Conan: I'm a zaibatsu in Tokyo

In the dimly lit underground parking garage, a few cold lights cast a pale halo.

A black Porsche 356A was parked quietly in the center.

Gin held a tiny metal component in his hand, his eyes chillingly cold.

He was expressionless, but his usually stern face was now ashen.

Shuichi Akai, standing to the side with his hands in his pockets, leaned against the pillar seemingly casually, but a layer of sweat was seeping from his forehead.

His eyes darted around, his heart pounding wildly.

An engineer from the organization was sitting on the ground, fiddling with the pile of parts.

"There's no doubt these parts have been tampered with," the engineer said. "If the parts get too hot, they could easily explode."

Shuichi Akai calmly said, "These parts were all modified by me, and I even tested them when they were installed on the car."

Therefore, the current problem definitely arose after someone had sabotaged it.

He quickly distanced himself from the situation.

"Brother, those damn bastards!"

The underling standing behind Gin looked at the component, gritting his teeth in anger, his face full of indignation for his boss.

At that moment, the younger brother's face was filled with the promise of progress.

He yelled wildly, "How dare they tamper with your car! They're clearly trying to kill you!"

The younger brother became more and more excited as he spoke, his fists clenching so tightly they cracked: "Big brother, who do you think it could be? Is it those rats from the FBI, or those traitors from the Japanese Public Security Bureau?"
"Just give the order, and I'll skin them alive. Daring to scheme against you, brother, is simply courting death!"

I know that Vodka is seriously injured and Gin has no close confidants, so he's eager to take over.

Gin remained silent with a cold expression, staring intently at the parts in his hand.

Fortunately, it was the vodka's car that exploded first, otherwise he would probably have been blown to bits at some unknown intersection.

Shuichi Akai stood there feeling a bit weak.

It's simply that his skills are lacking, and the modification went wrong, which is why Gin has been agonizing over it for so long.

He was even afraid that Gin would clash with Shoichi, and that his mistake would trigger an internal power struggle within the organization.
The engineer said, "This part has been modified so ingeniously. From the outside, it is perfectly disguised as the original shock absorber. The solder joints, materials and circuit layout are all indistinguishable from the real thing."

He paused, then continued, “But… the most insidious part of this modification is that an extremely tiny heat-sensitive deformable metal sheet has been implanted inside.”

"Thermosensitive deformation?" Shuichi Akai was taken aback.

Have it?

He doesn't remember putting that thing in.

“Yes,” the engineer said, pointing to a barely noticeable interlayer inside the component.

"This metal sheet is completely inert at room temperature and will not interfere with any signals."

However, once the vehicle is driven at high speed for a long time, or the ambient temperature rises sharply to a certain critical point, the metal sheet will undergo extremely slight deformation due to thermal expansion and contraction.

Then, it will instantly connect to the main fuel tank and detonate it.

Shuichi Akai listened in silence.

So this metal sheet is that important?

He didn't seem to care about this when he was making the modifications.

Sure enough, there is no room for carelessness when modifying these things; he still has a long way to go.

“Hmm, I remember when I made the modifications, this metal plate didn’t exist yet,” Shuichi Akai said.

The engineer then inspected several other parts, explaining them to Gin one by one.

He told Gin about their explosion principles.

Gin's mind was completely blank right now, filled only with the scene of the car explosion.

……

"bomb!"

"Shunzi~"

"Wang Bang!"

Springtime~

Zheng Yi threw out his last two cards, then reached out and flicked Ai's forehead.

He didn't forget Hongye either, and gave her a tap on the forehead as well.

"You're really bad at this," Zheng Yi said dismissively.

Ai threw away the deck of cards in her hand without any expression.

This is a game that Zheng Yi taught her, called 'Dou Qin Jiu' (literally "Fighting over the Qin and Wine"). Xiao Ai kept talking about it after she learned the rules.

"Are you cheating?" Ai asked.

"No."

"Heh." Ai said with a straight face, "This is the second time I've gotten cards like this."

"I was just lucky," Zheng Yi said.

Some people are just born lucky; what can Zheng Yi do about it?

"I'll shuffle the cards!"

Ai snatched the playing cards from Masakazu's hand, shuffled them, and dealt them to the three of them one by one, resolutely preventing Masakazu from touching them.

Hongye stared at Zhengyi without blinking.

