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

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"what……"

Tatsuya Kimura is dead, and his body is missing. What the hell is this, sleeping in a toilet cubicle?

After a commotion, everyone finally confirmed that Kimura Tatsuya was alive and not dead. After a series of complicated confirmations and inquiries, Kimura Tatsuya, who had fainted as soon as he entered the toilet, was stripped of his clothes and made to sleep in the toilet, and was woken up with a cold, was completely confused about what had happened. In any case, he had fainted as soon as he entered the toilet and had no idea what happened after that.

Since Kimura Tatsumi didn't die either, Terahara Mari, who was brought to the Metropolitan Police Department and confessed readily, and the police who handled the murder case so smoothly, were both dumbfounded.

The murderer has confessed, the case is almost closed, and you're saying the deceased has come back to life? Are you sure it's not a case of the dead rising from the dead? And the one that came back to life isn't a zombie?

Or should we let Terahara Mari go out and let her kill Kimura Tatsuya again?

Chapter 235 Osaka Black Chicken is Back Again

Shinichi Kudo, who had been missing for a long time, has reappeared to solve a case, and it seems that he has solved it, but the final result is that the victim was not dead at all.

His phone deductions seemed reasonable, but in the end, he made a big joke. In the end, the murderer and the victim, who had reconciled, joined forces to give him a good slap in the face. It was like a divorce lawyer who worked hard for several days and finally won the case, leaving the other party with nothing, only to find that the couple had reconciled and remarried in the blink of an eye.

Anyway, the joke that Shinichi Kudo made in this case was known to Black Chicken, who was far away in Osaka, within two days. Since he couldn't contact Shinichi Kudo, he made a special call to Jiang Chengbei and gave Shinichi Kudo a good laugh.

Heiji Hattori still holds a grudge about Shinichi Kudo stealing his reasoning last time, and now that Shinichi has embarrassed himself, he's secretly delighted.

This time, Heiji Hattori called not only to tease Shinichi Kudo about his embarrassing moments, but also to let Jiang Chengbei know that he was in Tokyo and invited her out.

At the invitation of Osaka Black Chicken, Jiang Chengbei drove to the home of Nagato Dosan, the head of the Nagato Group.

Although Japan has a small land area, the villas that appear in the Conan storyline are always very large. Even ordinary families have villas that occupy several acres. Now, the villas of the Nagato family are even more impressive, occupying tens or hundreds of acres, which is the minimum standard.

After explaining their purpose, Jiang Chengbei followed the butler, Musashi Nisuke, through the empty courtyard and arrived at a magnificent villa.

Of course, just like the triple gates of aristocratic families, there are gates after gates and walls after walls, so a ring of sharp steel railings also stands around this large villa.

Upon entering the villa, Jiang Chengbei saw Osaka Black Chicken, who had already arrived, and his father, the department head, who was slightly fairer than him.

With Hattori Heiji's introduction, Jiang Chengbei politely greeted Hattori Heizo and exchanged a few pleasantries.

From his conversation with Hattori Heiji, Jiang Chengbei learned that Hattori Heiji had taken on a small case here involving the sound of running in the corridor of a villa at night.

Then, led by the butler, they went upstairs to see Nagato Dosan, the chairman of the Nagato Group, who was bedridden.

After meeting Nagato Dosan, Jiang Chengbei learned that Hattori Heiji had summoned him because during their first meeting, Jiang Chengbei was able to find the kidnapped child almost instantly. His extreme speed in finding people had left a deep impression on Osaka Kuroki.

So when Nagato Dosan asked them to help him find his first love from elementary school, but Osaka Kuroki and his father were at a loss, he sought help from Jiang Chengbei.

After Nagato Dosan finished recounting his first love story from when he was still in elementary school, Hattori Heizo, who had many important matters to attend to and no time to help Nagato Dosan find his first love, took his leave, leaving his eldest son to unleash his detective misfortune.

After Hattori Heizo left, Nagato Dozo's eldest daughter, now 39 years old and still single, Nagato Nobuko, was furious when she saw Hyuga Sachi, the secretary who was taking good care of her bedridden father. She slapped Hyuga Sachi hard and kept calling her a vixen and a green tea bitch.

After being slapped by the hormonally imbalanced old woman Nagato Nobuko, Hyuga Yuki, who was standing by the bed, collapsed onto the bed. Then, Nagato Dosan picked up a burnt pen that had fallen out of Hyuga Yuki's shirt pocket from the blanket.

Upon finding the pen, Jiang Chengbei saw excitement in the old man's eyes. However, this man, who was in charge of trillions of dollars in wealth, had seen all kinds of storms and was known for his composure and ability to remain calm even in the face of adversity. He always maintained a smiling face, so apart from a fleeting hint of surprise in his eyes, he calmly returned the pen to Hinata Yuki and subtly inquired about its origin.

