Conan: Ran, I really am Shinichi, you have to believe me!

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No one paid much attention to Matsuo Takashi's anger and his revelation of Jiang Chengbei's words. After all, Jiang Chengbei hadn't actually extorted money. Even if what Matsuo Takashi said was true, Jiang Chengbei had only used the threat of blackmail to trick him and confirm whether he was really the murderer.

Jiang Chengbei isn't a policeman. He uses words to bluff the suspect just to see if the suspect is guilty. As long as he doesn't actually extort money from the suspect, it's just normal procedure in solving a case.

Therefore, no one took Matsuo Takashi's accusations against Jiang Chengbei seriously, simply assuming that Jiang Chengbei had uncovered the truth and was seeking revenge from the murderer.

After Jiang Chengbei solved the case, Conan, who had been anesthetized by Jiang Chengbei, also woke up from his sleep. As soon as he woke up, he ran into Kogoro Mouri, who was out for a walk alone.

Remembering Jiang Chengbei's words before he fell into a coma that he would help the murderer get away with it, Conan, who hadn't met anyone else and hadn't learned about the latest developments, knocked out Kogoro Mouri with a tranquilizer dart.

Conan and Kogoro Mouri are currently in a broadcasting studio with a microphone, and there is no one else around them, just the two of them.

Knowing that Jiang Chengbei was going to help the murderer destroy evidence and there was no time to waste, this was a crucial moment to race against the criminals. So Conan immediately used his chakra voice changer to imitate Kogoro Mouri and give orders to everyone:

"The situation is urgent, the situation is urgent, everyone listen to my instructions."

Chiba, hurry to the street opposite the window where the deceased was located and stop the murderer from washing away the bloodstains there. At the same time, look for suspicious persons.

Takagi, go to the warehouse on the 7th floor above the room where the deceased was located, take control of the scene, prevent anyone from entering or leaving, and find any suspicious persons.

Someone is trying to tamper with the crime scene and destroy evidence. Everyone, act quickly…

Hearing Kogoro Mouri's voice coming from the loudspeaker, everyone was initially shocked and confused. Then, after he instructed Takagi and Chiba to keep watch in two different locations, he repeated the reasoning that Jiang Chengbei had just explained, leaving the audience extremely embarrassed.

Yes, they were embarrassed for Kogoro Mouri.

What do you mean by taking the reasoning that Jiang Chengbei just gave you and repeating it on your own head, Kogoro Mouri?

Could it be that Kogoro Mouri has fallen asleep?

With this conjecture in mind, everyone carried cameras and microphones and excitedly found Kogoro Mouri sleeping in the broadcasting studio.

When such a large group of people suddenly rushed in, Conan was startled and almost thought he had been exposed. These people were there to interrogate him and reveal the truth.

But Conan only breathed a sigh of relief when they surrounded Kogoro Mouri with their long and short cannons, completely ignoring him as the instigator.

"Detective Mori, what do you mean by repeating your assistant's reasoning now?"

"Detective Mouri, are you asleep now?"

Listening to the reporters' barrage of questions, Conan broke out in a cold sweat. After sorting through what he had heard from them, Conan gave an awkward, wry smile.

It's all Jiang Chengbei's fault for lying to him earlier. He believed Jiang Chengbei's lies, which led to this awkward situation.

Uncle Mori, I'm sorry, please bear with me.

After secretly bowing and apologizing to the sleeping Kogoro Mouri, Conan prepared to run away.

As soon as he turned around, he ran into the Miyano sisters who were blocking his way. They were looking at Conan with a cold smile.

"Great Detective, you've created such a huge farce, ruining Uncle Mori's reputation. Now you're in such a hurry to run away, don't you want to take responsibility for the consequences?"

Then, Conan, having caused trouble, was given a good scathing rebuke by Ai Haibara, who seized the opportunity.

Another elementary school student seized the opportunity to mock him, leaving Conan feeling utterly ashamed. In the end, he could only pretend to be an innocent elementary school student, grinning foolishly and repeatedly saying "Ah-leh-leh" in an attempt to get away with it.

