Conan: Ran, I really am Shinichi, you have to believe me!

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While Kogoro Mouri and his companions were celebrating their windfall, Inspector Megure arrived, looking worried.

Conan, the jinx, went on a long trip to exorcise evil spirits, only to find a bomb on his vehicle. Tank battles and Gatling gun battles broke out wherever he went, and even his home in Jiangcheng Bei's house was blown up.

You should know that before Conan moved in, there had never been a single murder in the area where Kogoro Mouri lived.

Conan has only been here for a few days, and the fruit shop in Jiangcheng North and the Mouri Detective Agency have been bombed. What a tragedy!

What's worse is that his scarred-faced boss doesn't believe in this stuff. He has a lot of complaints about the Metropolitan Police Department's previous superstitious practices of hiring a high priest to exorcise evil spirits, and he also has a lot of complaints about the Conan and police "No Entry" signs that are now prominently displayed.

In any case, regarding their understanding of Conan, his scarred superior and the other police officers who believed in him were in serious conflict, divided into science and superstition, one against many, two absolutely opposing factions.

Therefore, Inspector Megure was deeply worried about his boss, who only talked about science to the point of obsession.

Perhaps Jiang Chengbei's tendency to distort facts and blind him to reality led him to mislead Inspector Megure with Jiang Chengbei's frequent claims that Conan and Amuro Tooru were cursed with jinxes and that only he could suppress them.

Meanwhile, Jiang Chengbei left Conan and Amuro Tooru's side, one discovered a bomb on the train, and the other got into a gunfight and was hit by a lot of grenades. In the end, Megure and the others arrived first and took Amuro Tooru and the others to the hospital.

As a result, Inspector Megure, who was unintentionally tricked by Jiang Chengbei, felt that Jiang Chengbei really had a certain effect in suppressing the bad luck on Conan. So, after discussing it with everyone, he decided that Jiang Chengbei and Kogoro Mouri would also go to Sayuri's wedding next week to protect her and suppress Conan's evil spirits together.

After all, whether Conan was living at his house or at the Metropolitan Police Department, there were murders every day, sometimes several a day. But after moving into Jiang Chengbei's house, the number of murders decreased dramatically, only happening every few days. This was a good sign.

Of course, Jiang Chengbei is a highly skilled person who can read faces and ward off evil spirits, and Muguru also has other evidence.

For example, Jiang Chengbei used to say that Amuro Tooru would be fine if he didn't become a policeman, but if he did, he would bring bad luck to his colleagues. Didn't the gunfight that happened here a few days ago come true?

After the gunfight broke out, the first to arrive were Megure and his three factions. They were the ones who first dealt with the scene, took the injured Amuro Tooru and the others to the hospital, and collected the bodies of the police officers who died on the spot.

Megure didn't know Amuro Tooru's exact identity, but he and his colleagues from the Metropolitan Police Department recognized the other people who were injured and blown up with Amuro Tooru by grenades.

Especially the leader, Kazami Yuya, who usually bosses them around. Since they are all public security officers from the Metropolitan Police Department and follow Amuro Tooru's lead, Inspector Megure and the others immediately understand Amuro Tooru's identity.

Amuro Tooru is a policeman. Megure, who is also a policeman, only realized this now. But after listening to the gossip that Kogoro Mouri had told him and recounting what Kojo Kita had said to Amuro Tooru, Megure realized that Kojo Kita knew Amuro Tooru was a policeman the moment he saw him, and that he was a policeman with a cursed fate.

In any case, the gunfight and outburst that followed proved that Jiang Chengbei's previous words were correct, so Inspector Megure believed that Jiang Chengbei was a master of physiognomy and had some ability.

Of course, one could also use the fact that Jiang Chengbei orchestrated this gunfight to explain why he keeps talking about Amuro Touka's colleagues.

But Jiang Chengbei has been fine all this time and has not been secretly arrested by the police, so Muguru believes that Jiang Chengbei is innocent and has nothing to do with the gunfight that happened in his family's fruit shop.

After all, the police are not the same as them. The police need evidence to arrest people, but what evidence do the police, as secret police, need to arrest people?

Moreover, five police officers died this time. Five comrades who were together every day. If this matter is related to Jiangchengbei, can the lawless police tolerate it?

