The unscrupulous detective in Conan

Chapter 1346 I'm clearly the childhood sweetheart!
As Fujino explained his plans, he turned to the elderly Vermouth and asked, "Has Bourbon's location been confirmed yet?"

"It's in Ward 307."

"Okay, that's good. Next, let Kusuda Rikudo distract the FBI, then Bourbon will go up and take our little princess."

He paused for a moment after saying this: "As for Kusuda Rikudo, you should know how to handle this matter."

Seeing Fujino become serious and even somewhat unfamiliar in front of her, Vermouth wasn't too surprised.

Despite his usual carefree and irresponsible demeanor.

But when it comes to truly crucial matters, they get serious.

Yeah, there's a bit of a contrast.

The older woman's initial reaction was this, and she immediately followed up with the question: "When will the operation begin?"

"I don't need to decide when to start."

Fujino, with a cigarette dangling from his lips and legs crossed, waved his hand and said, "You can decide when the time is right."

"Now, I no longer need to be involved; I think you can handle things on your own."

"..."

Vermouth sighed helplessly, having nothing more to say.

The plan is very detailed.

As for the remaining details, that's up to you to figure out...

That's how leaders are.

The workers should just work honestly, but the junior managers who leave the mess behind and enjoy themselves have a lot more to consider.

…………

"Ya hello!"

"Akemi-nee, Nana, and Ai-chan, it's been so long!"

The next morning, Heiji Hattori had already brought Kazuha Toyama to Tokyo, and after meeting up with Conan, they went to the Fujino residence.

Kazuha Toyama, having somehow learned a new word, greeted the Akemi sisters and Ai Haibara directly.

Everyone looked bewildered, not quite understanding what Kazuha was referring to.

Xiao Lan, standing nearby, also looked rather helpless.

She didn't understand either.

Conan, looking speechless, asked in a low voice, "So, what's your childhood friend up to now?"

"How do I know?"

Hattori Heiji glanced at the corgi and thought to himself: How could you possibly understand what your childhood friend is thinking?

However, some speculated, "Maybe he read some youth romance novel and thought this way of greeting was cute or something."

"That's what she asked me before."

"understood."

Conan simply nodded and understood what it meant.

It's probably just that young girls are blindly chasing trends and trying to look cute again.

As for how he knew?

Xiaolan is just like that.

However, compared to these girls, he was more concerned about Fujino.

So he turned to Miyano Akemi and asked, "Hey, Akemi-neechan, is Fujino-nii home?"

"Hattori-nii has something he wants to discuss with him."

Hearing this, Mingmei didn't think too much about it and explained, "He's at home now, probably resting in his room..."

"That's it..."

Conan nodded, a deep glint in his eyes.

Sure enough, as soon as the holiday started, Fujino stayed at home...

Hammer it!
Hearing this, Hattori Heiji, who was standing next to him, asked in a low voice, "So, this is what you've been busy with lately?"

Upon arrival, Conan explained everything to his best friend.

After all, you can't exactly say that before this incident, you were always staying at home watching TV, playing games, and reading comics, right?
If I said that out loud, I'd probably be ridiculed to death by this guy...

Conan pondered this, realizing that things couldn't go this way.

He immediately nodded and replied, "That guy actually disguised himself as a traditional Chinese medicine doctor and infiltrated the hospital to help that Hondo Eisuke find his sister, all while keeping it a secret from me."

So, they don't really need to report to you, right?

Hattori Heiji thought to himself, then continued, "However, if he successfully helps Hondo Eisuke find his older sister, then he'll soon be coming into contact with that organization you mentioned..."

"After all, according to what you said, that guy's older sister is a member of that organization."

"That's why we need to confirm it's him and then stop him from finding Rena Mizunashi," Conan said, feeling rather helpless.

Even though Rena Mizunashi is an FBI undercover agent, she is still a member of the organization at heart.

If Hondou Eisuke finds her, he'll definitely reveal some clues.

With the clues, Fujino's abilities make it easy to follow the trail.