This pen doesn't have any special history; it's the only memento left to her by her mother, who died in a fire. So, it's her only keepsake of her parents, and it's very precious to her.

After finding out where the pen came from, Nagato Dosan took the opportunity to tell Hattori Heiji and Jiang Chengbei that they didn't need to look for his first love anymore. So much time had passed, it was back in elementary school, and he had come to terms with it and didn't want to look for her anymore.

He didn't think much of what Nagato Dosan said, but Jiang Chengbei, who had watched too many melodramatic dramas, immediately knew that Nagato Dosan must have found a clue about his first love, even if he didn't know the plot.

The person standing before them, Hyuga Yuki, was the one Nagato Dozo was looking for. After all, the clues Nagato Dozo gave them, besides the fact that someone would definitely change their surname after getting married and that someone would likely change their name after transferring schools, were that he had given his first love an expensive fountain pen.

Now that fountain pens have appeared, doesn't that prove the point?

Hinata Sachi, who just dropped the pen, is the daughter of Nagato Dozo's first love. According to the plot of a melodramatic drama, that's probably how it is.

Although Hyuga Yuki is an orphan whose parents died in a fire, she is now Nagato Hideomi's fiancée, who was rescued from the fire by Nagato Hideomi, the only son of the Nagato family. She is also the sister-in-law of Nagato Nobuko, an old maid with an extremely bad temper.

The older sister disliked her younger brother's fiancée and would often slap her for no reason. This is an extreme case of one woman making things difficult for another.

As a woman deeply harmed by feudal ideology, Hinata Yuki accepted the bullying and domestic violence from her elder sister Nagato Nobuko without complaint, taking the extremes of passive acceptance to the extreme.

Overall, Hinata Yuki is a good girl. Even after Nagato Hideomi was disfigured while saving her and his temper became somewhat eccentric, she still resolutely devoted herself to him.

Speaking of Nagato Hideomi's strange temper after his face was burned, he still refuses to have plastic surgery or repair his burned face. He keeps his head wrapped in bandages all day long, just like that bandaged weirdo from last time. This situation shows how strange his temper is.

Today, in front of Jiang Chengbei and Osaka Kuroki, two outsiders, Nagato Hideomi, whose entire head was wrapped in bandages, walked like a zombie, showing everyone a silent zombie walk.

Nagato Hideomi, who had a strange temper, walked strangely, and had his face covered in bandages, never uttering a single word, made a brief appearance to everyone, indicating his presence, but then took no further extreme actions.

Aside from the Nagato family members, the youngest daughter, Nagato Yasue, behaved the most normally; she could be considered a gentle and virtuous woman.

Later, her husband, who married into the family and was a classmate of Nagato Hideomi, now known as Nagato Mitsuaki, also made an appearance.

During this time, he also jokingly told Nagato Dosan when he would retire and hand over the position of chairman of Nagato Group to him.

When Nagato Mitsuaki jokingly suggested that Nagato Dosan retire and that he take over, Jiang Chengbei felt that what he said was true and came from the heart of the inner court.

Having met all sorts of people in the Nagato family, Hattori Heiji and Jiang Chengbei, the detective and transmigrator respectively, who were both carrying the aura of death and misfortune, stayed at the Nagato family to attend Nagato Dosan's birthday party.

Although Nagato Dozo is the chairman of the Nagato Group, he did not hold a grand celebration for his birthday this time. He simply celebrated at home, and apart from his family, no other outsiders attended. After all, he was sick and bedridden, unable to get out of bed and his activities were not very convenient.

As they were celebrating Nagato Dosan's birthday, it was evening, and the sky outside was already quite dark.

Since Jiang Chengbei arrived, he has never seen Hyuga Yuki, Nagato Hideomi, and Nagato Mitsuaki appear together. At most, only two of them have appeared together.

Using the chakra transmitters marked on them, Jiang Chengbei knew that Nagato Dosan's son, Nagato Hideomi, had not appeared today. The Nagato Hideomi with a bandaged face that appeared earlier was either Hyuga Sachi in disguise or Nagato Mitsuaki in disguise. In any case, Nagato Hideomi was not there.

By planting transmitters and listening devices on each member of the Nagato family, Jiang Chengbei knew far more secrets about the Nagato family than the clueless Hattori Heiji beside him.

Finally, after dark, while everyone was celebrating her birthday, Nagato Nobuko, who was still single and couldn't find a man, stormed off in a fit of anger. Then everyone realized that Nagato Hideomi was also missing. So Nagato Mitsuaki, who was his classmate and brother-in-law, volunteered to go find him and then left the bedroom.

After Nagato Mitsuaki left, the considerate Hyuga Yuki handed Nagato Dozo a glass of water.

