Conan's other self

Fengyuan pushed the photo on the table in front of him.

"I've already seen it..."

Hattori Heiji said casually.

However, Kudo must have a deep meaning in doing this, so Hattori Heiji still looked at the photo carefully.

Although twenty years have passed, the people in the photos were adults at the time, so they can generally be distinguished.

But... this guy Numa Yuan looks really unique...

Hattori Heiji thought.

Feng Yuan was a little helpless.

Numabuchi Kiichiro's face was like a black hole that swallowed up Hattori Heiji's sight.

He had no choice but to point his finger at Tetsuji Inaba in the photo.

Hattori Heiji was stunned.

…

"...This is just your guess."

After a moment of silence, Hattori Heiji said.

Kudo apparently guessed that Yusuke Sakata was the son of the man who died in an accident twenty years ago because the person in the photo looked exactly like Yusuke Sakata, and further suspected that he was the suspect of the serial murder.

"Um."

Kudo did not deny this.

"It could just be a coincidence that the body fell on the police car."

"Yeah. It might just be a coincidence that I happened to go to the bathroom at that time."

"..."

Hattori Heiji's face became increasingly ugly.

He knows Yusuke Sakata better than Kudo.

Although he didn't pay special attention to it, Yusuke Sakata was here to be his driver after all, and someone also mentioned Yusuke Sakata's family situation to him.

So...if the so-called coincidence is not a coincidence...

Then Kudo's guess is very likely to be true.

You are a policeman...

Hattori Heiji breathed out, folded the photo and stuffed it into his pocket with an expressionless expression.

"Leave this to me."

Hattori Heiji said seriously and turned his head before Maplehara could respond.

"Hey, Sakata! It's time to go!"

"Um?"

Uncle Mouri, who was having a friendly discussion with Sakata Yusuke, was stunned for a moment, and Conan also looked over.

"Where to go?" Sakata Yusuke asked.

"Go to Goji Sotaro," Hattori Heiji completely returned to his normal appearance. "As you said, that guy Numabuchi may be going to Goji, right? Then go and ask him to see if he is Not knowing anything."

"Why don't you ask Sumie Okazaki first?"

"Wouldn't it be more convenient to ask the Secretary directly?"

"But…"

"Let's go, you're just complaining." Hattori Heiji said dissatisfied, "Just arrange for someone else to ask Okazaki."

"…good."

Yusuke Sakata hesitated for a moment before agreeing.

Uncle Mori looked at Hattori Heiji, "Hey, what should we do?"

"You don't need to go there," Hattori Heiji said to Uncle Mori, "Uncle, you are here for a trip after all. I will ask someone to drive over to pick you up in a moment."

After a few words with Uncle Mori, Hattori Heiji was ready to leave with Sakata Yusuke.

When Conan saw this, he wanted to follow him, but Uncle Maori punched him in the head. He had to watch his good friend leave him like this.

But he didn't give up. When Uncle Maori got a little bored and no longer focused on him, Conan secretly pulled Fengyuan aside.

"Hey," Conan said, "You and that Hattori guy must be hiding something from me. What's going on?"

"Want to know?"

Conan had a bad feeling in his heart.

But he did want to know.

"Do me a favor and I'll tell you."

…

Tetsuji Inaba is Yusuke Sakata's father. He always drives very carefully.

So Sakata Yusuke doesn't believe that his father would drive drunk.

So he worked hard to become a criminal police officer and wanted to investigate the matter.

And when he found Numabuchi Kiichiro, because he looked almost exactly like his father, Numabuchiro mistakenly thought it was Inaba Tetsuji who came for revenge, so he said everything.

It turned out that because those people were dissatisfied that the coach was too strict, they got the coach drunk, drained the brake fluid, and put him in the car... This led to the car accident twenty years ago.

Since the statute of limitations for murder in Japan was only fifteen years and had already passed, Yusuke Sakata decided to make these people pay the price by himself.

But plans changed.

Detectives found out about the driver's license earlier than he expected.

In order to avoid being suspected, he had no choice but to lead the matter to Numabuchi Kiichiro in advance.

But then he lost the chance to kill Okazaki.

