The Daily Life of a Salted Fish Assassin in Anime Crossovers

Takagi Wataru instinctively blocked the path that Matsuo Takashi was about to take.

Jiang Hang nodded: "Then there's no problem. Let's get straight to the point."

He looked at Takashi Matsuo: "When I encounter cases, I often make some assumptions, but these assumptions are just my personal guesses."

"So after hearing my assumption, I hope you don't mind, Mr. Matsuo. I'm not targeting you."

Takashi Matsuo's expression began to become somewhat subtle: "Mr. Jiang Hang, if you have something to say, just say it."

“Okay, then I’ll make an assumption first,” Jiang Hang pointed at Matsuo Takashi, “I’ll assume that you, Mr. Matsuo, are the murderer who killed Mr. Suwa.”

Although he had already guessed what Jiang Hang was going to say, Matsuo Takashi's expression still turned ugly.

"Mr. Jiang Hang, you really know how to joke. Not only did I only leave the show for three minutes, but more importantly, the cameras didn't even capture me coming here, did they?"

“So I was thinking, if we assume you killed Takashi Matsuo, what method would you use to create an alibi?” Jiang Hang pointed to the blood-splattered window behind him. “And that’s when I noticed this place.”

The people in the room immediately followed Jiang Hang's gaze.

"Is there something wrong with this window?" Inspector Megure looked at it for a while but still couldn't find anything wrong.

“It’s blood,” Jiang Hang explained, then pointed to the blood splattering on the window centered on the bullet hole.

"Inspector Megure, come here for a moment."

Following Jiang Hang's instructions, Inspector Megure walked to the window and carefully examined the blood on it. However, his gaze remained fixed on the window, and he still couldn't find anything wrong.

“The key point isn’t the window itself, but the edge of the window. Look here,” Jiang Hang pointed to the outer frame of the window. “Although there’s less blood splattered here, there should at least be some blood splattered on the outer frame of the window and the surrounding walls, but there’s not a single drop of blood on it.”

This is not easy to discover, but in the eyes of the eagle, Jiang Hang could even clearly see the blood splattered on the exterior wall of the TV station. Knowing this, it is not too difficult to make such a deduction.

“That’s right,” Inspector Megure also noticed this. “So… this window was open when the killer was murdered, which is why the victim’s blood splattered outside the window?”

He asked the staff member who first discovered the body, "Has anyone moved this window before we arrived?"

The staff member quickly shook his head: "No, I called the police immediately. We kept the scene in its original position until the police arrived."

"So, the murderer even came over and closed the window after killing Michihiko Suwa?" Inspector Megure also found this somewhat strange.

It was at this moment that Jiang Hang felt his phone vibrate in his pocket. He took it out, glanced at it, and saw that it was a message from Conan before continuing his conversation.

“We are now assuming that the murderer is Mr. Matsuo, so of course we have to speculate on how he would kill Mr. Suwa.”

He pulled Inspector Megure to open the window to a larger angle, and then had Inspector Megure lean his body against the window as well.

"That's about right, then the blood won't splatter into the room."

"Are you sure you want to do it this way?" Inspector Megure was slightly overweight, so he seemed a bit at a disadvantage when making this gesture. "Brother Jiang Hang, no matter what, Suwa Michihiko wouldn't act like this, and if he had been in this position, how would the killer have been able to shoot—"

Almost as Inspector Megure was marveling at the sight, a pen fell from the sky, hitting him on the head, and then slid down the window into the room.

"Who threw things downstairs!" Inspector Megure looked up angrily, but when he did, he saw Jirokichi Suzuki's shiny bald head.

Of course, Jiang Hang asked Conan to tell Suzuki Jirokichi to do this.

If that old man, Jirokichi Suzuki, wants to use facts to refute those who question him, then let him gain some fame.

He asked Conan to tell Jirokichi Suzuki the whole story of the case so that he could bring the live cameraman up there and make a splash on television.

And at that very moment, Inspector Megure seemed to understand something as well.

If someone shot him from above while he was leaning against the window, then the crime scene would make perfect sense!

"Inspector Megure, just pretend you've just been shot and then fall to the ground," Jiang Hang instructed. Inspector Megure slowly fell to the ground, and because he was leaning against the window, he closed the special window with his body weight as he fell.

