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

The furthest distance in history is when someone is standing right in front of you but you can't see him/her.

And he is a sighted person...

This is a bit embarrassing.

"Oh, I'm so sorry."

The old man in the wheelchair silently took out a pair of reading glasses and put them on himself, with a serious expression, "When people get old, their eyesight is not good. I was dazzled just now and I can't see anything."

The old servant pushing the wheelchair nodded in agreement.

Gin's eyes twitched, and he nodded seriously, "It's okay, you are lucky. Some people are nearsighted at a young age, and they keep their phones and computers in their hands all day long. They can't even see me when I'm right in front of their faces. It's really lamentable."

The old man in the wheelchair: “…”

Is this gin real?

In his impression, Gin didn't seem to talk that much...

The eyes behind the reading glasses scanned Gin up and down several times.

Only after Gin became a little uneasy and suspected that he had some other intentions towards him did the old man in the wheelchair lean back in his chair, coughed twice and said, "It's getting late. Have you eaten yet?"

"of course not."

Gin replied in a deep voice.

He arrived in Nagano around the hottest time of the afternoon, and it was already three or four o'clock when he arrived at the annex. Including the time spent looking for the secret passage, groping around, and crossing the entire passage, it took him a full two hours.

But for some reason, when Gin heard the words "It's getting late", he automatically thought "It's time to get going" and couldn't help but put his hands behind his waist and gripped the hilt of the knife...

"Well... go get dinner and eat here." The old man in the wheelchair nodded in understanding, turned around and gave an order to the old servant. After the latter responded and went upstairs, he slowly turned his head and said, "Don't be so nervous... Gin."

"……you know me?"

Gin's eyes were almost narrowed into slits. While studying the old man, he was thinking about the possibility of whether he could knock the man down and escape successfully if seventy or eighty strong men rushed down from upstairs.

"Ha ha……"

But the old man laughed twice, "Don't play dumb, kid. I think you should have known who I am since you stepped into this room."

Gin was silent for a moment.

Finally, he glanced at the clock on the wall opposite the old man, "This place is connected to the Dusk Villa, plus the crow family emblem... Are you from the Karasuma family?"

The old man in the wheelchair squinted his eyes, smiled and nodded slightly.

"You are... the boss?"

Gin asked tentatively.

“Alas…” The old man in the wheelchair sighed, “No need to test so cautiously, I’ve always been paying attention to you, Gin.

After all, this is the code name I chose for you."

"'gentlemen'?"

Even though Gin had already guessed the other party's identity, after the other party admitted it himself, Gin's heart still trembled involuntarily.

——Gin’s code name was not given by the boss, but by ‘that one’, and he was very clear about this from the beginning.

Since the other party stated that 'Gin' was chosen by him, then the next one might be the most mysterious 'one' in the organization - Karasuma Renya.

Can……

Damn it, who would have thought that 'that person' actually lived only a dozen kilometers away from the Twilight Annex? Gin actually regretted a little, why didn't he call his friends along, and then see if he could use coercion or bribery to get some benefits here... But doing so is a bit like robbery.

The old man in the wheelchair, or Karasuma Renye, smiled even more, "I never thought that you would be the one to visit me through this secret passage...

How did you find the mechanism of the secret door under the mansion?"

Only he and his confidants knew the mechanism of the secret door under the villa. He didn't even tell his own son, and he didn't even know there was such a hidden tunnel.

Gin did not feel any malice from Karasuma Renya for the time being. Feeling the sincere look in his eyes, he felt too embarrassed to lie to the old man, so he said honestly:
"I didn't find the mechanism."

"Hmm?" Karasuma Renye was slightly startled and rubbed his beard. "Then how did you get into the secret passage?"

Gin lowered his head with an indifferent look and admitted his mistake: "I'm sorry sir, I broke through the secret door."

Karasuma Renya: “…” Akidou Madai, did he hear it right?
The giant secret door in his basement, five meters long, one meter six, seven meters high...

Got pierced???

The old face twitched and Karasuma Renya accidentally pulled out a few whiskers.

After calming down a bit, he looked at Gin who was very respectful to him, took a deep breath, and sighed:

"Gin..."

"Yes sir."

"Is your hand not broken?"

Gin's eyelids jumped: "...Thank you for your concern, I'm fine."

Damn it, why does he feel so flattered? Did he get pua at some point?
...No, it must be an illusion.

Yes, it must be because the other person is Vermouth’s grandfather that he feels a little reserved. That must be the case.

Karasuma Renya looked at Gin's exposed hand and didn't see any scars, so he looked relieved.

then……

...and nothing happened.

The most mysterious person in the organization, and the person who is currently recognized as the most powerful person in the organization, stared at each other, no one spoke, but just looked at each other inconspicuously.

Karasuma Renya wanted to see something from Gin, but Gin had no idea.

However, Gin discovered that the body of Karasuma Renya, an old man, looked to be only in his eighties or nineties, and did not look like an old monster who had already stepped into the coffin. It was probably because of the effect of the "drug".

——The reason why Karasuma Renya is still alive today must be because he used the "drug of immortality", otherwise the bad things that happened to the Karasuma family later might not have happened...

However, the unscrupulous boss is also a cunning one. He disguised his ambition as "that one" to mislead his subordinates, and secretly reaped the benefits in secret - just like supporting a puppet emperor:
Karasuma Renya is a puppet emperor, and the unscrupulous boss is the one who actually holds power.

Combining the news from Vermouth and Gin's current observation, the treatment of Karasuma Renya, the "puppet emperor", cannot be said to be bad, but it is not necessarily good either.

When Gin was observing, he found that there were many black bruises on the exposed parts of the other person's neck and shoulders, which looked very much like... the marks left by long-term hanging and needle threading.

"Are you taking medication? Maintaining nutrition? Or...?"
As his thoughts went around, they were rejected one by one by Gin.

Let's just assume that the old man in front of him is the real Karasuma Renya. He doesn't look like a patient who needs peripheral nutrition to maintain life. His voice is confident and his expression is a little weak. Apart from not looking very energetic, Gin thinks that he doesn't have any organic problems.

"...Well, let's eat first."

The old servant who went up earlier came down the elevator pushing a dining cart. Karasuma Renye smiled and said, "If you have any questions, we can talk after dinner."