The Daily Life of a Salted Fish Assassin in Anime Crossovers

It was still that voice, processed and carrying a sarcastic tone.

"How are you all feeling about the 'last supper' I've prepared for you?"

"Now let me tell you why I chose this mansion as the stage for this game... Please look at the cutlery, plates, and all the decorations you can see."

"Perhaps you have already noticed the 'crow' symbol that can be seen everywhere in this mansion. This symbol is the emblem of the 'Karasuma family,' which possessed unimaginable wealth and power half a century ago, but collapsed forty years ago."

"All of this has to do with that person's name, the man who stands at the pinnacle of all of Japan, Karasuma Renya."

"As for this Western-style house, it was the house that Karasuma Renya 'once' owned."

Upon hearing the name Karasuma Renya, Koharu Yuno, who was sitting next to Jiang Hang, couldn't help but look at Jiang Hang when she heard about the Karasuma family.

In fact, after hearing about the bloody mahjong story of Senma Kōdai that afternoon, Kiharu Yuno had already vaguely guessed that this mansion might be related to Karasuma Renya, whom Jiang Hang had investigated some time ago. However, Jiang Hang had always been very cautious about Karasuma Renya and had never wanted them to investigate anything more in-depth.

Yoshino Kiharu only guessed that there were probably more secrets hidden behind Karasuma Renya, but she never expected that she would actually come to Karasuma Renya's old mansion!

Could it be that Jiang Hang knew about this matter, which is why he made an exception and left Tokyo to come here?

Thinking about what the dummy said, perhaps this mansion hides some treasure or secret about Karasuma Renya!

Chapter 283: Chapter 281: Another riddle?

The detectives present didn't show much surprise on their faces, but their expressions clearly became much more serious.

Although that happened half a century ago, the Karasuma family was once the most powerful family in Japan. Even though most ordinary people today would not remember the name Karasuma Renya, these famous detectives would still have heard of him.

"Karasuma Renya... If it's him, then that kind of cruel mahjong game isn't surprising. I also heard that Karasuma Renya even built a cruise ship called 'Hope' specifically to conduct cruel money games on the high seas, luring young people burdened with debt to risk their lives for money." Mogi Harufumi seemed to also know about Karasuma Renya's brutal behavior back then.

Ikumi Gunta also shook her head: "Due to the imperfections of the law at the time, until Karasuma Renya died and the cruise ship was transferred, no country was able to judge his actions back then."

"Judging from the bloodstains scattered throughout this mansion, that man probably committed many inhumane acts in this secluded mansion back then."

As the detectives exchanged information about Karasuma Renya, the mannequin continued to tell the story of the mansion and Karasuma Renya.

"I'm sure you've all noticed the bloodstains scattered throughout this mansion. I deliberately preserved these, and the origin of this blood dates back to forty years ago, after the death of Karasuma Renya."

"After Karasuma Renya's death, this place was used as the site of an auction, where all the artworks collected by Karasuma Renya during his lifetime were sold. After that, the once-prosperous Karasuma family completely withdrew from the stage of history."

Jiang Hang found this story very familiar. Wasn't it the same story where the system almost bankrupted the newly established brewery, forcing the Karasuma Group to sell its assets just to keep the brewery afloat?

However, what happened next was something Jiang Hang had never heard of.

According to the mannequin, two strangers appeared at the auction, which eventually turned into a brutal killing spree where everyone died. Only the two strangers disappeared with all the money and artwork.

"Rumor has it that the lost wealth and artwork were not retrieved by those two people, but are still hidden in this mansion. And I would like to invite everyone here to relive that tragedy in the process of searching for the treasure."

Regardless of whether this story is true or not, given the brewery's style, it is indeed possible that they might do such a thing when pushed to the limit.

But if such a thing really happened, then Suzuki Jirokichi, who lived through that era, would definitely know about it. However, Jiang Hang had spent the last few months trying to get all the rumors about Karasuma Renya from Suzuki Jirokichi, and he had never heard of such a thing happening back then.

Jiang Hang would obviously trust the straightforward Suzuki more than the recording of the dummy, so it is very likely that this was just a story made up by the person who invited them to put pressure on them.

His intuition told him that the blood was more like what Karasuma Renya left behind when, in a fit of rage before his death, he killed all the experts to vent his anger at not being able to find the hidden treasure in the Twilight Villa.

At this point, the dummy finally uttered the riddle that had remained unsolved for a century.

"Two travelers gazed at the night sky, when a demon descended upon the castle. The king fled with his treasure, the queen shed tears over the Holy Grail, and the knight took his own life with his sword."

"If you find the treasure, go to the room in the central tower and enter its location into the computer there. I will keep my promise and give him half of the treasure, and tell him how to escape from here. The others will stay here forever."

After the dummy finished speaking, it fell silent again.

As for this riddle, Jiang Hang decided to just listen to it for the time being. After all, he had been struggling with the Phantom Thief Kid riddle for almost a week. Now, with this even more difficult riddle, he and Yoshino Koharu probably wouldn't be able to figure it out even this year. He decided to let Conan and Phantom Thief Kid, those two smart people, solve the riddle.

