Corpse collector in Conan

"..."

Toru Amuro smoothly closed the device and unhooked it, thinking about a lot in an instant.

If they were suddenly attacked after peripheral members installed the equipment, the matter would be relatively simple - probably a strange person passed by, tortured everyone hiding on the mountain, and then walked away waving his sleeves .

But what if...the recording equipment was not installed by peripheral members.

Is he the enemy of Tatsuzo Watanuki? Persons involved in the murder case five years ago? Or...are there other people helping the organization?

A figure suddenly appeared in Amuro Toru's mind.

Wearing a police academy uniform, with fluffy black natural curls - Matsuda Jinpei's face.

After a moment of pause, the face in his mind changed slightly, and slowly changed into the mysterious man who called himself "Kurosawa Zuo".

...I suddenly remembered this because Toru Amuro remembered that a similar thing seemed to have happened in the Tougami Forest - the murderer who killed the fake "Jiang Xia" was beaten by Matsuda for no reason. If Kazami Yu hadn't arrived in time, he would probably have been beaten twice in a row.

And now, there are people around who are being beaten inexplicably... The victims are peripheral members of the organization, and Tatsuzo Watanuki's younger brother. No matter who they are, they can be regarded as outlaws. The nature of the murderer is the same.

Toru Amuro: "..." Could it be that Matsuda is still following him until now?

Also, and more importantly, in this case, what about the recording equipment mounted on the tree? Is Matsuda really connected with the organization?

...No, we can’t draw a conclusion yet.

To figure this out, the first thing to determine is whether the equipment was installed by peripheral members or by Matsuda. Otherwise everything is just useless conjecture.

Toru Amuro took the removed recording equipment and jumped down from the tree. He wanted to wake up the people on the ground immediately and ask about the situation.

But although his identity of "Toru Amuro" was fake, during the period of undercover, this identity was regarded as his "identity", and it was not easy to expose "Toru Amuro = Bourbon" to others casually.

In the end, Toru Amuro could only hold back and prepare to send an email to inquire later.

Jiang Xia also scouted around and walked back, stepping on the dead leaves.

A crisp sound interrupted Toru Amuro's thoughts.

He looked at Jiang Xia, who glanced at the recording equipment in his hand. It seems that he still remembered the thing about "trying to cover your boss's waistcoat as much as possible", so Jiang Xia asked like a simple working detective: "Call the police?"

"It's okay, it's stopped." Toru Amuro lowered his voice and shook the recording equipment in his hand towards Jiang Xia, indicating that the thing was not working at the moment and they did not need to continue the performance, "leave here first."

…

On the way down the mountain, Toru Amuro took out his mobile phone and sent an email to the organization members staying near the hotel, asking them to come up and clean up the scene as soon as possible.

He himself and Jiang Xia chose a road that would not meet those people and returned to the hotel.

The only people who had seen him and Jiang Xia just now were Watanuki Chenzo and his two younger brothers. The three people had no idea of ​​the time after they fainted, so they could figure it out on their own. When they lost consciousness, the two detectives' cell phones ran out of battery, so they had to go down the mountain to find a place to call the police. During this period, peripheral members of the organization went up the mountain to pick up a leak— -Anyway, Watanuki Tatsuzo and the others did not know that members of the organization also fell to the ground around them and needed a lot of time to deal with the aftermath. Moreover, information between the two parties will not be exchanged. Watanuki Tatsuzo and others will only stay in the hands of peripheral members for a short time, and will soon be transferred to other places. By that time, compared with the five billion yen lost due to Watanuki Tatsuzo's leak, the intruding detective will naturally no longer be the focus of the problem.

…

Jiang Xia and Toru Amuro wandered around the foot of the mountain, and waited until the peripheral members moved all the people on the mountain and packed up the bones, before they returned to the hotel.

Then Toru Amuro returned to the room, checked and processed the recording, packaged it and sent it to the person in charge of the docking.

Jiang Xia sat across from the coffee table and watched quietly.

When he saw Toru Amuro closing the computer, stretching, and looking like he was done and calling it a day, he couldn't help but ask: "Does this count as done?"

"Yes. More professional people are responsible for the interrogation and aftermath. Our job is only intelligence and supervision." Toru Amuro responded, walked to the small refrigerator in the corner of the room, took out a can of cold beer, and threw a can to Jiang Xia. Chilled orange juice.

Then he opened the can with a bang, raised his head and took a comfortable sip, which was considered a small celebration.

It is not difficult to complete this organizational task, which is more formal than practical. What Toru Amuro wanted to celebrate was actually the end of something else...

He looked out the window at the night, drank beer, and briefly enjoyed some leisurely adult time. Then he turned around and planned to let Jiang Xia go back to his room to rest.

But just when he looked at Jiang Xia, Toru Amuro suddenly discovered that Jiang Xia was looking down at the can of ice orange juice, touching the water mist condensed on the can, and he seemed a little disappointed.

"...?"

Amuro Toru was confused for a moment, and suddenly remembered something.

Speaking of which, I had only been out with Jiang Xia for a few days, and I was already tortured by this pace of life. But Jiang Xia has lived a similar life for a long time, often encountering cases, and being disrupted by various murderers, but he has never objected to solving cases.

...Is it because only in this way did Jiang Xia find her value and sense of existence as a detective? Because only at this time can he completely immerse himself in the role of detective and briefly break away from his status as a peripheral member of the organization?

Thinking of this, Toru Amuro reviewed it carefully. They found that the cases they encountered while out this time seemed to be a little more than what Jiang Xia usually encountered.

Jiang Xia may not have thought much about it, but subconsciously he combined this trip with the "case", so now that he heard that the trip was about to end, he reflexively felt disappointed.

"..." Thinking of this, Amuro Toru felt a little emotional.

If he had more free time, he wouldn't mind accompanying Jiang Xia to encounter a few more cases.

But...but he is really busy and has a lot to do, so he must try to maintain a healthy mental state...

After recalling his situation a few days ago, Toru Amuro's invitation to "It's okay, we'll go out together when we have time next time" was clearly on his lips, but he couldn't say it anyway.

In the end, he just changed the topic with guilt and sent Jiang Xia back to the room.

All journeys should have an end, and this one is certainly no different. It's a pity, but it's time to end...