The Daily Life of a Salted Fish Assassin in Anime Crossovers

Besides, what he wanted to check wasn't this tape in the first place.

His gaze fell upon the fireplace behind the main table in the restaurant, where the clock that concealed the secrets of the Twilight Villa hung. But he left that riddle to Conan to solve. What he was doing now was finding a hidden pinhole camera in an inconspicuous spot in the fireplace.

Under everyone's watchful eyes, Jiang Hang removed the pinhole camera.

When Jiang Hang made this move, Senma Kōdai's expression finally changed.

Jiang Hang held the pinhole camera in his hand: "If I'm not mistaken, everything that happened in the restaurant tonight should have been recorded by this camera. Next, as long as we can find the computer connected to this pinhole camera and check the time period after we left, we will know whether you, Detective Qianjian, tampered with that tape."

He looked at Senma Kazuyo, whose forehead was slightly damp with cold sweat: "Detective Senma, I think you don't care about this matter, right?"

“Of course, no problem,” Chima Kazuyo said. She had already gone this far, so of course she couldn’t deny it now.

However, she quickly found a counterattack point: "But I have a question. Do you know where that 'monitoring room' is? If we can't find that place, we won't be able to see what the camera is capturing."

She was already prepared. As soon as Jiang Hang revealed what he knew, she would preemptively ask him why he knew so much about the location of the cameras in the mansion, and even where the monitoring room was, thus further amplifying the suspicion surrounding Jiang Hang.

Jiang Hang shook his head directly: "I haven't found the 'monitoring room' yet, but I think that although this mansion is not small, we will eventually find the location of the monitoring room if we search for a while longer."

After receiving Jiang Hang's reply that he still didn't know the location of the monitoring room, Qianjian Jiangdai seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.

She didn't know what kind of abilities Jiang Hang possessed. Before, Jiang Hang was just slacking off because he was watching other detectives' operations. If Jiang Hang were serious, finding a small monitoring room would be nothing at all.

However, before Jiang Hang could make any move and before Senma Kōdai could even consider her next move, Yata Ikumi, who had been watching from the sidelines, suddenly spoke up.

"If you're talking about that monitoring room, we found it just now. We were originally planning to wait until we finished watching your fight before talking about it, but since you've brought it up, let's go there now."

Chapter 292: Chapter 290: Senma Kazuyo's Confession

The words of Gunda Ikumi caused a look of surprise to appear on the faces of the detectives present.

"So this is what you just called 'some interesting stuff'? It seems you've uncovered quite a bit on your end," Hakuba Saguru said with a hint of agreement.

Ikumi Gunda ignored Hakuba Saguru's approval and instead looked at Jiang Hang and Chima Kazuyo in the restaurant: "Aren't you trying to prove your innocence, or did you actually capture something on the camera?"

Jiang Hang spread his hands, indicating that he didn't care.

He looked at Senma Kazuyo, who reached out to wipe his forehead: "Detective Senma, I never expected such a coincidence. Shall we go over there together now?"

At this point, Senma Furuyo finally gave up resisting.

"You truly are a master detective. I originally thought I could use my age and meticulous planning to lure you into a trap, but I never expected it to end this way. I underestimated you."

She reluctantly took off her glasses and then wiped them with a nearby napkin.

Gunda Ikumi picked up where she left off: "Not 'you,' but 'all of you.' Now that Jiang Hang's suspicion can be ruled out, then that Oogami Shuzen must be your accomplice, right?"

Senma Kōdai nodded in acknowledgment.

She didn't persist in pressing the issue. As a renowned detective, she knew very well that at this stage of the case, further cover-ups would not only be useless but would also diminish her dignity as a detective.

Watching the detectives retake their seats around the table,

She slowly began to tell everyone the whole story.

"Forty years ago, my father, an archaeologist, was invited to this mansion by Karasuma Renya with a large sum of money. According to Karasuma Renya, he wanted to know what the treasure his parents left him was before he died, so he invited many people at the time."

“At first, my family was very happy, but after a few months, my father sent us his last letter and then disappeared. As you should know, my father was eventually killed by Karasuma Renya. Perhaps his bloodstains are still left in this house.”

“We reported it to the police at the time, but the Karasuma Group, which was a behemoth at the time, had not yet been dissolved, and our report was quickly forgotten.”

"Decades later, after I became a detective, one night I finally noticed that the last letter my father sent me had his situation written on it with a tiny needle, and he told me the riddle of the treasure."

"So from that time on, I started looking for the location of Twilight Villa. Later, during a case, I mentioned this to Mr. Ogami inadvertently, and with his help, I finally found the villa."

"Two years ago, we each spent a large sum of money to buy this mansion from its previous owner, which resulted in us being heavily in debt. Of course, we did a good job of maintaining appearances and kept our identities as famous detectives well, without letting others notice our heavy debt situation."

