Mind's Eye's ability to predict danger and the instinctive reactions it gave him when dealing with danger, combined with the Assassin bloodline that had enhanced his physique once, meant that as long as Jiang Hang stayed focused, Gin could fire another hundred shots like that and still never hit him even once.
In the training space of Mind's Eye, let alone dodging shots fired from three meters away, he had encountered situations where a gun was pressed directly against his head more times than he could count.
It was just that dodging bullets in the training space and dodging bullets in reality felt completely different.
"Still, Gin's instincts are seriously sharp. I was so far away and merely forgot to activate Presence Concealment, yet he still noticed me... This world really is absurd," Jiang Hang muttered.
Through his Eagle Eye vision, he had clearly seen Gin inexplicably observing and searching in his direction. Gin simply could not have imagined that Jiang Hang was monitoring them from several hundred meters away.
"They found the thing I deliberately left behind too. Go ahead and puzzle over whether Miyano Akemi is dead or not." Jiang Hang smiled.
He had never thought that a few words from him would make a suspicious bastard like Gin believe Miyano Akemi was dead.
But as long as The Black Organization believed there was a high chance Miyano Akemi had already died, that was enough.
As for the Brotherhood, The Black Organization could investigate it themselves. They could investigate until they died and still find nothing.
"Speaking of which, Miyano Akemi's side and Conan's side should both be settled by now, right? If anything went wrong over there, all this effort would have been for nothing."
Professor Agasa, Master of Core Technology
When Jiang Hang saw Miyano Akemi again, she had already arrived at Professor Agasa's home with the one billion yen she had stolen from the bank, aided by Conan and Professor Agasa.
By then, Jiang Hang had naturally returned to his original appearance.
When Miyano Akemi saw Jiang Hang arrive, her first reaction was to look behind him.
Even though the hope was slim, she was still dreaming that the organization would let the two sisters leave.
But clearly, her younger sister had not come with Jiang Hang.
Knowing exactly what she was thinking, Jiang Hang tossed her a voice recorder.
"Just as you asked, I asked those two everything you wanted to say. But I think you already know what their answer was. This contains my recording with Gin. Listen to it yourself."
After hearing Jiang Hang's words, Miyano Akemi's expression dimmed somewhat, but she still said, "Thank you."
Leaving her enough personal space, Jiang Hang turned toward Professor Agasa and Conan nearby.
This was his first official meeting with Professor Agasa. The man looked no different from his anime counterpart: the standard white lab coat of a researcher, the Mediterranean hairstyle symbolizing wisdom, and, naturally, that belly full of learning.
When he was younger, Jiang Hang had heard somewhere that the true final boss of Detective Conan was supposedly this seemingly honest and simple inventor. He had been half-convinced for quite a while. Although he later learned it was a rumor, seeing the man now still made him think of it.
"You must be Jiang Hang. I've heard quite a lot about you from little Conan lately," Professor Agasa greeted him while introducing himself.
Only now did Jiang Hang realize that after wondering for years what Professor Agasa's real name was, "Professor Agasa" really was his full name!?
He hurriedly greeted this big shot who had mastered core black technology. "Hello, Professor Agasa. The inventions you made for Conan are amazing too. They've really opened my eyes."
Only after flattering him did Jiang Hang turn to Conan.
"There weren't any accidents while withdrawing the one billion yen, right?"
Conan looked rather helpless.
He was a renowned detective. Previously, helping a bank robber forge a murder scene had been bad enough. Now he actually had to help her hide and safeguard the stolen one billion yen. If anyone found out, he would probably be charged with harboring a criminal.
But for Miyano Akemi's safety, and even more so to keep himself from being discovered by The Black Organization, he did not dare hand the one billion yen over to the police unless he could guarantee that not the slightest word would leak out.
So he said to Jiang Hang dejectedly, "There was no problem. Miss Miyano withdrew the money according to your instructions, but was it really okay for you to have her withdraw it using her own appearance?"
Miyano Akemi had stored the one billion yen in a hotel, and that hotel would definitely have surveillance footage.
