The unscrupulous detective in Conan

Chapter 1356 Ai: They seem a little dim-witted.
Conan was quite helpless about this.

Can you blame me for forgetting?
This isn't your fault, okay...

Did you think I wanted to be this terrified?

Yes, that's right, it's all the fault of that black-clad organization!

That despicable mysterious blond man Gin and that mysterious sunglasses man Vodka!

The matter of Conan was thus glossed over, and afterwards, there was nothing more to say. The group was then led back to Tokyo by Fujino.

In the car, Ran had a cheerful expression on her face and asked Shinichi Kudo next to her, "Hey, Shinichi, how long are you going to stay this time?"

"Well..."

Shinichi Kudo thought about it for a moment after hearing this.

To put it bluntly, he only returned to his original state after taking the antidote this time.

I estimate that by tomorrow morning, it should have returned to its original state.

That is, Conan's appearance.

How long will I stay? At most, it'll be an afternoon and an evening.

And I have to go home to stay at night...

He organized his thoughts briefly and said, "I don't know for now. If there's anything I need to take care of, I'll have to go back."

"what the hell……"

Xiaolan frowned, looking extremely resentful.

Fujino, standing nearby, glanced at him and felt that the kid was really ungrateful.

Then, he said casually, "By the way, Shinichi Kudo, the last time we met was at the school festival, wasn't it?"

"It seems so..." Shinichi Kudo nodded. He couldn't recall appearing in front of Fujino a few times as Shinichi Kudo.

"So who are you working for now?"

"what?"

Faced with Shinichi Kudo's confusion, Fujino explained calmly, "If it were a normal request, it should have been over long ago, but you're still dealing with it now. There are only two possibilities."

As he spoke, he guessed, "One possibility is that the case is a long-term one, but the chances of a high school detective like you handling that kind of case are extremely slim."

"Another possibility is that you were commissioned by an organization, institution, or unit to become their employee..."

Which type are you?

"..."

Shinichi Kudo paused for a moment, realizing he had never really thought about it before.

Damn, I almost forgot that Fujino, that old man, is also a detective!

The detective was clearly no match for Ran.

Xiao Lan, that silly, naive girl, would definitely believe you if you told her you had a request.

But that Fujino guy...

He truly understands.

Faced with this situation, he immediately thought of an answer.

He immediately replied, "This kind of thing can't be said... You should understand, a detective can't sell out his client's information."

“I see…” Fujino nodded: “Well, you’re not bad, at least you can make money as a detective.”

"This can be considered as officially embarking on the path of a detective."

"Like a high school detective who solves cases for free or something."

"To put it bluntly, the high school students in front of them say it all."

Kudo Shinichi: "..."

So what's with that smug look on your face?!
What's wrong with you? You act like you're some kind of senior!
You haven't been a detective as long as I have, right?

Hattori Heiji:"……"

That old man Fujino is really cunning!

You've just kicked us high school detectives out of detective work, haven't you?

Fujino was quite helpless about this; all he could say was that's just how detectives are.

It's like writing online novels; if you don't sign a contract and don't make money, what kind of online novel writer are you?

If you don't earn a penny as a detective, are you still a detective?
Hearing this, Kazuha, who was standing nearby, also thought it made a lot of sense, and immediately crossed her arms and said, "Did you hear that, Hattori!"

"What did you hear?"

"Of course there's a commission fee!"

Yuanshan and Ye said resentfully, "I remember you didn't seem to receive much commission fee when you took on a case, did you?"

"what?"

"If you took a tenth of Fujino's commission, you wouldn't have to be so stingy when you go out!"

"..."

Hattori Heiji's eyebrows twitched slightly, sensing that his childhood friend seemed to be a submissive wife dissatisfied with her incompetent husband.

He felt a sense of helplessness.

Is it that I don't want to collect the commission fee?
That's because I can't receive the commission!

Usually, the cases are mostly murders. The jobs that come to us are usually small ones like finding missing persons, which then turn into murders!

Where am I supposed to collect the commission fee?
Hattori Heiji was speechless for a moment.

Just then, a sudden, restless roar of an engine came from behind.

