Chapter 154 Who is 73?

Facing Douma's sudden accusation, Karasuma's lips trembled, his face looked very ugly, and the veins on his hand holding the cane were bulging, obviously looking like he was badly wronged.

Seeing this, many people who originally believed what Douma said began to doubt it again. Perhaps there was some misunderstanding? →

"Mr. Douma, you have misunderstood. This matter has nothing to do with me. What reason do I have to do such a cruel thing to my own nephew?" Old man Karasuma covered his chest with his hands, and his voice was just a little weak when he spoke. He played the image of a poor old man who was wronged but was helpless against the noble Douma vividly.

If it weren't for the hatred that flashed in old man Karasuma's gloomy eyes under his drooping eyelids, it really looked like that.

After taking off his kind mask, Karasuma's face looked quite mean, which was inconsistent with his current pitiful appearance. This split successfully made some people who were almost led astray by him wake up.

However, the old man of the Karasuma family had every reason to take action against his nephew who inherited the family business. Faced with such a huge amount of wealth, who could just sit there and accept their fate? His motives were so full that they were about to overflow.

Although the people around them did not express their complaints directly, their looks had already exposed everything they were thinking.

Being the target of public criticism, Master Karasuma was not panicked at all. He used the prepared words to clear himself of suspicion and said in a trembling voice, "Yes, since ancient times, many people have resorted to all kinds of dirty tricks to fight for family property. But I am already so old, and I watched Xiangzhen grow up. I won't go to such lengths to do anything."

Without waiting for others to raise questions, Karasuma wiped his face and was the first to reveal himself: "Don't worry about being laughed at by everyone. Xiangzhen is young and hot-tempered. He has already walked into the trap set by us old bones. His liquid funds are locked up, and the group shares pledged in the bank cannot be redeemed within the agreed period. He is destined to be the loser in this battle. How could I be so stupid as to do something illegal now that everything is over?"

After hearing what Karasuma said, most of the people present suddenly realized something and then became hesitant. Compared to simply talking about family ties, which no one knew whether or not they existed, this kind of interest-related talk was easier to convince people.

After all, under such circumstances, if we still insist that it was Master Karasuma who did it, it would be a bit hard to explain. If he was not stupid, he would not do such a stupid thing that would do more harm than good on the eve of victory.

Not only did the onlookers who were watching the excitement believe what Karasuma said, but even Karasuma Shoma, who was convinced in his heart that none of his uncles were good people, believed what he said and thought that his uncle had no motive to kill him, because it was very logical.

It is logical, but when did the world of Detective Conan begin to be logical? Douma asked himself this question in his heart, while smiling and expressing his negative attitude: "Oh, really? I don't believe it."

Seeing Douma smiling at him, Karasuma thought he had fooled the person, but he never expected that it was just a false alarm and the person didn't believe him at all.

This made Karasuma a bit embarrassed, but he was afraid of Douma's identity and didn't dare to say anything. In the end, he could only say dryly: "Everything must be based on evidence. Do you have any concrete evidence that I attacked Shouma?"

Faced with the obvious questioning from Karasuma, Douma did not answer immediately, but the smile on the corner of his mouth seemed to have an inexplicable meaning.

When Douma just smiled and said nothing, the indifference in his eyes was so obvious. Although he didn't utter any words of reproach, it gave people the illusion that they had offended the high and mighty gods, and the guilt of doing something wrong instantly swept over his body.

Those who were waiting for the confrontation between Douma and Karasuma finally woke up from a dream and turned their eyes away to look at the excitement. They didn't understand where they got the courage from just now to want to watch the excitement of that gentleman without fear of shortening their lives.

Most of them actually don't know Douma's true identity. They just see those old gentlemen who are beyond their reach respectfully addressing Douma as "Sir". Even if they don't know the truth, they can figure out that Sir Douma's identity is not simple and he is a big shot that they can't approach.

The person involved, Douma, had no idea that he had once again been hallucinated as a high and mighty god. He was mentally going mad. As a person who relied entirely on cheats to find the murderer, he had no evidence in his hands that could kill the other party. It would be more like the other party would kill him with a prepared excuse.

When he was about to get off the tiger, Douma caught a glimpse of the limited edition of the Bleach elementary school student, Kudo Shinichi, who was whispering in the ear of Fūya Rei, and his eyes immediately lit up.

Since this is the set of "Detective Conan", of course we have to ask the protagonist Conan to solve the case.

Thinking of this, Douma raised his chin towards Kudo Shinichi without any guilt: "Let him confront you. It's not necessary for me to take action in such a simple case."

The words were quite arrogant, but no one present thought there was anything inappropriate about them. It was already quite approachable that the Transcendent One was willing to pay attention to them. No one expected such a big shot to come down to earth to confront them in person.