After drinking the water that Hyuga Yuki handed him, Nagato Dosan fell asleep in front of everyone.

Just as Nagato Dosan fell asleep, the phone in his bedroom rang, and the butler went to answer it.

Then, from the butler's conversation, everyone learned that the person who called was Nagato Mitsuaki, who had gone out to look for Nagato Hideomi.

He said on the phone that he couldn't find Nagato Hideomi and that he was in a room downstairs. Then, several shouts came through the phone. Due to the poor security of the call, everyone could clearly hear Nagato Hikaru's screams and his cries for help, saying that someone had turned off the lights and was chasing him with a knife.

Upon hearing Nagato's shout, everyone, led by Hattori Heiji, ran to the balcony. As they looked down, they saw a head covered in bandages, which had come from the room onto the balcony and turned to look up. The head also had a gleaming dagger in its mouth.

"Nagato Hideomi?!"

"do not want!"

"Do not impulse!"

Although we couldn't see his face, given his bandaged appearance, the stereotypical image everyone in the Nagato family had of him was that of Nagato Hideomi.

As everyone rushed back to their rooms to go downstairs and stop them, Hinata Yuki was so frightened that she collapsed to the ground.

Led by Osaka Black Chicken, everyone ran with great enthusiasm. As they ran desperately out of the bedroom and into the corridor, only Jiang Chengbei was not putting in any effort and lagged behind. After leaving the bedroom, a small white bird flew off his body. Then, his stiff and rigid body continued to run with everyone, while the bird flew back into the bedroom.

While Hyuga Yuki, who was neither working nor contributing, took advantage of the fact that everyone had left the bedroom to find the rope that had been hidden there, Jiang Chengbei seized the opportunity to fly over the bedroom, off the balcony, and into the room downstairs.

Hinata Yuki took the rope, ran to the balcony, tied it to the balcony pillar, and let it hang down.

As soon as Hinata Yuki lowered the rope, Nagato Mitsuaki, who was shouting on the phone that someone was trying to kill him, appeared on the balcony.

He grabbed the other end of the rope hanging down from the upstairs balcony, tied it to the railing of his own balcony, and then, with a knife in his mouth, climbed up the rope.

After Nagato Mitsuaki finally climbed to the third-floor balcony and appeared in front of Hyuga Yuki, Hyuga Yuki suddenly reached out and pushed Nagato Mitsuaki, who was just outside the balcony, and easily pushed him off.

Although the black eyes matched the black night sky, the visibility was not very good. After a moment of confusion, Hyuga Yuki saw Nagato Mitsuaki fall onto the iron fence below as planned, and be impaled to death by the upward-pointing steel bar.

It was too dark outside, and Hinata Yuki couldn't quite understand either the animated or still images. After taking a quick look and confirming that Nagato Akira was probably dead, she prepared to untie the rope on the balcony. She planned to untie one end of the rope on the third-floor balcony and throw it down, so that the other end of the rope, which was tied to the second-floor balcony, would hang down to the first floor, creating the impression that the murderer escaped from the second floor and followed the rope to the first floor.

As a result, before she could untie the rope on the third floor, she suddenly felt dizzy and lost consciousness, falling asleep just like Nagato Dosan had just done.

After Hinata Yuki fell asleep, Nagato Hikaru, who had also fallen in the second-floor room, woke up.

He felt that his fall had been quite hard, and his head was a little dizzy, but when he heard someone knocking on the door outside, he knew he had to hurry and didn't have time to waste, so he quickly came out of the room and climbed up the rope.

When the second Nagato Mitsuaki climbed up the rope to the third floor, to Nagato Dosan's bedroom, Hyuga Yuki, who had been sleeping on the floor, was no longer there. Apart from the sleeping old man Nagato Dosan, there was no one else in the room.

Although Hyuga Yuki, whom he had agreed to meet, was not present, and the plan seemed to have encountered some unexpected problems, the operation had already begun. Nagato Mitsuaki, whose actions were irreversible, had no time to think further and no energy to waste. So he grabbed a knife and rushed toward Nagato Dosan on the bed, stabbing him in the groin.

Just as the knife was about to pierce Nagato Dosan's chest, the sleeping Nagato Dosan suddenly opened his eyes, stretched out an arm that was not weak like an old man, grabbed Nagato Mitsuaki's hand holding the knife, twisted and pushed, and a huge force came. When Nagato Mitsuaki could see the situation clearly, he saw that the knife he brought was already stuck in his chest.

Chapter 236 A Historic Moment: The Metropolitan Police Department Defeates a High School Detective for the First Time!

Thanks to Osaka Black Chicken for inviting me to Nagato's house, which allowed Jiang Chengbei to get 4 kill coins in one night, and then add the skills of "Pushing from a distance" and "Ignite from a distance".

