Conan: I'm really not the mastermind behind the scenes

The heavy rain was blocked by the French windows of the restaurant, and the rain gathered into small streams and flowed down the windows. The sky was overcast, not a single ray of light could penetrate, and the passers-by on the road were covered in a layer of gray shadows.

But all this had no effect on the people inside, and the entire restaurant was shrouded in warm orange light.

When hearing Kawai Koichi's question, Aoyagi Akimichi on the opposite side was stunned for a moment.

He looked at Kawai Koichi with a strange look and asked delicately, "You mean those unsolved cases?"

Kawai Takashi nodded repeatedly: "Almost. Can you tell me about it? Don't worry, I won't ask you to reveal any important secrets. Just a brief summary will be fine."

Qing Liu Bingguang frowned slightly.

Kawai Koichi waited patiently without urging them. Soon the waiter came over with plates, placed the appetizers and the main dishes they ordered in front of them, and then retreated respectfully.

Maybe because of the heavy rain, there were not many customers in the restaurant. After the waiter who served the dishes left, there was no one else in the area near them.

Aoyagi Binguang looked at the high-end steak in front of him. The medium-rare steak had a hint of blood in the middle. His fingers touched the knife and fork, and then tapped them lightly on the table.

“…After I joined the company, I did see or hear about some unsolved cases that had not been solved for many years.”

He finally spoke.

"Some of them are too old. I think you should know that there were many serial killers in the United States from the 60s to the 80s. Criminal investigation technology was not well developed at that time. Even if there were traces at the scene, it was impossible to test and compare them with the methods at that time."

"There is also indiscriminate killing. If someone randomly kills a homeless person they don't know on an unmonitored road in the middle of the night, then quickly flees and never commits another crime, this case will most likely become an unsolved case..."

When Kawai Takashi heard the first sentence, he was full of expectations, but the more he listened, the more he felt something was wrong. When he heard the last sentence, he couldn't help but raise his hand to interrupt.

"No, I don't want this kind of case."

He thought he had not expressed himself clearly, and quickly added a few more conditions.

"What I want is that the murderer is an acquaintance of the deceased and has a motive for committing the crime. The police once listed him as a suspect, but there was no evidence at all and they could only watch him get away with it."

Aoyagi Binkou nodded thoughtfully.

Kawai Koichi looked at him expectantly again, but the next second, the other party spoke -

"That's the case of the famous football star who murdered his wife."

"There were physical evidence and witnesses, and the other party even drove away, but his legal team seized on the omissions of the police in handling the case and successfully defended him, allowing him to be acquitted on the spot."

"Crime is all about the end result. No matter what means are used, as long as the person is not caught, or even if he is caught he is acquitted, it can be considered a 'perfect crime'. It's just that the legal team spent millions of dollars on him, which is too expensive. When I was an assistant before, my salary was only..."

Kawai Koichi's forehead twitched.

He once again interrupted the bad agent in front of him who didn't understand his true meaning: "Mr. Qingliu, you misunderstood me."

Aoyagi Akimitsu looked at him, and Kawai Koichi suppressed his anger and told him his true intention.

"I'm a game designer. I'm planning to design a detective puzzle game. I'm looking for real-life cases to refer to..."

……

Koichi Kawai was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

He is the only son in the family. After his mother passed away, his father never remarried, so he is the only and rightful heir to the Kawai Group.

His father was very strict with him since he was a child. Things got better when he went abroad to study at the age of sixteen and his biological father was no longer able to help him.

Kawai Koichi is a proud and arrogant person. He wears famous brands, watches, and drives luxury cars. You can tell from his aura that he is from a wealthy family. He looks down on everyone, so he has no friends, only little brothers who obey him unconditionally.

Just having money doesn't mean that life will be smooth sailing. He has experienced three disasters.

The first time was when he was kidnapped as a child. He was only seven years old that year, and was unconscious the whole time. He was rescued intact in the end, so he doesn’t have a deep impression of it.

The second time was when he was studying in the United States.

At that time, there were several white men in the class who looked down on people of color. The father of one of them was a senior diplomat. There was a Japanese boy who was bullied badly by them. In the end, all of these people died in a school shooting.

Kawai Takashi was there alone, and saw them being shot in the head one by one in the crowd. He was fine, but was completely frightened by the gun violence in the United States. After graduation, he rejected all offers and returned to the relatively safe Japan.

As for the third time, it is just around the corner.

After returning to Japan, Kawai Koichi did not go to help his father's company. During his time in the United States, he developed a strong interest in detective novels, and rather than learning to take over the group's work, he wanted to make a detective game.

His favorite character is Moriarty, who is known as the "Napoleon of Crime", so he plans to challenge all players (detectives) from the perspective of the creator (criminal)!
He wants to plan a brilliant and perfect crime!

If you want to do something, you should try your best to do it the best. Koichi Kawai invited the best painters in the industry, the best music studio, the best game development and testing engineers... He even had a big fight with his father because his father felt that he was not doing his job properly by developing games.

Finally, he spent two years confidently creating a game, hoping that it would attract worldwide attention and that players would be so stumped by his carefully designed puzzles that they would have to admit defeat to him...

As a result, sales were a disappointment.

