Gin likes me?

"Thank you for the compliment. I'm a ninja, how can I not be a little cruel~"

"Forget it. I'm too lazy to argue with you."

He raised the muzzle of the gun slightly and looked at Uozuka Saburo and Daimon Miyuki who stood up and prepared to leave the fishing platform, while Maori Kogoro listened to the rhythmic knocking sounds coming from the headphones.

"Two long and three short, this is the signal for us to evacuate, right?"

"That's right, our mission for today is complete, and now it's up to Mr. Kurosawa."

Slowly sitting up straight, Aso Kasai stretched to relieve the stiffness in his body.

"Tell me, Uncle Maori, why do we always follow Mr. Kurosawa and get involved in such troublesome things?"

"trouble?"

Kogoro Mori, who was dismantling the gun, looked up at the smiling Aso Kasa, and shook his head unhappily.

"I see you're enjoying it."

"Hehe, that's right, I am this kind of person, so I am even more curious."

With her hands behind her back, Aso Kasai moved closer to Mori Kogoro with some curiosity.

"Uncle Maori, why did you follow Mr. Kurosawa on this adventure~"

"..."

With a look of disdain at Aso Kasai who was smiling brightly, Mouri Kogoro packed up his gun and put it in his backpack, then stood up and stretched out his hand condescendingly.

"Don't act like you're going to touch the dagger in your back to scare people. You're really boring, little girl. You'd better let Kurosawa and Doctor Asai take good care of you, otherwise you'll lead my Xiaolan astray."

"What? Uncle Maori, you are so brave. I thought I could scare you."

She stretched out her hand with a smile and stood up with the help of Kogoro Mori. Aso Kasai brushed the dust off her clothes and said with a somewhat resentful tone, as if she didn't see anything that made her happy happen.

"How many years have I lived? How can I still be scared by a little girl like you who hasn't even grown all her hair?"

Clapping his hands in disdain, Kogoro Mouri walked towards the entrance to the rooftop.

"Use this time to practice your shooting skills. If Kurosawa wants to increase his actions in the future, you will have to learn more."

"It's so annoying, Uncle Maori, why are you saying the same thing as Mr. Kurosawa?"

"If you're not satisfied, go talk to Kurosawa."

"...Tsk, Uncle Maori is bullying me, I'm going to call Xiaolan to complain!"

"I beg you, it's my fault, please forgive me, Auntie!"

"What is it, Uncle Maori, are you so scared of Xiaolan?"

"...That's just the love a father has for his daughter... Can I treat you to a meal?"

"Feast?!"

"can!"

. . .

"How can I trust you? You can betray the organization and the CIA for your daughter, so won't you betray us again because of your daughter?"

"I know my behavior makes it difficult for you to trust me, but I still ask you to give me a chance. I will give you a satisfactory answer!"

"Have you ever thought about the consequences of exposing everything in front of me like this? If I want to attack you, you will never have a chance to escape."

"This is a gamble, a gamble that I'm betting everything on. I believe in my own judgment, and I also believe that you, Uozuka Saburo, will be the man of my dreams!"

The gentle instrumental music playing in the bar seemed to slow down the busy city of Tokyo.

Ever since Suzuki Ayako took control of the shares of this pub, she made a not-too-excessive request, which was to limit the music in this pub to something that must not be noisy.

Saburo Uozuka needed a place outside where he could drink slowly and relax, so Suzuki Ayako prepared such a place for him.

He held the wine cup filled with shochu in his hand, and looked at the overhead light reflected in the liquid in the cup, which looked like a full moon. Uozuka Saburo blinked, raised his cup and drank the full moon along with the wine.

"It is indeed a good wine. It seems the boss didn't lie to me."

"You know who the boss is. You can say his food is bad, but you can never say that the wine of that drunkard is bad."

He took off his windbreaker and put it aside. Kimura Ying, who came after hearing the news, took out a clean cup and slowly poured himself a glass of wine.

"Is this the end of the discussion?"

After taking a sip of shochu, Kimura Ying pinched his brows tiredly.

Although the entire conversation between Uozuka Saburo and Daimon Miyuki was recorded by monitoring equipment and he understood most of it, Kimura Takashi was puzzled as to why neither Uozuka Saburo nor Daimon Miyuki discussed any plans in detail.

