Slacker Assassin's Multiverse Daily

After realizing it had crossed into the wrong world, the veteran system directly shut down in a self-induced crash.

It knew that not only was it no longer the outstanding system of this era, but for at least ten eras, it could forget about getting its title, a promotion, or a raise to reach the pinnacle of systems!

However, as a veteran system that had lived through several eras and trained multiple hosts, the Legendary Assassin System didn't give up. After using its remaining energy to scan and analyze this world, it finally found a turning point.

According to its assessment, detectives in this world were a profession close to the world's origin, and some top-tier detectives even carried a trace of that origin within them, as if they were the protagonists of this world.

As long as it could make its host a legendary detective in this world, it would have a chance to steal a sliver of the world's origin power to replenish itself.

Moreover, if it could train its host under these conditions, it would be forging a new path. If done well, this could be written into the system's resume and possibly turned into a considerable achievement.

With this in mind, the system extended a friendly invitation to its current host—"Please, host, work together with this system to become the best assass... detective in this world."

Though the slip of the tongue was a flaw, it believed the host could feel its sincere intentions.

At that moment, Jiang Hang snapped back to reality from the system's response.

"So what do you want me to do after this? Steal cases from Conan and solve them all myself?"

"That would be ideal, of course. But this system primarily focuses on cultivating the host's own abilities and won't provide assistance in solving cases. From now on, you'll need to find clues and the murderer's motives on your own."

Hearing the system's reply again, Jiang Hang curled his lips.

He hadn't expected such a rigid system. Sure, he'd grown up watching the Shinigami Elementary Schooler, but honestly, out of over a thousand episodes, he'd only seen the first few dozen on TV as a kid, plus a few theatrical movies unrelated to the main plot. He barely knew the later storylines, not even how far the main plot had progressed.

A few years back, he'd heard the boss in Conan had finally shown up, and he thought the series was about to end, but then it seemed to go quiet again.

Even with his buggy Eagle Eye, Jiang Hang was confident he could snatch some cases from Conan early on, but stealing every single case that Shinigami encountered? That was clearly impossible.

Thinking about it, Jiang Hang found it all too troublesome.

"Forget it then. With Conan's luck, he'll stumble into a murder case in the blink of an eye. I'll just start as an ordinary small-time detective."

Legendary Assassin System: ...

It suddenly remembered that in the System Management Bureau, while otaku-type hosts could provide higher score bonuses, most of them had a common flaw: laziness.

In its original plan, after bringing the host to Renaissance Florence, it would quickly show him the darkness of that era to shake off his laziness. But now, with the accidental crossover, the host seemed to have developed some distrust toward the system, and with the convenience of modern life, his lazy nature had resurfaced after getting used to this world.

Under normal circumstances, faced with such a host, it would apply to the System Management Bureau for permission to use punishment, employing simple penalties to spark the host's motivation.

But if it sent that application, this incident would be recorded, and its plan to pull the wool over everyone's eyes would fail.

With a serious system error, applying for punishment to force the host's compliance was something only unlicensed junk systems without a license would do. If this got out, it would never earn the title of Outstanding System.

Still, it was an experienced, mature system. Since punishment was off the table, it would use more rewards to boost the host's motivation.

High-value rewards like assassin skills couldn't be handed out casually; the host had to earn them step by step. But there was one thing completely useless to the system, easy to produce in bulk, and highly tempting to humans.

That thing was, of course, the vile currency of money.

It hadn't had this function before—after all, what did an assassin need money for? If short on cash, just take it from a rich tycoon's house. The yen conversion ability came from the 2D Patch Pack it had acquired earlier, and now it finally came in handy.

What a clever system I am.

With that thought, the Legendary Assassin System directly issued a new mission to its host.

"Solve Cases: As a detective, solving cases is the most important skill. For every case the host resolves that meets the system's requirements, you will receive a reward. Mission Reward: Varies by case difficulty, starting at one million yen, with no upper limit."

Chapter 4: Preparations for Opening the Agency

The system's extravagance made Jiang Hang feel like he'd hit the jackpot.

Jiang Hang still remembered when he first crossed into this world. After the system sorted out his identity and household registration, it had given him a nine-figure compensation as a settling-in fee, almost like hush money.

And under the system's arrangement, the source of this money was perfectly reasonable—part of it was inheritance from his non-existent parents in this world, and the other part was a massive insurance payout from the company after those same non-existent parents died in an "accident."

Assets worth hundreds of millions of yen might not mean much to the big conglomerates, but as long as Japan didn't suffer a financial crisis that turned that money into scrap paper, he could coast through life comfortably on it.

And now this absurdly wealthy system was still pounding Jiang Hang's young and fragile heart with mountains of cash.

What had seemed too troublesome before now had Jiang Hang, faced with this fortune, actually starting to think about the plot of Detective Conan.

From what he vaguely remembered, tonight was the first case for Shinichi Kudo, who had shrunk and started living as Conan.

Based on his childhood memories of the anime, it seemed to be a case where a rich girl, bored because her dad couldn't spend time with her, staged her own kidnapping, only to end up kidnapped by real kidnappers.

