Conan: I'm Really Not the Manipulator

"Then who is involved? Codename members or the lower levels?" asked Aoyagi Akimitsu.

"Neither. It's Tsukushi Kuroiwa, the village chief of Tsukikage Island, and Kawashima Hideo, the richest man."

Gin still remembered these two people, and described their identities, and added: "They got to their current position thanks to the organization."

Relying on organizational power to climb to an unmatched high position... Aoyagi Akimitsu pondered: "Just like my uncle?"

There are many such people in the organization. After all, a criminal organization cannot survive for a long time just by training thugs and killers. The organization has connections in the political and economic circles.

The upward connections are the umbrella of protection. The organization needs to provide a lot of money to please them, and also regularly produce reasonable drug research results to satisfy them. It is the existence of these people that makes all the efforts and sacrifices of the undercover agents go to waste.

The downward ones are the people who are trained and promoted by the organization itself, such as Kenzo Masuyama, codenamed Pisco, Shigehiko Tsuchiguchi who just became a member of parliament, and Aoyagi Akimitsu's uncle.

"Your uncle holds an important position now and is much more capable than them." Gin sneered.

Qing Liu Bingguang didn't want to hear people praise his foster parent, so he changed the subject directly: "What did the village chief and the richest man do? How did it get written into the book?"

"A few years ago, they took advantage of a pianist on the island going on tour to secretly sell drugs. The organization had turned a blind eye to these small activities and had no intention of pursuing them... until a novel was published a few months ago."

Gin may seem cold, but he is always willing to explain the tasks clearly and never finds it troublesome.

"The first case of the novel takes place on a small island. A doctor, in order to seek revenge, successively kills the island's wealthy man, the village chief, and the former village chief who had caused his father to participate in drug trafficking and silenced him in the past."

"Except for the different names, other details, including the time of the murder, the identities of the perpetrators, the musician's family and the way he died, all match reality. Some readers on the Internet have already linked the novel to the case."

After hearing this, Aoyagi Binguang finally understood.

He has also been taking time out these days to read the online serial version of "Detective Kyoko", and is currently one-third of the way through.

A lot of fancy methods of committing crimes were recorded, but apart from the stick that caused the heroine to lose her memory, there was no other description of important members of the organization. Hojo Toika skipped the main plot of the original work.

Just now he was wondering why Hojo Toika was so bold as to write about the specific crimes of the organization members when she even avoided writing about the explosion of the Shinkansen? It turned out that she didn't know who were the members of the organization.

When Rabbit mentioned this case, he didn't say it was related to the organization. It seems that the cartoonist didn't draw it.

"One of them saw the discussion online and found out that the musician who was silenced did have a son who escaped and became a doctor. He was so scared that he went to the organization to explain the situation."

Qing Liu Bingguang digested these words, "How is the doctor?"

"It has been dealt with. Now it depends on whether the writer just happened to find the right murderer when she was drawing on a real case, or whether she really knows the inside story..."

Gin downplayed it, as if he was just disposing of a piece of discarded tissue.

This was a trivial matter. The village chief and the richest man of a small island were not worth mentioning in the eyes of the organization. When the online turmoil was about to get out of hand, he asked Lei to deal with them, asked them to "commit suicide" in different ways, and asked Lei to investigate the writer by the way.

The writer lived in Minato-ku, Tokyo, and had a younger brother who was studying at Minato-ku Junior High School. Gin remembered that Aoyagi Akimitsu was also going to this school, so he planned to hand over the task to him.

Gin was about to speak about this when a cell phone suddenly rang, interrupting him.

Aoyagi Binguang also heard the ringtone: "Is there an email? You'd better stop and check it."

Gin, who usually lets Vodka drive and doesn't have this problem, looked in the rearview mirror and made sure there were no suspicious vehicles nearby, then temporarily parked the car on the side of the road.

Aoyagi Akimichi watched Gin take out his cell phone, but instead of looking at the screen, he looked up at the street.

