Conan and Gin are both my brothers, what's wrong with meeting them once?

When leaving the press conference, Kudo Kazuma casually took with him the tequila's dazed and confused soul that had been blown up.

After dropping Tsugami Yuki off at the company, Kudo Kazuma made a phone call to his home landline.

"Huh? Narumi? Is Hiro back yet? Let him answer the phone."

A moment later, Jingguang Cat's familiar voice came through the microphone.

"I'm back. What's the situation with the series of explosions these past few days? Do you know?"

Kazuma Kudo shrugged: "The big explosion a few days ago was done by Teiji Moriya, and today's... I don't know, the police haven't found the cause. Could it be that Amuro was busy with these two explosions, which is why you came back?"

Jingguang Cat was somewhat speechless: "Anyway, I'm back. Did you need something from me?"

Before Kudo Kazuma could speak, he suddenly said with a hint of helplessness, "Don't tell me you saved another soul today—you were at the explosion site, right? A lot of people died there, and you only saved one?"

Kudo Kazuma gave a half-smile: "What, do you want to hook up with a few more dying stray cats?"

Jingguang Cat: "...I'll say it again, I don't wholesale dying stray cats."

"Oh, a stray dog ​​will do, a hamster will do, anything will do, as long as it can temporarily house your soul. I found the soul of Agave, so I can use it to test a way to resurrect you."

"Agave?" Jingguang Cat paused for a moment, then said, "Okay, I'll do it as soon as possible."

He wasn't worried that Agave would return to the organization after its resurrection—Danpo wouldn't let anyone in the organization know he had such a special ability. He wasn't stupid; did he want to be put on the experimental table if he exposed himself?

On the night of the bombing at the Mantekyo press conference, Kazuma Kudo returned to Base 4.

Taking advantage of the chaos following the explosion, he had already released his Yang clones twice to send messages to Gin.

Knowing that the deal had been successful and that no information about the organization had been leaked, Gin remained relatively calm and even waited for him to arrive at the base.

To Kazuma Kudo's surprise, it wasn't just Gin, but also Vermouth, Vodka, Chianti, Korn...

Even Kiel, whom he had never met before and who should theoretically belong to the action group, as well as Bourbon and Fino, who had nothing to do with the action group, were here.

"What's wrong? So many of you are waiting for me, I'll feel embarrassed..."

As he said this, Kudo Kazuma simply sat down on the sofa, leaned back comfortably, and handed the Full Heaven document bag to Gin.

"Transaction records. That idiot Longtie didn't even know this thing had been switched."

Voltaire stepped forward to take the file package, then carefully took two steps back.

"What's going on?" Kudo Kazuma glared at him. "Why are you running?"

Vermouth laughed and said, "Why else? They're afraid you'll blow them up. You told Gin you wanted to play with bombs, and Tequila got blown up right after. Now they're all afraid you'll blow them up at the drop of a hat."

Kudo Kazuma's expression froze slightly, then he looked speechless: "What does this have to do with me? It's clearly Tequila who's being stupid!"

He went on and on, recounting the grudges between the three members of the "Queue-Cutting Group" at the Full Heaven, how Takeshita secretly switched the keys, and how Agave foolishly got the keys and got blown up.

"Now you understand?"

After hearing Kudo Kazuma's explanation, everyone had their own thoughts and expressions, and no one spoke.

Finally, Gin asked, "What exactly happened?"

Kazuma Kudo: "...It was all for nothing."

Although it was he who instigated Moriya Teiji to carry out a series of bombings as revenge against society, and it was he who changed Takeshita's bomb to be more powerful, he only wanted to collect more spirit souls.

He really didn't lay a hand on me!

He's completely innocent, okay?

"Not bad, Kazuma~" Vermouth reached out and patted Kazuma Kudo's hair. "You used to only do sniping missions, but now you're all about stirring up emotions and planning crimes~"

"If I remember correctly, that research institute near Base 2, which was openly known as yours, was also your doing, right? And what about the diplomat Tsujimura being killed by his wife..."

"That's well done. Since you're planning to openly run a company, Xiao Yi, you won't be able to do many things yourself. Truly capable people don't do things themselves."

As Vermouth spoke, she gave Gin a meaningful look.

Kudo Kazuma blinked innocently—Was Vermouth just now deliberately targeting someone?

"Fine, if you say it's me, then it's me."

If everyone is willing to believe that he did it, that's fine too—Death is his twin brother, so what's the difference between what Death did and what he did?

Besides, isn't this exactly what Gin meant by "doing more tasks and expanding influence within the organization"?

“Danpo.” Chianti, who considered herself fairly familiar with Kudo Kazuma, was the first to speak up. “I didn’t know it was your birthday a few days ago and didn’t prepare any special gift. How about this, you can go to my collection and pick out a sniper rifle as your birthday present.”

Cohen: "..."

He wanted to say that too...

After hesitating for a moment, he said in a low voice, "The most expensive one is for you, as a birthday present."

Chianti turned to look at Cohen.

Isn't that going too far? Isn't this just belittling her?

Cohen scratched his head a little embarrassedly: "The second most expensive one is yours."

Chianti nodded in satisfaction: "That's more like it."

Fino pulled a gift box, larger than a fist, from his pocket: "I didn't know it was your birthday before, so I was in a rush and only got a small trinket. Next time it's your birthday, I'll definitely prepare something nice for you."

Kudo Kazuma took the small box and found that it was quite heavy, but he didn't know what it was.

Judging from their attitude, they probably won't give us anything too bad...

Thinking this, his gaze fell on Amuro Tooru, who had blond hair and dark skin and was sitting quietly to the side.

Amuro Tooru frowned and handed him a flat box.

Unlike Fino's gift, this thing was flat and incredibly light, and I had no idea what was inside.

Finally, it was the first time he had met her, but her hairstyle was so unique that he recognized her at a glance—Kirin—Rena Mizunashi.

"Hello Danpo, I'm probably the only person you haven't met or know yet," Mizunashi Rena said calmly. "I'm Kir, from the Operations Group, and I currently work at Nichiri TV."

"I heard it was your birthday a few days ago, so I brought you a birthday present."

As she spoke, she handed Kudo Kazuma a beautifully packaged rectangular box with both hands.

After Kudo Kazuma took it, she said, "I heard your company has a new project coming up. I can help you promote it for free. It's just a way for colleagues to help each other out."

Kudo Kazuma placed the three boxes he was carrying on the coffee table and said with a smile to the group, "Thank you for the gifts. The atmosphere in the action team here in Japan is really great~"

The atmosphere was great!

Don't think he doesn't know; these people aren't giving him birthday gifts at all. They're clearly afraid that if they offend him one day, they'll be blown up like Tequila, without knowing why.

These belated birthday gifts are clearly a way of currying favor.