Ke Xue World: The Confrontation between Black and Red

What a smart and cunning man. No wonder this person came to negotiate with him.

After tacitly allowing Toru Amuro to stay and having a low conversation with him, Utsunomiya Hiroshi couldn't help but sigh.

At this time, Toru Amuro, who was already sitting on the other side of the tea table and had just exchanged mission information, glanced at the two cups of tea on the table that no one had picked up and taken a sip of.

At the same time, he came to the conclusion that the second young master of the Utsunomiya family was meticulous and difficult to deal with.

I also noticed the arrogance that emanated from his bones.

Although he had tacitly agreed to the continuation of the conversation, the tea on the table went from hot to cold, from the thin smoke to the coolness of the cup wall, and Utsunomiya Hiroshi never mentioned the word "drinking tea" to Amuro Toru who was sitting on the other side of the tea table.

I didn't even glance at the tea on the table, let alone pick it up to drink.

From this attitude, it is obvious that he thinks Toru Amuro, who is not a secret solver, is not worthy of the tea he offered him.

During the conversation between the two, Toru Amuro made several attempts in his words, but they were all rejected indifferently by Hiroshi Utsunomiya.

But after talking about it now, one thing is beyond doubt.

That is, the treasure map and the person who stole it are really important to the Utsunomiya family.

Moreover, even though Utsunomiya Hiroshi's words were flawless, Amuro Toru still deduced from Utsunomiya Hiroshi's words:

The Utsunomiya family values ​​the person who stole the parchment treasure map much more than the parchment containing the treasure map of the Red Leaf Treasure.

Everything happened for a reason.

Amuro Toru has seen that the Utsunomiya family is determined to stick to this matter and there is no room for maneuver.

He also realized that the reason why the Utsunomiya family had this attitude was because of the person who stole the parchment treasure map.

But he didn't have much time to think at this moment, so Toru Amuro could only suppress his doubts for the time being and concentrate on dealing with Utsunomiya Hiroshi.

After several attempts at probing, he still could not get any information about the decoder, so Utsunomiya lost interest and his expression revealed his desire to end the conversation.

"Since you already have a plan, I will wait for your good news."

"We will not let you down. Our organization sincerely hopes to establish a good relationship with the Utsunomiya family."

Utsunomiya Hiroshi said calmly:

"As long as you can find the person and the treasure map, everything will be fine.

However, when the time comes to discuss the request, I hope to discuss it with the decryptor in person."

Amuro Toru stood up, bowed his head slightly, and replied:

"I will pass your message to the higher-ups. As for whether the decryptor will show up, that is not something that a nobody like me can decide.

I'm sorry I can't give you a definite answer."

A nobody? That's really modest.

Utsunomiya Hiroshi didn't believe it at all.

"It doesn't matter. I think the higher-ups in your organization will agree to my small request."

He was able to decipher the secret code that his father had hidden in the gold leaf bounty, find the Utsunomiya family so quickly, accurately find him among the many contestants, and even developed a detailed task plan for this.

Even the people sent out to negotiate were such mysterious, smart and cunning men.

Hiroshi Utsunomiya does not believe that the organization behind Toru Amuro is specifically seeking the high bounty.

And after going through so much trouble, no matter whether the ultimate goal was just to establish a good relationship with the Utsunomiya family, they would surely not fail to satisfy his small request.

As for whether he would be fooled by a fake one, Utsunomiya Hiroshi was not worried about that.

In this world, it is easy for a smart person to pretend to be a fool, but if a fool wants to pretend to be smart, especially in front of a smart person, it will only make people laugh.

Even if he could deceive him, he wouldn't be the only one who would show up when the time came to negotiate terms.

Utsunomiya Hiroshi didn't think that a disguised code breaker could hide the secret from his father.

He believed that the organization behind Toru Amuro would not do such a stupid thing that might affect cooperation.

After hearing this, Toru Amuro became more and more curious about the meaning of the bounty code posted by the Utsunomiya family on the dark web, and he became more and more aware of the importance of this content.

Even when negotiating terms after the transaction was completed, she asked to talk to the decryptor in person. Vermouth was really good at hiding important things from him.

