Conan: I'm a zaibatsu in Tokyo

Chapter 114 This is the consequence of going against Zheng Yi

It's clear that both Zheng Yi and Xiao Lan look somewhat puzzled.

The friends they invited were not each other.

Curaçao, standing not far away, raised an eyebrow slightly.

Is this the married woman or young wife that Zhengyi was talking about?
Although Ran is only seventeen years old, she seems to be Shinichi Kudo's childhood friend. Can she be called a 'young woman'?

Perhaps Zheng Yi's understanding of young women is different from others.

Ai, who was in the distance, also unconsciously craned her neck, wanting to see what was happening on Zheng Yi's side.

Zheng Yi actually managed to get a date with Xiao Lan?

No wonder.

This guy often chats with Xiaolan via email and is very willing to share things with her.

Akemi Miyano smiled as she looked at her sister, who had transformed into a little giraffe, and cut the cake with a knife and fork.

"Little boy, are you really alright?" Aoko asked Conan cautiously.

"It's nothing." Conan's body was trembling uncontrollably.

I just saw Zheng Yi and Xiao Lan having coffee together. It's not like anything's really going on. What's wrong with me?
"You don't look well," Aoko asked with concern.

Conan said softly, "I'm fine."

Zheng Yi seems to often share delicious and fun things with Xiao Lan. Is this really just sharing between ordinary friends?
Brother Zheng, do you really have no other thoughts?

Aoko looked at the child beside her with concern.

"Do you want me to help you contact your family?" Qingzi asked.

"Need not."

"Really don't need it?"

Conan stared longingly into the coffee shop, silently shaking his head.

Inside the coffee shop, Xiaolan looked at Zhengyi in surprise and asked, "Brother Zhengyi, are you really meeting someone at this table?"

“Yes, this is the place,” Zheng Yi said.

I never expected that the young woman I was dating would turn into a teenage girl.

Seeing Xiaolan's confused expression, Zhengyi said, "Um, you must have arranged to meet your mother, right?"

"Yes, that's right." Xiaolan nodded and said, "Because my father and mother have been separated, I have to keep my visit to my mother a secret from him."

Brother Zheng, how did you know?

“Because I also arranged to meet Ms. Eri Kisaki at this coffee shop,” Masakazu said.

"what?"

Xiaolan blinked, puzzled.

Why did Mother want to meet with Zheng Yi today?

"Well, my company and your mother's law firm have a cooperative relationship because I recently acquired a car company and commissioned your mother to draft some contracts."

"We arranged to meet here today to pick up the contract," Zheng Yi said.

"Oh."

After learning that her mother didn't want to divorce her father and find a new spouse, Xiaolan relaxed a lot and started chatting with Zhengyi.

Conan, who was outside, was heartbroken to see Masakazu and Ran chatting so happily.

"I'm going to the restroom," Zheng Yi said.

He got up to go to the restroom. As he passed Ai's table, the giraffe turned into a little ostrich, quietly enjoying the cake on the plate.

"Click~"

As soon as he entered the restroom, he found two familiar faces standing in front of the urinals, looking quite professional.

"Why don't you take your pants off when you pee?" Zheng Yi asked.

"Huh? I forgot," Kaito said.

After Kaito finished speaking, he and Hakuba Saguru stared at Shoichi.

Zheng Yi stood in front of the urinal and said lightly:
Are you two grown men spending Qixi Festival together?

“That’s right.” Kaito grinned and said, “Hakuba Saguru and I are commemorating the deep bond between the host and the cow.”

Zheng glanced at him.

"So you guys didn't talk about me, did you?" Zheng Yi asked.

"Don't flatter yourself," Kaito said.

"That's good. I actually don't like people talking about me secretly; it makes me very uncomfortable," Zheng Yi said.

Kaito and the other person exchanged a glance.

What happens if you feel uncomfortable?
After Zheng Yi finished using the toilet, he washed his hands and left.

Kaito, still in the restroom, said, "Could this guy have already discovered that we're investigating him?"

“They’ve definitely been discovered,” Hakuba Saguru said.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have made a special trip to the restroom to check on them.

"What should we do then?" Kaito said, scratching his head.

“Then let’s investigate openly and honestly,” Hakuba Saguru said. “It’s just that this will make him more wary and make our investigation more difficult.”

It's not just that the difficulty has increased.

Kaito grabbed his hair, looking dejected.

Although Shoichi allowed him to investigate him, Kaito didn't believe that Shoichi would be so magnanimous as to let him continue the investigation if he actually did.

