Conan: I'm Really Not the Manipulator

Think about her tone of regret at that time, as a good sister who was worried about her brother's safety, and then look at her excited face now...

Bai Jiu suddenly wanted to laugh, and his strange expression attracted the driver next to him to look at him.

【Jealousy: Probably for Pramya.】

[Jealousy: I met Yuya Kazami a few days ago. He was investigating a student named Labruncheva in Minato Middle School. She was the niece of the female leader of the Russian civil organization.]

Hakubato is not the contact person of Rei Furuya, and will not be informed of where he goes or what he does during his undercover period. However, through the "chance encounter" with Yuya Kazemi, he was able to get some information.

There is a section of cooperation between the police academy group in The Bride of Halloween. Just one day before Matsuda's death, several people joined forces to deal with the well-known bomber Pramya.

That part of the plot was quite exciting, but some details were unclear, such as why they passed by there, and why as undercover agents they would take the risk to help strangers... It would be much more reasonable if Furuya Rei had obtained information about the criminal in advance.

So it is normal that Rei Furuya, who goes by the alias Toru Amuro, is there at this time.

Compared to that, Baijiu was more concerned about something else.

[Jealous: I heard from my colleagues at the Ministry of Transportation that the person who hit and killed your brother just dragged his parents with his car...? ]

【Arrogant: Oh, I did it. 】

[Arrogant: They deserved it! They didn't even apologize, just wanted to get rid of us with money, and even mocked me! That's how I taught them a lesson! ]

really.

Baijiu had a feeling that this was expected.

As a real-life boyfriend, he knew very well how narrow-minded Hojo Toika was. She particularly liked to attack others with words, but she herself could not stand the slightest accusation. A little more verbal abuse or sharper words would be enough to break her defense.

In reality, she only commanded her fans to fight back. After traveling through time and space and acquiring this skill, she became even more unscrupulous. When faced with online violence, she would resolutely fight back and would no longer be...

Baijiu's mind inexplicably went blank for a moment.

...will never be what again?

He himself didn't know what he had overlooked or forgotten. By the time he realized what was happening, his fingers had already automatically typed out words of care.

[Jealousy: Be careful, if they die, you will switch to the black camp.]

[Arrogant: I know! I'll let him drag it at a slower speed. He won't die, but at most he will be disabled for life.]

[Arrogant: Don't worry about them. Have you found the bomber? ]

Seeing these words, Baijiu's expression changed subtly again.

He looked like he was afraid and hesitant, and his eyebrows, eyes and mouth seemed to be trembling... but after a few seconds of struggle, these cowardly emotions disappeared.

【Jealous: I haven’t forgotten. I’m looking for him.】

His writing is very gentle.

[Jealous: Don't worry. Haven't we already made a second layer of security? If we don't find the criminal in advance, one person will go to the hospital on the 7th, and one person will wait at the Ferris wheel...]

[Jealous: We have made so many preparations, nothing will happen to Matsuda.]

Yes, so much preparation has been done...

Baijiu's lips were curled up crookedly, and his eyes were surprisingly bright in the dim car.

At this time, on the road outside, there seemed to be a red shadow flashing by. The familiar color made Baijiu startled, and he turned his head to look in that direction.

As a result, he only saw rain flowing down the car window glass.

...Bai Jiu silently withdrew his hand that was about to open the window, and the smile disappeared from his face unconsciously.

In such silence, he came to the vicinity of the rice flower forest.

Baijiu paid the fare and watched the car leave. Then he held an umbrella in one hand, picked up his bag and the prepared meal in the other, and walked into the depths of the forest.

Due to the aftermath of the bait incident, every day in the Metropolitan Police Department was a torment, and his parents' home was his only comfortable haven. He came to such a place for a more important reason.

He walked to a small house and slowly opened the door.

The sound of the wooden door opening was not harsh amid the sound of rain, but it still frightened the person inside and made him tremble all over. The person's eyes and mouth were blocked, and only the handcuffs rattled against the iron bars.

"Come for dinner."

Bai Jiu looked expressionlessly at the bomber who had killed Kenji Hagiwara.

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Hojo family.

Seeing Bai Jiu's assurance, Hojo Tobiko breathed a sigh of relief.

The farewell ceremony was still going on. Everyone else thought that her elder sister was sad, so they didn't come up to disturb her. They didn't know what she had done just now.

Since Zero wasn't there, she was too lazy to remove her makeup and reapply it, so she sat on the bed and continued to look at her phone.

Switching to Black...

The game system said that they had the opportunity to change camps, but each person only had one chance and could not jump back and forth. At the same time, the change had to meet certain conditions.

The condition for turning to black is to kill an innocent person and have no guilt at the moment of causing the other party's death.

The person must be dead. If he is alive, even if he is seriously injured or disabled, the condition is not met.

To become the red side, one must have a strong belief in protecting someone or something.

