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

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"I see."

Ran nodded, and then she and Sonoko remained silent, unsure of what to say next.

Conan, ever since he got on the bus, had been thinking about what had just happened. He felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't figure out what it was, so he continued to think silently.

Some time after Jiang Chengbei and the others left, Jiang Chengbei's phone suddenly rang. It was Inspector Megure calling, telling them that shortly after they left the party they had just attended, Minagawa Katsuhiko had died, and that they should go back immediately.

Upon hearing of Minagawa Katsuhiko's death, Conan, the famously quick-witted detective, suddenly had a burst of inspiration. A flash of insight struck him, and he immediately shouted:

"The murderer was Mrs. Minagawa. She put the poison in the coffee and the antidote in the cake."

So when Jiang Cheng refused to eat cake, she would come over and desperately try to persuade him to eat it.

After Xiao Jin secretly drank the coffee, she became so nervous that she insisted he eat the cake. She even went so far as to have a farcical fight with Jiang Cheng over the cake.

Moreover, I now recall the scene where Lady Minagawa clearly forbade Kosuke from eating sweets, which is clearly contradictory to the later scene where she forced Kosuke to eat cake.

Also, Sonoko had previously asked Mr. Katsuhiko why he didn't eat cake, and Ms. Watanabe also told us that Mr. Katsuhiko didn't like cake. All of them knew this.

Therefore, Mrs. Minagawa is the murderer. Inspector Megure, please take her into custody to prevent her from destroying evidence.

Faced with Conan's anxious expression, Jiang Chengbei shrugged: "The phone died. He had just told us to go back when the phone died."

"And Conan, why don't you call him 'Dad' anymore? Isn't Inspector Megure your dad?"

Conan: ...

So my reasoning was all for nothing, and Inspector Megure didn't hear a single word?

Soon, Jiang Chengbei returned to the detached house he had just left. Now, police officers were investigating everywhere inside and outside the house.

After seeing Jiang Chengbei and the others return, Mrs. Minagawa, who had hurriedly washed the coffee cups and other tableware in the kitchen, jumped out first and pointed at Jiang Chengbei, saying:

"He just had a conflict with Keyan, and Keyan even kicked them out. He must have harbored resentment towards Keyan for kicking him out, so he poisoned him to death!"

"He's definitely the murderer, believe me, there's no mistake!"

After Lady Minagawa finished speaking, everyone nodded, led by the chubby boy Naomichi, confirming that Jiang Chengbei and Minagawa Katsuhiko had argued.

Faced with Minagawa Katsuhiko's blatant attempt to cover up his crime, Conan was about to step forward, show off his skills in solving the case, and save Jiang Chengbei from his predicament when Jiang Chengbei didn't give him the chance. He preemptively repeated Conan's previous deductions in the car, pointing out that Mrs. Minagawa was the real culprit.

Seeing Jiang Chengbei steal his hard-earned fruits of labor, Conan was furious, but at the same time he was secretly relieved that although his hard work had been stolen, Jiang Chengbei hadn't been drugged. He was incredibly lucky.

Jiang Chengbei, though a bad guy, is much better than his brother who impersonated him, drugged Hattori Heiji, and stole Hattori's deduction results. At least he didn't drug him after stealing the deduction results.

Because Conan's reasoning was more logical and complete than Mrs. Minagawa's blatant accusations, and because she lacked composure and couldn't explain Jiang Chengbei's questions, she quickly gave in and admitted that she was the murderer.

She also revealed that she was not Minagawa Katsuhiko's mother, but his adoptive aunt. She killed him to obtain the inheritance left by Katsuhiko's biological parents, because her husband's company was short of funds and about to go bankrupt.

With the added advantages of "calling a deer a horse" and "being blinded by a leaf," Jiang Chengbei easily convinced Lady Minagawa to confess, and then, having nothing better to do, he began criticizing Inspector Megure:

"Inspector Megure, is this how you handle cases?"

You let the murderer clean the murder weapon, the poisoned coffee cup, right under your noses. Is this how you work?

Now look what happened. You guys were lazy before, you didn't even keep an eye on the suspects or the items at the scene. All you had to do was check the coffee cups for poison.

But now, you're going to clean the sewers, to inspect every inch of the dirty water and the inside of the sewers. This is such dirty and exhausting work; you brought it on yourselves.

Having his hard-earned fruits stolen and now being bullied by his adoptive father, Conan was furious. He adjusted his reflective glasses and wisely said:

"Brother Jiangcheng, did you already discover that the coffee was poisoned and that you needed cake to detoxify it, which is why you stole Mrs. Minagawa's cake?"

Did you discover beforehand that Lady Minagawa had poisoned the woman, but because you had an argument with Mr. Katsuhiko, did you stand by and watch her die?

Upon hearing Conan's malicious question, Jiang Chengbei feigned surprise and appeared to have been wrongly accused:

"How is that possible? I had no idea about poisoning. How could I know the coffee was poisoned? How could I know the cake was the antidote?"

