The Daily Life of a Salted Fish Assassin in Anime Crossovers

Unlike Conan, Yusaku Kudo didn't suspect that Jiang Hang was connected to the Black Organization. He had heard about the mysterious Pioneer Foundation.

Despite possessing a large fortune, he maintains an exceptionally low profile in society.

But being low-key doesn't mean being easy to bully. Since the other party rose to prominence at an astonishing speed, the Pioneer Foundation has encountered countless enemies. However, those forces were basically defeated by the other party in the end using fair and square business methods.

Over the years, there has been no news of the Pioneer Foundation using any illegal means in secret, nor has it left any evidence in the hands of others.

This is hard to imagine, but it has indeed been the Pioneer Foundation's consistent style for decades.

Even decades ago, the CIA sent an undercover agent to investigate the Pioneer Foundation shortly after it was established. The agent worked diligently for the foundation for twenty years and never discovered anything wrong with it until his retirement. In fact, the pension he received from the foundation after retirement was much more than his salary as an undercover agent.

The foundation's attitude towards undercover agents is also very clear: as long as the undercover agent works well, they can investigate however they want within the foundation; but if the undercover agent does not work well, they will be politely sent back to their intelligence organization on the spot, and that intelligence organization will be required to send a sufficiently diligent undercover agent.

However, back then, most intelligence organizations in the world had suffered setbacks at this foundation. To this day, no country openly sends spies to infiltrate the Pioneer Foundation. It would be extremely embarrassing for any intelligence organization to have its own spies forcibly "repatriated" for not working properly at another foundation.

The Pioneer Foundation relies on this unpretentious and straightforward style to consistently make money in unexpected ways, regardless of whether the economy is in recession or financial crisis.

As the heir to the Pioneer Foundation, Jiang Hang could not possibly be a member of that mysterious transnational criminal organization, no matter how you look at it.

On the contrary, Jiang Hang now seems to have taken a liking to that organization. If he can leverage the power of the other party's foundation, he might be able to investigate the organization's background more quickly.

However, that foundation, which seems to have no secrets at all, is not truly without any secrets.

After Professor Agasa told him about Jiang Hang and he witnessed Jiang Hang's skills firsthand, he knew that Jiang Hang must be hiding a huge secret.

However, for now, the matter of the Black Organization is obviously more important. As for Jiang Hang's secrets... who doesn't have a few secrets they don't want others to discover?

Compared to Conan, who is single-mindedly focused on solving mysteries and is still quite naive in other aspects, Yusaku Kudo is much more mature. Even though he suspects that Jiang Hang has some unspeakable secret, he is still able to control his curiosity very well.

After thinking for a while, he looked at Jiang Hang again and formally extended an invitation to him.

"So, would you like to join us for this 'detective game' with Conan?"

Chapter 79: Chapter 78: My winery's code name is Jiang Xiaobai

Upon hearing Yusaku Kudo's invitation to Jiang Hang, Yukiko Kudo showed a look of surprise.

She knew what this meant, but she always trusted her husband's judgment, so she remained silent.

As expected, after Jiang Hang agreed, Kudo Yusaku revealed Conan's true identity to him.

After he finished speaking, he looked at Jiang Hang, whose expression showed only slight surprise, and a knowing look flashed in his eyes.

He gently pushed up his glasses: "As expected, I wasn't wrong. You should have figured out Shinichi's situation a long time ago."

Listening to Yusaku Kudo's words, Jiang Hang thought that Conan's father was still his father after all. They had only met for less than half an hour, and the other party had already figured out these things.

He nodded: "I noticed it a long time ago. How did you figure it out?"

“After all, a person with common sense wouldn’t let a child set up a ‘murder scene,’ right? Shinichi would easily get confused in this regard, but you’re definitely not that kind of person. I think you already knew his identity back then,” Kudo Yusaku said, looking at Jiang Hang. “Can you tell me what you used to make that judgment?”

“Actually, there are many things. For example, Kogoro Mouri, who has only made a living by tracking people over the years, gained the nickname ‘Sleeping Kogoro’ less than a month after Conan moved into their house. Even at this point, he still doesn’t forget to solve cases. He really isn’t worried about being discovered by the Black Organization.” Jiang Hang paused for a moment and then pointed out the other flaws one by one.

Of course, he deduced all of this by knowing Conan's identity beforehand; most people wouldn't think of that much.

But Kudo Yusaku is different. He is not an ordinary person, and he does not treat Jiang Hang as an ordinary person. What might sound like a far-fetched flaw to ordinary people sounds quite reasonable to him.

The so-called reasoning is actually about connecting these seemingly far-fetched clues and then finding out the final truth.