With two people watching him so closely, he probably couldn't cheat.

Zheng Yi gave a disdainful smile.

You're bad at everything, yet you accuse me of cheating.

I don't need to cheat to deal with you two noobs.

"Shunzi~"

"bomb!"

"Wang Bang!"

Springtime~

Zheng Yi threw out his last two cards, then reached out and flicked Ai's forehead.

Ai was completely stunned by Shoichi's flick.

She glanced at Zheng Yi, then at the cards in her hand.

"Where did you get your royal flush?" Xiao Ai pulled out a small joker from her hand.

Across from Zheng Yi, Hong Ye also drew a King from her pile of cards.

"I'm not playing anymore, it's not fun."

Just as he was about to get up and leave, Hongye and Xiao Ai blocked his way from the left and right.

Having been hit so many times, Momiji and Ai were clearly not going to give up.

unacceptable!

That bastard has been cheating all along.

"Hongye, hold him down, I'm going to flick him on the forehead," Xiao Ai said coldly.

"it is good."

Hongye grabbed Zhengyi's arm and pressed him directly onto the sofa, leaning her entire body against it and putting all her weight on him.

"So what if you lost a few more times? You can't take a beating, can you?" Zheng Yi shouted.

"Humph!"

Ai snorted coldly, pressed down on the other side of Zheng Yi, and reached out to flick Zheng Yi's forehead.

We caught you cheating, and you still say we can't afford to play games?

And was it because we lost a lot of times?

They had never won.

If this bastard hadn't dealt such ridiculously bad cards every time and never let them win, they wouldn't have been so certain that Zheng Yi was cheating.

What are you doing?

Miyano Akemi and Curaçao came out of the kitchen carrying food and saw Shoichi being bullied by the two of them.

"They can't afford to lose." Zheng Yi, the villain, accused first.

"you shut up!"

"Alright, alright." Akemi Miyano put the food on the table, walked over, picked up Ai, and said with a smile:

"You're being too childish."

"Sister!" Ai was furious.

How could you believe Zhengyi's words so easily?

"It's that bastard Zheng Yi who cheated, and he kept cheating," Xiao Ai said angrily.

That bastard was absolutely ruthless from beginning to end.

"No," Zheng Yi said, feeling wronged. "It was just the last hand. I was so angry because you all wronged me that I took out the second deck of cards."

"Hmph! You think I'd believe that?" Ai said. Zheng Yi retorted, "What evidence do you have to prove I cheated before?"

"Heh." Hongye sneered.

Ai chuckled and broke free from Akemi's embrace.

Is home a place where evidence is presented?

The two of them flicked Zheng Yi's head from the left and right, and Zheng Yi felt his head was swollen.

After the two had completely vented their anger, Zheng Yi broke free.

He said indignantly, "You two are too stingy."

He didn't cheat on purpose.

He had just learned some card tricks from Kaito and wanted to perform them for them.

But these two women are simply unreasonable.

"You've gone too far."

Ai pointed at Masakazu and said, "Sister, you should scold him more."

"Heh." Zheng Yi said disdainfully, "I should be the one scolding your sister more. I'm her boss."

Masakazu patted Ai's head and said in a very wicked way:

"Ai, you don't want your sister to lose her job, do you?"

Ai kept a straight face and tried hard to control herself from laughing.

“I really want my sister to lose her job,” Ai said.

Look how exhausted you've made my sister!
Ai said with dissatisfaction, "My sister works for you during the day and then has to cook for you when she comes back at night. She works harder than an ox or a horse."

"That's not my fault."

Zheng Yi sat down in the chair and said, "If you cook, your sister won't have to cook, right?"

Ai gritted her teeth.

I owe you!
"I have to go to the lab during the day, which is very tiring. When I get home, I don't want to do anything," Ai said.

"Isn't your sister tired?"

Ai turned red with anger at Masakazu's words.

How could you say such a thing, you bastard?

"No, I misspoke." Zheng Yi admitted his mistake and promptly calmed Ai down.

He looked at Hongye and asked, "Then why don't you cook?"

"Huh? Me?" Hongye pointed to herself.

"Yes, I'm talking about you." Zheng Yi said, "You don't go to school, you don't work, you stay at home all day doing nothing, you don't even want to cook?"

"Yeah, why don't you cook?" Ai asked Hongye.

