Amuro Tooru was used to being the Riddler himself, but he did not like other people being the Riddler. He said decisively, "You've already brought it up, so of course you should say it."
Officer Takagi scratched his head and said with a guilty conscience, "All right, then after I tell you, don't tell Inspector Megure it was me who said it."
Still uneasy, he looked left and right, then lowered his voice. "Actually, just a few days ago, the Metropolitan Police Department lost a batch of files—all of them files related to murder cases."
Amuro Tooru: "...?"
They lost files, and a whole batch of them? What did your Metropolitan Police Department do all day? Even the Black Organization had never lost so much information in one go.
Officer Takagi vaguely noticed a hint of killing intent. He shivered and looked back at Inspector Megure again. After confirming that his superior was still wrangling with the suspects and not looking this way, he secretly continued:
"Fortunately, Superintendent Matsumoto kept a related copy, so it won't affect later court appearances—but that's not the point. The point is, according to our comparison, a large portion of the missing materials were cases where Detective Mouri helped the police, and there were also some..."
He looked towards Jiang Xia. "Cases you helped us solve."
"But the number of missing case files wasn't many, and in those few cases related to you, Detective Mouri also appeared as a witness..." Officer Takagi rubbed his chin and thought it over. "On top of that, there weren't any suspicious people showing up around your Detective Agency. So it seems the person who stole the files was targeting Detective Mouri."
"Also, that's not even the strangest part—the stranger thing is that just last night, those missing case files