The Daily Life of a Salted Fish Assassin in Anime Crossovers

Upon hearing that Midori Imai was going to the library, Shizuka Sakaki became somewhat interested.

Because Jiang Hang went to Musashino Animation, the agency was closed this afternoon. She originally planned to go to the tokusatsu company to continue looking for monsters, but going to the library, which she hadn't been to in a long time, to change her mood seemed like a good idea.

With this in mind, Shizuka Sakaki and Midori Imai went together to the nearby Beika Library.

However, somewhat coincidentally, Shizuka Sakaki actually ran into Conan, whom she hadn't seen for several days, and his close friends at the library.

She remembered that these kids had formed a "juvenile detective club" some time ago.

"Conan, you guys are at the library too?" Shizuka Sakaki greeted Conan, who was standing to the side.

Before Conan could even respond, the chubby Genta seemed to have remembered Shizuka Sakaki's identity: "Oh! I remember you, you're the assistant sister next to the eel rice detective!"

Hearing this elementary school student refer to Jiang Hang as the "eel rice detective," Shizuka Sakaki couldn't help but smile.

However, the boy named Mitsuhiko next to him quickly reminded Genta: "It's not 'Eel Rice Detective,' it's 'Hawkeye Detective,' Genta, don't keep calling him that just because he treated you to eel rice once!"

Ayumi, the only girl among them, politely called Shizuka Sakaki "Shizuka-neechan" and then explained why they had come to the library together.

Their elementary school assigned a reading reflection assignment, so they've come to the library to find some books to complete it.

"Shizuka-neechan, are you also here at the library to do your homework?"

“My older sister is old enough to not have to do homework anymore,” Shizuka Sakaki glanced at the children and then said to Midori Imai, “Midori, you go find some books first. I know these children, I’ll take them to find some children’s books.”

"I'll contact you again after I find it," Midori Imai nodded, smiled and greeted the members of the Junior Detective League, then went to find the book she needed.

Meanwhile, Shizuka Sakaki, along with the group of boy detectives who were envious of her not having to do homework, headed to the children's book section of the library.

The children's library mainly contained comics and fairy tales. Apart from Conan, the other children excitedly started looking for the books they wanted to read as soon as they entered the library.

Conan glanced at the pile of fairy tales, but just seeing the titles of these books made him completely lose the desire to pick them up and read them.

However, with Shizuka Sakaki right next to him, he still had to act like a child.

Just as he was about to pretend to grab a book, a familiar siren sounded, which made him run to the windowsill, stand on a stool, and look out the window.

He hadn't misheard; a police car had indeed stopped in front of the library, and the person who got out of the police car was none other than Inspector Megure, whom he knew very well.

And Inspector Megure, who is in charge of investigating murder and kidnapping cases in the First Investigation Division, is here... Could it be that a major case has occurred in the library?

Thinking of this, Conan immediately became alert.

Chapter 184: Chapter 182: The Mysterious Disappearance of Library Staff

Not only Conan noticed the sirens, but Shizuka Sakaki also noticed the sound of the police cars and came to Conan's side to look down with him.

"Oh, it's Inspector Megure. What happened at the library?" Having spent a long time with Jiang Hang, Shizuka Sakaki is quite familiar with Inspector Megure and other police officers she frequently deals with.

If it were Conan in his usual manner, he would probably run downstairs immediately to greet Inspector Megure and try to get information out of him about what happened.

However, after receiving careful instruction from Jiang Hang, Conan quickly set his sights on Shizuka Sakaki.

He tugged at Shizuka Sakaki beside him and suggested in a childlike tone, "Shizuka-neechan, aren't you Brother Jiang Hang's assistant? Let's go down and see what happened. Maybe we can help Inspector Megure!"

Shizuka Sakaki wasn't that confident in her abilities; these past few days, she and Yuno Kimura had only been able to handle simple requests.

Inspector Megure and his team handle cases involving murder and kidnapping, and she figured she should just stay out of trouble and never thought she could be of any help.

But unable to resist Conan's encouragement, saying things like, "Let's find out what's going on first, and then we can ask Brother Jiang Hang for help," Shizuka Sakaki finally led Conan downstairs to the library.

"Aren't you going to tell your friends?" Shizuka Sakaki glanced at the other children who were still searching for books in the bookshelf and asked Conan.

