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

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You didn't give me a single hint or clue. How could a master detective like me possibly guess that we're relatives and that you're my cousin?

Damn it, Jiangcheng North!

After mentally giving Jiang Chengbei a thorough dressing-down, Conan reluctantly added a positive thought at the end:

Since Jiang Chengbei, you are Conan's cousin, and I, Shinichi Kudo, am Conan's half-brother, from Conan's perspective, we are brothers, family.

We're family, so let's not be formal. From now on, you, Jiang Chengbei, and we, Conan and Shinichi, will help each other out and keep my secrets. I will also keep a close eye on you and make sure you abide by the law.

Amid Conan's jumbled thoughts, Hirota Masami rang the doorbell several times and called out several times before the door to Jiang Cheng's house slowly opened. Jiang Chengbei emerged, yawning repeatedly, his eyes still heavy with sleep, but his hairstyle was unusually stylish and his clothes were neat and tidy. He seemed to have just been woken up, yet he didn't seem to be sleeping at all.

"What is it, Yamei? Why are you knocking on the door so early? Aren't you going to sleep?"

Hirota Masami glanced at the sun, which was almost directly overhead, blinked, but decided not to argue with Jiang Chengbei, who was still grumpy from waking up. She said:

"Xiao Bei, your cousin is here to see you again."

"Cousin?!"

Upon hearing that he had a cousin, Jiang Chengbei was completely bewildered. He hadn't seen any record of the original owner having a cousin when he flipped through the original owner's diary. How could a transmigrator like himself have a cousin?

"Cousin...good morning!"

Before Jiang Chengbei could even wake up from his daze, a familiar voice came from the floor in front of him. He looked down and saw a man bowing to him. Wasn't that Conan in the blue suit calling him "cousin"?

When did Conan become my cousin? How come I didn't know?

After Conan finished bowing, he looked up, and their eyes met:

Conan: I think I'm a good actor. I hope Jiang Chengbei didn't realize I was an imposter.

Jiang Chengbei: Conan, did you ask for my opinion before impersonating my cousin?

Looking at Conan's familiar pose, Jiang Chengbei suddenly had a flash of inspiration; he remembered!

When he first returned home, he was still in Conan's form. He ran into the Miyano sisters and made up an excuse that he was a distant relative of theirs to fool them.

So they actually took this seriously?

Then today when he met Conan, he told Conan this information again?

Then Conan started impersonating his cousin?

Do you remember casually saying "distant relatives"? How did it become "cousin"?

Oh, right, when Mingmei came to my house later, during our private chat, did I mention that they were distant cousins?

Oh no, it's been too long. I can't remember exactly what the lie I made up a few days ago was about.

Chapter 76 Conan: Oh no, have I been exposed?

The reason why Jiang Chengbei looked like he had just been woken up when he opened the door, with the expression of someone who had just woken up but whose clothes and hairstyle were still in good condition, was because he had turned into a bird and gone to sleep after returning home.

He'll become an invincible little chubby bird, so even when he's asleep, he won't have to worry about the old craftsmen in the Conan world trying to kill him.

As for why he was afraid someone would stab him while he was sleeping, it was because he had been doing illicit activities at night, so he felt a bit guilty.

In order to do something decent, Jiang Chengbei stopped doing things like pulling the covers off Conan while he was sleeping late at night, which were considered inhumane, and focused on doing things properly.

As for the specifics of what happened, it's actually like this:

Isn't Yoko Okino an entertainer?

As an art student who went to become an idol after graduating from high school, and not very good at science, Jiang Cheng, a student from Peking University, went to tutor her in physics at night.

After learning from Yoko Okino that Fujie Akiyoshi was an ordinary person who had never practiced hard martial arts such as Iron Shirt or Iron Mountain Lean, Kojo Kita told Yoko that there was something fishy about the knife handle left on the floor.

Jiang Chengbei immediately explained to Yangzi the relationship between pressure, force, and area of ​​force application. He also explained the difference between rigid and elastic collisions, and that objects in real-world situations cannot be simply considered as point masses.

With Jiang Chengbei's explanation, Yangzi understood that even if someone could hold a knife and use the handle to make a small dent in the floor,

However, if the handle of the knife is subjected to increased force by the ice, and it is placed still on the floor, or even if the force applied to the handle comes from the tip of the knife, the tip of the knife, which is hit by the body, will not leave a dent on the floor.

