Chapter 16

It was midnight, on the top floor of the Charity Ambassadors Building.

The recent news of Hideki Esumi's death has made the name of the charity ambassador even more famous. As Hideki Esumi's most trusted "friend", Daigo Ueda has also accepted many interviews from the media.

As usual, he walked towards his room through the black corridor with a benevolent smile.

"Good evening, Mr. Ueda!"

"Mr. Ueda is still working so late. He must be very tired!"

"Mr. Ueda, please get off work early! It's already late!"

Young people greeted him one after another, and the kind-looking old man smiled and nodded, his squinting eyes hiding the gloom in his eyes.

Just as the media said, these young people were raised and educated in the Charity Ambassadors Organization, and then worked here on the spot, and have been rotating for more than ten years.

And all of this comes from the gift of that adult.

[Ding Dong——]

A clear cell phone ringtone rang from his pocket. Daigo Ueda took out the phone from his pocket. His eyes, which were narrowed with a smile, suddenly changed the moment he noticed the message on the phone screen.

【Come to the room now. I have something to talk to you about. 】

The text message came from an unfamiliar number, but Daigo Ueda knew who the number was.

A feeling of tension surged up instantly, and Daigo Ueda quickened his pace subconsciously, pressing the elevator door hard with his finger.

Did he do something wrong?

No...this shouldn't happen!

Daigo Ueda was extremely anxious. He stared at the numbers on the elevator. When the numbers finally reached the top floor, he rushed out almost recklessly.

There is only one room on the top floor. Pushing open the inconspicuous door, you will see the almost panoramic one-way transparent glass skylight casting shadows of stars. Looking around from here, you can see almost every corner of Tokyo.

The man sitting on the chair with his back to him is the boss behind the charity ambassador - A.

"Excuse me, Mr. A, why did you come here suddenly? Is there something you want to ask me?" Daigo Ueda asked nervously.

"How is the drug development going?" the other party asked.

"Even if everything goes well, none of the adopted children will remember anything they experienced here," Daigo Ueda said firmly.

Yes, the Charity Ambassadors organization is actually half a pharmaceutical factory.

Most of the drugs they developed were related to mental health. The original formula of the drugs was also brought by A, which had the effect of making people lose their memory and forcing them to obey.

Those children who were taken in were the most suitable experimental subjects.

When they lose their usefulness, they will be forced to brainwash again and fabricate false memories. These children will be more obedient and better behaved than other children and will be easier to exploit.

"I remember a child died here not long ago?" A's voice suddenly rose.

"This……"

Sweat stains appeared on Daigo Ueda's forehead.

"I don't want any negative news to spread." A's voice turned cold.

"You should know the consequences of the truth being revealed, right?"

"I, I know..." Ueda Daigo's voice became smaller and smaller.

"I have already found another child who looks very similar to him and adopted him out in his place! Hongshu! The child named Hongshu! Now no one has noticed that he has been replaced! Please rest assured!!"

"Okay." A's voice returned to normal.

"Then you can go."

"I understand. Thank you, sir."

Daigo Ueda finally breathed a sigh of relief and fled from the room.

Just when the whole room fell into complete silence, there was a slight sound of footsteps in the corner of the room. A, who was sitting on the chair, looked at the silver-haired man hiding in the shadows not far away, with an interested look in his eyes.

"You seem to be very satisfied with this information, Gin."

"Is this your last words?"

The silver-haired man in a black windbreaker walked forward slowly, and Bretta's gun remained pointed at him.

"Your research results are indeed good, but this still cannot offset your sin of betrayal. You should know how the organization will deal with traitors, right?"

"What if I say that I can bring that adult back safe and sound?" A suddenly added.

“…”

Gin's hands froze.

"Master Gin must have felt very sorry for that senior. After all, you and he had always had a good relationship. When you knew that he voluntarily accepted the experiment, you felt very sorry."

A's voice became strange.

"Should this be enough?"

There was a long silence, and after a while, Gin's suppressed voice sounded again:

"Tell me, what are you going to do?"

…

“A-choo!”

Shigeto Tsujimoto sneezed violently, and at the critical moment he grabbed the tissue on the table and stopped the damage in time.

"You have a cold again?"

Matsuda Jinpei suddenly turned his head, and the entire Investigation Division's attention turned towards him.

"No." Tsujimoto Shigetsu said sullenly.

"Am I such a fragile existence in your heart?"

"Come on, someone who just recovered from a cold has no right to say such things, right?" Matsuda Jinpei pushed his sunglasses with a teasing expression.

Shigeto Tsujimoto had no way of expressing his suffering.

That time, it was only because he subtracted zero from his physical value that it turned out like this. If the value could be shown, he really wanted to throw his physical value of over 80 points in his face.

