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

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"Jiang Cheng, do you have any antidote? The kind that can restore me to an adult body. I only need a little bit, just enough to go out and meet people, and keep that bomber in check."

"Daughter Red, are you addicted to pretending to be Shinichi Kudo? The bomber is looking for Shinichi Kudo, what does it have to do with your Daughter Red?"

He won't even show his face; he's hiding like a coward. Why should you bother helping him?

Seeing that Jiang Chengbei was still unaware that he was Shinichi Kudo, Conan immediately hatched a plan and began to impersonate his good friend, deceiving his partner's feelings:

"Jiang Cheng, we are friends, brothers who have been through thick and thin together. I grew to be bigger to protect Shinichi Kudo's reputation. If his reputation is ruined, what use is it for me to replace him?"

"We're partners, we're friends, we're brothers who've been through life and death together. Jiang Cheng, will you help me now?"

Jiang Chengbei was unmoved by Conan's emotional appeal and calmly said, "Daughter Red, I would like to help you, but didn't I give you all the medicine I had on me?"

I don't have any antidote right now, so you should use your own savings as an emergency measure. Don't be stingy with the medicine.

"I've never seen you take the pills to turn back into your original form and go out having fun. Are you really that stingy, unwilling to even take a single pill?"

Conan was stunned by Jiang Chengbei's words.

If he had medicine, he would want to take it too, and he would promise not to hoard it, not to hide it, and not to choke on it, and to take it all immediately. But he really didn't have any medicine on him; the one who had medicine was his half-brother!

Jiang Chengbei had no medicine on him and couldn't transform to go out and meet the bomber's demands, which made Conan anxious.

Considering that his cheap brother had only made threats and said he would kill him, but had not actually done anything, and had even taught him how to cultivate chakra.

Teaching someone to cultivate chakra is an act of divine grace. It's not something that can change one's life, something that only close relatives with whom one has a deep bond can teach.

Moreover, he didn't expose me when I impersonated him and swaggered around, not even to his most trusted partner, allowing me to continue deceiving him. How could such a relationship be fake?

Having figured this out, Conan made a decision and said to Jiang Chengbei:

"Jiang Cheng, I am actually Shinichi Kudo. Do you have any way to contact my brother, who is also your partner, Nu'er Hong, the real Conan? I have something to say to him."

Seeing Conan suddenly reveal his identity to him, Jiang Chengbei, unsure of what he was thinking, nodded cooperatively and said:

"I understand, Daughter Red. You are now Shinichi Kudo. You are disguised so well that you are exactly the same as the real one. Even I, the person who knows you best, cannot see a trace of your past self in you now."

However, no matter how well you disguise yourself, if you don't restrain your murderous intent and stop killing, you will eventually be exposed, no matter how well you pretend.

"Conan, stop now. Put down your weapons, and you can become Shinichi Kudo. Otherwise, you'll always be Conan, and you can never truly be Shinichi Kudo."

"Jiang Cheng, stop lying to me. I know everything. I've investigated everything. What you said about my brother being a serial killer, a psychopath who likes to manipulate people, is all a lie."

I have investigated, and my brother's name and face are not on any international wanted list or in any country.

Moreover, I've investigated all the cases committed by these wanted criminals who have no photos or portraits, and none of them match the criminal planner you mentioned.

At the same time, through my interactions with my brother during this period, I learned that although he killed people, including many, and even wiped out their entire family on Moonshadow Island,

Ultimately, however, my brother killed bad people. Although those people didn't deserve to die, they only went to jail when the police caught them.

But my brother isn't a policeman; he's a traitor to a mysterious organization, the kind who can't show his face in public.

He wanted to stop those criminals from continuing to break the law, but he couldn't openly show himself to arrest them and send them to prison, so killing them was his only option.

In conclusion, although my brother has killed people, broken the law, and has criminal records in many countries, he is a good person!

After my repeated investigations, I found that he never did anything like manipulating people's minds or taking pleasure in killing, as you said. You are lying to me!

But don't worry, although I believe my brother is a good person, he did break the law, so I will bring him to justice and make him face the consequences.

Chapter 127 Conan: What?! My brother has started impersonating me and trying to steal my girlfriend?! Unbelievable!

