Chapter 643 The Approaching Shadow

Chapter 643 The Approaching Shadow

Tokyo

A yellow GT5 sports car flashed past at the intersection.

Sitting in the driver's seat of the car was a woman with long golden hair and a beautiful face. She was holding the steering wheel with one hand and holding a thin cigarette in the other. Needless to say, this person was Vermouth.

Vermouth flicked off the ash from her cigarette and tilted her head slightly to look at the co-pilot.

"Bourbon, it's rare that you would contact me on your own initiative."

The man sitting in the passenger seat raised half of his face, and the light from the street lamp illuminated his wheat-colored skin.

The corners of his mouth curled up slightly: "I heard that you killed Akai Shuichi?"

Vermouth took a puff of cigarette and said slowly, "To be precise, we didn't kill him. It was Kiel who did it."

"Kil?" Bourbon was silent for a moment. "Is she the woman who was once captured by the FBI and then rescued?"

"Yeah," Vermouth chuckled, "I originally thought she was recruited by the FBI, but now it seems that I was wrong."

Bourbon sneered: "Do you trust her so much?"

Vermouth paused while flicking the ash off her cigarette and chuckled, "What do you mean?"

Bourbon turned his head and looked at Vermouth coldly, and said slowly: "I don't think that Akai Shuichi will be killed so easily..."

Vermouth was silent for a while, then said, "But this is the fact. Gin and I saw with our own eyes that Gil shot Akai Shuichi in the head, and his body was burned by the bomb, leaving only one hand that could barely be used to extract fingerprints."

"However, the FBI should have compared the fingerprints of that hand with Shuichi Akai's fingerprints through some means. Judging from their reaction, the body is undoubtedly Shuichi Akai."

"Is that so?" Bourbon was silent for a moment and then spoke, "But I still don't believe he will die like this."

"After all, that man, only I can kill him!"

"Vermouth, I need you to do me a favor..."

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In a store in Beika-cho.

Judy, James, and Carmel are shopping.

Judy and James were choosing red wine with great interest, but Camille was standing behind them with a distressed look on his face.

"Boss, can you please forgive me? I am too old to celebrate my birthday."

Apparently, today is Carmel's birthday, and Judy and James plan to celebrate it, but the birthday boy seems reluctant, feeling it's too embarrassing.

James said nonchalantly, "Well, don't say that. We're just getting together for a drink."

Judy also smiled and said, "Yes, yes, we just want to take this opportunity to relax because the organization's investigation has not made any progress. Right, James?"

James nodded slightly: "That's right."

Judy looked at the wine on the shelf with a smile: "Then you have to choose a good bottle of wine."

She glanced back and forth between the bottles, and suddenly her expression changed slightly: "Bo...Ben?"

I saw a bottle of red wine on the shelf, and the name of the wine happened to be Bourbon.

Judy couldn't help but think of the news from Rena Mizunashi, who had returned to the organization and was lurking, saying that a mysterious member code-named Bourbon had already begun to act, and the target seemed to be Beika Town.

James also saw the bottle of wine and said in a deep voice: "It has been a while since I got information from Rena Mizunashi, but I haven't seen anyone who is suspected to be a member of the organization."

"But according to Mizunashi Reina, that member may not be so easy for us to find."

Judy nodded and lowered her voice: "His target is most likely the girl codenamed Shirley..."

James looked deep in his eyes: "And that girl is now Yuya's girlfriend..."

Kamal asked with some concern: "Is it really okay to entrust such an important target to a teenager like that to protect it?"

Judy glanced at Camille and said calmly, "That kind of boy? What kind of boy? Camille, don't forget that the reason why Mizunashi Rena was able to return to the organization smoothly was because of the strategy he set, although the price he paid was too high..."

The voice suddenly lowered: "If Yuya-kun was there at that time, would Shuichi not have to die?"

Unconsciously, in Judy's subconscious mind, Yuya's ability has been placed above Akai Shuichi.

Kamal also realized something and knew he had said something wrong. He lowered his head in embarrassment and dared not say anything more.

James looked around and saw no one was paying attention to this side. He continued, "Based on previous developments, it's normal for the organization to think that we have some connection with Shirley. We originally thought that Bourbon would contact or test us in some way..."

