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Chapter 270 - meet me there

[ Detective Stats ]

Name: Kogoro Mouri (Valtor Ismael)

Mental:

Intelligence: 241 ↑

Logic: 432 ↑

Investigation: 603 ↑

Tech Savvy: 856 ↑

Problem-Solving: 764 ↑

Physical:

Stamina: 875 ↑

Stealth: 654 ↑

Combat Skills: 931 ↑

Agility: 999 ↑

Endurance: 831 ↑

Social:

Perception: 985 ↑

Charisma: 999 ↑

Empathy: 754 ↑

Communication: 999 ↑

Negotiation: 785 ↑

Skills:

God Of War Disciple: Mastery over Martial Art, user has complete mastery over any form or style of worldwide martial arts and forgotten martial arts in an expert manner, having trained in all of them from the beginning, making the user a prodigy.

Absolute Confidence: User's overconfidence can influence others' perception of them and also maximize the capability of their buffs and skills to their maximum potential.

Husband Wisdom: User's absolute experience as a husband with many wives and a harem, as well as being a father to many adopted kids and their own kids, maximizes their ability as a husband and father.

Living Weapon: Absolute skill in handling and using various weapons effectively, efficiently, and perfectly, with no one able to match the user's usage of conventional and improvised weapons.

God Feast: God of the culinary arts, crafting dishes from any era or universe with ease, improvising when necessary, creating absolute god food that only heavenly beings can taste, unmatched by worldly limits.

Super Five Senses: Maximizes the senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch, allowing the user to perceive details that others might miss.

Evil Plan: Provides near-omniscient insight to predict actions and intentions of the user's desired target with perfect accuracy, even if they change their tactics on the go, helping the user deduce and expect unexpected situations.

Traceless: User's actions and intentions are completely unpredictable to others, to the point where even those with gifted intellect and intuition cannot deduce the user's actions and intentions, rendering precognition useless against the user.

Hyper Thought: The user's mind is able to rapidly gather information that others might find impossible or hard to acquire, formulating and accumulating millions of thoughts and pieces of information without burdening the user.

Item Inspect: Instantly access information about nearby items, including their location, properties, and potential uses. This inspection can also gather the complete history, usage, and details about someone who has used the item, such as fingerprints.

Crime Scanning: Provides a comprehensive spatial layout of surroundings of crime scenes, detailing the crime, changes in structure and anomalies, hidden pathways, or puzzles.

Suspect Lock: Provides knowledge about nearby beings, entities, and creatures, including their identities, characteristics, intentions, and habits, with detailed information gathered quickly.

Motion Eye: Maximizes user perception and detection of motion, allowing the user to perceive and react to movements with unparalleled speed and precision. This includes previous motions that have already occurred, giving the user an advantage in crime actions from beginning to end and enabling them to deduce the suspect's movements.

Professor Perception: Diagnoses a vast array of issues spanning from physical ailments to spiritual disturbances with unparalleled precision. This skill also helps the user in operating, autopsy, and any quick emergency situations to prevent the inevitable, including changes in chemical and biological structures.

Bluff: The user's bluff can make the target hesitate and even feel anxious. This also helps the user gain trust from someone who does not completely trust them just by asking in person.

Solid Stance: Utilizes absolute posture to optimize performance in any action, including gunning, aiming, and stance, ensuring maximum balance and efficiency even in chaotic and unpredictable situations.

Teacher Knowledge: Comprehensive knowledge from kindergarten to high school curriculum, allowing the user to understand and teach a wide range of subjects, including teaching students.

Gun Master: Mastery in understanding how guns work, including their advantages and disadvantages, and the ability to modify any type of firearm or jam it. The user is also capable with explosive weapons, even defusing them with ease.

Master Engineer: Mastery in Chemical, Civil, Computer, Electrical, Electronic, Environmental, Genetic, and Mechanical engineering.

Hassashin Disciple: Allows the user to walk, move their hands, and even breathe undetected by sound, sense, or vibration, making their actions virtually silent. Additionally, the user's presence cannot be detected, even in crowded or solitary situations.

3rd Person View: Vision of 360 degrees in a radius of 100 meters, providing a third-person perspective when needed.

Gaslighting: User can cause someone to question their sanity, memories, or perception of reality, by completely convincing them.

