Ghost Detectives in the Detective World

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"Officer, treasure isn't something you can find by being reckless,"

Ms. Gunda spoke up sarcastically.

“If you really demolish this villa, I think you’ll never find the treasure again in your lifetime.”

"Oh right, I found this under my pillow in the room earlier. Was this also prepared by Da Shang?"

As she spoke, Miss Gunda took a small pistol from her bosom.

"I have some too..."

After Bai Ma finished speaking, he also pulled out the same pistol.

"This is a dagger..." Shigeki took out the murder weapon from his room.

“This is what’s in my room,” Koshimizu said, taking out a spray can. “It should be a can of ether that can knock someone unconscious.”

"Huh? I didn't have it?" Mori exclaimed in surprise. "Uncle, I found it in the room. It looks like some kind of poison."

Conan took a sealed plastic tube out of his pocket.

"This should be..."

Before he could finish a sentence, Mori punched him hard on the head.

"You brat, who told you to rummage through the room! And next time you find something dangerous, hand it over to me immediately!"

Mori was scolding Conan, and Ran quickly stopped him.

Meanwhile, Matsuda was resting his chin on his hand, deep in thought.

"What's wrong? Is there some other problem?"

Miss Gunda thought Matsuda had discovered something and quickly asked.

Upon hearing this, everyone else immediately turned to look at them.

Although Chima Kazuyo had explained everything, it was clear that the people still didn't completely trust her.

After all, the man who had trusted her was now a corpse, lying on the floor of the restaurant next door.

"Well......."

Matsuda looked around at everyone, then slowly spoke.

"No weapons were found in my room either."

"Huh? This is your discovery?"

Miss Gunda stomped her foot in annoyance.

"Officer Matsuda, can you stop joking at a time like this? Can't you see that everyone is actually very nervous?"

"But what I said is also true,"

Matsuda shrugged innocently.

"Why do you all have weapons in your rooms, but I have nothing in mine? Is that guy Ooga planning to make me fight against all your guns, daggers, and poison with my bare hands?"

“I think it might be because of Officer Matsuda…cousin, your police officer status,”

Ai Haibara, halfway through her sentence, noticed Matsuda's raised hand and promptly changed her form of address.

"As a detective with the Metropolitan Police Department, Matsuda... it's possible that you're carrying a police firearm!"

"That's true,"

Matsuda nodded, then pulled a pistol, a flashbang, a smoke grenade, a small police stun baton, and a can of police pepper spray from his pocket...

Not to mention the others, even Ai looked at Matsuda with a face full of surprise, clearly not expecting that Matsuda would be carrying so many dangerous items.

"What? Why are you all staring at me?"

Matsuda chuckled.

"As a detective in the Metropolitan Police Department, if I suddenly receive an inexplicable invitation to come to a place with a bloody past, shouldn't I be more prepared?"

To Matsuda, these weapons were merely a smokescreen to deceive others.

His true reliance is still on the Ghost Knight, John the Hound, and the system.

But these are not things that can be brought into the open; they can only be concealed using these weapons.

"Now I understand why you said you felt safest in a group with me,"

Ms. Gunda couldn't help but make a comment.

"Fortunately, we remained calm. If we had followed Da Shang's plan and internal strife had occurred..."

Shigeki chuckled dryly. He believed that although they, the detectives, had also been given weapons like pistols and poison,

But if a melee breaks out, with Matsuda's weapons, he would definitely have more than enough to take them all down.

"Grandma Senjang, no matter what, you shouldn't have tried to kill Mr. Oogami, should you?"

Yue Shui opened his mouth and questioned,

"Given his trust in you, you have every opportunity to subdue him and hand him over to the police."

“I didn’t want to kill him either, but Oojo has gone mad,”

Senma Kōdai sighed.

"The illusory treasures in this villa have completely bewitched the emperor's mind. He has given everything for them, and if he cannot find those treasures, he will go mad sooner or later."

“I once advised him to give up, but at that moment, the way he looked at me was as if he were looking at an enemy.”

“From that moment on, I knew that Da Shang had gone mad. For the treasure in the villa, he would kill you, kill me, and kill anyone who tried to stop him.”