The Daily Life of a Salted Fish Assassin in Anime Crossovers

I wonder if the system will include driving skills among the skills assassins need to master.

Instead of thinking about what skills he could acquire through his system, Jiang Hang refocused his attention on the road ahead.

They are on their way to that Sherlock Holmes fan meeting.

In fact, the organizer of the gathering had said that he could gather everyone together and then they could all travel together to his place.

Because the news about the TV station hadn't died down yet, in order to ensure that the gathering wouldn't be noticed by those boring gossip media, Jiang Hang had Conan tell the organizer about it, and then planned to drive there himself before dawn.

These past few days, Junko has been summoned to the art museum by Jiang Hang to offer advice, while Shizuka Sakaki has another audition scheduled.

As for Conan, Kogoro Mouri wasn't interested in meeting and interacting with Holmes fans. Although Ran Mouri was a little worried, she eventually felt at ease sending Conan to Jiang Hang because he had always been reliable.

For this fan gathering, Jiang Hang only brought Conan, who had signed up for the event.

Although the gathering was held in the Tokyo metropolitan area, it was still quite far from downtown Tokyo and was located on an extremely remote coastline.

Jiang Hang drove out at four in the morning, and by the time he could gradually see his destination, it was almost nine in the morning.

"Do wealthy people these days really like building hotels in places like this?"

He had previously asked Yoshino Kiharu to investigate the organizer of this fan gathering, who was also the owner of the hotel, Hiroyuki Kanaya.

After all, the man who dared to invite Conan to the party was probably either plotting to use the party to kill someone, or he would be killed by the murderer at the party.

He was all too familiar with this tactic; Jiang Hang felt that his guess was at least 80% likely.

According to Yoshino Kiharu's investigation, Hiroyuki Kanaya, who is now 51 years old, is a person somewhat similar to Jirokichi Suzuki. When he was young, he gave up inheriting his family business and took a sum of money to live a life of comfort.

Of course, the Kanaya family was far inferior to the Suzuki Group, so Hiroyuki Kanaya only used this money to build a hotel called "Mycroft" in this remote place.

Anyone familiar with Sherlock Holmes would know that the hotel is named after his supposedly even more intelligent brother, Mycroft Holmes.

It is evident from this that Hiroyuki Kanaya is also one of Japan's leading Sherlock Holmes fans. He invites core Sherlock Holmes fans from all over Japan to his hotel for a gathering every six months. He even published a book analyzing Sherlock Holmes last year.

While sitting in the car, Conan skimmed through the book published by Hiroyuki Kanaya, titled "Irene Adler's Ridicule".

Conan's response to the book was that "the viewpoints are novel, but he does not agree with the content of the book."

“Holmes once said that he had failed four times, three times to men and once to women. Although he did not name these people specifically, there are still many different versions of these four people. However, the mainstream view is that Irene Adler is the woman who defeated Holmes,” Conan told Jiang Hang, sharing his opinion on the book.

"The book's viewpoint is that Holmes's failures are due to misjudgments, and I'm not entirely satisfied with its analysis of the character Irene Adler."

As he said this, Conan shook his head.

"In any case, Irene Adler is a woman whom Holmes greatly respects. How could she mock Holmes... I cannot condone such a thing at all."

Whenever Sherlock Holmes is mentioned, Conan's interest is greatly aroused. If Jiang Hang hadn't stopped him from continuing to talk about his jurisdiction, he probably wouldn't have stopped talking about that remote hotel.

"This place is really remote. Even on Moonshadow Island, the cell phone signal wasn't this bad..."

Upon arriving at his destination, Jiang Hang glanced at his phone's signal and couldn't help but complain.

With such a signal, even making a phone call would be a bit choppy, let alone doing anything else on the phone.

At the same time, he activated his eagle eye and scanned the surroundings.

This hotel is actually built on a cliff near the coast.

Standing on the cliff, you can see the sea not far away, but if you really want to get to the beach from here, you'll probably have to take a detour for most of the day.

Jiang Hang estimated that even for him, it would probably take several hours to walk from here to a populated area.

Furthermore, there are almost no other buildings in the vicinity. If something were to happen in this hotel, they would all likely be trapped inside and unable to contact the outside world.

Then Jiang Hang immediately thought of it—

Isn't this the "locked room mystery" formula popularized by Agatha Christie?

Unexpectedly, Hiroyuki Kanaya, this guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes who claims to be a "core Sherlock Holmes fan", was secretly doing this kind of thing in private.

