The Daily Life of a Salted Fish Assassin in Anime Crossovers

Suzuki Jirokichi turned around and saw Jiang Hang dressed in white.

"As you expected, Phantom Thief Kid just disguised himself as you. We should have caught him according to the previous plan, but we didn't expect that Kid had tear gas on him. In the end, not only did he get away, but we also lost 'Dark Star'," Suzuki Jirokichi said through gritted teeth, looking indignant.

"This was an accident, but next time, next time as long as I'm a little more careful... Phantom Thief Kid, you won't have such good luck today. Just you wait and see!"

As Suzuki Jirokichi was saying this, he saw Jiang Hang walking towards him, but then he seemed to suddenly remember something and quickly stopped Jiang Hang from getting closer.

“Wait, I just realized that everyone is chasing after that kid Kidd now. He might be disguised as you and come back here. I won’t make the same mistake again. Kidd doesn’t know our code. You should say the code first and make sure you’re really Jiang Hang before you come over!”

Seeing the question posed to him, Jiang Hang smiled and then shook his head.

"The code is no code. Now you can confirm whether I am Jiang Hang or not."

Chapter 100: Chapter 99: Phantom Thief Kid's Disguise

Upon hearing Jiang Hang's reply, Suzuki Jirokichi breathed a sigh of relief, seemingly much more relaxed. However, his expression quickly became somewhat anxious again.

"Did you see any suspicious people on your way here? Phantom Thief Kid somehow stole the Dark Star. We have to find the gem as soon as possible!"

Seeing Suzuki Jirokichi's anxious gaze, Jiang Hang simply shook his head slightly, then looked at the display stand: "Isn't the gemstone right there?"

"What?!" Suzuki Jirokichi quickly turned to look at the booth, but all he saw was an empty booth. He looked incredulous. "How is this possible? I can't see anything."

“It’s just a simple illusion,” Jiang Hang said, looking at the empty booth. “Kaito Kid simply put a special film on it that can distort vision, using the darkness to deceive the security guards and create the illusion that the jewel has been stolen.”

"In addition, Kaito Kid quickly disguised himself as me and appeared, attracting their attention, so no one paid any attention to the booth. I have to say, Kaito Kid is really good at this."

As Suzuki Jirokichi listened to Jiang Hang's analysis, his eyes widened slightly.

He immediately turned his head to look at that booth.

He hadn't noticed anything wrong before, but now, with Jiang Hang's prompting, Suzuki Jirokichi seemed to finally realize that there was indeed something strange about that booth.

He walked quickly to the booth. He couldn't see it very clearly from a distance, but now that he was closer, the feeling of his vision being distorted was particularly obvious.

By this point, anyone would be able to spot the problem.

Jirokichi Suzuki quickly reached out and felt around on the specially made bulletproof glass in front of the booth.

Soon, he felt something like a thin film above the glass.

"Found it! There really is something!" As he said this, he tore off the thin film, and soon the Suzuki family heirloom, the Dark Star, appeared in front of him.

"I can't believe that Phantom Thief Kid claimed to have stolen the jewel even though he didn't actually get his hands on it. What a despicable thief!" Suzuki Jirokichi couldn't help but curse. "I just called all the security personnel out to hunt down Phantom Thief Kid."

"It's a good thing you noticed, Jiang Hang. Otherwise, if we had foolishly chased after him, Phantom Thief Kid would probably have returned to this room and actually stolen the Dark Star again!"

His gaze fell on Jiang Hang, his eyes filled with relief: "But now that you've discovered this, Jiang Hang, the two of us have to guard the gem carefully. Phantom Thief Kid should be here soon, so be careful not to get ambushed by his tear gas and anesthetic gas."

He pointed to the doors on both sides of the exhibition hall: "Kaito Kid will definitely come in from these two sides. Let's stick together and each of us should watch one direction so that he doesn't succeed."

Jiang Hang looked at Suzuki Jirokichi and then gently shook his head: "I think that at this point, if Kaito Kid is rational enough, he probably won't steal anything anymore."

Jirokichi Suzuki was somewhat surprised: "Why would you think that?"

“Because…” Jiang Hang glanced at the security guards who were lying unconscious on the ground, “Kaito Kid should know this: no matter what kind of disguise he makes, it’s useless in front of my ‘eyes’.”

As Jiang Hang said this, he walked over to a security guard who had collapsed on the ground and turned him over.

Suzuki Jirokichi still didn't know what Jiang Hang wanted to say. He simply took a few steps back, waiting for Jiang Hang to finish speaking.