Finally, Jiang Hang also resorted to his ultimate move: "Of course, the easiest way is to check the fingerprints. People shrink, but fingerprints don't change. We just need to test and compare them. If this weren't the case, I was planning to confront him about the fingerprint issue in a while."

After listening to Jiang Hang's words, Kudo Yusaku seemed to sigh at the many flaws his son had revealed: "Shinichi is still too inexperienced in this regard. It's lucky that he hasn't been discovered by that organization yet. That's why I wanted to use this method to tell him how terrible his actions over the past month have been."

Then, as they were talking, Yusaku Kudo suddenly changed the subject: "But since Shinichi isn't going to wake up yet, let's go have a good meal before the real show starts. It's been so long since I've been back to Japan, I'm starting to miss Japanese food."

Look at this, is this something a biological father should say?

......

"That Conan guy actually suspects me of being a member of the Black Organization?" When Jiang Hang learned this from Professor Agasa at the dinner table, he really wanted to beat up Conan, who was still under the effects of the drug.

Although he no longer needs to pretend that he doesn't know Conan's true identity, a habit of more than ten years is not so easy to change.

"Ahem... Actually, when I first heard this guess from Shinichi, I was a little skeptical," Professor Agasa explained to Jiang Hang, somewhat embarrassed. "But after Yusaku told me about your situation, I knew that Shinichi must have been wrong."

No wonder the request Conan made on the bulletin board was to inform Professor Agasa and Akemi Miyano about this matter, but he didn't mention telling me. It turns out he was still worried that I was the mole!

Jiang Hang is ready. After this matter is over, he will definitely give Conan an unforgettable "education".

He muttered to himself, then looked at Yusaku Kudo, who was working on the script for this "detective game" after finishing his meal.

The other party had already written the script, but now that Jiang Hang has been added, Jiang Hang's scenes must be added to the script as well.

In response, Jiang Hang, who had just learned that he was seen as a "suspected member of the Black Organization" by Conan, directly told Yusaku Kudo that he would just play himself.

“That guy thinks I’m a member of the distillery, so let him continue to misunderstand. I’ll just become a member of another branch of the distillery... As for code names... Moutai and Wuliangye seem a bit too unoriginal, and Harbin Beer sounds too silly,” Jiang Hang pondered for a moment, then suddenly clapped his hands, “How about I just call myself Jiang Xiaobai? It’s similar to my name, isn’t it?”

Kudo Yusaku wiped his forehead. He had heard of famous liquors like Moutai and Wuliangye, but what about Harbin Beer and Jiangxiaobai?

He shook his head: "No need. I've heard about your conversation with that organization. The 'Hassah Brotherhood' you made up is quite interesting. Hassah is the etymology of the word 'assassin'; the Brotherhood has many origins, traceable to the Pythagorean school (Brotherhood), and later there was a sect in Catholicism called the 'Lesser Brotherhood'. Combining these two terms, along with your hidden blade, I feel my creative passion being ignited."

However, he also knew that Jiang Hang had already used this organization to deceive that black-clad organization, and at least until the problem of that organization was resolved, he would not be able to write it into his novel.

"In short, your identity as a member of the Brotherhood is enough. I'll design the script a bit," Kudo Yusaku glanced at the time and estimated that Conan would wake up in two hours at the earliest. There was no time to write a good script in such a short period of time, but Jiang Hang's role didn't need to be too big. It should be enough to fool Conan for the time being.

Conan is really pitiful. His parents have played such a trick on him. Not only did they drug him, but now they are eating and drinking well in a restaurant while Conan is tied up and left in a dusty old house, without even being given a meal.

However, considering that Kudo Yusaku had gone to such lengths to discourage his son, Jiang Hang felt that this was already quite mild.

But Jiang Hang could only pat Kudo Yusaku on the shoulder and tell him: Your son has been diagnosed with a terminal illness where he has to go and join in on anything suspicious or he will feel unwell. Even if you go to such lengths, your son will forget all about these things in a week at most.

Chapter 80: Chapter 79: A Good Show (Part 1)

As night fell, Conan groggily regained consciousness from his unconsciousness.

He had only just woken up when he realized his current predicament.

He was tied up and thrown onto the floor of a dilapidated house.

Although he was still feeling dizzy, he quickly remembered what had happened to him.

Was he captured again by the Black Organization? Damn it... I miscalculated again.

Fragments seemed to flash through his mind, as if he vaguely saw Jiang Hang's figure when he was drugged by that woman.

But he had no recollection of what happened after that.

That person...it should be Jiang Hang, right? Could this matter really be related to him?

Conan seemed a little unsure, but now was not the time to confirm that; he needed to figure out where he was.

Taking advantage of the moonlight streaming through the window, he struggled to his feet and carefully walked to the windowsill.

Judging from the position of the moon, he could roughly determine that it was after nine o'clock in the evening, and he was currently on the second floor of this old house.

