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Moreover, judging from Conan's expression, it seems that there is some secret hidden in this invitation.

Jiang Hang continued looking down, while muttering to himself.

Could there be some kind of secret code or password on this strangely signed invitation? He's not good at that kind of thing.

What if there's some secret hidden here that he didn't notice? Wouldn't the cool image he's maintained in front of Conan be shattered?

However, when Jiang Hang saw that the client was inviting Kogoro Mouri to a place called "Twilight Villa," his pupils couldn't help but shrink slightly.

Was this the incident all along?

Conan, who had been paying close attention to Jiang Hang's expression, concluded that Jiang Hang had also noticed the hint on the invitation after seeing the change in Jiang Hang's expression.

He spread his hands in front of Jiang Hang: "You must have figured it out by now, right? Aren't you going to ask that guy what he's planning to do by suddenly and mysteriously inviting Uncle Mori and you to that 'Twilight Villa'?"

"It seems that, besides Uncle Mori and you, that guy will probably invite several other famous detectives to come along. To provoke so many famous detectives at once, he really has a lot of guts."

Jiang Hang's lips twitched. Although he really wanted to ask Conan which "that guy" Conan was talking about, after seeing the name Twilight Villa, his attention was completely focused on the place name.

He had an impression of this place entirely because a few years before he traveled through time, the boss of the winery was finally revealed to be Karasuma Renya more than 20 years after the Conan manga was serialized. Karasuma Renya was first mentioned in the manga during the Twilight Villa incident.

Jiang Hang only started paying attention to the Conan storyline again after hearing the news that Karasuma Renya was the boss of the Black Organization, and he also went to the cinema to watch a few theatrical versions.

Returning to the Twilight Villa, Jiang Hang didn't actually have much of an impression of this episode. One reason he remembered it was because he knew that this villa was related to Karasuma Renya, the founder of the brewery. Forty years ago, it belonged to Karasuma Renya, but when the Karasuma Group was dissolved forty years ago, in order to maintain the operation of the brewery, this Karasuma family villa was probably disposed of at that time.

But what made this Twilight Villa memorable for Jiang Hang was that it was built more than a hundred years ago by the former head of the Karasuma family using hundreds of tons of gold!

Hundreds of tons of gold!

Even disregarding the other significance of gold, the most direct view is that hundreds of tons of gold are worth over ten billion US dollars.

This mansion, valued at tens of billions of dollars, is probably the only one of its kind in the world. Moreover, even if tens of billions of dollars were offered, those who know the value of this mansion would likely not be willing to sell it.

However, the Karasuma Group, which owns this mansion, is unaware of its value.

According to Jiang Hang's memory, it seems that Karasuma Renya's parents transformed into riddle tellers before they died, tricking their son by giving him a riddle that he could only solve to find out where the Karasuma family's wealth was hidden.

Karasuma Renya, on the other hand, had been trying to solve the riddle since he was young, and still couldn't figure it out even when he was a hundred years old.

Decades ago, when the Karasuma Group dissolved, this mansion was sold for only a few hundred million yen.

It was truly remarkable that Karasuma Renya was able to bring the Karasuma Group back to the position of Japan's number one conglomerate, even when most of the Karasuma family's wealth had been used to build the Twilight Villa.

If Karasuma Renya had solved the riddle a hundred years ago, Jiang Hang has no idea what the world would be like now.

However, the riddle that the Karasuma Group had been trying to solve for over a hundred years was solved by Conan in less than a night in the manga. It seems that not only the Karasuma Group, but also the prestige of the black market has been significantly weakened.

After Jiang Hang traveled through time and met Conan, he wondered if he had a chance to take over the Twilight Villa.

However, he ultimately shelved this idea.

First of all, he didn't know where the Twilight Villa was. Even if he knew Karasuma Renya, a Western-style mansion hidden in the mountains wouldn't be so easy to find.

In addition, he has a system that ensures he never lacks money, which makes him, who is naturally a lazy person, not have much need for money, the root of all evil.

Once the industry template is activated, even if Jiang Hang does nothing but his daily training, he can still receive a guaranteed income of five to six million yen every day.

As long as he does good deeds throughout the town and takes on a few cases each day, and now that he's gradually become familiar with detective work, earning tens of millions of yen a day without working himself to the bone is not difficult.

With his agency about to reach level four, Jiang Hang estimated that once he reached level four, his system, which never lacked money, would probably double the base monetary reward for completing a commission.

Even if he were to acquire Yingdu Photography Studio tomorrow, he would still have several hundred million in pocket money left after the acquisition was completed.

Although the Twilight Villa looks very appealing, getting rid of all that gold is an extremely troublesome matter.

Moreover, Jiang Hang only recently learned that he had the "Knights Templar" as a background figure. At the time, he had considered the possibility of being targeted by the distillery when he acquired Twilight Mansion and was dealing with the gold. After thinking about it, Jiang Hang, who was still a small fry at the time and also found it troublesome, didn't think about the Twilight Mansion at all.