Conan's lips twitched: After spending two months with those kids, he knew their personalities all too well. They were fearless and always wanted to take care of everything. He had spent a lot of energy taking care of and ensuring their safety over the past two months.

If he were to tell them about this now, those kids would probably clamor to come with him, and he had absolutely no desire to do something that would cause him trouble.

With this in mind, Conan quickly pulled Shizuka Sakaki away from the children's library, explaining to her, "No need, we're just going down to check on things and will be back soon. They won't notice!"

The two of them quickly walked to the elevator. Just then, the elevator doors were not yet closed, and Shizuka Sakaki hurriedly led Conan into the elevator.

Unexpectedly, after the two of them entered the elevator, the elevator overload warning sounded immediately.

Shizuka Sakaki glanced at the notice written on the elevator wall. The elevator's capacity was not large, and the notice only stated that it could carry 7 people.

If you include Conan, there are exactly 8 people in this elevator.

Although Shizuka Sakaki felt that the library elevator was a bit too sensitive, she quickly apologized to everyone in the elevator and led Conan down the stairs.

Conan, however, looked at the elevator behind him with some confusion.

Even if the capacity is 7 people, the combined weight of Shizuka Sakaki and herself should only be about the weight of a normal adult male, right?

Conan wasn't thinking much about it at the moment. This library had been open since he was a child, perhaps because the elevator was old.

The library itself only has four floors, and they can walk up the stairs just as fast as they can take the elevator.

When they arrived at the library lobby on the first floor, they saw Inspector Megure and several other officers questioning the library staff.

When Inspector Megure saw Conan and Shizuka Sakaki, a smile appeared on his face: "Ms. Sakaki and Conan, are you here at the library to read today too?"

As he said this, he couldn't help but look behind Shizuka Sakaki, as if trying to find Jiang Hang's figure.

"Where's Brother Jiang Hang? Didn't he come with you?"

When Inspector Megure learned from Shizuka Sakaki that Jiang Hang hadn't come along, he seemed a little disappointed: "If Jiang Hang had helped, the missing person would surely have been found very quickly, right?"

Conan listened to Inspector Megure's words and a subtle expression appeared on his face. You've only just started the investigation, and you're already thinking of asking Jiang Hang for help?

"Inspector Megure, are you investigating a missing persons case?" he asked Inspector Megure curiously.

Inspector Megure nodded. He trusted Shizuka Sakaki and Conan quite a bit, and quickly gave Shizuka a brief account of the case.

"The person who reported the case is the wife of a library employee. She called our police this afternoon to report that her husband, Yutian Kazuo, has not returned home for two days and she has been unable to contact him by phone since then."

According to the missing man's wife, her husband would call or text her every day after get off work, but that night, Yutian Kazuo did not contact her, so she suspected that her husband was taken away or murdered before he got off work.

As Inspector Megure said this, he glanced at a middle-aged man who was still being questioned not far away.

"That's Hideharu Tsugawa, the librarian of Beika Library. According to our investigation, Kazuo Tamada worked overtime two nights ago. So we are now questioning the employees who worked overtime two nights ago to find out when they noticed that Kazuo Tamada was missing that night."

Soon, the results of the inquiries from the employees who were working overtime and Director Tsugawa came out.

Director Tsugawa stated that he was busy organizing the newly arrived books that day and did not notice Tamada Kazuo's movements.

Several other employees also said they hadn't seen Kazuo Tamada since 8 p.m., but they didn't know exactly when he went missing.

"That means Tamada Kazuo may have disappeared after 8 PM, and the library staff didn't notice anything unusual..."

"It is possible that Kazuo Tamada left the library before 8 o'clock for some reason and disappeared as a result, or it is possible that he was killed by someone and his body was disposed of before that."

After speaking, Inspector Megure looked at Shizuka Sakaki with some anticipation. Perhaps he felt that as Jiang Hang's assistant, if Shizuka Sakaki could learn something from Jiang Hang, it would be helpful to their police investigation.

However, even Conan couldn't deduce anything of value from the current clues, let alone Shizuka Sakaki.

Under Inspector Megure's watchful eye, Shizuka Sakaki, after pondering for a while without coming up with anything, decisively chose to call Jiang Hang for off-site support.

Chapter 185: Chapter 183: The Library Murder Case—A Childhood Trauma

Shizuka Sakaki believes that Jiang Hang is currently in serious business negotiations with the head of Musashino Animation, accompanied by Yuno Kiharu.

