Conan: I'm Really Not the Manipulator

Even though Aoyagi Binkou asked the chosen perpetrator to step on the accelerator to the bottom and crash at the fastest speed possible at the time, she didn't even get a scratch.

In addition to the player themselves, their immediate family members (parents, spouse and children) also have a halo, which the player cannot break. Brothers and sisters have none at all.

Currently, those known to be able to break the halo include characters in the original novel - Bai Jiu was accidentally killed by a robber in the original novel - and the player himself.

Players can break the halo around themselves, and if they jump from a tall building, they will die normally.

What Qingliu Bingguang is most curious about now is - can players break the protective aura of their relatives?

As dark thoughts flashed through his mind, Aoyagi Binguang had already arrived downstairs at the agreed bar. When he looked up, he could see the nearby Toudu Tower.

The "Starlight Garden" bar was where he and Toru Amuro drank before, but today it was Gin who asked him out.

Aoyagi Akiko wants to participate in the school trip of Minato Middle School next month. He has a special status and is currently under control, so when he told Gin about this via email, the colleague who was in charge of watching him immediately asked for a meeting.

He came to the elevator entrance and while waiting for the elevator to go downstairs, he glanced at the car outside the window.

The lucky car he had just chosen on the road was a Bugatti DIVO, a global limited edition sports car. Only the rich or noble could drive one. From the information sent back by the snake he summoned into the car, the driver was indeed a very wealthy young man.

If a young master like this kills someone, he can probably get away with it even if it was intentional, let alone if the car was out of control.

What would Hojo Toika do then?

Will she be extremely magnanimous and choose to let go of her hatred as Qianyan Feng Qiao Na said, or... will she take revenge for her brothers in the game?

He hoped it was the latter.

The phone vibrated again. It was not an email from Gin, but an email from Katsutoshi Teraoka.

[Everything is normal at the Metropolitan Police Department recently... A lot of people suddenly had headaches just now, which only lasted for a few seconds, and now they are going to the infirmary...]

Aoyagi Akimitsu only saw one incident where the Metropolitan Police Department suddenly suffered a collective headache.

Apart from that, there was nothing unusual, and no one suddenly rushed in to search Section 4 to settle the score.

It seems that their headaches were just caused by her mental stimulation, which made them "affected again", and did not have the effect of removing the skill...

Aoyagi Binkou frowned slightly at the result, but soon relaxed his brows.

He became even more relaxed than before.

Then he saw the last sentence of the email.

[Search Section is currently investigating an organ smuggling case, and the leading underworld member is in Abedo...]

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Gin arrives at the bar.

He found Aoyagi Akimitsu in the crowd at a glance.

Aoyagi Binkou sat there alone, his brown-gray hair loosely draped over his shoulders, a habit he often had when he was a teenager, without tying up his long hair.

It was a good seat, away from other people but very close to the emergency aisle.

Gin walked straight over, and his cold aura isolated anyone who tried to strike up a conversation with him. He sat down opposite Aoyagi Akimitsu and looked at the only glass on the table.

Aoyagi Binguang did not order any wine. There was only a glass of fennel-flavored sparkling water without a drop of alcohol in front of him.

Another skill of Arrogance was mentioned in Chapter 35_(:з」∠)_

Chapter 114 Black and Red (Part )

Gin looked at the drink, his cold eyes sliding across Aoyagi Binguang's face.

When Aoyagi Akimitsu was made up to be a woman, his skin was very pale and his cheeks were almost bloodless, making him look like a ghost that could disappear at any time.

Gin observed his surroundings again.

The waiter stood far away and did not come over to bring the wine list after he sat down. It seemed that Aoyagi Binguang had given some instructions in advance.

Aoyagi Binkou picked up the glass and took a sip, then looked at Gin and said apologetically: "The drink I ordered hasn't come yet, please wait a moment... Thank you for your hard work. You've come all the way here when you're so busy at work."

Gin leaned back, without his back touching the chair. He remained in a state ready to attack at any time, without any relaxation.

Thinking about the content of the email, he went straight to the point: "You are going to Moscow?"

Aoyagi Binguang nodded: "After all, it is a collective activity of the school. Although I only teach music, I am a teacher after all, so I must participate."

"It's really relaxing, but don't forget..."

Gin sneered and glanced downward.

They all knew what he was looking at.

……

Gin and Aoyagi Akiko have known each other for fourteen years.

But they were not childhood friends or close friends who spent every day together. They were together less often than they were apart, and seldom communicated unless it was a task, so most of the time, he could not see through what the other was thinking.

Under the lights of the bar, Gin stared at Aoyagi Binkou's face again.

He could not see any fear of death, or anger and hatred for the restriction of freedom on that face.

