Conan: I'm really not the mastermind behind the scenes

Chapter 153 Shattered to pieces and doomed
ended.

Kotomine Qiao Na thought calmly.

The room was dim, with only the lamp on the table emitting too dazzling light; she was handcuffed on the interrogation chair, and the person behind the table looked majestic, like the embodiment of justice.

He muttered something, but Kotomine Qiaona didn't pay attention.

All her attention was on her red hair.

The light shines on it, making the red color even brighter, like a handful of blood slowly pouring down.

She thought of some memories about her sister and her hair, and smiled.

This smile completely angered the person opposite.

"Jona Kotomine!"

The police officer in charge of the interrogation rushed to the scene and scolded her righteously: "You are now suspected of participating in serious illegal and criminal activities! Tell me everything you know honestly! Resistance will not end well!!"

Kotomine Qiao Na looked at him with an innocent look on her face: "It's a serious accusation, but I didn't kill anyone..."

"Snapped!"

A book was slapped heavily on the table.

The girl's smile on the cover of the book is sweet and cute, and the police's voice becomes more and more sharp: "What is your purpose of printing this kind of thing? Did some person or force instruct you to do this?!"

Kotomine Qiao Na looked at him steadily for a few seconds, then suddenly smiled.

"The power you are talking about refers to the place where Jianggu Ling is undercover?"

everything is over.

……

"Why are you arresting me?"

"I can swear that although I grew up in Mihua, I have never committed a crime since I was a child! My parents are also good people! I was at home this morning and stayed at the station in the afternoon. I didn't go anywhere else!"

"There are surveillance cameras in the corridors of the apartment I rent and next to the station. You can check! Mr. Police, please trust me!!"

In another interrogation room, a young man in his early twenties and wearing casual clothes sat on the interrogation chair. His face was full of grievances and his eyes were red.

He didn't know why he was caught.

He is a student at Didan University and joined the animation club as soon as he entered school.

Their club often participates in comic exhibition activities, sometimes taking the works of club members, sometimes participating for some painters or writers who have no time. The agency fee depends on the distance and the number of items, and this fee will become the club's activity funds.

There were no large comic exhibitions in the past two weeks, so they were relatively free, but a few days ago, a woman suddenly contacted them and wanted to entrust them to promote a batch of personal magazines.

The location is in front of various high-traffic stations in Tokyo, displaying these personal magazines like a stall at a comic exhibition, but there is no charge, and in order to speed up the promotion, water and food are even given as gifts.

Excluding those who asked for leave, there were 33 people in his club who could go out to help with promotions. He happened to have more people in each group of two, so he contracted a station alone.

It's just that he had some "problem" today. Because there was no one to rush him, he overslept. He didn't wake up until he received a call from someone else in the afternoon. He hurriedly drove to Mihua Station to set up a stall, but before he finished delivering, he was Arrested into the Metropolitan Police Department.

What crime did he commit?What he promotes is books, not bombs or potassium cyanide! ——The criminals who really promoted bombs may not be caught so quickly, right? ! ?

After hearing the student's words, the two people in charge of the interrogation looked at each other, and one of them picked up a personal journal.

"Do you know what's printed inside?"

The student was even more unjust: "Of course I know! Everyone in our club has seen it! But...but..."

"...Is there anything wrong with those contents?"

When they first heard the woman's request, the club members were all shocked. This was the first time they had seen such completely backward behavior.

Some people were worried that it was a liar, and more people were worried that it was illegal, such as reading from an evil X organization, so after the manuscript and sample issue came over, they read it carefully.

After reading it, I found out that it was the daily life of a police academy student.

There is just a little too much description of their appearance. The author always spends a lot of time describing how handsome they look.

Someone in the club recognized the girl on the cover as Tooka Hojo, and then they learned that she was controversial because the reasoning techniques in the novel could be realized. After that, they went to ask the client, and the client generously admitted it after paying the money.

——[Yes, it’s her.Since she could no longer write mysteries, she began to write stories about the police officers who were originally used as foils in the mysteries. 】

——[It's a pity that she has received so much criticism that it is difficult to publish her works normally... As her supporter, I want to help her, and I hope more people can see the new stories she has worked hard to write. 】

When the college students finished reminiscing, they felt more aggrieved and puzzled.

"It's a story about a police academy student. Except for a clown who you can tell at a glance and was deliberately written as a foil, the other five are all excellent!"

