Conan: I'm Really Not the Manipulator

The unprecedented surging voices from all directions flooded into Baijiu's brain in just a few seconds.

He was almost unsteady on his feet, and he looked around, trying to find some of the people who had supported his decoy plan last time.

——【Can this finally be over?】

The colleague who thought so last time sighed at this time.

[Insurance fraud? No wonder he was so eager to send his girlfriend to do this kind of thing...]

Baijiu turned to another one.

——【Hurry up and agree. What is Matsuda doing? Does he want to keep going like this?... He wants to continue. I've had enough...】

The colleague who had silently supported him last time covered his face in pain.

"What the hell are you doing? This shouldn't have happened..." His voice sounded so guilty that he almost cried.

Baijiu couldn't say anything.

No, he still spoke, but his voice sounded like someone else was speaking with his mouth: "I didn't. I didn't know she bought insurance. And I was at the Metropolitan Police Department when she died."

"You don't have time, but you can cooperate with others!"

Kotomine Jonah took another step forward, her voice sharp.

"My sister struggled for a long time before she died..." She said this with difficulty, tears streaming down her face. Everyone else heard it clearly, and she shouted again, "But she also saw the murderer's face and left a message!"

Matsuda Jinpei realized what she was about to say, and his expression suddenly changed - Baijiu had never seen him look so ugly - he reached out to cover her mouth.

"Zero (Rei)!"

She shouted, staring at Baijiu with her eyes wide open.

"Among your friends, there is someone with this name, right?!!"

The whispers at the scene grew louder.

Baijiu was stunned: "Zero..."

"Hey!!" Jinpei Matsuda shouted in a low voice.

"Dong dong dong."

There was a sudden rhythmic knock on the door.

Baijiu turned his head and saw a man wearing an olive-colored suit, sparse eyebrows and a pair of dark glasses standing at the door, with several people following behind him.

"Thank you all for your hard work these days," he said to them politely.

"——The next task will be taken over by the public security department."

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In the evening, outside a izakaya, Toru Amuro listened to Yuya Kazami's retelling.

Without much hesitation, the undercover police officer issued orders to his direct subordinates.

"Monitor her every move." He said calmly, and after thinking for a moment, he added: "Imprison her if necessary."

He had met the four members of Kotomine's family a few years ago and knew that Kotomine Jona was a journalist. This year, she also wrote a report that caused a sensation in Japan and aroused heated discussion in society.

If such a person with a certain amount of public influence and connections insisted on investigating, it would cause considerable trouble, especially since she had seen him in person and knew his appearance and real name.

...And now he absolutely cannot be exposed.

"clear."

Feng Jianyu didn't question it at all and hung up the phone after saying it.

Toru Amuro put his phone away and got out of the car. When he opened the door of the izakaya, he had already put on the gentle smile of a good teacher in school.

"Sorry to keep everyone waiting."

The teachers from Minato Ward's junior high schools who were having a gathering with colleagues at a pub all said that everything was fine.

Aoyagi Hiromitsu, who was sitting at the bar closest to the TV, put down his small wine glass with a smile and said, "The yakitori and daifuku here are good."

Amuro Toru sat down beside him naturally: "Really? Then I'll order one too."

Chapter 102: Undercover (Part )

This is a typical Japanese izakaya.

There is a row of high chairs in front of the bar, behind which you can see the busy figures of the boss and the staff. On the other side of the room is a tatami mat with three square tables that can seat more people.

The izakaya was basically occupied by teachers from Minato Middle School who came to participate in the party. There were about twenty people, including Aoyagi Akimitsu, who had never participated in such activities before.

The volume on the TV was quite high, and a funny variety show was playing.

It wasn't a news program, which made Toru Amuro feel a little relieved.

"Would you like something to drink?" the boss behind the bar asked after he sat down.

"A cup of oolong tea will do."

Toru Amuro asked for leave during the day due to toothache. Naturally, he would not touch alcohol, spicy or sweet food at this time to avoid arousing suspicion from people around him.

The boss asked his staff to pour the tea and bring it over. Amuro Toru took it and picked up the menu on the side.

He noticed the empty space on Aoyagi Binguang's shoulders and asked casually, "Didn't you bring your pet rabbit?"

"I leave it to look after the house." Aoyagi Binguang replied.

Amuro Toru recalled the theft incident and continued to ask, "I saw on the news not long ago that several high-end towers in the port area seemed to have been thieves?"

"The building I rented is one of them." After saying this, Aoyagi Binguang couldn't help but complain: "My house wasn't robbed, but my neighbor's house was robbed. The thief hasn't been caught yet. The Japanese police are simply incompetent..."

Amuro Toru restrained himself and maintained a polite smile.

"Anuro, Aoliu."

At a table not far behind them, a senior academic dean put down his beer glass and shouted to them, "Come here, both of you. What are you doing sitting there alone?"

Toru Amuro felt a little helpless.

