Arriving at the edge of the alley, Kogoro Mori looked inside the alley – although it wasn't a professional road, it was surprisingly wide and unobstructed, making it completely accessible to vehicles.

Where does the road lead? If you can avoid the congestion, why doesn't anyone walk this way?

"Old woman," Mori Kogoro asked an old woman walking by with a cane next to her. "Where does this road lead?"

"This way?" The old woman replied after glancing at Kogoro Mori. "This road is what we used to go back after we have gone through a fork in the road."

"What does that mean?" Mori Kogoro was puzzled.

"You're not a local, are you?" The old woman asked.

"It's really not, so I hope the old woman will teach me." Kogoro Mori nodded.

"The ramp design of this section of the road is very unreasonable, and the distance between the two ramps before and after the Xidu apartment is very far away from the Xidu apartment, so newcomers who are slightly unfamiliar with it may go wrong when they come here. And this alley is actually a remedy for this failed design—it leads to a tree-lined path that has long been recognized as a remedy for accidentally overdoing it. If you turn back to the Xidu Apartment from here, it may only take four or five minutes to get to the bottom of the Xidu Apartment. If you continue to be stuck in traffic on the main road, it may take more than 30 minutes to leave this traffic jam. ”

"You mean to say that if you walk this way, you can get to the Xidu Apartment in a few minutes?" Kogoro Mori was pleasantly surprised.

"Yes," the old woman nodded. "If you walk a little ahead, you will see a tree-lined path on the left, which is open to traffic, and several people walk from that side every day. Don't worry too much, everyone knows each other's difficulties, so they won't be too difficult with each other. ”

"Okay, thank you, mother-in-law." After Kogoro Mori bowed to the old woman, he immediately walked forward.

I didn't expect that there really was such a shortcut here...... With this shortcut, Sakata might be able to arrive at the Nishito apartment before Heiji Hattori and Conan rush back, and a situation like the testimony provided by Miss Hotaru could occur.

Halfway through, Kogoro Mori's footsteps suddenly stopped—he saw a bank.

There will definitely be something like a burglar camera in a place like a bank, and if the angle of the camera is good enough, it might be able to capture the situation on the road...... If a police car had been driving by this side, such a conspicuous car would have been easy to see from the camera.

But how do you convince them to provide you with the video?

Some helpless eyes suddenly turned into stunned.

In front of Kogoro Mori, Conan and Heiji Hattori walked out of the bank.

The eyes of the three men met.

"Uncle?"

"Mr. Maori?"

"Conan? Black...... Hattori? ”

……

"Uncle, have you found a problem too?" After exchanging the information he had, Hattori Heiji sighed. "In that case, it seems that Sakata really has a problem."

"yes," Mori Kogoro nodded. "The whole process is basically complete, and the available evidence is consistent with Officer Sakata's condition."

But the available evidence is not enough, and at most it can only prove that Sakata behaved abnormally, and cannot prove that he was involved in the case.

"By the way, we were going to go to the councilor's house called Tsuji!" Heiji Hattori suddenly thought of something. "That's what Sakata told us, and it's clear he's encouraging us to go over there!"

"Councillor?" Mori Kogoro apparently didn't know who this person was. "Uh, anyway, it's possible that he was the person Sakata wanted to kill?"

"That's right!" Hattori nodded. "Although it is not yet known what happened, if you look carefully for the historical documents related to Sakata, you may be able to find something suspicious - this kind of thing that is enough for him to kill them is basically difficult to have to do with the life of someone close to Sakata.

"So, let's go to Senator Kaji's house with Sakata and see how he reacts?" Kogoro Maori proposed.

"Yes," Hattori nodded. "But we also have to find a way to find out if anything has happened before, and only by knowing Sakata can we know what he wants to do."

"Why don't we let them check on Qianyu?" Conan, who had not spoken before, suddenly proposed. "Qianyu seems to have found a lot of things in the file when Ayumi disappeared before, maybe he can find out something this time?" (Chapters 13-17)

"That kid?" Mori Kogoro thought about it. "Like you four-eyed imp, you can always find some trivial details, maybe they can be useful."

"I think so, that guy's brains are flexible." Heiji Hattori also agreed.

……

At 7:45 p.m., the house of Councillor His.

Mori Kogoro came out of a window, the room where Senator was now, and based on previous investigations, it was probably an office-like place.

Now, the curtains in this room have all been drawn, and even the lights have been extinguished—but after the testimony of the police officers who were guarding the main hall of Senator's house, Senator should still be in this room by now.

"Are you there, Councillor Us? I'm Detective Kogoro Mori commissioned by the police. Mori Kogoro said in a deep voice. Don't worry, I have no ill will towards you, I just want to ask you, do you remember the instructor Mr. who died young sixteen years ago?

About half a minute later, the curtain was slammed open a small corner, and Councillor Tsuji's suspicious face appeared on the other side of the window. "What are you doing here?"

"Is there someone who wants to settle accounts with you about sixteen years ago, and then ask you out alone?" Mori Kogoro went straight to the road - if Sakata wanted to do it, he would definitely not be able to break into Longtan alone, and he could only trick the person he wanted to kill first, and then assassinate him, just like he did with Okazaki Sumie. “

"You...... How many things do you know? Senator's expression was puzzled.

"I know enough to keep you from being a councilor," Kogoro Mori said lightly. "Don't be so wary of me, if I don't care about you, you may not even be a living person, you can only be a specimen. So I'd like you to offer me some help. ”

"What do you need?" Councillor Tsuji asked. "Now that you know everything, what else do you need me to give you?"

"Of course," Kogoro Maori said. "I don't have a weapon, so I'm here to borrow one from you—I've done my research, and you've been interviewed in a kimono and with a katana before, and you've got the support of a lot of old people, right?"

"I didn't ask for much, I just wanted to borrow that katana."