Judy nodded: "Yes, we used the same bug that Yuya-kun had installed on Gin's car (the one used at the memorial service) to lure the organization's people to the Mori office, and then secretly ambush them..."

"Come to think of it, the person who ambushed them at that time was Mr. Akai." Kamal suddenly spoke.

Judy and James were stunned.

Camel walked up, picked up the bottle of bourbon, and said with a smile: "If Mr. Akai was here, we wouldn't have to be afraid of this bourbon at all, right?"

Judy suddenly shouted loudly: "What's the point of saying this now? Akai Shuichi is already dead!"

Carmel looked at Judy blankly.

Judy sighed, lowered her head and said, "It's okay, I'll go back to the car first." Then she walked out quickly.

James looked at Judy's back and blamed Camel, "You should be more careful with your words. You know that Akai is more than just a colleague to her!"

Kamal also scratched his head in regret: "It's my fault..."

Judy left the store, looked up at the sky where snow was beginning to fall, sighed somewhat dejectedly, clenched her hands with cold fingertips, put them in her pockets, and then strolled aimlessly on the street.

She couldn't help but recall the scene when Shuichi Akai broke up with her.

Judy thought that Shuichi Akai was dating the woman named Miyano Akemi for an undercover mission, but she didn't expect him to break up so firmly.

His reason was that he couldn't face two women at the same time, and destroying the organization was something he had to do even if it meant breaking up with Judy.

Judy accepted this reason and deceived herself that when the organization was destroyed, Shuichi Akai might come back to him again. Before that, it would be enough for her to just be able to work with him.

But they didn't expect that Shuichi Akai really fell in love with Akemi Miyano. What made Judy even more sad was that the success of destroying the organization was nowhere in sight, and Shuichi Akai passed away before them.

Judy sighed softly, looked up and saw the green light, and followed the flow of people to the opposite side of the road.

Suddenly, a man in dark blue clothes and a scarf passed by her in the crowd, and Judy was stunned on the spot.

"Xiu, Xiuyi?" Judy turned around suddenly and chased after him, grabbing the scarf.

"Shuichi?!"

The man turned around and saw a strange face.

He looked at Judy in surprise: "Well, um...what do you want?"

Judy let go of her hand in a daze: "Sorry, I recognized the wrong person..."

The man looked at Judy in confusion, wondering if such a beautiful woman was mentally ill. He sighed with regret and turned away.

Judy looked around in confusion.

Did she just...have a hallucination?

No, suddenly, at the end of the sidewalk, a figure wearing a scarf came into Judy's sight.

The man just happened to turn into the alley and revealed half of his profile. Judy's pupils shrank slightly. She was very familiar with that face, which was 90% similar to Akai Shuichi.

The remaining point was the other party's strange behavior of ignoring himself.

Judy chased after him without thinking, shouting, "Shuichi! Wait for me!"

Passersby looked at him in surprise.

But the other party seemed to have not heard Judy's shout at all, and turned around the corner without looking back.

Judy chased to the entrance of the alley and saw the figure about to turn to the opposite road. She was very sure that it was Shuichi Akai.

Just when she was about to chase him, she suddenly stopped. Judy hesitated a little - was that really Shuichi Akai? Shuichi Akai was clearly dead, and this was a fact that the FBI had personally confirmed.

Could it be that it was just someone who looked similar to Akai Shuichi?

No, no matter whether it is true or not, we have to confirm it in person.

Judy had made up her mind, but just as she was about to chase after him, someone held her shoulders.

She was startled, but she heard James's somewhat puzzled voice: "Judy, what are you doing here? I remember my car was not parked in that direction, right?"

"No..." Judy hesitated, but still didn't say that she saw someone who looked like Akai Shuichi. What if she was mistaken?

Kamal noticed that something was wrong with Judy's face and asked suspiciously, "Did you see a member of an organization?"

Judy quickly denied: "No, I just accidentally got lost and went the wrong way. By the way, have you bought the wine?"

James said a little embarrassedly: "No, my credit card cannot be used in that store, and Camille and I don't have enough cash on us."

"Sorry Judy, could you pay for me first?"

Judy sighed, "I've run out of cash too. I was planning to go get some today."

