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In addition to this legendary promotion speed, in the archival records, Karasuma Ying also noticed that Shirakawa Kiyoshi maintained a considerable attendance rate throughout his career.
Even though his position continued to rise in the later period, the number of cases handled by Shirakawa Qing did not decrease significantly compared to the early stage of his career.
This doesn't make sense.
Under normal circumstances, Shirakawa Kiyoshi should no longer need to be on duty all day at that time, because that is something that middle and lower-level police officers do.
Is this because Shirakawa Kiyoshi enjoys the thrill of solving cases? Or is there some other reason?
At this point, Karasumaying has roughly read the file.
Although the contents of the file are very large, there is actually nothing special recorded in it. All that is recorded are cases in Shirakawa Kiyoshi's career when he was working in the Metropolitan Police Department.
Thirty years ago, before Shirakawa Kiyoshi was promoted to Superintendent of Police, the files contained extremely detailed records of the cases he handled, with no omissions of time, place, or results, and even a brief description of the case process.
After he was promoted to Superintendent of Police, the police officer who compiled his file seemed to have been replaced. Although there were still information such as time, place and result, the description of the case process was gone.
Although most of the content in this file is useless, Wu Wanying still found some suspicious points in it.
The most suspicious point is Shirakawa Qing's strange promotion speed.
Less than fifteen years after joining the Metropolitan Police Department, he was promoted directly to the position of Superintendent of Police. Even Karasuma Ying, who was not very familiar with the history of the Japanese police, knew that this promotion speed must have broken the record.
However, there is no annotation or explanation on Shirakawa Kiyoshi's file regarding this point.
In addition, there is the special university that Shirakawa Kiyoshi attended when he was young. How did a person from a poor family get into that university?
Wu Wanying always felt that Shirakawa Qing's file might have been modified by someone, and there must be something missing in it.
Of course, in addition to the above doubts, this file also somewhat answered a question in her mind.
When Kogoro Mori mentioned Officer Shirakawa, he also mentioned the Changchun cruise ship explosion that led to his death.
According to Kogoro Mori, the police were unable to catch the mastermind behind the bombing.
It was only later, when he once again sneaked into Japan and tried to plan another terrorist attack, that the police finally arrested him with the help of a foreign woman.
For some unknown reason, the police seemed to intentionally conceal the identity of this person at the time, and only reported that a foreign woman assisted the police in arresting the criminal.
Therefore, police officers like Kogoro Mori, who were still middle and lower-level at the time, still don’t know the specific identity information of the foreign woman.
But in Shirakawa Kiyoshi's file, the name of this foreign woman appeared.
Akai Mary.
But it’s the only name.
According to Kogoro Mori, this person suddenly appeared twenty years ago, and disappeared completely after helping the police investigate and arrest the mastermind behind the Changchun explosion.
After that, there were no more rumors of similar foreign women in the entire Japanese police and detective circles.
It was as if her appearance was specifically for the purpose of catching that person...
Karasuma Ying vaguely felt that this person named Akai Mary might have some kind of relationship with Shirakawa Kiyoshi.
is a possible direction of investigation.
"Have you finished reading it?" In the driver's seat next to her, Sato Miwako glanced at Karasuma Ying.
"Um……"
Nodding, Wu Wanying sealed the file and put it back into the armrest box.
"What do you think?" asked Miwako Sato with a smile.
It's legendary." After thinking for a while, Wu Wanying replied.
"Yes, I was also shocked when I saw it for the first time. The career of this police officer Shirakawa is just like the protagonist in those novels." Sato Miwako exclaimed.
Also working at the Metropolitan Police Department, Sato Miwako had heard of the name of Officer Shirakawa.
When she encountered some very complicated cases, she would occasionally hear words like "It would be great if Officer Shirakawa were still here" from her late father or from other seniors in the Metropolitan Police Department.
However, every time when Sato Miwako wanted to ask more questions, they seemed to be hesitant about something and only told her that this was a very outstanding senior in the police force. As for more, they refused to say a word...
"Does Officer Sato know Officer Shirakawa?" Karasuma Ying suddenly asked.
There was very little useful information in this file. Apart from leaving her with the name Akai Mary, it only increased her doubts.
"I don't understand."
Sato Miwako shook her head. "After all, he was a senior who died when I was eight years old. How could I understand him? It's just that..."
At this point, Sato Miwako changed the subject and said uncertainly:
"Once when we were having a celebration banquet, I heard drunk Inspector Megure accidentally mention something..."
"what?"
"Officer Shirakawa seemed to have been chosen as the next Superintendent General."
"Huh? Internal decision?" Wu Wanying was stunned when he heard it.
Police Chief, the highest police rank in Japan, can this position still be reserved?
However, if this statement is true, then it can indeed explain Shirakawa Kiyoshi's bizarre promotion speed...
"Ah."