It's a rotary engine!
Fujino turned his head to look.

Then, I saw a red Mazda.

Well, this is the exclusive ride of the shrewish boss.

Yes, the car is here, and of course the person is here too.

The person sitting in the driver's seat was none other than Miwako Sato.

"Hey, Fujino?"

"Sister Sato?"

The two exchanged a glance, their expressions both somewhat strange.

Sato, looking speechless, asked, "So, where are you going this time?"

"It's nothing, just going out with friends and coming home afterwards."

"That case should be closed by now, right?"

"...?"

Fujino silently typed a question mark, feeling that this shrewish older sister seemed to have a rather deep-seated stereotype about him.

Feeling a bit helpless, he asked, "Speaking of which, this should be the way back to downtown Tokyo. Did you commit a crime outside of Tokyo?"

"What do you mean by 'committing a crime'? I was there to investigate a case."

Sato Miwako's face flushed with anger as she explained, "There's a case in Kanagawa that needs my help, and I just got back from a business trip..."

Suddenly, she remembered something and asked in confusion, "Wait a minute, it hasn't been a year since you got your driver's license, has it?"

"How did you end up on the highway?!"

"Hey! Don't worry about my internship period! Look at the cars in front of you, stop chatting!"

As the two were talking, Sato Miwako was gradually approaching a silver sedan in front of her, about to rear-end it. Fujino reminded her, and she finally realized what was happening.

As Sato Miwako slammed on the brakes, the red Mazda's tires screeched, emitting a wisp of white smoke as the car slowed down, creating a safe distance between itself and the car in front.

Meanwhile, Fujino gradually slowed down.

Just because, ahead of that silver sedan, there was a yellow Mitsubishi EVO5 driving alongside it.

The two people blocked both lanes.

If your driving skills aren't good, it's hard to overtake.

Sato Miwako immediately became furious: "What are those two doing, driving side by side at such a snail's pace on the highway?!"

"How can it be repaired?"

However, before she could finish speaking, the car in front suddenly veered off course and crashed into the highway guardrail, beginning a frantic screeching.

Miwako Sato was completely dumbfounded. Why would she start wiping the railing without warning?
Fujino stepped on the gas and sped up, weaving between the two cars and arriving next to the white sedan.

With just one glance, it was discovered that the person had already fainted.

Well, it should be said that he has fallen into a permanent coma.

Because Fujino activated Hawkeye, he had already confirmed that this person had been completely eliminated.

"This person looks so strange..."

"It seems he's already passed out?"

"The tollbooth is just ahead. If we rush into it like this..."

"Fasten your seatbelts."

Fujino explained to everyone.

The group immediately understood what Fujino wanted to do.

Immediately afterwards, Fujino stepped on the gas, squeezing every last drop of potential from his modified Hiace engine, and sped straight in front of the silver car next to him.

Immediately afterwards, the car gradually slowed down.

At the same time, he can easily perceive everything around him.

This is the passive effect of the Machine Soul Descent.

Comes with 360-degree panoramic imaging.

After determining the speed, Fujino controlled his Sea Lion to gradually slow down.

The rear of the Hiace made slight contact with the silver sedan before finally touching.

Although there was a slight tremor, there was no serious impact.

The reason is that when they collided, the relative speeds of the two vehicles were not high, perhaps only one or two kilometers per hour.

When cars collide, the relative speed can be deducted; what is actually calculated in a collision is the speed difference between the two vehicles.

As long as the relative speed is not high, even a collision will not have a significant impact.

Moreover, after Fujino's Toyota Hiace was modified, its weight was so much greater that a small car couldn't even touch it.

Gradually slowing down, Fujino intercepted the silver sedan as they approached the tollbooth.

In fact, when faced with a situation where the person was already dead, Fujino wanted to demonstrate a PIT-style American-style interception.

I'm just considering that other people might not know, and doing this kind of thing might get me criticized.

He then gave up on the idea.

The yellow Mitsubishi EVO also stopped.

Inside the car, a woman with the same hair as our Ai Haibara, but with finer, curlier hair dyed pink, got off and ran to the side of the car to check on the condition of the man who was already dead inside.

