Chapter 71 Speechless Bourbon
"..." Just as Matsuda was about to answer, he saw Conan's glasses behind his own glasses shining as he stared at the two of them. With his keen senses, he naturally realized from the reaction of the younger sister's brother earlier that the other party seemed to have misunderstood something.
I wanted to explain things to the other party, but this seemingly clever kid was right next to me. I felt that if he overheard me, he might try to find out the truth, just like his older brother Shinichi Kudo. If he called the police or something, it would be troublesome.
More importantly, the younger sister's brother said that in 9 minutes the connecting bridge and other bombs in the building would be detonated. He took the elevator up, crossed the connecting bridge, and ran back to this floor, which took about 2 minutes.
Adding the time spent on the initial meeting and conversation, which was about two minutes, that means the boy only has about five minutes left to escape...
Thinking of this possibility, he gestured to Hagiwara, glanced at the large number of cell phones Hagiwara was carrying in the basket, and simply said to the phone in the earring, "Hey! I'm going to hang up and get a new phone."
Matsuda hung up the phone before Gin could even react.
"Hmph!" o(￣ヘ￣o＃) Gin, whose phone was hung up on, was shocked that this was the first person to dare to hang up on him at such a crucial moment. He now really wanted to take out his beloved Tower of Bereavement and make a hole in the face of some handsome guy.
At the same time, Matsuda handed Conan the earring-shaped phone and said to him seriously, "Hey! Kid, here's your phone back. If you don't want to die, go back across the bridge right now. Remember, you only have five minutes."
"..." Conan, still full of recklessness, heard what Dalmore said. He knew that Dalmore was telling the truth while eavesdropping, and that the bombs in the connecting bridge and the building would explode within about five minutes.
He felt safe only after retreating to Building B, but he still didn't want to leave. He had finally managed to find clues about the organization and make contact with its members, but he hadn't investigated them or collected any evidence of their crimes yet!
Seeing him standing there dawdling, Matsuda's face immediately darkened. He glared at Conan with his fierce eyes, which looked like those of a yakuza boss, and deliberately made a show of being ruthless as he reached out his hand to Conan with a gloomy expression.
He threatened, "Hey! Kid, I really enjoy throwing unruly brats out here. Want to try parachuting down to the ground from here?"
Conan knew from his terrifying appearance that although his main concern was not answering the man's questions in front of him, an outsider, he would probably reveal some confidential information that was not suitable for him to hear after answering the man's question about his conversation with Gin.
Secondly, he needed to evacuate to a safe place immediately. He was still so frightened that his pupils changed color. He had just overheard his conversation with Gin and knew that Darmo had not lied about the timing of the bomb's explosion.
It was clear that they had arranged a very safe evacuation route in advance, allowing them to stay longer. I had also looked for that route before I came here.
Unfortunately, it seemed that his intelligence was not as good as their curiosity, and he couldn't find it at all. There was no trace of the helicopter on the roof. Not knowing where the evacuation route was, he couldn't waste any more time here.
Reluctantly, she gripped her earring-shaped phone tightly, trying to look like a frightened child: "Okay! I'll go back now, goodbye, Brother Darmo."
After saying that, Conan practically gritted his teeth and ran towards the connecting bridge, determined in his heart that if the conditions didn't allow it this time, next time, next time he would definitely get information about them and that organization, and preferably get a sample of that drug...
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"It's Gin, the junior schoolgirl's brother! And you? Who are you talking to, and why did you mention Vermouth?" Matsuda answered Hagiwara only after scaring Conan away. As close friends, Matsuda had thought of everything Hagiwara could think of.
Despite the urgency of the situation, he quickly answered Hagiwara's questions based on his previous deductions, and then asked his own questions. However, without knowing who Hagiwara was talking to, he subtly avoided mentioning the names of the Kazesei siblings.
He didn't even call out Hagiwara's name. While speaking, he reached into the basket Hagiwara was carrying, casually took out a cell phone, shone it on Hagiwara's phone light, and then unlocked the phone in a similar way to Hagiwara, and began entering Gin's phone number.
“It’s Kofuruya!” Hagiwara understood Matsuda’s meaning, and after hearing his question, he could only cough: “But it seems that what happened after you came here has caused him to have some serious misunderstanding. By the way, why did you suddenly change your name and even choose a sake name that would cause Kofuruya to misunderstand?”
On the other end of the phone, Furuya Rei was on high alert, wondering how the organization would deal with him, a Japanese public security undercover agent! Then he heard Darmo, an organization member disguised as his friend Matsuda, chase away a little boy.
After exchanging a few words with Hagiwara, who was suspected to be Vermouth in disguise, he was stunned. He felt his brain was getting hot. So, was this Vermouth or another member of the organization in disguise?
Or is it really Hagiwara? Or those two guys from Matsuda? Whichever it is, was their claim of "Gin, the younger schoolgirl's brother" just a trick to fool me? Or is it true? Do they know Gin's private information? Do they know Gin's friends and family?
"Huh? I was thinking that we can't reveal our identities to people related to the Japanese police in our current situation, so when I met the person at this time and was asked for my name, I wanted to give a fake name."