“He used pigeons to eavesdrop, disguised himself as a deliveryman to install a mini surveillance camera in my house, and followed me around every day with different faces to watch me do my jobs. To be honest, I’ve had several moments in the past few days where I couldn’t help but want to go up to that guy and tell him, ‘Your tracking skills are really terrible,’” Jiang Hang said, tearing off the disguise from the sleeping security guard’s face to reveal his true appearance.

The security guard who was still unconscious was actually the real Jirokichi Suzuki!

"It's fortunate that he's in good health; otherwise, an ordinary old man wouldn't be able to withstand the combination of tear gas and anesthetic."

Jiang Hang's gaze fell on "Suzuki Jirokichi," who was standing not far away with an extremely strange look in his eyes: "I think you should be a little more careful next time, don't you think, Kaito Kid?"

"..."

The man standing not far away, "Suzuki Jirokichi," seemed to fall into a brief silence.

But he spoke up very quickly.

"Your observation skills are truly terrifying. I even start to wonder if you have some kind of 'X-ray vision' ability."

Even after being exposed, Kaito Kid, who was disguised as Jirokichi Suzuki, did not show any change in expression.

He even dropped his disguise right in front of Jiang Hang, revealing his true self.

A white dress with a cape, and a white top hat.

And the faint smile on the other person's face.

This conspicuous combination seemed to be a provocation to everyone who wanted to hunt him down.

"How did you discover my disguise?" he asked Jiang Hang.

Jiang Hang said to the other party nonchalantly, "Your disguise skills are quite good, but to completely imitate someone is not something that can be done in just a few days of observation. You can't possibly make the disguise flawless in a short time."

"Of course, your disguise can fool most ordinary people without any problem. Unfortunately, I happen to be someone whose observation skills are a little more acute than the average person, so in my eyes, all your disguises are flaws."

“It seems this was truly my miscalculation,” Phantom Thief Kid pulled his top hat down slightly, his gaze fixed on the black pearl. “It seems this operation was a failure.”

He had escaped countless captures thanks to his disguise skills, but he never expected that his invincible disguise would be completely ineffective in front of this detective with amazing observation skills.

He didn't believe everything the other person said, but the other person did reveal all the pretense he had put on over the past few days, which explained why he was captured by that old man, Jirokichi Suzuki, during this operation.

If he hadn't prepared a separate plan in advance, he probably would have been in real danger this time.

“But since you already knew I was following you, why didn’t you catch me then?” he asked Jiang Hang. “And you didn’t need to tell me you could see through my disguise, did you? It didn’t do you any good.”

"Arresting you is the police's job. I just find you interesting, so I want to see just how far you can go," Jiang Hang said, watching the Phantom Thief Kid who seemed ready to leave, without any intention of grabbing him.

"There won't be just this one precious gem on display here in the future. Either you admit defeat and never come here again, or you create a disguise that I can't see through, or you steal my gem using an even more ingenious method..."

After saying that, he turned his gaze to Kaito Kid: "So, which path will you choose, Kaito Kid?"

Chapter 101: Chapter 100: Suzuki Jirokichi Makes the Headlines

The next morning, it appeared on the front page of major newspapers.

The headline read, "Suzuki Foundation Advisor Teams Up with Hawkeye Detective, Phantom Thief Kid Returns Unsuccessful," followed by a close-up of Suzuki Jirokichi. Jiang Hang was also shown in the background of this close-up, with his back to the camera.

Immediately, discussions about Kaito Kid's failure began online, and onlookers speculated about the connection between Jirokichi Suzuki and the Suzuki Foundation, as well as the identity of the Hawkeye Detective.

At the Suzuki Estate, Suzuki Jirokichi was also full of energy.

Although he failed to catch Phantom Thief Kid this time, and was even tricked by that kid, Suzuki Jirokichi still couldn't stop smiling when he saw his heroic figure on the front page of the newspaper, and even knew that TV people would come to interview him later.

According to him, although he failed to catch Phantom Thief Kid this time, he did not lose either, and Dark Star is still on display in the Mihana Art Museum.

At best, the two can only manage a draw.

He even went so far as to have a sign made that explained that he had stopped Kaito Kid's actions here last night, so that all visitors to the Beika Art Museum would know about it.

Besides, the mere act of stopping Kaito Kid's actions was enough to make the front page of the newspaper, and thinking about this, Jirokichi Suzuki's spirits soared once again.

"Kid got lucky this time, but I'll definitely be the one to win next time!"

As he said this, he also looked at Jiang Hang opposite him, with a questioning look on his face: "Brother Jiang Hang, when do you think we should challenge Phantom Thief Kid again?"

