Chapter 122 Unknown Territory

Chapter 123: Unknown Territory

Bang!
While I was still enjoying the sea breeze, the door of the venue not far behind me was violently pushed open, and then about 20 to 30 party guests ran out, followed by a lot of smoke and noisy shouting. It looked like Kaito used a smoke bomb. Well... Smoke bombs are indeed a very good choice for creating chaos. Kaito would not kill people anyway, and he is more skilled in using smoke bombs and flash bombs than I am.

The chaos at the venue had not yet been resolved, and I saw Conan pulling Xiaolan and hurriedly running towards the computer room in the opposite direction of me. It seems that Conan has discovered Kaito's identity. Seeing the two of them running out with their backs to me, I could only smile helplessly. I had already reminded Kaito to be careful, but he just wouldn't listen and insisted on showing off. Now he has caused trouble. I ignored their direction and walked in the opposite direction, because on the other side, Xiaolan was still sleeping on a lifeboat not far away. The sea breeze gradually became stronger near the port. Sleeping in a small boat like that would catch a cold, and Kaito should be able to escape anyway. Even if he can't escape, I can find a way to make him run away after a while. Xiaolan is more important, go wake her up, I don't want her to catch a cold.

I came to the place where I had just confronted Kaito. Xiaolan was still sleeping in the boat. If it was before, I could just reach out and pick her up, but now, I am only about 1.1 meters tall and can only jump into the boat, pick up Xiaolan, and then jump out. Fortunately, I am still good enough, so I can still do it by holding Xiaolan and jumping out of the boat.

I leaned Xiaolan against the deck, looking at her slightly frowning face, and my heart couldn't help but warm up. It's been ten years. I haven't seen Xiaolan so closely for ten years. Her once cute and sweet sleeping face has now grown into an angelic sleeping face. I lamented the passage of time, and at the same time, I felt a little sorry. I'm sorry, Xiaolan, brother made you wait too long. Now I'm back, but I look like this. Wait a little longer. When I destroy that organization, I can resume my identity as Maori Kaoru and stay by your side. With a gentle smile on my lips, I reached out to smooth the sorrow on Xiaolan's brows, and it was this action that woke up Xiaolan, who had entered the final stage of the drug's effect.

"Hey..."

With a moan, Xiaolan opened her hazy eyes and yawned loudly.

"Haa ...

"It's on the boat, Sister Xiaolan." I smiled at Xiaolan faintly. It seemed that she had completely forgotten what happened when she was knocked unconscious. "But, Sister Xiaolan, why are you sleeping here?" I pretended to be puzzled.

"Eh?" Xiaolan also looked confused. "I remember that I was looking for Conan, and then I met someone who looked exactly like me, and then I don't know." Xiaolan rubbed her temples and slowly recalled. "Wait a minute, someone who looks like me? Could it be Kaito Kid?!" Xiaolan sat up and said in a daze.

"Yeah, it should be." I responded softly, and then pointed to the place where Xiaolan's chest should have been pinned with a brooch, but at this moment the brooch had become a piece of paper. [This red dress I borrowed from you a few days ago is indeed very suitable for you, a lovely girl. Kaito Kidd who occasionally works as a cleaner. ]

"No, we have to tell Dad about this right away." After looking at the note in her hand, Xiaolan's eyebrows slightly gathered, and she resolutely pulled me to run towards the venue. I was also a little helpless about this. After all, I remembered that I had been taken away by Conan, and I guessed that I would have to escape in a while. Following Xiaolan back to the venue might delay us for a while.

"Dad!" Xiaolan shouted inside as soon as she entered the venue.

"Eh? Xiaolan? Didn't you go with Conan to find Kaito Kid? Why did you come back with Xiaoxun?"

"Dad, the person who just went out with Conan was Kidd. He pretended to be me." As she said that, Xiaolan handed the note to her father, and her father was also shocked after reading the note.

"Oh no, that kid is in danger, officer! Go find that kid..." Just when his father was about to gather police forces to look for Conan, Conan had already rushed in with a red dress exactly the same as Xiaolan's. The moment he entered the door, Conan saw Xiaolan standing in front of him in perfect condition. Only then did he realize that he had been fooled by that bastard Kidd. Kidd himself, I guess, has already escaped from this deep sea prison. As a condition for escaping, Kidd left the Dark Star behind, and because of this, Conan was spared from his father's punch.

