Conan: I'm Really Not the Manipulator

He was not Bourbon in a foreign country, he was in Tokyo, in Haido, where a serious explosion had just occurred. There were many Metropolitan Police Department police officers in the ruins of an apartment.

This was the second purpose of Aoyagi Akimitsu in blowing up the shrine.

On the day of the memorial service, a place with such strong political significance was bombed, which could easily be seen as a provocation to the country. The public security would pay more attention to the subsequent large-scale casualties, thinking that it might be a terrorist attack related to it, and would go to investigate it immediately.

With so many colleagues nearby, most people would try their best to rush over to seek help and would not surrender or commit suicide immediately.

……

After summarizing his second goal, Aoyagi Akimichi put down his glass for the time being.

The glass was filled with non-alcoholic anise-flavored soda, without a drop of alcohol in it.

He checked the time, took out a cell phone he had stolen from the base, and sent a message to Hojo Toika. Just as he was about to review his third target, he heard footsteps behind him.

Gin came over.

Chapter 158 The most miserable player?

Heavy rain fell in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo.

The sky was completely covered by dark clouds, with no sunlight shining down. The air was cold and damp, with a cold wind blowing in the face with rain, and almost everyone walking outside quickened their pace.

But there is one exception.

[Player 'jealous' has quit the game. 】

Seeing the words on the system pop-up window, Hojo Toika still clenched her teeth.

She didn't bring an umbrella, and the rain wet her hair and skirt. Several people holding umbrellas passed by her.

"Where is the lion?" asked one of the leaders.

"The person who called the police said he saw it nearby, and it seemed to have jumped onto a car. Because it was a ferocious animal, he didn't dare get too close, and called the police immediately after it ran away."

"There's a parking lot in front, go over there and take a look."

"I contacted the nearby zoo and they said no animals were found to have escaped from the wild animal area."

Someone saw Hojo Toika, stopped and asked, "Did you come from that side? Did you see..."

"do not know."

Hojo Tobiko answered impatiently, ignoring those who might have been attracted by her animal shape, and quickened her pace to continue walking forward.

She wanted to rush back to Beihu immediately.

However, all the taxis on the road were full, and it was a long walk to the nearest bus station. She was already very tired after coming here in the form of a lion, and she didn't have the energy to run back the same way...

Finally, she stopped and took shelter from the rain in a sheltered area.

……

Hojo Toika looked at the rain in front of her.

She was in a rather miserable state now, with sore arms and legs, caused by the sudden intense exercise after not exercising for a long time. She was also soaked, with her clothes and hair sticking to her skin, and she felt cold and uncomfortable.

She picked up her phone and tried to read the news from Beihu.

The rescue work of the building has just started, and it is expected to take several days to dig down; there was no explosion at the Ferris wheel...

She refreshed the page several times, especially paying attention to whether there was any new breaking news. It was not until five or six minutes later that she closed the news page and opened the game system.

Seeing the familiar interface, Hojo Toika felt her eyes warm up. Her nose felt sore, her vision gradually became blurred, and tears fell.

Today was definitely the unluckiest day she had ever had since entering the game.

She wiped away her tears, opened the [Rules] interface, and looked at one of the rules.

[Players have a value called "willpower". If it drops to 20, the system will ask whether to quit. If it drops below 10, the system will force the player to quit. Quitting early due to personal willpower issues will not affect other players. ]

Baijiu withdrew early, probably because his willpower dropped below 20. After all, she had just changed his will to make him stab his parents in order to retaliate against him.

Hojo Toika's focus is on the latter point, "quitting early due to personal willpower issues will not affect other players."

She asked the system about this when she first entered the game.

"This won't affect other players. Are you referring to the mission?"

[Yes. The red and black camps are high-risk. In order to appropriately reduce the difficulty, one player from each camp is allowed to quit early due to willpower problems. The task will be considered as automatically abandoned, which will not affect the remaining players. After others complete the task, the game can end normally. ]

"What if both of them quit from the same camp?"

[The task of the last player to quit will be randomly transferred to the remaining players. This transfer does not distinguish between factions, and will not bring the opponent's skills. ]

Now that Baijiu has withdrawn, the task on him will be automatically abandoned.

Hojo Toika didn't care about him. What she was worried about was whether her two trash teammates would let themselves go and hurt Zero and the others after losing this restriction.

——Especially that [Gluttony] who has a particularly harsh mouth and is suspected to be a black fan.

At the beginning, she thought he was a good person. He said that he had only watched the Conan animation on TV and had not seen the Police Academy team appear. She kindly introduced them to him.

She gave him a brief summary of their experience, and his attitude was relatively normal at the time.

