A Starstruck Girl?

Ooba Yoshitoshi's situation was rather unusual.

He had committed a crime, but not entirely.

Strictly speaking, he had not yet begun carrying out the crime. He was still in the preparatory stage.

Criminal preparation referred to acts of preparing tools or creating conditions for a crime.

The preparatory stage was a state in which criminal conduct, due to reasons beyond the offender's will, stopped before entering the execution stage.

Although preparatory acts had not yet directly infringed upon the object of the crime, they had already placed it in imminent and real danger, and thus still posed a social threat.

However, considering that preparatory acts had not yet begun the actual commission of the crime and had caused no concrete social harm, preparatory offenders could generally receive lighter, reduced, or even exempted punishment compared with completed offenders.

In short—

No matter what, Ooba Yoshitoshi's circumstances were far better than if he had truly killed someone.

As long as he found a reliable lawyer, there was a high chance he could avoid punishment entirely. Even if he could not, the sentence he faced would be hundreds of times lighter than one for murder.

That alone was enough to make Ooba Yoshitoshi feel redeemed.

"Mr. Lin, thank you."

The case came to an end with his relieved words of gratitude.

The spectators who had finished enjoying the spectacle gradually dispersed.

Conan headed home first with his three little companions from the Detective Boys.

Ooba Yoshitoshi, meanwhile, cooperatively remained at the scene to await the police's follow-up investigation.

Lin Xinyi was in no hurry to leave either, because he needed to wait for the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's main force to arrive and complete the formal crime scene investigation procedures for this case—

Not to mention, the corpse stuck beneath the train wheels