Conan and Gin are both my brothers, what's wrong with meeting them once?

Conan and Hattori were speechless at Kudo Kazuma's cosplay performance.

Hattori Heizo, however, seemed to have thought of something, and couldn't help but chuckle before turning and leaving with Toyama Ginjiro.

Hattori Heiji asked Kudo Kazuma with some curiosity, "What's wrong with you?"

Kudo Kazuma glanced at him, coughed a few times, and said, "I'm not crazy. I just saw that person was willing to burn himself to death, and my sense of justice was accidentally triggered... cough cough..."

"It's unbelievable that someone would be so ruthless. If I don't find him, my title as the Detective of the Heart will be meaningless."

As he spoke, he grabbed Conan and turned to Hattori Heiji, saying, "You two come here and tell me about the clues you've obtained. I want to take a good look at who this person really is."

Given that Kazuma Kudo grabbed Conan and turned to leave, Heiji Hattori had to choose between the clue and Kudo.

Is there even a need to choose? We can find clues later anyway.

So he followed them.

After walking for a while after crossing the bridge, when only the three of them were left, Conan, who was being carried by his younger brother, said speechlessly, "So, what did you find out? Why did you suddenly do this?"

Kazuma Kudo shrugged: "There's nothing I can do. I think I accidentally messed up Director Hattori's plans, so I'm trying to find a way to salvage the situation."

As he spoke, he glanced at a corner not far away, coughed a few times, and asked, "So, Director Hattori, it's alright for me to be the bait, isn't it?"

Under the incredulous gazes of Conan and Heiji Hattori, Heizo Hattori and Ginjiro Toyama emerged from a dark corner not far away.

Hattori Heizo frowned slightly: "This is a matter for the Osaka Prefectural Police. There's no need for you, an ordinary citizen, to be used as bait."

Kazuma Kudo shrugged: "It doesn't matter. Hattori is my friend. If he can do it, I should be fine too, right?"

Does that mean that only Osaka playboys are worthy of being fish bait?

Ginjiro Toyama spoke up, "I heard Heiji say that you're not in good health, are you? Even now, you don't seem to be doing well... We need to consider your safety."

Kudo Kazuma coughed a few times, then smiled and shook his head: "Well, you two can rest assured. Those few people won't affect my safety."

Just kidding, it's just a small criminal gang from who-knows-where. The threat posed by such people is not as serious as the wind and rain tonight.

Hattori Heizo ultimately agreed to Kudo Kazuma's idea.

After all, opportunities are fleeting, and it would be best to take this opportunity to wipe out the original target, Kasaya Arihiro, and his gang in one fell swoop.

"Then I'll follow Hattori and Conan. Chief Hattori, you can proceed according to the original plan."

After making their appointment, Kazuma Kudo, carrying Conan, returned to the crime scene on the bridge with Heiji Hattori.

On the way back, Hattori Heiji suddenly realized: "Wait! You said I could do it, so of course you could too... Does that mean they're planning to use me as bait to lure the real culprit out?"

He had been pondering who the real culprit was, whether Kudo Kazuma and his father Hattori Heizo knew who the real culprit was, and what plans Kudo Kazuma had disrupted his father's. Only now did he suddenly realize this problem.

Kudo Kazuma coughed awkwardly twice: "Can I say that I don't actually know the detailed plan either?"

Because he genuinely couldn't remember the details.

Based on general memory and understanding of the case, it can only be guessed that the murderer is the squinty-eyed man impersonating Oda Nobunaga; while the Osaka police's real target is Kasuya Arihiro, who is impersonating Tokugawa Ieyasu... that is, the old man who is suspected to be a master's student of Agasa.

He truly knew nothing else.

Hattori Heiji was immediately filled with questions: "You don't know the detailed plan? Then how did you reach an agreement with my dad and the others?"

Kazuma Kudo shrugged: "To put it simply, cough cough, it's that there's someone in that tour group who has a henchman and might even be carrying a gun."

"He, like the murderer, is searching for some kind of treasure. Anyway, I didn't pay attention to what you were talking about, just get the gist of it."

Conan sighed: "It's the treasure that Toyotomi Hideyoshi recorded on that dragon scroll."

"Pretty much, that's the one. That guy formed a small criminal gang in search of that treasure, and it seems they've committed a series of robberies before... The Osaka police found him this time, but these guys are very cunning. They can quickly sense if there are police nearby, so... you know."

Hattori Heiji looked speechless: "So my dad originally wanted me to be the bait, to lure that guy and his cronies into a trap under the guise of finding the real culprit, and then let the police catch them all in one fell swoop?"

Kazuma Kudo tilted his head: "That should be it, right? It's just that I filmed the murderer's method on the bridge that time, which prevented you, the hot-blooded detective, from getting too excited, and your dad didn't have time to slap you. I was just worried that his plan wouldn't be able to go on, so I offered myself up as bait."

Hattori Heiji was taken aback: "A slap?"

It is said that no one knows a son better than his father, and the reverse is also true.

Upon hearing what Kudo Kazuma said, Hattori Heiji quickly grasped his father's train of thought and immediately retorted irritably, "What a joke! If he wants me to be his bait, he can just say so! Why all the beating around the bush? How infuriating!"

Kudo Kazuma coughed a few times, then chuckled and said, "To be honest, your hot-bloodedness and fighting skills, which are enough to protect you, actually make you quite suitable as bait. But since you already know about this, it's not about deduction anymore, it's about acting skills..."

Hattori Heiji's face darkened: "Enough with the nagging!"

After complaining a bit about his father, he naturally chose to cooperate.

The three quickly returned to the crime scene.

They happened to run into the remaining three members of that tour group.

Apart from Kato, who was killed in the explosion on the roof of the castle tower, and Katagiri Maho, who played Nene, and was killed under the bridge, there are now only three people left in that tour group.

Upon returning to the scene, Kudo Kazuma used the pretext of examining the corpse to absorb Katagiri Maho's soul.

Conan and Heiji Hattori asked the three a few questions, and then they left the scene with Kazuma Kudo, who was determined to find out who the real culprit was.

Conan glanced at his younger brother, who didn't seem to be in good spirits: "So, Kazuma, you don't already know who the culprit is, do you?"

Kazuma Kudo nodded: "Squinty eyes, huh? Don't ask me how I know, it's just my sixth sense."

The ability to detect malice with the [Spirit Awareness Technique] and the ability to see souls with the [Yin-Yang Twin Eyes]—how can these not be considered a sixth sense?