Ghost Detectives in the Detective World

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"Did you hire a tutor?"

"N-no, how could that be?" Conan chuckled dryly.

"There's none?"

Haibara's voice immediately drew the attention of Ayumi and the other two.

"I heard you're staying at Detective Mori's house. So, Detective Mori taught you that?"

"what?"

Upon hearing Haibara's words, Mitsuhiko immediately sided with the pretty girl.

"Conan, you're so cunning! You actually got a famous detective to tutor you. No wonder I always do worse than you on tests!"

Mitsuhiko, who often prides himself on being the strategist of the Junior Detective League, has finally found a reason to convince himself that he is not as good as Conan.

"That's right, it's all because Conan always gets such high scores that I get scolded by my mom every time I take a test."

Yuan Tai snorted.

"Is this what the adults call 'involution'?"

hehe......

Does that uncle teach elementary school math?

Moreover, that's not what involution means!

Conan thought to himself.

As the children were talking, a sudden gust of wind blew by.

But it just happened to blow Ai's hat off, and it landed on the edge of the court.

Right next to the falling hat, a soccer ball bounced once and then quickly deflated.

Seeing Conan staring intently down below, Genta asked curiously,

"what happened?"

"The football suddenly deflated."

As Conan spoke, he climbed onto the railing and prepared to jump.

Just then, a large hand suddenly reached out from behind.

He grabbed Conan by the collar and pulled him down from the railing.

Conan turned around and saw that it was Matsuda!

"Kid, this is a competition field, not a place for you to run around."

After Matsuda finished speaking, he leaped down to the bottom of the stands.

The staff at the nearby stadium suddenly saw someone fall from above.

He was immediately startled: "Hey, you can't just walk into the stadium like that!"

"Excuse me, I'll just pick up my hat and leave right away."

Matsuda picked up Ai's fallen hat and casually put it on his head.

Then, without any haste, he walked over to the deflated soccer ball.

Hmm? I knew it...

Looking at the two bullet holes that had inexplicably appeared on the soccer ball in his hand,

Matsuda's heart sank immediately.

"Hey, get off the field right now!"

The staff member jogged over and began shouting at them.

“I’m afraid I can’t leave now,” Matsuda said, pulling out his police ID. “I’m a police officer, please cooperate with my work.”

"Police...police?"

The staff member was momentarily at a loss; why were the police here?

Matsuda ignored him, instead looking down and searching for something.

"Is there any sharp metal object here? Even a small knife would be fine."

"No, here you go."

Conan jumped down from the stands and handed over a small knife.

"Hey, this isn't something a primary school student should carry around," Matsuda exclaimed.

"Look carefully, this is a fruit knife, okay?" Conan rolled his eyes in annoyance.

"It's unreasonable for an elementary school student to bring a fruit knife," Matsuda said, poking the ground with the knife while patiently lecturing Conan.

"You talk too much nonsense..." Conan was speechless.

The two dug out the bullet from the ground together, and Matsuda picked it up and glanced at it.

7.6 mm, Tokarev?

He looked up at the enthusiastically shouting crowd.

Although it was chaotic, no sound was heard, so the person who fired the shot must have used a silencer.

"Let's prepare to call the police," Matsuda said to the stadium staff next to him. "Although this shooting only hit the soccer ball, I believe that the person with the gun had more to do with it than just the soccer ball."

"Huh? Oh," the staff member responded, then suddenly realized what he meant. He's a policeman, why do I need to call the police?

“Officer Matsuda is in plainclothes now, so he can investigate among the audience without revealing his identity,” Conan explained. “It’s better if you call the police yourself for this kind of thing.”

......

In the passageway leading to and from the stadium, the Junior Detective League kids blocked Matsuda's way.

Mitsuhiko, who considered himself the leader of the detective club, asked impatiently, "Officer Matsuda, what happened?"

"nothing,"

Matsuda shook his head, then waved to Haibara.

"Ai, this is your new friend."

Chapter 249 Inspector Megure, you're too much...

"Huh? Does Officer Matsuda know Haibara-san?" Ayumi asked curiously.

“Of course we know each other,” Haibara replied coolly. “To be precise, I’m currently staying at Officer Matsuda Jinpei’s apartment.”

"Huh? Ai is living at Officer Matsuda's house?"

The young detectives all stared wide-eyed.

How is this going?

Conan, surprised, tugged at Matsuda's coat.

As the two walked to the side, Conan clearly noticed that Ai's gaze also glanced in their direction with a half-smile.

"Hey, who exactly is she?" Conan pressed. "Could she be involved in those recent incidents? Or is she connected to that organization too?"

"Oh? You seem to know a lot about what's been happening lately? Did Takagi or Inspector Megure tell you?"

Matsuda stretched.

"Speaking of which, she is involved in the bombing of that pharmaceutical company. By the way, didn't she mention it to you? Sigh, this child really isn't good at making friends."

"It was Uncle Mori who asked Inspector Megure,"

Conan explained with a hint of dissatisfaction, "The serious incidents that have occurred one after another these past few days have driven the media crazy with reporting. As a detective, Uncle Mori naturally needs to have a certain understanding of these matters."

"Heh, what day in Japan is there without a violent incident..." Matsuda said mockingly.

In this detective's world, people dying every day is nothing unusual.

It would be truly miraculous if no one died and no incidents occurred that day!

"Hey, you still haven't answered my question!"

Conan urged, "I have a strange feeling about Haibara. Is she connected to that organization?"

"Well..."

Matsuda recalled that it was because Conan and Professor Agasa had stood him up that night that he had taken Shiho Miyano home.

"You should ask her yourself."

"Hey, you're an adult, do you have to be so petty?"

Conan guessed the problem from Matsuda's expression.

"Besides, it was clearly you who didn't show up on time during the day, which is why Professor and I were called away by Sister Xiaolan..."

As the two were talking, Matsuda suddenly heard police sirens blaring outside.

Uh, what's wrong with Inspector Megure?

Why all this fuss? Are they afraid the prisoners won't hear them?

The criminal's identity has not yet been confirmed. If he finds out that the police have arrived, who knows what kind of trouble he might cause!

......

"Officer, someone has fired a shot in the arena!"

The person in charge of sports programs at Nichiri TV said in a flustered manner.

Broadcasting the finals at a national stadium would normally be a very lucrative job.

Only Nichiri Television, a giant in the Japanese media industry, could secure the broadcasting rights.

The competition within Nichisai is extremely fierce, and this manager named Kaneko had a very difficult time securing this opportunity.

But no one expected that he would encounter such a low-probability event!

"Has someone opened fire?"