From the moment he accepted the control orders from that gentleman and started to carry them out, Gin had wondered more than once whether he cared more about Aoyagi's life and death than Aoyagi Akiko himself.

Today, Aoyagi Binkou did not wear the same pair of emerald green contact lenses as Goldwasser, and his eyes were their natural light brown color.

That is the eye color I inherited from my mother.

It would be fine if Qing Liubin just went to another country, but...

Gin felt even more irritated. In his ears, he heard Aoyagi Binguang's voice as if nothing had happened: "The lady who is pursued by many people will also go there at that time. I have to complete my part-time job."

"You haven't even finished your job."

Gin reminded him a second time, his tone becoming more terrifying.

If it were other people in the organization, even those who were braver, they would have kept their mouths shut at this time, but Aoyagi Binguang just smiled cheerfully.

"I haven't forgotten. I'm preparing."

He took another sip of anise-flavored sparkling water. Perhaps because Gin's expression was really scary, he spoke in a more serious tone, "We have obtained the permission of the boss for this trip."

Hearing this, Gin didn't think "You have already got the boss's permission, and yet you ask me if I'm kidding", nor did he ask what exactly they talked about. His expression finally returned to normal.

Aoyagi Binguang put down his cup and continued, "The next step is to work out a detailed travel plan with my colleagues."

"Bourbon is going there too?"

Because there was no one around and he was sure there were no eavesdropping devices nearby, Gin shouted out the code name of Rum's subordinate and Aoyagi Akimitsu's colleague in a low voice.

Putting aside Bourbon's own wishes, he didn't think Rum would let his men go abroad so easily.

"I'll let him go," said Aoyagi. "He's different from me. He's Japanese... Isn't it true that Japanese workplaces care a lot about being sociable? It would be bad if he was judged as not sociable by others."

"It sounds like you care about him a lot. You guys actually became friends." Gin laughed sarcastically.

"I just don't want to..."

The waiter who came with a tray interrupted what Qing Yan Bingguang was about to say. He put a glass of wine on the table, bowed slightly, and stepped back.

Aoyagi Binkou didn't say anything else. He picked up the glass of wine and drank half of it. Then he put the glass in front of Gin and motioned him to drink.

Gin, who had never drank with anyone before, looked at him, then picked up the glass, put his hand against the other side of the glass, and took only one sip.

The moment his lips touched the wine, he knew what it was.

"Scotch……"

Gin shouted out the name of the wine, then he realized something and stared at Aoyagi Akiko with sharp eyes.

Aoyagi Binkou just smiled gently.

"I need your assistance for the next action."

……

Gin only took a sip, and Aoyagi finished the rest of the Scotch.

They checked out and left, and only talked more about work after they got in the car.

"You were late today. Were you delayed by something else?" asked Aoyagi Binguang.

Gin didn't hide it: "Before coming here, I went to Haido once."

"Could it be that Councillor Kawajiri has not yet gotten over the pain of losing his son?" Aoyagi Akimitsu speculated, "I have already reminded the doctors there to increase his medication dosage depending on the situation..."

Gin interrupted, "It's his guard."

Aoyagi Akimichi knew that the organization would definitely send someone to monitor Councillor Kawajiri for a long time, and the person sent would not be bad. The public security was also watching, and if they found a weakling, it would be exposed soon.

But he didn't know the guard's code name.

"He made a mistake?"

Aoyagi Akimitsu looked at Gin with a little sympathy. This killer of the organization was much busier than him as an undercover agent who currently had three jobs and often had to deal with various mistakes made by members.

"Do not."

Gin denied it for the second time.

"——It's perfect."

The man is an orphan who grew up in the organization and is a sniper under Rum. Because of his serious deficiencies in interpersonal skills, he has been ostracized and only got a code name last month.

Gin met him once last year. He was indeed a taciturn and unpleasant person. He had a bad relationship with Binga, and his immediate superior Rum didn't like him very much, otherwise he wouldn't have thrown the code name to Gin after he got it.

Gin already has three snipers, Chianti, Cohen and Scotland, and he can also go in special circumstances. Since he is not needed for the time being, he will be sent to the prison as a prison guard, responsible for monitoring Congressman Kawajiri and maintaining regular contact.

It was during these repeated contacts that Gin discovered something was wrong.

“Although his speaking habits haven’t changed, I always feel like he’s a different person.”

This is the intuition that Gin developed after years of being in danger, without any evidence.

"So you think he was replaced by someone? Have you checked the disguise?" asked Aoyagi Binguang.

"I checked him. He didn't have any disguise. There's no sign of plastic surgery on his face. His DNA is completely consistent with what's in the database..."

"Maybe twins."