Solving cases with Detective Conan's science? No, I'm a cultivator!

Ai Haibara added, "'That man' is the leader of the organization, and Rum is the number two."

Then, she told the two of them about the other members she knew.

Mary Akai nodded slightly, lost in thought.

After a long silence, she slowly spoke: "Do you know about the case of the genius shogi player Koji Haneda 17 years ago?"

Kitagawa Taki raised an eyebrow; he knew Rum was behind it.

Ai Haibara's pupils contracted.

Mary Akai noticed Ai Haibara's unusual behavior and asked with concern, "Shiho, what's wrong?"

Ai Haibara said, "I've seen Koji Haneda's name before; he's on the list of users of APTX-4869!"

Mary Akai's gaze was solemn. According to Ai Haibara, Koji Haneda had taken the original A drug.

Akemi Miyano asked the crucial question: "Aunt Mary, why are you suddenly asking this?"

"The Haneda family and our family have a long history. Your uncle was hunted down and killed by that organization 17 years ago when he went to the United States to investigate the death of Haneda Koji..."

Mary Akai's expression darkened when Tsutomu Akai was mentioned.

Sera Masumi had mixed feelings, and Akai Mary rarely mentioned her father.

Miyano Akemi and Haibara Ai fell silent. No wonder Akai Mary hated the Black Organization so much.

Kitagawa Taki broke the deadlock by saying, "Then we can start with this case. As far as I know, Rum was the one who did it."

"what?"

The people inside the room all looked at Kitagawa Taki in shock.

“I learned it from Vermouth.”

Kitagawa Taki unhesitatingly shifted the blame to Vermouth.

The Miyano sisters, however, have come to terms with it.

But Akai Mary was even more confused: "Vermouth? That woman??"

Ai Haibara helped explain, "Aunt Mary, Kitagawa and Vermouth have reached an agreement, and she... let me go once before."

"Is that woman trustworthy?" Mary Akai still had a furrowed brow.

Since Vermouth let Shiho Miyano go, it means she knows the effects of drug A.

Therefore, her appearance was likely not accidental, but intentional!

What exactly does that woman want to do?

Kitagawa Taki knew this woman was very suspicious, so he reassured her, "Don't worry! I can guarantee she's not lying."

Mary Akai temporarily suppressed her doubts and nodded hesitantly, attributing it all to Taki Kitagawa's amazing ability.

“Now that we know Rum was behind it, we might be able to find out something new.” With that, Mary Akai stood up. “Akami, Shiho, and Kitagawa, we’ll head back for today!”

The two noticed Akai Mary's eagerness and did not try to stop her.

Mary Akai led Masumi Sera outside.

As the two mounted their motorcycle and were about to leave.

Kitagawa Taki chased after them and called out to them.

"Aunt Mary, could you come here for a moment?"

Mary Akai took off her helmet, jumped off the car, and followed Taki Kitagawa to the side.

"Kitagawa, is there anything else?" Akai Mary glanced at Sera Masumi in the distance, wondering what Kitagawa Taki was hiding from her.

Kitagawa Taki said seriously, "Aunt Mary, if you catch a cold or get a fever, remember to let me know."

"Ok?"

"This is very important; it concerns the antidote!" Kitagawa Taki emphasized again.

Mary Akai was even more confused. What did the cold have to do with the antidote?

"Kitagawa, explain yourself clearly!"

Kitagawa Taki, however, did not intend to explain: "Just remember to tell me, and you'll find out when the time comes."

After saying that, he went back to his room on his own, which was hardly the attitude one would show to an elder.

Mary Akai was furious, but the usually calm woman was repeatedly brought to her breaking point by Taki Kitagawa.

Chapter 297 Breakthrough and the Strange Letter of Commission

early morning.

Kitagawa Taki sat cross-legged in his training room, surrounded by spiritual energy.

As time passed, the spiritual energy around him grew increasingly dense until the shackles were completely broken, and his aura gradually solidified.

Kitagawa Taki opened his eyes, a smile appearing on his face.

Breaking through to the sixth level of Qi Refining means that his cultivation path can be accelerated.

