"This...sir..."

Since Yoruichi Toyama and Kogoro Mouri were clearly acquainted, Mr. Tsujimura's wording retained the necessary politeness.

Who knew that this fellow only glanced at him before turning to Lady Tsujimura and saying earnestly, "Madam, go and turn yourself in."

"Your actions just now constitute attempted murder."

Everyone in the room was speechless.

Didn't you hear us talking about how you left to take care of the patient for a while? When you came back, we had a lot of discussions.

We've all decided to let this go, so why don't you just tell us to turn ourselves in?

Does he not understand Japanese or what?

Mrs. Tsujimura stood there stunned for a long time, her body gradually beginning to tremble.

"What...what did you say? You want me...to go to jail?"

“But Mr. Toyama, Madam hasn’t done anything yet!” Ran, full of sympathy, also tried to defend Madam Tsujimura.

Yuanshan Yezhi shrugged.

"Yes, if my cat hadn't stopped it in time..."

In the laws he knew, attempted crime and unfinished crime were not treated as separate legal acts.

However, given the laws in Japan, they probably won't even be sentenced.

These might be familiar to Kogoro Mouri and Heiji Hattori, but Mrs. Tsujimura probably wouldn't be able to tell them apart.

The crime was already in the execution stage, yet she was allowed to gloss over it without mentioning it. Toyama Yoruichi, who always considered herself a police officer, couldn't get over this hurdle.

Mrs. Tsujimura, however, quickly resigned herself to her fate.

"You're right, no matter what, I'm already a murderer caught in the act..."

"Hey, wait!" It was Mr. Tsujimura, who had already fallen out with her, who interrupted her in an urgent tone.

"You woman, use your brain! If you turn yourself in, our whole family will be implicated!"

"And you..."

The diplomat, who was already trying her best to keep her position from being threatened, turned her gaze toward Yoruichi Toyama with ever-increasing coldness.

"Who exactly are you? A police officer?"

"Even the police..."

Mr. Tsujimura didn't even take ordinary police officers seriously.

Even someone like Heiji Hattori, the son of a high-ranking police officer, can only negotiate with him within a certain range. He's not like Yoruichi Toyama, who, upon returning, wants to overturn the table and expose all the inside stories to the light of day.

During his 20-year political career, Mr. Tsujimura accumulated far more than just the "insider information" he uncovered regarding framing Kenji Yamashiro.

If someone uses this as a starting point to dig deeper, they might even uncover the forces behind it...

Thinking about all this, Mr. Tsujimura became even more determined to suppress the situation.

He had already begun to think about which high-ranking police officials he could speak with.

Yoruichi Toyama, however, seemed completely oblivious to the impending disaster, and continued to laugh nonchalantly, saying, "But I'm not a police officer!"

"I'm just an ordinary detective."

"Hey!" Hattori Heiji couldn't stand it anymore and ran over to pull him away. "You don't have any connections with the police, so why are you meddling in all this?"

"Yes, young man, it's good to have a sense of justice, but you have to use it in the right place!"

Kogoro Mouri also spoke up at the opportune moment.

Rather than acting like a senior figure to lecture others, or simply trying to calm things down for the diplomat, it seemed more like he was protecting Yoruichi Toyama in his own way.

This is a younger colleague whom he has always disliked.

Realizing this, Yoruichi Toyama turned her head and smiled, trying to soften her tone.

"Since Mr. Mori has mentioned justice..."

"So you think that the matter at hand doesn't require the presence of justice?"

"W-what..."

Kogoro Mouri was speechless.

Although before Conan arrived, he was just a second-rate detective who investigated extramarital affairs and found pets, it was precisely because of this that he was able to come into contact with a more complex and multifaceted society.

Having witnessed too many tangled and muddled situations where it was impossible to determine who was in the right, he came to appreciate the value of the word "justice" even more.

Because the incident they faced involved a political background, it was indeed impossible to simply seek justice.

Politics is a dark thing; there is no justice to speak of.

A very simple example: is it true that Mr. Tsujimura framed Kenji Yamashiro back then, as Mrs. Tsujimura said?

It is well known that for Japanese politicians, if it is just a "minor matter" like corruption, the worst that can happen is that they resign.

Those who could actually go to jail for this crime are probably low-level clerks in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Since neither Kenji Yamashiro nor Isao Tsujimura, who was competing with him for the same promotion, were figures with any real power, how much influence did Isao Tsujimura have to frame Kenji Yamashiro?

In other words, even if Tsujimura Isao did this under the instructions of the forces he relied on, what about the forces behind Yamashiro Kenji?

Whether Kenji Yamashiro was simply incapable of being developed and was abandoned by his own camp, or whether he was sacrificed to save the king, one thing is certain: the act of "embezzlement" did indeed occur.

So the most likely explanation is either Tsujimura Isao's superior or Yamashiro Kenji's superior.

This is just a small ripple in a long-standing struggle between opposing factions.

As for Tsujimura Isao and Yamashiro Kenji, they were at most just pawns.

There is no justice or injustice here, only filth.

Kogoro could barely guess these inside stories, but for Mrs. Tsujimura, who had always been a housewife, they were far too complicated and incomprehensible.

Her stance is the same as that of ordinary people who are misled by those politicians; they can only see the surface, or the surface that the politicians want them to see.

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