Daily Spy Life in the Detective Conan World

Chapter 598 Gains and Losses in Mediation
He patted Frank on the shoulder and said, “You should know very well that even if the Japanese authorities don’t get involved in this operation, Gin and his gang will still interfere later. Rather than being hampered when dealing with the gold, it’s better to just hand the problem over to the Japanese authorities. As long as we get the compensation, what does it matter to us what happens afterward?”

Frank gave Xia Chuan a resentful look, even though he knew what he said made sense, he was still heartbroken.

"So next time something like this happens, you absolutely have to tell me! At least I can chip off a couple of pieces of plaster first."

Frank sighed and continued, "I just heard from my girlfriend that the IRS is also very interested in this. The entire upper echelon of Japan is attracted to the Golden Villa, and I don't know how many high-ranking officials want to rush to Nagano Prefecture immediately."

He looked at Xia Chuan carefully and confirmed, "If that's really what you think, then I'll have to prepare to negotiate with them."

Xia Chuan hummed in agreement, then said, "When the money comes in, we'll split it 50/50."

To be honest, for Xia Chuan now, money and gold have gradually become a kind of unit symbol.

He'll make money if he can, and he won't feel bad if he can't make it all.

Even with the shameless plundering by the Japanese authorities, he should still be able to make a fortune, so there's no need to worry about that.

The impact of the Twilight Villa was far-reaching. For the next few days, the Mori family kept giving statements, and even Natsukawa was summoned by the authorities from time to time.

They weren't police officers or public security personnel; they were from official inspection agencies.

Even Hakuba Saguru took a lot of notes, which made Kaito's gem-stealing operation much easier these past two days.

The entire Nagano Prefecture was placed under martial law, and the Self-Defense Forces began to defend their positions to prevent the U.S. troops stationed in the country from making any clandestine moves.

As for Wakasa Rumi...

After examination, she was found to have serious injuries. Even after surgery on her left hand, doctors could not guarantee a full recovery, and she might never be able to use it again.

In addition, due to the severity of his injuries, he has not regained consciousness even after three days.

After multiple consultations at Beika General Hospital, it was confirmed that Rumi Wakasa suffered varying degrees of damage to her brain and lumbar spine. Whether she can wake up and when she will wake up are uncertain.

The distillery fell into complete silence after the battle. Natsukawa visited the distillery base once during his stay, but Gin, Vodka, and Vermouth were all gone. Only Gil was left among the combatants, receiving treatment.

Baileys couldn't reach Vermouth, and neither Cohen nor he could reach Gin.

These two key members of the organization seem to have vanished into thin air.

"Strange, why isn't vodka here either?"

Xia Chuan frowned slightly, it seemed he had underestimated the importance of vodka.

It is speculated that Gin was taken somewhere for treatment.

That state is definitely problematic, and it might even be depleting Gin's life force.

With her thoughts wandering, Xia Chuan even connected it to Gin's hair color, which had changed from blonde to silver, perhaps a sign of overdrawing on his life force.

This also suggests that there are still secret bases in Japan that tequila is unaware of.

Gin's trust in him ultimately fell short.

Xia Chuan even suspected that the base might be related to Karasuma Renya.

Unfortunately, Xia Chuan also began to have Frank mediate, inquiring through various channels.

However, the results were minimal.

Putting the winery matter aside, Xia Chuan spent the next few days entangled in a tug-of-war with the Japanese authorities.

After three days of processing, the gold in the ruins of the Twilight Villa has been preliminarily identified.

The gold unearthed from the ruins of the Twilight Villa is worth approximately 397 billion yen.

This was the explanation given to him by the Japanese authorities. However, the Japanese authorities cited Natsukawa's unauthorized design of a conflict between yakuza forces, which resulted in damage to infrastructure in Nagano Prefecture, affected public safety to some extent, reduced collective well-being, and further diminished public trust in the government.

Ninety percent of the gold used for verification at the Twilight Villa should be confiscated by the state.

Xia Chuan naturally wouldn't agree so easily.

Although he did all of this, to be honest, Japan has absolutely no evidence.

It is utterly unreasonable to base his claim of acquiring Twilight Villa on the fact that he did so before Da Shang Zhu Shan issued the invitation.

Yes.

Even Amuro Tooru, Yuri, and Kuroda Hyōe all knew Natsukawa's true purpose. On the one hand, they didn't tell their superiors, and on the other hand, there was no evidence to suggest that Natsukawa had taken any action.

All he did was buy the Twilight Villa and then receive an invitation.

Anyway, Xia Chuan has an invitation.

With Oogami Shuzen dead and Senma Kazuyo missing, it's impossible to prove whether Natsukawa's invitation was genuine or not.

This gave Xia Chuan an opportunity to refute, since every country, after all, upholds the law, and everything must be done according to evidence and regulations.

Under Xia Chuan's rebuttal, the money he could get increased from 10% to 20%.

However, Xia Chuan was not satisfied with this.

The verification report for Twilight Villa was also issued by the Japanese government, so it's obvious they would skimp on some of it.

After Xia Chuan proposed hiring a US-based verification team to reassess the value of the Twilight Villa, his share increased by five percent.

After reaching 25%, the Japanese authorities became unresponsive, and Natsukawa knew that was enough; continuing would only alienate all the higher-ups.

Moreover, this amount is really not small.

Even if he obtained all the gold in the Twilight Villa and laundered it through various channels, he could only get 60% or 70% at most, and it would take at least several years or even more than a decade.

Now that the Japanese government is providing direct funding in one go, what's there to hesitate about?
The reason Xia Chuan was in such a hurry was that he had other concerns.

As for what his concerns are, he himself is not sure right now, but he feels that it is not that simple.

Gin's delayed appearance gave him a bad feeling.

However, even the Japanese government did not directly hand over 25%, or 99.25 billion yen, but instead signed a contract to pay it off within one year.

The State Taxation Administration intervened and collected a bunch of miscellaneous taxes from Xia Chuan.

This part amounts to a full five billion, and if it weren't for Frank's mediation, the amount would have been even greater.

The Japanese government originally wanted to divide it into several years, but Natsukawa disagreed.

He can't even understand this timeline, so who knows how long it will take until next year?
The Twilight Villa incident concluded with the signing of a contract by the government to provide 94.25 billion yen to the Qing Dynasty within a year.

During this time, Anya and Ai Haibara stopped going to school.

Because he didn't know where Gin and Vermouth were, Natsukawa was always a little worried.

In addition, after this incident, Natsukawa also had to worry about the organization discovering Ai Haibara's true identity.

Gin probably won't find out, but Vermouth definitely remembers what Sherry looked like when she was a child.

(End of this chapter)