Conan: Goodbye, Brewery, I'm running away

Hearing her say this, Kitajima Koichi praised her: "You were able to connect that incident to me so quickly."

Hearing that he did not deny it, Akikawa Sarana's expression was no longer as cold as before, and it seemed that she relaxed her guard a little towards the person in front of her.

She faced Kitajima Koichi and said, "Thank you."

Kitajima Koichi's expression did not change. "I don't deserve your thanks. This is all I can do for you with my authority in the organization."

"Then can I know what the purpose of this organization is?" Akikawa Sarana, who already had a basic understanding of this person's personality, chose to get straight to the point.

Kitajima Koichi didn't hesitate, "Sorry, I don't know."

Akikawa Sarana asked back, "You don't know?"

"Yes. After what happened that year, I was taken care of by Rum. I was only responsible for some housekeeping tasks and was not allowed to touch any confidential matters."

Kitajima Yukichi explained to Akikawa Sarana sincerely, "This time is the same. My task is to entertain all the guests and take back all the surveillance videos in the villa after the event."

"Then why did you put this?" Akikawa Sarina nodded at the Thorn Crow on the table.

"Because I saw through the surveillance that Eri Ochi sent an email to contact the outside world, and I also saw that she mentioned you in the email. I also found that you didn't seem to notice the decorations in the villa, so I wanted to remind you that there are people from the organization here."

Kitajima Yukichi showed a bit of helplessness on his face. "I was really shocked when I saw you appear in the villa yesterday. I originally thought that the people who carried out the mission were you and Bourbon, but later I found out that it was Ochi Eri."

"She mentioned me in the email?" Akikawa Sarana thought, "What was the boss's reply to her?"

Kitajima Yuki was stunned for a moment, as if she didn't expect Akikawa Sarana to know that this mission was sent directly by the boss. "The reply email she received told her to ignore you and Bourbon and carry out the mission according to the original plan."

Akikawa Sarana fell into deep thought. She received an email from Vermouth before coming here. In her email, she said that this task was sent by the BOSS. She had not yet found out the specific content, but one thing that was certain was that what happened here had nothing to do with Rum.

Rum recently discovered a suspected survivor of the Hiroshi Haneda case seventeen years ago, so he was making arrangements for the case seventeen years ago, and he was so immersed in the investigation that he didn't even notice the evacuation of most of the codename members.

Akikawa Sarana raised her eyes, "Are the only surveillance videos you showed to Bourbon and the others?"

"Do not."

Kitajima Yukiichi shook his head, "There is a hidden camera in the bow on Kokubo and Nishikawa's clothes."

"Why do you put this on them?" Akikawa Sarana showed no dissatisfaction with the invasion of other people's privacy, but there was only a hint of cold doubt in her tone.

Kitajima Yukichi shook his head again, "I don't know. This is the boss's instruction. He asked to install cameras on the servants, and the content captured by the cameras must also be handed over."

"Don't you have any on you?" Akikawa Sarana asked again.

Kitajima pointed to the buttons on his clothes and said, "Yes, but before coming here, I accidentally fell and broke the camera. I have already reported it to the boss."

Akikawa Sarina stood up and said, "Then one last question."

"Excuse me."

"Who is the owner of this villa?" Akikawa Sarana stared at Kitajima Yukichi and asked her last question.

She already had the answers to the other questions in her mind through Kitajima Yukichi's attitude. No matter whether what he had just said was true or false, she would have her own way to confirm it later.

Moreover, as someone who was abandoned by the organization, how could Kitajima Koichi survive until now and behave like this? The truly incompetent people would have been sent to hell by the organization long ago.

"Don't you already have the answer in your mind?" Kitajima Yukichi smiled and gently placed his hand on his chest and bowed to Akikawa Sarana. "The decorations in the villa are all in your mother's favorite Rococo style. This was once one of the properties."

"I'm asking about now." Akikawa Sarina showed a little impatience on her face.

Kitajima Koichi replied, "It's rum."

