After the Undercover System Went Haywire, I Switched to Grinding Suspicion Points Chapter 250

Not long after Vodka contacted Tequila, he received an email from Usuha Izuki.

[I rember Tequila is your guy, right? Tequila's transaction partner actually sent him a box of bombs. He's done for. The police have already arrived, and they might trace back to the transaction partner. You guys should clean up and retreat if you need to.]

Vodka looked at this email and slowly typed out a question mark.

Tequila's transaction partner this ti was just an ordinary office worker from a ga company. Getting a list and taking money—such a good deal, if he wasn't eager to agree to it, that would be one thing, but how could he possibly use bombs to kill people?!

Even reporting to the police would be more like a normal person than directly killing soone!

Moreover, Tequila had just told him he bumped into Botanist, and then he was gone the next mont... No matter how you think about it, it seems connected to Usuha Izuki!

Was this the legendary "not holding grudges because revenge is taken on the spot"?! Even so, wasn't this too fast?!

Did Usuha Izuki have sothing on his mind today?! Not pretending to be an ordinary person anymore?

Vodka originally wanted to turn around and tell Gin, "Big Brother, this ti I have solid evidence that Botanist interfered with soone else's mission, deliberately causing Tequila's mission to fail and even his death," but based on past experience of being frad, he pondered and felt he couldn't jump to conclusions so easily.

What if after he reported it, sohow it beca his fault, and then Usuha Izuki would say that he and Gin failed to assassinate him with bombs last ti, and this ti they were changing the thod but not the dicine to continue assassinating him...

So he cautiously replied to the email: [Why suddenly kill Tequila?]

He didn't even dare to directly ask "why did you kill," only using vague pronouns.

Usuha Izuki quickly replied: [The police are solving the case. We should know soon.]

"Hey, Samukawa! Stop playing with your phone!" Matsuda Jinpei called him. "Co take a look!"

"Coming." Usuha Izuki put away his phone, expressionlessly assud Samukawa Shinryu's standard posture, and walked toward the explosion center.

Bomb expert Matsuda Jinpei picked up a naplate that had originally been on the briefcase and was now twisted.

"Look at this. Only an explosion from inside to outside would cause this shape."

Usuha Izuki cooperatively continued the deduction: "In other words, the bomb was placed inside the case, not outside. We can basically rule out the possibility of other bombs elsewhere."

"If it was his own bag, how could he not know there was a bomb inside? Or was this bomb unstable and he accidentally bumped it? What was he here to do, install bombs?" Matsuda Jinpei casually listed a bunch of possibilities. "Can't find anything to prove his identity. Troubleso..."

"That! I know sothing!"

Edogawa Conan raised his hand to speak.

Actually, he was now slightly suspicious that one of Matsuda Jinpei and Samukawa Shinryu might be an organization mber, since both seed sowhat subtle and their appearance at a ga announcent event was also strange.

But since both of them had already seen him, and if it ca to appearance, they'd seen him before too. As long as he didn't act too obvious and simply provided so intelligence, he could explain it as training he'd gotten from being around Mouri Kogorou.

Moreover, looking at how actively these two were trying to find the truth of this matter, maybe he could discover sothing too.

If they were from the organization, they definitely wouldn't want to expose the transaction, right?

When Matsuda Jinpei heard that Edogawa Conan knew sothing, he directly forgot that he'd just said to have Mouri Ran watch this kid, and pulled him over to ask: "What do you know?"

"He was an uncle over two ters tall with a Kansai accent. Mr. Nakajima saw him too—he bumped into us on the road earlier..."

Mr. Nakajima from the ga company, who was responsible for receiving the Mouri family, reluctantly responded: "Oh, oh... that person, I did see him..."

Edogawa Conan looked at him puzzledly.

Actually, when he first heard that Tequila had bumped into Botanist, he had suspected Mr. Nakajima, but thinking about Tequila's arrogant attitude then, which was completely different from the subtle fear when ntioning Botanist on the phone, he speculated—

Tequila probably just didn't like watching where he walked, so he often bumped into people!

After all, he was two ters tall. In Japan, a world of average height, he couldn't see short people, so bumping into people occasionally was too normal!

Looking at it this way, Botanist's height probably wouldn't exceed 1.9 ters, otherwise Tequila would definitely be able to see him and wouldn't have bumped into him.

Just then, the sound of police cars ca from outside. Matsuda Jinpei told him to wait, to avoid having to say everything twice.

Inspector gure arrived at the scene with Hagiwara Kenji, Date Wataru, and others.

Hagiwara Kenji looked at Matsuda Jinpei and Samukawa Shinryu and sighed deeply. He said nothing, but everything was understood.

He knew sothing would happen.

Matsuda Jinpei, understanding his aning, imdiately bristled: "This has nothing to do with us!"

Usuha Izuki also nodded beside him: "I didn't cause trouble today."

"No other aning, just lanting your accident-prone constitution..." Hagiwara Kenji shook his head. "Alright, what's the situation now? Fill us in."

Matsuda Jinpei relayed the intelligence he already knew, then indicated that Edogawa Conan could tell the rest of what he knew.

