Chapter 54 Negroni
December 16, 14:00.
At the neon-lit international airport, Kurosawa Jin, as the leader, walked at the front of the group. As he exited the airport, he saw Furuya Rei quietly waiting there.
"Bourbon, what are you doing here?" Kurosawa Jin raised his head and looked at Furuya Rei.
“The boss sent me to help you.” Furuya Rei looked at the large group of people following Kurosawa Jin. “I guess you really need help.”
“No need…” Kurosawa Jin was about to refuse, but then changed his mind and said, “There is indeed a mission.”
“Bourbon, you take Sherry to see her sister.” Kurosawa Jin’s gaze turned to Sherry, who was standing to the side.
At that moment, Furuya Rei noticed Shiho Miyano, dressed casually, standing next to Kurosawa Jin, and was observing her without making a sound.
"Gin, this isn't a task assigned to me by the BOSS." The implication was that he didn't want to do it.
"Bourbon, this is an order, don't make me repeat myself!" Kurosawa Jin threatened. "Don't think I won't touch you just because Rum is here."
As expected, Rum and Gin had a system of checks and balances, which deepened Rei Furuya's suspicions.
Since joining Rum's intelligence group, Rei Furuya has gradually delved deeper into the organization, discovering that Rum's intelligence group and Gin's action group are important entities within the Black Organization. The two groups suppress and cooperate with each other, and there is a competitive relationship between Rum and Gin.
Seeing that Furuya Rei was sensible, Kurosawa Jin didn't say anything more. He said to Miyano Shiho in a tone that brooked no refusal, "I'm only giving you one day. You must be back before dark."
It felt like an old father handing his daughter over to a blond-haired guy. So, Kurosawa Jin said to Furuya Rei, "Bourbon, keep an eye on her!"
After saying that, without waiting for Furuya Rei's reply, he left with Vodka and the others, leaving Furuya Rei and Miyano Shiho standing there awkwardly staring at each other.
If you were to ask where Kurosawa Jin is headed next, it would be to the newly built S-Drug Research Base in Japan, where he needs to find Negroni.
Since Negroni dared to make Gin do double the work, he should be prepared to face Gin's wrath!
Previously, when Kurosawa was in America, he reported to the Boss, hoping to punish Negroni, but the Boss only appeased Gin slightly and did not take any substantial action.
It's clear that Negroni's standing in the boss's eyes is comparable to Vermouth's.
Kurosawa Jin was eager to meet this person favored by the BOSS and see who this person was.
"Brother, we've arrived." Vodka respectfully opened the car door for Kurosawa Jin.
A black Porsche was parked in the factory park. Unlike the United States' base in the deep mountains and forests, Japan's base was built in the suburbs, surrounded by farmland, and was disguised as a wood processing plant.
As soon as Kurosawa Jin got out of the car, a smiling junior member greeted him, "Lord Gin, this way please. Lord Negroni has been waiting for a long time."
"Lead the way." Kurosawa Jin strode forward with his long legs, exuding a menacing aura, as if he were there to interrogate someone.
After passing through a series of corridors, Kurosawa Jin was led to a white door with a sign that read "Restroom".
“Lord Negroni is inside.” After saying this, the member with the small code name took a step back and retreated.
"Vodka, you stay outside."
"yes."
The handsome man with green eyes and silver hair reached out and pushed open the door to the room.
The room is filled with rows of wine cabinets, and the dim lighting is relaxing. In the center of the room are several soft, antique-style sofas.
A black-haired man sat on the sofa with his back to Kurosawa Jin. One of his hands was resting on the back of the sofa, while the other hand was swirling the wine in his wine glass.
Negroni showed no intention of standing up to greet Kurosawa Jin, remaining seated as still as a mountain, waiting for the person at the door to pass by.
Kurosawa Jin took a few steps to stand opposite Negroni, his emerald green eyes fixed on him like an eagle's.
He was a young man with black hair. His face was quite ordinary, except for a mole on the corner of his mouth that gave him some distinguishability.
Wearing a white lab coat, Negroni put down his glass and greeted Kurosawa Jin very warmly, "Oh, Gin, it's nice to meet you. I'm Negroni."
As he spoke, he poured wine into an empty glass. "Have a drink."
"It's a Scotch whisky; I hope you'll enjoy its natural flavor."
"I won't drink it."
“Gin, you’re blaming me for pushing all the missions onto you, aren’t you?” Negroni pushed his glass towards Kurosawa Jin. “Drink up, consider it my apology.”
Kurosawa Jin still wouldn't buy it, looking at Negroni with the eyes of someone looking at a lunatic.
The other party seemed very sincere, but no one knew what he was really up to. There were no easy people in the organization, and there was no guarantee that there wasn't something in the drink.
"I know you put something in the drink!"
"Oh dear, we've been found out." Negroni feigned surprise.
Originally, he just wanted to blow it up, but Kurosawa Jin didn't expect that he would actually be blown out.
"So you still won't forgive me?" Negroni feigned a wronged expression. "Is it because this drink wasn't enough of a gesture of goodwill?"
"Then, I'll choose another gift..."
“Scotland! What will you do if he dies?” Negroni, who was all smiles just a moment ago, turned vicious the next.