After becoming a teacher, he rarely missed these time-wasting dinners because this was the working environment in Japan.

——If you don’t participate for a few times, you will be considered as a loner. If you are considered a loner, you will be excluded. If you are excluded, you won’t be able to ask questions.

Aoyagi Binguang didn't move at all. Amuro Toru lowered his voice to remind him, "Teacher Aoyagi, let's go over there. Even if you don't like it, you have to bear with it for now."

Aoyagi Binkou looked at him, then turned back to look at where the Dean of Academic Affairs was sitting.

I don’t know if it was because he saw someone who interested him, or if Amuro Toru’s words had an effect, but he actually stood up, picked up the wine glass and sat down.

Toru Amuro ordered the yakitori platter that Aoyagi Akimichi had mentioned earlier, walked over, and still sat next to Aoyagi Akimichi.

In addition to the senior academic dean, the other people at the table were second-grade teachers. One of them was particularly eye-catching because she had a bulging belly and was a pregnant woman.

Toru Amuro felt that she looked familiar, but he was sure that he had never met her in school before.

"Qingliu, you actually came to this party." A Chinese teacher looked at Qingliu Binguang curiously, "Is this your first time? You always refused before."

"I was shocked, too."

Another female teacher in charge of teaching mathematics added: "By the way, let me introduce you. This is Ms. Hoshino. She is currently pregnant and recuperating at home. Since her home is very close to here, we called her here. One of these two is Toru Amuro and the other is Aoyagi Akiko. Ms. Aoyagi is American."

When he heard about the pregnancy, Toru Amuro finally remembered who the girl was. She was the home economics teacher who taught second grade before, and he was the one who filled the vacancy left by the girl while she was recuperating at home.

"So you're my senior." Amuro Toru smiled modestly, "Hello, I'm Amuro Toru, and I'm currently the home economics teacher in the general department."

"I'm the music teacher in the international department." Aoyagi Binguang didn't say his name, but simply stated his position.

"International Department..." The pregnant teacher smiled. "I've taught for them before. There are a lot of Russian children. By the way, will you join the school trip to Moscow at the beginning of next month?"

"meeting."

Aoyagi Binkou said this with certainty.

Toru Amuro glanced at his expression out of the corner of his eye and was not surprised by the answer.

……

Nearly two months after receiving this task, although it was a bit troublesome at the beginning, Toru Amuro still found out the purpose of Aoyagi Akimitsu's visit to Japan.

Aoyagi Akimitsu was fluent in Japanese and had some understanding of Japanese culture, but he never accepted dinner parties and was not at all worried about being excluded. At that time, he guessed that the other party's target was not teachers or other faculty members, but students.

This is indeed the case.

After the Red Hair Serial Murders, some foreign parents came to pick up their children out of concern. On the day when he invited Aoyagi Akiko to drink, Amuro Toru noticed Aoyagi Akiko staring at a student and her parents at the door, and that night when he went home, he asked Kazami Yuya to check.

Ireneka Labruncheva, the aunt of second-grade student Labruncheva, is the head of the civil organization "Nada Unichi Tokit".

This is not a terrorist organization, all its members are victims of an international killer named Pramiya, who was previously active in Europe and received a "big order" in the United States this year - he killed a congressman in the street, and many people were affected, and then fled to Japan.

One of the FBI's duties is to investigate terrorist activities within the United States, and they are definitely responsible for such a tragic bombing with casualties.

As for why the FBI did not notify the Japanese police, telling them that a bomb-killing psychopath who had killed countless people had come to Japan and asked them to help arrest him, but instead sent agents with higher military power to conduct a cross-border investigation directly...

Although he was very unhappy, Toru Amuro had to admit that this was very normal given the American style of arrogance and disregard for the dignity of others.

Aoyagi Akimichi entered Minato Middle School and approached the leader's niece. His purpose was easy to guess. This was the first time the FBI encountered a crime committed by Pramiya, and the intelligence they had was far less than that of the civilian organization. He wanted to find someone through them.

Although he seems to be not giving orders to others, he is secretly using the power of others to achieve his own goals...

This style is very despicable, very American, and very FBI.

Recently, a Russian official received a death notice, and Erenika's brother went to Moscow. Perhaps Aoyagi Akimichi thought that it would be Pramya who would take the order this time, so he wanted to follow him.

While Toru Amuro was thinking about this organizational mission and when and how to report it to Rum, his tablemates had already changed the topic.

The math teacher touched the bulging belly and said, "I remember you are seven months pregnant... My sister's belly didn't seem to be this big when she was pregnant this month."

The pregnant woman said embarrassedly: "It's twins."

"No wonder." The math teacher was surprised, and then asked worriedly: "It is more difficult to give birth to twins. Have you found a good hospital?"

The single male Chinese teacher was stunned for a moment: "Are twins so hard?"

"Yes."

To Amuro Toru's surprise, this time it was Aoyagi Akimitsu who answered.