Conan: I'm a zaibatsu in Tokyo

"I want to call the police!"

Ai looked at Masakazu.

His eyes were blinking.

"Call the police?"

"My employee was murdered in Nagoya."

"what?"

Ai's head was bobbing, as if she knew that a Zheng Yi employee had also died in an accident.

But you want to call the police?
What should you say after calling the police?
Your employee didn't actually die accidentally, but was murdered?
That probably won't work.

If that's the case, then the number of people who have conflicts with you who die unexpectedly is even greater.

Your butt will be even dirtier.

Zheng Yi shook his head.

No.

The location of the death was in the Nagoya area.

“No way! This isn’t Tokyo or Osaka, after all. The police there are unreliable and might even protect criminals,” Zheng Yi said.

Ai rubbed the hem of her clothes with her fingers.

Unexpectedly, one day she witnessed Zheng Yi worrying that the police were protecting criminals.

It's a bit... intriguing.

Shoichi will not easily activate Conan unless absolutely necessary.

After all, Conan has been working so hard for himself, he deserves a rest.

If one can use legal means to protect their rights, Zheng Yi would certainly prefer to use the law.

Ai's gaze fell on the USB drive at Zheng Yi's fingertip; the small silver object gleamed coldly under the light.

"You were prepared all along, weren't you?" Ai's voice was very soft.

At the same time, the way she looked at Zheng Yi was very strange.

Your employee was just killed, and you've already found some evidence?

Zheng Yi did not deny it.

“I started gathering information as soon as the first ‘accident’ happened. But I never expected their reach to be so extensive.” His voice was filled with suppressed anger.

"The high-ranking officials of the Nagoya Police Department have probably been infiltrated long ago."

Ai shook her head, not understanding the source of Shoichi's anger.

She believes this is not a simple sense of justice.

Is it dissatisfaction with being imitated?
"This is surveillance footage from three months ago, before the first person had a car accident." Zheng Yi opened a blurry video.

"Did you see that black van? It appeared back and forth three times in the area where the incident occurred."

Ai leaned closer to the screen, her pupils slightly contracting.

"Same license plate."

Zheng nodded.

Those guys don't have Conan, nor do they have such a brilliant criminal planner.

Doing bad things will definitely leave traces.

"Not only that." Zheng Yi pulled up another document.

"This is a copy of an autopsy report. The official conclusion was a sudden myocardial infarction, but this original report shows that his blood contained trace amounts of ricin."

Xiao Ai gasped.

"This is murder."

"And it was an organized series of murders." Zheng Yi closed the file.

"wrong."

Ai shook her head and said, "If it were poisonous, it shouldn't have been considered an accident."

"Because the forensic doctors in Nagoya have all been bribed by these guys!" Masakazu said indignantly.

"This is the autopsy report I secretly prepared myself."

Ok?
Ai's eyes widened.

You also have a forensic henchman in the Metropolitan Police Department.

No wonder you were so sure their accidental deaths were fake, and you were able to find their flaws so quickly.

So you've already done all of this before?

Ai asked, "What are you going to do?"

“Give those cops a chance,” Zheng Yi said. “Huh?”

Zheng Yi took out his phone and said, "Have them investigate thoroughly and find the real culprit for me."

Xiao Ai smiled.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department is your lackey. Why do you still think that police in other places can be upright and incorruptible?
Even if those police officers are all good people.

Ai also had serious doubts about the capabilities of the Japanese police.

In Japan, the capabilities of the police can never match those of detectives.

Are those guys really capable of uncovering the detective's conspiracy?

In fact.

That's pretty much what Ai thought.

The Nagoya police listened attentively to the phone call from Masakazu and humbly accepted his advice.

Then they called back several hours later.

They said that after the forensic examination, and with the help of a detective, they had determined the cause of death of the Zheng Yi employee to be accidental.

It has absolutely nothing to do with murder.

Don't overthink it; there aren't that many conspiracies and schemes in the world.

Zheng Yi almost threw his phone away in front of Ai.

Damn.

Why does this sales pitch sound so familiar?

Zheng Yi felt like he had heard it countless times.

Why wasn't I angry at all when I heard those words before?

why?

Ai covered her mouth, but could still occasionally let out a 'giggle' laugh.

"These lackeys of the tycoons are aiding and abetting evil, colluding with each other in wicked ways!" Zheng Yi angrily denounced.

One curse wasn't enough to vent Zheng Yi's anger.

He continued angrily, "The reputation of the Metropolitan Police Department has been ruined by these rotten apples."

"Taxpayers' money would be better spent on feed for wild boars than on feeding these bastards."

Ai quietly explained to them, "It could also be a matter of ability."

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, for example, seems to be considered a lackey of the zaibatsu (financial conglomerates) precisely because of its incompetence.

Zheng Yi sighed.

He pulled Ai over and rubbed her face.

Just as Ai was about to explode in anger, Shoichi withdrew his hand at the opportune moment.

“I finally realize how awful I was before,” Zheng Yi said.

Ai blinked.

She said to Zheng Yi, "So, you've decided to stop?"

"Stop? What are you talking about?" Zheng Yi looked at Xiao Ai strangely.

Ai looked completely bewildered.

Logically speaking, shouldn't you realize how awful you were before and therefore want to change your ways?
Are you going to use even worse methods than before, you despicable bastard?
"Xiao Ai, you need to know that I have never hired someone to kill anyone," Zheng Yi said sincerely.

He's different from those guys.

Those guys, on the other hand, were the real murderers who hired killers; they were far more heinous than I was.

Ai doesn't know if Masakazu has ever hired someone to kill someone.

But she knew that Zheng Yi was someone who didn't like to suffer losses.

She asked, "So, you're planning to deal with those people in the same way?"

If that's the case, Ai really needs to consider moving.

If these guys go berserk and no one steps in to mediate, who knows what will happen?

I wonder if they will start assassinating family members.

Ai feels that living with Shoichi would be very dangerous.

She's just a little girl; she's easy to deal with.

Moreover, only he knows how much Zheng Yi enjoys exploiting him; outsiders only know that Zheng Yi 'cares' about him.

"Of course not. I'm not a villain like them. I'm a law-abiding citizen," Zheng Yi said righteously.

"So what are you planning to do?" (End of Chapter)