Therefore, if Jiang Chengbei had even the slightest suspicion in this matter, he would have been secretly arrested and interrogated by the police long ago. How could he possibly be escaping justice outside?

This is Megure's analysis of the incident from his own perspective. He drew this conclusion from the fact that despite the deaths of five police officers, who are known for their vindictiveness, they did not pursue the matter against Jiang Chengbei and even gave him money to keep it a secret.

As for how he knew the police had given them money, it was because Kogoro Mouri proudly showed him a large stack of 10,000 yen bills. When asked how he got them, Kogoro Mouri said it had to be kept secret because he had just signed a confidentiality agreement with the police.

Anyway, Kogoro Mouri didn't violate the confidentiality agreement, but he told Megure, who was also a police officer, who signed it. Is that okay?

Chapter 170 Conan: Brother Jiangcheng, I'll introduce my mom to you, so please stop trying to make a move on Ran.

Jiang Chengbei originally thought that after the gunfight and the grenade explosion at the fruit shop, Yukiko, being an ordinary person, wouldn't come to work.

But things didn't go as he expected. Just two days later, while his bombed-out fruit shop and the neighboring Mouri Detective Agency were still being repaired, Yukiko, disguised as Azuma Mari, came again.

This woman is truly fearless in her quest to find her lover's mistress.

Of course, unlike Amuro Tooru who was initially made things difficult for her, Yukiko works in Kojo Kita and still receives a salary, unlike Amuro Tooru who works at a loss.

To make it seem like she was there to earn more money and had no other ulterior motives, she used the excuse that a gunfight had taken place there to try and renegotiate her salary with Jiang Chengbei.

So, after some intense bargaining, Yukiko's salary was successfully reduced by half, and following Amuro Tooru's example, she was paid an annual salary, which was paid once a year.

The reason why the wages of the remaining employees decreased instead of increased after Amuro Tooru left the store is because the fruit store ended up in its current state because of the previous employee.

He attracted a group of robbers, which led to a gunfight, and the fruit shop was eventually blown up.

It was only later that they realized Amuro Tooru's identity at the brewery hadn't been exposed yet, but many people had witnessed Amuro Tooru, the blond-haired, dark-skinned man, participating in the gunfight.

Given that his identity as a public security officer could not be exposed, and that he was undercover at the brewery, his group was arranged to be suspected of being criminals, while the others were arrested, and Amuro Tooru escaped before the police arrived.

In the end, the police also went through the motions of issuing a warrant for the arrest of a sketch of Amuro Tooru drawn by Miwako Sato.

Since the portrait on the wanted poster was drawn by Miwako Sato, it's impossible to catch Tooru Amuro based on that portrait.

At the same time, the name on the wanted poster is Amuro Che, which sounds similar to Tooru Amuro, but the Chinese spelling is completely different. Just take out your driver's license and you'll know it's not the same person.

Because this was a reactive measure, it was rather hasty. Amuro Tooru and his superior mistakenly thought they had been exposed and were only thinking about returning to the police force for promotions and raises, thus forgetting that the first thing to do was to suppress the news.

Since the other one was a scout who almost... blew up the fruit shop, Jiangcheng North, which has suffered heavy losses, had no choice but to reduce employee salaries and change them to annual salaries after some bargaining.

Since the skilled worker who paid for his own work was no longer there, Jiang Chengbei could only exploit Yukiko, the new employee who came to him and refused to leave.

The fruit shop in Jiangcheng North is still under renovation, but the owner of the Polo Coffee shop next door, after witnessing and experiencing a gunfight and grenade attack, refused to go to work anymore, so Xiao Zi is now the only one working in the coffee shop.

So, despite displaying a job posting at Poirot's Cafe, they couldn't find staff because of the recent gunfight and explosion. Also, the cafe had suddenly become a single-family home, and Xiao Zi was overwhelmed during peak hours.

So after the coffee shop next door asked for her help, Yukiko generously started providing labor services. Before the fruit shop even opened, Yukiko was already helping out at the coffee shop.

Jiang Chengbei really wanted to split the money he earned at the coffee shop 50/50 with Yukiko, but he thought that doing so would arouse suspicion in her and Conan, so he didn't bring it up.

From then on, before the fruit shop in Jiangcheng North opened, Yukiko worked at the Poirot Coffee Shop.

