Chapter 108 Chapter 108 What bad intentions could Ling Ling have?

The medicine Olga got from Shirley soon came in handy.

When her heart began to ache violently again, and the pain gradually began to spread along her bones to her whole body, Olga took out a blue-white capsule with trembling hands and swallowed it.

Fortunately, the pain subsided quickly.

Unfortunately, Olga still got smaller.

When she woke up again, she had changed into appropriate clothes and was lying in bed.

Olga sat up, got out of bed, stood on tiptoe, raised her hands, and turned on the light in the room.

The apartment was quiet. It was obvious that Rei Furuya had come back, but he had been gone for a while now.

Olga curled her lips. After taking the antidote, the pain of shrinking did indeed disappear. But she still shrank, and fainted in the process.

Did Shirley mistake the painkillers for the antidote?

Never mind...Olga still had great faith in Shirley's character. If someone else had given her the antidote, like Vermouth, she wouldn't have dared take it.

Just as Olga climbed into the child seat and started eating dinner, her phone rang. Olga glanced at the caller ID and saw it was Vermouth.

Olga really didn't want to answer. To be honest, although she hadn't been affected much by her voice change, there was still a difference between her voice as a child and as an adult.

As everyone knows, the more subtle the difference, the more acting skills are needed to convey it. And now it was dinner time, and Olga really didn't want to bother trying to imitate her own voice 10 years from now, just to fool Vermouth.

Olga hit the mute button, her phone still glowing, and she picked up a spoon and began to eat her dinner. Lingling had prepared Indian butter chicken curry for her today. Olga actually quite liked Indian food.

But Vermouth seemed to be at odds with Olga. In the past, as long as Olga ignored her and the call was automatically disconnected, Vermouth would just let it go.

But this time, less than two seconds after the first call automatically ended, the phone rang again, relentlessly. Olga picked up a chicken leg and muted it as usual.

Soon, the third call came in, followed by the fourth, the fifth...

By the time the phone rang for the sixth time, Olga had become completely impatient.

She hesitated for two seconds between turning off the phone and answering it, and finally answered the call. To prevent Vermouth from thinking that she had encountered an accident, or rather, that she had done something serious that made the boss need a quick-acting heart pill, she called Furuya Rei directly.

After the call was connected, Vermouth did not seem surprised at all. Olga even thought her voice sounded a little excited.

"What's the matter?" Olga deliberately spoke to her while eating, so that even if her voice was slightly different from usual, it would still be easy to explain.

Vermouth, contrary to her usual style, went straight to the point: "Bourbon has found Shirley's whereabouts."

Olga said nonchalantly, "Hmm." It would be strange if Rei Furuya couldn't find Shirley.

"Tomorrow she will board the Suzuki Express. This time, I will kill that woman once and for all on the Suzuki Express."

Olga wasn't too interested. However, if Shirley died, wouldn't it be detrimental to the development of the antidote for APTX-4869?

She suddenly remembered what Rei Furuya had said before: that keeping Shirley alive would be more useful. Olga thought it made sense.

Vermouth was completely oblivious to Olga's compassion and even tried to get her to join the group: "How about going with me tomorrow?"

Olga puffed out her cheeks and chewed. Hearing this, she looked down at her hands. They were small. In this situation, even if she really wanted to kill Shirley with her own hands, she couldn't do it, right?

Besides, she didn't want to kill Shirley...

Then Olga said in a muffled voice, "I'm not going. I'm not feeling well and can't go."

Vermouth's tone finally turned a little unhappy. She seemed particularly keen to get Olga to join her in the hatred against the Miyano family.

Previously, Vermouth planned the ghost ship incident to kill Shirley and asked Olga to help. Olga was on the boss's side, so it was understandable that she couldn't help her. But what about this time?

The same thing happened with the previous operation to recapture Kiel from the FBI, and Olga also said she would not participate.

Of course, that wasn't the point. The point was that Vermouth had a vague feeling that Olga seemed to have developed a genuine sympathy for Shirley and didn't seem to want to kill her.

"Arthas, have you softened your heart towards Shirley after hearing all those rumors? I didn't know you could have such feelings."

This sentence can be said to be stimulating Olga.