Wouldn't it be better to be a lazy bum and be taken care of by the system?

Just when Jiang Hang had almost completely forgotten about the Twilight Villa, the invitation from the villa unexpectedly arrived in his hands.

Chapter 244: Chapter 242: Phantom Thief Kid Who Avoids Battle

In the world of detective work, Conan places Jiang Hang in the position of "monster".

He felt that if he could discover the secret in the invitation, then naturally it wouldn't escape Jiang Hang's notice.

He felt he had told Jiang Hang everything he needed to say. As for whether Jiang Hang should go to the Twilight Villa with him or go directly to that guy to find out what he wanted, that was Jiang Hang's decision.

After Conan told Jiang Hang that he would help organize the information about his and his father's previous encounter with the Muddy Sandy Gang, he returned to the Mouri Detective Agency to continue worrying about whether Ran had remembered him.

However, Conan was unaware that the "monster" in his eyes was scratching his head, racking his brains to figure out who "that guy" really was.

Jiang Hang had never watched the anime adaptation of Twilight Villa. He only knew about Twilight Villa when he was learning about Karasuma Renya, and at that time all his attention was focused on the fact that Twilight Villa was built of gold. He didn't pay any attention to the background of the case at all.

He could guess the plot: Kogoro Mouri would receive an invitation, learn about the riddle from a hundred years ago at the Twilight Villa, and then commit a murder because the culprit wanted to keep the gold for himself. In the end, Conan would find the culprit and solve the mystery that had been unsolved for hundreds of years.

But he couldn't immediately guess who the person who extended the invitation was.

Obviously, it must be someone he knows very well but Conan doesn't, otherwise Conan wouldn't have come to tell him about it.

However, among the people he knew, there was one who had little contact with Conan, yet possessed the financial means to purchase the Twilight Mansion, and who would even slip a two million tael check into the invitation...

For some reason, the first person that popped into Jiang Hang's mind was none other than Suzuki Jirokichi, the old man who had so much money he could use it to start a fire for warmth.

But Jiang Hang quickly ruled out Suzuki Jirokichi. A few days ago, he went to the Suzuki Estate to chat with Suzuki Jirokichi and took a look at the "Capture Kid 2.0 Fifth Edition Plan" that the old man had recently come up with.

Although hundreds of tons of gold is an astonishing amount no matter where it is placed, the Suzuki Foundation would not be able to ignore this information if they knew it. However, Suzuki Jirokichi, whose mind is currently only focused on catching the Phantom Thief Kid and making headlines, probably doesn't have time to deal with such things.

“If Grandpa Jirokichi really wants to do something new, he will definitely let me know first,” Jiang Hang muttered, ruling out Suzuki Jirokichi.

However, thanks to Suzuki Jirokichi, Jiang Hang also thought of Kaito Kid, the tool thief, whom he hadn't dealt with since rescuing Miyano Shiho.

He recalled what Conan had just said. Conan had mentioned that "that guy" would probably invite other famous detectives to the party in addition to the two of them, and described this behavior as bold and a provocation to those famous detectives.

From this perspective, it seems that Kaito Kid fits Conan's description quite well.

But Kaito Kid is just a high school student, and he doesn't seem to come from a wealthy family. He usually just steals gems to pass the time. Why would he go to Nagano Prefecture to buy a mansion and then invite them over?

Thinking this, Jiang Hang glanced at the invitation in his hand. After going around in circles, did he still have to decipher the code on this invitation?

However, since we've mentioned Kidd, it seems like it's been almost two months since he last visited the Mihana Art Museum.

In the past two months, Phantom Thief Kid has committed three or four more crimes, and he has never failed. Every time Phantom Thief Kid succeeds, Suzuki Jirokichi's online army will bring up Jiang Hang to hype it up, which can be said to be trying to completely establish Jiang Hang as Kid's rival.

In fact, just a few days ago, the Beika Art Museum held another treasure exhibition. Suzuki Jirokichi followed the same old routine, advertising and promoting during prime time.

In an effort to lure Kaito Kid into the trap, he practically wrote "Challenge Kaito Kid" directly in the advertisement. However, even on the day the exhibition opened, Kaito Kid didn't send any advance notice.

The fact that Kaito Kid avoided a fight seemed to confirm Jiang Hang's status as "Kaito Kid's nemesis." With the hype from Suzuki Jirokichi's side, the exhibition attracted a lot of attention.

But Jiang Hang couldn't be happy at all, looking at the experience bar at the art museum that was just a hair's breadth away from leveling up to level 3.

If Kaito Kid comes to challenge the museum this time, and he successfully stops Kaito Kid's actions, then the Level 3 Museum is probably safe, right?

Despite his actions of profiting from both Suzuki Jirokichi's exploits and Kaito Kid's popularity, Jiang Hang has actually made quite a few sacrifices.

Because of the hype surrounding Jirokichi Suzuki, it seems that some female fans of BL (Boys' Love) fanfiction have started creating doujinshi (fanfiction) featuring him and Kaito Kid online.