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Since acquiring the Ghost Descent skill, Jiang Chengbei experimented with Yukiko, whose friendship level was high enough. He transformed into a chubby little bird and teleported to her current apartment. He then spent 2 kill coins to upgrade his safe house skill and conveniently upgraded her place to a safe house as well. From now on, her place would be protected by the system.

Since their last meeting in Gunma Prefecture, she had stopped pretending to be Azuma Mari, so Jiang Chengbei acted as if he hadn't recognized her and didn't bother her.

Then, after Jiang Chengbei flew home, he saw Conan asking Ai Haibara if she was Shiho Miyano, but the Miyano sisters denied it regardless of whether Conan believed them or not.

Seeing that Conan had so much energy, Jiang Chengbei, after returning to human form, came over to help him out:

"Conan, what time is it? Aren't you going to school yet? Have you been neglecting your studies lately? Should I sign you up for tutoring and buy you some more workbooks?"

Threatened by Jiang Chengbei, Conan shuddered and immediately fell silent, obediently packing his schoolbag in preparation for school.

However, before leaving, he still made a sarcastic remark:

"If Haibara isn't Shiho Miyano, and she really is just a 7-year-old child, then why doesn't she have to go to school?"

After Conan's reminder, Akemi Miyano finally realized that it was a bit strange and abnormal for Ai to keep skipping school.

So, despite Haibara's strong opposition, Miyano Akemi, now with a new identity, took Haibara to Teitan Elementary School after putting on makeup to look different from her previous self. Haibara became a first-grade student who had to start memorizing the multiplication table every day.

Haibara was furious that she had become an elementary school student like Kudo, carrying a small schoolbag to school every day. So she went on a shopping spree and bought a lot of Fusa bags.

Anyway, the money she received after finding 10 billion gold last time wasn't enough to build a complete laboratory, and there was nowhere for her to use it as a laboratory. Now that she's having some unpleasant experiences, she might as well buy some bags that can cure all ills.

Most of the bounty for finding 10 billion gold went to Ai Haibara, since Jiang Chengbei wasn't short of money, and she needed the money to buy experimental equipment. A small portion went to Kogoro Mouri as a reward, since he wanted to create a famous treasure-hunting detective and needed a windfall to let him indulge in a life of pleasure and enrich his character.

Men with money tend to go bad, let alone Kogoro Mouri, who was already a bad guy to begin with.

Anyway, ever since he got rich, he's been out partying all the time, almost never stopping. He spends money like water, and it'll be gone in no time.

In the final moments before he squandered this windfall, he encountered several of his old classmates from university.

In a final burst of energy before losing everything, Kogoro Mouri, at the peak of his success and with only a tiny bit of money left in his pocket, immediately put on a show of wealth after being flattered by his old classmate, and used his remaining prize money to host a class reunion.

After parting ways with his old classmates, Kogoro Mouri returned home and frowned as he looked at the few remaining 10,000 yen bills.

"I acted impulsively! I don't have enough money! What should I do? What should I do?"

After squandering almost all his money in a lavish party, Kogoro Mouri was filled with regret. He wished he hadn't been so quick to speak his mind and ended up having to cover the expenses of the entire class reunion.

It was all because of vanity that they ruined themselves.

When Ran heard that Kogoro Mouri was going to hold a class reunion at the Benkei Onsen Ryokan, she insisted on going too.

However, Kogoro Mouri, who was short of money and knew that each additional person would be a greater burden, firmly opposed Ran going with him, finding various reasons to prevent her from doing so.

Finally, after hearing Xiaolan complaining that her father didn't take her to the class reunion, Jiang Chengbei decided to take them to the Benkei Onsen Ryokan out of his own pocket, considering that Xiaolan and the Miyano sisters trusted him completely and that he could use his Ghost Appearance to teleport directly behind them.

Even Kaito Kuroba and Juzo Megure trusted him completely, and he could teleport behind them using Ghost Descent. So, on the way to the hot spring hotel by Shinkansen, Jiang Chengbei looked at Conan, who had come with them, with utter contempt.

