Chapter 206

Vodka felt guilty and angry after reading the email from Bourbon.

To cover up his guilty conscience, Vodka made a phone call and loudly retorted, "What do you mean he caught an undercover agent! How dare he say that!"

Bourbon asked, "So there's no mole?"

"...Yes, there are, but they're not from our organization."

Vodka reluctantly admitted that since the mission had already failed, and the FBI had even made it public on television, he gave a brief overview of the situation: "...That's it, it was a group of con artists, and he saw through the con artist who was pretending to be an FBI undercover agent..."

"So he actually has a good eye for undercover agents," Bourbon said with a half-smile. "So, are you an undercover agent?"

"If I am, then you are too."

Vodka unconsciously aligned himself with Bourbon: "Potnis probably just said it offhand—after all, besides me, the only other person around was that Japanese guy who was Eddie Cassano's client. He didn't even believe that the other actors or aspiring actors were undercover agents!"

To be honest, even Vodka himself was skeptical of this explanation, but it makes sense! In short, it must be a coincidence! Even the older brother said it was a coincidence!

Bourbon: "I see. So Potts didn't catch any spies at all."

"Yeah! He's such a braggart. At most, he just noticed something was off. Even if he really is an undercover agent, he's from another organization. It's not his place to arrest him!"

Despite Gin's resolute attempt to save face, Vodka was indeed somewhat shaken. He was now putting on a brave front while being weak inside, relying on bluster to cover up his doubts: "You actually have the nerve to brag to me about this!"

"He didn't brag to me. He sent it to Lai at first... Speaking of which, because Lai was talking about this everywhere, Potnis said that Lai was indeed always leaking information and was obviously an undercover agent. He planned to have you go and arrest Lai after you returned to the country."

Vodka's mood improved upon hearing this: "Haha, I knew he just talks nonsense all day long... But Ray... no, it's nothing."

Bourbon pressed for an answer but couldn't get any information, so he gave up, though he still kept a watchful eye on things.

What happened to Lei?

Although Vodka gets a little carried away when it comes to matters related to Usoppai, he will still keep things that need to be kept secret.

For example, even though Gin always says that Potts is just lucky, he actually has some doubts in his heart and plans to investigate Rey soon.

There was no particular reason; it was just that since they were in the United States, they naturally thought of Rye, who was constantly being mentioned as an FBI agent.

Even though Vodka didn't finish his sentence, Bourbon had already guessed what was going on and immediately informed Ray: "Gin might be investigating you soon."

Lai, who is still awake: "…………"

Sigh, he's constantly being called an undercover agent, under pressure from various riddle-solving people like Usaku Saiki, and threatened by Gin's constant investigations... He always feels that even if he's not an undercover agent, at this point, he's already showing signs of being forced to rebel.

Otherwise, anyone else would probably have gone insane by now.

In short, let's prepare for both possibilities first...

Bo Yezaki already knew that Lai had told Bourbon about his glorious deeds, and since Bourbon knew, it meant that Scotland must know as well. Since that was the case, he didn't bother to make a trip to find these undercover agents and tell them about it in person.

Since we already know, and the suspicion level is skyrocketing, we can put it aside for now.

Therefore, after returning to Japan, Usaku Saiki did not go to the organization, but instead obediently worked at the Metropolitan Police Department for a few days.

Inspector Megure was moved to tears.

Sure enough, it was the right decision to let Han Chuan Shenliu take a vacation abroad. It helped him adjust his mood, and his mood improved immediately.

However, Hagiwara-kun's situation seems to be not so good...

Inspector Megure seized an opportunity to ask Kenji Hagiwara, "Hagiwara-kun, are you alright? Did something happen?"

Although it was supposed to be a holiday for them, it was still an exchange meeting in name only, and they would definitely have to write a report when they got back. Inspector Megure had already read the report and knew that the meeting had ended early due to an accident. But was that enough to make Kenji Hagiwara's mood remain so bad for this long?

"Ah, Inspector Megure, it's nothing, it's just my personal reasons," Kenji Hagiwara said with a smile. "I did some research on Pramia."

Although the First Division, Third Section, doesn't deal with bomb thieves, Pramia is a well-known figure who had been making headlines for several days, so Inspector Megure certainly knew who he was.

When Pramia's true identity was first revealed, many people in the Metropolitan Police Department took the opportunity to investigate him, thinking that they might be able to arrest him as part of their performance review. However, as time went on, everyone guessed that Pramia might have already fled abroad, and with their own work keeping them busy, the hype died down.

I never expected that Kenji Hagiwara would start investigating again.

But it doesn't matter. Almost every detective has a few people they're obsessed with catching. Kenji Hagiwara came from the explosives disposal unit, so it's normal for him to be so fixated on a bomb criminal.

The timing of this obsession is a bit strange... it's probably related to the bomb discussion conference I attended in the United States.

