Chapter 464
, Chapter 2, the author who only includes the title is terrible at naming.
"Tick."
Something liquid slid down my face.
It was cold, sticky, and had a faint, almost imperceptible fishy smell.
Rei Furuya suddenly opened his eyes.
He was met with complete darkness. He paused for a second, tried to sit up, and was surprised to find himself unable to move. His arms and legs were pinned down by something.
It was too dark all around him to see what it was, but after feeling it carefully, he was sure that the thing pressing down on him was not heavy, and it even felt like fabric.
With a little effort, Furuya Rei freed his hands and feet from under those things. He slowly sat up.
pat.
As he stood up, something slid off his chest and fell to the ground.
Rei Furuya didn't pick it up. He felt a dull pain in the back of his head, and two questions popped into his mind.
where is this?
Why is he here?
……
The reason why Rei Furuya, who was originally investigating information about the organization at the Nagano Prefectural Police Headquarters, appeared at a mysterious location has to be traced back to a few hours earlier.
A few hours ago.
In an office, Kazami Yuya looked away from the screen in front of him.
He took off his glasses, picked up the eye drops and put them in his eyes twice, his face showing undisguised fatigue.
Rei Furuya, sitting next to him, glanced up at the clock above and was surprised to find that it was almost midnight.
He then turned to his subordinate who had come to Nagano with him and said, "You can go back now, Kazami."
Upon hearing him speak, Kazami Yuya hurriedly put his glasses back on: "No need, Mr. Furuya, everyone is still busy, how can I leave alone?"
"Gurgle~~"
A rumbling sound came from a stomach.
Kazami Yuya was taken aback and awkwardly covered his stomach.
He had been waiting in the office all morning for Mr. Furuya to report on recent work to the administrator, and hadn't gone to lunch. They were so busy in the evening that they naturally didn't eat dinner either. After two meals without food, their stomachs were starting to rumble.
After reporting his work at noon, Furuya Rei had lunch with the management officer. Hearing the noise, he naturally realized what was going on and said with a smile, "Go and rest for a bit and have something to eat. You'll only slow things down if you're like this."
"……I see."
Upon hearing this, Kazami Yuya knew there was no room for negotiation, so he had no choice but to push back his chair and get up.
Perhaps because of his large movements, his arm accidentally bumped into a large stack of folders on the side of his desk. The ones on top wobbled and slowly slid down from the top.
"!!"
Kazami Yuya rushed to help, but Furuya Rei was a step ahead and caught the folders one by one.
"Be more careful next time," he said helplessly.
"Yes."
Kazami Yuya was even more embarrassed. He quickened his pace, not even looking at the reactions of others, and hurriedly left the office.
There were more than just the two of them in the office at this time. Another police officer who had arrived that afternoon, Kazami Yuu, also left and said to Furuya Rei, "You've been busy all day, aren't you going to rest?"
"Wait until you finish reading what you have here."
Rei Furuya isn't trying to be an invincible superhero like 007. He'll take breaks when he needs to, so he can maintain his best condition.
He intended to put the folder back, but seeing the mountain of files that looked like it was about to collapse, he silently stopped: "What's going on with all this data? Is it just going to stay here like this?"
Due to the principle of confidentiality in public security missions, he didn't even look at these documents, even though they were piled up right next to him.
"Oh, you mean this?"
The policeman craned his neck to look at the documents in Furuya Rei's hand and recognized them at a glance: "These are a compilation of missing persons cases in Nagano in recent years. We are not sure yet whether they are related to the organization, so we have just left them there."
Rei Furuya suddenly remembered something: "Is it the series of missing persons cases that the superintendent specifically transferred here to handle?"
“Yes,” another colleague sighed. “In the past two years, nearly 160 people have gone missing, centered around a remote village.”
Rei Furuya's eyebrows twitched violently: "So many?"
"Yes." Seeing his reaction, his colleague quickly added, "Don't be nervous, it shouldn't be human trafficking. Most of the missing people are elderly, and many of them got Alzheimer's disease and went missing on their own. Their families reported them missing a few days later."
elder?
Rei Furuya's brows remained furrowed.
Seeing his state, his colleague said helplessly, "Furuya, you must be tired after watching the surveillance for so long. Why don't you go out and relax for a while?"
Rei Furuya realized that the local Nagano police officer didn't want to discuss too many case details with him. Since he was indeed a bit tired, he put the documents aside, turned off the computer screen, and got up.
"Then I'll go downstairs and buy a can of coffee."
……
Rei Furuya left the office and, instead of taking the elevator, went down a staircase that was usually deserted.
The Nagano Prefectural Police Headquarters is not as large as the Metropolitan Police Department or the National Police Agency. He went to the floor where the First Investigation Division was located.
Even as midnight approaches, there are always people on duty at the police headquarters, and many of the office lights on this floor are still on. Just as Furuya Rei was about to continue downstairs, there was a sudden commotion from the office behind him.