After the dummy fell silent, Chima Kazuyo looked at the recording on it. After examining it, she addressed the detectives in the seats, saying, "It seems the recording ends here. Does anyone want to listen to it again? I can play it for you."

"No need. I don't want to hear this kind of pointless stuff again. Besides, I don't have a good impression of that guy who still doesn't dare to show his face. I won't participate in this boring guessing and treasure hunting game."

Harufumi Mogi stood up after finishing his meal.

“If nothing unexpected happens, the only bridge leading to the outside world should have been destroyed, but our vehicles are still intact. As long as we can find other small roads, we won't be trapped here. Does anyone want to come with me to check on the bridge first, and then we can look for a way out of here together?”

“This is deep in the mountains, and the nearest town is quite far away. Without roads or cell phone signal, you probably wouldn’t find your way out even if you drove your car to the ground,” Ikumi Gunta said suspiciously to Harufumi Mogi.

Mogi Harufumi nonchalantly spread his hands: "We're not Robinson Crusoe, and this isn't an isolated island in the ocean. At worst, we'll just wander around the mountains a few times."

"As long as we're heading in the right direction, we'll eventually make it out. Even if we die in the mountains, it's better than staying here and being disgusted by that guy who's scheming to make us kill each other."

It's clear that Harufumi Mogi hates being controlled by others. After all that happened, having eaten and drunk his fill, he had no intention of staying here any longer. Instead, he wanted to find a new path in this deep mountain.

However, it seems that apart from Harufumi Mogi, no one else seems to have his "optimistic" attitude.

“I don’t think that’s the best approach,” Hakuba Saguru shook his head, calmly expressing his lack of support for Mogi Harufumi, while also stating his current thoughts.

"However, we do need to check the condition of that bridge. If we can find a way to get there, that would be best, since it's not too late yet. We should be able to reach a nearby town in a few hours by walking along the road."

Chapter 284: Chapter 282: The Discounted Twilight Villa

The seven detectives who were invited to the Twilight Villa were now clearly divided.

Let's leave aside the fact that Da Shang Zhu Shan has already fallen into a deep sleep, but is still suspected of being involved.

Harufumi Mogi wanted to ignore what the inviter said and leave immediately.

Ikumi Gunta and Saguru Hakuba, on the other hand, seemed more objective. If there were a way out of this place, they would naturally want to leave.

But if they can't find a way to leave in a short time, they can only stay in this mansion and try to solve the so-called riddle to see if they can find the "inviter" who is secretly watching them.

However, the armchair detective, Senma Kōdai, directly denied this path.

She adjusted her glasses and looked at everyone present: "I'm over sixty years old, and I don't have the energy to mess around in the mountains late at night with you 'young people.' I'm going to go find the guy who invited us here."

"He might still be spying on us from some secret room in this century-old mansion. If we can find his trail, we might be able to find a way to leave this place."

At this moment, Phantom Thief Kid and Jiang Hang were the calmest people, since they could easily leave if they really wanted to.

Phantom Thief Kid has a hang glider and a grappling hook, and Jiang Hang has a rope gun. If the two of them were willing to do the hard work, they could not only get everyone out, but they could even manage to get the cars out with a little effort.

The former just wanted to find out who had stolen his name, and if he had the chance, he would go and see what the treasures of this mansion were. That was enough for him. As for Jiang Hang... he was just a layabout who came here for a vacation and just wanted to see how awesome this Twilight Villa was.

Since no murders have occurred and he doesn't sense any danger here, he believes he can continue to slack off.

Conan, the only child who was hardly noticed to begin with, was quietly pondering the riddle uttered by the dummy while the detectives discussed what to do next.

It seems that this riddle, which has remained unsolved for decades, will be solved by Conan tonight. I wonder what Karasuma Renya, who has been struggling with this riddle for so long, and the experts who were killed by Karasuma Renya because they couldn't solve it, would think if they saw this.

The detectives quickly came to a conclusion: regardless of what the person who invited them was thinking, they should first confirm whether the bridge leading to the outside world had really been destroyed before considering anything else.

Basically, everyone wanted to check the condition of the bridge. In the current situation, since everyone's cars were still intact and had not been destroyed by the bomb, staying together to avoid being separated was obviously the most reasonable choice.

No one has any objection to this.

Even Ogami Kissen, who was still unconscious, was moved into Mogi Harufumi's car.

"I'll try to drive slowly, but if you still can't keep up, don't blame me." Mogi Harufumi, sitting in his car at the front of the convoy, issued this notice to the detectives behind him.

“If anything happens to you, I can help you collect your body,” Ikumi Gunta retorted, while also telling her maid, Aki Ishihara, who was sitting in the same car with her, to relax.

Jiang Hang's cheapest 86 was left at the very back.

