Conan: I'm Not a Model Worker in the Winery

Chapter 624: Find a shrine to worship and drive away the ghosts

"Ms. Vermouth, I think this may be a misunderstanding."

Before Angostra handed over the IOU, Anderborg loosened his grip on his teammate and surprisingly joined in.

Vermouth also felt strange.

So she waited quietly for Anderburg's next words.

Anderburger said calmly, "Is it possible that Stella forgot to report the incident before, and in order to avoid being punished by that person and the boss, he lied on purpose to evade responsibility..."

Belmode: "..."

It seems that Anbu has to be a real person.

Angostura, who had just spit out the IOU, coughed and glared at Ambu fiercely - why does this guy always tell the truth?
“Alright! Vermouth, I know what I did… Even if you have a close relationship with that person, it’s not your turn to suppress me.”

"……Really?"

Seeing that Angostra was not polite at all, Vermouth also turned cold, "Then I will report the true situation of yesterday truthfully and see how the boss will react."

Angostura also sneered: "Go ahead and tell me! Who's afraid of who?"

Belmode: "..."

She seemed to have found someone who deserved a beating even more than Gin.

The two men stared at each other, and the situation was at a stalemate.

Fortunately, a phone call broke the deadlock. Anderburg, who was hiding in the safe zone, glanced at the mobile phone placed on the table by his teammate. Under the gaze of the two, he silently chose to answer the call and turned on the speakerphone.

Gin's hoarse voice came from the phone:

"Angostra, does the boss have anything to say about yesterday's actions?"

“…Hey! You asked that woman Vermouth to gather intelligence, so who are you pretending to ask?” Angostura temporarily put aside his dispute with Vermouth, walked to the table, and said loudly in dissatisfaction, but he realized something was wrong as soon as he finished speaking, “Wait! Isn’t the signal on your end blocked? How did you get through?”

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a moment.

"Did you hire someone to do this?" Gin said in a grim tone.

"It's not me who doesn't have you, don't talk nonsense." Angostura said confidently.

"I'm not at the base." Gin didn't seem to care about Angostra's little tricks. His voice sounded hoarse and weak. "There shouldn't be anything that requires my help recently, right?"

Angostura frowned: "I don't think so... Are you okay?"

As long as he was not deaf, he could tell that there was something very wrong with Gin's voice... It was like the feeling of a dying person with more energy coming in than going out.

Gin laughed sinisterly twice: "Ah, yes, there is something wrong with my body."

"Which hospital are you going to? I can contact you."

Although Angostra usually quarrels with Gin, he still takes the health of his members very seriously.

But the next moment, Gin's answer completely stunned him:
"Why go to the hospital? I'm just going to find a shrine to worship."

"……What?"

"Let's go to a shrine to worship, and ask the gods to help drive away the evil spirits around us." Gin's voice became a little more normal. "Don't look for me unless it's something serious. And Vodka, who will drive me after he leaves?"

Angostura: "..."

Isn't the guy wearing sunglasses a programmer? It turns out that he is actually a driver at Gin's place.

Before he could respond, Gin unilaterally hung up the phone.

Before hanging up, he heard the subway station announcement. It seemed that Gin really ran out of the base to go to the shrine...

Outrageous.

Since the call was on speakerphone, Vermouth also heard what Gin said - but she thought that it was just a lie, and that this guy must be using it as an excuse to do something shameful. And Gin's last few words were obviously meant to be meaningful.

Vermouth rolled her eyes and stopped entangled with Angostra. She left with the "evidence" of Angostra's deception, leaving Angostra sitting in front of the table thinking about life.

After helping to answer the phone, Anderburg slipped back into the room, very agilely.

After Angostura pondered for a while, he seemed to have thought of something, took out his mobile phone and sent an email to someone.

……

The sun is shining outside, and there is a cool breeze blowing on my body, making me feel particularly comfortable.

It is early spring in March, the temperature is not so cold, nor so hot.

After getting off the tram, Gin adjusted his baseball cap, looked at the road signs, and left towards the exit on one side.

The name of this station is: Jianggutian.

Walking down the main road, Gin soon arrived at a fairly famous shrine attraction. He stood on the street more than 50 meters away from the shrine entrance, looked around, his eyes lit up, and quickly walked into the unmanned telephone booth in the corner.

——Thanks to the rapid development of the times, many telephone booths have not been demolished yet...

But their lifespan is estimated to be short.

Gin looked at this somewhat old coin-operated telephone, sighed in his heart, then rummaged in his pocket, took out a coin and threw it in from the coin slot.

Relying on the memory that still held up, Gin pressed the keys one by one, forming a complete phone number...

beep--

The moment the phone call was connected, Gin felt a little relaxed.

He was really worried that he had remembered the wrong phone number.

After a few rings, someone on the other end of the phone quickly picked up: "Hello, this is the Hei Yu family..."

"...Kaito isn't home?"

When he heard that old voice, Gin's eyes twitched and he spoke pretending to be calm.

Good, he mixed up Kaito’s cell phone number with Kaito’s home phone number.

The person who answered the phone paused, and his tone immediately became respectful, "Are you... Mr. Blade? I'm so sorry! Master Kaito is in class now, and is not at home..."

Gin was stunned for a moment, then calculated with his fingers: "He hasn't had his day off yet?"

"Yes, Mr. Blade! Today is the last day, and we will be off tomorrow..."

"...Okay, then tell him that if he's free, he should come to the shrine near the exit of Ekoda Station to find me and bring the witch with him."

"Ah? Okay, I understand!"

After making sure that the other party had heard his instructions clearly, Gin put the receiver back on the phone, then slowly walked into the shrine gate and went straight to the most secluded location of the shrine.

He was waiting there for someone... no, waiting for someone.

But the people around Gin acted as if they didn't see him. They talked and laughed, and went their own way, doing their own things. It was useless even if Gin stood in front of them and stared at them with the most ferocious eyes.

Finally, Gin sat on the stone steps in front of a cottage, staring at the tourists coming and going in a daze.

If he came out as a member of the organization, once he arrived at such a place, he would definitely be noticed by everyone and would appear out of place.

But now that he has come out as a free man, no one else notices him at all...it's as if he doesn't exist.

Gin: I feel abandoned by the world, so sad.

(End of this chapter)