Chapter 22 A Wonderful Night
Sonoko Suzuki is a very talkative girl, and with Ran Mouri being very supportive, Kagemoto's slightly unhappy mood quickly subsided.
Seeing the three of them chatting happily, Conan Edogawa regretted why he had done something so conspicuous and impolite.
Now he can only pray that Jingyuan is not a member of the Black Organization, otherwise not only himself, but also Ran Mouri and Sonoko Suzuki will probably not be able to escape.
Jing Yuan took this all in, but he said nothing.
From the moment they first met, Jingyuan knew that this child was very intelligent. In addition, after witnessing the other party "borrowing" Sonoko Suzuki to catch the culprit in the coffee shop, he understood how Kogoro Mouri got his title of famous detective.
However, while he admires Conan Edogawa, there are many aspects of his disagreement with him.
The main problem is that while the child is intelligent, he is far too reckless. If he doesn't realize this, he'll inevitably suffer a major setback sooner or later.
As a leader who has served for hundreds of years, Jingyuan inevitably feels pity when he encounters talented people.
Although Conan Edogawa is young, his talent for solving cases is truly amazing. Unfortunately, Kagemoto will not intervene rashly until he confirms the relationship between Conan Edogawa and Gin.
Besides, they might not even need his help.
Jingyuan glanced discreetly at Conan Edogawa's watch and bow tie, thinking that perhaps he could find some time to meet the craftsman behind the boy.
However, the most important thing right now is to contact GIN.
After saying goodbye to Sonoko Suzuki and the others, Jingyuan sent Gin a text message.
Do you have time to meet up?
It took about ten minutes for GIN to reply.
I'll come find you tomorrow night at 10 PM.
Jing Yuan smiled and replied "Okay," then walked to a cake shop by the roadside and said to the clerk, "Please give me a strawberry cake."
"Okay, please wait a moment."
Just as Jing Yuan was browsing through Luofu Miscellaneous Records, he suddenly smelled a faint scent of blood.
Looking up, I saw that the other person was a boy with bandages wrapped around his eyes.
The boy's expression was gloomy, and he exuded a sense of dejection, which caused many people who were initially attracted by his outstanding appearance to subconsciously shift their attention away.
Jing Yuan didn't sense any danger from the other party, so he also withdrew his gaze.
Just then, the shop assistant packed up the strawberry cake he ordered.
"Sir, here is your cake, please take it." The shop assistant said with a smile, "Welcome to come again next time."
"Thank you," Jing Yuan said.
As Jingyuan turned to leave, he noticed the boy glance at him, and then he heard him say, "A strawberry cake."
"Excuse me, sir," the clerk said apologetically to the boy, "we're out of strawberry cake."
"Tsk." The boy's already gloomy expression became even more unpleasant.
"You can take a look at other flavors..." The clerk's voice gradually faded away as Jing Yuan left.
Back at his hotel, Jing Yuan received a video call from Fu Xuan right on time.
"You seem to be in a good mood today." Fu Xuan glanced at the strawberry cake on his table and habitually reminded him, "Don't eat too much, or you'll exceed your sugar limit."
"Okay, okay." Jing Yuan obediently agreed, then asked curiously, "Has Fu Qing finished approving the official documents?"
Normally, when the two of them talked on the phone, Fu Xuan's side was always piled with various documents, but today it was very clean.
“Of course.” The pink-haired girl proudly raised her chin. “My efficiency is much higher than that of a certain dozing-off general.”
"As expected of Minister Fu!" Jing Yuan gave him face.
After a moment of smugness, Fu Xuan said to Jing Yuan, "I have some good news for you today: Bai Lu has found a way to alleviate the demonic yin body."
"Is it because of the books provided by the Taoists?" Jingyuan asked.
Fu Xuan nodded: "Not bad."
After recounting the discovery process and research findings of Bailu to Jingyuan in detail, Fu Xuan said, "I have reported this matter to the Marshal, and other immortal ships have also sent some people over to see if we can make further progress."
Suppressing his joy, Jing Yuan said, "The root of the Demonic Yin Body lies in the blessing of the Longevity Plague Ancestor. It will be very difficult to completely resolve this issue."
Unless the Abundant Medicine Master withdraws His blessing or perishes, the demonic possession of the Celestial Boatmen is essentially unsolvable.
However, killing a Star God is not an easy task; even the Emperor Bow Master they worshipped could not do it.
