Chapter 179 The Resentment in the Train Car
Day 12 of the Highway Survival Game!
What truly shocked him was that, in the brief moment the man opened the door, he glimpsed a figure inside the half-open carriage that astonished him—Scottish.
Upon recognizing the Japanese police officer who had been thought to have died in the earthquake or, as in the hallucination he had experienced last year, had been planted in the organization as an undercover agent, he didn't have time to think and subconsciously changed his pace.
Pretending to be just passing by the carriage, I walked straight through the carriage door, while subtly glancing over the compartment and noticing that besides Scotland, there was also the man in black who opened the door.
Among the group was a tall man in a beige coat, whose demeanor was the opposite of the other handsome man in black. He exuded a youthful and approachable aura, though his face looked a bit more youthful than the Scottish man and the handsome man in black.
Unlike himself, who had graduated years ago and was disguised as a university graduate student, he looked like a genuine university student, probably younger than the handsome man in black who opened the door in Scotland…
Who are those two people? Are they also Japanese Public Security officers? If Scotland isn't dead, why is she in the train car he booked using Subaru Okiya's identity? Did the Japanese Public Security officers discover his disguise? Are they also trying to capture Sherry?
So... is Bourbon an accomplice of Scotland? Or is his relationship with Scotland so good that he would leak information to him behind the organization's back? Or perhaps the organization already captured Scotland, but didn't kill him to silence him because he was still useful?
But this is clearly different from the organization's usual practices, so this guess should be wrong. However, whether the Japanese public security officers are in their reserved carriages or the organization's people are lying in wait in their reserved carriages.
All of this indicated that their identities were likely to be exposed or that they had already been suspected. After all, their faked death plan was not foolproof; the death of that organization's lower-ranking member was the biggest flaw...
Thinking of this, Shuichi Akai quickly crossed the No. 4 carriage and hid at the back of the public area of the No. 4 carriage, peeking out to see if anyone was following him and to make sure he hadn't been discovered.
As he entered carriage number 5, he quickly sent a text message to Yukiko Kudo on his phone: "[The plan may need to be changed. There are suspicious individuals in my reserved carriage; I must find out their intentions.]"
He soon received a reply from Yukiko Kudo: "Would you like to wait here first? You weren't fully disguised today, so it'll be easy to be spotted outside."
[Not for now, let me find out their background first...] Has the Japanese Public Security Bureau received intelligence from the 'Princess' and is preparing to cooperate with Scotland to arrest her?
Or did the organization capture Scotland and learn from Bourbon and Vermouth that the 'princess' would be on this train, and then take them both to meet some important figure?
Something feels off! And why did he choose the carriage he had booked himself? If someone in the organization thought Subaru Okiya was suspicious, would they really do something like this, almost openly alerting him?
Just as Shuichi Akai was filled with doubt and felt that no amount of reasoning could explain the current situation, his phone vibrated again to indicate that a text message had been sent:
[Watch out! Bourbon has suddenly left his carriage and is heading towards yours. That's strange, aren't Ai and the others in carriage six? If Bourbon and Sharon's target is Ai, why is Bourbon now crossing my carriage five and heading towards carriage four? They're in completely opposite directions!]
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The distance inside the train was quite short. By the time Kudo Yukiko finished editing the text message and successfully sent it to Akai Shuichi's phone, telling him to read it quickly, Bourbon had already entered carriage number 4 and was about to meet him, who was hiding at the back of the carriage.
Shuichi Akai quickly pretended to be a customer in the front carriage and turned to walk towards carriage number 3. However, once he got to carriage number 3, he used the same trick again and hid in the rear space of carriage number 3, in a place where he could not be seen from carriage number 4 or carriage number 2.
Silently hiding there, I listened to the familiar footsteps behind me. After they stopped and opened the door to my reserved carriage, number 4, compartment A, a particularly flippant and cheerful greeting came from behind me. After clearly understanding what the voice said...
Shuichi Akai was startled. Seven years? Kofuruya? The other party's words were clearly directed at Bourbon, who opened the door after knocking. Although he had already guessed that Bourbon's common name, Tooru Amuro, was the same as the name he used in the organization, Dai Moroboshi.
It was probably not his real name, but Bourbon's foreign appearance led him to believe that the other person was from a Western European country. So even though he found that Bourbon was particularly close to Scotland during the mission, and that his every move seemed to reveal real feelings.
They thought they were just particularly close, a rare friendship within the organization. But when the Scottish identity was exposed, Bourbon revealed his true feelings at the scene of the incident in Scotland. Because of Bourbon's physical characteristics, even though he suspected that Bourbon might be a Scottish accomplice, he hesitated to make a judgment.
