Conan: I'm Really Not Tokyo Ghost Story

"Oh, really?"

Gin turned his head back indifferently.

"I really didn't blow it up."

Sano glared and straightened his back, while Gin nodded perfunctorily: "Yes, yes, I know."

...You know nothing!

Sano closed his phone: "I don't need to blow that thing up."

Gin took out his phone and opened it: "I didn't say you were the one who blew it up."

...Bullshit! Your eyes, your expression, your movements, every cell in your body is clearly saying, "You're the one who blew it up, aren't you?"

Sano's lips twitched, he snorted coldly, said no more, and continued watching the anime.

"By the way, there's been some progress on Rum's matter."

Gin suddenly brought up a new topic, forcing Sano to pause again.

"...What's up, Rum?"

"...the matter of negotiations."

"oh oh."

Sano remembered: "How so?"

"Until there is conclusive evidence, Rum will not do anything out of line to you, including any actions that violate your privacy, and that is guaranteed."

Gin said this.

"...It won't violate my privacy, but the condition is that there is decisive evidence."

Sano rubbed his fingers together: "So how is he going to find evidence?"

"So he won't look for her."

Gin glanced at Sano, his gaze somewhat enigmatic.

If you don't know how to look for it, then you can only come to it yourself.

In other words, unless Sano did something intentionally that led to his exposure.

In other words.

"I don't care what you were like in the past, as long as you don't cause trouble in the future, there won't be any problems"—this is probably what Gin was trying to subtly convey to Sano.

Heh, that's interesting.

Sano didn't ask any further questions and just let the matter rest.

The next day, Sano accompanied Ran Mouri to Eri Kisaki's law firm, mainly because the case had made new progress.

...This case is being investigated in secret.

Logically speaking, any progress wouldn't be disclosed.

But Eri Kisaki has a wide network of connections, and within a certain scope, she was able to uncover some things that weren't particularly confidential—just during today's investigation meeting, the police stated that they found records on Kogoro Mouri's computer of his visits to the gas valves of that venue or something.

...This brings us to the current situation of the case.

As mentioned earlier, this case seems to be an accident with the suspicion of a terrorist attack. The former is illogical. If it were a terrorist attack, the most reasonable approach would be to detonate it on the day of the conference, but here it was done a whole week in advance.

That's why the police felt it was an accident.

The source of the unexpected actual factors is determined.

The source of the explosion was a restaurant located within the venue.

There was a gas leak there, which caused such a powerful explosion.

The fingerprints of Kogoro Mouri were discovered by the police.

It was located on the door of an electrical box containing a high-voltage cable, and it had been burned.

In other words.

Kogoro Mouri had prepared the ignition device in advance, and then used a computer to control the gas valve in the venue to open it, releasing accelerants and causing an explosion.

Looking at it this way, everything makes sense.

"Now the chain of evidence is complete, and it will be sent to the procuratorate for prosecution in a few days at most."

Eri looked at Sano, but when she didn't get a response, she didn't pursue the topic any further.

"I've also found a defense lawyer."

Suddenly, Eri Kisaki paused, "To be precise, she took the initiative to come to me."

"Ok?"

"Come in."

Before Sano and the others could figure out what she meant, Eri called out, and a short-haired woman with black hair, wearing a business suit and glasses, walked in.

Then came a brief self-introduction.

Orange Jingzi.

Freelance lawyers, or individual lawyers, are those who are not affiliated with a law firm.

It is said to be a department that specializes in handling police-related cases.

This delighted Ran Mouri, who felt that he was undoubtedly a professional.

But when Conan asked Kyoko Tachibana about her chances of winning...

Kyoko Tachibana smiled slightly: "It's about zero."

"..."

At that moment, Conan was dumbfounded, Ran was confused, and Sano was astonished.

Damn it.

Isn't this pure neon Snecco, the legal world's Zhang Yida?

Chapter 665 Question 3: What brand of mobile phone explodes?

Ran Mouri was naturally very dissatisfied with this.

Entrusting this task to Kyoko Tachibana makes me feel like Kogoro Mouri is doomed this time.

Eri, however, pulled Ran Mouri aside.

After a series of whispered conversations, I don't know what they were saying, but they managed to convince each other.

Sano listened for a while.

When the topic turned to Kogoro Mouri's test results... the police seemed to be in a great hurry, so much so that the test results were sent out much faster than usual.

As a result, Sano received another lesson on the structure of the public security system.

...Sano didn't understand much of what he was saying, but anyway, there were three Public Security Bureaus in total, one of which was the one with Amuro Tooru and Kazami Yuya.

It's definitely the most awesome department.

After that, Sano made up an excuse to leave first—to make it easier for the Kurosawa Blade on the other side to use the real body as his disguise, while the real body here was a copy. Although there was no difference, it was just to prevent any accidents.

Sano has to copy it again every now and then.

At least this way, if we don't have time to replicate it, the chances of failure are small.

Therefore, it is best for the original identity to act alone.

However, Conan also left the group, saying he wanted to go with Sano.

"...Investigating together as a team will be much more efficient."

Sano, who had already arrived downstairs, glanced at Conan and asked, "Do you think you can keep up?"

"what?"

Conan was taken aback, thinking that Sano was looking down on his intelligence.

But the next second, Sano turned and went into the alley next to him, and Conan subconsciously followed.

As a result, all you can see is air.

...So that's what you were talking about, can you keep up?

Conan was speechless for a moment, but he still couldn't understand why Sano was unwilling to join forces with him in such a critical moment. He admitted that he was not as good as Sano, but he was not so bad that he could not help at all and would only be a hindrance. It was simply that he wanted to split up and investigate.

We should at least have a discussion, right?

If there's no communication, what's the point of separating? It's more like splitting up the family.

It couldn't be that Sano, unusually, suddenly became competitive and wanted to compete with himself.

Conan shook his head. Something was wrong.

Something felt off. Given Sano's personality, if he had already made a gain but wanted to hold back, he would at least have explained the specific reasons to reassure the Mori mother and daughter, instead of just saying "Don't worry."

They just wanted to control the situation.

Conan frowned. It seemed that Sano didn't want something to be known.

Considering the relationship between Amuro Tooru and Sano, Conan began to have some guesses.

But that's pointless; we still need to get things moving on our own.

Unable to connect with Sano, Conan can only continue his investigation on his own... It doesn't matter, since he's been doing it anyway, but there are still too few clues, and he's currently relying on what Professor Agasa's advanced technology can yield.

They've basically taken everything out.

If we want to get any more results, the only way is to start with the police.

Just as Conan stepped onto his skateboard and left, Sano poked his head out again.

...Sano didn't accept Conan's offer to team up, partly because he thought there might be unnecessary trouble if they needed to copy things along the way, but more importantly because he felt there was no need to team up and that they couldn't possibly find anything.

In reality, there are far too few clues.

Especially regarding the suspects and motives, the police's current explanation of the methods is barely plausible. Sano also tried to hack into the venue's system to find clues and did find some leads.