The Daily Life of a Salted Fish Assassin in Various Anime Chapter 37

Jiang Hang glanced at the curious Conan.

"I just found something interesting and wanted to see if my deductions were correct," Jiang Hang said, looking at Conan. "If you call me 'Big Brother' or 'Boss' from now on, I'll tell you what I found. Otherwise, you can just guess it yourself."

Conan's expression immediately turned extremely unpleasant.

It had been unavoidable to call this guy Big Brother before, but now that the other party knew his identity, he still wanted him to continue calling him Big Brother. This man was truly perverse.

Conan had some pride in this regard.

Since Jiang Hang refused to say anything, he would find the truth himself.

However, just then, Jiang Hang suddenly said to Conan again, "You'd better figure it out before you get to their house, or it might be too late?"

Conan gritted his teeth. Although he didn't know what "too late" meant, his mind was racing.

Kogoro Mouri was meticulously questioning Ms. Ikemura Kimie about her husband and son and didn't notice Jiang Hang at all. However, Heiji Hattori, walking in the middle, noticed Jiang Hang and Conan at the back.

He quietly slowed his pace and then asked Jiang Hang, "Are you the 'Eagle Vision Detective' who has recently become famous in Tokyo?"

It seemed Heiji Hattori paid quite a bit of attention to the detectives in Tokyo, at least more so than Conan, who only focused on cases.

But before Jiang Hang could reply, Heiji began to mutter to himself, "Actually, I haven't heard any news from that Kudo fellow for a month, so I've been paying extra attention to these matters. As a result, in the past month, two 'famous detectives' have emerged in Tokyo. One is Uncle Mori, and the other is you."

So, in the end, you only noticed me because of Shinichi Kudo?

Jiang Hang playfully smacked Conan on the head.

Heiji Hattori continued to rest his chin on his hand and analyze, "Tokyo lost a high school detective, but almost at the same time as his disappearance, two new 'famous detectives' appeared. Such a coincidence makes me feel something is not right. After I discovered the relationship between Shinichi Kudo and Ran Mori, I had this idea..."

"Could it be that Kudo had to hide for some reason and was secretly guiding his girlfriend's father to solve cases? But I didn't expect you to appear at this time. It's really strange... I'll ask you directly, do you know where Shinichi Kudo is?"

Conan, who was still pondering what was wrong with that woman, was startled by the sudden question.

This guy, all the way from Osaka, had deduced this possibility from newspaper information?

It was only now that Conan realized he had been too reckless in the past month. Besides Jiang Hang, this was the second person to notice Kogoro Mouri!

This suddenly appearing young man, although still a bit off from the truth, was undeniably a formidable individual!

Fortunately, the Black Organization hadn't noticed this matter, otherwise... Thinking of this, Conan couldn't help but shiver.

He nervously looked at Jiang Hang, wondering how he would respond.

Chapter 88: Chapter 87: He's a Detective of Your Type

Conan looked at Jiang Hang, and Jiang Hang looked at Heiji Hattori.

"I came to Japan a month ago, and I haven't truly met 'Shinichi Kudo' yet. However, a few days ago, I had the honor of meeting his father, a world-renowned mystery novelist. Unfortunately, I didn't get to speak with him for long before he left Japan."

He paused, then continued, "If you really want to know about Shinichi Kudo, there's someone who can tell you."

After speaking, Jiang Hang directly pushed Conan in front of Heiji Hattori.

"This is my recently recruited disciple, Conan Edogawa. He is Shinichi Kudo's distant cousin and his biggest supporter. If you want to know about Shinichi Kudo, you can ask him directly."

Conan looked at Jiang Hang with disbelief. He never expected Jiang Hang to hand him over so easily.

When did I become your disciple? And why did you push me in front of that guy? What if this guy was sent by the Black Organization to test me!

After experiencing the play-within-a-play the day before and receiving Jiang Hang's "prudent education," Conan seemed to have finally learned a lesson. At least now, when encountering someone like Heiji Hattori who suddenly appeared, he would first consider if they were related to the Black Organization.

"Shinichi Kudo's biggest supporter?" Heiji Hattori looked closely at the child-like Conan, then his lips twitched as he looked back at Jiang Hang. "How could a child like him know Shinichi Kudo's whereabouts? Of course, it's fine if you don't want to say. With my abilities, I'll find out where that Kudo fellow is soon enough!"

With Jiang Hang's maneuver, Heiji Hattori's attention was completely shifted away from himself and Conan.

