Chapter 76 The Cunning Bourbon
"Heh... Spare me! Being targeted by a troublesome guy like you is going to be a real nuisance for me!" Bourbon could tell from Gin's tone that he was indeed making no attempt to hide his murderous intent.
It is speculated that Gin was made very hostile to Rum by Matsuda and others' free-thinking, including himself, an intelligence member under Rum. Could this lead to the organization, which was originally maintaining a balance on the surface, possibly falling into a struggle between Gin and Rum?
Although I don't understand what Matsuda and Hagiwara said that made Gin misunderstand that the abilities of these time travelers from the future belonged to the power dominated by Rum? Why did Gin's sister allow this misunderstanding to happen?
But if I can't hurt Gin too much in the face of this misunderstanding, how should I react in order to keep myself out of the conflict that is about to break out between them?
Huh? Why am I staying out of this? Since Gin's sister from 25 years in the future allowed this misunderstanding to happen, saved Hagiwara and Matsuda who are Japanese police officers, and even started dating Hagiwara.
This means that Gin's sister is different from Gin. She is not hostile to the police or the Japanese government. On the contrary, she may be hostile to Rum, which is why she deliberately allows Gin to have a misunderstanding about Rum with obvious murderous intent.
Considering that Gin's sister comes from the future, she must have had some experiences in the future that would lead her to have such thoughts. So, does this behavior mean that Rum, or even the organization, offended her in the future?
This makes her not mind associating with Japanese police officers and hate Rum. Even if her hatred for Rum causes a time-traveling butterfly effect that affects the organization, she doesn't care.
If that's her thinking, then perhaps I can change my approach. Since the organization's boss has chosen to go into seclusion out of caution due to his power struggle with Rum, and is now operating in the shadows.
If he can only try to find the two thorns in the side of the organization's boss, Shuichi Akai and Sherry, to get a chance to meet him, then what if he tries to add fuel to the fire and secretly sabotage Rum so that Gin's side can quickly take him down?
Without Rum's interference, does the organization's boss no longer have to be a coward who has to hide? If he dares to show his face, it wouldn't be impossible for me to identify him and capture him.
Moreover, once the organization's boss and Rum engage in an irreconcilable deadly battle, the organization's power will definitely decline as a result, and it may even expose some hidden industries that it has not investigated. In this way, it can be considered as killing three birds with one stone.
Since that's the case, let's prepare for both possibilities! On one hand, we'll continue to investigate and track down Shuichi Akai and Sherry, and on the other hand, we'll cheer on these two who are about to have a fierce conflict.
Having made up his mind, the cunning Bourbon sighed, pretending to be threatened by Gin: "Sigh! There's nothing I can do. I probably don't know as much as you do. I just got a call from Granwitt."
He told me on the phone that he was also a member of the organization with a code name, but he was joining in the future. He said that in the future, we would be close friends in the organization, and he trusted me completely. So he contacted me at this time to ask me to do him a few favors.
Of course, I didn't believe such a fantastical story, but he had anticipated that I wouldn't, and then he said something that left me no choice but to...
Trust his intelligence.
Although I still feel that this kind of time travel is like a plot from a movie and could not happen in reality, what he said was indeed a secret that only I knew so far, and that I was prepared to take with me to my grave.
There was nothing I could do. No matter how unbelievable it seemed, in this situation I could only try to believe him. Besides, the favors he asked me to do, apart from figuring out how to deal with you, were all minor in comparison.
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"That secret is related to Vermouth?" Upon hearing Bourbon's answer, Gin recalled that Granwitt had mentioned Vermouth during their phone call, and that Bourbon had become very close to Vermouth in the past two years, almost whenever Bourbon needed help.
Vermouth, that troublesome woman, always takes action. Bourbon is the first in the organization to receive such treatment. Gin had previously suspected that Bourbon had some kind of leverage over Vermouth, and now it seems that his suspicion can be confirmed.
When Gin asked that, Bourbon looked helpless and said, "Oh dear! I didn't say that."
"Hmph!" Since Bourbon didn't deny it outright, given his personality, it must be true. However, Gin wasn't interested in what leverage Bourbon had over Vermouth; that was why he was asking about it.
He only wanted to obtain more information about Granwitt and Darmo, so after hearing Bourbon's answer, he simply snorted and asked Bourbon, "What favor did he ask you to do?"
