The Grammatical Investigator in Conan

From that day on, Rum's status rose rapidly.

He left Manniu's stock company and joined a giant company called "Karasuma Group".

Gradually, he also knew that the "Karasuma Lord" he met that day was the chairman of the Karasuma Group, Karasuma Renye.

In the political and business circles of Japan at that time, Karasuma Renye had immeasurable power and could almost be said to be the most powerful person in Japan.

And Rum began to realize that the "huge empire" that Chairman Karasuma mentioned at the time was not just the Karasuma Group.

Even the whole of Japan!

This was a great cause that Rum had never dared to think about since he was born!

This made Rum work even more crazily for Karasuma Renye.

Until 47 years ago, Karasuma Renye took the initiative to retreat behind the scenes, and the outside world began to spread rumors that Karasuma Renye was in poor health.

Rum began to take the stage to attend various events on behalf of Karasuma Renye and give speeches in public.

This also officially established his position as the second-in-command of the organization.

40 years ago, when Karasuma Renye "died", Rum had the greatest decision-making power in the organization, and no one could shake his position.

Rum even thought that Karasuma Renye might pass the No.1 position to him at any time.

He believed this for 40 years.

In the past 40 years, Rum rarely received orders from Karasuma Renye, and he basically decided the big and small things in the organization and the group.

He personally handled the crisis of Amanda and the Japanese police 17 years ago and the crisis of the FBI undercover entering the organization 2 years ago.

It can be said that in order to successfully inherit this "huge empire" from Karasuma Renye, he worked hard to manage it and dared not neglect it at all times.

Fortunately, Lord Karasuma gave him the anti-aging drug, otherwise he would have died of overwork by now.

It is for this reason that Rum believes that the pill is the only one in the world.

Even if it is not unique, that kind of magical medicine should only be qualified to be taken by the owner of the "huge empire" and the future heir.

In the future, Karasuma Renya will not only hand over the "huge empire" to him, but also the formula of that medicine.

Rum has always believed this in his heart.

Until some time ago, Ireland, who was undercover in the Japanese Metropolitan Police Department, sent back a piece of information saying that the high school detective Kudo Shinichi was still alive.

Originally, Rum didn't care much. It was normal for the grassroots members of the organization to occasionally make mistakes when killing people.

Just be more careful in the next life...

But when he retrieved the organization's data, he found that it was Gin, the most capable of the young generation of the organization, who killed Kudo Shinichi.

And the way to kill him was to use the organization's latest developed drug APTX-4869.

In order to recruit Gin for his own use, Rum once met Gin with his true face to test his attitude.

But the result of that conversation was not ideal. Gin was very stubborn and he would only be loyal to the boss of the organization.

Although he couldn't recruit Gin, Rum appreciated him more.

He didn't believe that Gin deliberately let Kudo Shinichi run away, nor did he believe that Gin's ability was not enough to kill Kudo Shinichi.

The only possible problem was the organization's newly developed APTX-4869.

In the organization's internal plan, this drug was a new type of poison, and no toxicological test could detect its toxicity.

Rum had used this drug on Amanda and Hiroshi Haneda 17 years ago.

But he didn't understand why this drug was called a "new drug" after 17 years?

And it couldn't kill Kudo Shinichi anymore?

Until Rum turned the investigation to Kudo Shinichi, he finally found a clue.

At a dinner party for a noble in London, England, Kudo Shinichi was photographed chatting and laughing with the noble.

Rum has been in the organization for so many years, and he is very familiar with the financial movements of the Karasuma Group, and he also knows a little about Karasuma Renye's life experience.

Part of the annual funds of the Karasuma Group flows to this family.

And this Kingston family seems to have some kinship with Karasuma Renye himself, and may be a servant family attached to Karasuma Renye.

Kudo Shinichi can chat and laugh with the people of this family, and he still survived after taking the poison that was obviously fatal.

Facing the most capable and most loyal Gin in the organization, he is still alive.

This made Rum think of a possibility.

The boss may be using him to achieve a purpose that he doesn't even know.