I couldn't think of a suitable name for a while, but I remembered that my junior schoolmate knew how badly those liquors were going to go, so I just picked a liquor name that I didn't dislike and used it as my pseudonym.
"What does this have to do with that guy Furuya?" Just as Furuya Rei was filled with doubts and suspicions, Matsuda first asked a question in confusion, and then realized: "Oh! Right, he and Keidan joined the Public Security Bureau."
The day before I was rescued by the junior schoolmate, I was with them at your memorial service when Furuya vaguely mentioned that he and Keidana were conducting an infiltration investigation. Could it be that their investigation is related to the Japanese big boss who works for the junior schoolmate's brother?
Jing Danna? That's a nickname that Matsuda gave Hiro. Among the five of them, only Matsuda would call Hiro that. However, this nickname was known to his classmates at the police academy, and even to people they met during their training breaks. It wasn't anything special.
However, the matter of infiltrating the organization and investigating, which he had mentioned to Matsuda, happened three years ago on November 6th, after visiting Hagiwara's grave and before encountering the mysterious bomb culprit, when he was driving Matsuda to Shibuya Station.
The things they mentioned when they were alone in the car were experiences they knew only they had shared. They were certain that no one else was present and that they weren't wearing any listening devices from the organization.
Although Matsuda has a somewhat mischievous and sharp-tongued personality, he is more serious about police ethics than Hagiwara. Given his personality, he would never leak information related to public security work to outsiders.
Moreover, less than a day after that incident, he encountered the Ferris wheel bombing. In such a short time, even if someone wanted to lower his guard, they couldn't get any information out of him...
Burning the brain
Furuya Rei breathed a sigh of relief as he thought about all this. The thought that he had been terrified by Matsuda's crazy actions made him forget his joy that his friend was actually alive.
He couldn't help but peek at himself through his phone and complain to Hagiwara: "That Matsuda guy almost scared me to death. After three years apart, is this how he repays his friend who visits his grave every year?"
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"Heh... He didn't expect that a wine name could cause such a big misunderstanding." Hagiwara chuckled, thinking that Kofuruya's expression now shouldn't look like a cat with its fur standing on end. It was a pity he wasn't there earlier and missed the chance to see his expression change drastically.
Looking at Matsuda's phone, which had already dialed Kaze-chan's number, and thinking about the effects of the misunderstanding, even someone as quick-witted as him was starting to feel a headache: "The problem is, what do we do now? It's not just you who's caused this huge misunderstanding."
Feng Jiang's brother has also developed a serious misunderstanding. If we don't explain things to him now, we'll probably run into trouble if we encounter him again. Unfortunately, we only have a little over three minutes, which isn't enough time to explain things clearly.
"Tsk!" Matsuda couldn't help but click his tongue when this was mentioned. After all, the time when Fuu-chan's brother had the accident must have been after this time. With Gin's abilities, without a certain degree of trust from him, it would be much more difficult for them to help Fuu-chan save her brother.
More importantly, Feng Jiang is currently living far away in China and will not be affected by the past here. However, if this is not explained clearly, it could lead to her brother going to China or contacting her to find out what happened today.
If this causes some kind of butterfly effect, such as if this butterfly effect causes Feng Jiang to also be involved in an accident when he was in trouble, and she won't be captured by the game for the next 25 years, and if she doesn't enter the game, there won't be a dungeon that can save them...
Bourbon, unaware that they could leave through the dungeon passage in the last few seconds, assumed they were referring to the countdown timer on his phone.
He didn't want to have to say goodbye to his friends again after just hearing their voices 'revived,' so he quickly said, "You guys should leave that dangerous place first to find out what happened."
"Don't worry about that. We have a way to evacuate before the explosion happens. The problem is how to explain it to Kaze-chan's brother, Gin-san, whom you're wary of." Hagiwara glanced at the time on his phone, thinking of the promise he made to Kaze-chan before they parted, and simply picked up his basket and walked quickly toward the dungeon exit as he spoke.
Matsuda quickly followed.
As Furuya Rei listened to them say this on the other end of the phone, his professional nature as a police officer led him to ask, after hearing Hagiwara say several times that there wasn't enough time, "Then explain your current predicament in the most concise language, and I'll see if I can come up with a solution."
"Can you help me think of a solution?" Upon hearing this, Hagiwara and Matsuda exchanged a glance. They thought of Furuya's seriousness and meticulousness at work, his good adaptability, and how much he had grown since they parted ways.
Moreover, he knows more about the criminal organization that Brother Feng Jiang works for than people like them who know nothing about it, and they are better equipped to handle this kind of problem.
Given the lack of time to exchange detailed information with Furuya, this hastily devised solution should reduce the appearance of flaws, or rather, since he has infiltrated Fuu-chan's organization and even acquired the title of Bourbon.
It shouldn't be too difficult to get himself and Matsuda out of that predicament with Kaze-chan, right? With that in mind, Hagiwara decided to rely on his friend, whom he hadn't seen for seven years and who had definitely grown even stronger than when he was the top student at the police academy.
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