Edogawa Conan continued: "...I heard him say 'won't go in,' 'it's open,' things like that."

Inspector gure chose to seek help from the on-site expert: "Mm, Samukawa-kun, what do you think?"

"...I found this at the explosion site." Usuha Izuki held up an evidence bag containing keys. "Matsuda discovered this bent naplate from the ga company. The direction of the bend indicates the bomb was installed inside the briefcase. I think we need to confirm his identity."

Inspector gure imdiately asked the ga company president: "He was carrying your company's briefcase. Is he one of your employees?"

The president shook his head frantically: "Our company doesn't have anyone two ters tall! And... and actually I received a threatening letter earlier... telling to cancel this announcent event..."

Inspector gure: "What?! You should have said this earlier! Didn't you report it to police? Never mind, you thought it was a prank, right?"

Sigh, this kind of thing was quite common. Inspector gure got angry but then cald himself down, since this president wasn't the only one who did this...

Hagiwara Kenji pondered: "Not from your company, but used your company's briefcase..."

Date Wataru also deduced: "What he said about 'won't go in' refers to the key, right? 'It's open' ans the briefcase wasn't locked...? Then this briefcase wasn't his, but he ignored such obvious markings and carried a briefcase that didn't belong to him..."

"It's a transaction." Usuha Izuki summarized. "We should know if we ask the front desk."

Having observed throughout, Edogawa Conan felt that both Samukawa Shinryu and Matsuda Jinpei seed to be making very correct deductions, not like they were being perfunctory or diverting attention or covering up anything... But that was normal too. After all, with so many smart people present, making any small moves would be easily discovered.

The front desk had a deep impression of Tequila, not only because of his two-ter height, but also because he was the only person so far who had co to collect stored luggage.

"After all, the event had just started not long ago. Him coming to collect items so quickly was strange," the front desk person said in a tone of lingering fear. "So there was a bomb inside? That was close..."

Usuha Izuki asked: "What number luggage did he take?"

"98."

Hagiwara Kenji imdiately turned and said: "Send soone to check who has numbers 96, 97, 99, and 100. Ask them if they have any impression of the person with number 98. That person might be the one who made the transaction with the deceased."

Mouri Ran suddenly raised her hand: "Um... I'm number 100. If I rember correctly, in front of should be Mr. Nakajima and his two colleagues, because they suddenly cut in line, so I rember quite clearly..."

Inspector gure gave Date Wataru a look: "Go call those people over."

"Wait."

Under everyone's gaze, Usuha Izuki stopped Date Wataru and whispered sothing to him. Date Wataru seed not to understand, but still nodded.

Edogawa Conan's gaze beca sharp!

While everyone was waiting for those suspects to arrive, Edogawa Conan quietly sidled up to Hagiwara Kenji and asked curiously: "Hey, did Officer Hagiwara already know that Officer Matsuda and Samukawa-san were coming here today?"

"Hm? Yes." Hagiwara Kenji was quite friendly to this very smart child and was happy to chat a bit when not busy. "I even gave Little Shinryu his ticket. He couldn't get up in ti so he didn't manage to get tickets~"

Looking at Hagiwara Kenji teasing Samukawa Shinryu, Edogawa Conan's mouth twitched: "Does Samukawa-san really like playing gas? Really can't tell..."

Hagiwara Kenji made a "shh" gesture: "He likes it a lot, but doesn't like being found out. He always says 'I'm just playing with you guys for a while'... People who like playing gas aren't bad people. You don't need to be afraid of him."

Hagiwara Kenji, thinking Edogawa Conan was afraid of Samukawa Shinryu, skillfully helped wash his friend's image bit by bit.

Unfortunately, this rhetoric was only for coaxing real children. Edogawa Conan wouldn't so easily consider Samukawa Shinryu a good person just because he "liked playing gas."

However, there was now an explanation for his incongruous appearance at the ga announcent event. Thinking about how Tequila seed very shocked to encounter Botanist here, Edogawa Conan frowned, feeling he still couldn't rule out Samukawa Shinryu's suspicion.

...Sa with Matsuda Jinpei. Although at first glance he seed like a delinquent, after spending so ti with him, you'd feel he was very reliable.

Edogawa Conan seriously thought about it and felt that if the organization sent soone to infiltrate the tropolitan Police, soone as conspicuous as Samukawa Shinryu would actually be less suspicious, while Matsuda Jinpei's suspicion had risen!

But while Edogawa Conan's reason said Matsuda Jinpei was more suspicious, his intuition was screaming that Samukawa Shinryu was the most suspicious...

At this ti, the people who had cut in line were brought over.

Edogawa Conan saw Samukawa Shinryu, who was usually rather passive and seed to have poor initiative, rarely step forward actively and say:

"We just encountered a terrorist attack. Your president needs to hold a eting. Now take your luggage and go find your president."

Edogawa Conan: "...???"

Wait?! Wasn't it already established that it was a transaction gone wrong? How did it beco a terrorist attack?!

What kind of approach was Samukawa Shinryu taking to solve the case?! He couldn't understand it!