July 7th.

"What are you doing?" Ayakoji Wenlu looked at the policeman who turned around in a bit of a panic and asked.

"Forehead......" The policeman glanced at the squirrel on his shoulder, and then looked at Ayakoji Fumiro with some hesitation.

"Tell me!" Ayakoji narrowed his eyes and said in a bland but threatening tone.

With this extremely emotional sentence, the squirrel of Ayakoji Wenlu, who was lying on the policeman's shoulder, suddenly began to be restless, and then slowly crawled to the policeman's neck, and his small paws were on the policeman's skin.

One of the things that is very famous in the search lesson - being interrogated by Ayakoji Fumiro is quite a bad thing, because his little squirrel is also one of the methods he uses to pressurize the interrogated person. The little squirrel was able to anticipate Ayakoji's mood based on Ayakoji's tone, and then take action as much as he could on the subject of the question.

"......" The policeman hesitated for a moment, but still nodded - after all, it was only Matsumoto Kiyonaga who asked him about a case two years ago, probably not a serious problem, right? Even if he asked for secrecy in the end, it was probably only because he didn't want others to rob him of his credit...... Right?

"That's it...... The management officer of the Metropolitan Police Department asked me about the details and related information about the fire that occurred at the Vega Hotel two years ago. He replied.

"Oh?" Ayakoji frowned. "Matsumoto Supervisor himself asked you?"

While it is true that Matsumoto is nominally in charge of this case, it is not uncommon for such a general manager to investigate such trivial matters.

"It's true!" The policeman nodded hurriedly. "He also specifically asked me to keep it a secret! I must have hoped that I would be alone in the discovery of this evidence! ”

"Confidential......" Ayakoji frowned.

Doing this kind of thing at such a critical juncture as solving a case is not what a professional police officer should do, and anyone who has such an idea and puts it into action is within the contempt of Ayakoji Fumi.

However, in the impression of the previous meetings, this does not seem to be the style of Matsumoto management officer! He's a man who's quite fanatical about his job, and such selfish behavior really doesn't look like him.

Unless...... Did he do it as a last resort? If that's the case, asking for secrecy is tantamount to saying that there are spies!

Ayakoji's brow tightened. "I know, you go back to work first, and I'll take care of the rest."

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"Got a spy?" Conan answered the phone, confused. "How do you know?"

"The management officer Matsumoto secretly asked the police on our side about the fire at the Vega Hotel two years ago, so I have doubts about it." Ayakoji replied. "Because I don't have the landline number of Mr. Mori's office, and I have your contact information, I came back to contact you and asked you to tell Mr. Mori."

"Okay, I'll tell Uncle Maori right away." Conan was perfunctory like this, and then listened to the busy sound coming from the receiver because the other party voluntarily hung up the phone.

Hanging up the phone, Conan quietly looked at Shuichi Akai and Yusaku Kudo, who were sitting next to him.

"What do you think?" Conan asked.

"What do you say?" Yusaku Kudo asked rhetorically.

"Probably that's him, right?" Akai Shu nodded.

Known:

1. Organize a meeting time for a serial murder case that someone knows about in theory, which should only be known to police officers everywhere.

2. The organization did not interfere with the investigation of the Metropolitan Police Department, and did not even do anything like stealing information.

3. The FBI spied on Belmode, who was still on the daily routine of the newly released clinic.

Deduction:

1. There must be people in the organization who have a way to learn about the work of the Metropolitan Police Department, or at least the relevant affairs of the police headquarters in the area where the crime occurred.

2. Organizations don't need to go to great lengths to steal the information that the Metropolitan Police Department has, and in combination with the previous point, it is likely that they have access to all the first-hand information held by the Metropolitan Police Department, so they don't need to take any risks.

3. Belmode is the best person in the organization at stealing into the work, if the organization didn't use her at all, it's just two reasons.

I: The organization is worried that Belmode's dispatch will make some people wary of infiltrating the disguise, and dispatching certain infiltrators who are not as professional as Belmode, but also have some strength, can better maintain confidentiality, and even use Belmode's mindset of not being dispatched to improve the infiltration success of infiltrators.

But the problem is that Belmode, who used to pretend to be the new doctor, also used to be very arrogant to hang up a vacation card and then disappear, so it is very likely that she will not care about this at all.

So, is the reason different from Reason II from Reason I?

II: Due to hardware issues, even Belmode was unable to complete the disguise.

What aspects to emphasize when changing faces?

The first is height, and perhaps short people can indeed disguise themselves as tall (but at the cost of wearing very high heels, which can cause pain and slight inconvenience when walking, otherwise they need to wear very wide trench coats and flatform shoes). But it's an unlikely job for a tall person to disguise himself as short - the inherent length of the bones is there, and even with techniques such as bone shrinking or body twisting, it is impossible to turn a woman over 1.7 meters tall into a short figure of less than 1.6 meters.

The second is the figure, considering that Belmode's public identity is a movie star, so the figure is also quite good among women, so naturally there is no need to worry about the situation that the cross-dressing object is thinner than herself. But if the other person is too much fatter than you, then you need a lot of fillers to make up for it. Even if the figure supported by such a filler can hide people's eyes and ears in a static situation, once it comes into contact with a person, the skin supported by the filler does not have any sensory functions related to perception at all, and at the same time, it does not have any temperature at all. Such a non-functional body would not only make anyone who comes into contact with him aware of it, but it would also not be able to perform the functions of daily life - imagine that a person who plans his course of action according to his slender body suddenly has a fat body of more than 100 kilograms, and even the way of movement that is already quite familiar in daily life may be in danger.

The Metropolitan Police Department police are not so short that Belmode cannot be disguised, nor are they so tall that Belmode can be very troublesome in disguise.

However, the Metropolitan Police Department has a person who is strong enough that Belmode would be inconvenient for cross-dressing, and he does have the ability to send all the information known to the Metropolitan Police Department for the organization.

Search Section Management Officer, Kiyonaga Matsumoto!