Chapter 220 The Model Worker's True Colors Are Exposed When He Gets Serious!

◎Day 13 of the Highway Survival Game!◎

It's not easy to investigate these things in Japan without using the organization's personnel and without the organization's eyes and ears. Gin has been looking for opportunities and secretly developing some people who are not related to the organization.

Alternatively, they could indirectly obtain and analyze peripheral intelligence through lower-level personnel within the organization, paying close attention to any movements in Japan and gathering information from various sources without attracting the attention of that particular individual.

Half a year passed, and because of an incident where a hotel was simultaneously involved in drug trafficking and a false fire alarm, the news inexplicably suppressed the report on the false fire alarm and only focused on the drug trafficking incident.

In Japan, only organizations, top-tier capitalists like the Japanese government, the Public Security Bureau, and the Suzuki Group, can have such power to control public opinion. How could a small incident like a hotel accidentally triggering a fire alarm be related to such a powerful force in Japan?

After noticing the anomaly, Gin immediately arranged for a copy of all the surveillance footage from the surrounding area and inside the hotel that day. After carefully reviewing the footage, he discovered a boy who bore a striking resemblance to Shuichi Akai.

A young man who bears a striking resemblance to Shuichi Akai has the same surname as Elena Miyano before her marriage, Sera. This is naturally a noteworthy discovery for Gin.

He immediately ordered his subordinates to copy the hotel's recent check-in records, including earlier hotel surveillance footage. Only after reviewing her check-in information did he learn that she was actually a teenage girl.

After carefully reviewing all the surveillance footage of the girl named Sera Masumi, who was suspected of being related to the Miyano sisters and Shuichi Akai, they discovered that the surveillance footage of her check-in showed that her suitcase was unusually large for a young girl staying at a hotel.

Unless absolutely necessary, women, especially underage girls, rarely use large men's moving suitcases. Japanese women, in particular, tend to prefer small and cute styles, which is one of the exceptions.

The second unusual thing was that she always brought back a lot of food after school, so when she ordered breakfast at the hotel, the portions were always larger than what most people would eat.

The third anomaly is that no normal, unexplained underage girl would stay in a hotel for an extended period, especially a high-end hotel in Japan where accommodation is not cheap.

After noticing these unusual things related to Sera Masumi, he saw again on the surveillance footage that after accidentally triggering the fire alarm, he escaped from the hotel with her and mingled among the hotel guests. There was a blonde girl who looked somewhat like Shiho Miyano.

With Gin's keen insight, he deduced from the three unusual points that Sera Masumi was hiding a small person in her room, but with an appetite close to that of an adult.

At this moment, seeing someone appear next to her in the surveillance footage who had never appeared in the hotel's surveillance footage before and whose characteristics matched his deductions, he certainly wouldn't miss such important information.

In particular, the girl named Sera Masumi, before the fire, actually investigated the bomb threats and drug dealers in the hotel with a boy who was only six or seven years old.

Gin, who doesn't usually remember the faces of strangers, has an incredibly accurate memory when he's focused. He quickly discovered while reviewing the surveillance footage that he had seen the boy in a newspaper or magazine before, and that he was known as Kidd's killer.

And quite coincidentally, after he and Gin deduced that Shinichi Kudo was not dead, they specially arranged for someone to collect photos of Shinichi Kudo from his elementary school days, and the photos looked almost identical.

With their nearly identical appearances, shared love of showing off, and personalities characterized by a passion for deduction and boundless curiosity, he could almost confirm his previous speculation about the anti-aging effects of APTX4869.

Given this premise, upon seeing the blonde girl half-hidden by Sera Masumi, and having already reviewed the organization's investigation into Akai Tsutomu's information, as well as possessing a wealth of intelligence related to APTX4869, he...

It's highly unlikely that the blonde girl among the two is Shuichi Akai's half-sister. Instead, it's more probable that she's the real Akai Mary who survived the APTX4869 poisoning—a child again...

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Before this incident, when he was reviewing the APTX4869 information given to him by the organization's boss, he discovered the physical characteristics of the FBI rat couple who had almost led to the organization's annihilation by the US authorities 20 years ago.

After confirming that Shuichi Akai was an undercover agent, Bourbon discovered in the United States that he was an FBI agent. The investigation revealed that his girlfriends, who were also FBI agents, had similarities with him. In addition, the records showed that the couple who were killed by the organization had a young daughter.

The organization's records indicated a suspected death, but the organization's intelligence officers discovered that although the on-site investigation records in the United States indicated that the entire family of three had died, their daughter's body could not be found at the body collection site.

