Conan Is Torn / Twilight Manor

After the library case was closed, she was happy that she had not embarrassed the famous detective Jiang Hang. However, she did not expect that she would be targeted by the Nisame Association, Japan's number one Mafia group.

Compared to a fierce tiger like the Nisame Association, the Takashiro Group, which only occupies a few streets in Beika City, is as docile as a newborn kitten in its presence.

Murder, arson, kidnapping, extortion—these thoughts flashed through Shizuka Sakaki's mind. She had even heard that the Nisame Association used various forms of coercion and enticement to force women into prostitution. If these things happened to her... Just thinking about them sent chills down Shizuka Sakaki.

Seeing Shizuka Sakaki's expression, Jiang Hang told her not to be too nervous.

"In short, just stay in the office for the next few days. I'll contact Wataru Takagi and Inspector Megure for help. Don't worry, the Nisame Association is just a yakuza gang after all, and it's unlikely to spend too much energy on you. It'll be fine once this period passes."

Jiang Hang's words of comfort had some effect, but it was clear that Shizuka Sakaki's mood had dropped considerably after learning about the incident.

Jiang Hang didn't have any good solutions to this, so he could only try to resolve the issue with the Nisame Association as soon as possible.

After work, Jiang Hang first went home with Shizuka Sakaki to have her pack his clothes and luggage, and then they returned to the agency together.

While Shizuka Sakaki was cleaning the guest rooms, Jiang Hang implemented numerous defensive measures within the agency.

Besides smoke grenades, tear gas, and sleeping gas, there are also various poisons with different effects.

Unless the Nisame Association directly bombards his office with RPGs, anyone who dares to break into the office will not be able to leave standing up.

It's unlikely that the Nisame Association is the Black Organization, so even if they wanted to retaliate against Shizuka Sakaki, they wouldn't Nisame Association to using an RPG for something like this.

Moreover, if Jiang Hang didn't need to maintain his "Templar Knight" image in front of Vermouth, he probably would have directly brought Vermouth over to help, and he believed the Black Organization would certainly not mind stepping on the head of the Nisame Association.

Chapter 242: Chapter 240: Conan in a Dilemma

When Conan, who had been busy helping Ran regain her memory since the Kyosuke Kazato case and hadn't been to Jiang Hang's place for a while, arrived at Jiang Hang's office, he found Jiang Hang setting up various traps and administering drugs.

When Conan heard that Shizuka Sakaki might be targeted by the Nisame Association because of a case, he slightly raised his chin.

"The Nisame Association... It seems you've met a troublesome opponent this time."

In Conan's eyes, the mysterious Black Organization is naturally the enemy he is most anxious to eliminate. However, the guns and explosives that Kyosuke Kazato acquired recently were provided by the Nisame Association. For Conan, who wants to become the Conan Heisei Era Holmes, both the Nisame Association and the Black Organization are criminal organizations that he needs to eliminate.

For Conan, the best way to deal with the Black Organization is to find its secrets and eradicate it completely, exposing it to the light of day.

But if it were a Nisame Association, even Conan wouldn't know where to begin.

"I've handled some cases involving the Nisame Association," Conan sighed to Jiang Hang. "If I had to describe it, the Nisame Association is like an eel in normal times; it's hard to find any dirt on them, and even if you do find something, they'll instantly turn into a gecko and abandon their tail without hesitation."

Over the years, there have been quite a few small gangs or minor figures abandoned by the Nisame Association. However, as long as the Nisame Association remains the largest Mafia in Japan, it will continue to earn unimaginable wealth every day, and countless small gangs will still try to infiltrate the Nisame Association.

Even though Japan's Mafia have gradually declined in recent years due to various crackdowns, the Nisame Association is still the most profitable organized crime group in the world. Even Japan's large conglomerates may not be able to surpass the Nisame Association in terms of profits.

Seeing Conan deep in thought about how to find the Nisame Association's weakness, Jiang Hang shrugged.

"This matter is not completely confirmed yet. I plan to investigate and confirm it a bit." At least for now, Jiang Hang has not found any suspicious people near Shizuka Sakaki. The matter of the Nisame Association was only told to him by Sakura Himeshiro. He will have to find out the specific truth himself.

Furthermore, Conan thought that Nisame Association would be difficult to deal with, but in Jiang Hang's eyes, this kind of underworld was much easier to handle than the mysterious the Black Organization.