He can now condense his inner fire and begin refining pills to aid his cultivation.

At the same time, it can also be used to refine low-level attack talismans.

Although this thing is not as powerful as his magic, its advantage is that it can be used in large quantities and his women can use it. It's just that its power is weaker than when he uses spiritual energy to activate it.

However, alchemy and talisman making should wait; Kitagawa Taki should focus on cultivating the "Array" technique at the moment.

The "Array" technique, when combined with the inner binding seal, allows him to remain invisible until his spiritual power is exhausted.

……

For the next few days, Kitagawa Taki stayed at home, busy with cultivation and crafting talismans.

He finally mastered the "array" technique and simultaneously refined a large number of attack talismans—

Fireball Talisman releases a fireball to attack others, equivalent to Fireball Spell.

Ice Cone Rune: Condenses several ice cones for an attack, similar to Water Arrow.

Lightning Talisman: Unleashes a lightning attack.

As for its power, Kitagawa Taki has tested it, and if he were to unleash it, it would be roughly equivalent to the spell he cast when he was at the fourth level of Qi Refining.

As for the more powerful intermediate and advanced talismans, he is not yet capable of refining them with his current cultivation level.

……

After leaving the training room, Kitagawa Taki found Miyano Akemi and Haibara Ai.

Those two are the ones who most need to attack the talisman.

"Taki-kun, is your training over?"

These days, Kitagawa Taki hasn't left the training room at all, and even his meals are delivered by Miyano Akemi.

“It’s over for now.” Kitagawa Taki nodded and said, “I called you here because I wanted to give you something.”

As he spoke, he took out twenty attack talismans of various kinds.

Too many would be inconvenient for the two women to carry.

"Is this a new talisman?"

Both of them noticed that the pattern on it was different from the pattern on the talismans that Kitagawa Taki had given them before.

“Yes.” Kitagawa Taki explained, “These talismans allow you to cast spells as well. They’re very easy to use: just unfold them and throw them forward.”

Seeing that the two were eager to try, Kitagawa Taki took out three ice cone talismans. "Let's go try it out in the yard!"

Compared to the other two types of talismans, the Ice Cone Talisman array is smaller.

Kitagawa Taki took the lead in demonstrating, throwing out the ice cone talisman directly without using spiritual power.

The ice cone talisman floated in the air, a faint golden light flashed, and several ice cones condensed out of thin air. Then the ice cone talisman disappeared, and the ice cones shot towards the wall, leaving several pits and a layer of frost on the wall.

Ai Haibara stepped forward and touched the layer of ice, a strange light flashing in her eyes.

Even though I already knew about Kitagawa Taki's amazing magic, I still found it quite incredible.

"Alright, you guys give it a try!"

The two followed suit and successfully released the ice cone talisman.

Kitagawa Taki said, "The other two are the Fireball Talisman and the Lightning Talisman. They are used in the same way. Compared to guns, talismans are more likely to catch opponents off guard."

The two nodded.

The talisman experiment concluded successfully, but the wall suffered damage, becoming pitted and uneven.

Akemi Miyano laughed and said, "Looks like we'll have to repair the wall."

Kitagawa Taki said, "I'll contact a worker to fix it later."

There's nothing I can do; this is how it is when you don't use spiritual power to control or activate it—you can't control the direction.

"Oh, right, Taki-kun, the agency received a strange letter of request yesterday."

As she spoke, Akemi Miyano took a piece of paper out of her pocket.

"Oh?"

Kitagawa Taki took it and saw that the paper had cut-out words from the newspaper pasted on it, forming a sentence.

On the night of the next full moon, shadows will once again disappear on Moonshadow Island. Please investigate the reason! — Keiji Aso

Tsukikage Island, Keiji Aso...

Kitagawa Taki immediately remembered, wasn't this Asahi Narumi, that cross-dressing master?

It left a deep impression on his young mind when he watched it back then.

I initially thought she was a beautiful older sister, but I was wrong...

Akemi Miyano added, "The client also sent the commission fee, two million yen, not a penny less."

Meanwhile, the detective on the other side received the exact same letter of request, only this time the fee was one million yen.