The next morning.

Not long after dawn, Fujiwara Yuu took his luggage and asked everyone except his boss Hiragawa Toru to walk down the mountain. Now this was their only way to get to a place with signal, and then notify the Akita Prefecture police to come here.

After hiking about three kilometers, I finally arrived at a place where the signal was only one bar, but it was enough to call for help.

Mao Lilan skillfully found the contact information of the Akita Police Station and called the police to inform them of their current location. After hanging up the phone, she was about to inform Takagi Sosuke when she found that he was not there.

Edogawa Conan raised his head and explained:

"Sister Xiaolan, Brother Yingsi is over there~ But it's better not to disturb him now."

Ran Mouri looked in the direction Conan pointed and found that Sosuke Takagi was talking to Aoko Minato about something beside a tree. Judging from their expressions, it must be something very important.

She nodded, put her backpack under her body, and sat down by the dirt road to rest.

Fujiwara Yuu, who had specifically called Minato Aoko aside, didn't want to beat around the bush and asked directly:

"Ms. Minato, I think you know what I want to ask. You, Kimi Yamada, and the Saijo brothers are probably acquaintances, right? Could you tell me what kind of organization you joined?"

"I'm not familiar with them, and I also lied yesterday." Minato Aoko spread her hands, a hint of bitterness on her lips, and said softly, "Actually, I learned about my sister's death five years ago. A mysterious person sent it to me, but he didn't tell me the cause of death."

"Mysterious man? Does he have an animal code name like you?" Fujiwara Yu frowned and asked.

Minato Aoko shook her head. She didn't lie either. She leaned against the tree trunk and looked up at the sky. Her tone was very calm:

"I don't know about that either. But after that, this mysterious man told me that if I helped him, he would one day give me a suitable opportunity to personally execute the person who killed my sister and give me a chance for revenge."

"So you did something for him? Was it murder?"

"Well, after my sister died, I felt like I had no value in life, so I wanted to avenge her. At the time, I didn't think much of it. I just wrote letters, using the killing methods he taught me. Over the past five years... I can't even count how many people I've killed. Maybe I'm too afraid to look back."

Minato Aoko knew that what she was doing was wrong, but as an ordinary person, how could she avenge her sister? She didn't even know who killed her sister, nor did she know how many people were on that side.

So she chose to sell her soul to the devil and helped the mysterious man for five years, all in exchange for one day of revenge. As long as she could avenge her sister, she would do anything.

Fujiwara Yuu lowered his head in silence, thinking for a while before speaking:

"So the crimes you committed according to the murder method he provided were not discovered by the police?"

"No, those I killed were mostly elderly people living alone or runaways. People with such identities are difficult to detect."

Fujiwara Yu felt vaguely that something was strange. He had a bold guess that this mysterious man probably wanted to turn Minato Aoko into a ruthless killing machine. He was cultivating her. Those who were killed might have been targeted by the mysterious man simply because no one cared about them.

Naturally, this kind of thing would not be told to Aoko Minato. Now the only thing she could ask was the mysterious man's contact information.

"What about this time? Did you contact him as well?"

"Well, including the letters and cards sent to you, they were all written by the mysterious man in the criminal plan." Minato Aoko seemed to have thought of something and said, "Actually, I don't usually call him the mysterious man. After all, my real code name is not Bat."

"Not a bat? What is it?"

"Gluttony, and the mysterious person who contacted me, his code name is Pride."

Gluttony, arrogance.

These are all from the Seven Deadly Sins, so Yamada Kimi, who committed many crimes before, represents lust, and the Saijo brothers who came from a thief group represent greed?

What remains, what has not yet met, is only laziness, rage, jealousy and arrogance.

At this moment, a pleasant ringtone suddenly came from Minato Aoko's cell phone. Her face changed slightly. Her cell phone was clearly set to silent mode, so why was there a ringtone?

And this happened just when I revealed this information. Could it be that my phone was being monitored?

Minato Aoko took out her phone with a grim expression. After seeing the caller ID was "Arrogant", she swiped the screen to answer the call. As a result, the man's mechanical voice came from the other end and said bluntly:

"Give the phone to Sosuke Takashi. I need to talk to him."

"……yes."

Minato Aoko handed the phone to the confused Sosuke Takashi and whispered:

"It was Pride calling."

A hint of surprise flashed in his eyes. Fujiwara Yu had already guessed that the phone had been implanted with some kind of monitoring software. Perhaps the entire phone could be controlled by the other party. He picked up the phone, put it to his ear, and asked in a cold voice:

"What do you want to do by looking for me?"

"The voice sounds very angry. It's exactly the same as before."

"Have we met before?"

"Isn't it? You're the only toy that escaped... Should I call you Sosuke Takashi, or Claire Stewart? Or do you have some other name that I don't know?"

Fujiwara Yu's pupils suddenly shrank. Not many people knew his identity, and when Arrogant mentioned "the only toy that escaped", he was simply referring to the kidnapping incident he encountered in the United States before he joined the CIA.

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