Chapter 227 Absurdity
◎Day 13 of the Highway Survival Game!◎
Amuro Tooru's words contained a huge amount of information. Even with Shinichi Kudo's high intelligence, he was unable to react for a moment after receiving such a large amount of information. He was stunned for a while before he sorted out the meaning of Amuro Tooru's words in his mind from simple to complex.
Amuro-san said that Gin is the heir to the organization, that is, the young master of the organization? Given Amuro-san's position in the organization, Yan Jin of the Japanese Public Security Bureau would not easily say this without absolute certainty.
Then there is a high probability that this is true. In fact, Shinichi Kudo had long noticed Gin's special status in the organization. For example, the code names of the organization's members and executives, even Rum, a confidant of the organization's boss, are all Western distilled spirits.
Gin is the only one who uses a Japanese name as his code name. Gin can kill organization veterans like Pisco without hesitation. On the night of the full moon, Conan realized during his confrontation with Vermouth that she seemed to be an organization member whose actions were directly commanded by the organization's boss.
In the incident where Kiel was arrested by the FBI, members of this organization followed Gin's orders from beginning to end, and their attitude towards Gin showed a degree of respect that subordinates showed to superiors, compared to other codenamed members.
Most importantly, when he talked to Akai about his experience of infiltrating the organization and having his identity exposed, he had a question in his mind. Now, when Amuro said that Gin is the successor of the organization, he was even more puzzled.
The mystery has finally been solved. The mystery is what Akai mentioned: the process by which his identity was exposed was when he finally got the opportunity to partner with Gin, an important figure in the organization, to carry out a mission.
After receiving his report, the FBI disregarded his objections and devised a plan to seize him during their meeting and interrogate him for information related to the organization.
The plan ultimately failed because, before Gin arrived at the meeting, an organized group conducted a 'fishing' test at the agreed location, luring out the inexperienced FBI investigator, Carmel.
Later, after Kir was captured by the FBI and agreed to cooperate with them, the two sides exchanged intelligence. It was then that Akai learned that the person who conducted the 'fishing' test at the meeting place he and Gin agreed to was actually Rum, the organization's boss's confidant. It was Rum who tested Akai and found out that he was an undercover agent...
Putting aside what happened after that, the fact that the person chosen at the time was Rum, the organization's second-in-command, puzzled Conan greatly. He was the organization's second-in-command, not a low-level member like Kusuda Rikumichi who could be used as cannon fodder at any time.
He wasn't even one of Gin's codenamed executives, but rather Rum, the organization's second-in-command. Why would someone like Rum, the organization's second-in-command, personally check for any risks before Gin and Akai made their meeting?
If they suspected Akai-san, or sensed something was wrong with him, they could have sent cannon fodder like Kusuda Rikumichi, or organized other executives. Why did it have to be someone like him, the organization's second-in-command, who personally took action?
At this moment, Conan felt that the doubt in his heart had been completely resolved. Yes! Only if Gin is not only an executive of the organization, but also the young master of the organization, could someone of Rum's status personally risk his life for him to show his loyalty to their BOSS, right?
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After confirming this, Conan didn't pay much attention to the fact that Feng Sang, whom he had only heard of but never seen, was Gin's sister, without knowing the details. He just thought to himself that since it was confirmed that Gin was the young master of the organization...
Not only in Japan, but also worldwide, various yakuza groups and criminal organizations choose their successors from among their own descendants first. Only when their own descendants are incompetent or have no descendants will they choose other successors.
It's not just these underworld organizations; even world-renowned companies do the same. Who doesn't pass on their business to their children first? Only those without children, or those who have been overthrown, would choose someone unrelated to them as their successor.
Ai Haibara has been a defector for so long, and it's obvious from her expression that she knows who the organization's boss is, but no matter how he tries to probe her, she won't say. This shows that the organization's boss has an abnormal level of control over the organization's members.
With such control, it's hard to imagine anyone being able to seize power from him. This suggests that Gin must be a direct blood relative of him. If I can investigate Gin's background, I might be able to pinpoint the identity of the organization's boss.
Thinking of this possibility, Conan breathed a sigh of relief. Great! After so long, the investigation into the organization has finally made great progress. It's just that there are many things Amuro-san said that he doesn't understand.
Besides saying that Gin is the successor of the organization, what he just said seemed to mean that Akai's father was captured and imprisoned by that super famous American pharmaceutical research and manufacturing company, which seems to be among the top 10 in the world, and it seems to be related to the drug that caused his poisoning.
How could that be? Didn't Akai-san say that his father went missing because he was investigating the Haneda Koji case, in which the organization was involved, and that he was suspected of being killed by the organization to silence him? How come Amuro-san says that he knows very well that Akai-san's father is still alive?