At least for Fujino, it's not difficult...

Wouldn't that expose everything then?

Heiji Hattori glanced at Conan: "So, why don't you just be honest with him? Why go through all this trouble?"

"As for the other things..."

His tone and expression were full of reassurance: "At most, you'll only be in pain for a while, or rather, you'll be in pain from being hit by his wooden sword for a while."

"Just bear with it and it will pass."

Conan: "..."

Just bear with it and it will pass?

If you just bear with it, it'll pass physically, okay...

And the key issue isn't that old man Fujino, it's Ran, okay?

If Ran finds out that I am Shinichi Kudo, she will definitely kill me on the spot, okay?

If that old man Fujino knew about this, could you really expect him not to leak it?
Seeing that Grand Marshal-like expression, Hattori Heiji knew that the kid was getting stuck on something again.

He quickly changed the subject: "Let's not talk about that. Let's talk about that letter instead."

"Do you recall any of the reasoning errors in that letter?"

Upon hearing this, Conan immediately crossed his arms and said, "Yes, there is, but how could I possibly be wrong?"

"In my opinion, he's talking nonsense!"

Hattori Heiji remarked, "But he even said his own name. If he were just making things up, framing someone, or playing a prank, he probably wouldn't have done that."

"That means he misunderstood."

Conan continued in a serious tone, "I remember this guy. He's the young man who helped me when I went to their village last year."

"He seems like an honest person, how could he say such nonsense..."

Heiji Hattori glanced at the bewildered Conan beside him, feeling utterly speechless: 'So, you're the one who suspected everyone except yourself…'

'Is it possible that you've actually made a mistake in your reasoning?'

Conan, as the son of Conan, has absolute confidence in himself.

Although they made a slight mistake in identifying Fujino.

However, the problem isn't too big... Can identifying Fujino be the same as solving a case?

Fujino, that guy, he's got a ghost! He's changed his face so much, who could recognize him?
They probably all learned it from that Phantom Thief Kid!
He actually colluded with thieves, what a disloyal detective!

Conan immediately launched into a moral condemnation of the detective who was colluding with the phantom thief.

At that moment, Fujino came downstairs.

After seeing Conan, the Tokyo Corgi, and Hattori Heiji, the Osaka black chicken, he looked at the two of them with a slightly forced expression in his eyes:

"So, what are you two doing at my house?"

"Is something wrong?"

“There is something I need to do,” Hattori Heiji explained. “We’re planning to go to Higashi-Oku Village, but there are a lot of people…”

He chuckled sheepishly, "So I wanted your help to take us there in your van."

"That's not a minivan, that's an MPV."

Fujino made a sarcastic remark, then continued, "So, what were you guys doing going to Higashi-Okuho? That's practically on the outskirts of the city, isn't it?"

"It's because of that guy Kudo."

Hattori Heiji couldn't help but complain sincerely, "That guy messed up some case back then, and now he's come back to clear his name."

"Oh?"

Fujino's expression changed slightly: "Even the famous high school detective Shinichi Kudo can make a mistake in a case..."

"Has the famous high school detective arrived?"

Conan: "..."

So, can you please not be so obviously sarcastic towards me?
You should at least pretend...

It's so obvious, it's like they knew I was there, isn't it?
Hattori Heiji sighed helplessly: "That guy has completely disappeared. He even sent his letters to our house."

"No……"

Fujino pondered for a moment: "Then what's the point of going there?"

"Since the main party hasn't come, there's nothing to say about the past, isn't there?"

"Ahem!" Hattori Heiji coughed lightly. "Mainly, I want to see what case that guy got wrong."

"If it can be resolved, I will correct his mistake directly."

"After all, the chances of finding a case where he has made a wrong deduction are really rare."

Upon hearing this, Fujino immediately understood the intention behind it.

Heiji Hattori resolved all the cases that Shinichi Kudo had handled incorrectly.

You think you're more awesome than Shinichi Kudo?
Conan, of course, also recognized these words.