A Sherlock Holmes fan gathering combined with a hotel in a snowstorm-themed villa setting, and finally, Conan, the Grim Reaper, appears. If your hotel doesn't run into trouble, I, Jiang Hang, will change my name to Jiang Xiaobai today!

Chapter 121: Chapter 120: Another Meeting with Hattori Heiji

When Jiang Hang stepped into the hotel, the hotel owner, Jin Gu Yuzhi, came to greet him.

"Welcome, welcome, Mr. Eagle Eye Detective Jiang Hang! I didn't expect you to attend our gathering. It's truly an honor!"

These past few days, even people who aren't interested in mystery-solving have heard of Jiang Hang's name to some extent, not to mention mystery enthusiasts.

Jiang Hang gave a brief greeting to the other party, then looked at the hotel, which still seemed unusually deserted: "Hasn't the rest of you arrived yet?"

Before Hiroyuki Kanaya could speak, a voice with a Kansai accent came in from outside the door.

"According to the original schedule, they will probably not arrive until after dark tonight."

Conan turned around in surprise and saw the dark-skinned boy who had appeared behind them.

Unexpectedly, not long after, Hattori Heiji, the Kansai high school detective from Osaka who kept saying he wanted to find Shinichi Kudo, would reappear in front of him.

It's only been about ten days, right?

Conan muttered to himself.

He still remembers the look of shock and disbelief on the man's face when the police suddenly showed up at the diplomat's house, saying someone had turned themselves in.

Furthermore, given that Hattori Heiji's father is the head of the Osaka Prefectural Police Headquarters, Conan has essentially ruled out the possibility that the other party is a member of the Black Organization.

Jiang Hang, on the other hand, seemed completely unsurprised.

In fact, as soon as he got out of the car and scanned the area with his eagle eye, he noticed that this guy was secretly observing from the side, as if he was deliberately waiting for someone to come over.

It seems this guy was just waiting for them to come.

He nodded to Heiji Hattori: "Conan was selected to participate in this party. Mr. Mori and the others weren't very interested in the party, and I happened to be free, so I volunteered to bring Conan along."

"I'm afraid it's not that you have time, but that you were bothered by the media and had no choice but to come here. Otherwise, you could have just taken the car arranged for this event. There was no need to come all the way from Tokyo before dawn." Hattori Heiji smiled.

"A few days ago, you helped the police solve a case on TV. The news about you solving the case live and finding the real culprit in ten minutes has been all over Osaka these past few days."

Hattori Heiji said this, then sighed, "I just didn't expect that a TV station in Tokyo would dare to broadcast something like this live, and I also didn't expect that the host who was crying and saying he wanted to find the murderer for the deceased was actually the murderer..."

"Hattori-nii, what are you doing here? Are you here for the Holmes gathering too?" Conan continued his childish maneuvering to elicit information.

He had heard from Jiang Hang that Jiang Hang's favorite detective was Ellery Queen, so how did he end up at this Sherlock Holmes fan gathering?

Heiji Hattori greeted Conan before explaining, "After returning to Osaka, I thought about it for a long time and still felt that I needed to continue investigating Kudo. I had investigated him and knew that his dream was to become the 'Holmes of the Heisei era.' I also heard about this gathering of Holmes fans, so I wanted to come and see if I could find any information related to him."

"It just so happens that Mr. Jin Gu is a friend of my father, so I asked him to let me see the list of applicants this time."

He chuckled and scratched the back of his head: "I looked at the list of participants and didn't find any information about Kudo. I was originally planning not to attend this gathering, but then I found out that you two were coming, so I decided to stay."

"And after learning that you were coming early, I estimated your departure time and thought you would arrive around this time, so I went outside to wait for you this morning." Hattori Heiji said, but seemed a little puzzled. "However, you arrived an hour later than I expected. Did you encounter some kind of accident on the way?"

So you just waited in the woods for over an hour, just so you could suddenly appear behind us when we entered the hotel and say hello?

"Ahem, it's probably because I'm usually a cautious person, so I'm extra careful when I drive," Jiang Hang coughed, then changed the subject.

"Speaking of which, have you been searching for Shinichi Kudo all this time?"

Heiji Hattori shook his head: "I haven't found anything useful lately. I just feel that this gathering might be an opportunity, but I still haven't been able to find any clues about him."

Hearing Hattori Heiji's words, Jiang Hang couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Hattori Heiji really was Shinichi Kudo's true love!

