Conan: I'm Really Not the Manipulator

"Kudo and I are friends, and Mr. Kudo Yusaku has also given me a lot of help in my work." Aoyagi Akimitsu said with a smile.

"Is that so?" Suzuki Sonoko understood.

The three of them were communicating happily, but Edogawa Conan's heart was in a mess.

In fact, he had a lot of questions. He wanted to ask why the treasures could not be exhibited, why Chairman Suzuki seemed so friendly with Aoyagi Akimitsu (so friendly that it didn't seem like the first time they met), why...

But all the words were blocked by the look that Mao Lilan just gave.

——Why did she look at him like that? Did she... discover something?

Edogawa Conan's silence continued all the way to the shrine. Seeing several other people going up to draw lots, each of their movements was extremely natural, he followed them silently.

Suzuki Sonoko was very happy when she drew Kokichi. She wanted to tell Aoyagi Akiko, a foreigner, how to pray and draw lots, but she saw that he had already taken out the lot with familiarity: "...Mr. Aoyagi, what did you draw?"

"Big evil."

"Eh??"

The others all came over, even Edogawa Conan tried to stand on tiptoe to look at his fortune:

"Very bad luck - past enemies will come to visit you, please be careful."

Suzuki Sonoko said dryly: "I, I heard it wrong before. In fact, this shrine is not effective at all! Mr. Aoyagi, this is superstition, don't take it to heart! "

Aoyagi Binguang smiled at her, and the smile fit perfectly on his face like a mask: "I don't really believe it either. After all, the last time I came, the fortune didn't come true."

"Mr. Aoyagi, have you been to Osaka before?" Mao Lilan asked in surprise.

"Yeah." Qing Liu Bingguang responded, "I came here once when I was in middle school."

A gust of cold wind swirled past their legs, carrying fallen leaves, and Edogawa Conan shuddered. This chill seemed strangely familiar to him.

Aoyagi Akimichi put away the fortune slip, seemingly not taking it seriously at all.

"Excuse me……"

Just then, a strange female voice suddenly sounded beside them.

This shrine is a popular tourist attraction in Osaka. When the five of them were drawing lots, there were other tourists not far away. The one who spoke to them at this time was a young woman with a gentle temperament.

She also held a signature slip, and was accompanied by an old man dressed as a butler. Her grey eyes looked at Secretary Nishino and Suzuki Sonoko.

"…Excuse me, are you from the Suzuki family?"

Chapter 276: Don't listen to the players, you will suffer

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"Thank you for your hard work, Miss Mizuno."

At the Nichiuri TV broadcast vehicle at the entrance of the art museum, a staff member saw Rena Mizunashi and the cameraman return safely, and immediately handed them water.

"Thank you."

Mizuno Rena took it with a smile, unscrewed the lid and took a few sips on the spot.

"How was it?" The staff member took over the heavy equipment from the cameraman's shoulders and asked, "What is Chairman Suzuki's attitude? Did you take a picture of the egg?"

Mizunashi Reina shook her head: "It's a bit inconvenient. There are several guests who came to visit for the 'Egg of Memories', including diplomats from the United States and Russia."

The staff was startled and looked at the only cameraman who followed for confirmation.

The latter also looked helpless: "With those people there, Chairman Suzuki looked very embarrassed. We didn't dare to force it and only did a brief interview."

The person in charge of the program was sitting in the car with the door wide open. After listening to their words, he sighed and said, "Forget it. Let's go back to the hotel now and have a good rest. The opening ceremony is the highlight of this event... Mizuno, go over the interview transcript when you get back. You must not make any mistakes in your work tomorrow."

"Yes." The dedicated female host responded.

Several people got on the vehicle and the broadcast vehicle drove away.

The hotel they booked was not far from the art museum and was also owned by the Suzuki Foundation. About five minutes later, the car stopped in front of a grand luxury hotel.

The person in charge got off the bus first, followed by Mizunashi Rena. The cameraman was the last one to get off the bus besides the driver, and as soon as his feet touched the ground, he suddenly raised his head in alertness.

"Who?!"

His voice startled his colleagues around him at the same time. Rena Mizunashi first looked at him, and then looked in the direction he was staring at.

There was no one there, only an eagle flying low over the sky.

"You scared me to death." The staff member who handed water to Rena Mizuno patted his chest and said, "Namikawa, are you traumatized by the eagle that touched you this morning?"

He was talking about what happened when they first arrived at the Suzuki Museum of Art. When they got off the bus, an eagle flew towards them, and the cameraman Namikawa was the first to be hit. When he raised his hand to block, the back of his hand was hit by the eagle's wings.

Since there were no scratches and no need for a tetanus shot, none of them took it seriously and continued working.

Namikawa's eyebrows jumped, and dissatisfaction flashed in his eyes, but the other party joined the company earlier than him and was a "senior" in the workplace. He forced a smile and said, "Sorry, I made a fuss."

After this little episode, a group from Nichimi TV entered the hotel.

This was a business trip, and although the TV station took on the accommodation expenses, the rooms they booked for them were average, just a few ordinary guest rooms on the third floor.

Rena Mizunashi was the only female employee present. She lived in a room alone and put her luggage in when she arrived in the morning.