Now it seems we can make a judgment! Seven years ago, according to the intelligence I gathered, that was exactly the time Bourbon joined the organization. Kofuruya? That must be Bourbon's real name! He really is a member of the Japanese Public Security Bureau? And the other two people next to Scotland are also members of the Japanese Public Security Bureau?
No wonder Scotland seemed so relaxed and not at all tense or serious when he was with them. But... even the Japanese Public Security Bureau wouldn't occupy someone else's reserved room for no reason, would they?
The question remains: has my identity been exposed? Why are they occupying my compartment? Are they lying in wait, hoping to catch me, the FBI agent illegally enforcing the law in Japan?
Would the Japanese Public Security Bureau resort to such a method that would damage relations with the United States? Just as Shuichi Akai confirmed Bourbon's identity and had many questions, the sound of Bourbon talking to them continued to be heard.
That familiar and intimate tone—he'd only ever heard it from Bourbon and Scotland. Hiro? Zero? Hagiwara? Matsuda? Just as Shuichi Akai was trying to figure out the relationships between them, he overheard Bourbon joking about girlfriends with one of them.
The tone suggested that someone's girlfriend was present, but he hadn't seen any women when he went over. Could it be that while he was hiding at the back of carriage number 4, someone else came and entered that carriage? Was Bourbon familiar with them? Did he even know their girlfriends?
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He hadn't even figured things out yet when he heard something that made him change color instantly: Fuu-chan's brother? Gin is coming? What does that mean? Does it mean Gin will also be involved in the hunt for the 'princess' today?
But judging from their tone and what they said, they are clearly very close friends, and they can even joke about romantic relationships. Their relationship must be good. In this case, the most reasonable explanation is that they are colleagues of the Japanese Public Security Bureau.
But at this moment, they've brought up Gin again, saying he'll be coming. Judging from their tone, Gin even has a younger sister called Fuu-chan? Gin, who'd rather kill the innocent than let the guilty go free of any traitors or suspicious individuals in the organization, will come here?
Wasn't Bourbon a friend of Scotland? Wasn't he worried that Scotland would be killed by Gin? And weren't those other two Japanese Public Security officers? Wasn't Bourbon worried that if Gin saw them, they would be killed too?
Surely Gin isn't the Japanese Public Security Bureau, and he's been in cahoots with Bourbon and Scotland from the beginning, so they're not worried at all that Gin would harm their friends? Thinking of this, Shuichi Akai couldn't help but reveal his beady eyes.
He realized he had just made the biggest joke of the century. If Gin were the Japanese Public Security Bureau, the organization would probably have been wiped out by the Japanese long ago. Why would the FBI have to go to such great lengths to eliminate this global scourge after more than twenty years, from Judy's father to himself?
There must be other reasons, right? Perhaps I was too hasty in judging him as a Japanese public security officer just because of his Japanese surname, Bourbon. There might be other secrets involved...
As if to prove his conjecture, Shuichi Akai then heard Bourbon address the people in the carriage by another name that sounded like Bourbon's. After that, the carriage door closed completely, and no more sound came from inside.
But just now Bourbon called them Granwitt and Darmo! Code names that sound like the operations of three Scottish organizations. The Scottish themselves know that Granwitt and Darmo are code names they have never heard of before.
However, the organization is very secretive, and I can only meet many of its lower-level members when I am on missions. In my daily life, I usually only have contact with partners arranged by the organization's higher-ups. In addition, I have been away from the organization for more than two years.
It's not surprising that the organization will have new codename members, and it's not surprising that you don't recognize their faces. The problem is that these two members were chatting and laughing with Scotland and Bourbon in a very friendly tone.
I thought they were Japanese police officers! But it turns out one of them is Gin's sister, the boyfriend of the one called Kaze-san. And even Scotland doesn't seem to feel any tension or urgency about Gin's impending arrival.
So what exactly is going on between them? I've thought about it over and over, but besides feeling even more confused, I can't figure out their true relationship. I know that Scotland is the Japanese Public Security Bureau, and that Bourbon just called him Hiro.
Bourbon == an intelligence officer in the organization. He used to have a good relationship with Scotland. He was called "Little Furuya" by the people in the carriage. Scotland seems to call him Zero, or perhaps one of the other two names.
But Bourbon also called out to the people in the carriage Hagiwara and Matsuda, which should be the names of the other two people. Bourbon also called out to Hiro, the Scottish man, so Zero should be an intimate nickname between close friends of Bourbon.
Granvitt == the code name for one of the two men in the carriage! His name is suspected to be Hagiwara or Matsuda, possibly Gin's sister's boyfriend!
"Dalmo" is the code name for one of the two men in the train car! His name is suspected to be Hagiwara or Matsuda, and he might be Gin's sister's boyfriend!
These relationships are such a tangled mess!
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