Conan: Ran, I really am Shinichi, you have to believe me!

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I just saw that you guys exchanged phone numbers. Could you please give me their contact information, as well as their names, occupations, and other details?

"No comment."

Shinichi Kudo desperately wanted to get information about the two men in black from Jiang Chengbei, but Jiang Chengbei was unyielding. Apart from urging Shinichi to follow Vodka and provide him with intelligence, he refused to say anything else.

In addition, the scene was chaotic because four helicopters fell from the sky and two fighter jets flew towards the suburbs belching black smoke.

With such a major incident, the case can no longer be investigated on-site. The only option is to bring the suspect back to the Metropolitan Police Department for further questioning.

Despite lacking concrete evidence, Hitomi, who was being targeted by Shinichi Kudo, was brought back to the Metropolitan Police Department after it was discovered that she was the deceased's ex-girlfriend and the prime suspect in framing the deceased's girlfriend, Aiko.

As for Gin and Vodka, thanks to the distillery's characteristic low-key aura, everyone unanimously ignored them afterward, as if they didn't exist. Just like in the original series, they were too lazy to even ask for names, forgetting the person sitting behind the deceased who was the most convenient to carry out the attack.

Gin and Vodka were shocked to see that the police only invited a few of the deceased's friends to the Metropolitan Police Department. They thought that since the two of them were also suspected, no one would care.

Then, they saw Jiang Chengbei, accompanied by three children who seemed to have appeared out of nowhere, blocking the lead fat policeman's way, demanding money and collecting debts. A guess immediately formed in their minds:

Could it be that the elementary school student who just exchanged contact information with withdrew the charges against him and told the police that they were framed?

If that's the case, then interacting with kids isn't bad either; kids are easier to please.

Since even the police, who had almost started a gunfight, were ignoring him, and everyone around him was only concerned about the plane falling from the sky, Gin and Vodka quickly slipped away and disappeared into the crowd.

As for Shinichi Kudo, he didn't get much information about Gin and vodka from Jiang Chengbei. Instead, he was angered by four elementary school students who failed to collect a debt because he had previously helped the police solve cases for free.

"Shinichi Kudo, this is all your doing. Now the Metropolitan Police Department isn't paying us detectives any bounties, making us free tools. They've gotten used to it and think it's their due."

After Jiang Chengbei started it, the Teitan trio, who were concerned about the amount of funding for the Junior Detective League's activities, followed suit and surrounded Kudo Shinichi, giving him a lecture.

Children speak without restraint, children speak without restraint...

Shinichi Kudo, who was unjustly accused by three strange children, could only silently tell himself that children's words are harmless.

However, Shinichi Kudo wasn't so polite to Jiang Chengbei, who was leading the group. Recalling his Waterloo, Shinichi Kudo said sarcastically:

"Conan, you little brat, you dare to ask Inspector Megure for a bounty? You've got an unusually thick skin."

"Regarding the case on the roller coaster just now, if it weren't for my help, you would have wrongly accused those two men in black. You even got that wrong, and you still have the nerve to ask for the reward for solving the case?"

"Drum washing machine, what I want is not the bounty for this case, I just want the bounty for catching Seiwa Takatsu and the counterfeit money gang, what's there to be ashamed of?"

Besides, if you hadn't interfered today, I might have been able to catch the serial killer. What's wrong with me framing them a little to find that murderous serial killer?

"What? You're saying they're the serial killers who've been going out to kill people every day lately?"

Hearing Jiang Chengbei's words, Shinichi Kudo was shocked.

"I don't know, but I found out they were carrying guns, so I thought I'd find a random excuse to send them to the police station with minimal cost, and then slowly interrogate them to get them to talk."

Now look what's happened. This vicious suspect has been released on bail by your washing machine. It won't be so easy to find an excuse to send them to the police station for questioning in the future.

These two are clearly armed criminals who have killed without hesitation. Who knows if they'll ever be so lucky as to be next to a dead person again?

After hearing Jiang Chengbei's words, Shinichi Kudo remained silent for a moment, his mood sour, before speaking earnestly:

"Conan, what you're doing is wrong. Even if they are serial shooters, even if they are murderers, even if they give me the same feeling as you, you can't use such illegal means to frame and arrest them!"

Criminals also have legal rights, and we cannot obtain evidence through illegal means!

I cannot condone your behavior!

Don't worry, I will investigate through legal means. If they really are serial shooters, if they really are murderers, I will find the evidence!

"Heh, if I may ask, is your so-called legal method tailing?"

"I wasn't tailing you, I was tracking and monitoring you... Never mind, I can't explain it to a child like you."

Chapter 39 New Ability: Phoenix, Little Chubby Bird

In the world of Detective Conan, bombing the Shinkansen, blowing up skyscrapers, and strafing Tokyo Tower with armed helicopters are all minor things. They might generate buzz for a few days, but they'll be forgotten in the time it takes to catch a nap.