Hakuba Saguru looked at Kaito strangely and said, "Why are you reacting so strongly?"

"Never mind, you wouldn't understand," Kaito said.

Hakuba Saguru frowned and asked, "If you know anything else about Shoichi, don't keep it to yourself."

“Oh, it’s not about Shoichi,” Kaito said.

Kaito pushed Hakuba Saguru out, saying, "Let's get out of here, it stinks."

The two walked out of the men's restroom and prepared to wash their hands at the sink.

As soon as they opened the toilet door, they saw a burly man holding a bloodstained dagger, staring at them with a ferocious expression.

Both of them were taken aback.

After Bai Ma glanced at the burly man, the burly man rushed over with a dagger.

"what!"

Kaito reacted swiftly, pulling back Hakuba Saguru, causing the burly man to miss his target.

But the burly man remained blocking the doorway, trying to force Kaito and Hakuba into the toilet.

"Someone's trying to kill someone!" Hakuba Saguru shouted loudly outside.

"you wanna die!"

Hearing Hakuba Saguru's shout, the burly man's eyes grew even fiercer.

He grabbed a mop from the side and used it to block the door, then continued to attack Kaito and Hakuba with his dagger.

The burly man hadn't expected these two skinny kids to be so difficult to handle.

Kaito was incredibly agile and nimble; every time the burly man made a move, Kaito dodged it, and he kept toying with the burly man.

Meanwhile, Hakuba Saguru seized the opportunity to disarm the burly man of his dagger.

The two of them worked together and quickly subdued the burly man on the ground.

"Damn it! Let me go!" The burly man struggled incessantly.

Outside the toilet.

Everyone heard shouts and various other sounds coming from inside.

The coffee shop owner immediately called the police, then, armed with some wooden sticks, he and a waiter slowly approached the restroom.

"Step aside!"

A child's voice reached everyone's ears, and they instinctively moved aside. Then Conan activated his sneakers and kicked open the wooden door with a flying kick. Everyone saw the scene inside.

A burly man was pinned down by two male high school students, and a bloodstained dagger lay nearby.

"Quick, save them!" Zheng Yi shouted from behind the crowd.

Hearing Zheng Yi's shouts, the burly man pinned down also yelled, "Save me! These two guys are trying to kill me!"

Hakuba Saguru gritted his teeth and said, "Bastard! It was you who tried to kill us with a dagger!"

“Nonsense! I don’t know you at all, why would I kill you?” the burly man shouted.

Seeing the two sides sticking to their own stories, Conan, who happened to be on a date with Shoichi and Ran, had no interest in distinguishing between them.

He suggested to the store manager, "Why don't we just tie them all up? Let the police decide what's right and wrong."

"it is good."

The store manager found some ropes and, together with the waiter and the customer, tied the three of them to three pillars respectively.

Kaito grinned at the shopkeeper, who clearly wasn't a good person.

"Conan, what's wrong?"

"Um, Ran-neechan, I just happened to be playing here, and I came over out of curiosity when I heard the noise," Conan said, scratching his head.

Xiaolan pointed to the toilet door again: "That..."

"It's a toy that Professor Agasa made for me." Conan stomped his feet in place.

"How could Professor Agasa give you such a dangerous toy?"

Conan nodded. "That's right, it's all Professor Agasa's fault."

How could you give such a dangerous toy to a child?

"Kaito, you..."

"Aoko? What are you doing here?" Kaito was taken aback when he saw Aoko suddenly appear.

"I just happened to be passing by," Qingzi said guiltily.

Then, frowning, he asked, "What exactly is wrong with you?"

"I don't know what happened either," Kaito said helplessly. "Hakuba Saguru and I were inexplicably chased and killed by that burly man."

"It was the two of you who were chasing me!" the burly man retorted stubbornly from the side.

"You'll be in big trouble when the police get here," Kaito yelled.

Hakuba Saguru was quietly tied to the pillar, feeling utterly humiliated. Unlike Kaito, he was still arguing with the burly man, showing no signs of being carefree.

The store manager looked at the three of them with a helpless expression.

"Say whatever you want, or let the police investigate whether you are right or wrong."

Hidden in the crowd, Shoichi looked regretfully at Kaito and Hakuba Saguru; he had come out of the restroom far too early.

If it had been later, I might have been able to see this scene.

Zheng Yi nudged Curaçao's arm and winked at her.

