Ke Xue: Shinichi and I are childhood friends.

Chapter 1357 Hattori Heiji: A Long and Arduous Road Ahead

All eyes were on Tsurumi Shamoto.

She immediately became agitated and argued loudly, "What a joke! When that officer fell down the stairs, I was handcuffed and leaning against a lamppost in the bicycle parking lot!"

Sato Miwako guessed, "Is it possible that you are lying? You could have easily taken the handcuffs from Inspector Hikaka after he fell down the stairs and handcuffed yourself there."

Tsurumi Shamoto exclaimed, "If it were just handcuffs, that would be possible, but my handcuffs are also locked with the bicycle's anti-theft lock!"

She looked at Takagi Wataru: "Hey, when you found me, wasn't I locked to a lamppost?"

Takagi Wataru said, "That's right..."

Tsurumi Shamoto shouted, "Then you have to explain to that masked man for me that I could never do those things!"

"It's not that it's impossible," Yuya said calmly.

Everyone looked at Yuya in surprise.

Yuya calmly said, "Seeing is believing, let's do an experiment. Officer Takagi, may I borrow your hands and handcuffs?"

"Huh? Oh!" Takagi Wataru quickly took out his handcuffs.

Yuya first handcuffed Takagi Wataru, then locked him with the bicycle's anti-theft cable, with Sato Miwako holding the other end.

"Next, thread the steel cable through the gap in the handcuff rings, let your fist go through the loop of the steel cable, and finally just pull the steel cable out."

Takagi Wataru gave an awkward smile: "This won't do, will it?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Sato Miwako pulled the steel cable and actually separated from the handcuffs.

Takagi Wataru exclaimed, "It's really untied!"

Sato Miwako said admiringly, "So that's how it was solved! I've learned something. I'll have to be careful next time I use this method."

Yuya nodded slightly: "As long as the steel cable goes through the iron ring of the handcuffs, it won't be able to be untied no matter how many times it's threaded through them."

Miwako Sato pinched her chin and began to summarize:

"In other words, Ms. Shamoto used this method to untie the steel cable, but because the police station is right across from the parking lot, she cannot escape from here."

So you planned to leave through the shrine, but you were discovered by Inspector Hikari halfway through. When you were about to be caught up on the stairs, you found a bucket of water that had frozen into ice. You then used the bucket to beat Inspector Hikari, causing him to fall down the stairs and die.

After that, fearing discovery, Inspector Hikari had already informed his associates that if you fled directly, you would become a wanted murderer. So, like the masked boy, you forged the murder weapon and returned to the parking lot, pretending you had been there all along.

“But unfortunately,” Sato Miwako said coldly, “we have just confirmed that Inspector Hikari’s forehead wound matches the shape of that bucket, and we also found his blood on it. In the end, all we need to do is find your fingerprints on it to convict him!”

She looked at Tsurumi Shimoto: "I imagine that in that situation, you didn't have time to put on gloves or deal with your fingerprints, right?"

Tsurumi Shamoto's face twisted in agony, and she finally collapsed to her knees, wailing, "Damn it! If only I hadn't done those things, and had just run away..."

Hattori Heiji snorted coldly: "There's no difference. In this day and age, there are cameras everywhere, and everyone's phone has a camera function. If someone takes a picture of you and calls the police, you're still finished once you're caught."

"Hiding won't help. Can you hide forever? The police will find you sooner or later."

These words were spoken with great force, completely overwhelming Tsurumi Shamoto.

Conan and Yu, who were standing nearby, also showed expressions of disdain.

You, who's wearing a mask and trying to escape Toyama Kazuha's eyes, what right do you have to talk about others!

The case was successfully solved, and Sato Miwako left with two wanted criminals and one who had been promoted to murderer.

Conan tilted his head back and asked Heiji Hattori, "By the way, Hattori, what kind of name do you think would be made up on the spot?"

“If that’s what you’re asking…” Hattori Heiji squatted down in front of Conan and said, “I also know someone like that.”

"Who? Who is it?" Conan asked anxiously.

Heiji Hattori lifted his mask and chuckled, "Edogawa Conan, it's you!"

Yu also smiled knowingly; he thought so too.

Conan's lips twitched, and he said somewhat speechlessly, "This isn't about me!" He knew that he had only thought of it in a moment of panic when he saw the books on the bookshelf, how could he have considered everything so thoroughly?

Heiji Hattori was just joking. He stroked his chin thoughtfully and said, "Besides you, I remember you guys encountered Phantom Thief Kid at the villa in the mountains before, didn't you?"

"Didn't he disassemble and reassemble the characters to create the name Doi Takaki?"

Disassembling and recombining characters... are they words with the same characters but in different orders? That is indeed one approach.

Just as they were thinking, Kazuha Toyama suddenly appeared: "Mitsumoto, you and Conan are really close."

Hattori Heiji was startled and quickly put his mask back on, trying to fool everyone with a laugh.

Just then, a lot of girls screamed from the side.

"Wow, it's Hikaru no Hikaru from Naniwa Shoujo!"

"Are you here to ask for a talisman and a sacred seal for your girlfriend?"

A voice with an Osaka accent, yet sounding completely unfamiliar: "No, no, I just have a hobby of collecting goshuin (temple stamps)..."

Yuya and the other two were stunned at the same time. That person was Hikaru no Hyōga himself? No, that voice is completely different from Hattori Heiji's current fake voice.

Hattori Heiji suddenly felt a chill down his spine. He stiffened and turned around, only to see Toyama Kazuha smiling at him.

"Ah, no, this is..." Hattori Heiji instinctively tried to run away, but Toyama Kazuha took a step forward and ripped off his mask.

"Stop pretending, Heiji, you idiot! I recognized you a long time ago!"

"I..." Now that things had come to this, Hattori Heiji stopped pretending, coughed loudly, and then looked at Toyama Kazuha and said, "That's right, I'm here to get the amulet for good fortune."

"Because of a certain girl, I need to ask the God of Fate for some magical power to help me."

Yuya and the others' eyes lit up as they stared intently at the two of them—were they finally going to confess to each other face to face?

Kazuha Toyama paused for a moment, her face flushing slightly: "I see."

She paused, then said something that shocked everyone: "Who is that person?"

"Huh?" Hattori Heiji was also dumbfounded.

Kazuha Toyama said angrily, "I'm asking you, who do you want to be bound to?!"

Not only was Hattori Heiji silent, but Yuya and the others were also rendered speechless, and even the bystanders who were watching the commotion were dumbfounded.

Is that right? No way! Heiji Hattori is definitely talking about you!

Heiji Hattori was speechless.

Kazuha Toyama pressed, "I... I'm practically your older sister, so I feel I have the right to know!"

"Sister, big sister?" Hattori Heiji paused for a moment, then called out, "Don't say such discouraging things, you idiot!"

"Huh?!" Kazuha Toyama was furious. "You're the one who spoils the fun! Wearing a mask and sneaking around like that, I don't know what you're doing!"

Yuu covered her face: "My God, when will these two finally understand each other's feelings?"

Shiho Miyano shrugged: "It seems they still have a long way to go."

"Sigh!" The group let out a long sigh, feeling utterly exhausted.

Hattori Heiji, you have a long way to go!