Scope Eye: Sharpens the user's look, giving an aura of menace to whoever looks at the user or the one the user targets. It can also give a warm feeling and comfort when the user does not use the skill.

Magic Hand: Skill in performing sleight of hand tricks, using dexterous hand movements to manipulate objects and deceive opponents. This skill also grants the user magician capabilities and the ability to break through magician magic easily.

Celebrity Veteran: Skillfully proficient in becoming a veteran celebrity, gaining mastery skills in cosmetology, fashion, photography, and commercials.

Gentle Interrogation: A passive skill granting the ability to interrogate any suspect, witness, or individual related to a crime with a non-threatening, gentle, warm, comforting, and protective sensation, making the target more cooperative whenever the user interacts with them.

Ghost Whisperer: Can communicate with the supernatural world, including ghosts, evil spirits, and other entities that cannot be perceived or felt by normal humans, although they cannot physically interact with the user.

Onmyodo: Mastery in traditional Japanese esoteric cosmology, a mixture of natural science and occultism, allowing the user to utilize and understand various aspects of Onmyodo, including divination, rituals, and the manipulation of spiritual and natural energies.

Two Face: Allows the user to change their appearance to a completely different one that cannot be distinguished from their original appearance. The user can choose this alternate appearance, and it is limited to one. To trigger the skill, the user must wave their face from below and then upward through their back hair.

Better Call Kogoro: Grants an in-depth understanding of the mechanics behind any law, legal systems, and legal doctrines, allowing the user to comprehend and manipulate legal principles and frameworks to their advantage.

Buffs:

Hyper Action: Maximizes speed and efficiency in actions, allowing the user to respond more quickly in various situations.

Irresistible God: User has a latent talent to please and satisfy partners, making their embrace irresistible upon pre-action, then providing everlasting satisfaction in post-action.

King Aura: User possesses an aura of experience, charm, and well-mannered demeanor. This aura also gives the user dominance and confidence in their actions and intentions.

Quintet Income: Maximizes the user's wealth income, increasing their earnings fivefold, including foreign currency through special bank accounts.

Sextet Bonus Income: Amplifies wealth from work and case-solving, providing abundant resources such as finances with a 6x bonus upon user client commission by a third party.

Maximize Pheromone: User's irresistible charm and beauty have a maximized output akin to celestial beings, with charm comparable to that of heavenly beings from the Heavenly Realm and extraordinary charisma and allure to that of a devil, unquestioned and unchangeable.

Muses Kiss: User is permanently granted extraordinary charm upon their speech, singing, and whistling, allowing these actions to impact the very soul of their target, even the world.

Help Gratitude: Grants a permanent buff that invokes feelings of thankfulness, trust, and possibly love from those the user helps.

Self Growth: Grants progressive growth to the user's existence, fostering continuous personal improvement.

Calm Breath: Allows the user to calm themselves with breathing techniques, minimizing the usage of stamina and their organs. This also provides a concentration boost.

Adamantite Muscle: User's muscles are reinforced upon harm.

Master of Artist: User absolutely masters multiple art forms, embodying the epitome of aesthetic perfection and becoming the personification of art itself, with mastery in:

All forms of music and musical instruments, with the ability to play many instruments at once with their limbs.

Sculpting and visual arts, from traditional to digital, with ease, making them look lifelike from other perspectives.

Literature, including poetry, prose, and various literary forms that are impeccable to famous people.

Architecture, specializing in planning, designing, and overseeing construction.

Performing arts, including acting, singing, and dancing, unmatched by any contestant.

Filmmaking, with skills in directing, writing, and analyzing.

Grammar, excelling in any known language.

Logic, understanding different viewpoints through reasoned argumentation.

Rhetoric, mastering the art of persuasion.

Arithmetic, excelling in mathematics and implementing arithmetic into logarithms.

Geometry, mastering spatial understanding and design.

Music, beyond instruments.

Astronomy, with a deep understanding of celestial phenomena.

Seraphim Voice: User's voice is melodically beautiful, with each octave and sound from their mouth being a melody on its own.

Justice Enforcer Charm: Whenever the user is performing justice-related actions, such as detective work, police duty, soldier tasks, or any justice-related task force, their charm boosts, enticing everyone who witnesses it.

