After the Undercover System Went Haywire, I Switched to Grinding Suspicion Points Chapter 118

Usuha Izuki earned a wave of suspicion values just by lying at ho, and under the press club's guidance, it was much safer than direct exposure.

Though he couldn't make ordinary people suspicious too, Usuha Izuki was already very satisfied. As for the system, it had thought nothing would remain, but suddenly there was an unexpected harvest. Instead of feeling sad about losing 5 million, it was pleasantly surprised by this windfall.

The system's motivation returned: [What do you plan to do during your vacation?]

[Lie at ho.]

[With such a good opportunity, you're just going to lie at ho?!] The system was heartbroken. [Strike while the iron is hot! Go for a walk on the street! Visit a few Organization locations! The suspicion values would co flowing in!]

Usuha Izuki sighed: [People don't just live to live, they also need to learn to enjoy life. My originally planned vacation had no task of farming suspicion values. Now I've already fard more suspicion values than expected—can't you let rest properly? I'm just one person, yet I'm constantly running between two sides. Last New Year I was still in the Middle East and didn't get to properly celebrate. This year I can't even give myself a vacation?]

System: [You're working so hard because you haven't bought the Body Double Puppet. Otherwise you could save travel ti, and it's New Year now with promotional activities...]

Usuha Izuki ignored the system.

Did it think he was an idiot? If he got two bodies, he'd definitely feel that spending big money on a Body Double Puppet only to have both bodies sleep at the sa ti would be wasteful. There would always be one body in action... Wouldn't that an never having real rest ti?!

The permanent residence permit wouldn't open exchange slots for several more years. Thinking that he might not sleep for years with his brain constantly active made death seem preferable.

Unless his points really had nowhere else to go, then exchanging for a Body Double Puppet to play split personality might be interesting...

Usuha Izuki sat on the sofa, using the TV as background noise while checking his emails.

Hagiwara Kenji had sent greetings, suggesting they travel together again next vacation, then ntioned following up on the interrogation over there. It seed the suspect's bomb purchasing channel was the sa as that previous Police Academy failure who went around bombing, but unfortunately the contact thods were all one-ti use, so they couldn't find the bomb seller yet. The cri consultant was the sa—only online contact, so they didn't know his real identity. This case would probably need further investigation.

Though Chief Odagiri had given them vacation, Hagiwara Kenji showed no intention of resting properly. Instead, he was concerned about the case's follow-up—clearly unlike Usuha Izuki, he was a standard police officer with justice and responsibility.

Matsuda Jinpei's email was complaining about why everyone helped solve the case but only his vacation wasn't extended, since his superior wasn't Chief Odagiri.

Yes, though Matsuda Jinpei still called him [Samukawa] by surna and always spoke rudely as if he had issues with him, their relationship had actually improved sowhat since Matsuda Jinpei furiously scolded him for arbitrarily defusing a bomb in a criminal's hands.

They often communicated privately now, starting with bomb talk but gradually discussing everything. Otherwise, just eting occasionally, Matsuda Jinpei wouldn't have realized so deeply how terrible Samukawa Shinryu's personality was...

Looking at Samukawa Shinryu's phone from a few days ago, there were New Year greetings from Mobile Investigation Unit people, but today only these two had ssaged him.

But compared to Usuha Izuki's main body's phone, two was already quite lively, since the Organization probably avoided Usuha Izuki like the plague and would never contact him without cause.

They were afraid Usuha Izuki would find excuses to cause trouble—so acquaintances wouldn't even send New Year greetings.

So Usuha Izuki was quite surprised when he discovered a new email.

Opening it, he found it was from Hattori Heiji.

[The criminal you identified last ti as a copycat was caught, right? Now the real serial killer has also been caught, so this case finally concluded...]

Usuha Izuki looked through it. Since he'd never replied to Hattori Heiji's questioning emails about why he disappeared, Hattori Heiji initially contributed many suspicion values. But as ti passed, perhaps Hattori Heiji had self-explained all the suspicious points and gradually just treated him as an acquainted detective, not giving much suspicion value anymore.

Feeling that leaving it alone wouldn't be effective anymore, he should reply.

So Usuha Izuki replied: [Any interesting cases recently?]

Hattori Heiji was also on vacation and shot up from his chair when he suddenly received a reply.

He'd sent several emails to that strange detective before, but the other party never replied. Hattori Heiji initially suspected the other couldn't show his face, then thought maybe the other was too lazy to play with kids. After sending a few without response, seeing the other's unwillingness to acknowledge him, he stopped planning to send more.

But since they finally caught the serial killer today, completing the full circle, he thought about it and sent one final email, planning to let this number lie dormant in his phone as a morial to the first detective he'd t.

He hadn't expected a response when he'd given up hope, but the other suddenly erged!

