The Daily Life of a Salted Fish Assassin in Anime Crossovers

According to the records, before Shinichi Takeda collaborated with Negishi, the Takeda family, despite having puppetry skills passed down for hundreds of years, was just a small workshop hidden deep in the mountains.

However, after less than two years of cooperation with Negishi, Shinichi Takeda, under considerable pressure, demolished the temple that the Takeda family had worshipped for many years and converted it into a warehouse. He then expanded the production scale, and the price of the puppets sold through Negishi's hands soared.

According to the data, a puppet made and sold by Shinichi Takeda was priced at over 500,000 yen. Moreover, the traditional puppets, which were relatively simple to make, relied on strings to move, and were very easy to break, were priced at more than twice as high as those puppets with internal mechanics that could be remotely operated, and could easily sell for over a million yen.

Moreover, the repair costs are equally astonishing.

The information mentioned that a one million yen doll is not covered by warranty if damaged, and each repair would cost more than 700,000 yen. Who knows if this doll is made of gold?

However, there are quite a few people who are willing to have Shinichi Takeda repair their equipment. In fact, the person who had the most repairs went to Shinichi Takeda more than ten times over a few years, spending nearly ten million yen on repairs alone.

Given the Takeda family's situation, selling just one or two traditional dolls a month would have been enough to ensure they lived a very wealthy life.

From this perspective, Negishi's marketing skills as a top salesperson must be quite formidable.

But that's where the problem lies.

Why are the former clients of such a highly capable top salesman, who almost single-handedly earned tens or even hundreds of millions of yen for the Takeda family in eight years, unwilling to be interviewed by television stations or to mention Negishi?

If it's just a simple puppet, there shouldn't be anything wrong with bringing it up, right? Or is there something else going on here, and these people are afraid that if they continue to be questioned, something that will be detrimental to them will be revealed, which is why they are acting this way?

But what kind of shady dealings could someone who sells dolls possibly have?

Jiang Hang pondered for a moment, roughly outlining a few possible directions in his mind, before taking advantage of the remaining time for the Q&A session to ask Mizunashi Rena his last question.

"If the police can determine that Mr. Negishi committed suicide, then there should be a copy of the autopsy report from the police. I can't see the body now, and the case file only says 'the police determined it to be suicide after on-site investigation.' I can't keep pondering the word 'suicide'."

"Also, please provide photos of the warehouse where the crime scene was located. If you have more detailed photos, please provide those as well."

Upon hearing Jiang Hang mention the autopsy report, Mizunashi Rena knew she could no longer keep up the charade.

However, she still jokingly said to Jiang Hang, "So even you famous detectives need autopsy reports? I thought you detectives never needed this kind of external help, that you could just walk around the scene and find evidence of the murderer's crime."

Jiang Hang answered frankly: "I have always believed that before doing anything, you should think about what impact your actions will have, and then decide whether or not to do it."

"It's like a doctor. Even if a doctor on the operating table succeeds in a thousand surgeries, just one mistake could lead to the loss of a life in his hands."

"We detectives are the same. Even if I have deduced correctly a thousand times in the past, it doesn't mean I won't make mistakes. Just one wrong deduction might make an innocent person a scapegoat. Therefore, I am quite accepting of any means that can help me better explore the truth."

These words sound like lines spoken by the male protagonist in a crime drama, but when Jiang Hang says them, they sound more heartfelt.

If those who are more sentimental, or those who have been helped by Jiang Hang in the past, saw the way Jiang Hang spoke, they might even be moved to tears.

Just like Shizuka Sakaki, who was sitting next to Jiang Hang, her eyes were fixed on Jiang Hang, and she couldn't see anything else at all.

Even Mizunashi Rena, who knew Jiang Hang's hidden identity, couldn't help but believe Jiang Hang's words at this moment.

Chapter 440: Chapter 436: The Murderer of Passion

Jiang Hang knew very well that he couldn't be considered a good person in the strict sense. After all, what good person would maintain a cooperative relationship with a transnational criminal organization while also recruiting criminals to form an assassin organization?

But what he just said was indeed his own thought.

He knew perfectly well what he was doing and what the possible consequences of his actions might be.

When Jiang Hang first transmigrated to this world and didn't know much about it, he only wanted to live a peaceful, carefree life, relying on the "transmigration error fund" given to him by the system to leisurely enjoy his second life.

Later, Jiang Hang discovered that this world contained Conan and a whole bunch of characters from anime and Japanese dramas. He didn't think too much about it, but he felt that he was too old when he transmigrated, so he couldn't transfer to Toyosaki or Soubu High School, which were almost the epicenter of crossover anime fanfiction in his previous life, and have a wonderful encounter with those heroines.