But when she heard the sound of mahjong tiles coming from the other end of the phone, she knew she was completely wrong.

Jiang Hang is currently playing mahjong happily with Watanabe Jun, a producer at Musashino Animation, whom he has just met, at a small mahjong parlor near Musashino Animation.

As for the collaboration, he naturally left it to the professionals at the tokusatsu company to handle; talking about work is nothing compared to playing mahjong.

According to producer Watanabe, playing mahjong is a unique "diplomatic method" of their Musashino Animation studio, and Jiang Hang can call him anytime he wants to play mahjong.

Hearing that Shizuka Sakaki had come to him because of a case, Jiang Hang coughed lightly.

He glanced at the terrible hand he had, and then asked Yoshino Kiharu to finish the game for him, saying that if he lost, it was on him, and if he won, they would split the winnings.

Stepping outside the mahjong parlor, Jiang Hang took a breath of fresh air and began to listen to the story of Shizuka Sakaki's disappearance.

Upon learning that the case had occurred at the Mihua Library, Jiang Hang frowned.

"Someone has gone missing from the Mika Library?"

Having watched so many episodes of Detective Conan as a child, he naturally wouldn't remember the typical cases, but the cases like the "Bound Man Murder Case," the "Library Murder Case," and the already occurred "Art Museum Murder Case" and "Moon Shadow Island Murder Case"—these early Conan cases left an extremely deep impression on Jiang Hang when he was a child.

Just as Jiang Hang had dragged Yoshino Kiharu to the Mihana Art Museum to investigate after learning about the rumors, Jiang Hang had also gone to the library to investigate after organizing the "Conan cases" he could still remember.

He also recalled the story of the library murder, which seemed to have occurred because an employee discovered that the librarian, who had left him with childhood trauma, was hiding drugs or guns in the library. The employee was then killed by the librarian, who then hid the body.

Jiang Hang had visited the library several times after the art museum incident and after returning from Tsukikage Island, intending to report any problems he found directly to Inspector Megure and his team.

But the library was still very clean at that time. He searched around with his eagle eye but found nothing suspicious. The librarian, although he had a monkey-like face, looked quite kind.

In addition, the art style of animation is definitely different from that of reality, so Jiang Hang, thinking he had come to the wrong place, did not spend too much more energy on this matter.

Unexpectedly, only a month has passed, and he has already heard from Shizuka Sakaki that the case has actually occurred.

Upon hearing that Conan was right beside her, Jiang Hang couldn't help but mentally complain that Conan's performance was as consistently solid as ever.

Although he already knew who the real culprit was when he heard about it over the phone, he naturally couldn't explain it clearly over the phone.

Jiang Hang glanced at Koharu Yuno, who was taking over the mahjong game from him in the mahjong parlor.

I don't know when, but the originally bad hand of cards gradually became neat and tidy, and it was only one card away from being ready to win.

It seems he doesn't need to worry too much about things here.

"Then I'll come over now. What's the situation on your end?"

With that, he said goodbye to Yoshino Kiharu and his newly acquainted mahjong partner, Jun Watanabe, and then hurriedly left the mahjong parlor.

On the other end of the phone, Shizuka Sakaki continued, "The police search has just ended. They didn't find Tamada Kazuo's body in the art museum... Could it be that Mr. Tamada Kazuo was really lured out of the library and then murdered?"

With the rudimentary intelligence-gathering abilities she had acquired through training, Shizuka Sakaki instinctively sensed that something was amiss.

She covered her mouth with her hand and whispered to Jiang Hang, "I have a feeling that something is strange about this library, and some of the people who were questioned by the police definitely didn't tell the truth. What do you think, Jiang Hang?"

Hearing that Shizuka Sakaki sensed something was wrong, Jiang Hang's heart stirred.

He sat in his car, trying to give Shizuka Sakaki some hints.

"In that case, why don't you make a assumption? If your hunch is correct, and if Tamada Kazuo was killed in the library, then why would the murderer want to kill him?"

"And after killing him, where would the murderer hide the body to avoid being discovered by the police?"

Jiang Hang prompted Sakaki Shizuka little by little: "You just said that the police have searched all the places in the library where things could be hidden, such as the storage room, the restrooms, and even the bookshelves. So what other places do you think could be used to hide a body, and wouldn't be easy for anyone to think of?"

"Since you think the library is a bit strange, then try to find out what's odd before I get there."