“I understand.” Fu Xuan knew what Jing Yuan was worried about. “I will have Qing Que keep a close eye on Bai Lu and make sure she doesn’t force herself.”
The dragon girl with the medicine in her mouth is kind-hearted. Even though she doesn't like studying the tedious medical skills, she still devotes a lot of energy to learning medicine after discovering that she can use her medical skills to solve other people's illnesses.
"Fu Qing too." Jing Yuan looked at the barely noticeable dark circles under her eyes and said softly, "Don't push yourself too hard."
"...Hmph, I know that, of course." Fu Xuan then realized that he hadn't covered up the dark circles under his eyes with powder before the call, thus giving himself away, but he still spoke toughly, "I'm not the kind of fool who has to shoulder everything himself. There are so many people in Luofu who are easy to use, I won't let them sit idle."
After finishing their business, the two shared some interesting anecdotes from their lives, complaining about the strange things and people they had encountered.
Not long after, Qingzu and Yanqing arrived, but this time they didn't come with a bunch of new work; instead, they came to bring food to Fu Xuan.
So, this routine phone call turned into a tea party for the four of them.
Unlike previous tea parties, Xiao Yanzi is now old enough to drink alcohol, so the tea they used to drink has been replaced with wine.
Of the four, Yanqing had the lowest alcohol tolerance; he got drunk after only a few drinks.
After getting drunk, Yanqing's eyes were filled with tears. He looked at Jingyuan with a sorrowful gaze, asking if the other had forgotten him while traveling.
Jingyuan said, "How could that be? Even if I forget others, I will never forget Yanqing."
But Little Swallow didn't believe it at all.
"Did you say this only to me, or to everyone else?"
Fu Xuan: "..."
Blue Arrow: "..."
Jing Yuan: "..."
Seeing that he didn't speak, Yanqing got angry.
Xiao Yanzi slammed her wine glass down on the coffee table, her voice almost breaking with tears: "I knew it! The general has found someone new and has forgotten about Yanqing."
"Who else is around me?" Jing Yuan said helplessly. "I just lived with Hai and the others for a while before."
Yanqing looked at Jingyuan and said quietly, "Does the general think it's a pity?"
"Huh?" Jing Yuan was completely dumbfounded.
"Indeed, Yanqing's eyes are neither heterochromatic nor does she possess any illusion magic, much less the ability to summon small animals to serve as pets for the general. It is only natural that the general only hears the laughter of the new and not the cries of the old."
What is all this nonsense?
Jing Yuan gestured to Fu Xuan and Qing Zu to stop Yan Qing from drinking, but the two pretended not to see and kept recording Yan Qing, apparently planning to make fun of the boy later.
That's absolutely outrageous!
However, this is the first time I've seen Yanqing like this. I'll have Qingzu send him a copy of the video I recorded later.
That's what I think, but children also need to be coaxed.
Fortunately, Yanqing was easy to fool, especially since he was drunk and his mind wasn't working properly. Jingyuan didn't spend much effort to coax the child to sleep.
Looking at the sleeping Yanqing, Jingyuan, Fuxuan, and Qingzu exchanged glances and couldn't help but laugh.
After laughing, Jingyuan asked, "What has Yanqing been watching lately?"
Why does your voice sound like Lin Daiyu's? But there's no "Dream of the Red Chamber" in the Xianzhou storybooks, is there?
Qingzu sent the video of Yanqing's embarrassment to Jingyuan: "I didn't watch anything, I just flipped through the books you sent back."
The case is solved; he himself delivered the copy of "Dream of the Red Chamber."
It seems he's had too much to drink today, otherwise he should have thought of this earlier, but...
"Hasn't he always been uninterested in this kind of book?" Jing Yuan asked curiously.
Yanqing loves swords and used to enjoy listening to stories about sword tips. His biggest dream was to become the sword tip of Luofu, and he kept his distance from books like "Dream of the Red Chamber".
"There's nothing I can do; you're the one who sent this book," Fu Xuan said.
Who in the entire Luofu doesn't know that Yanqing is a die-hard fan of Jingyuan? Even if Jingyuan said that the Star Core Hunters were actually a charity organization, Yanqing would believe it. Not to mention that the book "Dream of the Red Chamber" was specially sent back by Jingyuan from another world, so of course he would read it carefully.
Well, in the end, it's still my own fault.
The three of them talked for a while longer, until Fu Xuan reminded Jing Yuan that it was getting late and he should go wash up and rest before they ended the call.
