The Daily Life of a Salted Fish Assassin in Anime Crossovers

He usually interacts most with Takagi Wataru and Inspector Megure, and they sometimes have that smell when they come back from crime scenes, so there's nothing strange about it.

Heiji Hattori then directly questioned Officer Sakata in front of Jiang Hang: "You must have prepared the car, right? I told you last night that there are nine people in total, including us and you, who is at Level 4."

Officer Sakata nodded affirmatively: "Of course, as you instructed, I borrowed the best police car from the station!"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Hang naturally understood that all of this was deliberately arranged by Hattori Heiji.

"You really intend to let us travel around Osaka in your police cars?" Jiang Hang's lips twitched. Hattori Heiji was truly a genius to think of using police cars to pick up guests.

Hattori Heiji, however, chuckled and scratched the back of his head, completely unconcerned: "It's okay, it's okay. What's wrong with riding in a police car? I haven't done anything wrong anyway. As long as I'm upright, why should I care about anything else?"

"I've been riding in police cars since I was a child, and I'm still doing fine, aren't I?"

But to be honest, even though he often has to deal with the police, the feeling of nine people sitting in a police car converted from a small passenger vehicle, with several people sitting in seats that allow them to look at each other like prisoners being transported, was quite novel, even for Jiang Hang.

Even Kazuha Toyama felt a little awkward when she got into the police car and looked at the girls sitting upright opposite her.

She immediately turned her anger towards Hattori Heiji, who was sitting in the passenger seat and laughing, and scolded him: "Heiji, what do you mean by this? Even if you don't have a car at home that can fit so many people, you can just rent one. By using this car to give us a ride, people on the street will think we are criminals who have been arrested by you!"

"And does your uncle even know you're doing this? If he finds out you've used a police car without permission, you'll probably get another beating when you get back."

However, even now, Heiji Hattori's mindset remains quite calm.

"Don't worry, Jiang Hang is a special advisor to the Metropolitan Police Department, so he's practically one of us. Besides, Genji Hotaru has committed quite a few thefts in Osaka over the past few years."

“Jiang Hang has arrested the members of that gang, and now that he’s in Osaka, it’s only natural that we should be a little more welcoming to him.”

"As for the onlookers, they're just watching the show; you'll get used to it eventually."

"To be honest, this car is a brand new one that was only assigned to the Higashijiri Police Station in the second half of this year. The people at the station cherish it and have hardly ever let it go on any missions. This time, they only lent it out because of Jiang Hang."

Jiang Hang didn't take Hattori Heiji's nonsense to heart.

Like Conan, Heiji Hattori appears to be a righteous and upright protagonist on the surface, but once he gets to know people, he will occasionally make some harmless jokes or pranks.

Riding in a police car is ultimately just one of Hattori Heiji's perverse hobbies.

And it must be said that driving a police car does have many advantages.

At least there won't be any clueless cars deliberately blocking the way of the police car. Basically, as long as the road conditions aren't too congested, the police car can maintain a relatively stable speed.

After sitting in the car for a while, Jiang Hang, feeling a bit bored, originally wanted to ask Hattori Heiji and the driver, Sakata Yusuke, about the new murder case that had occurred in Osaka.

It's fair to say that working as a detective for a long time will inevitably lead to some occupational hazards.

Especially for someone like Jiang Hang, who can earn tens of millions of yen from the system just by solving a case, the concept that cases equal money has become an unconscious reaction for him.

But since this morning, for some reason, Shiho Miyano has been watching his every move, as if she wants to find some flaw in him.

If he were to ask about the murder case now, Shiho Miyano might misunderstand and think he wanted to solve it.

Besides, since they didn't invite him over, they obviously had their own plans, so he shouldn't interfere with the police's actions.

Thinking of this, Jiang Hang shook his head, reminding himself that he came to Osaka to relax and enjoy the food, and not to be like Conan who would instinctively rush over to watch every case he heard about.

Jiang Hang wanted to avoid the case, but the case wouldn't actively avoid him.

Led by Heiji Hattori and Officer Sakata, Jiang Hang sampled Osaka's local udon noodles, takoyaki, and a traditional snack called "okonomiyaki."

The accident happened at the time when they left the okonomiyaki shop.