Seeing that these two skills were fun, Jiang Chengbei spent 2 kill coins to buy them, and now he has the ability to push people from a distance and set fires from a distance.

Then came the incident that night when Nagato Hikaru was killed next to Nagato Dosan's bed, his body lying on top of Nagato Dosan's bed.

Because Nagato Dosan had been given sleeping pills by Hyuga Sachi, he was only woken up after the police arrived and everyone worked hard to wake him up.

When he woke up, the bed was covered in blood. Nagato Hikaru's blood had soaked through the blankets, and he was also covered in blood. He was shocked by the scene and never expected that such a thing would happen.

At the same time, the only fingerprints on the hilt of the knife that killed Nagato Mitsuaki were Nagato Mitsuaki's fingerprints, indicating that he casually gripped the knife forward. There was also saliva from Nagato Mitsuaki's mouth on the blade and hilt. Therefore, judging from the manner of his death, it is very likely that Nagato Mitsuaki was holding the knife to kill Nagato Dosan, and then Nagato Dosan fought back in self-defense, resulting in Nagato Mitsuaki's death. The scene seems to fit this reasoning.

After all, a similar case occurred not long ago in Gunma Prefecture, in the rural Yabuchi family home, where Yabuchi Machiko had a wicked idea to kill someone, but was killed by a Brazilian Japanese old man in self-defense, a scene that is widely known.

Having learned from the previous case, the police officers who came here immediately started applying the formula. After finding it suitable, they basically concluded that tonight's case would be just like that.

Following this line of thought, with the help of Jiang Chengbei, the police quickly found the bandage used to wrap the face in the downstairs room. After examination, they found Nagato Hikaru's hair and skin flakes on it.

Later, they discovered Nagato Hideomi's body, which had been dead for more than three days, in the pond in the yard. His suicide note was on the body, in which he recounted how he and Nagato Mitsuaki thought it would be fun to set fires when they were in high school, which led to the tragic burning of Hyuga Sachi's parents.

Of course, the suicide note only mentioned that they set fire to and killed an innocent couple, without mentioning that the couple was Hinata Sachi's parents. After all, the complete suicide note had several pages, but only the first page was found on the body. The second half of the suicide note was not found by the police.

After setting the fire, Nagato Hideomi realized the seriousness of the situation and felt remorse. He rescued the little girl, Hyuga Yuki, from the fire, but Hyuga Yuki's parents could not be saved and ultimately died at the hands of Nagato Hideomi and Nagato Mitsuaki.

Two people died, and Nagato Hideomi realized his mistake. From then on, he lived in remorse and guilt, and his personality changed drastically. He locked himself in his room all day and refused to have plastic surgery to restore his appearance. Instead, he kept his face wrapped in bandages as a way of atoning for his sins.

Until a few days ago, he could no longer bear the torment of his conscience, so he committed suicide, and at the same time wrote a suicide note, repenting for the wrong things he did in high school.

Compared to Nagato Hideomi, who spent the rest of his life in regret and pain, Nagato Mitsuaki, who set fire to the house with him and burned two innocent couples to death, didn't care much about the incident, had long forgotten about it, and lived a happy life.

He was especially happy because he had successfully married into the Changmen family, while the Changmen family's own son was crippled and immersed in pain, showing no intention of inheriting the family business. Moreover, the eldest sister of the Changmen family could not find a husband to marry into the family because of her bad temper. Among the younger generation of the Changmen family, there was no other heir besides him who married into the family.

Unfortunately, Nagato Dosan never died. He had been waiting in line to become the heir for several years and couldn't wait any longer. In particular, since he, Nagato Mitsuaki, was not Prince Charles, how could he be the heir who had been waiting the longest?

The body of Nagato Hideomi was found in the pond in the yard. Then, some clues were found in Nagato Mitsuaki's room that he wanted to kill the chairman and take his place. So it is clear that Nagato Mitsuaki had been impersonating Nagato Hideomi for the past few days, climbing from the second floor to the third floor to kill Nagato Dosan.

Of course, besides Nagato Mitsuaki, who was killed instead of the intended murderer, there are many other inexplicable questions. For example, Hinata Sachi fainted in the bedroom, but when she was woken up, she didn't say anything, only that she didn't know anything.

In addition, Nagato Dosan, who was pinned to the bed by the corpse, only said that he was asleep and knew nothing else. However, the only thing he was certain of was that he had never woken up and had not killed anyone in self-defense. He consistently denied that he had killed anyone in self-defense.

That's all the information the police can find out; the rest is up to Osaka Black Chicken.

This case was originally supposed to be handled by two detectives, but Conan didn't come today, so Osaka Kuroko ended up having to trace the case back to Hinata Yuki, believing that she was the one who did it. Only she had the motive to murder Nagato Mitsuaki, and also the opportunity to trick Nagato Mitsuaki.