He glanced at Hattori Heiji beside him out of the corner of his eye and suddenly felt that this guy was about to say everything on his mind.

I treated you like a brother, and you're planning to use me to refine pills and ascend to immortality, right?

Hey kid, I don't think you came here to help, you came here to slap me in the face, did you?
"Shinichi's reasoning is wrong... No way, right?"

Xiaolan only learned about this after hearing these words.

She immediately expressed doubt that her childhood friend had actually made the wrong deduction.

Then, she started thinking about what to do if her reasoning was wrong: "But we can't contact Shinichi right now. If that happens, he'll definitely be unhappy, right?"

"Well..." Heiji Hattori already had a plan: "I think we can have Fujino pretend to be Shinichi Kudo."

"Yeah yeah!"

Conan nodded repeatedly, smiling childishly, "Fujino-nii and Kaito Kid seem to have a pretty good relationship. It would be so easy for him to impersonate Kudo-nii!"

Despite being extremely unhappy about having someone impersonate him.

But Conan has no other options right now.

Fujino knows Kaito Kid and can even impersonate him, so it would be too easy for him to impersonate him.

Heiji Hattori, that kid, is quite the actor.

It's just that his Kansai-accented Japanese dialect makes it easy to tell he's from Osaka or something, which makes it a bit difficult to spot.

This is like asking a person from Northeast China to pretend to be from the South.

How can I pretend? My accent is hard to change...

Fujino looked at the group, somewhat unsure of their thoughts.

Shinichi Kudo did something wrong, and now I have to take the blame?

Thinking to himself, Fujino couldn't help but ask, "Won't we get ganged up on when we get there?"

"?"

Everyone looked puzzled, not understanding what Fujino meant by asking.

A group fight...?
How did I get ganged up on?
Fujino explained, "In case Shinichi Kudo does something heinous, I'll impersonate him and go into the village..."

"The villagers are very united in their small communities."

"What if he angers the crowd and I get beaten up by angry fellow villagers?"

"Ah, this... it shouldn't be like that...?" Hattori Heiji, standing next to him, stroked his chin. "Even if it were... it shouldn't be that bad..."

"Do you know what he did wrong?"

"..."

He couldn't help but glance at Conan out of the corner of his eye.

Conan remained silent, unaware of what he had done wrong.

Then, Fujino stared at them with deadpan eyes, as if to say:
They want me to take the blame, and I don't even know what I did wrong?

Look at what you're saying, is that even human language?

“Fujino is absolutely right!” Toyama Kazuha glanced at her childhood friend and complained, “You don’t even know what he did wrong, why did you have him impersonate Kudo?”

"Hey, hey..." Hattori Heiji's eyebrow twitched, feeling that his childhood friend was a bit of a liar: "I'm clearly your childhood friend... why do you keep bringing him up?"

"Because he is right."

"..."

"So I think it's better not to let Shinichi Kudo appear."

Seeing that Hattori Heiji was speechless, Fujino realized that the conversation had been disrupted and was now in his hands, so he changed the subject and explained, "If Kudo Shinichi really did something that angered the public, we'll probably be implicated as soon as we get to the village."

"Regarding Shinichi Kudo, I still think we should go to the site to investigate and find out exactly what Shinichi Kudo did before deciding how to resolve the issue."

Conan: "..."

Hearing you say that, I feel like I've become some heinous murderer!

No, is it really that serious?!
He mentally scoffed.

Turning to look around, I saw that everyone around me was deep in thought, seemingly agreeing with Fujino's statement.

He immediately fell silent again.

So don't fall into Fujino's trap!
You have to believe in me, high school detective Shinichi Kudo!
Is this really the reputation of Shinichi Kudo, the famous high school detective?
However, no matter how much Hakiko complained in his heart, he couldn't dispel everyone's doubts.

After hearing this, they also felt that it would be better to be more cautious.

It's always better to be safe than sorry.

What if Shinichi Kudo really did something bad?

If we really get ganged up on like Fujino said, that would be troublesome.

So it's better to avoid getting involved yourself.

(End of this chapter)