Sitting in the passenger seat, Yuno Kiharu asked Jiang Hang somewhat uncertainly, "Um... Jiang Hang, is this mansion really the house where Karasuma Renya used to live?"

After receiving Jiang Hang's affirmative answer, Koharu Yuno's expression became somewhat tense: "Then the person who invited us here in the name of Phantom Thief Kid this time, could it be that person related to the Karasuma family...? Is there really no connection?"

Yoshino knew Jiang Hang's cautious attitude towards Karasuma Renya. If all of this was really a conspiracy orchestrated by the Karasuma family, which sounded very dangerous, then wouldn't their current situation be extremely dangerous?

“Don’t worry, this mansion was sold off by the Karasuma family a long time ago. The person who sent the invitation is just a coward who only dares to use someone else’s name. I just wanted to come and see if there were any clues related to Karasuma Renya left in this mansion.” Jiang Hang explained to Kiharu Yuno as he followed behind Kogoro Mouri’s rented car.

After receiving Jiang Hang's reply, Mu Chun Yuno seemed a little relieved, but she was still wondering what exactly the "treasure" mentioned in the recording was.

"Jiang Hang, do you now know what this so-called treasure is all about?"

“That mansion is full of treasures, haven’t you noticed?” Jiang Hang briefly explained the value of the mansion to Muchun Yuno. “Everything in that mansion was specially customized by Karasuma Renya. The tableware we use is made of silver, and most of the furniture is made of high-quality wood. Just these things alone would be difficult to acquire even for 100 million yen now.”

Jiang Hang said this, and then couldn't help but sigh.

To be honest, he was still somewhat disappointed. Before coming here, he had imagined that the entire Twilight Villa was built of gold, but when he saw the electrical equipment inside the villa, which was obviously installed in the last few decades, he knew that he had been thinking too much.

If the interior of this mansion were made entirely of gold, the workers who came to install the wiring would have noticed something was wrong long ago.

In fact, only the outer floor of this mansion was probably built with gold, and then several layers of brick walls were used as a cover to prevent others from discovering it. Perhaps the total amount of gold on the outer floor was not as astonishing as he imagined.

Otherwise, it would have been almost impossible to build such a mansion with so much gold and have it built for over a hundred years without any problems.

Although the mansion is still quite valuable, its value is probably only half of what he previously estimated.

While Jiang Hang was thinking about this, they finally drove to the bridge at the foot of the mountain.

Seeing the cars ahead stop, Jiang Hang glanced at them briefly with his eagle eye and knew that the bridge had indeed been destroyed.

Chapter 285: Chapter 283: Here's a bottle of Tiger Balm for you

As Jiang Hang got out of the car, he looked at the detectives standing by the bridge, observing the situation of the broken bridge.

The bridge was originally about ten meters long, but it has now been destroyed in the middle. Judging from the cracks in the bridge, it was probably destroyed in the afternoon.

However, at that time they were playing mahjong in the lounge and no one noticed the explosion.

"This bridge was blown up pretty thoroughly. It seems that after we all arrived, the person who invited us here blew up this bridge that leads to the outside world first." Mogi Harufumi stood on the edge of the broken bridge, holding a flashlight and peering down.

The cliff is about 20 to 30 meters high, and below it is a rushing river. If a normal person wanted to cross here, they would probably have to continue walking along the river until they reached a relatively flat area.

"Does anyone want to walk down this river with me? I estimate that it won't be long, maybe an hour or two at most, before we find a place to cross the river. If we're lucky, it might only take ten minutes or so."

Having confirmed the condition of the bridge, Harufumi Mogi prepared to find another way out of the area.

However, Senma Kazuyo stood by the broken bridge and retorted: "If I were the one who invited us, I would definitely have confirmed this beforehand. Since that guy is so sure that we can't get out, then we definitely won't be able to get out anytime soon."

"I still hold onto my previous idea: the person who invited us might still be hiding in that mansion. If we can find them, we'll naturally find a way to leave. Of course, if any of us can solve that so-called riddle, the person who invited us will probably be unable to resist coming forward, right?"

"And you should also know that there is a possibility of encountering wild bears or wild boars in the deep mountains this season. I think you'd better not joke with your life," she advised Mogi Harufumi.

This time, the other pillows also stopped siding with Mogi Harufumi, clearly indicating that they also felt Mogi Harufumi's choice was problematic.

However, Harufumi Mogi has already made up his mind and doesn't seem to be planning to change it.

Seeing that the other party was determined to leave, the other detectives naturally had nothing to say to dissuade him. However, Jiang Hang, seeing how reckless this guy was, couldn't help but take a small bottle of mysterious green liquid from his car and hand it to him.

Because Jiang Hang had taken out a special bomb disposal tool from his trunk, when he saw this small bottle of liquid, Mogi Harufumi asked Jiang Hang with some concern what it was.

"There are many mosquitoes in the mountains. This can be used to repel mosquitoes and treat the itching caused by mosquito bites. When necessary, applying it to the sides of your forehead and temples can also quickly refresh you," Jiang Hang explained to Mogi Harufumi.