Sato Miwako nodded and continued, "Of course I'm not too sure about this. After all, this is just what Officer Megure said after drinking, and it's hard to tell whether it's true or not.
I remember that the person who held the position of Metropolitan Police Commissioner at that time was still Mr. Hatoyama...Then it seemed that more than ten years ago, Mr. Hatoyama was transferred to the position of Commissioner-General of the National Police Agency, and the position of Metropolitan Police Commissioner was replaced by the current Hakuba Metropolitan Police Commissioner.
If what Officer Megure said is correct, and Officer Shirakawa did not die in the bombing 20 years ago, then he should be the current Superintendent General..."
"Officer Shirakawa...does he have someone above him?" asked Karasuma Ying.
This can be easily guessed from what Sato Miwako said.
A record-breaking promotion speed, and a candidate for the position of Superintendent of Police... If he didn't have someone above him, there would be no way to explain all this.
"It should be, but I don't know who it is." Sato Miwako replied.
The story of Officer Shirakawa happened too long ago. Most people in the current police force have only heard of such a figure from the past. There are actually very few people who truly understand him, and most of them have either become senior police officials, retired, or died in the line of duty.
For middle and lower level police officers like them, it is indeed very difficult to find out about his past.
"What a complicated past..." Karasuma Ying turned her head to look out the window and sighed softly.
"What's wrong? Why do you look so sad?" Sato Miwako glanced at her and asked with a smile.
"Nothing, I just suddenly felt that there are so many secrets in this world."
"Secrets? Detectives must like these things, right?"
"Well, if it's a real detective, I'd probably like it..."
In this way, the two chatted all the way to the police station. After taking a statement of today's case, Karasuma Ying was sent back to the Mori Detective Agency by Sato Miwako.
Tokyo has been very busy recently. After sending Karasuma Ying off, Sato Miwako rushed to the Beika International Hospital without stopping, while Karasuma Ying went to the office alone.
"Sister Ying, you're back? Have you finished taking notes?"
As soon as I opened the door and took off my coat, Mao Lilan in the kitchen heard the sound, turned around, stuck her head out and asked with a smile.
"Um, are you cooking?"
Putting aside the messy thoughts in her mind for the time being, Karasuma Ying also nodded with a smile and walked straight towards the kitchen.
In the office, Kogoro Mouri was still sitting behind his desk watching Miss Yoko's show, while Conan, with a big bump on his head, sat on the sofa with a serious look on his face, thinking, and he didn't even notice the appearance of Karasuma Ying.
It's no wonder that he was still thinking about Onimare who appeared last this morning.
In fact, Karasuma Ying was a little curious about this, if she had previously thought that Onimare was just a murderer who simply had a hobby of performance art.
Since Onimare snatched the picture album this morning, she vaguely realized that there might really be some special secrets hidden behind Onimare...
If she has time later, she will try to investigate... Although she said so, Karasuma Ying always felt that she would be involved in it in the end.
After all, the file that she had placed high hopes on did not completely answer her doubts. Although she caught the name of Akai Mary, it was just a name. In fact, she had no idea where to start the investigation.
As for asking family members for help?
Wu Wanying didn't even think about this. Even if those riddlers really spoke, they were probably just trying to trick her...
"By the way, Sister Ying, you have a express delivery. I brought it up for you when I went upstairs earlier. It's on the table over there." In the kitchen, Mao Lilan suddenly spoke.
"My delivery?"
Wu Wanying was a little surprised. She turned around and saw a package sealed in a small paper box on the table next to her.
"Well, it's still anonymous." Mao Lilan replied.
"anonymous?"
Wu Wanying frowned when she heard that. She took the switchblade beside her, carefully opened the outer paper box, and then... she saw a neatly arranged stack of banknotes inside.
【EUR?】
Wu Wanying looked confused.
This stack of Euros is not a small amount, roughly estimated to be tens of thousands...
So, why would anyone send her this?
Can this thing really be delivered?
Just when Wu Wanying was puzzled, she saw a note stuck in the paper box.
This is a folded piece of paper with a series of special combinations of dots and lines arranged on it, just like Morse code.
Suddenly realizing something, Wu Wanying looked carefully at the combination of dots and lines, his eyes gradually becoming solemn.
According to the interpretation method her sister taught her when she was a child, she interpreted the content on the paper as a place name.
Andrew Kingdom.
Next chapter will be later (﹃)
Chapter 182: Passionate Miss Carly (Additional Chapter 910)
Conan's keen intuition as a detective has made him vaguely aware that the Onimare incident that has caused a lot of trouble in the city may not end so easily.
After the incident in the studio ended, Conan quickly found previous reports about Onimare and identified the foreign affairs minister of a trading company where the only Onimare was killed.
Just like what Karasuma Ei had analyzed to Hoshino Terumi before, Conan also believed that no matter what Onimare's true identity was, the only person she killed must have a special secret hidden in him, and this person might very well be the breakthrough point in investigating Onimare.