Conan: I'm a zaibatsu in Tokyo

Inside the black Porsche, Rena Mizunashi sat in the passenger seat.

“Kiel.” Gin didn’t turn around, but calmly said, “Shoichi has been too arrogant lately. Let’s give him some trouble. It doesn’t have to be complicated. Just let him know that the organization is not to be trifled with.”

Rena Mizunashi blinked.

She raised her head slightly, looking a little dazed, and even wondered if she was hallucinating because she was too tired lately.

To cause trouble for Zheng Yi?
me?

“Gin…” Rena Mizunashi took a deep breath, trying to make her voice sound calmer.

"If I act rashly, not only will I fail to achieve my goal, but I will also expose my identity and ruin the infiltration plan."

She paused for a moment: "Isn't it too much of a loss to risk losing a top-notch undercover agent for such a small trouble?"

Gin seems like a great deal.

It's worth it to cause Zheng Yi some minor trouble. Could Zheng Yi really kill Gil?
Don't think he doesn't know; Gil has been exchanging glances with Shoichi all along, and may have already declared his loyalty to Shoichi.

“Kiel,” Gin’s voice suddenly turned cold, “I’m giving you an order, not negotiating with you.”

Rena Mizunashi's heart sank suddenly.

Gin doesn't seem to be planning to reason with anyone.

Looking at Gin's cold face, she knew she had no way out.

If she refused again, Gin would throw her into the sea.

"I understand." Rena Mizunashi lowered her head, her eyes filled with helplessness.

This is the helplessness of being an ordinary code name member.

They couldn't refuse Gin's orders, but they also didn't dare to offend Shoichi.

Masahiro knows her inside and out, knows her background and even knows she has a younger brother, so there's no way she would go through with the task Gin gave her.

She raised her head again, looked at Gin, and said:

"I will do it."

Gin looked at her, a satisfied, cold smile curling at the corner of his mouth.

He leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes.

"Go," he said calmly. "Don't disappoint me."

……

The night was as dark as ink, and the raindrops pattered against the windshield, creating an annoying sound.

After leaving Gin's place

Rena Mizunashi sat alone in the driver's seat, her hands gripping the steering wheel tightly, her mind on the task Gin had given her.

Gin is not a soft-hearted person.

If he knew that she had disobeyed orders or failed in her mission, she would definitely face Gin's wrath.

Gin is a rather violent and unreasonable person. I don't know if he still has that much bloodlust now, or if he will kill her directly.

But... should I provoke Zhengyi?

Rena Mizunashi let out a bitter, desperate laugh in her heart.

Who is Zheng Yi?

That guy is more terrifying than Gin and the organization.

What's even more terrifying is that this person is notorious for implicating his entire family, leaving no stone unturned, and eliminating all traces of trouble.

If she dares to lay a hand on Shoichi, even if it's just causing the slightest trouble, as long as Shoichi gets hold of something against her, she will die a hundred times worse than if she were in Gin's hands.

Not only himself, but his younger brother will also be dealt with by Zheng Yi.

Advancing means death, retreating means death.

Rena Mizunashi closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

She opened her eyes, saw the telephone pole by the roadside, and suddenly felt that she had found a way out.

"boom--!"

A dull, loud bang.

Rena Mizunashi abruptly swerved the steering wheel, driving the car into a roadside utility pole in an extremely violent manner.

The enormous impact caused the airbags to deploy instantly.

When Rena Mizunashi regained consciousness, her nasal cavity was filled with the strong smell of disinfectant.

She lay in a hospital bed at Beika Central Hospital.

A man in a white coat walked over and said, "Don't be nervous, you only have minor injuries, nothing serious."

"No!" Rena Mizunashi exclaimed hastily, "My head hurts so much!"

"Huh?" The doctor was startled: "Where exactly?"

"here."

Rena Mizunashi pointed to the area near her ear, then suddenly cried out, "No, yes, my leg hurts too, is it broken?"

"No, there isn't." The doctor curiously lifted the blanket.

There wasn't even a bruise on my leg.

……

Vodka cautiously began, "Brother, Kiel was in a car accident."

Gin sat at the bar counter, wiping his pistol, his eyes dark and brooding.

"Oh?"

"It's said that the road was slippery on a rainy night, and he crashed into the guardrail. He's still in the ICU, and his life hangs in the balance." Vodka finished speaking and secretly glanced at Gin's expression.

It's quite strange that an assassin from the organization would get into a car accident and end up in the ICU, his life hanging in the balance.

