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

As Kuroba Toichi's narration continued, the clues in Gin's mind became clearer.

Regarding the organization and some things about the Karasuma family, I am no longer completely in the dark as before.

According to what Kuroba Toichi himself described, he was also a member of "that organization" who helped steal gems in the beginning, with the purpose of helping his friends get rid of the "curse of eternal life" as soon as possible.

But some things happened later, which led to a rift between Kuroba Toichi and the Hakuba family.

In Toichi Kuroba's heart, there is a code of conduct for thieves, which is consistent with some of Gin's ideas.

Stealing is fine, but not harming anyone's life is also a basic principle.

But this principle was broken by one of the "helpers" recruited by the Baima family...

As mentioned before, most of the helpers hired by the Baiba family are murderers and thieves, and they are wanted criminals. These people are different from Heiyu Daoyi - most of them have no principles and no bottom line as human beings.

At the beginning, someone killed a "colleague" who was stealing the same thing as them. The other party was a professional jewel thief.

Later, the relationship between Kuroba Toichi and the Hakuba family became completely strained because a killer killed a security guard during a theft...and what made Kuroba Toichi disheartened was that his former classmates did not care about the matter.

——At that time, the White Horse Police Commissioner was not yet a Superintendent of Police, but a member of parliament who inherited his father's footsteps.

Hei Yu Daoyi realized that searching for Pandora might not break the so-called "curse of immortality", but would make his old classmate fall deeper and deeper.

So after that, Kuroba Toichi began his journey of competing with his old classmates...

And because he was a young and famous magician, he already had some international fame at that time. As long as he knew where there was a gem exhibition, he would hold his performance there, and he would even send a crime notice in advance to notify the police so that they could be prepared.

Because of his disruption, it became increasingly difficult for the people that the Baima family had won over to take action, and every time the gems were taken away by Heiyu Daoyi, which made it increasingly unbearable for the other party...

In the end, the other party tampered with Kuroba Toichi's performance for Pandora, destroying the mechanism, increasing the killing situation, and causing a fire.

If Black Feather Dao had not anticipated this day and made special preparations, he would have been crushed to death by the machine even if he had not been buried in the fire...

However, the price he paid to get out of this situation was quite heavy. He could only lie in bed in his early years.

“…Well, that’s roughly what my experience was like.”

Hei Yu Daoyi recounted a long list of his experiences and felt a little dry in his mouth. He shook his black cloak, a white shadow flashed, and a small water cup appeared in his hand.

As soon as he opened the cup of water, Gin threw a bag of tea leaves over to him, "I have tea."

Hei Yudao was stunned for a moment, then he took it with a smile: "Thank you."

"Besides that, what about your guess?" Gin seemed to have let down his guard and stared at the other person intently.

"Mr. Blade should have thought of that guess, but he just wanted to ask me to confirm it." Hei Yudao threw a tea bag into the cup and shook it, then took a sip. "Before Hakuba became the Superintendent of Police... No, even if he is the Superintendent of Police now, how can he have such great power to influence the information from Interpol? You know, many of those criminals were first obtained by him from Interpol, and then the information disappeared silently."

Gin finally took his left hand out of his pocket and put the lychee-flavored lollipop into his mouth. "He has an acquaintance in Interpol. This is the only explanation."

"That's right." Hei Yudao nodded. "And I suspect that the person he knows in Interpol may be related to the person who put them into the 'eternal curse'."

"It makes sense."

Gin's right hand, which was supporting his face, began to tap his cheeks lightly with his expression gloomy.

At first, he thought that this gem-stealing organization was just a bunch of small fry, but now he saw that it was actually a big fish... The Baima family, the gem-stealing organization, Pandora, the curse of eternal life, "Dark Night"...

Everything points to the same point.

boss.

The person that Gin has never met, according to Vermouth, is the unscrupulous boss who wants to find a way to achieve eternal life.

Gin couldn't find anything particularly unreasonable in what Kuroba Toichi said. The only question was how the Hakuba family became involved with the organization - from what we can see so far, the initial connection between the Hakuba family and the organization was with Superintendent Hakuba's mother.

But the person has passed away, and Hei Yu Daoyi doesn't know the situation of her mother.

My thoughts paused here.

Gin looked at Kuroba Toichi with a puzzled look: "Have we met before?"

He felt that the other party gave him a very familiar feeling from the beginning, but this feeling of familiarity was different from the kind of familiarity that one might have met by chance. In fact, Gin was sure that he had never seen the face of Kuroba Toichi.

Hei Yu Daoyi narrowed his eyes and smiled: "It's not appropriate to say that I have seen it, but... Mr. Blade has lived in Japan since he was a child, right?"

Gin frowned: "I guess so."

"Mr. Blade, did you live in Hiroshima when you were a child?"

"...Tsk."

Gin smacked his lips and narrowed his eyes, "You have indeed seen me."

"I was just skeptical at first, but after all, Mr. Blade, your hair color is very rare." Hei Yu Daoyi chuckled as if he was reminiscing, "To be honest, when I saw you and your companions stealing things together, it did give me a lot of inspiration."

Gin rolled his eyes: "It's your choice to be a thief, don't put the blame on us."

When they were young, they stole things to fill their stomachs.

However, with Hei Yudao's reminder, Gin vaguely remembered that once when he was ransacking a convenience store, he did feel a strange gaze.

...Yes, that familiar feeling came from that gaze at that time.

Gin understood something in his heart.

only……

Kuroba Kaito and Koizumi Akako, who were listening beside him and Kuroba Toichi, both looked very cute at the moment.

Kaito/Akako: Who am I, where am I, and what am I doing?
They could understand it at the beginning, but later on they felt like they were listening to a foreign language.

"I seem to have delayed Mr. Blade for a lot of his time. Is it serious?" Hei Yudao checked the time, stood up, and looked a little worried.

Gin knew what he was worried about, so he stood up and patted his butt, "It's okay, they can't find me. If you're worried, just take your son and leave first."

"Then I'll take my leave now."

Hei Yudao nodded, then pulled Kaito and dragged his son away without saying anything... It seemed that he didn't want to stay here any longer.