If I had known all this beforehand, I would have eaten the cake immediately. Would Mrs. Minagawa have needed to persuade me to eat it later?

As for why I later snatched the cake, it's because "one is influenced by one's company." Spending too much time with Zhenli (Zhenli) inevitably caught her influence; I started to think that things that no one else wanted were bad, and only those that were fought over by others were good.

After saying that, Jiang Chengbei gazed into the distance with a melancholy expression, and then began to miss someone's body.

Seeing Jiang Chengbei so dejected, Xiaolan and Yuanzi, who knew that his fiancée had run away with the money, were immediately overcome with maternal instincts. They looked at him with sympathy, but did not know how to comfort him.

Then, not knowing how to comfort the dejected Jiang Chengbei, Xiaolan punched Conan, the instigator, on the head and said fiercely:

"Jiang Cheng merely reiterated your reasoning in the car, simply stealing your deductive results, yet you're trying to frame him like this, Conan, what are your intentions?"

"That's right!"

Duang ~

After Ran finished scolding Conan, Sonoko followed up with a punch:

"Conan, you're so petty! Jiang Cheng only explained your reasoning, and you're framing him for refusing to help him in his time of need. How can you be so mean, you little brat?"

"Ouch..." Conan clutched his head and cried out in pain after being punched twice: He had his hard work stolen and was now being accused of being stingy. Was there any justice in this world?

Moreover, his guess was probably right. Jiang Chengbei was such a bad person that he would definitely not save someone who was dying. Where did he go wrong?

When Conan looked at him angrily, Jiang Chengbei smiled slightly. After capturing Mrs. Minagawa, the culprit, he had transformed into Conan/Shinichi Kudo once more, bringing the total to five times.

Jiang Chengbei wanted to steal Conan's deductions because catching the murderer of a character in the story would reward him with more transformation opportunities; otherwise, it would be a waste of resources if Conan caught him.

Seeing Jiang Chengbei's smug smile, Conan vowed to find evidence that Jiang Chengbei knew all along that the coffee had been poisoned and that he had stood by and watched Jiang Chengbei die. So he tirelessly began to re-examine the case.

After Conan's hard work, besides finding and sending the chubby guy, who attempted to poison the victim with cigarettes but failed, to the police station, he found no evidence whatsoever about Jiang Chengbei's failure to help.

In the end, he could only take the bus back from Jiangcheng North Station, feeling frustrated, and shamelessly continue to stay at Jiangcheng North Station's home.

Watching Conan shamelessly freeload at Jiang Chengbei's house and try every means to prove Jiang Chengbei's shameless behavior of refusing to help someone in distress, Ran and Sonoko silently shook their heads.

Jiang Chengjun is just too kind. He's so good to Conan, that ingrate. Sooner or later, he'll turn on Jiang Chengbei, and that'll be the time for them to step in and save this ungrateful wretch.

You can't teach someone everything in a lifetime, but you can teach them something in a day. They're waiting for Conan to give Jiang Cheng a painful lesson.

This case also had other consequences. Because Sonoko was poisoned twice in a short period of time, both Takasugi Toshihiko, who poisoned her last time, and Minagawa's wife, who poisoned her this time, were unlucky.

One can do it once, two can do it twice, but not three times. In order to make an example of them, the above-mentioned Takasugi Toshihiko, who was about to go to jail, and Minagawa's wife, who was about to go to jail, were punished one after another in the next few months. Whether it was from the zaibatsu or from God, they both died in prison inexplicably.

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Because Ran insisted on not taking Conan to the Valentine's Day party, and Conan didn't have any transportation to go with her, he almost missed it. This lesson was very profound for Conan.

Experiences teach, and one can learn in a moment. So, after being educated by this incident, Conan finally developed the Conan Chakra Skateboard.

Now, as long as Conan has a thought and enough chakra, he can conjure up a Conan Chakra Skateboard under his feet that doesn't need electricity or sunlight. It's far more advanced than Professor Agasa's solar-powered skateboard that needs sunlight. It only requires chakra to travel at high speed.

As soon as Conan's chakra skateboard appeared, he got into trouble.

He had just finished showing off his newly developed Conan Chakra Skateboard to his three friends when he mistakenly thought that Ayumi had been kidnapped.

Then, Conan, along with Genta and Mitsuhiko, caused numerous traffic accidents, resulting in many car collisions and building damage. Finally, they kicked an innocent college student into the ICU for emergency treatment, only to realize that it was all a misunderstanding.

The real culprit who kidnapped and brutally murdered the child has already been apprehended by Jiang Chengbei and is now being escorted by police cars to the Metropolitan Police Department by Inspector Megure and his team.

Jiang Chengbei was also free today. He was focused on his career, but after seeing a newspaper article about a murderer who had recently kidnapped and brutally killed children, he directly refused the invitation from the Mori father and daughter to go with them to the Teitan University campus festival.

Then, he transforms into a chubby little bird and searches everywhere for people. Finally, he finds the murderer who killed the child in front of the Metropolitan Police Department. After a series of exaggerated acting performances, he earns 2 kill coins and summons Megure. After sending him to the Metropolitan Police Department, he gets another chance to transform.