Listening to Conan's contradictory statements, Jiang Chengbei felt like he'd been screwed over.

"Hehe, Daughter's Red Wine, after saying so much, your true nature has been revealed, hasn't it?"

Before, when I asked you why you would plot to kill people you didn't know or had only met for the first time for no reason, you never admitted it. Now that you've become a child, you're shamelessly trying to whitewash yourself.

If you don't like killing or manipulating people's hearts, then why are people dying around you every day?

Don't tell me it's because you're a necessary trial sent by God to make you a famous detective, that's why cases are all coming to you with such a lame excuse.

Conan was speechless after Jiang Chengbei said that.

Before, when he kept it a secret, Jiang Chengbei suspected every day that he was Shinichi Kudo in his shrunk form. Now that he's stopped pretending and is being honest with him, telling him that he is Shinichi Kudo in his shrunk form, Jiang Chengbei doesn't believe him anymore.

Just as Conan was trying to figure out how to prove he was Shinichi Kudo, Jiang Chengbei didn't give him the chance. Instead, he changed the subject and said:

"Daughter Red, there's something I find strange. You were quite good at impersonating Shinichi Kudo in front of me, but why didn't you work as well in front of Ran?"

After Jiang Chengbei casually said something, Conan's attention was immediately drawn to him. He looked at Jiang Chengbei with a puzzled expression, wanting to reply: "I haven't seen Ran in so long, why am I pretending in front of Ran?"

“I wasn’t around when you pretended to be Shinichi Kudo to fool Ran, Hattori, and Mori a few days ago. But afterwards, Ran told me that the Shinichi Kudo I saw this time was a bit strange, completely different from before.”

Upon hearing Jiang Chengbei's words, Conan's expression changed drastically; the thing he had been worried about had finally happened.

Although his brother was a good person in teaching him chakra cultivation, he was a complete villain in trying to poach his men all the time!

Upon hearing Jiang Chengbei say that his brother had already begun impersonating him and started his operation, Conan panicked. Forgetting about clarifying his true identity, he anxiously asked, "What happened in the end?"

Seeing Conan's anxiety, Jiang Chengbei smiled slightly: "What else could it be? She's angry, furious, and also suspecting that your version of Shinichi Kudo is a bit fake."

I said, "Daughter's Red Wine," do you think I'm a child or something?

Shinichi Kudo is just an ordinary high school student. He doesn't have your skills and he hasn't trained in chakra. How did you manage to show off your superior skills when you were impersonating Shinichi Kudo?

If I were Ran, and I saw Shinichi Kudo, whom I hadn't seen for a few days, suddenly become so powerful that I couldn't even beat him up, I would also be suspicious.

If I were you, I would just stand there and let Xiaolan beat me up to vent her anger, and she would calm down and feel better on her own.

She can't kill you, and she's unwilling to kill you, after all, you have the same face.

But what about you? Just because you couldn't stand the physical pain, you ran faster than a monkey, and even used the black chicken and Maoli as human shields, causing them to take the blame for you, and you got beaten up by Xiaolan.

"Given your actions, it's quite normal for Xiaolan to suspect you're a fake."

After listening to Jiang Chengbei's rambling complaints, Conan was very puzzled and subconsciously asked, "Why is Ran angry? Why did she hit me?"

"This is not your fault. It is your fault for having your half-brother, the real Shinichi Kudo."

Daughter's Red Wine, you probably haven't figured out the situation back then, or why Xiaolan got angry and wanted to hit you when she saw you.

After all, you would never have imagined that your seemingly handsome and devoted brother, Shinichi Kudo, was actually a lecherous scoundrel.

"I'm a lecherous scumbag? Hmm... My brother is a lecherous scumbag? Jiang Cheng, you better explain yourself!"

Conan was very anxious because Jiang Chengbei's big name had been slandered, so he grabbed Jiang Chengbei's trouser leg and asked him anxiously.

Seeing Conan's anxiety, Jiang Chengbei grinned lewdly:

"If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't believe that your brother Shinichi Kudo had someone else outside and even kept a young girlfriend."

"Impossible, I have... my brother has a girlfriend, how come I didn't know?"

"Of course you don't know, Shinichi Kudo has kept it a secret very well, not even his childhood friend Ran knows."

