Early the next morning, Scotland learned that their publicly funded tourism program had been terminated.
The informant, Tsumugi Kawakami, had a face full of reluctance and used all kinds of wonderful curse words to mourn his wasted vacation.
Scotland felt that his vocabulary had been greatly enriched. He had never thought that Japanese could be used in that way.
The two packed up their mission equipment and headed towards the exit of the organization's stronghold.
There was no one to lead the way, but Tsumugi Kawakami was already familiar with this area. They followed complex twists and turns.
"Do you still remember the sniper attack a few days ago?" After complaining, Kawakami asked.
"of course I remember."
"Next, we have to deal with the follow-up to the problem."
The intelligence officer who was sniped by Kawakami Tsumugi is inextricably linked to today's mission.
As for what the connection is... To be honest, Kawakamiji doesn't know much yet. That guy Belmode is always hiding information.
However, with a little reasoning and a lot of guesswork, Kawakami Kei can roughly review it.
The starting point is the reason why the intelligence officer faked his death.
The intelligence officer was unfortunately "sacrificial" in an explosion caused by a gang fight while observing the situation, and it took half a year for the organization to find out. This point in time can reveal a lot.
First of all, those who can survive for more than half a year outside the organization are all capable people and strangers. But judging from the performance of that person on the day he was killed, he is far from being a capable person and stranger in Kawakami's mind.
It means that it is probably another situation where someone is assisting him in the organization.
The intelligence officer was discovered by the organization half a year later, which also corroborated Kawakami's speculation.
You can do a lot of things in half a year. It's not difficult to escape anonymously. Although you can't hide for a lifetime, it's no problem to stay stable for three to five years.
But the intelligence officer has been organizing activities within his sphere of influence, which is inconsistent with his original intention of defecting.
In other words, the other party had to stay for some reason. The reason is most likely intelligence. Perhaps the people who helped him escape detained him to work for them.
The Tainted Witness Protection Program is a common tactic used by wineries against others.
Thinking of this, Kawakamiji stopped. Scotland almost bumped into him.
"Have you ever been involved in a case related to an undercover agent?" Kawakami asked Scotland.
"nothing now."
Scotland's heart tightened when he heard the word undercover. He pretended to be calm and calmly faced Kawakami's thoughtful gaze.
They were in a long corridor, underground, dark, airy, and smelled of moisture. There are still more than two hundred meters away from the exit.
Therefore, the exit is only a fist-sized light in Scotland's eyes, very bright.
When Kawakami stopped, he just blocked that little light.
This cast a light on the outline of the gray-haired young man, and coupled with his sickly pale skin, it felt unreal and ghost-like.
Scotland felt inexplicably that there was nowhere to escape.
"You seem a little nervous." The gray-haired young man said slowly, "In fact, this type of mission is relatively common, and the difficulty depends on the specific situation - you should have encountered it before under Gin..."
"Really?" Scotland remained calm. "At Gin's place, I mainly act as a sniper. In most cases, I don't know the identity of the target."
"That's it." The gray-haired young man retracted his gaze and continued to walk towards the exit.
The air moved again, but Scotland did not let go of his worries. It was difficult to tell whether Kashasha had discovered something or just asked casually.
"Our mission this time is related to undercover, and it is relatively complicated." Tsumugi Kawakami said, "Actually, with your current qualifications, you are not exposed to this type of mission, but I don't think there is a need to stick to the rules."
It is indeed out of reach, but this time the situation is special.
First of all, it is a short notice for Scotland, and this is country F, not their home stadium, Japan.
Even if there is a problem in Scotland, firstly, there is no time to prepare; secondly, it cannot be a local force in country F. It is basically impossible to assist an undercover agent.
"I'll be ready," Scotland said.
"That's good." Tsumugi Kawakami nodded, "It's no different from normal tasks, just do whatever you want."
He just mentioned the word "undercover" to see how scared Scotland would be. Kawakami sighed in his heart and saw that it was PTSD he contracted from Gin.
But it’s also fun. If Scotland were not his partner, Tsuyoshi Kawakami might have indulged in his own bad taste and teased him a little more.
Let’s be honest, in a winery, judging status based on a member’s reaction to the word “undercover” just doesn’t work.
Because when most members hear the word "undercover," their legs tremble, their heart beats faster, and their voices tremble, especially the timid peripheral members.
It's not that they are really evil, they are just scared by Gin.
Gin was a man who would point his gun at other people's heads whenever they disagreed, and ask them in a cold tone if they were rats.
Not everyone is like Kawakami Tsumugi, who can analyze from Gin's pale face and dead eyes whether he is really suspicious, bored, angry, or putting on airs.
Therefore, most people are scared to death.
According to Pavlov and the dog effect, over time these people will have adverse reactions to being pointed at gunpoint when hearing the word undercover.
With Gin arranged in his heart, Kawakami and Scotland walked out of the underground tunnel of the organization.
A red Maserati lurked quietly in the shadows, with a Grenache of the same color sitting in the driver's seat puffing away smoke.
"You're slow, Kashasha."
"Why are you so slow?" Tsumugi Kawakami said with a smile, "You are not even willing to reveal the specific information about the case to me. It's obvious that you are not panicking at all."
"I'm afraid you'll do something bad," Grenache said coldly, "Stop talking nonsense and get in the car!"
In role play. Belmode is conscientious in her duties, and she clearly expresses Grenache's disgust and disdain for Kawakami.
Kawakami didn't care about this disgust, not to mention it was a performance. He opened his phone, dug out the email that Belmode had just sent him, and read it carefully.
Feeling dizzy while reading in a moving car, Tsumugi Kawakami pressed his fingers lightly on his temples.
The only idle Scotland was sitting in the back seat. He looked at the tense atmosphere between Kawakami Tsumugi and Grenache, and in his mind he confirmed a few of his guesses about the origin of Kashasha.
Scotland has always felt that Kashasha was originally from the intelligence team, but was recently transferred to the operations team.
The most notable feature is the way Kashasha performs tasks and his excellent observation and speculation abilities. Now add another one: deep quarrels with members of the intelligence team.
Generally speaking, it is difficult for members of the intelligence team and the action team to have too many conflicts. They mainly perform their own duties, and the scope of business overlap is small, so there are naturally few conflicts; even if they work together, they are often designated by the organization or optimally matched according to the task situation.
It is almost certain that Kashasha and the intelligence team are inextricably linked.
Scotland thought, so why did Kashasha come to the action team? Is it a factional fight?