In the days that followed, Jiang Chengbei met privately with Amuro Tooru, a model worker who was still working despite using crutches.

Amuro Tooru wanted to extract information about Tennessee whiskey from the arrogant and disrespectful Japanese collaborator, Jiang Chengbei, but he failed this time and didn't get anything useful from him.

Faced with Amuro Tooru's attempts to elicit information after he identified himself as a police officer, Jiang Chengbei wasn't unwilling to tell him about Tennessee.

However, the Tennessee he was impersonating was actually Shinichi Kudo. Since Shinichi Kudo was a top student, he couldn't come up with another Tennessee character without referring to Shinichi Kudo's information, so he didn't say anything.

Since he couldn't get any information about Tennessee from Jiang Chengbei, Amuro Tooru could only reveal that he was the mastermind behind the tanks firing at and destroying the van outside Nagoya. He warned Jiang Cheng not to try to use him as a tool to kill him or reveal his identity, or he would tell the organization that he was the mastermind behind the attack.

The organization is not the police. The police need evidence to arrest people, but Gin doesn't need evidence to retaliate. As long as he knows who attacked him, he will definitely come to take revenge.

Amuro Tooru was unaware of Gin's injuries, nor did he know that it was Jiang Chengbei who had given Gin a chance to live. He simply assumed that Gin had escaped on his own.

So he used Gin's power as a mad assassin to threaten Jiang Chengbei, making him keep it a secret, otherwise they would hurt each other and benefit the organization.

"Touko, stop with the nonsense. You talk like you're some loyal servant of the distillery, but you're just a fake bottle of liquor."

"A winery? Counterfeit alcohol?"

After Jiang Chengbei said that, calling the organization a distillery was quite fitting, and Amuro Tooru nodded in agreement.

The name "drinkhouse" seems quite fitting on the surface, but looking beyond the surface, the real name is actually "water factory," though Touko doesn't understand that yet.

After reaching a gentleman's agreement with Amuro Tooru that they would not reveal his true identity to the brewery for the time being, and that the Public Security Bureau would not cause trouble for Jiang Chengbei but would only seek revenge on Tennessee, they parted ways amicably.

Amuro Tooru was somewhat disappointed that he couldn't get any information about Tennessee, the executioner who killed five of his men, from Jiang Chengbei, who was not concerned about Tennessee's life or death.

At the same time, through this conversation, Amuro Tooru somewhat probed the fact that this Japanese traitor working for the US could be bribed with money, and hoped to develop him into a double agent in the future.

After returning from a pleasant negotiation with Amuro Tooru, Jiang Chengbei thought he could go to Matsumoto Sayuri's wedding with Conan, but then Ran suddenly wanted to go to the medieval art museum to see an exhibition.

It seems that Conan will have to stage a murder to scare Inspector Megure and the other police officers before attending the wedding of the immortals.

I heard that there are armored figures that move around at night in the medieval art museum, so Xiao Lan, who is both naive and loves to play, really wants to go see it, but she is too scared to go alone.

After asking Kogoro Mouri and Conan, neither of whom were willing to go with her, she asked the neighbor next door and learned that Jiang Chengbei was very willing to go with her. She then went downstairs excitedly.

Seeing that Jiang Chengbei could accompany Xiaolan to the art museum that was about to close, Kogoro Mouri happily read the newspaper, but when he saw the horse racing news, he sighed with disappointment.

By the way, the compensation he received from the police a few days ago was lost the very next day, and now his pockets are empty again, so he can only watch horse racing news to satisfy his craving.

Compared to Kogoro Mouri's indifference, Conan, the king of jealousy in Asia, jumped up and down in a panic when he heard that Jiang Chengbei was going to accompany Ran to the art museum to see those boring medieval artifacts.

Just moments ago, he refused Xiaolan's invitation, vowing never to go to the art museum, but in an instant, he did a 180-degree turn, crying and begging to go together.

To Conan's surprise, as he rushed downstairs, he found that the people who went to the medieval art museum with him were not only Jiang Chengbei and Xiaolan, but also his family's... his family's employee, Azuma Mari, who was currently working at Poirot's Cafe.