Justice Not Heartless: User emits a calming aura when interrogating suspects, preventing them from having panic attacks or acting irrationally. This also helps calm others who are in panic when a crime occurs.

Symphony of Food: Each dish prepared by the user is infused with divine essence, elevating taste to a heavenly level. Crafted dishes boast textures of sublime perfection, offering a sensory experience beyond worldly comparison.

Flavor of Divine: Fragrances from the dish are imbued with heavenly allure, captivating all who smell them. The flavor pairing transcends mortal comprehension, resulting in combinations that ignite the taste buds with unparalleled intensity.

Clue Aid: Grants the user the ability to see clues in a crime scene, with the clues glowing from the user's eyesight.

Warm Hand: Grants the user talent in massaging to instantly produce a variety of effects by massaging specific areas in just the right way. Effects range from alleviation, comforting, healing, pleasure, orgasms, to relaxation.

Charming Dad: This special buff grants the user additional charm when performing fatherly actions. Any fatherly action, skill, or ability will exude the charm of a single dad, making the user more endearing and attractive to others.

Court Ethics: User can debate anyone and anything to the ground with no effort, easily putting together an absolutely perfect case instantly. It's impossible for the user to ever lose a case. They can win any and every case without problem or stress, and also win any debate easily, putting up a perfect argument that leaves no doubt in anyone's mind that they have won the debate.

Love Juice: Kissing the user's partner boosts their mood. French kissing relieves their stress. Intercourse with the user provides love and pleasure beyond worldly experiences, making the action treasured by their partner. If the user's sperm reaches their partner's womb, it enhances the partner's love and appreciation for the user.

Intimate One: Whenever the user engages in intercourse with their partner in bed, their partner's performance improves tremendously, especially in abilities they possess. The effect can stack based on the duration of intercourse between the user and their partner.

Best Lung: User has the ability to breathe underwater, through gas, and even poisonous gas. Additionally, the user can see clearly underwater and through thick gas or smoke without the need for goggles or other aids.

Item > 

God Card

Legal Weapon Ownership 

Lucky Four Clover 

Roll Royce Ghost

Ascendant

Pet Obtained >

Huginn and Muninn

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Perfect, it's time to return to Japan, but I need to change my appearance.

[Change Second Appearance?]

"Yes, Ascendant. Choose from Otome Game, please."

[Understood... please wait.]

I saw the options provided by Ascendant and chose Zen from Mystic Messenger. After finalizing the appearance, I was ready to return to Japan as a tourist. Japan hadn't changed much; the smell of crime was still fresh here.

I continued to manage the Black Organization from the shadows and heard that Tequila had been captured by Kogoro Mouri during a meeting. This put Kogoro Mouri under heavy surveillance. Meanwhile, as the Boss, I remained passive and let Rum take control for a while.

But now, I had an interesting announcement: as the Boss, I would attend a meeting at Haido City Hotel, which caught the Black Organization off guard. I disguised myself as the top Korean artist Hyun Ryu, who was invited as a guest star at the event.

The event began at Haido City Hotel. When I arrived, all eyes were on me, my angelic looks captivating everyone. I enjoyed the party, but Ai saw me and froze in fear, sensing the powerful aura of the Black Organization.

"Ai?"

"Conan... He's from the Black Organization." Conan saw me interacting with other artists, including Chris Vineyard, who I knew was Vermouth. Ai also saw Vermouth but didn't recognize her due to the memory wipe I had performed.

Conan watched me closely, and then a murder occurred, making the event even more intriguing.

The police arrived, but something was off. Conan kept his eyes on me, especially since Ai was sticking close to me.

"What do you want, kid?" I spoke in broken Japanese. Conan motioned for me to crouch down and whispered to me.

"You're from the Black Organization, aren't you?" I looked at Conan and Ai, who were both trembling.

"Yes, but I'll help you catch one of our members. Keep this a secret. Police!" I raised my hand, and the inspector and detectives noticed me.

"Hyun Ryu, is there a problem?"

"I know who the culprit is!" I spoke in fluent Japanese, my voice melodious and captivating.

"Really?" Inspector Megure promptly prepared himself. I began working as a detective, reconstructing the crime scene and pointing out the culprit right in front of me. I explained the perpetrator's motive and outlined their escape plan. The detectives quickly arrested Pisco on the spot, and I provided detailed additional information, including fingerprints and the method of murder.

