After the Undercover System Went Haywire, I Switched to Grinding Suspicion Points Chapter 144

When Amuro Toru was fishing for information, he naturally hoped the other party would directly reveal the intelligence he wanted to know, but he didn't want them to directly expose his ulterior motives!!!

His approach had no flaws—completely extending from the topic of "possibly needing to kill Police Superintendent Kitami" to "needing to find a sniper," "I heard you're skilled," then slightly extending to "Did you learn in the Middle East?" This route was very safe. Normal people wouldn't imdiately think he was trying to find out about Arak Wine.

But what was up with Usuha Izuki? Why could he see through it in one second?! Was his acting that bad?!

Amuro Toru quickly organized his thoughts and suddenly realized that maybe it wasn't his poor acting, but rather the other party had been waiting for soone to ask him about Arak Wine-related matters. So at the slightest hint, he could imdiately react.

How could Usuha Izuki be certain that those asking him about Arak Wine were allies?

...Could it be like how Usuha Izuki went around identifying undercover agents—casting a wide net, then looking for allies among those who asked him about Arak Wine?

That efficiency would be too low...

Amuro Toru couldn't figure it out. Before confirming the other party was really an ally, he didn't dare expose anything and could only respond nonchalantly: "Why would I ask about Arak Wine? I was asking about your sniping... ah, did you learn sniping from Arak Wine? I thought Arak Wine was from intelligence."

Usuha Izuki told the system: [See? He's definitely here for Arak Wine.]

System: [Isn't this just normal conversation following the topic...]

Usuha Izuki was exasperated: [With others, that would be normal conversation flow, at most considering it an intelligence person's habitual information gathering. But with , if he had no interest in Arak Wine, he should have changed topics or even hung up long ago!]

System: [............]

So this guy was very aware of how annoying he was...

Who would have thought this equal-opportunity troublemaking style could actually be used to distinguish whether the other party was casually chatting or purposefully conversing... Brilliant! This move was truly brilliant! But ordinary people couldn't use it! It had no learning value!

"I learned sniping from soone else, but Arak Wine definitely knew so. After all, it's the Middle East—learning more skills is always right." Usuha Izuki improvised.

He wasn't clear whether Arak Wine could snipe. After all, that undercover system had gone for maintenance without properly briefing the suspicion value system, and still hadn't finished maintenance, leaving him unaware of many things he should have known. When people asked, he could only deploy deflection techniques.

He mainly knew about Arak Wine's situation from chatting with Middle Eastern friends.

Anyway, he was soone with good connections—everyone was happy doing business with him. As for what Arak Wine could do... according to the Middle Eastern friends, he could mix drinks, drive—including tanks and planes—had exceptional language talent, could quickly learn even remote dialects. No one ntioned whether he could snipe, but with handguns, his marksmanship was very accurate.

So Usuha Izuki wasn't deliberately unwilling to tell Amuro Toru about Arak Wine's intelligence—it was just that Amuro Toru was asking about the wrong things.

His perfunctory answer could easily lead to the topic ending. Since Amuro Toru finally seed interested in Arak Wine, and Usuha Izuki wanted the other party to know Arak Wine was Japanese Public Security, he said a bit more.

"It's been so long since anyone talked to about Arak Wine. The organization is really cold and heartless—once soone dies, they can act like they never existed? He always said he wanted to return to Japan to see cherry blossoms, but only ca back after dying... After being busy in the Middle East for so long, the organization wouldn't even approve ho leave. What nerve!"

Amuro Toru probed: "How long was he in the Middle East?"

"Mm, let calculate... he arrived in the Middle East twelve years ago, then died two years ago, right?" Usuha Izuki sighed. "Ten years! He didn't even dare vacation in Hawaii, afraid of FBI or CIA assassination... What kind of life is that? Having money but what's the point? Still couldn't spend it all before dying—might as well have donated it all for infrastructure!"

"...Arak Wine really liked infrastructure aid."

"He was just like that. I think he really longed for ordinary people's lives, so I'm now working hard to realize his dream! Being an ordinary person!"

Amuro Toru: "............"

No, you're not ordinary at all!

The subsequent conversation yielded nothing useful from Usuha Izuki, and Amuro Toru successfully ended the chat safely and hung up.

Amuro Toru sat on the sofa in a daze for a while, then couldn't help painfully covering his head: "It really was twelve years ago..."

Although he'd heard before that Arak Wine went to the Middle East over ten years ago, there had never been an exact number. After all, nineteen years ago also counted as over ten years.

If that were the case, Arak Wine would have no connection to his undercover predecessor, because the predecessor only lost contact twelve years ago when Inspector Kuroda fell into a coma. Half a year before Inspector Kuroda's coma, he'd still received materials from the undercover predecessor. Around that ti, Inspector Kuroda had written words like "Middle East" in his notes, aning the ti of going to the Middle East couldn't be earlier than twelve years ago, or else this last contact wouldn't match up.

But Arak Wine's side was precisely twelve years ago...