"This case has nothing to do with me," he thought. Even though he knew the girl was kidnapped, he couldn't remember where she was held—a tall building that looked like a chimney. Classic as that scene was, this was Tokyo, full of skyscrapers. How Conan figured out that the building the girl mentioned was exactly the one he pinpointed was beyond him.

Jiang Hang wished the system could give him some help, but it just shoved the initial mission in front of him.

"Please complete the initial mission as soon as possible."

It seemed that until the agency was up and running, he wouldn't get any help from this rigid system.

"Forget it. I won't run around tonight. I'll just focus on getting the detective agency open first."

While Conan was reuniting with Professor Agasa, Jiang Hang carefully collected the feather perched above the Kudo Residence. The first feather collection earned him a reward of five million yen and a classic assassin outfit from Ezio, which made him look forward to collecting more feathers—this was way easier money than solving cases.

As for the other outfit reward, it came with no stat or skill bonuses, just an exquisitely made costume, but it fit him perfectly. He could wear it to a comic convention someday.

Back at home, Jiang Hang took a comfortable hot shower. Thinking about how Conan was out in the rain, miserably searching for a killer at this hour, his mood brightened considerably.

Far away, Conan, holding hands with Ran, suddenly sneezed.

Maybe it was because the system felt more confident after renaming itself, but the next morning, just as dawn broke, Jiang Hang—who was used to waking up whenever after eight or nine—was jolted awake by the system's alarm.

The system's built-in alarm clock was terrifyingly relentless; Jiang Hang couldn't even turn it off.

He wanted to argue with the system about pushing back his wake-up time in the future, but the system simply slapped the exercise tasks in his face, including the one million yen reward for completing the daily routine check-in.

Caught between the annoying alarm and the temptation of a huge sum of money, Jiang Hang finally crawled out of bed with a yawn.

A 10-kilometer run, 100 push-ups, squats, and sit-ups—these tasks might look simple on the surface, but an ordinary person would really struggle to finish them. After jogging a few laps around a park near his home, Jiang Hang already felt out of breath.

Just the 10-kilometer run alone took up almost the entire morning. By the end, Jiang Hang was barely jogging at a pace slower than walking, forcing himself to persist because the system required the 10 kilometers to be completed in one go, not broken up into intervals.

After finishing the remaining exercises and completing his first-ever check-in, nearly the whole morning had slipped away.

It was also thanks to his Assassin bloodline giving him much stronger recovery than an average person; otherwise, Jiang Hang figured he would've collapsed halfway through.

Seeing the one million yen he earned from the check-in, Jiang Hang felt he could grit his teeth and keep at it tomorrow.

After resting through the noon, Jiang Hang started working on the detective agency's affairs in the afternoon. With money, a lot of things became much less troublesome—whether it was the agency's premises or the legal procedures for establishing a detective agency, everything could be handled through an intermediary.

Under the power of money, by evening, the intermediary had already found him several suitable properties.

After inspecting them all, Jiang Hang ultimately chose a location that was neither too close nor too far from the Mori Detective Agency.

It wasn't close enough to cause friction with Uncle Mori over their agencies being right next to each other, but they were only two streets apart. If anything came up, a ten-minute walk would get him there.

Originally, Jiang Hang had thought about splurging to buy an entire floor of a commercial building near the station and renovating it completely, but Tokyo real estate wasn't as cheap as he'd imagined—especially properties near stations; a single floor would cost several hundred million yen at least.

Not only did Jiang Hang not have that kind of money right now, but he also wanted to follow the Mori Agency's model of running the business from his own home. Otherwise, commuting back and forth every day would be too much of a hassle.

In a residential building right next to the shopping street, Jiang Hang rented a floor for 15 million yen a year, with the option to buy it outright later when he had more money.

Beyond the rent, the agency's renovation was also a significant expense. Not one to skimp, Jiang Hang naturally chose whatever made him comfortable, spending a hefty sum on the decor.

In the days that followed, Jiang Hang's life began to settle into a simple routine: morning exercise, afternoon visits to check on the agency's renovation, and evening aimless wandering around Tokyo to complete exploration tasks.

It wasn't until just before the task deadline that the agency was finally ready, waiting only for its official opening.

Chapter 5: From Today On, I'm a Positive-Energy Detective

"Initial task completed. Task reward sent. Agency interface opening. Please check it yourself."

It wasn't any special day, nor was there any particular ceremony.

No flowers, no VIPs—maybe even the neighbors in the same building didn't know a detective agency had appeared right next to them.

It was so simple that Jiang Hang, seeing the finished renovation early in the morning, just casually said, "I guess this counts as officially open," and the initial task was marked as complete—even before he'd hung up the newly made sign for the "Pathfinder Detective Agency."

But this simple style was exactly what Jiang Hang, who hated trouble, liked.

Setting aside the flyers he'd prepared to have people hand out later, he started checking the system rewards and the features of this newly unlocked agency interface.

The meditation skill wasn't much to talk about. In games, it was used to change the time of day—meditate during the day, and it's night; meditate again, and it's day.