I accurately deduced the entire history of the victim and their connection to the culprit, efficiently and precisely unraveling the crime.

"Case closed," I declared. Everyone, including the detectives, was amazed at my detective skills.

"Kogoro!" Inspector Megure said, making me tilt my head in confusion.

"Kogoro? Kogoro Mouri? Where? I'm a huge fan of his! I've studied all his detective methods, learned Japanese, and tried to emulate him. Are you complimenting me because my skills are like Kogoro Mouri's?" I acted enthusiastically like a fan eager to meet Kogoro Mouri in person.

Inspector Megure knew the fake Kogoro Mouri had skills similar to mine, but I was more accurate, efficient, and precise, like a different person. Even Conan and Ai were stunned by my abilities.

"Thank you, Hyun Ryu. Your help was invaluable. We'll give you a commendation."

"No, thank you. I'm just a tourist. But are my skills really like Kogoro Mouri's?" Megure looked at the current Mouri, then back at me, convinced I might be a fake Mouri.

"Yes, Mouri is dealing with a case of impersonation."

"Impersonation? So, the real Mouri... isn't this skilled, but the imposter is better?" I asked innocently, and Megure swallowed the bitter truth, nodding.

"Oh no... I admired a criminal who is more competent than a former police detective!" I pretended to break down, acting devastated. The Tokyo police accepted my explanation as true.

"Yes... that's the reality," Megure admitted. I expressed my disappointment with sarcasm.

"A criminal handles cases better than a former justice enforcer. My idol is a criminal who understands the justice system and suspects' behavior, stopping crimes before they happen. This is a harsh slap to your police system. And you didn't catch the imposter? The police should have used the imposter as a special officer to fight crime... What are you even doing? You're useless. Just retire." Even though I seemed very rude, blunt, and offensive, I was extremely annoyed by this reality. Gaslighting is truly a double-edged sword.

"We're arresting you for insulting the police."

"Insulting? You couldn't handle this case, and I solved it alone in four minutes while you, a team of 15, couldn't cooperate. What kind of teamwork is that? No wonder crime is rampant here. You work individually and waste time. I'm leaving. This country is more dangerous than my own if protectors of society work like this."

"Stop!" They pointed their guns at me. I sighed and looked at them seriously.

"Go ahead, shoot. You'll only prove yourselves as mere talk. Here, let me help." I appeared in front of them as if teleporting and pointed their gun right under my chin.

"Go on, shoot. Blow my brains out with this toy. I'm not afraid of criminals or police. Shoot!" The officer panicked, seeing that I wasn't scared at all. Unexpectedly, a shot was fired, and I did a backflip, spitting out the bullet I caught with my teeth.

"See, your toy is useless. You can't even control your emotions and mind under such pressure. Go back to the academy and reflect on your failure." I vanished into the shadows as Conan chased after me, but I left no trace, like a ghost.

"... I knew it." I called all the Black Organization members at the hotel to meet me in a special room I had rented in the penthouse. Almost everyone gathered except for Rum, who didn't believe I would show up, as I rarely appeared or got involved.

In the penthouse, I sat comfortably eating while Ascendant, in human form as a butler, stood by my side. I knew that the organization had included non-canon members, like infiltrators, who were here just to see the Boss, which was me with Zen's face.

"Is everyone here?"

"Only Rum and Rum's subordinates are absent, sir."

"Even the spies?" A few people flinched because I knew there were infiltrators present.

"All the intelligence agencies from America, England, Germany, Russia, Korea, and various other countries are here to meet you directly and gather information about you."

"Good. Is the atomic bomb planted here?"

"I've planted it right under the hotel. This bomb will flatten half the world into a corrupt wasteland, making the planet uninhabitable for the next three months, like a pandemic that will wipe out humanity."

"Good. Tell your countries that if they mess with me, I'll turn this planet into a hell for you. We've already lost a member in the FBI thanks to Mr. Mouri, and now another member because I'm not pleased with his easily predictable performance. I've heard he's been replaced by an imposter. How stupid are you not to track down and recruit that imposter?" I slammed the table, pretending to be furious. I picked up a wine glass, seeing they didn't dare answer and only lowered their heads.

