Chapter 571
Upon hearing Usaku Saiki call out "Bourbon," Morofushi Kagemitsu belatedly realized that Furuya Rei seemed to have been offline for a while, standing at the door without any reaction.
"Zero?" Morofushi Hiromitsu patted Furuya Rei on the shoulder. "Are you alright?"
Kenji Hagiwara was also puzzled: "You're all in the same organization. It's understandable that you didn't recognize him before, but now that he's the heir, are you still so unfamiliar with him?"
I emailed you all to come over, so why are you still so shocked to see people who shouldn't be here?
Matsuda Jinpei glanced at Furuya Rei's reaction and guessed, "Kanakawa, did you send an anonymous email saying that Hagi and I were kidnapped or something?"
"I'm not that bored." The young man with deep red hair and eyes was somewhat speechless.
Matsuda Jinpei thought for a moment and said, "Oh, right, you like things that are more technically advanced."
Kenji Hagiwara nodded in agreement.
Seeing the three of them chatting happily, Furuya Rei pinched his thigh hard to make sure he hadn't accidentally passed out and had a dream because he had been working too much overtime lately.
But if it's not a dream, then it's even more outrageous.
Rei Furuya shakily raised his hand, pointing rather rudely at the person: "Han...Hanchuan...you are Hanchuan..."
Kenji Hagiwara finally realized something was wrong. He looked at his old classmate, then at his friend, and pinpointed the culprit, asking, "What did you do to him?"
"I didn't do anything," Bo Yezaki said matter-of-factly. "I just changed my color, and you didn't recognize me. You only realized it now, and you're going to blame me?"
"Huh?" Matsuda Jinpei asked in confusion, "What color did it change to?"
“Isn’t my resume fabricated?” Saiki Usaba said. “Japan is so small, so I disguised it to avoid being discovered by people I know. My current hair color is more inconspicuous.”
Kenji Hagiwara understood: "You dyed your hair? What were you supposed to look like before?"
Bo Yezaki sighed and stood up: "You old classmates can chat for a bit, I'll just use the bathroom."
Rei Furuya, who was blocking the doorway, mechanically stepped aside and watched Saiki Usaba go into the bathroom. Only after hearing the door close did he turn back, his pupils dilating in shock: "What happened?! What on earth happened?!"
Morofushi Kagemitsu had seen photos of Usuiba Saiki as a child, so he wasn't too surprised. Seeing Furuya Rei so agitated, he patted him on the back reassuringly: "Calm down... I didn't recognize you at first either. You're not the only one... It's strange, but upon closer inspection, you really do look exactly the same..."
Matsuda Jinpei put down the game controller, propped his chin on his hand, and looked at them with a speechless expression: "So, you can't even recognize people who look exactly alike? No wonder he thought you were incompetent; you were suspected as soon as you joined the organization as infiltrators."
Morofushi Kagemitsu: "…………"
Rei Furuya: "...Did he tell you that he was the one who discovered we were undercover agents?!"
Kenji Hagiwara raised an eyebrow: "Oh, that explains it. He really has a good eye for people. Since you've been able to infiltrate until now, it must mean he hasn't done anything to you, right?"
He sounded quite proud.
Rei Furuya couldn't accept that his old classmate seemed to have a good relationship with Saiki Usaba; it was like a horror movie. This shock finally activated his language system.
"He tells us every day that we are undercover agents!"
Matsuda Jinpei pondered: "Is he reminding you to improve your professional skills? He said that your acting skills are full of loopholes in his eyes... If he really wanted to do something, you definitely wouldn't have been able to infiltrate the organization for so long."
Furuya Rei looked at Matsuda Jinpei in disbelief—Matsuda was actually speaking up for that guy! Was this really Matsuda?!
"How did you guys become so familiar with him? I know he saved Hagiwara... but..."
At this point, Rei Furuya suddenly paused, his expression blank as he asked.
"Wait a minute, so it's true that he went to police academy when he went missing?"
Kenji Hagiwara stroked his chin: "He even told you this? But you two aren't close?"
“…It’s not that we’re strangers.” Furuya Rei found himself at a loss for words. “But, when he was in the organization, he wasn’t like this… well, his personality was really awful…”
Matsuda Jinpei remarked, "Hasn't his personality always been terrible?"
Rei Furuya paused for a moment, trying to continue explaining, but then realized he didn't know where to begin.
He thought his old classmates didn't know anything about Usaku Saiki and had been deceived, but now it seems they did know!
Morofushi Kagemitsu sighed: "Zero, do you remember when I told you about his childhood photos? He's actually not much different from how he is now... Maybe his behavior in the organization is more of an act..."