"It's too much for Matsuda-kun to say that. You should know that you were able to successfully close the case because of me." Shigeto Tsujimoto said seriously.

"Who knew you could bring a child home after work..."

Miraculously enough, the case that Jinpei Matsuda was busy with some time ago happened to be the missing person case of Hiroki Hashima.

After Shigeki Tsujimoto picked up Hiroki Hashima and adopted him, the case was dropped.

A child named Hiroki Hashima was sitting obediently in the office next door, his blue cat eyes cast on the table, well-behaved and obedient.

Grencijiu only left a sentence "We'll talk about the next mission after that" and never showed up again. Now he can only follow Tsujimoto Shigetsu and dare not do anything else.

Although it is a pleasure to meet my peers.

Looking at the curly-haired police officer who was happily chatting with Shigeto Tsujimoto, Morofushi Kagemitsu's eyes also revealed a nostalgic look.

...Of course, the only headache was that, probably because there hadn't been any children in the Metropolitan Police Department for a long time, and he hadn't been very busy recently, many female police officers even ran over from the neighboring department and surrounded him and started teasing him in various ways.

"What's your name, kid? Do you want to play with me?"

"Hahahaha Yumi, don't scare the kids!"

"The main thing is that it's really cute! It actually has cat eyes! I can't resist it!!"

"Hahahahaha, so the police officer involved is already a single father? I'm dying of laughter, he's not even married and he already has a child!"

"Don't worry, even if that's the case, Officer Tsujimoto will definitely be more popular than Officer Matsuda!"

“Pfft, don’t let Officer Matsuda hear this, hahahaha!!”

Looking at the evil hands of the young men from the Metropolitan Police Department reaching out to him, Morobushi Jingguang sat there and let them pull him away, and could only accept the teasing in pain.

[I am dying of laughter! What kind of suffering did poor Jingguang Lily go through!!]

[I am going to possess my sisters right now! Hehehehe Jingguang Lily hehehehe…]

[Zhu Hu·Weak·Well-behaved·Poor·Lily: Why are you just watching, Matsuda-kun? JPG]

[Hahahahahaha, poor Jingguang cat will definitely be traumatized by this, right?]

[But it's strange, do you remember that the child who was missing as a charity ambassador was Hiroki? And not long after he disappeared, Jingguang was picked up by the police officer involved... Could this be a clue? ]

[I find it very strange. Jingguang's shrinking must be related to Drug A. If so, could this charity ambassador's organization have some connection with the Black Organization?]

[It seems that Jingguang has lost his memory? Or maybe he is pretending that he doesn't remember anything? ]

[In short! That charity ambassador organization is definitely not a good thing! ! ]

[I have a feeling... this charity ambassador organization might have some connection with Shibuto-chan's brother, right?]

[It's better not to make random guesses about things that have no basis at all!! ]

…

Shigeto Tsujimoto felt very guilty.

I'm sorry to Zhufu Jingguang, but he didn't dare to leave him outside, so he had to take him to the Metropolitan Police Department.

Fortunately, Jinpei Matsuda didn't notice anything wrong. When they first met, he just exclaimed that he looked like his former classmate, which scared both of them so much that cold sweats broke out on their backs.

However, in addition to settling Hiroki Hashima, Shigeto Tsujimoto also had to sort out his own system tasks.

[Lost in the rainy night].

There are hidden quests in the main storyline, but no relevant quest content is disclosed.

There are two possibilities for not knowing the mission content. First, this mission involves an important secret that can change the entire plot, and he must wait until he cracks it himself before the mission can be fully launched. Second, he has not yet met the key mission character.

At least he was sure that the person who was lost on the rainy night was not Morobushi Jingguang, but someone else.

This incident is most likely related to that strange charity ambassador organization.

However, because he completed the previous tasks very well, Shigeto Tsujimoto also got a chance to draw a skill set. The system allows him to draw a new skill set from ten skill cards, and this card drawing module is valid for a long time.

Shigetsu Tsujimoto looked at the card drawing simulator and pondered for a while, then decided to wait until later to redeem it.

After all, he doesn't lack any skills now, and he is not sure what skills he needs. It is better to wait until the critical moment to use them.

"Would you like to go back together tonight?"

Jinpei Matsuda asked one more question while packing his things.

"I think it's not easy for you to take the subway with your child. It just so happens that Hagi's guy is not very busy today, so he said he can take you home."

"Sure." Tsujimoto Shigetsu pondered for a moment and thought it was okay.

"But I might have to go to Conan's house first. Isn't that a bit far?"

"It's not a big deal. Don't be so reserved. That guy is easy to talk to." Matsuda Jinpei patted his shoulder.

