The Daily Life of a Salted Fish Assassin in Anime Crossovers

How much money was finally extorted? One hundred million yen.

The number looks large, but even when converted to US dollars at the exchange rate when the yen was at its strongest, Gin, an important member of the organization, personally only managed to extort a little over one million US dollars, which sounds rather pathetic.

After all, people in Jianghang can easily pull out a large sum of money to acquire art museums and film companies. Even just a single artwork imported from abroad from an art museum could be worth more than a million US dollars.

Going on, even when her sister robbed a bank to escape the organization, she stole a billion dollars from the bank.

From this perspective, while the distillery isn't exactly poor, it's still facing a tight budget in terms of various expenses.

When Shiho Miyano was still with the organization, she received a fair amount of resources because the APTX4869 project was a key project personally overseen by the organization's boss.

However, projects that are not given much attention will face the risk of being halted if they don't produce any results in a month or two. If they don't produce any respectable achievements by the end of the year, the person in charge of that project will have to worry about whether they will be able to wake up the next morning.

The collaboration between these two organizations, with one providing funding and the other contributing resources, can be considered a complementary partnership.

Thinking about this, Shiho Miyano somewhat understood why Jiang Hang wanted to rebuild the Brotherhood.

But Shiho Miyano still had a question in her mind.

"But shouldn't this be something the Pioneer Foundation should be doing by sending someone over? Why are you still here in Japan all by yourself?"

Shiho Miyano had met people from the Pioneer Foundation, but they were mostly there to deliver things to Jiang Hang.

They would either donate artworks to Jianghang's art museum or send some new types of equipment to Jianghang. After delivering the items, they would leave, barely exchanging a few words throughout the entire process.

Jiang Hang previously said he had given up his inheritance rights to the foundation, so Shiho Miyano didn't think too much about it. But now that Jiang Hang is planning to rebuild the Brotherhood in Japan, it's a bit strange that the Pioneer Foundation hasn't sent anyone to assist him.

Jiang Hang's mind always works very fast at crucial moments. When Shiho Miyano asked him about this "flaw," he simply coughed lightly and said, "Actually, after discovering the clues about the Templars, the Foundation had already planned to fully rebuild the Brotherhood."

"There are many areas where the Brotherhood needs to be rebuilt. After all, no one knows whether those Templars have connections with other forces besides your organization. These are things that require a lot of manpower to investigate. I can only be considered the main person in charge of Japan and East Asia."

"As for sending people over to help... I've mentioned this to the foundation more than once, but they really can't send many people over."

"After all, everyone thought the Templars had been completely destroyed, so after the Brotherhood disbanded, most of the assassins returned to ordinary lives."

"The situation on the Foundation's side is a little better, but it only continued to maintain assassin training during the Cold War. Now that the Cold War has ended and so many years have passed, only a small number of assassins still choose to pass on their skills to their descendants and disciples."

"To be honest, there are probably only a few hundred young people in the whole world who have received complete assassin training."

At this point, Jiang Hang pointed to his and Shiho Miyano's skin color: "Among the young people who have received assassin training, there are even fewer people of Asian descent, not a single Japanese person, and not even a few who are fluent in Japanese."

"So it's not that the Pioneer Foundation is unwilling to send people over, but that they don't have anyone they can send to help me. At most, they can come to help with the logistical issues in the early stages of the Japanese Brotherhood's establishment." At this point, Jiang Hang couldn't help but sigh.

"According to the Brotherhood's consistent principles, what I can do now is either act as a guarantor to bring those capable people into the Brotherhood, or adopt a group of innocent orphans and train them to become assassins from a young age."

"Adopting orphans is a bit too early for me right now. I should at least wait until I'm in my thirties and semi-retired from my current position before considering it. So, if I want to rebuild the Japanese fraternity now, the only way is to find talent and attract them to join the fraternity."

"However, I, as the guarantor, am responsible for those I bring into the Brotherhood in this way. If one day someone I bring into the organization betrays me, then I will have to deal with that traitor personally."

"So I've been thinking about when to explain this to you, and then today's case happened."

“Sakata Yusuke is capable. Hattori Heiji trusts him a lot. His purpose in killing is not to satisfy his own desires, but to avenge his father. He has even prepared to end his own life after the revenge is over.”

"A person like this would be a primary target for the Assassin Brotherhood to recruit, no matter what era he was in. Twenty-six years old is not actually that old."

"Moreover, with the assistance of the Animus, as long as a memory of those past assassins is loaded into it, one can truly experience the magnificent lives of those legendary assassins within that memory. In a short time, an ordinary person who knows nothing can become a qualified assassin."

"If he can completely let go of this hatred and his past, then he might have a chance to become Japan's first master assassin in the 21st century."

Hearing this, Shiho Miyano actually had little objection to Jiang Hang recruiting Yusuke Sakata.

After all, it's not easy for Jiang Hang to be fighting alone in Japan right now.

Although Shizuka Sakaki and Yuno Kiharu are Jiang Hang's assistants, judging from how Jiang Hang deliberately avoided them this afternoon and didn't want them to be exposed to these dark activities, Jiang Hang is not planning to tell Shizuka Sakaki and the others about the Brotherhood.

