The Daily Life of a Salted Fish Assassin in Anime Crossovers

Not long after, a somewhat flustered woman's voice came from the other end of the phone.

"You...you, who are you? Tell me now, or I'm hanging up!"

Hearing the woman's extremely flustered voice, Heiji Hattori and Jiang Hang, who were standing next to Officer Sakata, exchanged a glance and realized that there was indeed a problem.

Officer Sakata quickly explained, "Hello, Ms. Okazaki, this is Officer Sakata from the First Investigation Division of the Higashijiri Precinct of the Osaka Police Department. We're calling to inquire about a recent case..."

Officer Sakata was interrupted by Sumie Okazaki on the other end of the phone before he could finish speaking.

"Officer, please come and protect me! If this continues, I'm going to be killed by that guy just like Noyasu and Nishiguchi!"

Upon hearing the names of the two victims from the woman, Hattori Heiji instinctively clenched his fists.

As expected, his guess was right. This woman was the key, and she might even know the murderer's identity!

Officer Sakata was startled by the woman's sudden cry for help. He quickly reassured her, "Ms. Okazaki, please calm down. We police will definitely protect you."

"We're heading from the police station to your home now. Is your current address still at Xidu Apartments?"

After receiving the woman's affirmative reply, Officer Sakata once again solemnly reminded her, "Before we arrive, lock the doors to your house and don't let anyone in!"

"We'll be there in ten minutes, but you must be extremely careful until then!"

With that, Officer Sakata prepared to hang up the phone and head to Sumie Okazaki's house to protect this important informant.

But just as he was about to hang up the phone, Jiang Hang suddenly stopped him.

"Don't hang up yet. What if the murderer suddenly breaks down the door during this time, and Ms. Okazaki can't contact you immediately?"

Seeing that Officer Sakata was stunned for a moment, Jiang Hang took the phone from his hand.

Are you kidding me? He's seen this kind of plot way too many times in movies and TV shows.

They kept saying they'd be there right away, but in those few minutes, they always encountered unexpected situations, ultimately leading to the person the main characters were looking for being killed by the criminal before they could find him.

In this situation, you need to keep confirming the information from the other party and try to get more information about the case from them as soon as possible!

Jiang Hang coughed lightly, then spoke into the phone in a relatively calm voice: "Hello, this is Jiang Hang, a special advisor to the Metropolitan Police Department. I will be in constant communication with you from now on until the police arrive at your room."

"First, make sure all the doors and windows in your house are closed as quickly as possible before you come back to the phone."

While Okazaki Sumie was checking the doors and windows, Jiang Hang glanced at Officer Sakata, who looked somewhat embarrassed, gave him a look that said, "Let's go now," and prepared to set off with Hattori Heiji.

He had only just taken a few words out of the police station with his phone when he suddenly noticed his assistants following behind him, ready to join him.

He had been so focused on the case that he almost forgot about the girls.

But Jiang Hang isn't planning to bring them along this time.

After all, the perpetrator in this case is a murderer whose identity has not yet been confirmed.

With so many girls here, it wouldn't be appropriate for him to bring just anyone to the event, as he usually does.

But it would be a bit too high-profile to take a group of girls with you to solve a case.

Even if Jiang Hang is very skilled, it's better to be more cautious in this situation. It would be bad if the murderer hurt them while escaping.

So Jiang Hang thought about it and decided that to keep things simple and convenient, he would just go with Hattori Heiji this time, and the girls could stay at the police station and wait for them to come back.

Jiang Hang whispered to the girls about the dangers of the operation, and asked Kazuha Toyama, who was standing nearby, to look after them at the police station for a while. Then he looked towards Akemi Miyano's location.

Miyano Akemi smiled understandingly at Jiang Hang, indicating that she didn't care about these things.

But it might not be so easy to get rid of Shiho Miyano...

Ok?

Where is Shiho Miyano?

It was only then that Jiang Hang realized that Shiho Miyano was no longer at the police station.

Did they go to the restroom?

However, with Shiho Miyano not around, he's saved a lot of trouble.

Jiang Hang gave Miyano Akemi a look that said, "Please apologize to your sister for me," and then hurriedly left the police station.

