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

"……show?!"

Akai Shuichi's voice made Judy, who was sitting on the floor making dolls out of straw, turn around in surprise.

But she immediately realized her indecent sitting posture and quickly stood up, looking embarrassed:
"Why did you come so early today?"

"It's not early yet. It's already dark." Akai Shuichi picked up some fallen grass on the ground, still looking a little confused. "Are you... making a voodoo doll?"

Conan picked up the two relatively complete straw dolls that barely had a human shape on the table and took a look at them.

Although it is a bit ugly, it is definitely a voodoo doll.

"Ah, this is one of the treatment methods proposed by Mr. Shuugo..." Judy blushed, "He said that as long as I vent my emotions properly, I can return to normal. The most suitable method is to use the doll to curse other people...

But I don’t quite know how to do it, so…”

Judy's condition has improved a lot since Conan first visited her... or rather, she has basically recovered.

Apart from the fact that his muscles still have temporary weakness due to the injection of drugs and he cannot remember what happened before he was abducted by the organization, everything seems to be going in the right direction.

Conan carefully turned the straw doll over and over several times before he finally found a very long and thin note stuck between the doll's neck and body.

One reads: 'Angostura';

Another read: 'Glentz'.

There was another one, which Judy hadn't had time to put into the new straw doll, and it said: 'Gin'...

Shuichi Akai also saw the contents of the note.

"Angostra... Is this the member code name you recalled last time?"

Because each visit lasted only fifteen minutes, they often stopped talking about many things. For example, last time, Judy just recalled part of the content and before she could tell the whole story, the visit time was up...

Tianle is a person with a strong sense of time. There are a lot of alarm clocks in the repair shop that start howling when the time comes, so it is difficult for them to stay for one more minute.

"Yes... this Angostura seems to be a new high-ranking member of the organization."

Judy also knew that the time they spent together was precious, so she temporarily stopped her rehabilitation training and said seriously, "This is the conclusion I came to based on their intermittent conversations. The other members of the organization with code names only have respectful names for Angostura and Gin."

Akai Shuichi narrowed his eyes: "Angostra... he and Gin don't seem to have a good relationship?"

When he was negotiating with Kiel before, he had already memorized the current status of the organization, but Kiel was not very clear about the more in-depth matters.

However, Judy didn't know about this yet, and nodded in surprise: "Yes, it seems so, the relationship between them is not very good.

...There is one more thing. I didn’t think much of it at the time, but now that I think about it, I do care about it.”

"What is it?"

"Do you remember the last operation? The one that was mainly targeting Vermouth." Judy frowned, as if she wanted to lift her chin, but her hand suddenly ran out of strength halfway through, so she had to give up. "At that time, we were the ones chasing those guys, and only later did we realize that it seemed like a 'hunt' against us by the organization..."

Akai Shuichi took out a cigarette, then remembered the no-smoking sign at the door, and quietly put it away, then continued with Judy's words:
"When you were in the organization, did you hear different opinions?"

Judy nodded slightly. "Yes, I heard from Gin that in the last operation, the FBI surrounded them and set a trap for them."

"Is it true..."

Akai Shuichi pondered for a moment. This point also matched what Kiel had told him.

Conan, who was listening carefully nearby, was not involved in the FBI's operations, but he knew every incident clearly. After listening to Judy's description, he quickly reacted: "So, that is to say... if we exclude the possibility that they were the first to complain, then one of the organization and the FBI was misled by someone?"

"Yeah, I had the same thought." Judy was a little distressed.

"There is definitely no problem with our intelligence, because everything started with our tracking of Vermouth.

But in the beginning, we were only targeting Vermouth... It was not until the organization's activities became more and more frequent that we began to suspect that they might make any big moves and took corresponding countermeasures.

But setting a trap from the beginning..."

Not at all!

When Judy heard this, her first reaction was that the organization was slandering them. Now that she thinks about it, there seems to be something a little weird behind this matter...

At this time, Conan's face also became serious: "In other words, it is more likely that someone in the organization confused the information..."

"It's not necessarily confusion." Akai Shuichi suddenly interrupted, his eyes bright, "From the perspective of those guys, perhaps since we started tracking the witch Vermouth, they have put us in the 'active' position.

Of course, we cannot rule out the possibility that there is a 'spy' in the organization."

Judy blinked. "What do you mean?"

That Riddler feeling came back.

"Someone was giving them information that wasn't completely accurate."

Shuichi Akai briefly explained, "It is very likely that the information was put upside down... For example, we performed action b because of a, and someone erased the premise of 'a'.

In this way, we simply carried out action B to target action A, that is, our reaction to the organization has changed to our reaction targeting the organization. "

Conan added: "Although the meaning is the same, if these two factors are reversed, the subject will completely change..."

"Ah, and I think I have some guesses about the person who provided the information." Akai Shuichi lowered his voice, "If it wasn't intentional by Mr. Lin's organization, then -"

Ding-ling-ling-ling!!!
The sharp and lengthy sound of the alarm clock suddenly flooded into their ears.

Conan grinned and quickly covered his ears.

Shuichi Akai and Judy also covered their ears with a little discomfort until the secret door was reopened.

"Fifteen minutes are up. Please go back and don't disturb the patient's recovery."

Tianle stood at the door, his expression as gentle as ever, and politely invited Akai Shuichi and Conan to leave.

I don't know if he heard Mr. Akai's guess just now...

Conan thought to himself and turned around to wave goodbye to Judy.

He has been hanging out with Akai Shuichi from time to time these days, and has gained a lot of benefits, namely in terms of intelligence.

Unlike Rei Tiantian who was a riddle teller but actually said nothing, although Akai Shuichi was a riddle teller, he didn't hide much from Conan.

For example now...