"That is why I added a little disguise to her original appearance," Jiang Hang explained to Conan. "I already met members of The Black Organization while wearing Miyano Akemi's appearance, so they will definitely investigate another Miyano Akemi appearing in surveillance footage carefully. At least, if it were me, I would never be able to determine whether the Miyano Akemi in that footage was the real Miyano Akemi. It would only make them more suspicious."
After Gin had been fooled by Jiang Hang once, if he found the flaw Jiang Hang had left in the surveillance footage, there was a good chance he would conclude that the Brotherhood Jiang Hang fabricated had used Miyano Akemi's appearance to create another disguise.
Conan knew Jiang Hang's disguise skills, so in terms of professional expertise, he chose to trust him.
"After withdrawing the one billion yen, we also disguised the car with Professor Agasa's help. No cameras caught us along the way."
Jiang Hang nodded. "There are no problems elsewhere. As long as the murder scene you set up in Miyano Akemi's house can fool The Black Organization again, this entire plan to deceive them will be complete."
As a law-abiding detective, Conan was doing something like this for the first time, so he could not help feeling somewhat guilty.
But when he remembered that the people he was deceiving were The Black Organization, he felt much better.
"So, this one billion yen really can only be kept here? Is there no better way to deal with it?"
"Of course there is." Jiang Hang knocked Conan on the head. "You can put the one billion yen at my place. I can come over in the middle of the night to handle it, and I guarantee I won't leave a single trace."
After saying that, he saw Conan roll his eyes at him, as if asking what difference there was between the two options.
Jiang Hang sighed. "So the one billion yen stays here, or I take it to my place tonight. Once we pull The Black Organization up by the roots, the whole truth will come to light."
As he spoke, he looked at Conan. "You aren't worried that I'll secretly pocket the one billion yen, are you?"
Jiang Hang felt that he was a detective—an Assassin—with cheats. It would have been one thing if he had not gotten involved in Conan's main plot before, but now that he had encountered it, if he could not even deal with The Black Organization, a place overflowing with traitors, then his transmigration here would be an utter failure.
Even if he could not handle them now, he could just lie low and farm for a while. Once he was fully geared in the late game, he could charge straight into The Black Organization's headquarters and crush them all.
Moon Shadow Island had earned him a Five-Star Case rating for taking down a group of drug traffickers. What rating would wiping out The Black Organization get him?
Jiang Hang figured that if he really destroyed The Black Organization, his system should at least give him a seven- or eight-star case. As for the reward, a set of Eden Artifacts, or perhaps a complete Heroic Spirit template, would be about right.
While Jiang Hang dreamed of becoming rich overnight after destroying The Black Organization, Conan regarded his words with suspicion.
You made it sound easy. How could it possibly be that simple?
He thought of Gin and Vodka, the two men who had turned him into a child. If everyone in that organization was like them, just how difficult would it be to uproot it?
For the time being, the stolen one billion yen could only remain in Professor Agasa's home or Jiang Hang's home for a long time.
Conan finally accepted that fact. Since Jiang Hang had just confronted The Black Organization head-on, he immediately asked about it with concern, wanting to know how Jiang Hang had escaped such an organization safely.
Conan's Suspicion of Jiang Hang
In truth, after seeing Jiang Hang return safely from his confrontation with The Black Organization, Conan formed a suspicion he had never considered before—Jiang Hang himself was also a member of The Black Organization!
And not an ordinary member either. Perhaps his rank was even higher than Gin's!
Or perhaps he was not part of The Black Organization, but because of the Foundation behind him, he had some unclear connection with them.
That was also why Jiang Hang knew that the people in that organization used liquor names as code names, and why he knew that meeting Gin would not put him in danger.
Thinking of that possibility, Conan could not help feeling uneasy.
He even recalled more details.
The first time he had met Jiang Hang was on the very night he had been shrunk, right outside his own house.
It looked like a coincidence, but what if Jiang Hang had been sent by that organization to check whether he had survived?
The next time he met Jiang Hang, Jiang Hang seemed to have suddenly become a detective. Had he become a detective in order to search for him, the missing detective, and make gathering information easier?
