Chapter 15 The First Player

There are not many large black forces in Yokohama, and the Hong Kong Black is the largest one. Among the remaining forces, big and small, there are only two and a half that can compete with the Hong Kong Black, the Takase Society, the GSS, and the mutual aid army established by minors, the Sheep.

The person behind the scenes probably wanted to involve the Takase Society and the GSS. But the sheep were not involved... Is it because the "sheep" are all minors?

As his eyes casually glanced at Morobushi Kagemitsu and Asahina Kazuma, Saikai Haruto felt that the identity of the "person behind the scenes" was a little easier to guess.

"Congratulations, Canada, your guess may come true." Saikai Haruto said with a smile.

"What? My guess? ... Which one are you talking about? No, why is that?"

Asahina Kazuma almost turned around and looked at Saikai Haruto in confusion, not noticing that Morofushi Kagemitsu's fingers beside him trembled very slightly.

Why did the topic suddenly jump to this point? Weren't we just talking about the Takase Society and the GSS? Looking at the smiling Saikai Haruto and the equally calm Morobushi Kagemitsu next to him, Asahina and Shinko were puzzled... Could it be that everyone in Yokohama will automatically acquire the attribute of a mystery man? He has begun to miss Furuya Rei, who is also a mystery man but will explain everything to him!

“A-choo!”

Elsewhere in Yokohama, outside an empty house, Rei Furuya, who was missed by Asahina Kazuma, took out his key and unlocked the house while suddenly sneezing for no apparent reason.

There doesn't seem to be much dust on the outside of the house... Could someone be saying bad things about him behind his back?

This place is surrounded by residential areas, but the location is very remote. This simple-looking small villa does not seem surprising among them.

Cointreau was able to find such an address in Yokohama in such a short time, so his connection with Yokohama, or someone living in Yokohama, is more than superficial. And this house may also be able to dig out something related to Cointreau's past.

He used the key to open the iron fence outside, and then there were two more codes at the gate. The confidentiality was quite good, and it looked like a secret place. Fūya Rei pursed his lips and typed in the codes that Cointreau told him one by one.

Unlike the "Fast and Furious" performance by Haruto Saikai and his friends, Rei Furuya's journey was smooth and peaceful, without any danger, and could even be described as "a peaceful and peaceful time". After taking all his belongings from the hotel, he drove all the way smoothly to the place mentioned by Cointreau.

They didn't leave much stuff in the hotel, especially Cointreau - Furuya Rei took the opportunity to look through it, and besides a few sets of clothes, there was only a spare cell phone, a spare pistol, a small locator and a bug, and two books - the books were even bought by him and Hiro at the bookstore when he went out yesterday. They were the two parts of "The Last Day", a new book by Kurumi Mochizuki, a famous writer who debuted in the literary world five or six years ago. It seemed like it was just a hobby of the writer, and there was nothing special in it.

When he entered Cointreau's room, he had a vague feeling: Cointreau might have anticipated that something unexpected might happen today, so he packed everything neatly - almost all the things were neatly placed in the suitcase, and it took no effort to pack up. There were no important items or personal traces left in the room, as if he could leave at any time.

The suitcase was not even locked. He guessed that it might be because Cointreau didn't care about the things inside. Of course, there might be some other deeper meaning in it, but he couldn't guess it yet. This was really Cointreau's style, just like Cointreau himself, who seemed to care nothing about anything and was happy to expose himself completely to others, but in fact he was full of layers of fog, and the things that were revealed were a mixture of true and false, which made it difficult to understand.

He had reminded, or warned, Asahina not to get close to Cointreau and to stay away from him. The second half of the sentence that he didn't say was his intuition, or premonition - if you get too close to Cointreau, you might be "swallowed". He was an extremely dangerous man made of fog and swamps. His calm appearance was just an illusion. His danger was hidden in deeper places. The deeper you go, the easier it is to be swallowed.

But Kazuma was too curious and liked to get to the bottom of things, so he didn't say all this out loud at the time, and only mentioned it briefly to Hiro later - after all, this hunch had no reliable basis, and it would be unreasonable to just rely on intuition.

After entering the password, it was shown that the password was correct. Fūya Ling shook off the chaotic thoughts in his mind and carefully pushed open the door.

The house is a two-story structure, with three bedrooms and a living room on the lower floor, a study, a kitchen, and a bathroom. There are five single rooms on the upper floor, which look very simple in decoration. There are no cameras or eavesdropping devices installed in the rooms.

The interior of the house was very clean, with only a light layer of dust. Furiya Rei felt around in several rooms and guessed that the house had only been vacant for two to three months.

