Conan: I'm Really Not Tokyo Ghost Story

Amuro Tooru mustered his last breath and looked up at Sano: "You are his other personality, you are the real Rye, am I right?"

Faced with the "truth" that Amuro Tooru suddenly realized.

Having anticipated this, Sano, with a very subtle feeling, revealed a big, bright smile and replied, "Who knows?"

Seeing Sano's excited and smug smile, Amuro Tooru took it as a sign of approval and felt a sense of relief, but at the same time, he became even more resentful: "You won't succeed. They've already made preparations here."

"Oh?"

Sano crouched down and looked at Amuro Tooru.

"Disperse all the officials, is this your preparation?"

Amuro Tooru's body stiffened... He even knew this, so there was definitely a problem inside.

Before Amuro Tooru could say anything more, Sano suddenly rattled off a string of numbers, or rather, codes: "1123, 1129, 1136..."

At first, Amuro Tooru didn't react, but after a few numbers...

Amuro Tooru immediately sensed the problem.

Because these numbers are all "house numbers".

As the largest safe house in Japan, this area is very large and has many rooms. In order to minimize losses in the event of an intrusion, each of the officials currently here is assigned a separate room. Except for meals, no one is allowed to enter or leave the room. Discussions are all conducted online.

And those house numbers that Sano just gave out.

If Amuro Tooru remembers correctly, it seems that he is one of the current high-ranking officials who opposes negotiating with the Black Organization.

This is undoubtedly a very bad sign.

"...Even if you knew all this, it wouldn't make any difference."

Amuro Tooru forced himself to remain calm, because even if he knew exactly where these officials were, the only way to find them was to enter through the main entrance. Putting aside the surveillance cameras inside, a single infiltration would only solve that one problem.

This needs to be repeated dozens or even hundreds of times.

Do you really think that all the guards and patrolmen outside are blind?

“I know that those guards might be easy for you to deal with in a short time, but I don’t believe that such a large force up there would be wiped out by a single explosion. They will react and come down sooner or later.”

"Yes, you're right, they'll come down sooner or later."

Sano patted Amuro Tooru on the head: "But unfortunately, all we can do now is collect those guys' corpses. You didn't think I was giving out a target list, did you? It was actually a death list. We've already succeeded."

"Varied……"

Amuro Tooru was startled by these words and immediately perked up.

"This is impossible, in such a short time..."

"How could it be short? You know, the assassination started the moment I walked in. Of course, it's also thanks to them arguing for so long about whether or not to have a face-to-face meeting that Black Cat had time to get started. Oh, and I also have to thank you, otherwise infiltrating this broken turtle shell would have been quite troublesome. In other words..."

Sano grabbed Amuro Tooru by the head and mocked him in his ear.

"It was you who personally brought back the enemy's bomb."

"..."

Amuro Tooru was stunned for a few seconds. Even though he knew Sano had no reason to lie, he still subconsciously wanted to deny the facts before him: "That's impossible. If they had already made their move when you came in, how could there be no movement until now? Even if there were many people in the meeting, if fewer people were talking at the beginning, no one else would have noticed anything. There are surveillance cameras in every room. If there was anything going on, the alarm would have been sounded long ago!"

Sano pursed his lips and reached out to support his chin.

"...I mean, you don't actually think that the lack of response when you shouted at the camera was simply because there was a problem with the monitoring room over there and we had it under control, or that we cut the internet cable in this safe house, do you?"

Amuro Tooru was taken aback again. The reason he still had the idea of ​​denying the facts was because the monitoring system here was quite special. Whether it was set to thermal imaging, it would immediately and automatically alarm if it detected that a target within range had lost its life signs or if the network was interrupted and the image was lost.

But that happened before the explosion.

Amuro Tooru didn't hear a sound at all... wasn't that right?

Seeing Amuro Tooru's bewildered face, Sano smiled and said, "Didn't you ever think that if that were the case, the door would be locked and couldn't be opened? In that case, there would be no point in talking about evacuation; I wouldn't be able to get out either?"

Sano's tone was slightly amused, successfully silencing Amuro Tooru. He then snapped his fingers, causing the door to open automatically. He then grabbed Amuro's chin, forcing him to look at the camera: "Behind that monitor, what your colleague is seeing now is us two peacefully interacting and having a friendly conversation."

Amuro Tooru was finally able to confirm: "You hacked the network system here?"

Bingo.

Sano snapped his fingers again, a relieved smile on his face: "Finally, you've got it."

However, Amuro Tooru remained speechless in response.

As the place with the highest level of security, the network protection of this safe house is naturally not too bad, but to say that there is any deliberate effort to increase the level of protection in this case... well, not really, because of this kind of intrusion method.

It was truly unexpected.

...Of course, it's normal for this monstrous organization to have network attack and defense capabilities.

After all, times have changed, and this is essential.

The problem is that even without paying special attention, the network defense here is definitely among the best in the world. Otherwise, they wouldn't ignore it, because they thought that this level of defense wouldn't cause any problems.

Now, it's been hacked.

Without revealing the slightest flaw, they manipulated the monitoring room with ease.

According to Sano, this was thanks to him entering the area first, so it's likely that he infiltrated from within to gain control.