The Nisame Association is the largest Mafia in Japan. Where its territory is located, and who its leaders and executives are, are not big secrets. The police can't do anything about the Muddy Nisame Association because they lack evidence, but someone can go undercover as an assassin to cause trouble for the Nisame Association without needing any evidence.

He doesn't need to completely destroy the massive Nisame Association Sansei organization; he just needs to find the person who wants to deal with Shizuka Sakaki and then take care of that guy.

"Let's not talk about the Nisame Association anymore," Jiang Hang said, shifting the topic to Conan after finishing the Nisame Association. "Your Ran's memories should be mostly back by now, right?"

Almost a week has passed since Kyosuke Kazato was arrested, and Jiang Hang has only heard that Ran Lan has returned to school.

"The doctor said there are basically no problems. She has remembered almost everything she needed to remember," Conan said, spreading his hands, but he also looked a little troubled.

"She's remembered everything else, but as for the fact that I'm Shinichi, I'm still not sure if Ran has remembered anything. And I don't feel comfortable asking Ran about it..."

Jiang Hang found Conan's explanation quite interesting.

"Tell me what's going on?"

Originally, Conan had been keeping it a secret from Ran, not letting Ran know that he was Shinichi. However, under Jiang Hang's encouragement, Conan almost reluctantly admitted that he was Shinichi Kudo. After Ran learned about Conan's situation, she tacitly stopped mentioning it.

Now that Ran has lost her memory once, it seems that the positions between Conan and Ran have been reversed.

Although Ran's memory has gradually returned and her personality has returned to normal, the doctor also indicated that there is a possibility that some memories may not be recovered.

Then Conan couldn't confirm whether Ran had remembered that she was Shinichi, so he could only keep these things to himself.

This is a very subtle mindset. On one hand, Conan feels that if Ran doesn't regain her memories, it won't be awkward for him to continue interacting with her Ran Conan. On the other hand, Conan also hopes that Ran can remember everything, so that he can feel at ease.

In this situation, Conan has been unable to confirm Ran has remembered that she is Shinichi, which means he is in a very delicate situation, making Conan feel like he is about to vomit blood.

"You usually live with Ran, haven't you noticed anything wrong?"

When Jiang Hang asked him, Conan shook his head. "I haven't noticed anything wrong in daily life. I tried to test Ran a little, but she didn't seem to have any special reaction. I've been thinking about this for the past few days and it's giving me a headache, but I still can't figure it out."

Seeing Conan struggling with the question of whether Ran had remembered him, Jiang Hang made no attempt to help.

In the early to mid-stages of the manga, Ran struggled for a long time with the question, "Is Conan really Shinichi?" Now, let Conan experience that feeling for himself.

However, after hesitating for a while, Conan remembered the purpose of his visit.

He took out an invitation from his person and handed it to Jiang Hang.

"This is the invitation that Uncle Mori received today, along with a check for two million yen. I think you probably received it too, but I know you don't want to leave Tokyo to handle cases elsewhere, so I guess you probably didn't even glance at the invitation and had your assistant deal with it."

"Two million?" Jiang Hang was stunned for a moment, then quickly remembered that this morning, Koharu Yoshino had called him to tell him that a client had sent him a check for two million to ask him to go to Nagano Prefecture to handle a case.

However, two million yen is the income Jiang Hang could earn by casually completing a one-star commission after the agency is upgraded to level 3.

Jiang Hang didn't want to go out anyway, and he was busy with the release of Gomera and the acquisition of Yingdu. So, over the phone, Jiang Hang directly told Koharu Yoshino to refuse the commission and send the check back to the person.

But judging from Conan's long-awaited visit, it seems that this request is quite important.

Thinking this, Jiang Hang took the invitation from Conan and examined it.

Chapter 243: Chapter 241: Twilight Mansion

Jiang Hang first called Koharu Yoshino to confirm that the invitation letter he received today with a check for two million yen was sent by the same person as the invitation letter Kogoro Mouri received. Only then did he look at the invitation letter that Conan handed him.

The invitation itself doesn't seem particularly special in terms of its design or content.

Jiang Hang only glanced at it briefly before discovering that the invitation was not signed by the person who commissioned it, and at the end of the invitation were the words "Forsaken by God, Child of Illusion" written in a strange font.

The client stated in the invitation that they had heard Kogoro Mouri was a famous detective, so they wanted to invite him to dinner to discuss solving a mystery that had remained unsolved for over a century.

The invitation was written in a mysterious way, which even piqued Jiang Hang's interest.

Moreover, judging from Conan's expression, it seems that there is some secret hidden in this invitation.