His eyes didn't look like he was joking, and Kurosawa Jin felt that this person was a bit troublesome.
“Codename members are forbidden from killing each other. Negroni, you’ve got some nerve. Scotland is one of my men. If you want to mess with him, I don’t mind sending you to hell first.”
Kurosawa made some tough remarks, but Negroni on the other side didn't seem to be intimidated.
“Hahahahahaha—” Negroni laughed loudly, saying with a hidden meaning, “You really do love your junior, Gin.”
"Even if you can save Matsuda Jinpei and Hagiwara Kenji, you can't save Morofushi Kagemitsu!"
"Clang!" Kurosawa Jin instantly raised his gun and pointed it at Negroni's head.
"Who are you!"
"Haha, you can't kill me, Kurosawa Jin." Negroni remained completely calm, raising his glass as he spoke, his black pupils seeming to drip ink.
"Let me reintroduce myself. I am the third executive officer of the Anti-IF Alliance's Detective Conan world..."
December 26, 19:45.
"Bang! Bang! Crash!" The sounds of bullets being fired and glasses shattering came from outside the door. Vodka, standing at the door, was startled. Could his older brother have gone for the kill?
After a while, Kurosawa Jin emerged from inside with an extremely sour expression, exuding a murderous aura.
Vodka saw the bloody gash on his older brother's left cheek and immediately shut his mouth, which was about to speak.
As Kurosawa Jin walked, he wiped the blood from the wound on his face, and Negroni's words echoed in his mind for a long time.
"Due to the will of Heaven, I cannot kill you now, but you'd better wait to collect Zhu Fujingguang's corpse!"
"Heh, we'll see whose corpse we end up collecting!" Kurosawa Jin sneered, then strode away.
December 16, 22:15.
Under the cover of night, the stream flowed gently, shimmering in the moonlight. Weeds grew along its banks, and the air was filled with the croaking of frogs.
A "corpse" floats on the stream, its face upward, covered with a lot of water plants, with only a handsome face showing. The "corpse" drifts with the current, from upstream to downstream, and finally drifts to a small lake.
The "corpse" lay moored on the lakeshore, as if waiting for the fisherman to come and find it.
"Tsk, who's cosplaying as a water ghost here?" A sarcastic voice came from the shore.
The "corpse" suddenly opened its eyes, its pair of sapphire blue pupils shining brightly in the moonlight, like sapphires.
"How did you find me?" Zhang Tongri was still floating on the water, his eyes turning to Kurosawa Jin, who was leaning against a tree on the shore.
"Gu Gu told me."
"Oh," Zhang Tongri said indifferently, his current appearance giving off a feeling of being alive but barely alive.
"Are you sure we want to talk like this?" Kurosawa Jin raised an eyebrow.
Now, Zhang Tongri is stranded on the shore like a corpse, while Kurosawa Jin, in his black trench coat and top hat, looks no different from a murder scene from a distance.
"Oh," Zhang Tongri responded like a robot before slowly propping himself up with his arms.
Just then, a small basketball, emitting a fluorescent blue light, emerged shakily from Zhang Tongri's waist. It extended two mechanical arms to help Zhang Tongri remove the seaweed entangled around him.
His clothes had many holes, but strangely there were no wounds.
Kurosawa Jin stared longingly at the little blue ball and said, "Where have you been these past few years?"
"Number One tricked me into going to fight outside the world, but I didn't expect him to cheat and lock me outside the world wall."
"It took a lot of effort to get in here," he said, utterly dejected.
Number One lured him out with a clone. When Zhang Tongri killed the clone and was about to return, he realized he had been tricked. Number One had altered the laws of the world wall, preventing him from entering the world, which caused Zhang Tongri to smash the world wall for a long time!
"When I stumbled in, I accidentally fell into the stream. I was too lazy to get up, so I just let it flow downstream."
As he spoke, he stood up, and the little blue ball dried his clothes like a dryer, making him look like he was having a very hard time.
"Tsk tsk, locked up outside for years, how pitiful," Hei Zhen thought to himself.
"Today, I met the third executive officer of the Anti-IF Line Alliance."
"Number Three! You ran into that guy? You're really lucky to be alive!"
"Heaven will not allow me to die; it dares not touch me." Kurosawa Jin stood with his arms crossed.
Who can understand the true value of this one and only Gin in the world!
"You're quite smart." Zhang Tongri's clothes were completely dry as he put away the little blue ball.
“You high-dimensional beings are beyond my ability to deal with, and likewise, he can’t touch me,” Kurosawa Jin continued. “Therefore, he has set his sights on Morofushi Kagemitsu.”
“His real purpose is to lower your approval rating, not to kill Morofushi Kagemitsu,” Zhang Tongri explained. “Tsk, that’s a common trick of theirs.”
"I guessed it. I just wanted to ask if you had any drugs that could bring someone back to life or put them into a state of suspended animation." Kurosawa Jin smiled and started calculating. "How about you lend me your little blue ball?"
"Don't even think about it, Xiao Lan. I won't give it to you," Zhang Tongri said speechlessly. "Resurrection is out of the question, but I can give you one of the 'feign death' pills."
So Zhang Tongri readily tossed a ceramic bottle to Kurosawa Jin.
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