Conan: I'm Really Not Tokyo Ghost Story

"Brother Sano, you're here too... Never mind, were you serious just now? Scorpion is right here!?"

Conan blinked twice in a daze. He had said that something seemed off from the beginning of the case until now, and it turned out that he hadn't seen Sano.

Without waiting for any further words, Sano pointed directly at Urashi Seiran: "You are Shi Kaobing."

"What?! Shi Kaobing is Miss Qinglan?!"

Everyone gasped again... After all, apart from Kogoro Mouri, who was an experienced victim, the combination of a beautiful woman and a killer seemed rather odd to most people.

However, since this idea was proposed by Sano, everyone felt that the possibility was not entirely out of the question, so no one dared to voice their doubts.

After a brief moment of surprise, Pu Siqinglan tried to remain calm and attempted to argue her point.

Unexpectedly, the next second Sano pulled out a pistol equipped with a scope and a silencer: "This was found in your bag in your room, so you can consider it solid evidence."

"……ha!??"

Pu Siqinglan's eyes were practically bulging out of their sockets. She hadn't been unaware that Sano, this high school detective, might actually come up with some profound and unfathomable deduction, but the result was... he searched through her bag!?

When Inspector Megure and the others saw the pistol in Sano's hand, they were also quite startled.

The main issue is the irrefutable evidence that Sano presented... it's truly irrefutable evidence, and it came as quite a surprise. There's also another point that only a few people know about.

Sano is a mental patient; letting him hold a gun would be a bit too... provocative.

Although these people in the know mostly wanted to believe that Sano wouldn't do anything dangerous to them, their instinctive fear was still overwhelming.

...After all, even if it's an ordinary person without any illness, it's still quite frightening to see them holding a gun.

Who knows if things might accidentally escalate?

"Shhh."

Before anyone could speak, Sano held up a finger to his lips to signal silence, then casually tossed the pistol to Inspector Megure.

By the time Inspector Megure scrambled to catch the gun and looked up, Sano had already opened a video on his phone and was showing it to everyone.

In the video footage, Pu Siqinglan mysteriously walks into the room, takes out a pistol and a videotape from her pocket, and puts them into her bag.

Such a comprehensive video is enough to prove that both the pistol and the stolen videotape were put into her bag by Pu Siqinglan herself with her knowledge, rather than by someone trying to frame her.

Upon seeing this, Pu Siqinglan's eyes widened even more, and her breathing became extremely rapid.

"You actually... installed a camera in my room!?"

...Pu Siqinglan's voice was full of disbelief. She thought that Sano's act of going through her bag in her room was already outrageous enough.

To everyone's surprise, the other party had already installed a camera in their room long before that.

Compared to this, Urashi Seiran suddenly felt that Sano's previous behavior didn't seem so outrageous after all... What the hell? Wasn't it all done by one person? Is this guy out of his mind? What kind of detective investigates cases like this?!

They skipped all the proper procedures and just rushed to wrap things up. That's not how the script was supposed to go!

"If you feel that I have violated your right to privacy, then go ahead and sue me."

Sano chuckled lightly: "On the premise that you can win the case."

"Take her down!"

To Sano's surprise, Urako Seiran did not struggle at all, resignedly allowing the two young policemen brought by Inspector Megure to handcuff her.

Sano thought that even if Urashi Seiran didn't try to escape, she would at least argue again, such as that the person was not actually her, but Kaito Kid in disguise.

There's no need to even use the words you've prepared beforehand; it's such a waste.

Conan watched as the distraught Urako Seiran was handcuffed, then leaned close to Sano and asked suspiciously, "Didn't you already suspect that Urako Seiran was up to something? And the camera was only installed in her room alone?"

Sano lit a cigarette: "Yeah."

"...If I asked you why you suspected her, would you answer me?"

Conan looked at Sano with hopeful eyes, his thirst for knowledge evident as he scratched his head, itching with curiosity.

Then, to Conan's surprise, Sano did not ignore or brush off his question, but answered with two words.

"Chinese."

"……what?"

Sano lowered his head and looked directly at Conan: "I lied before. In fact, my Chinese level is definitely higher than 99.9% of foreigners, but Pu Siqinglan, as a Chinese person, can't understand it. Do you think that's possible?"

Upon hearing this, Conan nodded thoughtfully, his mind racing.

It turns out that Pu Siqinglan's Chinese is problematic, so her identity as a flower grower isn't real. No wonder Sano suspected her... Speaking of which, Sano's Chinese is actually that good? It's one of the most difficult languages ​​in the world to learn.

...That's strange. I heard that Sano's English test scores are very poor and he always fails. Does language talent vary by language?

Ok?

Conan's gaze suddenly shifted to Inspector Megure and his group who were escorting Urako Seiran away. Ai Haibara, who was standing next to him, noticed that something was wrong and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Ah... I think I saw that black cat from the daytime."

No sooner had Conan said that than Nakajima Keizo leaned closer, his face flushed with excitement, and asked, "Black cat? What black cat?"

Conan was startled by Nakajima's sudden question. After realizing what had happened, he explained what had happened during the day.

"...I see. The black cat appeared near Pu Siqinglan during the day, and then Pu Siqinglan killed Han Chuanlong at night, right?"