Hearing this answer, Akikawa Sarana let out a meaningless sigh and walked out the door.

Kitajima Koichi bowed slightly to her again behind her.

After hearing the sound of the door closing, Kitajima Yukichi stood up straight. His eyes fell on the thorn crow on the table. The curve of his mouth deepened and his eyes were filled with nostalgia.

"They are truly mother and daughter. Even their anger is the same."

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Akikawa Sarina, who didn't walk far, naturally heard his words through the surveillance camera. She put on the mask again and the corners of her lips rose slightly.

This is exactly the effect she wanted. No matter what Kitajima Yukichi was thinking, she just needed to show him more similarities between her and her mother.

As long as he could impress Kitajima Yukichi, he would not mention anything that was unfavorable to her in the report at the end of this mission.

As for her similarities with her mother? She pieced them together based on her childhood memories and the words that Vermouth occasionally said when she mentioned her mother.

To be honest, she didn't have many memories of her parents. Being able to perform the effect she just did was already her limit. If she performed any further, she might be exposed.

However, if what Kitajima Koichi said was true, she really had to thank him. If that incident had not happened that year, and if she was still living under Rum's surveillance, she would definitely not have been able to make it to where she is today in the organization.

As for what happened fourteen years ago, it was a kidnapping case that she had been thinking about for many years but still couldn't figure out. To be honest, she racked her brains and couldn't figure out why someone would want to kidnap her?

Especially after kidnapping her, they didn't do anything to her. They just locked her in a glass room that was slowly filled with water.

Although it looked scary at the time, the speed at which water was filled into the glass room was really slow in the physical sense. It took a whole day and a night for the water to only reach her calves.

Until she was rescued, the water was not even up to her knees.

After she was rescued and found out that she was an orphan, the police, who had not yet caught the suspect, told her that the kidnapper probably thought he had kidnapped the wrong person and thought he would not get any ransom, so he left her there to fend for herself.

The organization didn't say anything else. Since it was Rum's people's mistake that led to her kidnapping, Vermouth took the opportunity to take away all "custody rights" related to her from Rum.

Before this, her "custody" was half with Vermouth and half with Rum.

Akikawa Sarana, who had returned to the hall and was sitting in a corner in a daze, raised her hand and touched her knees, a hint of tenderness flashed in her eyes.

"What are you thinking about?" After telling Kogoro Mori the results of the investigation, Toru Amuro came back and put a blanket on Sarina Akikawa's shoulders.

Akikawa Sarina looked up at the person who was bending over and looking at her with a smile. Thinking of the strange look in this person's eyes when he saw her when they first met in college, she motioned for Amuro Toru to put his ear closer.

She had never told Zero this secret, but after the conversation with Kitajima Koichi just now, she suddenly wanted to tell him.

Curious, Amuro Toru sat next to Akikawa Sarina and leaned over to ask, the corner of his mouth slightly curved, "What little secret?"

There were other people in the hall, and Toru Amuro knew that his girlfriend would definitely not say anything important in such an occasion, so he had to cooperate with her while deliberately teasing her.

Akikawa Sarina said to Amuro Toru in a very low voice: "Do you remember the glass box that was filled with water in the old Ishikawa freight warehouse that was demolished in Tokyo Bay fourteen years ago?"

Amuro Toru was stunned. He did not answer immediately, as if he was thinking. After all, it happened fourteen years ago, so it was still a little difficult to recall it...

Akikawa Sarina held his hand and continued to remind him quietly, "Are you crying? That's right, it's normal to be scared and cry after something like this... Don't be afraid, I called the police before I came here, and someone will come to rescue you soon."

Akikawa Sarana didn't continue talking. She could see that he had already remembered.

And the words she just said were what Zero said to her when he saved her.

Amuro Toru, whose memories that he had forgotten so much that they didn't know where they were, was called back. He held Akikawa Sarina's hand and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear, "Is that girl you?"

His tone was full of disbelief.