"Officer Sakata, are you really not going to eat with us?" As they left the restaurant, Yuno Kiharu, who was walking in front, asked Yusuke Sakata, who was sitting in the car waiting for them, somewhat embarrassed.

As a foodie, Yoshino Koharu has been enjoying herself to the fullest in Kyoto and Osaka these past few days.

After visiting three restaurants and tasting the most authentic Osaka cuisine, her belly is now quite bulging.

However, she was still thinking about Yusuke Sakata, who had taken them all over Osaka. This dutiful police officer used the excuse that he was only there to receive them, and after dropping Jiang Hang and her group off at the hotel, he sat alone in the car waiting for them to finish their meal. It was almost noon at the hotel, and the police officer still hadn't had a hot meal.

Jiang Hang originally wanted to pack a meal for the other person, but the other person politely declined, saying that they were not hungry yet.

"It's alright, I'll figure something out if I get really hungry. My most important job right now is to take care of you all... By the way, since you've just eaten, how about we take a short walk around here to digest a bit before we drive to the next location?" Yusuke Sakata suggested with a smile.

The girls, who were quite full, had no objections. But just then, passersby on the side of the road suddenly exclaimed in surprise as they looked up.

In an instant, the danger-predicting ability brought by his Mind's Eye made Jiang Hang, who had just reached the car door, suddenly look up. Then, after seeing the gradually growing dark shadow above his head, his pupils quickly shrank, and he turned around to protect Sakaki Shizuka behind him with his back.

"boom!!--"

The next moment, with a heavy object hitting the ground and the sound of glass shattering, a man's body slammed heavily onto the hood of the police car!

The sudden fall caused screams from passersby to erupt in what was once a quiet street!

Before Shizuka could even see anything clearly, Jiang Hang blocked her view with his body. Only after Jiang Hang confirmed that there was no danger and let her go did she stare wide-eyed at the extremely tragic scene before her.

An obese middle-aged man, with a long rope tied around his waist and a small knife stuck in his chest, stared menacingly at the person in front of him.

With just one glance, Jiang Hang could tell that the man had already stopped breathing. The murderer must have killed him beforehand and then deliberately pushed him off the roof after his body began to stiffen!

Jiang Hang looked up again and could clearly see a middle-aged man standing on the rooftop, looking at them with a surprised expression.

Was that the murderer?

Jiang Hang was taken aback. Although he felt something was amiss, he still told Hattori Heiji to stay and guard the exit downstairs.

Then, without hesitation, he extended the grappling hook in his left hand and hooked it onto the railing of the rooftop. Amidst the gasps of the passersby, he leaped onto the rooftop from which the deceased had fallen with astonishing speed in just a few seconds.

Jiang Hang moved so fast that even the middle-aged man on the rooftop didn't have time to react.

Only when Jiang Hang walked up to him did he look at Jiang Hang with a look of horror, as if he could not believe what he had just seen.

Seeing the other party's timid and submissive appearance, Jiang Hang couldn't help but frown.

Is this man the murderer?

Would a real murderer appear so openly in front of others after committing a crime?

Even after seeing his "rising from the ground" maneuver, shouldn't the murderer have just tried to escape?

If all the criminals were really this "frank," then there wouldn't be any "black guys" in the Conan movies.

Sure enough, as soon as Jiang Hang raised his voice slightly, the trembling man confessed everything he knew.

According to the man, he is the owner of the tea shop downstairs in this building and also the landlord of the building. He just received a call asking him to go to the rooftop to take a look.

Although he didn't know what was wrong upstairs, as the landlord, he still went up to the roof to check after receiving the call.

As soon as he reached the rooftop and tried to open the door, he felt a force on the other side of the door pull it open.

Then he heard a loud thud from downstairs, like something heavy hitting a car, so he ran to the edge of the roof to see what was going on.

He just wanted to go and watch the fun, but he ended up getting completely absorbed in it.

Chapter 378: Chapter 374: This trip to Osaka has fallen through again.

After hearing the landlord's explanation, Jiang Hang naturally didn't immediately believe what he said.

He scanned the rooftop again with his eagle eye, but unfortunately, there were no useful clues left behind.

Then he stood on the rooftop and gestured to Hattori Heiji downstairs to come up.

