Chapter 38: Mobile Catherine

Conan had a nightmare.

He dreamed that Jyouno Hisaji crawled into the third floor of the Mori Detective Office like a big spider, which was the floor where they lived. Then he knocked out the sleeping uncle Mori, put him into a sack, and threw him into the van.

He followed quietly and hid in the back compartment, trying to rescue Uncle Maori. When he tried to untie the sack, he suddenly felt creepy. When he looked up, he saw the black-haired young man lying on the seat, looking at him expressionlessly.

The black muzzle of the gun was aimed at his forehead.

"ah!"

Conan jumped up suddenly, but was trapped by the quilt and couldn't move. He rolled over in a daze. The morning sun made him squint. He quickly checked the bedside clock and it was already past ten o'clock!

Regardless of being thankful that it was just a nightmare, Conan, who had been thinking about the case until too late yesterday and had already made some guesses in his mind, just wanted to continue investigating. While changing his clothes, he shouted:

"Uncle, why didn't you wake me up?"

No one responded. Conan washed up and ran downstairs. He heard the noisy TV program and the silly laughter of an old man coming from the office, and he immediately had a bad feeling.

They found some clues yesterday. The uncle was still very capable and had made an appointment with Takagi Wataru to go to Kyuichiro Kyuki's parents' and uncle's house today. Why did he suddenly change his mind?

Conan pushed the door open and walked in. Maori Kogoro was dancing along with the idol girl on TV, "Uncle!"

Maori Kogoro finally took the time to look at him and said, "Breakfast is in the kitchen, go heat it up and eat it yourself."

Conan didn't leave, "Where's Officer Takagi? Is he absent for some reason?"

"Tsk," Maori Kogoro smacked his lips in dissatisfaction, "You little brat, you really love to get to the bottom of things. He came here a long time ago and said that the case has been solved by Detective Jouno, and we don't need to worry about it anymore."

Having said this, Kogoro Mouri was impatient to continue and waved his hand to shoo Conan aside.

Conan frowned. Instead of going to the kitchen to have breakfast, he ran downstairs first.

I didn't see Toru Amuro through the glass window of Café Poirot, so I went in to ask Azusa Enomoto and found out that Toru Amuro had taken leave again.

I took today's newspaper from the mailbox. There was no report about the Kyuichiro Kyuki case. According to past experience, Hisashi Jyouno's face would have been on the front page of the newspaper long ago.

I searched on social media using my phone, and sure enough, there were no new reports.

This case was solved with great ease.

At the beginning, Conan reasonably inferred that the Black Organization was involved because of the involvement of Hisashi Jyouno, also known as code member Hennessy, and Katsuki Susumu's pharmaceutical company.

This speculation is correct.

But during yesterday's investigation, Conan gradually overturned the idea that the Black Organization had killed Yuichiro Kyuki.

He discovered that there was a problem with the rope's cut, so instead of killing the man on the spot he dragged him to the riverside, which prolonged the process unnecessarily.

Given the murderer's level of caution, there was absolutely no need to do this, unless the murderer wanted to hide the body temporarily and discover it later.

This is not the way the organization does things.

After eliminating the members of the organization from suspicion of murder, Yuichiro Kyuki's parents were not physically qualified, so the only ones left were Susumu Kyuki and Norie Kyuki.

There were no emails with the Black Organization in Kyuki Yuichiro's phone; they were completely destroyed.

I was sure I would get more information from the meeting I had scheduled for today...

Conan is now more curious about what happened. If Jyouno Hisaji had solved the case normally, it would have been widely reported. Why did he keep it secret?

He secretly took out the uncle's cell phone, used a bow to disguise his voice and contacted Officer Takagi again, but this time Officer Takagi did not tell him and only said that it could not be disclosed.

Conan didn't even want to eat breakfast, his stomach was full of questions.

He went upstairs and had a quick breakfast, then told his uncle that he was going out to play while taking the train to the vicinity of Kyuki Shin's house.

If you can’t ask him, just check it yourself!

On the other side, Toru Amuro was staring at Hennessy and Vermouth.

Members of the organization always like to wear black clothes and meet in bars owned by the organization, and the time is basically at night.

It seems that this fits the name of the wine, the name of the organization, and the atmosphere of a dark organization.

But after Hennessy came, this habit was changed easily.

Even the members don’t dare to get together, and some of them have PTSD about the black hair and golden eyes.

Because the above "cut melons and vegetables" is an adjective, and also means physical. Although only Amuro Toru can laugh at this joke.

We are meeting in the morning, in a private room of a high-end restaurant.

The player finished all the food on the table in one breath, even drinking the wine from Vermouth and Amuro Toru. He didn't finish until the table was empty. Then he slammed the table hard, causing the dishes to jump.

Then he said in a sonorous voice: "It doesn't matter if it's not Bourbon, the organization has to give me another Catherine anyway! I have already done yesterday's daily task, so I don't care about it, and I don't want any compensation, but I haven't done today's task yet, so hurry up!"

Vermouth, who had disguised himself as a man with red hair and gray eyes, smiled and said, "Well, this is the situation. After Hennessy came back from receiving punishment from you, he asked Gin to find him a Catherine."

Amuro Toru crossed his arms and said, "Excuse me, I have already answered Gin's question tonight. To put it simply, Hennessy has a problem with his brain. He likes to do odd jobs every day. Just find someone to assign them to him."

"Well," Bermode nodded in approval, "Gin arranged two people for him, that's all."

Amuro Toru: “…”

He looked at Jyouno Hisaji, who was obviously not listening to their conversation, and then turned his gaze back to them, "That's all?"

Vermouth stretched out her hand and slashed it across the neck, and her sweet smile made the action seem even more lethal.