"Now, RUM, as the second-in-command, doesn't respect me. I've given you methods, patterns, loopholes, and missions that have made you elusive and hard to predict. Even the military turns a blind eye, and the police scratch their heads at your movements. And this is how you repay me after my two-month absence? Fifteen members dead at Mouri's hands, and I allowed it because you messed with him. I suspected he was a valuable asset, proven by Tequila's capture, and now he's gone... I'm even offended to hear that I'm the imposter. Do you know how enraged I was earlier? I almost killed all the police downstairs, but what's the point? It's a waste of energy. Now, I want you to do something important, and I want satisfying results. Capture Kogoro Mouri before sunrise. Leave no traces, no evidence, and ensure your faces aren't detected by any form of information gathering. As for the spies here, if you step out of this room, I'll kill you and your families, then hang your bodies at your headquarters along with your families. What are you waiting for ? Get to it, or I'll feed you to the dogs." They hurried out, except for the spies who stood firm.

"I've identified them, sir," Ascendant reported.

"Good... if they make a move, eliminate their families."

"I've prepared the best team to kidnap them at your command."

"Excellent." In 30 minutes, the entire Black Organization, except Rum and his subordinates, brought Kogoro, bound tightly. I glanced at Ascendant.

"No traces, evidence, or anything during the abduction. Everything is secure, sir." I nodded, stood up, and tossed Kogoro onto my chair, cracking my knuckles before taking an injection.

"If anyone leaves this room without my permission, track them down, and they'll be my second target for venting my anger."

"Understood." I injected Kogoro Mouri and began torturing him mercilessly with my bare hands. Even though he cried and begged for mercy, I tortured him from 2 a.m. until sunrise. His body was left unrecognizable, organs destroyed, looking like a mass of raw meat soaked in his own blood, far beyond anything humane.

"A remarkable performance, sir," Ascendant said, handing me a towel to wipe the blood from my body.

"I'm satisfied. My anger is finally released. Let this be a warning: if you cross me, you'll die in the most pathetic way, even the Grim Reaper will pity you. With Kogoro Mouri's death, I'll know the imposter's location, and I want you to recruit him no matter what! If I hear you just report the location without recruiting him..." I ripped out Kogoro Mouri's head along with his spine in one move, like a Sub-Zero fatality.

"Consider it the end for you. Leave this organization, but know that when you return home, your families will be gone, and you'll soon follow. And if you spread information about me and what happened to Mouri, the bomb set to annihilate humanity will be triggered, and say goodbye to civilization. now begone from my sight !"

They left without looking back while I burst into laughter, satisfied that my clone was so authentic and immediately revived.

"Good acting, sir," Ascendant remarked.

"Thank you, Ascendant. Now, what's next? Oh, right." With Kogoro Mouri kidnapped and now listed as missing, I remained in Japan and left behind some evidence. News of Kogoro Mouri's death while being held captive became the hottest topic in Japan.

I attended his funeral, keeping my distance, dressed in black and holding an umbrella.

[Sir, you drama king, you kill yourself and attend your own funeral]

"I know, I'm just having fun with this scenario," I said, carefully managing the timeline without disrupting it. Kogoro's death acted as a catalyst. I noticed Conan watching me from afar, along with Ai.

"Ran! Ran!" Conan called out to Ran, pointing toward the tree where I stood. Ran and Eri saw me walking toward them calmly. Eri, filled with emotion, tried to slap me, but I dodged her attempt, revealing a more handsome version of Kogoro's face.

"You bastard! You killed my husband!"

"I didn't kill him. You all did. You're the ones responsible for his death. Kogoro Mouri should have been dead when I replaced him, and you rejected me. So, I revived him, and now he became an easy target for enemies you couldn't even capture or kill. And this is how you repay me? With insults? You're so ungrateful. I've sacrificed to protect you from that organization, and they didn't dare touch you, yet I have to accept the bitter truth that the ones I protected rejected me. Now, I have no obligation to protect you anymore. Mouri, whom you wanted back, couldn't adapt to the efforts I left behind, and you weren't prepared when your strongest defense was replaced with a shack. You only know how to blame others and not reflect on yourselves. If you knew Mouri was an incompetent man, improve yourselves so he would have the initiative to get better. Instead, you continued creating problems. Despite all the help I provided, you chose to magnify the death of someone who was already dead from the start... truly ungrateful humans." I placed a wreath and performed an Onmyodo ritual. I saw Mouri's spirit floating and prayed for him. A light from the sky took his soul to Takamagahara.

