The Daily Life of a Salted Fish Assassin in Anime Crossovers

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With the capture of Hikawa Shogo and Yamao Keisuke, the group in Kitazawa Village, whose lives had been stagnant for eight years, began to slowly move forward.

After blocking a bunch of invitations that required him to meet for dinner, Jiang Hang boarded a train to Asahikawa that afternoon.

Asahikawa is located in the central region of Hokkaido and is the second largest city in Hokkaido.

When Jiang Hang and his group arrived, it was almost evening.

Jiang Hang casually greeted a passerby next to the station.

The passerby nodded to Jiang Hang without any apparent change in expression.

Kaito Kid is really good at keeping his identity and appearance a secret when he's out and about.

It is precisely because of his caution that his true identity has not been discovered until now.

Of course, this doesn't include people like Jiang Hang who have cheated.

"So, as soon as you arrived in Asahikawa, you found a high school detective who actually fits the requirements I told you about?"

Sitting in a not-so-quiet coffee shop near a train station, Jiang Hang asked the Phantom Thief Kid in front of him a question.

"It doesn't quite meet the requirements, does it? Anyway, I've observed it for a day and haven't seen anything special, but the other party's name is indeed quite famous in the Asahikawa area."

Kaito Kid shook his head: "Besides, you should be the one to confirm this yourself. After all, I'm just a phantom thief. It's already quite an achievement for me to find out where high school detectives are. I don't want to do the work that you detectives do."

This guy only cares about digging holes and doesn't care about burying them, right?

Jiang Hang thought to himself, "That's what I'm complaining about."

However, before coming here, he had indeed searched for some information about Asahikawa.

Even without Kaito Kid's reminder, he was going to come here anyway.

"In short, tell me about the other party's identity first."

Kaito Kid displayed a photograph of a seemingly harmless high school boy.

"You look so inexperienced," someone remarked, looking at the other person's appearance and giving off the impression of a middle school student.

However, the other person is actually already a junior in high school.

“Shotaro Tatewaki…” It wasn’t Jiang Hang who uttered this name, but Shiho Miyano sitting to the side.

He certainly doesn't seem like the high school detective Jiang Hang mentioned, the one who travels all over Japan looking for cases to solve, and who refuses to leave his name after solving the cases, resulting in a wrongful conviction.

Jiang Hang looked at the photo for a few seconds, then smiled and shook his head at Kaito Kid.

"Unfortunately, the person I'm looking for isn't him, and he's not exactly a detective either."

The title of "detective" attached to the other person was given that title by the surrounding classmates for other reasons.

“The timing doesn’t match up. This boy only started appearing at the crime scenes this spring, while the one I’m looking for has been a detective for at least a year now. Moreover, he has left Hokkaido and traveled to other places for a while. He has only been to Tokyo a few times.”

"How boring. I knew I could figure it out at a glance. But I did find out something else. There aren't many high school detectives in Asahikawa, and those two are the only ones with a bit of a reputation." Kaito Kid curled his lip, not surprised at all, and then took out the identity information of the other high school detective.

In this era of high murder rates, all sorts of detectives are emerging.

Being a high school detective is a fairly popular profession.

Anyone who has encountered a few cases and provided clues to the police at the scene will inevitably acquire the identity of a high school detective.

In addition, the guy was quite low-key. The police at the scene couldn't even remember his name or describe his appearance clearly. They only knew that he was a high school student with a rather strange way of speaking.

So, even someone like Nanatsuki Koshimizu, who also possesses the talent of a great detective, has wasted so much time without finding the detective who killed her friend.

Let alone Koshimizu Nanatsuki, even Jiang Hang, with the help of artificial intelligence, has a hard time filtering out much useful information.

After all, in Japan at this time of year, there were very few public surveillance devices. With those scattered cameras, it was impossible to pinpoint a high school detective from Hokkaido who didn't seem to use modern equipment much.

Jiang Hang muttered to himself, then looked at the second list given by Phantom Thief Kid.

This time, the list they provided looked more normal.

The 18-year-old high school senior has not solved many cases, but he has encountered one or two murder cases and a few other types of cases.

However, he mostly helps find lost items within the school, which gives him a bit of a reputation, but that reputation is limited to the school and a few surrounding streets.

And the other party did indeed take a break from school for a period of time and traveled around Japan.

As for whether the other party is indeed the detective that Koshimizu Nanatsuki is looking for, further investigation is needed.

"Thank you for your trouble," Jiang Hang said to Kaito Kid after reviewing the information.

Kaito Kid touched his nose, seemingly unconcerned about Jiang Hang's praise: "It was just a transaction after all."

"Without you, I wouldn't have been able to find what my father left behind so quickly."

Phantom Thief Kid also knows that his mission is not limited to just this one city.

After confirming that Jiang Hang had accepted the information, he prepared to set off for the next city to conduct his investigation.

After all, he had promised Jiang Hang that he would assist the major cities north of Hokkaido, and after the inspection, he would have to go home.

Although he had only been away from home for a few days, Qingzi had already called him quite a few times to check on him.

He was also thinking about finishing these things as soon as possible so that he could go home and continue his sweet time with Qingzi.