"Yamato, what do you mean by this?!"
"Takeda, Takeda-senpai! Yamato-senpai didn't mean that!!"
There was a commotion in the office, and Furuya Rei heard two somewhat familiar surnames.
Yamato, or rather Yamato Kansuke, is just an ordinary police inspector, but he's a close friend of Hiro's older brother, Morofushi Takaaki. Furuya Rei learned of his existence while inquiring about Inspector Morofushi. As for Takeda…
It seems to be a veteran detective. Furuya Rei knew this because when he was reviewing surveillance footage in the evening, a police officer from Nagano casually mentioned that the other party had formed a small group within the First Investigation Division and that they needed to be careful.
Furuya Rei didn't know if Morofushi Takami was on duty down there, and he didn't intend to get involved in the commotion there, so he continued down.
The next two floors were quiet. As he walked down the stairs, a cold night wind blew in his face.
The ventilation window above this corner is open, and no one usually pays attention to it because it is only small enough for ventilation and is absolutely impossible for outsiders to sneak in.
Furuya Rei didn't pay any attention.
He was just one floor away from the first floor where the vending machines were located, and just as he was about to turn the next corner, he suddenly stopped.
There was a person standing on the landing of the stairs below.
The man was dressed in all black, his skin was pale, and there were faint dark circles under his eyes. He looked so exhausted and dejected that he seemed about to collapse at any moment, yet his posture was remarkably upright.
He was holding a phone in one hand, talking to someone, and his expression was not good. An eagle was perched on his other hand.
For some reason, Rei Furuya felt that the eagle looked somewhat familiar.
Seemingly hearing footsteps, he looked up at Furuya Rei. That face and those distinctive eye colors were fully captured by the policeman who had been diligently reviewing surveillance footage all day.
Jianggu Ling: "..."
Jiangu Ling: "??!!!"
Glenn?!
This is the Nagano Police Headquarters! He's a member of a criminal organization, one of the targets the Public Security Bureau is currently closely monitoring, and I even came to Nagano specifically to find him!
Why does he dare to appear here so openly?!
……
Rei Furuya's memories end here.
He remembered seeing Glenn for the last time, then a sharp pain in the back of his head. It didn't feel like he'd been hit, and then he passed out. When he woke up, he was here.
Rei Furuya cautiously groped for the thing he had just dropped and found it was his phone. He turned on the screen, which showed the time as 3 a.m.
Using the dim light from his phone screen, he saw that it was an email.
I've enabled location services on your phone; someone will be coming to rescue you soon.
Scotland has been arrested and is being held in a base in the forests bordering Nagano and Gunma. He is not in immediate danger, but may need a psychiatrist.
Finally, please take all the people here back. They need to be buried. —M
Jianggu Ling: "...?"
M？
Who is M?
Wait, the first sentence of the email is—
Before Furuya Rei could make a move, a loud bang came from above his head. It was as if something had been pushed aside, and a cloud of dust fell down.
The next second, to Rei Furuya's astonishment, the trapdoor above opened, revealing Yuya Kazami's head along with his excited shout and the beam of a searchlight:
"Thank goodness, Mr. Furuya, are you alright!"
Jianggu Ling: "..."
It was as if an impatient viewer had fast-forwarded through a thrilling survival movie from the beginning of their ordeal to the end. The protagonist, Public Security Officer Rei Furuya, who had just woken up five seconds earlier, was saved just like that.
But he wasn't happy at all.
"Kazami, call the Metropolitan Police Department's Public Security Bureau and confirm Hiro... Inspector Morofushi's current location!"
"besides……"
Rei Furuya gripped his phone tightly and lowered his head.
Using the beam of light from above, he finally saw what was beside him. These were the things that had just been pressing down on him.
“Get the forensic team from Nagano Police Headquarters here,” he said. “There are at least... more than twenty bodies in this pit.”
……
In the dungeon.
A flash of silver light.
However, the expected pain did not come.
Morofushi Kagemitsu stared blankly at Gin in front of him.
This man with long silver hair, a nightmare for all the organization's undercover agents, waved a small knife that had pierced a tiny machine in front of him.
“Someone gave you anesthesia and implanted a tracker in your neck near your shoulder. That way, even if you escape from the cell, you can’t escape this base.”
The silver-haired man spoke in a familiar voice but with an unfamiliar tone.
"you……"
Morofushi Kagemitsu realized something.
"I am Aoyagi."
Those emerald green eyes gazed at him, a smile playing on them. As he lowered his head slightly, his long silver hair parted, revealing his ears.
He had a Bluetooth earpiece in his ear, and it was unclear whether he was listening to something or making a phone call.
Meeting the astonished gazes of Morofushi Kagemitsu and Edogawa Conan next door, "Gin" chuckled again and resumed his original voice.
"—It really is me. I did a simple disguise and just slightly changed my voice. You can't possibly not recognize me, can you?"
He asked lightly. (End of Chapter)