Stay away from Conan.

"You...what exactly..."

Outside the back door of the internet cafe was a secluded alley. In this usually quiet place, Kitajima Satoru, a former employee of the internet cafe, faced Gao Yuan, and the unconscious man Gao Yuan had summoned from the cafe. This sight made Kitajima Satoru very uneasy.

Because, for the original Kitajima Satoru, this man who had been frequenting internet cafes recently was the very person he wanted to take revenge on.

In order to carry out his revenge, Kitajima Satoru deliberately left this internet cafe for a period of time to prepare for his revenge. He had also basically planned his revenge method, which was to sneak in through the ventilation vent above the private room that the man had been choosing and kill him.

But the current situation is that the man who recently took over my job somehow knows my desire for revenge, and even knows how I plan to take revenge.

Under these circumstances, I had actually been hiding in the ventilation duct above that private room and witnessed this person actively telling the person I wanted to take revenge on to leave the internet cafe. Moreover, this person even specifically threatened me by sending me an email, telling me to come and wait here.

Thus, I witnessed it myself—

The person who took over his job summoned his target for revenge and then launched a sneak attack, knocking him unconscious. It also seemed that he had given him sleeping pills to prevent him from waking up.

Therefore, the current situation has arisen.

In other words, the man who took over her job, knowing her desire for revenge, and having knocked out the person she hated, now had no idea what the other man intended to do...

Thus, Kitajima Satoru was somewhat uneasy and at a loss for words, his speech trembling with nervousness before he could finish, only to see Takato calmly say:
"Didn't you plan to seek revenge on him? Now, the man is yours."

Seeing the other party's casual demeanor, Kitajima Satoru was taken aback, then asked with a serious expression:
"Leave it to me... Isn't this person someone you know?"

Having witnessed Takato's conversation with the man in the ventilation duct, Kitajima instinctively felt that the two must know each other. And if that's the case, then this person knows who he's after, yet actively pushes his target forward to him—such behavior…

Unconsciously, Kitajima Satoru felt fear and unease. After all, he couldn't understand the other party's purpose, and he didn't even know whether he should trust the other party. Therefore, Kitajima Satoru still asked this question.

But Gao Yuan didn't say much about it, only saying with a cold look in his eyes:
"Now that things have come to this, do you still have a choice?"

As he said this, Gao Yuan bent down, rummaged through the man's clothes, and found his wallet, cell phone, and other items. After taking them all, he turned to leave, but then turned back and coldly said to Kitajima Satoru:
"You can do as you please, but... if his body is discovered within a week, or if he's still alive, then you'd better think about what will happen to you!"

After leaving behind what sounded like a threat, Gao Yuan left the place and never returned to the internet cafe...

"Now, the first step is complete..."

Going back to the day before the incident, they contacted the victim under the guise of the organization and used the murderer...

By using this method, the perpetrator can be threatened to continue committing crimes, while simultaneously delaying the discovery of the incident. This allows the perpetrator to obtain the victim's belongings and proceed with the next step of the plan—in the short term, the wallet found on the deceased can provide the funds, while keeping the victim's phone is just in case…

As a person sent by the organization to search for programming experts in various places, he had already copied the list of programmers at the company headquarters that could be accessed through the internet cafe's intranet. If the organization contacted him, he would impersonate this person and use this list to complete the task, in order to prevent the organization from discovering that he was missing and trying to find him.

And after that...

There are still several days until this year's Tanabata Festival. For me, all I need to do is get to the hotel in Kyoto before Tanabata. And before that...

There's also the matter of Nishikawa Taijo wanting to find his illegitimate daughter, Hanada Emi!
Business tycoon Taijo Nishikawa wants to find his former lover, Kotomo Hanada, and plans to leave his inheritance to the illegitimate child she bore him. However, his only legitimate child deliberately causes a car accident to prevent this from happening, leaving Taijo Nishikawa critically ill...

In order to prevent his child from continuing to hinder his actions and to find someone to help him locate Hanada Kotomo, whom he had lost contact with for too long, Nishikawa Taijo used a magazine published by his controlled publishing house to send out the message in code...

Recalling these past events, Gao Yuan couldn't help but feel a sense of emotion—

Ultimately, it was this incident that completely entangled him in the conflict with the organization.

At the time, although he had deciphered the code, he was unable to contact Nishikawa Taijo because she was critically ill and admitted to a private hospital with extremely tight security. Therefore, he resorted to contacting Shimada Kaoru, the lawyer who was secretly helping Nishikawa Taijo. And now...

Wearing a doctor's uniform and a mask, this private hospital, which was once almost impossible for me to sneak into, is now a piece of cake for me.

Without having to act as before, Gao Yuan swaggered into Nishikawa Taijo's hospital room and closed the door.

Thus, looking at the old man who was nearing the end of his life, Gao Yuan had only had the opportunity to meet him once after he had finished searching for his illegitimate daughter and solved the mystery of the car accident. However, not long after, the old man passed away after giving most of his estate to Hanada Emi. Therefore, Gao Yuan could only say that he did not know much about this old man.

However, Gao Yuan's confidence in facing the other party lay in his ability to provide the answers he wanted to know on the spot.

Thus, when Gao Yuan entered the ward, he quietly looked at Nishikawa Taijo on the bed without speaking or making any movements, which made the old man feel a little strange.

After a moment of hesitation, the elderly man, who was still somewhat able to move, looked at the "doctor" before him and asked a question with a solemn expression:
"who are you?"

Although Gao Yuan was disguised as a doctor in appearance, he didn't quite pull it off in the details. As a result, the wary old man instinctively sensed something was off about the person in front of him.

Seeing that Nishikawa Taijo had spoken first, Gao Yuan confirmed that no one was outside the ward before speaking in his youthful voice:
"Mr. Nishikawa, didn't you want to find your illegitimate daughter? And you're also wondering about the cause of your car accident, aren't you? And the answers to these questions..."

"I know!" (End of Chapter)