After hearing Conan's words, Nakajima Keizo became even more excited. He took out his notebook and started doodling. Then he chased after Inspector Megure and the others in the direction they had left, hoping to spot the black cat and take some footage.

"..."

Ai Haibara watched Nakajima Keizo's retreating figure, becoming even more confused: "What's wrong with him?"

Conan didn't answer, but just stroked his chin. After a while, he finally remembered the material about the "unfortunate black cat" that he had seen in Nakajima Keizo's notebook last time. He was startled and his heart skipped a beat.

...No way, could such a thing really happen?

Although the appearance of that black cat seemed rather illogical... and it looked familiar.

Conan shook his head, laughing at himself for becoming so neurotic, even as a detective.

Sano stood aside, observing Conan out of the corner of his eye, without making a sound.

...The black cat that Conan just saw, and the black cat that he saw with Ran and the others during the day, were actually Sano... or more precisely, clones of Sano in his black cat form.

The purpose, of course, was to keep an eye on Pu Siqinglan.

After all, Sano needed to ensure that Urashi Seiran was imprisoned, but he couldn't use the evidence he had, so he had to use other methods. And the easiest way to find a flaw was to secretly watch Urashi Seiran when she was alone.

Therefore, Sano also installed a pinhole camera on the cat's neck.

...In fact, Sano even filmed the entire process of Pu Si Qinglan killing Han Chuanlong.

However, it's not appropriate to release this information, otherwise simply filming a video of someone "failing to help" would not fit Sano's image as a "righteous detective."

In fact, if the incident involving Hanchuan Long hadn't happened first, Sano would probably have chosen to use entrapment, creating the image of an arrogant high school detective in front of Pu Shi Qinglan, and then implying that he had discovered her true identity.

This forced Pu Siqinglan to take action against him, resulting in her arrest on the spot... Of course, these are all digressions; the important thing is the matter at hand.

The case was resolved.

Pu Siqinglan is Shi Kaobing, the murderer who attacked Kaito Kid and killed Han Chuanlong. It seems that everything has been settled.

However, Sano knew very well that the real game was just beginning.

"Bang bang bang!!"

Chapter 270, Page 269: The Phantom Thief and the Mask

Just as the crowd that had gathered because of the case was about to disperse as the case came to an end, a faint, muffled sound came from afar.

Upon hearing these voices, some people were completely bewildered, while others' expressions changed drastically.

"It's gunfire!!"

Surprisingly, Kogoro Mouri was the first to identify the "source" of these sounds and shouted it out directly.

Without saying a word, Conan ran straight to the deck entrance of the ship.

"Something happened at Inspector Megure's place!"

"What!?"

Amid exclamations of surprise, some people quickly caught up with Conan, some stood there dumbfounded, and some ran straight to their rooms, probably intending to hide.

Sano, Ran Mouri, Kogoro Mouri, Sonoko Suzuki, and the four members of the squad including Ai Haibara all had the first type of reaction. Finally, we have to add Tooru Amuro, who has always been relatively unknown.

After all, someone died here. Even if he was a temporary worker, he was still a suspect. Even if it was just to ask questions and collect clues, Amuro Tooru was required to stay near the crime scene.

...Originally, Amuro Tooru hadn't noticed anything amiss among the temporary workers, and when he informed Sano in the afternoon, he thought it was because Sano's fellow patient had made a mistake in the intelligence. In fact, there was no assassin at all, but now there were gunshots.

Could it be that a group of assassins has actually infiltrated the country?

Amuro Tooru's expression was somewhat gloomy, because this situation was undoubtedly an official mistake. As a member of the official team, he felt that he also had a corresponding responsibility and an obligation to deal with these assassins.

A cold killing intent gradually surfaced in Amuro Tooru's eyes, and he quickened his pace.

...The Suzuki family's ship was both large and small.

The main reason is that the crime scene is not far from the deck entrance, so it only took the group about five minutes to get there.

However, while running, Conan couldn't help but glance at Sano next to him, who was already panting, and a little doubt arose in his mind.

...Sano's physical strength was very, very weak in the early days, you could say it was extremely weak. Conan knew this very well. But later, it seemed that he had become much stronger after training. So why... has he become weak again?

However, Conan didn't dwell on it, because there were more important things to do at the moment.

The group continued running, and what came into their view was a dozen men in black shooting wildly with pistols in the hall at the deck entrance.

Inspector Megure and several other police officers held Urako Aoran down in the corner of the back corridor.

Nakajima Keizo was lying on the very edge, his face shaking like a leaf, but he still frantically stuck his camera out and kept pressing the shutter button.

...What Nakajima Keizo photographed was certainly not those dozen or so unidentified armed men.

Instead, they darted swiftly across the "battlefield" where bullets flew, two figures, one in black and one in white.

……

The moment arrived when Inspector Megure and the others escorted Aoran Urashi to the deck entrance, intending to take the helicopter on the deck back to Tokyo ahead of everyone else.

Inspector Megure was overjoyed at how quickly the case had been closed and at the great achievement of capturing the international robber Scrooge.

Unexpectedly, a dozen or so men who looked like they had no good intentions walked in through the door the next second.