Rumors. Naturally, they refer to the rumors circulating within the organization about the relationship between Olga and the Miyano family.

If this were the real 7-year-old Olga, she would have been directly infuriated by Vermouth's words. Unfortunately, her body had only become smaller, and her brain had not been substantially affected.

To be honest, Olga didn't have much of an obsession with whether Shirley was dead or alive. If Shirley was alive, she could continue researching the antidote, and if she died, Olga wouldn't have any emotional fluctuations.

But now she just doesn't like Vermouth.

Vermouth knew how to stimulate Olga, and she had been doing so since Olga was a child. Similarly, Olga also knew how to stimulate Vermouth's nerves.

She sneered, and Vermouth should have been able to hear it clearly on the other end of the phone.

Then, Olga said deliberately in that sweet, malicious voice:

"So what if I was soft on Shirley? Vermouth, even if we look at the numbers, compared to you being soft on Kudo Shinichi and Mao Lilan, my sin is at most only half of yours."

Yes, just mentioning Kudo Shinichi and Mori Ran can poke Vermouth's sore spot. Previously, she even stopped Olga from killing Kudo Shinichi. And if the scene is reversed, if Vermouth really captured Shirley, Olga would not stop her from killing Shirley.

Sure enough, the other end of the line fell silent. After several seconds, Vermouth's voice came back:

"Forget it if you don't come."

The smugness in her tone when she had previously provoked Olga disappeared. Vermouth hung up the phone after saying this.

There was a dead tone in the receiver, and Olga casually threw the phone on the dining table and continued with her dinner.

It's so boring.

Now, Olga even began to maliciously hope that if the organization was finally destroyed, Kudo Shinichi would definitely be the main contributor. In this way, Vermouth who prevented Olga from killing Kudo Shinichi would be the biggest war criminal.

However, if the organization collapsed, they would be arrested and imprisoned anyway. It would be ridiculous to hold a blame-shifting meeting to discuss who the war criminal was.

*

The next day, Vermouth and Bourbon boarded the Suzuki Express. Also boarding the train were Conan, Haibara, and... Kaito Kid.

And this person became the key factor in Shirley's ability to fake her death and escape from the siege of Vermouth and Bourbon this time.

As soon as they boarded the train, Vermouth and Rei Furuya decided on their plans for the day in a carriage.

After she'd finished her plan, Vermouth suddenly mentioned Olga. Perhaps it was because Olga had hit a nerve with her for the first time in years, but Vermouth was still a little upset. Or perhaps she just wanted to find someone she and Olga knew well to complain to. Vermouth didn't have many people to talk to.

As Vermouth expected, Bourbon simply said casually, "Olia is really sick, that's why she can't come."

Vermouth knew this would happen. She glanced at Bourbon and said, "Don't be too partial to that little brat."

From Vermouth's perspective, Olga has always been in very good health. Even if she was shot, she would be able to continue jumping around the next day. She has never been sick since she was a child.

That's it, and you still say you're not feeling well?

And this guy Bourbon actually agreed with her.

"Besides," Vermouth propped up her head with one hand, looking at Bourbon as he prepared the tools he would need later, "Arthas hasn't just been unenthusiastic about his missions lately, he's also been frantically amassing wealth. I wonder what he's planning to do with it."

Seeing Bourbon raise an eyebrow and look over, Vermouth revealed a triumphant expression. See, there are things you don't understand about Arthas, too.

But Vermouth was still puzzled. She firmly believed in her own judgment - Bourbon was a scum who would do anything to achieve his goal.

But why did this scumbag become a completely different person when facing Arthas? He could almost be said to be doting on the little brat unconditionally. Was it sincere, or was his acting so superb that he could even deceive Vermouth?

Vermouth didn't understand. So, just like every time before, even the words of warning were exactly the same:

"Whatever your plans are, it's best not to harbor any ill intentions towards Arthas, Bourbon."

Vermouth noticed that unlike before, this time, Bourbon paused for a moment before saying nonchalantly, "Of course."

Judging from his reaction, does he have any bad intentions?

Vermouth frowned imperceptibly.

On the other side, when turning his back, Fūya Rei sighed silently.