Rei Furuya's nature is to be impulsive. After being an undercover agent for so many years, he has only improved. However, once he calms down, he can think of the same things as Hiromitsu Morofushi.
However, the image derived from this analysis was something he found hard to accept.
Isn't it just like he's been misunderstanding Usaku Saiki all along, failing to understand his good intentions?
It makes it seem like he's been dragging things down all along... But it was clearly Usaku Saiki who deliberately put on that suspicious act!
It was Bo Yezhai who didn't believe him and refused to tell him the truth!
Moreover, even if Usaku Saiki intended to form an organization from the beginning and consider them as one of his own, given Usaku Saiki's personality, he was still worried that his old classmate might be taken advantage of.
After racking his brains for a while, Furuya Rei finally found a breakthrough: "You've known each other for seven years, haven't you? Has he ever told you his real name?"
As a result, Kenji Hagiwara and Jinpei Matsuda's level of tolerance shocked Rei Furuya.
"He was also trying to take down the organization that killed his father, a member of the Japanese Public Security Bureau. It's normal for him to use a fake identity and hide his name."
Jianggu Ling: "???"
Morofushi Kagemitsu was also a little surprised: "You don't mind at all?"
“There’s nothing to be bothered about.” Matsuda Jinpei was also calm. “After all, if you ask him, he will definitely answer if he wants to, and he won’t lie on purpose if he doesn’t want to answer… Like before, when we asked him if his resume was falsified, he just told us directly. After he explained, Hagi and I both felt that we could understand.”
Rei Furuya remained completely bewildered: "???"
As a result, Morofushi Kagemitsu betrayed him: "Indeed, he usually tells the truth."
"No," Rei Furuya couldn't help but ask, "What did you all ask?"
Kenji Hagiwara thought for a moment and said, "You suddenly asked this question, and we don't know where to begin answering... You've asked too many questions already."
Rei Furuya asked first, "Why did he want to go to police academy?"
"Oh, so this guy said that when he was a child, someone told him because of his background that he was destined to be a criminal, and he wanted to prove himself," Matsuda Jinpei remarked. "Looking back now, could it be that the person in question was actually praising him?"
Rei Furuya felt he had a thousand words to say, but with Saiki Usui spearheading the organization's transformation, it seemed unconvincing; Usui had indeed proven himself… So he simply skipped the question: "Can he really get up early every day? What about his homework?"
"Uh... my time at the police academy was alright, I managed to get through it until graduation, it was only a few months after all." Kenji Hagiwara, as a teaching assistant, had a lot to say about it. "Assignments... there weren't many assignments at the police academy, but the self-criticisms and such were all written by others."
Matsuda Jinpei gestured to Hagiwara Kenji: "He's the one who ghostwrote it. He's a teaching assistant, and he's the one who led the way in breaking the rules."
Kenji Hagiwara chuckled dryly: "That's because I was afraid the instructor would be angry if I handed in the self-criticism written by Shinryu... Besides, it wasn't just me; everyone was writing self-criticisms for him."
Rei Furuya asked blankly, "What do you mean by 'everyone'...?"
"Everyone in the First Investigation Division, and even his seniors from his internship in the Mobile Investigation Unit... even his superiors wrote it for him," Kenji Hagiwara remarked. "After all, he often doesn't follow the rules, like shooting at criminals..."
The descent of Zero was truly astounding.
Usakabe Saiki has already revealed his true colors to this extent within the Metropolitan Police Department, and he still hasn't been fired?!
Faced with Rei Furuya's questioning, Kenji Hagiwara could only say, "Because when he was there, everyone's case-solving efficiency improved. If you asked him any questions, the case might be solved. His perverse interests were mostly directed at criminals... When he wanted to resign, Inspector Megure was very reluctant to let him go and suppressed it for a long time, forcing him to go and challenge Pramia to a duel, which resulted in Pramia being killed by his own bomb. He tried hard to pin the blame on himself before he was able to resign."
“It’s normal to hold him back from leaving,” Matsuda Jinpei added. “Anyone who heard him say he was quitting because he couldn’t get up in the morning and didn’t want to go to work would think it was too frivolous.”
Speaking of this, Kenji Hagiwara sighed, "We've already tacitly allowed him to come to work in the afternoon, but we still can't keep him here."
Jianggu Ling: "………………"
This is outrageous! Absolutely outrageous! Has the Metropolitan Police Department fallen to this level?!
No wonder Saiki Usaba has been able to stay in the Metropolitan Police Department for so long; you guys spoil him way too much!
"So what exactly did he tell you about the organization?" Furuya Rei didn't want to hear about how the Metropolitan Police Department had given Usui Saiki preferential treatment anymore; it was too suffocating. She wanted to ask the important questions.
