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"Why?" Rena Mizunashi's face showed surprise.
Matsuda did not answer this question during previous rehearsals.
So when she heard Matsuda's answer, Rena Mizunashi was genuinely surprised.
Hakuba Saguru, who was standing nearby, couldn't help but say, "In that situation, Hattori's impulsive behavior could very well have destroyed evidence at the scene. Even for the police, that's not an acceptable act, is it?"
"You can't allow it? You're so wrong!"
Matsuda shook his head, looked at Hattori, and asked,
"What were you thinking when you were climbing up the wall?"
"Save them," Hattori said without hesitation.
This answer clearly surprised Hakuba Saguru.
He paused for a moment, then seemed to understand something, and a wry smile appeared on his face.
"Officer Matsuda is right, what you did is indeed more commendable than what I did."
The two of them were speaking in cryptic language, but the onlookers were becoming increasingly confused.
After Rena Mizunashi asked Matsuda, Matsuda didn't answer, but instead asked a question in return.
"Let's all imagine that if you were in the same danger that Ms. Minako is in on the screen, would you choose to save her immediately, like Hattori, or hesitate and worry about Hakuba Saguru destroying the evidence?"
His question immediately made everyone understand.
Yes, Heiji Hattori's actions at the time may indeed have been impulsive.
But that impulse stemmed from his eagerness to save people.
From this perspective, when Hakuba Saguru faced the blood-soaked Rena Mizunashi,
Instead of thinking about saving lives, the person's concern about destroying evidence is undoubtedly cold-blooded.
"That's actually the difference between a police officer and a detective,"
Seeing that everyone was deeply moved by this question, Matsuda immediately pressed his advantage, saying...
"For the police, the first priority is always to protect the lives of the people, while for detectives, finding out the truth is their primary pursuit."
“But Heiji Hattori is a detective too,” Rena Mizunashi asked.
"Although Hattori is now a high school detective, his father was an excellent police officer. I think Hattori Heiji's act of saving people is also due to his father's teachings from a young age,"
After Matsuda finished speaking, he didn't give Hattori a chance to object, and immediately looked at Hakuba Saguru and said...
"Although Hakuba Saguru's family background is similar to Hattori's, he grew up and studied abroad. Compared to Hattori, he received far less influence from his policeman father, which is why he made a different decision than Hattori."
Matsuda wasn't saying this to defend Hakuba Saguru.
Today's Detective Koshien tournament was originally intended by Matsuda to use the Tokitsu Junya incident to damage the reputation of detectives in society.
But there are reasons why detectives are more popular with the public than police officers.
One of the biggest problems is that many cases that detectives can solve are completely unsolvable by the police.
However, this problem cannot be solved by Matsuda alone.
After all, Japan is such a large country with over 100 million people. You can't just ask Matsuda to solve every murder case.
Therefore, in order to make the image of the police overshadow that of the detectives and gain more public recognition, Matsuda had no choice but to break through from another angle.
That means the police should care more about the lives of citizens than detectives.
In this respect, the police in the Detective Conan world do a really good job.
Take Inspector Megure from the First Division, for example. Perhaps he is indeed completely inept at deduction.
But he never flinched when it came to protecting the lives of his citizens.
The best proof is the scar on his head.
The statement that police officers care more about life than detectives is undoubtedly more appropriate and irrefutable when spoken by Matsuda, a police officer who once sacrificed himself to save someone.
As soon as Matsuda finished speaking, the expressions of Hakuba Saguru, Hattori Heiji, Tokitsu Junya, and Conan all became somewhat complicated.
Hakuba Saguru wanted to refute, but he himself was now the most readily available example to prove Matsuda's point.
If he wanted to refute Matsuda's words, he would first have to erase his actions on the screen.
That is obviously impossible.
Heiji Hattori wanted to argue, but he opened his mouth and then said nothing.
Although he felt that Matsuda's words were a biased assessment of the detective,
But upon closer reflection, he realized that he had learned how to solve cases from his father and his colleagues since he was a child.
Even his impulsive act of saving lives was indeed influenced by the police officers he had been exposed to.
From this perspective, it seems reasonable to say that police officers care more about the lives of citizens than detectives.
Hakuba and Hattori remained silent, while Tokitsu Junya and Conan were left to speak.
