Detective Conan x OOO: Hunt For The Mystical Medals
Disclaimer:
Detective Conan is owned by Gosho Aoyama
Kamen Rider OOO is owned by Ishimori Productions
The various guest characters appearing in every arc are owned by their respective owners.
Welcome to a new arc and now things are going to take you straight to the open waters! Although this chapter marks the start of a new story arc, this is actually a continuation of sorts as we begin to cap things where the last chapter left off, and by now you already guessed what to expect here: the main protagonist of Detective Conan meets up with the lead star of another detective manga/anime: City Hunter.
So get ready as i'm going to give you readers a heck of a ride!
In the previous arc, three things have happened:
O – Kazari created a Yummy based on the desire of a high school girl, Yui Hirasawa, which is based on Gluttony and the Yummy, which is parasitic in nature, grows inside her body, cpntroling her body to feed on her desire. This causes her to eat continuously regardless of the risk to her body and life.
O – Kyuji and Ankh got into a conflict over what to do with Yui as Ankh wanted the Yummy to produce more medals while Kyuji wants to save her by getting the Yummy out of her body. Although O's eventually succeeded in driving the Yummy out, which "matured" into the Neko Yummy, trouble was added when Kazari shows up and gave Ankh an offer while the distraction causes the Neko Yummy to possess Yui again.
O – Ankh appeared to accept Kazari's offer and is about to abandon O's, only to backstab him as he revealed that he chose to work with humans instead, and in the ensuing fight, O's loses a Core Medal while gaining three from Kazari, and eventually succeeded in saving Yui and defeating the Yummy after which a mysterious woman from a limousine emerges and approaches Ankh, referring him as "Shinichi Kudo".
Kyuji and Ankh are about to leave the park when a limousine came and stopped in front of the two and a woman, who is in her early 20's, shows up and approached Ankh, and the next conversation gives Kyuji a reason to be apprehensive, if not taken by surprise.
"Shinichi Kudo, I presume? I heard that you're one of Tokyo's finest detective, and my boss sent me here to pick you up. He has a proposition for you, or rather he wants you to take up a case, which I think you will benefit a lot from it."
"Huh?"
"What the…? How did this woman know that he is Shinichi Kudo even though Ankh altered his appearance…? What bad timing…if the Black Organization finds out about this…the detective…his body…and even Ankh will be in trouble!"
"Let me repeat again... I came on behalf of the Imumura Bugle and the CEO wishes to speak with you. He believes that you are the only one who can help solve a problem of his and he wished to set up an appointment with you. I promise your time would be worth your while. Do not worry...our limousine will provide your transport and will take you straight to Imumura Bugle."
"Let me tell you this...I am Ankh...the one you're looking for...he is..."
"Ahh...wait, um, Miss...let me have a minute with my partner..."
Kyuji whisks Ankh away for a moment as he began to talk to him about this situation, knowing that if the media inadvertently exposes Shinichi Kudo's current status it would attract the Black Organization's attention and would no doubt hunt him down so he decided to presuade, if not convince, Ankh to play along for now.
Anything Goes by Maki Oghuro
(Opening Song from Kamen Rider OOO)
(You count the medals 1,2 and 3
Life goes on Anything goes Coming up OOO)
ira nai mota nai yume mo mi nai
furii na joutai sore mo ii kedo
(kokkara hajimaru The show we're waiting for
Count the medals 1, 2 and 3 )
unmei wa kimi hanattoka nai
kekkyoku wa susumu shika nai
(michi naru tenkai Give me energy Count the medals 1, 2 and 3)
daijoubu. ashita wa itsu datte hakushi (Blank)
jibun no kachi wa jibun de kimeru mono sa
OOO! OOO! OOO! OOO! Come on!
Anything Goes! sono kokoro ga atsuku naru mono
mitasa reru mono o sagashi te
Life goes on! honki dashi te tatakau no nara
makeru ki shi nai hazu!