Heaven knows how complicated Jiang Hang's feelings were when he found out that he could one day become the protagonist of a fanfiction. But in order to improve the level of the art museum industry more quickly, he could only sacrifice his looks and let those online trolls continue to hype up the CP.

Previously, Kaito Kid had never backed down when faced with provocations from others, but unexpectedly, this time the other party actually backed down. It seems that he had put too much pressure on Kaito Kid when dealing with him as a tool in the past, or it is possible that Kaito Kid also knew about the doujinshi, so he was still afraid to appear in front of Jiang Hang.

In the past two months, it seems that when choosing his targets, Kaito Kid has deliberately avoided Beika Town and the surrounding towns.

Jiang Hang knew that Kidd was probably still practicing his disguise skills at home, hoping to fool him before challenging him at the Mika Art Museum.

It seems that Jiang Hang won't be able to ride on Kid's coattails anytime soon. He's starting to wonder if he should pretend not to see through Kid's act the next time they meet, just to give Kid some confidence.

Or he could go find Kaito Kid right now and tell him to stop struggling, just be a tool, cooperate with him every few months to maintain the CP hype, and that would be the end of it.

However, Jiang Hang is ultimately a young man of principle and would not do such a thing.

So, shaking off those strange thoughts, Jiang Hang continued to scratch his head, trying to figure out who "that guy" really was.

Chapter 245: Chapter 243: I am a pianist from Zu'an

For Shizuka Sakaki, this is the first time she has spent the night at the home of a male relative.

Even though this was still her workplace during the day, and she knew that Jiang Hang had let her stay in the firm's guest room for the time being to protect her, after her worries about the mud association gradually subsided, Shizuka Sakaki felt uneasy again.

To avoid worrying her family and friends, she hasn't told anyone about this yet. She does know about Kiharu Yuno, but she's too embarrassed to ask her questions like, "What should I be careful about when spending the night at a boy's house for the first time?"

Especially after taking a bath in the office bathroom at night, she was still debating whether it would be better to just share a bathtub with the whole family like back home, or to boil a new tub for Jiang Hang.

If she didn't change the water, her girlish modesty would make her feel ashamed. Although using the same bathwater was quite common in Japan, where thrift is encouraged, she still couldn't help but think of some strange things.

But if she were to change the water, she would feel like she was being too fussy.

"What if Jiang Hang thinks I'm looking down on him..." After taking a bath and changing her clothes, Shizuka Sakaki struggled with this question in the bathroom for a long time.

Finally, she waited until the bath water was almost cold before stepping out of the bathroom and hesitantly asked Jiang Hang, who was still trying to decipher the code on the invitation.

"Um... Jiang Hangjun, the bath water is getting cold. Would you like me to reheat it for you?"

Jiang Hang put down the invitation in his hand and looked at Shizuka Sakaki, who had been in the bathroom for almost an hour before coming out.

As a single guy who has never had a girlfriend, he couldn't help but mutter to himself: "Wow, it really takes girls this long to take a shower."

Then he waved his hand at Shizuka Sakaki: "No need, I'll just take a shower before I go to bed."

Jiang Hang never had the habit of taking baths, and being a lazy, homebody who disliked trouble, he could spend more time playing mobile games instead of taking a bath.

Hearing Jiang Hang's answer, Shizuka Sakaki, who had been struggling in the bathroom for almost twenty minutes, felt her face getting slightly hot.

After giving Jiang Hang an awkward but polite smile, Sakaki Shizuka walked over to him and, seeing him scribbling away, asked him about the invitation.

"It's a rather strange invitation. Besides me, it seems to have invited Detective Mouri as well. I'm wondering who sent it. Why don't you come and take a look at this invitation for me?"

Jiang Hang had to maintain his high-class image in front of Conan, but he didn't need to work so hard to maintain his persona in front of Shizuka Sakaki and the others.

He even handed the invitation directly to Shizuka Sakaki. Apart from Hawkeye, Shizuka Sakaki and Yuno Koharu's intelligence gathering abilities were no worse than his. Perhaps he could discover some problems through Shizuka Sakaki.

When Jiang Hang called her over, Shizuka Sakaki hesitated, saying somewhat unsurely, "If even you, Jiang Hang-kun, don't know, how could I possibly know..."

When she saw the strange signature at the end of the invitation, she spoke to Jiang Hang with some uncertainty.

"Forsaken by God...this must be referring to Satan or some kind of demon. I don't quite understand the latter part; does it refer to some kind of lesser demon?"

Jiang Hang shrugged. Of course, he could think of this place too, but there were quite a few things related to demons. However, he hadn't figured it out yet. It seemed that even if the two of them, who were both terrible at decryption, got together, they still couldn't unravel the secrets on this invitation.

"I don't know much about God and demons, so I'll just leave this invitation here for now. Anyway, it's next week, so I'll have plenty of time to study it."

After putting the invitation aside, Jiang Hang originally planned to take out his phone and start playing mobile games or practice his hand speed in a MOBA game, as usual, before going out to investigate the mud conference later that night.