"There is not a single word in it to discredit the government, it is all about praising you police officers!! What is wrong with such content?!"

The students defended loudly.

He doesn't understand.

If the content contains deliberately slanderous content, it would be normal for them to be arrested, but these stories are all positive.

If this doesn't work, then all the novels on the market that feature police officers will have to be killed, right? !

……

Outside the interrogation room, Zhu Fu Jingguang leaned on crutches and picked up a book from the confiscated box that was exactly the same as the one given to him by Anicet.

The book was turned to one of the pages——

"Who is it? Knocking on the door at this time...it's already 02:30 in the middle of the night..."

"Sorry, I've run out of band-aids. If you have any, can you share some with me?"

"What's the matter with your injury? This can't be solved with a band-aid?"

"It's just that someone provoked me and I fought back..."

The words on the book are trembling.

Zhu Fu Jingguang's hand holding the book was shaking violently uncontrollably.

Even though he had been infiltrating the organization for several years, even when the undercover identity was confirmed and exposed, even when he watched the outside guard looking for him everywhere with a bloody knife... he was not as horrified as he was now.

In the past few years, Zhu Fu Jingguang's memory was a little blurry, but he still knew very well where these conversations came from.

This was the conversation that took place when Zero and Matsuda came to find him at the dormitory door after they had just entered the police academy.

——Almost word for word.

Zhu Fu Jingguang felt that the blood in his body turned into ice and flowed along the blood vessels to his limbs and bones, and his whole body began to tremble.

His fingers loosened and the book fell to the floor.He stared at it blankly, his whole body like a piece of rotten wood that was about to decay.

Kazami Yuya held the book and was equally dumbfounded when he saw the content.He raised his head to look at the two people around him, and saw Kuroda Bie suddenly pushing open the interrogation room where Kotomine Joanna was being held.

As a result, the three of them heard that sentence together.

Zhu Fu Jingguang finally reacted. He no longer trembled, but raised his head again at a speed that almost broke his neck and looked at the woman whose name was mentioned.

Noticing his eyes, Kazami Yuya trembled. ——At this moment, he suspected that the person standing next to him was not Zhu Fu Jingguang, but Scotch Whiskey, a real member of the organization who would never be merciful.

Seeing the door open, the woman being interrogated also turned her head and looked over.

The red hair was as bold as fire, and the face looked exactly like an innocent person the undercover had to kill in the past.

"Looking at your reactions...it turns out he really went undercover?" she said.

"Then is he going to be exposed now?"

The look on her face was one of excitement.

……

Zhu Fu Jingguang looked at Yanfeng Qiaona.

She knew him. When they rescued Kina Kotomine, she was very excited. With tears of gratitude in her eyes, she thanked them one by one and asked them their names one by one, which made them all embarrassed.

There was only hatred and anger in those eyes now.

Zhu Fu Jingguang didn't know what the expression was on his face at this time. He bent down to pick up the book again - it was a bit difficult for him with a broken leg - he had many things to ask, but his mind was in a mess and there was no sound. Can't send it out.

"Why do you know this?" Kuroda Bingwei asked coldly.

Normally, his face can put a lot of psychological pressure on the suspect, but Kotomine Qiao Na didn't seem to be afraid at all: "You guys told me."

The others froze for a moment.

"When I first saw the death message 0 on my sister's palm, I didn't think about being an undercover agent at all. What I thought was that Rei Fangtani was an ordinary policeman or engaged in other jobs, and he and Baijiu jointly killed people and defrauded bail."

She looked at Zhu Fu Jingguang and frowned, and continued: "But your subsequent actions made me realize that this was not the case."

"The police used his girlfriend as bait and found out after her death that she had bought high insurance for him... Even if she had signed a risk notification letter beforehand, this kind of thing was enough to arouse public opinion. Was it done by one policeman or two people working together? , there is no difference at all.”

"This case that seriously smeared the image of the police should be solved as soon as possible, but you only pushed Baijiu out and said nothing about the other person mentioned in the death message. You also detained the body for many days and did not allow us to take it back for burial, and even followed it and monitored it. us……"

"I guessed at that time that you knew who the murderer was, but you chose to cover him up and didn't want me to investigate."

"Except for the eldest young men from chaebols or officials, the only people who get this kind of treatment are the undercover agents sent out, right?"

