Although Kurobe and others were dissatisfied with Karasuma Gaki's request for leave, there was nothing they could do. The Neon Internet Association had informed them to try their best to meet his requirements.

Although I don’t understand why the Tennis Association is so... servile, even if he is the son of a wealthy chaebol family, he shouldn’t be a threat to the Tennis Association, right?

The next day, Karasuma Gaki drove to the Metropolitan Police Department to attend a meeting. Kogoro Mori was also a weirdo. He proposed at yesterday's meeting to investigate whether the deceased was a mahjong friend, because everyone had a mahjong piece next to them.

The results of today’s survey showed that no one plays mahjong.

During the meeting, Megure Jusan suddenly proposed, "If Kudo were here at this time..."

"Inspector Megure, the Kudo you are talking about, are you referring to the Kudo Shinichi who died in a car accident?" Karasuma Gaki was sitting next to Megure Juzo.

"Eh~ He has passed away for a long time. I was talking about an elementary school detective who often came up with interesting suggestions, Kudo Shinji." Megure Jusan recalled that he hadn't seen Kudo Shinji for a while.

"By the way, brother Mori, isn't Kudo Shinji staying at your house? Why haven't I seen him recently?" Megure Jusan turned his head to look at Mori Kogoro who was sitting on the other side.

"Ah? Haha, I don't know. It seems like... he was taken back by his parents. Yusaku asked me not to tell anyone." Maori Kogoro remembered that the Kudo couple asked them not to tell anyone about Kudo Shinji's whereabouts, but when he thought that everyone present were police officers, there should be no problem.

"He was kidnapped some time ago, and Yusaku took him back. But he was worried that he would be kidnapped again, so he never came back." Kogoro Mouri said seriously.

"Oh, that's it. I understand." Megure Jusan nodded.

When everyone was at a loss, Officer Yamato Gansuke, who was leaning on a cane, received a call, "The male suspect in the serial shark cases may show up in Beika City."

Yamato is a police officer from Nagano Prefecture. He came to Karasuma Gaki with a cane and put the suspect's photo in front of him and Megure Juzo. "Fakase Minoru, 27 years old, Jinno Shuhei who was killed in Usui-Ryō was seriously injured by Fukase with a knife a year ago. He is currently wanted."

All the officers left their seats and stepped forward to listen to the news. "I have sent my men to monitor his girlfriend. I learned that his girlfriend came to Tokyo from Nagano and got off at Beika Station. She is Risa Yoshii, 21 years old."

Yamato pulled out another photo of Yoshii from his pocket, "Working at a small bar in Nagano City."

"So what was the motive of the man named Fukase to stabbed Jinno?" asked Karasuma Gaki.

"It is said that he was resentful because Jinno asked him to put out his cigarette while waiting in line at Tropical Land." Yamato reported the motive of the case to him.

Takagi suddenly had an idea and ran to look up the information. Sato noticed his movement and turned to ask him, "Takagi, have you thought of anything?"

"If I'm not mistaken, maybe all the victims were once lined up in the same team at the same time?" Takagi suggested.

"Please tell me more details." Karasuma Gaki looked up at him.

"Yes!" Gao Mu came to the drawing board, picked up a pen, and began to interpret. "There are two types of mahjong tiles left next to the victim. There is Jinno's one bamboo and another person's seven bamboo."

Gao Mu drew a few circles on the drawing board. "If we put each person in the red circle on their respective mahjong tiles, the victims may have lined up in this order before."

"Yeah, that makes sense!" According to Takagi's speculation, it made some sense, and Megure Jusan agreed.

Then Fukase is very likely the suspect. "Megure, take your men and go with Officer Yamato."

Police officers from all over the country went to the shopping mall where Yoshii was lying in ambush.

Karasuma Gaki sent a message to Vermouth, who would disguise herself as a passerby and pretend to be held hostage by Fukase, take him away from the police encirclement, and then take him away to see if he was the murderer.

Karasuma Gaki continues to maintain the persona of Matsumoto Kiyonaga in the Metropolitan Police Department, while Vermouth has already changed her appearance and is heading to the mall.

The police officers arrived at the mall and set up obvious ambushes on each floor, working in groups of two. Not to be too obvious, Vermouth could tell at a glance who these police officers were monitoring.