And instead of falling into the organization's hands, he was illegally imprisoned by Radiant Pharmaceuticals? Amuro-san's character and profession prevent him from saying things without basis. Since he said it, and it was personally entrusted by Akai-san, then it should be the truth.
So what's the deal with this Glorious Pharmaceuticals? Why did they arrest Akai-san's father? What's the connection to APTX4869? Surely this isn't also one of the organization's businesses? Is it really necessary to go to such lengths? It's one of the world's top ten pharmaceutical companies!
But the most important thing is what Amuro-san meant by saying '17 years is enough...'? It sounds like Amuro-san and Akai-san are both convinced that Gin's sister has the ability to rescue Akai-san's father.
Furthermore, the statement that "as long as Akai's father is rescued, his father will have 17 years to investigate and eliminate the organization's existence" is simply incomprehensible in his logic. How can rescuing Akai's father give his father 17 years?
Most importantly, Gin is the young master of the organization, so his sister must also be an important member, right? Given Gin's personality—he's willing to kill anyone to ensure the organization doesn't run into trouble—what kind of person could his sister be?
Why would Akai ask Gin's sister to save his father? He's currently faking his death; isn't it safe for him to reveal that he's still alive to Gin's sister? Isn't he worried about exposing Kir's identity and being silenced by the organization?
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Just as Conan's brain cells were about to explode from Amuro Tooru's two sentences, he heard his childhood friend's worried question. Morofushi Hiromitsu, imagining his understanding of the Wind Star Guardian after these few days of contact, nodded trustingly: "I think you don't need to worry about this."
Feng Sang's personality is much more harmless than Gin's, but she and Gin are similar in one way: she seems to go with the flow and rely on other people's wisdom to solve problems, but in reality, she has a strong ability to plan.
We can observe many things on the surface, make inferences based on them, and then take action. In reality, she is always the first to notice things and quickly finds a solution. Hagiwara said she has the power to create miracles.
So you don't need to worry about Akai Tsutomu's situation. I reckon that when Feng Sang agreed, he probably already had a plan in mind that would both change Akai Tsutomu's fate of being captured and imprisoned by Radiant Pharmaceuticals 17 years ago and prevent Akai Tsutomu from targeting the organization.
"Heh... even that guy has moments when love makes him see beauty!" Bourbon felt much more relaxed after hearing this and was even in the mood to tease his friend from the same period.
Morofushi Kagemitsu looked at Hagiwara in the distance, who was subtly hinting at the location of the supplies held by the wind star, and a smile appeared in his eyes: "This is good. In the past, others were always chasing after him. This guy, who seems to be affectionate but is actually heartless, has finally met his match."
"Pfft!" Bourbon couldn't help but laugh at his childhood friend, teasing, "Hiro, what about you? When did you catch your brother's habit of using Chinese words and phrases?"
"Cough cough!!!" Upon hearing this, Morofushi Kagemitsu immediately broke out in a cold sweat, and said with a mixture of speechlessness and nostalgia, "Don't joke around, his way of speaking, which is full of classical Chinese phrases, is hard to understand even for me after graduating from university!"
“Heh…” Even in this kind of environment, when he’s with his childhood friend, Bourbon can still laugh out loud from the bottom of his heart.
Seeing the happy expression on his face, Morofushi Kagemitsu was reluctant to spoil his good mood, but considering the limited time in the dungeon, he still asked, "So, Zero, what exactly happened today?"
"I knew you'd ask. It's because I went to the US to investigate Shuichi Akai's father, and accidentally stumbled upon some information about the Symbiosis Cult. After that, it was like cutting off their lifeline..." Bourbon was speechless upon hearing this.
But then he thought that Hiro would definitely exchange information with Hagiwara and the others after he returned, and take action based on that information, so he still solemnly recounted what had happened, and then said, "That's how it is."
I figured that since they wanted to get rid of me, this thorn in their side, if I strongly objected, it might lead them to speculate that I had gathered more information before confronting them. This could very likely provoke them to resort to any means necessary, even risking suspicion, to violently silence me.
So we decided to go with the flow and use their plan, leveraging the organization's resources, to find that former boss who inexplicably got transferred three years ago after you 'disappeared.' Unfortunately, that plan was ruined by Akai."
"...You've had quite a wonderful year." After hearing his childhood friend's words, Morofushi Kagemitsu felt a little bitter and helpless: "After I first heard about the future from Fusang..."
I once harbored malicious suspicions about her because she was Gin's sister, using biased Japanese and American perspectives, thinking she might have fabricated these absurd futures with ulterior motives. Looking back now, it's laughable. Reality has always been absurd; we just haven't noticed it yet.
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