"Oh, oh... I see... Okay..."
After finishing the call, Mori Kogoro stepped out of the public phone booth. Looking at the questions on the paper, his brows twisted into a tight knot.
The high schoolers, who all suspected he might have been sweet-talking Eri Kisaki on the phone, tactfully refrained from crowding around him. Only after he hung up and came out did they approach.
"So, what did she say about the case? Did Attorney Kisaki find anything?" Kaito Kuroba took the initiative to ask. "Did she figure out Suehiko Ito's objective?"
He actually knew the truth of the case—the part where Reiko Shimizu was the murderer.
Even if he had not known before, with the Phantom Thief Troupe discussing it passionately in the group chat every day, he should have learned it by now.
But regarding Suehiko Ito himself, apart from joining the group chat in passionately cursing him for kidnapping children and threatening people like a scumbag, he truly had no idea why Suehiko Ito had hired so many detectives.
And Eri Kisaki, even setting aside her connections, had an identity that made things easier. As the queen of the legal world, someone who was highly influential in legal circles, it was far easier for her than for most people to borrow case files and learn the details of a case in the name of an investigating attorney.
"Hmm..." Mori Kogoro looked over the words on the paper, pondered for a moment, then said, "The problem is... the police never considered him the murderer."
"Huh?" Conan froze for a moment. "What was the police's conclusion when they closed the case?"
"The conclusion was that the murderer in this case was another suspect involved in the armored car robbery, Reiko Shimizu." Mori Kogoro clearly read out this absurd conclusion.