“Once when we were in police academy, he sneaked out in the middle of the night and wasn’t in the dorm. I found out and asked him what he was doing outside.”
Kenji Hagiwara recalled: "He said he was going to meet some dangerous and troublesome people, saying that he thought he was very capable and was trying to bribe him. He said that if he didn't go, someone would be in trouble. Later, he encountered some things and said that it was still the same organization. He couldn't tell me because the organization was too powerful and it would not benefit him if he knew... He also said that the organization would not force him to do anything."
Rei Furuya remained expressionless.
Yes, the organization certainly won't force him to do anything, but he's driving us crazy!!!
Morofushi Kagemitsu paused for a moment, calculated the time, recalled the experience of that period, and said with difficulty, "Y-that is indeed the truth. During that time, Gin was still trying to get Usui to work more... but because he resolutely refused to work, and Gin also... in short, he gave up in the end."
Matsuda Jinpei looked at them: "So, that guy's real name is Usuha?"
Rei Furuya finally won a round; it can't always be the old classmates who know more: "Yes, Usui Seiki, Kanakawa Fukami is a pseudonym—"
Just then, the person in question finally came out of the bathroom and interrupted.
"It can't really be called a pseudonym. Hanchuan is my mother's surname, and as for Shenliu, that's what my family calls me... Only outsiders call me by my real name."
Everyone looked up and saw a silver-haired, green-eyed youth leaning against the doorway, waving at them.
Having become immune to the aura of shady dealings, Kenji Hagiwara looked at it carefully, then turned to the undercover duo with a puzzled expression.
"It seems like there's no change at all except for the hair and eye color, why can't you recognize me?"
Rei Furuya: "...He doesn't usually dress like this!!!"
Kenji Hagiwara hesitated, then said, "But... such a drastic change in clothing style... do you undercover agents identify people by their clothes?"
Jiang Gu Ling & Zhu Fu Jingguang: “…………”
No! Let us explain! Our skill level is really not bad!
Usaku Saiki raised an eyebrow: "Anyway, after I disguise myself, if someone doesn't recognize me, I'll pretend I don't know them either. It's quite interesting... Like before at the shrine, I was standing right in front of Furuya, but Furuya preferred to expose his identity and ask Matsuda for help rather than recognize me. I actually wanted to laugh, but I held it in."
Jiang Gu Ling & Zhu Fu Jingguang: “…………”
What a terrible personality! ...Could you have given me a hint?!
Kenji Hagiwara, however, seemed unfazed: "So if they recognized me, everything would be fine, right? You can't blame Fukaru for that."
Rei Furuya knew he shouldn't, but he couldn't help but shout in his heart—
You, who's been unfairly treated, shouldn't be talking like that without understanding the situation! Jingguang and I have it tough too!!!
"Actually, it's normal for him to be disguised, isn't it?" Matsuda Jinpei looked at Furuya Rei with a complicated expression. "You, on the other hand, don't pretend at all when you're undercover, working, or returning to the police station... To be honest, when I heard about it, I really wanted to question your undercover training results..."
Jianggu Ling: "…………"
How come Bo Yezaki is right in every way?! Why is he the one being questioned?!
Jiangu Ling broke through the defense.
There's a limit to complaining about old classmates, so Kenji Hagiwara stopped them in time: "Anyway, no matter what, Fukami-ryu's goal has been achieved, and you're all safe and sound... How about we invite the class president over for a meal tonight? Speaking of which, thanks to Fukami-ryu, if your undercover mission ends now, you can still make it to the class president's wedding."
Usaku Saiki said, "Let's call Conan. He's been asking about the medicine lately... I'm too lazy to explain it to him. Furuya and Morofushi can help out."
Kenji Hagiwara nodded.
Morofushi Kagemitsu slowly looked at Hagiwara Kenji and Matsuda Jinpei and asked, "Do you know who Conan is?"
The question was a bit strange, but Matsuda Jinpei understood what he meant: "You mean you want to know if we know he is Shinichi Kudo? Of course we know, but we didn't expect him to be involved with this organization before."
“It’s not hard to guess.” Kenji Hagiwara thought for a moment and then spoke up for his friend. “And this is true too. When we asked Fukami, he told us right away that we guessed correctly. I think you should communicate with him more. Fukami knows that you are my and Jinpei’s friends. He may have a bad personality, but he won’t really hurt you.”
A silent tremor ran through Morofushi Kagemitsu: "Hmm... I did owe him a lot of help when my undercover identity was exposed... Usaba does answer my questions, but..."
But it's not satisfying at all, it's so enigmatic!! How did you guys manage to do that?!
Upon hearing this, Furuya Rei felt utterly despondent.
Stop talking, or he'll become withdrawn.
There is a kind of happiness in this world called "no comparison, no hurt"...
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