The Daily Life of a Salted Fish Assassin in Anime Crossovers

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A week ago, her husband, Tsukumo Motoyasu, suddenly died in the basement.

However, after the police arrived at the scene and conducted an on-site investigation, they found no signs of coercion or restraint on her husband's body, nor were any traces of sleeping pills detected in his system.

In addition, there was a telephone in the basement, and the basement door was simply closed, not locked from the inside.

Finally, after questioning her and several of the deceased's disciples and confirming that they all had alibis for the time of the deceased's death, the police concluded that the deceased likely died by suicide.

Before understanding the specifics, Jiang Hang didn't notice anything wrong with what he was hearing.

"So, you still believe that your husband was not a suicide, but was murdered?"

"Yes, because tomorrow is my daughter Fumino's birthday. My husband had already prepared her birthday present a month ago and even designed a new magic trick for her. Just before we left, he seemed to be chatting and laughing. How could he suddenly choose to commit suicide?"

"But the police couldn't find any new clues or evidence, so in the end the case was closed as a suicide."

On the other end of the phone, Kujuku Shichie gave her reasons.

Jiang Hang nodded slightly: "I understand. In that case, I wonder if it's convenient for you now? I'm planning to come to your house right now to check on the crime scene."

Without much hesitation, Kujuku Shichie quickly gave the address.

After hanging up the phone, Jiang Hang drove while making a request to Shiho Miyano in the passenger seat: "Tsukumo Motoyasu, can you help me check his identity? According to the client, her husband seems to be a well-known figure. It seems that this case may really be hiding some secrets."

Shiho Miyano quickly provided an answer.

"There's news about this online. The person in question is one of the most famous magicians in Japan in recent years. He has also trained many well-known new magicians and is considered one of the more influential pillars of the Japanese magic world. It is said that he was once called the hope of the Japanese magic world when he was young."

"A magician, huh..." Jiang Hang couldn't help but think of Kaito Kid.

To be precise, it should be Kaito Kuroba and his biological father, Toichi Kuroba, whose fate is unknown.

After all, he and Kaito Kuroba had quite a bit of a relationship.

However, the other party is now deliberately avoiding him when making moves, as if they no longer want to test whether Hawkeye can see through his disguise.

But Toichi Kuroba is a genuine international magician.

Given his age of 99 Motoyasu, he was probably not long after being hailed as "the hope of the Japanese magic world" before being completely overshadowed by the suddenly emerging Toichi Kuroba.

Moreover, this crushing defeat lasted for more than ten years, until Kuroba Toichi disappeared eight years ago, when Tsukumo Motoyasu probably finally found a chance to turn things around.

Thinking back on my decades-long professional career, for almost half of that time there was an unshakeable genius overshadowing me, so much so that I could only ever be second.

When Kuroba Toichi disappeared, the police probably suspected Tsukumo Motoyasu.

However, Jiang Hang did not continue to think in that direction.

Ultimately, both Kaito Kid and Conan have their own main storylines and won't be so easily mixed up.

Let's thoroughly examine the scene of Tsukumo Motoyasu's death to see if there are any suspicious details that the police haven't discovered.

About twenty minutes later, Jiang Hang parked his car in front of the Ninety-Nine Houses.

Although it's not a particularly luxurious villa, this top Japanese magician lives in a detached villa in an affluent neighborhood.

It's quite abrupt that Jiang Hang's beat-up 86 appeared in this place.

However, Jiang Hang didn't care at all. Unless the system rewarded him with a futuristic cyberpunk car, he could drive his 86, which had been tuned by Fujiwara Bunta, for a long time.

I got out of the car with Shiho Miyano and gently pressed the doorbell.

Before long, a middle-aged woman who looked a little haggard appeared in front of them.

It's obvious that this is the client, Shichie Kuju.

Upon seeing Jiang Hang and Shiho Miyano arrive, a strange expression appeared on her face.

Clearly, this is yet another person who was misled by the pretense Jiang Hang put on when he appeared on television.

Jiang Hang briefly mentioned that for some reason, he didn't like to appear on television, so he always used a different face and voice when he was on TV.

"I am indeed Jiang Hang. Because of some unexpected events in Mr. Mao Li's family, he entrusted me with handling your case."

Jiang Hang showed his call logs, which reassured his client considerably.

After confirming their identities, the group walked into the house while listening to Shichie Kujukatsu talk about her husband.

Upon entering the lobby, Jiang Hang was greeted by a man in his early twenties who looked somewhat frivolous.

"So this is the detective you found, Madam? Weren't you supposed to be looking for the sleeping Kogoro? Why is someone so young here?" He said, while suddenly pointing to Shiho Miyano behind Jiang Hang.

"Young lady, is something bothering you?"

He deliberately walked up to Jiang Hang and reached out to grab Shiho Miyano's hair.

The next moment, Jiang Hang took out a pigeon that he had prepared in advance from his sleeve and handed it to Jiujiu Shichie, who was standing next to him, intact.

Then Jiang Hang casually glanced at a few seemingly normal parts of the other person's body.

The other party has hidden a pigeon in each of these locations. Given a chance, they can release all of these pigeons.

Seeing his magic trick so easily broken, an embarrassed expression appeared on the man's face.

This was the magic trick he was most proficient in practicing, but the detective only glanced at him and immediately noticed the places on his body where he was hiding pigeons.

I originally wanted to use this method to test the detective that my teacher's wife had hired, but I didn't expect the other party to have such a sharp eye.

Then, another young woman dressed in office attire walked over from the side.

"You're the detective here to investigate the teacher's death. You seem much more capable than I thought."