If I said that, wouldn't the police and the FBI laugh at me?
Gin remained silent for a few seconds.

Then, his brows furrowed slightly.

"A car accident?" he said in a low voice. "And it just so happened after I asked her to cause trouble for Zheng Yi?"

Vodka paused for a moment: "Brother, you mean..."

"Is Kiel playing tricks on me?" Gin's voice suddenly turned cold. "Did he deliberately cause a car accident to avoid a mission?"

Vodka frowned and said, "Brother, it can't be that bad, can it? I just received news that Gil was seriously injured this time, and almost died. If she were faking it, she wouldn't have gone so far as to deliberately run herself to her death, would she?"

Gin didn't say anything.

Vodka has a point.

Kiel has been a member of the organization for many years, and his loyalty has never been an issue.

but……

Gin couldn't help but have a thought flash through his mind: What if?
That bastard Zheng Yi is no pushover. If Gil really goes, he might not even come back alive. Rather than take that risk, it's better to...

Moreover, Kiel himself is a very fierce person.

He also remembered how Kiel, despite being shot, bit a CIA agent to death.
“Brother,” Vodka whispered, seeing Gin still hesitating, “Kil is in the ICU right now, and he won’t be getting out anytime soon. And what about Shoichi…”

"I know," Gin said coldly.

"Let her recover," Gin said. "We'll talk about it after she's discharged from the hospital."

……

The air in the VIP ward of Beika Central Hospital was filled with the pungent smell of disinfectant.

Gin pushed open the ward door and coldly swept his gaze over the woman on the bed who was almost completely covered by gauze and tubes.

Rena Mizunashi's face was as pale as paper, her forehead was wrapped in thick bandages, and her left arm was in a cast.

The doctor was looking at her with a helpless expression.

He didn't understand how a minor injury could suddenly turn into this.
It seemed the patient insisted that his leg was broken, making a fuss, so he had no choice but to put a cast on the patient.

Then, almost the same pattern repeated itself, resulting in the situation we see today.

Upon seeing Gin enter, the doctor said helplessly, "The patient's emotions are very unstable. I suggest seeing a psychiatrist."

After saying that, he told the patient's family and the patient to have a good talk, and then he went out.

Gin stared at Rena Mizunashi for a full ten seconds, his eyes devoid of any warmth.

“Kil,” he said.

Rena Mizunashi slowly opened her eyes.

“Gin.” Her voice was unusually hoarse.

Gin walked to the bedside and looked down at her: "What happened in your car accident?" Rena Mizunashi took a deep breath, as if she had used all her strength to speak: "It was Shoichi."

Gin's brow twitched slightly.

"Following your orders, I discovered a loophole in his funding chain. He planned to embezzle a portion of the funds under cover of night to fund our operation. But I was discovered as soon as I got access to the core account."

She paused for a moment: "His security system is much more advanced than I expected. I had just cracked the first layer of firewall when the alarm went off."

"So, Zheng Yi found out about you?"

“Probably not.” Rena Mizunashi said without changing her expression, “If I were discovered, Masakazu would send me to prison and then kill me silently.”

She said, "I escaped, but Zheng Yi must have suspected me, so he staged an accident to try and kill me."

Gin fell silent.

He stared into Rena Mizunashi's eyes, trying to find a trace of a lie within them.

But those eyes only showed exhaustion and lingering fear, without any attempt to evade the question.

"Are you sure?" Gin's voice lowered a few decibels.

“I’m not sure,” Rena Mizunashi said. “But I couldn’t have been in a car accident. At the time, I didn’t even know if there was something wrong with the car.”

Gin's eyes flickered slightly.

He certainly wouldn't completely believe what Rena Mizunashi said.

But this woman's injuries are so severe that they don't seem to be faking it.

Moreover, creating accidents is indeed a method that Zheng Yi likes to use. He has dealt with Okiya Subaru, Chianti and Cohen in this way before.

Now, adding Mizunashi Rena to the mix seems like a perfectly normal thing.

Gin stood by the hospital bed, silent for a long time.

Finally, he turned around and walked towards the ward door.

"Take good care of your injury." He said this, then pushed open the door and walked out.

Vodka, who was waiting outside the door, saw Gin come out and quickly went to greet him: "Brother, how is it?"

Gin didn't answer immediately, but just glanced coldly in the direction of the ward.

"She said it was Zheng Yi who did it."

Vodka paused for a moment: "Zheng...Zhengyi?"

