Chapter 219 Thirteen Gachapon
Ten minutes ago, after weighing everything, Haibara Ai confessed to Conan her identity and that she was only here to scare him. Now, she had no choice but to confess, after all, a member of the organization had inexplicably appeared here.
She couldn't help shrinking at the thought, wrapping her large coat tighter around her.
"What's wrong?" A gentle greeting came from my ear, "Don't be afraid, you can go home soon."
When she turned around, she saw the person who gave her the coat was squatting beside her. His expression seemed calm, but Haibara Ai knew that this was a sign that the other person cared about her.
The brown-haired girl bit her lip and shook her head, watching her get up and go find Edogawa Conan who was still thinking about something not far away.
How things turned out like this has to do with the request that Toru Amuro used as an excuse.
Originally, it seemed to be just an ordinary missing case that was exchanged by Akae Nazuki to help Conan relax, but because it aroused the curiosity of other children, it eventually turned into a situation where three adults brought a group of children to look for the client.
The client was also really shocked, but fortunately after Amuro Toru explained, she readily nodded and agreed to let the children join the investigation.
On the way here, they all listened to Toru Amuro's brief introduction of the client. The client's name is Iwanari Hikaru, she is 26 years old this year, and has a boyfriend with whom she has a good relationship. The two were originally planning to get married at the end of the year, but her boyfriend disappeared inexplicably three days ago, and she could not contact him no matter what.
"Then why didn't you call the police?" Mitsuhiko asked curiously.
"Before he lost contact, Ajian sent me an email saying he was just going to the mountains to collect folk songs and would be back in a week," the client said worriedly. "He often went out to collect folk songs before, but I was able to contact him every time. But this time, after receiving the email, I couldn't get through to Ajian."
She was worried that her boyfriend might have had an accident, but she didn't dare to call the police - what if he was just in the mountains with no signal? So she could only ask the detective to investigate.
...Of course, they later discovered that the above were all deliberate misleadings by the client.
In fact, her boyfriend was killed and dismembered by the client three days ago. This time, she just wanted to ask an unknown ordinary detective to investigate in order to prove her innocence.
As a result, the client didn't know that the unknown ordinary detective was actually a public security elite, the child brought by the ordinary detective was a sharp member of the Juvenile Detective Team, the Handsome Guy No. 1 who looked like a gigolo next to him was a policeman with strong professional capabilities, and the Handsome Guy No. 1 who looked very young was a genius detective who could solve the case at a glance.
Who would have thought of such an outrageous combination? If this combination were used to investigate a common murder and dismemberment case (which was already very common in Mihua), it would of course be solved in a matter of minutes!
The client had not expected this outcome at all, and the children around her also had not expected the murderer to be so brazen. They looked at each other in bewilderment, and at the same time, feeling the unsurprised gazes of the three adults, she almost killed herself on the spot.
In order to escape, the client decided to take a hostage. With a dark look in her eyes, she grabbed the little brown-haired girl who was isolated from the crowd, kept silent, and looked easy to bully.
Conan Edogawa, who had raised his anesthetic watch and was ready to save people, suddenly calmed down and silently put away his secret weapon.
Why don't you hold on to anyone else? Hold on to a child... His Zero is a guy who has an extremely strong desire to protect children.
Just as Conan expected, before Toru Amuro and Kenichi Hagihara could find a way to calm each other down and rescue Haibara Ai, Haibara Ai herself calmly allowed the client to strangle her neck. After a few seconds, the force that was strangling her disappeared.
Haibara Ai, who was free falling in the air, was caught by a pair of hands. She looked down and saw that Akae Nayue, who had been lurking nearby, had just beaten the client fiercely, and at this moment, he was holding her in his arms with one foot on the client's back.
"Don't cause trouble for others casually." The detective looked down at his former client, now a criminal, and said sarcastically.
Huibara, who was hugged by him, shuddered sadly, and her arms around the detective's neck tightened, and she thought of something else.
Her original name was not this. She was a member of the organization codenamed Shirley. She had a gentle sister and a brother who appeared cold but was actually as gentle as her sister.
Although the latter has no blood relationship with them and has only known them for more than two years, it is undeniable that he has always been very good to the two sisters. Shirley also sincerely acknowledged his identity as her "brother" during their contact.
But all good things don't last long. Her sister was killed by Gin after the FBI defected not long ago, and her brother has actually lost contact with them for seven years.
Three days ago, Shirley once again asked the organization to know Kaluya's whereabouts and to get an explanation for her sister's murder. Rum, who had never shown his face to the public, asked his men to bring her a videotape.
Rum said that was the only mission record of Kaluya that the organization still had, and it was from... seven years ago, one month after Kaluya returned from undercover work at the police academy.
Coincidentally, after that mission was over, Shirley never heard from Kaluya again, so she chose to watch without hesitation.
【A-1107】
The video begins with Kaluuya walking into an abandoned warehouse with a strange man. After a rustling sound, his voice sounded cheerful: "Masala, where is the information of the mission target?"
"No, I haven't gotten it yet. It's too dangerous." The man called Masala said stiffly, "I was almost discovered by the police!"
Kaluya still held Massala's arm, and when he spoke, he turned his head slightly to look at Massala, who was much taller than him, and frowned in dissatisfaction.
