Conan: I'm Really Not Tokyo Ghost Story

The finishing touches were completed quickly.

Sano looked at the corpses scattered on the ground and felt somewhat bored.

...This was the first time they had used multiple aliases, but the opponents turned out to be too weak.

I didn't get to enjoy myself at all.

As for why Sano, who usually only deployed three aliases at a time, could now deploy six, we have to mention the final enhancement.

Yes, in the end.

The goal is to enhance the authority of items, but there's nothing particularly special about the effect. The only difference is that the limit on the number of A-rank and above enhancement items that can be active at the same time is removed. Originally, Sano had also considered using all of them.

They even drafted out the procedures.

That is to take advantage of the absolute loyalty of believers and let them play the role of his disguise. But firstly, it is troublesome to disguise himself, and secondly, it is not a real disguise after all, because it does not match in terms of fingerprints or DNA.

Finally, there's the issue of equipment permissions.

Top-tier equipment can only have two active at the same time. Even if you add another one using lower-tier equipment, there are only three active at a time. But things are different now.

Under conditions of no quantity limit.

Sano can also enhance his masked form with the thug suit, modifying his real body and changing its effect from creating and switching between resurrected bodies to being able to freely split into pre-created bodies.

Putting aside the loss of the ability to change clothing, these split entities all possess independent consciousness, essentially making each one a Sano, and he no longer needs to focus on controlling them, so they can be considered to have been improved.

Especially when paired with the equipment permission upgrade point, it's a perfect match.

Unfortunately, the clones can only exist for ten minutes.

If the battle isn't resolved and retreat isn't initiated within ten minutes, then a dramatic revelation will be staged on the spot.

But it's not a big problem.

Even if all the split forms are used, it's still impossible to end the battle within ten minutes.

Sano might as well go home, wash up, and go to sleep.

Once they came to their senses, the split entities very sensibly began to leave on their own.

Only Sano turned his head to look upstairs.

Next, this is pretty much the very end.

"Hey, go back and tell your leaders that you have three days to clear out all ordinary people in the Tokyo area. The final battle will take place here at midnight three days from now. You'd better not make any more moves, or we really won't hold back anymore. Don't think that just because we replaced the nuclear button department, everything will be fine. After all, who knows if the supreme leader of a certain nuclear country has already been taken into control by us? Do you understand what I mean?"

After throwing the declaration of war upstairs.

Sano didn't care whether the other side agreed or not, and withdrew directly.

Chapter 700: The Last Act of Kindness or Madness

"A challenge...?"

After watching that figure leave, Amuro Tooru's face turned extremely ugly.

"Sure enough, the sudden appearance of so many people must have a purpose."

Yusaku Kudo also saw through Amuro Tooru's thoughts: "It's probably an instruction from the Black God. Showing everyone is a kind of attitude. I just don't know if this guy will show up in three days... But I don't quite understand their approach. A head-on confrontation? Are they that confident?"

"Who knows?"

Hideaki Akai lit a cigarette: "The question is, how should we respond?"

Amuro Tooru and the others remained silent for a long time before finally taking out their phones and calling their superiors... The meeting was forced to end.

The fact that we can now hold large-scale meetings openly and legitimately has instead evoked mixed feelings in people.

Then came the second day.

Ordinary people in the Tokyo area began to evacuate under the official arrangement. Of course, the actual situation was not explained on the surface. It was only stated that evacuation was mandatory, but it was entirely voluntary. If one did not want to evacuate, they could leave.

The authorities won't force you to do that.

One point must be emphasized: you will bear the consequences yourself.

This ambiguous attitude undoubtedly provoked dissatisfaction among Tokyo residents, but seeing that various government departments had already begun to forcibly evacuate after the announcement, the public naturally panicked.

Many timid or cautious people followed suit.

This move triggered a chain reaction, with more than half of the people leaving or starting to leave on the second day alone, until the last day.

There were only a few stubborn people left in all of Tokyo, and they still refused to leave.

The authorities have simply ignored this.

However, if there are still a lot left, Sano estimates that the authorities will probably have to take coercive measures, otherwise it will be difficult to clean up the mess later.

"...What were you thinking, actually planning to start a war here?"

Turning back, Gin looked at Sano with a puzzled expression. Whether it was his earlier instructions to lead the action team to focus on the vigilance and protection of several target figures, or to locate and hunt down those professional assassins who entered Japan, or this idiotic behavior that could almost be a direct confrontation with the whole world, all of these things puzzled him greatly.