"But since then, all our energy has been focused on finding the treasure, and so far we have been unable to solve the mystery."

"Until one day six months ago, Mr. Ogami suddenly suggested that since the two of us couldn't solve it, we should find more famous detectives to help us."

She looked at Jiang Hang standing beside her: "I suppose this is fate. Mr. Osaka wanted to invite everyone here under the name of 'Phantom Thief Kid' and frame all the crimes on Phantom Thief Kid. I, on the other hand, learned by chance that the Pioneer Foundation had once acquired this mansion. So I also planned to frame you if anything went wrong."

"But I never expected that inviting you would cause problems with our plans from the very beginning."

Just as she said, if she hadn't invited Jiang Hang here, Da Shang Zhu Shan wouldn't have fainted, and the rest of the plan would have proceeded as scheduled, with all the vehicles being destroyed along with the bridge.

Without a satellite phone, Hakuba Saguru couldn't contact the outside world; without a car, Mogi Harufumi wouldn't have left, and under her scheme, Gunda Ikumi certainly wouldn't have had time to investigate the location of the surveillance room.

If things continue to develop this way, the final outcome is still unknown, but no matter how you look at it, it's obviously better than the current result.

But Jiang Hang's arrival caused their detective gathering, which they had been planning for more than half a year, to turn into this mess.

At this point, Senma Kyoudai sighed, then couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

She sighed, realizing she had ultimately failed, both in this plan and in the treasure within the mansion. But she felt relieved because, thankfully, no one had died at the gathering.

Ever since he invited the detectives to the Twilight Villa to solve the case, Oogami Shuzen has started to act strangely. At first, he only wanted to use the detectives to help him solve the riddle.

But later, he realized that the invited detectives probably wouldn't genuinely help them solve the mystery. To put more pressure on these famous detectives, he even thought of actually killing someone to arouse their suspicion, so that after solving the mystery, the group of famous detectives would eventually kill each other.

Almost all the clues in the mansion that pointed to the other famous detectives were completed by Oogami Kissen. Even Chima Kazuyo vaguely sensed that Oogami Kissen not only wanted to kill the other detectives, but even wanted to kill her to take all the treasure for herself.

After realizing this, Senma Kyoudai also left behind a lot of backup plans, intending to take action against Ogami Shuzen first during the banquet. The recording was one of them. The reason she went to wash the dishes was because she knew that Ogami Shuzen had a habit of biting her nails, so she had applied potassium cyanide to the edge of the teacup beforehand.

Once Da Shang Zhu Shan hears the altered recording she made, he will naturally bite his nails involuntarily, thus completing his murder plan.

Of course, after Da Shang Zhu Shan was drugged into unconsciousness, her backup plan was rendered useless, and in fact, all of these things became evidence against her.

Chapter 293: Chapter 291: You didn't expect this, did you? This isn't the real Twilight Villa at all (4K)

Chima Kazuyo looked at the people in the restaurant, her expression somewhat forlorn.

"I was hoping that by inviting so many famous detectives here, someone might be able to solve the riddle, but it seems that it was all in vain. This riddle may really be with me for the rest of my life."

After confessing, Senma Kazuyo seemed to have lost all her strength, and sat silently in the chair, closing her eyes slightly.

However, at that moment, Kogoro Mouri's voice came from the side.

"You're wrong. If it's a riddle, I've already solved it."

After hearing Kogoro Mouri claim that he had "solved the riddle," everyone except Jiang Hang couldn't help but look at the Phantom Thief Kid disguised as Kogoro Mouri, as if they wanted to know how he had solved the riddle.

After all, they had been dealing with Kogoro Mouri, this "famous detective," for a long time, but they hadn't found anything remarkable about him. From his appearance, "Kogoro Mouri" was just an ordinary middle-aged man, without any of the demeanor of a famous detective.

But now, when they look at "Kogoro Mouri" again, they find that he looks very different from before.

He was sitting in a chair, head slightly bowed, motionless, as if he had fallen asleep.

"Is this the Sleeping Kogoro?" Ikumi Gunta thought of Kogoro Mouri's nickname. She hadn't quite understood it before, but now that she saw such a vivid scene, she naturally realized it immediately.

Hakuba Saguru, on the other hand, frowned slightly, as if trying to find something wrong with Kogoro Mouri's demeanor.

Of course, Jiang Hang was well aware that all of this was Conan's doing.

Just now, while everyone's attention was focused on Senma Kazuyo and no one was paying attention to him, Conan secretly used his watch to shoot Kaito Kid with a tranquilizer dart, and then placed a small button microphone in the other's collar.

After finishing all that, Conan went to a corner to do his voice acting.

To Jiang Hang's surprise, the legendary Phantom Thief Kid fell for the trap so easily?

