You call Shura Field a Tokyo specialty?

As a former military doctor from a not very ideal family background, Shoko Nishino naturally would not live in a high-end apartment.

Following the address he found on the Internet, Uesugi Kazuki arrived at an old apartment building that didn't even have an elevator.

After observing the surrounding environment, I didn't find any hidden surveillance agents or cameras in particularly good locations.

Uesugi Kazuki and Catherine checked their respective M1911s one last time before getting out of the car and walking towards the apartment.

Because this old apartment is so old, the apartment manager obviously has no enthusiasm.

He didn't even raise his head when Uesugi Kazuki and Catherine, wearing masks and sunglasses, walked past his room.

He was just staring at the screen in front of him excitedly.

Judging from the sound coming from the speakers nearby, the administrator seemed to be betting on horses.

But what the administrator is doing has nothing to do with Uesugi Kazuki.

While going upstairs, Catherine picked up an Amazon express package from the side.

At first, Uesugi Kazuki didn't know why Catherine picked up the express package. He only heard that the CIA was rummaging through other people's garbage.

I've never heard of the CIA stealing people's express deliveries.

But when Uesugi Kazuki arrived at the door of Nishino Shoko's house, Catherine stuffed the express package into Uesugi Kazuki's hands and asked him to knock on the door.

Uesugi Kazuki understood what Catherine meant.

It turns out that there are more ways to trick people into opening the door than just opening the door to check the water meter.

After learning new knowledge, Uesugi Kazuki took the express package and knocked on Nishino Shoko's door.

"Hello! Express delivery!"

Soon, Shoko Nishino's voice was heard from the door.

"I don't have a courier, maybe you sent it to the wrong one."

After hearing Shoko Nishino say that she didn't have any express delivery, Kazuki Uesugi looked at the express delivery in his hand and directly read out the name and address on it.

Then he said impatiently, "Isn't this your home? You have to sign for this package in person. Stop talking nonsense and come out to receive it."

At first, Shoko Nishino wanted to explain that this was really not my package and she knocked on the wrong door.

But after Uesugi Kazuki said in a vicious tone, "I'm not a fool, this is your express delivery!"

Shoko Nishino was also angry. When she opened the door and was about to point at her own house number to say "You are a fool", Catherine, who was standing at the door, took out a gun and pointed it at Shoko Nishino's head.

"do not move."

119 Awkward Confrontation

When Catherine pointed the gun at Shoko Nishino's head, Uesugi Kazuki threw the express package in his hand to the side.

He followed Catherine, who had forced Shoko Nishino back into her apartment, and entered Shoko Nishino's apartment.

Living in such an old apartment, the decoration style of Shoko Nishino's apartment is naturally very old-fashioned.

Although everything is a bit old, it is full of the feeling of the Showa era before the bubble economy burst.

Of course, to put it bluntly, this apartment has basically remained in the state of thirty years ago.

Uesugi Kazuki is also slightly interested in this neon golden age decoration style.

After all, I had seen this kind of decoration style in Japanese dramas and anime many times in my previous life.

Especially the plasma TVs with big butts that have now become the tears of the times, and the DVD players placed under the TV cabinet.

It reminds Uesugi Kazuki of Crayon Shin-chan, who was part of his childhood. At this point in time, Hiroshi should have just paid off the 30-year loan for their single-family house. This is really cause for celebration.

However, when Uesugi Kazuki looked at the furnishings in the apartment, which were full of the style of the 1980s and 1990s, and thought divergently, he quickly learned a lesson.

That is, when you are doing something that requires your head to be on the line, it is better to concentrate.

Just as Shoko Nishino walked into the living room of the apartment with a gun pointed at her, an umbrella hit Catherine's hand like lightning that cut through the night sky, knocking the M1911 away.

The moment the pistol was knocked out of Catherine's hand, Shoko Nishino immediately fell to the ground.