Vodka was so frightened he didn't dare to speak.

“I suspect she’s lying,” Gin said.

"Huh?" Vodka was taken aback.

Rena Mizunashi did things too carelessly.

He had seen Rena Mizunashi's car; there was nothing wrong with it. It was possible that the impact had covered up any tampering.

Gin said, "Go ask the doctor to determine the specific extent of Rena Mizunashi's injuries."

"Yes!"

Vodka rushed out to find a doctor, who only said that although his whole body was bandaged up badly, he didn't actually have any serious injuries. It just seemed that his brain had been damaged, and he was a little mentally unstable.

Upon receiving this information, Gin's brow furrowed even deeper.

Is something wrong with your head?

……

"Zhengyi, you have no sense of chivalry towards women."

"...?"

When Zheng Yi answered the phone, his face was completely dumbfounded.

He glanced at his phone, then picked at his ear.

It was definitely Gin calling, and it was definitely Gin's voice, but...
Showing pity and tenderness to a beautiful woman?

Gin?

The combination of these two words is more jarring than asking vodka to dance ballet.

"What did you say?" Zheng Yi thought he had misheard and asked again to confirm.

"I never expected you to target Kiel."

"Kiel? What do you mean..."

But Gin didn't give him any chance to explain.

"beep--"

The call was abruptly disconnected.

Zheng Yi stared at the darkened call interface on the screen, his brows furrowed.

Gin is a weirdo.

Shoichi immediately dialed Rena Mizunashi's number.

It rang seven or eight times before someone answered.

"Hello?" A strange female voice came from the other end of the phone. "Ms. Rena Mizunashi is not available to answer the phone right now. I am the nurse in charge of taking care of her."

"What's wrong with her?" Zhengyi asked.

"She was in a car accident the night before last; she crashed into a telephone pole..."

Zheng Yi fell silent.

Crashing into a telephone pole with a car—is that a mistake a CIA undercover agent would make?
"Let her answer the phone."

"But……"

"immediately!"

Soon, there was a hushed conversation on the other end, and Rena Mizunashi began to reply to Tanikawa.

Zheng Yi asked, "You wouldn't have deliberately caused a car accident to frame me, would you?"

There was silence for a few seconds on the other end of the phone.

Then, Rena Mizunashi's weak voice came through the receiver: "How could you think of me like that? Am I that kind of person?"

Zheng Yi sneered: "Then what am I supposed to think of you? Do you think anyone would believe you went and banged your head against a telephone pole?"

Do you really think Gin believed your nonsense?

Rena Mizunashi: "..."

She definitely bumped into him on purpose.

She was indeed trying to avoid a mission.

She also knew that Gin might not believe her.

But she's already in the hospital, and Gin isn't about to drag her out of bed and have her continue working for the organization.

Chianti and Cohen were exempted from missions because of their injuries, and with such examples around, she naturally wanted to follow suit.

"Alright, alright." Zheng Yi wasn't upset about being falsely accused, as he was used to it, but he said impatiently:
"Take good care of yourself and recover. Come back to work after you're discharged from the hospital. But I'm warning you, don't think you can escape work just because you had a car accident. I'll still remember your KPIs."

Rena Mizunashi: "..."

She silently hung up the phone, staring blankly at the ceiling.

Even after all this, Zheng Yi still insists that she go to work?

Doesn't he even ask himself why he caused the car accident?
For her to risk a car accident to escape must have been a very serious matter, yet Zheng Yi didn't even ask about it, only caring about her KPI.

At home, Masakazu kept blaming Mizunashi in his heart.

That wicked woman! Not only did she frame me, but she also doesn't want to work. How could she be so evil?

Masashi said to Ai, "You must never go astray. You're even willing to hurt yourself just to avoid coming to work."

Ai looked at Masakazu speechlessly.

She said, "Rena Mizunashi's self-harm isn't just because she doesn't want to work, is it?"

"Then what else could it be?"

"You idiot." Ai looked at Shoichi with disdain: "There should only be one possibility, that is, Gin wants her to harm you, and Rena Mizunashi doesn't dare to offend either side, so she can only try to cover it up like this."

"Oh." Zheng Yi nodded, seemingly understanding but not quite.

Ai asked, "Don't you have any thoughts of being on guard?"

Zheng Yi said nonchalantly, "Even Mizunashi Rena wouldn't dare, who would dare to lay a hand on me? Who am I supposed to guard against?" (End of Chapter)