In reality, it let him enter a restful state faster and better, while speeding up the recovery of stamina and energy during sleep. Long-term practice could also slightly improve his physique.

Though not particularly useful, as a basic skill, it was decent enough.

Over the past week, by wandering around every night, Jiang Hang had finally completed the first phase of two exploration tasks, earning a physique boost and mastering the Assassin's Footwork, which let him walk almost silently.

The most obvious change was that, after maintaining enough exercise, his Assassin bloodline was finally starting to show its potential. Now, Jiang Hang no longer struggled like he did at the start when completing his daily exercise tasks.

He focused on the agency interface.

Clearly, the system had just taken the estate system from Assassin's Creed and modded it.

Right now, his agency was obviously the lowest tier, and upgrading it required solving cases to gain reputation.

Reputation was simple to understand—it was the fame of Jiang Hang's detective agency. The bigger and more cases he solved, the more people would know about it.

As for the agency's functions, they were straightforward and crude. The core feature was a bulletin board that displayed whether residents within a one-kilometer radius of the agency needed help. There was no explanation of whether Jiang Hang should solve them or what methods to use.

As the level increased, the range of requests would expand. Maybe after leveling up a few dozen times, Jiang Hang could sit in his agency and see if any major cases were happening across all of Japan.

The requests on the bulletin board were ranked from high to low according to the system's rating.

For example, right now, Jiang Hang could see a five-star "request" at the very top of the board.

"Miss Ran Mori has a childhood friend named Shinichi Kudo. However, since they parted ways at the amusement park a week ago, she hasn't seen him again. She's very worried about Shinichi Kudo's safety. Please help her find his whereabouts."

Jiang Hang glanced at the reputation reward for this request and figured it would be enough to level up his rookie first-tier agency by one or two levels.

To be honest, this task was pretty simple. Conan had always been worried that revealing his identity to Ran would put her in danger, but after over a thousand episodes, one traitor after another had popped up in the Black Organization, and they'd all figured out Conan's real identity. Only poor Gin and his nameless lackey were still in the dark.

Whether Conan hid his identity or not, Jiang Hang couldn't see how it would really affect Ran's safety.

But there was no rush for this. He'd wait until he got a bit more familiar with Conan.

Jiang Hang looked at the other requests on the bulletin board.

Sure enough, they were all trivial matters—someone forgetting their wallet when going out, someone losing their keys somewhere.

Among them, there was even a request from a scriptwriter whose deadline was approaching but couldn't write anything due to a lack of inspiration, hoping someone could help him find some ideas.

There weren't even any requests about finding lost cats or dogs, which Jiang Hang had expected. Most people's lives were pretty normal, after all. Only a jinx like Conan would constantly stumble into murder cases.

Looking at these bizarre requests that had nothing to do with any cases, Jiang Hang couldn't help but complain internally: Is this a detective agency or an odd jobs agency?

But considering his system had been forcibly switched from an Assassin System to a Detective System, he was already grateful it could pull off even this much on short notice.

After picking out a few simple requests from the bulletin board that he could handle on the way, Jiang Hang got ready to head out.

But as he closed the door and saw the empty office, Jiang Hang started to ponder.

Since this bulletin board existed, along with the exploration quests the system had issued, he could imagine that his time spent in the office wouldn't be very long in the future. What if a case came knocking while he was out?

It looked like he needed to find a receptionist or an assistant as soon as possible.

The moment words like receptionist and assistant came to mind, a flash of some peculiar thoughts crossed Jiang Hang's mind.

Ahem. Jiang Hang cleared his throat lightly. Things like under-the-table dealings—he had never even considered them. As an upright detective, he would never entertain such discordant ideas.

But no matter what, an assistant really should be easy on the eyes.

As always, as long as he had money, finding an assistant was simple enough. After passing along his requirements to the intermediary he'd worked with before, all he had to do next was wait for them to send over a suitable list.

For the rest of the time, Jiang Hang basically wandered around his neighborhood.

Small things, like guiding a lost young man to his destination. Or an elderly woman out grocery shopping who realized she'd forgotten her wallet at the checkout—Jiang Hang happened to pass by and generously paid for her. There was also a kid who twisted his ankle while playing games with friends; Jiang Hang happened to be nearby and took him to the nearby clinic to get it treated.

And after completing each commission, he not only earned reputation rewards but also gained goodwill from the neighbors. More importantly, finishing the commissions on the bulletin board gave him a cash reward starting at one million yen!

In just one noon, Jiang Hang's wallet had gained nearly ten million in assets.

As the injured child's parents thanked him, Jiang Hang glanced at his wallet and smiled with satisfaction.

From today onward, I am an upright detective spreading positive energy.

Ah, the life of a positive-energy detective—so simple, unadorned, and dull.

Chapter 6: First Meeting with the Detective Boys

By evening, Jiang Hang, who had just helped an old lady cross the street, was planning to grab dinner first and then head out for the exploration quest at night.

If it weren't for a group of elementary school kids running excitedly past him, with one chubby little boy bumping straight into him, this whole fulfilling day would have almost made Jiang Hang forget that this world still had Conan in it.