"That guy's really efficient. It must be that childhood friend urging him to go back." Jiang Hang muttered under his breath as he watched Kaito Kid rush to catch the evening train.

Upon hearing this, Shiho Miyano, who was sitting next to Jiang Hang, suddenly looked at Jiang Hang with some curiosity.

The other party is the heir to the Pioneer Foundation.

Did he have a childhood sweetheart when he was young?

I think should not be?

After all, the other party had been in Japan for more than half a year, and Jiang Hang had never received any special calls from girls.

Furthermore, if the other party really had a childhood sweetheart, they probably wouldn't have let Jiang Hang recruit two beautiful girls as their detective assistants as soon as he arrived in Japan.

After muttering this to herself, Shiho Miyano suppressed these thoughts and asked Jiang Hang if they were going to investigate from another detective next.

The first detective seemed quite naive, and Jiang Hang had already ruled him out.

Jiang Hang, however, only looked at the two high school students in the photo, but picked up the file of the boy named Tatewaki Shotaro first.

"Let's go see this young man tomorrow."

Even a smart person like Shiho Miyano didn't immediately understand what Jiang Hang meant.

"Do you think the other party's information is too simple, and there's something wrong with it?"

Shiho Miyano attempted to explain it from this perspective.

"No, the detective in the second place is indeed more suspicious, but that person's detective talent is just so-so. If things continue like this, at most he'll just be able to make a living by taking on some stalking and cat and dog catching jobs after graduation."

The detective talent Jiang Hang is referring to here is not just things like observation and reasoning abilities.

It also refers to the "unlucky constitution" that allows one to encounter all sorts of cases.

While it may be somewhat impolite to say this, in this world, talented detectives are never short of cases.

For example, Jiang Hang is one of the biggest victims.

When he first came into this world, he was just an ordinary person and had not been passively involved in any cases.

The cases mentioned earlier were basically cases he picked up from Conan when he met him.

At that time, he didn't encounter many cases. If he didn't take the initiative, he would hardly encounter a case in a week.

But things changed later.

I don't know if it's because he's been around Conan for a long time, or if he has the same trouble-making ability in his assassin bloodline.

In short, he gradually developed a similar constitution over the past six months, making it easier for him to encounter murder cases wherever he went, without needing to rely on Conan.

“They’re currently dealing with some minor cases over there, so it’s fine to slow down their investigations a bit. But they seem to have a better talent for this area, so we could go over and try to get in touch with them first.”

Chapter 587: Died by Suicide

Jiang Hang still vaguely remembered the name Shotaro Tatewaki.

Jiang Hang remembered the title as "Sakurako-san's Feet Are Buried with Corpses," and Tatewaki Shotaro was the male protagonist of that work.

Although a long time has passed, Jiang Hang can still easily recall the general content of the works he read in his previous life.

It's a fairly good light mystery animation, using the formula of a female Sherlock Holmes and a male Watson.

Although the case wasn't particularly complex, it fit the overall tone of the work, and the character designs were also quite good.

It was probably because he was always involved in various cases while following the female Sherlock Holmes, Kujo Sakurako, that he developed his own abilities. So, a year after meeting Kujo Sakurako, the boy gradually earned the title of detective at school.

The anime only lasted one season before being completely abandoned, but Jiang Hang had read about the sequel to the novel online.

It's no wonder this is a mystery novel written by a female author. From the very beginning, the romantic relationship between the male and female protagonists was severed. The female protagonist was given a fiancé who had never appeared in the story, which also indicated that she only saw the male protagonist as her younger brother.

In terms of the setting of domestic female-oriented novels, it can also be regarded as a certain type of substitute literature, except that the substitute is a family member instead of a lover.

From this perspective, it's not a big deal, since these are settings that appeared in the early stages.

However, the novel is mostly told from the male protagonist's perspective.

All readers could see the male protagonist's special feelings for the female protagonist, so naturally they couldn't accept this outcome.

It is said that the original translation group abandoned the project because they saw the ending where the female protagonist and her fiancé went abroad.

However, Jiang Hang didn't seem to care much about these things.

After all, he always chooses to criticize the author for these things, and he doesn't project these emotions onto the characters.

What bothered him more was that the work clearly created a seemingly high-class villainous boss at the beginning, who appeared to be modeled after Moriarty, but in the end, the villain was never completely defeated and the story ended in such an ambiguous way.

Therefore, after thinking about this, Jiang Hang, knowing that this might be another five-star commission, decided to use it as a starting point to investigate the BOSS of this work and see just how strong that guy's brainwashing ability was.

At the same time, if given the opportunity, he might be able to recruit another decent subordinate.

After all, the story mentions that the male protagonist had good grades in all aspects, and later, after graduating from high school, he chose forensic medicine under the influence of the female protagonist.

As for forensic medicine, Jiang Hang is extremely familiar with it.

After resting for a night, and after letting the Miyano sisters go to the zoo for a while, Jiang Hang went to Tatewaki Shotaro's house in the morning to meet him.

However, he seemed to be late. When he knocked on the door, the other party's mother was somewhat surprised to see Jiang Hang.