Conan: I'm Really Not Tokyo Ghost Story

I had just finished one mission and was on my way to the second one.

Sano suddenly received a call from Gin.

"Something seems off with the vodka. I'm quite far away, could you go take a look?"

"Oh."

Sano stopped moving. At the same time as receiving the details of the mission that Vodka was going to do that night from Gin, he also received a new mission.

[Please save the reckless fake child within the mission time limit. Completion will earn you 100 enhancement points. Mission time remaining: 03:59:59.]

Ok?

Sano pulled up a map and set a location.

It's highly likely to be some kind of jinx.

But isn't this location a bit far?

Sano frowned, thought for a moment, and then created a clone.

On one side, they went to find vodka, and on the other side, they went to find Conan.

...On another note, if problems arise on both sides at the same time, could it be...?

There must have been a car crash.

No, one is in Tokyo, and the other is in Gunma Prefecture?

With such a great distance between them, they shouldn't have been able to collide no matter how you look at it.

After shaking off these chaotic thoughts, Sano continued on his way, traveling in both directions.

Then, it was midnight.

An underground station still under construction has coin-operated lockers for passengers, arranged in neat rows in a room.

"...Rye, this is just a simple small transaction. The target is just an ordinary programmer. You really don't need to follow me. Brother, really, how can you not trust me? Even if I'm not good enough, I can't be so bad that I can't even do something this badly."

Footsteps and muttering echoed through the corridor, growing louder as they approached.

Sano picked at his ear impatiently and grabbed Vodka by the neck: "Seriously, Vodka, do you really hate teaming up with me that much?"

Vodka froze, realizing he might have said too much, and quickly shook his head: "How could that be? I was just afraid of taking up your time."

"Don't you have a task to do? Is it really okay to waste your time here?"

"Whether or not we waste time is not something that working-class people like us can decide."

Sano withdrew his hand: "You'll have to go and complain to your older brother about this."

Vodka: "..."

If I dared to complain to Gin, why would I be here grumbling?

He immediately made a phone call and started spitting at them!

Chapter 416, Vodka: I can't tell the difference, I really can't tell the difference!

Cough cough... After shaking off some of his wild fantasies, Vodka stopped in his tracks.

"This is it."

As soon as he entered, Sano's gaze swept over a short figure hiding behind a cabinet... Is this guy out of his mind?

Are you treating people like they're blind?

Half of his head was sticking out like his buttocks.

What are you doing? Are you afraid others won't notice someone is hiding there?

Sano looked away and glanced at Vodka with a somewhat speechless expression.

And this guy, he didn't even notice that half-head... Is it because it's so late at night and he's wearing sunglasses?

"Oh, the things are already here?"

Vodka didn't notice Sano's meaningful gaze and reached out to tear off a disk that was stuck to the cabinet: "Really, he just left the stuff here and left? It seems that guy is really afraid of our organization, so much so that he won't even touch us, afraid that we will kill him."

Seeing the smug look on Vodka's face, Sano raised an eyebrow, but his gaze fell on the outline of a dark shadow on the ground that was clearly different from its surroundings.

The faint sounds of footsteps and breathing.

And that pungent smell.

Suddenly, Sano turned around sharply and grabbed Gin's hand as he was about to raise it.

...Gin?

Sano was stunned for a moment, and Gin was also stunned.

He probably didn't expect Sano to grab his wrist.

"Ok?"

Vodka finally turned around and was equally surprised to see Gin: "B-Big Brother, what brings you here? Didn't we already send Rye...?"

Gin's eyes returned to their coldness as he calmly sheathed his pistol: "It's nothing. I was just a little worried, so I decided to come and check it out myself."

As he spoke, Gin took the disk from Vodka's hand.

"And you idiot, you didn't even realize you'd been played."

Gin said coldly, "The purpose of sticking things on with tape is to make you tear them off by hand, so that you can leave fingerprints. Besides, didn't you notice that there was a transmitter left on the disk? This is an attempt to wipe us all out!"

Vodka stared blankly at Gin as he unfolded the transmitter on the disk, his face turning deathly pale, yet also showing a hint of annoyance: "B-Big Brother..."

"Don't call me big brother."

Gin's face showed a hint of disdain: "When I ask you to do something, you always mess it up."

"And you, Rye."

Gin then turned his attention to Sano: "I sent you over here to keep an eye on Vodka and make sure he doesn't run into any trouble, and not only that, but you're just as stupid."

Sano put his hands in his pockets, leaned against the cabinet, and shrugged.

"However, the disk is still warm, so the other person should be nearby."

Gin pulled out his pistol again and gestured to Vodka with his eyes.

Although Vodka wasn't quite the sharpest tool in the lizard's wits, he was still a very competent henchman when it came to understanding his older brother's meaning, and immediately pulled out his pistol.

The two of them worked together to begin checking behind all the storage cabinets in the room one by one.

Sano watched from the side without interfering.

As soon as Gin uttered the words "lingering warmth," Sano noticed that the half-head twitched and quickly shrank back... So why did this guy insist on hiding in a place like this? Isn't he just courting death?

Actually, when Sano was controlling the clone and rushing towards Conan earlier...

They had already noticed something was wrong.

Because this kid is moving, and he's moving towards Tokyo.

To avoid making a wasted trip, Sano waited patiently for a while.

Sure enough, we met the guy in Tokyo, and sure enough, we followed him to the place where the vodka and the mission target were to be traded.

Sano probably figured out what kind of trouble this jinx had gotten himself into this time.

Sano originally thought that the danger this time would be vodka.

Perhaps we should also add Sano himself.

Unexpectedly, another one appeared, and it was "Gin".

Whether this thing is a dangerous factor or not is another matter.

Of course, whether this thing is a dangerous factor or not makes no difference to Sano.

At most, the originally planned self-directed and self-acted performance may no longer be needed.

As the vodka duo were about to search the last row of cabinets, they showed smiles of "everything is under control," but when they simultaneously surrounded each other, they both showed expressions of surprise and confusion. Sano leaned closer.

"What's wrong."

Vodka snapped out of his daze and quickly withdrew the gun from Gin, saying somewhat timidly, "B-Big Brother, there seems to be no one here at all. Did that guy get too scared and just run away?"

Gin did not respond, nor did he seem embarrassed at all.

Suddenly, he reached out and opened a cabinet next to him, and then a second and a third.

It looked as if they were about to thoroughly search every single cabinet in the last row.

This made Sano's faint breathing sound even heavier... Of course, it could also be because Conan was hiding in the small closet.

This leads to hypoxia.

Sano's hearing is almost abnormal; if he pays attention beforehand, it's easy for him to detect the sound of Conan quietly opening the cabinet.

Otherwise, how could Sano have allowed Vodka and the other man to surround him?

I just don't know what this "Gin" is thinking.

Given Gin's skill level, he might indeed be able to barely keep up with Sano.

They realized that Conan had hidden in the closet.

Whether "Gin" can detect it is unclear.

If not, then what makes them think that they wouldn't catch Conan red-handed in the previous attack?

Simply, "trust"?

If we disregard that point, then the other party is directly pointing to Conan's hiding place...

No matter how you look at it, it doesn't seem like they're here to rescue someone.

Vodka, standing next to him, seemed somewhat at a loss and embarrassed... because in his opinion...

Gin's actions are somewhat like a stubborn, face-saving act combined with anger and frustration after realizing his thinking was wrong... a complete recklessness.

A pointless waste of time.

But Vodka didn't dare to say anything, so he looked at Sano.