However, with the establishment of the detective agency, and the arrival of two female protagonists he quite liked before his transmigration, Shizuka Sakaki and Yuno Koharu, as his assistants, Jiang Hang almost stopped paying attention to the plot developments of those school anime.

At most, I'd occasionally sneak a peek at Otonokizaka Academy, which is currently facing closure, and secretly become one of μ's' first-generation viewers.

Afterwards, Jiang Hang's strength rapidly increased with each new commission, and the number of industries under his name continued to grow. Naturally, his vision also broadened little by little.

From the very beginning, when he wanted to follow Conan to eliminate the Black Organization, he had to spend a lot of energy making various contingency plans in advance just to save Shiho Miyano. Now, the Black Organization no longer poses any threat to him.

Under these circumstances, Jiang Hang's thoughts naturally changed.

To cultivate and develop their own power, and gradually take over the achievements of the Black Organization over the past half-century.

Achieving this is no easy feat, but Jiang Hang has only been here a short time, and his strength has already begun to develop in the direction of a humanoid heroic spirit. What he lacks is the foundation of the Assassin Brotherhood. It doesn't matter if we slow down the timeline for this, since apart from the Miyano sisters and Sakata Yusuke, the organization is currently just an empty shell with nothing.

To make it work, we'll need to put at least a few more people inside.

However, finding suitable people to bring into the organization is not something that can be accomplished in a short time, and Jiang Hang is prepared for a protracted battle.

Moreover, there are quite a few criminals in Detective Conan who have their own grievances. There are also many who cannot get justice through the law and have no choice but to risk their lives to seek revenge. Jiang Hang can find someone who meets his requirements among these criminals.

Of course, Jiang Hang's attitude towards reasoning will not change. As he himself said, his own reasoning ability is not as good as that of the top detectives in Conan and other works. He only surpasses them by relying on various external abilities.

Therefore, knowing his own capabilities, Jiang Hang naturally had no choice but to try to obtain intelligence from various sources in order to avoid creating false cases.

The hacking skills he's been diligently learning recently are something Jiang Hang started learning because of this idea, and it has indeed reduced his workload considerably.

Just like the mystery of Misa Takeda's bloodline, without hacking skills, one can only go to the scene to question witnesses like an ordinary detective, and then deduce who Misa Takeda's biological daughter is based on the witnesses' statements.

But with hacking skills, this step can be completely skipped; a single glance at Misa Takeda's file is enough to know the truth of what happened back then.

In short, under Jiang Hang's righteous and stern attitude, Mizunashi Rena had no choice but to reluctantly produce Negishi's autopsy report.

After only a few quick glances, Jiang Hang gleaned some crucial information from the autopsy report.

"So that's how it is. Then the mystery is solved..."

In fact, not only Jiang Hang, but almost everyone who sees this autopsy report should be able to reach the same conclusion—according to Gen'an's blood test, he injected himself with a large dose of drugs about half an hour to an hour before his death, so it can be said that he was killed while he was high on drugs.

The police probably concluded that Negishi had taken too much drugs and committed suicide by running over there alone, since they found nothing else suspicious at the scene.

Jiang Hang muttered softly. With another mystery solved, the only remaining puzzle in the case was the crucial question: "Who killed Negishi?"

To be honest, Jiang Hang still hasn't been able to fully deduce the answer to this question, and he still lacks some understanding of the motive for the crime.

But as Holmes said, the truth is what remains after removing the impossible.

If we analyze all the characters who appeared in this case, the one whose identity remains unclear will naturally be the real culprit.

During the subsequent Q&A session, Jiang Hang did not ask any further questions.

Now he needs to think carefully about the ins and outs of this case and clarify his own thoughts.

During Jiang Hang's period of contemplation, the host, Rena Mizunashi, was not idle. She mainly interacted with the audience and gave them some important reminders to prevent the atmosphere from becoming too dull later.

After half an hour, Rena Mizunashi immediately announced that they were moving on to the most important part of the day: the mystery-solving segment.

This step is essentially the Q&A session reversed.

Jiang Hang asked the question, and Mizunashi Rena answered.

Now, the format is reversed: Rena Mizunashi poses questions, and Jiang Hang and the audience members answer them. Finally, Jiang Hang's score, as well as the average and highest scores of the audience members, are tallied to see if there is a difference in skill level between Jiang Hang and the audience.

"So, the first question today is: there are three bodies found dead in the Spider Mansion that the police determined to be suicides. Are these three bodies actually suicides or homicides?"

As Rena Mizunashi asked her question, the audience members began writing their answers on the answer sheets provided by the program team.

The audience had three minutes to answer the question. After three minutes, all audience members stopped answering, and Jiang Hang stood in the middle of the stage and addressed everyone to share his opinion.

"Misa Takeda and Kinuyo Takeda committed suicide, but Mr. Negishi's death was most likely staged by someone else and disguised as a suicide."

