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"Grappa, explain the news."

Noel had a headache after receiving a call from his boss early in the morning. As expected, Gin told his boss about the explosion of a bomb he had buried. He was simply a snitch. If he were in school, he would be the kind of annoying person who liked to tell tales. No wonder he was ostracized by everyone. They didn't even take him with them to gossip and play, and they didn't take him with them either... Grappa, who was avoided by everyone in the brewery, thought so with great self-awareness.

"I planted the bomb and wanted to kill Miyano Akemi with my own hands." Noel was very good at lying and he was not at all panicked when mixing the fake and the real together.

"Do you care about Shirley a lot?" The boss on the other end of the phone sounded quite interested. Now he no longer used a voice changer when contacting Grappa, which made Noel feel that he had already conquered more than half of her. He still had to work hard to successfully conquer her and win her heart, physically.

"Yeah." Noel didn't need to lie, but he didn't explain what he meant by caring. After all, Shirley's abilities were there no matter what, and the value of scientific researchers has always been high, not to mention that they are geniuses who have been cultivated since childhood.

"Then you are not allowed to see her again." The boss said in a gentle but unyielding tone. Nors was not surprised at all, after all, the next person she would see would be Haibara Ai.

"yes."

"You've made too much noise this time." OK, here comes the point. Noel immediately admitted his mistake and said:

"Please punish me, Boss."

He had already arranged his time in advance. It was normal for Xiaoguang not to go home for those few days. Miyano Akemi could still stay in disguise for a week. Even the updates for the comics were completed in advance and sent to the publisher on time. He had plenty of time for confinement and electric shock.

"Not really, just be careful next time."

Noel immediately became alert, he knew very well the damn bad taste of this BOSS, and the lack of punishment often meant that there would be a big one later, and when the time came, he might be caught and he would have no place to defend himself, as a tool man would have no right to speak.

"Yeah." Noel rolled his eyes, but his tone was respectful, the contrast was as great as that between the preview and the evidence.

"Come to the base now. There are new tasks for you to handle."

Well, it turned out that there was work to be done. Noel relaxed his guard. Working was always better than punishment. He silently crawled out of the game room and saw Morobushi Kagemitsu who was preparing his school supplies.

Noel directly transferred Morobushi Kagemitsu's student status to Teitan Junior High School. However, it was not easy to operate in such a national school. It was impossible to keep the student's status forever like in a private elementary school. As for Kudo Shinichi, strictly speaking, he only disappeared for half a year. Noel was not sure why he was not expelled.

"Another mission?" Zhu Fu Jingguang frowned. After all, in his eyes, Noel had just been on a mission the day before yesterday, and when he was undercover there, the missions were not so frequent. But thinking of Grappa's situation, Zhu Fu Jingguang could only sigh and give the organization that had been on the blacklist a few more thrashings. He also thought about the recent intelligence from Hongshu and felt that he could give some more to the public security.

"Don't worry, we should be back tonight." Noel couldn't explain. He wouldn't tell Xiaoguang about his mission in detail. He could only nod and turn away.

———

A grand drama is being played out on the luxury cruise ship.

"That's right, the murderer is Ichiro himself!!!" The detective sitting on the chair with his head down told the truth, "The murders of Master Gozo and Ryuo were also the work of Ichiro!"

The detective began to explain the crime scene, and the boy behind him handed over irrefutable evidence.

Everyone looked at the murderer's explanation in shock.

At the beginning of this incident, Mori and his group accidentally boarded the Usumoto family's luxury cruise ship, but suddenly there were deaths on the ship. First, the family member Usumoto Gozo was killed in the room, then the son-in-law Usumoto Ryunnan, and the painter Usumoto Ichiro was also stabbed in the dark. In the end, the truth was that he directed and acted it himself. The reason was that he liked Usumoto Natsue, who was getting married today, so he made such an impulsive move.

Although the motive is regrettable, the case seems to have been completed satisfactorily.

"Wait, you haven't explained clearly why grandpa's fingers were pointing in one direction after he died!" The one who spoke was Akiie Uzumoto. Her husband died this time, and the most important inheritance had nothing to do with her, which made her very irritable.

"Well, I think there should be a will in the cabinet over there." Kogoro Mouri said uncertainly, and behind him, Conan, who was holding the bow voice changer, was indeed stunned. The current evidence is very sufficient, and the murderer has pleaded guilty. The case is over. It doesn't matter what's in the cabinet. Moreover, the importance of the will in this big family, this should be the last thing that Grandpa Gozo cares about.

