Conan: I'm a zaibatsu in Tokyo

Chapter 157 Using Sherry to Control Gin

"We have obtained the consent of the deceased's family to perform an autopsy."

"Okay, I'll get ready right away."

"and many more."

Inspector Megure stopped Nagamune and opened his backpack.

"Why are there cockroaches in here?" Inspector Megure asked.

Chosoka calmly said, "What an accident. Why would there be a cockroach in my backpack?"

Inspector Megure looked at Nagamune with a suspicious gaze.

Nagamune remained calm and prepared to enter the dissection room.

"Wait, let me disinfect you first before you go in," Inspector Megure said.

"can."

During the disinfection process, Inspector Megure found cockroaches in Chosokabe's shoes, clothes, and even under his armpits.

I don't know why he brought those cockroaches in there.

"I don't have it in my mouth."

"I'm dissatisfied," said Choso.

Although he is very ambitious, he is not reckless.

After undergoing thorough disinfection, Chosoko entered the dissection room.

After a while, Chosoko dissected the corpse and found a cockroach inside.

"Inspector Megure, this cockroach is the real murderer."

……

"Ok?"

Hakuba Saguru stared into thought as he looked at the newspaper in his hand.

How come another person has died, and it's someone who had a grudge against Zheng Yi?

What exactly is going on?

"Hakuba Saguru, do you know what's going on?" Kaito asked.

He stared intently at Hakuba Saguru.

Didn't you say that you had already eliminated the henchmen of the Zhengyi sect while you were in England?

What's going on now?
"Perhaps the traffic policeman's death was just an accident?" Hakuba Saguru said uncertainly.

It was written in the newspapers that he died from a bacterial infection.

"Is that possible?" Kaito asked.

This way of dying is just too ridiculous.

I hope we don't see this kind of death in Zheng Yi's next movie.

"We still need to investigate the details carefully," Hakuba Saguru said, sounding a bit troubled.

I thought we had dealt with Zheng Yi's henchmen, but why are more people dying?

Are there too many henchmen of the Zhengyi sect?
But shouldn't such criminal geniuses be rare?

“Using the environment to kill is also a common tactic of the Shoichi Sect,” Kaito said in a low voice.

Hakuba Saguru rubbed his temples.

This is true.

This is almost identical to the previous murders, and it seems to be the work of one person.

Then who was the person I caught in the UK?
……

"I never imagined we'd be classmates."

"I didn't expect that either." Ai looked at Sera Masumi with surprise.

The world is too small.

We bumped into each other in England, then again in Japan, and finally, you turned out to be in the same school and class as me.

Are you really not stalking me?

"Are you in high school at such a young age?" Sera Masumi asked.

Ai nodded.

Actually, I didn't even need to go to high school.

But some guy likes to mess with me and wants to force me to go to high school.

Sera Masumi looked at Ai with a strange expression.

Seeing the precocious and intelligent little girl, Sera Masumi subconsciously wondered if she was like her mother and Shinichi Kudo.

But Ai is aloof, as if she doesn't want to talk to her classmates, as if they are the children.

Very unconventional.

That arrogant attitude doesn't seem like something an adult would exhibit.

Sera Masumi patted Ai's head, but Ai slapped her away.

Ai glared at Sera Masumi.

The guy who owes me money, you're not allowed to touch my head.

After school, Ai walked out of the school gate and was surprised to see Masakazu come to pick her up.

"Ai, get in the car."

"Why are you here?"

“I need your help,” Zheng Yi said.

Ai's face instantly darkened.

She knew that Zheng Yi wouldn't come to pick her up from school for no reason.

Am I going to have to work overtime again?

You shouldn't do that.

"I don't need you to work overtime," Zheng Yi said, looking at Xiao Ai's dark face.

Ai frowned: "Then what do you need me to help you with?"

Zheng Yi said, "As you know, I've started many companies. Some of them are doing very well, but others are not doing so well."

"and then?"

You're not going to ask me to run your company, are you?
If you're comfortable with that, then it's not impossible.

Ai wanted to try and see if she could bankrupt a few of Masakazu's companies.

"The security industry is almost monopolized by those established companies, and we new companies have absolutely no chance to compete."

"The entire industry is stagnant, which is very wrong," Zheng Yi said.

