Chapter 28: The Debut of the Juvenile Death-Seeking Squad

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"Then what do you plan to do? Wait half a month for our great Lawyer Fei to send the living expenses your parents deposited with her, which God knows where they are now?" The little fox, seeing that Mu Tianyuan wasn't taking the bait, wagged its tail and retorted. Mu Tianyuan pondered for a moment, then seriously nodded. "That's not impossible."

"Then I won't be able to eat roasted chicken for half a month!" The little fox grumbled despondently after hearing Mu Tianyuan's words. Then the little fox's previously drooping ears suddenly perked up: "Speaking of roasted chicken, I just remembered, didn't we buy roasted chicken before?! I'm going to eat it now!"

"You wait a minute! You can't eat that roasted chicken!" Mu Tianyuan grabbed the tail of the little fox, who was about to run downstairs to eat the roasted chicken. The little fox immediately complained indignantly: "Why?! That's mine! You lost it to me! Why can't I eat it!"

Mu Tianyuan, hugging his arms, chuckled as he looked at the little fox: "Heh heh, do you think it's nothing that Conan just happened to pick up a treasure map when he went out? So I won the bet, and the roasted chicken is mine!"

Little Fox: "...Can I have a chicken leg?"

Mu Tianyuan: "No!" You rejected me like that before, don't think I forgot about that!

In fact, Mu Tianyuan and the little fox didn't know that finding the treasure map was really nothing compared to what Conan and his friends encountered later.

Although Conan's Juvenile Death-Seeking Squad took many detours during their treasure hunt, such as running many unnecessary routes, and for example, mistaking the treasure clue for being in a clothing store, then going in and ransacking the place, making a huge mess, and even rushing into fitting rooms and seeing many older sisters changing clothes, and being thrown out of the store by the boss, etc.

Although they were all thrown out in the end, they still profited! At the very least, they saw many older sisters... Uh, no, I misspoke. In short, after messing around for a long time, they finally figured out the truth about the treasure map after Conan discovered a clue he originally thought was just graffiti.

Under Conan's leadership, these death-seeking little experts arrived at the final treasure location, excited. Unfortunately, they were late. The real treasure was currently being treated as useless at Mu Tianyuan's home...

However, Conan didn't know that Mu Tianyuan had already gotten there first. After activating his little friends to search for half a day but finding no so-called treasure, Conan immediately began to doubt his life. This isn't right. How could my deduction be wrong? How could I, with my brilliant mind, make a mistake? If I made a mistake, it must not be my fault; it's the world's fault!

Although Conan adamantly refused to admit his deduction was wrong, the facts were right before him. The place he suspected was the treasure location had no treasure at all, not to mention treasure, not even a single coin! At this, Conan began to doubt whether his deduction was truly wrong.

But just as Conan was about to re-examine it, the other three bratty kids simply wouldn't give him the chance. Kids will be kids. They had been running with Conan all afternoon solely because the treasure was motivating them. But now that they saw the treasure location they found had no treasure, they lost their patience.

Especially since it was already dark, Genta, that little fatty, immediately said he was hungry and wanted to go home for dinner. Ayumi also said she wanted to go home to her mom. Mitsuhiko was slightly more promising than the other two; he wanted to go home and watch anime!

In the end, even though Conan suspected the treasure had been taken beforehand, he couldn't continue to wander around with these three bratty kids outside. Moreover, his big sister Ran must be worried about him.

So, Conan secretly decided to investigate again tomorrow and led his little friends downstairs. However, as they went downstairs, Conan noticed something was off. He saw two large white men and a small Asian man, three strange men in black, seemingly intentionally or unintentionally watching them in the first-floor hallway. More importantly, Conan was certain he had seen these three men before, under the Tokyo Tower.

And later, when they went to the clothing store to watch older sisters change clothes, these three men seemed to be nearby as well. Conan immediately became vigilant. This time might be a coincidence, but if it kept happening, it wasn't a coincidence anymore. Alright, even if it was just a coincidence that these three came to visit the Tokyo Tower, but it's not like they'd be visiting a residential area in the middle of the night, right?

After Conan grew suspicious, he cautiously observed the movements behind them after they went downstairs. He found that the three men in black were indeed following them. Conan immediately started thinking. Were they human traffickers or something else? If they were human traffickers, their setup was a bit peculiar.