The few meetings after that had not seemed problematic, but now that Conan thought about it, Jiang Hang's attitude toward him did seem rather strange.
If Jiang Hang really was a high-ranking member of that organization, then with that terrifying power of observation, he would probably soon deduce that Conan was Shinichi Kudo!
What would happen to his own safety and the safety of those around him then?
It was not until Jiang Hang knocked him on the head again that Conan realized he had imagined all that.
He lightly shook his head. He knew his guess was most likely baseless. Jiang Hang's usual lazy attitude and everything he had shown during these incidents were completely unlike someone from a terrifying criminal organization.
But even if the chance was low, it could still be true, so he silently buried those thoughts in his heart.
He would have to investigate and confirm something like this discreetly.
That was what he thought.
Jiang Hang had no idea what Conan was thinking. If he knew, he would definitely beat Conan senseless: I taught you so many life lessons, and you think I'm one of The Black Organization?
For now, he patiently recounted his meeting with The Black Organization.
But when he saw Conan's doubtful expression regarding his dodging bullets, Jiang Hang did not intend to explain further.
There seemed to be quite a few people in Detective Conan who could dodge bullets, right? Not counting Makoto Kyogoku, who was completely beyond the rules, Kid seemed able to dodge bullets through sheer skill too, didn't he?
Conan did not believe him now, but Jiang Hang did not care at all. Once the system rewarded him with something like Bullet Time, he could perform a Hidden Blade bullet-cutting stunt for Conan on the spot.
As he spoke, he looked toward Professor Agasa. "Professor Agasa, thank you so much for this. If you ever have funding issues with your invention research, please feel free to contact me. I cannot come up with too much money right now, but a few hundred million is no problem."
Although Jiang Hang was currently saving money to fulfill another ambition, Professor Agasa was a major figure who had mastered core technology. Building a good relationship with him might prove useful someday, when Jiang Hang needed him to modify equipment or items obtained from the system.
Professor Agasa had learned from Conan that Jiang Hang was indeed a wealthy man who did not lack money.
Of course, Professor Agasa was not poor either. He could buy a villa like this by himself, then turn it into a research institute and conduct all kinds of research every day, so naturally he did not lack money. But what inventor would ever complain about having too much research funding?
And Jiang Hang had casually mentioned a few hundred million. That much money would fund his research for months.
As a result, his attitude toward Jiang Hang became even better.
Conan, on the other hand, kept signaling to Professor Agasa, wanting to discuss Jiang Hang with him. But Professor Agasa became increasingly engrossed in conversation with Jiang Hang and did not notice Conan's gestures at all.
At that moment, Miyano Akemi approached with reddened eyes and the voice recorder in her hand. Clearly, she had already heard Gin's cold and merciless words for herself.
Taking the recorder from her, Jiang Hang casually tossed it to Conan. "Didn't you want to know what happened? Take it somewhere and listen to it yourself."
After speaking to Conan, he turned to Miyano Akemi. "Miss Miyano, you understand your current situation very clearly, don't you?"
Miyano Akemi nodded softly. "I betrayed the organization. Even if I was only an outer member, if they find out I am here, I will put all of you in danger."
"I have spent so many years in the organization and committed quite a few crimes. I understand that. I am willing to atone for them."
Knowing she had that resolve, and knowing that she was now a witness with a stained record, Jiang Hang did not continue that topic.
"Let's put atonement aside for now. You should know that no matter what, you can no longer use an identity like Miyano Akemi or Masami Hirota. So you need a new identity, one The Black Organization will not notice."
Miyano Akemi quietly listened to Jiang Hang, while Conan, who had just received the recorder, also perked up his ears to hear how Jiang Hang intended to deal with her.
"I'll give you two choices. The first is that I teach you some basic disguise techniques and arrange a new identity for you. After that, you can work at my art gallery. The price is that you cannot casually leave the area around the gallery or show your face in front of too many people. I will protect you as best I can, and once The Black Organization has been completely eliminated, we can discuss your atonement."