However, when Jiang Chengbei thought about how Conan wasn't even qualified to live in the Mori family's house because of his troublemaking, and now had to do housework every day after school, he immediately forgave Conan.

Since Ran knows that Conan is precocious despite his young age and a boy whose reasoning skills are even better than Shinichi Kudo's, the idea of ​​taking a bath with him is out of the question.

Furthermore, since the Miyano sisters know that this Conan is actually Shinichi Kudo in his shrunken form, and that his core is that of a high school student, he has even less chance of taking a bath with beautiful women.

These days, the most common pairings for soaking in hot springs are Ran and Ai, Jiang Chengbei and Miyano Akemi, and Conan and Mouri Kogoro. It's a perfect arrangement with two people in each pair.

The main reason why the Miyano sisters, two fugitives from the brewery, dared to travel with Jiang Chengbei was that he showed them a part of his abilities, demonstrating his superhuman strength and his ability to disguise himself in a second. This gave the Miyano sisters peace of mind to stay and come along.

Having learned magic and disguise techniques from Kaito Kuroba, and with the help of chakra and the system, Jiang Chengbei can not only change his own appearance in a second, but he can also change the appearance of a selected target in a second, just like Kaito Kuroba.

After everyone finished soaking in the hot springs, Jiang Chengbei dominated the ping-pong table, and while everyone else went to watch the fireworks, Jiang Chengbei secretly slipped downstairs and chatted with the hotel owner in the lobby.

Seeing that it was almost time for the fireworks to start, Jiang Chengbei said goodbye and left, saying he was going upstairs to his room.

As the fireworks exploded in the distance, Jiang Chengbei also rushed into the murder scene of Kogoro Mouri's classmate who was a policeman in Chiba Prefecture, a bald man named Kazushi Nakamichi.

Having learned his lesson from the TV station incident, Jiang Chengbei didn't miss the chance to be a witness. He first transformed into a chubby little bird to monitor the scene. After seeing Nakado Kazushi commit murder using the sound of fireworks, Jiang Chengbei immediately flew out, transformed into a human, and rushed into the murder scene.

At the time, Zhongdao and Zhi were still holding pistols after killing people, while Jiang Chengbei barged in empty-handed.

He had a gun in his hand, his body was filled with the adrenaline of someone who had just killed someone, and he was mentally excited after killing someone. Add to that the sound of fireworks exploding outside, and finally, he saw Jiang Chengbei trembling as he picked up his phone, about to call the police in front of him, the murderer.

Especially when someone calls the police right after committing murder and is still holding a gun, how much do you look down on the handgun in the murderer's hand!

In any case, after killing someone, Zhongdao and Zhi, under the influence of a combination of factors, raised their guns and fired at Jiang Chengbei, who was about to call the police, without thinking.

After taking the two kill coins from Zhongdao and Zhi, Jiang Chengbei dodged the bullets, turned around and ran, shouting that he had killed someone as he ran.

After Nakamichi Kazushi emptied his magazine and a crowd of fearless onlookers appeared around, Jiang Chengbei stopped and charged in the opposite direction, subduing Nakamichi Kazushi, who was chasing him and firing his pistol, with an over-the-shoulder throw.

I earned 2 kill coins from Kazushi Nakamichi this time, and spent another kill coin to buy the Stiffness skill from Kazushi Nakamichi. Now I have 31 kill coins left.

Stiffness: When you attack someone, they will be affected by a stiffness effect, becoming sluggish and stiff.

Currently, at level 1, the Stiffness skill can affect a maximum of one person during combat. When the skill is upgraded to level 2, it can affect a maximum of two people, and so on.

Jiang Chengbei gained killing coins, skills, and transformation opportunities after the police arrived from Nakamichi and Shishi. He can say that he gained a lot this time. It was worth the money to support Kogoro Mouri's class reunion.