That incident was just a casual act of bravery for both the 15-year-old Furiya Rei and him now...If it weren't for Sarina's reminder, he probably would never remember what happened in his life.

But if the person being rescued is Sarina...

He suddenly understood why Sarina didn't look at him as if she were a stranger when they first met at the university gate.

Amuro Toru continued to ask quietly, "So, you recognized me the first time we met?"

Akikawa Sarina nodded, with a faint smile in her eyes, "The black cloth covering my head was made of ordinary material. I saw your general appearance through the gap at that time."

She used her eyes instead of her fingers, looking down from Amuro Toru's eyes little by little, and finally looking back into his eyes.

She continued, "Your appearance hasn't changed much, and although your voice has changed I can recognize it as you."

Toru Amuro was also looking at her. Seeing the smile in his girlfriend's eyes and thinking about what he had done in the past, Toru Amuro suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

He changed the subject, "But Sarina, your voice is different than before."

He had already remembered the voice of the kidnapped girl, which was completely different from Sarina's voice.

"Because I was learning voice changing from Vermouth at the time."

In addition to being monitored by Rum, she also had to study with Vermouth for part of the time. Because Vermouth was in the United States all year round, she would only be with Vermouth during the winter and summer vacations, so they each had half "custody".

Akikawa Sarana leaned close to his ear again and used a voice that was the only one she could imitate besides her own voice, and one that she had never used since the kidnapping. "Because I don't have a good talent, I was asked to use only this voice during that period of time."

Hearing the familiar yet strange voice, Amuro Toru's eyes widened slightly. Yes, this was the voice of that girl back then...

Amuro Toru asked in a low voice: "Why didn't you tell me?"

The other people in the hall looked at the two people in the corner and could only see that they were leaning against each other and whispering to each other. No one wanted to disturb the couple.

Akikawa Sarina changed back to her original voice, "Because at that time I didn't want you to think that I liked you because of what happened back then."

She has always been very twisted, and she also wants to get to know him again.

Amuro Toru chuckled, "So that's how it is."

Hearing him say this, Akikawa Sarana tilted her head and looked at him, "What?"

Amuro Toru leaned close to her ear and said, "So what happened just now that you suddenly wanted to tell me, Sarina?"

"Because the original kidnapper admitted it."

Akikawa Sarina glanced at the people in the hall and said, "Although those people said that the kidnapper left me there and then left, I'm still worried that he saw your face."

When Toru Amuro heard this, his first reaction was to worry about his girlfriend. He knew who Sarina had just met...

Seeing his reaction, she knew that he was worried about her. Akikawa Sarana explained, "I'm fine. If what that person said is true, what he did was for my own good."

Amuro Toru believed her judgment, and then he began to think about what Akikawa Sarina had just said. Then he leaned close to Akikawa Sarina's ear and said, "I didn't mention my name to you at the time, so it shouldn't be a problem for him to see my face."

However, this issue does require timely communication between them so that they will not be caught off guard.

"Amuro..." Kogoro Mouri, who came out from somewhere, interrupted the conversation between the two. The expression on his face showed that he had discovered a new clue.

Amuro Toru stood up and looked at Maori Kogoro, "Mr. Maori, have you found any new clues?"

Maori Kogoro nodded, his face full of excitement, "I already know who the criminal is!"

Upon hearing this, everyone who was still in the hall was a little surprised.

"So fast?" Hattori Heiji, who actually already had an idea who the criminal was but was still looking for evidence, was surprised. He glanced at Conan who was equally surprised.

He had discovered it before, but for some reason, Kudo didn't give any clues to the confused detective Uncle Mori this time. How could he find the criminal so quickly?

No, Hattori Heiji's mouth twitched, and he suddenly thought of Kogoro Mori's other great achievements. He was able to judge who the wrong criminal was almost every time.

Maori Kogoro nodded confidently, "Yes, I already know who the criminal is who hid himself in the snow and fog. Anyway, let's gather everyone here first."