"Two suicides and one homicide, so here is the probability of the audience answering the question correctly. I wonder how much of your deductions are the same as Mr. Jiang Hang's?"

The on-site answer tallying speed is naturally impossible to be this fast. Rena Mizunashi is just saying her lines here in advance. When the show officially airs, the post-production team will naturally add these data in.

After giving her a buffer period, Rena Mizunashi then began to announce the accuracy of Jiang Hang's answer.

Undoubtedly, Jiang Hang's answer was correct.

Rena Mizunashi clapped her hands softly to express her congratulations to Jiang Hang.

"The first question is correct. So, the second question is: what were the reasons for the suicides of Misa Takeda and Kinuyo Takeda?"

This question had already been addressed during the Q&A session, and it was probably the question with the highest correct answer rate among all the audience members. After the three-minute answering time was over, Jiang Hang once again reiterated what he had just analyzed.

The third question is about the identity of Kinuyo Takeda's affair partner.

When this question was asked, the audience members, who already knew this question would be asked, couldn't help but rub their heads and start thinking about whether there were any other suspicious suspects among the people who appeared in this case.

Many people took Jiang Hang's words to heart and ruled out the possibility that Gen'an had died, but a considerable number of viewers still did not take Jiang Hang's analysis to heart and still believed that Gen'an was the adulterer.

Under such circumstances, when the audience's answers for this round were tallied, the results were naturally varied and diverse.

"It seems that everyone's ideas are not quite aligned. So, Mr. Jiang Hang, would you like to share your thoughts now?" Mizunashi Rena said, and then handed the stage to Jiang Hang.

Jiang Hang didn't mince words and directly explained this ill-fated relationship to the audience.

"Based on the information currently available, the most likely person to be the woman Kinuyo Takeda had an affair with was Ryuji Takeda, the second son of the Takeda family."

This ethical issue is obviously still very much up for discussion. After Jiang Hang revealed the truth, the audience almost involuntarily gasped in surprise, and then began to wonder how Jiang Hang had deduced this.

Rena Mizunashi also looked at Jiang Hang curiously, wanting to know what his basis was.

"After removing Negishi, there weren't many men who met the requirements. They were just the other two brothers from the Takeda family and the doctor in the hospital who helped cover up the news."

"Among these people, everyone else still lives in Tottori Prefecture, except for the second son of the Takeda family, Takeda Ryuji, who left the family alone twenty years ago and has been developing in Tokyo on his own ever since. In the past twenty years, he has not returned to his hometown many times, probably only two or three times a year."

"From this perspective, it is very likely that Ryuji Takeda felt guilty towards his elder brother after doing something he shouldn't have done to his sister-in-law, and that's why he made this choice."

"In addition, the names of the three current members of the Takeda family are also quite peculiar."

"Misa Takeda is the oldest sister, followed by two younger sisters named Sae Takeda and Emi Takeda. Attentive people have probably already noticed that the names of the three of them together form a circle, which was probably intentional."

After listening to Jiang Hang's explanation, Mizunashi Rena nodded in agreement. Although, according to Takeda Ryuji's explanation, his relationship with Takeda Kinuyo was because Takeda Kinuyo discovered that her husband was infertile, and in order to reassure her family and the Takeda family, she had no choice but to do such a thing.

But Kinuyo Takeda has been dead for more than three years. If Ryuji Takeda wanted to protect his reputation, he could say that he had no choice but to accept it, and no one could refute that.

A little thought reveals that even if the eldest son of the Takeda family was infertile, there are still some things he shouldn't have done. Even if it was Kinuyo Takeda's request, Ryuji Takeda, as the son of the Takeda family, shouldn't have considered his sister-in-law's wishes and done something so immoral.

Ultimately, these kinds of things all come down to mutual consent. Kinuyo Takeda and Ryuji Takeda thought they could keep it a secret forever, but they never expected that Shinichi Takeda would discover the truth when Misa Takeda turned 18 and came of age. In the end, Shinichi even drove Misa Takeda to her death.

However, this question only asks about Kinuyo Takeda's affair partner, not whether Ryuji Takeda, who seduced his sister-in-law, had any unspeakable secrets.

Now that Jiang Hang has identified the correct person, his answer to the question is naturally correct.

The fourth question finally came to Negishi, who had recently died.

This question asks about the reason why Negishi was killed.

It's estimated that a large number of viewers will answer this question incorrectly again.

After all, in their view, Negishi was killed while under the influence of drugs and then the murder was staged as a suicide. So who would do such a thing?

In most people's minds, the suspicion naturally falls on Shinichi Takeda, the head of the Takeda family.

After all, the two have been working together for so many years, and they probably have some weaknesses that the other can use against them.

Now that there is such an opportunity to disguise Negishi's death as an accident, the possibility of Takeda Shinichi taking action is indeed not low.