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Unlike Sakura Seizo's antique shop, when Jiang Hang and his group arrived near Saijo Taiga's used bookstore, they found that the bookstore was still open.

From afar, Jiang Hang noticed through his eagle eye that there were still quite a few people inside the used bookstore.

Jiang Hang immediately became alert, thinking that he might be able to find more useful clues here.

Chapter 359: I've been feeling really bad lately, so I've decided to take a few days off to recharge.

I went to the hospital for a check-up a few days ago, and the results haven't come out yet. Although I feel that I'm only 26 years old and shouldn't have any major problems, my sleep quality has been really bad these past few days. When I wake up, my whole body aches.

Lately, for this reason, my mind goes blank when I'm in front of the computer, and the quality of what I write has dropped significantly. So I've been thinking about it and decided to take a break for a few days, get back into the swing of things, and then update again.

Chapter 360: Chapter 356: Don't move around here.

Seeing the brightly lit old bookstore, Jiang Hang immediately grabbed Conan.

“There are people in the bookstore, and more than one. Be careful here, I'll go check out what’s going on.”

Conan listened to Jiang Hang say this, and then saw Jiang Hang disappear into the darkness like a ghost.

This guy must have been a phantom thief before. He was standing right here a moment ago, and now he's disappeared without a trace.

Conan looked at the bookstore in the distance. Although his eyesight was already considered excellent among ordinary people, he still couldn't tell how many people were inside the bookstore.

Conan mentally complained about Jiang Hang's mysteriousness, but still hid to the side as Jiang Hang had instructed.

Anyway, he looks like a child, so he's not likely to attract attention.

Meanwhile, in Jianghang, he lurked in the darkness and quickly arrived near the old bookstore.

With his eagle eye, he quickly figured out the current situation in the used bookstore.

Besides Sakura Seizo and Saijo Taiga who were talking, there were two or three other young people in the bookstore. Judging from their respectful manner towards Saijo Taiga, they should be lower-ranking members of Genji Hotaru's theft gang.

He leaned closer and began to listen to the conversation between the two people.

When he arrived, the two had been chatting for a while, but coincidentally, they were talking about Hattori Heiji and the Buddha statue.

"...That detective is quite famous in the Kansai region. With his abilities, he might actually be able to solve the mystery left behind by the leader."

"But there's one thing I have to make clear to you. That detective's identity is no ordinary one. You should know from the magazines that his father is the Superintendent General of the Osaka Prefectural Police. Now those cops are already watching us. Even if we want to take action against him, it's best to wait until he finds the whereabouts of the Buddha statue before we make our move. Then we can sell the Buddha statue in the shortest time and run away with the money."

Sakura Seizo expressed his opinion to Saijo Taiga in a rather forceful tone.

It sounds like Saijo Taiga wants to get rid of Hattori Heiji as soon as possible, but Sakura Seizo disagrees with this plan and wants to continue using Hattori Heiji to do their work.

Of the main members of the Genji Firefly, only he and Saijo Taiga are still alive, and all the dead members were eliminated by Saijo Taiga.

Of course, all of this was actually part of Sakura Seizo's plan. He started by approaching Saijo Taiga and asking him to deal with the other members of the Genji Hotaru clan. Finally, the two of them went together to find the Buddha statue and the whereabouts of the white hair.

Sakura Seizo knew, of course, that after Saijo Taiga dealt with all the other members of the Genji Hotaru, he probably also had the idea of ​​dealing with him as well and then taking possession of the Buddha statue for himself.

But that didn't matter; he knew that Saijo Taiga wouldn't lay a hand on him now.

Despite Saijo Taiga holding a higher position than him within the Genji Fireflies, the once-famous thieving group in Kyoto had effectively ceased to exist after the death of its leader, Yoshitsune.

In the end, Saijo Taiga is just a martial artist with exceptional fighting skills. Even if he finds the Buddha statue, he probably won't be able to find a buyer.

After all these years, Genji Hotaru's stolen goods were all handled by him, and only he could sell them for a higher price. If Saijo Taiga wanted to make more money, he would never have dared to lay a hand on him before seeing the money.

Sakura Seizo had already planned everything out. Once they found the Buddha statue and contacted the seller, he would immediately run away from Japan after receiving his share of the money, leaving Saijo Taiga no chance whatsoever.

Saijo Taiga seemed somewhat dismissive of Sakura Seizo's reminder.

He was completely different from the gentle bookstore owner he was during the day; his eyes were arrogant and the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned.