After hanging up the phone, Jing Yuan did not go to wash up as Fu Xuan had instructed, but instead went to the hotel window.
He was in a better mood than ever before, not only because of the good news from Bailu about the relief of the demonic yin body, but also because he saw that Fu Xuan and Yan Qing were now fully capable of handling things on their own, and that Luo Fu was getting better and better under their care.
“That’s wonderful,” he said.
It's wonderful to have met Fu Xuan, Yan Qing, Qing Zu, and all of Luo Fu's companions.
Because of the alcohol, his golden eyes were somewhat blurry, but this did not affect his vision, so Jing Yuan clearly saw a figure flashing red light crashing towards him.
Chuuya Nakahara is a gravity user of the Port Mafia. He possesses the supernatural ability to manipulate gravity, and when he attacks a place with all his might, the consequences are terrifying.
It is precisely because of this that he and his partner Osamu Dazai became the two most vicious people in the Yokohama Mafia world.
However, he never expected that someone could easily withstand his full-force attack, and that person did not possess any special ability like Dazai Osamu that could eliminate his power.
When he came to his senses, Chuuya Nakahara found that the other party was treating him like a child, lifting him up in the air and looking him over.
Chuuya Nakahara was shocked, and Chuuya Nakahara was furious.
"Put me down!"
"Keep your voice down, and I'll put you down," Jing Yuan said with a smile.
Chuuya Nakahara was silent for a moment, then nodded, and Jingyuan put him down as promised.
Once his feet touched the ground, Chuuya Nakahara realized just how big the height difference was between him and Keigen.
Damn it! He really wants that perfect height, tall enough to see the top of a mackerel's head!
Perhaps he had drunk a bit too much today, or perhaps Nakahara Chuuya's height reminded him of Fu Xuan; in any case, Jing Yuan wasn't angry, even though the other party's attack just now was clearly intended to kill him.
"I don't think I've offended any of you ability users, so why are you attacking me suddenly?" Jing Yuan asked.
Suppressing his envy, Chuuya Nakahara said with a serious expression, "Because you are very valuable."
"Oh?" Jing Yuan blinked. "Are you short of money?"
Although he was unfamiliar with the world's big brands, he could still tell from his own eye how expensive Chuuya Nakahara's clothes were.
“No one will complain about having too much money,” Chuuya Nakahara said.
Especially the port of Mafia.
Heaven knows that their leader, Mori, is already balding prematurely due to financial problems, so upon seeing the bounty amount next to Jingyuan's portrait, he immediately dispatched Nakahara Chuuya, a powerful weapon.
Unfortunately, it failed.
"I'm worth a lot of money?" Jing Yuan found it somewhat amusing.
He was already very valuable when he was General Luofu, and assassinations were commonplace for him. Unexpectedly, in this new world where no one knows him, he has been put on the dark web's list again.
Well, I do miss it.
In a phone booth across from the hotel, Dazai Osamu was talking to Mori Ougai: "The assassination failed."
“As expected,” Mori Ougai said with a smile. “You can come back now.”
Dazai Osamu looked up at the floor where Kagemoto was located: "You really trust Byakuran that much?"
"What?" Mori Ougai's smile deepened. "Is Dazai-kun worried about Chuuya?"
“I don’t care whether that little dwarf lives or dies, but Mr. Mori, you…” A hint of mockery flashed in Dazai Osamu’s eyes, “Don’t forget how the Giglionero family was swallowed up. Cooperating with him is like inviting a wolf into your house.”
Mori Ōgai pressed the ballpoint pen in his hand, and the clicking sound was transmitted to Dazai Osamu over the phone, causing him to frown in displeasure.
"you……"
"Now that the mission is complete, Dazai-kun, you may use your time as you see fit." Mori Ougai's voice sounded very pleasant. "If possible, you can invite Kagemoto-kun to come with you when you return to Yokohama."
After saying that, he hung up the phone without waiting for Dazai Osamu's reaction.
Seeing him humming a little tune happily, Alice, who was drawing on the floor, looked up and asked, "Rintaro, why does Byakuran want us to kill Jingyuan? Aren't they on pretty good terms?"
"It was just a little joke between their friends," Mori Ougai said with a smile.
Alice rolled her eyes: "Making such a terrible joke, your views on friendship are so weird, aren't they?"
"Anyway, we won't suffer any losses, and we'll even get a substantial reward, so why not?"
"That's true."
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