Conan: I'm Not a Model Worker in the Winery

Chapter 163: Kiichiro Numabuchi was shot even when lying down

Gin hates this ever-changing time.

It was still early summer the day before, but today it has become the autumnal equinox...

The inspection work from the previous day was not yet completed, and Gin had to rush back to Tokyo today to continue blackmailing, intimidating, and extorting...

Seeing Vodka making the target of blackmail tremble with fear, Gin rubbed his throbbing forehead.

When will this kind of day end...

Gin glanced at the calendar produced by Noah.

Calculating the time, the day to execute the "traitor" is almost here.

"It's been almost a week..."

Gin silently turned on the radio and started tuning.

He usually goes to Noah once a week to collect some information...but now he just has a little understanding and basically won't take the initiative to intervene.

It would be safer to go directly to Noah. At least Noah would have prepared disguises for the signals in advance.

After tuning the channel, just when Vodka returned to the car with the cash box, Noah's voice rang out:
[Master Blade! Long time no see!]
Vodka was so scared that he almost pulled out a gun.

After a while, he belatedly remembered that there was a 'person' living in the radio... Then, he put away the gun awkwardly.

"How's it going Noah, what's going on?"

Gin's tone was nonchalant.

He thought that the FBI hadn't taken any action yet, and the organization hadn't made any fuss, so it shouldn't be a big deal...

[Yes, Master Blade. A lot has happened recently.] Noah's tone gradually became serious.

Gin paused for a moment, "Whose business is it?"

[Last week, Conan and Lord Rei went to Osaka, and seemed to have obtained information about the organization that Lord Ren is in...] Noah's voice was somewhat serious.

"……what?"

Gin looked a little confused, "Information about the organization? Osaka?"

Something is wrong, isn't it? His subordinates in Kansai... seem to be only Tequila? And for his own plan, he deliberately let Tequila operate in the Kyoto and Osaka area, and didn't dare to let anyone come to Tokyo.

——Who made Tequila one of the few people who was not turned against by him?
but……

"Tell me what the situation is."

Could it be that Tequila was discovered and followed by Conan?

Gin was a little suspicious.

[This... because it was eavesdropped from Conan and Mr. Rei, it may be a little incomplete.] Noah organized the logical sequence in the program, [About six days ago, Hattori Heiji invited the Mori family, Conan, and Mr. Rei to visit Osaka, and then encountered a murder on the way...]
Gin: "..."

The mobile Grim Reaper lives up to its name.

After wreaking havoc on Tokyo, let’s go wreaking havoc on Osaka…

Do you want to consider throwing Conan into the organization's lair and see how many people he can kill?
Gin pondered the feasibility of this method.

Unfortunately, he only knew the location of the Decentralization Department's base, and he really didn't know where the headquarters of the Japanese organization was...

He still had some impression of the UK. After all, the headquarters there was also where the training camp was located. It's just that the road was winding and he couldn't remember it clearly.

Noah's report continued:
[Later, for unknown reasons, Lord Rei was summoned by the chief of the Osaka Police Headquarters...]
Gin: "...?"

Was he caught playing with a bomb?

[But the two of them just had a brief chat, and the other party asked Lord Lie to help solve the case...]
Gin: "...=,=?" When did this guy Lie become a part-time detective? Isn't this stealing Conan's business?
[…After the murderer was caught, he said that he had wanted to frame another person he wanted to kill, and that person had committed a murder before… However, the criminal said that person had actually disappeared a long time ago, and the last time he saw that person was several years ago.]
[The criminal said that the person he wanted to frame was about five or six years ago, and he hadn't seen him since he met a man in black... Then Conan excitedly asked what the man in black looked like, and Master Rei and I speculated whether he was from the organization you belonged to.]
"What's the name of the person the murderer wants to frame?"

Gin has already taken the little notebook. If there really is such a person in the organization, it is not impossible for him to let him send some information to Conan.

“That person’s name is Kiichiro Numabuchi,” Noah said respectfully.

Gin paused as he wrote a picture and raised his head slowly: "Numabuchi Kiichiro?"

Why did he feel like he had heard this name somewhere before?

Vodka, who was listening in, had a good memory and immediately followed up, "Brother, isn't this the guy who wanted to stab you last time?"

Gin: "..."

Very good, the simple and rough description of vodka made him remember it immediately.

That idiot who thought Shirley gave him the nutrient solution as poison...

Noah: [! ? ]
Want to hurt Master Ren? This person called Numabuchi Kiichiro is really a heinous criminal!

Gin touched his chin and said, "Forget it, let Conan find it slowly by himself. We can't let Kiichiro Numabuchi go."

This guy is still eating and drinking well in the organization's training camp. He can get by as long as you don't put too much pressure on him.

But this kind of "waste" will definitely be cleaned up by the organization later.

[Yes, I understand...] Noah paused, [By the way, Master Blade, Conan told the second young lady about this matter after he returned, and the second young lady said she knew about Kiichiro Numabuchi...]
Gin stroked his forehead weakly.

How could they not know? The three of them were the parties involved...

Afterwards, Noah continued to talk about the events of the past few days.

If Kaito ran out for a stroll and bumped into Conan again...

Because I learned from Noah that Conan's destination was the same as Kaito's, Retsu and Hiroki didn't go this time, and then the victim appeared gloriously in that place...

The motive for this murder is relatively normal. It is probably because two people mocked the murderer's deceased grandfather while chatting on the Internet, and then they were killed by the angry murderer.

Gin could only sigh that one really has to be careful when meeting people in person.

If you are not careful, you may lose your life...

[Also, the day before yesterday, Dr. Agasa took the children out to play, and the second young lady also went.]
"Another dead person?"

Gin frowned.

Should he find a way to stop Shirley from going out with Conan? Otherwise, if she encounters murders every day, it will easily cause her psychological trauma...

When he was in the company, he didn't dare let Shirley see him kill anyone.

Noah: [That’s not the case…]
Gin: "..."

That's good……

[They discovered a secret passage in the house where they were staying. In the secret passage was a skeleton that had been dead for many years...]
Gin: "..."

What a ghost!
"Anyway, as long as nothing happens." Gin breathed a sigh of relief.

It’s not easy to stay with Conan every day.

Noah, who was about to describe how Hiroki subdued the criminal, shut up.

After letting Noah continue to hide in the radio, Gin asked Vodka to start the car.

It's time for them to go to the next place...

(End of this chapter)