Conan: Rice Flower Spring

Chapter 309 303. Unlucky Mikami
The character of Takeo Mikami. Or rather, discussing character with a political creature is simply the most outrageous behavior.

So Hayashi Ryoma completely distrusted Mikami Takeo's character, but he believed what Mikami Takeo said.

Who would be stingy when spending public money to do their own business?
So what went wrong?
"Goro Kinoshita?!" Okami Zhushan and Mikami Takeo reacted immediately.

The person in charge of liaison with Okami Zhushan at the Shikishima Village Office was Assistant Goro Kinoshita, and it was Goro Kinoshita who finalized the contract on behalf of the Shikishima Village Office.

As a famous detective, it was obviously impossible for Okami Zhushan to discuss with the village chief Mikami Takeo why only a small deposit was paid in advance for the commission after he arrived at Shikishima.

And for no reason would Takeo Mikami ask Zhushan Okami about the situation of the agency contract.

"Is this Goro Kinoshita the assistant of the village office?" Lin Ryoma asked curiously.

"Yes, President Lin." At this moment, Takeo Mikami felt his teeth itching.

"I didn't expect that Village Chief Mikami would trust his assistant so much?" Lin Longma didn't know what to say.

All I can say is that as a village chief, Takeo Mikami is a failure.

He can't even control his own assistant, so how can he still think about looking for gold? Aren't you afraid that the assistant will run away with the gold after finding it?
“President Lin may have misunderstood.” Mikami Takeo felt a little wronged: “Although Kinoshita is an assistant, he is the assistant to the village chief at the village office.

The position of assistant village chief is a regular position. Strictly speaking, we should be colleagues, and he is not my man. "

The reason why Goro Kinoshita contacted Okami Zhushan was because Mikami Takeo essentially agreed that Goro Kinoshita, the assistant to the village chief, was of the same class as him.

In other words, after finding the gold, Takeo Mikami was willing to give a share to Goro Kinoshita.

As a group with common interests, Takeo Mikami thought there was nothing wrong in asking Goro Kinoshita to contact the detective.

Aren’t they all fighting for their own gold? Even if there is uneven distribution later, that is a matter for the future.

By the same token, Mikami Takeo was also planning to take over Okami Zhushan's share. The reason why he threatened Okami Zhushan was because he saw that Okami Zhushan was showing signs of slacking off, so he threatened him out of dissatisfaction.

In Takeo Mikami's opinion, I paid such a large commission and also promised to share the profit after finding the gold. If I can't say that I have done my best, then I am extremely kind.

I treated you like this and yet you're still wavering and harboring ill intentions. Just threatening me with words is already very kind of me, okay?

The same thing changes its nature when viewed from the perspective of blessing others.

First of all, he only received a tiny amount of the commission fee. Seeing that Mikami Takeo never mentioned any subsequent commission fees, shouldn't Da Shang Zhu Shan think about it carefully?

Then there is the resistance encountered when investigating the gold of the Dragon God, and the threats that are waiting to be unleashed.

In the end, the village chief made blatant threats.

No matter how you look at it, Mikami Takeo seems to be a man who wants to get rid of him after he has done his job. It would be strange if Okami Jushin could work wholeheartedly.

Didn't he just find an opportunity to slip away?

It was not until this moment that the two men realized how big the misunderstanding between them was and what a trick their "middleman" had played.

"What on earth is Kinoshita trying to do?!" Mikami Takeo didn't understand. It was obvious that if he followed the steps and let Okami Zhushan use his professional ability, he could find the gold.

It’s not that I don’t want to give him points, so why do this kind of trick?
Even if you want to keep the gold for yourself, there is no need to do anything small before you see the gold.

Where does he get his confidence from?
Mikami Takeo was completely confused, but Hayashi Ryoma seemed to be thinking about something. He had seen this situation many times. "Well, Mr. Mikami, is there a possibility that it's not that Assistant Kinoshita doesn't want to pay Mr. Okami in full, but that the village office doesn't have that much money in its public account?"

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!" Mikami Takeo was very confident. Although he, as the village chief, also fished, he had methods and skills to do it.

He would never do such a dirty job as embezzling public funds. If he was found out, he would lose his job.

Mikami Takeo understood the difference between having one meal full and having every meal full. This was the family experience passed down from the Mikami family as a family of village chiefs.

"What's impossible? Village Chief Mikami, have you forgotten that you just said that Assistant Kinoshita is not strictly speaking your man?

He is also one of the leaders of the village office. Just because you don't touch public funds doesn't mean Assistant Kinoshita won't touch public funds either, right?"

Lin Longma now felt a little sorry for the village chief Mikami. This old man was just an unlucky guy who was kept in the dark.

Whether it is the public funds of the village office or the commission fee of the great blessing.
Fortunately, this guy is just the village chief on Shikishima. If he enters Tokyo politics, who knows what kind of trouble he will suffer.

"Someone, someone, come here!" Takeo Mikami called his secretary with a gloomy face.

Assistant to the village chief is a position in the village office, and the secretary is Takeo Mikami's personal secretary.

Mikami Takeo's secretary quickly walked into the scene and came to Mikami Takeo's side to take his orders.

"Go, go to the village office and check for me if anyone has touched the village's public funds. Was it that bastard Goro Kinoshita who did it?"

"Yes, Village Chief, I'll go right away!" The secretary did not dare to offend Takeo Mikami, and left quickly after hearing the order.

"Alright, Village Chief Mikami. Calm down. Why get angry when things have come to this? Call Kinoshita Goro over and ask him. Then you'll know what's going on, right?"

Ever since Takeo Mikami met Hayashi Ryoma, he has never agreed with Hayashi Ryoma more than at this moment.

That's right, we have to catch that bastard Goro Kinoshita, no matter if we have to use any tricks or do something that can't be put on the table, that bastard Goro Kinoshita deserves it!

Mikami Takeo even began to urge Lin Ryoma: "President Lin, please hurry up or this bastard might run away!"

What Takeo Mikami said makes sense. After all, he was the one who was caught embezzling public funds. If it were him, he would definitely run away.

But Lin Longma doesn't think so.

He thought that Kinoshita Goro would not run away, because running away was the only option. If he ran away, whether it was the position he had worked so hard for in his life or the position of assistant village chief, it would all be gone.

The situation on Fushima Island is far from being completely destitute - it's just embezzlement of public funds, wouldn't it be fine if the money was made up?
Isn’t there a sudden windfall on Shikima Island right now?

Hayashi Ryoma has obviously discovered who is behind the attack after landing on the island and the torture of Hamada Yukiji.

"You all heard it, right? Listen to Village Chief Mikami and quickly invite Assistant Kinoshita over.

Our village chief Mikami can't wait any longer."

Lin Longma waved to his men, and two other Isshinkai core members took the order and left, ready to bring back Kinoshita Goro.

(End of this chapter)