[Gluttony: Why can mixed-race people become high-ranking officials in secret agencies? I remember there was an academician in China whose mixed race was too obvious. He was rejected by Tsinghua University and Peking University despite his excellent academic performance... Is Japan more tolerant in this regard? ]

[Gluttony: What the hell is this huge piece of garbage? Isn’t that kind of two-choice trap meant to disgust people? ]

[Gluttony: Suicide after being exposed may be the best option for an undercover police officer in a bad situation. Being caught is worse than death, and the family members are also prone to retaliation... I thought of the reports on drug dealers I read before. It's really not something a human can do. ]

[Gluttony: Wasn't the death of this class monitor deliberately made up by the author to increase the tragedy of Rei Furuya? There are so many people in the class, and he is the only one who lost all his friends? It's too deliberate. ]

Although some of his words sounded like doubts (Why can't mixed-blood people be senior executives?!), which made Hojo Toika feel a little uncomfortable, she was magnanimous and tolerant, and even made an appointment to meet him offline.

The meeting was scheduled at Beihua. Since they had not mentioned their ages before, she didn't realize until they met that he was younger than her and the same age as Kudo Shinichi.

This surprised Hojo Toika. After all, sometimes [Gluttony]'s tone of voice sounded more like a corporate slave who had lost his passion. But this youthfulness also made Hojo Toika more confident. She had taught many young fans of this age and was confident that she could train him to be a true fan who would contribute money and effort.

She began writing more lengthy pieces because she felt that the brief overviews she had given them weren't enough to make him realize how good they really were, and she hoped to impress him further.

However, the opposite is true.

It was from then on that Gluttony gradually became more and more impatient.

【Gluttony: Are you annoying? 】

[Gluttony: If you want to save someone, go and save them yourself. Why are you pestering me and cursing me? Stop using moral blackmail. Do you think the world revolves around your wishes? ]

That would have been fine. In the end, he even spoke ill of Zero.

[Gluttony: I don’t understand at all. How can a mixed-blood become the head of the police? What is his family background? Which second-generation person was born with a silver spoon in his mouth? ]

[Gluttony: Could it be that his father is a US soldier stationed in Japan? ]

[Gluttony: So that's why he hates American men who abandon women and run away alone? ]

The last two sentences were more excessive than the previous ones combined. When Hojo Tobiko saw them, she was so angry that she trembled all over.

They are so good, so excellent, so hardworking, and so handsome, just perfect - what right does he have to smear them like this? !

If she hadn't traveled through time, she would definitely gather the entire fan circle to teach this kind of hater a lesson! Scold him until he deletes his comment and apologizes! It would be best to dig out his school and home address, so that his classmates and friends will know that he is a scumbag!

At that time, Hojo Toika hated this super black guy. Besides him, she was also quite dissatisfied with [laziness] and [greed].

Originally, she thought that the two of them were also women, and it was normal for Baijiu and [Gluttony] to dislike them out of jealousy between the same sex, but they would definitely have a good impression of them, and might even compete with her for them.

As a result, these two were even colder than [Gluttony]. One ran away, and the other disappeared.

The more Hojo Toika thought about it, the more she felt wronged. Adding to what happened today, she started crying without realizing it. She felt like she was the most pitiful player.

Just then, her cell phone suddenly vibrated.

The noise scared Hojo Ibiza so much that she almost dropped the item! After a few seconds, she came to her senses and stared at the sender with wide eyes.

It turned out to be sent by her mother.

——[Go back to the port area once, I'm waiting for you in the original house. 】

Just now in the ruins, Hojo Yuika only saw her father's body, but didn't find her mother. She thought she hadn't been dug out yet, but she didn't expect that she was actually alive!

This news surprised and delighted Hojo Toika.

After Hojo Shinji's death, Mrs. Hojo doted on her even more, almost granting her every request and agreeing with her in everything, just like her parents in real life.

She immediately rushed out of the shelter and waved on the road.

This time she successfully stopped a taxi, opened the door and got in. The driver saw that she was soaking wet and opened his mouth to chase her out, but she used her skills to make him shut up.

The car drove smoothly towards the port area.

……

After the Hojo family moved to Haido, they did not sell their single-family house in Minato Ward for the time being, and there were some old home appliances in it that also remained unsold.

The taxi stopped at the door, and Hojo Iris paid the money and got out. She ran to the door and found that it was slightly open. She opened the door impatiently and ran to the living room.

"I'm going back—"

The next words stopped abruptly.

The entire living room became empty after most of the furniture was moved away. There was no sofa, table or chair left. Only the tatami on the floor and the TV in the corner were left.

At this moment, a group of pictures were playing on the TV. The picture quality was clear, and the angle was close to the face, so the faces of the people on the screen could be seen clearly. It must have been shot in a professional room with more professional equipment.

——Zhufushi Kagemitsu stabbed the knife into Mrs. Hojo's neck.

Chapter 159 Good news: She loves her so much

Blood splattered.

The lens was stained with blood and turned red, but it continued to play after a few seconds, only to switch to another video and the picture became clear again.

It is not coherent, but the protagonists above have not changed. One is Toyoka Hojo's favorite Morofushi Kageko, Scotch in the black organization, and the other is her mother in the game.

what happened?

The incident was so sudden that Tojo Hojo didn't even realize what he had just seen.

——But a huge, unprecedented sense of fear gripped her heart.

Reason and instinct screamed at her to run away and stop reading, as reading would destroy a lot of things... She was still stunned and looked at the screen again.