After the Undercover System Went Haywire, I Switched to Grinding Suspicion Points Chapter 266

Hattori Heiji was extrely shocked, but Edogawa Conan just had his mouth twitch.

"Samukawa-kun is joking again, right... The consultant that Heiji-niisan is asking about isn't a tropolitan Police consultant, it's a criminal consultant, you know?"

Unlike Hattori Heiji, who had just t Samukawa Shinryu and had been unconscious for half the ti, Edogawa Conan had already experienced Samukawa Shinryu's dark humor deeply.

Being a decent person and liking to make nasty jokes weren't contradictory. Edogawa Conan no longer took Samukawa Shinryu's words at face value so easily!

Watching the startled Hattori Heiji, Edogawa Conan even felt sowhat nostalgic... Had he been like this before too? Really not composed at all.

Hattori Heiji ca to his senses and rembered Samukawa Shinryu's penchant for jokes.

...And the jokes were really nasty and not funny at all. The only funny thing was his reaction.

Hattori Heiji felt very helpless, though his heart had indeed cald down from the intense beating caused by the shock: "Samukawa-kun..."

Samukawa Shinryu shook his head: "Children shouldn't be concerned with these matters."

"I'm not a child anymore!" Hattori Heiji was more justified than Edogawa Conan when saying this. "I'm at least a sowhat famous detective. Even if I dropped out of school now, I could make a living as a detective. Please don't treat like a child. If you know sothing, please tell ."

"A detective..." Samukawa Shinryu pondered. "If you're a detective, it would be better to investigate on your own, right? If you can't investigate it, then it ans you're not yet suitable to be involved in such matters."

Hattori Heiji pleaded persistently: "Even just a hint would be fine! Samukawa-kun!"

Samukawa Shinryu refused.

Watching Samukawa Shinryu's departing figure again, Edogawa Conan said quietly: "Samukawa-kun definitely knows sothing."

"Even if he knows sothing, he won't tell us... Damn it, is age really that important?!" Hattori Heiji was heartbroken. "If only I were a few years older!"

Edogawa Conan thought of sothing and couldn't help but look away: "I think it might not be an age problem."

"Huh? Then what's the problem?"

"...You nearly died today." Edogawa Conan said helplessly. "If Samukawa-kun hadn't been there, you'd probably already be in the sea right now. You might not have been chopped into pieces by the propeller, but drowning unconsciously and being eaten by fish was also possible... In his view, you don't know how to protect yourself at all and could get yourself killed at any ti. It's normal for him not to dare let you get involved with these dangerous existences. If sothing happened to you, he might bla himself."

Hattori Heiji was startled, thinking of Samukawa Shinryu's kindness and consideration that completely contradicted his appearance. He felt Edogawa Conan's guess made a lot of sense.

"That's true... but today was just an accident! I'm usually very careful."

Edogawa Conan rolled his eyes: "You nearly got yourself killed on your first eting with Samukawa-kun today. If you tell him you weren't like this before, would he believe you? Forget it. Actually, Samukawa-kun not answering is no different from before anyway. Let's go back and ask your father."

Because this cruise invitation was so sudden, and Hattori Heiji hadn't expected to see Edogawa Conan so quickly, he hadn't had ti to ask his father about [the Criminal Consultant] before running over here directly.

Thinking there was still this option, Hattori Heiji felt much better and beca more accepting: "That's right, I hope dad knows sothing."

The two chatted harmoniously, categorizing Samukawa Shinryu as "soone whose thods have so problems, but who's actually quite decent."

Uh, maybe not just so problems—it could even be called extre—but compared to the first impression Samukawa Shinryu gave people, they suddenly felt this level was acceptable!

As long as they set their standards low enough, any good performance from Samukawa Shinryu would be a pleasant surprise!

What was originally supposed to be a several-day trip ended after the captain went full speed ahead due to this incident, returning to Tokyo the next day and handing the person over to the tropolitan Police.

Inspector gure, who ca to receive the criminal, looked at the dazed Mr. Kujii who was muttering to himself "So Furukawa Dai was actually Hacai San," and fell silent: "What's wrong with him...?"

Since they were all on the sa side now—just police and detectives—and everyone knew Samukawa Shinryu's personality, forr Officer Sazaki answered directly: "Samukawa was also on the ship."

Inspector gure: "Understood."

Watching Hattori Heiji & Edogawa Conan: "..........."

Inspector gure was so practiced... Did the tropolitan Police really just let Samukawa Shinryu toy with criminals whenever he felt like it?!

Seeing Hattori Heiji's expression, forr Officer Sazaki couldn't help but quietly explain, trying to salvage the reputation of Kanto police: "It's not what you think. Actually, many tis we don't know how to stop it and can't react in ti, because Samukawa likes to act on his own..."

