Chapter 347 Bungo Stray Dogs and a Drama
When Furuya Rei left the banquet hall, his demeanor was extremely calm. Nakajima Atsushi, who was hiding in the crowd, was stunned by this. He could never have imagined that the situation would change so quickly in such a short time.
Mr. Amuro is actually the Bourbon? Then didn't Bourbon hear everything he and Mr. Kunikida said that afternoon...!?
Moreover, Nakajima Atsushi believed that he was not the only one present who was really curious about what was written in the letter handed to the Mafia leader?
He subconsciously wanted to lower his head and whisper to Jinghua, but he found that Jinghua's shadow was nowhere to be seen beside him.
...Come to think of it, hasn't Kagami been away for too long?
Nakajima Atsushi realized something was wrong belatedly.
But his subsequent actions had little to do with Furuya Rei, who had already left the banquet hall. The latter seemed extremely relaxed in every move, and even chose to take the elevator and leave in a swagger, as if he was not worried at all that Mori Ogai would change his mind and send someone to take him back.
Although this building is where Mafia is displayed to the outside world, it has all the necessary facilities as in the other four buildings. Just like the elevator that Rei Furuya entered, the night view of most of Yokohama can be clearly seen through the transparent glass, which is very charming.
Furutani Rei pressed the button for the first floor, but the elevator suddenly stopped when it passed the fifteenth floor.
Standing outside waiting for the elevator was a black-haired woman in a small suit. She didn't seem to expect that there would be someone in the elevator at this time. She looked up hesitantly at the time, then at the waiter's uniform on Furukaya Rei.
"Oh, sorry, I confused you. Something went wrong at the party upstairs tonight, so I just left work early." The blond waiter gave the nervous woman a slightly shy smile, as if he was afraid that she would be scared, so he took the initiative to explain, "You've worked so hard, and you're just leaving get off work now?"
The black-haired woman breathed a sigh of relief, and she nodded as she walked into the elevator. Furutani Rei, who was originally standing by the door, also took a step back considerately to maintain a safe social distance between the two of them, but he also retreated to the blind spot of the camera in the elevator, and only the sound could be heard.
The woman who came up later pressed the button for the third floor. The elevator door closed and took them downstairs. Perhaps she felt that the atmosphere was too awkward, so she reluctantly explained why she didn't go to the first floor even though she was off work: "I forgot something in the reception room on the third floor this afternoon. I went to get it and I'm leaving now."
Furuya Rei suddenly realized: "Ah, so that's it."
The elevator fell silent again. When it was about to reach the third floor, Furuya Rei took the initiative to speak: "Um... Sorry, I forgot to bring my cell phone. Can you lend it to me to make a call? I'll stand here and make the call. If you are worried, you can come over to my side and watch me make the call, okay?"
The black-haired woman subconsciously looked up at the elevator floor and was indeed approaching the third floor.
But she looked struggling, as if she thought about it and felt that if she just borrowed someone else's phone to make a call, it shouldn't take much time. Anyway, it was night time, there were not many employees left in the building, and there were many empty elevators. If they stayed for a while, the other party would not run away with her phone... It shouldn't be a problem.
So in the end she nodded, took the initiative to cancel the elevator to the first floor, walked to the blind spot where Furuya Rei was, and handed over her cell phone.
Because no one went out, the elevator door opened briefly and then closed again, and the elevator temporarily stopped on the third floor. Although the two people disappeared briefly in the surveillance camera, the sounds of tapping on the mobile phone screen and the call could be heard all the time.
After finding that the call was not going through, Furuya Rei's voice was a little disappointed: "Sorry to bother you, I'm fine here. Thank you for lending me your phone to make a call. I'm sorry to waste your time."
The annoyance of wasting other people's time made him throw out polite words without paying. The black-haired woman, who was frightened for a moment, stepped back under surveillance, waved her hands awkwardly, and then turned around and hurriedly left the elevator without saying a word. Before leaving, she did not forget to press the button for the first floor again for Furiya Rei.
