Conan: I'm Really Not Tokyo Ghost Story

Amuro Tooru drew his pistol and increased his speed, but his movements became even more cautious.

Conan activated his tranquilizer watch and carefully crouched behind Amuro Tooru.

As they climbed the stairs, the gunfire became more frequent and louder. Before the two could even peek out and observe the situation, a figure flew towards them. Amuro Tooru instinctively dodged to the side, and his large belly rolled smoothly down the stairs, screaming incessantly.

"Protect him."

Upon hearing Kurosawa's command from above the stairs, Amuro Tooru immediately realized that this was an important witness who was about to be silenced.

Two armed figures appeared at the top of the stairs. Amuro Tooru quickly raised his hand and fired two shots, then turned around without hesitation, grabbed the pregnant woman, and prepared to leave.

Unfortunately, before they could take more than a few steps, another group of people blocked their way from below.

"Da da da da!"

Amuro Tooru hurriedly pressed his pregnant belly back down, his face grave.

Caught between two sides, this pit seems a bit too big...

Seeing the people below closing in, Amuro Tooru had no choice but to temporarily drag his pregnant belly down a deadly path, at least to find a way out.

Perhaps there will be an opportunity to withdraw or even counterattack.

Then came a series of escapes. Although Amuro Tooru wanted to fight back, the difference in numbers was simply too great, not to mention that he had two burdens on his side.

Regarding familiarity with the terrain, Amuro Tooru didn't know if this group had done any prior research. In any case, as the fleeing party who needed more mobility, he was definitely more affected under the same conditions.

"Boom!"

After replacing the last magazine, Amuro Tooru was almost ready to give up, wondering if he should throw the pregnant woman out as bait, at least to try and ensure that he and Conan could escape.

Otherwise, continuing would be far too risky...

"boom!"

Just then, two people turned out of the corridor in front. Amuro Tooru didn't hesitate to send one away, then tackled the second one and took him down in a few moves. Looking at the submachine gun that had fallen to the ground, he thought about how his side was already at a huge disadvantage in terms of firepower, and now even his ammunition was almost exhausted.

Amuro Tooru, who should have left immediately, inexplicably bent down and reached out to pick it up, wanting to take a gamble.

And sure enough, something unexpected happened. The two people who rushed out from the other end of the corridor had already pointed their guns at them.

not good!

Amuro Tooru's pupils contracted, realizing that he could no longer avoid it.

But at this critical moment, the wall on one side of the corridor suddenly exploded with a "boom," and a dark figure rushed out. With a wooden knife in his hand, he lifted one of the people up and slammed him hard against the wall on the other side. Then, with a twist of his wrist, he snapped the neck of another person.

"...It's you?"

Upon seeing Kurosawa's appearance, Amuro Tooru immediately relaxed a lot: "Has the situation been resolved above?"

"Ah."

After casually responding, Kurosawa turned to look at the others who had quickly gathered after hearing the commotion. Then, he exerted force with his feet and, like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, began a new round of crushing them like cutting melons and vegetables.

To be honest, Amuro Tooru still doesn't know exactly how many enemies are in this abandoned building, but he is very clear that the second wave of enemies blocking the way from below numbered at least thirty or forty. He had probably taken out about ten of them, and there were still more than half of the main force left.

If Amuro Tooru were alone with ample preparation and sufficient weapons and ammunition, he might be able to put up a fight, but even if he could win, it would take him at least a considerable amount of time to maneuver. This monster, however, crushed them all in just a minute or two and secured victory. Most of the enemies were killed before they could even fire a shot. The few who pulled the trigger were either easily dodged or had their bullets deflected by his knife, showing no signs of strain. Perhaps to save time, he even resorted to a forced demolition maneuver several times along the way.

Yeah, it's about tearing down the wall. The shortest distance between two points is a straight line, right?

In short, Li Liyuan's musical score is simply inhuman.

"Snapped!"

