Conan: I'm Really Not Tokyo Ghost Story

"...Boss?"

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Anyone could see that the blond-haired guy and his gang weren't there for Sano's shop, but rather for customers who happened to be in the area. As the home turf of the cafe, they couldn't just stay out of it. Not to mention the potential damage if a fight broke out, there was the risk of accidentally injuring others, or even just being frightened, which could lead to absurd rumors about the place being unsafe. All of that was negative.

Therefore, the text appears to be a jumbled collection of characters and symbols, possibly representing a corrupted or incomplete text. A direct translation is not possible without further context or clarification.

Reasonable.

But facing the challenge of poverty and hardship, one must be prepared to fight back.

"Be careful not to break anything, or you'll have to pay for it."

"understood."

The blond-haired man casually gave a reply.

At this point, the middle-aged man, whose back was to the door, finally realized something was wrong. He stopped eating and turned around, but before he could react, a fist was already growing larger and larger in his eyes—"Bang!"

With a heavy blow, the man collapsed to the ground and lost consciousness on the spot.

The blond-haired man reached out and grabbed the man's hair, dragging him outside.

They came and went in a hurry.

This left Conan bewildered for a moment, but then he suddenly realized something was wrong—he had actually just watched someone be forcibly knocked unconscious and taken away in broad daylight?

Isn't this a kidnapping?!

Chapter 670 All-Out War

Conan was filled with rage and was just about to send in a wave of justice.

Shuichi Akai suddenly remarked, "I heard that the Black Reaper suddenly started massacring the underworld last night. I thought it was just a rumor, but it turns out it's true."

Shuichi Akai smiled at Sano, as if what he had just remarked was just a casual remark.

But this left Conan stunned.

...What does "bloodbath in the underworld" mean?

Um? ?

Conan then looked at Sano.

However, Sano remained absent-minded: "Is that so? I heard that a large part of the underworld forces suddenly became very unified in their plan to destroy the Black Reaper, which is why it triggered a counterattack."

"Oh?"

Shuichi Akai stroked his chin thoughtfully: "Suddenly facing unified opposition from our peers, what heinous act has he done to incur such public wrath?"

"Maybe not."

Sano looked at Shuichi Akai: "If that's the case, how could there be no news at all? I've also heard that the unification of these forces is because they all have the same voice behind them."

"Ok?"

Shuichi Akai raised an eyebrow, unable to understand, but Conan's eyes flickered slightly as he posed a bold hypothesis to Sano: "Is he an official..."

Conan's voice abruptly stopped.

...It's broad daylight and we're outside, so it's not appropriate to talk about this kind of thing.

Shuichi Akai, on the other hand, was puzzled by Conan's half-guess... If it's an official, then it can only be the official one, right? From this perspective, he does have the ability to unite so many forces in the underworld in a very short time, but what is his motive?

Although Black Reaper is not very stable, it is still better than its peers.

On the contrary, it makes the situation seem more stable, right?

Everything had been peaceful for so long, so why did this happen now?

Shuichi Akai didn't quite understand, but he knew Conan very well. This was a struggle initiated by the government, so it couldn't be wrong.

And in fact...

Sano wasn't really sure either.

However, it is true that Black Reaper was isolated and targeted, and therefore, in self-defense, he could take the opportunity to wreak havoc in the underworld and make a profit. Of course, the matter is not so simple and can be easily glossed over in just a few words.

The Black Reaper is just intimidating in appearance.

Putting aside its support capabilities, its overall direct combat strength is still somewhat lacking.

...So Sano sought "outside help".

However, this is just a trivial matter. The important thing is that Sano deliberately smeared the official case. In the cases of the summit explosion, the swan fall, and the large-scale Internet of Things attack, Kusakabe has already been brought to justice on the surface. As for the mastermind behind the scenes, no matter what the official plans to do, it has not been revealed on the surface.

Not to mention ordinary citizens, even Inspector Megure and other Metropolitan Police Department officers, who were at the bottom of the official ranks and directly involved in the case, were unaware of it.

It seems that relying on outsiders is indeed not enough.

Sano intends to muddy the waters—the radicals are undoubtedly uneasy at the moment.

Even though Amuro Tooru didn't report the details after returning, the Kusakabe incident was still a ticking time bomb. The core of the matter was Kurosawa Shinobu, which was an undeniable fact. He was the first to report the incident and then openly infiltrated the Metropolitan Police Department. He was a major thorn in their side.

Especially those people the radicals sent to clean up the mess were all killed.