Not only that, those players who bought the game scolded him online, saying that his method of committing the crime was suspected of plagiarizing a certain detective novel, and that the decryption process was too complicated and that he was deliberately making things difficult for the players.

Due to his father's lack of support, he only received a small amount of funding. He originally wanted to make the money back all at once through the game's success, but in the end he lost everything.

Koichi Kawai sold his car, but the money was just a drop in the bucket and could only barely pay the employees' salaries and company venue fees. His daily expenses went from being luxurious to being tight.

Of course, the arrogant Kawai Koichi refused to accept the result. He wanted to turn the tables, to create a new game, and to give a slap to the faces of those who had scolded him before, including his father, but...

"...But, with your current, um, current financial situation, even if you really find a suitable case for adaptation, you can't develop a new game, right?"

"In fact, I played the game you designed before. From the music to the graphics, it was great. It was the most sophisticated detective game I've ever seen. I even remember the background music... A game like this must have cost a lot to develop."

After hearing his story, Aoyagi Binguang looked at him in embarrassment.

Those light brown eyes were full of regret.

Kawai Koichi was stabbed by such a look, but it was not his self-esteem that was stabbed, but his dissatisfaction was pierced and picked out——

Dissatisfied with his father's failure to provide financial support this time.

"……fine."

Kawai Takashi drank the red wine in one gulp, put the glass next to the clean plate, and said dissatisfiedly and sharply: "I am his only son. Even if he doesn't give it to me now, all his money will be mine in the future."

As soon as he said this, he felt something was wrong. It seemed like he was ungrateful to say this. He was thinking about the inheritance before the person died.

Just as Kawai Koichi was beginning to feel some regret, the FBI agent opposite him let out a light sigh.

“The relationship between a father and his child is much more complicated than that between a mother and her child.”

"Women are mothers from the moment they become pregnant. They are connected to their children by blood... Fathers are different. They try to be fathers only from the moment their children are born. They don't love their children naturally, but always love themselves more."

Kawai Koichi heard contempt and hatred in his voice, but it seemed as if he had heard it wrongly.

Aoyagi Akimichi smiled and looked at him. Kawai Koichi was inexplicably a little cold. He listened to him continue: "Mr. Kawai, how was your relationship with your father in the past? Perhaps you can impress him with some of your good memories."

"past……"

Hearing this limitation, Kawai Koichi frowned.

"...He's very busy." He gave the answer after a short while of recalling, "Very busy. My mother died early. As far as I can remember, he has been busy with work and has never participated in any school activities. We don't even have any photos together. But financially, he has never lost money..."

The following words paused.

Aoyagi Binkou didn't seem to notice the pause. He glanced at his cell phone and smiled embarrassedly.

"Sorry, Mr. Kawai, I think I have to go."

Kawai Koichi came to his senses: "Leave now? Is it so urgent?"

"I have an appointment with someone to go to the hospital again before 1pm today."

Aoyagi Binkou looked helpless. Seeing Kawai Koichi's curiosity, he added, "The patient I visited yesterday was a wealthy American businessman. He was seriously ill and could not return to the United States for the time being, so he planned to change his will on the spot. I was one of his witnesses."

"Originally, he planned to donate his property to a charity foundation to legally avoid taxes and let his only daughter inherit his wealth smoothly. However, he recently changed his mind and planned to donate his collection of gemstones and famous paintings to the Mika Art Museum instead. He and the curator became good friends during this year..."

……

After Aoyagi Akimitsu left, Kawai Koichi sat there for a while and then paid the bill.

He felt a little sad when the waiter handed him the bill.

In the past, he didn't care about this little money at all, but now, two sets of meals at a high-end restaurant plus a bottle of high-end foreign wine are enough to pay for all his remaining living expenses...

Kawai Takashi gritted his teeth and decided to pay.

With the waiter's polite bow, he walked out of the restaurant. The rain had stopped, and he was a little dazed facing the gray sky, with all kinds of emotions surging in his heart.

He subconsciously wanted to walk towards the hospital, but just as he raised his foot, he stopped halfway.

...I almost forgot that his father doesn't like alcohol and sometimes even has a stress reaction to it...I reek of alcohol now and it's not appropriate for me to go to the hospital.

Kawai Koichi had no choice but to turn around and return to his residence.

……

He lived in an ordinary apartment at 10-chome, not far from the Kawai family's mansion, just two streets away.

Koichi Kawai walked through a small park suitable for walking children. As he saw the apartment in front of him, he suddenly noticed a familiar person standing under a tree not far away.

He was his neighbor, and they had an average relationship. They would just say hello to each other and never invite each other to visit. At this moment, the neighbor was sighing.

"What's wrong?" Kawai Koichi couldn't help but ask.

"Don't mention it." The neighbor frowned, "You left early today, so you might not know that the landlord came to my house early in the morning to ask for rent and woke me up."

Kawai Koichi disagreed: "Isn't he always like this?"

"It's different." The neighbor waved his hands repeatedly. "He went to the steel pin shop yesterday. I don't know how he played, but he lost all the money he had saved for several months! Now he is in a hurry to get the money back. He is urging people to pay up one by one, and he also said that if the debtors don't pay up, he will kick them out. I don't have any money, so I have to hide here for a while..."

Kawai Takashi was stunned. (End of this chapter)