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

The explosion was not particularly far from the Desura villa.

The first explosion was enough to attract everyone's attention, not to mention there was an even more powerful explosion that followed.

The second explosion even stirred up a wave of snow, and those inside the villa could feel a faint tremor beneath their feet.

Conan, who had just followed Toshiya Tadokoro into the collection room, immediately became alert. He grabbed Ran's hand and said in a low voice, "It's a bomb! I'll go check it out..."

Before his short legs could take two steps, Xiaolan picked him up.

"orchid?"

Ran hugged Conan tightly and nodded to him: "We don't know what happened yet, let's go and meet up with Dad and Kazuma first."

Conan knew it was better to be cautious, so he suppressed his urges and returned to the reception room with Ran.

Tadokoro Toshiya took the items to Torakura Daisuke's study—no matter what happened, he still had to do what he had to do.

In the reception room, Kogoro Mouri and Kazuma Kudo also looked very serious.

Upon seeing Conan and Ran enter, Kazuma Kudo said, "That was the sound of a bomb just now, wasn't it? What should we do? Should we call the police?"

Conan frowned. "I want to go out and see what happened."

Kogoro Mouri angrily punched Conan on the head: "You brat, how old are you? What are you looking at? Stay in your room and don't go anywhere!"

Kudo Kazuma nodded and used the [Sound Bewitching] skill to say, "That's right, it's really inconvenient for a little kid like you to go out. I'll go check on you instead."

He patted Conan's head as he spoke: "Don't worry, you know how fast I am. If something really happens, I'll at least be able to get back safely."

Rum acted too quickly, leaving him no time to deal with the aftermath. If Conan were to rush out now, encountering the fake Sherry would be a minor issue, but if he were to run into someone sent by Gin, things could get very complicated.

With [Sound Confusion] present, no one objected to Kudo Kazuma going out alone to check the situation.

"Let's call the police first," Kudo Kazuma reminded the group before leaving.

Even though the police probably won't be able to get here in this terrible weather, you should still call the police. That's the right attitude to have when dealing with a murder case in the Detective Conan world.

As for him...

It's time to have a serious talk with Rum.

……

"Bourbon, is this your attitude?"

The video transmission on the telescope is one-way, but that didn't stop Rum from making a phone call specifically to question Amuro Tooru's attitude.

On the phone, a mixed male and female voice, laced with unusual anger, said, "Don't forget, you're from the intelligence team! What were you just doing? Questioning your superior because of the action team's mistake?"

Amuro Tooru wasn't sure if Kudo Kazuma was alive or dead, but he understood at least one thing: if Kudo Kazuma really was dead, neither Gin nor Kudo Kazuma's father would likely let it go.

Moreover, putting all that aside, if he can give Rum the cold shoulder, he's naturally not worried about being manipulated.

He didn't even respond on the phone, but instead looked again at the camera that Rum could see.

"This has absolutely nothing to do with whether it's an intelligence group or an operations group!"

“The organization has rules that, apart from Gin, the leader of the action group, and those authorized by him, no one else is qualified to take action against codenamed members within the organization without authorization. Even if they suspect that the other party is a traitor, they must report it to him first…”

"You gave me the pretext of testing Danpo, but you used me to attack him instead. If the boss gets angry and blames me, shouldn't I suspect that you're framing me?"

Rum snorted coldly: "Don't worry, you're in my intelligence team, and you take my orders. If the boss really blames you, it won't be you!"

Seeing Kudo Kazuma approaching from afar, Amuro Tooru curled the corners of his lips and said seriously, "Lord Rum, there's something I forgot to report to you—Danpo called Gin about the fake Sherry. Gin might be here soon."

Gin might come, but that was just a wild guess, something he was saying to annoy Rum.

But Danpo has truly arrived.

Ignoring the two snipers pointing guns at him, Kudo Kazuma went straight for the lens attached to the binoculars.

"Rum, is it?" he said with a cold smile. "Is it fun hiding in your shell? Are you out of your mind to target me? You just wait and see—don't let me find you!"

Damn it! Why doesn't he have a skill that allows him to hit people through the internet cable?

Thinking this, he even asked the system Moon Fox in his mind.

As a system, Moon Fox was unusually silent for a moment.

【I do not possess this skill, Master.】

Kudo Kazuma frowned. It seemed this matter would have to fall to Noah's Ark again—he wondered when his father would receive an invitation to design the plot.

And—when is Rum going to open a sushi restaurant? Or maybe he should patronize all the sushi restaurants in the neighborhood?

Rum had no idea that Dampo was already plotting how to find him and kill him.

He completely ignored Danpo, and simply instructed Bourbon over the phone to deal with the traces and then retreat, before hanging up.

As for whether Bourbon would get beaten up by the furious Danpo, he didn't care—if Danpo really did, it would be a perfect excuse for him, saving him from having to say every time that he mistook Danpo for Shinichi Kudo.

Seeing that Amuro Tooru had been hung up on, Kudo Kazuma couldn't help but sneer: "You got abandoned by Rum, didn't you? Bourbon, call me 'big brother' in front of this camera, and I won't hold it against you, how about that?"

If Rum hadn't been watching on the other side of the camera, preventing him from appearing too familiar with Danpo, Amuro Tooru would have at least asked him if he'd forgotten to take his medication.

But with the cameras rolling, Amuro Tooru, now playing Bourbon, just chuckled and said, "I don't have time to waste on your nonsense! Your feud with Rum is your problem, don't let it interfere with my mission."

"What mission?"

Gin suddenly appeared out from behind Bourbon like a ghost.

Amuro Tooru took a step back, revealing the lens attached to his telescope—he wasn't getting involved in the clash between Gin and Rum.

Gin glanced coldly at the camera before looking at Kazuma Kudo. Seeing that he was unharmed, he asked, "Where's that fake Sherry?"

Kudo Kazuma casually pointed, and the vodka behind Gin immediately headed in that direction.

Kudo Kazuma asked curiously, "I thought they would send a trusted outsider, brother, why is it you? And it was so fast!"

"It's nearby."

After Gin finished explaining, he took out his beloved Beretta and pointed it at the lens attached to the binoculars.

"Whether it's Sherry or Shinichi Kudo, it's the action team's business. Rum, you've overstepped your bounds."

After saying that, he pulled the trigger.

With a "crack," the lens on the telescope shattered.