Although Suzuki Jirokichi is fifty years older than Jiang Hang, practically a grandfather, he doesn't care about seniority at all and now affectionately calls Jiang Hang "little brother."

After all, Jiang Hang had predicted almost all of Kaito Kid's actions in this operation. In fact, the reason Jiang Hang wasn't in the exhibition hall at that time was because Jiang Hang told him in advance to deliberately create an opportunity for Kaito Kid to "disguise himself as him".

And as it turned out, Kaito Kid was indeed fooled.

Up to this point, their plan was perfect, but unfortunately, it all fell apart because of Kaito Kid's cunning, and he himself was even knocked unconscious by Kaito Kid.

What happened next was told to him by the security personnel at the time and by Jiang Hang.

In the end, Phantom Thief Kid disguised himself in the smoke and tricked everyone out of the exhibition hall, and Dark Star was almost taken away by him.

However, at the last moment, Jiang Hang arrived in time and once again saw through Phantom Thief Kid's plot, forcing him to abandon the theft and leave.

Now that he knows all the "truths," Suzuki Jirokichi completely regards Jiang Hang as the backbone of the operation to capture Phantom Thief Kid.

He never imagined that Jiang Hang, the absolute MVP of the operation to capture Kidd, was also the biggest mole in the operation.

The claim that he saw through Kaito Kid's plot was entirely fabricated; he simply let the situation slide and even allowed Kaito Kid to swagger away from the Beika Art Museum.

If he knew about this, he probably wouldn't be calling Jiang Hang "Brother Jiang Hang" so affectionately now.

Jiang Hang was also very satisfied with the result.

While Kaito Kid wasn't caught and his identity wasn't revealed to others, Jirokichi Suzuki made headlines by stopping Kaito Kid, and his own business was about to be upgraded to level two. He even earned a three-star case because of this incident.

All things considered, this is a classic case where all three parties benefit!

When asked by Suzuki Jirokichi, Jiang Hang also appeared to be deep in thought.

"There's no need to rush into capturing Kaito Kid," he said to Jirokichi Suzuki.

"Judging from the frequency of Kaito Kid's previous actions, he would probably make an appearance every ten days to two weeks. We just held a jewelry exhibition here, and even if we hold another new exhibition in a short period of time, I'm afraid Kaito Kid won't come to try it easily. At least for the next month, we shouldn't consider his business."

"Let's patiently watch Phantom Thief Kid make a few more moves, let that guy have his moment in the spotlight, and then we'll plan carefully before choosing the right time to strike next."

When Jiang Hang said these words, his thoughts were very clear.

Why does Kaito Kid have so many fans? Besides being handsome and mysterious, the most important reason is his arrogant attitude of issuing advance notices, and how he easily breaks through various defenses to steal the treasures he wants and leave in style when the announced time arrives.

This breathtaking skill, combined with his dashing demeanor and mysterious image, is the main reason for Phantom Thief Kid's immense popularity.

For someone like Kaito Kid, making a mistake once in a while won't affect his image much, but if he made a series of mistakes within a month, he probably wouldn't have as many fans.

After all, a phantom thief who can't steal anything is useless no matter how handsome he is.

Before the industry level is upgraded to the maximum level, Jiang Hang doesn't want to see the popularity of Phantom Thief Kid decline too much.

Jiang Hang even encouraged Suzuki Jirokichi to spend money to promote Kaito Kid and further boost his popularity.

At the same time, spread rumors online that "only Suzuki Jirokichi can stop Kaito Kid," and then everyone will focus all their attention on his next showdown with Kaito Kid. No matter what the outcome, he will gain a lot of exposure and discussion.

After all, if someone is too strong, it can seem unreal. Only by creating an equally powerful opponent for that person to "fight and rival" with can more people's attention be attracted.

Listening to Jiang Hang's words, Suzuki Jirokichi, a man in his seventies, had his eyes shining.

He was an old man and didn't know much about online public opinion, but he enjoyed the admiring looks people gave him. Jiang Hang's words hit the nail on the head, making it impossible for him to refuse.

However, the old man was an honest man, and he said to Jiang Hang, "How can I be the only one in the limelight? Brother Jiang Hang, you have to be included too."

"As long as the two of us join forces, even Phantom Thief Kid won't be able to get the slightest advantage from us. We'll spread this message around, and when we challenge Phantom Thief Kid again, we'll show everyone how he'll be utterly defeated by us!" Suzuki Jirokichi said passionately, extending his hand towards Jiang Hang.