Hattori Heiji replied frantically—he'd never typed so fast: [You finally replied! Why didn't you reply before?]

Usuha Izuki fabricated without changing expression: [I took a commission. The client was suspicious and afraid I'd double-charge, so they confiscated my phone and prohibited contact with anyone. I just finished the commission and got my phone back.]

Hattori Heiji hesitated, feeling it was sowhat outrageous yet not entirely so, since if he really wanted belief, he could have made up sothing more credible... But he quickly realized sothing was wrong.

Wait! This guy had clearly disappeared the mont he turned around—how could he bla the client?!

Finding typing too slow, he couldn't help calling directly: "When did your client commission you? Not while I was going to find police, right?"

Usuha Izuki remarked: "Why do you sound so sarcastic now?"

Hattori Heiji was speechless: "Whose fault is that?! You disappeared the mont I turned around—those who don't know might think you're a fleeing criminal who can't see police!"

Usuha Izuki asked back: "How can you be sure I'm not?"

Hattori Heiji fell silent.

Usuha Izuki watched Hattori Heiji intermittently contribute suspicion values, as if seeing the other's internal struggle.

Hattori Heiji really didn't know whether to believe Usuha Izuki now.

He didn't even know this guy's na, only that he claid to be the famous Detective Conan. It was indeed suspicious, but calling him a fleeing criminal... seed excessive, since when he called people over, the other had indeed properly walked to the scene vicinity and dealt with the police who stopped him...

But now the other was saying things that seed to hint at sothing... Yet thinking carefully, the other had said more than one thing that seed to hint at sothing. His personality seed terrible, taking pleasure in scaring children.

"Are you joking again?" Hattori Heiji chose to trust his intuition. "If you were a criminal, what cri could you commit? Fraud?"

Usuha Izuki: "...Why is your first thought fraud? Don't you have anything classier?"

Samukawa Shinryu's side was Moriarty! Criminal consultant! Yakuza boss! At worst, a yakuza young master!

His main body was also an executive of an international criminal company—how could this be so pathetic? Didn't he want face?!

"No." Hattori Heiji said. "You'd seem less like one if you stopped making unfunny jokes."

Still worrying about prestige when already suspected of being a fraud... This really was adult chuunibyou syndro. No wonder he dressed like that. He wouldn't be so childish when he grew up.

Usuha Izuki sighed: "Fine, no more jokes then. Back to the topic—anything interesting happening on your end recently? Share sothing?"

Hattori Heiji imdiately felt conflicted: "So you finally rembered to reply because you've been bored lately?"

"Guess."

"Guess my ass! Don't treat like a child, I—"

"Shh."

Usuha Izuki suddenly said: "Wait, I think I heard sothing."

Since he was living in Samukawa Shinryu's house, he'd only switched his voice back without returning to his main body, so Samukawa Shinryu's powerful skills were still normally active, and he could sense anything wrong.

Feeling things suddenly serious, Hattori Heiji obediently shut up. After a few seconds, he heard the other side say:

"I think I've encountered a case."

Hattori Heiji's DNA activated as he began frantically guessing the situation.

It sounded very quiet, only TV news playing. It should be indoors. To encounter a case like this, did sothing happen to the neighbors?

"Is this detective constitution? Encountering cases even while making phone calls at ho? Next ti you co to Osaka, can you bring along? I want to solve cases too..."

Usuha Izuki, having easily fard a wave of suspicion values, said perfunctorily: "Next ti for sure, next ti for sure."

Then he hung up.

The system complained: [You said earlier you wanted vacation and didn't want to farm suspicion values...]

[It's just sothing convenient and not tiring. For , this is vacation—chatting with kids is so relaxing.] Usuha Izuki began calling Kokonoe Yoto from the Mobile Investigation Unit.

When that guy's apartnt was being renovated, he'd moved next door to try to freeload off Samukawa Shinryu's accident-prone constitution to solve so case. Usuha Izuki didn't want to live so close to acquaintances, so he'd quickly helped solve the case. Kokonoe Yoto had moved out long ago, and the place should be vacant now. Hearing sounds was strange.

Kokonoe Yoto quickly answered: "Samukawa-kun, do you need sothing?"

Usuha Izuki had already left and was standing at his door studying the neighbor's entrance: "Who's living in the house next to mine now? If you know them, call them. Soone picked the lock and got in."

Kokonoe Yoto's tone imdiately beca serious: "I'll call my friend right away! Please help check the situation next door, Samukawa-kun. If sothing happens, I'll help you write the self-criticism, thanks!"

Usuha Izuki: "..."

There was no need to assu he'd need to write a self-criticism. He wasn't in the mood to toy with just any criminal! What kind of image did he have in Kokonoe Yoto's mind?!!