He recognized that this place was not far from the Yokosuka base.

...Did Gin get addicted to reminiscing about his relatives today? First, he deliberately ordered that drink for him, then he praised his uncle... Oh, no, he was the one who suggested uncle, it wasn't Gin's fault... Now he brought him to this naval base.

As Aoyagi Akimitsu withdrew his gaze, Gin also put away his phone.

He looked at Gin and said, "What happened again? ...Do you want my help?"

Aoyagi Hikari was very familiar with Gin's expression. Whenever a member failed in a mission or got into trouble, he would have this expression.

Gin, however, looked at him and said, "Rum has set his sights on you."

"..."

Aoyagi Binguang was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said nonchalantly: "I thought it was something else, it doesn't matter, I guessed it before I came to Japan."

"It was Goldwasser... He did it on purpose."

Goldwasser, which means "golden water" in German, is a herbal liqueur produced in Poland and Germany. Edible gold foil is added to the transparent liquor. Because of its exquisite appearance, it is collected by some wine lovers.

Just now in the bar, Gin placed this kind of wine in front of Aoyagi Akimitsu. At the same time, this is also the code name of the third in command of the organization, the person in charge of the organization in the United States, and Aoyagi Akimitsu's biological father.

……

Gin held the phone, feeling upset.

As one of the top ten senior members of the organization, he was well aware of the open and covert struggles between the second-in-command Rum and the third-in-command Goldwasser.

In terms of status, these two are both well-connected people with connections, and Goldwasser's status is even closer. That gentleman would not blame them at all, and was even happy to see the generals under him fighting each other.

Normally, Gin had no interest in their conflicts, but this time he wanted to...

"You don't have to worry so much."

As the person involved, Aoyagi Akimitsu seemed calm and composed, as if it had nothing to do with him.

"This time, Rum is investigating 'FBI agent Aoyagi Akiko', not 'Goldwasser's son'."

Gin looked at him, and Aoyagi began to explain:

"The organization has been doing a lot of things in the United States over the years, and several agencies are secretly investigating. This time, Goldwasser deliberately passed the news that I, an FBI agent, was secretly coming to Japan to Rum. In order to confirm whether the FBI came for the organization, Rum will definitely send someone to investigate."

Because of the mistakes in the Haneda Hiroshi case more than ten years ago, Rum was driven back to Japan from the United States by the leader of the organization. For many years, he has been wanting to return to the United States, where there is greater wealth and power.

"If he finds someone in the FBI, then he has a good opportunity to go back there. To achieve this goal, he will send his best intelligence personnel to me."

"And what I have to do is to take this opportunity to collect intelligence on Rum's new subordinates."

Gin interrupted: "Goldwasser knows what Curacao is capable of."

"No, Curacao is not available right now. Half a month ago, Goldwasser specially used a mission to keep Curacao in Canada. The impatient Rum could only send out new capable men."

"..."

Gin commented harshly on this kind of internal fighting within the organization, and the behavior of involving an undercover sent by the organization:

"Your father really made the best use of everything."

"He's always like this. It's not the first day you've known his style."

Qing Liu Bingguang's tone was still calm: "Who is here to investigate me? I see you just received an email, so you should know. Can you please tell me?"

“Bourbon.”

Gin seemed to remember something unpleasant and sneered, "A disgusting mystic."

"........."

When Aoyagi Binguang heard this code name, he raised his eyebrows slightly.

This is really...like... I fell asleep and hit the pillow?

Chapter 34: The Different Paths of Red and Black

Gin put out the cigarette that was about to burn out and the Porsche was back on the road.

Because of this sudden email, his already bad mood became even worse.

Gin glanced at Aoyagi Binkou beside him, and saw that this guy, who had been in trouble this year, was leaning there lazily. Only his eyes were shining in the darkness, like a wild wolf on the hunt.