Mouri Kogoro muttered: "Last ti at the ga launch event, a bunch of police just watched Samukawa give orders and command, and I didn't see him disappear."

Although forr Officer Sazaki wasn't clear about what happened at the ga launch event, he continued defending based on his experience: "...Well, sotis Samukawa indeed doesn't disappear, but we have no idea whether the things he has us do are ant to draw out the culprit, find evidence, or for other reasons, because he doesn't like explaining!"

After it happened multiple tis, everyone beca numb. Even when they could stop it, they couldn't react in ti. It was very normal! Everyone was human! Everyone made mistakes!

Hattori Heiji showed a sympathetic expression: "I see, no wonder Samukawa-kun needs a narrator."

While forr Officer Sazaki and others were whispering, Mr. Kanie was finally wheeled out in a wheelchair.

There was no choice—the man had beco dented and was drooling. Without the wheelchair, just supporting him wouldn't work!

Inspector gure's gaze fell on Mr. Kanie, and his expression changed: "Did Samukawa make him stupid or disabled? Did he finally ss up?!"

Sato Miwako said decisively: "Impossible! This person must have been stupid originally!"

Hattori Heiji: "Um, he was made stupid by Mr. Kujii giving him too large a drug dose..."

Inspector gure breathed a huge sigh of relief: "I knew Samukawa couldn't make such a low-level mistake. He knows what he's doing."

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

That's not what you said just now... I don't even know if this counts as trusting or not trusting Samukawa Shinryu!

Samukawa Shinryu leisurely ca out last. Inspector gure felt a bit guilty, but still went up to greet him: "Samukawa, did you solve this case again?"

Samukawa Shinryu: "Sazaki-senpai said he'd handle the written statent and report."

Inspector gure really couldn't hold back and complained: "Just once, could you write a report yourself?"

Samukawa Shinryu politely defended himself: "I did write one myself before, but it was sent back by my senior, and in the end my senior helped write it. If the Inspector doesn't mind the trouble..."

Inspector gure: "..........."

Forr Officer Sazaki quickly ca to smooth things over: "Since I invited him, I'll do it! I'll do it! I know everything! Hattori-kun knows too! Mouri knows too! The three of us are enough!"

Hattori Heiji: "...?"

Wait, only Samukawa-kun doesn't have to?!

How did this person get through those years as a police officer?! Was it really that comfortable?!

Hattori Heiji reasonably suspected that Samukawa Shinryu's unwillingness to explain was also a way to avoid oral reports, and that report that got sent back was probably deliberately botched...

With forr Officer Sazaki taking care of the follow-up, Samukawa Shinryu was satisfied and put his hands in his pockets: "If there's nothing else, I'll head back first, Inspector."

Inspector gure said helplessly: "...Actually there's still quite a lot to do... but you go ahead!"

He was already used to it.

Samukawa Shinryu politely bid farewell to the others, then hailed a taxi and left.

Mouri Kogoro: "Then I..."

"Mouri, please co back to the tropolitan Police with Sazaki and us." Inspector gure said. "We'll see if there's anything that needs to be supplented."

Although Mouri Kogoro hadn't really planned to leave, thinking about Samukawa Shinryu's treatnt just now, he couldn't help asking: "...??? Can't I go back first too?"

Inspector gure frowned: "Mouri, this incident is so big... and this is technically a case from when you were still a detective. You definitely have to co."

Mouri Kogoro: "..........."

The logic was sound, but this differential treatnt was a bit hurtful! Wasn't this also a case Samukawa Shinryu was handling?!

Being an outsider who wasn't required to participate, Hattori Heiji was exasperated.

He understood.

Samukawa-kun's survival wisdom was truly remarkable—imdiately let everyone know you don't want to do this and don't want to do that, and when you do it you'll ss it up so others have to do it anyway. From then on, everyone defaults to not asking you to do it...

Anyway, he could solve cases—that was his core competency. Others could handle everything else, and they might even rush to help.

How to put it—this kind of cunning and dark humor might be a bit questionable on soone else, but on Samukawa-kun, he didn't dislike it at all. He even felt it could dilute so of the dangerous, terrifying aura around Samukawa-kun, making him feel more like a "normal person," which was actually a good thing.

And the person whom Hattori Heiji was musing "Samukawa-kun is also an ordinary person" was currently replying to emails in the taxi.

[Still haven't found Sherry? That's very normal! Gin did it on purpose! But because I complained to the Boss, he knows he's under suspicion. Believe it or not, in a few days he'll say he has news about Sherry, and might even have other people witness Sherry to vouch for him, but after all that trouble they still won't be able to catch her?]