Seeing Heiji Hattori resolutely rejoin the group with a determined look, Jiang Hang quietly said to Conan, "Conan, this guy is a detective of your type. A little trickery can easily fool him, right?"

Conan just wanted to roll his eyes at him.

What do you mean a detective of my type? I would never be fooled by such boring tricks.

He grumbled this in his heart, completely unaware that he was also being toyed with by Jiang Hang.

Because by the time he came to his senses, Ikemura Kimie had stopped in front of a villa with Kogoro Mouri and the others.

Looking at the magnificent villa before him, Conan was stunned. He then remembered that because Heiji Hattori had interrupted his train of thought, he hadn't yet figured out what was wrong with Ikemura Kimie!

But it was too late, as Jiang Hang had already quickly caught up, seemingly with no intention of explaining anything to him.

Conan gritted his teeth and quickly followed. Since he couldn't figure out the problem yet, he would stay by Jiang Hang's side and see what he intended to do.

Speaking of which, the Ikemura family was indeed considered a prominent one. As their group entered the house, a butler even came to greet them.

Mrs. Ikemura briefly explained to her butler that Kogoro Mouri and the others were friends invited by her husband, but she didn't reveal their detective identities.

Just as she was about to lead everyone to her husband's study upstairs, a woman's voice suddenly came from the hallway.

"Mom, you're back?"

Hearing this voice, Ikemura Kimie swayed and looked at the woman who had spoken to her.

With just a glance, everyone present recognized the young woman as Katsuragi Sachiko, the girlfriend of Ikemura Kimie's son, and the very person she wanted to investigate.

Upon seeing her appear at her home, Ikemura Kimie's expression immediately turned grim.

"Why are you here..." she said, her face growing even more displeased. "And there's no reason for you to call me Mom. Our family hasn't acknowledged you yet!"

After saying this, she stopped speaking to the woman and instead ushered Kogoro Mouri and the others upstairs.

Watching this scene, Conan frowned slightly. He didn't quite like Ikemura Kimie's attitude. According to what she had said at the agency, her son's girlfriend was a very outstanding woman, but she and her husband were a little uneasy about her, so they wanted to investigate.

At this point, the other party shouldn't know Katsuragi Sachiko yet. But if that's the case, why is she showing such an attitude now?

Conan looked at Jiang Hang, whose expression had not changed.

Could it be that what Jiang Hang discovered was related to this?

Conan vaguely felt that he had grasped the crux of the problem, but it was as if there was still a veil, preventing him from seeing the final answer.

At this moment, Ikemura Kimie led everyone to the study door.

From the study, opera music could faintly be heard.

She knocked on the door first, and after a while, there was no response. She tried to turn the doorknob, but it was locked.

She looked at the people behind her with a bit of embarrassment.

"I'm sorry, perhaps my husband isn't in the study or is asleep. I'll get the key and open the door to see."

She took out a set of keys from her bag and opened the locked door.

As soon as the door opened, the opera music, which had been faint from outside, became clearly audible to everyone.

Everyone also saw the famous diplomat Ikemura Isao, who was propping his chin with his hand, with more than half of his face obscured by the tall books on the desk.

He looked as if he had fallen asleep while listening to the opera.

Ikemura Kimie couldn't help but nag.

"Honestly, how can he fall asleep with the stereo so loud... I'm sorry to have made you all witness this."

As the group walked into the room, the most eye-catching item was naturally the stereo playing opera.

Conan glanced at Ikemura Kimie. She seemed to be preparing to wake her husband, so he didn't pay much attention. He walked over to the stereo with Heiji Hattori and Kogoro Mouri, wanting to hear which opera was playing.

And just as their gaze and attention were drawn to the opera, Ikemura Kimie walked to her husband's side.

"We have guests, you should wake up now," she urged, slowly extending her hand as if to rouse her husband from his sleep.

However, in the next moment, a deliberately lowered voice came from behind her.

"Are you sure you want to do that? Because that's hell up ahead."

Startled by someone speaking behind her, her right hand trembled slightly, and a thin, sharp needle slipped from her fingertip.

Chapter 89: Chapter 88: Conan's Surrender

Seeing Ikemura Kimie looking at him in a daze, Jiang Hang remained silent. Instead, he took out a small bag from his pocket, picked up the fine needle stained with poison from the ground, and put it away.

With a rough judgment, he had already identified the poison the other party had used.

As expected, it was the classic cyanide.

This was Jiang Hang's first time encountering a "cyanide" series poison in reality after obtaining Poison Mastery.

It was potent and fast-acting. Ingested orally, it would cause nerve damage and death by suffocation within three minutes. The method of directly piercing the back of the neck with a fine needle could also cause death quickly.