So, the downing of a few planes, without killing any civilians and only a few pilots, had almost no impact on society as a whole, except for making headlines.

Especially after the cause of the plane crash was revealed, there was even less of a problem.

The incident began when a Ground Self-Defense Force Apache pilot, who had brought honor to his country, stole the girlfriend of his U.S. military pilot father. Then, this U.S. pilot father, drowning his sorrows in alcohol, got drunk and tried to steal the Apache pilot's wife in return.

It's because men have a habit of treating their cars like wives, so this US military pilot stole a Ground Self-Defense Force pilot's car to go for a spin, announcing to everyone that he had successfully turned the tables and won big.

Then, under the influence of the double death aura and the killing aura, his mounted weapons were destroyed by a firework soccer ball with the protagonist's aura, which started a rampage, and he spent more than a billion US dollars to acquire 6 planes.

Moreover, apart from Gin and Vodka knowing that the planes were brought down by a "death god" elementary school student, everyone else believed that these planes were caused by the American daddy's momentary impulse and drunken mistake.

Since it was done by the American daddy, and the American pilot who did it has already died in the line of duty, this matter can only be minimized and forgotten.

The plane crash that happened during the day was over by evening in Beika Town. People mostly just talked about what happened during the day, as the plane wreckage outside had been removed and traffic had returned to normal.

Now that everyone has returned to normal life, the poor working-class Gin and Vodka have no choice but to work diligently to generate revenue for the organization.

Regardless of what happened during the day, the night continued as the original story unfolded.

Vodka extorted 100 million yen from a certain executive of the Mud Conference, which was witnessed by Shinichi Kudo, who had just left the Metropolitan Police Department and wanted to go back to the scene to find evidence that Hitomi was the murderer.

Then things proceeded as before: Gin quietly approached from behind and knocked Shinichi Kudo unconscious by striking him with a club.

Then Vodka, sweating profusely, ran over to Gin to apologize, while the mud-covered executive quickly ran away.

"Big brother, it's that high school student. He saw our transaction. What should we do?"

"The organization's secrets must not be revealed."

"Okay, brother, then I'll kill him." With that, Vodka pulled out a pistol from his pocket, ready to silence Shinichi Kudo.

Shinichi Kudo wasn't completely knocked unconscious yet; he had just lost the ability to move and was lying on the ground in a daze. However, he could still hear the conversation between the two men in black and see Vodka, who was wearing sunglasses, take out a pistol.

Just like that brat elementary school kid said, these two guys really were carrying guns. If they hadn't ruined that awful kid's plans, they would probably have been arrested and taken to the Metropolitan Police Department.

Even if it is ultimately proven that they did not kill anyone on the roller coaster, the fact that they were carrying handguns is enough to warrant their criminal detention and investigation.

After all, Japan is a gun-controlling country. For ordinary citizens, the most they can get are licenses to carry hunting rifles and air guns. Handguns and similar weapons are absolutely illegal.

At the moment he was about to be shot, Shinichi Kudo finally felt a little regret. If he hadn't been so meddlesome, he wouldn't be in this situation now. Unfortunately, there's no going back.

"Wait, if this kid hadn't spoken up for us during the day, we would have been mistaken for the murderers and had a gunfight with the police here."

So, in the end, this kid saved us, and we can't be ungrateful.

Upon hearing the blond man suddenly stop the man in sunglasses and listen to his words, Shinichi Kudo immediately breathed a sigh of relief: Thank goodness, the blond man still has a conscience, and his life is spared.

Shinichi Kudo breathed a sigh of relief, while Vodka was momentarily stunned, not quite understanding what was happening: When did his older brother become so kind-hearted? Had he been possessed?

Despite feeling that his older brother was acting out of character, Vodka still had to ask what to do:

"Big brother, what should we do? Letting him go would reveal the organization's secrets, but killing him would make us seem ungrateful. How about we take him back to the organization and lock him up?"

"How much suffering will he have to endure if we bring him back to the organization?"

Let's use medication. At least medication will prevent him from getting another bullet wound, and that would be a way of repaying him for clearing our names in front of the police.

"Brother is wise. During the day, he prevented us from being exposed to the police. At night, we helped him leave behind a complete body without bullet holes, so we're even. Brother is the one who calculates things clearly."

"This kid was lucky. This is the latest version of poison developed by the organization. When he dies from the poison, it is just like a natural death. Even the autopsy cannot find any trace of poisoning. In the end, it can only be attributed to natural death."

"You've got it easy, high school detective Shinichi Kudo, a guy who's not even as good as an elementary school student, hehehe."

Kudo Shinichi: "..."

Afterwards, when Gin fed Shinichi Kudo the drug A, he thoughtfully gave him a bottle of mineral water so he could rinse his mouth and soothe his stomach.

Because Drug A was an excellent poison that had been tested for over a decade and whose efficacy remained stable before Shinichi Kudo appeared, Gin left hastily after giving him the drug, without waiting to confirm his death.