“How could you be discovered?” Kaluuya sighed, “Aren’t you a police officer? It doesn’t matter if you are discovered, just give me the information.”
Mazara immediately broke out in a cold sweat and couldn't help but raise his voice: "Kaluya, what are you talking about?!"
The next sound in the video was the sound of heavy fists and kicks hitting each other. Within half a minute, Massala fell to his knees. His limbs seemed to be broken, and he lay limp and twisted on the ground, with blood all over his forehead.
"I don't like looking up at other people." Kaluuya, who was almost 1.8 meters tall at the age of 10, said softly, "So I'll have to trouble you to kneel down."
Then Kaluuya stepped on Masala's back and pinned him to the ground, causing a cloud of dust to rise.
He first rolled the tip of his shoe on the fabric behind him, then squatted down and easily pried open Masala's upper and lower jaws, and then buckled them on the wood in front of him so that Masala could bite tightly.
"You know, Gin and I have different ways of dealing with traitors." Kaluuya was still smiling at this time.
"If you are caught by Gin, he can only shoot you once. If you are caught by me... I will make you bite the steps to break your jaw, and then shoot you three times in the chest. Of course, my interrogation method is also very good. Do you want to experience it?"
He was playing with the dagger in his hand in various ways, and it looked like he really wanted to torture the prisoner in front of him.
In the video, Kaluuya's movements suddenly paused for some reason, and then he stabbed Massala's neck with a dagger cleanly.
“…Forget it, I’ll just send you to hell.” Kaluuya’s body was not splashed with a single drop of blood. His smile faded from his face the next second. When he stood up, his tone had become indifferent, “This is the result of betrayal.”
He slowly turned the body over with his toes, leaned over, felt around the chest for the other person's cell phone and pressed a few buttons.
"What a waste." The radio recorded Kaluuya's voice when he was alone. "Don't cause trouble for others, Masala."
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Shirley knew why Rum let her watch this video. Rum wanted to tell her that the person she cherished and longed for was not as good as she imagined.
Kaluuya didn't seem to take the undercover he killed seriously at all. To him, killing a person might be the same as stepping on an ant.
This thought made Shirley tremble all over. She seemed to feel something more terrifying than Gin from Kalua.
Maybe it's because no matter how crazy Gin is, he is tied to that gentleman by the reins of the organization, and even though Kaluuya is nominally a member directly under that gentleman, it seems that no one can control him.
Coca-Cola is different from gin.
Shirley thought that Kaluya was free, even though his body was imprisoned by that man, Kaluya's soul was free.
Thinking of this, she was suddenly no longer afraid.
Kaluuya is not a dry code name, a killer on the screen. To her, it is clearly the brother who will give her a motorcycle, read her bedtime stories, teach her to sing, and even ask her if she wants to leave here before she goes abroad to continue her studies again.
At that time, Shirley did not have the courage to say yes to Kaluya's invitation. She was afraid that she would implicate her sister and Kaluya, and afraid that she would kill them. But when Shirley finally dared to leave the organization, she had already lost her sister and Kaluya.
What a trick of fate.
But seven years have passed, and she can still see Kaluya after defecting. This can be regarded as the luckiest thing that has happened to her recently. She doesn't want to delve into where Kaluya disappeared for the past seven years. As long as he is still alive, isn't that better than anything else?
Haibara Ai's death gaze slowly fixed on Edogawa Conan.
From the previous conversation, Kaluuya somehow lived with the shrunken Kudo Shinichi, and their fake identities were brothers - she guessed that Kaluuya might have lost his memory, otherwise he would not so easily move into the home of a detective who was basically friendly to the police, nor would he seem not to recognize her.
Well, in order to protect Brother Yue, she must not let the big detective know his true identity, let alone let the police find out... Yes, and the blond man, although she doesn't know him, but judging from his aura, he is more or less a code name member.
Kaluuya's image information has never been leaked. Even she gradually became familiar with Kaluuya during the two years when he was sent undercover in the police at the age of 18. There are only a handful of members of the organization who know what Kaluuya looks like. She can guarantee that the blond man will not recognize that "Detective Furuya" is Kaluuya.
The policeman is a bit more troublesome. Judging from his age, he should be a classmate of Brother Yue in the police academy? Humph, then we can't let them know that Brother Yue is an undercover sent by the organization to the police.
After thinking about the child she had raised in this world for a while, Akae Nazuki, who was chatting with Conan at this moment, suddenly felt her nose itchy.
Why are so many people missing him in their hearts recently?
"I asked Miss Kobayashi about what I said this morning, and she said that parents can follow at their own expense." The voice of the little detective in front of him brought his attention back. Conan put his hands in his pockets coolly, looking like he didn't care at all and said, "But we're just going to Kyoto to sketch, and we'll be back in two days. There's no need, right?"
"It's not that I'm worried about you." Chi Jiang Na Yue patted the child's head seriously, "I'm more worried about whether Teacher Xiao Lin can take care of so many children. Being a teacher is really hard."
Although he said this, his tone was obviously relaxed. Conan could hear that he was being teased, and he puffed up his cheeks and wanted to step on the bad adult's shoe, but he was caught off guard and was picked up.
Conan had no choice but to give up struggling, and lay on his brother's shoulder with dead eyes, making eye contact with Ai who was wrapped in a blanket for one second.
The young detective was bewildered: Strange, why is Huibara looking at me with such a fierce look?