So the elevator door closed and went down again.
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"Taking too long." Akutagawa Ryunosuke stared at the real-time surveillance video transmitted from his mobile phone, with a hint of impatience on his face.
He was clearly waiting downstairs when he received the order from his leader, but after waiting for a long time, the elevator did not reach the first floor, so he asked his subordinates to check the surveillance footage to see what had happened.
It's not that he couldn't just rely on his special ability to catch the other person from the outer wall, but the leader reminded him that it was best to bring the person back to the Mafia for interrogation "quietly" and it would be best not to be discovered that they were the ones who did it... So Akutagawa, as the guerrilla leader directly under the leader, just waited here.
It doesn't matter if it's just him, but the problem is -
Akutagawa Ryunosuke raised his head and looked at the man who was standing casually near the elevator with his hands in his windbreaker pockets.
Mr. Dazai is here too.
Damn it, that idiot Renhu, he was so close to the target and yet he didn't realize that there was something wrong with him. Not only did he let him go, but now he has forced Mr. Dazai to wait here too? What good has the target done to him!
The more Akutagawa thought about it, the more unhappy he felt.
Just at this moment, the elevator reached the first floor. As the elevator door slowly opened, people outside who were watching openly or secretly could see what was happening inside the elevator.
Akutagawa, who had just watched the surveillance video with his own eyes, was stunned, because there was no trace of Furuya Rei in the elevator, only a black-haired woman in a coma on the ground!
Wait a minute, could it be that Bourbon's ability is to change his appearance? So he deliberately tricked this woman into going over and knocking her out, then he transformed himself into her and escaped from the third floor? !
Akutagawa was not stupid, and he figured out the trick quickly. He immediately felt that he had been tricked, and while ordering his subordinates to go to other floors to continue looking for the "black-haired woman" who had left the elevator, he raised his legs excitedly and prepared to talk to Dazai Osamu.
Then he saw that Mr. Dazai, whom he admired, suddenly changed his expression and approached the strange member of the lower level in the elevator after he woke up.
Dazai Osamu lifted his hair, and his handsome appearance made him look very cool when doing this. Then, he gently held the hand of the black-haired woman who had just woken up and was still confused, and said affectionately: "Ah, this beautiful lady, the moment I saw you, I was like Apollo shot by a golden arrow, and fell deeply in love with you."
The black-haired woman moved back in bewilderment, trying to stand up by holding onto the ground. "Wait, you are...? What happened?"
The man in front of her had a pair of charming iris-colored eyes. When he looked at someone with such eyes, anyone would have the illusion that they were deeply loved by the other person, especially after Dazai Osamu helped her stand up and gently held one side of her face with his hand.
Although the black-haired woman seemed unable to accept such intimate contact and leaned back subconsciously, Dazai Osamu smiled and withdrew his hand obediently.
"I'm sorry, I'm being rude." Dazai Osamu lowered his eyes, bent down and kissed the other's knuckles. "I just can't help myself because of the surging love, so I want to ask this lady, can you go to hell with me?"
No matter how much emotion was on the black-haired woman's face, it turned into anger after hearing this. She snorted coldly, pulled her hand back, and walked out of the elevator angrily: "Really, why do I always run into a psychopath today!"
Akutagawa Ryunosuke stared coldly at the woman's back and wanted to go up to her and ask her to be polite to Mr. Dazai, but Dazai stopped him.
"It's not the right time yet." Dazai Osamu put his hands back into his pockets, his tone was low, but his expression looked very happy, and he said something that Akutagawa didn't understand at all, "It seems that these new guests brought something interesting."
As he said this, he kept staring at the black-haired woman's receding back, and only looked away when she got into the taxi he called.
On the other side, the black-haired woman who got on the bus glanced at the baseball cap on the driver's head. Her expression and posture were completely different from those in the elevator: "You haven't stopped trying to escape."
She opened the window to let in some fresh air for a while, then took off her wig and bra, revealing her gorgeous face and bright blond hair.