Now then, readers...count the Medals! the current Medals that O's have are:
Set 1:
- Taka Medal
- Misago Medal
Set 2
- Tora Medal
- Cheetah Medal
- Ocelot Medal
- Subaru Medal
Set 3
- Kamakiri Medal
- Batta Medal
31: Iede Shōjo, Shitīhantā, Kurūzu-sen part 1
As Kyuji urges Ankh to calm down, he went towards the woman and asked her who she is and what does she want with Ankh, which he covered his identity as "Shinichi Kudo". In turn the woman, who emerged from the limousine a minute ago, introduces herself as the personal secretary of Koji Imumura, the CEO of Imumura Bugle, which Kyuji seem to be a little familiar.
"Imumura Bugle?"
"It's one of the leading publishing companies of Japan...and it's running non-stop for 50 years...and we're number 1...beleive me...we are the best...we publish the best news ever. Now then...allow me to tell you about the Imumura Bugle...and why my boss assigned me to find and meet up with Shinichi Kudo there..."
The woman then explained that Koji Imumura is well-known in the publishing and media industry all over Japan, and that the Imumura Bugle is among the leading publishing company which publishes and distribtes the best newspaper stories for half a century, dating about 50 years ago, and has covered all kinds of news which also involves the Metropolitan Police Department and Shinichi Kudo's exploits.
She then approached Ankh again and asks him to meet with Koji Imumura and before Ankh could rebut, he whispered to his "reluctant ally" and persuaded him to "play along", claiming that this might help him cover his identity as well as to protect Shinichi Kudo's body. Though he wasn't concerned, Ankh is then begged by Kyuji to accept her invitation as he believed that they might be given information on the medals.
"Are you sure that we might run into the medals...?"
"Who knows...if we're lucky..."
"Are you trying to trick me...?"
"Better than exposing you as a Greed...better play along until we meeet this Koji Imumura and then we'll see where thisa would lead to..."
"Grr...fine."
Wanting to end the charade and hoping that the meeting would lead him to the subject on Core Medals, Ankh reluctantly agreed and accepted the woman's invitation, if only Kyuji comes with him, which she accepted and the trio are set to board on the limousine. As this is going on, Kaito Kuroba, who overheard the discussion, secretly fires a "radio bug" which stuck on the belt of Shinichi's body pants and waited for them to leave, and ther he slowly followed them by hitching a taxi.
"Hmm...this should be interesting...now let's see how you handle the pressure, Mr. Ankh...and see if you could managed to fool the Imumura Bugle CEO since he has seen and heard all about your exploits...and I do hope for both our sakes that you not expose yourself or about the other guy being called O's...for your safety lies on how you are able to keep your cover..."
-x-
Meanwhile, right in front of the Agasa house, her cellphone beeped as she received a text message from Kyuji which he tells her that he and Ankh are at the Imumura Bugle as someone want to meet him and Ankh, as well as explaining that they intend to convince the CEO not to publish about Shinichi's current appearance, which she sighed as she wondered how long the Greed would remain attached to Shinichi's body while relieved that Ankh is still with Kyuji.
"Oh dear...Kyuji is already having a hard time babsitting that Ankh...now he has to cover up for him from a publishing company..."
As she enters the house, she is greeted by Hiroshi Agasa, and he covertly tries to tell her that Ran is here but with Ran seeing him he is having difficulty in giving coded messages about the current situation, and decided by changing the subject by asking her how her day is, in which she inadvertently answered the truth.
"Umm...ah...hello, Ai...how is everthing...? Is all things w-well...? say...where are the other two...?"
"All is fine...thankfully, Ankh chose to side with us than side with the Greed...Yui Hirasawa's back to normal...and Kyuji and Ankh are on an appointment meeting..."
Ai told him that everything is okay as Ankh decided to stick with Kyuji instead of Ankh, in which she pointed out that the Greed won't abandon Shinichi's comatose body and that he is in safe hands. She then disrobes and concentrated, which she assumes her normal, adult form. As she puts on her robe, Ran shows up, having witnessed what she saw and asked her what she meant about Ankh and then showed to her the footages on Agasa's PC about Shinichi and Conan being the one and the same.
"I can't believe that you and Ai are the one and the same...and that Conan and Shincih ialso having one body...please tell me...what is going on? What is this about Shinichi being possessed by an entity? I beg you...tell me all you know! All this time i thought he is away solving a high-profile case and yet he is on a comatose with a monster keeping him alive...please tell me now!"
