Conan's grammatical investigator

Chapter 1471 Return to the Angel's Hall
From that day on, Rum's status rose rapidly.

He left Manniu's stock company and joined a giant company called "Kusuma Group".

Gradually, he also learned that the "Lord Karasuma" he met that day was the chairman of the Karasuma Group, Karasuma Renya.

In the political and business circles of Japan at that time, Karasuma Renya possessed immeasurable power and could almost be said to be the most powerful person in the whole of Japan.

And Rum also began to realize that the "huge empire" that President Karasuma mentioned at the beginning was not just the Karasuma Group.

Even all of Japan!

This is a great achievement that Rum never dared to imagine since he was born!
This made Rum work even more crazily for Karasuma Renye.

It was not until 47 years ago that Karasuma Renya voluntarily retired behind the scenes, and rumors began to spread that Karasuma Renya was in poor health.

Rum began to appear on stage in place of Karasuma Ren'ye to attend various events and make speeches in public.

This also formally established his position as the second-in-command of the organization.

Then 40 years ago, when Karasuma Ren'ya "died", Rum had the greatest decision-making power in the organization, and his position could no longer be shaken.

Rum even thought that Karasuma Renya might pass the No.1 position to him at any time.

This belief has lasted for 40 years.

Over the past 40 years, Rum rarely received orders from Karasuma Ren'ya, and all major and minor matters within the organization and group were basically decided by him.

He personally handled the crisis of Amanda's collaboration with the Japanese police 17 years ago and the crisis of the FBI undercover agent entering the organization two years ago.

It can be said that in order to successfully inherit this "huge empire" from Karasuma Renya, he worked very hard to manage it and did not dare to slack off at any time.

Fortunately, Lord Wu Wan gave him the anti-aging medicine, otherwise he would have died of overwork by now.

That's why Rum believes that pill is unique in the world.

Even if it is not unique, that kind of magical medicine should only be qualified to be taken by the owner of the "huge empire" and its future heirs.

In the future, Karasuma Renye will not only hand over the "huge empire" to him, but also the formula of that medicine.

Rum has always believed this in his heart.

Until recently, Ireland, who was undercover in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, sent back information that high school detective Shinichi Kudo was still alive.

Originally, Rum didn't care much about it. It was normal for grassroots members of the organization to occasionally make mistakes when killing people.

Just be more careful in your next life...

But when he checked the organization's data, he found that the one who killed Kudo Shinichi was Gin, the most capable of the younger generation in the organization.

The way to kill him was to use the organization's latest drug APTX-4869.

In order to recruit Gin to his own cause, Rum once met Gin with his true appearance to test his attitude.

But the result of that conversation was not ideal. Gin is a very stubborn person and he will only be loyal to the boss of the organization.

Although he couldn't recruit Gin under his command, Rum appreciated Gin a little more.

He neither believed that Gin deliberately let Kudo Shinichi run away, nor did he believe that Gin's ability was not enough to kill Kudo Shinichi.

The only possibility of problems is if the organization develops new APTX-4869.

According to the organization's internal plan, this drug is a new type of poison and its toxicity cannot be detected by any toxicology test.

Rum had used this drug on Amanda and Hiroshi Haneda 17 years ago.

But he didn’t understand why this drug was called a “new drug” again after 17 years?
And it has become impossible to kill Kudo Shinichi?
It was not until Rum turned the investigation to Kudo Shinichi that he finally found a clue.

At a dinner party among a certain aristocracy in London, England, Kudo Shinichi was photographed chatting and laughing with the aristocratic people.

Rum has been working in the organization for so many years and is very familiar with the financial movements of the Karasuma Group. He also knows something about Karasuma Ren'ye's life experience.

Part of the Karasuma Group's annual funds goes to this family.

This Kingston family seems to have some kinship with Karasuma Ren'ya himself, and may be a servant family dependent on Karasuma Ren'ya.

Kudo Shinichi was able to chat and laugh with the people in this family, and he survived even after taking a poison that was clearly lethal.

Gin, the most capable and loyal person in the organization, is still alive and well.

This made Rum think of a possibility.

