Conan: I Seem to Be Surrounded by Joker

"Phantom Thieves of Hearts, and the Great Detective Mori Kogoro too? Hmm..."

"Officer? Is there a problem?" Seeing him clutching his police notebook and muttering to himself without any further response for quite a while, Ran Mouri asked in confusion, "Does that mean the questioning is over?"

Was there a problem? There were problems everywhere, all right!

Sayamura Misao rubbed his forehead and read through the several utterly absurd interview records in his hand, feeling as though he had somehow wandered onto the set of a bizarre production.

"Listen, miss, even if some of you—like Mr. Mori and Ms. Kisaki—are famous figures in Tokyo, isn't it inappropriate to toy with the police like this?" Sayamura pointed at the muddy human-shaped outline on the floor, its signs of struggle plainly visible, his mood sour. "You expect me to interpret this as some strange supernatural phenomenon?"

"Hmm, I think I recognize you. You're a police officer from Gunma Prefecture, aren't you?" After observing him carefully for a while, Mori Kogoro stroked his chin and asked uncertainly, "You weren't involved in the previous investigation?"

Ever since he had become famous, he had handled countless cases of all sizes, and Tangze did not always trail after him.

But there really had been one case related to Gunma Prefecture that had also involved the Phantom Thieves of Hearts.

A client named Abe Yutaka had hired Mori Kogoro to follow him, intending to pull a trick and use the detective as his alibi. He had planned to swap out his itinerary, kill his friend, and seize the man's assets.

Because the Phantom Thieves of Hearts had intervened, the culprit received a calling card before the victim was murdered. He promptly dropped to his knees before Mori Kogoro, who had been following him, and tearfully confessed his