Jiang Hang continued looking down, while muttering to himself.

Could there be some kind of secret code or password on this strangely signed invitation? He's not good at that kind of thing.

What if there's some secret hidden here that he didn't notice? Wouldn't the cool image he's maintained in front of Conan be shattered?

However, when Jiang Hang saw that the client was inviting Kogoro Mouri to a place called "Twilight Mansion," his pupils couldn't help but shrink slightly.

Was this the incident all along?

Conan, who had been paying close attention to Jiang Hang's expression, concluded that Jiang Hang had also noticed the hint on the invitation after seeing the change in Jiang Hang's expression.

He spread his hands in front of Jiang Hang: "You must have figured it out by now, right? Aren't you going to ask that guy what he's planning to do by suddenly and mysteriously inviting Uncle Mori and you to that 'Twilight Mansion'?"

"It seems that, besides Uncle Mori and you, that guy will probably invite several other famous detectives to come along. To provoke so many famous detectives at once, he really has a lot of guts."

Jiang Hang's lips twitched. Although he really wanted to ask Conan which "that guy" Conan was talking about, after seeing the name Twilight Mansion, his attention was completely focused on the place name.

He had an impression of this place entirely because a few years before he traveled through time, the boss of the Black Organization was finally revealed to be Karasuma Renya more than 20 years after the Conan manga was serialized. Karasuma Renya was first mentioned in the manga during the Twilight Mansion incident.

Jiang Hang only started paying attention to the Conan storyline again after hearing the news that Karasuma Renya was the boss of the Black Organization, and he also went to the cinema to watch a few theatrical versions.

Returning to the Twilight Mansion, Jiang Hang didn't actually have much of an impression of this episode. One reason he remembered it was because he knew that this villa was related to Karasuma Renya, the founder of the Black Organization. Forty years ago, it belonged to Karasuma Renya, but when the Karasuma Group was dissolved forty years ago, in order to maintain the operation of the Black Organization, this Karasuma Family villa was probably disposed of at that time.

But what made this Twilight Mansion memorable for Jiang Hang was that it was built more than a hundred years ago by the former head of the Karasuma Family using hundreds of tons of gold!

Hundreds of tons of gold!

Even disregarding the other significance of gold, the most direct view is that hundreds of tons of gold are worth over ten billion US dollars.

This mansion, valued at tens of billions of dollars, is probably the only one of its kind in the world. Moreover, even if tens of billions of dollars were offered, those who know the value of this mansion would likely not be willing to sell it.

However, the Karasuma Group, which owns this mansion, is unaware of its value.

According to Jiang Hang's memory, it seems that Karasuma Renya's parents transformed into riddle tellers before they died, tricking their Karasuma Renya a riddle that he could only solve to find out where the Karasuma Family's wealth was hidden.

Karasuma Renya, on the other hand, had been trying to solve the riddle since he was young, and still couldn't figure it out even when he was a hundred years old.

Decades ago, when the Karasuma Group dissolved, this mansion was sold for only a few hundred million yen.

It was truly remarkable that Karasuma Renya was able to bring the Karasuma Group back to the position of Japan's number one conglomerate, even when most of the Karasuma Family's wealth had been used to build the Twilight Mansion.

If Karasuma Renya had solved the riddle a hundred years ago, Jiang Hang has no idea what the world would be like now.

However, the riddle that the Karasuma Group had been trying to solve for over a hundred years was solved by Conan in less than a night in the manga. It seems that not only the Karasuma Group, but also the prestige of the Black Organization has been significantly weakened.

After Jiang Hang traveled through time and met Conan, he wondered if he had a chance to take over the Twilight Mansion.

However, he ultimately shelved this idea.

First of all, he didn't know where the Twilight Mansion was. Even if he knew Karasuma Renya, a Western-style mansion hidden in the mountains wouldn't be so easy to find.

In addition, he has a system that ensures he never lacks money, which makes him, who is naturally a lazy person, not have much need for money, the root of all evil.

Once the Industry Template is activated, even if Jiang Hang does nothing but his Daily Training, he can still receive a guaranteed income of five to six million yen every day.

As long as he does good deeds throughout the town and takes on a few cases each day, and now that he's gradually become familiar with detective work, earning tens of millions of yen a day without working himself to the bone is not difficult.

With his agency about to reach level four, Jiang Hang estimated that once he reached level four, his system, which never lacked money, would probably double the base monetary reward for completing a commission.

