Refuse to allow Conan to join the main storyline

Looking at the rapidly receding taillights of the car, Koizumi let out a long sigh.

If the information from her little brother in the Cat Group was correct, the name "Rena Mizunashi" would appear on the list of applicants that the CIA would send to the special talent recruitment fair.

Rena Mizunashi, isn't this Hondou Eikai, the biological daughter of Isen Hondou?

How old was her daughter when she was sent out by the CIA as an undercover agent?

Oh, 21 years old.

So we are of the same age, then it’s okay.

After receiving the news, Koizumi was considering whether to tell Ethan Hondou about this matter.

If Hondou Eikai could have been kicked out in advance, perhaps the incident of Ethan Hondou committing suicide to save his daughter would not have happened again in the future.

She was still hesitating, but Gin happened to send Ethan over.

The list of names in Koizumi's hand now needs to be kept absolutely confidential, no matter how she handles it or the people who will assist her in handling it.

It's just right. Let's take this opportunity to get Isen Hondou out of the way and see if we can successfully prevent "Rena Mizunashi" from appearing.

Standing under the street light, Koizumi took a quick look at Ethan Bendou's to-do list.

Nine people.

Including her eight, there are a total of seventeen dead ghosts.

Then, on the list of Ethan Ben, she finally saw a name that she remembered.

Miyazaki Kazuki...

This is a person that Takahashi Ryuu mentioned when he was telling his own story. He was a "friend" of his.

Since Takahashi hasn't been found, is Gin planning to expand the scope of the cleanup and eradicate the problem completely?

Because Ethan Bentang needs to act with her, the people on the list must not be important core figures.

The most important cleaning task should be entirely in Gin's own hands.

Almost all of the Cat Team's younger brothers have been assigned tracking and surveillance tasks. I'm afraid we can't rely on them this time.

Three days, seventeen people...

She really can't do it on her own.

Koizumi thought about it and sent an email to Furuya Rei: [Are you still in the safe house? ]

Furiya Rei replied quickly: [Yes.]

【Wait, I'll be there soon. 】

------

The bedroom in the safe house was definitely uninhabitable, and the hole was only barely covered up.

Takahashi Ryuu was eventually handcuffed to the water pipe in the kitchen, right next to the living room, under the nose of Furiya Rei, so there was no possibility for him to do anything tricky.

The documents that Yuya Kazami brought were spread all over the sofa and the coffee table.

When Koizumi came over, he saw two people who had gotten a whiteboard from somewhere, and the whiteboard was full of names and character relationship diagrams.

She took a quick look and found that the two people had basically sorted out Takahashi Ryuu's complete experience.

"…Sakurai."

Yuya Kazami came over and handed her a can of ice cola.

Koizumi took it and smiled, "You still remember it? Thank you. Long time no see, Kazami. I didn't have a chance to say hello to you the last time we met."

"Well, long time no see."

Yuya Kazami felt somewhat emotional. He never expected that he would have the chance to work with Koizumi again one day.

He was originally hesitant and wanted to say something else, wanting to ask her if she had seen the message he left her, but seeing that Koizumi's attention was completely focused on the contents of the whiteboard, he simply put aside these unnecessary thoughts and began to introduce her to the results of his work over the past few days.

"Takahashi Ryuu, 42 years old, is a construction engineer by profession and has worked for several construction companies. He has a gambling habit and has a record of embezzling public funds many times. His reputation during his tenure was very bad, which seriously affected his reputation. During his last company, he was found to have embezzled a large sum of funds, and the company originally planned to sue him. However, it is unknown where he got the large sum of money from, and he returned the money to the company. However, despite this, he was fired because of this incident.

"Because of his bad reputation, he has never been able to find a new job. However, probably because of his good professional skills, he can still find some odd jobs, and his income is even higher than when he was working in the company. But this man has not changed his bad habits, and he still gambles all the money he earns.

