Great Mangaka

The way Kurosawa handled the matter was very appropriate. First he calmed the spirits of the public. He then announced that Mirai-sensei had acquired the copyright to "Time, After, Time" and asked them to delete the video they recorded.

It was not a lie. The copyright for "Time, After, Time" originally belonged to Mirai-sensei. But of course, this request caused a lot of discontent among fans.

Fortunately, Japan has strict copyright protection. More sensible fans actively cooperated to delete the video, and others were goaded by their friends to do so. To get their cooperation, Kurosawa agreed to let these people delete the recording.

The aftermath of the performance gradually calmed down. Takumi and Shiori were not affected. However, it was difficult to guarantee that someone would hide the video secretly, so Kurosawa issued a special warning:

"If we see the video of the performance of "Time, After, Time" appear on the internet or other sites, we will sue the person who disseminated it."

That said, the possibility of dissemination was practically eliminated. Everyone knew that Mirai-sensei had hacker readers, and that finding the video's disseminator would only take a few minutes. Under Japanese law, this type of broadcast does not carry prison sentences, but the amount of the fine can be linked to the profits generated by "Time, After, Time" over the next three years.

No one knows for sure how much money "Time, After, Time" will generate. If they don't pay enough attention to dissemination, they could go bankrupt.

However, Kurosawa did not deliberately prohibit the dissemination of the recording. He knew that Detective Conan's popularity would increase. "Time, After, Time", performed this time, only has piano accompaniment, which is a semi-finished product. Filtering it will not affect the final product, but will have a promotional effect.

"This readers' appreciation meeting was held in a hurry, but within two days we saw everyone's enthusiastic participation and gained enough experience." Kurosawa said on stage, "On behalf of Mirai-sensei, I want to thank you for your support. Please come see the second volume of Detective Conan, which will be published next month."

There was a warm applause and food from the stage.

"Today's performance ends here, but before the meeting, we have prepared gifts. I think some readers will have already received the ball of numbers." Kurosawa pointed to the corner and smiled: "Readers with number balls can go there now and receive gifts from our staff."

Then he pronounced a few more words of courtesy and left the stage to applause. The stage lights dimmed, indicating that the thank you meeting function was completely over.

Curious readers made their way to the corner and were shocked to find that Conan had disappeared, but Ran was still there. The place where the gifts were distributed was the table to receive the number balls. The table was still full of postcards, but no other gifts were visible.

"Ran-chan, where are the gifts? I want a gift!"

A little girl handed over the ball of numbers.

"Okay, here you go." Alice took a postcard and carefully placed it in the girl's hand: "This is a gift."

"Postcard?"

Other readers were disappointed, but some, with a piercing gaze, opened their eyes wide and screamed.

"My God, this postcard seems to have Mirai-sensei's signature on it!"

"What? Sign!?"

Kento (formerly Wang Lei) flicked his ears. I originally wanted to interview two young people. Halfway through the interview, he suddenly heard a scream and turned to see fans running towards the corner, huddled together.

"Let's see, it's really Mirai-sensei's signature!"

"Who has a ball with numbers? I want to buy one!"

"Don't hurry, everyone, please line up!"

'Is it really Mirai-sensei's signature?' Kento ran excitedly. 'This is great news, much more important than those two young men!'

At that moment, the two reporters looked at each other puzzled: "Aren't those postcards blank?"

They had seen the place and knew all about the postcards. There was nothing on those postcards, so 'how could Mirai-sensei's signature suddenly appear?'

The two of them approached and, in less than half a minute, the corner was already full of people. The fans who were outside could not enter and commented on it.

"Totally true! The 'Conan' has just disappeared. I guess it's Mirai-sensei, because he didn't say anything from start to finish, he just held up the sign. He deliberately concealed his identity!"

"Now that you mention it, I suddenly remembered that the song just now was also selected here! My God, Mirai-sensei was in front of me and I didn't recognize him!"

"Mirai-sensei is so cunning! He signed and left. Did you notice when he left?"

"I saw it. He just walked out the door after singing the song."

Hearing this, a journalist's mind remembered the scene he had seen recently.

"Ah, that's it!" He slapped his thigh and said, "That Conan was writing something while listening to the song just now, and I felt strange. It turned out that it was Mirai-sensei, who was chanting at the time!"

He turned his head and looked at his fellow members angrily: "Why did they say I was a staff member at the time? We missed the opportunity in vain!"

"Is it really him?"

The other reporter was confused. 'How could it be Conan? He didn't expect it at all.'

"What do we do now?"

"Get out quickly, Mirai-sensei can't go far! We could catch up with them if we ran away!"

The two reporters argued for a while and then ran to the door. As soon as

They left, Arai Miyuki, who had been paying attention, also chased after them and witnessed Takumi's piano performance. Arai Miyuki didn't understand if her idea was wrong.

'A sixteen-year-old boy is a cartoonist and good at playing the piano. Is it unlikely?'

He was suspicious, so seeing the two reporters running away, he immediately did the same. Regardless of whether Takumi was Mirai-sensei, he was worried that the two reporters would catch Conan. Conan must have some connection with Mirai-sensei. If they were caught, the consequences would be severe.

But what Arai Miyuki never imagined was that Takumi also saw her running.

Takumi barely came out of the backstage and saw her at a glance. Although the distance was not short, his profile was very clear.

"Miyuki!"

He chased her without hesitation or thought.

"Hey, wait, Takumi!"

Shiori noticed that Takumi wanted to leave and wanted to stop him, but suddenly his foot twisted, and with a hissing sound, the movement stopped.

"Shiori..." The two roommates hurriedly held her and asked nervously, "Are you okay? Did you sprain your foot?"

"No, almost." Shiori shook her head. He looked at his feet. He didn't twist his foot, but his heel was broken. It was the result of stomping on the ground before. Shiori had been very careful not to be discovered, but she forgot about it with excitement. Without the heel, he couldn't escape even if he wanted to.

Shiori looked at Takumi's back angrily. He had good eyesight and could see that Takumi's eyes were chasing a woman, and the direction he was running in was exactly the same as hers.

"Who is that woman?"

For the first time, Shiori felt very sad.

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