Seeing no change in Miyano Akemi's expression, Jiang Hang gave her the second option. "As for the other one, I remember you said this afternoon that The Black Organization wanted to kill you because five years ago, you brought an FBI undercover agent named Dai Moroboshi into the organization. I assume you still have a way to contact him. I can help you reach him and have him protect you. I believe the FBI should be capable of handling something like that."
This time, a strange look appeared on Conan's face, while Miyano Akemi looked even more surprised, as though she had never expected Jiang Hang to offer her such a choice.
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Miyano Akemi's Choice
Miyano Akemi hesitated between the two choices.
Meanwhile, Jiang Hang thought about the FBI undercover agent Miyano Akemi had mentioned that afternoon, the man using the alias Dai Moroboshi.
Fortunately, he was not called Dan Moroboshi. Otherwise, The Black Organization would probably have been wiped out long ago.
In any case, although Jiang Hang had not watched the Detective Conan TV anime in a long time, he still knew the identity of the FBI agent who had infiltrated The Black Organization thanks to several later movies full of explosive effects that had made it onto domestic cinema screens.
If the FBI had not sent a second undercover agent into The Black Organization, then the man's real name should be Shuichi Akai, the one who fought a life-and-death battle atop a Ferris wheel with Toru Amuro, another undercover agent planted in The Black Organization by Japanese public security, in Pure Black Nightmare.
To be honest, Jiang Hang had only watched the movies, so he did not know Shuichi Akai's past story. He only knew that Akai should be on the protagonist's side. The rest was merely the impression the movie had left him with—he drove incredibly well, shot an incredible sniper rifle, and had truly massive guts.
At the very least, if Jiang Hang had to climb to the top of a Ferris wheel dozens or even hundreds of meters high to fight someone, he would feel a little shaky even with Leap of Faith.
Yet those two undercover agents in The Black Organization, who should have been cooperating, fought back and forth atop the Ferris wheel without giving a single thought to falling.
Even if the scene where the two Captain Americas fought each other in Avengers: Endgame were dropped onto this set, it would not feel out of place at all. They were more superhuman than superheroes.
Besides that, what left the deepest impression on Jiang Hang from that movie was just how many undercover agents had infiltrated The Black Organization. It seemed that throughout the entire movie, aside from Gin and the few snipers around him who specialized in killing their own people, every other organization member who appeared was an undercover agent from another country. Even the one competent intelligence officer they finally had turned out to be a traitor in the end.
Ahem. In any case, putting aside the question of how many undercover agents and traitors The Black Organization had, Jiang Hang could tell from the hesitation and recollection on Miyano Akemi's face when he mentioned the man that the two of them must have had something going on back then.
He was even hoping inside that Miyano Akemi would hurry up and give him Shuichi Akai's contact information, so he could contact the man and have him take Miyano Akemi away.
The man was an FBI agent, after all. If they were willing to protect Miyano Akemi, Jiang Hang would not need to spend so much effort on her.
But after a brief hesitation, Miyano Akemi still shook her head.
"The fewer people who know about me, the better. Every additional person who knows means another risk of exposure. At least not now... If the organization finds out about me, my sister might be in danger too." Miyano Akemi no longer hesitated and looked at Jiang Hang firmly. "As long as I do not appear, my sister can at least continue living safely in the organization..."
She even imagined the organization using her sister's life to threaten her. She did not dare gamble on that possibility.
Since she had said so, Jiang Hang knew that before Miyano Shiho left The Black Organization, Miyano Akemi would definitely not have any other thoughts.
Should he go rescue Miyano Shiho, who had not yet become Ai Haibara, and reunite the sisters?
Unfortunately, Miyano Akemi was only an outer member of the organization. Even though Miyano Shiho was her sister, they could barely contact each other a few times each month, and Miyano Akemi did not even know which research institute her sister was developing drugs in.
There was also the most practical issue: even if Miyano Akemi knew where her sister's research institute was, Jiang Hang might not dare go there. When he met Gin today, he had first used Eagle Eye from outside to confirm that Gin did not have any heavy firepower on him. They each only had a small pistol, which was why he had dared go in and show off in front of Gin.
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