The boss might be using him to achieve some purpose that he is not even aware of.

Ever since Karasuma Renya announced his "death" to the world, he has been in almost complete retreat, and has not been involved in the operation of the Karasuma Group and organization.

At first, Rum thought that life has its limits, and Karasuma Renya might have felt that the end was approaching and that he didn't have much time left, so he had no intention of managing these affairs.

But 40 years have passed, and Rum has never heard the news of Karasuma Renya's death.

Even his own father, the previous "Rum", died last winter.

You have to know that Isegawa Gozo was still in his prime at that time, while Karasuma Renya was a haggard old man.

Instead, it was Karasuma Renya who outlasted Isegawa Gozo, who was much younger than him.

Rum himself, who took anti-aging drugs, has grown from 30 years old to a man who looks nearly 60 years old.

Because of this, Rum felt that he might not survive Karasuma Renya.

If he can’t even live longer than Karasuma Renya, how can he be the heir to a “huge empire”?
Karasuma Renya is actually taking advantage of himself, commonly known as "painting a pie in the sky".

Or there is another possibility, that Karasuma Renya has died long ago, and someone is secretly controlling the entire organization, including himself, in the name of Karasuma Renya.

Whichever it was, Rum smelled a lie.

Karasuma Renya must be hiding something from me.

There must be secrets in the organization that even we ourselves are not aware of.

So, Rum ordered Bourbon to investigate the information about Kudo Shinichi and confirm whether this guy has any background.

On the other hand, he began to search all plans within the organization as well as related facilities and locations.

Finally, he actually found a place he hadn't noticed.

A ship under the name of Karasuma Group, on which the organization's "New Potential Laboratory" is set up.

Rum had never visited this place in person.

He simply connected to the system there remotely through the Internet and recruited Curacao, an excellent agent trained there.

There were two purposes for choosing to rescue Curacao from Vermouth.

First of all, he lacks loyal young subordinates. The new generation like Vermouth and Gin are all fans of the boss.

Although he could give them orders, they were not his confidants after all.

The second was the special ability of his left eye, which he had to give up in order to escape from the enemy.

It was also after that incident that Rum realized that it was very risky for him to appear in public as before.

So, he began to spread rumors about his image within the organization, and would not personally appear in the organization's tasks unless he could avoid doing so.

Even if you show up, you have to change into someone else's image.

But no matter how careful he was, the power lost in his left eye could not be recovered.

However, Curacao's abilities are similar to his own, and maybe he can help him restore the power of his eyes one day in the future.

Now Rum wants to investigate the information of the ship again, but finds that the database is empty.

Not only that, even his dedicated line could not connect to the ship's system.

In other words, the ship was completely out of the control of him, the second-in-command of the organization.

The only person in the entire organization who is capable of doing such a thing is No. 1, who is above him in status.

This further confirmed his previous guess that the boss was hiding something from him, the "successor".

Rum even thought of an even scarier possibility: Even the matter of the "heir" was a lie to him.

In order to further confirm his idea, Rum thought of an invasion incident reported many years ago.

At that time, the ship was still under his control, and the two invaders on board were Akai Tsutomu and Rachel Asaka.

Through the video footage sent back from the scene, Rum recognized Asaka's identity as Amanda's bodyguard.

Later, the two escaped from the ship. Although the organization sent out assassins, they only killed Akai Tsutomu.

Asaka's whereabouts have been unknown since then.

However, reports about the case of Hiroji Haneda have recently appeared on the Internet, which even included some details of the case that have not been disclosed by the police.

Rum felt something was suspicious, so he asked his men to investigate.

It turned out that the person who posted the message was an ordinary female teacher at Teitan Elementary School.

Adhering to the principle of rather killing someone innocently than letting them go, Rum sent Scotch to deal with the other party, but Scotch failed.

This surprised Rum and he realized that the other person might be Asaka from that year.

Considering the current predicament, if we want to know what secrets are on the ship, we can only ask Asaka who once dived onto the ship.

So, Rum took Curacao's eyes and took action himself.

After using his eyes to confirm that the female teacher Wakasa Rumi was none other than Asaka who was with Amanda back then, Rum set up a tight net.

