"ha?"
Upon hearing this, Conan understood that Asakura was really joking.
If they really wanted to betray him, it would be impossible for the two of them to sit here and have such a conversation right now.
"You guy, you scared me to death. At least there is a limit to joking. I almost thought I misjudged you just now." Conan put down his hanging heart and complained angrily.
"Are you scared?" Asakura took a sip of wheat tea and said noncommittally, "I hope you are really scared."
"At least from now on, you will think carefully about everything that happened today before you do something as reckless as you did just now."
Playing the role of Kudo Shinichi's friend, Asakura is particularly into the role. At this moment, his attitude seems to be really worried about the immaturity of his best friend.
"hey-hey."
Conan laughed dryly and sat here looking back at his previous actions. He felt that he was indeed a little impulsive. Even if the other party was a confirmed and reliable friend, it was still a bit hasty to directly come forward to acknowledge him like that.
Even if you want to see the target clearly, it would be better to use Kudo Shinichi's identity to ask Asakura to send the photo to his email after leaving.
However, even though he realized that his behavior was inappropriate, Conan still insisted: "This is not because the entrusted person is you. I believe that you are definitely a good person."
"A good person?"
Asakura Makoto put down the teacup, and the expression on his face calmed down again,
"Hey, hey, it's too much to joke again!"
Seeing his performance, Conan quickly stopped him with a dark face. He didn't want to experience the anxiety just now again.
"It's no longer a joke this time." Asakura said in a serious tone, "You revealed your identity to me because you think it's a bit lonely to deal with the mysterious organization by yourself?"
"..."
In the original history, Conan had no doubts about the Metropolitan Police Department, but now, he has to take into account the speculation that the Metropolitan Police Department may be an enemy, which means that the power he can rely on now becomes scarce.
"Of course it is. You are not a private detective. Don't you accept the commissions that come to your door?" Conan asked back.
"Whether you accept the commission or not is one thing. The point is, if I help you investigate, what will you think of me?"
Conan was slightly startled by this sudden question.
He sensed from Asakura Makoto's clues that he might have some secret, but he didn't expect that the latter would actually show an attitude about to reveal it at this time.
"What's the meaning."
"Do you remember the question I asked you when we first met?"
question?
Conan instinctively began to recall. His memory was very good, and it didn't take long to recall the events of that day.
"What do you think of the sentence 'When the law fails to bring justice to the parties involved, private revenge is justified and noble from that moment on'?"
"Yes, I remember your answer is that this sentence is correct." Asakura Zhen said Kudo Shinichi's answer at that time.
"No." Conan denied, "My answer is that if the premise is true, then this sentence is correct."
At this time, he already understood what Asakura really meant, frowned and asked, "So you did something that might make me choose to send you to prison?"
Conan asked such a question, but in his heart he was thinking about the purpose of Asakura's self-exposure at this time. If he really didn't want people to know, then he could keep silent, and he would not investigate him for no reason.
In other words...
The incident of this commission is likely to involve things that Asakura Makoto did before, right?
After thinking about this, Conan watched his expression calmly, wondering what happened.
"How to put it?" Asakura smiled, "Isn't it good to know the answer? Why do you have to ask for the answer?"
"If you don't ask for the truth, how can I judge whether the law can bring you justice?"
When it comes to criminal cases, Conan's attitude is also very serious. Even if he is a friend, he cannot watch the other party commit murder and get away with it.
Upon hearing this, Asakura drank the barley tea in one gulp and told the story from a third-person perspective.
The father of the protagonist in the story was the secretary of a rich and powerful man. He was exposed to too many secrets and was silenced. The case was quickly concluded by suicide. The protagonist who wanted to investigate the truth was hunted down and forced to flee.
The most exciting counter-attack process was briefly mentioned, and the ending was just an understatement that the big shot disappeared from the world for some reason.
"Was he killed?" Conan asked.
"He didn't make a move in the end, he just left him there. But judging from the subsequent development, that guy should be dead." Asakura Masayoshi seemed to be talking about other people's deeds and telling the story of the future.
"So, after listening to the story, do you think this is a legitimate and noble behavior?" he asked.
Conan remained silent. Among the cases he investigated, there were few cases where evidence was wiped out by relying on power. Even if a consortium was involved, the owner of the consortium always understood the righteousness of justice and killed relatives for righteousness.
However, his rich experience told him that if the facts were as true as what Asakura said, a private detective who was still poor until now would obviously have no ability to resist.
"What if I say it doesn't count?" Conan asked.
"Then I'll contact the black market right away and see how much you can sell it for." Asakura answered while adding new tea to the empty cup.
Upon hearing this, Conan slapped the table with his hand: "That's almost enough. It's enough to make a joke once. Also, fill it up for me."
Drinking the newly poured barley tea, Conan temporarily believed Asakura's statement: "I will take the time to investigate again. There is no problem."
"Of course." Asakura Makoto spread his hands, "I didn't add any exaggeration at all."
I have to say that after being honest, Conan felt that the huge boulder that was looming in his chest finally fell. When Asakura told him that he had done such a thing, he not only didn't think it was a lie, but actually gained a little more trust because of his proactive confession.
"Putting aside the truth or falsehood of this matter, since you chose to speak out at this time, is it related to what happened to me?"
"Just speculation."
Everything after this is all lies.
"After my investigation, I found that the big shot who died was just a member of a certain interest group. The cause of the father's death in the story was discovered because he had people collecting street homeless people and sending them to a certain laboratory. I, no, I was the protagonist of the story investigating When he got there, the laboratory was already empty, and he only found some documents that he might not have had time to destroy due to lack of time."
With that said, Asakura stood up and pulled out a book from the bookshelf in the room.
Conan noticed the cover, which he had never seen before.
"This is for you, ahem, I don't know how this fell into my hands."
What Asakura took out was part of the documents rescued from the laboratory where the Miyano couple was destroyed by fire. After all, if he wanted to deceive Kudo Shinichi, the year of the evidence had to be arranged.
"this is?"
This document records some of the phenomena when Belmode achieved eternal youth - compared to the experimental process and the preparation of drugs, the records of experimental phenomena were not destroyed by the Miyano couple because they were not of high importance. , only then can they be rescued and used to set a trap for Kudo Shinichi.
After reading this incomplete information, Conan no longer felt that Asakura Makoto's story was false.
Immortality, rejuvenation.
Could this be a group of people?