Where is that woman? What does she want with me being left here?

Just as Conan was wondering what was going on, footsteps suddenly came from outside the door, and at the same time, the voice of the "woman" who had taken him away from the Mouri Detective Agency came from outside the door.

"...In any case, we obtained that kid's information from that organization at a great cost. As the only person whose drug produced by the organization has produced this effect, the people in the organization are very interested in him, so we must bring him back to the organization!"

Conan was startled. He noticed that there was a small hole in the wooden door leading to the outside of the house, through which one could see out!

He cautiously approached the door and began to observe the person speaking outside.

Besides the woman who had brought him here, there was another mysterious man with his back to him, dressed in a black tuxedo and wearing a top hat.

The man in the black tuxedo spoke with obvious impatience: "What a hassle... Not only do I have to bring a kid back, but I also have to make a deal with that organization. Gin and Vodka are just causing me trouble..."

Upon hearing this, Conan's heart was stirred.

Is this man also a high-ranking member of that black-clad organization?

But what is this "organization" they're talking about...? Judging from what that woman said, her intelligence was traded to this Black Organization by "that organization," and judging from their current attitude, they are quite cautious about that organization.

Just then, the woman seemed to receive a message. After glancing at her phone, her expression turned grim: "The people from that organization are here. You should have brought what they wanted by now..."

The man with his back to Conan nodded without saying a word.

"Keep an eye on that kid. Make sure the medicine wears off before you even realize it. I'm going down to bring him over..."

As she said this, the woman hurriedly went downstairs, while in Conan's view, the man in the black suit slowly looked towards the wooden door.

Conan wanted to see what the man looked like, but to his surprise, the man was wearing a mask, and he couldn't see what was under the mask at all.

Fearing being discovered, Conan dared not look any longer and quickly returned to the place where he had previously fainted, disguising himself as if he was still unconscious.

The man in the black suit didn't examine the situation too closely. After glancing at Conan and finding no movement, he stopped paying attention to Conan's situation.

Conan waited patiently, and after a few minutes, the "transaction partner" the woman had mentioned arrived at the house.

After confirming that the man in the black suit was not watching him, Conan cautiously approached the wooden door again and continued to observe the man through the small hole in the door.

When Conan saw the so-called "transaction partner," he almost lost control of his emotions.

Although he couldn't see the other person's face hidden under the hood, the clothes the other person was wearing looked very familiar.

Isn't that the same set of classical clothing that he saw in Jiang Hang's office back then, the one that Jiang Hang said was "the only one of its kind in the whole world"?

Perhaps the other party found it troublesome and simplified the cloak and decorations on the outfit, not fully attaching them, but Conan could confirm that this was the same outfit kept in Jiang Hang's office!

"Is this your distillery's base in this area? It's really quite shabby," Conan could tell from the first word that it was Jiang Hang's voice.

Did Jiang Hang really betray his information to that black-clad organization? When did he find out that he was Shinichi Kudo?!

Conan's mind raced. His earlier guess was indeed correct. Although Jiang Hang was not a member of the Black Organization, he was a member of another mysterious organization that was no less powerful than, no, and perhaps even more powerful than, the Black Organization.

Could it be that the "Assassin Brotherhood" they mentioned when they met with the Black Organization actually exists?

While Conan was frantically imagining Jiang Hang's background, Jiang Hang continued speaking.

"You should have already verified the information I gave you, right? Where is what I asked for?"

However, at this moment, the man suddenly shook his head: "We can't be sure yet that kid is really Shinichi Kudo. I've already taken that kid's fingerprint information and compared it with that Shinichi Kudo. We'll only know if he is Shinichi Kudo after the results come out."

Hearing that his fingerprints had been taken for testing and comparison, Conan felt a little flustered, but there was nothing he could do at that moment, so he could only continue watching Jiang Hang's conversation with the mysterious man.

Jiang Hang, whose face was hidden under the hood, let out a cold laugh: "Looks like you want to back out?"

"Miyano Akemi, and the ten billion yen she hid, should all be in your hands now, right? And that traitor Miyano Akemi from that organization, but information about Kudo Shinichi isn't worth that much..."

"If this intelligence wasn't so important to your organization, you wouldn't have given us that kid's information. Instead, you would have been trying to recruit him as a new member... Am I right?" The man in the black suit said, lifting the box with one hand and drawing a pistol from behind his back with the other, pointing it at Jiang Hang.

"Putting Miyano Akemi's matter aside, you stole one billion yen from our organization. Return it. You can take this information if you don't agree... I've heard that quite a few people in your organization can dodge bullets. I wonder if you can?" The man in the black suit pointed his pistol at Jiang Hang, threatening him in a questioning tone.