Suspected? No body? Same age? These three points are enough for someone as paranoid and cautious as Gin to have some suspicions. He also knew that the other party was in Japan and was carrying out some activities against the organization during the incident when Kir was arrested and Shuichi Akai died.

Not ruling out the possibility that his future downfall might be related to her and the FBI's rats, he chose to trust his intuition and reasoning after discovering this, and arranged for his intelligence network in the United States to investigate all of Judy's intelligence in the US.

After he obtained all the intelligence about Judy in the United States and confirmed that she was indeed the daughter of the FBI rats who had been silenced by the organization according to the records related to APTX4869, he also unexpectedly discovered that Vermouth was responsible for silencing Judy's parents.

Having already learned from the piglet that the former CEO of the Bellende Group was suspected to be Vermouth's biological father and Sharon Vineyard's lover, and knowing that he himself should be dead in the future and the organization should be suffering a devastating blow, Vermouth was living openly in the United States.

Judy, who should have been silenced by her mother, not only survived but also became an elite member of the FBI's group of rats, mainly targeting the organization. Shuichi Akai had also cooperated with Vermouth during his undercover work within the organization.

Knowing her true identity, yet not executing her when the organization faced a devastating blow, and allowing her to remain a Hollywood star in the future, made it hard for him to believe in Vermouth's loyalty.

But that man firmly believed she wouldn't betray him. Was Vermouth truly trustworthy? Was it really unrelated to her if he were to be betrayed and killed in the future? Why did he trust her so much? Or did she have some connection with that man that made him trust her so much?

Based on the available intelligence, Gin could only deduce that Vermouth's birth mother, Sharon Vineyard, must have had an unusual relationship with that man, which was why it concerned the survival of the organization.

Given the need to keep the existence of APTX4869 a secret from other members of the organization, they chose to send her out to cover it up. After all, even he, the nominal third-in-command of the organization, was unaware of the existence and effects of APTX4869 until the future intelligence provided by Fat Piglet was available.

Clearly, only that man's true confidants knew of APTX4869's existence. Both mother and daughter had served the organization, and the absolute trust that man placed in them was unmatched even by Rum.

After he joined the organization and made many contributions to that gentleman, the gentleman decided to give him a code name and promote him to an organizational cadre. He personally summoned him and gave him the code name.

[Shuichi Akai, Bourbon, Scotland, Kiel: ...That's not fair! Why weren't we summoned when we were given operation codenames?]

That happened thirteen years ago, or eighteen years ago if you count the time loop. At that time, Gin already knew the identity of the organization's BOSS, and that he was Karasuma Renya, a Japanese, world-class super-rich tycoon.

I knew that he had died publicly in Japanese society 27 years ago, and that he was over 130 years old at the time, looking so old and frail that he seemed like he could die of old age at any moment.

Yet this frail old man not only did not die of old age in the following ten years, but also managed everything in the organization with meticulous care, personally reviewing all task reports involving the organization's cadres...

He had great respect for the other person back then. At such an advanced age, he was still working so hard. He must have had some extraordinary ambitions to achieve in order to live beyond the human lifespan limit. Who would have thought that the other person was just a coward who was afraid of getting old and dying...

In short, knowing the true identity and age of the organization's boss, Gin naturally wouldn't believe the rumors circulating within the organization about that man and Vermouth.

With a body so old it's practically on its last breath, how could it possibly have the capacity to have a lover? If it wasn't a romantic relationship, then it must be because other organization bosses believed that the mother and daughter would never betray the organization.

After Gin's investigation reached this point, he naturally arranged for people to investigate Sharon Vineyard and the former CEO of the Bellende Group, whose identities were even more secretive. Knowing the true identity of the organization's BOSS, he naturally didn't know this when he didn't want to investigate.

But when he wanted to investigate, finding out the relationship between the two was much easier than for Bourbon and his group. He soon discovered a report in an old newspaper in a Japanese library about the marriage between Karasuma Renya's father and a British noblewoman.

Although the photos were black and white due to the technology of the time, the news report clearly described the person as coming from a blue-blooded family of European nobility, with blond hair and blue eyes as standard for Western nobility, which matched Vermouth's hair and eye features.

Naturally, he subconsciously speculated that the two might be related by blood and come from the same family. However, he was too busy with the organization's work in Japan to discuss this matter.

The only option is to send more people to England to investigate the family background of that aristocratic heiress, especially focusing on intelligence regarding the year after the birth of the former CEO of Bellende and Sharon.