Since Karasuma Renye announced his "death" to the world, he has been in a state of almost complete retreat, and he has not cared about the operation of the Karasuma Group and the organization.

At first, Rum thought that there were limits to being a human being. Karasuma Renye may have felt that the end was approaching, and he had not much time left, so he had no intention of managing these affairs.

But 40 years have passed, and Rum has never heard the news of Karasuma Renye's death.

Even his father, the previous "Rum", was reported dead last winter.

You have to know that Isegawa Gozo was still in his prime, while Karasuma Renya was a emaciated old man.

Instead, it was Karasuma Renya who outlasted Isegawa Gozo, who was many years younger than him.

And Rum, who took anti-aging drugs, also survived from 30 to an old man who looked close to 60.

Because of this, Rum felt that he might not live longer than Karasuma Renya.

Even the lifespan is not comparable to Renya Karasuma, let alone the heir to the "huge empire"?

Karasuma Renye is actually using herself, commonly known as "painting the pie".

Or there is another possibility. Karasuma Renye has died a long time ago, and someone is secretly controlling the entire organization, including himself, in the name of Karasuma Renye.

No matter which one it was, Rum smelled a lie.

Renye Karasuma must be hiding something from herself.

There must be secrets in the organization that even I don't know about.

So, on the one hand, Rum ordered Bourbon to investigate Kudo Shinichi's information and confirm whether this kid had any background.

On the other hand, he began searching all programs within the organization as well as related facilities and locations.

Finally, he found a place he hadn't noticed.

A ship anchored under the name of the Karasuma Group houses the organization's "New Potential Laboratory".

Regarding this place, Rum had never seen it in person.

He only remotely connected to the system there through the Internet, and took under his command Curacao, an outstanding agent trained there.

The choice to save Curaçao from Belmode had two purposes.

First of all, he lacks loyal young subordinates. The new generation like Belmode and Gin are all fans of the boss.

Although he can order them, they are not his confidants after all.

The second is the special ability of his left eye, which he had to give up in order to escape from the enemy.

It was also after that incident that Rum realized that it was very risky for him to appear in public as before.

As a result, he began to spread rumors about his image within the organization, and would not show up in person if he could not do the tasks of the organization.

Even if you show up, you have to change into someone else's image.

But no matter how careful he is, he can't regain the lost power of his left eye.

However, Curacao's abilities are similar to his own, and he might be able to help him regain the power of his eyes one day in the future.

Now, Rum wanted to investigate the ship's information again, but found that the content of the database was empty.

Not only that, even his exclusive line couldn't be connected to the ship's system.

In other words, the ship was completely out of the control of him, the second-in-command of the organization.

The only person in the entire organization who has the ability to do this kind of thing is No. 1 who is still above him.

This further confirmed his previous suspicion that the boss was hiding something from him, the "heir".

Rum even thought of a more terrifying possibility.

Even the "heir" thing was a lie to himself.

In order to further confirm his thoughts, Rum thought of an invasion incident reported below many years ago.

At that time, the ship was still under his control. The two intruders on the ship were Akai Mutake and Rachel Asaka.

Through the video sent back from the scene, Rum recognized Asaka's identity as Amanda's bodyguard.

Later, the two escaped from the ship. Although the organization sent killers, they only killed Akai Muwu.

Asaka's whereabouts are unknown since then.

However, reports about the Haneda Koji case have recently appeared on the Internet, and there are even some details of the case that have not been disclosed by the police.

Rum felt something was suspicious, so he asked his men to investigate.

It turned out that the person who posted the message was an ordinary female teacher from Didan Elementary School.

Adhering to the principle of preferring to kill by mistake, Rum sent Scotch to deal with the opponent, but Scotch missed.

This surprised Rum and realized that the other party was probably Asaka from back then.

Combined with the current predicament, if you want to know what secrets are on that ship, you can only ask Asaka who had sneaked onto the ship back then.

So, Rum took Curacao's eyes and took action himself.

After using the ability of his eyes to confirm that the female teacher Rumi Wakasa was the Asaka who was beside Amanda back then, Rum set up a dragnet.