Inspector Megure was a very open-minded superior; otherwise, he wouldn't have consulted Yusaku Kudo, an outsider, all the time. So, after learning why Kenji Hagiwara had been acting strangely lately, he advised him, "Take care of yourself. Don't forget your duties. As for Pramia and such, just keep an eye on her; she might not even be in Japan anymore."

"yes."

Kenji Hagiwara readily agreed.

He hadn't really thought he could catch Pramia, so wasn't he just helping his poor new friend, whose daughter had been killed by Pramia, by doing a little more investigation?

After all, Pramia's identity was exposed in Japan. If he investigates more and asks more questions, he might find some new clues.

I only look at it in my spare time, it won't interfere with anything.

But bombs, once they explode, can have a wide-ranging impact. When he looked up the information and saw the crime scenes and the list of the dead... he couldn't calm down.

Usoppō Saiki naturally saw all of this.

Kenji Hagiwara is his partner, and when Kenji Hagiwara is in a bad mood from time to time, Saiki Usui is also affected.

Although they knew this wouldn't last long—after all, for Matsuda Jinpei and Hagiwara Kenji, it was just a new friend they'd met, and they'd promised to help, so they'd done their best. They figured they wouldn't find anything without clues, and it would probably all die down in a month—Usuha Saiki still took his anger out on Pramia.

If I had known it would affect me, I would have planned one more step and killed Pramia as well.

Having implicated himself, Bo Yezhai finally reflected on his actions.

But it's too late to regret it now...

Bo Yezaki casually opened the [All-in-One Navigation] app and searched for Pramia.

The [Universal Navigation] has a limited range, roughly the size of Tokyo. When he searched last time, Pramia had already moved out of his search range, probably because it had gone abroad. Even if he searched again now, Pramia would... um?!

To his shock, Usakabe Saiki discovered that Pramia had actually returned to Tokyo!

What kind of thought process is this?!

Are you playing the "blind spot" game?!

In fact, Pramia really did play a game of blind spot.

When her identity was exposed, she ran away as fast as she could, leaving Tokyo to hide from the organization and return under a different identity once things calmed down.

After all, given her cautious nature, it's impossible that she only has safe houses in Tokyo; she must have a whole set of fake identities.

She had considered leaving the country to avoid the storm, but her information was made public, customs was checking more closely, and smuggling herself into the country was too risky, so she didn't have time to leave...

This immediately earned her another accusation against the organization.

You investigated me yourselves, and not only did you find out and threaten me to join, but you even sold my information to others, causing my identity to be exposed... You're trying to make this a fight to the death!

She had already been hiding for so long, she could have just kept hiding and never returned to Tokyo.

But since she was a foreigner, it was safer for her to return to Tokyo than to stay in a remote area—Tokyo has a lot of foreigners, and as everyone knows, Asians and Europeans can't tell each other apart.

So once she was sure the organization couldn't find her, she disguised herself slightly, changed her identity, returned to Tokyo, went out a few times, and as expected, she wasn't discovered.

But to be on the safe side, she doesn't want to take on any more commissions or get involved in any events in the short term. Anyway, she still has enough savings. Her immediate goal is to stay put and wait until things calm down before continuing to study her research.

Yes, Pramia chose to become a bomber because she loves bombs. Now that she's lost the way of watching bombs explode to relieve stress, she needs to study bombs to satisfy her cravings.

Pramia felt that now that she had calmed down and everyone outside thought she had left Japan, she could finally live a normal life for a while.

Then, on her way home from grocery shopping, she was suddenly stopped by someone.

"Hello, excuse me, may I ask you a few questions?"

Pramia was all too familiar with these lines; they were exactly the kind of lines the police would use when they thought a passerby was suspicious and wanted to stop and question them.

The problem is that the person who stopped her didn't seem to be a police officer.

In the darkness, the other person's almost pitch-black deep blue hair reflected a cold luster, and a pair of blood-moon-like eyes stared at her indifferently, as if they might bring a new storm of bloodshed at any moment.

...They are from that organization.

Pramia thought to herself that, so far, only that organization had been able to find out her identity, and she didn't know how they did it, but since they could find out her once, it was possible that they could find out her a second time.

After all, this person didn't seem like the type to casually strike up a conversation with a beautiful woman on the street. A man who was dangerous and clearly in a high position must know her identity and was coming to test her or achieve some other purpose.

She shouldn't stay in Japan; Japan might be the organization's headquarters. She should go abroad.

No, now is not the time to think about that.

Pramia took a deep breath, surveying her surroundings, ready to grab an unlucky soul as a hostage at any moment to escape: "What do you want to ask?"

Have you seen this person before?

The young man, who looked very unsuitable for using honorifics, politely showed her a photo.

This was a conversation that Pramia hadn't expected. She paused, looked at the photo, then at the other person: "...Never seen this person before. Who is this?"

"A fugitive may have run this way."

Pramia: "…………???"

Wait, this guy is actually a policeman?!

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The extra chapter for the landmine is finally finished! (Extra chapter charge: 18/100)

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The Akai in this story is about to be forced to rebel (not really).

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Pramie doubts life