Yes, bad intentions. He's even married to Olga. Vermouth doesn't know this yet.

If the relationship between Vermouth and Olga is based on the information he has obtained...

Furuya Rei closed his eyes. When he opened them again, there was no longer any emotion in his pupils. Let's deal with the current situation first. Their current target is Shirley.

*

Of course, their "Shirley Elimination Plan" was ultimately unsuccessful, even though Bourbon and Vermouth both reported to the organization, for different reasons, that Shirley had been killed in the explosion and they had seen it with their own eyes.

But when they got off the bus, they all saw with their own eyes that Haibara Ai was intact.

After separating from Vermouth, Rei Furuya called Olga and told her that Shirley was not dead.

Olga didn't know why, but she felt that there was a sense of seeking credit in his tone.

So, she actually doesn't care whether Shirley lives or dies...

But Ling Ling who is trying to take credit is still too cute, which will make Olga imagine a cat, which holds its head high with pride, shakes the tip of its tail from time to time, and secretly glances at you out of the corner of its eye.

Olga then pretended to be pleased. Never mind, it was rare for Lingling to act like this.

Then, she heard Fūya Rei on the other end of the phone change his tone to a serious one: "Having said that, it's really not easy to kill Shirley at this point."

"Um?"

Olga seemed to hear Furuya Rei laugh:

"She has a tough guy who's willing to risk his life to protect her."

"Ah..." Almost immediately, Olga knew who Furuya Rei was talking about.

She couldn't help but recall how Conan anxiously protected Shirley when she raided Dr. Agasa's residence before.

There was also the previous bus hijacking incident. He fell out of the car with Shirley in his arms at the last second, and deliberately smeared his blood on her, just to prevent her from encountering the same thing as Vermouth.

And when Gin was at the Haido Hotel, it was Conan who saved Sherry, right?

And... well. The ghost ship incident that Vermouth orchestrated.

Olga personally observed that after they safely "escaped" from Vermouth's pursuit, Conan specially asked Kudo Yukiko to help him disguise himself as Haibara, and wandered around the surrounding blocks for many days.

Is he trying to test whether the organization has discovered Sulli's identity?

All of these incidents made Olga sigh—isn't this quite emotionally intelligent? Could it be that APTX-4869 has the side effect of increasing one's emotional intelligence?

While Olga was wandering aimlessly, she heard Furuya Rei say:

"By the way, I met Akai Shuichi on the train. He should be living in Tokyo now."

Of course, he lives in Tokyo, has changed his appearance, and now lives in the Kudo residence. Of course, there is no need for Lingling to know all this.

No. Wait!

Did Lingling run into Akai Shuichi? Olga immediately retracted her scattered attention and became alert. Did Akai Shuichi... say anything nonsense in front of him?

Fortunately, it seems that Rei Furuya didn't communicate with Shuichi Akai. Olga inferred this from his words based on her intuition and her understanding of Rei Furuya.

After hanging up the phone, Olga, somewhat wearily, hugged her pillow and lay down on the sofa. By then, she had become an adult again, "recuperating" in a villa in the suburbs of Tokyo.

After lying on the sofa for a while with her pupils slightly dazed, Olga suddenly sat up, threw the pillow casually on the sofa, took the elevator, and went to the basement of the villa.

She found the dusty violin case in the corner of the basement storage room, dusted it off a little, took out the Stradivari violin lying quietly in the case, gently plucked the strings, and turned the tuning pegs.

"Snap!" A string snapped. It had been too long since anyone had used it.

Olga found a spare string and replaced it, then continued tuning. She turned the pegs, plucked the strings, straightened the bridge, and adjusted the fine-tuning screws...

Then, he placed the zither on his left shoulder, pressed the strings with his left fingertips, and held the bow with his right hand.

Olga took a deep breath and placed the bow on the strings.

A slow and melodious tune slowly began to play. It was a little awkward at first, but soon became smoother.

Olga's four fingertips on her left hand danced across the fingerboard, firmly pressing down on the strings with each stroke.

The song ended, and Olga opened her eyes. Under the dim light of the basement, her emerald eyes took on a green hue, like a wash of ink. Beneath her calm expression, a surge of excitement and enthusiasm swirled.