When I was about to go back to Tokyo last time, I was saying that Shinichi Kudo might really be in trouble. But only ten days have passed, and I heard that there was a Sherlock Holmes gathering here. Even though I didn't have any clues, I just came here based on my intuition.

What's even more ridiculous is that he actually found Shinichi Kudo after he shrunk twice, he just hasn't discovered the truth yet.

Jiang Hang remembered that in the original work, the other party seemed to recognize Conan's true identity after meeting him a few times, but he didn't quite remember how exactly he recognized him.

Jiang Hang didn't know if Hattori Heiji could still find out Conan's true identity now that he was involved.

He glanced at Conan beside him and could see that the other man's expression was also quite helpless.

At this moment, Hiroyuki Kanaya asked with some curiosity, "Speaking of which, how did you two meet?"

He knew Hattori Heiji's identity, of course, because his father, Hattori Heizo, had helped him in the past. For this reason, when he learned that Hattori Heiji wanted to investigate the participants of this gathering, he simply invited him over.

However, he didn't know how Jiang Hang and Hattori Heiji met.

"I received his guidance when I was in Tokyo, which made me realize my shortcomings as a detective. I originally planned to meet him after I finished my training, but when I saw that he was coming to this gathering, I couldn't resist and came along." Heiji Hattori frankly admitted that he had learned a lot from Jiang Hang.

Jiang Hang immediately felt goosebumps rise all over his body.

Is Hattori Heiji transferring his previous attitude towards Kudo Shinichi onto me?

Chapter 122: Hattori Heiji's Suspicion

Although Jiang Hang knew that Hattori Heiji also had a childhood friend, he still felt a little uncomfortable being thought about by a man like that.

Just as he was about to make up an excuse to go back to his room to rest for a while, Jin Gu Yuzhi suddenly handed him a thick document that looked like an answer sheet with a big smile: "Mr. Jiang, please accept this first."

"This is?"

Jiang Hang glanced at it; it was mostly filled with questions about Sherlock Holmes.

Like what Sherlock Holmes is best at, or how one of Holmes solved a case.

Jiang Hang turned to the last page of the answer sheet and discovered that it contained a total of 1000 questions about Sherlock Holmes.

“This is a regular feature of our Sherlock Holmes fan gathering,” Hiroyuki Kanaya explained to Jiang Hang. “Mr. Jiang, since you’re willing to attend our gathering, you must also be a Sherlock Holmes fan, right? You can try to solve these puzzles.”

He briefly explained the agenda for the gathering to Jiang Hang.

Once everyone has arrived in the evening, he will distribute the questionnaire to everyone present. Those who score above a certain standard will proceed to the final reasoning and question-and-answer session.

"Of course, Mr. Jiang, you are a guest I specially invited. You can come and participate in my final reasoning question and answer session. As long as you can solve the case I designed on the spot, you will be able to obtain my treasured first edition of 'A Study in Scarlet,' which is an extremely rare collection with more than a hundred years of history and very few of its surviving copies!"

A Study in Scarlet is the first book in the Sherlock Holmes series, and the first edition book in Hiroyuki Kanaya's hands is one of the earliest books in the world to tell Sherlock Holmes stories.

Even though Conan has read "A Study in Scarlet" countless times, his eyes still gleam with excitement when he hears that the reward is something of great commemorative value.

He directly asked Hiroyuki Kanaya, "If I can solve these Sherlock Holmes-related questions, can I participate in tomorrow night's mystery quiz?"

Hiroyuki Kanaya glanced at Conan beside him. He knew, of course, that the person who had signed up for the party this time was not Jiang Hang, but this child who looked to be only seven or eight years old. However, he still smiled and nodded: "Of course you can. But little friend, these questions are very difficult. There are even questions about the original English lines. You should only be able to read now, right?"

"I learned to read quite early, so I finished reading all the Sherlock Holmes stories a long time ago. I've also learned a little English, so it shouldn't be a problem!" Conan was quite confident about this. He really did grow up reading Sherlock Holmes, so the original English version was naturally no problem for him.

Hiroyuki Kanaya added a few more words: "Of course, the cases I design are very complicated. In the past three years, I have held so many parties, and so far no one has been able to take that book 'A Study in Scarlet' away from me!"

Of course, Conan wouldn't give up so easily. He immediately took the thick answer sheet from Jiang Hang, seemingly preparing to work himself to the bone to complete the thousand difficult questions.

Heiji Hattori also noticed Conan's actions at this moment.