Conan: I Am Not a Snake Spirit

In fact, while Izumi Jisaburo was interested in Chi Feichi, Chi Feichi was also interested in contacting Izumi Jisaburo, but the two sides had different positioning and value assessments of each other.

In Chi Feichi's opinion, people like Izumi Jisaburo are not suitable to be friends or subordinates, but they are very suitable to be used as temporary partners when needed.

As long as Izumi sees enough benefits, Izumi can solve a lot of troubles with his own ability and courage, and help allies save a lot of energy to deal with other things. Sometimes they may be more useful than justice partners.

However, Umbrella currently has a lot of resources, and the number of partners it can choose is countless. There is no shortage of people like Izumi Jisaburo, and Chi Feichi's most important task at present is to cultivate a team that can be trusted. For Izumi Jisaburo This kind of people have no needs. They just want to strengthen their understanding of this shrewd and cautious old fox, so they want to contact and observe Izumi Jisaburo.

As for whether there will be cooperation in the future, the prerequisite is that Jisaburo Izumi can survive today...

Compared to Izumi Jisaburo who wanted to get powerful bodyguards, Chi Feichi just passed by the jujube tree with a pole and played with any jujubes.

As for Izumi Jisaburo's inner calculations, Chi Feichi saw through it and didn't take it to heart. Even if the Chi family went bankrupt one day, with the way he mastered and his own skills, he would not be in a situation where he needed to be a bodyguard to make ends meet. .

And among the various bounty tasks, the one he accepted the least and was least good at was the protection task.

If the employer doesn't dictate his actions, and is more gentle and obedient, he wouldn't mind providing protective services. But if the employer is making noises around him, he can't guarantee whether he will do anything because he is worried that the employer will be killed by bad guys. , So I chose to shoot my employer to death.

Faced with Izumi Jisaburo's security protection entrustment, or temporary employment, he naturally refused...

"I'm sorry, Mr. Izumi, I'm not good at handling protection and cheating investigations, and I haven't considered accepting such requests."

Chi Feichi spoke politely, but his attitude of refusal was firm.

"Ahem...!"

Mouri Kogoro coughed twice, with a nonchalant expression on his face, but in his heart he was roaring irritably.

Don't just focus on his apprentice, okay?

Look here, the sleeping master Kogoro is here! The number one detective in Japan who can take on protection requests is here!

Izumi Jisaburo understood what Maori Kogoro was implying. Considering that he wanted to win over Chi Feichi, he didn't mind giving Maori Kogoro a little face or a reward. He asked kindly, "Then, Mr. Maori is willing to accept this commission." ?"

Maori Kogoro:"……"

Wait, this feeling of your own apprentice not accepting the commission, and the one who entrusts the commission will settle for the next best thing...

It really makes people unhappy.

Izumi Jizaburo deliberately put Chi Feichi first to strengthen his appreciation for Chi Feichi's abilities. However, he asked questions very politely and would not make people feel rude. He did not wait for Maori Kogoro's answer and was not in a hurry. He continued hurriedly, "I would like to ask Mr. Mao Li to help me find the person who wants to kill me. Before finding that guy, my safety will also be handed over to Mr. Mao Li. The commission fee will be the same as what Mr. Mao Li usually accepts." Calculate the commission price..."

Mouri Kogoro's eyes lit up when he heard Izumi Jisaburo talking about the commission fee. He immediately put down the resentment in his heart and introduced his fees to Izumi Jisaburo.

Although Mouri Kogoro wanted to steal a deal from Izumi Jisaburo, the price he offered was not too high. He just gave two examples of protection entrustments with mid-range and high commission fees, and let Izumi Jizaburo decide how much commission fee to pay.

There is really no specific standard for detective fees. Most of the time, like a bounty hunter’s bounty, the client decides how much to pay in the end. If the detective thinks the fee is appropriate, he will accept it. If he thinks the fee is low, he will reject it. Sometimes he will act according to his own preferences. You decide whether to accept the commission based on the principles and difficulty of the commission.

Of course, this is just the charging method for detectives like Mouri Kogoro who rely on commissions to make a living. High school detectives like Hattori Heiji and Kudo Shinichi accept commissions only to see if the event is interesting, especially 'Kansai Hattori Kanto Kudo' Two sons from a wealthy family would refuse commission fees from others. Fortunately, they only accepted cases that interested them and did not accept commissions such as cheating investigations, so they did not block other detectives' financial opportunities.

It took two minutes for Mouri Kogo to agree on the entrustment fee with Izumi Jisaburo, and a verbal agreement was made on the spot.

Izumi Jisaburo also generously said that if Kogoro Mouri can guarantee that he will not be harmed and find out the person who is plotting against him within three days, he will finally add 20% of the commission fee as a thank you.

After the museum staff went to prepare the formal commission contract, Izumi Jizaburo also took the initiative to invite a group of people to visit the museum.