After all, he is an undercover agent who can be sent out. Even Gin, who is familiar with him, can only judge based on his intuition that he is in a good mood now, and he can't tell anything from his expression.

Gin withdrew his gaze and looked forward, judging how far away his destination was based on the surrounding buildings.

Aoyagi Akimitsu, who has multiple identities, is very busy, and he is also very busy. In addition to meeting Aoyagi Akimitsu tonight, he also has to meet a newcomer who has just been given a code name and is favored by Rum.

Thinking of this, Gin didn't mention what happened just now and quickly talked about another task.

"The second mission I can assign to you is to warn a guy who is in prison."

Qing Liu Bingguang sat up straight: "He was arrested but he was not immediately killed... Is he an official promoted by the organization? Does he have a good background, or does he have a big handle in his hand?"

Gin was not surprised. Aoyagi Akimitsu could guess it right away: "It's your father's old friend Kawajiri in Japan. He was originally able to run in the next election, but he was found to have accepted bribes a year ago and was sentenced to five years in prison."

Aoyagi Akimichi knew the other party unilaterally, and immediately responded: "Did a political enemy do it?"

"He did accept bribes, and the amount was not small, but the evidence was fabricated by the Special Investigation Department and one of his subordinates who was bribed by his political enemies."

Gin continued, "The organization had already collected the forged evidence and had a high chance of winning the case, but your father persuaded him to give up and take this opportunity to hold the prosecutor's office hostage to increase his chances of winning in the next election after he is released from prison."

Aoyagi Akimichi quickly understood the significance of doing this.

He knew Kawajiri and knew that he had been in jail last year. At that time, he watched Japanese street news interviews in which the interviewees basically believed that it was a fact that Congressman Kawajiri was corrupt and felt that he deserved it, and expressed support for his opponent.

At this time, even if he says that the evidence is forged, the angry people will not believe it, and Congressman Kawajiri's already low reputation will drop further - from a corrupt official, he will become a villain who is clearly corrupt and uses tricks to escape sanctions, and his chances of getting promoted are slim.

Instead of this, it is better to go in and serve your sentence, and take a step back to advance.

If he runs for election again a few years later and his political opponent "happens" to be involved in an even worse scandal, he can then reveal that the evidence was fabricated by his opponent and that Congressman Kawajiri was imprisoned for a "wrongful crime"... This will arouse the sympathy and support of the people, and his chances of winning will be even greater than they were then.

What Aoyagi Binguang figured out quickly, Gin had naturally figured out long ago. He sneered and said, "Unfortunately, he went in obediently at first, but after a year, he gradually couldn't stand the boring life in prison anymore."

"He attempted to contact the police, hoping to use the intelligence he knew about the organization in exchange for an early release from prison."

The prison conditions for these politicians are much better than those in ordinary prisons, but prisons are prisons after all, and there is no freedom at all.

There are organized people among the prison guards. Their daily job is to protect and monitor them. If they find any abnormal behavior from them, they will report it to the organization immediately.

Qing Liu Bingguang understood a little bit. How could a bad person be willing to go to jail? He asked: "What if the warning is ineffective?"

"Deal with it directly. The same goes for the writer." Gin said coldly, directly putting the two mission targets with completely different statuses side by side, "I have obtained the permission of that gentleman."

As he answered, the Porsche happened to stop at a quiet street corner.

"You can go back now." said Gin.

Qing Liu Bingguang looked at the bar on the right: "Do you have a date later? A man or a woman?"

"male."

Gin took out a cigarette from his pocket. He seemed to remember something and spoke again: "I have assigned a temporary subordinate to you. The information will be given to you through the intranet."

Qing Liu Bingguang unbuckled his seat belt and asked casually, "What's the code name?"

“Tequila.”

Gin said as he pulled out the cigarette lighter from the car: "Although he has a code name, he is just a discarded pawn. You can use him as you wish. I will get rid of him after you leave Japan."

"Really? Thank you so much."