Sonoko Suzuki said: “Makoto just texted me.
He said he crossed paths with a martial arts master who is far stronger than he is.”
“Someone who defeated him completely.”
Hearing that, Ran Mōri was genuinely astonished: “Sugoi!
So someone like that really exists.
What’s his name?”
Right at that moment, another message from Makoto Kyogoku arrived: “He comes from China, and his name is Hayashi Rin.”
“Sonoko, please help me track him down.
If there’s an opportunity in the future, I really want to spar with him again, and I’d like to become his friend.”
Looking at the reply from Makoto Kyogoku, both Sonoko Suzuki and Ran Mōri’s eyes went wide: “What?
Hayashi Rin!”
Ran Mōri immediately spoke up with eager urgency: “Sonoko, quick!
Ask him where he ran into Hayashi Rin!”
Without wasting a single second, Sonoko Suzuki frantically typed out and sent the inquiry.
Moments later, Makoto Kyogoku’s response popped up: “I met him while training around Mount Fuji on the outskirts of Tokyo.”
That answer made both Ran Mōri and Sonoko Suzuki catch their breath: “So he went to Mount Fuji.”
“It’s true that Mount Fuji is vast, so tracking someone down there won’t be a simple task.”
“Still, now that we have an exact location, everything becomes so much easier.”
Kazuha Tōyama, standing by their side, was equally surprised: “What?
He didn’t go far at all—he’s at Mount Fuji!”
“That’s great!”
“Even though Mount Fuji is expansive, searching for him there is infinitely easier than combing through the entirety of the Land of Ke.”
Ran Mōri said nervously: “Sonoko, everything depends on you this time.”
Without the slightest hesitation, Sonoko Suzuki pulled out her phone and dialed her family’s head butler: “Mobilize one hundred search teams to head to Mount Fuji and locate someone for me.”
“Search for a man from China named Hayashi Rin.”
“The moment he is found, notify me immediately.
You must treat him with the utmost courtesy.”
“Deploy as many personnel as possible and find him as fast as you can.”
“Understood, Young Mistress!”
Sonoko Suzuki was an heiress to the Suzuki Family, one of the wealthiest conglomerates in the world of Conan.
While she usually came across as carefree and unpretentious in her daily life, when the situation truly demanded it, she could mobilize the immense influence of the Suzuki Financial Group without breaking a sweat.
Now that they had a clear target and confirmed that Hayashi Rin was around the Mount Fuji region, the only viable approach across such sprawling terrain was to cast a massive net.
It was precisely in moments like this that the Suzuki Family’s formidable resources were put on full display.
At this moment, Hayashi Rin had no idea that his whereabouts had already been leaked completely by accident.
If he knew, he would surely be at a loss for words, looking at Makoto Kyogoku with absolute exasperation: “As a grown man, why is your mouth so loose?
Why do you feel the need to broadcast everything to the outside world?”
“Can’t people keep a simple secret between men anymore?”
Two hours later, Ran Mōri, Sonoko Suzuki, and Kazuha Tōyama arrived at the clearing where Makoto Kyogoku and Hayashi Rin had fought, touching down via helicopter.
Looking at the two to three hundred meters of pulverized terrain and devastated woodland all around them, Ran Mōri couldn’t help but gasp: “Sugoi…”
“Makoto Kyogoku, has your strength really reached this kind of level?”
Ran had previously assumed that with her physical strength doubled, she might already be able to match Makoto Kyogoku or perhaps even surpass him.
But taking in the sheer destruction of the battlefield with her own eyes, she realized she had likely overestimated her standing.
Makoto Kyogoku shook his head and said: “This destruction wasn’t caused by my attacks.
I’m nowhere near that strong.”
“Before I met him, he was training in this very spot.
He unleashed a truly breathtaking ultimate technique—his movements were as magnificent as a peacock fanning its feathers, obliterating this entire perimeter in a single breath.”
“When I stepped up to fight him, I was thoroughly suppressed in just a few exchanges, so our actual duel didn’t cause anywhere near this level of damage.”
“So that’s how it was!” Ran’s fighting spirit reignited.
She was eager to spar with Makoto Kyogoku to test the extent of her own progress.
However, seeing that Makoto Kyogoku was already nursing injuries, she recognized that this wasn’t the right time and set the idea aside for now.
Shortly after, the one hundred search teams dispatched by the Suzuki Group—totaling between two to three thousand personnel—began a massive sweep of the surrounding wilderness, using the clearing as their central focal point.
When Makoto Kyogoku learned that Sonoko Suzuki was also searching for Hayashi Rin, he was overjoyed.
Taking Sonoko’s hand, he said earnestly: “If you manage to find him, please make sure to let me know.
There is still so much about the realm of martial arts that I want to learn from him.”
At that very moment, Tōka Ryūmonbuchi was also receiving a report from her head butler: “Young Mistress, we have obtained intelligence regarding the whereabouts of the Hayashi Rin you are looking for.”
The distinctive ahoge strand on Tōka Ryūmonbuchi’s head immediately stood upright like an antenna: “Has he been found?”
The butler shook his head and replied: “Not yet, but we have caught wind of reliable movements.”
“According to our intelligence, the Suzuki Family also appears to be searching for Hayashi Rin, and they have mobilized a massive workforce to conduct a search across the Mount Fuji area.”
“It seems they are quite confident that this individual named Hayashi Rin is currently within that region.”
Hearing that, Tōka Ryūmonbuchi tapped her fingers against the desk in deep thought: “If that’s the case, it means someone within the Suzuki Group must also possess a Diary.”
“Is the holder Sonoko Suzuki, or is it Ayako Suzuki?”
“Regardless, that detail isn’t important.
What matters is that they seem to have acquired accurate intel from somewhere and locked onto Hayashi Rin’s general position.”
She then turned to her butler and instructed: “Excellent!
In that case, mobilize our family’s assets as well.
Dispatch a large number of search teams.”
“In this endeavor, we can coordinate alongside the Suzuki Family to locate Hayashi Rin together.”
“Understood, Young Mistress.
I will see to the arrangements immediately.”
The Suzuki Family was generally recognized as the second-ranked financial conglomerate in the world of Conan.
However, this world was a Crossover Anime World.
Even the Land of Ke itself was an amalgamation of multiple anime narratives.
Meanwhile, the Ryūmonbuchi Family was the wealthiest household in the Saki universe, boasting business networks that spanned the entirety of Japan.
In this integrated world, the Ryūmonbuchi Family’s assets and reach were distributed across all corners of the Land of Ke.
When the Suzuki Family—an entity of comparable standing—made such a grand move, the Ryūmonbuchi Family naturally caught wind of it at the very first opportunity.
…
“Tsunade-sama,” Shizune called out upon receiving the latest intelligence dossier.
Turning around, she reported: “The whereabouts of the Hayashi Rin you’ve been looking for have been confirmed.”
Tsunade looked over, her eyes flashing with interest: “Really?
Where is he?”
Shizune answered: “It’s confirmed; he is in the Mount Fuji area near Tokyo.”
“According to our latest updates, both the Suzuki Group and the Ryūmonbuchi Family have deployed a massive number of personnel to comb through Mount Fuji in search of Hayashi Rin.”
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