James laughed dryly: "Is that so..."

Judy spread her hands and said, "There's nothing I can do. I'll go to the nearby bank to withdraw the money. You guys wait for me in that store."

"sorry to bother you."

Bank of Tokyo.

Yuya and Miyano Shiho were bringing the little brats from the Junior Detective League with Mitsuhiko to save money here. He received a lot of red envelopes during the Chinese New Year.

Yuan Tai put his hands on his head and said, "Mitsuhiko, are you going to save all the red envelopes? That would be a pity, leave some for snacks..."

Mitsuhiko laughed contemptuously, patted his chest and acted like a little adult: "Please call me pragmatic."

Conan asked casually, "Where's your New Year's money, Yuanta?"

Yuan Tai smiled and said, "I keep all of mine with my mom. She said she would save them for me to use when I want to buy something more expensive."

Yuya couldn't help but ask, "So did she buy you anything?"

Yuan Tai was stunned for a moment, then pinched his chin and said, "Now that you mention it, it seems that she doesn't have it. Every time I want to buy it, she says it's too wasteful."

Youye laughed awkwardly: "It seems that you can't get your New Year's money back."

Yuan Tai's eyes widened: "Huh? Why?"

Youye shrugged his shoulders: "Because my mother is the same, she used to take away my New Year's money, saying that she would save it for me... But until now, when I can take on commissions and make money on my own, I have never seen the New Year's money again."

"I guess she used it to supplement her family income..."

In fact, You also had a suspicion that his mother, Kamiya Miho, would sometimes inexplicably have some luxury goods, cosmetics and the like, and it was very likely that they were bought with his New Year's money.

After all, his family is well off, so naturally the New Year's money he received is generous.

Conan couldn't help but look up and look at Yuya - he saw a look of mutual admiration in each other's eyes, it seemed that the two had similar experiences.

It seems that no matter which country parents are from, their attitudes towards New Year's money are similar.

"No way!" Yuan Tai wailed, "Then my New Year's money is gone, right?"

Miyano Shiho rolled her eyes at Yuya and said to Genta, "She might be worried that Genta might get sick someday, so she saved it up in advance."

Ayumi smiled and said, "Then this is the same as Mitsuhiko!"

Yuan Tai was unhappy: "No, I want to get back all the New Year's money I got before, and save it for myself! Besides, I don't get sick that easily."

As he said that, he ran outside, looking like he really wanted to go home to get his New Year's money.

Youye couldn't help laughing - there would be no way he could get it back, and he didn't want to end up not being able to get it back and having to eat barbecued bamboo shoots instead.

As the saying goes, if good things don’t come, bad things will come. Sometimes you really can’t set flags randomly.

Yuantai hadn't taken two steps when his stomach started to growl.

He immediately covered his stomach and said with a grin, "What's going on? My stomach suddenly hurts!"

Miyano Shiho squatted down to wipe the sweat off his face and asked, "Did you eat something wrong?"

Yuan Tai immediately retorted: "No, I just had two plates of curry rice for lunch."

Mitsuhiko immediately exposed Yuanta's lie: "But when I went to see you, there was still soybean powder on the corners of your mouth?"

Yuan Tai's expression froze, and he said with a guilty conscience: "Later, I wanted to eat something sweet, so I fried four pieces of rice cakes, dipped them in soybean powder and ate them..."

Miyano Shiho was puzzled. If it was just this little, with Genta's appetite, he would at most be full, but he shouldn't get a stomachache, right?

Yuan Tai continued, "Then I wanted to eat something else, so I fried three more rice cakes and dipped them in soy sauce and seaweed..."

"Okay, no need to say more." Miyano Shiho stopped Yuanta and said with empty eyes, "You just ate too much."

She sighed, stood up and said, "Go to the bathroom first, I'll go to the pharmacy to buy you some stomach medicine."

Ayumi raised her little hand and said, "Sister Mio, I'll go with you!"

"Okay." Miyano Shiho smiled, nodded at Yuya, then took Ayumi's hand and left the bank.

Yuya looked at Yuanta with disdain, "If you eat so much again in the future, go to the toilet and relieve yourself."

"I got it!" Yuantai covered his stomach and ran to the toilet.