Conan: I'm a zaibatsu in Tokyo

In Conan's view, Takeuchi had a deep connection with the organization, but was killed by an ordinary employee.

He died a pathetic and tragic death.

But in Ichiro Toyoda's view, Takeuchi's death was too horrific.

Inside Ichiro Toyoda's private office, the heavy solid wood door kept out the noise of the outside world, but it couldn't shut out the cold anger that permeated the air.

The light from inside the room illuminated Ichiro Toyoda's ashen face, making him appear even more gloomy.

"You mean, Takeuchi was killed by an employee with a box cutter inside the Toyota Group building?" Ichiro Toyoda asked.

He sat behind his large desk, his knuckles white from the force of his tapping, making a dull sound as he struck the surface.

Okuda stood opposite him, his body slightly hunched.

He nodded, his face full of regret for Takeuchi.

They had such a bright future ahead of them, and they squandered it all in such a muddle.

"Baka!" Ichiro Toyoda slammed his fist on the table in anger. "This is an insult to our intelligence!"

He suddenly stood up and paced anxiously around the office.

Even inside the company, Takeuchi always has bodyguards by his side.

Moreover, so many people around Takeuchi had died, and he was terrified of dying.

He would never meet with anyone alone, no matter what.

Ichiro Toyoda asked, "Where are Takeuchi's bodyguards?"

"I ate something bad and I'm in the bathroom." Okuda looked a little embarrassed.

"Everyone here?"

Okuda nodded and said, "The security personnel are worried about being poisoned by outsiders, so they only eat the uniform meals provided by Sicom."

But this time, the pork in the food that was delivered was spoiled, and they all got sick from eating it.

"idiot!"

Ichiro Toyoda slammed his hand on the table again. "These unprofessional guys, all the security personnel eat the same thing."

If someone had poisoned them, they would all have died.

Okuda nodded.

He also felt that the people at Seacom were unprofessional.

Compared to Seacom, he felt that Justice Security was far too professional.

Ichiro Toyoda snorted coldly, "There must be a spy from the Zhengyi faction among those security personnel, otherwise it's impossible that the food today was the only problem by chance."

Okuda nodded in deep agreement.

There must be an undercover agent interfering.

"What about the surveillance footage? What did the surveillance footage capture?" Ichiro Toyoda asked.

Okuda said awkwardly, "The surveillance camera is broken."

"broken?"

“That’s right, the security cameras near Takeuchi’s office are broken,” Okuda said.

It was another very coincidental thing.

Ichiro Toyoda narrowed his eyes.

It could have broken down any earlier or later, but of all times it had to break down.

It turns out that not only did Secom Security have an undercover agent, but Toyota did too.

Ichiro Toyoda forcibly suppressed his anger.

"With so many detectives in the company, how could the police close the case like this?" Ichiro Toyoda asked.

"Yes."

Okuda nodded again.

At the crime scene, the detectives employed by the company began to put their skills to use, and after investigating together, they discovered...

The person who killed Takeuchi was that employee who committed suicide.

"idiot!"

Unable to contain his anger any longer, Ichiro Toyoda smashed the water glass on the table to the ground and said furiously:

"The company spends so much money maintaining these things, but in the end they are of no use at all."

"Get them all out of here!"

The original intention was to have these detectives help persecute other competitors.

But these useless guys are far inferior to Kogoro Mouri, Shoichi's lackey.

No one could figure out Kogoro Mouri's method.

But even AI can see through these useless methods. If they can't be used to kill, then they can be used to solve cases, preventing Zheng Yi from indiscriminately killing his own employees.

But clearly, these useless people can't even do that.

Ichiro Toyoda was panting heavily.

It took me a while to calm my anger down.

"By the way, who solved this case?" Ichiro Toyoda asked with a sneer.

Kogoro Mouri did not come to Toyota.

But in the past few days, a lot of 'Sleeping Kogoro imitators' have emerged.

Many of them are from the Toyota Group.

In Toyoda Ichiro's view, this was all Shoichi showing off to him.

“He’s the company’s HR manager,” Okuda said.

"idiot!"

Ichiro Toyoda broke down again.

Toyota's HR managers are all Zheng Yi's men, so he dared not even imagine how many of Zheng Yi's spies were actually in the company.

"Get that bastard out of here right now, as far away as possible!" Ichiro Toyoda said.

Ichiro Toyoda launched into another tirade of abuse at the HR manager.

Even after venting my anger, I still didn't feel relieved.

He asked Okuda, "Immediately investigate the personnel within the company; I feel there are definitely more undercover agents than that."

The focus is on thoroughly investigating newly hired employees.

Ichiro Toyoda thought about those 'sleeping employees' and found that many of them were long-time employees of the company and held relatively high positions.

He then added, "Don't let the elderly go either; they may have been bribed by Zheng Yi."

“Yes!” Okuda nodded in response.

Okuda secretly said he had a headache.

The HR manager is a member of Zheng Yi's inner circle. He has been in the company for quite some time and has planted countless spies.

This is destined to be a major purge.

"Should we lay off all the problematic employees?" Okuda asked.

“That’s right, lay them all off,” Ichiro Toyoda said.

Why keep those undercover agents in the company if they're not fired?
Okuda hesitated and said, "If we lay off so many people at once, the company will run into problems."

“If we don’t lay them off, the company will have even bigger problems,” Ichiro Toyoda said.

There are so many spies within the company.

Ichiro Toyoda couldn't even imagine how many problems the company would face in the future.

He was really afraid that one day during a meeting, the higher-ups would all stand up and say they wanted Toyota to be merged into the Justice Group.

Ichiro Toyoda rubbed his temples.

If we don't take this invasion of justice seriously, that scene might actually come true.

"Humph!"

Ichiro Toyoda suddenly chuckled.

He laughed at Zheng Yi for being foolish and reckless.

If Masakazu doesn't utilize the spies he's planted within the company, he could cause unimaginable damage to Toyota in the future.

It could also bring a lot of benefits to the Justice Group.

But now, with so many people employed by Masakazu, his role for Toyota is merely a provocation.

It did not cause much damage to substantive interests.

With these precautions in place, he was able to eliminate all the undercover agents.

This is very beneficial for Toyota.

"Okuda, go find all those 'undercover employees' and get rid of them," Ichiro Toyoda instructed Okuda.

“Yes.” Okuda nodded, then turned and left Ichiro Toyoda’s office.

However, he did not immediately carry out the task assigned to him by Ichiro Toyoda.

The task is certainly important.

But my own safety is more important.

Especially after Takeuchi's death, Okuda became even more concerned about his own safety.

"It's time to upgrade the security services at Justice Security." (End of Chapter)