As Utsunomiya Hiroshi politely sent him off, Amuro Toru stood up and politely said goodbye to Utsunomiya Hiroshi who was sitting on the tatami under the silent gaze of the two bodyguards beside him.

As soon as he walked out of the box, Toru Amuro heard the sound of a door closing gently behind him.

Knowing that he was extremely disliked by the second young master of the Utsunomiya family, his expression did not change at all. Then, after taking a few steps, he heard the sound of a door being pushed open behind him.

Then the footsteps of a light person were heard behind him.

Then, a loud little voice, accompanied by the sound of "dong dong" knocking on the door, sounded behind me:

"Uncle, I'm back."

Noticing that the knock on the door was very close, Amuro Toru turned around and saw a short, stout boy with a round face running into the box he had just left.

The sound flowed out through the gap in the door. It was the little boy's loud little voice happily telling his parents about his snack party with his good friends.

Although the sound was quickly blocked out by the closing door of the box, Toru Amuro still heard some of it.

After accurately catching the name "Conan" from the brief conversation, Toru Amuro's gaze naturally shifted to the door of the box next to the one where Hiroshi Utsunomiya was and took a look.

Then he turned around and walked along the long aisle of the carriage to a box that was farther away from the box where Utsunomiya Hiroshi was.

Pushing open the door, a man dressed as a wandering warrior looked at him.

Seeing that the person coming was Bourbon, Kiku Masamune withdrew his gaze, lowered his head and continued to send messages.

At the side, Vermouth, who was dressed as a noble man from Heian-kyō, looked at Amuro Toru who walked in with a bad look on his face, and asked in surprise:

"Why, did the conversation with the second young master of Utsunomiya go smoothly?

So unhappy. "

Amuro Toru sat on the couch next to Vermouth, and with a cold face, he simply repeated his conversation with Utsunomiya Hiroshi, and then asked:

"Vermouth, it seems like you forgot to tell me a lot about the Decipherer.

I wonder, am I not worthy of knowing? "

Vermouth's disguise was a very handsome young man's face. At this moment, her expression changed from confusion to surprise.

"how could be."

Seeing the doubt and inquiry in Amuro Toru's eyes, which were clearly meant for her, Vermouth said helplessly:

"I don't know much more about this than you do. I can only say that the secret message is very important, and the core content is something that even I have no right to know."

Vermouth is the highest person in charge of this mission and also the highest commander of this joint mission.

Unlike the others who only received part of the mission and treated it as an ordinary joint mission, she was the only one who knew that the level of this joint mission was SS-class and that it was ordered by Karasuma Renya.

According to the task level, the person in charge of this task should and must be a core cadre of the same level.

However, there are currently three core cadres in the organization who are qualified to be in charge. One is Brandy, who is not trustworthy at all, and the other is Whiskey, whose whereabouts are still unknown.

As for the remaining Gin, his whereabouts became a mystery until the end of last month, and no one knew what special mission he had taken Vodka to carry out.

When she first received this task, Vermouth was also confused.

What was the important content of that bounty with such a high price and full of secret codes that made the person set the level of this mission so high and required her to complete it without any failure.

However, Karasuma Renya on the other side of the video did not tell her this, but only said to her meaningfully:

"Vermouth, I think you won't let me down this time."

Recalling Karasuma Renya's tone and expression at that time, Vermouth's eyes darkened.

No matter what is hidden behind this mission, she must and must complete it.

Toru Amuro was half surprised and half not surprised by the answer given by Vermouth.

He did not doubt that this was a lie told by Vermouth to deceive him. After all, there was no need to continue lying to him at this time.

Others have already participated in this mission, and Vermouth herself is the highest person in charge of this joint mission. If the mission fails due to unequal information, neither he nor Vermouth can escape the punishment of that gentleman.

As the person in charge, Vermouth will only end up in a worse situation than him.

But the problem is, if even Vermouth is not allowed to know this information, then the importance of this mission is much greater than he thought.

"Then do you know who the decryptor is?"

Toru Amuro suddenly asked a question that was related to the previous question but in a different direction.

As soon as Vermouth heard it, she knew what Bourbon was planning. Her eyes flickered slightly and she said softly:

“Well, I don’t have any clear information on this.