Then, Minamito Aya appeared in front of Uesugi Kazuki and Catherine with a long-handled umbrella in her left hand and a kitchen knife in her right hand.

If Uesugi Kazuki had not been distracted just now, the moment the big guy appeared, Uesugi Kazuki would have had the opportunity to use American Iai skills to tell Minamito Aya that the times have changed.

However, Uesugi Kazuki was distracted and missed the opportunity. As Minamito Aya, who was dual-wielding weapons, fought with Catherine, who was unarmed, Uesugi Kazuki completely lost the chance to shoot.

However, although he lost the opportunity to shoot, Uesugi Kazuki still pulled out his pistol.

After all, now I am the only one who knows that I don’t have the pistol shooting range, but they don’t know.

If you can fool someone, wouldn’t you make money?

"Stop! Don't move!"

Just as Uesugi Kazuki pulled out his pistol, Nishino Shoko, who had just fallen to the ground, also picked up the pistol from the ground.

As Uesugi Kazuki and Nishino Shoko pointed their guns at the two people who were fighting, the two people immediately stopped fighting.

Then the scene fell into an awkward silence.

Although Uesugi Kazuki was an excellent shooter, he did not have a good shooting range at this moment, and was unable to kill Minamito Aya without accidentally hurting Catherine, and knock the pistol out of Nishino Shoko's hand, allowing Catherine to control Nishino Shoko.

Shoko Nishino, who was holding a pistol for the first time in her life, had no idea whether she would hit the two masked men or her old friend if she fired.

Minamito Aya, who also knew that this was the first time that Shoko Nishino had touched a pistol, was even more unsure than Shoko Nishino herself who was holding the pistol.

After all, she is the one with a rookie gunman with a gun behind her.

However, after this awkward confrontation lasted for a while, Shoko Nishino, who was lying on the ground with a pistol in her hand, soon discovered that the man who was at the end and also holding a gun like her looked somewhat familiar.

After taking a closer look, Shoko Nishino realized that this was one of the two people she met in the sanatorium last night.

"It's great that you're interested in my proposal, but isn't it a bit too much for you to come here like this?"

After breaking the silence, Shoko Nishino slowly stood up from the ground with the gun in her hand.

After hearing what Nishino Shoko said, Uesugi Kazuki realized that Nishino Shoko had discovered his identity, or at least discovered that he was the person from last night.

"What do you want to know?"

Seeing Shoko Nishino standing up from the ground, Catherine became a little anxious due to her Japanese level.

The few sentences I know are mostly full of aggression, such as "Raise your hands!", "Don't move!", "Be quiet!", which, at first glance, makes you think it's battlefield Japanese that the Pacific War has not yet ended.

So Uesugi Kazuki, who didn't want to reveal that Catherine was a foreigner, said to Nishino Shoko.

"Anjima Ryoko, we need to know where she is now."

When she heard Uesugi Kazuki's request, a smile appeared on Nishino Shoko's face.

"I can answer your questions, but what can we gain?"

Although Shoko Nishino expressed her attitude of communication, Kazuki Uesugi, who had just suffered a loss, did not dare to let his guard down this time.

So Uesugi Kazuki carefully raised the pistol and asked Nishino Shoko.

"what do you want?"

"Data. All the original data related to the Jiyuan Group that you took away last night."

After hearing Shoko Nishino's request, Uesugi Kazuki, who knew about the little friction between Shoko Nishino and the Yoshigen Group, confirmed that although there was a little unpleasantness between the two sides just now.

But when it comes to the negotiation, Shoko Nishino still has some sincerity, otherwise she would not have put forward this condition at this time.

"So how do we trade?"

"You guys go first. Since you can find my address, you must remember my phone number. Let's communicate by phone."

Uesugi Kazuki thought about it and felt that it would be better for both sides to continue the stalemate.

It is not unacceptable to retreat temporarily now.

After all, at this point in time, if something unexpected happens.

Uesugi Kazuki was unsure whether he would live or not.