"I'm actually quite tired too. I have to read magazines and go shopping."

Are you very tired?

"I am also studying. I do my homework at home, so I'm not just resting all the time."

Ai and Momiji started arguing, and Masakazu successfully escaped and quietly ate his meal.

Akemi rubbed her temples.

She pulled Ai into a chair, placed her hands on Ai's shoulders, and said helplessly, "You've already let Masakazu divert your attention so easily?"

"Ok?"

Ai blinked.

Right, Zheng Yi has been doing nothing all this time; he's the one who should be learning to cook.

I should despise this bastard and stand with Hongye in hatred, not despise Hongye.

Hongye blinked too.

You silly Ai, just a casual remark from Masashi made you start arguing with me.

Zheng Yi calmly said, "We have a nanny at home. It's your sister who insisted on cooking for herself since everyone is here. What does it have to do with me?"

"Ok?"

That makes sense.

Akemi rubbed Ai's head, feeling that her younger sister was getting sillier and sillier.

She glanced at Zheng Yi.

It shouldn't have been Zheng Yi who infected him; Zheng Yi is very intelligent.
She glanced at the red leaves again.

Yes, the red leaves are quite beautiful too.

Hongye felt that Mingmei's gaze was a bit presumptuous, making her slightly uncomfortable.

"Alright, alright, let's eat," Mingmei said.

If you don't eat soon, Zhengyi will drink all the soup I specially made.

"Serve another bowl." Zheng handed the bowl to Curaçao, who immediately served two bowls.

While Momiji and Ai were arguing, Curaçao and Masakazu had already started eating.

Zheng Yi said, "After we finish eating, let's continue playing cards."

"No." "No."

Ai and Momiji both shook their heads.

They'd be fools to play with you again.

"You lost so badly that you don't even dare to face me anymore?" Zheng Yi asked.

"Heh." Ai said disdainfully, "Don't use this kind of provocation anymore. I'm really scared of you."

If you keep using the "thousand" (a type of currency), who can beat you?

Although you don't necessarily have to win at cards, if you keep losing, and losing so badly, you get no experience at all.

Masakazu moved his chair closer to Ai and said, "You really don't want to play with me? Ai, you don't want your sister to keep working, do you?"

Ai placed her hand on Shoichi's face and gently pushed his face to the side.

"You're too close to me, it's affecting my appetite," Ai said.

Akemi looked at Masakazu helplessly and said, "Next time you say something like that, could you please not do it in front of me?"

Saying that to her face made her feel strange.

Yeah, I have a feeling that I'm currently going through a similar phase.

“Okay, I’ll be more careful next time,” Zheng Yi said. “But your sister doesn’t care about you at all, so my threats don’t seem to work.”

"Stop trying to sow discord," Ai said.

My relationship with my sister is much better than my relationship with Hongye.

You can make me argue with Hongye, but you can't argue with my sister.

Ai, holding her bowl, said, "After dinner, we'll play with my sister."

"what about me?"

"Hmph~" Ai glanced at Masakazu.

Do whatever you want.

Masayu looked at Momiji, who seemed to have reached an agreement with Ai, so he could only look at Curaçao.

"Curaçao, let's play chess."

Curaçao, holding her bowl, said softly, "I can't."

"Didn't you play with me last time?"

“Yes,” Curaçao said, “That’s why we lost so badly last time, because we didn’t know how.”

Zheng Yi is a player without rules.

She doesn't follow the rules at all when playing chess, making her, who is supposed to follow the rules, seem like a complete novice.

After dinner, Ai played cards with Momiji and Akemi, leaving Shoichi behind.

Curaçao stood around Ai, looking at her, as if she didn't want to get too close to Shoichi, which hurt Shoichi deeply.

Lonely Masakazu thought of Gin.

Vodka is injured, and everyone is so afraid of him, so Gin probably has no one to talk to right now.

Two lonely souls should lean on each other, so Shoichi made a phone call to Gin.

Perhaps Gin is too lonely, because he didn't answer Shoichi's call.

Zheng Yi grumbled in dissatisfaction, "Even you're bullying me?"

On the other side, Gin's face was unusually gloomy after he hung up the phone.

Because the engineer just said that a part would explode due to the vibration from the sound.

Why is that bastard calling at this hour?
Kill him? (End of Chapter)