Conan: I'm Really Not Tokyo Ghost Story

Damn it, if you're going to kill me or torture me, just do it quickly!

Lei was so angry that his hands started to tremble, and his facial features gradually became distorted.

I can't manage it anymore, I'm just running away!

Lei turned and ran away. Conan immediately regained his attention, bent down, twisted his leg-strengthening shoes, and kicked the soccer ball on the ground.

"Whoosh!"

Hearing the noise, Lei turned around and saw the soccer ball flying towards him. He instinctively turned to catch the ball, but due to his physical condition, he couldn't react in time and the ball hit him squarely in the head.

"Well!"

Lei collapsed to the ground, but did not lose consciousness.

“…You brat, it’s shameful to treat others differently.”

Sano withdrew his gaze and issued a condemnation from his moral high ground towards Conan.

"...I just have something else to say to him."

Conan clearly wasn't in the mood to pay attention to Sano, and stared at Rai with a furrowed brow.

"So you really have become a poisonous insect, Ray? Otherwise, with your skills before you became a goalkeeper, no matter how much you've regressed, you shouldn't be unable to catch a ball of this caliber... Your body has been completely corroded by that stuff."

Seeing the utter disappointment in Conan's eyes, Rai, having recovered his composure, quickly denied it, retorting, "No, no, I didn't take that stuff at first. It's because of that bastard, he fabricated the truth, causing my wife to commit suicide. I was in so much pain, that's why... I became like this..."

Thus, the motive for the murder came to light.

Is it still considered a rumor? Then that world boxing champion must really be very strong.

"I'm sorry, Sano, I'd like to talk to him alone. Could you give me a little time?"

Sano glanced at Rai, nodded, and gave Conan this face...

The main problem is that there were no missions. To be precise, after Sano received the mission to come to this hotel, he didn't receive any follow-up missions, so even if he forcibly solved the case.

It's just adding another achievement to his detective record.

Putting aside the fact that it's insignificant, just think about the past few days—the Shizuoka Prefecture murder case the day before yesterday, two people dying in the Hokutosei No. 3 car yesterday, and another one dying today.

Sano doesn't want to end up like Conan, bearing the reputation of a jinx.

In the end, Rai was indeed persuaded by Conan to turn himself in to the police.

……

A high-end hotel.

Sano was sitting on the toilet, looking at the mask in his hand.

This mask is the one that Sano bought during the summer festival.

It's all black with some patterns, but they're not very obvious. The style is similar to a fox, just like the fox masks that Sano often saw online in his past life.

Almost the same.

This is especially common in the anime and manga community.

However, most of those are only half-faces, and the base color is white.

Because I had a premonition that this thing would become my equipment, just like the cloned doll.

Sano kept the mask in his wallet and carried it with him at all times.

Towards the end of my trip to Osaka, I randomly drew a lottery ticket, and sure enough, I won.

Enhancement item name: Fox Demon Mask.

Grade: A+.

effect:

1. Fox Demon (Willpower attribute +100).

2. Fox Face (When wearing this enhancement, the user can freely modify their appearance).

3. Fox Eyes (When wearing this enhancement, the user can accurately sense the deepest emotions of others through their eyes, and can control the intensity of those emotions by making eye contact).

Limitation: The effect of the fox-eye effect will depend on the level of the user's will attribute.

Note: Look directly at my son!

...Is it a Grade A product, or a Grade A+ product?

This is the effect; it seems rather ordinary.

Of course, it can only be viewed from the sidelines for now.

A+ is a higher level of equipment than the core equipment of Sano's various aliases.

It's on par with the "Ever-Changing Vest" (a popular Chinese MMORPG), how could it be weak?

Leaving aside the fox face and the 100-point bonus to willpower, the key point is undoubtedly the effect of the fox eyes. From the description, it seems that Sano can use them to observe other people's inner thoughts and quickly grasp the situation, especially when judging whether someone is lying.

Then it can also manipulate a person's mind... This can be used in negotiations, or perhaps it can amplify a person's anger or fear infinitely, causing them to lose control, go berserk, disrupt the situation, or lose their composure and fall into despair on the spot.

It might seem weak at first glance, but once you reach a certain level, it will become incredibly powerful—for example, if someone is only good at running away, then they can only run away, but if their running away skills are already at their peak.

That's a different concept altogether.

Constitution, Agility, Burst Attribute.

This time it's finally the Willpower attribute's turn. I wonder if there are any counterfeit versions of the Momentum attribute as well... cough, just like the inner qualities embodied by the Willpower attribute.

The fox demon mask is also an equipment gear that leans towards non-direct combat.

Mage control?

Or is it auxiliary control?

Sano snapped out of his daze, got up, and put on his mask.

Looking at herself in the mirror again—her entire face was completely covered by a mask, with only a pair of fox-eye-shaped holes revealing her eyes.

Sano's heart skipped a beat, and a faint purple light suddenly appeared in his eyes.

...No response?

Sano stared at his reflection in the mirror for a few seconds, then suddenly felt a sense of unease.

To be precise, there are two streams.

One part belonged to Sano himself, and the other... also belonged to him.

To be more precise, it was Sano himself reflected in the mirror.

Can you even sense your own deepest emotions?

The doubts disappeared, replaced by a sense of sudden realization and novelty.

Sano tried to amplify his emotions, but to little avail... After all, the criterion for this thing is the will attribute of the user, and his will attribute is different.

Now it's at least a hundred.

Let's find another opportunity to conduct in-depth experiments later.

Sano put away his mask and opened the locked bathroom door.

In the living room, Ran Mouri, Kazuha Toyama, and Kogoro Mouri were all craning their necks to secretly observe Conan, who was sitting on the balcony in a daze.

After all, their idol was in jail, and the group was quite worried about Conan's condition.

Ran Mouri, who knows Conan best, even thinks that this might cause him to develop a sense of aversion and resistance to the existence of soccer.

In the end, it was Heiji Hattori who took a soccer ball, pretended to be a fool, and deliberately failed in front of Conan, which made the guy recover and show his true skills.

"These two really do look like brothers."

Looking at that unusually harmonious scene, Toyama Kazuha couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

"They're less like brothers and more like best buddies."

"Ok?"

Ran Mouri, who hadn't heard Sano's mutterings clearly, turned around in confusion: "What did you say, senpai?"

"nothing."

Sano yelled at Hattori Heiji.

"Hey, Blackie, now that things are over, I'm heading back."

"Ok?"

Hattori Heiji turned around: "Leaving so soon?"

"Why wouldn't I stay? I'll stay for dinner at your place."

Sano chuckled softly: "Or are you just reluctant to part with me? Then go to the station to see me off."

Upon hearing this, Hattori Heiji's lips twitched.

Memories of the two previous humiliations flooded his mind, causing Hattori Heiji to glare at him immediately.

"You're dreaming! Do you think I'd be stupid enough to fall for your tricks again?!"

Chapter 521, Page 524: Your ass is still as easy to kick as ever.

Sano scratched his face, feigning ignorance: "I don't understand what you're saying at all."

"You'd better not understand."

Hattori Heiji snorted coldly and cast a disdainful glance at him.

Furthermore, what Hattori Heiji found despicable was that they even ate at his own house.

Why did I go through all that trouble yesterday, frantically searching for hotels all over Osaka, instead of just taking all these people home and letting them stay in free rooms? Doesn't this guy have any sense of propriety at all?

The name Hattori Heiji could never become "Tsuguhirabe Hattori"!

But play is play, and joke is joke.

In the end, Heiji Hattori still went to the station to see Sano and his group off.

...Of course, in Hattori Heiji's own words, he was only there to see the Mori family off.