"Oh? Mr. Chi also likes to be able to meet you?"

Izumi Jizaburo sat in a spare wheelchair and was pushed into the exhibition hall by Hatsuho Toba. After hearing Kogoro Mori say that Ikefei came here to see Noh noodles, he also became interested in talking about Noh noodles. There will also be noh-men, but the more common ones are the ferocious-looking Prajna masks, and the tengu, kappa, and fox masks that have widely spread legends about themselves. In fact, there are many kinds of noh-men..."

As he spoke, Izumi Jizaburo raised his hand to signal Hatsuko Toba to stop pushing the wheelchair, and stopped in front of a large display case, gesturing for others to admire the masks in the display case. "As for the collections I have here, the golden fox and white fox among the fox masks are There’s more than one kind of mask.”

"There are really many kinds of fox masks, and each mask is different..." Mao Lilan looked at the masks with either angry or happy expressions in the display cabinet. While marveling, she saw the human face mask in the corner of the display cabinet and laughed, " Is that a Fire Man mask? Someone in Tokyo was robbed wearing a Fire Man mask before, and we also encountered an incident where the Fire Man was stabbed with a knife."

"When I was a police officer, I also saw cases of people wearing Hannya masks to commit crimes," Mouri Kogoro walked to the display cabinet with emotion on his face, leaned over the display cabinet glass, looked at an ape mask, and recalled, "And I remember there was a thief abroad named Lupine III..."

Mao Lilan, Conan: "?"

Wait, that is...

"Teacher, Lupine III's face looks like a monkey," Chi Feichi reminded calmly, "He is not wearing a mask."

Lupine III, who was far abroad, sneezed and couldn't help but suspect that someone was talking maliciously about him behind his back.

"Eh? Is that so?" Mouri Kogoro was stunned, and quickly coughed, trying to save his dignity, "Well, of course I know he is not wearing a mask, but I think he may be disguising himself according to the ape mask. , such as keeping short hair, showing the tip of his forehead like a monkey, and always having round eyes like a monkey to hide his true appearance!"

Conan laughed inwardly.

Hey, hey, I really just look like a monkey.

Why did the big thief turn into a scheming person who actively made himself look like a monkey when he arrived at Uncle Kogoro's place?

Lupine III, who was far abroad, sneezed twice again, seriously suspecting that more than one person was maliciously talking about him behind his back.

"Hahaha, what an interesting statement..." Izumi Jisaburo was amused by Mouri Kogoro's words. He motioned to Toba Hatsuko to push him forward. He stopped in front of another display cabinet and took out an old man's mask. "This mask is very suitable." Me?"

Asking aloud, Izumi Jizaburo put on the old man's mask directly and turned to look at Mouri Kogoro next to him.

The old man's mask had a smiling expression, but there were stitching cracks on both sides of the mouth, which still shocked Mouri Kogoro.

Izumi Jizaburo quickly took off the mask, turned it over and looked at the wooden block inside the mask and at the mouth of Mouri Kogoro and others. "In order to create a traditional atmosphere, the staff in the museum will wear masks when working. This It is called a mouth mask. When wearing the mask, you hold the wooden block in your mouth. The mask can be put on without a rope, so that the mask does not need to be punched or the integrity of the mask is damaged by glue. However, when a person wears this mask, You have to hold the block of wood tightly, and you won’t be able to speak anymore.”

Akaza Naru also followed and added aloud, "The director asked this to maintain a quiet atmosphere in the museum."

"The maker of these masks was a close friend of mine during his lifetime, and his name was Matsumoto Kyūdo," Izumi Jizaburo looked down at the mask in his hand and said with emotion, "He kept repeating marriages and divorces, and never settled down. In his In the last moments of his death, I was by his side taking care of him."

Akaza Naru also smiled and said, "That's because curator, you have a vision for discovering artists!"

Regarding Akaza Naruya's praise, Izumi Jisaburo didn't say anything. He glanced at Akaza Naruya and then looked at the mask in his hand, "The reward for taking care of him is the exhibition of the Noh mask as his relic. It's all up to me." Responsible."

Chi Feichi was indeed interested in the different ugly Nohmen, and took the initiative to ask, "Are all the masks here the work of Mr. Matsumoto?"

"More than half of them are, and they are the most exquisite part of my collection," Izumi Jisaburo couldn't put it down with the mask in his hand. Not only did he have no intention of putting it back, he also raised the mask and covered it in front of his face, smiling, " If you are interested, you can try on the masks in the ordinary display cabinets. Except for those locked collection display cabinets, you can choose any mask in the other display cabinets. You can just put them back after trying them on!"

"Really?" Mao Lilan turned her head to look at the display cabinet next to her in surprise, wanting to pick one out to try on. However, looking at those ferocious masks, the smile at the corner of her mouth was a little frozen. She glanced at the other display cabinets, and the smile on her face was completely frozen. , "I, let me see if I'm wearing it, just take a look..."