Conan: I'm Really Not the Manipulator

"It was just someone provoking me, and I fought back..."

The words on the book are trembling.

Zhu Fujingguang's hand holding the book was shaking violently and uncontrollably.

Even after infiltrating the organization for several years, even when his undercover identity was confirmed to be exposed, even when he saw with his own eyes the outer guard looking for him everywhere with a bloody knife in hand... he had never felt as horrified as he does now.

Zhu Fu Jingguang's memory was a little fuzzy over the past few years, but he still knew very well where these conversations came from.

This was the conversation that took place when they first entered the police academy and Zero and Matsuda had a fight and later came looking for him at the dormitory door.

——Almost word for word.

Zhu Fu Jingguang felt the blood in his body turn into ice, flowing through his blood vessels to his limbs and bones, and his whole body began to tremble.

He loosened his fingers and the book fell to the ground. He stared at it blankly, like a piece of rotten wood that was about to rot.

Feng Jianyuya was holding the book, and was also dumbfounded when he saw the content. He looked up at the two people beside him, and saw that Kuroda Bei suddenly pushed open the interrogation room where Kotomine Joanna was imprisoned.

As a result, the three of them heard that sentence together.

Zhu Fu Jingguang finally reacted. He stopped trembling and raised his head again at a speed so fast that his neck almost broke, and looked at the woman who mentioned his childhood friend's name.

Noticing his gaze, Yuya Kazami shuddered.

——At this moment, he suspected that the person standing next to him was not Zhufu Jingguang, but Scotch Whiskey, a real member of the organization who would never show mercy.

Seeing the door open, the woman being interrogated turned her head and looked over.

The red hair was fluttering like fire, and the face was exactly the same as that of an innocent person who had to be killed by the undercover agent in the past.

"Look at your reactions...it turns out he really went undercover?" she said.

"So is he going to be exposed now?"

The look on her face was one of sheer excitement.

……

Zhu Fu Jingguang looked at Kotomine Jonah.

She knew him. When they rescued Kotomine China, she was very excited, with tears of gratitude in her eyes, and thanked them one by one. She asked their names one by one, making them feel embarrassed.

Now there was only hatred and anger in those eyes.

Zhu Fu Jingguang didn't know what expression was on his face at this moment. He bent down and picked up the book again - this was a bit difficult for him as his leg was broken - he had a lot of questions to ask, but his mind was in a mess and he couldn't utter a word.

"Why do you know this?" Kuroda Bei asked coldly.

Normally, his face would cause great psychological pressure on the suspects, but Kotomine Joanna didn't seem to be afraid at all: "You told me so."

The others were stunned for a moment.

"When I first saw the death message 0 on my sister's palm, I didn't think of him as an undercover agent. I thought that Furuya Rei was an ordinary police officer or doing other work, and he and Hakubato were colluding to kill people and defraud insurance."

She looked at Zhu Fu Jingguang and frowned, and continued: "But your subsequent actions made me realize that this is not the case."

"The police used his girlfriend as bait and found out after her death that she had bought him a high-value insurance policy... Even if she had signed a risk disclosure form beforehand, this kind of thing would be enough to trigger public opinion. Whether it was done by one police officer or two people working together, it makes no difference at all."

"This case, which seriously tarnishes the image of the police, should be solved as soon as possible, but you only pushed Bai Jiu out and said nothing about the other person mentioned in the death message. You also detained the body for many days, not allowing us to bring it back for burial, and even followed and monitored us..."

"I guessed at that time that you knew who the murderer was, but chose to protect him and didn't want me to investigate."

"Apart from the sons of wealthy families or officials, the only ones who receive this kind of treatment are undercover agents sent out, right?"

She smiled, and her smile seemed to be poisoned.

The police present were speechless for a moment.

They were just doing their usual thing, but they didn't expect that their identities would be confirmed because of this action...

Yuya Kazami clenched his fists even more.

How could he forget? The reporter in front of him was Kotomine Joanna - the perverted newspaper scientist whose parents were murdered by an undercover agent, who had no way to appeal again and again, and was subsequently monitored by the police for a long time. The report on his deeds was written by Kotomine Joanna!

"So you're printing this and promoting it in large quantities as revenge against him?"

Kotomine Joanna looked at Morobushi Kagemitsu who finally spoke.

He had a complicated expression and his fingers were tightly clenched around the book. She looked at his appearance and smiled softly.

"Yeah. I'm just getting back at him."

She looked at Zhu Fu Jingguang's trembling eyes and her tone became more gentle.

"I know it's not easy to be undercover."

"Every day is torture, walking on the edge of a knife, worrying about being exposed at any time. Once exposed, it will involve the death of family and friends... They are heroes in the dark, working hard for the interests and future of more people..."

She recounted the difficulties of being an undercover agent, and then changed the subject.

"But, what does this have to do with me?"

"—He killed my relatives, and I will make him pay the price."