"Ise Saburo, wasn't this plan originally yours? Are you regretting it now, just because that guy with the white pen has a cop father?" In a private setting, Saijo Taiga still used the code name from the Genji Firefly organization to refer to Sakura Seizo.

"How could that be? We're only one step away from getting the white hairpin and finding the Buddha statue. I don't want anything to go wrong at this crucial moment!" Sakura Seizo said in a deep voice.

“Nobody wants accidents to happen, but who do you think caused this situation?” Saijo Taiga sneered. “If you hadn’t been so clever as to tell that high school detective about the Sannoji Temple incident, wanting to use his abilities to find the Buddha statue for us, we wouldn’t have had to take such a big risk.”

When Saijo Taiga used those words to shut him up, Sakura Masazo's face immediately turned red.

"I originally wanted the monk from Sanonji Temple to find the Hawkeye Detective, who's quite famous in Tokyo lately, to investigate. But who knew that Hawkeye Detective was so arrogant and refused the commission without even asking a question."

"Just then, I ran into a detective who was investigating Genji Hotaru, so I thought I'd give him a shot. Who knew that while I was just sitting quietly in the shop, I would run into a detective investigating us who turned out to be that brat who secretly took the white hair back then!"

Besides, you already knew about this, didn't you? If you had told me about this important matter sooner, I wouldn't have made such a silly mistake!

Jiang Hang, who was eavesdropping outside the bookstore, felt a bit uneasy when Sakura Seizawa suddenly mentioned him.

However, neither Sakura Seizo nor Saijo Taiga, who were in the room, expected that their sincere invitation to Jiang Hang would not have been successful. Instead, Jiang Hang went around in circles and finally came to them on his own initiative.

Inside the room, Saijo Taiga shrugged and spread his hands: "I'll say it again, you should give up the idea of ​​using that detective to help you find the Buddha statue. We've been searching for three months and still haven't found it. Do you really think that detective is so amazing that he can find the Buddha statue for us in just one or two days?"

“If he finds it, that’s fine. But if he doesn’t find it and instead becomes suspicious of us during the investigation, all our hard work over the years will be completely wasted.”

"To be on the safe side, the sooner we resolve that detective's matter, the lower our risk of being exposed."

"I'll put my words here: now that I've seen with my own eyes that the white hair is in that detective's hands, I'm going to find an opportunity to get it back tomorrow."

"As for that detective... well, that depends on whether he's lucky enough to survive!"

When he said this, a cruel look appeared on Saijo Taiga's face, showing that he cared nothing for human lives.

Chapter 361: Chapter 357: Mr. Jiang, a Kind-hearted Citizen

Following the usual pattern, after Jiang Hang completed the eavesdropping and learned the criminals' purpose, he should have gone back to tell Hattori Heiji and Conan what he had heard there.

Then, when Saijo Taiga makes his move against Hattori Heiji tomorrow, he will gracefully resolve the incident and explain how his identity was exposed and discovered to Saijo Taiga's astonished gaze.

Interspersed in the middle is a segment about Hattori Heiji searching for his first love, while simultaneously discovering clues and successfully finding the whereabouts of the Buddha statue during the process of subduing Saijo Taiga and his gang, ultimately leading to a happy ending for everyone.

All of this content, if put together in an animation, would be enough to make a theatrical film.

If Jiang Hang were bored, he might actually do something like that.

But it's already quite late today, almost 2 a.m.

Jiang Hang thought about it and realized that he originally just wanted to take his company's employees on a vacation. Why did he have to spend all his time on Genji Firefly, the theft organization that he was causing internal strife with?

He wanted to sleep in late tomorrow and continue enjoying his vacation; he didn't want to spend too much energy being Hattori Heiji's babysitter.

Anyway, the Yoshitsune Chronicle that Sakura Seizo has now proven his identity as a member of the Genji clan, while Jiang Hang has also recorded the conversation between the two of them with a bugging device.

With the evidence in hand, it seems that only Taiga Saijo and Masazo Sakura remain as the main members of the Genji clan, based on the conversation between Taiga Saijo and Masazo Sakura.

The leader they were talking about appeared to have passed away some time ago, and before his death, he had given the other members a coded map showing the whereabouts of the Buddha statue.

As for the other members, they had already been killed by the two of them, in order to get more money after finding the Buddha statue.

If that's the case, then the remaining main members of Genji Hotaru are all in this used bookstore. If they can capture Sakura Seizo and Saijo Taiga here, then this gang of thieves who have been committing crimes in Kyoto for many years will be completely eliminated from the stage of history tonight.

