Refuse to allow Conan to join the main storyline

"So what do these things have to do with the tasks you want to issue in the organization?"

After going around in circles, the topic finally returned to the original track.

Koizumi: "Anyone who bought the tutorial died or got hurt. As a buyer who is still intact, don't you feel threatened?"

Gin:......

Koizumi sneered at him: "You don't feel threatened because I was the one who got your share back."

Gin:......

Koizumi: "Let me ask you, do you have a guilty conscience?"

She smiled at Gin without any smile, and nodded: "You won't, because you have no conscience. This has been proven long ago."

Gin:......

In a trance, he returned to the day when he planned to use Melo to deal with the drug dealers, but she made a scene in the Dahei Bar. The woman pointed at his nose and cursed, "You have no conscience at all."

Gin blurted out subconsciously: "You are a little angry today."

"Pfft...hahaha!"

Koizumi couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"Oh, no, I can't do it anymore. I'm having a headache from laughing. My wounds haven't healed yet." Koizumi held his head and stopped laughing after a long while. "Oh, come on, don't tease me."

Gin ignored the crazy guy and just kept smoking.

"Okay, okay, let me get back to business. Hiccup."

Koizumi wiped away the tears from his laughter and tried to bring the topic back, but he could no longer find the serious atmosphere at the beginning, so he simply gave up.

"Well, I think the man who sniped me might attack me again, so I have to be on guard. The only breakthrough in the investigation now lies in Pramya. After my research and analysis, I think this man is probably an international mercenary or someone of similar identity."

She directly used Matsuda Jinpei's analysis results as an excuse: "My intelligence network is not that wide, so I wanted to ask if you have any intelligence."

"Yes." Gin answered her question directly, "But you may not be able to afford the reward."

Koizumi glared at him: "… Tell me a number first."

Gin smiled, and Lion said, "Just, 900 million."

Koizumi rolled his eyes: "I earned my life with this money, and I'm using it to fill your hole? What are you thinking!"

"Then I'll give you a discount, 500 million."

Koizumi stared at him with an unpleasant expression: "...Are you serious?"

"Well, I told you, you can't afford it."

"...You!"

Just when Koizumi was about to lose her temper, a phone call interrupted her.

Koizumi swallowed the unpleasant words that were about to come out of his mouth, took out his mobile phone and took a look at it, then raised his eyebrows slightly, with an expression of surprise on his face.

She glanced at Gin, pressed the answer button, and said cheerfully, "Wai wai wai, Mr. Ben Gong, good evening."

Rum's phone call?

Gin frowned slightly. Why was he looking for Mello?

He thought about it, then reached out and knocked on the table twice.

Koizumi looked up at him, rolled his eyes and ignored him.

Gin didn't believe that Mello didn't understand what he meant. After thinking for a while, he stretched out his hand and made a "two" gesture.

Two hundred million?

Koizumi looked at him, then at the two fingers, and finally decided to compromise and reluctantly pressed the speaker button.

"...Even so, you still don't plan to sell your shares in Victoria Group?"

Gin:......

So it was about the 30% stake? Ha, Rum actually wanted to make money from this small money swindler?

As expected, Melo mercilessly retorted: "Are you sick? I've already said I won't transfer it. Do you need this little money? If you want to be a shareholder of Victoria Group, go to the market and buy it yourself. Why are you arguing with me?"

"Oh, of course it's because you're short of money."

Melo frowned: "I'm sorry you guessed wrong, I really don't need it right now."

"I heard that you are already working on opening a branch of the cat cafe?"

"How can you not spend a few..."

"I heard that you are planning to open a security company?"

Gin saw that Mello was stunned for a moment, then he quickly glanced at his face and looked away, gritting his teeth and said, "I won't sell it either! If I say I won't sell it, then I won't sell it!"

Security company…

So this rumor is true?

Gin stared at Koizumi with a meaningful look.

This woman really picked an interesting topic. And judging from the situation, she was planning to keep the news about the security company secret from me? Was she planning to leave the organization and work on her own? No, probably not leaving the organization, but leaving me. Humph...

Rum on the other end of the phone suddenly changed the subject and said, "You're not selling your shares. Does that mean you don't want my investment? I've already told you that I plan to buy at a premium, not to take advantage of you."

