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

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My name is Shinichi, and yours is Kaito. You can tell from our names that I'm your older brother.

It's like your dad's name is Toichi, he's the eldest, and my dad's name is Yusaku, he's the second eldest.

Kaito Kuroba: ...

Chapter 181 Draining the Phantom Thief Kid

"Don't tell me that you impersonated me just to make Kaito Kuroba and Kaito Kid appear at the same time to help me prove my innocence! That's such nonsense!"

Because right now, apart from you, no one suspects that Kaito Kid is actually Kaito Kuroba.

"Tell me, why are you impersonating me?"

Seeing Kaito Kuroba's disbelieving look, Jiang Chengbei had no choice but to tell the truth:

"Okay, to be honest, I've offended an international terrorist organization called the Blacksmith. They're hunting me down all over the world right now, so I have to go into hiding. I can no longer appear as Shinichi Kudo, so I can only use your name to operate."

"What? You're being hunted down? And you're using my name? What if people find out? Have you considered how I feel?"

Upon hearing Jiang Chengbei's words, Kuroba Kaito was shocked, and at the same time, he had no choice but to abandon his original method of revenge.

Originally, he planned to retaliate in kind, impersonating Shinichi Kudo to ruin his reputation as a famous detective, ideally making Shinichi Kudo bear the stigma of being the Phantom Thief Kid.

As a result, this kid had already been hunted down to the point of hiding and not daring to see anyone. If he were to stubbornly impersonate Shinichi Kudo, wouldn't he be taking the bullet for him?

He wouldn't do something so foolish, and he also had to stop Shinichi Kudo from continuing to impersonate him. What if Shinichi Kudo was recognized while impersonating him one day, but he ran away again? Wouldn't those people who couldn't find Shinichi Kudo in hiding find him instead?

The thought of this situation filled Kaito Kuroba with a burning hatred for this guy who claimed to be his cousin, and he couldn't help but shout:

"I forbid you from impersonating me in the future, using my face and my name to swindle and deceive people. Do you know how much trouble this will cause me?"

I'm just an ordinary high school student, not a famous detective like you who'd risk his life for the truth and even provoke terrorist organizations!

Now that things have come to this point, and the true intentions are revealed, Jiang Chengbei finally said with a grin the purpose of his visit:

"Kaito, don't get agitated. If you want me to stop impersonating you and causing you trouble in the future, then teach me your disguise skills."

After hearing Jiang Chengbei's request, Kuroba Kaito fell silent. He finally realized that it was better to make a deal with that brat Conan.

Although Conan is incredibly strong and can knock him out of his skin, he still manages to make fair deals and treat everyone honestly and fairly when he proposes a trade.

And this guy in front of me, grinning like an idiot, is actually shamelessly trying to get something for nothing. Not only does he want to get something for nothing, but his words are also full of threats. If I don't teach him the art of disguise, he will use my clean high school student account, Kuroba Kaito, to swindle people while wearing the same face as me!

In order to stop him from using my clean and legitimate real name, it seems that teaching him to disguise himself is the only way out.

But he was a little unwilling to let him get it for free, so he said:

"But the art of disguise is a family tradition; if I rashly entrust it to an outsider..."

Before Kuroba Kaito could even offer his terms, Jiang Chengbei objected and got angry:

"Kaito, we're brothers, how can you treat me like an outsider?"

If you keep doing this, believe me, I'll go tell my uncle and say that you, as the younger brother, don't recognize me as your older brother!

Hearing Jiang Chengbei's threatening words, Kuroba Kaito gave a disdainful and wicked smile:

"Go tell your uncle, I don't know him anyway... Uncle? Wait, you said you're my cousin, our father is my brother, so isn't your uncle my dad?"

Seeing Kuroba Kaito's face change from a carefree, smug grin to a serious, focused expression, and then he stare at him nervously, Jiang Chengbei felt it was time to act like the boss. He leaned back on the sofa, put his feet on the coffee table, and glanced sideways at Kuroba Kaito.

“That’s right. If you don’t behave, I’ll go and complain to my uncle, who is also your father.”

