The officers exchanged glances, then nodded.
"Brother Mouri, please help us keep this a secret. This is the only way we can make the information public," Inspector Megure said to Kogoro Mouri.
Kogoro Mouri nodded. He had been a police officer himself once, so he understood.
They couldn't just release the surveillance footage! The uproar it would cause would be enormous. The masked man in the video had been far too violent, slicing someone in half with a single stroke.
"Shin, are you really not hurt?" Ran asked Shin, reaching out to check him over.
Judging by the masked man's speed and strength in the footage, he was practically inhuman. She had no idea how Shin had managed to block him.
"Don't worry, Ran. I'm fine," Shin said with a smile.
Conan glared at Shin through gritted teeth. Hyuga Shin had done everything, yet he had made that masked man take the blame.
If Shin knew what Conan was thinking, he would definitely tell him, What's wrong with using another one of my identities to take the blame for me? I didn't dump it on someone else.
The department store incident came to an end there. The police secretly intensified their hunt for the masked man. Luckily, everyone who had died this time belonged to the robbery gang; otherwise, the police would have had no way to explain themselves.
Inspector Megure and the others hated the masked man who had caused them so much trouble.
Conan looked thoroughly displeased, and the way he stared at Shin made it seem as though he wanted to devour him alive.
Shin simply ignored Conan's glare. What could he possibly do to him?
Two days later, Ran called to say that she had been chosen to model for the famous fashion designer Toya Eiko,