"About a year ago, he took over a project for a pharmaceutical research institute and suddenly disappeared when the project was about to be completed. According to him, he was hiding from the organization's operation to kill him. Some later records show that he was accused of killing his friend's family of four and became a wanted criminal. The subsequent records are basically consistent with his own oral statement."

Koizumi said, "Don't think about it. The one who helped Takahashi pay back the money must have been the organization. But it should be a loan shark with a very high interest rate, right, Mr. Takahashi?"

She walked over to the man who was slumped on the ground and squatted down. "Who was the one who first asked to lend you the money? Cohen? Jack Daniels? Vodka?"

Koizumi stared at the subtle expressions on his face and said the code names of the organization members one by one: "...Oh, it's Vodka. Haha, it turns out that the big fool is actually capable of working. I thought he was just a driver."

Koizumi smiled and continued, "The interest was very high and you couldn't afford it. But the organization didn't force you at that time. They just gave you some small projects, which not only paid off your debts but also made money. You gradually gave up your vigilance, took on one project after another, and made more and more money. You felt that the organization was a soft persimmon that was easy to bully, so you didn't rush to use the money you earned to pay off your debts, but instead gambled it all. Until one day..."

Koizumi had a smile on his face, but suddenly changed his tone to a sinister one and said, "Until one day, Gin suddenly appeared in front of you."

Takahashi Ryuu had been keeping his head down, and suddenly he began to tremble.

Koizumi: "He gave you three choices: pay back the money immediately, pay with your life, or take on a new task assigned by him at a very favorable price. For you, this choice was simply out of options, so you chose to take on the engineering task of the drug research base."

"You said you don't know what research center you designed? Ha, you're kidding. A drug research center with a human laboratory. You know everything about the design style, building materials, and traps inside. Why do you think Gin must kill you to silence you, Mr. Takahashi? Because all of those were designed by you, because you know too much, right?"

Takahashi Ryuu suddenly raised his head, stared at Koizumi with horrified eyes, and asked in a trembling voice: "Who are you? Why do you know everything? Who are you!"

Koizumi smiled and said, "My name is Sakurai Izumi."

"Izumi Sakurai? You're Detective Sakurai!"

Takahashi shouted excitedly: "I am the one who called you for help! Please save me, please save me quickly!"

"Are you asking for help? You asked me to meet you at that house the next morning, but you didn't plan to wait for me there from the beginning, right? You left the story you made up there in the form of a letter, taking advantage of the detective's tendency to get to the bottom of things, so that I would investigate and track down those men in black who were chasing you, and you could take the opportunity to get away. That's what you planned, right?"

The glimmer of hope that had just risen in Gaoqiao's eyes was extinguished immediately. He trembled and said, "I, I don't know what you are talking about..."

"do not know?"

Koizumi smiled and unfolded a piece of letter paper, shaking it in front of him: "This is the letter you prepared in advance. You forgot to take it when you escaped, so my people brought it back for me. Oh, Mr. Takahashi, if I hadn't sent someone to check on you in advance, you would have died. Even out of gratitude to your savior, can't you tell the truth?"

Takahashi kept his mouth tightly shut.

"Well, it doesn't matter."

Koizumi smiled and said, "Perhaps you should have heard of my other name. Have you heard of Mello?"

Takahashi Ryuu's face suddenly turned pale.

He stared at Koizumi's face, trembling like leaves in the autumn wind: "You, you are... you are in the same group with them! You are in the same group with Gin!"

With red eyes, he shouted at Furuya Rei and Kazami Yuya who were standing behind Koizumi: "Officer, she is in cahoots with those guys in black clothes! She is here to kill me!"

But seeing the two people's indifferent expressions, Gao Qiao trembled even more: "...You, you are not police officers, you are all in the same gang!"

Koizumi threw a stack of white paper and a pen in front of him: "Restore the design drawings of the base to me, and mark all the mechanisms you tampered with."

She stood up, glanced at Takahashi Ryuu and sneered: "If I go back for a recheck and find even one thing wrong... hehe."