As for the reason for leaving in such a hurry, it was because a police car with its siren on sped past outside, startling Gin and Vodka who were doing something illegal.

After Gin and Vodka left, Shinichi Kudo, who had been given Drug A, began to shrink in inhuman pain.

After Shinichi Kudo became a 7-year-old elementary school student, Jiang Chengbei's mission as a substitute for Conan was successfully completed. While losing the ability to become Conan, he also turned back into a young and handsome 20-year-old man.

After completing the mission to replace Conan, Jiang Chengbei's reward is a skill that allows him to transform into a little chubby bird, and this transformation skill counts as an independent life.

In other words, if Jiang Chengbei dies while he is alive, he can continue to live as Little Chubby Bird. If he dies while he is transformed into Little Chubby Bird, he will only lose the ability to transform, and his original body will continue to live.

However, when Jiang Chengbei continued to read the system messages, he saw that because he had appeared as Conan throughout his time in the Conan world, without slacking off and with a positive attitude, the system had added an invincible state to the fragile little chubby bird that couldn't withstand any storms.

In this way, even if Jiang Chengbei's original body dies, he can still be a carefree, immortal little fat bird.

Chapter 40 Conan: What Conan? I'm Arthur, Edogawa Arthur!

Jiang Chengbei has two lives, which are considered independent entities. So when he transforms back and forth, anything he can hold is put into the dimensional space and disappears along with his body, which can barely be considered a temporary personal space.

In his human form, he could barely carry a little over a hundred pounds, so after transforming into a chubby little bird, he could disappear with that amount of weight, making him a makeshift temporary storage bag.

Unfortunately, his flying form, the chubby little bird, although larger than an egg, only weighed 8 grams and was 14 centimeters long, with its tail taking up half of that length, making it look like a fluffy glutinous rice ball.

Its round, chubby, and cuddly appearance, apart from being able to fly and being fast, and being immune to damage, seems to have no combat power whatsoever; it's a complete little piece of trash.

Experiencing the joy of flight for the first time, Jiang Chengbei, now a chubby little bird, excitedly waved his disproportionately small wings as he flew rapidly through the sky.

Comparing his speed to that of a car on the highway, Jiang Chengbei discovered that his flight speed was at least five or six times faster, probably five or six hundred kilometers per hour, which translates to one or two hundred meters per second in a straight line.

Besides flying fast and being extremely agile, Jiang Chengbei discovered that after transforming into bird form, his vision and sense of smell were greatly enhanced, far surpassing his human form.

Having gained the ability to transform into a bird, Jiang Chengbei felt that he was now a druid who could only transform, and that he could make a living in the age of swords and magic.

Having gained the ability to transform into a chubby little bird, his original mission as Conan's substitute was suspended, and the skill icon for transforming into Conan also turned gray. Unless Conan disappears from the Conan world, he can no longer transform into Conan to take his place. In essence, this mission was just to make him a substitute.

He can no longer transform into Conan, so all the death aura, protagonist aura, intelligence-lowering aura, divine right foot, voice-changing bow tie, leg-strengthening shoes, etc., that came from Conan are sealed away and cannot be used.

However, there was an unexpected discovery: Jiang Chengbei found another notification on the system, which was that the detective badges he gave to the Teitan Three Idiots were still valid and had not been taken back by the system, so they could continue to use them.

After experiencing the Dorobiga Amusement Park and the appearance of True Conan, Jiang Chengbei now has two forms and two lives, possessing level 4 wall-climbing ability, Gin's danger warning, and 1 kill coin.

Among the items listed in the Ke Xue Mall, Jiang Chengbei has already spent 10 Kill Coins to buy Gin's non-upgradeable max-level skill, Danger Warning. Therefore, the remaining Gin skills need to be purchased with 2 times the Kill Coins. Currently, he only has 1 Kill Coin and cannot afford to buy anything.

In addition, Jiang Chengbei can also buy items for 1 kill coin at the original price, based on the skills of other people, including Vodka.

However, there are currently no products that can improve physical fitness, so Jiang Chengbei is not planning to buy any and will wait.

After soaring freely in the vast night sky for a while and experiencing the initial joy of flying, Jiang Chengbei finally felt satisfied and then landed next to a two-story villa next to a round villa.

Flying through the window into the luxurious villa, Jiang Chengbei landed on a bookshelf lined with books. He lowered his head and quietly watched the performance of the elementary school student in a blue suit that he knew very well.

Seeing the white-bearded old man and the Mediterranean-haired old man completely fooled by the real Conan, with the white-bearded old man calling him "Shinichi" repeatedly, Jiang Chengbei finally remembered the most important thing he had forgotten during this time: he hadn't come to greet Professor Agasa.

"Shinichi, you said you were shrunk by the poison given to you by two mysterious men in black. So what are your plans now? How do you intend to find them?"