Conan: I'm Really Not Tokyo Ghost Story

Second, invite friends over to eat your portion so that the food doesn't run out.

The former is too difficult; it's equivalent to changing an entire industry.

The latter would be a gang issue.

I should have handcuffed Spider to the neon lights back then, and hammered him when he disobeyed, until he became an obedient tool. That way, he would have been useful.

"Dudu-"

Ran Mouri sent a text message. Sano snapped out of his daze, took out his phone, and looked at it.

"Senior, we're planning to go hiking. Would you like to come along?"

Sano replied fluently, "Which 'we'?"

Ran Mouri replied quickly: "Me, my dad, Conan, and a client."

Oh dear, another person is going to die.

Sano asked with lightning speed, "The client?"

"Yes."

Ran Mouri quickly explained the situation.

The gist of the story is that the client is the president of a company. Due to a misdiagnosis by a hospital, he thought he was going to die, so he hired a hitman to kill him in order to collect insurance money. However, after discovering that it was a misdiagnosis, he regretted it.

But this guy couldn't get in touch with the assassin.

So he went to Kogoro Mouri, wanting to ask him to find the assassin and protect himself.

...This blunder feels like an old trick.

Sano recalled a few movies he had seen in his previous life, but his gaze remained fixed on "The Killer".

It paused for several seconds.

"By the way, that assassin seems to be quite famous. His code name is the Fox, also known as the Silver Fox. The client agreed with him that he could only kill someone while the assassin was on a mountain climbing trip, so it might be a bit dangerous. Please think it over before contacting me, senior."

Ran Mouri added a whole bunch of new details.

Silver fox?

Sano rubbed his fingers together, quickly exited the assassin platform, and searched for information about the assassin. He eventually discovered that this guy happened to be one of the top assassins in Japan—a well-known fact due to his great fame.

Great reputations are never undeserved.

We could consider hiring them and giving it a try.

However, if I really manage to subdue this guy...

Sano touched his chin.

Black cat, spider, silver fox.

...Is this some kind of attempt to impersonate the zoo?

So, does that mean I'm the zoo director?

Oh.

After shaking his head with a smile, Sano shut down his computer, turned on his phone, and sent a message to Ran Mouri.

When are you going?

"tomorrow morning."

"...You dared to invite me to do what happened this morning?"

"Ha ha ha ha……"

"I won't go. Be careful yourself, after all, you're an assassin."

"Ok."

...The next morning arrived.

Danyuan Mountain.

Ran Mouri, her family of three, and a bearded man, who was their client, were chatting with several other hikers at the beginning of the trail. After some discussion, they decided to team up and climb the mountain.

But just then...

A figure suddenly caught Conan's eye, causing him to pause in his tracks.

"Kurosawa... Uncle!"

Ran Mouri and her father were both taken aback. They turned around and saw Sano, who had changed into a Kurosawa vest, walking towards them with his hands in his pockets and wearing sunglasses.

"...Did your senior invite you, Mr. Kurosawa?"

After regaining her senses, Ran Mouri abruptly asked a question, which startled Conan once again.

Sano, however, was already used to it.

Think whatever you want.

"Just came here to climb a mountain."

Sano picked at his ear and said, "After all, as a detective, maintaining good physical fitness is still very necessary... But since we've run into you guys here, it seems this leisurely trip won't be leisurely at all."

Mouri Kogoro: "?"

Ran Mouri: "?"

Conan: "?"

Does this mean he's talking about having a lot of bad luck?

"So it wasn't the senior who asked you to come and help."

Ran Mouri blinked, unsure if she had actually taken Sano's words to heart, and then said, "But since we've already met, it must be fate. Come climb the mountain with us, Mr. Kurosawa."

Sano glanced at Conan's glasses, which were bandaged with tape, and chuckled softly.

"I'm fine with either, it doesn't matter."

"that would be great."

Ran Mouri looked at Kogoro Mouri with a smile. Although she hadn't paid much attention to the assassin called Silver Fox to begin with, the guarantee was higher.

It's definitely not bad.

But Kogoro Mouri didn't think so.

Like his daughter Ran Mouri, Kogoro Mouri didn't care about Silver Fox, the assassin.

Therefore, Sano's appearance made Kogoro Mori feel a sense of crisis that his prey was being targeted by someone else, someone trying to steal his job.

But Kogoro Mouri didn't forget either.

The person in front of me, besides being a detective, is also a superhero.

In terms of both hard and soft aspects.

Even Kogoro Mouri wouldn't give him a hard time.

So in the end, all he could do was stand there sulking with a sour face.

Thus, Sano successfully infiltrated the Plague God Squad and went up the mountain.

Sano observed the other members of the group but didn't notice anything unusual at first glance.

So they didn't move around.

Chapters 456 and 459: Stepping outside, I was immediately thrashed by an ant.

Of course, Sano could have chosen to secretly test the waters with a hammer first, but being bored, he decided to keep a bit of mystery.

Just consider it a way to have some fun when you're bored.

After subtly scanning the area,

Sano already had a general understanding of the "suspect".

Including the clients who came with the Mori family, and others who joined the team.

There was also a dark-skinned college student, an older man, a long-haired man, and a young couple. Everyone seemed normal, but everyone also seemed to have something wrong with them. The dark-skinned college student was listed as the prime suspect by Kogoro Mouri because he used his left hand when he made a phone call. The reason was that the bearded man secretly told him that the Silver Fox was a left-handed killer.

...This made Sano unconsciously think of Gin.

That guy seems to be left-handed too, right?

In reality, the proportion of left-handed people is actually quite high.

But it doesn't matter whether it's the past life or this life.

Sano actually encountered very few left-handed people.

They are even fewer than the dark-skinned group.

Well, the problem lies with everyone else except this dark-skinned college student.

The middle-aged man wearing a hat kept glaring at the bearded client.

The young couple, on the other hand, were in a panic behind the scenes.

Behind each person, there seems to be some hidden story—oh, and that long-haired man, his presence is so low that Sano subconsciously ignored him.

However, this does not mean that the long-haired man is without problems or has problems.

All I can say is that this guy hasn't shown anything particularly noteworthy yet.

last of the last.

The bearded man, who was the client, was not without his own problems.

After joining the Plague God's team, the Plague God had a one-way communication with Sano.

Detailed intelligence was provided to Sano.

Sano thus learned that Big Beard had already been assassinated by Silver Fox while he was at the Mori Detective Agency, by several sniper bullets fired from a distance.

They almost smashed the bearded man's head in.

This undoubtedly contradicts the rule the bearded man mentioned, which he had agreed with Silver Fox to take action during the mountain climbing activity. It feels as if this guy deliberately arranged for someone to do this so that Kogoro Mouri would believe that what he said was true.