But, this ability is not something that ordinary people have, right?"

An unfathomable figure suddenly appeared in Toru Amuro's mind, a figure that made people feel fearful when thinking about it.

Could it be whiskey?

meeting.

My heart suddenly beat faster and I replied silently.

The two of them tacitly stopped the topic here, not asking further questions or continuing the conversation.

Toru Amuro, who was despised by Utsunomiya Hiroshi to the point that he was not even given a cup of tea, drank the water in the photography backpack that he left here when he changed his clothes.

At the same time, he took out the memory card from the interlayer of the backpack and handed it to Vermouth.

After Vermouth took it, she put it into a readable USB flash drive, and then connected it to a laptop brought by Kiku Masamune this time.

With some operations of the mouse and keyboard, the video recording of the scene of distributing treasure map parchment at the opening ceremony, which was previously recorded by Toru Amuro himself, began to play on the laptop.

To prevent anyone from having ears, the video is recorded without any sound.

Vermouth's eyes fell on the video. After drinking some water, Amuro Toru sat quietly aside with his eyes closed thinking. Kiku Masamune stared at his mobile phone intently.

Everyone was doing their own things quietly and silently, and the box suddenly ushered in a period of quiet time.

The silence was broken only when the fourth person pushed the door open.

"There's news."

The first words spoken by the visitor attracted the attention of everyone in the box.

Vermouth turned the laptop around and ended the originally playing video at a screen that captured all the contestants on the scene.

"who is it?"

Asaka walked in wearing a train staff uniform and placed a lunch in Kikumasamune's hand. Then she pointed out a few people on the screen and told them their current compartment locations and numbers.

"seven people?"

Toru Amuro looked at the number of people marked and asked in confusion.

Asaka nodded:

"There are seven people in that box. They must be from two teams who know each other and got together."

"That's quite a lot of people."

Amuro Toru complained:

"I thought it would be a maximum of five people. It really adds to my workload."

"Choosing one out of seven is much easier than choosing one out of more than a hundred."

Vermouth teased.

"Ah."

Amuro Toru curled his lips:

"But we don't have the right to make the wrong choice."

Kiku Masamune said nothing. He took the lunch given by his partner and started eating without even glancing to the side.

After selecting the target range and stating the suspected target's location, Asaka turned and walked to the dining cart outside the door and brought out two more lunches. After placing them next to Vermouth and Amuro Toru, she said:

"Okay, you guys discuss it first. I'll send the dining cart back and come back later."

Upon hearing this, Kiku Masamune, who was busy eating, immediately put down his bowl and chopsticks and gestured to Asaka.

Seeing this, Asaka replied:

“No need to leave any for me, I’ll bring another meal back later.

I'm a train waiter now, and it's not convenient to put my meals together with the guests' meals in the dining car.

Eat it quickly."

After hearing this, Kiku Masamune finally felt relieved and continued to eat.

After watching this scene thoroughly, Toru Amuro looked at Kikumasamune's plate, then looked at the one next to him and the one at Vermouth, and asked:

"Why does Kiku Masamune's meal seem to be more than twice as much as ours?"

The soup bowl alone was more than a circle larger.

"They are partners. Compared to other people, partners are of course special and special. It is normal to get special treatment."

Vermouth disagreed.

"Just like you and Scotland, isn't it."

That being said, Toru Amuro always felt that something was a little strange.

Why compare him to Hiro?

After seeing Vermouth wink at him ambiguously and then reveal a mysterious smile, Amuro Toru understood it instantly and was shocked:

"Scotland and I are not what those gossip posts say we are!!!"

Kiku Masamune was surprised by Bourbon's sudden loud voice and turned his head in confusion, and saw the redness on Bourbon's face that even his dark skin could not hide.

Is there anything to be angry about?

Kiku Masamune thought doubtfully, then lowered his head and continued eating.

Seeing that the blush on Amuro Toru's face was mostly due to shyness, Vermouth's smile deepened, but she looked surprised and said:

“Eh? You and Scotland aren’t real?

So, it turns out that you and Rye are the ones who are serious about this.”