But when he used Eagle Vision, he discovered that Kaito Kid was quite well-prepared. Kogoro Mouri's neck was slightly thicker than his, so he had also put on a disguise around his neck, and the tranquilizer dart was stuck in that disguise. Kaito Kid probably started pretending to be asleep after feeling the strange sensation on his neck.

With the help of Kaito Kid, Conan ignored the surprise of the other detectives and said to Senma Kazuyo, "This riddle is actually very interesting. If I hadn't seen the clue left by an expert who was once invited here in the piano room, I wouldn't have been able to figure out the answer so quickly."

"Of course, we also have to thank Ms. Gunda. If it weren't for Ms. Gunda, we wouldn't have noticed this notification."

After hearing this, Ikumi Gunda blinked with interest: "It seems you discovered something in that piano room that I hadn't noticed before. Can you tell me about it?"

"It's actually very simple. The clue is just that the traveler in the first part of the riddle, 'two travelers looking up at the night sky,' has been replaced with the English word 'fool.'"

Conan explained to Ikumi Gunta: "In playing cards, the Joker is based on The Fool in the Tarot, so this hint tells us that the key to this riddle lies in the playing cards."

"It has been four or five hundred years since the birth of playing cards, and modern playing cards were fully formed in the mid-19th century, so it is not surprising that Karasuma Renya's parents would use playing cards as riddles."

Conan continued to explain: "After knowing this, the king and queen that appear later, although it seems to be telling a medieval story, actually mean K, Q, and J in playing cards."

"Among the interpretations of the four suits in playing cards, there is a saying that spades symbolize a sword, diamonds symbolize wealth, clubs symbolize power, and hearts symbolize the Holy Grail. According to the riddle, the king carries treasure, the queen sheds tears over the Holy Grail, and the soldier points his sword at the King of Diamonds, the Queen of Hearts, and the Jack of Spades."

At this point in Conan's speech, a glimmer of hope appeared on Chima Kazuyo's face: "Is this the answer to the riddle? But what is the purpose of these three playing cards?"

"Of course it's useful. Now that you've bought this mansion, haven't you noticed something strange?"

"This large mansion has been built for over a hundred years and has accumulated many antiques, but surprisingly, only the restaurant has a clock, and it's broken."

"You mean, this clock is the treasure?" Chima Kazuyo's breathing seemed to quicken considerably.

"If you want to figure it out, why don't you try it yourself? If I'm not mistaken, the two travelers looking up at the night sky refers to the time when both the clock and the minute hand point to the zero o'clock position."

"Furthermore, the 'Fool' card in the Tarot deck also has no number. It is the beginning and end of all Tarot cards, and it also represents starting from zero."

Upon hearing Conan's words, the woman in her sixties couldn't wait to move a chair to the fireplace and carefully set the clock to midnight.

"Then, according to the orientation of the three playing cards, turn the minute dial to the left first, then to the left ...

Following Conan's instructions, Chima Kazuyo quickly did as she was told. As she nervously turned the clock to the correct position, waiting for the so-called treasure to appear, the clock suddenly fell directly from the wall to the ground with a dull thud.

"What is this...?" Chima Kazuyo quickly got off the chair and began to examine the clock. After all, this was related to the loss of her father's life and the treasure she had been searching for for more than twenty years. She didn't want anything to go wrong.

When she saw the clock suddenly fall, she thought it was because too much time had passed and the mechanism had malfunctioned.

However, after she examined it, she discovered that the clock that had fallen to the ground had its gold exposed because the clock case had been broken!

"Is this a solid gold clock?"

She tried to pick up the clock, but she was surprised to find that it was heavier than she had imagined, roughly estimated to be at least ten kilograms.

“More than ten kilograms of gold, just this clock alone is probably worth more than fifty million yen,” Hakuba Saguru quickly estimated.

Senma Kazuyo stared at the clock in disbelief: "Could it be that the only wealth Karasuma Renya's parents left him was this golden clock?"

Fifty million yen is a huge sum for an ordinary person, but the famous detectives present are not ordinary people; at least they don't have to worry about making a living. Senma Furuyo spent hundreds of millions to acquire this mansion, so the value of this golden clock is simply too small.

“In short, this mansion now belongs to you and Oogami Ichizane, so this clock also belongs to you,” Conan said, looking at Chima Kazuyo, whose expression was complicated, from a distance.

Chima Kazuyo's expression turned sarcastic.

"It's such a cruel reality. I never imagined that my father and so many other dead people would lose their lives for something like this."

It was because of this thing that she became obsessed and burdened herself with huge debts with Da Shang Zhu Shan, and even had the idea of ​​murdering him for his money.

If she wasn't mistaken, Da Shang Zhu Shan probably wanted to loot their car for any valuables before the bomb exploded, which is why she was drugged by Jiang Hang's car.

She looked at the mansion, seemingly waiting for some other turning point to occur.