And Conan and Hattori Heiji?

These two detectives are far too driven by a sense of justice. If they were to actually learn about the Brotherhood, the first thing they would probably do is to find out all about the Brotherhood.

What about that Himegami group that recently appeared around Jiang Hang?

This makes it even less credible.

From the very beginning, Himegami Sakura had her eyes on the power behind Jiang Hang and wanted to use the power of the Pioneer Foundation to completely clear her name, which is why she showed goodwill to Jiang Hang.

Although Shiho Miyano was not involved in the Great General Case that occurred at Eito Photography, she still knew about the cause and course of the case.

The victim in that case, Takeshi Ibuki, had developed the idea of ​​killing Sakura Himegami because of her years of exploitation. However, he eventually lost his life after accidentally falling onto the thorny fence of the flower bed.

All of this could be considered self-defense, but Ms. Himegami was unwilling to cause any further trouble and wanted to cover it up completely. In the end, even when the truth came out, the one who took the blame changed from her to the director of the photography studio.

For this reason alone, the Himegami Group and that Miss Himegami will never be able to become members of the Brotherhood; at most, they will only be an affiliated organization under the Forerunner Foundation.

After some recollection, Shiho Miyano considered everyone around Jiang Hang who might have been recruited into the Brotherhood, except for Jun Moriya, whom Jiang Hang had deliberately concealed.

Even the phantom thief Kid, whose relationship with Jiang Hang is somewhat complicated.

Jiang Hang has already dealt with Phantom Thief Kid several times. It's clear that Jiang Hang doesn't have much desire to capture this Phantom Thief Kid. He's basically just using the name of Phantom Thief Kid to tease Suzuki Jirokichi, that foolish and rich old man.

Furthermore, when Jiang Hang rescued her from the organization, he specifically invited Phantom Thief Kid to help her. It's quite possible that Jiang Hang had already set his sights on Phantom Thief Kid and was preparing to recruit him into the Brotherhood.

After all, Phantom Thief Kid has never killed anyone, and he always returns the stolen gems a few days later. The only question is whether such a capricious phantom thief would be willing to join another organization?

Given Jiang Hang's personality, he is unlikely to use any coercive means to force the other party, so this Phantom Thief Kid probably won't join the Brotherhood anytime soon.

So, after a round of elimination, only she and her sister remained.

With their shady backgrounds and criminal records, both sisters have criminal records that, if investigated, would not be resolved with just a year or two in prison.

Coupled with her hatred for the organization and the gratitude she felt for being saved by Jiang Hang, Shiho Miyano finally understood why Jiang Hang had suddenly told her and her sister all of this.

"So, when you saved my sister and then rescued me from the organization in the name of the Brotherhood, did you already expect this day to come?"

Jiang Hang shook his head slightly: "Saving your sister at the beginning was really just a coincidence. As for using the Brotherhood's name, that was purely to mislead the enemy."

"At that time, I really didn't expect that the Brotherhood, which had been disbanded for more than half a century, would be reorganized because of the resurgence of the Templars."

"So, you were the first people to receive an invitation from my fraternity. You didn't have any objections at the time, so I'm too lazy to ask any more questions now. I'll just assume you've already accepted being among the first members of the Japanese fraternity."

Shiho Miyano didn't really care about being one of the first members after the reorganization of the Japanese Brotherhood. After all, she hadn't paid much attention to her identity in the organization before, and she was even a little unhappy when she heard Jiang Hang so casually identify them as members of the Brotherhood.

Miyano Akemi, on the other hand, seemed a little uneasy after hearing Jiang Hang's words. She had only been a low-ranking member in the organization before, and her understanding of the organization came almost entirely from her younger sister.

The only major things she did in the organization over the years, besides bringing an FBI undercover agent into the organization, were the bank robbery plan she carried out to escape from the organization. Otherwise, she had almost no presence in the organization.

Now that she suddenly has the title of a member of an ancient organization that has been passed down for thousands of years, she naturally feels some pressure.

After all, her sister is a super genius who earned two doctoral degrees before she was twenty years old. With her intelligence, she would be sought after anywhere.

After arriving in Jianghang, she only systematically learned some disguise techniques.

Although her learning progress is much faster than that of Shizuka Sakaki and the others, she can only be considered to have barely graduated from her apprenticeship so far, and there is still a considerable gap between her and Jiang Hang's level.

If things continue like this, her identity will likely become marginalized again, and people will only occasionally think of her when her sister's name is mentioned.

With that in mind, Miyano Akemi made her request to Jiang Hang: "After we get back, can I try out that Animus device?"

Chapter 393: Chapter 389: With the system backing me up, I have plenty of confidence.

Looking at the Miyano sisters, who had been completely fooled by him, Jiang Hang gently wiped his forehead.

“Animus is usable, but it’s still in its initial version and has relatively high requirements for the human body’s constitution. The Foundation has only provided me with a device for testing. Before you can use it, I need to go in and experience how much pressure the current device will put on the human body.”