Along the way, he also used his eyes to discover that "Sulli" from the organization was sneaking into the elementary school in her elementary school image.

Rum never showed mercy to traitors of the organization.

As for the situation on the ship, he wanted to ask Asaka in person.

He wanted to know what the boss was hiding from him?
But he never expected that Asaka actually had the ability to control his left eye!

Almost in an instant, he, who was extremely intelligent, understood everything.

From the beginning to the end, I was just a pawn that the boss found to realize other plans...

……

"Lord Rum, there is no one in the East Hall."

"No one in the West Building."

"No one in the South Pavilion."

"There's no one in the North Pavilion either..."

The voice from the intercom brought Rum's thoughts back to reality.

Rum turned his head and stared at the picture on the computer screen, only to see four of his men slowly approaching the main hall in the center.

"Open the door. I want to go to the main hall myself."

Suddenly, Rum gave a cold order into the intercom.

He didn't even use a voice changer because it was no longer necessary for him now.

"Yes."

There was a reply from the other end of the intercom.

Then Rum ordered the driver sitting in the front seat to drive.

The black Bentley slowly drove down the hillside and when it arrived at the gate of Angel House, it waited for less than ten seconds before the gate slowly opened.

The access control system here has backup power, so the power supply to the gate was not affected.

The Bentley slowly drove into the Angel's House and drove swaggeringly on the main road in the center of the manor.

Rum looked out the car window at the garden, recalling the scenes of his childhood playing here with his brothers and sisters.

If he had not chosen to take that pill, he would undoubtedly be the owner of this manor now.

When Isegawa Gozo passed away last year, Rum heard that he left behind a puzzle, and only those descendants who could solve the puzzle could inherit his entire estate.

According to the order of succession, Rum should have been the first to solve the puzzle.

But for Rum, nothing can stop him.

The wealth that Isegawa Tsuyoshi accumulated throughout his life was just a drop in the bucket of the Karasuma Group, or a brick of the wall of the Karasuma Renye family.

So he neither went back to visit the seriously ill Isegawa Gozo, nor participated in solving the puzzle.

But today is different from the past.

The issue of succession had fallen through, and his position as the second-in-command in the organization had become a thing of the past.

It was not until this moment that Rum began to regret that he had not used his power to build up a small treasury for himself.

After all, over the past few decades, he has always believed that he had taken anti-aging drugs and would be able to survive Karasuma Renye.

After Karasuma Renya dies, as the second-in-command of the organization, he will naturally inherit the entire organization.

Unfortunately, this ambition has now completely failed.

But fortunately, my father, Iseya Tsuyoshi, has money.

With this money, he can at least ensure that he will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of his life.

Even a comeback.

Although Isegawa Tsuyoshi's money is far less than that of the Karasuma Group, it is still far more than that of ordinary wealthy people.

The vehicle slowly drove through the terraced garden and finally stopped at the entrance of the main hall.

Four men wearing black suits, black hats and sunglasses were already waiting at the door.

One of them opened the back door and Rum got out of the car.

"go in."

"Go find a living person and solve the mystery left by Isegawa Gozo."

The corners of Rum's mouth rose slightly, revealing a sinister smile.

Surrounded by four men and a driver, Rum entered the main hall openly.

The main hall is also known as the Hall of the Barbarian Bull because there stands a huge statue of a barbarian bull in the center of the hall.

The bull symbolizes strength in the stock market and has very good meaning.

Therefore, the most common statues in the entire Angel Pavilion are those related to cows.

Rum stood with his hands behind his back, looking at the bull statue in front of him. He recalled himself climbing onto the head of the bull statue as a child, and couldn't help but snort.

The four men took the initiative to enter the museum and began searching.

A driver was accompanying Rum on the side and rear.

There was silence in the hall for a moment.

Suddenly, one of his men spoke over the intercom.

"Lord Rum! Found it!"

"I'm in the east collection room now!"

When Rum heard this, he immediately turned around and walked towards the collection room with the driver.

When he rushed to the collection room, he saw a little girl with twin ponytails having her hands tightly grasped by a man in black.

(End of this chapter)