But it has only been a little over a month since Cointreau returned from Europe... Was it someone who had cleaned out the house before? Was it a safe house hidden by Passetto? Or was it Cointreau himself who had a secret presence in Yokohama? Furuya Rei had these speculations in his mind.

Two of the five rooms above are empty, with nothing in them. One is a storage room. The remaining two are adjacent single bedrooms. The one near the storage room has no personal belongings or traces of life in it. There are no other unnecessary things except some daily necessities that look like those commonly used in the hotel. It is impossible to tell what kind of people lived there.

A very standard safe house outfit.

The innermost room was completely different from the other ones - light grey walls, dark bedspreads, an elegant lamp beside the bed, a bowl of water lilies with slightly yellow leaves and branches on the balcony by the window, and a cactus with large red flowers in full bloom.

It is not difficult to see that the owner of this house should be a person with a calm personality and some interest in life...Furutani Rei crossed out the possibilities of Cointreau and Passito in his mind.

Except for the study room which cannot be opened from the outside, the style of the lower floor is similar. Fortunately, most of the facilities inside can be used normally and all kinds of items are available.

Unfortunately, just when he wanted to continue exploring more, the sound of a car roaring not far from the door forced him to temporarily interrupt his thoughts.

Fūya Rei slightly opened the curtain and looked outside, and it was indeed Jundu and the others who came.

He opened the door and strode over. He exchanged glances with Hiro calmly, looking at the two unknown people who were dragged out of the car and fell into a coma, and raised his eyebrows: "What's going on?"

"These two guys are from the Takase Society, the ones who followed us all the way." Vodka said in a muffled voice, "Cointreau said they are still useful and he said he would give them to you."

"Why would you give it to me? I'm just an intelligence officer and I can't interrogate. Shouldn't you ask Gin for this kind of thing?" Furiya Rei's heart skipped a beat and he looked at Saikai Haruto with a look of disgust on his face: "Kunto, you won't forget that I'm just a clerical staff, right?"

"What are you thinking of?" The white-haired young man turned his head and looked at me with a half-smile. "I don't expect you to torture me or anything like that. I've already asked almost everything on the way. I just want you to keep an eye on them. No matter what you do, just make sure they don't get away. You should be able to do that, right?"

"Have you finished questioning? Have you found out anything?" Furuya Rei asked in surprise.

"You can ask Vodka and the others about this. I need to rest for a while. If you have anything to say, please discuss it with me first and don't bother me."

He passed by Furuya Rei, pulled his own suitcase and went straight upstairs. He yawned and said slowly, "There are four rooms upstairs. There are two empty rooms for you to divide among yourselves, or you can use the lobby downstairs if you like. Don't touch the remaining two rooms."

At this point, he paused, turned around and emphasized again: "Especially the innermost room upstairs and the locked room downstairs, don't go in casually or move around. If you damage the original owner's things while staying here for two days, I will have to pack you up and send you over to apologize. I think you don't want to see that kind of scene, right?"

"Oh, by the way, my luggage... you didn't touch it, did you?"

"Of course not."

Looking at the smile on Jundu's face that seemed to have a deeper meaning, Fōtani Rei's heart skipped a beat, but his face remained calm and a little puzzled, as if he didn't understand why he suddenly asked this.

"That's good. The things in my suitcase are very important. It would be terrible if something got lost."

As if it was just a casual remark, Xi Hai Qing Dou turned around and left.

After Xi Haiqing Dou went upstairs, Furuya Reikan looked around and shrugged at them: "The two rooms upstairs are empty. There's nothing in them. I can only make a bed. I'll be in the living room. There's no food stored here either. I'll probably need to go out again later."

"Then I'll go out and take a look later. When I drove here just now, I saw a few supermarkets and convenience stores nearby." Vodka said, shaking his head.

Zhu Fu Jingguang nodded, looked around the living room, and frowned slightly: "It looks like this house hasn't been occupied for a while. Let's clean it up a bit first. At least the places that can't be lived in are covered in dust."

"What should we do with these two?" Asahina Kazuma kicked Maruno Shunta and Ono Daisuke who were lying on the ground. "Are they just going to leave here like this?"

"I didn't expect this house to be owned by someone else... I thought it was a safe house set up by the organization in Yokohama."

"There's a room upstairs that looks like it's used to store junk. We can throw them there first." Furuya Rei thought for a moment, looking puzzled. "By the way, can anyone tell me what happened along the way? What about the Takase Society? I remember that we have nothing to do with them, right? Or is there something wrong with the Hong Kong gang?"