Conan: Rice Flower Spring

Chapter 258 252. Shiratori wants to "touch" Kudo Yusaku
With disappointment and loss, Mao Li Ran followed Mao Li Kogoro back to the office.

Conan and Yusaku Kudo did not stay in the hotel for long. After all, Yusaku Kudo's "son" and Conan's "distant cousin" Shinichi Kudo is still missing.

It is already outrageous that Yusaku Kudo reads novels and goes out to save people.

After everyone else left, Lin Longma did not choose to stay in the suite for long. The family doctor of the Xinming family had already given a definite answer that Mr. Xinming would probably not survive tonight.

Next is the time for the Xinming family, and Lin Longma doesn’t plan to disturb them.

What's more, the task that Shiratori asked him to do has been completed, and Lin Longma has enough information to hand over.

Under the night sky, the black Maybach taillights drew two streaks of light and finally arrived at the Yixinhui stronghold.

In the lounge of the base, the hungry Shiratori was eating a midnight snack. When Lin Longma walked in, he happened to see him enjoying his meal.

"How long have you not eaten? Are you really planning to work hard by not eating or sleeping?"

Shiratori picked up the oolong tea on the table, put the food in his mouth down, and sighed heavily.

"I can't help it. All the clues about the criminal agency have been cut off. There are so many people in the headquarters investigating. I can't just go off work leisurely and on time while everyone else is getting anxious and anxious, right?"

The original scale of the investigation headquarters that Shiratori was in charge of was not large, but after he captured several peripheral members of the executive department and proved that there was indeed a criminal organization of unknown size hidden in Tokyo, the Investigation Section 1 gradually provided Shiratori with some personnel reinforcements.

If Shiratori can follow the clues and find out something useful, there is no doubt that after Administrator Matsumoto Kiyonaga is promoted, Shiratori will be the strongest candidate for the next Administrator.

However, if the higher authorities just give the people and money, the investigation into this criminal organization will come to a standstill or even make no progress. There may not be any punishment, but Shiratori's ambition of getting promoted early will definitely not be realized.

Although Shiratori's gold watch group belongs to the "privileged class" of the police force, they do not need to make any meritorious contributions and will be automatically promoted once the time is up.

But for the same police rank, the powers held are different due to different positions.

At the beginning, the inspector and deputy inspector are actually in the internship stage of the gold watch group. Their serious career only officially begins at the stage of superintendent.

They are both superintendents, so can the management officer of the Criminal Division be the same as the management officer of the Archives Room?

The value of a Superintendent of a local police station and that of a Superintendent of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department is even more different.

Being successfully promoted to Superintendent of Police in the Investigation Division and starting to be in charge of administrative management will obviously be of great benefit to Shiratori's future.

"By the way, have you found out anything about the Kudo family?" Lin Ryoma could see that Shiratori was really anxious at the moment.

Everyone placed their hopes on him, an "outsider".

But he didn't disappoint Shiratori.

"Kudo Yusaku is not an easy person to deal with. He was originally a consultant for your Investigation Division.

You should know how difficult it is to get information out of him. But we are lucky today."

When Lin Longma said the first half of the sentence, Bai Niao could not hide his disappointment, but when he heard Lin Longma say "but", his eyes suddenly lit up.

"I bumped into Kudo Yusaku at the Haido City Hotel today." Hayashi Ryoma slowly told Shiratori about the novelist's "disappearance" incident. Hayashi Ryoma only briefly mentioned the part about Shinname Rentaro and Shinname Kaori, which was not the main point.

The key point is that when Hayashi Ryoma and his group arrived at Haido City Hotel, they happened to meet Kudo Yusaku and Conan who had arrived here earlier.

"Do you think a father who just discovered that his only son is missing would really have the leisure to read a mystery novel, find a message for help from the novel, and then take his elementary school students to the scene to 'save people'?"

Neither Hayashi Ryoma nor Shiratori had any doubts about Kudo Yusaku's reasoning ability.

His record is there. He is the first generation of Inspector Megure's "personal detective".

If Kudo Shinichi had been missing for a long time, such as three to five months, or a year or two, Shiratori would have understood why Kudo Yusaku had done such a thing.

People always have to live and look forward. No one can keep their nerves tense and never relax.

It's reasonable for Kudo Yusaku to read novels since the child has been lost for a long time.

But the question is, it has only been about a week since Kudo Yusaku reported to the police that Kudo Shinichi was missing. In such a short time, has Kudo Yusaku been able to get over the blow of the disappearance of his only son?
Are you even willing to meet another mystery novelist as a reader?

Hayashi Ryoma defined Kudo Yusaku's behavior of going to Haido City Hotel as a "face-to-face meeting behavior."

Even he, a person without any reasoning skills, could see that Shinmei Rentaro was not in any danger, and it was even more impossible for a seasoned detective like Kudo Yusaku to fail to see it.

If Shinmei Rentaro really needed someone to "save" him, it would be reasonable for Kudo Yusaku to go there at this time. But Shinmei Rentaro didn't need anyone to save him, he just wanted to get some sense of accomplishment and happiness.

Kudo Yusaku saw this clearly - otherwise he would not have brought an elementary school student with him and went to the meeting at Beido City Hotel alone without even calling the police.

"There's something wrong with Kudo Yusaku!" Shiratori agreed very much with Hayashi Ryoma's judgment. After Hayashi Ryoma said this, Shiratori also realized that Kudo Yusaku didn't seem to be as anxious and worried about his son's disappearance:
"But he still called the police. Why?"

"Tell me, is this possible?" Lin Longma's eyes flashed, and then he began to help Bai Niao analyze:

"Yusaku Kudo's act of calling the police, including contacting friends to help find the child, was not a genuine intention to call the police.

Did he make this specifically for someone else to see?"

"You mean?!" Shiratori understood immediately.

He himself suspected that Kudo Shinichi's disappearance was related to the [crime agency] he was investigating. Didn't Kudo Yusaku's act of "making a false report to the police" prove this point from the side?

"I mean, the criminal agency you are investigating may not be the one that caused Kudo Shinichi's disappearance, but the one that made Kudo Yusaku so fearful that he even had to call the police to confuse people is definitely not someone you can easily deal with.

Since there is no progress in the investigation of the criminal agency, why not start with Kudo Shinichi?"

"Even though Kudo Shinichi can't be found, Kudo Yusaku and Kudo Yukiko can't run away."

"That makes sense, you're right, Ryoma!" Shiratori didn't care about eating at this moment. He stood up excitedly and rushed out.

"I have to leave first. I'll contact you when I'm done!"

(End of this chapter)