They seem to have a slightly intimate relationship.

"Hey, don't touch him!"

Shinichi Kudo and Heiji Hattori were the first to get off the bus and immediately stopped the pink-haired woman.

Fujino followed silently behind, getting off the bus with the others and tossing white gloves to the two of them.

The two thanked Fujino for his white gloves and began to examine the body.

Miwako Sato's Mazda stopped right after her.

After glancing at the three cars ahead, she took a tripod from her trunk and tossed it behind the car before catching up and asking Fujino:

"Fujino, what happened?"

Someone died.

Fujino looked at the silver sedan: "My two little brothers are checking the situation."

"Little brother?"

Miwako Sato squinted and sized up Heiji Hattori and Shinichi Kudo.

She had met and knew Hattori Heiji before.

As for the one next to it...

Doesn't he look a bit like Shinichi Kudo?
It really does seem to be Shinichi Kudo!
Is he pretending to be dead?

At this moment, Kudo and Hattori Heiji finished the autopsy, noticed Sato Miwako, and came over to say:

"Officer Sato, quickly call an ambulance and the forensic team."

Upon hearing this, Sato Miwako knew the person was beyond saving, but she still asked, "How is the person?"

"He's dead."

Hattori Heiji sighed helplessly, and Kudo Shinichi added, "His eyes are bloodshot, it looks like he was strangled, and the time of death was definitely not long ago."

"It would be better to close this highway now."

Sato Miwako was a little puzzled when she heard this: "Why?"

"Because the murderer is on this highway."

Fujino explained helplessly to the somewhat simple-minded Sato, "The murderer most likely strangled him after leaning against the car. The time since he died was not long, which means he hasn't gone far yet. If we close the highway now, we can still catch that guy."

"Call headquarters immediately!"

"it is good!"

Miwako Sato nodded, though she still didn't fully understand what it meant.

However, since it was Fujino who asked her to do it, she had no reason to doubt it.

She absolutely trusts her younger brother.

"Nani, dead?"

"how could it be possible……"

"He was the only person in the car, and he was still strangled to death."

"Strangling someone is just too difficult, isn't it?"

Ran and Kazuha were puzzled by this, but Ai Haibara explained calmly: "There was still residual body heat on the body, and he was the only one in the car, so someone must have strangled the deceased in some way."

"Even if it seems impossible, it is an indisputable fact."

"That seems to be the case..."

"As expected of Ai, she's so smart."

The two girls started praising the gray cat, showing great affection for the clever and cute little girl.

Ai Haibara, who was being praised, had droopy eyelids and was not happy at all.

So, things like this are pretty obvious, aren't they?
This kind of thing...

Why do these two girls seem a little dim-witted?

Haibara glanced at the two people and thought to herself.

Then, she looked at the silver car not far away, touched her chin, and began to think about something else.

So, whose death power was at play?

Just now, a mentally ill person attempted to shoot someone, and now, upon returning, they encounter someone who was strangled to death on the highway. The cases have all come together again.

On her shortlist were three people: Hattori Heiji, the dark-skinned young man from Osaka; Kudo Shinichi, the boy from Tokyo; and her own son, Fujino.

Fujino was immediately ruled out by her.

After all, how could our Fujino possibly be the Grim Reaper?
Although we do encounter cases occasionally, they are all coincidences!

As for that young black man, Hattori Heiji, he is somewhat suspicious. The weather was fine just a few days ago, but he encountered so many problems as soon as he arrived.

However, the main reason is probably because of Kudo...

After all, everyone went out this time because of him.

After arriving, he encountered a case.

Now, after he transforms back into Kudo, he encounters another case on his way back...

This is such a coincidence!

Could it be that turning back into Shinichi Kudo would lead to an enhancement of some inexplicable, mysterious power of the Grim Reaper?

Ai Haibara is a science-loving girl who believes in science and engineering, and does not believe in the existence of any strange monsters or supernatural powers.

However, based on objective laws and in a realistic manner, she believes that Shinichi Kudo is indeed no different from the Grim Reaper.

(End of this chapter)