Conan: I'm Really Not the Manipulator

"Jonah, your lunch."

The door slowly opened, revealing the face of Kotomine Jonah.

She looked like she hadn't closed her eyes for several days. Her eyes were bloodshot and her face was as pale as a skeleton. She looked even more haggard than her father and bedridden mother.

When Mr. Kotomine saw that face, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, but he quickly retracted his gaze: "Eat a little, this is your favorite food."

Kotomine Jonah whispered a thank you and then retreated back into the room.

This is Kotomine China's room.

There were many Kamen Rider figures on the desk and cabinets, and precious colored papers hung on the walls. Everything looked exactly the same as before, except that all the mirrors had been taken away.

Kotomine Joanna put her lunch on the computer desk, sat quietly back on her sister's bed, and continued to read the open diary.

There were several thick diaries on the bed, all belonging to her sister, recording every detail from the time she met Baijiu to the time she became bait.

As Kotomine Joanna looked at those beautiful lines of text, her brain and heart ached sharply at the same time.

She knew she should rest. Not getting enough sleep for several days made her extremely tired mentally. If she continued to endure it, her body would collapse first.

But she didn't want to sleep. There were many things she had to figure out.

As a reporter, Kotomine Joanna has dealt with the police many times and she is very familiar with the case handling process.

In ordinary homicide cases, even if the police were responsible, the body would be returned to the family for burial after the autopsy is completed, instead of being kept in the Metropolitan Police Department as is the case now.

This is not normal.

There must be something hidden here.

Kotomine Joanna put down the book in her hand, picked up another one, opened it, and turned to the page with the bookmark. While flipping through the diary, she looked up and looked out the window.

The window was opened a little, and the sky outside was an endless blue. It was clearly noon, but not a single ray of sunlight came in.

Although she was in great pain, Kotomine Joanna was not indifferent. Last night, she went out to buy medicine for her mother, and she found that someone was following her.

There was no mistake. She had received threatening letters a few months ago because of the drug case report she had written, and she had also been stalked during that period, but this time the stalker was not as skilled as the previous ones.

Kotomine Jonah held the diary in her hand, her heart pounding.

I don’t know if it was because my heart was protesting from not resting for a long time, or if some guess was hitting her chest hard, trying to break out.

She closed her diary, quickly finished her lunch, went downstairs to put away the dishes, and took care of today's housework - she was not a child, she also had to take care of her equally grieving parents.

She didn't see that shortly after she left the room, a small snake slipped in through the gap in the window.

The little snake crawled along the window sill to the table, and then slowly crawled all the way to the bed.

It crawled to the diary that she had just flipped through, and gently raised its head. Instead of opening the book, it carefully entered the page with a bookmark that she had just read.

——Shuyue-kun told me that their squad leader, Furuya-kun, went out to buy things at night and experienced a convenience store robbery. Fortunately, with their cooperation, no hostages were injured or killed...

The little snake looked at this and hissed and stuck out its tongue.

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Qingliu Binguang still brewed a cup of Baihao Yinzhen tea today.

In order to try whether tea could create new flavors like wine, he also added some Bamboo Leaf Green Tea into it.

But maybe he was not good at tasting tea, or the two kinds of tea were not suitable to be put together, he couldn't taste any difference.

He wasn't disappointed at all, he just rested his chin lightly on his fingers, thinking about the information he got from the little snake that was spying on Kotomine's house.

He stared at Kotomine's house, and at first he just wanted to see if Bourbon would go there, but unexpectedly, he found that Kotomine China's funeral was not held and someone was monitoring the place.

This surprised him.

There can be many reasons for not holding a funeral immediately, such as being unable to afford the funeral expenses, the family's emotions not being stable yet, or the crematorium not being booked yet... But the fact that the victim's family is being monitored, especially by official agencies, is intriguing.

Are you worried that the family members will cause trouble and affect the reputation of the Metropolitan Police Department?

The news that the police plan failed and the bait died has spread throughout Japan. A few days ago, reporters came to surround Kotomine's house. Their reputation has long been ruined.

And those people were not ordinary policemen, but public security officers - he had Snake hiding nearby and eavesdropped on their conversations.

Is that because Bourbon is worried that the organization will wipe out the entire organization, so he sends people to protect it?

It's even more impossible, because the organizations and undercover agents he knows are not that idle.

Or……

Are they afraid that their family members may contact certain people or do something that will seriously affect their interests?

Aoyagi Akimichi took a sip of tea, put down the cup, then opened the chat app on his mobile phone and entered the fan chat room of Hojo Touka.

This chat room is a branch of the largest social networking service platform in the United States. It is famous for its high security, difficulty in being hacked, and focus on protecting user privacy.

Even if a Trojan virus is implanted, the information inside cannot be received remotely. If you want to see it, you can only use your account and password. At the same time, the software will be bound to the device from the moment it is downloaded, and it will be locked when logged in by other devices. Even if it is unlocked through a series of processes, it will still leave records that cannot be deleted.

Of course, that’s all later. The police haven’t discovered this place yet.

They had no idea that there was a so-called genius beautiful girl writer who had sold them out completely, even telling others that she had hurt herself on purpose to meet her first love when she was a child.

There are not many people online in the chat room at the moment. As soon as Aoyagi Akimitsu logged in, he received a private message from Hojo Toika.