"My task is done. Mouri's soul has gone to Takamagahara without facing the trials of the afterlife. He was welcomed by the Shinto gods and goddesses. Good day, ladies and gentlemen." I turned to leave, but Ran blocked my path.

"Dad..."

"I am not your dad, Ran."

"Please, pretend to be my dad once more." I closed my umbrella and looked at her gently.

"I can't, and I have neither the right nor the obligation to do so." Ran knelt in a dogeza, her actions questioning my humanity. Ran, as someone's daughter, should be treated like a princess, not performing a dogeza, an act showing utmost respect.

I imagined Alice or my own daughter doing this someday and remembered that prostration is a way of praying to their religious god. I am not a god.

"Ran, enough. Raise your head."

"NO! UNTIL YOU RETURN TO BE MY FATHER, I WILL NOT RAISE MY HEAD."

"Ran."

"NEVER!"

"You win. Raise your head." Ran lifted her head, and I wiped her face with my handkerchief.

"Ran... next time, remember that lies are sweeter than the bitter truth. This world is cruel and unforgiving to anyone who isn't vigilant. But within all lies, there is good intent. When a lie is uncovered, the truth will hit you harder than a bullet because the pain will linger until you can accept it. If you can't, and keep questioning the truth, whether intentionally or not, now you know the bitterness of reality. Enjoy this sweet lie. You're strong, stronger than Eri and smarter than Conan. Remember that." I gently stroked her head, then proceed to pinch her cheek.

"Next time if I hear whether I'm your father or not, read this out loud!" I handed her my DNA test.

"The DNA match case between Kogoro Mouri and Ran Mouri confirms that it's 100% match. Ran Mouri is medically and legally recognized as Kogoro Mouri's daughter." Then, I stood at my own grave, hitting the ground hard to create an earthquake, pulling out my own corpse from the cemetery.

I used Ninja Hand Signs, and my body disappeared like smoke.

"Truthfully, this is just a clone, a high-level ninja ability to create a shadow clone of oneself, something one could master in 40 years, but I don't need to because genetically, I'm superior to the prodigy himself. I've fooled all of you better than the world's top deceivers. When I was in the hospital, the FBI approached me, wanting my help in dealing with a highly elusive and dangerous criminal group. When we were at the Emperor's Residence, I sensed something was off, especially the decreasing number of guards and attendants when we arrived and left. Then, Ran asked if I was the real Kogoro. I used that opportunity to create a false and real "Mask" and lied to you all that I was a fake Kogoro to deceive the driver who drove us home, who happened to be one of the group members. I also didn't want my family involved with the FBI and that group's affairs, so I convinced them that I was just a mimic, distracting them from the idea of me being the real target. Then, I injected a dose of truth where the concept of lying wasn't registered in that individual's vast knowledge. I then used a high-level ninja technique called "Light Steps," making you shift from one position to another in the blink of an eye, then creating a clone of the old Kogoro Mouri, who was incompetent and always seeking praise from women, to divert the group and FBI's focus from the clone to me. And indeed, the group and FBI didn't bother with the clone but searched for me. I traveled from country to country, helping with some significant cases, especially in the government as Kogoro Mouri, where unexpectedly, I stumbled upon something intriguing, but they, the Group and FBI, couldn't track me down for those two months, even though I had been to America. I felt something was amiss, and it turned out to be true. The Boss was here and killed my clone to track me down and force me out of hiding. The Japanese government knew my plan, then they shut their mouths and didn't interfere. They knew this funeral was just a bait, whether The Boss would show up or not. But seeing you all being played by the ruler made me unable to bear it, so I decided to tell you the truth. I apologize once again to all of you. You've been dragged into a cat-and-mouse game, wanted by several intelligence agencies from each country. And I'm sorry for that." Ran kicked my face, then Eri threw me a Judo throw into my grave, and they buried me alive.

[Truly excellent confession Sir, you deserve this.]

"Yes, is nice to see their face yes ?"

[Indeed]

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