get to the bottom of things, but he wasn't stupid. He knew there might be some things that weren't convenient to say here, so he kept quiet and nodded to Osamu Shiraishi.

Yukiko glanced at Shiraishi Osamu, unsure whether his actions were genuine or not, and a sense of unease lingered.

Fukushima Toshikage sighed, "I really can't believe that Mr. Kato would commit suicide."

Kyosaka Shigehiko nodded: "To be honest, I feel the same way. Everything was fine this afternoon, and we even came looking for you together."

Shiraishi Osamu glanced at him.

However, she quickly looked away and stopped paying attention to his words.

Katagiri Maho said, "It's actually very difficult for others to understand what's going on in everyone's mind."

Kasuya Yuhiro nodded and said, "That's right. Perhaps he had already made up his mind to end his life at the place where Toyotomi Hideyoshi rose to power."

Kogoro Mouri said to Inspector Daiko:

503 "We must now find out the reason for his suicide."

"Yes! If we knew, we could close the case."

Although Officer Oarai was cooperating, his gaze was still fixed on Shiraishi Osamu, hoping to get the information he had been hesitant to say earlier.