Just thinking about that scene would make people feel it is outrageous. Everyone shook their heads to get rid of the strange illusions in their minds, and a sense of contempt for old man Karasuma rose in their hearts: after all, he is old and his brain is not working well, and he can do such a foolish thing.

Following Douma's line of sight, everyone present saw the righteous Furuya Rei, tacitly ignoring the elementary school student at his legs, and nodded in agreement: "Your suggestion is the best, Inspector Furuya is the best candidate."

"..." Douma looked at Kudo Shinichi with sympathy, who was ignored by everyone. He felt that this was not okay, this was not allowed. Where was the dignity of the Death God Elementary School student?

Kudo Shinichi, who was used to being ignored in such occasions, felt the gazes falling on him and became alert. He looked up and found that the person staring at him was Mr. Douma.

An ominous premonition arose spontaneously. Although he didn't know why, Kudo Shinichi believed in his intuition. His scalp was tingling and he was about to retreat. So he looked around like a fool and said, "Oh, isn't Sister Xiaolan here?"

Mao Lilan was squeezed out of the center of the crowd without noticing: "."

However, it was too late. Before Kudo Shinichi could successfully escape, Douma directly denied everyone's speculation and pointed out his name without any scruples: "No, I'm not referring to Inspector Furuya, but the detective next to him."

Everyone hurriedly searched around Furuya Rei, trying to find the person next to the Furuya police officer that Douma mentioned, but they found nothing.

Nakatani Osamu, who had spoken to Douma, was a bit more courageous than the others. He asked, "May I ask which detective you are interested in? Please forgive me for my lack of knowledge and my inability to understand the deeper meaning of your words."

Seeing that Kudo Shinichi was about to run away, Douma 'kindly' walked over and held his shoulder, then introduced him to the puzzled people: "This is the detective. You may have heard of his name on TV. He is the high school detective Kudo Shinichi."

Douma: I’m a professional at exposing people’s identities!

The hand on his shoulder gripped him tightly like an iron clamp, making Kudo Shin unable to move at all. His ominous premonition was confirmed. The smiling voice above his head stripped away the elementary school student vest he had worn for several years, revealing his true identity to the world.

Although his safety is guaranteed because of Douma, he has been pretending to be an ignorant elementary school student for many years. Many of his actions are normal for children, but they are too shocking for an adult like him.

In an instant, all the stupidity he had pretended to have during this period flooded into Kudo Shinichi's mind. The feedback of evil power was a little too much for him to bear for a while, and he felt completely depressed.

Douma, who was a ruthless exposer of others, consciencelessly ignored the accusing look in Kudo Shinichi's eyes, and only let go of his hand after the discussions around him broke out.

"He is the high school detective Kudo Shinichi? Is that true?" The rich young man who had provided clues to the police before couldn't help but burst out laughing. He came over with a little suspicion and almost poked Kudo Shinichi's cheek with his finger to see if it was true.

Those who have never heard of the high school detective Kudo Shinichi got straight to the point: "What? This kid is actually a high school student? Um... is it dwarfism?"

The rich young man who had read the relevant news enthusiastically helped to explain: "It's not dwarfism. Kudo Shinichi was originally a normal high school boy. There are old photos of him in the news reports."

The rich young man helped to explain while taking out his mobile phone to search for relevant news.

Soon, the news with the photo of the normal high school student version of Kudo Shinichi was successfully searched, and the rich young man passed it to those who had never seen it. After passing it around, everyone knew that Kudo Shinichi's current body shape was abnormal.

Nakatani Zhiling suddenly understood and whispered to his old friend who was still puzzled, "It's probably the effect of superpowers. I heard that there is a superpower in the government whose ability is to adjust people's ages. I just don't know how this high school detective offended him."

"..." Kudo Shinichi couldn't explain that the reason he became smaller was not because of his supernatural powers, because he couldn't open his mouth to reveal the secret of APTX4869's ability to rejuvenate people.

It turned out that such a miraculous drug had to be kept secret. Otherwise, Kudo Shinichi could imagine what kind of crazy things those ambitious people who wanted to live forever would do for it.

Kudo Shinichi took a deep breath, ignoring his jealousy towards Douma, and looked at Douma firmly with his bright eyes: "You did it on purpose, whether it was handing me over to Xiaolan or revealing my identity in front of Sonoko just now."

Douma shrugged, neither confirming nor denying.

This made Kudo Shinichi even more confused. What value did he have that could make a transcendent person deliberately mess with him? He thought so and asked, "Why?"

"If you want to blame someone, blame 73."

"Who is 73?"

"secret."