Putting aside the fact that Yoko's flooring is a mid-to-high-end product with excellent quality, simply hitting the floor with the handle of a knife is a rigid impact, which might even leave a mark.

However, as Conan described, when the body presses down on the tip of the knife, and the weight of the body acts on the hilt, the momentum of the body is almost entirely dissipated during the process of the blade piercing the body.

The rigid impact of the knife handle hitting the floor at the moment of impact has been transformed into an elastic impact with several orders of magnitude more time. The impact force transmitted from the knife handle to the floor has been reduced by several levels, and the ice block has also increased the force-bearing area by several orders of magnitude.

In addition to these factors, Fujie Akiyoshi's body is elongated and not a point mass, so his weight is basically evenly distributed across his body. As the blade pierced his back, his buttocks, thighs, and lower body may have also fallen to the ground, diverting a large portion of the impact force.

There's also the part where the knife tip pierces the body. As the blade slides into the body, the impact transmitted from the body to the blade and hilt is limited. By the time the blade is fully inside, the body has already hit the ice.

Therefore, according to Conan's method of suicide, the greatest impact of the body falling should actually be absorbed by the ice, making it unlikely that a knife handle mark would be left on the ground.

Even if the floor is of poor quality and dents easily, the marks left on it will still be those of ice cubes, as well as countless high-heeled shoe prints and footprints.

Furthermore, Fujie Akiyoshi had never practiced the Iron Mountain Lean technique, and his back was covered in more fat than bone. With his nonsensical ramblings in Jiangchengbei and the use of a few physics terms, he convinced Okino Yoko that the mark on the knife hilt was unusual and that there was more to the case than met the eye.

Although Jiang Chengbei, being a mediocre person, made all of this up, he actually used a chubby pig weighing over 400 pounds to conduct several experiments, following Conan's method, but still couldn't leave any knife handle marks on the floor.

When Jiang Chengbei showed Yoko the video of the experiment with the little pig, she immediately believed him; the mark on the hilt was indeed suspicious.

According to Jiang Chengbei's account, Okino Yoko knew that Fujie Akio was either murdered, then the scene was staged, with a knife handle mark left on the wooden floor, to frame her.

Either Fujie Akiyoshi really did commit suicide at her house, but there was another expert who left a knife handle mark on the floor, but ignored Fujie Akiyoshi's framing of her and left directly.

In either case, the person who can leave a mark on the floor with the handle of a knife is definitely a master, a master among masters. What's even more worrying is that he also has ill intentions towards Yoko Okino.

To reassure Yoko Okino and allow her to rest peacefully, Jiang Chengbei has been secretly protecting her these past few nights by using his ability to transform into a chubby little bird and scale walls.

As for why they had to climb the wall, sneak out, and go late at night, it was obviously because Yoko Okino was a big star, and it was too crowded during the day to go there.

Moreover, Jiang Chengbei is openly a hater. What if other fans find out that he, as a hater, is so close to Yoko Okino, and they get angry and try to kill him?

Anyway, Yoko didn't want Jiang Chengbei to be exposed for secretly protecting her, nor did she want the case of her ex-boyfriend who died in her house to cause any more trouble. So she asked Jiang Chengbei to keep the new clues he had found and the fact that he was protecting her late at night a secret.

Yoko Okino has been well protected these past few days, but neither of them has gotten a good night's rest and can only manage to sleep during the day.

Jiang Chengbei, who came out to open the door, looked like he had just been woken up. That was because he had gone to do something else that night.

After casually replying to the Miyano sisters and getting rid of them, Jiang Chengbei and Conan sat in the living room of Jiang Chengbei's house, staring at each other in silence.

Of course, before leaving, Hirota Masami also complained to Conan, telling Kojo Kita everything she had heard from Shiho.

After they left, Jiang Chengbei and Conan went inside. Jiang Chengbei searched Conan's body and took out all his electronic devices, placing them on the table.

The atmosphere became somewhat silent as they looked at all the eavesdropping devices.

After a brief period of awkward silence, Conan couldn't take it anymore. He gave in, making an embarrassed "ah" sound, and then tentatively called out to Jiang Chengbei, "Cousin?"