When his girlfriend came to see Shinichi Kudo that day, I, along with Osaka Kuroko (who was as famous as Shinichi Kudo) and Mori, were all shocked. We stopped arguing and immediately started asking about Shinichi Kudo.

"My...brother's girlfriend showed up at my door? Who is she? What's her name? Do I know her? What does she want?"

"What's her name? I don't quite remember, I think it's something like Ryoko or something, anyway, she's a cute high school student, a bit introverted, and speaks softly, completely different from Ran, that female tyrant."

I never expected Shinichi Kudo to like this type. But he already has a girlfriend and he still deceived his childhood friend's feelings—what a scumbag!

"Impossible, I don't... My brother doesn't have a girlfriend like that, I can testify for my brother Shinichi Kudo!"

Take me to see Ran, give me some antidote so I can turn back. I need to explain to Ran that I... that Shinichi Kudo doesn't have a girlfriend!

That high school girl isn't me... Shinichi Kudo's girlfriend. I've never even met her, I don't know her at all.

"Daughter Red, you're still as stingy as ever. I gave you all the antidotes, but now you're hiding yours and can't bear to eat them, and you keep asking me for more."

If I had the antidote, would I not give it to you?

"I understand. You pretended to be reluctant to eat it in front of me, but then secretly took the antidote to see Xiaolan after I left. You did the same thing last time; I've seen this kind of behavior countless times."

Conan: "..."

Just as Conan was about to retort, the door to the stairwell was suddenly pushed open, and a dark-skinned man, whom Conan didn't recognize but felt was vaguely familiar, reached in.

"Jiang Cheng, what are you talking about antidote? Have you been poisoned? If you've been poisoned, should I call 119 for you?"

Upon seeing that there were outsiders present, Conan immediately fell silent and tugged at Jiang Chengbei, signaling him to quickly take him to find Ran.

"Black Chicken, how long have you been outside? What have you heard?" Jiang Chengbei looked Hattori Heiji up and down with a suspicious gaze.

In the original series, he knew Conan's identity. If he had overheard their conversation, and Conan had initially tried to admit that he was Shinichi Kudo, could he have heard those words?

"I didn't hear much, I only heard you say something about an antidote."

By the way, Jiangcheng, we're all in a rush to find the bomb and the bomber, how come you have time to chat with a little kid?

"Hmm, this little kid looks familiar. Where have I seen him before?"

Chapter 128 Jiang Chengbei: Too Many Identities, I Almost Got Confused

"Black Chicken, let me explain to you. This is Conan, currently the person who knows Shinichi Kudo the most."

"Conan, this is Heiji Hattori, also known as the Osaka Black Chicken, a high school detective who is as famous as Shinichi Kudo."

After Jiang Chengbei explained, Conan and Hattori Heiji looked at each other deeply and realized that although it was the first time they had met in person, there seemed to be a predestined connection between them.

If Jiang Chengbei knew what they were thinking, he would definitely help them fulfill their desires, no matter what their tastes were, he would definitely satisfy them.

Hearing from Jiang Chengbei that Conan was the person who understood Shinichi Kudo best, Hattori Heiji shook the phone in his hand and said to Conan:

"Kid, I've tried calling Shinichi Kudo several times, but I can't get through. Do you know why?"

Upon hearing the question about Osaka Black Chicken, Conan curled his lip and gave a dead fish look: I'm standing right in front of you, do you really need to make a phone call?

Furthermore, ever since I shrunk, I haven't used the phone I had during my Shinichi Kudo days.

I'm just a little kid, and I look so much like Shinichi Kudo. If I had Shinichi Kudo's phone, people would start to think too much.

Now that everyone knew each other, and there was an outsider present, they couldn't have private conversations anymore. So the three of them returned to the command center and joined the police team to help them find a solution.

After a period of investigation, almost every corner of the train was searched, but no bombs were found on any of them, leading everyone to believe that the bomber was just trying to scare them.

"What should we do now?

We can't find the bomb; we can't find the bomber; the bomber wants Shinichi Kudo, but Shinichi Kudo, that coward, has hidden himself away. We still can't find him. What should we do next?

The sun is about to set, friends!