"It's not completely without merit, that semi-finished APTX-4869."

She put the violin back into its case.

"But, I've definitely become a lot less familiar with it."

However, the fact that my left hand has healed cannot be revealed yet.

Olga put the violin case back in the corner of the storage room.

Especially, Lingling must not know about this.

*

A week after the Suzuki Express incident, one day after school, Conan and the three members of the Junior Detective League came to Professor Agasa's house again.

Under Huiyuan's disapproving gaze, he looked at the three little ones who rushed excitedly to the game console newly invented by the doctor, put his hands behind his head, and raised the corners of his lips:

"Don't worry, Mr. Amuro from the Poirot Café, also known as Bourbon, is actually an undercover agent of the Public Security Bureau who has infiltrated the organization."

Behind him, Huiyuan, sitting on the sofa, was startled by what he said, then raised an eyebrow. She didn't say anything, simply lowered her head and returned her gaze to the fashion magazine. However, as she lowered her head, the corners of her lips slightly raised.

Conan turned his head slightly, with that confident expression: "So, Olga, who has a good relationship with Mr. Amuro, is not a bad person, right!"

Huiyuan turned a page of the fashion magazine. "Like I told you, that guy is just a little kid with a bad temper."

"Yes, yes."

"but,"

When Huiyuan raised her head like this, her expression seemed much more serious than Conan's half-moon eyes. She told Conan,

"Even so, Olga is still a member of the organization. We still can't be too careless."

"Yes, yes." Conan put his hands behind his head, turned around to look at the three little members of the Junior Detective League laughing and playing, and responded to Haibara's words in a slightly perfunctory manner.

What Huiyuan said made sense, it always did. But this guy always managed to express his concern in such a dishonest way.

He suddenly remembered that after the incident on the Suzuki train, Suzuki Sonoko immediately pulled Xiaolan over and said that she wanted to learn to play tennis, and even invited Amuro Toru to be their coach.

Conan was very confused at that time, but he still followed. You know, after the train incident, Amuro Toru had almost made it clear that he was Bourbon.

Later, they happened to run into Olga at the tennis court. It should be said that Olga happened to be staying in the villa next to the one that Suzuki Sonoko had booked.

Conan was really scared at that time.

Bourbon and Arthas, two members of the organization at once. Conan didn't believe that Olga just happened to be in the villa next door. Bourbon and Arthas's relationship was so close that almost everyone in the organization knew about it. Could they be going on a mission together?

What is their purpose?

However, throughout the whole process, Olga and Amuro Toru looked completely unfamiliar with each other.

After observing this, even Conan couldn't help but feel a little shaken.

Haibara said that Arthas and Bourbon were very close, so close that everyone in the organization knew about it. But these two people don't seem to know each other at all?

Conan naturally trusted Haibara's information completely, so he couldn't help but wonder, "Could it be that Toru Amuro isn't Bourbon, and the real Bourbon is someone else?"

As the son of the talented actress Yukiko Kudo, Conan is very confident in his eyes. Even if he can't tell whether Olga is acting, it doesn't mean he can't tell whether Amuro Toru is acting, right?

It was not until later that Conan deduced the identity of Amuro Toru as a public security officer that he came to his senses.

As it turned out, he just didn't see it at the time.

Mr. Amuro is quite good at acting. At least Conan himself was scared by Bourbon for a while.

Conan couldn't help but twitch his lips after being brought back to his senses by the laughter of the three little members of the Junior Detective League.

Now it seems that instead of just saying "the more beautiful a woman is, the more likely she is to deceive," this statement should be changed directly to "the more beautiful a person is, the more likely he is to deceive." Amuro Toru is a perfect example of this.

Having said that, Conan turned around to look at Haibara again, but happened to meet her gaze. After being stunned for a second, he couldn't help but smile awkwardly and turned back.

Then again, Haibara had previously said that Bourbon was the most brutal and dangerous even within the organization. Thinking about this again, Conan had a deeper understanding of Amuro Toru's acting skills.

No wonder he's on such good terms with Olga, Conan thought to himself. Everything happens for a reason. Those two are even on par in terms of their bad personalities.