Another blow... no, another slash severed one person's neck, and Kurosawa walked toward the last two people who were still breathing.

The two retreated again and again, their mentality already broken. In the end, they simply turned around and ran away, no longer daring to resist.

Both of them were positioned very close to the center. If they could just push open the door in front of them, they would be at the stairwell of this floor. However, Amuro Tooru did not rush to shoot and intercept them, because judging from the speed that Kurosawa Blade had shown, it would be too easy to stop these two.

Unexpectedly, Kurosawa didn't make any move and just let the two people push the door open.

What's going on?

Amuro Tooru was stunned, never expecting this to happen, and immediately tried to raise his gun to stop him.

but.

Before Amuro Tooru could pull the trigger, a large hand reached out from the darkness behind the pushed-open door and grabbed a person's face.

The large hand looked as if it were wearing a black glove, completely black.

The man whose face was grabbed stared wide-eyed, and before he could react, the intense pain made him scream.

"Ahhhhh!!"

"Bah..."

Amid the screams, there seemed to be a strange sound, as if something had been thrown into a pot of boiling oil.

No, it wasn't just the sound. From Amuro Tooru's perspective, one could clearly see wisps of white smoke rising from the person's face.

Then, perhaps due to the contrast of the white smoke, the outline of the figure in the darkness outside the door gradually became clearer.

The person finally walked in from outside the door. His face, which was not clearly visible, and his black baseball cap and hoodie seemed to have become his signature features.

"Hey, hey, hey, what are you guys trying to do by running out? Do you think the reinforcements are almost here and you want to rush over to meet them?"

The screams had long since faded away.

After casually tossing aside the corpse of the man whose head had been half corroded away by spider venom—a revelation that would be an understatement—Sano, wearing a rye vest and a passerby hat, smiled at the second and last person and said, "Then I regret to inform you that all your reinforcements downstairs have been wiped out by me."

"thump."

The man, who was nearly insane, sat down heavily on the ground, his face ashen and his head sunken, utterly despondent.

"……rye."

Amuro Tooru narrowed his eyes, and Conan instinctively shrank to the side.

Before Amuro Tooru could speak, Kurosawa asked first, "How did you end up here?"

Rye glanced at Amuro Tooru and continued to laugh, "I heard that I blew up some summit venue, but I have no recollection of it. I feel like I was framed and made a fool of. As a law-abiding citizen, of course I have to clear my name and seek justice to restore my innocence."

"..."

Amuro Tooru's lips twitched slightly as he recalled that at the beginning of the case, because the situation was so unclear, many people had suspected Rye, including himself. However, he later realized that given Rye's character, if it were really going to explode, he would definitely use a bomb of this power instead of using gas to increase its strength. After all that happened, everyone's attention had long since drifted elsewhere, and no one remembered the initial suspicion.

But such a brief topic actually reached the ears of the person in question, and even aroused great anger.

Amuro Tooru was somewhat speechless. He felt that he couldn't quite understand Rye's thinking, let alone how this guy had, and why, had to run into him at this crucial moment when things were almost over.

"So this is the mastermind behind it all, then leave it to me."

Before Amuro Tooru could think it through, Rye had already taken action, walking towards the pregnant woman who was almost numb after her near-death experience and hadn't yet recovered.

"no!"

Amuro Tooru instinctively stepped in front of the pregnant woman.

...We absolutely cannot hand people over. Perhaps there are indeed some problems within the official ranks, but those are internal issues. How can we hand them over to outsiders to handle? Moreover, if we really hand them over to Blackie to resolve, it will definitely cause a bloodbath. Even if we need to resolve them, they should be punished according to the law!

When faced with Amuro Tooru's obstruction, Rye acted as if he had just noticed him, tilting his head and saying, "Hey, Bourbon, aren't you being a bit too arrogant? As an undercover agent, it's one thing to act so blatantly, but now that I'm out here, aren't you going to stand firm on your position? Are you planning to betray the organization?"

