Conan: Ran, I really am Shinichi, you have to believe me!

Even after going to great lengths to read Jiang Chengbei's police handbook, they still couldn't accept this fact.

In their reasoning, Jiang Chengbei was at most a CIA agent, a traitor, a Japanese collaborator who was in Japan but whose heart was in the United States, serving Dao Le. How could he possibly be a public security police officer?

Whether they believe it or not, after Jiang Chengbei pulled out a police notebook and found a handgun on Amuro Tooru, he was beaten up and eventually put into a police car, which drove away with sirens blaring.

"I never would have guessed. Amuro Tooru, who looks so sunny, is actually a criminal who illegally possesses firearms. You can't judge a book by its cover!"

Watching Amuro Tooru being taken away, Professor Agasa sighed for a long time, feeling that all his sincerity had been wasted, and he had been deceived by a villain who could only be known by his appearance.

After this commotion, Jiang Chengbei's identity as a police officer was exposed. As a result, the members of the Izu tour group were all resentful, complaining that it was unfair and that Jiang Chengbei's participation in their game of finding the organizer was cheating.

Faced with their complaints, Jiang Chengbei silenced them with a single question: "In Japan, are the police more powerful or the detectives?"

In the world of Detective Conan, especially in the media portrayals such as newspapers and television, detectives are portrayed as far more capable than the police, and not just by a few degrees. In fact, the police are depicted as incompetent, while detectives are portrayed as their saviors.

After Jiang Chengbei said that, the members of the tour group were speechless. In particular, since Jiang Chengbei had helped them get rid of a savior detective and added an incompetent policeman, all the members of the tour group present should thank him.

After realizing they couldn't win an argument with Jiang Chengbei, the group awkwardly greeted each other and went upstairs to their rooms.

Finally, the onlookers dispersed, leaving only Jiang Chengbei and his three companions, along with Professor Agasa and his group.

Conan had many questions for Jiang Chengbei and the others, so he made an excuse to let Professor Agasa go back to his room, while he and Jiang Chengbei found a secluded place to ask him the truth.

After spending time together, the Miyano sisters gained some understanding of Conan, knowing that he was obsessed with going to the Black Organization to fight them, wanting to wipe them out in one fell swoop, and then arresting all the Black Organization executives and bringing them to justice.

At the same time, she also knows that Conan is reckless and gets carried away when something happens. He will rush in without thinking, which will bring danger to himself and those around him.

Having figured out Conan's personality and temperament, the Miyano sisters, for their own safety, didn't want to provoke the Black Organization and just wanted to live a peaceful life. So they didn't want to say much to Conan, and after saying a few perfunctory words to him, they went back to their room.

After Conan's ability to answer any question failed with the Miyano sisters, he had no choice but to shift his focus and pester Jiang Chengbei, hoping to get information from him.

Jiang Chengbei was slightly kinder than the Miyano sisters, and repeated what he had said before, telling Conan that Amuro Tooru's code name at the distillery was Bourbon Whiskey.

“His code name at the distillery is Bourbon, Jiang Cheng, you mentioned it before. What I want to know now is whether he is an undercover police officer at the distillery, or a cadre from the distillery who has infiltrated the police force.”

Conan was dissatisfied with Jiang Chengbei's ambiguous answer and kept pressing for more details.

"I don't know about that. Anyway, his code name at the distillery is Bourbon, and he also has a position in the Public Security Bureau. As for which side he's on or whether he's a double agent, I have no idea."

Conan, but I can tell you some information that I know.

When Amuro Tooru was at the brewery, he acted openly and legitimately under the name of Bourbon.

At the same time, while he was active at the winery, he also acted openly and without restraint with the police, without any thought of keeping it secret.

Generally speaking, if Conan were a member of the Public Security Bureau and went undercover at the Black Organization, his identity within the Public Security Bureau would have to be kept secret, and for his own safety, he would cease all activities within the Public Security Bureau.

Similarly, if a winery executive sends someone to infiltrate the police force, that person's identity must be kept secret. They should just focus on being a police officer and not show their face in the winery.

For the safety of the undercover agent, after successfully infiltrating, one will only appear in the unit where one is infiltrating. The original unit will definitely cease all activities, and even if there is to be contact, it will be done secretly to maintain secrecy as much as possible. The fewer people who know about it, the better, and the less involved one is in the affairs of the original unit, the better.

But now, Amuro Tooru's situation is completely the opposite. Anyway, when he was at the brewery, he kept doing missions, and other members of the organization knew that he existed.

At the same time, he continued his work in the public security system, often appearing in public with several of his police subordinates to investigate cases.

Aside from working outside, Amuro Tooru has been constantly on missions and making public appearances for both the sake brewery and the Public Security Bureau.