“If that’s the case, even three minutes would be enough for Mr. Matsuo to kill Mr. Suwa and return to the recording site, right?” Jiang Hang pulled Inspector Megure up from the ground.

"To verify whether what I said is true or not, the police only need to check if there are bullet holes on the floor below where this window is located."

Of course, this had already been confirmed by Jiang Hang with his eagle eyes, which is why he can now speak so confidently.

"Even so, it only means that I might have committed the crime, but others could have done the same thing. So many people left the recording site, how can you be sure that I was the one who killed Suwa Michihiko?" Matsuo Takashi still showed no intention of admitting it.

He seemed determined to keep denying it until Jiang Hang produced the final "conclusive evidence" before he would honestly confess to his crimes.

Jiang Hang suddenly laughed. He wasn't the kind of detective like Conan who had to convince the criminals completely.

"Mr. Matsuo, didn't I say before that this is just a hypothetical scenario? You don't need to be so nervous."

"Assuming that Mr. Matsuo is indeed the murderer, then in three minutes of time, no matter how careful he was, he would definitely have left some flaws and clues in the upstairs room that he hadn't had time to deal with."

He then looked at Inspector Megure beside him.

"So, that concludes my hypothesis. I don't think the police should have too much trouble with their investigation afterward."

Chapter 119: Chapter 118: The TV Station Murder Case Ends

Based on Jiang Hang's "hypothetical principle," Takashi Matsuo naturally became the prime suspect in this incident.

Inspector Megure's judgment was beyond question at this point, and he immediately ordered the other officers to collect the evidence and clues that Jiang Hang had just mentioned.

During the police search, it didn't take long to find a hidden raincoat and gloves in the warehouse that showed signs of burning. Further fingerprint comparison confirmed that they did indeed have Takashi Matsuo's fingerprints on them.

In fact, after Jiang Hang withdrew, Matsuo Takashi did not persist for long.

Even though the police had not yet found the "decisive evidence" that he had not yet had time to deal with, under immense psychological pressure, Takashi Matsuo, knowing that he could not escape legal punishment, honestly confessed to his crimes.

The motive for the murder was actually what Inspector Megure had initially suspected.

Several years ago, Takashi Matsuo and Michihiko Suwa co-planned the program "Japan Detective Agency," with Matsuo giving all the credit for the planning to Suwa, who then became the host of the program.

As a result of the recent drop in viewership ratings, the already successful and renowned producer Michihiko Suwa made the decision to replace Takashi Matsuo and add more adult content to attract viewers.

Having his hosting position replaced, and with his show, which he had worked so hard for over the years, about to be completely transformed, Takashi Matsuo couldn't accept this reality. Ultimately, he made the decision to kill Michihiko Suwa and carried it out.

Takashi Matsuo's methods were not particularly complicated.

He first had Michihiko Suwa wait for him in a quiet house downstairs after the recording of his show. Then, during the recording, he took advantage of the time it took to show a short film to rush to the warehouse that he had prepared in advance.

During this process, wear a raincoat and gloves to prevent the gunpowder reaction on your body from being detected.

He uses an anonymous phone call to tell Michihiko Suwa that he is contemplating suicide and asks Michihiko Suwa to open the window and look up to witness his death.

Taking advantage of the moment when Suwa Michihiko frantically peeked out of the window, he shot and killed Suwa Michihiko, and threw the gun that killed him onto Suwa Michihiko, letting it fall into the room along with Suwa Michihiko's body.

Combined with the several bullets he fired into the room beforehand, he thought this would make the police believe that the murderer broke into the room, killed Suwa Michihiko, threw the pistol next to him, and fled the scene.

If his alibi is valid, he can then dispose of everything he didn't have time to deal with before leaving.

He had anticipated the police's reaction, but he hadn't expected Jiang Hang to show up uninvited.

He never expected that Jiang Hang would figure out his modus operandi after only a few minutes at the crime scene.

All told, from the time he killed Michihiko Suwa to the time the police solved the case, the entire process took less than two hours.

If we only consider the time Jiang Hang spent at the crime scene, it was only about ten minutes.

Takashi Matsuo has been running detective shows for so many years, and dozens of people have appeared on his shows and been called "famous detectives." But of all the so-called famous detectives he knows, he never expected that the one who would leave the deepest impression on him in the end would be this rookie detective who hasn't been in the business for very long.