She smiled, and her smile looked like it was poisoned.

The police officers present were speechless for a moment.

They were just doing the usual things, but they didn't expect that their identities would be reversely confirmed because of this action...

Feng Jian Yuya clenched his fists even more.

How could he forget?The Joanna Kotomine in front of me is a reporter - the perverted newspaper scientist who was undercover to kill her parents, failed to appeal again and again, and was later monitored by the police for a long time. The report about his deeds was written by Joanna Kotomine!
"So by printing this and promoting it to the outside world, it's... revenge on him?"

Kotomine Qiaona looked at Zhufu Jingguang who finally spoke.

He had a complicated expression on his face and his fingers were tightly holding the book. She looked at his appearance and smiled softly.

"Yeah. I'm just taking revenge on him."

She looked at Zhu Fu Jingguang's trembling eyes, and her tone became gentler.

"I know it's not easy being undercover."

"Every day is suffering, walking on a knife's edge, always worried about being exposed. Once exposed, family and friends will be killed... They are heroes in the darkness, working hard for the interests and future of more people..."

She detailed the difficulties of being an undercover agent and then changed her tone.

"But what does that have to do with me?"

"——He killed my relatives, and I will make him pay the price."

Tokugawa, the police officer in charge of interrogating her and Morofushi Kagemitsu's boss, stood up and glared at her: "Zhufu is innocent! It's Feng Gu you want to take revenge on for dragging him in while being innocent!!"

Kotomine Qiao Na looked completely guilt-free.

"So what? My sister is equally innocent."

"I'm sitting here now, and it's me who paid the price for my involvement in the innocent - what about him? When will he pay his price?"

In her voice, the place was as dead as a tomb.

……

Killing is not the best means of revenge.

Some people in the world are afraid of death, and some are not.For those who are not afraid of death, killing them is not about revenge at all. You have to attack what they really care about.

For undercover agents, those who have been exposed are afraid of retaliation, and those who are still lurking are afraid of being exposed. Therefore, Kotomine Qiao Na's way of revenge is to destroy his identity.

Toyoka Hojo asked her to print [-] copies. She spent her own money to print a total of [-] copies and found people to promote them at major stations.

She didn’t care whether the person getting the book was an office worker, a student, or a housewife;

She doesn't care whether they throw it away and read it carefully after getting it, or whether they will recommend it to others after reading it.

All she wants is for these books to be circulated in large numbers and fall into the hands of all kinds of people.The undercover wanted to remain anonymous and unknown, so she made him known to everyone.

She couldn't be as extreme as that scientist, affecting the safety and lives of innocent people - she wanted to turn them, the ones he wanted to protect, into hidden dangers that would detonate him at some point.

……

Zhu Fu Jingguang closed his eyes in pain.

I got the book today, but the typesetting, printing and writing of these articles must have taken place much earlier.

He remembered the time Anicet had complimented him on his appearance.

He ridiculously thought that she had a crush on him, but he didn't expect that she was doubting him at that time.

He could still smile when facing an undercover agent without showing any malice, and he could drink with him naturally, be alone with him, hold his arm... It was really scary, unlike Gin...

Kuroda Bingwei made more command arrangements beside Morofushi Kagemitsu.

He asked people to check Kotomine Qiao Na's mobile phone to see if she had any contact with members of the organization; he contacted the public security officer responsible for monitoring her to find out why he did not find anything unusual about her; he asked the author Tobita Hojo to see if she was alive and investigate. Why did she know the story of the two undercover police officers in the academy; and then find Baijiu who accidentally detonated the bomb today...

Only at the end did he mention Jianggu Ling.

"Notify Jianggu for emergency evacuation."

Just one line of words stripped away all the remaining strength from Zhu Fu Jingguang.

He knew very well that the organization was just suspicious before the plan started, and it was impossible to determine his identity based on the description of his appearance in the novel... It was only when he agreed to save the congressman and carry out the suspended death plan with the police that he confirmed his identity as an undercover agent.

He was exposed because he wanted to save people.

But ZERO is different. He was exposed, or had to evacuate, because he refused to save an innocent person, and even killed him, inciting revenge from his relatives.

As an undercover agent, it seems wrong to save people or not to save them.

Save people and break them into pieces;
——If you don’t save it, you will never recover.

(End of this chapter)