This nameless murderer, who only appeared once in the original series, sitting in a police car and being escorted by Megure, is similar to the previous nameless extra who provided Jiang Chengbei with the skill to shine in his role as a kidnapper who caught Conan's kick. What he provided to Jiang Chengbei was:

The Unknown Extra's Comeback: In a certain case, you kill a character from the original storyline. When the case ends, Conan's deduction is wrong, and he fails to find you as the real culprit, instead wrongly accusing someone else. The reward is 1 kill coin.

This task is quite difficult. Killing someone is easy, but deceiving Conan is not. You also need to make him frame someone and find a scapegoat. It's very difficult.

However, Jiang Chengbei still wanted to give it a try, so he spent 1 kill coin to buy the Nameless Dragon Set's Counterattack. The LV1 Nameless Dragon Set Counterattack gives a maximum of 10 kill coins. The calculation method for the kill coins for different levels is the same as the Nameless Dragon Set's Highlight Moment.

At this point, Jiang Chengbei has 17 kill coins and 6 transformation opportunities.

In this incident, Jiang Chengbei caught the real culprit and received a system reward, while Conan caused trouble, not only arresting the wrong person but also sending that person to the ICU.

Finally, because of their age, these four brats successfully escaped legal punishment and only needed to take the place of the college student they had beaten up, acting on his behalf on stage.

And to replace the head props they destroyed, Ayumi could contribute her cute big head and act as a head in a bag on stage.

Sonoko in this world is also unlucky, suffering from poisoning twice in such a short period of time, both times while she was with Ran.

Sonoko hasn't yet noticed anything amiss about her parents' feelings for Ran, but she has received a request from them: Kaito Kid has sent a notice that he intends to target their Dark Pearl. Therefore, her parents have asked her to seek help from Kogoro Mouri and Kojo Kita, who was present both times when Ran was poisoned.

As the most pampered second young lady in the family, Sonoko didn't notice anything wrong with this request, so she happily went to Ran's house, told her about Kaito Kid's arrival, and then asked Kogoro Mouri and Kojo Kita to go and catch him on behalf of her parents.

Just like in the original story, whenever Kaito Kid is mentioned, Sonoko looks like a lovesick girl, as if she wants to personally deliver her treasure and the person to his door.

While Sonoko was obsessed with Kaito Kid's handsome appearance, Conan and Kogoro Mouri also became obsessed with the notices he sent, racking their brains over the riddles written on them.

Deciphering the mystery is the detective's job. Jiang Chengbei has limited talent in reasoning and riddles, so after taking a look and finding that he had no clue, he gave up immediately.

After that, things unfolded just like in the original series. Jiang Chengbei and Kogoro Mouri, along with Conan, went to Sonoko's house the next day to visit the museum housing the Black Organization and meet with Sonoko's father, Shiro Suzuki, the head of the Suzuki Zaibatsu.

While Kogoro Mouri was bragging about the invitation from Kaito Kid, Shiro Suzuki gave him a good look.

Then he carefully observed Jiang Chengbei and asked him what he thought of Kidd's announcement.

Jiang Chengbei couldn't understand Kidd's fancy announcement, so what could he possibly think? At most, he would just say that Kidd wouldn't make a move this time, and was just there to scout things out and show off.

During this meeting, Suzuki Shiro met his daughter's best friend, her father, her neighbor, and the troublesome child being fostered by the neighbor. These people had all appeared around the time Sonoko was poisoned twice, and he wanted to see them in person to get a better understanding of the situation.

As for what he figured out, the old fox who had been navigating the business world for decades naturally couldn't guess it from Jiang Chengbei and his group.

In fact, among the many people who came, he deliberately observed Jiang Chengbei and his three companions. Apart from Jiang Chengbei, the other three did not notice that the smiling Suzuki Shiro was observing them.

Of course, even if Jiang Chengbei noticed, he didn't think much of it. Judging people isn't illegal, especially for the heads of conglomerates. The most important thing for them is to have a good eye for people, otherwise they can't be leaders.

Chapter 178 Kidd, I'll Teach You Chakra Training

Kidd was flying freely in the night sky, but as he approached his destination, a shrill child's voice blared in his ears.

So annoying!

And as they got closer to their destination, the annoying noise grew louder and louder, clearly determined to spoil his night.

Originally intending to land on the top floor of the Beika Hotel in a cool manner, he was interrupted by a nauseating song, and Kid finally made his first mistake in life, falling spectacularly onto the rooftop.

"Shut up! You wretched brat!"

After getting up from the ground, Kidd angrily roared at the elementary school student wearing a blue suit and shorts.

Upon seeing the main character arrive, Conan, who asks himself every night before bed, "Am I stronger today?"

After singing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" to the moonlight, feeling more powerful today, I stopped and said to the pretentious guy in white next to me:

"You've finally arrived, Kidd. I've been waiting for you here for so long."