It's really hard to say whose side he's on. You can't see into someone's heart, how am I supposed to know which side he's loyal to? It's so difficult to guess the true stance of a double agent.

Upon hearing Jiang Chengbei's words, Conan's mouth dropped open in surprise. After a moment of silence, he finally asked:

"And you? Are you really a police officer?"

"Of course it's true, I am a public security police officer. How about I show you my ID again, or I can take you to visit the National Police Agency when we get back to Tokyo?"

Seeing Jiang Chengbei's confident answer, without a hint of guilt, Conan opened his mouth, hesitated several times, and finally managed to utter a sentence:

"But you don't look like a public security police officer; you look more like a foreign intelligence organization, like the CIA!"

Seeing Conan's conflicted expression, Jiang Chengbei smiled slightly and reached out to ruffle Conan's big head:

"Do I look like a CIA agent?"

Perhaps, like Amuro Tooru, I am the one responsible for communication between two seemingly opposing organizations.

Or perhaps I am an undercover CIA agent in the Japanese Public Security Bureau, or perhaps I am an undercover CIA agent in the Japanese Public Security Bureau, or perhaps I am a Japanese Public Security Bureau agent who wants to be bribed by the CIA in order to carry out a counter-espionage plan and sacrifice myself in the future.

Anyway, I'm a Japanese police officer now, but you're assuming I'm a CIA agent. There are many possible truths involved, and the story can keep changing. It just depends on how long you can keep this up.

Conan: ...

Conan obtained all this information from Jiang Chengbei. His explanation was ambiguous and circuitous, and to find out the truth, he would have to investigate it himself, which would be very taxing on his brain.

In order to figure out who Amuro Tooru and Jiang Chengbei really are, Conan lay on the protruding balcony on the second floor, contemplating life.

Since this is a hotel, the ceiling height on the first floor is quite high, often equivalent to several floors in an ordinary building. So even though Conan is on the second-floor balcony, the distance from the ground is still quite high, equivalent to several floors in an ordinary building.

Just as Conan was racking his brains trying to figure out the identities of Jiang Chengbei and Amuro Tooru, he miraculously heard a noise behind him, as if someone had walked up behind him.

It's a miracle that Conan was able to detect someone behind him. Don't say that Conan has never been able to detect someone ambushing him from behind, but this time he did.

So, Conan, with his body leaning on the balcony railing and his feet on the steel bars in the middle of the railing, turned around and saw a mysterious person dressed in all black and wearing a white mask.

As soon as Conan saw the mysterious man appear behind him, he was pushed down by the man's outstretched hands. Conan screamed in fear as he fell from the balcony, which was several stories high.

Thankfully, the Conan we see now is not the Conan from the original series.

In the original series, if Conan were pushed like that, he would definitely... neither die nor get injured.

So now that Conan has chakra superpowers, the original Conan is even less comparable. So, with his head up and eyes looking at the mysterious person who poked his head out, and Conan who was startled by this sudden accident and shouted "Ah!", he put his hands under his body, and a chakra soccer ball quickly grew larger and soon became an air cushion under Conan.

Conan had already jumped over the Shiraiu Pharmaceutical Building, which was dozens of floors and hundreds of meters high, so these few-story balconies were nothing to him. He had screamed "Ah!" earlier, which was definitely because he was frightened by this guy dressed in all black.

Gin, Vodka, Cohen, and the underlings at White Dove Pharmaceuticals—aside from the R&D staff—were all dressed in black. This mysterious guy they saw was also dressed in black, and Conan was afraid he might be a member of the distillery.

Having just caught Bourbon, Conan fears there might be other accomplices or members of the brewery lurking nearby.

While Conan was guessing whether the mysterious man in black who pushed him off the balcony was a member of the Black Organization, Conan, who was standing on a giant chakra soccer ball cushion, also fell into the swimming pool, pushing all the tourists playing in the pool into the water at once.

Seeing Conan, whom he had pushed down, suddenly find himself beneath a giant soccer ball that could grow larger, and the mysterious man dressed as the Duke of the Night watching his handiwork from the second-floor balcony, he too stared wide-eyed in shock:

Damn, where did this kid's giant soccer ball come from?

At the same time, a shadow suddenly loomed overhead, and then they looked up to see a soccer ball that rapidly grew larger. Before they could react, it smashed into their heads, shoving them into the water. The swimmers, who had swallowed mouthfuls of everyone's bathwater, were terrified.

Holy crap, where did such a big football come from? Help!

After the soccer ball landed in the swimming pool, it bounced up and down a few times with great elasticity. Once Conan felt that the force of the fall had completely dissipated, he removed the chakra soccer ball and prepared for the landing.

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Conan was prepared to land on his feet, but he misjudged the situation and fell directly into the swimming pool, splashing water everywhere.

