Conan: I'm Really Not Tokyo Ghost Story

If Vermouth dares to say she's watching Sonoko Suzuki, then Sano would suspect she's deliberately diverting attention to endanger the other three.

Therefore, Vermouth can only be referred to as "Sano".

Especially given the special circumstances that Vermouth did indeed know some things about Sano.

That's even more true.

However, this was exactly what Sano wanted.

After casually flicking his cigarette ash, Sano asked, "That high school detective? What's so special about him? Want to recruit him?"

"Even if we really wanted to recruit him, it shouldn't be me doing it."

Vermouth smiled and said, "After all, your good boss has some history with him."

Is there a connection between Gin and his original identity?

Sano raised an eyebrow: "Just be blunt. I don't have much patience."

"Your impatience is useless. I can't just reveal this information casually. Perhaps you should ask Gin if he's willing to give you an answer. That's the key."

Vermouth said this.

Sano nodded, not forcing Vermouth to speak, and waved his hand before getting up to leave.

"rye."

As she was leaving, Vermouth suddenly called out to Sano: "My mission this time is rather special. It was directly ordered by the boss, and the level of secrecy is extremely high. You should know what you should say and what you shouldn't say, right?"

Sano chuckled: "Are you trying to intimidate me by using the boss?"

"Of course not, it was just a kind reminder from a senior."

After seeing Sano off, Vermouth breathed a sigh of relief... She didn't know if she could get away with it, and if not, what should she do?

My head hurts so much.

……

"Ugh."

A sigh, filled with sorrow, escapes the Porsche 356A.

Gin drove with a blank expression.

"Ah~"

"Ugh……"

"Ugh!"

Gin took a deep breath, slammed on the brakes, and pulled the car over to the side of the road. He looked at Sano in the passenger seat.

"Alright, stop sighing, just say what's on your mind."

Sano blinked: "I ran into Vermouth."

"Oh, really? So what?"

"She seemed very interested in me. To be honest, at first I suspected she was after my body and was thinking about how to refuse her. But it turned out that wasn't the case. She told me to come and ask her directly, which would be more direct."

Sano got straight to the point, while Gin fell silent.

What do you want to know?

"That depends on what you're going to say, Lord Gin."

Gin gave Sano a deep look, as if to tell him that what he wanted to know was not a trivial matter and required careful consideration.

Seeing this, Sano also put away his lazy attitude and became serious, which was equivalent to telling Gin that he was ready to accept.

"There are some things I should tell you."

Gin lit a cigarette: "Your father was also a member of the organization, and a code name member, or what you call a high-ranking officer, the head of the action group, which is the position I'm sitting in now."

……what?

Sano was stunned. Although he was mentally prepared, he was still surprised when he learned this.

The original owner's family environment was both simple and complex.

It's simple because there's no family, but complicated because the absence of a family is inexplicable.

Based on Sano's original investigation, the details about his father seemed strange, as if there was some inside story involved, and he didn't seem like an ordinary person.

Sano had suspected a deeper possibility regarding the original owner's family, but he never expected it to be related to the organization.

...Although Sano had this idea after contacting Vermouth, and even thought that since she could connect with Gin, she couldn't possibly be an ordinary member.

The fact that he was the leader of the action group still surprised Sano somewhat.

Gin added, "His codename was Rye, which Shuichi Akai inherited, and now it has been passed on to you."

……ha??

Sano was shocked again. So his code name had been passed on twice?

Then I wouldn't be a second-generation rye, but a third-generation rye?

This is all so convoluted and mysterious.

"So you're very close to him?"

Faced with Sano's suddenly gossipy question, Gin calmly replied, "We're not that close, just like our current relationship."

Are they similar to each other?

Is Gin a direct descendant of the first generation of Rye?

Or to put it more bluntly, Gin was taken in and raised by the original owner's father.

Sano stroked his chin: "We're already pretty familiar with each other."

Gin raised an eyebrow but did not deny it. Sano continued to press, "So, Gin-sama, you recruited me in the first place because of this, right? Or, if we hadn't run into each other, would I have been recruited?"

"Generally speaking, it is appropriate to recruit them."

Gin threw away his cigarette butt: "As the descendants of organization members, especially those who are not from the grassroots level, you should basically be nurtured from childhood for future development. However, your father had a relatively high position back then, and he didn't want you to get involved, so naturally no one would force him."

"Even after he left, the organization's investigation showed that you were unaware of the organization's affairs, and... you also had psychological problems. From any perspective, the organization felt that you were not suitable to join the organization."

Sano nodded thoughtfully.

"So to put it bluntly, I got in based on my own merit, right?"

...Is there even a need to say that?

Gin was speechless. If he just grabbed any member of the organization who knew about Rye and told him that Rye got in through connections and backdoors, he would be completely speechless.

You'll see if he believes you or not.

"Who in the organization knows about this?"

Chapter 405, Conan: Sano, is this your illegitimate daughter?

Sano then asked a less gossipy question, to which Gin immediately replied.

"It should be about the same as the number of people who know you are Rye, no, not about the same, it seems to be exactly the same in number. Apart from the confidant under Glamour who knows you are Rye, there is only Vermouth. Pisco originally knew too, but he died at your hands."

Upon hearing this, Sano unexpectedly gained other information.

The organization's boss, Rum, Gin, Vodka, Vermouth.

In addition, one of Rum's trusted henchmen.

These appear to be all those above the rank of ordinary cadre.

Vermouth knew that Rye was a third-generation rye, but Rum's men did not.

Rum's men knew that Sano was Rye, but Vermouth did not.

Hmm, kind of interesting.

It's just unknown whether there are any other unknown high-ranking officials besides these people.

...Wait, that's not right.

"Vodka knows about him too?"

Gin frowned upon hearing Sano's surprised voice.

"To be precise, Vodka only knows a little bit. Some of it he heard himself, and some of it I told him, intentionally or unintentionally."

Sano blinked... Isn't this the same thing?

In Sano's view, senior cadres can be divided into genuine senior cadres and pseudo-senior cadres.

The former refers to Gin and Rum, while the latter refers to the one from Vermouth and Rum's side, belonging to a special rank of high-ranking confidants.

At the same time, the latter's authority is not as high as the former's, only slightly higher than that of ordinary cadres and members. In addition, they often have contact and get along with the former.

They can know a lot of inside information, both openly and secretly, that ordinary cadres cannot.

As for Gin's treatment of Vermouth...

And judging from Vermouth's style of doing things.

Sano didn't think Vermouth would be just an ordinary confidante of the group leader.

Most likely... he's a confidant of the person at the very top of the organization.

Of course, that's not important. What's important is that even Vermouth doesn't have the authority to access Sano's file, and Vodka certainly doesn't either. Therefore, the only reason the other party knows about this is that Gin told him something... Of course, that's not important either.

The important thing is that Vodka knew about it, but didn't tell me.

Tsk.

"In the end, our feelings faded. It was all for nothing that I still called him Brother Jia."

Hearing Sano's sigh, Gin paused, his expression gradually turning strange.

...Although I don't quite understand the logic behind it, I think I should be considered one of them.

Did he screw over his own henchmen?

at the same time.