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

That night, Kudo Kazuma, unusually, slept in his own safe house.

Moreover, because using the three skills [Two-Element Clone], [Sword Control Technique], and [Spirit Awakening Technique] simultaneously was quite mentally taxing, Kudo Kazuma woke up at 11 a.m. the next day.

He ate something quickly, then found some paper and pen. While casually drawing a turtle, he pondered the timing of his main body going to the southern islands.

It's not impossible for him to just ignore the past now, but what if he kills Rum?

Curaçao could be brought under our control, Binga is trying to oppose Gin, so let's just kill him. What about the others?

I don't know much about the intelligence team, or rather, about Rum's close associates...

He took out his phone and sent a message to Morofushi Kagemitsu's Bond account.

[Please ask Amuro, besides Curaçao and Binga, who else is close to Rum?]

A short while later, Morofushi Kagemitsu's reply arrived.

[Curaçao is Rum's top confidant, Binga is his second-highest, you already know that, why are you asking? There might be another one, Kassaça, but that guy is rarely in Japan, very mysterious. I've only heard of that code name, I've never seen him.]

Kudo Kazuma stared at the unfamiliar code name and blinked.

He was just thinking of trying his luck, and it actually happened!

With the original storyline, he also had some information about Curaçao and Binga. As for this Kasasa, Amuro Tooru had never even met her, so how would he know about her?

Forget it, it doesn't matter. Let's take care of Rum first, and deal with the unknown subordinates later.

After making up his mind, Kudo Kazuma took the key Gin gave him and went to the warehouse at Base 3.

Putting everything else aside, let's start by picking a few of the most powerful bombs.

Besides bombs, he also prepared all kinds of weapons, filling the system space into a small armory before leaving the warehouse at Base 3 with satisfaction.

After having lunch at the canteen of Base 3, Kudo Kazuma made a rare trip to the base's training grounds and gathered a bunch of peripheral members to help him with his basic training.

It's inconvenient to involve Gin in this kind of thing, lest he arouse the boss's suspicion—it's definitely not because he can't beat him.

After getting myself into good shape at the training ground and having dinner, it was already dark.

Kudo Kazuma went out for a stroll to get some fresh air and clear his head, while also considering whether he should invite Amuro Tooru along.

If the police get involved, and things get chaotic outside, no one will be able to take care of Rum inside, right?

But if he really brought in the police, his boss would become suspicious...

As he was pondering this, his phone rang, and the caller was none other than Vodka.

Kudo Kazuma asked, puzzled, "What is it? Does my brother want to see me about something?"

“Uh, no, it’s not my brother, it’s me…” Vodka hesitated, “My brother gave me a mission: to eliminate an old woman named Katsue Furukawa. She’s the president of a loan company and lives near Base 3…”

"Why are you telling me this? You don't want me to do the mission for you, do you?" Kudo Kazuma narrowed his eyes. "Don't tell me you can't even do a mission like this."

Vodka's hesitant voice came from the other end of the phone: "Uh, no, it's just that I saw the Mori detective and his family, who you're very close to, go to the target's house..."

Kazuma Kudo: "Huh? What's that?"

Before Vodka could say anything, he added, "Give me the specific address."

Upon hearing the specific address, Kudo Kazuma was utterly speechless—it was just around the corner. He could even sense the presence of the spirit, so this mission was prepared specifically for him?

While inwardly grumbling, he walked towards Katsue Furukawa's house. But as soon as he reached the bottom of her building, he heard a faint gunshot from the second floor, and a light flashed in one of the rooms...

"Don't worry about this task, I'll go take a look."

After finishing his sentence, Kudo Kazuma hung up the phone and went to ring the doorbell of the target's house.

The person who opened the door was a fairly handsome man. He looked at Kudo Kazuma with some confusion and asked, "Who are you?"

Conan, Ran, and Kogoro Mouri, who were in the living room, all looked over and were surprised to see Kazuma Kudo: "Kazuma? What are you doing here?"

Kazuma Kudo shrugged: "I was just passing by when I heard the gunshot..."

The man who opened the door's expression changed slightly upon hearing this: "You heard it too!"

He rushed to the living room and called upstairs, "Sis! Is there some strange noise coming from Mom's room?"

“That’s right!” a middle-aged woman with short hair on the second floor said, “I actually heard gunshots!”

Kogoro Mouri and the man who opened the door ran upstairs to the second floor, while Conan looked at his younger brother curiously: "What are you doing here?"

Kazuma Kudo shrugged: "I was just passing by when I heard gunshots. I was curious if something had happened to this family, so I knocked on the door to ask. Who knew you guys would be here too?"

Conan glanced at him suspiciously: "You actually care about other people's lives?"

Kazuma Kudo shrugged: "I was mainly curious about what happened, because the moment the gun went off, a bright light flashed by in a room on the second floor, and it looked very strange."

Conan nodded slightly, tacitly accepting the younger brother explanation.

Of course, what he didn't know was that Kudo Kazuma had come because he had sensed the presence of spirits there before the gunshot. He was there to collect the goods and, incidentally, to check if Vodka had completed his mission.

While the two were talking, Kogoro Mouri and the deceased's son had already broken down the door to the deceased's room.

Kazuma Kudo, Conan, and Ran also went upstairs and saw an old woman in the room with a bullet in her eyebrow and lying dead near the window. The middle-aged woman cried and tried to rush in, but was stopped by Kogoro Mouri.

"This is a murder case. Everyone should stay inside and preserve the scene. Xiaolan, call the police immediately!"

In the world of Detective Conan, the usual "don't go in yet" doesn't include detectives.

So, Kudo Kazuma, who at least had the title of "Detective of the Heart," naturally followed Conan into the deceased's room. While observing the body and the footprints on the ground, he absorbed the spirit and took a picture of the dead old lady with a miniature camera.

The middle-aged woman, who was in the midst of her grief, suddenly noticed the extra person, Kudo Kazuma, and immediately pointed at him, asking, "Who is he?"

As Kudo Kazuma walked out, he gave a brief self-introduction: "Edogawa Kazuma, I'm a detective, you could say. I heard gunshots when I passed by your window, so I came in to check."

The middle-aged woman's expression immediately changed, and she stared intently at Kudo Kazuma: "It was you! You must have killed my mother!"

All eyes were on Kazuma Kudo.

Kazuma Kudo shrugged. "Please, I was really just passing by. As for who killed your mother... this lady... cough, auntie, you should know very well."

He casually tossed out a sentence and then walked downstairs.

Conan, who had been dragged from the crime scene by Kogoro Mouri by the ear, quickly chased after him: "Ichima, do you know who the culprit is?"

Kazuma Kudo tilted his head: "I was just saying."

Of course he knows.

After all, the deceased old lady was currently staring at the middle-aged woman with an expression of both grief and resentment, constantly cursing her...