She walked to the door, took out the room card and placed it on the card reader under the handle. With a "beep", the indicator light on it turned green.

She breathed a sigh of relief, but when she reached out to grasp the door handle and was about to open the door, her movements suddenly paused and her pupils suddenly contracted.

"Mizuno, have a good rest. See you at dinner." A colleague whose room was next to hers also opened the door. Seeing that she hadn't gone in yet, he said to her with a smile.

"it is good."

Mizuno Rena immediately returned to her perfect smile and responded.

Watching her colleague's back disappear, she took a deep breath in her heart, ignored the inconspicuous black thread on her hand that seemed to be wrapped by a mischievous child, and entered the room.

The room was small, with two beds taking up most of the space. A man was sitting at the table, concentrating on his laptop.

The curtains were drawn tightly, but luckily it was daytime and Rena Mizunashi could still see the other person's appearance clearly - he had an average appearance, wore a black shirt and black pants, was in his early thirties, and had an unshaved beard on his chin.

The light from the computer screen illuminated his brown eyes, the only warm color on him. There was a hint of dark blue under his eyes, and he looked decadent and tired.

"Glenn."

She whispered the other party's code name and walked to the table. Glenn glanced at her and said nothing. They looked at the information on the screen together.

He was a young man with a side-parted hair, wearing a green jacket and a pink and purple shirt, with a wild smile, and his resume was next to him.

"Have you touched him?" Glenn asked.

"Ah."

The gentle smile belonging to the female host quickly faded from Rena Mizunashi, and the Black Organization member Kiel stared coldly at Ryu Kamikawa in the photo.

"I took advantage of the break in the interview to talk to him and have already arranged a time for a second meeting."

……

Two weeks ago, Rum asked Gin to borrow Kiel temporarily.

Many people know that Gin and Rum have a bad relationship, but they have not torn their faces apart. Of course they would not refuse such a "small matter" as borrowing their subordinates to carry out a mission, so Rena Mizunashi quickly went to Rum's side.

Of course she didn't meet the second-in-command. Rum gave her orders through a voice changer and a phone call: asking her to find a way to contact Ryu Kamikawa, the former war correspondent of Nichimi TV.

Rum did not tell her the purpose of contacting him or what to do next. He only asked her to get to know him and keep track of his whereabouts. Glenn would be responsible for what happened next.

Glenn is Rum's confidant, and he takes over important missions. After learning that her partner this time is him, Mizunashi Rena, who originally thought it was not difficult, realized that Rum's goal might not be simple.

What on earth is he going to do?

The inner workings of the organization are actually an undercover agent, Rena Mizunoshi, who is eager to know the organization's intentions.

This time was different from the past. Gin, who was usually so suspicious that he could be regarded as the biggest enemy of the undercover agent, actually gave her a chance to test it - he called her last night, and after reporting the situation, he asked her to pay more attention to whether Rum's people had any "unusual actions".

Rena Mizunashi didn't know why Gin did this, but even if this might be a chance to fish, she wanted to seize the opportunity.

Glenn, who was standing next to her, had no idea how she felt. He continued browsing the information, stopped when he saw a line, and clicked on a photo.

It was a child less than ten years old, covered in dust, with a ruin behind him and an adult covering his forehead and wailing to the sky. Half of his face was covered in blood, and the other half was full of tears as he stared at the camera and the people outside the screen.

Rena Mizunashi recognized that this was the work that Ryu Samukawa had won a major photography award for.

This photo is said to have been taken on the battlefield in the Middle East a few years ago.

The United States was involved in that war, but the reason why Mizunashi Rena remembered it so clearly was that after the war, the media broke the news that some soldiers deliberately shot local civilians for fun. This incident caused a lot of uproar, and one of the Silver Star Medal winners was even stripped of his honor.

"…Is he staying in this hotel?"

Glenn stopped looking at the photo and looked up at her.

The confidant of the second-in-command of the organization is a man of few words. He is easier to get along with than Gin, but it is often difficult to get information out of him.

Mizunashi Reina patiently answered, "He and several other guests who visited Suzuki for the Egg of Memory are staying in this hotel."

"Detective Maori too?" Glenn asked.

"It should be. He was invited by Chairman Suzuki, and it is very likely that he will stay at the hotel under the name of the Suzuki Group." Mizunashi Reina paused and added: "There is also the FBI agent named Aoyagi Akimitsu."

Glenn fell silent.

Rena Mizunoshi felt that the other person's eyes looking at her became very subtle, but she didn't know what she had said wrong just now.

"...Since there's a tough detective here, you should be more careful next time." Glenn closed his computer and stood up, "Don't meet with Hanchuan Long again."

Mizuno Reina was startled: "I just made an appointment with him..."

"Do not care."

Glenn interrupted her, his brown-red eyes staring at her quietly, a strange light flowing in the color that was very similar to the sunset.

After a few seconds of silence, he spoke again.

"...and the cameraman next to you." He said calmly, "If possible, try to reduce contact with him."

Chapter 277 Please Knock Before Opening the Door

7pm, tenth floor of Suzuki Hotel.

"I'm really exhausted..."

Edogawa Conan walked into the room carrying a bunch of things. After throwing all the bags in his hand on the sofa, he threw himself on there as well and let out a long sigh of relief.