"In the current situation, why don't you discuss a plan as soon as possible, but instead you are in the mood to talk about some mysterious philosophy?"

"What trust or not? I just need to give him a 24-hour portable eavesdropping device to record all his actions and conversations, and I will be able to trust him."

"That kind of trust and reliability is too low."

Looking with amusement at Kimura Takashi who clearly stated that he was on the technology side, Uozuka Saburo shook his head and clinked the wine glass with Kimura Takashi while holding up a refilled glass.

"We don't just need the gate for this mission, I want the gate to be fully part of our camp."

"Are you sure? You can't judge a person by his appearance."

Looking at Uozuka Saburo with a strange look, to be honest, Kimura Takashi was a little unhappy.

Back then, when he found evidence that Zhang Yi was not dead and wanted to use this as an opportunity to join Uozuka Saburo, Uozuka Saburo was not so readily willing to agree.

Although he still doesn't know that many of the sufferings he suffered back then were caused by Uozuka Saburo, Kimura Taka has a deep impression of how tired he was and how many risks he went through.

And now, although he has not explicitly expressed his willingness to trust Miyuki Daimon and bring Miyuki Daimon to his camp, Kimura Taka always feels that this process is a little too simple?

"We have been observing the gate for many years, and we know almost everything we should and shouldn't know."

Not knowing the resentment in Kimura Taka's heart, Uozuka Saburo felt that it was normal for Kimura Taka to be cautious given his personality.

"And the current opportunity is quite special. If we can succeed, it will be of great benefit to our future plans."

"Personally, I want to believe Damen. I can see that the look in his eyes has changed."

"Different? Clouded by age and cigarettes and alcohol?"

"...It's the feeling, the feeling, understand?"

The smile on his face was a little stiff. Although he was used to being criticized by Kimura Takashi, the feeling of being attacked suddenly was not good.

"If there was still a hint of sensitivity and sincerity towards the CIA in Daimon's eyes before, now there is only fatigue, the pursuit of a peaceful life, and the protection of his children in Daimon's eyes."

"In other words, he has completely become a father who wants to take care of his parents in their old age and enjoy the happiness of family life, right? Sigh, I really don't know whether this is good news or bad news."

Pursing his lips, Kimura Ying, who is still hanging out in nightclubs, has no plans for marriage and has never fallen in love with any woman, said he could not understand this idea.

"Of course it's good news, and believe me, such changes will make the gate stronger, provided that we can complete the plan this time."

"That's right. All future arrangements must first solve the current problem."

Nodding in agreement, and thinking of the name he had recorded in his mobile phone, Kimura Ying knew that his tasks in the next two days would increase.

"Hondou Eisuke, you actually called out your real name and the news about your son. Daimon really regards you as his last hope, Uozuka."

"No, to be precise, he placed his last hope on his intuition and judgment, which he had honed through life and death in his half-life."

Thinking of the indifferent look in Daimon Miyuki's eyes when he was talking to him, Uozuka Saburo couldn't help but sigh in his heart at this man's will.

"He believed in his own judgment, and believed that in his own judgment, I was a person with a big identity problem, who would not be loyal to the organization, and was even willing to cause trouble for the organization."

"...I hate gamblers."

"That's too much. When you came to me with my master's contact records, weren't you also gambling?"

"No, I have done a lot of calculations and came to the conclusion that the probability of success is the highest."

He said it stubbornly and unconvincedly, but Kimura Takashi still naturally avoided the topic.

After all, only those who are guilty know it.

"I will investigate Hondou Eisuke's situation, including the information Daimon mentioned during today's conversation. Give me some time."

Picking up the sushi on the plate, looking at the golden and delicious food under the light, Kimura Taka simply put it into his mouth.

"I am even more curious about one thing. How do you plan to kill Damen?"

"Of course he fought for the organization and the undercover agent, and then died heroically in the explosion~"

610: This is really good news

"Why did this happen?"

Slamming his hands heavily on the table, Rum looked up angrily at Kusora who had just reported the news to him, and didn't even notice that his favorite pen had fallen to the ground.

"According to Pisco's information, our investigation into him was discovered by Cognac. After noticing something was wrong, Cognac immediately hid himself."

