Conan: Start from Lucky Three

Chapter 144: The Battle between Gin and Zero
As we all know, Gin is a cadre within the distillery who is responsible for investigating undercover agents and hunting down traitors.

While making money for the distillery, Gin was also hunting down undercover agents and traitors. But the traitors inside the distillery were like leeks, one after another, just as they were killed, a new batch would appear.

After a long time, Gin also began to wonder.

Why can’t he kill all the undercover agents?
It has to be said that Gin also put some thought into this, and the source of recruiting members became the root cause of the large number of undercover agents in the winery.

This is indeed the case. Because of the winery's unique system, its leader, Karasuma Renya, does not attach much importance to any department other than the scientific research department.

Not valuing it doesn't mean not caring. For Karasuma Renye, as long as the other departments within the winery can still complete the tasks assigned by him and provide funds to the scientific research department, nothing else matters.

For example, there were too many undercover agents in other departments, making it impossible to kill them all. This was acceptable to Karasuma Renya.

What's more, isn't there Gin who has been working hard to "patch it up"?

The distillery is in tatters, but the gin is patched up.
Although Gin has always been keen on hunting down the traitors in the distillery, people will always get tired of something over time.

Especially recently, the financial pressure on scientific research departments has been increasing, and Gin has more and more money-making tasks to undertake.

The endless killing of traitors and undercover agents, which Gin originally enjoyed, now became boring to him.

So Gin wanted to make some changes within the distillery.

Since the people I find from outside are unreliable, wouldn’t it be better for me to recruit and train them myself?

Gin needs someone inside who can step up and take over his part of the task of hunting down traitors and undercover agents.

The qualities this member needs to possess are at least: young age (easy to train and brainwash), courage to kill (people are recruited for the sole purpose of killing people), and good brains (if they are not good, they will not be able to find the undercover agent or track down the traitor).
The above three points are the core elements of Gin’s recruitment, and Gin is confident that it can cultivate the rest.

If you can’t practice it, just die. Anyway, the one who survives will definitely meet Gin’s requirements perfectly.

Now that Gin has heard what Furuya Rei said and noticed Tachibana Seiji who was hidden by Furuya Rei in the incident, he suddenly realized that the needs of this high school student are exactly the same as his own!
First of all, Tachibana Shizuka is young, he is still a high school student, and this identity as a high school student adds a lot of points in Gin's eyes.

Then Tachibana Shizuka also dared to kill people. Gin could never remember the names of people he had killed, but he could remember those he hadn't killed.

Furthermore, Tachibana Shizuka's first murder was against Kiichiro Numabuchi, a traitor to the brewery. Doesn't that immediately make him a professional match?

Finally, he's got a good head on his shoulders. Rei Furuya had already said on the phone that he hadn't contributed much to the Bank of Italy bounty, nor had it influenced Tachibana Shizuka. Tachibana Shizuka had handled the entire incident single-handedly.

This brain is useful no matter how you look at it.

If this cleverness were used to find undercover agents inside the distillery and hunt down traitors, Gin couldn't even imagine the beautiful future.

In this organization, what could be better than people working in the office while undercover agents and traitors die one after another?
Obviously not for Gin.

As Gin asked more and more detailed questions on the phone and his tone became more and more strange, Rei Furuya hurriedly began to take emergency precautions.

His original intention was to remove himself from the incident, or at least avoid arousing Gin's suspicion. But now it seems that the effect is a bit too good. Gin did not doubt him, but he had his eyes on Tachibana Shizuka.

Can this good seedling give you gin like this? Obviously it's impossible!
Not to mention that Tachibana Shizuka is still a high school student, a flower that has not fully bloomed. Even if he doesn't join the Japanese Public Security Bureau after graduation, the big brother of the explosive ordnance disposal team has already reserved him.

If Tachibana Shizuka chooses to join the explosive ordnance disposal team, although Fūya Rei will feel regretful, he will also sincerely bless him.

His two best friends also joined the explosive ordnance disposal class after graduating from the police academy.

You have followed the path of an old friend, so what do I have to regret?

But joining a winery wasn’t an option, let alone joining one while still in high school.

"Ah, I hear Gin. It seems like you're very interested in this high school student?" Fūya Rei used the tone that Gin hated the most to give Gin a serious look over the phone:
"I don't know when you, Gin, became the organization's human resources director?"

As expected, Furuya Rei knew what Gin hated. As soon as this sarcastic tone came out, Gin was immediately awakened from his beautiful "fantasy". At this moment, his dissatisfaction with Furuya Rei reached its peak.

"Bourbon. I think I still have the right to recruit people."

"Of course, Gin, I would never question your authority, but there is one thing I want to remind you of."

Fūya Ling pretended to be nonchalant and said, "You know that the high school student you like, Tachibana Shizuka, has a gun license, right?
And it wasn't just any gun license; it was a license that allowed concealed carry. This meant he could walk around the streets with a gun at any time."

"Guess who got him his gun license?"

Did Tachibana Shizuka have a gun license? When did he get one? Didn't he take the gun from Kiichiro Numabuchi last time?
What's this kid's background?
Furiya Rei's words made Gin realize that Tachibana Shizuka was not doing the right thing. Not to mention how a high school student like Tachibana Shizuka got a gun license. Even a gun license that allows concealed carry of a gun is not easy to get.

With the proliferation of guns on the streets, the island government has begun to tighten its review of residents' gun licenses.

This makes it increasingly difficult for law-abiding residents to obtain weapons to protect themselves, but it is extremely easy for criminals to obtain a gun.

This is almost as difficult as getting cyanide in Beika Town. It's just a matter of putting these illegal things in vending machines and placing them on the street for people to buy at any time.

It's normal for a high school student like Tachibana Shizuka to want a gun for self-defense after being shot, but it's outrageous that he actually got a gun and a gun license.

"What's going on here?"

"Haha, Gin, you really asked the right person. I did investigate this guy, but you can't just take all the information I worked so hard to find for free, right?"

Rei Furuya chuckled on the phone, and the situation was back under his control.

"Tell me, Bourbon, what do you want?" Gin asked without hesitation.

"I have too many tasks to do, which has seriously delayed my work time."

(End of this chapter)