————The scent of orchids, the scent of lavender, the scent of home & the wings of angels, the wings of demons, the wings of guardians————

The next morning.

"Hey, Kudo, it's just that we didn't catch Kid, why are you so depressed?" I looked at Conan with a grin.

"Ah... that's what I said. But I clearly saw through his tricks, but he escaped at the last moment. This is really unbearable!" Conan complained loudly. Conan has been depressed since last night, the reason is of course that he failed to successfully catch Kidd. Of course, this also has a lot to do with my laughter. After all, yesterday he said confidently that he would catch Kidd and tell me all his tricks, but in the end Kidd escaped. So since last night, Conan has been hanging his head like a defeated rooster until now.

"Well... if you can't catch it this time, there's always next time. Don't lose heart, take your time. Haha... Hahahaha." Seeing Conan's helpless look, I couldn't help but laugh again.

"Okay, stop laughing." Conan narrowed his eyes and looked at me helplessly. "So, what on earth did you wake me up so early to go to Ginza?" I woke Conan up early on Sunday morning, and we went to Ginza together.

"What can I do? Of course I can buy things." I said unscrupulously.

"Buying things? High-end clothes? Why do you have to come here specially to buy them?" Conan complained.

"How could it be clothes? It's a cell phone." I squinted my eyes and looked at Conan. "Hey, Kudo...it's been a while since you became a small child, right?" I said calmly with my hands behind my head. "Since you became a small child, how many times have you called Xiaolan?"

"Huh?" Conan was a little surprised.

"So, you've been gone for so long, if you have nothing to do, call Xiaolan more often, you should know how worried Xiaolan is about you." I narrowed my eyes and said unscrupulously. "After all, you are my future brother-in-law, and now you are ignoring my sister like this, I, as a brother, will never forgive you."

"What?! Hey! What are you talking about!" Conan's face flushed when he heard what I said. "You are younger than me, brother-in-law or something..."

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, you have to be responsible when you speak." I shook my finger at Conan. "If you don't cherish my sister now, maybe I will agree to her dating other boys."

"Hey, hey..." Conan was unhappy. "But we see each other every day, even on the phone, I don't know what to say."

"Tsk, you have an EQ of 025, you don't know how to appreciate what's in front of you." I said coldly. "You have to know that as Xiaolan's brother, I don't even have the right to call her." At this point, my eyes became dim. "I haven't seen her for ten years, but I can't even call her to say hello. Even if it's only once, I want to use my voice to tell her that I'm still alive and by her side." "...Kaoru." Conan was a little touched after hearing what I said.

"So! You should quickly call Xiaolan and say hello!" Just when Conan was at a loss, I immediately changed from a sad face to an angry expression and yelled at him.

"Wow! Yes, I'll call right away!" Conan said, and ran out in a hurry, but he turned back after just a few steps. "Well... we don't seem to have bought a mobile phone yet, how can we make a call?"

"Where's your portable earring phone?"

"It's being repaired at the doctor's house. Huh? How did you know?"

"Eh? Oh, the doctor told me all your tool information on the day I arrived. So... so what? Is this the right time to talk about this? Go make the call!"

“So you haven’t bought a cell phone yet!”

"..."

Half an hour later.

"...Ah, I know, you're not a child, but you, don't kick the quilt when you sleep. That's it, I'm hanging up." In a corner of a cafe in Ginza. Next to me, Conan used a voice-changing bow tie to make a long greeting call to Xiaolan, but just after hanging up the phone, Conan's complaining voice rang out. "It's obviously my own voice, but I still have to use a voice-changing bow tie. It's really embarrassing."

"Well... if you can catch Kaito Kid, maybe you can ask him about his technique of changing voice without a bow tie." While responding to Conan, I was typing on the keyboard of the laptop I just bought.

"...Can we not talk about Kidd?" Hearing what I said, Conan's spirit, which had finally recovered, was suppressed again by me. "But buying a mobile phone is one thing, why did you also buy a laptop?"