Yet this is still a terrifying technology that can be described as monstrous.

How come I've never heard of this before...? Hmm?

Just as a sense of regret was about to arise, Amuro Tooru sensed something was wrong: "Keyboard warrior?"

Sano snapped his fingers again.

"That's great, you can even apply what you've learned to other situations."

Toru Amuro: "..."

Fuck, sure enough, there's a pattern to follow behind every tangled mess.

Just when things were going well, a top hacker suddenly appeared, and coincidentally, he set his sights on the Metropolitan Police Department's system right in the Kusakabe incident.

They were all in cahoots!

Sano stared at Amuro Tooru for two seconds, then added two more sentences to the other's information database: "The so-called keyboard warrior you talk about is actually Black Cat. I have to admit, that guy is indeed the world's strongest assassin. I just helped him lead the way, and he was able to easily infiltrate this place. Then he first took control of the network here, and then avoided the guards who were every few meters and killed dozens of people."

...What Sano said wasn't all nonsense.

If Sano wanted to infiltrate this place, he didn't have any particularly good methods. He could either disguise himself as an insider and enter, or find some gaps that were likely to exist and use his cat demon form to liquefy and squeeze in.

These are considered two of the better approaches.

But this was both troublesome and time-consuming, and just then news came that he was about to be arrested, so Sano decided to be swaggered in.

First, a physical evil spirit was summoned outside, and then an illusory evil spirit was used to hide and follow in secret, because it possessed both biological and non-biological characteristics.

Sano was brought in here at the same time as others who came in without being noticed.

The rest is simple.

After donning the thug suit and cat demon headdress, one can move freely using the ventilation ducts in this place. Then, by finding a network cable interface and connecting the small computer brought along, one can use the hacker keyboard to control the network system from the inside. It couldn't be easier... well, actually, it's a bit difficult.

Whether it's silently taking control of the network system or letting a physical evil spirit enter silently, the former is easier to manage, but the latter is the main challenge.

When the five senses manipulate inanimate objects, the effect is on a wide range of people.

For example, when Sano normally wears the black fox vest, he would change his black coat into the black kimono. He only needs to imagine what the kimono looks like. But to achieve the "invisibility" effect, he has to change it all the time.

If Sano remembers correctly.

The human eye can capture images at 20 to 30 frames per second. In other words, while moving, Sano would have to change the appearance of the physical evil spirit 20 to 30 times per second to ensure that he would not reveal any flaws. Moreover, each change would have to be precisely integrated into the environment. Of course, this is on the premise that someone is paying special attention to it; otherwise, even a slight mistake might not be noticed.

...At least Sano's previous actions were not perfect.

In fact, Sano succeeded. In addition, after hacking the cameras here, he also gained the ability to switch identities at will.

But there's no need for that.

Sano had only secretly summoned Erhei and used the corrosive properties of the spider venom to unlock the handcuffs and shackles. The situation described above was an unexpected bonus. He had secretly converted some corpses into bombs during his previous battle with the Self-Defense Forces, just in case they caused panic if necessary. Who knew that the authorities would bring all the corpses back and gather them in one place, and it just so happened to be this place.

All I can say is that it's all fate.

"...the world's strongest assassin."

Putting aside his hacking skills, his ability to bypass guards and infiltrate dozens or even hundreds of rooms makes him arguably the most powerful assassin, a claim Amuro Tooru would agree with.

Perhaps in an attempt to stall for time, Amuro Tooru provoked Sano again, saying, "If he is the world's strongest assassin, then what are you? Is he really so powerful that even you think you are inferior to him? Stop pretending. This doesn't fit your arrogant and conceited personality."

“I wasn’t pretending, and I never said I was inferior to him.”

Sano smiled and said, "First of all, I don't actually consider myself an assassin. I'm just an ordinary terrorist. Also, this assessment of him wasn't given by me. It was Black Fox who said he was the strongest in the world. Finally, do you know what Black Fox's assessment of me was?"

...Black Fox?

Amuro Tooru was taken aback, then instinctively picked up the conversation: "What?"

"The world's most dangerous killer."

Sano suppressed his shame and gave his answer. Then, not wanting to give Amuro Tooru another chance to reply, he stood up and decided to end it there... After a few minutes of wrangling, the other party was almost back to normal.

Sano then raised his foot and stepped on Amuro Tooru's face.

With a little effort, he successfully restored Amuro Tooru's debuff.

Depend on……

Amuro Tooru's feelings were indescribable as Sano rubbed his face with the sole of his shoe, but thankfully he did not lose consciousness, only feeling a little dazed.

"Oh, right."

Just as Sano was about to leave through the door, he suddenly seemed to remember something, turned around, took out his phone, and squatted down: "I'll show you something else that's more fun, you'll definitely be interested."

what?

Amuro Tooru subconsciously glanced at the phone in Sano's hand.

The screen was divided into three sections, presumably representing three monitoring perspectives.

Of the three scenes, one is indoors and two are outdoors.

The two outside, one looks like an alley, and the other is a road.

...Not a safe house?

Amuro Tooru couldn't quite understand why Sano wanted to show him this.