No matter how you look at it, this feud is now set in stone.

Kuroda Hyōe is not qualified to be on the chessboard, and the attitude of the radical opponents is hard to say for the time being. In any case, from their perspective, knowing Kurosawa's situation and silencing him is undoubtedly the normal course of action.

Regardless of how this path is taken.

Starting with Kurosawa's missing companions and dealing with the entity behind them is inevitable. Perhaps it's a test of probability, or perhaps it's simply a matter of risk consideration; using someone else to do the dirty work is the strategy.

The only visible Black Death is the target.

...The above is what outsiders who know about this matter think.

Does it matter whether the radicals actually did that?

What Sano needs to do is to find the mastermind behind it all. This mastermind's position within the radical faction is certainly not low, and in the worst-case scenario, it could even be the entire radical faction. To achieve this, war is necessary.

Only in this way can all these guys come out.

Only in this way can the matter be blown out of proportion, leaving other factions within the government with no choice but to uphold justice.

This is an achievement that Sano could not have obtained by secretly and desperately finding, approaching, and interrogating all the radicals.

In summary.

Even if this matter has nothing to do with radicals, it must be radical now.

"We'll be temporarily closing for the next two days. Everyone should go home and take a two-day break. It's best to stay home and not wander around outside unnecessarily."

After offering a well-intentioned reminder to his employees, Sano left.

Conan stood there stunned for a while before hurriedly going out to call Amuro Tooru.

Shuichi Akai followed closely behind.

……

"Da da da da!"

At night, the once bustling scene turned into a bloodbath.

The noise turned into gunfire, screams, and shouts of killing.

"They've gone mad, they've really gone mad..."

Kazami Yuya pressed Conan's head down and huddled behind the car, while Amuro Tooru peered over, his face ashen as if he'd eaten something disgusting.

"Isn't this one of Black Reaper's people?"

Despite being held down by Yuya Kazami, Conan still tried to observe the situation.

"Nonsense, the Black Reaper isn't crazy, how could he dare to do that?"

Amuro Tooru replied.

...The Black Reaper's bloodbath in the underworld may sound terrifying, but in reality it's just fighting, not much different from the usual territorial disputes. After all, judging from the current situation, the mastermind behind this war is the radical officials of the government.

If we make a big fuss, wouldn't that give the enemy an opportunity to use us against us?

If the authorities have an excuse to use force to suppress the protests, then it's game over.

therefore.

When facing some relatively troublesome hostile forces, the Black Reaper adopted a targeted decapitation tactic—that is, assassinating the leaders.

However, although it is rumored that there is an elite special forces team within the Black Reaper, who are also members of the Yorozuya, and who do take on assassination missions on a regular basis, this alone is not enough.

Whether in terms of numbers or individual strength.

In the nearly 24 hours since the bloodbath began last night, almost a hundred key members of various underground forces have been silently eliminated. Such methods could not possibly have been accomplished by a group of delinquent teenagers who had only undergone short-term, high-intensity training. Kuroda Hyōe concluded that the Black Reaper must have sought outside help.

Although these underground forces were unwilling to cooperate with the police for various reasons, Amuro Tooru's team still managed to catch some clues through targeted surveillance—it was the zoo.

Black Cat's assassin team.

This was unexpected, yet perfectly reasonable.

...Assassination, it's normal to hire a professional hitman to do it, right?

In short, after deliberately spreading this message, although the close protection requested by the police was still refused, at least these underground figures who might become assassination targets were on high alert and ultimately decided to stick together for mutual support.

Not only has the security detail been greatly improved, but more importantly, it has also made it easier for Amuro Tooru to stake out and keep watch, which has significantly increased the difficulty of the assassination.

It was at this moment that Conan came looking for him.

...Amuro Tooru didn't mind dragging Conan into the mess. After all, Conan was a famous detective. Although he didn't have any particularly strong combat abilities, at this juncture, individual combat ability didn't seem to matter much. The key was his brain, which might come in handy.

I just didn't expect it.

Instead of catching the zoo's killer, they caught a group of terrorists wielding AKs and throwing grenades everywhere, effectively turning the situation into a Syrian-style scenario.

"But if it's not the Black Reaper, then who is it?"

Conan did not speculate in the direction of the zoo.

That's an assassin team, they do assassinations, they're not terrorists, how could they possibly do something like that?

"Could this be a scheme orchestrated by radicals themselves, an attempt to smear the Black Reaper?"

"impossible."