Chapter 84

The Conan stories that came later didn't leave much of an impression, but the earlier ones are still quite vivid in my memory.

For example, the first case, the one connected to the "Junior Detective League."

He looked at the maple-leaf gold coin in his hand.

"Looks like I've locked the door completely shut."

"A lock made with the Apprentice's extraordinary ability to open and close doors — ordinary people have no way to open it at all, unless they take the entire door off its hinges."

"A bunch of kids don't have that kind of ability."

"If that's the case, does this count as me saving the 'Junior Detective League' once?"

Whether it counts or not, he didn't know.

Even if it didn't count, Ren Amamiya wouldn't care.

As long as the emergency exit's big door couldn't be opened, and the front door couldn't be gotten into either, no matter how clever a bunch of kids were, they could only choose to give up.

When the time came, the bandit gang tailing behind probably wouldn't bother to lay a hand on a few kids who hadn't found the gold coins.

Mm, no real problem.

Still, it was worth jotting down in the diary.

【Something interesting happened today.】

【Near Tokyo Tower, I picked up a treasure some idiot bandit had left behind.】

【Ah, the Huang Chengcheng gold coins were so dazzling they made my eyes blur.】

【Gold really is a fine thing.】

【Especially for someone like me who's always been a bit strapped for cash.】

【I don't want to go out and rob people myself, but if some idiot hides what they've stolen, I won't be shy about taking it.】

【Mm, for instance, a certain stupid Italian bandit gang that stashed gold coins away like buried treasure.】

【But it was also precisely because of that stupid Italian bandit gang that I got the idea for the Junior Detective League's first case.】

【A detective organization led by Kudo Shinichi, who'd been turned into an elementary schooler.】

【Honestly, in the earlier parts those kids still knew enough to be afraid, but the longer it went on, the less those kids seemed to fear death.】

【And they started becoming more and more annoying.】

【Mm, but this time, if they want to run into the treasure-hiding spot, they're out of luck.】

【This should count as solving the first danger they faced for them.】

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