I recalled the other person's nonchalant attitude, as if they weren't worried at all that their assumptions might be wrong.

Even Takashi Matsuo couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

Hawkeye Detective, he truly lives up to his name.

For Jiang Hang, this case is nothing special.

Takashi Matsuo killed someone and then deliberately put on such a grief-stricken expression in front of the live broadcast camera; just thinking about it makes him feel a little uncomfortable.

Even though solving the case brought him a reward of tens of millions of yen, plus a mid-level skills training book, it didn't make him feel much better.

Jiang Hang even received an even more troublesome message from Conan.

He never expected that he would deliberately give Suzuki Jirokichi a chance to show off, letting Conan tell him the whole story of the case so that this wealthy old man could enjoy being a "famous detective" on TV and be more willing to spend money in the future.

As it turned out, this old man actually forgot his lines and stumbled over while live-streaming the case-solving process. In the end, Conan had to keep reminding Suzuki Jirokichi in the same way he would remind Kogoro Mouri, and only then was the case-solving live stream barely completed.

Although Jiro Suzuki guitarist said he felt good about himself at the end, there was only a small flaw at the very end.

But one can imagine that when the whole country sees him struggling and being frantically reminded by a child, not only will he not be able to clear his name, but the very next day, haters might turn that stumbling live stream into a meme video on a video-sharing website.

Now that Suzuki Jirokichi has become a scoundrel in other people's eyes, all the remaining attention will naturally be focused on Jiang Hang.

This time, the case of the famous detective show host shooting and killing the top producer was broadcast live due to the TV station's bizarre actions. This news quickly rose to the top of the trending news searches, followed by news about Jiang Hang solving the case at lightning speed.

Even Imai Midori, Jiang Hang's number one fan, called Jiang Hang immediately.

"Mr. Jiang Hang, I just watched the live broadcast on TV. Did you solve a case on TV? I saw some people at the scene saying on the forum that you used a method called the 'hypothetical principle' to solve the case. Is that true?"

As soon as the call connected, Midori Imai bombarded Jiang Hang with a barrage of questions, such as the specific details of the case and whether the "hypothetical principle" was a modified hypothetical-deductive method developed by Jiang Hang.

Jiang Hang really didn't expect that just by making a few assumptions, he would actually create a hypothetical principle on the forum.

It seems that in the story of Imai Midori, the character "Jiang Hang" will now have another crime-solving method called the hypothetical principle, following his famous line "There is only one answer."

Just answering this female fan's question had already taken up a lot of Jiang Hang's energy, not to mention the gossip reporters and media who rushed over after hearing the news.

So for the next few days, Jiang Hang simply closed his own office and spent all his time on the rooftop of the art museum cultivating his relationship with Altaïr.

The connection distance of the shared Eagle Eye has also increased rapidly in the past few days. Jiang Hang, who has gradually mastered the trick, has extended the longest connection distance from two meters to tens of meters.

Once this range reaches over 100 meters, the shared eagle-eye system will be useful in cases.

Jiang Hang initially thought the Sherlock Holmes fan gathering Conan had mentioned was pointless, but now, annoyed by gossip reporters, he just wanted to find a quiet place to resume his slacking off.

Chapter 120: Chapter 119: A Sherlock Holmes Fan Gathering

It's still dark.

Jiang Hang drove his AE86, taking Conan on a high-speed drive along the coastal road.

He wanted to imitate that Akina Mountain racing legend by placing a cup of water on the dashboard and then making sure the water didn't leak out during a high-speed race, in order to showcase his superb driving skills.

However, his driving skills are now inferior to even Yoshino Kiharu's, and his so-called "mad dash" was actually only just over 80 mph.

"I thought you were going to drive at 200 km/h, which made me a little nervous. Is this all?" Conan, sitting in the passenger seat, rolled his eyes at Jiang Hang.

When he first heard Jiang Hang say that he was going to lead a race, he was actually a little panicked. Who knew that in Jiang Hang's opinion, 80 miles per hour was already considered racing?

"Ahem, anyway, there's no rush to get there. There are many roads, but safety is the most important. You must remember this and never forget it."

“When you have the chance in the future, you’ll see that my title of ‘Beihana Town Car God’ is not just for show,” Jiang Hang replied, a little guilty.

He hasn't acquired any driving skills yet; to be honest, his driving skills are at most at the basic level.