Sano, with a cigarette dangling from his mouth, did not answer.

After a long while, Sano suddenly asked, "Gin, if you knew one day that you were going to die, what do you think you would do?"

"what?"

Gin was taken aback, never expecting Sano to discuss such a topic with him.

When did we start getting into the arts and culture scene?

After a few seconds of silence, Gin replied earnestly, "I will only die by the enemy's gun. Even at the very end, I will fight with all my might for the organization."

Sano's expression turned strange for a few seconds, while Gin remained expressionless.

"Alright, alright, let's leave it at that. You should also quickly organize the evacuation of the people below."

Seeing that Sano was about to leave, Gin quickly stopped him and asked, "Wait a minute, what did you mean by that question? Are you trying to die?"

Sano paused, but didn't respond. He simply waved and continued walking away.

...Just as Gin said.

To confront the entire world head-on—well, perhaps not quite the entire world yet, but representing half of the major powers' official governments—would mean that even if they won, they would undoubtedly be facing the entire world. This is clearly not a wise choice. According to Sano's original idea, he should have used the nuclear button to make all countries wary.

As long as they can buy time, Sano will eventually be able to conquer the world.

Whether it's using brainwashing to gradually erode the official systems of various countries, or directly using "superpowers" to slowly transform the foundations of the world into divine authority.

The result is the same.

It wasn't until he came into contact with Karasuma Renya that Sano learned the truth.

Sano is indeed dying, though not in the actual sense of the word.

...Memories return to a previous life.

Sano's life was relatively short.

I studied in my rural hometown all my childhood. My father worked away from home all year round, and my mother stayed home to accompany me. Apart from one friend with whom I had a lot of close friendship, there was nothing special... Oh, this friend is the anime fan Sano was talking about, who often dragged him to watch anime.

If I had to say there's anything special about it...

That was when he was ten years old. Sano killed someone, but it was in self-defense. He and his friend were almost kidnapped, and somehow he killed the person. Although no one blamed him afterward, and no one treated him like a monster or looked at him strangely, the authorities even arranged for a psychologist to comfort the two of them.

After that, life really was just ordinary.

With his outstanding grades among rural children, he went to high school in the city and got into a pretty good university. Unfortunately, he dropped out halfway through and went to work. He spent a few years in a daze but still managed to get by.

Putting aside the period when I was pressured to get married but kept brushing it off, at least it wasn't too difficult.

Then comes the final stage.

This part can be considered to be relatively close to the movie.

The Sano family of three had an accident, and the party responsible for the accident was a local yakuza group.

Although the compensation was adequate and the punishment was carried out in accordance with the law.

But Sano felt it wasn't enough.

There was neither too much sadness nor too much anger, but rather a sense of responsibility that drove Sano to seek revenge, and his friend joined him.

However, before the two could make a move, they were stopped by a lame old man.

The man claimed to be a retired police officer who had ties to the triads and that's how he lost his leg. However, due to the imperfect laws in the past, he couldn't do anything about those people, let alone now.

Therefore, the old man tried to help Sano and the other two get revenge.

The way they helped was simple: they provided two handguns and intensive training, mainly in the use of handguns, for a month or two.

It's barely passable.

In the end, that's how it turned out.

A common man, in a fit of rage, spilled blood five steps away. After a chaotic mess, he successfully avenged himself.

Sano is gone too, and he's ended up here.

Sano himself had almost forgotten this memory, but he saw it again in the notebook that Karasuma Renya gave him.

That's right, it's a book that records Sano's time travel.

It just so happens that it was given to me by an outsider.

Sano thought it was outrageous at the time, but who knew it would get even more outrageous.

According to the introduction at the back of that book.

Sano didn't actually travel back in time a year ago, but several hundred years ago. However, back then he didn't even have a cheat system; he had one.

Alchemist.

With his extraordinary talent that seemed to come from nowhere, Sano quickly reached the pinnacle of alchemy and eventually performed forbidden alchemy.

eternal life.

And it actually succeeded.

As we all know, the essence of alchemy is equivalent exchange. While achieving immortality, Sano also paid a price, just like how these equipment, in addition to their effects, also have limitations similar to side effects.

Sano's "immortality" does not mean maintaining a body forever.

Instead, after aging naturally for a period of time, the body automatically reverses time.