"Ah!" Upon hearing Jiang Chengbei's words, Kuroba Kaito was truly shocked. He completely forgot his father's teachings to maintain a poker face in the face of trouble. Instead, he was excited and apprehensive, and said in a trembling, stuttering voice:

"But...but my dad passed away in an accident eight years ago!"

"Tch, how could a womanizer like my uncle die so easily?"

Kaito, I have some unfortunate news for you: Conan is seven years old this year.

"Ah! My dad isn't dead! Where is he? Tell me quickly, I need to find him! I need to find him and ask him why he abandoned me all those years ago, why he lied to me!"

Kaito Kuroba completely ignored the last sentence Jiang Chengbei said. Instead, he excitedly grabbed Jiang Chengbei's shoulders and shook him vigorously.

"Stop, Kaito, don't get agitated. It's not worth getting so worked up over your scumbag father!"

Didn't I tell you? Conan is seven years old this year. After knowing this, are you still going to go find your philandering father?

"Brother, my dear brother, I'm asking where Dad is, why are you bringing up Conan, that murderer?"

What does it matter to me that he's 7? I just want to find my dad! I haven't seen him for eight years, a full eight years!

For the past eight years, I thought he was dead!

"Yes, eight years! Even the War of Resistance against Japan was won." Jiang Chengbei exclaimed after the excited Kuroba Kaito, then added:

"Kaito, you're really stupid. I've reminded you several times: your womanizing uncle faked his death for eight years, and Conan is exactly seven years old now. What did you think of?"

If you still can't figure it out, here are some more hints: Conan looks a lot like you did when you were little, and like us, he's trained in family chakra. If you still can't think of anything, then go get some of Conan's hair and get a DNA test done.

"What?!" After listening to Jiang Chengbei's detailed explanation, Kuroba Kaito finally realized what was happening, and then was shocked again:

"Shinichi Kudo, are you saying Conan is my younger brother?!"

“I didn’t say that. I promised my uncle I would keep this a secret. I didn’t tell you. If anyone asks about the source of the information in the future, you can’t betray me. Besides, you just guessed it yourself.”

Hearing Jiang Chengbei's words, Kuroba Kaito was stunned. He then sorted out his thoughts and muttered to himself after a long while:

"Conan is my half-brother, so he faked his death 8 years ago because my mother, who loves him, refused to divorce him."

Then, after faking his death, he quickly married that woman and had a child, and the following year, Conan was born.

What about my mom? Does she know that my dad faked his death and had a new family, a new wife, and new children?

"I don't know about that, but I guess she might know, but she's pretending not to know in order not to expose the truth, right?"

Otherwise, she wouldn't have kept the truth from you after finding your father, who was operating in Las Vegas under the guise of the Phantom Thief Raven.

"What? The Phantom Thief Raven who appeared in Las Vegas is my dad?" Kaito Kuroba was surprised at first, then suddenly realized and said:

"I was wondering why the magic tricks of that phantom thief crow looked so familiar. Turns out he's my dad."

Hey, you're saying my dad has a new family, so why did my mom abandon me and go to find him?

Is my mom really that love-struck, that she loves my dad so much for abandoning his wife and children?

She lives all alone in the same city as their happy family. Doesn't she feel awkward?

Seeing the dejected and heartbroken Kaito Kuroba, Jiang Chengbei patted him on the shoulder and comforted him:

"Don't worry about that. My dad is still here in the US, isn't he?"

Oh, right, I might have forgotten to tell you, or you might not know this yet.

Look, my cousin and I look almost identical, and we also look just like your half-brother Conan. We're a generation apart, yet we look so alike. So, your father and my father, who are biological brothers, must look exactly alike.

So, the two brothers in the US can easily cover for each other and handle a few women.

"They're covering for each other? And several of them?! Are they really that scumbags?"

Seeing the furious Kaito Kuroba, Jiang Chengbei waved his hand in front of Kaito:

"Douzi, why are you so agitated? Aren't you just like your dad and uncle?"

Think about it, in your short 17 years of life, how many girls have you flirted with? How many of them were begging to have your babies?

