"Armed Detective Bureau?"
Hearing that name, Kuroko's expression turned rather unpleasant.
"Armed detectives don't have investigative authority in Academy City, do they?"
Armed detectives were like regular detectives: unwelcome among official departments. No matter how brilliant Holmes might have been at solving cases, London's police would never have appreciated him. Everyone hated people who barged in out of nowhere and meddled in their work.
Whether I can solve a case is my problem, but you interfering whenever you please is yours. Just because you solved it doesn't mean we have to worship you like a god.
If just anyone could deduce and solve cases, what would we need police for? You might as well catch people, lock them up, and guard them yourselves. Abolish the police altogether. Let detectives handle public safety from now on, and we won't have to do anything. After all, in detective novels, the police were just insignificant background characters brought in to wrap things up.
Of course, there was hardly any room left for detectives to survive in modern times. All sorts of advanced technology could ensure criminals were caught, so a detective's only value these days was solving cases in some sealed-off space.
"I've already received authorization from Academy City's upper management."
Aria appeared quite calm, while Kuroko grew even more displeased.
"Then let me verify that first."
As she spoke, Kuroko ignored Fang Zheng and the others, turned around, sat down at her desk, and began booting up her computer on her own. It was clearly the local boss giving an outsider a show of force. Armed detectives or not, Academy City was an independent region. It was not under their jurisdiction, nor would it accept their orders. Public safety in Academy City was handled by the Kazekage Committee and Security Guards, yet