After all, he has the ability to transform into a little chubby bird. Money that can't be brought into the system can be easily spent by flying to the bank.

No matter how sturdy the bank vault door is, with his Mist Dog Wall-Breaking Palm, where can't he go?

In any case, Jiang Chengbei gained a lot this time, which enhanced his combat ability and improved his strength.

Upon returning home and finding one of his college classmates dead and the other arrested, Kogoro Mouri, the organizer of the reunion, was heartbroken.

He wept bitterly, repeatedly saying things like, "If only I hadn't held this class reunion, then Nakamichi wouldn't have killed anyone, and Yumi wouldn't have died."

In short, he was filled with regret.

In the original series, he was already in great pain just from attending a class reunion, but now that he's the one hosting it, Kogoro Mouri is in even greater pain.

Chapter 204 confirms: Without Conan, no one will die in the case.

Kogoro Mouri is a sentimental person. Ever since one of his college classmates was murdered at a class reunion he organized, and the murderer turned out to be another of his good classmates, he has been living in grief, listless and devoid of any zest for life.

Kogoro Mouri was immersed in grief, but his detective agency, which had previously had little business, suddenly received a letter of request.

The letter was sent by a mystery novelist who called himself Nakamura Misao. He said that he saw Kogoro Mouri on TV talking about how they went on a trip to Shikijima and immediately noticed the unusual nature of the naval cave, which led to the discovery of the treasure. He has admired Kogoro Mouri ever since.

He had just moved into the old villa left to him by his grandfather a few days ago, but found that there were many strange things about the villa. Therefore, he urgently needed the help of the famous detective Kogoro Mouri, who was very good at solving mysteries and could find clues in the unusual. He asked him to come over.

Before Kogoro Mouri held his class reunion, and before a beautiful female classmate died tragically because of it, he would have been hoping for such a request. But now that the beautiful female classmate has just died, and Kogoro is still in a slump, he clearly has no interest in this request from Nakamura Misao, whose gender is unknown.

Kogoro Mouri wasn't interested in the request, but Kojo Kita was. Although he couldn't tell the difference between Nakamura Misao and Yamamura Misao before he transmigrated, he had met Yamamura Misao from Gunma Prefecture before. So, this Nakamura Misao who claimed to write mystery novels should also be a character from the original story.

Kogoro Mouri was still grieving, Conan, Ai, and Ran were still in school, and the fruit shop, which was of little use, was being used by Akemi Miyano, who had nothing else to do. So in the end, only Jiang Chengbei was there, carrying the letter of entrustment, pretending to drive to the old villa that Nakamura had mentioned.

Not long after starting the drive, Jiang Chengbei found a secluded spot, put the car into the system, and transformed into Little Fatty, flying directly to the old villa in the mountain village that Nakamura had mentioned.

Arriving at Nakamura Misao's old villa in the mountains, it's just a lonely villa surrounded by mountains and wasteland, extremely remote, you can't even see a ghost, it's incredibly desolate.

Jiang Chengbei flew into the villa and took a look around. He saw a young girl locked up in the villa's isolation area, her mouth taped shut.

Inside the villa, there were two middle-aged men rummaging through things, seemingly looking for something important.

Seeing that they had guns on them, Jiang Chengbei immediately felt that he had won this time. He was happy. He liked this kind of simple and brutal bandit who carried guns. It was just a pity that they didn't have enough guns. The two of them only had one, which was not enough.

After surveying the villa's basic situation, Jiang Chengbei flew a distance away, then released his car from the system, transformed into a human in the driver's seat, and drove the car rapidly towards the villa.

In less than a minute, Jiang Chengbei drove his car to the front of the villa, got out, rang the doorbell, and waited for the two thugs inside to come out and open the door.

After the fatter thug opened the door, Jiang Chengbei, holding the letter of commission, said, "I am from the Mori Detective Agency..."

"Hello, Detective Mouri, we've been waiting for you for a long time. We've asked you to come and help us investigate the villa."

Before Jiang Chengbei could finish speaking, the fat bandit couldn't wait to speak up.