Daily Spy Life in the Detective Conan World

Chapter 1033 Actions from all parties
Back at the villa where the Séance Society was located, Frank and the others had already packed their things and were waiting at the door.

The battle did not spread to other areas, and the police seemed to have received some kind of information, as neither the Metropolitan Police Department nor Chiba Prefecture responded to the commotion.

I opened the car door and sat in the passenger seat.

The car then started and drove away from the villa.

Only then did Frank answer Xia Chuan's question: "The operation over there should have been successful."

Shifting the focus is indeed a good idea; it should allow us to obtain some research data about the brewery's investigation of Mary Akai.

While Xia Chuan was fighting tooth and nail, Frank and the others weren't idle either.

While monitoring the situation at the villa, they also provided remote assistance to Kaito Kuroba.

Manjou Tachibana had Kuroba Kaito disguise himself as a member of the Hakuba Research Institute and enter the facility, intending to take something while everyone's attention was focused on the brewery base.

That's why he took action.

Only when Gin takes action and feels the pressure will the brewery provide follow-up support, and only then will the other codename members focus their attention on the base.

Since they were completely unaware that the Hakuba Research Institute had been discovered, and with their guard down, Kaito disguised himself and entered, quickly obtaining the research data.

"I will scan the research data for viruses later. Once I've confirmed there are no problems, I can hand it over to Ai Haibara."

"Okay." Xia Chuan nodded in satisfaction.

"Xia Chuan, look at this."

Frank turned on his computer, navigated to a folder, and opened it to find a series of thumbnails.

"This is the internal situation of the White Horse Research Institute. Mary Akai is not in good condition and has obviously been tortured a lot recently."

A few photos were also taken of Sera Masumi. She seems to be in alright, but her resolve appears somewhat broken. I suspect that Akai Mary is cooperating with the research because Gin is using Sera Masumi as leverage.

Xia Chuan nodded, then took a look at the changes in the research institute's layout.

Comparing the design drawings of the Hakuba Research Institute in my mind, it seems that the brewery has not made any changes after it moved in. This is probably because they were worried that the Hakuba family would come to inspect it one day.

However, not making any changes is a good thing for Xia Chuan.

If he were to take action someday, he could reduce the time he would spend familiarizing himself with the terrain.

"Has Kaito been discovered?"

"If she isn't discovered, once Baileys returns to the base, she'll deal with the researcher who was disguised as Kaito. That way, there will be no evidence against her, minimizing the possibility of her being discovered."

Of course, a suitable reason will be found.

Given the high intensity of the research, it's not surprising that a researcher might die suddenly, right?

Frank chuckled.

This was the method he came up with; it was simple, but effective.

"Thanks to you for winning over Baileys, things have become much easier with her occasional help."

Since Tequila's identity was discovered, almost all the information about the distillery came from Baileys. Without her, many things would not have been able to proceed smoothly.

Xia Chuan's lips twitched, and he rested his chin on his hand, looking out the window.

"Really? You wasted an entire base and didn't kill a single person?"

Karasuma Renya's voice sounded gloomy, and even though Gin wasn't speaking to him face-to-face, he still felt a lot of pressure.

After leaving the base, he immediately dispersed the outer members and returned to the White Horse Research Institute to report the situation. "Sorry, boss, I didn't expect the Ooka family to be involved."

However, this confirms my previous guess that Ooka Toramasa was probably also interested in immortality.

After all, she's getting on in years, and the only youngest member of her family is a girl. She definitely wants to live a few more years to continue supporting the Ooka family.

Karasuma Renya sighed in frustration: "Ooka Toramasa, this is a big problem."

"How about I figure out a way to assassinate him?!"

With the Ooka family making a move, it seems they no longer care about their reputation.

As a clandestine organization, if the distillery releases negative news about the other party, it will also implicate itself. The best way to deal with this is actually assassination.

"Hmph, you've tried before, and you failed, haven't you?"

Speaking of this, Karasuma Renya got a little angry and coughed heavily twice.

Gin lowered his head silently and said nothing more.

The assassination attempt on Ōoka Toramasa failed because of a public security bodyguard. Perhaps from that moment on, the Ōoka family began preparing for a counterattack.

"The bodyguards who came today are very strong and have plenty of combat experience. Perhaps the Ooka family is also secretly training a group of people. You should be careful."

“Okay.” Gin nodded.

"However, their high-end combat capabilities are too weak." Karasuma Renya sneered. "Hiring the Akai father and son and Natsukawa is a sign of his weakness. Ooka Toramasa is not confident that his bodyguard team can take us down."

Based on this, it can be roughly concluded that their combat effectiveness is likely limited.

So you don't need to pay too much attention to it, but you can't completely ignore it either.

Karasuma Renya's voice wasn't loud, as if he were telling Gin, or perhaps talking to himself: "That bastard Ooka Toramasa, in the end, still wants immortality, doesn't he?"

He raised his head and said in a heavy, hoarse voice, "The White Horse Research Institute cannot be lost again. There are no large bases of ours near Tokyo now. Settle people in the base and stabilize them. Do not make any moves for the time being."

As for the research, it absolutely cannot stop. You mentioned you had news of Shinichi Kudo, so find him quickly and speed up the research.

Karasuma Renya was well aware that having more test subjects would allow for faster research; by finding the common ground between different variants, at least 50% of the workload could be reduced.

"And Sherry, I suspect she's right next to Shinichi Kudo."

Karasuma Renya hummed in agreement and ended the video call.

For him now, long hours of communication are still tiring, but because the matter is quite serious, he has to come out and explain some things.

"Big brother, what should we do next?"

Vodka asked questions while bandaging his wound.

He was shot twice in today's battle, but fortunately there was cover, so they were just grazes and nothing serious. He will recover in a few days with some bandaging.

"The Ooka family won't make a move anytime soon, but we still need to send someone to keep an eye on them. Let Amuro Tooru go and have him keep an eye on the Ooka family's movements."

Then, the previous guess about Shinichi Kudo should be correct; he is now very likely to have become a child like Mary Akai.

Collect photos of Shinichi Kudo from childhood to adulthood, searching within the Tokyo area.

"Uh? Bro, why is it within the Tokyo area?"

Vodka didn't quite understand. Logically, if anyone was going to look for someone, they should go to the United States, since Shinichi Kudo's parents were currently in the United States.

(End of this chapter)