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An hour later, thanks to everyone's efforts,
The people trapped inside the building were gradually all rescued.
Matsuda was quite tired after working for so long. After leaving the building, he got into a police car, reclined the seat, lay down, and closed his eyes to rest.
Everyone else was reluctant to disturb him, but for some reason, Moriya Teiji approached the police car where Matsuda was sitting and deliberately provoked him.
"Matsuda Jinpei, I never expected you to be able to do this much,"
"I lost this time. I only thought about Shinichi Kudo, but forgot about the Metropolitan Police Department and you."
"Although I've seen a lot of reports about you in the past month, I didn't take you seriously at first. I thought you were only able to stand out because Shinichi Kudo wasn't in Tokyo."
“That just shows you have no taste,” Matsuda replied calmly.
"I have no taste? Perhaps that's really the case,"
Teiji Moriya looked at the Beika City Tower and muttered to himself.
"Otherwise, such a tainted work would not have been born into the world."
"Is that kind of thing really that important?" Matsuda opened his eyes.
After a busy day, even with his good physical condition, his eyes were bloodshot from fatigue.
"How could you common folk possibly understand my pursuit of the ultimate in art..." Moriya Teiji snorted.
"Your art?" Matsuda looked at the ravaged building before him. "...Is it just an explosion?"
"You're quite pleased with yourself for turning such a perfectly good building into this mess?" Matsuda turned his head.
"I..." Moriya Teiji's expression shifted.
Just as he was about to say something, Xiaolan walked to the police car, hesitating to speak.
"What's wrong?" Matsuda leaned out of the car. "Did something happen again?"
He was really exhausted today. If anything else went wrong, Matsuda estimated he would work himself to death.
"No, no..." Xiaolan hurriedly waved her hand, "I, I just wanted to thank Officer Matsuda."
"Thank me?"
Matsuda leaned against the car door, looking at the girl in front of him.
"What do you want to thank me for?"
Xiao Lan blushed and was about to speak when someone else rushed to answer for her.
"Sister Ran should thank you for saving her!" Conan said expressionlessly.
That bastard Matsuda is flirting with Ran again!
"Yes, that's what Conan said,"
Ran placed her hands in front of her and bowed to Matsuda.
"If it weren't for Officer Matsuda, I might already be..."
"Even without Inspector Matsuda, Shinichi-nii would definitely be able to rescue Ran-neechan!" Conan said hurriedly.
Ran simply snorted coldly at Conan's comment.
"Shinichi, even with such a big incident, he hasn't even shown his face!"
"I bet Shinichi has something to do too..." Conan said awkwardly.
"I almost died, he..."
Ran bit her lip, ignored Conan, bowed to Matsuda again, and then turned and walked away.
"We're doomed..." Conan stood next to the police car, looking dejected.
"It seems that although this building wasn't blown up, my revenge might still have a chance to succeed!"
As Moriya Teiji watched Ran's retreating figure, he suddenly burst into laughter.
Matsuda really didn't want to see this scumbag anymore, so he waved to the detective from the First Division to take Moriya Teiji away.
After the person in the way left, Conan and Matsuda could talk without any more restraint.
"...Thank you for saving Ran," Conan said somewhat awkwardly.
“You don’t need to thank me,” Matsuda yawned. “I didn’t do that just to save Ran.”
“Even though you say that, it’s true that you saved Ran,” Conan shook his head. “If it weren’t for you, I might regret it for the rest of my life.”
"Kid, if you really care about Ran that much, then don't let things like this affect her again!" Matsuda reminded him. "Also, Moriya Teiji's last words just now seemed to be hinting at something, so you'd better be careful."
"That guy just thinks Ran definitely won't forgive me this time, and that we might break up, so that's why he acted that way," Conan said with a straight face. "How could I let him have his way?"
……
“Prosecutor Kujo, this is all the information.” Shiratori handed over the case file.
Seeing Kujo accept these things, Shiratori breathed a sigh of relief.
Several days have passed since the bombing of the Beika City Tower.
