Yumi Miyamoto, You Wouldn't Want To...

"Why did you let Guchuan go?"

"Young Master Guchuan merely picked up a car someone else had abandoned and was planning to bring it to the Police Station. He hadn't broken any laws. Besides, I was even thinking of giving him an award certificate." The middle-aged police officer sat in his chair as he spoke.

"Who would believe that nonsense!" Yumi Miyamoto's face was full of anger.

"I believe it, anyway. And Young Master Guchuan believes it too." The middle-aged police officer looked completely unconcerned.

"Besides, Young Master Guchuan had just returned from America. It's perfectly normal for him not to understand Japan's laws. We should be more tolerant toward minors." The middle-aged police officer looked at Yumi Miyamoto.

"That isn't a reason to forgive him!"

"Yumi, since there's a reasonable explanation, let's turn a big matter into a small one and let the small matter go."

The middle-aged police officer wiped the sweat from his forehead. At his age and in his position at the Metropolitan Police Department, he might no longer have the ambition he once did, but he didn't want to fall from it either.

"Young Master Guchuan already apologized. What more do you want? He didn't even intend to drive off in the car he 'picked up.' He's already given us police plenty of face." The middle-aged officer patted Yumi Miyamoto on the shoulder.

He liked the young people's hatred of evil and their drive, but Guchuan was not someone they could afford to offend.

"Is he the child of a tycoon or a high-ranking official?" Yumi Miyamoto was unwilling to let it go.

"Why are you asking that? Rather than dwell on it, why not help find this car's owner?" the middle-aged police officer said.

"Could the children of executives or tycoons simply disregard Japan's laws?" Yumi Miyamoto demanded loudly.

"Yumi Miyamoto, you wouldn't want to receive a personnel transfer notice from the Metropolitan Police Department, would you?" the middle-aged police officer said helplessly.

"What?"

"If you want to punish Guchuan, then rise to a higher position!"

"Um, wait a second." The ignored Guchuan Ning raised his still-handcuffed hands, making his presence known.

"I don't think such a minor matter involving me is worth Miss Yumi improving herself over."

Yumi Miyamoto looked over. Guchuan Ning was as gentle and well-behaved as he had been when arrested.

"If you want, my father in the legal sense can be your target. Keep it up." Guchuan encouraged Yumi Miyamoto.

"Hmph!" Yumi Miyamoto snorted and turned to leave.

Guchuan smiled, then turned his gaze toward the middle-aged police officer.

"Officer, could you take off my handcuffs now?"

"Of course."

The middle-aged police officer took a key from the desk and unlocked Guchuan's handcuffs.

Guchuan flexed his wrists, stood up, and prepared to leave.

"Young Master Guchuan, it's raining outside. Please take an umbrella."

The middle-aged police officer somehow produced an umbrella and handed it to Guchuan.

"Thank you very much."

"At Young Master Guchuan's service!" The middle-aged police officer gave a salute.

"Then I'll be leaving first. As for that award certificate you planned to give me, send it to my house soon." Guchuan opened the umbrella at the door and turned back to add.

"Huh?" You really want it?

"Understood. I'll deliver it to Young Master Guchuan as soon as possible."

After leaving the Police Station, Guchuan started heading home.

"20, 2-chome, Beika Town, Tokyo. I think this is the place."

Guchuan Ning was not actually a native of this place. He had been a transmigrator from some great Eastern nation who had arrived in the world of Conan: The Collector of Little Ai.

His father was a high-ranking Japanese official who had arranged for him to live in America.

The first thing Guchuan did after transmigrating was take off his pants. When he saw the birthmark on his butt, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Not only did he look exactly the same, even the birthmark was identical. This was completely his former body.

Then, he requested to return to Japan.

That unfamiliar father had a complicated situation around him and did not feel comfortable having him live at home, which suited Guchuan just fine.

Thus, that unfamiliar father's father arranged a residence for him at 20, 2-chome, Beika Town, Tokyo, making him Yusaku Kudo's neighbor.

In the original owner's father's words, "Yusaku Kudo is not only a world-famous mystery novelist, but also an incredible detective. Japan's crime rate is so high that living near his house is bound to feel very safe."

Heh. That sure was safe.

"Porsche 356A... I remember Gin seemed to have a car like this. Could this be his?"

"It probably is. I doubt there's a second person in Tokyo driving this kind of car around so ostentatiously."

Guchuan strolled through the rain under his umbrella, but after walking for ages, he still did not see a single taxi.

Failed to collect the 'antique car Porsche 356A.' Collection Points +0.

That was right. As a transmigrator, the Cheat System was something he absolutely had to have.

As long as Guchuan successfully collected certain items, the system would reward him with Collection Points, which he could then use to purchase all sorts of strange and unusual things.

Things such as the 'Body Strengthening Agent,' 'Driving Mastery,' and 'Combat Techniques' were all things current technology simply could not produce.

However, the owners of most valuable collectibles were unwilling to trade them away. Therefore, Guchuan could only resort to other methods.

After all, he was Japanese now. It was Japan's dignity that would be lost.

"Do I have to go back to the Police Station and drive the car out again? That wouldn't be too good, would it? Maybe I should wait until Gin gets the car out, then go find him."

"Ahh, Gin."

"Have you found Sherry?"

Gin hurried to the laboratory, the gun in his hand already loaded.

"Boss, there's no sign of Sherry anywhere in the laboratory. After she disappeared, we checked all the surveillance footage and found nothing," the person in charge of the laboratory said.

"This place isn't safe anymore."

Gin looked at the laboratory manager as though he were looking at a dead man.

"Mobilize everyone in Tokyo. Sherry must be found. She knows too many of the organization's secrets." Gin looked at everyone coldly.

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

Sherry, escaping the organization was the worst decision you ever made.

Guchuan walked for a long time before finally reaching Beika Town.

"This is really strange. Are there really so few taxis in Tokyo?" Guchuan complained bitterly.

After walking for so long, his shoes were already soaked through, and his pants and shirt had been drenched by the rain as well.

As Guchuan walked, he wondered whether Shinichi Kudo had turned into a child yet. Fortunately, he no longer needed to attend school. Otherwise, having to study for over twenty years, perhaps even longer, would drive him insane.

"Oh ho, I found a little loli." Guchuan curled his lips into a smile and quickened his pace.

Shiho Miyano struggled forward, dragging her heavy, rain-soaked clothes. Her face held a deadened indifference, as though she had already lost all hope of living.

When she felt that rain no longer seemed to be falling onto her head, she looked up.

She seemed to have seen a giant.

Oh, no. She had shrunk herself. It was not a giant at all.

Guchuan Ning stood before Shiho Miyano with a smile on his face.

"Little one, why are you..."