"It's really just a few small things, like having me prepare some phones with enough credit to last from now until the next few years, a sports car, and having me stay in Tokyo, Japan for the time being."
Ideally, I should be able to get to his designated location within an hour and deliver the phone to him when he contacts me. Bourbon felt there was no need to hide the fact that Hagiwara had asked him to prepare the phone from Gin.
Furthermore, once Hagiwara gets his hands on the phone, Gin's sister will definitely use it to contact Gin. Thinking about it this way, there's no need to hide it anymore, so he directly told Hagiwara what he was told.
However, it was only when he got to this point that he suddenly realized something he had overlooked: the cell phone that Hagiwara had used to contact him was probably a working phone that he had obtained through some illegal means during an emergency.
That's why he asked me to prepare several legal cell phones and corresponding chargers for him. But since Gin's sister was right next to him and I even heard her talking to Hagiwara, why did Hagiwara say that it wasn't that easy to contact her?
Why didn't Gin's sister contact him when her phone was right next to him? Instead, she let Hagiwara and Matsuda do as they pleased. Tsk! It's all so mysterious, the more I think about it, the more shrouded in mystery it becomes!
Another hour has passed. It seems that Bourbon was not lying about this. Fat Piglet also told Darmo on the phone that they could only stay for one hour at this time. He did not lie about the time.
Darmo had indeed borrowed a child's phone to call him, and only contacted him again after he got a new phone. He had just had his organization's people at the telecommunications company investigate that phone number.
It's just a regular employee's phone number from the Tokiwa Zaibatsu, used for many years, so it can't be fake. This suggests that due to time travel issues, they couldn't bring their original phone numbers with them.
Come and use it.
It's also possible that their phones were affected by time travel and couldn't be used in this era, which is why they needed to borrow other people's phones to contact people in this era to prepare phones for them. However, Gin still had a question: "Why do those two guys trust you so much?"
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"Huh?" Why did Gin ask that? What did he want to gain from his answer? Both of them were cunning and calculating. Almost as soon as Gin asked the question, Bourbon was certain of two things.
First, there must have been parts in his answer that Gin could confirm were true. Given his suspicious nature, it's no wonder he didn't question that his answer was just about a few cell phones, which is completely out of place with the grand scheme of time travel.
Secondly, Gin seems to value his relationship with Hagiwara and Matsuda, and appears to need a definite answer. Why is he so concerned about this? It can't be because his sister's boyfriend's friends are all within his scope of investigation, can it?
Bourbon knew the idea was ridiculous. After having the thought, he first revealed his crescent-shaped eyes and shook his head speechlessly. Impossible. That person is cruel and ruthless, no matter who the target is.
A guy who can kill anyone on the orders of the organization's BOSS, regardless of guilt or innocence, gender, age, or whether he's an adult or a minor, could never be a complete siscon! It's impossible no matter how you look at it.
But... Gin believed in something as unbelievable as time travel, which no normal person would believe. Hagiwara and the others must have convinced him by using certain things about his sister...
Hmm! Wait a minute... Gin believes in time travel? And the first people to ask him questions were Mirai and Rum? How could someone with his suspicious nature be convinced by his sister's boyfriend's words in just a minute or two?
Even if they can't meet in person and can only communicate through voice messages on their phones? Unless there are some prerequisites that make him believe time travel is a achievable reality? And what message is the future Rum trying to convey to him in the first place?
Thinking back to the organization's mysterious research, I thought it was all about shady, unethical drugs and medical technologies. Could it be that the organization's deeper research actually involves time travel?
As the organization's third-in-command, Gin was well aware of this, which is why he believed in the existence of time travel technology when Hagiwara and the others contacted him. Furthermore, his words implied that he believed Rum in the future had mastered this technology.
Ahem... This might be because Hagiwara contacted him and he guessed it, and since he is one of Rum's confidants, plus Hagiwara and Matsuda did something unintentionally, which led to his misunderstanding.
Hagiwara: Go ask Kaze-chan! o(*￣︶￣*)o
Matsuda: I didn't even attempt to be a con artist. o(￣ヘ￣o＃)
However, Gin's common name is Kurosawa Jin, a surname that aligns with the organization's consistent "dark" style. Furthermore, the organization's boss has given him so many privileges, and he also holds the position of the organization's third-in-command.
It has absolute authority to dispatch and command all members except the organization's BOSS and Rum, and even to control the life and death of suspicious members, even those with code names, such as veterans like Pisco.
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