Even if he were to acquire Eito Studios tomorrow, he would still have several hundred million in pocket money left after the acquisition was completed.

Although the Twilight Mansion looks very appealing, getting rid of all that gold is an extremely troublesome matter.

Moreover, Jiang Hang only recently learned that he had the "Templar Knight" as a background figure. At the time, he had considered the possibility of being targeted by the Black Organization when he acquired Twilight Mansion and was dealing with the gold. After thinking about it, Jiang Hang, who was still a small fry at the time and also found it troublesome, didn't think about the Twilight Mansion at all.

Wouldn't it be better to be a lazy bum and be taken care of by the system?

Just when Jiang Hang had almost completely forgotten about the Twilight Mansion, the invitation from the Twilight Mansion unexpectedly arrived in his hands.

Chapter 244: Chapter 242: Kaito Kid Avoids Battle

In the world of detective work, Conan places Jiang Hang in the position of "monster".

He felt that if he could discover the secret in the invitation, then naturally it wouldn't escape Jiang Hang's notice.

He felt he had told Jiang Hang everything he needed to say. As for whether Jiang Hang should go to the Twilight Mansion with him or go directly to that guy to find out what he wanted, that was Jiang Hang's decision.

After Conan told Jiang Hang that he would help organize the information about his and his father's previous encounter with the Mafia Nisame Association, he returned to the Mori Detective Agency to continue worrying about whether Ran had remembered him.

However, Conan was unaware that the "monster" in his eyes was scratching his head, racking his brains to figure out who "that guy" really was.

Jiang Hang had never watched the anime adaptation of the Twilight Mansion. He only knew about the Twilight Mansion when he was learning about Karasuma Renya, and at that time all his attention was focused on the fact that Twilight Mansion was built of gold. He didn't pay any attention to the background of the case at all.

He could guess the plot: Kogoro Mouri would receive an invitation, learn about the riddle from a hundred years ago at the Twilight Mansion, and then commit a murder because the culprit wanted to keep the gold for himself. In the end, Conan would find the culprit and solve the mystery that had been unsolved for hundreds of years.

But he couldn't immediately guess who the person who extended the invitation was.

Obviously, it must be someone he knows very well but Conan doesn't, otherwise Conan wouldn't have come to tell him about it.

However, among the people he knew, there was one who had little contact with Conan, yet possessed the financial means to purchase the Twilight Mansion, and who would even slip a two million tael check into the invitation...

For some reason, the first person that popped into Jiang Hang's mind was none other than Jirokichi Suzuki, the old man who had so much money he could use it to start a fire for warmth.

But Jiang Hang quickly ruled out Jirokichi Suzuki. A few days ago, he went to the Suzuki Manor to chat with Jirokichi Suzuki and took a look at the "Capture Kid 2.0 Fifth Edition Plan" that the old man had recently come up with.

Although hundreds of tons of gold is an astonishing amount no matter where it is placed, the Suzuki Conglomerate would not be able to ignore this information if they knew it. However, Jirokichi Suzuki, whose mind is currently only focused on catching the Kaito Kid and making headlines, probably doesn't have time to deal with such things.

"If Grandpa Jirokichi really wants to do something new, he will definitely let me know first," Jiang Hang muttered, ruling out Jirokichi Suzuki.

However, thanks to Jirokichi Suzuki, Jiang Hang also thought of Kaito Kid, the tool Kaito Kid he hadn't dealt with since rescuing Miyano Shiho.

He recalled what Conan had just said. Conan had mentioned that "that guy" would probably invite other famous detectives to the party in addition to the two of them, and described this behavior as bold and a provocation to those famous detectives.

From this perspective, it seems that Kaito Kid fits Conan's description quite well.

But Kaito Kid a high school student, and he doesn't seem to come from a wealthy family. He usually just steals gems to pass the time. Why would he go to Nagano Prefecture to buy a mansion and then invite them over?

Thinking this, Jiang Hang glanced at the invitation in his hand. After going around in circles, did he still have to decipher the code on this invitation?

However, since we've mentioned Kidd, it seems like it's been almost two months since he last visited the Beika Art Museum.

In the past two months, Kaito Kid has committed three or four more crimes, and he has never failed. Every time Kaito Kid succeeds, Jirokichi Suzuki's online army will bring up Jiang Hang to hype it up, which can be said to be trying to completely establish Jiang Hang as Kid's rival.

In fact, just a few days ago, the Beika Art Museum held another treasure exhibition. Jirokichi Suzuki followed the same old routine, advertising and promoting during prime time.