Conan: I'm Really Not the Manipulator

After hanging up the phone, Gin didn't put away his phone immediately. He took a deep puff of cigarette and looked at the night view outside the car window.

He was very busy, but no matter how busy he was, he did not forget the two tasks he gave to Aoyagi Akimitsu a few weeks ago.

One is to investigate the novelist, and the other is to warn the congressman in jail.

The latter was originally more difficult, but Aoyagi Akiko completed it ahead of schedule and exceeded the target. As for the former, Gin saw the news not long ago that the plaintiff agreed to out-of-court settlement and did not ask for a penny, and the writer was unscathed.

In order to facilitate this lawsuit, Aoyagi Akimitsu looked for a suitable plaintiff family and asked someone to contact a well-known lawyer. After going through many twists and turns, he ended up with this result.

If it were someone else, Gin would definitely think that this was a failure; but for Aoyagi Akira now, he felt that it was not that simple.

Before handing over the assignment, he checked the writer's family to see if there was anyone he needed attention.

The investigation results showed that she had a father who was tortured and disabled after failing to be an undercover agent. Apart from that, she had no other special background, so she could resort to the most direct means of violence, and she had the perfect scapegoat - the place where her father had been undercover before.

If the purpose is to obtain important information, there is no need to slowly trick her. Just arrest her and torture her. It is obvious that the writer has never suffered any hardship. If she is beaten a few times, she might confess everything.

However, Aoyagi Binkou, who was always afraid of trouble in the past, did not choose these simple methods.

Gin was very confident in Aoyagi Akiko's morals. He knew that he was definitely not the kind of person who would not harm minors or women. He must have other purposes.

He doesn't want to have direct contact with her?

...Or does he want to use her to do something more important than obtaining information?

Gin remembered what Aoyagi Binkou said when they met before. He took the cigarette out of his mouth and asked Vodka, who was pretending to be deaf and dumb and trying to reduce his presence, directly.

"You drank with Binga the day before yesterday?"

As the second-in-command of the organization, Rum can mobilize more than 90% of the organization's members. Aoyagi Akimichi was asking about those who were closer to him.

There aren't many if you count them all. There are only four: Curacao, Bourbon, Binga, and Glenlivet (grain whisky).

Curacao is still in Canada, and Glenn is guarding Congressman Kawajiri in Haido Prison. The two of them don't have time to go anywhere else for the time being, so they can be ruled out.

"Yes!"

Vodka heard Gin talking, and without waiting for further questions, he told Gin basically everything he heard at the time, "Yesterday in a bar in Mihua, Binga told me that Rum received a secret message that Goldwasser's mistress came to Tokyo."

When Gin heard this, he turned his head and looked at Vodka.

Vodka couldn't understand the look in his brother's eyes. He thought of Anisette whom he had met not long ago: "I wonder if Anisette will be angry if she knows that my father is so romantic..."

Romantic?

Gin sneered in his heart. He really found Vodka's comment funny, but he didn't say it to his face. He just lowered his head and started editing the email.

Given Goldwasser's character, he would never expose his real weakness - the so-called lust was just a false weakness he deliberately created to fool others, and Rum and many people in the organization were fooled.

In this regard, Aoyagi Akimitsu and Goldwasser are completely opposite.

What his weakness was was obvious from the day he joined the organization.

Unfortunately……

[Binga might go there. ——Gin]

Gin pressed the send button and added in his mind.

——It’s a pity that he has lost that weakness forever.

……

Seeing Gin's confused expression, Vodka silently swallowed the rest of the sentence.

In fact, besides Binga, he saw another person that day.

——Akira Miyano’s boyfriend, a sniper who many people in the organization say is very similar to the big brother, Rye (rye whiskey).

Lei was originally responsible for the task of investigating the writer, and he was also responsible for killing the people on Moon Shadow Island. Unexpectedly, after the task was handed over to Aniset, he still stayed in the port area and did not leave.

The organization never stipulates that you must leave immediately after completing the task. Many people will relax there until they receive a new task.

Vodka thought about it again and again, and finally decided not to tell this little thing to his brother Gin, who was in a bad mood at the time.

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At the same time, in an apartment in Tokyo.

"…This is all the information we have so far. Because of the second death, the Metropolitan Police Department plans to set up a special task force to investigate this serial murder case."

Amuro Toru looked at the news on his notebook: "Who are the members of the task force expected to be?"

Yuya Kazami immediately replied, "There will be Investigation Section 1 and Investigation Section 4."

Investigation Section 1 is responsible for routine criminal cases, while Investigation Section 4 is responsible for crimes committed by gangs and violent groups. The deceased in the second case was related to the gang, so it is normal for them to investigate together.

"I understand... You keep paying attention, if everything is fine I'll hang up first."

"Okay, Mr. Furuya."

After hanging up the phone, Toru Amuro looked at the computer screen again. This time he clicked to enlarge the picture, which showed a familiar bush.

In fact, he was the first person to discover the body, but because of his current identity, he had to reduce contact with the police, so he did not call the police. He pretended that he did not see anything and got in the car and left.

The victims in both cases had natural red hair, and the method used in the second case was more sophisticated...

