Hakuba Saguru

"Hakuba Saguru?"

Fujino immediately recognized the Blondie boy as Hakuba Saguru, who had made a Hakuba Saguru appearance in Conan.

He remembered that this Hakuba Saguru was supposed to be one of Kaito Kid's archenemies.

"My pocket watch only deviates by 0.001 seconds a year."

Hakuba Saguru put away the pocket watch he was holding and said to Nakamori Ginzo and the lined-up police officers, "If possible, please use my time as a reference."

As soon as he finished speaking, the reporters who had been positioned around him swarmed forward.

As the camera flashes continued to go off, the reporter began interviewing Hakuba Saguru.

They completely forgot that their purpose in coming today was to livestream the capture of Kaito Kid at the crime scene.

"What 0.001? He expects us to act according to his timeline? This guy is way too arrogant!"

Nakamori Ginzo frowned, feeling somewhat disgusted by Hakuba Saguru's arrogant demeanor.

I recall that Fujino seemed to have mentioned that arrogant boy's name before.

He then asked, "Brother Fujino, do you know that arrogant Blondie?"

"I wouldn't say we know each other."

Fujino waved his hand. "I only read about him in the newspaper before. His name is Hakuba Saguru, and he's also a High School Detective."

"So you're High School Detective."

Nakamori Ginzo suddenly realized, "No wonder he's so arrogant."

In his eyes, High School Detective are all arrogant and conceited.

Of course, apart from Fujino.

Personally, he didn't dislike Fujino that much.

He remained calm and composed, without being arrogant, and even provided him with many ideas for capturing Kaito Kid.

Although he didn't use any of those ideas.

"Inspector, don't you know Hakuba Saguru?"

The policeman in the gray suit standing to the side looked surprised. "Hakuba Saguru is High School Detective who returned from England. I remember his catchphrase is something like, 'I only have one question: why did you do such a thing?'"

"He's just a pretentious guy, and he even has a catchphrase. Doesn't he feel embarrassed? Bad people do bad things, what reason do they have?"

Nakamori Ginzo made a comment, paused, pondered for a moment, and then murmured, "But speaking of which, the surname Hakuba seems somewhat familiar to me."

"Hakuba Saguru's father is Superintendent General Hakuba of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department."

Fujino reminded.

"What?! He's the son of Superintendent General Hakuba?!"

Nakamori Ginzo looked completely surprised upon hearing this.

"Inspector Nakamori, don't you know?"

The policeman in the gray suit looked at Nakamori Ginzo with a puzzled expression.

"How would I know any of that?"

Nakamori Ginzo sighed, "Dealing with that Kaito Kid all day is already a headache enough, and now we have to think about how to deal with him in our spare time?"

"Haha, this young police officer is right, that kid Tan is indeed my son."

Just then, a voice came from behind.

Fujino turned around and saw a portly middle-aged man walking toward him.

The man was wearing the uniform of the Metropolitan Police Department commander, with four cherry blossom epaulets pinned to his shoulders.

Fujino recognized those shoulder insignia; they were the rank of the Metropolitan Police Department's superintendent.

The words of the Metropolitan Police Department's superintendent...

It must be Hakuba Saguru's father, Superintendent General Hakuba, right?

"I'm sorry to have troubled you, Inspector Nakamori. That kid Tan has been clamoring to see Kaito Kid looks like, so I brought him along."

Superintendent General Hakuba walked over and, as he spoke, he noticed Fujino standing next to Nakamori Ginzo. "Speaking of which, Nakamori, I've never seen such a young officer before. Is he newly transferred?"

Fujino was wearing a black suit, and his expression and demeanor exuded composure.

Standing among a group of police officers, most people wouldn't know he was a detective if they weren't told.

"A young policeman?"

Upon hearing this, Nakamori Ginzo was taken aback. Following Superintendent General Hakuba's gaze, he looked at Fujino and introduced him, "This is not a police officer from our Metropolitan Police Department, but High School Detective Fujino. He came here on behalf of Arima Curator to assist us in protecting the Purple Bronze Statue."

Fujino greeted him politely, "My name is Fujino."

"Oh, it's Fujino- kun!"

Upon hearing this, Superintendent General Hakuba's eyes seemed to flash with a sharp light. "I remember you. You're the Fujino who helped us crack the Moonlight Island drug cartel case, the drug trafficking case hidden in the library, and also dismantled a criminal Fujino that printed counterfeit money, right?"

"That's right, it is I."

"Fujino- kun is a promising young man."

Superintendent General Hakuba smiled kindly and praised, "So young yet so intelligent and brave. If my son had half your composure and temperament, I wouldn't have to worry about him!"

As he spoke, he looked at Hakuba Saguru beside him and said, "That kid Saguru gets all cocky when he's interviewed by the media and forgets how much he's worth. Since he came back from London, he doesn't even listen to his father anymore."

Superintendent General Hakuba sighed, "The reason I agreed to bring him here today was to let him experience the feeling of failure, to dampen his spirits... to give him a decisive and heavy blow, so that he would understand the severity of handling cases."

"In a little while, I might have to trouble you two, Nakamori and Fujino."

Superintendent General Hakuba wasn't worried that Hakuba Saguru would capture Kaito Kid.

If we could have caught it, we would have caught it long ago.

Even if his son were to be caught by Kaito Kid by some accident, it would still be a good thing.

"Director, you've put a lot of thought into this!"

Nakamori Ginzo and said earnestly, "I'll take care of your son."

"Leave the same to me."

Fujino paused as he spoke, feeling that something about his statement was off.

"I feel relieved with the two of you here. I have a meeting to attend, so I'll be going now."

Superintendent General Hakuba nodded in satisfaction.

Before leaving, he smiled kindly and said to the two of them, "It'll be up to you two to investigate that guy."

Watching Superintendent General Hakuba's departing figure.

Fujino was able to understand the meaning behind his actions.

Hakuba Saguru's arrogant demeanor is pretty much the same as Kudo Shinichi's.

Although they didn't know where so many people came from to die, both of them solved around a hundred cases each.

With such a record to back it up, if Fujino were ten or more years younger, he would probably be just as arrogant as the two of them.

After all, they were young and impetuous.

If you're not spirited, what kind of young person are you?

But it depends on the person.

Kudo Shinichi is young and impetuous, and his arrogance is to be expected, but his father is a famous novelist, so there's no need to take it too seriously.

But Hakuba Saguru is different, because his father is the head of the Metropolitan Police Department, one of the people at the very top of the Japan power pyramid.

Those in high positions are all calm and composed, their appearance not reflecting their true feelings.

As Superintendent General Hakuba said, his purpose in bringing Hakuba Saguru here was to smooth out their rough edges.