Detective Conan: Becoming a Zaibatsu - Starting with Joining the Winery

Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo.

On the second floor of the Amuro Detective Agency, in the alley next to the Metropolitan Police Department.

Amuro Toru's face flushed red, and his eyes were full of excitement.

He hummed a song, which was unusual for him, poured himself a glass of bourbon, raised his glass to the night view outside the window, and finally drank it all in one go.

"Great, that's wonderful!"

"After being a member of the organization for so long, I've finally started to see some results."

"Kir? Rena Mizunashi? Hidemi Hondou?"

"Bourbon? Toru Amuro? Rei Fukiya?"

"So alike, so incredibly alike!"

"But I really didn't expect the CIA to be even more ruthless than the FBI, they're practically inhuman!"

"The FBI's undercover work is based on the principle of voluntariness, but the CIA is still following the family business. The most ridiculous thing is that this woman, Hondo Hidemi, was actually sent to the organization by her own father to be an undercover agent."

"But, hahaha!"

"The most ridiculous thing is that neither Hondou Eikai nor her father, Ethan Hondou, seemed to realize that they didn't even have a backup of their files within the CIA, did they?"

"The father and daughter worked for the CIA their whole lives, but they didn't know that their entire CIA team, including the operations director and everyone else, was a non-existent team within the CIA."

"No official position, no status, no salary."

"Aside from a million-dollar operating fund, the entire task force received no support whatsoever."

"If one of the people arrested by the Metropolitan Police Department hadn't been the nephew of the deputy chief who controlled this team, a second-generation idiot who came here to experience life, I wouldn't have been able to control that woman, Kiel, so easily."

"But it's good!"

"Now that we've reached a cooperation agreement with that deputy director, Kiel will not only work for the CIA in the future, but he will also work for my Public Security Zero Group."

"Then let's wait a while and have a proper talk with Kiel."

"If Gil knew the whole truth about the father and daughter, he might be able to completely win Gil over to Zero."

"But we can't rush it!"

"We've only just re-established contact with Kiel, and there's not much trust between us yet. This matter needs to be discussed carefully!"

Amuro Tooru sat in the leather swivel chair, his brain instantly starting to work at lightning speed.

Yes!

This time, it was all a coincidence that the fool was able to do it.

Actually.

After learning that the people arrested were CIA employees, the Metropolitan Police Department immediately handed them over to the police department.

but.

After the police department contacted the American ambassador and then the CIA headquarters, they learned that all of these people's identities were fake, and the CIA headquarters had no files on them at all.

At that moment, Amuro Tooru's heart sank completely.

As a fellow agent, he instantly understood that these people had been abandoned by CIA headquarters, or rather, they were just a CIA cannon fodder team.

but……

Just when Amuro Tooru was about to give up, Kazami Yuya suddenly found him because a special person had been discovered in the interrogation room.

Robert Hunt!

A dimwitted second-generation rich kid, obsessed with watching movies and TV shows, sneaks into his uncle's office to experience the life of a secret agent and uses a special key to unlock a list of undercover spies.

then……

He used a special communication key to find the undercover team, contacted the team's operations leader, fabricated an identity for himself, and fully integrated into the team.

Now, it's obvious!

He was initially quite calm when he was caught, after all, they represented the CIA.

But, unfortunately.

After learning that the CIA headquarters did not recognize their identities as agents, they were only slightly intimidated by Team Zero before revealing their identities.

From here on out, it's simple!

Kazami Yuya contacted the team's superior, the deputy director at CIA headquarters, and after some discussion, they reached an agreement.

Use the right to use the undercover agent, Geir, in exchange for Zero releasing Robert Hunt!

As for the others?

The deputy director didn't care and said that they could just kill him.

A failed team has no value in continuing to exist!

Even this undercover agent who had infiltrated the organization was not actually of much concern to the deputy director. In his words, all that was needed was for Kiel to send him a copy of all the intelligence he would receive in the future.

The CIA only cares about the right to know; nothing else matters!

Zero Group can use Kiel however they want without going through the CIA; they can simply issue commands to Kiel directly.

"Only intelligence gathering is required? No undercover work is needed?"

Why?

"Does it feel very familiar to me?"

"etc……"

"It seems my mission is the same!"

"I have located the organization's key strongholds several times and had countless opportunities to capture the core leadership in one fell swoop."

"Apart from Rum, the second-in-command, I have met all the other members of the organization. As long as my superiors agree to my action plan, I am confident that I can completely paralyze the organization's influence in the island nation."

"But every time, the superiors just give the same old platitudes, saying that the conditions aren't right and that it hasn't involved the core of the organization yet."

"I didn't think much of it before, since we hadn't found out Rum's true identity, and we still don't know the true identity of the organization's boss."

"But this time,..."

"The CIA undercover agent, Kiel, is so similar to me!"

"They all joined the organization with great difficulty and eventually became codename members through their own abilities."

"And then, that's it!"

"Neither the leaders of the police department nor the leaders of the CIA are willing to take action against the organization."

"It seems like all they need to do is keep sending out intelligence; they don't even have any intention of taking down the dark organization."

"etc……"

"The same thing happened with Shuichi Akai before. He almost caught Gin, but I heard that because an FBI rookie was soft-hearted about an old lady who was present at the scene, the mission ultimately failed."

"Now that I think about it carefully, this is totally wrong!"

"Even a newly recruited FBI agent shouldn't have this kind of compassion."

"What's even more absurd is that this agent was only reprimanded a couple of times afterward."

"Then?"

That's it!

"They just let it go so easily? Is this the infamous FBI of the US?"

"A charity organization, perhaps?"

The excited expression on Amuro Tooru's face slowly began to turn serious.

Obviously!

He's not an idiot!

There is only one person in the entire organization who has been able to infiltrate the Black Organization for so many years without being caught by Gin, and who can stay in the organization safely.

Countless undercover agents from various organizations were discovered and eliminated!

Even the most elite member, Shuichi Akai, was actually exposed and left the organization, which is enough to show Amuro Tooru's abilities.

I didn't think much about it before!

He trusted his superiors, but what happened with Kiel today made him realize that something was amiss.

Thinking about my experiences over the past few years, and Shuichi Akai's initial failure...

This moment.

His heart sank instantly!

For the first time, he felt a vague sense of wariness towards his superiors.