Chapter 47: The Kanto Alliance

[A minor trouble encountered in Shizuoka Prefecture, already resolved. The floppy disk will be delivered on time, waiting for you to pick it up.]

[Sender: Kudo Shinichi]

A text message slid across the phone screen, and the sender was unmistakably Conan, who was still on the Shinzansen bullet train.

Although Naraku Hikari had no idea what kind of trouble Conan had run into in Shizuoka Prefecture, he guessed that it was most likely triggered by the Death God aura of the miniature sleuth, leading him to stumble upon yet another murder case.

————Since the matter was resolved, it was no longer important; what mattered was the floppy disk containing the safehouses of the Black Organization.

If the information regarding the Black Organization's safehouses recorded on the floppy disk was entirely accurate and without error, then Naraku Hikari could immediately begin clearing out the Black Organization's strongholds in Tokyo.

Within a week at most, he could make the Black Organization completely extinct in Tokyo city.

"Well, things are getting a bit troublesome. Look, this Wako Group seems to be one of the subordinate factions of some Kanto Alliance."

"The Kanto Alliance says they want to make you pay the price for your reckless and arbitrary actions————"

"I remember these yakuza organizations used to be quite rampant."

Koshimizu Nanatsuki's voice drifted over.

The expired high school girl had discarded her eccentric attire and looked much more normal now. At least from her appearance, one could tell she was indeed a young woman, rather than someone of ambiguous gender.

"……How rampant?"

Naraku Hikari raised his head and looked at Koshimizu Nanatsuki. He had no particular research into the information concerning yakuza organizations, primarily because yakuza organizations had already gone extinct in Beika Town.

The citizens of Beika Town had always prided themselves on harmony and friendliness, capable of pulling out various regulated firearms, knives, and even explosives from anywhere, and then taking action for the most outrageous reasons, committing murder in forms physically unacceptable to nature.

Members of yakuza organizations had no soil for survival here, with only a very few who refused to believe the rumors continuing to develop their operations.

————Those who refused to believe had started believing after Naraku Hikari returned.

A small fraction of those yakuza members had evacuated Beika Town, while the remaining majority had already gone to the Sanzu River to develop new business ventures.

"For instance, kidnapping a Saitama Prefecture detective who was sniping a prosecutor riding the [Heisei Express]?"

(TV Episode 14: The Mysterious Message Snipping Case)

Koshimizu Nanatsuki raised an eyebrow and spoke softly.

"……I recall that in this country, yakuza organizations are legally established."

"Their headquarters are also publicly open. Koshimizu, tell me, where is the headquarters of the Kanto Alliance?"

Naraku Hikari said calmly.

He took off the non-prescription glasses he was wearing and placed them into the glasses case beside him.

Afterward, he took down the black overcoat hanging from the coat rack nearby, preparing to go out once more.

The floppy disk recording the Black Organization's information would not be delivered until the afternoon, and investigating whether it was authentic would have to wait until evening.

Thus, the daytime hours happened to be free————

To prevent this so-called Kanto Alliance from interfering with his operations that night, it was better to deal with them during the day.

"The Kanto Alliance is a coalition formed to counter the yakuza organizations from the Kansai region."

"It's not just a single yakuza organization, and there is no so-called central headquarters. So... are you going to visit the headquarters of all the yakuza organizations affiliated with the Kanto Alliance one by one?"

"Of course."

Amidst his words, Naraku Hikari had already pushed the door open and stepped out.

And many of the weapons that had previously hung on the wall had quietly vanished.

If nothing unexpected happened, those weapons were now attached to the tactical belt hidden beneath Naraku Hikari's black overcoat.

He hadn't brought large weapons like submachine guns or sniper rifles. However, dealing with some clueless yakuza organizations did not require the use of such armaments anyway.

Koshimizu Nanatsuki shrugged her shoulders and casually searched for information on the computer beside her.

Then, she organized the retrieved data and sent it to Naraku Hikari's mobile phone.

After finishing all this, she hugged the iced cola she had brought back from the fast-food restaurant and searched for the keyword [Kantozan], which Naraku Hikari had mentioned multiple times————

Sure enough, as always, there was no news whatsoever on the internet.

Information regarding that country was always unsearchable on the local networks here.

"Should I take a chance and ask around in Chinatown?"

The former female high school detective rested her chin on her hands and muttered to herself.

The curiosity of a detective was burning fiercely in her heart.

No detective could turn a blind eye to a mystery right before their eyes, even a master detective who had once been knocked unconscious.

——————

Naraku Hikari did not care about what kind of information Koshimizu Nanatsuki usually searched for.

No matter what she searched for, she would never find any news related to Naraku Hikari, because he was not a person of this world to begin with, and everything in this world was actually unrelated to him————

Aside from that, it was also because Naraku Hikari knew that every detective in this world possessed an incomparable and unstoppable curiosity, and they would surely follow their own curiosity to investigate whatever they wished to uncover.

These detectives usually had the ability to protect themselves, save for that master detective who had been bludgeoned at Tropical Land.

Even the high school master detective named [Toshiji Junya], whom he had eliminated back on Shikoku Island, was no exception.

Realizing that his deductive error had caused someone's death and that it would likely bring trouble upon himself, the other party had immediately adopted various methods to conceal his own whereabouts.

To the extent that Koshimizu Nanatsuki in the original plot failed to uncover Toshiji Junya's identity even at the end, and could only bring together all the suspicious detectives at once through the Detective Koshien.

However, for Naraku Hikari, there was no such trouble.

Upon returning from his hometown and on his way back to Beika Town to fulfill his promise to the original owner of the body, he had passed through Shikoku Island and casually put a bullet into Toshiji Junya.

And then Toshiji Junya died.

"No one should attempt to create trouble they cannot resolve; otherwise, they will pay a heavy price."

Naraku Hikari said in a low voice.

Koshimizu Nanatsuki had already sent the information regarding the headquarters of those syndicates to his phone.

Therefore, Naraku Hikari was now going to visit the headquarters of these syndicates one by one.

He wanted to see what kind of audacity these syndicates possessed—having not even dared to incorporate Beika Town into their sphere of influence—that made them think they could make him pay a price————

Could it be that their lives were bought wholesale, giving them numerous lives to squander at will?

A black motorcycle sped past.

The two female traffic police officers who had been testing the newly imported speed detector at the street intersection earlier were still standing there.

This time, they cautiously protected their speed detector.

So much so that when Naraku Hikari drove past this time, the speed detector gave an accurate figure————

"Whoa, speeding! Headquarters, I saw..."

"Huh? No license plate?"