After the Undercover System Went Haywire, I Switched to Grinding Suspicion Points Chapter 238

Usuha Izuki dropped that bombshell on Edogawa Conan and couldn't be bothered to listen to his excuses, simply walking away.

Finally getting tired of the matching ga, Usuha Izuki went to ask Hagiwara Kenji if he could return to the hotel.

"Theoretically speaking, no, but given the current situation... forget it, go back. The others will have to return for the night soon anyway." Hagiwara Kenji understood Usuha Izuki well. "Are you bored?"

Usuha Izuki nodded: "The internet speed here is terrible."

Matsuda Jinpei, who had been thinking about the case, imdiately said upon hearing this: "Perfect, since you're bored, go to sleep. Take this chance to fix that ssy sleep schedule of yours."

Usuha Izuki was speechless: "...Are you my mom?"

"Stop complaining!" Matsuda Jinpei griped. "I have to consider whether I'll wake you up when calling or emailing you. It's too annoying—hurry up and fix it!"

Hagiwara Kenji smiled and chid in: "Indeed, this is a good opportunity, Little Shinryu. Tsukikage Island has poor signal, terrible internet speed, and boring TV programs. You can't possibly play matching gas until dawn, right?"

Although they pushed Usuha Izuki back to the hotel to sleep, Hagiwara Kenji and Matsuda Jinpei, being active police officers—even though Matsuda Jinpei was from the Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit—still showed professional dedication by staying behind to discuss the case with Mouri Kogorou and others, simply wrapping themselves in blankets and sleeping at the activity center.

The elderly police officer from Tsukikage Island finally arrived at so point and joined the case discussion, though he couldn't provide any useful intelligence. Expecting him to solve the case was even more hopeless, so everyone could only hope that after reporting to police, Tokyo would quickly send people over.

After all, Tsukikage Island was also under Tokyo jurisdiction, so when soone died, the tropolitan Police would definitely be responsible.

The next day, people from the tropolitan Police finally arrived by boat.

Leading them was everyone's old acquaintance, Inspector gure.

Edogawa Conan woke up relatively early. Groggily getting up, he found Matsuda Jinpei and Hagiwara Kenji had already disappeared.

He imdiately perked up and searched all the way outside, discovering they were briefing Inspector gure on the situation.

From the sound of their voices, it seed they had finished most of what needed to be reported.

Inspector gure said: "I understand the general situation. You two... I feel like I just saw Matsuda-kun helping escort criminals a few days ago. I'm starting to get the illusion that Matsuda-kun is also one of our Criminal Investigation Division One people."

Hagiwara Kenji smiled: "Traveling is more fun with more people. If Date wasn't on vacation with his girlfriend, he should be here too."

In this situation, Hagiwara Kenji didn't call Date Wataru "Squad Leader" to avoid misunderstandings.

Hearing about dating, Inspector gure sowhat wanted to ask this master of group blind dates about when the next mixer would be for so of his single subordinates, but thinking the occasion wasn't right, he gave up and returned to the main topic: "Anyway, after lunch, let's call everyone back for questioning."

Calling people over at this ti would an having to provide them lunch too, so better to wait until alti passed before questioning.

Actually, they shouldn't have let people go back last night. There might still be so clues on them, but now after a whole night, anything that needed handling had definitely been dealt with.

But they couldn't just search everyone upon arrival either. They had to question people first, and only after questioning, having ideas and suspects, could they search with justification. That brought them back to square one.

With so many people attending this second anniversary morial, detaining them all would definitely cause trouble. Going through them one by one for questioning would take who knows how long, and not everyone was a night owl like Usuha Izuki. This place couldn't accommodate so many people sleeping either, so after weighing the options, they had to let people go.

Inspector gure understood these problems, so he didn't bla them—they were on vacation, not working, so helping out was already good!

If Samukawa Shinryu encountered this kind of thing during his vacation, he probably wouldn't even bother maintaining order!

Thinking of Samukawa Shinryu, Inspector gure asked: "Date's dating aside, but what about Samukawa-kun? When you two go out to play, you don't bring Samukawa-kun?"

Edogawa Conan, secretly eavesdropping: "...???"

What was going on? Even if Officer Hagiwara and Samukawa-san used to be partners, Samukawa-san was now the [Consultant]!

Did Inspector gure just naturally accept that the [Consultant] still had a great relationship with the police, that they'd even vacation together?! Really not planning to arrest him?!

"He's sleeping at the hotel." Matsuda Jinpei said. "Inspector, you don't expect him to sleep on the floor here, do you?"

Inspector gure, who t Matsuda Jinpei quite frequently for various reasons and was used to his way of speaking, twitched his mouth and replied: "You're right... Samukawa-kun never compromises his comfort in so ways..."

Edogawa Conan silently analyzed Inspector gure's tone when ntioning Samukawa Shinryu.

Calm down, it might not be what he thought...

No, he couldn't calm down.

...Inspector gure! What's wrong with you, Inspector gure! That's the [Consultant]! What's with that helpless yet doting tone?!

Had he misunderstood sothing?

