"A special consultant specializing in solving serial murder cases..."
Hearing Ran Mouri mention that term, Mori Kogoro folded the newspaper in his hands, stroking his chin with a thoughtful expression.
Ran Mouri, who had only casually been chatting with her father about her trip, widened her eyes and exchanged a glance with Conan.
If they could find a way to figure out the identity of Tōru Adachi, that former police officer with an ambiguous stance and an unsettling way of doing things, or his reason for coming to Tokyo, then many questions could be resolved.
"What is it, Dad? Do you have an idea?"
"Hmm, the person you mentioned used to be a police officer, right?" Mori Kogoro set the newspaper aside and asked casually.
"Ah, yes, he seemed to have been a police officer before. He left the force for some reason..."
"Then it makes sense that you ran into that guy in Izu." Mori Kogoro nodded, quickly relaxing. "You don't need to be so nervous, wondering whether he has some kind of conflict with Tang Ze or anything. I'd guess he was a reinforcement brought in by the Metropolitan Police Department's task force."
"Reinforcement?" Conan frowned. Thinking of what they had experienced in Izu, he quickly made the connection. "Did some serial murder case happen in Tokyo, so they called in an expert in this field to help?"
"Something like that. It's also a major case with a very wide scope, long intervals between incidents, and many crime scenes." Mori Kogoro shrugged. "He probably went to Izu to investigate one of those crime scenes."
"Eh, then Dad knows so much about it because..."
"Because I was invited too." Mori Kogoro straightened his tie and puffed out his chest proudly. "The Metropolitan Police Department thinks rather highly of my