Tokugawa, the public security officer who was in charge of interrogating her, and Morobushi Kagemitsu's boss, stood up and glared at her: "Moruobushi is innocent! You want to take revenge on Furuya, but you dragged him into this innocent situation!!"

Kotomine Joanna looked guilt-free.

"So what? My sister is just as innocent."

"I am sitting here now, and I am paying the price for my involvement with the innocent - what about him? When will he pay his price?"

In her voice, the scene was as silent as a grave.

……

Killing is not the best form of revenge.

Some people in the world are afraid of death, while others are not. For those who are not afraid of death, killing them is not revenge at all. You should attack the things they really care about.

For the undercover agent, those who have been exposed are afraid of retaliation, and those who are still lurking are afraid of exposure, so Kotomine Jonah's way of revenge is to destroy his identity.

Hojo Tobiko asked her to print thirty copies, so she paid for it out of her own pocket and printed a full three thousand copies, and hired people to promote them at major train stations.

She doesn’t care whether the person who gets the book is an office worker, a student or a housewife;

She doesn't care whether they just throw the book away, read it carefully, or recommend it to others after reading it.

All she wanted was for these books to be circulated in large quantities and fall into the hands of all kinds of people. The undercover agent had to remain anonymous and unknown, so she made him known to everyone.

She couldn't be as extreme as that scientist and endanger the safety and lives of innocent people - she wanted to turn them, the ones he wanted to protect, into hidden dangers that might explode at any time.

……

Zhu Fu Jingguang closed his eyes in pain.

I received the book today, but the typeset printing and writing of these articles must have been done earlier.

He remembered the time Anisette complimented him on his looks.

He ridiculously thought at the time that she had that kind of affection for him, but he didn't expect that she was already doubting him at that time.

He could smile even when facing the undercover agent, without showing any malice, and he drank with him naturally, was alone with him, and held his arm... He was really different from Gin, and he was so scary...

Kuroda Heibei made more command and deployment beside Morobushi Kagemitsu.

He asked people to check Kotomine Joanna's phone to see if she had any contact with the organization members; to contact the public security officer who was in charge of monitoring her to find out why he didn't notice her abnormality; to find the author Hojo Toika to see if she was alive and to investigate why she knew the stories of the two undercover officers during their time at the police academy; and to find Hakuba who mistakenly detonated the bomb today...

Only at the end did he mention Furuya Rei.

"Notify Furuya, evacuate immediately."

That short line of words stripped Zhu Fu Jingguang of all his remaining strength.

He knew very well that the organization was only suspicious before the plan began, and that his identity could not be confirmed based on the description of his appearance in the novel... It was only when he agreed to save the congressman and carried out a fake death plan with the police that his identity as an undercover agent was confirmed.

He exposed himself because he wanted to save people.

ZERO is different. He was exposed, or had to evacuate, because he watched an innocent person die without rescuing him, and even killed him, which brought revenge from his relatives.

As an undercover agent, saving people or not saving them seems to be wrong.

To save people, to be crushed to pieces;

——If you don’t save him, there will be no recovery.

Chapter 154 Player Internal Conflict

Metropolitan Police Department, Investigation Section 4.

"The section chief is not back yet?"

"No, I sent him a message but he never responded."

"…After all that happened, he should still be at the Haido University Hospital, right?"

"Has anyone contacted Baijiu?"

Not only the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team, Public Security Department, and Transportation Department of the Metropolitan Police Department were busy today, but the detectives of the Fourth Investigation Section who had their superiors and colleagues go to the Haido University Hospital after learning that it was involved in a bomb incident were also busy.

Nakano, the youngest member of the entire fourth section, put down his phone and shook his head at them: "Still didn't answer."

"So he escaped, didn't he? This incident is much more serious than the previous one that killed his girlfriend."

A colleague who had the worst relationship with Bai Jiu made a cold sound.

Nakano, who usually idolized Hakubato, was speechless.

If you want to protect others, you have to consider the occasion and the seriousness of the matter, otherwise it will only have a counterproductive effect.

Especially this time, the mistake Baijiu made was extremely terrible.

In front of a live TV broadcast, he failed to recognize the hospital bomb as real and stepped into the prisoner's trap, causing a high-rise apartment building to explode and collapse. The rescue would take several days and the number of casualties was unimaginable...

Although it was the bomber's fault, many people will point the finger at Hakuto, who was in charge of defusing the bomb. The Metropolitan Police Department will not come forward to defend him, and may even impose a heavier punishment to appease the public's anger for the sake of the police's reputation.

Just as Nakano was silent, several people suddenly entered the office of Investigation Section 4. Without even saying hello, they went straight to Katsutoshi Teraoka's desk.

"What are you doing?!"

The people from Investigation Section 4 responded and scolded.

One of them directed the others to rummage through the drawers and check the documents on the desk. When they heard this, they looked up and someone recognized him as someone from the Ministry of Public Security.