Amuro Tooru's expression froze.

Like Conan, Amuro Tooru also felt that his secret was probably no longer a secret in front of this person, but perhaps it was an instinctive reaction, or just to be on the safe side, he quickly made up an excuse: "This person is an important official. Rather than messing around with him and getting into unnecessary trouble, it's better to hand him over to the authorities and let them fight amongst themselves. Maybe we can even use this as leverage..."

"That's enough, Rei Furuya. I'm tired of your terrible acting."

But before Amuro Toto could finish speaking, he was impatiently interrupted by Rye, and without any room for negotiation.

This caused Amuro Tooru to fall silent for a moment, unsure of what to say next.

What happened next was quite unexpected. Kurosawa stepped forward and stood between the big-bellied man and the rye: "I'm sorry, I don't know what grudges you have, but I worked hard to achieve this result, and I can't let you take it away just because of your words."

"Seriously? We're colleagues, you can't even give me this much consideration?"

Rye bombarded Amuro Tooru and Conan with another barrage of information, leaving them bewildered... Colleague, which colleague are you referring to?

Does this acknowledge that both of them are members of the new Black Organization, or does it mean that Kurosawa is actually a member of the Black Organization?

...After all, if we're talking about it, the only black-clad suspects that Kurosawa has been involved with, besides the current Black Wheat, are Black Fox. But in addition to being black-clad suspects, these two also share another identity: executives of the brewery.

Looking at it this way, Kurosawa's surname might indeed be related to Gin, and his appearance might be a sting operation to lure out other members of the Black Organization, or he might be looking for an opportunity to infiltrate the organization. It's even possible that there are no such complicated details at all, and it's all a misunderstanding...

In an instant, Amuro Tooru and Conan both felt that their CPUs were about to be overloaded.

Regardless, it seems the two don't get along very well, perhaps...

"What if I said that this is what that person meant?"

Rye's sudden remark left Amuro Tooru completely bewildered... He was quite familiar with the nickname for "that person," but he really couldn't quite grasp the meaning of "that person" here.

Is it referring to the person at the distillery, or a possible mastermind behind the Black Organization?

...However, this at least makes it clear that above these two monsters, there seems to be a similar, powerful being who can suppress them both?

Chapter 669 Question Seven: Isn't this kidnapping?!

Amuro Tooru really wanted to shake off these chaotic thoughts, then just point a gun at the heads of these two guys and ask them properly who this "someone" really was.

However, considering the difference in strength, Amuro Tooru felt that if he really did that, he might never know the answer in his lifetime.

Therefore, Amuro Tooru chose to remain silent and listen quietly from the side.

Perhaps the answer will come to light on its own soon?

To everyone's great disappointment, after hearing this, Kurosawa simply sheathed his sword and left without saying another word.

...Aren't you going to ask a few more questions?

Amuro Tooru's lips twitched. On one hand, he was amazed by the man's authority, wondering just how great it was that he could make Kurosawa Blade not doubt him at all just by having that title. On the other hand, he was also worried because if this guy withdrew, he would be the only one left as the last line of defense.

And as expected, Rye looked at Amuro Tooru again.

"...Wait a minute, perhaps we can talk."

"What's there to talk about?"

"Since you knew my identity but didn't report it, doesn't that mean..."

"Bourbon!"

Rye suddenly raised her voice, her eyes turning icy: "Don't misunderstand. I didn't choose to use you to boost my performance, not because I have ulterior motives. And don't think I'm a good person or anything. This is only because of our fake colleagues. Don't think that just because I let you off the hook, you can ride roughshod over me. My patience has its limits. If you insist on not appreciating my kindness, then don't blame me for showing you what kind of person I really am. Like the famous detective hiding over there, you can try to actually ask the police for help, but the countless innocent souls who will die here today will all lose their lives because of your recklessness."