The damaged car was obviously no longer drivable, but Officer Sakata seemed to have partnered with Hattori Heiji many times before and knew what kind of person Hattori Heiji was, so he had prepared another car in advance during the investigation.

Even when Hattori Heiji thanked him, he just kept adjusting the direction of the car's rearview mirrors while saying that he was already used to it.

However, just as they were about to drive away, another person suddenly squeezed into the back seat, which had previously only had Jiang Hang sitting there.

Upon seeing that the person who suddenly squeezed in was Shiho Miyano, Jiang Hang, who was holding his phone, almost dropped it on the ground.

He quickly covered the microphone and whispered to Shiho Miyano why she had suddenly followed him.

"I came out to wait for you when you were talking about that councilor," Shiho Miyano explained succinctly, seemingly having figured out Jiang Hang's modus operandi.

Then she stared at Jiang Hang with wide eyes and said to him in a voice only the two of them could hear, "On my first day in Osaka, I had a bad feeling, like... I could smell those guys, so I'm going to find out if this case is related to them or not."

Chapter 380: Chapter 376: Fugitives from the Winery

Upon hearing Shiho Miyano's words, Jiang Hang was slightly taken aback, but then quickly realized that the "guys" Shiho Miyano was referring to were the members of the brewery.

Speaking of which, he did vaguely remember that after Shiho Miyano escaped the organization, she became particularly sensitive to the people from the Black Organization. Whenever a member of the Black Organization appeared around her, she could always detect it immediately.

But Jiang Hang really didn't expect that, judging from Shiho Miyano's words, this case would involve encountering members of the brewery.

Seemingly noticing that Jiang Hang was whispering something to Shiho Miyano, Heiji Hattori originally wanted to come over and listen to what the two were saying.

However, Conan hadn't told Hattori Heiji about the distillery yet, so Jiang Hang naturally didn't intend to bring up such a private matter with Hattori Heiji in this kind of place.

He immediately rolled his eyes at Hattori Heiji, telling him to sit properly in the passenger seat and not eavesdrop on other people's whispers.

As for Shiho Miyano, Jiang Hang nodded slightly, indicating that he understood and tacitly acquiesced to Shiho Miyano's actions in acting with him.

After Hattori Heiji withdrew his curiosity, Jiang Hang began to ponder what role a member of the brewery would play in this case if there really was one.

The first person to be considered is naturally the murderer.

However, this was also the direction that Jiang Hang ruled out the fastest.

After all, given the distillery's style, they would definitely eliminate their targets in the simplest way possible, and most importantly, maintain their own secrecy.

Unlike this serial murder case, where each victim was killed in the same way, the people at the brewery would not have openly displayed the victims' bodies to provoke the Osaka police, as if they were afraid the police wouldn't realize it was a serial killing.

Jiang Hang pondered, resting his chin on his hand: Or perhaps there was an undercover agent sent by the brewery in the Osaka Police Department, which was detected by Shiho Miyano's unreliable and unadjustable brewery radar?

Seeing Shiho Miyano's current state, Jiang Hang subconsciously turned his gaze to Officer Sakata, who had just adjusted the rearview mirror and was preparing to drive.

Heiji Hattori knew he was part of the main cast, so he could rest assured about that.

Naturally, his parents and the family of his childhood friend, Kazuha Toyama, can also be excluded.

So after they arrived in Osaka, the only person they had the most contact with was Officer Sakata.

After thinking about this, Jiang Hang suddenly recalled the faint smell of blood he had smelled on Officer Sakata when he first met him that morning.

At the time, Jiang Hang thought the other person was a detective from the First Investigation Division, who was busy with various cases all day and could not get off work until very late.

The bloodstains on him were likely from yesterday's crime scene, traces that he hadn't had time to clean off.

But now that the other party has been labeled as a "distillery member," the source of the bloody smell on him is questionable.

Jiang Hang pondered the possibility that Officer Sakata, whom he had only met today, was an undercover agent at the liquor company.

However, all of this is just baseless speculation. In the end, Jiang Hang decided to focus on Officer Sakata for the time being.