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The 0 on the palm has nothing to do with the protagonist. It's because Kotomine China herself is worried that Amuro Toru has turned bad, and she's trying hard to remind Hakubato.

Chapter 108 The Meaning of the Name

In a single-family building in Minato Ward, Hojo Tobira sat dryly on a computer chair, staring angrily ahead.

Her face looked grim and her lips were tightly pursed. Even though she had turned off the teammate group chat, Gluttony's curse on her was still lingering in her mind, making her very angry.

Calm down, calm down... There's no need to pay attention to that selfish, foul-mouthed rubbish...

She kept reminding herself this, and then she noticed that the allies group was also flashing. When she opened it, she saw the request for help from Baijiu.

This made Hojo Toika feel even worse.

[Arrogant: What are you doing? Why were you suspended all of a sudden?! Why did this happen when Matsuda was about to die? You did it on purpose, didn't you?!]

In one week, it will be November. Matsuda will be killed on November 11th, only two weeks left! And in one month, it will be Kagemitsu's death!

Even she was planning to stop updating after finishing the next extra chapter about the police academy team, so as to make time to rescue them. However, Bai Jiu, who had more resources and was the main force in the rescue, unexpectedly went wrong at this critical moment!

[Jealous: I'm sorry, I didn't mean it. It was because I failed in the last mission that they thought it was all my fault.]

When seeing the mission, Hojo Toika remembered that she went shopping a few days ago. She wanted to summon him to come and help carry things, but he said he had a mission and couldn't come.

【Arrogance: Trash.】

Hojo Toika was dissatisfied and her tone was even worse. The anger that she couldn't vent on her teammates was now directed at her allies.

[Arrogant: I've been watching Conan for so long, and I've never seen a few police officers being suspended for investigation because of mission failure. Even in the mountain village, there were so many mistakes and everything was fine. Are you worse than them? ]

[Arrogant: No wonder you haven't been promoted to police inspector yet. ]

【Jealous: I’m sorry.】

[Arrogant: It's my bad luck to have an ally like you. ]

【Jealous: I’m sorry.】

[Jealous: I'm sorry, I'm really sorry...but you really have to help me, I can only rely on you now.]

[Arrogant: You are so annoying. You can’t do anything for me and you only cause trouble for me…]

She scolded him severely, and felt much better. Then she said: "Okay, okay, stop apologizing. I will find time to come to the Metropolitan Police Department."

Such a cowardly guy is actually on the red team. He is not even as good as Zero, Matsuda and the others.

In response to Baijiu's repeated thanks, Hojo Toika closed the system pop-up window, then turned on the computer and logged into the fan chat room.

When the Police Academy extra-story began to be serialized, she told fans that she would write five chapters. Now four have been completed, with only the last one left.

Because her favorability towards the class monitor is average, Hojo Toika temporarily skips the convenience store robbery case and wants to summarize it in the last article, writing that they go their separate ways - one goes to the investigation class, two go to the explosive ordnance disposal class, and two go undercover - and collects information online for this purpose.

She saw the report on the drug case while looking up information. She usually doesn't pay much attention to the news, either in reality or in the current game.

There were only a few people in the chat room. Hojo Toika looked at the time and waited for a while. When Artemis came online, she immediately went over to chat with him privately.

Compared with teammates who are foul-mouthed and allies who are more likely to cause trouble than accomplish anything, fans, especially the fan in front of him, are so likable.

She was never unhappy when talking to him.Just like her parents in reality, she seemed to be pampered and even pampered without any bottom line.

So now she would go to him whenever she had any problems. Who would dislike someone who is so comfortable to get along with?

[84 Passerby: I’m having a bit of a writer’s block on the fifth article. I wanted to write a summary, but after looking up a lot of information, I still can’t write it.]

In fact, it was the same when she was serializing detective cases before. She was very good at writing cases, from the occurrence of the crime to the solving of the case in one go. But when it came to writing love plots, she was scratching her head and had to read other romance novels and girls' comics to learn and imitate.

[Artemis: Do you want to continue writing personal stories? Among the five members, only the squad leader does not have his own story. ]

[84 Passerby: I originally wanted to write a convenience store robbery story for him, but...]

Hojo Iris was stuck.

It’s not that the story was not interesting, she also remembered the complete plot, but her impression of the class monitor was really average, so she didn’t want to waste time writing it.

But now, she couldn't think of any other story...

Artemis on the other side remained silent for a long time, not knowing what she was thinking.

Hojo Tobiko was waiting for Artemis to speak, and her eyes suddenly fell on the long foreign website name.

Japanese likes to use Katakana when translating foreign words (foreign place names, etc.). The correct English name for Artemis is Artemis, and the most commonly used translation in Chinese is Artemis.

This is a moon god in Greek mythology who has a twin brother. In addition to the moon, he is also in charge of hunting.

She was curious about why he chose such a feminine online name, and even suspected that the person on the other end was a gentle young lady pretending to be a man online.

[Artemis: Convenience store robbery? It feels like it will be an interesting story...]

……

The next day at noon, Hojo Toika was on her way to the Fuchu City Metropolitan Police School.

She talked to Artemis for a long time yesterday, and finally gave up writing the summary and went to write about the convenience store case, because it was fair to give each of the five people a story.