"Probably not. The old man kept the will at the head office just in case, and there is no backup." The butler at the side spoke up, obviously very reliable.

"If it's convenient..."

"I'll go check." The butler obviously understood what Conan meant. He opened the cabinet and found a letter inside.

"I remember this letter now," the housekeeper recalled slowly, "The master received this letter two days ago. I don't know who sent it. The master was very angry after reading it. He scolded me for a long time and then put it in the cabinet..."

The butler said as he opened it. After seeing the contents, his fingers trembled and his pupils shrank like pinholes.

"What on earth is written on it?!" Qiu Jiang snatched the letter in a rage, but froze when he saw the content.

"Let me see!" Conan finally couldn't bear his curiosity and ran out from behind Kogoro Mouri. He barely saw the contents of the letter and his heart was filled with emotion.

/Hatamoto Ichiro wants to kill you, and not just you, because he likes Hatamoto Natsue and you disagree. Although it's ridiculous, he really wants to kill you for this reason. The time is on the way back from the wedding day. Don't forget. ——Ikaros. /

"What is going on! How did this person know?" Qiu Jiang couldn't help but shout. The wording of this text was very certain, and the facts happened just as he said. The time and place were accurately predicted.

"Wait, so Ikaros guessed what happened today and told Grandpa in advance?!" Xia Jiang couldn't help but ask. Her tone was full of shock, and she even covered her mouth to prevent herself from screaming.

"Do you know him?" Qiu Jiang walked towards the murderer Hatamoto Ichiro with the letter, but saw that the other party was also shocked and shook his head and said: "I haven't told anyone, not even..."

"He made many impromptu decisions." Conan added with a serious look. This letter interrupted all his thoughts, especially according to Ichiro's description, he decided to kill people on the spur of the moment because he was reprimanded. Although the other party may have had a long-standing grudge, the reprimand was just a trigger. In other words, Ikaros knew everyone in the Tsujimoto family very well, and even guessed that Ichiro Tsujimoto would not be able to help but take action tonight... If this is true, it would be terrible.

"Why would Mr. Osamumoto still..." Xiaolan was the first to think of this and couldn't help but say.

"I mentioned before that the old man doesn't like people prying into his privacy." The housekeeper sighed and explained, "When he saw the letter, he was very angry and kept cursing."

"And he doesn't think I can kill him," Ichiro Uemoto suddenly said, "After all, in his eyes, I have always been a useless waste. How could I possibly hurt him..."

"So he didn't take the warning letter seriously at all, thinking it was just a boring prank. It was not until he was dying that he realized this and pointed in this direction..."

Conan concluded silently, but he couldn't say anything.

The case ended in silence, but Conan kept the name Ikaros firmly in his mind and decided to ask Dr. Agasa, who lived next door and knew his true identity, to check it out when he returned. Kogoro Mouri opened his eyes under everyone's respectful gaze, his face full of confusion, and he only felt a little sore in his neck.

———

"So my partner... is you?" Noel was sitting in the back seat of Gin's car, his face covered tightly with a mask, but he couldn't hide the disgust in his tone. This made Vodka, who was driving in the front, break out in cold sweat, and he secretly cursed Grappa in his heart for being more and more arrogant.

"Are you unhappy?" It was rare for Gin to say something sarcastic instead of pretending to be cold and icy, at least that's how Noel saw it.

"No, although it's very uncomfortable, but when I thought that you reported me and ended up becoming my partner, it would be even more uncomfortable, so I suddenly felt better." Noel spread his hands, his tone was very naughty, his behavior in front of each code member was different, if he was in front of Vermouth and Bourbon he would be gentle, flirting and joking, in front of Gin he would use all his sarcasm skills, of course, he frankly admitted that he was taking revenge on Gin by preventing him from committing suicide and locking himself up.

"As for that woman Shirley, you didn't get her completely in the end." Gin snorted coldly. He knew the order given by the boss and how crazy Grappa had been towards Shirley before. There was a certain schadenfreude in his words.

"This is the boss's order."

What Gin didn't expect was that Grappa just stated it without any fluctuation in his tone, as if in his eyes, if it was the order from the boss, then everything could be given up. This attitude made Gin feel a little uncomfortable.

"So you'll be good and obedient, like a dog?"

"This is the boss's order." The man in black was covered in bandages, with his grey eyes showing only a lifeless robot, repeating his most important instructions.

"I take it back. You're not even a dog."

Gin stopped talking, feeling extremely bored. It was not even worth getting angry at such a brainwashed puppet.