He'd done so much ntal preparation, thinking if it was a misunderstanding and he'd guessed wrong, finding people eting the criteria would be a huge project requiring patience... But the more he learned about Arak Wine, the more he fit.

Arak Wine also wanted to return to Japan to see cherry blossoms...

Cherry blossoms were the symbol of Japanese police. What Arak Wine wanted to see—was it real cherry blossoms, or this kind of cherry blossom?

Or was he over-interpreting again? Maybe the guy simply wanted to view blossoms? After all, for Japanese people, cherry blossom viewing was a very common recreational activity.

Amuro Toru sighed deeply.

Generally speaking, intelligence gathering being difficult and tortuous was normal. This kind of particularly smooth situation—just getting materials and imdiately having suspected candidates who looked more and more likely—would make one feel very uncertain.

Did he deserve this good fortune?

If Arak Wine really was a Public Security undercover, when Usuha Izuki said these things, was it from unknowing casual chat, or knowing attempts to find a contact?

"...Arak Wine, couldn't you have adopted a normal person..." Amuro Toru muttered painfully. "Figuring out ntal patients is really hard..."

No wait, maybe when Arak Wine adopted Usuha Izuki, Usuha Izuki was still normal, only becoming like this after falling from the car and hitting his head.

Given the Middle East's developnt level, cars and weapons were probably smuggled from foreign countries. Based on various countries' market share of Middle East smuggling over the years, and the organization's smuggling proportions from various countries—the car that caused Usuha Izuki to hit his head was most likely Arican!

As expected! It's all Arica's fault! He knew they were no good!

Amuro Toru contributed suspicion values to Usuha Izuki in a rush, while Usuha Izuki hung up the phone and sighed mournfully.

[I don't want to work overti, especially a week of overti. It's a nightmare.]

System said: [Then solve the case.]

Usuha Izuki said: [That's what I'm thinking. Between working overti one night versus several days, anyone knows how to choose.]

So Usuha Izuki found a restroom, switched to his main body, used "Universal Navigation" to locate where that Kitami Hitoshi kid was, while searching for "Strawberry Night" victim bodies.

After all, only two bodies were dredged from the lake, clearly not matching the count. Where the rest were hadn't been found yet. Searching now to see if he could report back to Inspector gure.

After checking the intelligence he wanted, Usuha Izuki began calling Inspector gure.

Inspector gure had been anxiously waiting for his news, sowhat worried he might have an accident acting alone, and afraid he might cause others accidents. He wanted to call but didn't dare. He'd just been discussing with Hagiwara Kenji whether to ask how Samukawa Shinryu was doing when the call ca, nearly making Inspector gure cry with joy.

"Oh oh! Samukawa-kun! Did you finally finish investigating? What useful intelligence did you discover?"

"Mm, I got what should be fairly useful information." Usuha Izuki said thoughtfully. "This lake is a new body dumping location with only two bodies inside..."

Inspector gure nodded: "Right, we ntioned before wanting to find where he used to dump bodies, but Tokyo has too many suitable dumping spots. It's hard to determine the original location. If we could know, we might be able to analyze changes in the perpetrator's living environnt..." At this point, Inspector gure suddenly realized: "You're bringing this up suddenly—could you already know the answer?"

Usuha Izuki responded: "Yes, Toda Rowing Course. I suggest investigating there."

Theoretically, Inspector gure should ask how the person who gave Samukawa Shinryu intelligence knew this, but now he only wanted to ask: "How is the person who gave you intelligence? Are they involved? Should we arrest them?"

Is the person okay? You didn't torture them for information, right?! If there are problems and evidence, just bring them back directly! Don't take matters into your own hands!

Having heard various strange rumors, Inspector gure was very worried about Samukawa Shinryu's hobby of toying with others being perford during solo action... If this got complained about, as the supervisor who agreed to let Samukawa Shinryu act independently, he'd also be responsible.

Usuha Izuki had nowhere to find Inspector gure such a knowledgeable informant, so he could only say: "He's just soone with strong curiosity who realized sothing was wrong after following, but didn't do anything excessive."

"That's good, that's good. If he's an ordinary person, let's leave it at that. I'll have people dredge for bodies at Toda Rowing Course. What else did he say? Since he followed them, does he also know that location?"

Usuha Izuki checked his watch: "Mm, I already know, but to avoid alerting them, please don't tell others yet, Inspector... I have a plan that needs your cooperation."

This confident, calm tone... this attitude of seemingly having seen through everything and just waiting for cooperation...

Inspector gure asked sowhat hesitantly: "...You don't already know who the perpetrator is, do you?"

"Still need confirmation."

Inspector gure: "............"

I know you're capable, Samukawa Shinryu, but this is only one day! What exactly were you doing during solo action?! Why is one person's progress so much faster than a group of police?!

This made him want to get to know more fringe people—they might provide lots of useful intelligence... Samukawa Shinryu was really naturally gifted in this area! So enviable!