"Ideally, you should only use it after I've confirmed that there are no problems."

Jiang Hang's words left Miyano Akemi somewhat disappointed.

She originally thought that the device that could read the memories of her ancestors would allow her to improve her strength in a short period of time and help Jiang Hang better, but now it seems that this shortcut is not something that ordinary people can take.

Having temporarily abandoned the idea of ​​Miyano Akemi becoming a female assassin, the current problems are pretty much all solved.

But who knows how big the hole he's casually digging now might become in the future?

Jiang Hang felt that from now on he would have to keep a small notebook to record how well each person knew him and what he could show to them.

First, for Shiho Miyano and her sister, he had to adopt the persona of a rebuilder of the Assassin Brotherhood, leading the Japanese Brotherhood to rise again, investigating what the resurrected Templar Order was trying to do, and finding an opportunity to eradicate both the Distillery and the Templars.

As for the Black Organization, he needed to maintain his Templar Knight status in front of Vermouth and the Black Organization boss. He needed to keep in touch with them to obtain information, but he couldn't get too close to them, lest they notice something was wrong. Even if Vermouth was willing to become a double agent for the Black Organization for Conan, it didn't mean that Vermouth was a good person.

If Shiho Miyano and Akemi Miyano find out where they are, she might secretly plot against Jiang Hang behind his back.

Conan and Heiji Hattori, these two high school detectives bursting with a sense of justice, cannot be allowed to know anything about the Templars or the Brotherhood. At most, they can share some information about the Black Organization with them, and then watch the show from the sidelines as amusement.

On the contrary, he doesn't need to worry about his assistants like Shizuka Sakaki and Yuno Koharu.

For now, he should just focus on being a good assistant. If they achieve better career prospects in the future, Jiang Hang can't really keep them by his side as assistants for the rest of their lives.

Even if they don't intend to leave, it's perfectly fine to wait until Conan and his friends have taken care of the distillery, and until the Brotherhood and Templars he made up are actually established and on track with the help of the system, before telling them about these things.

After careful consideration, Jiang Hang began to feel somewhat exhausted, so he directly sought help from the system—after all, it was the system in his head that brought him to this world, and it was the system that made him a detective.

Jiang Hang originally planned to use the system's rewards to become a slacker detective and relive his childhood memories with Conan.

In the blink of an eye, the system gave him a powerful and impressive background, the Pioneer Foundation, and then fabricated a Templar Order. It even almost brought down the brewery from decades ago. This series of unexpected actions made his image in the eyes of others increasingly mysterious and complex. Now, he can only use more lies to cover up the original lie.

"System, you see the situation now. Since you've already given me the Animus, why not give me a few more sets of memories from those legendary assassins as training materials? First, give me a set of Altaïr's, then a set of Ezio's... Oh, System, you're so awesome, you must have some of the Assassin's Creed sequels from after I transmigrated, right? Anyway, I can't go back to my original world, so why don't you just package up all the Assassin's Creed memories and make it an Assassin's Creed family bucket?"

Meanwhile, the Assassin System, listening to its host plead for help, was actually the one who was most exhausted.

It has been quite troubled lately by the various random plugins it has installed. After all, with those random anime patch packages running, things its host casually rambles about can become real. And while these plugins don't consume much energy normally, when it comes to rewriting the world, the energy they consume is no small amount.

Under normal circumstances, the Assassin System wouldn't be under too much pressure, but right now it's in a state of energy shortage. Every time these plugins use its energy to rewrite the world, it's adding insult to injury to its already meager existence.

But if it turns off these plugins, it's uncertain whether turning them off will lead to even worse situations.

If it were to directly cause the world to collapse, then forget about making things worse, its best fate would probably be to spend several epochs in the system's blacklist, be stripped of its system privileges for life, and have absolutely no chance of turning things around.

Moreover, there is one thing it must admit: although the Assassin System has been troubled by these plugins, it is undeniable that as its host and its plugins have convinced more and more of the world's major figures of the existence of the Assassin Brotherhood and the Templars, its speed of absorbing the world's essence has recently increased significantly.

Not only did we not lose money between these income and expenditure, we even made a small profit.

Although it is still a long way from accumulating enough world origins to leave this world, it at least proves that the path its host has chosen can still be continued.

Thinking about this, the Assassin System also gave up somewhat.

The original intention was to train its host to be the best assassin, but it all went wrong from the very beginning.

Afterwards, it learned its lesson and decided to make its host the most legendary detective in the world, and incidentally, transform itself as well.

Although this hasn't completely backfired yet, it turns out that if Jiang Hang continues to follow his plan to become a world-class detective step by step, he probably won't be able to break even within three to five years.

In the end, it did basically nothing except give rewards to its host. It just let its host and all the messy plugins on it mess around and actually gained some unexpected benefits.

Although the Assassin System, which had been working diligently for several eras, was shaken by this fact, there was nothing shameful about winning without effort.

Now that things are starting to get back on track with its host, it doesn't need to cause trouble. It should just obediently assist its host and maintain its presence as a system.