"And I think this kid looks familiar to Hagi, right? If I didn't know that the guy from Zhufu only has one older brother, I would have suspected that he had a younger brother."

"Look at it in a positive way, maybe it's a son." Shigeto Tsujimoto made a bolder guess.

"Son?" Matsuda Jinpei was shocked.

"That's not possible, is it?? That guy Zhufu is the first one among us to have a child?? But he doesn't even have a girlfriend!! Is he schizophrenic?!"

"…That's enough, Matsuda-kun. Don't stretch your thinking too far."

"It was you who started the expansion first, wasn't it, Tsujimoto Diuguo-kun?" Matsuda Jinpei said indifferently.

…

Shigetto Tsujimoto had a headache.

Now all the clues are tangled up in a mess, like a ball of thread that is tangled together and you can't find the end of the thread.

What is Hiroki's true identity? Has he really lost his memory? What is the relationship between the Charity Ambassador Organization and the Black Organization? And...what is Yuma planning?

Anyway, let's go to Conan first. It is said that Toru Amuro has found new clues, which should be helpful to his investigation progress, right?

Thinking this, Shigeto Tsujimoto quickly followed Jinpei Matsuda out of the Metropolitan Police Department gate.

However, the moment he walked out the door, an extremely strange gaze fell on him, like a burning flame, causing him to stop subconsciously.

Who is it?

Shigetsu Tsujimoto almost immediately looked in the direction of the line of sight, but a few cars happened to whiz past at this moment, and the line of sight disappeared into the air.

Was it his illusion? Or was there really someone watching him?

Forget it. It seems like pursuing the matter now won’t yield any results… Let’s just go back first.

"Hey, Shito, why are you still standing there? It's time to go!" Matsuda Jinpei's voice came from not far away.

"I'm here."

Shigeto Tsujimoto quickly followed, but found that the hand that was holding the corner of his clothes seemed to be tightening.

"What's wrong, Hiroki?" Tsujimoto Shigetsu looked to the side, slightly startled.

"Did you see anything?"

"I'm fine"

After a moment, he saw the black-haired, blue-eyed boy shook his head vigorously.

"I'm just hungry..."

Zhu Fu Jingguang's expression was extremely bad.

No one understood the meaning of that sight better than him.

Was that someone from the Black Organization? ?

But why would the people from the Black Organization appear here? ?

The ominous premonition became clearer, Morobu Kagemitsu's breathing became difficult, and the overwhelming sense of tension surged like a tide.

No, no emotion can be shown here, the role he has to play is that of an obedient child, he cannot show anything wrong.

But, Tsujimoto Shigetsu... is he being targeted? Why is he being targeted by the Black Organization? He is just an ordinary police officer!!

[Calm down and look at the scenery.]

The familiar voice came into my mind again, still as lazy and wanton as usual, as if I had a sure win in everything in the future.

[I should have told you not to show too much emotion. As long as I'm here, nothing will happen to him. And of course, the same goes for you.]

[Or...Hiro, do you want to lose your composure in front of your friends?]

Hiro.

The familiar nickname conveyed by the unfamiliar tone inexplicably gave him an incomparable sense of security.

This is trust from a dangerous person.

Zhu Fu Jingguang took a deep breath and tried to calm his emotions.

Sure enough, he also became strange. He knew clearly that the guy was absolutely cold-blooded and ruthless except towards his brother, so why did he feel this strange sense of peace?

Or is it that Grenz wine is particularly good at controlling people's hearts?

"Sure enough, it's just as Jinpei-chan said! This kid really looks like Jingguang!!"

The voice of a former friend suddenly rang in his ears. Morofushi Keimitsu raised his head consciously and soon met Hagiwara Kenji's eyes.

"Want some candy?"

The young man with long bangs half-knelt down, took out a lollipop from his pocket with a smile, and handed it to Zhu Fujingguang.

"Oh, I really miss you. Come to think of it, I haven't seen Hiro for a long time..."

"He must be busy. Maybe he will suddenly show up one day." Matsuda Jinpei shrugged.

…

Yes, everything he does now is to protect the people around him, isn't it?

He was not even afraid of death before, so what is there to be afraid of now? ?

Zhu Fu Jingguang clenched the candy in his hand, and the expression in his eyes gradually became firm.

"Then you must be Kenji Hagiwara," Shigeto Tsujimoto extended his hand and smiled politely.

"Long time no see, Officer Hagiwara. We are all colleagues now, so there is no need to be so reserved."

"Long time no see, Officer Tsujimoto." Hagiwara Kenji stood up, looked into the other's eyes with a complicated expression, and quickly shook his hand back.

"Please give me your guidance in the future."