Turning red is much more difficult than turning black.

Hojo Tobiko fell back onto the bed, swinging her legs leisurely.

If possible, she would like to switch to the red side instead of going to the black side.

After meeting with Baijiu, they determined that there were five players in the red team and the passerby camp combined, so the remaining two were the black team.

At first, Hojo Toika was a little worried about the black player, fearing that he was a pervert or an antisocial person who would bring danger to Zero and Keimitsu who were undercover in the winery.

For this purpose, she also asked Baijiu to use a query plan to ask the system about the situation of the black player.

The system's response at the time was: In order to ensure the safety of other players, the black players were the last to enter the game. At the same time, they had a difficult start and had to spend a lot of energy just to protect themselves.

The system may have loopholes, but it will not lie, and Hojo Toika felt relieved at that time.

She turned off the game system and looked at the chat room log.

Today's farewell ceremony was delayed by a day... But it doesn't matter, tomorrow she will go to meet one of her fans.

——Jona Kotomine gave up on revenge against the undercover agent.

Chapter 119 Utilization (Part )

Kotomine Jonah.

Originally, Hojo Toika was about to forget her, until the night of the car accident, when she logged into the chat room and received a message from "Colombo's Kamen Rider".

——The car accident was on the news, and she came specially to comfort her.

Hojo Toika actually has some feelings for this fan who gave her gifts and drew comics for her, and she is very confident in her skills.

So after a few probing words and making sure that the other party really didn't want to bother with the change, she agreed to meet her and asked her to do a favor.

Thinking of this, Hojo Toika got up from the bed.

She walked to the table and opened a drawer. She took out a jewelry box and opened it to reveal a pair of Mimoto pearl earrings.

This is the gift that Kotomine Joanna asked her sister to send to her. She should bring it to the meeting tomorrow.

……

The next day, two o'clock in the afternoon.

The meeting place that Kotomine Joanna agreed to meet was a well-known dessert shop with a very sweet decoration style that was full of girlishness. Most of the customers in the store were young women, and the few male compatriots were all brought by their girlfriends.

When Hojo Tobiko arrived, she saw a man hesitating at the door, looking like he wanted to go in but didn't dare to go in. She didn't see his face, and he turned and left.

Maybe you think it's weird for a man to eat dessert alone?

Hojo Toika didn't take this strange man seriously and pushed the door open and entered the store.

Kotomine Joanna had arrived a long time ago. She sat in a corner and could not be seen through the window outside. There were two menus on the table.

"Hojo-sensei."

As soon as she saw Hojo Toika, Kotomine Joanna immediately stood up and greeted her.

"Have you been here a long time?"

Hojo Toika pulled open the seat opposite Kotomine Janna and studied her expression as she sat down.

This fan whose will was modified wore a pearl necklace and had a friendly smile on his face, and seemed to be in a good mood.

It’s no wonder that the day before yesterday, the police finally found the murderer of the Red-haired serial murder case.

He was a former pursuer of the first victim. When his pursuit failed, he killed the person. Not satisfied with that, he took revenge on other red-haired people one after another. When the police found him, he had already committed suicide. The landlord smelled the stench and called the police. The police confirmed his identity and crime through the suicide note.

...Although he was not the real murderer, his death should be some comfort to her, right?

"I just got here too." Kotomine Joanna pushed a menu to her, "The pudding and fruit cake here are very good, teacher, you can try them."

Hojo Iris had no objection: "Just order these."

The two called the waiter and ordered something. After the waiter left, Hojo Touka got straight to the point: "I asked you to do something..."

Kotomine Joanna quickly opened her bag and pulled out a file bag from it.

"This is the basic situation of the Uchiyama Group, including the chairman, other board members, and consultants... Because the chairman and his wife got into trouble, their son went to jail, and the successor was chosen from a side branch... There is also the negative news about the group over the years."

Uchiyama is the last name of the perpetrator, and this is a large Japanese conglomerate. What Hojo Tobiko asked Kotomine Jyona to do was to use her journalist connections to collect information about them.

Hojo Tobirama took the file bag and suddenly found that Kotomine Janna looked a little nervous. At the same time, she glanced outside uneasily as if she was afraid of something.

"What's wrong with you?" asked Hojo Toika.

Kotomine Joanna smiled bitterly. "When I visited the victims to investigate negative news about other consortiums, I found that some of them had been secretly followed and harassed. There were other reporters who were investigating..."

She paused and looked at Hojo Ibiza: "Have you heard about the Little Angel Case? - As a mystery novelist, I think you must pay more attention to such bizarre cases than I do?"

what is that?

Hojo Toika was completely confused. Facing Kotomine Joanna's admiring eyes, she said stubbornly, "Ah... well, I know a little bit."

"That case involved some big shots. The person who wanted to investigate further was stabbed several times and his body was thrown into the sea. The murderer has not been caught yet..."