"Haven't you always wanted to know about me and the unknown dark realm?" I continued to type on the keyboard and replied. "Today I will let you see what the so-called darkness in this world is like!" As my voice fell, my hand fell on the Enter key. So, the originally plain shopping website suddenly turned into an interface interwoven with black and red. The rows of data were faded and replaced by rows of bloody data. Several scarlet and metallic characters were written at the top of the webpage. [Welcome, my friend]

"This is..." Conan's pupils shrank as he looked at the web page in front of him.

"The world mercenary task list, the website is established in the country of Fa. In order to let you see the world clearly, I did not choose the assassin task list, but the mercenary task list. After all, the assassin's task is relatively simple, while the mercenary's task is relatively more comprehensive. I just registered as a mercenary. However, since I am a novice, the task levels you see are all the lowest." As I said, I turned the computer screen to Conan. As Conan looked at the tasks one by one, his heartbeat gradually began to speed up. Assassination, arson, robbery, abduction, kidnapping, infiltration, bounty on the head. One by one, dark red tasks appeared in Conan's eyes.

Seeing Conan's shocked expression, I continued to explain without changing my expression. "The mission level starts from G and goes up to F, E, D, C, B, A, S, SS, SSS, a total of ten levels, and as a novice, you can only take missions below level D." As I said, I pointed to a corner of the screen. Conan looked in the direction of my finger and saw a scarlet number, and this number was constantly changing. "This is the number of missions below level D." Before Conan asked, I took the lead in explaining. "It refreshes every ten seconds. The completed ones will be erased, and the newly added ones will be pinned to the top and gradually pulled down."

"One...more than ten thousand." Conan's eyes were filled with fear. It was not the fear of the mission itself, but the number of missions. "Why...why are there so many?"

"Correction, Great Detective." I interrupted. "This is only part of it." As I said that, I adjusted the task list to all options, and in an instant, the jumping number soared to double digits again. Seeing that Conan was already shaking, I continued. "Most tasks are between C, B, and A. There will be no more than a thousand above S level because they are too difficult. Relatively speaking, few people take on low-level characters. As for the task level assessment, I will find a chance to tell you later. As you can see, those marked with bullet symbols are accepted, and those in dark red are those that I cannot accept at my current level. There are nearly three million in total. In other words, one out of every 2,400 people in the world is a task issuer."

"Damn it, damn it!" Conan punched the wall hard, growling unwillingly. As he saw, the world was far from being as peaceful as he thought. And for such a world, his detective skills were of no help at all. Looking at Conan's shocked look, I also frowned slightly. Was it too much of a blow for him to know so much at once?

"Well... of course, mercenaries are mercenaries, they will do anything for money, and there are of course some other types of tasks here." As he said this, he pressed the TAB key, and the screen changed. Rows of green tasks appeared in our field of vision, all of which were to protect certain people, or high-value items such as gems, and there were also tasks to protect certain stars, such as the D-level task in front of me, [Protect the popular artist TWO-MIX. ]

"Huh?" I was a little confused when I saw this task. "Isn't this TWO-MIX the popular group that is currently popular in Japan?"

"Hmm?" Conan's attention was also drawn to me. He looked at the task list.

"Well.. Theoretically, if there is protection, there is assassination, so these two tasks should be opposite." I refreshed the task to the other side again, and sure enough, after searching for a while, I found a scarlet color. [Abduction TWO-MIX combination. ]

"Damn it, why are there so many outrageous things in this world!" Conan couldn't help but slam his fist on the table after seeing everything I showed him.

"Where there is light, there must be shadow. This is common sense. So, great detective, this world is far from as simple as you think. But this does not conflict with your so-called justice." At this point, I still said something to comfort Conan.

"Eh?"

"If you really want to continue to implement your so-called justice, then continue to do what you can. Don't forget, you said you would let me stand in the sun again. I chose to trust you, so before I change my mind, you'd better not let me down."

"Kaoru..." After hearing what I said, Conan slowly relaxed. "Ah, believe me, no matter how dark this world is, I will definitely carry out my justice to the end. Absolutely!"

(End of this chapter)