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

8pm, Osaka Prefectural Police Headquarters.

Rena Mizunashi came out of the door and just reached the intersection, she saw a car parked there. A colleague from the TV station was standing beside the car and waving to her.

She was a little surprised. She quickly looked up at the top of a nearby high-rise building, quickened her pace and walked over to ask, "Why are you here?"

"My senior received a call from the Osaka police saying they were going to release the person. He was worried that you didn't know where we were living, so he asked me to pick you up." The colleague looked at her sympathetically, "Okay, get in the car."

Mizuno Rena hesitated for a moment, but finally, at the urging of her colleagues, she opened the passenger door and sat in.

His colleague went around to the other side to get in the car. He fastened his seat belt and turned around to see Rena Mizunashi leaning straight against the chair. He was stunned at first, then sighed.

"You are so unlucky that something like this happened to you."

Mizunashi Reina listened carefully to see if his tone was different from usual, and asked cautiously, "What did the station say about what happened today?"

"Don't worry." The colleague thought she was worried about her job and hurried to comfort her, "The seniors and the heads of several other departments were shocked when they found out that an international assassin had infiltrated. They all know you are innocent."

"Because the case this morning may involve the Suzuki Group, the matter has been temporarily suppressed, and only a few people know that you are a suspect. This is your 'luck'. If the media broke the news that you were taken away, even if it was clarified in time afterwards, you would not be able to continue working at Nichimei."

At this point, my colleague grabbed his hair in distress.

"It's just that the response to today's show was very bad. Although the senior found someone to replace you, that person's level was too rubbish and the audience didn't buy it at all. I'm afraid we will lose our bonus this month."

"I'm so sorry." Mizunashi Rena looked apologetic, "It's all my fault that I dragged you down."

"Alas, this is not your fault..."

The car started quickly.

This ordinary-looking car drove steadily for some distance. After passing the museum next door, Rena Mizunashi's tense body finally relaxed.

My colleague felt the silence in the car was boring and turned on the car radio.

A piece of news came out:
"This morning, a major criminal case occurred in Osaka. The suspect is a foreign male in his early thirties with a spider tattoo on his face. He has now fled to the vicinity of Yokosuka Port in Tokyo. The police are now conducting a sea search..."

"We were just talking about him, but he actually escaped from the police." The colleague sighed again, "I hope they catch him soon."

Mizunashi Rena did not answer.

She reached into her handbag and touched the cell phone she had just retrieved from the Osaka police, which had just vibrated slightly.

The temperature inside the car was not high, but a thin layer of sweat still appeared on Rena Mizuno's back.

Although she had been cleared of murder suspicion, a greater crisis appeared before her eyes——

How should she explain to Gin what happened today?

……

In a corner of Tokyo, people in a car were also paying attention to this incident.

Before Gin could wait for Gil's reply, the sound of a news video playing on a laptop rang out in the car, and there was also the sound of someone in the next seat tapping on the screen of his phone.

Aoyagi Binguang finished sending the email and was about to put away his phone when Gin next to him asked in a scathing tone, "Are you contacting William again?"

"Yes."

Aoyagi Hikari responded generously, closing the cover of the notebook on his lap: "After all, it was me who brought him into the organization, and I should be responsible for him before he dies."

Gin didn't comment on their special relationship, but directly asked about what happened in the morning: "What's going on with Kiel?"

Today Gin had no tasks, which was rare. However, just when he got up and wanted to look through the information of suspicious persons to find something to do, Aoyagi Akimitsu suddenly sent him an email.

[One of my former colleagues has approached Keel, please do not contact her for now. PS: Do not contact me before 6pm either. ]

Recalling the content of the email, Gin's temple throbbed again, and the look in his eyes as he looked at Aoyagi Binkou became more murderous.

"You could have dealt with them earlier, but you ignored the situation and even let her fall into the hands of the cops for nearly a day."

To a certain extent, Gin trusts Aoyagi Akiko very much, trusts his abilities, and even more trusts his character - he is definitely capable of pushing others off the platform and observing how they deal with the oncoming vehicles and how long it takes for each of them to respond, even if they have no grudges against each other before.

Aoyagi Akiko could see Gin's suspicion of him.

He took back his phone and said helplessly: "It has nothing to do with me this time. I didn't expect the spider to choose her by chance, but..."

He paused, and under Gin's cold gaze of "It's like this again", he slowly finished the rest of his words.

"I am a little curious about her past experience of being kidnapped and tortured by undercover agents."

Aoyagi Akimitsu was talking about what happened when Kiel first joined the organization.