After Okazaki Sumie, on the other end of the phone, confirmed that all the doors and windows in her house were locked and closed, Jiang Hang temporarily turned his attention back to the phone.

“Ms. Okazaki, please relax a little. We are on our way and will be there soon,” he continued in a steady voice as he spoke to Sumie Okazaki on the other end of the phone.

"Now, please briefly explain over the phone how you met Noyasu and Nishiguchi Tayo, and whether you were at the crime scene this afternoon because you knew something in advance."

Because of the successive deaths of people she knew, Okazaki Sumie on the other end of the phone had long since become a frightened bird.

Fearing that she might be killed by the mysterious killer at any moment, she swallowed hard, hesitated for a moment, and then stammered out how she had met the victims of this case when she was young.

"About twenty years ago, when I had just come of age, I was attending a short-term driving training camp. I shared a room with Nishiguchi, and Noyasu and Nagao were also in that training class..."

Because Jiang Hang had the speakers on, everyone in the car could hear what Okazaki Sumie was saying.

Heiji Hattori immediately took out his notebook and began to write down this important information, planning to investigate the training course from back then after making the call in Jianghang.

"So, did anything happen during that short training session?"

After all, that was 20 years ago. Would most people still remember the names of the people they learned to drive with back then so clearly 20 years later?

Clearly, something memorable must have happened that made it impossible for Sumie Okazaki to forget what happened back then, and it is also the real cause of this serial murder case.

After Jiang Hang asked the question, Okazaki Sumie hesitated for a moment before explaining somewhat unclearly, "Twenty years ago, on the day our training ended, our instructor died in a car accident... After that, our training program was disbanded..."

The woman's ambiguous tone made it clear to almost everyone that she was probably hiding a lot about this matter.

If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. If she were truly confident, she wouldn't be acting so timidly. She even chose to flee immediately upon seeing the police at the crime scene.

It's estimated that she was getting increasingly worried about the killer coming to her door from staying at home, which is why she wanted to seek help from the police after Officer Sakata called her.

Jiang Hang gave Hattori Heiji a look, signaling him to thoroughly investigate the training class from back then, while he continued to keep Okazaki Sumie calm.

The other party still had a defensive stance and was unwilling to reveal everything. Because they were communicating over the phone, he was worried that continuing to press Okazaki Sumie would cause her to break down again and do something irrational, so he didn't press her any further.

It wouldn't be too late for them to wait until they meet with Sumie Okazaki and have a face-to-face conversation before gradually uncovering the truth about what happened back then.

"So, have you kept in touch all these years? Why were you there at that place at noon today? Were you notified in advance?"

Sumie Okazaki quickly replied, "It's been a long time since we've all seen each other in our training class. But because Nishiguchi runs an izakaya, I occasionally go there for a visit. Aside from that, I've only taken a taxi driven by Noya a few times."

"I actually received a voicemail around noon today. The person on the phone asked me to go to a certain place, saying that I could see my old friend there. Because the news reported this morning about the murder in Xikou, I went to the place indicated in the call to take a look..."

"Then, after I got home, I received another message asking if I had seen it, and telling me that I was next... You guys better hurry up and come over now!"

Hearing the increasingly panicked voice of the woman on the other end of the phone, I reassured her a few times, told her to stay on the phone, and then let her slowly recall who might be the murderer in this case.

The members of that training class were of paramount importance back then, and now any member of that training class could be the murderer or the next victim.

Sumie Okazaki controlled her flustered tone and slowly recounted the names of the trainees from back then.

The three deceased were listed first, but the names she mentioned next made everyone in the car pause in surprise.

"Goji Sotaro...is that the Osaka Prefectural Assembly member Goji Sotaro?" I just heard this name from Officer Sakata, and I didn't expect to hear it from Sumie Okazaki so soon.

After receiving a positive reply from Okazaki Sumie, Jiang Hang couldn't help but mutter to himself.

Well, he was planning to go to the other person's house tonight to drug them and interrogate them, but now it seems that if Hattori Heiji and Officer Sakata report this to the Osaka police, he probably won't even need to take action.