"Hey, hey, don't go wrecking the crime scene, bro."
Watching Sato Xu Yue examine the body and search the area for something, Heiji Hattori bluntly spoke up.
Yet after saying that, he crouched down and began carefully inspecting the corpse himself.
"Perhaps I ought to be the one saying that, little brother Hattori."
Already pulling on the gloves he carried with him, Sato Xu Yue gave Heiji Hattori a light laugh.
Seeing him put on specialized gloves, Heiji Hattori could not help but look baffled. Why the hell was this guy carrying gloves around with him? Had he known a case was going to happen?
"Brother Sato is a police officer."
Conan spoke listlessly while sniffling.
With snot hanging from his nose like that, even Sato Xu Yue did not want to pinch his cheeks.
"A police officer?"
"A police officer?"
Both Heiji Hattori and Kenji Dohihara felt a flicker of surprise.
"Officer Sato, I'm a detective as well. Would it be possible to let me examine the crime scene? I promise I won't disturb anything."
Kenji Dohihara hurriedly requested permission from Sato Xu Yue.
Unlike him, though, Heiji Hattori did not even bother saying that much and continued doing as he pleased.
"A police officer is still a police officer, but this sort of matter needs to be handled by the detectives assigned to this district. Ordinary officers do not have much authority to deal with it. We should report it first..."
Sato Xu Yue did not say much about Heiji Hattori's straightforward personality. Instead, he reached out and picked up the murder weapon he had found: an inconspicuous needle.
"The body is still warm, and there are no postmortem signs. He died within the last thirty minutes or so. The cause of death was likely asphyxiation induced by