Zheng Yi continued, "Just yesterday, my security company's business was snatched away by the Sicom Group."

Ai looked at Masakazu with a suspicious gaze.

She was very skeptical of the truthfulness of Zheng Yi's words.

Isn't it all because you're stealing other people's business?
When did it become someone else's turn to steal from you? Who's so lucky?

"Ai, if this continues, the security company won't be able to make a profit, and then I'll go bankrupt," Zheng Yi said.

Ai nodded.

That's a good thing.

If you go bankrupt, can I come and watch you jump off a building?

Shoichi looked down at Ai and said, "If I earn less money, I'll just have to make one of my employees work harder for me."

Of course, he wasn't talking about Ai Haibara.

Ai's eyes widened in disbelief. "No way!"

She tentatively asked, "So, you want me to help you develop a poison to kill all those people?"

“I’m not that bad,” Zheng Yi said.

Ai shook her head.

You're worse than I thought.

Zheng Yi rubbed Ai's head.

That's too terroristic. What Zhengyi wants is normal business competition, not malicious murder and sabotage of industry development.

"Is there anything else I can help with?" Ai asked, puzzled.

"You can be a great help."

Shoichi gently stroked Ai's head with his large hand.

Ai felt that Shoichi's smile was very strange and malicious.

Zheng Yi's hand was on her head, making Xiao Ai's scalp tingle. What bad thing was this guy thinking now?

"Ouch~ Why are you pulling my hair?"

Ai looked at Masakazu with pain.

Seeing the few strands of brown hair in Zheng Yi's hand, Ai almost burst into tears.

Zheng Yi said, "It's all for the company's development. You'll suffer a little grievance. It's just a few strands of hair."

"Pulling my hair will help you develop the company? What kind of logic is that?" Ai looked at Zheng Yi with dissatisfaction.

“It’s normal that you don’t understand,” Zheng Yi said.

If everyone understood this, how could I still be the richest man in Tokyo?

"Don't be so upset. At worst, you can pull a hair out of my head," Zheng Yi said.

really?
Ai tentatively reached out her hand, but it was swatted away by Masaru's claws.

You actually did it?

……

"What's that lunatic Cointreau doing here?"

Gin frowned as he watched Masakazu's departing figure. That guy, for no reason at all, stopped a car and asked for a ride.

The organization sent Curaçao to assist him in his work.

“Who knows? He’s completely neurotic, always doing pointless things,” Vodka said.

This is an objective assessment given by vodka based on what he learned from the newspapers and his usual interactions within the organization.

“Then we don’t need to worry about him,” Gin said.

Coindus only needs to clean up the impact of the organization after the operation is completed.

They also helped transport some money and supplies.

As for other matters, Jundu can do whatever he wants.

"Let's go to the convenience store and buy some food," Gin said.

"Yes!"

Vodka and Gin got off the bus and went to a convenience store to buy some food. After dinner, they went to contribute to the organization.

When I got back into the car.

"Ok?"

Gin's eyebrows were drawn horizontally.

He carefully pulled a brownish-red hair from the gap in the passenger seat.

"Big brother."

“Someone was on the car,” Gin said, squinting. “Just right after we left.”

Ah, Sherry.

"Get out of here," Gin ordered.

"Yes."

After Vodka got out of the car, Gin searched the car alone.

Besides those few strands of hair, Gin also found an invitation to the ceremony of the 'Nishitama Twin Towers'.

"Why would she go to a place like that?" Gin asked, puzzled.

Gin had some recollection of this building.

It seems that Kimi had complained to him that the Tokiwa family didn't give him any face and wouldn't even entrust him with security work.

This building appears to have been built by the Tokiwa family.

So, did Sherry hook up with a chaebol?

No wonder we couldn't find her; she was being protected by a powerful tycoon.

"Big brother."

"Heh, Sherry won't escape this time," Gin said coldly.

No one knows gin better than vodka.

Vodka knew what his brother was thinking when he saw Gin's expression.

He said in a low voice, "But this building is too big. There will be so many guests. How will we find Shirley?"

"Why don't we just blow up the building?" Gin said.

"what?"

Vodka looked at Gin with surprise.

Isn't this a bit too outrageous? It has a very bad influence.

Won't such behavior expose the organization?