The two of them briefly discussed their findings and, by combining them, temporarily ruled out the landlord as a suspect.

Heiji Hattori had just carefully examined the victim's body downstairs.

Judging from the stiffness of the body and the smell emanating from it, the murderer must have killed the victim a day earlier, then hung his body from the edge of the building's railing and tied a rope to the doorknob on the rooftop.

After the landlord received a mysterious phone call, he went up to the rooftop and turned the doorknob, causing the rope to slip and the body to fall onto the police car.

It's a very simple mechanism; the only variable is who will open the door.

Of course, this makes it even harder to investigate the killer's identity.

A night had passed since the deceased died.

It would be strange to find any clues on such an open-air rooftop.

The only direction the investigation could take was that mysterious phone call to the landlord who told him to go to the rooftop.

The murderer wasn't discovered when he killed the person. Even if he hid the body on the rooftop, it probably wouldn't be discovered for two or three days as long as no one goes there.

Why did he have to make a special phone call at this time to expose the body to the public?

Standing on the railing of the rooftop, Jiang Hang looked down at the police car that had been smashed beyond recognition.

Given the position of the body, it could have hit the police car from below. Could it be that the murderer deliberately wanted to provoke the police and did this?

But there's another problem. This police car was lent to them by Officer Sakata. They only came to this okonomiyaki restaurant because Hattori Heiji mentioned after eating takoyaki that they could try authentic okonomiyaki in Osaka. Since the okonomiyaki restaurant that Hattori Heiji mentioned was too far away, Officer Sakata suggested that they try this okonomiyaki restaurant, which wasn't too far from the takoyaki restaurant.

It was this coincidence that led to the police car appearing in this location at this time.

If it weren't for Officer Sakata's last-minute suggestion, the murderer probably wouldn't have been able to wait a week or two to have a police car parked right under the body.

It's impossible that all of this was a conspiracy deliberately orchestrated by Officer Sakata.

Trusting the Japanese police, Jiang Hang pursed his lips slightly and dismissed the thought.

Based on the current situation, it is estimated that the murderer happened to see the police car parked in front of the okonomiyaki shop, and then had the idea of ​​provoking the police, and called the landlord of the building.

“I’ve already had Sakata notify the police to come and cordon off the scene. Since we can’t find any useful clues here, let’s go down first. You probably haven’t examined the body carefully yet, right? Maybe you can find some new clues on him.” Although he always said he wanted to compete with Jiang Hang and Shinichi Kudo, when it came to a case, Heiji Hattori was quite rational.

In less important situations, a little competition of detective skills is fine, but now they are facing a life-or-death murder case, so naturally the sooner they can catch the murderer, the better.

Jiang Hang nodded, and then had the landlord follow them downstairs.

Although the landlord's suspicion had been largely ruled out by him and Hattori Heiji, the necessary procedures still had to be followed, and the source of the mysterious phone call was something the police needed to investigate.

As Jiang Hang walked downstairs, he looked at the girls who had been the victims of a sudden murder.

With this unexpected event, the planned trip to Osaka naturally had to be canceled again.

Shizuka Sakaki and Yuno Kiharu have been working as assistants for several months and have seen many crime scenes. They have developed some patience for these kinds of things and, after a brief period of adjustment, they have now adjusted and are investigating the victim's body with Inspector Sakata.

Kazuha Toyama's father is a policeman, and she is also a childhood friend who grew up with Heiji Hattori, the detective. Her reaction at this moment seems to be relatively normal.

And the Miyano sisters are even more so.

They both grew up in the distillery and had seen a lot of backstabbing and treachery. To be honest, the number of people who had indirectly died at their hands was not small.

Such as Akemi Miyano's accomplices when she robbed the bank, and the test subjects who were used as test subjects because of the APTX4869 developed by Shiho Miyano.

Therefore, the two sisters were calmer at this moment, but Miyano Akemi, as the older sister, still had some reluctance on her face and turned her back, unwilling to see the corpse any longer.

Shiho Miyano glanced at Jiang Hang with a rather subtle look in her eyes.

Jiang Hang seemed to understand the meaning in her eyes: I knew that going out with you would easily lead to accidents. We came to Kyoto once, and now we've come to Osaka. Why are you doing this again?