Conan: Rice Flower Spring

Chapter 211 205. Who do you say the suspect is?
"Excuse me, President Lin. We were supposed to meet at home, but because of the case, I have to trouble you."

In the office of the chief of the Osaka Prefectural Police Headquarters, Hayashi Ryoma successfully met Hattori Heizo and Toyama Ginjiro.

Lin Ryoma did not feel anything special about meeting the two bigwigs of the Osaka Prefectural Police.

After all, he has even met Shiro Suzuki and his wife, so it is hard to say which one is more powerful in the island country, the consortium or the government agencies.

However, the impression that Hattori Heizo and Toyama Ginjiro gave to Hayashi Ryoma was indeed consistent with his imagination of what a big boss in the police force should look like.

Hattori Heizo looked very dignified and never smiled. Although he was a very serious person, Hayashi Ryoma did feel the kindness that Hattori Heizo tried hard to release.

As for Toyama Kazuha's father, Osaka Prefectural Police Criminal Chief Toyama Ginjiro, he looks much kinder.

However, this kindness is relative to the stern director Hattori Heizo.

Putting aside the filter of being his daughter's savior, Lin Ryoma could see that Toyama Ginjiro was also a very capable police chief.

"It's nothing. Actually, I'm the one who disturbed you. Another body has been found. The investigation pressure at the headquarters must be quite high."

As the chairman of a large company not located in Osaka, Hayashi Ryoma did not need to flatter these two people in any special way.

But more friends mean more paths, and no one will pretend to be noble when they need to expand their network.

There are only three people in the room, and the two of them are in the same group. Who are they pretending to be noble for at this time?

Lin Ryoma and the other two exchanged a few brief greetings in Hattori Heizo's office. After all, this time Lin Ryoma came here to get to know Hattori Heizo and Toyama Ginjiro.

As for the reward for saving their son and daughter, they obviously would not put these things on the table in a place like this.

Originally, Hattori Heizo was planning to entertain Hayashi Ryoma at his home, but the case came too urgent, and Hattori Heizo was the kind of director who was more responsible.

The citizens of Osaka are blessed to know that Hattori Heizo treats his work like this.

This is probably the main reason why, even though there is a Hattori Heiji in Osaka, the number of homicides in the area is not as high as in Tokyo.

A serial murder case happened in Osaka and the chief and criminal director of the Osaka Prefectural Police did not even return home.

Over in Tokyo, the only ones working overtime were the frontline detectives from the First Investigation Division.

It is said that the police in Osaka are more gangster than the gangsters. The police in Tokyo are polite, but what's the use?

It's useless to be polite if the case can't be solved.

While the three were talking, Toyama Ginjiro's cell phone suddenly rang. He apologized to Lin Ryoma and went outside the office to answer the call.

When Toyama Ginjiro came back, he unexpectedly asked Lin Ryoma, "Did President Lin still help our police officers figure out the case?"

"Hmm? Minister Toyama is talking about Officer Sakata?"

"Yes, there has been significant progress on Sakata's side. The victims of these four murders have been found to have a commonality."

"Wait, four?" Lin Longma was a little confused. Shouldn't there be three?

Sakata said at the time that two bodies had been found before, and with the body that fell from the sky not long ago, that made it three murders no matter how you counted it.

Toyama Ginjiro, did he make a slip of the tongue? "That's right, just after Sakata confirmed the connection between the victims, another murder occurred.

The murderer used the same method to pierce the victim's wallet with a dagger. There were only banknotes and a driver's license in the wallet.

"It seems that the victim's wallet must have been sorted out by someone. It seems that it was done deliberately to make people find the connection?"

Toyama Ginjiro was speaking when he suddenly looked at Hattori Heizo, because he discovered that it was a coincidence that one or two of the victims had only cash and driver's licenses in their wallets.

But it's the same for everyone, so it's hard to say that the murderer didn't do it on purpose.

It would be fine if the female victim did not have various membership cards or bank cards in her wallet, but it is inevitable that there will be some bills added casually in the man's wallet.

There wasn't even a condom, which is very unreasonable.

"Officer Sakata has already determined the connection between the victims. So have you identified a suspect?" Lin Ryoma asked curiously.

Toyama Ginjiro looked at Hattori Heizo, and after getting Hattori Heizo's approval, Toyama Ginjiro said:
"We have identified a suspect. All of the victims were classmates at the same driving school, and one of their classmates is a wanted criminal named Kiichiro Numabuchi."

"Kiichiro Numabuchi?" This time Lin Ryoma was really stunned. What was he thinking just now?

Could it be possible that this Numabuchi Kiichiro could actually jump in his face? He actually did jump in his face? !

Could this case be related to Kiichiro Numabuchi?
Hayashi Ryoma's small misconduct was noticed by Hattori Heizo and Toyama Ginjiro, but they did not think that Hayashi Ryoma had any relationship with Numabuchi Kiichiro. They just thought:
"President Lin knows Kiichiro Numabuchi?"

"I don't know him, but I have heard about the deeds of this wanted criminal. I heard that he hid for a while after being wanted, and then suddenly killed two passers-by who didn't know him and had nothing to do with him?"

"Yes, according to eyewitnesses, it seems that after seeing them wearing black clothes, Kiichiro Numabuchi suddenly went crazy and killed them."

"Ah, this. Is there something wrong with this Numabuchi Kiichiro?" Lin Longma pointed to his head: "But the victims of this serial murder case are not wearing black clothes, right?"

After getting new clues from Ginjiro Toyama, Hayashi Ryoma suddenly understood why Kiichiro Numabuchi went crazy.

I'm afraid he mistook those two passers-by in black as members of an organization out to arrest him, which is why he suddenly went crazy and killed them.

But the Osaka serial murder case
Hayashi Ryoma doesn't think that the Osaka case was committed by Kiichiro Numabuchi, because if Kiichiro Numabuchi really wanted to kill them he would never have waited until now.

These people were not wearing black clothes, so they could not be the cause of Kiichiro Numabuchi going crazy. In addition, Sakata deliberately led him to reveal the "important clues".

Lin Ryoma always felt that Kiichiro Numabuchi was probably a shield pushed out by Sakata to take the blame.

But the question now is, does Sakata dare to do this because he knows where Kiichiro Numabuchi is hiding?

Or is it that Kiichiro Numabuchi is simply in his hands?
Lin Longma said that he would not do Gin's mission, but he couldn't just watch Kiichiro Numabuchi fall into the hands of the police.

Because Kiichiro Numabuchi was a promising assassin that the executive department had high hopes for, so who knows whether Kiichiro Numabuchi had heard anything from other people.

Under normal circumstances, it would certainly not be possible to scare the wanted criminal Kiichiro Numabuchi into becoming mentally ill, so Kiichiro Numabuchi must not fall into the hands of the police.

No matter what Sakata was going to do, Hayashi Ryoma decided to disrupt his rhythm a little.

(End of this chapter)