Conan glanced at Mari Azuma, who was forcefully separating Ran and Jiang Chengbei, and smiled happily:

It seems that Azuma Mari, who insisted on working at the store, has ulterior motives. I didn't expect her to have her eye on Jiang Chengbei. In that case, she will become my natural ally. I will have to help her in the future. As long as I can pair her up with Jiang Chengbei, Xiaolan will be safe.

Hahaha... Although I, Conan, am small and weak, I can easily play the role of Cupid and help Jiang Chengbei find love.

So, on the way to the art museum with the four of them, the impatient Conan immediately took action.

She praised Mari-neechan's beauty in front of Jiang Chengbei, and praised Jiang Chengbei's youth, handsomeness, wealth, and ability in front of Yukiko.

They were praised in front of each other as a match made in heaven, a golden couple, destined to be together in this life.

Seeing Conan jumping around and desperately trying to bring them together, Yukiko's eyes flashed with murderous intent as she looked at him:

The son of a mistress is the son of a mistress. He's so young and already worrying about love and relationships between adults. He must have inherited it from his scumbag father and his vixen. He must have learned these words from his vixen mother.

However, in order to prevent Jiang Chengbei and Xiao Lan from being together, he has no choice but to sacrifice himself now.

Therefore, Yukiko, with her superb acting skills, could only apply the acting skills she used for making movies to real life, playing a young girl who admires Jiang Chengbei. On the one hand, she wanted to prevent Jiang Chengbei from being with Xiaolan, and on the other hand, she wanted to give herself a good, sufficient and unsuspecting motive for shamelessly staying by Jiang Chengbei's side.

Seeing that a beautiful girl was pursuing Jiang Chengbei, Xiao Lan was quite happy, considering that she had been Jiang Chengbei's good brother who had gone through thick and thin with him.

Before she went to the medieval art museum alone with Jiang Chengbei, she had no idea that Azuma Mari liked Jiang Chengbei.

Only after he and Jiang Chengbei went out alone did Zhenli reveal his protective side, starting to insert himself between them and officially taking action.

So from this situation, Ran realized that Mari Azuma is someone who likes to fight for things; if no one fights with her for it, she might just give up on it.

So, in order to speed up the progress of the brothers' relationship and bring about the love between Jiang Chengbei and Wuzawa Mari as soon as possible, Xiaolan, who saw through everything, deliberately acted jealously on the side, urging Wuzawa Mari to take action and speed up her pursuit.

Seeing two girls... a girl and a woman vying for his attention, Jiang Chengbei, though knowing they were both fake, still enjoyed it and felt quite pleased with himself the whole way.

Jiang Chengbei, based on the plot and character settings, realized that they were all fake, but they didn't know it.

Ran misunderstands Yukiko, and Yukiko and Conan also misunderstand Ran. When they see that Ran has really fallen for Jiang Chengbei, they start to get jealous of him and become anxious.

So, the mother and son each used their own methods. Yukiko intensified her pursuit of Jiang Chengbei, while Conan also worked even harder to promote Yukiko, telling Jiang Chengbei about her good points, while also describing Ran's bad temper and mentioning the metal box that Ran had just broken.

In short, adhering to the principles of not taking initiative, not refusing, and not choosing, Jiang Chengbei happily led the three of them to the Medieval Art Museum amidst their jealousy and rivalry.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to separate from them while parking, Jiang Chengbei waited for Jiang Chengbei to come and meet them. Then, Jiang Chengbei took the opportunity to make an excuse that he had bought drinks and snacks for them on the way. He then distributed the drinks and snacks he had bought from the system to them before entering the art museum and slowly appreciating the art.

"Wow, Jiang Cheng, you actually bought my favorite peach rose iced cocktail! Thank you!"

Seeing Ran's excited and exaggerated expression, Conan and Yukiko looked displeased. The drinks they received were just ordinary canned coffee, which were worthless compared to Ran's uniquely designed and carefully prepared beverage.

Then, seeing them exchanging knowing glances, smiling knowingly, and making subtle, coordinated gestures as if no one else was around, Conan and Yukiko were furious.

Conan, in particular, felt like he was being green... well, not just green, but shining green!

Unlike the furious Conan and Yukiko, Jiang Chengbei and Ran's eye contact was nothing unusual; they were talking about serious matters, not as sordid as Conan and Yukiko had imagined.

Jiang Chengbei: Xiaolan, help your brother out. Zhenli has a competitive nature; she wouldn't pursue me if there were no competitors.