Upon hearing Conan call him "cousin," Jiang Chengbei jumped up in a huff, retreating tactically while saying:

"Daughter Red Wine, what are you pretending for? Don't call me cousin, I'm not your real cousin, we're not related!"

"Niu Er Hong?"

Not understanding the first word Jiang Chengbei said, Conan unconsciously repeated it, while a huge question mark filled his mind:

What the heck is Niu Er Hong? Is Jiang Chengbei calling me? Is this my real name?

I thought the name Conan Edogawa sounded fake, but it turns out I'm not really called Conan; I have other names too.

Upon hearing Jiang Chengbei's next words, Conan's expression changed drastically. He wasn't Jiang Chengbei's cousin? Really?

Did he expose himself, or was Jiang Chengbei testing him?

It's so frustrating! I don't know anything about myself, I don't have any basic information at all. What should I do?

Pretending to faint? Hitting your head on the ground, feigning amnesia?

Hearing Conan's awkward pronunciation and his varied and fascinating facial expressions, Jiang Chengbei couldn't help but sigh inwardly:

If I hadn't gone easy on you, with your non-standard Mandarin and standard neon accent, you fake would have been exposed long ago.

However, to dispel Conan's unrealistic dream of becoming his cousin, Jiang Chengbei didn't expose him. Instead, he repeated himself and continued:

"Daughter Red, don't think I won't recognize you just because you took drug A and turned into a child!"

Even if you turn to ashes, I will still recognize you!

Furthermore, if there were outsiders present, I would have given you face by not calling you my cousin, but now that it's just the two of us, you still call me cousin and try to claim kinship with me? Don't even think about it!

After hearing what Jiang Chengbei said, Conan was truly dumbfounded: What?! My name is really Niu Erhong?

What?! Jiang Chengbei isn't my cousin!

What?! Jiang Chengbei actually knew about me taking a drug that made me smaller?! And he even knew that the drug was called Drug A!

Oh no, I've been exposed!

Chapter 77 Jiang Chengbei: Conan, stop! Be a good person and stop killing innocent people.

"Daughter Red, there are no outsiders here now, so don't try to fool me with your fake name Conan. As friends who have risked their lives together and partners of over ten years, don't use the same tricks you use on outsiders to deal with me!"

In order to keep Conan, who was full of flaws and couldn't convincingly portray himself, Jiang Chengbei had no choice but to instill a persona in him and mold Conan into the Conan he wanted.

"Daughter Red, you've been acting so strange lately, completely unlike your old self. If it weren't for your rampage at the Metropolitan Police Department, I would have thought you were a fake."

If it weren't for the numerous police officers you killed in the Metropolitan Police Department these past few days as evidence, I would have started to suspect that you were being impersonated, or that you were actually Shinichi Kudo who shrunk after taking the drug, just as you said.

But considering the few days since you moved into the Megure residence, police officers have been killed every day, and murders have occurred daily, even though you've solved every case, it seems like it has nothing to do with you.

But when it happens every day, and multiple times a day, as if some dark hand is manipulating things behind the scenes, I realize you haven't been impersonated; you are still you.

It's still you, the so-called Grim Reaper, who takes pleasure in manipulating the lives of others and toying with the lives of mortals, Daughter Red.

Seeing so many people die around you, I no longer doubted that you are my good partner, the Grim Reaper, Daughter Red.

No matter how well you disguise yourself, no matter how unlike your former self you are, as long as you hide behind the scenes plotting murders and then come out to solve the case afterward, I'll recognize you as Nu'erhong at a glance.

Upon hearing Jiang Chengbei's words, Conan's mouth dropped open in shock: So, the fact that he managed to fool Jiang Chengbei while impersonating Conan this time is thanks to those police officers who died in murder!

So, based on Jiang Chengbei's words, his predecessor Conan, his half-brother, was also turned into a child after taking the drug?!

Moreover, he is a ruthless killer who likes to hide behind the scenes and plan murders, making the murderers work for him without anyone knowing.

After committing murder, this guy will step in as a detective to solve the case and bring the unsuspecting killer to justice.

The thought of this person being so cruel and inhumane sent a chill down Conan's spine.

Having a brother like this, shouldn't it be time to clean house?!

While finding the Black Organization, obtaining the antidote, and returning to high school are important, cleaning up the ranks and arresting such a heinous brother is the top priority right now!