On the way, I also used my eyesight to discover that "Shirley" from the organization was hiding in the elementary school in her elementary school form.

Rum has always shown no mercy for traitors to the organization.

As for the situation on the ship, he wanted to ask Asaka personally.

He wants to know what the boss is hiding from him?

But he never expected that Asaka would have the ability to control his left eye!

Almost instantly, he, who is extremely smart, understood everything.

From beginning to end, I was just a pawn found by the boss to realize other plans...

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"Lord Rum, there is no one in the east hall."

"There's no one in the West Building."

"There's no one in the south hall."

"There's no one in the North Hall either..."

The voice from the intercom brought Rum's thoughts back to reality.

Rum turned his head and stared at the picture on the computer screen. He saw four men slowly approaching the main hall in the center.

"Open the door. I want to go to the main hall in person."

Suddenly, Rum gave an order coldly into the intercom.

He didn't even use a voice changer because he no longer had the need.

"yes."

A voice responded from the other side of the intercom.

Immediately afterwards, Rum ordered the driver sitting in the front seat to drive.

The black Bentley drove slowly down the hillside. When it arrived at the gate of the Angel House, after waiting for less than ten seconds, the gate slowly opened.

The access control system here has backup power, so the power supply of the gate is not affected.

The Bentley slowly drove into the Angel's Mansion and drove swaggeringly on the main road in the center of the manor.

Rum looked at the garden outside the car window, and recalled the scenes of playing here with his younger brothers and sisters when he was a child.

If he had not chosen to take the pill, he would undoubtedly be the owner of this manor now.

When Iseya Gozo died last year, Rum heard that he left a puzzle, and only those who could solve the puzzle among his descendants could inherit his entire estate.

According to the order of succession, Rum should have been the first to solve the puzzle.

But for Rum, once you have seen the sea, you can never be as good as water.

The wealth that Iseya Gozo spent his life accumulating is just a drop in the bucket of the Karasuma Group, or a wall brick of the Karasuma Renye family.

So he neither went back to visit the seriously ill Iseya Gozo nor participated in solving the puzzle.

But things are different now.

The matter of succession has fallen through, and his position as the second in command in the organization has become a thing of the past.

Until this moment, Rum regretted that he had not used his power to accumulate a small treasury for himself.

After all, for decades, he had always thought that he would be able to survive Karasuma Renya after taking anti-aging drugs.

After Karasuma Renya died, as the second-in-command of the organization, he would be able to inherit the entire organization.

Unfortunately, this ambition has now been completely dashed.

But fortunately, his father, Iseya Gozo, has money.

With this money, he can at least guarantee a lifetime of food and clothing.

Even make a comeback.

Although Iseya Gozo's money is far less than that of the Karasuma Group, it is far more than that of ordinary rich people.

The vehicle slowly drove through the stepped garden and finally stopped at the door of the main hall.

Four men in black suits, black hats and sunglasses were already waiting at the door.

One of them opened the back door and Rum got out of the car.

"Go in."

"Go find a living person, and then find out the puzzle left by Ise River Gangzo."

Rum's mouth corners slightly raised, revealing a grim smile.

Surrounded by four men and a driver, Rum entered the main hall openly.

The main hall is also called the Bull Hall, because there is a huge bull statue standing in the center of the hall.

The bull symbolizes power in the stock market and has a very good meaning.

So the most statues in the entire Angel Hall are related to bulls.

Rum looked at the bull statue in front of him with his hands behind his back, and recalled himself climbing on the head of the bull statue when he was a child, and he couldn't help but snorted.

The four men took the initiative to enter the hall and began to search.

A driver accompanied Rum on the side and back.

The hall was silent for a moment.

Suddenly, a man's voice came from the intercom.

"Lord Rum! Found it!"

"I'm in the collection room in the east now!"

Upon hearing this, Rum immediately turned around and walked towards the collection room with the driver.

When he arrived at the collection room, he saw a little girl with twin ponytails being held tightly by the men in black.