“Don’t worry about it. With Jundu around, he’ll control the public opinion and the direction of the Metropolitan Police Department’s investigation,” Gin said.

After all, that guy didn't want the organization to be exposed.

"Brother, isn't this a bit too radical?" Vodka asked in a low voice.

Are we really going to blow up the building just for Sherry?
"Are you teaching me what to do?"

“No, brother!” Vodka said, head bowed.

Gin, sitting in his Porsche, said to Vodka, "The operation is canceled. Let's go back to the organization's bar."

"Yes!"

As the car changed direction, Gin took out his phone and dialed Vermouth's number.

"Let's organize a bar."

"I'm working overtime, I don't have time."

Gin was silent for a moment, then said softly, "I'll ask Kimito for leave for you."

When Vermouth arrived at the organization's bar, sees Shoichi and Gin sitting together, her resentment intensifies.

Damn Shoichi, damn Gin.

That bastard Gin actually offered to help me get a day off.

Can't you just order Zheng Yi to give me a holiday?
"What is it?" Vermouth asked coldly.

“I need you to go to Nishitama City,” Gin said.

"What are you doing there?"

It's another business trip, and Vermouth is a little reluctant.

"Kill someone."

"Who?"

"Shirley."

Vermouth asked again, "Who?"

Gin frowned and said in a cold voice, "Sherry."

Vermouth's eyes darted around Zheng Yi.

Kill Sherry?

Is this something you can say to Shoichi's face?

And why do you want me to go to Nishitama City? Wouldn't it be better to just go to Shoichi's house and kill him?
Vermouth asked, "Why go to West Tama City to kill Sherry?"

“Because she will appear inside that twin-tower skyscraper in Nishitama City,” Gin said.

She will even appear at Zheng Yi's house!
Vermouth raised an eyebrow as she watched Zheng Yi drinking juice.

"Gin, you...you won't..."

"Can't do what?" Gin said.

Vermouth took a sip of Cointreau to calm herself down: "It's nothing."

You don't know that Sherry is at Zhengyi's house, do you?

Curaçao had always lived in the same household as the main family, so it was impossible for her not to guess Sherry's identity.

So Rum must have known that Sherry was with the Zheng family.

He even thought there was no problem with it; perhaps he and Zheng Yi had reached some kind of cooperation regarding Shirley.

She also confirmed through investigation that the little girl was Shirley.

So, only you, Gin, don't know?

Bellmore even had some doubts.

Was Ireland's death solely due to his investigation into Zheng Yi Company's illegal activities?

Ireland isn't the only one investigating these things; why is he the only one being killed?

Could it be that he also discovered Sherry's existence?
Vermouth looked at Gin with a half-smile, her eyes seemingly filled with pity, but mostly mockery.

Gin glanced at Vermouth.

She's acting all mysterious; I wonder what Vermouth is thinking.

"Do you have any other questions?" Gin asked.

“No problem,” Vermouth replied.

There is no problem at all.

However, it is almost impossible to kill Sherry this time.

Poor Gin, he was completely manipulated by Shoichi.

Gin said, "In that case, you should disguise yourself and enter the building that day to look for Sherry. If you find her, just eliminate her."

It doesn't matter if we can't find her; just let her and that building be blown to ashes.

"Understood," Vermouth nodded in agreement.

No matter how you arrange it, if it succeeds, it's considered a complete waste.

Gin then said to Shoichi, "I'll need your help dealing with the aftermath of this incident."

"No problem, absolutely no one will suspect the organization," Zheng Yi said.

"At that time, I will have the media point the finger at someone else. As for the police, they are all a bunch of useless idiots."

Zheng Yi put down the juice and said:

"Leave the explosives to me as well."

“Okay, the organization will pay you,” Gin said.

The amount of explosives needed to destroy a building would be very difficult for even an organization to prepare.

However, Zheng Yi has its own construction company and can purchase it through legitimate channels.

Then, a task was assigned, and both Shoichi and Vermouth were unusually obedient, which gave Gin a false impression.

This operation will definitely go very smoothly.

Ah, Sherry.

This time, you definitely won't be able to escape.

After assigning the task, Shoichi and Vermouth exchanged a glance as they left.

Ah, Gin.

(End of this chapter)