"Were all the funding sources labeled? Oh, wow, what thorough background checks..."
"Well, it was Kaito Kid. He really was good at digging up this kind of information. That Kousaka family case last time, wasn't it also—"
"Shut up!" Ginzō Nakamori, who had been glaring at the documents in his hands, heard the discussion behind him and turned to glare at them.
Once his subordinates had fallen silent, he turned back and continued to look over the documents in his hands indignantly.
They were not wrong. The materials had been prepared so thoroughly that, after bringing them back to headquarters to verify their authenticity, they could simply follow the information provided to confirm the chain of evidence and send Soichiro Miyama straight to court.
Cases like these were exactly the sort of thing the Second Investigation Division handled, just as they had become Kaito Kid's opponents.
Miyama had run his company for years, practically exploiting Yokohama's port advantages to conduct illegal dealings on a massive scale. If this batch of evidence was submitted, their entire division might receive a hefty bonus.
But precisely because of that, he felt especially deeply that he had been played.
The sources of this information were unknown. They would inevitably have to state where it came from when writing the report, but when they released the case briefing, were they supposed to thank Kaito Kid for delivering their KPIs?!
"Damn it, that bastard thief—"
On the other side of the exhibition hall, Saguru Hakuba, who had been studying the materials with great interest, was startled by the commotion. He turned to glance at the busy officers, raised an eyebrow, then returned to his reading.
The greatest difference between him and detectives like Heiji Hattori, who primarily operated in Japan, was perhaps that Saguru Hakuba placed