But Samukawa Shinryu had specifically torn down the "just joking" excuse he offered, showing he was seriously admitting to being the [Consultant], right?

After all, having already denied that the joke was a joke, admitting it was a joke again would really be aningless!

Moreover, when he said "anyway, so people can't do anything about no matter how dissatisfied they are," that sudden arrogance and recklessness made danger alarms blare in his mind. There really wasn't any other explanation!

Generally speaking, Edogawa Conan actually trusted his first impressions a lot. It was just because Hagiwara Kenji and Matsuda Jinpei, two police officers, were already registered with him as relatively reliable police, so when Hagiwara Kenji spoke up for Samukawa Shinryu, Edogawa Conan was willing to reexamine his deduction.

After examining and reflecting, Samukawa Shinryu's strange words made his mindset collapse completely, and his attitude rebounded—he should have trusted himself after all!!!

So even though the more reliable Inspector gure was also very kind and amiable toward Samukawa Shinryu, Edogawa Conan had developed resistance.

Combined with Samukawa Shinryu's "I'm an outlaw, arrest if you can" attitude, he really couldn't think well of him anymore. He even developed subtle thoughts about Inspector gure, Hagiwara Kenji, and Matsuda Jinpei.

If not for the trust built from previous cooperation, plus Edogawa Conan's observation that they were indeed responsible police officers, he would have suspected they were corrupt cops.

Inspector gure, unaware of Edogawa Conan's wild imagination, was still complaining: "By the ti he wakes up, it'll probably be one or two o'clock. You two hurry up and eat, then co back to help. I'll talk to Matsuda's superior too."

"No need, I'm free anyway." Matsuda Jinpei, who wasn't actually from Criminal Investigation Division One, was already used to being dragged into cases. "Hagi, go wake up Mouri-san."

After saying this, Matsuda Jinpei seed to rember sothing and asked Inspector gure: "Inspector, this Mouri-san... isn't quite what I heard about?"

During last night's case discussion, Mouri Kogorou had proposed many ridiculous theories that left him and Hagiwara Kenji dumbfounded. Although the other party later explained it was to lighten the awkward atmosphere, he still felt sothing was off.

Edogawa Conan, eavesdropping, slowly had a drop of cold sweat roll down his forehead: "..."

Inspector gure was all too familiar with Mouri Kogorou's performance when he dropped the ball, and couldn't help sweating too: "Well, although his early performance can be quite... that, once he enters his sleeping state, he becos very reliable... Let's not talk about this. Everyone hurry up and prepare. Rember to call Samukawa-kun at the right ti, or I'm afraid he'll sleep until evening."

"...Inspector, you have his number too. And Samukawa should be able to wake up earlier today since he definitely slept early last night."

"His wake-up mood is too bad..." Inspector gure's gaze drifted. "You guys call him instead. You're friends, aren't you?"

Although Samukawa Shinryu wouldn't get angry about it, at tis like this, listening to Samukawa Shinryu speak felt more stressful than usual... One phone call of less than ten minutes, then two hours of self-reflection about disturbing soone's sleep—too exhausting.

These two were the type who not only wouldn't reflect but would dare to complain about Samukawa Shinryu's sleep schedule. Inspector gure envied them.

Edogawa Conan could barely listen anymore.

What kind of harmonious conversation was this... What exactly was going on with Samukawa Shinryu?!

Taking advantage of Hagiwara Kenji going to wake Mouri Kogorou and Matsuda Jinpei also being busy, Edogawa Conan slipped over to find Inspector gure.

"Conan-kun." Inspector gure had been seeing Edogawa Conan frequently at cri scenes lately and knew he (claid to) assist Mouri Kogorou by asking questions and such, so his attitude was decent. He didn't brush him off as an ignorant child. "What's the matter?"

"It's about Samukawa-san. Uncle Mouri seems to have so opinion of Samukawa-san." Edogawa Conan tried his best to act obedient, then pulled out Mouri Kogorou as a shield—he was telling the truth! Mouri Kogorou really couldn't stand Samukawa Shinryu!

"Oh—" Without needing Edogawa Conan to say more, Inspector gure imdiately showed an enlightened expression, then very naturally said: "Samukawa-kun is easily misunderstood, but he's actually a good person. Don't worry, I'll explain to Mouri later."

This attitude didn't seem fake, but that made Edogawa Conan even more confused.

"...Inspector gure, how does everyone at the tropolitan Police view Samukawa-san? Why did he resign? Was it because he was always misunderstood?"

Although Inspector gure was sowhat puzzled why Edogawa Conan was asking this, to improve Samukawa Shinryu's image in front of the child, he still answered.

"It has nothing to do with misunderstandings. Most people actually like him a lot. A small number who don't like him can't help it—if anything, they're just not skilled enough, so they can only ask him for help when sothing happens. As for resigning... anyway, Mouri will find out too, so telling you doesn't matter. He didn't really resign—he's still working as a [Consultant] at the tropolitan Police."

Edogawa Conan: "............???"

—So that line "anyway, so people can't do anything about no matter how dissatisfied they are" actually ant this?!