Conan: I Am Not a Snake Spirit

It was half past twelve in the afternoon.

Chi Feichi arrived at the restaurant where Jingnan Liyuan worked to eat.

This is a high-end Italian restaurant with two floors. The first floor is a public dining area, and the second floor is a small banquet hall, which is provided for group dinners, small birthday parties, pre-wedding bachelor parties and other activities.

The restaurant looks fashionable from the outside, but the interior decoration is exquisite and elegant. Guests walk past the front desk to the spacious dining area, where wooden tables and chairs are arranged in an orderly manner. Bright light shines in from the windows. The warm-colored floor and the empty tables and chairs are clean and tidy, which can easily make guests feel comfortable.

Chi Feichi arrived at the restaurant at mealtime. Half of the seats in the restaurant were occupied. Waiters in white shirts shuttled between the seats and served food to the table with trays. The whole restaurant had a lively atmosphere, but it was not noisy and was also suitable for dining.

The front desk waiter was a little surprised when he heard that Chi Feichi came to eat alone, but he quickly put away the surprised expression on his face. After asking Chi Feichi about his preference for seats, he took Chi Feichi to sit by the window and helped Chi Feichi order food.

Chi Feichi flipped through the menu and ordered a combo meal provided by the store. While waiting for the food to be served, he took out his phone to reply to Ul messages and kept an eye on Yasuhiro Rimoto's actions.

Yueshui and Hongzi went to the herbal medicine store to buy herbs and were eating together in a restaurant in Jianggutian...

Ai was in school and had already had lunch. The first class in the afternoon would soon begin...

When the food was served, Yasuhiro Rimoto delivered a meal and then delivered the vegetable salad given by the store to Chi Feichi. He behaved properly and spoke politely. He didn't look like a paranoid at all.

However, when Yasuhiro Rimoto returned to the front desk after delivering the meal and interacted with his colleagues, Chi Feichi still noticed a detail: Yasuhiro Rimoto talked to his male colleague with an ugly face, and his eyes showed warnings and threats, which was completely different from his gentle appearance when delivering the meal. The male waiter seemed to be used to Yasuhiro Rimoto showing this expression and explained something nervously.

At the urging of the store manager, Rimoto Yasuno and his male colleague stopped whispering and turned to pick up and deliver the food.

Chi Feichi kept an eye on Rimoto Yasuno's actions from time to time, and calmly finished his lunch. He did not deliberately contact Rimoto Yasuno, but directly checked out and left. He returned to the Umbrella Tokyo office building and sat in the office to record work notes and check the information of other candidates.

When Rimoto Yasuno whispered to the male waiter, his eyes showed malice and disdain, as if he did not regard the male waiter as a colleague at all, but regarded him as a tool for him to vent his anger and a fun to kill time when he was bored. His expression and eyes revealed a bad bully...

If Rimoto Yasuno was an informant of the police, he would just have to work normally, and there was no need to add such a difficult drama to himself.

In other words, if Yasuhiro Rimoto has become an informant for the police, under the influence of the police's sense of justice, Yasuhiro Rimoto thinks of his behavior of bullying and isolating others when he was in school. Even if he does not feel much guilt or regret, he will feel that such behavior is not glorious and is a stain on his life. No one wants to experience a stain in life again. Therefore, Yasuhiro Rimoto should be more averse to such behavior than normal people, and it is unlikely that he will choose such a repertoire setting when acting.

Yasuhiro Rimoto behaves like this when he contacts his colleagues. It is unlikely that he is acting, and it is unlikely that he is a police informant...

...

That night.

Toru Amuro knocked on the door of Kudo's house and met Subaru Okiya, who was disguised by Yusaku Kudo.

With the joint preparation of Yusaku Kudo, Conan, and Shuichi Akai, Toru Amuro sat and chatted with 'Subaru Okiya' for a while. Not only did he fail to prove that 'Subaru Okiya is Shuichi Akai', but even the public security subordinates sent to arrest Judy and Andre Cameron were stopped by the real Shuichi Akai.

Akai Shuichi handed the pistol that Kusuda Rikudichi used to commit suicide to Toru Amuro's men, and got the mobile phone from Toru Amuro's men, and revealed Toru Amuro's true identity during the call.

"You told that kid that your code name is 'Zero', which is your biggest failure. There are not many names with the nickname 'Zero', and it is easy to find it, Furuya Zero..."

When Toru Amuro heard Akai Shuichi say his name on the phone, his face became very ugly.

"Your plan should be to capture me and hand me over to those guys, so as to make great contributions and get closer to the power center of the organization, so as to obtain more core intelligence," said Akai Shuichi, "but I want to remind you of one thing. I hope you don't just focus on the immediate goal and make the mistake of the real hunting target. I don't want to be your enemy! If possible, I actually want to communicate with you about the information..."