Shiho glances at Ran in a neutral expression and knew that the truth would eventually reach her and decided to tell her the exact answer to what has happened to Shinichi. She motions Ran to take a seat and she took a deep breath as the explanation she is about to tell won't be easy for her.
-x-
The scene then shifts to the parking lot of the Imumura Bugle where the limousine arrived with the woman coming out with Kyuji and Ankh following, which she led them inside the building and head for the elevator, where the teen vagabond is surprised to see so many people here and some of the visitors appeared to be high-profile celebrities like politicians and even from the entertainment industry.
"Wow...so many people...executives...politicians...even celebrities...!"
"Get your mind to work, Kyuji...i'm a little annoyed at the moment..."
Surprisingly, with so many people there no one noticed Ankh passing by, as his "spiked-up" hair-style and color did a good job of concealing Shinichi's facial appearance and soon the trio entered the elevator and the woman presed a button which directed the elevator's mechanism to take them to the 18th floor. There he notices from the display panel that the building has 60 floors in all. There Kyuji decided to ask her how she is able to recognize Ankh despite his hair-style.
"Er...may i ask...? how are you able to recognize Shinichi Kudo despite the "new look" he got?"
"His face is distinguisghable...despite his new look, if youtook a closer look...you'll be able to recognize him..."
As the two are talking normally, Ankh is getting a little anxious at the moment and hoped that he would meet with Koji Imumura and get to the point so he can leave at once, as he have a feeling that the meeting would not involve his search for medals.
"I hope this "meeting" would end quickly..."
-x-
At the ground floor of the building, the scene zoomed towards the lobby area as it showed that Kaito Kuroba has arived and uses a disguise to blend in and uses a radio to secretly listen on to the conversation between Kyuji and the woman, while curious to find out how Ankh would handle the imminent meeting betweeen the Greed and the CEO of Imumura Bugle. He is still recalling what he saw at the parking lot several minutes earlier about Ankh possessing Shinichi's body and O's in action that also showed how he used the medals.
"I sure wish I was there...I'd like to see tghe look on how this "Ankh" would fare well in the social department..."
He then realized that the trio have reached Koji Imumura's office as the next conversation commences, where he heard the woman talking to a telecom informing him that she has brought ShinichiKudo with her.
"Sir...Shinichi Kudo is here now..."
"Thank you...please tell him to come in..."
At the 18th floor, the scene shifts to the office of Koji Imumura and there the CEO of Imumura Bugle tells the secretary to let them in, and as the two men stepped inside of his office door, the meeting has commenced as they finally saw the man who sumoned them here, and Koji Imumura appeared to be around his early 40's and he appeared to be physically fit though he is a bit fat. He smiled as he finally get to meet Shinichi Kudo though he is a bit taken aback at the teen detective's "hair-style", unaware that Shinichi is being possessed by Ankh.
"Hello, Mr. Kudo...I'm pleased that I get tomeet a famous detective...a youngster at that...and my, nice hair-do you have...you seem to catch on with today's fad..."
"Let's skip the trivial greetings and let's get to the point. I'm very busy and would want to get on the job. Why did you brought us here?"
While Ankh looked unimpressed at Imumura, Imumura in turn glances at Ankh, as he is still able to recognize Shinichi's body despite his "new look" and smiled again, getting ready to get to the point on why he sent his secretary to pick them up and why he brought them here.
-x-
Somewhere in Brazil, an expedition team led by Jirokichi Suzuki, are walking around the Amazon forest, as they were tipped by an old friend of Jirokichi that they found a "rare" set of items and felt that it would be safe in good hands so he contacted Jirokichi and arranged a meeting with him at a meeting place somewhere here.
"Okay, everyone...just follow me..."
"Are you sure this is right right way, Mr. Suzuki?"
"Yes...I know where we are going..."
"I hope there are no piranhas here..."
"There aren't...but there's plenty of candiru here..."
"Stop scaring me!"
"Sir...there's someone over there!"
"Huh? Why...my friend!"
"Jiro-san! How are you?"
