I'm in Detective Conan, and the system has appointed Batman.

Chapter 52 Difficulty: High

"Oh, so you're cooking. I thought you were cooking."

Sonoko Suzuki breathed a sigh of relief beside the station.

She thought her dating plans had fallen through before they even got off the ground.

As Ran's best friend, she had no doubt about Ran's charm in this regard.

Every handsome guy she's ever met wants to date Xiaolan. If Xiaolan really has other ideas, then she has absolutely no chance of competing with Xiaolan!

Although Sonoko Suzuki didn't think she would compete with Ran for a boyfriend...

"It's about cooking, of course."

"I feel that Mr. Chen En's culinary skills are much better than those of the cooking teachers at school."

Ran Mouri replied, somewhat puzzled.

She hadn't yet realized what Sonoko Suzuki meant by shouting so loudly.

However, Ran Mouri's answer piqued Sonoko Suzuki's curiosity.

—Is she much better than the cooking teachers at school?

Sonoko Suzuki was a little skeptical.

Teitan High School boasts exceptional teaching resources, and its culinary instructors are retired chefs hired from hotels.

After all, Teitan High School is an important part of the Teitan Academy.

From elementary school, junior high school, high school, university, the Teitan Academy has cultivated countless elites in Beika Town.

With such outstanding educational achievements, Beika Town naturally boasts the best teaching resources.

However, it seems that Ran Mouri was really only talking about cooking.

Sonoko Suzuki gradually calmed down.

She smiled and said,

"Alright, alright, you've brought the tickets, right? Shall we head to the Tokyo Budokan first?"

"If we calculate the time, the concert will start in a little over an hour."

"If we don't arrive early to have our tickets checked, we might not be able to get into the venue!"

Even if no one else can get in, you can't possibly be unable to get in; it just means you don't have a proper understanding of your own home.

Chen En shook his head slightly in his heart.

The Suzuki Group is exceptionally wealthy.

As the saying goes, Ooka is from Kansai, and Suzuki is from Kanto.

To outsiders, the Suzuki Group is a representative conglomerate that can be compared with the Ooka family, which has produced a former prime minister and has a long history, based on its assets alone. Sonoko Suzuki is the heir to the Suzuki Group.

If Sonoko Suzuki had arrived late, the Budokan wouldn't have been able to stop her even if they had opened a separate ticket gate!

The taxi arrived nearby quickly.

Sonoko Suzuki and Ran Mouri sat in the back seat, while Chen En sat in the front passenger seat.

As a veteran who lived through the bubble era, what storms hadn't the driver weathered?

This trivial matter did not attract his attention at all.

After simply asking for the destination, the taxi immediately set off for the Tokyo Budokan.

In the back seat, Ran Mouri finally realized what Sonoko Suzuki meant by shouting earlier.

Ran Mouri's face immediately turned red.

She leaned closer to Sonoko Suzuki and whispered.

"Seriously, how could you even think that?"

"I've already said it, I'll keep waiting for Shinichi to come back. Don't fantasize about anything else."

Sonoko Suzuki apologized with an embarrassed smile.

She touched the headband on her head and changed the subject.

"Hey, Xiaolan, what song do you think the TWO-MIX group will sing this time?"

"Besides the new song that was played during the program's promotion, shouldn't they play the song from that anime?"

The theme song and ending theme of "New Mobile Report Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz".

The topic gradually shifted to the TWO-MIX group.

Chen En knew nothing about this, but felt that the female singer of the TWO-MIX group, Minami Takayama, sounded familiar.

He must have heard of this singer somewhere before.

However, he had absolutely no recollection of the Japanese music scene, so he shouldn't have known about this person at all...

"It sounds like it's a voice acting... Whose was it again? Conan's?"

Chen En muttered to himself. He remembered that the TV production team had included the names of voice actors, screenwriters, and planners in the TV series more than once, and Gao Shannan should be the same. However, such similar characters all had one thing in common.

That is, in a series where a guest character appears, that guest character must be directly related to the case.

He's either the murderer or the victim—Takayama Minami is probably the latter.

"Once we get to the scene, we should be fine as long as we go directly to Gao Shannan to keep an eye on things."

He had extra locators in his belt.

I wouldn't mind giving Conan's voice actor a locator, just like I gave Conan a locator.

Alas, besides such a good person as him, where else can you find a hero willing to sacrifice his energy and time like this?

Chen En pulled out a corner of the tracker from his pocket and glanced at it.

—Conan has arrived at the Tokyo Budokan.

Let's see what happens on Conan's side later; the mission should be triggered then.

I don't know if this time it's medium or low difficulty.

However, it doesn't matter if it's a low difficulty level.

Even a small mosquito bite is still meat; every bit of points you can accumulate is better than nothing.

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"Conan, your dark circles are really bad."

Near the Tokyo Budokan, Ayumi looked at Conan curiously and asked with concern,

"Didn't you sleep last night? Good children should be in bed by 10 p.m. at the latest."

Genta and Mitsuhiko, who were standing next to him, nodded in deep agreement.

Conan simply twitched the corner of his mouth in response.

Seriously, you guys take a car back and go straight to sleep when you get home.

I walked back, and even went back and forth to Dr. Agasa's research institute. By the time I got to my bedroom, it was past midnight.

Is it that I don't want to go to bed early? I just can't go to bed early!

Conan sighed and said weakly,

"Okay, what do we play next?"

Hopefully, they won't pull off any more big adventures.

Otherwise, he might be so tired that he'd collapse and fall asleep immediately.

"Well, I haven't thought about it yet."

Genta scratched his head and smiled sheepishly.

All around, people of all kinds were walking towards the Tokyo Budokan.

Immediately, Genta's attention was drawn, and he asked curiously,
Why are so many people heading that way today? Is something happening?

"Let's go and take a look!"

Hey, there's a promotional poster for the TWO-MIX group's concert right next to us.

Didn't you see that?

Conan twitched the corner of his mouth, looking somewhat helpless.

He sighed as he watched Genta, Ayumi, and Mitsuhiko walk toward the Tokyo Budokan.

Okay, let's follow them and see what happens, just in case something goes wrong.

As soon as Conan turned around, he immediately collided head-on with the others.

Because with Conan's height, he can only bump into other people's arms.

The young man in red, wearing a hoodie and sunglasses, was knocked to the ground.

The other members of the Junior Detective League immediately ran back and inquired about Conan's situation with concern.

"Conan, what's wrong? Are you alright...?"

Conan looked up at the young man in red in front of him.

The guy's sunglasses had just slipped down, revealing most of his face.

—It was none other than Minami Takayama from the TWO-MIX group!
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[A serious incident threatening Gotham City's safety has been detected nearby!]

As Batman, you have a duty to maintain order in Gotham City. Please arrive at the scene immediately and apprehend the criminal before they flee, or stop them from committing further crimes during their commission!

[Difficulty level assessed as high; completing this task will reward you with 100 points!]

(End of this chapter)