What kind of large-scale human trafficking organization would even employ foreigners?! Besides, if they were human traffickers, they should have made their move earlier, when they were in that building.

At least then, there were no people around, unlike now, with people coming and going on the streets, right? Not making a move just now was missing an opportunity, wasn't it? If they were really human traffickers, then they were too unprofessional! Such unprofessional human traffickers should just change careers soon, lest they starve to death!

Or were they kidnappers? That's also unlikely, considering they didn't make a move in the building!

Since they weren't human traffickers or kidnappers, what were they? Finally, Conan pondered for a long time, even considering the Black Organization that had shrunk him, when he suddenly realized that those bastards might be after the treasure map! After all, besides being worth money and exchangeable for money, the only thing those four kids had that others would covet was this treasure map. Of course, this excludes lolicon and shotacon!

After realizing that the three pervert-like stalkers behind him might be after the treasure map, Conan, who was originally a bit weak-kneed from the Black Organization, suddenly wasn't scared anymore.

Originally, Conan had planned to leave an eight-thousand-word farewell confession to Ran, but now that it might be about the treasure map and not the Black Organization, why chicken out?! This un-chickened-out Conan's brain started whirring.

Guessing that the three perverts were after the treasure map, Conan immediately remembered a TV news report he had inadvertently seen in a clothing store while watching older sisters change clothes.

At that time, the TV said that the gold-stealing group had three companions! Two of them were foreigners, and one was a Japanese citizen! Hmm, the three bastards stalking them from behind perfectly matched the news report. Although he didn't know if the Asian one was a local citizen, he was at least Asian, right?

Finally, Conan made a decision: call the police! He had already planned out the lines for calling the police. He would say he found suspected members of the gold-stealing gang who had been caught. At that point, regardless of whether it was true, he would let the police catch them first!

Conan didn't know when he made this decision that although the three men behind them were indeed members of the gold-stealing gang, the few capable members of the gold-stealing gang were currently discussing the peanuts and melon seeds they had eaten that afternoon on a nearby utility pole. And they also decided that if such a good opportunity came again, they would still follow their human boss!

Conan originally didn't plan to involve the three bratty kids, but these three bratty kids simply refused to leave first. They even thought Conan was planning to secretly look for the gold coins and then keep them all to himself! Helpless, Conan deliberately announced loudly that a brave boy wouldn't give up so easily. He decided to confront these gold coins today. Even if he couldn't go home and take a bath with his sister Ran tonight, he had to find these gold coins!

Conan actually said this on purpose for the three perverts behind him to hear. And his bratty kid teammates, upon hearing Conan's heroic words—that he was even willing to sacrifice the precious opportunity of bathing with older sisters to find the gold coins—suddenly realized how far behind they were compared to Conan, who only knew how to go home for dinner, find his mom, and watch anime.

Influenced by Conan's aura, the remaining three bratty kids immediately declared that they weren't going home either! They also wanted to find the gold coins!

However, Genta suggested that it would be best to eat first before looking for gold coins. After all, even an emperor wouldn't want a eunuch to starve to death!

Conan expressed his heartfelt approval of Genta's suggestion. He was just about to find a place to stabilize these three perverts to prevent them from running away!

So Conan led his little friends into a store that sold children's meals with toys. Conan deliberately found a spot with a good view to keep an eye on the three perverts. These three perverts were very cautious.

Seeing the kids go in to eat, they didn't follow. Instead, they went to a shop across the street, found a window seat, ordered something, and then silently monitored Conan and his group. When Conan saw this situation, he immediately chuckled. I was originally afraid you'd run away. Now it seems you three idiots are definitely looking for death!

Conan immediately used the excuse of calling his sister Ran to find a phone and called the police. Then Conan silently watched as a large group of plainclothes police officers successfully arrested the villains.

For this, Inspector Megure, who led the operation, even praised Conan for his quick thinking and bravery. Before Conan could even say anything, Genta and the other kids shamelessly attributed this to the collective honor of their Detective Boys! Then, under Conan's dead-fish eyes, the kids officially launched the name of their Detective Boys!

This was a memorable day, because on this very day, the Juvenile Death-Seeking Squad not only officially formed but also, under the confidence of having supposedly solved a major case, officially began, under Conan's leadership, to wreak havoc everywhere...