Hattori Heizo was leading a group of subordinates, crouching at a distance from the three high school students.
Seeing this, he frowned, his expression showing a rare flicker of emotion.
Why had they confronted the killer so early? That wasn't Heiji's style.
After the lesson he had just received, Heiji should have held himself back, waited to catch the culprit in the act, then interrupted him right before he committed the murder and obtained the strongest proof.
That was precisely why Hattori Heizo had punched his son earlier. While he truly disliked Heiji's habit of rummaging around crime scenes, his main purpose had been to provoke him into finding the real culprit on his own. The wanted criminals from thirteen years ago were extremely sensitive to police activity. If the police investigated personally, they might alert them very quickly.
But if the police were watching not the criminals, but Hattori Heiji, perhaps they could find them without anyone noticing, taking a roundabout route to achieve their goal.
Unexpectedly, the plan had barely begun before it veered off course.
Thinking of this, Hattori Heizo shifted his gaze slightly toward Jiang Xia and felt that he had found the reason.
Hattori Heizo: "..." This must have been Jiang Xia's idea. Sigh, this child's personality was completely different from Heiji's—or rather, different from that of many detectives. He had actually gone straight to confront the killer without waiting for everyone to gather.
Hattori Heizo had originally thought that, judging by Heiji's attitude, he would never listen to Jiang Xia's advice and might even oppose him. Who would have thought...
The Headquarters Chief was briefly troubled.
But on second thought, this killer was not actually the police's true target.
The person the killer intended to murder on the other side was the prey