Toru Amuro breathed a sigh of relief. This type of criminal case was not under the jurisdiction of the public security. Even if it was serious enough that the public security needed to take over, he, an undercover agent, would not intervene.

"Buzz..."

The sudden vibration of his cell phone made him look startled. He held the cell phone used for organizational communication and opened it carefully.

[Investigate the foreign woman who recently appeared in the bar in the port area. She has red hair. Quick! ]

From: Rum.

Chapter 88 Red Square Classic Plot

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In October, the campus officially enters autumn.

An autumn breeze blew, and a few bright red maple leaves fell from the branches. In a practical classroom on the first floor of the campus, Toru Amuro closed the home economics textbook.

"That's all for today's class. You can practice it on your own when you go home. Be safe on your way home, and see you tomorrow."

"See you tomorrow, Mr. Amuro!"

This was the last class on Thursday afternoon. The students quickly cleaned up their desks, took their textbooks and homework for this class, and returned to the classroom on the third floor.

Toru Amuro noticed that a girl was taking a bit of time, so he went over to help.

The girl was startled: "Don't bother you, Mr. Amuro, I can clean it up myself."

"I remember you are the vice-president of the school music club. You will be organizing club activities later, right? It would be bad if you are late." Amuro Toru smiled and helped her tidy up.

The content of this home economics class was sewing. Toru Amuro taught them how to sew lunch bags. There were a lot of scraps of cloth on the table, and he swept these discarded scraps into the trash can one by one.

"Are you used to the home economics classes now?"

Amuro Toru suddenly asked.

"There's nothing to be uncomfortable with. Mr. Amuro, you are very patient and as good as my previous teachers!" The girl put away her sewing work and spoke highly of his class.

The previous home economics teacher in the general department was a female teacher. If she hadn't taken maternity leave and left a teaching position vacant, he would probably have only been able to enter the campus as a logistics staff member.

"My current home economics class and the recent few music classes are my favorite classes!" the girl added.

Amuro Toru's smile remained unchanged. As he packed up, he asked casually, "I remember that your recent music class was taught by Mr. Aoyagi from the International Department, right?"

"Yes." The girl nodded. "The original teacher is sick. Mr. Qingliu will take over until the end of the month."

The two of them worked much faster together, and the table was clean in the blink of an eye. However, the girl did not leave immediately. Instead, she looked at Amuro Toru hesitantly, with an expression as if she wanted to say something but stopped herself.

Seeing that she had something to say, Amuro Toru asked, "Anything else?"

"I heard from other girls in the class that you, Mr. Amuro, are friends with Mr. Aoyagi." The girl said, "Can you please ask Mr. Aoyagi if he is willing to be the instructor of the music club?"

Except for clubs with a more entertainment-oriented nature such as the Literature Club and the Film Appreciation Club, other clubs are generally guided by teachers on campus.

The FBI agent who went home right after school did have a very high level of music skills, but there was no way he could accept such troublesome extra work... Public Security Police Officer Toru Amuro thought so in his heart, but he agreed verbally.

"Okay, I'll ask him when I have time."

"Thank you, Mr. Amuro!"

The girl finally left happily, leaving Toru Amuro alone.

Amuro Toru checked the classroom and tidied up the places that some careless students had not cleaned up. After completing his work as a teacher, he closed the door and went to the music classroom upstairs.

As soon as he reached the fourth floor, he heard the smooth and beautiful sound of a piano coming from above. After walking a few steps up, he could hear someone singing along with it.

When Toru Amuro heard the tuneless singing, his body stiffened slightly.

This sound...how can I describe it? Even if it was the croaking of a frog pinched by a child on the street, or even if it was the recognized tone-deaf person of his generation, Jinpei Matsuda, he wouldn't be so completely out of tune.

Amuro Toru had already figured out who was singing the song. He endured the noise and went to the fifth floor. The door of the music classroom had a crack, and the sound was leaking from there.

He was lucky. As soon as he stood at the door, the piano and singing inside stopped.

Toru Amuro secretly breathed a sigh of relief and knocked on the door. Someone from inside said "Come in". After he opened the door, he saw Shinichi Kudo standing next to the piano.

Aoyagi Binkou was sitting behind the piano. He looked up and was stunned when he saw him.

Kudo Shinichi turned around and looked at him, also surprised: "Teacher Amuro, why are you here?"

Toru Amuro noticed that at the moment when Kudo Shinichi turned around to greet him, Aoyagi Akimichi raised his hands in the blind spot of his sight at lightning speed and took out the two earplugs from his ears.

Toru Amuro: "…………"

Kudo Shinichi is quite amazing to be able to make a vigilant FBI agent voluntarily cover his ears and not listen to the surrounding noises...

"I heard the voice outside and was curious about who was singing, so I came in to take a look... Kudo-kun, your singing voice is, well, quite rare."

Amuro Toru said something half-true and very tactful, and Kudo Shinichi scratched his head in embarrassment.

"Don't participate in the choir competition next week. Just stay by the side and play the violin as an accompaniment."

Aoyagi Akimitsu was much more straightforward. He made his comments without hesitation, then stood up and looked at Amuro Toru: "Is it urgent? If it's not urgent, I want to pack my things first."

"There's nothing urgent, go ahead and do your work."

So Toru Amuro naturally stayed in the music classroom.