The young woman didn't try any tricks; after all, she was also skilled in pigeon magic, and clearly couldn't gain the upper hand against the detective.

She introduced herself and the other man to Jiang Hang with a normal expression.

Her name is Miyoshi Asako, and she is currently one of the leading female magicians in Japan.

The one who was about to perform the pigeon magic trick was Yuji Momochi, a junior apprentice whom her teacher had recently taken in.

These matters had already been briefly mentioned by Shichie Kujukuni on the phone, and Shiho Miyano had already discovered the identities of Motoyasu Kujukuni's three disciples while in the car.

If nothing unexpected happens, this case will be another classic three-way choice in Detective Conan, with the person who poisoned Motoyasu Tsukumo being one of his three disciples.

After assessing Jiang Hang's detective skills, Yuji Momochi somewhat awkwardly retrieved his pigeon from his teacher's wife.

"So, the teacher's suicide is indeed still very suspicious."

Miyoshi Asako nodded matter-of-factly: "After all, there are still quite a few doubts at the scene. Aren't those playing cards left at the scene proof? It's been a long time since the teacher has done any card magic tricks."

"Playing cards?" Jiang Hang asked, and Kujuku Shichie took two playing cards from the side, with their backs touching but not overlapping, and handed them to Jiang Hang.

"These are playing cards found on a table in the basement. Although we don't know why they were glued together, the police took them apart but didn't find anything wrong. I specially restored them for Mr. Jiang Hang to see."

Upon hearing the name Jiang Hang, Yuji Momochi and Asako Miyoshi exchanged peculiar glances, as if they had heard of Jiang Hang before.

Jiang Hang was about to take the two playing cards, but the next moment, another hand reached out and took the two playing cards first.

“These playing cards are meaningless now. Even if we find out the truth about the teacher’s death, he can never come back. What we need to do now is to carry forward what we have learned from the teacher and let the 99th-rate magic trick continue to appear in front of the audience.”

"And I will become the teacher's best successor in the future."

As he spoke, the man tore off the playing cards in his hand without hesitation and then casually threw the card fragments around.

But even after he finished doing all this, Jiang Hang did not do anything to stop him. He just silently watched as the debris, after flying to its highest point, fell back down and turned into complete playing cards.

"When the police came to investigate, you didn't perform a whole magic trick for them like you did today, did you?" Jiang Hang said, while reaching out and pulling two playing cards from the other person's breast pocket.

Hawkeye is definitely the bane of magicians who like to do fancy tricks.

Let alone these magicians, even if the more talented Kaito Kuroba and his father were here, the magic tricks he used would not be able to escape Hawkeye's detection ability.

After Jiang Hang so effortlessly deciphered his magic trick, the man in front of him revealed an even happier smile.

"As expected of the legendary Hawkeye Detective, known as the Kidd Buster, such a crude trick can't fool your eyes."

"Although this might offend some people, I still have to tell you that the teacher's death was indeed a suicide. In order to avoid tarnishing the reputation of the famous detective, you'd better head home now."

Upon hearing this, not only Kujuku Shichie, but even the other two disciples couldn't help but show a strange expression on their faces, as if they hadn't expected the other party to utter such blasphemous words.

Watching the other person leave, Kujuku Shichie explained to Jiang Hang with a gloomy expression: "Mr. Jiang Hang, please don't misunderstand. In fact, Sanada Ichizo has been with my husband for a long time. You could even say he is my other child."

“He was actually the one who was most heartbroken about my husband’s past a few days ago, and he was depressed for several days because of it. Now he’s just disappointed with the police investigation, which is why he’s saying this.”

Jiang Hang nodded slightly, indicating that he didn't mind.

"Sanada Ichizo, the genius card magician who is known as the next 'Kuroba Toichi,' shouldn't make such basic mistakes under normal circumstances."

He looked at the scattered playing cards on the ground.

The scattered playing cards weren't all the same type, suggesting that the props weren't checked before the magic show.

For magic tricks that rely heavily on visual appeal, this is a rather serious and basic mistake.

However, this guy seems quite certain that Mr. Tsukumo Motoyasu died by suicide.

Jiang Hang did not voice his guess.

The other party clearly knows some clues, but probably for some reason, they are unwilling to reveal them.

Jiang Hang began to feel that the situation in this case was becoming more complicated.

"Anyway, let's go to the basement and check out the situation first."

Just as Jiang Hang was about to take action, another little girl, about six or seven years old, suddenly appeared.

"Why are you all here? Do you have guests?"

Upon seeing the little girl, Shichie Tsukumo quickly went over to her: "Ayano, why did you get up alone today?"

"Because Mom, you promised to take me shopping for clothes for my birthday party tomorrow, so I got up by myself!"

It seems that Fumino Tsukumo is unaware that her father has passed away. She has probably been fooled by the adults who told her that "Dad went to a very far place and won't be coming back for the time being."

Kujuku Shichie hesitated for a moment.

Because of her husband's passing, she had completely forgotten that she had actually made that promise to her daughter.

But now that Jiang Hang has come over, she can't just leave him at home and go shopping for clothes with her daughter.

Besides, she really wasn't in the mood for that right now.

She had just shown an apologetic expression and was about to apologize to her daughter when Miyoshi Mako stepped in to help her teacher's wife out of the predicament.

"Wen Nai, we have guests at home, and your mother has to entertain these guests who have come from afar. How about I go shopping with you now? I'll definitely buy you a whole bunch of pretty clothes. What do you think?"

As she spoke, Fumino, who was naturally childlike, immediately nodded with a smile and took her second senior sister's hand, intending to go shopping for clothes with her.