"It's not good enough to help, but it's always bad enough to mess things up! It can even mess up a task that has been well prepared in the early stages!"

With his fists clenched tightly together, Rum was obviously unable to accept this sudden news.

The investigation into Cognac was specially ordered by him in the organization. It took nearly two months to block the news and intelligence transactions, and finally locked on the target.

After all, in terms of status, Cognac, an old man who has been a member of the organization for 34 years, is not much less experienced than himself and Pisk.

This also means that the other party has a very detailed grasp of the organization's various layouts.

Logically speaking, even Rum would not want to take the initiative to provoke such a mission. If he could not guarantee to kill the enemy with one strike, the trouble that would be involved would definitely give Rum a headache.

But, Cognac should never have asked for his own death!

He clearly knew the organization's rules and regulations, and knew that the information sent out by the organization to undercover agents in various departments of the Neon government must never be revealed or recorded.

However, Cognac took advantage of his position and secretly kept the list of undercover agents in the organization that he had access to, without the knowledge of Rum and the organization.

What's even more unfortunate is that this behavior was discovered by Rum, who sensed something was wrong.

After layers of investigation and careful efforts to ensure that Cognac would not discover it, Rum was certain that Cognac did have such a list in its hands. More importantly, Cognac had conducted more than one transaction with the members on the list over the years, using the convenience of undercover operations to develop its own industry.

This is absolutely not allowed by the organization, and Cognac obviously knows this.

Therefore, after today's tracking operation was exposed, Cognac quickly hid his whereabouts and asked the organization's action members to report the news with trepidation.

Oh, unfortunately, the person in charge of the operation for Cognac this time is Pisco, who has not had any field missions for some years.

This was also an attempt by Pisk to restore part of his identity to the action team, and out of trust in Pisk, Rum did not refuse.

After all, there aren’t many people in the organization who can be trusted.

Rum knew that Pisco must have run a lot of his own businesses behind the organization's back, but there was one thing that Pisco did better than Cognac.

That is, he is only greedy for money and will never touch the content that touches the bottom line of the organization.

I originally thought that the arrest mission could be completed perfectly under Rum's plan as just a pretense, but not long after I took over, the members of the action team gave me such a big surprise.

"How much time has passed."

"It's been half an hour. I've checked. No planes have been able to take off from Tokyo in the past half hour. As for airports in other regions, I've arranged for technicians from the Intelligence Department to conduct intrusion and monitoring. Cherry Brandy said that within 10 minutes, we'll be able to obtain their boarding records for the day after tomorrow. Once we find any, Cognac will intervene immediately."

"It's fast, but it's useless. Cognac is a veteran of the organization. He can think of the methods we can think of. Although he can't wait to leave Neon, it is precisely because of this that he will not leave Neon so quickly."

Rum took two deep breaths, adjusted his mindset, squinted his eyes, and started thinking quickly, trying to put himself in Cognac's shoes and find out where he might be hiding.

"I think he has not left Tokyo yet. At least, he will not stay in Tokyo until he finds a backer who can accept him."

"Mr. Rum, Cognac has in his hands a list of some of our organization's undercover agents in the Japanese government. Is it possible that he will use this list as a token of his allegiance to Japan?"

"That's impossible. When he handed over the list to the Japanese government, he would lose the meaning of his existence. Those people in Japan will not let Cognac go easily."

He simply shook his head. After years of fighting with the Neon government, Rum knew very well the style of this old rival.

"He wants to find an organization that can protect him, and preferably one that can transport him out of Japan and protect him abroad. Moreover, that organization will be very interested in him, and this interest will allow Cognac to keep his life."

His eyes slowly lit up, and after feeling that he had guessed Cognac's possible actions, Rum breathed a long sigh of relief.

If Cognac really does what he imagined, he still has time and opportunity.

"Then how should I reply to the members in charge of this operation? They are still waiting for news."

Blinking, Kusora quickly asked as he watched Rum regain his calm connection.

Every second counts. This behavior does not mean that Kusora is loyal to the organization. She just knows that if she does not behave better at this time, she will definitely not be able to escape if Rum holds her accountable for the failure of this operation in the future.

Rum was such a petty person who would never let go of any grudge. Kusora had seen it all too clearly.

"Let them all come back and hand over all the information they have to Cherry Brandy, and let him sort it out."