Curaçao's eyelids twitched, then she spoke without any emotion:

"If I'm not mistaken, this should be Hakuba Saguru, the son of the Superintendent General of Police."

And the person next to her must be Officer Nakamori's daughter.

No wonder he dared to say things like, 'You're finished when the police come.'

After saying that, Curaçao silently disappeared.

Hakuba Saguru looked in the direction of the sound and saw Masakazu next to the woman, looking at them with a regretful expression.

My mind was racing with thoughts.

This pursuit may not have been without reason.

Could it be that Zheng Yi discovered they were investigating him, so he hired someone to kill him?
But isn't this retaliation coming a little too quickly?
He and Kaito had just decided to investigate Shoichi together and expose his true colors.

"Who's talking nonsense?" Kaito looked around in dissatisfaction, but couldn't find the woman who was telling the truth.

The burly man, bound and gagged, looked pitiful and said:
"Everyone must testify for me that I am the victim."

Everyone looked at him with pity.

you are done.

The Tokyo police have now gone from being an "incompetent police force" to an "incompetent police force that distorts the truth."

The person who's going to kill you is a second-generation police officer; you're finished.

Seeing the looks on everyone's faces, Hakuba Saguru's brows furrowed deeply.

Why did everyone immediately side with the burly man as soon as they heard they were children of police officers?

Has the reputation of the police really deteriorated to this extent?
Hakuba Saguru glanced at Shoichi again. The police's reputation had deteriorated to this extent, and Shoichi was inextricably linked to it.

The police arrived quickly.

When Inspector Megure arrived and saw the three people tied to the pillar, he was stunned for a moment.

He asked the store manager, "Are all three of them the murderers?"

"No, it's one or two," the store manager said.

Inspector Megure looked at the manager in bewilderment, and the manager told Inspector Megure everything that had happened at the coffee shop.

Inspector Megure nodded and began to examine the three suspects.

"Brother White Horse?"

Hakuba Saguru kept his head down, but after being recognized, he looked up and nodded at Inspector Megure.

Those in the coffee shop, seeing that Inspector Megure recognized Hakuba Saguru, secretly thought to themselves that everything was settled; it was clear who the victim and the murderer were.

Hakuba Saguru said, "That gentleman's fingerprints are still on the dagger. A comparison will reveal who the murderer is."

The fingerprint evidence on the dagger is clear.

As everyone expected, the burly man was handcuffed by the police, while Hakuba Saguru and Kaito were released.

Inspector Megure was somewhat puzzled.

Why are people looking at the police so strangely? In this case, because Zheng Yi wasn't involved, the police were simply enforcing the law impartially.

Hakuba Saguru stretched and walked over to the burly man, asking, "Why did you want to kill us?"

The burly man struggled to his feet and said to Hakuba Saguru, "Of course it's because you guys are unlucky."

"I think someone instructed you to do this!" Kaito said as he approached.

"What instructions?" A look of bewilderment appeared on the burly man's face.

The onlookers also frowned deeply.

Do these two second-generation police officers want the burly man to implicate a few more people?
White Horse Scout asked the burly man, "Did someone instruct you to do this? Even if you don't admit it, we can still investigate your payment records."

Even if you receive money from someone, you don't have the opportunity to spend it.

"What nonsense are you talking about? I already said it's your bad luck," the burly man said.

"Unlucky?"

Did I run into Zheng Yi?
Did he get caught by Zheng Yi when he was investigating him?
Zheng Yi stepped out from the crowd and said lightly, "You don't want him to say that I ordered him to kill you, do you?"

Hakuba Saguru and Masakazu looked at each other and said firmly, "I'm just pursuing the truth."

Masakazu turned to ask, "Excuse me, Attorney Eri Kisaki, what crime has Mr. Hakuba Saguru committed?"

“It should be a false accusation,” Eri Kisaki said. “A false accusation, and even inducing the murderer to implicate others.”

“It seems Mr. Hakuba Saguru is still secretly investigating me,” Masakazu said.

Eri Kisaki adjusted her glasses and said, "Obtaining information that someone doesn't want to disclose through illegal means without permission should also constitute a violation of privacy."

Zheng Yi looked at Bai Ma Tan.

Do you know you've broken the law?
"Could you please draft a lawyer's letter for me, Eri Kisaki, and send it to Mr. Hakuba Saguru?" Masakazu said.

Kaito couldn't help but say, "You said you would allow me to investigate you."

"Oh, right, send one to Mr. Kuroba Kaito as well."

(End of this chapter)