In addition to low-profile assassins and intelligence personnel, the organization also needs some public figures who can show their faces, such as celebrities, reporters and hosts. They need these people to sneak into higher-level places and get in touch with upper-class people. This is how Kiel was chosen. She has a calm personality, good marksmanship, and has joined Tokyo's largest Nichimizu TV station. Gin is optimistic about her potential and wants to train her in this direction.

However, at that time, Kiel had joined the organization for less than a year, and Gin had always been suspicious. Before a meeting, he sent someone to secretly place a transmitter on her clothes.

However, something unexpected happened during that meeting.

Kiel spotted a member acting suspiciously and approached to question him. It turned out that she was an undercover agent. He recognized her as a newcomer that Gin had recently favored, so he kidnapped her and tortured her, trying to get information from her. She was beaten all over, but she fought back with her teeth and held on until others came to find her.

Gin was not surprised that Aoyagi Akira knew about Kiel's experience, as this was not a secret within the organization.

"The undercover contact is a foreigner. Just based on this fact, the possibility of this being a local gang is very low." Aoyagi Akimitsu said, "But if he is an undercover agent from a foreign intelligence agency, how could he be so incompetent?"

"She was found to be 'suspicious' by a new member who had just joined the organization. When they captured her and tortured her, they did not immediately check if she had any transmitters or eavesdropping devices on her to get rid of them in time, allowing the organization's people to find her easily..."

Gin listened quietly.

He has been dealing with traitors and undercover agents for many years, and his level of suspicion is even higher than that of Aoyagi Akimitsu. Of course, he had the same doubts when he first found Kiel.

Even though Kil later explained everything eloquently, the suspicion still remained in his heart.

So what if he is an undercover agent? Does his being an undercover agent prove that you who have been hurt by him are not? Undercover agents from different countries and organizations are also enemies. Even if they come from the same place, in extreme cases, they will sacrifice one to save the other.

So Gin never really trusted her.

In other words, he doesn't trust anyone - even if that person can call him out with a phone call, ride in the same car with him, or even drink the same glass of wine with him.

He won't believe the other party.

"Is there anything suspicious in her actions this time?" Gin asked coldly.

"No." Qing Liu Bingguang answered bluntly, "You have been with her for several years and you didn't notice it. I have only met her a few times, and the total contact time is less than half an hour. How could I have noticed it?"

"Besides her, I also met another unexpected person today. He..."

A cell phone vibration interrupted Aoyagi Binguang's words.

Gin opened the email directly. It was a mission report and special situation statement from Kiel. Aoyagi Binguang saw him start browsing and looked out the window without saying anything.

His face at this moment was reflected in the rearview mirror, with a soft Eastern European female face under long brown-gray hair. Aniseite from three years ago appeared again.

...I wonder if the two new undercover police officers can recognize this face?

Aoyagi Bingguang thought with interest.

In stark contrast to his mood, Gin read the email from Kiel, his eyes fixed on one of the lines.

[…There was a mixed-race man, in his twenties, with light blond hair, darker wheat-colored skin, and purple-gray eyes. The other police officers obeyed his orders very well…]

After reading this description, he turned to look at Aoyagi Akiko.

Aoyagi Hiromitsu read his meaning from his expression again: "It seems that Kiel mentioned it?"

"... Bourbon?"

Gin gritted his teeth and squeezed out the code name of Rum's subordinate who died in the explosion three years ago, his eyes fixed on Aoyagi Akiko's face.

The undercover agent who was sent out was always smiling. No matter how the needle-like gazes observed him, he did not reveal any other emotions.

"I don't know what's going on with Bourbon either."

Aoyagi Bingguang said again in a helpless tone.

"I was in Japan at the time, and his death was confirmed by Curacao. Was it that he was undercover and his identity was not exposed, but he suddenly withdrew, or was it that Rum made him fake his death in the organization and sent him to the police as an undercover agent... I can't say for sure."

He added: "If it's the former, you can't do anything to him recently. Three years ago, not long after I met him, he left the organization. Now I meet him again, and the organization finds out that he is still alive... The Japanese police will suspect me."

Gin said nothing and just kept looking at him with suspicion.

"Beep beep beep——"

Before Gin could speak, a burst of urgent horn sounds suddenly came from a driveway not far away, mixed with a lot of faint shouting and cursing.

Gin, who had been dealing with various dangers for a long time, looked there vigilantly and subconsciously reached for the Beretta in his pocket.

Aoyagi Binkou was also stunned for a moment, but he quickly realized what was happening.

"...A car accident?" (End of this chapter)