At the same time, due to its difficulty in detection, cyanide had become the most frequently appearing poison in mystery novels since who knows when.

"This thing is no good. You should dispose of it as soon as possible. Of course, I don't recommend throwing it directly into the trash can," Jiang Hang said, handing the bag containing the poison needle to the still shaken Ikemura Kimie.

Seeing Ikemura Kimie's look of disbelief, Jiang Hang looked at Ikemura Isao, the diplomat who was unaware that he had just brushed shoulders with death.

If he wasn't mistaken, Ikemura Kimie had given him sleeping pills earlier and deliberately arranged the study in its current state to facilitate her actions when she brought his group into the house.

At that time, a normal person would certainly not suspect her, who entered the house with everyone, to be the real murderer.

It had to be said that her plan was quite good.

Unfortunately, once Jiang Hang saw her true intentions from the bulletin board, she could no longer succeed.

At this time, Conan had noticed that Ikemura Kimie and Jiang Hang seemed to be talking about something, but because Ikemura Kimie's back was to him, he couldn't see her expression.

He instinctively felt that Jiang Hang was saying something important to her and wanted to eavesdrop, but before he could get close, Jiang Hang shook his head slightly and gave him a warning look.

What is this guy... doing?

Conan was now completely driven to obsessive-compulsive disorder by Jiang Hang. He felt an unbearable itch in his heart, but he couldn't figure out what had happened.

While Conan was looking at Jiang Hang with "resentful" eyes, Jiang Hang shifted his gaze back to Ikemura Kimie.

"I don't know what conflict you and your husband have that led you to want to kill him. But I don't think you would do this for a few hundred million yen in insurance, would you?"

He could tell that she wasn't like Abe Yutaka, a beast with a black heart who would harm his friends for money.

He had now found the evidence of her murder, but he wanted to know her motive.

Ikemura Kimie remained silent.

Seeing that she was unwilling to compromise, Jiang Hang took out his phone from his pocket.

"I hope to prevent a tragedy, but if you refuse to say anything, I can only let the police handle this case."

Upon hearing Jiang Hang's words, Ikemura Kimie seemed a little surprised. She had originally thought that after her affairs were discovered by this detective, her only option was arrest by the police. But from the sound of it, he didn't intend to notify the police directly?

After hesitating for a moment, Ikemura Kimie said to Jiang Hang in a slightly trembling voice, "Can we talk in private? I don't want too many people to know about this..."

Seeing that she had relented, Jiang Hang nodded and put his phone away.

He then raised his voice considerably, also to ensure that Kogoro Mouri and his group nearby could hear him.

"Since Mr. Ikemura is so tired, it's indeed not good to disturb him. Why don't we go downstairs and wait for a while? When Mr. Ikemura wakes up, we can discuss the investigation with him then?"

Ikemura Kimie forced a smile.

"Mr. Jiang Hang is right. It seems my husband won't wake up until the evening. I'll have the butler prepare dinner for everyone. After dinner, we can discuss this matter in detail."

Her expression was a little off, but Kogoro Mouri didn't suspect anything at all. Instead, he was happy that he could get a free meal there tonight.

"If that's the case, thank you for your hospitality!"

Heiji Hattori seemed to sense something was wrong, but seeing that the sleeping diplomat Ikemura Isao was breathing steadily, he didn't look like anything was amiss. After observing for a moment and concluding that the man had indeed fallen asleep from overwork, he nodded in agreement.

Conan, the only one who noticed the problem but couldn't figure out the answer, was eventually pulled away by Ran Mori.

Ikemura Kimie locked the door again. She first led everyone to the living room of the house, and then asked the butler to bring some high-quality snacks.

At this point, her expression finally returned to normal.

She glanced at Jiang Hang, whose expression seemed normal, whispered a few words to her butler, and then left the living room.

A moment later, the butler quietly whispered a few words in Jiang Hang's ear. Jiang Hang stood up and walked out of the living room.

Of course, after leaving the living room, Jiang Hang grabbed Conan, who was trying to follow him.

"Your tail is way too obvious, little Conan?"

Conan knew he couldn't fool Jiang Hang, so he immediately surrendered.

"I just want to know what you said to Mrs. Ikemura. You're definitely going to talk to her now, so it shouldn't be a problem to bring me along... Big Brother Jiang Hang!"

By the end, Conan almost shouted "Big Brother" at Jiang Hang, word by word.

Although he felt that there were many problems with Ikemura Kimie, he believed that if he continued to investigate, he would definitely find the crucial clues.