Learning a New Trick!

Fujino did not really understand the deeper meaning behind Matsumoto Kiyochika stepping forward to take command.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs case involved far too much.

Generally speaking, it should have been handled by the Criminal Affairs Department chief and the chief of the First Investigation Division. No matter how one looked at it, it should not have fallen to Matsumoto Kiyochika.

Yet this time, the division chief had seemingly vanished without a trace.

The reason behind it was impossible to explain clearly.

Fujino only vaguely remembered that later in Conan World's timeline, Matsumoto Kiyochika became division chief. As for the original chief... no one knew where he had gone.

Preparations for the arrest of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and his son began within the Metropolitan Police Department.

That night, the lights in two conference rooms of the Metropolitan Police Department's Criminal Affairs Department remained on. Since this was common for the department, no one paid it much mind—they merely assumed the poor detectives were working overtime again.

With the Criminal Affairs Department chief and the superintendent involved, the nature of the case was elevated considerably. The police, who normally could not squeeze out a single useful thought in half a day, came up with an arrest plan in an hour.

Then came the next morning.

News spread within the Metropolitan Police Department that someone had committed suicide in a government office building somewhere in Tokyo.

At the same time, Fujino and Sato Miwako were temporarily suspended pending investigation after fighting with a case suspect.

It was already noon.

Haneda Airport was packed with people. Planes taxied out from the apron one after another, while new flights landed on the runway in an endless stream.

Ryuiti Utada, who had run someone over and fled the scene just the