Koizumi said with a hateful expression: "This is the only long-term source of income I have, and you said you wanted to take it away. Are you kind? Do you dare to say that you are not planning to use the capital flow to control the security company? You are dreaming!"

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a moment, then Rum chuckled. From his tone, there was no trace of embarrassment at having his little tricks exposed in front of him. Instead, he said with interest, "...Okay. We're not short of funds, but we're always short of manpower, right?"

Mello: “…No shortage!”

Rum chuckled, "Do you know about Qingshui Technology?"

When he suddenly heard this name, Gin's nerves immediately tensed up and he frowned slightly.

Why did Rum suddenly mention the name of this company?

Mello, who was sitting opposite him, quickly turned around and exchanged a look with him, as if asking him "what's going on". Seeing that Gin didn't give any hint, he said, "I don't know. What do you want to say?"

"Well, you really don't need to know. One of my companies has declared bankruptcy and has been deregistered. Now I happen to have a complete financial team. Do you want it?"

Melo: "...Heh, your financial team? I really don't want them. But if you're willing to let them go out and work as security guards with batons, I can consider rewarding them with a meal."

"Security... Sure. Wait, I'll send it to the office for you. Remember to sign for it."

"Huh? Wait! Now? I haven't agreed yet... Hey!"

The phone hangs up.

Melo frowned and stared at his phone for a few seconds, then stood up suddenly: "If there's nothing else, I'll go back first."

Gin stood up and walked out of the bar: "If my car is gone, then your intelligence is gone too."

Koizumi stared, as if he wanted to say something but didn't, and the expression on his face changed quickly in an instant.

Gin ignored her and walked out of the building first.

Vodka's face turned pale, and he ran over panting, his voice fifty decibels lower: "Big, big brother..."

"did you find it?"

"without……"

"Isn't it parked right over there?"

Koizumi crossed his arms, looked in a certain direction and spoke leisurely.

"Eh?"

Vodka hurriedly followed Koizumi's gaze and saw that Gin's Porsche was parked in its original position on the side of the road, as if it had never moved.

"Eh?!"

Vodka ran over, circled the Porsche twice, opened the door and got in.

This, this is his boss Gin's car, for sure! But, but...

But he had just checked this place back and forth countless times, and there was really nothing!

Is there something wrong with his eyes?

Gin glanced at Koizumi and curled the corners of his mouth slightly.

Is this the start of a large-scale magic show? He even chose vodka to participate in the performance out of mischief.

This trick was quite interesting, but he didn't see any flaws. Even if this woman didn't become a detective, she could probably make a living as a magician.

"Let's go, Nekozuka."

Gin was stunned for a moment: "Don't want the information anymore?"

"Forget it, it's too expensive. I can't afford it. I'll find a way to go myself."

Gin raised his eyebrows slightly, watched the two people get in the car and leave, opened the back door of the Porsche and sat in the back seat. He reached out and picked up the folder that was thrown on the back seat of the car, flipped through all the information about "Pramya" including the documents translated by Vodka, and threw it aside again.

Vodka has good eyesight, he won't lie, and he certainly won't collude with that woman Melo.

So, his car and the documents in it were indeed missing for some time.

How did Melo do it? Did she know that the information she wanted was in the car, or was it just a coincidence? Was her performance in the Dahei Bar just an act to buy time for her assistant? Who was her acting assistant?

A name suddenly flashed in Gin's mind.

"Toru Amuro".

No, not likely.

He was sure that Mello had an assistant all along, but that person was hiding very well and he could not find any flaws.

Melo's cautious personality would definitely not allow the invisible assistant to be exposed under his nose.

"Toru Amuro" was a smoke bomb thrown by her.

No, now is not the time to study Merlot, these things are minor issues. More important is the information revealed by Rum's phone call just now.

Thinking about it carefully, it was indeed unusual for Rum to have ruined Qingshui Technology without finishing the job properly. With his style of doing things, such a major mistake should not have occurred.

If it’s not a mistake, then what is it?

Giving Melo a financial team could be interpreted as a gesture of goodwill, or as a foreshadowing in order to control Melo's security company.

Packing up the entire drug development team and sending it to yourself is...

Is there a spy of Rum in that drug team?

No, he had checked carefully and there was indeed nothing wrong with those researchers.

So that's... a gesture of goodwill?

...Will Rum show good will to him?

No, I don’t believe it.

Check again!