Although he felt that Hattori Heiji might have doubted him, he followed Hattori Heiji to Goji Sotaro's home as he wished, and he decided to seize the opportunity to kill this most difficult target.

After finding an excuse to leave temporarily, Sakata Yusuke came to the dark warehouse alone, holding a rope in his hand, waiting silently for Goji Sotaro to arrive according to the instructions on his phone.

The sound of footsteps came, and Sakata Yusuke's nerves became as tense as the rope in his hand.

but…

"No matter how long you wait, Goji won't come." Hattori Heiji walked into the warehouse with his hands in his pockets, "Mr. Sakata."

"Hei-Heiji!"

"Are you the serial murderer?"

"Are you kidding?" Yusuke Sakata forced an awkward smile, "I just think this warehouse is rare, so I just came in and took a look..."

"I should have thought of it earlier," Hattori Heiji said. "First of all, it was the body falling on the police car. You took us there, and then you pretended to go to the toilet when we were about to leave, but actually you sneaked out to make a phone call. Arrange for the body to fall from above.”

"That's when you called Okazaki to come to the scene. She already told her that someone left a threatening message for her."

"And when I proposed to come to Goji directly, you raised objections," Hattori Heiji continued, "You wanted to go to Okazaki first. I guess you planned to find an opportunity to kill her at that time."

"But what disappoints you is that I didn't give you this chance. You have to follow me to find Xiangji first. You want to kill him first...after all, the opportunity is rare."

"That's why you took the initiative to be our guide. Xiang Si is a member of the provincial council. He is too conspicuous when going out and is followed by bodyguards. You want to guide me to find Xiang Si. You come here as my driver, even if you go everywhere You can move around without arousing suspicion.”

"...When did you find out?"

"I asked someone to investigate you." Hattori Heiji did not answer, but changed the topic, "Although you changed your last name because your mother remarried... Inaba Tetsuji is your father."

After all, this can't be considered something he discovered.

If it hadn't been for that guy Kudo's reminder, he might have been led away by this guy Sakata.

Therefore, Hattori Heiji was not very interested in explaining the process of discovery.

and…

Before coming here, everything was just speculation, or speculation that he did not want to be confirmed.

There was silence in the warehouse for a while.

"I don't know what happened twenty years ago," Hattori Heiji said, "but... surrender yourself."

The police under his father used him to complete the murder plan...

If he didn't want to confirm all this with his own eyes, Hattori Heiji wouldn't be here at all.

He hopes that Yusuke Sakata can wake up in the end, and also hopes that he can surrender to reduce his criminal responsibility...

But something unexpected happened to him.

"Sorry, Heiji." Sakata Yusuke said as he took out his gun and pointed it at his temple, "It's too late."

Sakata wanted to commit suicide.

Hattori Heiji panicked.

He just hopes that Yusuke Sakata can surrender, but he never wants to push him to a dead end.

So he wanted to rush forward to stop him, even if he might get shot in the chaos...

But then an unexpected voice came.

"Sakata Yusuke! Put the gun down!"

"yes!"

Hearing the sound, Sakata Yusuke put down the gun almost subconsciously, but then he remembered that he was going to commit suicide.

But he didn't have time to think about it anymore.

The sound of neat footsteps came from the originally silent warehouse, and a group of police officers came over.

The leading majestic man walked directly in front of Yusuke Sakata and stared at Yusuke Sakata closely.

"I am disappointed."

Sakata Yusuke looked ashamed.

"I'm also disappointed with the cherry blossom badge on your detective card."

Sakata Yusuke lowered his head and allowed his colleagues to take away the gun in his hand.

Hattori Heiji, who experienced a sudden turn of events on the side, couldn't help but shout out.

"dad!?"

…

Hattori Heizo's father, Hattori Heizo, was naturally notified by Conan.

In Uncle Maori's voice.

Numabuchi Kiichiro was also captured on the confession of Sakata Yusuke.

That night, Hattori Heizang expressed his gratitude to Uncle Mori in his residence.

Although he did not remember such a thing at all, the sleeping Mouri Kogoro had long been accustomed to it, was very experienced in it, and responded to it skillfully.

"It feels like... calling the police is quite interesting."

Sitting in the car on the way back, recalling Hattori Heiji's expression, Conan whispered to Kaedehara.