"You ran to someone else's house without permission. You had no intention of communicating with others from the beginning," Amuro Toru stood in the living room of the Kudo family, with his back to 'Okiya Subaru' on the phone, with a gloomy face and asked in a bad tone, "In this case, do you think I will be willing to communicate with you?"

"It's about Mr. Chi," Akai Shuichi did not respond to Amuro Toru's questioning, and directly said what he wanted to communicate, "I was thinking that if the organization has any actions against Mr. Chi, we might be able to help. Whether it is me or that little brother, we don't want Mr. Chi to get into trouble, and I think you are the same..."

Amuro Toru heard Akai Shuichi say this, and suddenly remembered what Chi Feichi said the night before.

Last night the consultant said: ‘We have a good relationship. Akai and Conan may suspect that we are in cahoots. When you meet Akai, he may test you. Don’t let it slip…’

Is Akai testing him or trying to get him to say something? What a cunning guy!

I thought he would be even angrier, but for some reason, when he thought of the consultant’s cold expression and calm tone when he said this, his anger dissipated a lot.

The consultant was so calm. If he was mad at Akai, he would look like a loser…Is it because he couldn’t continue to be angry when he thought of this?

Or because he was mad at the consultant from time to time before, he would be able to suppress his anger when he thought of the consultant’s face?

Seeing that Toru Amuro didn't say anything, Akai Shuichi continued, "Of course, if Mr. Chi didn't encounter any trouble, or you think the trouble can be solved without our help, you don't have to say anything tonight. When you need it, you can tell the little brother the news..."

"If you really don't want to be my enemy," Toru Amuro interrupted seriously, "then don't involve others casually."

"I know..." Akai Shuichi knew the root of Toru Amuro's defense against him, and was silent for a while, "In fact, I still feel sorry about him."

Toru Amuro thought of the dead Keimitsu Morobushi and clenched his teeth.

He knew that Akai and Conan were both smart, but he agreed with the consultant's ideas and didn't reveal any information about the consultant to Akai and Conan, because he was really not sure whether Akai was trustworthy...

On the other end of the phone, Akai Shuichi didn't say anything more, returned the phone to the public security police, and asked Andre Cameron to drive himself and Judy away.

"Mr. Furuya, they're gone. What should we do now?" the public security police asked on the phone, "Should we chase them?"

Amuro Toru closed his eyes, adjusted his mood, and said, "No, they already know our true identity. It may be dangerous to chase them. You should retreat first. I'll explain to the higher-ups."

"Yes, I got it!"

The phone was hung up.

Amuro Toru put down the phone, looked at the call end page, thought about it, entered a number on the dial page, and dialed the phone.

Last night, the consultant said: 'Amuro, if your plan can't succeed this time, forget it. In fact, it's better to keep the status quo... They may be able to help you in the future...'

At that time, he thought the consultant was persuading him to give up the plan, but now it seems that the consultant has noticed something and feels that his plan cannot succeed, so he counseled and comforted him in advance?

If that's the case, then...

In a room upstairs, Conan sat at a computer desk, staring at the surveillance screen of the living room displayed on the computer. He felt the vibration of the phone in his trouser pocket. He took out his phone and looked at it. Then he looked up at Amuro Toru who was on the phone in the surveillance screen. He sweated and quickly spoke to the microphone on the table in the voice of Subaru Okiya.

"Hey, Mr. Amuro, are you in any trouble? Do you need help?"

In the living room downstairs, the voice came from the mask taken off by 'Subaru Okiya'.

Yusaku Kudo, wearing the disguised face of Subaru Okiya, immediately turned his head to look at Amuro Toru after hearing the voice, cooperating with Conan to perform a double act.

Toru Amuro did not hang up the phone. He held the phone in his right hand and looked up at Subaru Okiya with a smile on his face. "No... I didn't encounter any trouble. I'm really sorry today. I suddenly came to tell you something insignificant. By the way, do you remember what I told you when we met last time? Those words about cooking tips..."

Conan: "..."

Oops...

Mr. Akai didn't tell him this. He didn't know what cooking tips they talked about. Moreover, Mr. Amuro said this, obviously testing him. He might have suspected that he was hiding here.

"Ahem," Kudo Yusaku found that Toru Amuro was paying attention to his lip shape. He raised his hand to his lips and coughed twice, signaling Conan not to use the microphone to transmit the sound anymore. Then he looked up at Toru Amuro, with a trace of confusion on his face, pretending to recall seriously, "Cooking tips? Sorry, it's been too long. I don't remember what we talked about when we met last time... Is the cooking tip you mentioned important to you?"