Is that a swimming pool?

I was so preoccupied with Amuro Tooru and Jiang Chengbei that I didn't notice the swimming pool below the balcony.

As he fell, Conan kept his eyes on the man in black who had pushed him off the balcony. He was skilled and daring, having jumped over hundreds of meters tall buildings before, and was very experienced. With the chakra soccer ball cushioning his fall, what was there to be afraid of? So he didn't look down, but kept his eyes on the mysterious man in black wearing a white mask on the balcony.

When Conan fell into the pool and found himself soaked, he suddenly realized that the mysterious man in black hadn't intended to kill him; he had only given him a little push.

After falling into the water, Conan lost his view for a moment. When he surfaced and looked up at the balcony again, he found that the man in black who had pushed him down the stairs had already run away without a trace.

When the person disappeared, Conan immediately swam to the shore, and then, ignoring his soaking wet state, ran up the stairs to find the mysterious person who had pushed him down the stairs.

Unfortunately, by the time Conan arrived upstairs, the person had already disappeared. No matter how hard he searched, he couldn't find the person or any clues.

Afterwards, unable to find the man in black, Conan could only return to his room on the 20th floor and tell Jiang Chengbei and the others about what had happened.

With Amuro Tooru, a codenamed executive at the Black Organization, leading Conan to become easily alarmed, he immediately guessed that this mysterious person might be Bourbon's accomplice, also a member of the Black Organization.

After hearing Conan's description, Ai Haibara said disdainfully:

"Great detective, have you forgotten what I said before?"

The tour organizer will impersonate the Dark Duke to cause trouble. The person who pushed you down was probably the organizer, not the winery member you imagined.

Great Detective, based on your description, the person who pushed you down was dressed as the Dark Duke.

I didn't know what the Dark Duke looked like originally, but after chatting with Professor Agasa online, I learned from him that:

The Dark Duke is you... the male protagonist in the novel "Dark Duke" written by Yusaku Kudo, and I also know his appearance.

"Great Detective, you can't even recognize the Duke of the Night? Do you have any respect for your deceased... um, Yusaku Kudo?"

"Ah, he's the Duke of Darkness?"

Reminded by Haibara, Conan, whose memory wasn't great after taking the A drug, finally remembered that the novel "Duke of the Night" was written by his father, Yusaku Kudo, and also remembered the image of the Duke of the Night, which was indeed the same as the mysterious person who pushed him down.

Despite Haibara Ai's dismissive words, Miyano Akemi remained somewhat worried and said:

"Ai, since this virus has caught Amuro Tooru's attention, he might not have come alone. We should be careful and stay vigilant."

"Sister, don't worry. I only sensed Amuro Tooru as a member of the brewery. I'm sure that the others who appeared today are not members of the brewery."

I have a strong feeling about anyone who works at the distillery.

Hearing Ai Haibara's words, Conan was shocked: "So you were trembling and scared just now because of the members of the Black Organization?"

You can tell who the members of the brewery are, so do you have superpowers too?

"If you had superpowers, we could team up! I can only defeat the distillery executives by myself, but I can't catch them. They always get away, it's such a shame."

Chapter 213 Talks about the Distillery, the Distillery to

"superpower?"

Seeing the Miyano sisters' disbelieving looks, Conan glanced at Jiang Chengbei again: It seems this guy isn't sincere towards the Miyano sisters; he's actually keeping something from them.

So, to let them know that both Conan and Jiang Chengbei possessed chakra superpowers, Conan showed them his chakra soccer ball while simultaneously betraying Jiang Chengbei:

"See that? I can conjure a soccer ball out of thin air to attack people, and I can even jump off this building and survive."

Besides that, I can also change my voice, conjure up anesthetic needles, and so on.

Although I have many superpowers, I know far more than Jiang Cheng. I wonder if he has told you or shown you any?

As he spoke, Conan walked to the window, boasting as he looked outside, seemingly wanting to demonstrate his incredible ability to leap out of faith and survive the fall to Jiang Chengbei and the others.

When Ai Haibara first heard someone boasting that they could jump from a 20-story building and not die, she went over to see just how high it was and to imagine the thrill of jumping herself.

As soon as she shifted her gaze to the ground floor and looked down from the 20th floor, Ai Haibara immediately began to tremble. She was so frightened that she couldn't move, and cold sweat poured down her forehead.

"Haibara, are you afraid of heights? You're so scared even when you're indoors. You're even worse than Uncle Mori. At least Uncle Mori isn't this scared indoors. He'd only be this afraid if he went outside or onto a glass walkway."

Seeing Haibara so scared, Conan laughed heartily. He had often been mocked by the foul-mouthed Haibara before, and now that he finally saw her make a fool of herself, he could get his revenge.