Soon Jirokichi meets up with someone, who is an old friend of his as the two met 40 years ago with the friend being from Brazil and both have something in common: both are wealthy; they respectively ran a company; they are both aged 72; land both oved to ride their customized accelerated motorcycles. As both shook hands and hugged, they went to a large boat which Jirokichi's friend brought and both spoke, eat and spoke again, with the friend took out a small box and opened it, and told him about what he knows.
"Here...as I promised...these are what I found...and I believe they're better off in your hands..."
"Really...thank you...so, what are these things? They looked like colored coins..."
"More than that...they resembled medals...and they look really rare...but I doubt they would cost anything given the crest they displayed...so I don't think I could sell them to the antique dealer..."
"They 'll do just fine with me...I could use them as bait to catch a thief..."
"Really? Will you be able to catch him this time?"
"Who knows? I might become lucky this time..."
The scene zooms in towards the box where it revealed that Jirokichi's Brazilian friend has come across several Core Medals, each in paired colors, which has the insiginias of the following animals:
- The first pair is blue-colored: a crab, a jellyfish,and a platypus;
- The second pair is gray-colored, with the crests of a bear,a ram, an armadillo and a komodo dragon;
- The third one is green-colored, with the crest of a locust;
- The fouth one has a crest of a lynx and it is colored yellow;
- And the fifth one consists of five red medals, all have the crests that pertained to birds: ostrich; cassowary; and albatross.
To Be Continued...
Hope you like this one...as this is merely a preview of what's coming in the upcoming chapters...
A) Jirokichi Suzuki makes an appearance here as he is still planning on capturing the Phantom Thief Kid and regain his spotlight in the front pages of Japan's leading newspaper, though he might double his efforts once he finds out about the Greeed and O's...
B) And on that subject, a BIG surprise: it turns out that Jirokichi's Brazilian friend has the possession of the missing Core Medals of the Greed, which also include Ankh's Core Medals...and by now you already guessed that Ankh is a bird-type Greed since he has the Taka and Misago Medals, and if Uva, Gameru and Mezuru were to find out about this, a mayhem of sorts would take place once Jirokichi makes his announcement on proclaiming that he is to show Japan his "treasures" on display...
C) Okay...I'm guessing you're surprised that this isn't the "City Hunter" you are expecting...well...that's where I got the inspirationof making this arc. Several years ago, I was watching Star Movies Mandarin on cable TV, and watched City Hunter that starred Jackie Chan...of course being a Jackie Chan fan I enjoyed it. When wikipedia became online I decided to check it out and to my surprise I found out that City Hunter is actually a manga that started in 1985 and is created by Tsukasa Hojo. There I got to know about Ryo Saeba and what he really is. The Jackie Chan movie version of City Hunter, as it turns out, was a movie adaptation, with the only difference being that the Ryu Saeba does kung fu while in the manga and anime he relies on guns as he is a skilled gunman. Since I could relate more on the movie, I decided to use this as this arc's plot device, but of course I'll be following the manga version since Ryu Saeba is better off with the guns than doing kung fu.
D) Ran Mori finally got the answers at what really happened to Shinichi and why Shiho and Kyuji allowed Ankh to control the teen detective's body, thus in the next chapters she'll be having a hard time dealing with someone keeping her best friend alive.
E) Kaito Kuroba is now following Kyuji and Ankh and now he is about to find out why the two are being summoned by the CEO of a well-known publishing company...
Preview:
As Kyuji and Ankh eventually finds out why they are summoned by Koji Imumura, the City Hunter himself finally appears...while the Greed regroups and plots a new plan to get back at O's...
Notes:
Okay…here is the list of characters of the three series involved, so you'll know…
Detective Conan
- Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa
- Shiho Miyano/Ai Haibara
- Hiroshi Agase
- Kaito Kuroba/Phantom Thief Kid
- Ran Mori
- Jirokichi Suzuki
Kamen Rider OOO
- Kousei Kougami
- Erika Satonaka
- Shintaro Gotoh
- Ankh
- Uva
- Mezuru
- Gameru
- Kazari
City Hunter (1993 film)
- Koji Imumura