Belmode propped up his chin, looked at the street scene passing by outside the window, and slowly uttered a name: "- Bourbon."
The driver also took off his hat, revealing his signature blond hair and dark skin.
Not to be outdone, Furuya Rei responded, "I think your acting ability has declined, Vermouth. Dazai Osamu has obviously discovered your identity."
Belmodes was not panicked: "Oh, because this is also one of the scripts given by the boss."
It was obvious that the black-haired woman was Vermode in disguise from the beginning.
When Nazuki Akae told Rei Furuya about the letter and the subsequent arrangements, she frankly explained the reason for doing so: "The letter I sent him will only have a short-term intimidating effect on Mr. Mori. Even if he is really intimidated by the content of the letter, he will not miss the opportunity to send someone to follow you or even capture you for interrogation, which will bring him more benefits."
So they couldn't go directly to the first floor, as that would lead them into the trap set outside Morigu.
So Vermouth disguised himself as a female employee of the Mafia in advance. When he was in the elevator, Furiya Rei retreated to a blind spot and immediately adjusted his clothes calmly - it was not very difficult to change the waiter's clothes into a small suit like the one Vermouth wore. Anyway, they only had to deceive for a few seconds that would be captured by the surveillance camera, so there was no need to consider other inconsistencies.
Then she put on the same wig and gloves that Vermouth had prepared in advance, and when Vermouth approached her under the pretext of "borrowing her cell phone", the two quickly exchanged positions. Vermouth sat paralyzed on the ground pretending to be knocked unconscious, while Furuya Rei left the elevator openly in her identity.
After Akae Nazuki finished talking about this part of the plan, he added a few more words in a good mood: "Of course, Mr. Dazai in this world will contact Sharon as soon as possible and test her through physical contact to see if she is Bourbon who uses her supernatural powers to disguise herself as someone else. When he finds out that she is not, he will naturally think of the possibility that Bourbon knocked out passers-by and escaped."
"Then, Mr. Dazai will think that this possibility is what I want him to think of. Then it is very likely that the Sharon in the elevator that he has tested is not the effect of supernatural powers, but is actually Bourbon. I guess I played a trick to hide the truth."
He hummed a song and spoke in a difficult way.
"So he will go and confirm Sharon's face - it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter if he knows the existence of disguise. Anyway, no one in this world really knows the disguise technology we have, so what's the point of knowing this?"
His smiling face is exactly like Dazai Osamu's: "After this step, Mr. Dazai will find out that Sharon is also a fake, and then he will be sure that the person who left the first time was indeed Bourbon, and you are in the same group. But don't worry, Mr. Dazai will definitely not stop you from leaving, he will help you escape instead."
Chijiang Nayue raised a finger and shook it.
"Because the plan I told you was based on what Dazai-san would think."
After discovering that the people of the mysterious organization seemed to know him very well, Dazai Osamu would not help the Mafia capture Bourbon and Vermouth, because he also wanted to be the first to contact them, or to say, to contact Akae Nazuki who was planning this action behind the scenes.
This is the reason why Chijiang Nayue asked everyone to come to the Mafia party tonight. In addition to "killing" the target, this is another important purpose.
Sharon and Rei Furuya had the same opinion on these matters: this master and apprentice pair were really equally difficult to deal with.
When they do something, do they also think about the other person's actions and make countermeasures in advance... and repeat this cycle? Isn't it really tiring!
"Where are we going now?" Sharon asked casually after remembering it.
"Of course I went to find the boss." Furuya Rei said casually, then realized that he forgot to change his words, "Oh, aka, he's probably playing games in a corner right now."
Sharon felt a mixture of laughter and tears.
Who would have thought that the man behind the scenes who played tricks on the Mafia and the detective agency actually put games first?
"By the way, do you know what was written in that letter?"
Furuya Rei recalled and shook his head: "I don't know, aka he didn't say, I'll just ask him later."
"Well, that's true."