"I was so annoyed when Gin threw him to me. I heard that he said it was not Catherine but a monster while he was doing it, and he also said that he didn't need the materials... Well, a lot of members of that base were scared away again."

Toru Amuro couldn't help but recall the scene when he said those words to Hisashi Jyouno.

At that time, Jyouno Hisaji only asked him one question: "Is it true?"

After not knowing what he did, he answered, "I understand. Gin asked me to come to you, which means that Catherine was sent by the organization. If you don't want to do it, I can just ask the organization to send another one."

Without even thinking of an answer, Yugen disappeared right where he was.

In fact, his first reaction was to know that Jyouno Hisaji was the murderer. After all the time he had been in contact with him, he had already figured out Jyouno Hisaji's background thoroughly.

It's incredible to say, but those who died at the hands of Hisaji Jyouno deserved to die.

Amuro Toru once investigated the members who escaped death and found that Jyouno Hisashi had never looked at them and had no inclination to attack them. Some of these members were stained with blood, such as those who had no place in society after avenging their murdered relatives.

In general, Jyouno Hisaji has a flexible moral bottom line that is not set by himself. After all, with his personality, he would not care about these people at all, let alone investigate their background before taking action.

Later it was proved that what Amuro Toru thought was right.

Although Kumaki Norie's shot was an accidental discharge, Jōno Hisaji would have been killed if he had not dodged. Moreover, Kumaki Norie seized the gun in order to kill people, so Jōno Hisaji's action was legitimate self-defense.

However, if the news were to be spread, it would definitely cause controversy and would not be in line with the organization's mission requirements, so Toru Amuro suppressed the matter.

The reason he really decided to stay away from Jyouno Hisaji was when he saw Kyuki Norie's body and realized that the other party was uncontrollable.

Before, Hisashi Jyouno worked odd jobs at the Poirot Café and took on commissions all over Japan, which gave Toru Amuro the illusion that he could control him.

Once he realized that this was an illusion, Toru Amuro no longer wanted to keep this troublemaker around.

Not to mention that the other party's arbitrary comings and goings have greatly affected his undercover work. When he was contacting the contact, he was afraid that he would turn around and see Hisashi Jyouno rushing over to hand over the task. It was scary just thinking about it.

In short, Toru Amuro will definitely not take back the hot potato that he has finally gotten rid of.

"Originally I'm not responsible for admonishment. Gin couldn't handle it, so he threw it to me, and I did what I should do. Now he wants to keep throwing it to me..." He smiled and said, "Is Gin too incompetent? Or is his gun not fast enough?"

"Besides, do you really want to continue to keep people in Café Poirot?" Amuro Toru said meaningfully.

Bermode's smile paused.

After the secret that her angel was Xiaolan was discovered by Amuro Toru, although they maintained a temporary cooperative relationship, she still hated the threat of the organization near the Mori Detective Office.

It's not just Hennessy, it's bourbon too.

But the trouble is that Bourbon is not someone who can be easily removed. Hennessy is even more so, a monster who is even more of a monster than she is.

Belmode, who had originally laughed at Gin for wanting to chat with Bourbon, suddenly lost interest.

She lifted her curly hair, revealing only her pretty face after the disguise. She blinked at Jyouno Hisaji, revealing her charming nature.

"I'm going to stay in Japan for a while, so it won't be hard to find some small things for you to do. Just follow me, Hennessy."

The player didn't notice the NPC's actions at all.

There is still no prompt on his system interface.

Is it because Belmode has a health bar? But Belmode is different from those two ordinary monsters. It is a code member elite monster.

Elite monsters like Gin can also serve as NPCs that issue quests.

The player used his smooth gaming brain to ask, "Can you give me the address of these daily tasks?"

When Catherine is on the road, she is usually on other missions, such as the main mission that is topped by the Grass King. Only when she stays at the Adventurers' Association as a receptionist can she claim the daily rewards.

Although this world has changed from Mechanical Catherine to Mobile Catherine, and you no longer have to stay in the Adventurers' Association to complete missions and receive rewards, there is still a need for such a landmark building.

"Want a contact address?" Bermode thought for a moment, "Then let's go to Witch Office, which is the organization's business. You happen to be a detective, so maybe you can bring some popularity to it."

The player opened the map and went to the location reported by Belmode, and sure enough, he saw a symbol representing an interactive building in the game.

【Witch Office】

[An ordinary entertainment company, with few artists and none of them were famous, but it seems the boss is very rich and the agency has not closed down yet]

[Daily Mission Function Enabled]

[Witch Agency is glad that you can help. Please contact the person in charge, Bermode, to accept daily tasks and claim rewards.]

The player was moved and grabbed Bermode's hand: "Catherine! You are finally back! I missed you so much!"

Bermode adapted well, and even felt that Hennessy could be used: "Is that so..."

Player: "Skip."

Bermode: “? Are you talking about…”

Player: "Skip."

Amuro Toru, who had been tortured to the point where his skin was dark and he could see dark circles under his eyes, smiled a mysterious smile of satisfaction at this scene:

"Sure enough, when the target is not me, it makes me happy both physically and mentally."

"May you live in peace, and commemorate your beauty that no longer exists."

"Goodbye, Bermode."

Toru Amuro is in high spirits.

The air became especially fresh when I thought that I would no longer see Hisaji Tsuchiya going through railings to deliver tasks and steal dogs every day. Even the details of the case that I would have to tell the troublesome little detective later were just a trivial matter.

Bermode began to feel something was wrong.

She felt that she had been cheated by Bourbon, but she didn't know how.

It was not until nearly four o'clock in the morning that Hennessy quietly appeared in her luxurious hotel room on the 39th floor. He walked in from the huge floor-to-ceiling window that could see the night view of the entire city, walked to the head of her bed, and said:

"Get up and give out the rewards, Catherine!"