In my experience, even though you look down on your dad now, in a few years, you'll become your dad in matters of the heart and surpass him.

A good girl like Qingzi, though she's your girlfriend now, will either be dumped by you or end up becoming your second mother.

"Nonsense! That's not true at all! Besides, Aoko and I are just childhood friends, not what you're saying!"

Seeing Kuroba Kaito's overreaction, Jiang Chengbei remained calm and composed:

"Douzi, look at you, look at you! You've treated Qingzi like that, you won't even give her the title of girlfriend, you won't even acknowledge her as your girlfriend. I think her future romantic prospects can only be described as 'miserable'."

"Hmph, don't spread rumors or slander me. I'm not that kind of person!"

Looking at the stubborn Kuroba Kaito, Jiang Chengbei gave him a disdainful look:

"Douzi, stop denying it. Just look at yourself. If you're so capable, then never flirt with other girls again, and never flirt and then run away!"

"Only if you reform and become a faithful man will you have the right to condemn your father."

After listening to Jiang Chengbei's words, and influenced by the accusations of calling a deer a horse and being blinded by a leaf, Kaito thought about his own habit of flirting with girls everywhere and then running away. Jiang Chengbei was right; he was a scumbag, and he inherited it from his father.

But if he were to stop flirting with girls and become a law-abiding good man, wouldn't all of Kaito Kuroba's magic skills have been wasted?

Realizing that this was impossible, Kaito Kuroba finally came to his senses. He was no longer angry about his father faking his death to escape and abandon his wife and children, because he felt that he was the same kind of person, and that his choices might be the same in the future. So he decided not to condemn him, lest the boomerang hit him in the back later.

After learning that Conan Edogawa was his half-brother in Jiangcheng North, Kaito Kuroba finally understood why Conan had spread rumors that he was a murderer and why he wanted to team up with Kaito Kid to deal with him.

After convincing Kaito Kuroba with a series of tricks, Jiang Chengbei finally began to learn how to disguise himself from Kaito Kuroba.

After learning how to make a human skin mask, Jiang Chengbei encountered a small problem in making it look like a normal face, a human face. It wasn't until he spent 1 kill coin to learn the painter's copying skill that the human skin mask he made finally looked like a human.

When Kuroba Kaito saw that Jiang Chengbei's initial creations were ghost-faced human skin masks, they suddenly transformed into realistic human skin masks, and even became so similar to the people they were imitating that his jaw dropped in astonishment.

But what shocked Kaito Kuroba even more after Jiang Chengbei learned how to make human skin masks was that he immediately saw Jiang Chengbei create something out of thin air without using the materials from the previous Conan tutorials, and finally made a more realistic and detailed human skin mask.

"What's going on? You... why don't you need any materials to make this human skin mask? It just appeared out of nowhere!"

Seeing Kaito Kuroba's shocked face, and remembering that he had taught him the art of disguise for free, Jiang Chengbei felt he couldn't just take advantage of him and should satisfy his curiosity, so he said:

"I used materials conjured from chakra to replace real-world materials, so now I don't need anything else to make human skin masks, as long as I have enough chakra."

The human skin mask I'm making now is called the Chakra Human Skin Mask. As long as you have chakra, you can make it anytime, which is much more convenient.

Compared to a human skin mask made from real materials, its only drawback is that it requires chakra to maintain its existence; if the chakra runs out, the human skin mask will disappear.

"Chakra again! Damn it, why can't I sense any chakra?"

Upon hearing the new term "chakra" again, Kaito Kuroba shouted excitedly:

"Shinichi, brother, how can I cultivate chakra? I want to have it too!"

"Chakra again? What, Douzi, where have you heard the word chakra before?"

Faced with the calm Jiang Chengbei, Kuroba Kaito got excited again: "Conan, I've heard about it from Conan. I even got kicked all over the place by his chakra soccer ball."

"Brother, my dear brother, please teach me how to train my chakra! I'm going to defeat Conan! I'm going to get revenge!"

“Okay, it’s very simple. Just sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star to the moon every night.”

Upon hearing Jiang Chengbei's answer, Kuroba Kaito's eyes widened: "And then? Bro!"