The culprit, Teiji Moriya, was arrested, and in addition to blowing up the Beika City Tower,
The previous families included the Sumida Canal Bridge, the Kurokawa family, the Mizushima family, the Yasuda family, the Akutsu family...
These cases, whether involving explosions or arson, were all committed by Teiji Moriya.
The reason is the same as with the Beika City Tower: these buildings were designed by Teiji Moriya.
These are all works that he considers to be tainted in his design career.
After two days of hard work, the team finally had a chance to breathe a sigh of relief after submitting the case files to the prosecutor's office.
Chapter 189 The Media That Distorts the Truth
Because these cases all involve Teiji Moriya, a national treasure-level figure.
Besides the Metropolitan Police Department, the Public Prosecutor's Office has also been in complete disarray lately.
The case changed hands several times before finally ending up in the hands of Reiko Kujo.
"By the way... where is Matsuda? Where is he?" Kujo asked.
This was her first time in the First Division's office since she parted ways with Matsuda.
On the way here, Kujo was filled with anxiety, constantly thinking about how to face Matsuda.
When they arrived at the location, they discovered that Matsuda was not in his office at all.
Even the person in charge of the Moriya Teiji case wasn't him, but Shiratori Ninzaburo.
While Kujo breathed a sigh of relief, he also felt a little resentful.
Is that guy avoiding me?
Shiratori, standing to the side, was unaware of the connection between Kujo and Matsuda.
The affair between the two had been circulating in the prosecutor's office for some time.
Unfortunately, before the news could reach the Metropolitan Police Department, the two men disappeared without a trace.
The news naturally cooled down over time.
In Shiratori's view, Kujo questioned Matsuda simply because the two were known to outsiders as the best partners of the Metropolitan Police Department and the Public Prosecutor's Office.
Especially Kujo, thanks to Matsuda's reasoning, she has won one battle after another in court and is now quite invincible.
“You’ve probably seen the news these past two days, Prosecutor Kujo,” Shiratori explained. “Inspector Megure didn’t want Matsuda to get entangled with those troublesome media outlets, so he gave him a few days off.”
The news that Shiratori mentioned is also the hottest topic in the media these past two days.
That is, who should be held responsible for the tragic explosion at the Mihana City Tower?
Matsuda was supposed to first capture Teiji Moriya with Shinichi Kudo, and then climb the exterior wall of the building alone, risking his life to defuse the last bomb.
This kind of topic should have absolutely nothing to do with him.
But news media always do whatever generates buzz.
So, the day after the Mihana City Tower explosion, news media blamed Matsuda for the tragedy.
The reason given was that Matsuda Jinpei, a renowned detective in the Metropolitan Police Department, failed to stop Moriya Teiji's crime.
According to these media outlets, Teiji Moriya had committed several crimes before bombing the Beika City Tower.
These cases were all riddled with errors and omissions, exposing countless clues.
But the famous detective from the Metropolitan Police Department turned a blind eye to this and allowed Teiji Moriya to continue his actions until he blew up the Beika City Building.
Even Matsuda's act of climbing the exterior wall and risking his life to enter the building to defuse the bomb...
It also became a form of self-redemption for Matsuda because he felt sorry for the victims of the Beika City Tower explosion due to his own incompetence.
In short, apart from TV stations like Nichiri that have a good relationship with Matsuda,
Most other media outlets joined in the frenzy of exposing the "incompetence" of the Metropolitan Police Department's top detectives.
"Those media outlets are like flies, all they know how to do is this kind of rubbish!"
Kujo, his face grim, slammed the documents in his hand heavily onto the table.
Shiratori was taken aback by her unexpected reaction.
“Prosecutor Kujo, you…”
"Feel sorry,"
Kujo replied in a low voice, then picked up the case file and quickly left the First Division office.
……
While everyone was gossiping about Matsuda, he had been holed up in his apartment for two days without going out.
Chengshi's adoptive mother was hospitalized, and Chengshi, worried about her, rushed to the hospital to be with her.
Without her care, Matsuda completely turned into a useless person, eating and sleeping all the time.