In the world of Detective Conan, however, he was bound to the Naruto System.

Chapter 53: The Reformed Criminal

Conan's forehead instantly broke out in a cold sweat: "No...no way..."

Although he and Ran are childhood friends, he's currently using his childhood appearance; although he suddenly appeared after Shinichi Kudo disappeared; although he sometimes acts unlike a child; although he sometimes exhibits Shinichi Kudo's habits; although...

Although Xiaolan is afraid of those supernatural things, she no longer firmly believes in science as she used to.

But Ran probably never imagined that a high school student would turn into an elementary school student... right?

Conan recalled how Dr. Ogawa, who was usually completely overshadowed by Akutagawa in solving cases, suddenly displayed a burst of reasoning ability and various other behaviors when he arrived in the morning...

Seeing that Conan realized how bad his usual disguise was, Akutagawa nodded in satisfaction.

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In the archives, Dr. Ogawa found a medical record of a five-year-old boy, Tomoya Ogino, who had unfortunately passed away because he was brought to the hospital too late due to appendicitis.

Akutagawa glanced at the medical record and said quietly, "If I'm not mistaken, your son is five years old this year. His target is likely your son. Why don't you contact him quickly?"

Dr. Ogawa, whose hands were trembling, suddenly realized what was happening and quickly borrowed the hospital's phone to call his son's kindergarten, only to learn that the child had just been picked up.

Forget about holding the kindergarten accountable for its poor supervision, Dr. Ogawa felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave, his limbs stiff. If it weren't for Conan's agility, this phone call would probably have followed in the footsteps of the morning glory.

Hiko Akutagawa and Kogoro Mori each supported one side of Dr. Ogawa and lifted him up from the cold ground: "The person just left. Let's go to the kindergarten now. Maybe there's still hope."

After despair, almost like a last burst of energy, Dr. Ogawa suddenly unleashed a belief that even impressed Hiko Akutagawa, and gritted his teeth as he ran out of the hospital.

As Akutagawa Hiko ran alongside, he casually scooped up Conan, who couldn't run fast, and caught up with him.

One is a father with adrenaline, another is Kogoro Mouri who, though decadent, still has his core strengths, and yet another is a karate champion, not to mention Hiko Akutagawa.

Conan, who's shorter than his legs, has a hard time keeping up.

I don't know if it's because of the telepathic connection between father and son, Conan's death aura, or the influence of the protagonist group's protagonist aura.

As they passed over an overpass, they saw kindergarten children unwrapping gifts below, and a middle-aged man taking something out of his trench coat.

Seeing the raised dagger, Dr. Ogawa let out a useless, almost childish shout: "Yuta!!"

Akutagawa Hiko grabbed the troublemaking Dr. Ogawa, who was about to jump off, and pushed him onto Kogoro Mouri.

Then, holding onto the railing, with the skill that was gradually reaching the top of the science fiction world, he made a few agile leaps and, using the structure of the overpass, landed gracefully in a half-crouch position, dissipating the impact of the landing while his jacket kicked up some dust.

Perhaps startled by the figure that suddenly appeared from the sky, the murderer was momentarily stunned.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Akutagawa Hiko darted forward and stole the kill before Conan's soccer ball could reach him.

Xiao Lan became increasingly adept at calling the police, and luckily there was a police station nearby. Soon, two police officers arrived and put a silver bracelet on him.

"Dad, is the kind uncle going to play with the police officer? He promised to take me to a fun place!"

The little boy named Yuta watched the killer's departing figure and pouted.

Dr. Ogawa, not wanting his son to be exposed to darkness too early, replied, "How about we give all the toys back to Uncle so he can take them and play with them?"

At the same time, he made up his mind to transfer the 25 million yen back as soon as he got back. That money almost cost his son his life, so how could he possibly keep it?

Yuta Ogawa, his mouth practically dripping with oil, reluctantly touched the airplane in his hand, broke free from his father's grasp, ran to Ogino's father who was sandwiched between two police officers, and raised the airplane.

"Uncle, take this and play with it. Remember to come visit me next time! We made a pinky promise to go to fun places, or you'll turn into a little puppy!"

In a daze, Ogino's father saw another child whose life was forever frozen at the age of five, and the image overlapped with the figure in front of him.

"Daddy, you promised to play with me, let's pinky swear! If you lie, you're a puppy!"

Seeing that Ogino's father did not reach out to take the model airplane, Yuta looked up in confusion.

"Uncle, why are you crying? Is it because you don't have any toys to play with? Yuta has a lot of them. You can let Uncle play with Yuta's toys."

Upon hearing this, Ogino's father instantly burst into tears.

"No, no... Yuuta, keep the toys for yourself. Uncle is crying because he did something wrong..."

Yuta tilted his head in confusion and bit his finger: "Then Uncle should correct his mistakes. Dad said that admitting your mistakes and correcting them makes you a real man. It's okay to cry. Uncle will definitely become a real man!"

The childlike innocence of the real child completely broke down Ogino's father's psychological defenses. Before leaving in the police car, Ogino's father and Dr. Ogawa had a serious talk for a while.

The murderous aura he exuded when he was first subdued is nowhere to be seen anymore.

Ogino's father broke down in tears: "Actually, I knew from the beginning... that Tomoya's death wasn't due to surgical error... but I can't accept it... I can't accept that because of my negligence, we missed the window of opportunity to save him... When I think about it like this, I can't even breathe..."

Then, the middle-aged man, grieving the loss of his son, said with deep remorse, "And yet I was such a bastard... not only did I take my anger out on you, but I... and I almost caused an innocent child to follow in my son Tomoya's footsteps..."

"I don't expect you to forgive me, but please take good care of Yuuta and don't make the same mistake I did!!"

Ogino's father finally uttered those words in an almost pleading tone.

Dr. Ogawa's expression was complicated as he said, "When you pointed the knife at Yuuta, I really wished I could die with you."

When Dr. Ogawa said those words, Ogino's father looked as if he hadn't expected it, but what he said next shocked him greatly.

"But that's precisely why I truly understand what you were going through at that time. I almost experienced the pain of losing a child myself. I completely understand your feelings..."

Dr. Ogawa looked at the middle-aged man who seemed to have aged more than ten years in just three years and sighed, "We are both fathers."

The scene was harmonious for a moment, except for Yuta Ogawa, who looked at his father, who was smiling and crying, with a puzzled expression.

"That's great."

Xiaolan took out her handkerchief and wiped away the glistening tears from the corners of her eyes, moved to tears by this rare ending.

Akutagawa Hiko concluded, "With Dr. Ogawa's understanding and the fact that no major mistake was made, Yuta can be considered to have benefited from misfortune."

Judging from Ogino's father's behavior, he probably already considers Ogawa Yuta almost as his own son.