What about the coded diagram related to the whereabouts of the Buddha statue?

Please, the murderer has already been caught and the case has been solved. No one will interfere with their research on the cipher map anymore.

If Conan and Heiji Hattori were willing, they could study that cipher map while eating and sleeping. With the combined intelligence of Heiji and Conan, it would only take them a few days at most to decipher the cipher.

Anyway, the Buddha statue has been stolen for eight years, and the Buddhist abbot of Shanneng Temple isn't even worried about it, so there's even less reason for Jianghang to be anxious.

Thinking of this, Jiang Hang stopped pretending altogether.

From Conan's perspective, Jiang Hang, who had blended into the darkness and was difficult to spot, suddenly swaggered out and walked directly to the entrance of the used bookstore.

"What is Jiang Hang trying to do?" Conan was still confused and couldn't figure out why Jiang Hang was suddenly acting so openly.

But the next moment, after seeing Jiang Hang skillfully pick the lock and open the door, and then hearing a commotion coming from the old bookstore, Conan finally understood what Jiang Hang meant.

He stared in disbelief in the direction of the used bookstore.

Jiang Hang's way of thinking is really hard to understand.

When he was about to go out that night, he said he was just going out to scout things out and conduct some covert investigations. How did the investigation turn into an arrest in the blink of an eye?

Luckily, I went out with Jiang Hang tonight. Otherwise, if I woke up tomorrow morning to hear that Jiang Hang had wiped out the Genji Hotaru criminal gang, I would probably sit on my bed and question my life for the whole day.

Conan can now even imagine Hattori Heiji's reaction when he hears about this tomorrow.

Conan thought to himself as he quickened his pace toward the location of the used bookstore.

He wasn't worried about Jiang Hang's safety.

Given Jiang Hang's current skill level, he only needs to worry about whether the prisoners will do anything reckless in front of Jiang Hang.

He was worried that if he arrived too late, he might not be able to figure out the true situation and purpose of Genji Hotaru's theft team—Jiang Hang was good at everything, but he didn't care about the details of the case or the motives of the murderers.

For Conan, these things are the most important in a case. He must figure out why these criminals made these choices, and then use his words to break down their psychological defenses and make them sincerely repent for their crimes.

This will also allow him to find the murderer more quickly or prevent the murderer from committing the crime in advance when he encounters similar cases in the future.

This Genji Hotaru gang has stolen a huge number of antiques and artifacts over the past decade.

Then, a few years ago, they suddenly disappeared without a trace. Then, this month, a series of murders occurred due to infighting within the gang. What exactly happened during this period? Without sufficient evidence, Conan can only make some guesses and cannot be completely certain.

Therefore, he had to leave one person alive who could speak before he could take down all of Jiang Hang's group, so that he could completely resolve his doubts.

However, even though Conan tried his best to quicken his pace, he was still a step too late when he arrived at the old bookstore.

In the cluttered secondhand bookstore, Sakura Seizo and Saijo Taiga, two key members of the Genji Firefly clan, had already been dealt with by Jiang Hang using tranquilizer darts. They probably didn't even see clearly who attacked them.

As for the remaining few scoundrels, even if they had weapons, they were no match for Jiang Hang.

Just as Conan uttered the words "Spare him," Jiang Hang delivered a steady chop to the back of the neck of the last remaining conscious henchman, causing him to collapse unconscious on the ground without any doubt.

"What did you say?" After easily taking down the group, Jiang Hang put away his hidden sword and looked at Conan with some confusion. "Why do you look more anxious than I am?"

Looking at Jiang Hang's relaxed expression and the Genji Hotaru members lying on the ground, Conan's lips twitched: "What I mean is, should we leave someone behind to ask them about the organization's specifics? After all, we actually know quite little about that Genji Hotaru theft organization. But it seems unnecessary now..."

"That was my oversight. I'll definitely remember next time," Jiang Hang said to himself, though he was inwardly complaining.

It's already 2 a.m. If he asks any more questions and they find out some new clues, he probably won't be able to sleep tonight. He should just leave these things to the police. Maybe the police who come later will get an extra bonus this month?

Thinking this, Jiang Hang took out his phone from his pocket and dialed the police as a concerned citizen.

Chapter 362: Chapter 358: Suffering a loss is a blessing, Brother Hattori!

Jiang Hang, after all, held the official position of Special Advisor to the Metropolitan Police Department. Therefore, after he revealed his identity, a team of police officers quickly arrived at the unassuming secondhand bookstore in Saijo Taiga.

To his slight surprise, he saw a familiar face among the group of police officers.