Compared to upholding the profession of detective, the former is clearly more concerned with the fame and fortune he can gain in the detective Koshien tournament.
As Matsuda was the planner of the program, Tokitsu Junya naturally didn't want to offend him, so he simply kept quiet.
Seeing that the other three remained silent, Conan hurriedly looked at Koshimizu, only to find her gazing at Matsuda with eyes full of admiration.
Conan immediately remembered that although this person was currently considered a detective, he had already decided that he would become a police officer after graduating from university.
It's clearly impossible to expect her to speak up for the detective.
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That bastard Matsuda, is he already starting to damage the reputation of detectives?
Conan felt rather helpless. Influenced by his hobbies and personality, he was quite passionate about being a detective.
If he were Shinichi Kudo now, he would definitely speak up and refute Matsuda immediately, but who told him to become Conan Edogawa now?
In this kind of situation, how many people would take a kid's words seriously?
The four detectives at the scene remained silent, which appeared to the television viewers as if they had all tacitly agreed with Matsuda's opinion.
"Well done!"
Inspector Matsumoto sat on the sofa at home watching TV, with his daughter, Sayuri Matsumoto, beside him.
"What's good?" Little Lily looked at her father, somewhat puzzled.
"You'll find out soon enough," Inspector Matsumoto smiled and said no more.
Although Xiaobaihe was puzzled, she knew her father's personality and didn't ask any more questions.
In fact, ever since the wedding poisoning incident that day,
Sayuri's relationship with her father is much closer than before.
At the very least, in the case of Takahiro Ko, Inspector Matsumoto has proven that, as a father, his judgment is far more accurate than that of his daughter, Sayuri.
“By the way,” Inspector Matsumoto said suddenly, looking at his daughter, “that incident happened almost a month ago. How about I introduce you to another young man from the First Division?”
"Dad!" Little Lily looked at her father reproachfully, "Didn't we agree not to mention this again for six months?"
His daughter's objection caused Inspector Matsumoto to shrug helplessly.
After refuting her father, Sayuri watched Matsuda on TV announcing the start of the Detective Koshien tournament, and a smile gradually appeared on her lips.
……
On the large screen in the studio, after Matsuda announced that this was the topic for this year's Detective Koshien,
Five people, representing four directions from Japan and overseas, began gathering clues.
While all the viewers in front of their televisions were watching closely and praying for the detectives representing their hometowns to win,
The detective reasoning competition ended unexpectedly quickly.
In less than ten minutes, the mystery puzzle for the first episode of Detective Koshien was solved!
When Rena Mizunashi announced that the winner was Junya Tokitsu, the result clearly surprised all the viewers in front of the television.
Even in northern Japan, where Tokitsu Junya was a supporter, no one expected the mystery contest to end so quickly.
After all, given the nature of variety shows, shouldn't they drag things out as much as possible, at least for an hour or two?
With the entire match lasting only ten minutes, what's the point of watching it?
In fact, the director of Detective Koshien also asked Matsuda this question.
Because the reasoning competition was too short, and Nichiri TV allocated a full two hours for the Detective Koshien tournament,
Such a short competition simply cannot sustain such a long program duration.
The director once wanted to shoot more other shots to fill in the time, but Matsuda directly refused.
The director was furious, but what could he do when the Suzuki family's financial power was simply too great?
In the end, they had no choice but to reluctantly agree to Matsuda's request.
However, the director had already informed Nichiri TV in advance and prepared a replacement program.
This way, even if the Detective Koshien tournament doesn't last long enough, it won't have a significant impact in the end.
"I think the viewers in front of the TV must be quite surprised right now that the first detective competition has ended so quickly?"
Rena Mizunashi said with a smile,
"Everyone must be starting to wonder if the competition questions were too easy, which is why Mr. Tokitsu Junya won so quickly."
"So, regarding the difficulty of the questions, why don't we ask the other participants and hear their opinions?"
As Rena Mizunashi spoke, the television screen switched to show the four contestants.
"This reasoning puzzle is not easy," Hattori said with a dark face, unwilling to give up.
"No matter what, I can't possibly solve this puzzle in ten minutes," Yue Shui said expressionlessly.
"In fact, when I heard Tokitsu Junya give the answer, my first reaction was to wonder if Officer Matsuda had given him the answer beforehand,"
Hakuba Saguru first made a small joke, then smiled wryly.