But Catherine who stood in front of him would definitely die.

"Then let's get out of here now, and don't shoot."

After hearing what Uesugi Kazuki said, Catherine and Minamito Aya, who were in a standoff, shouted in unison, "No!"

In Minamito Aya's opinion, she was only able to turn the situation around by relying on a surprise attack. If she let them leave now.

So based on their performance last night.

It's not impossible that they would turn around and shoot me with an assault rifle.

So we absolutely cannot let them leave like this now.

The reason why Catherine refused was that she had finally found their location.

If they ran away to another place immediately after I left and threw away the SIM card, then the rare clue would be lost.

Therefore, we must not leave like this before getting accurate information.

As for the security issue...you are working as a field agent for the CIA, do you still care about security issues?

In this line of work, the more afraid of death you are, the faster you die.

So you must be reckless when it is time to be reckless.

After unanimously rejecting Uesugi Kazuki's proposal to withdraw immediately, Catherine and Minamito Aya looked at each other.

After seeing each other's eyes, the same thought popped up in their minds at the same time: "Oh no, this guy is in the same industry as me."

After discovering that the other person was in the same industry, Catherine immediately started thinking.

This woman is so skilled in close combat, and she is still investigating the affairs of the Future Happiness Church. Who exactly does this guy work for?

Judging from his fighting habits, he definitely isn’t a CIA like me.

If it's not the CIA, then judging by its appearance it can't be the FSB either.

After all, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, its former rival the KGB was reorganized into the FSB and no longer needed to be deployed globally as in the past.

In other words, since the FSB no longer has that ability, there will naturally no longer be such special oriental faces.

After ruling out the two biggest possibilities, an idea flashed through Catherine's mind.

With an oriental face and investigating a cult, could this guy be an agent of some big country in the East?

After all, that country is well-known for its anti-cult stance. For example, many of the strange creatures in Washington were driven here by a certain big country in the East.

As for those weird behaviors and mentalities... I can only say that they are like the beauty of taking an excessive amount of some plant.

As for the local police in Japan...it's impossible, absolutely impossible. How could that group of civil servants be so energetic?

Minamito Aya was thinking that this behavior pattern was not like that of someone from the Metropolitan Police Department, and should not be someone from the National Police Agency.

Looking at her hair color and her domineering behavior, is she from the CIA?

Both of them had some guesses in their minds and wanted to find something from each other's eyes. However, when they looked into each other's eyes, they also saw the other's suspicious emotions in each other's eyes.

The two of them immediately looked away, like a pair of stupid lovers whose relationship had not yet been pierced.

I can't leave, nor can I make any more eye contact, but this confrontation can't continue like this.

After all, your hands will get sore if you keep them raised like this.

After a while of stalemate, Shoko Nishino changed to holding the gun with both hands.

Uesugi Kazuki and Minamito Aya looked at each other and said, "Oh, you didn't hold the gun with both hands before, but now you hold it with both hands. It's obvious that your hands must be sore."

However, discovering that Shoko Nishino's hands were sore was one thing. In this scenario, Kazuki Uesugi and Catherine still didn't want to take a gamble to see which was faster, a gun or a fist, within seven steps.

But now I don’t want to bet on whether the gun or the fist is faster, and I can’t continue to be in this stalemate.

On the one hand, Catherine and Minamito Aya, who had been maintaining a fighting posture without moving when Shoko Nishino's hands were sore, not only felt a little sore in their hands and feet, but also had a little cramp in their feet due to the wrong posture.

Being able to continue to persevere is entirely due to willpower.

So after a while of stalemate, Uesugi Heshu, whose hands were a little sore, felt that he couldn't go on like this.

So Uesugi Kazuki said to Nishino Shoko, who was holding guns in both hands.

"It's not going to work if we continue like this, so how about we all throw away our weapons and sit down and talk it out?"

Even though everyone's hands were tired, Uesugi Kazuki's proposal was still very tempting.