While Conan was caught in confusion, trying to scientifically explain the "prophecy phenomenon"...
Jiang Xia sent his puppet to the Black Market and picked up his new bankbook.
The gold coins had already been dealt with. After all the commissions were deducted, over seven hundred million remained. The middlemen charged rather exorbitantly, but Anonymous had only just appeared on the Black Market and had neither connections nor credibility. This was still a fair price.
After receiving the money, Jiang Xia remembered the Energy Cores needed to upgrade his Ghosts and made time to look around Museums, Jewelry Stores, Art Museums, and similar places.
But just as a year ago, he failed to find what he wanted.
The massive sum in his bankbook suddenly lost all appeal.
In the end, Jiang Xia simply took a stroll through the Plant Market and bought several beautiful but poorly cost-effective Potted Plants he had wanted before but never purchased.
Just as he was tending the Potted Plants until they bloomed, Suzuki Sonoko sent him a message: [Meet at the station tomorrow!]
Jiang Xia paused. The station?
After thinking for a moment, he remembered. Last time, after the KTV tragically turned into a murder scene, Suzuki Sonoko had unwillingly offered another ghost-collecting... ahem, vacation destination—the Mountain Villa her sister had recently bought.
Suzuki Sonoko was the daughter of the Chairman of the Suzuki Conglomerate.
And the Suzuki Conglomerate was synonymous with "rich man" in this world.
Their family had an especially large number of villas. What made them most enviable was that a Murder Case occurred in almost every one.
Jiang Xia was looking forward to it, but he also had a slight doubt.
—The Suzuki Family had far too many villas. He was not sure which one had something happen this