Seeing Baishi Hui refuse her invitation, Vermouth wasn't surprised.
She had also gone through the age of sixteen or seventeen.
Of course, she knew that children of this age were in their rebellious phase.
It was exactly the chuunibyou age where they feared nothing.
It was difficult to make the other party willingly follow her.
After Vermouth picked up the wine glass and took a sip, she said unhurriedly, "You misunderstood... I'm not asking you to join us."
"Actually, even if you wanted to join us, it's not something you can just join... Our Organization has a very strict screening mechanism."
"What I mean is... we can cooperate. I can pay you to do things."
"If you don't want money, you can also exchange for other things."
She knew that they had to cooperate a few times first so the other party could see her strength!
Then the other party would naturally make the appropriate choice.
Baishi Hui thought for a moment and found that Vermouth's proposal was quite attractive to him.
He was full of martial prowess, but he had always lacked in intelligence.
Vermouth's appearance just happened to make up for his shortcomings.
Thinking of this, Baishi Hui replied, "We can cooperate a few times first!"
Vermouth wasn't surprised by this answer. She raised her wine glass and said softly, "Happy cooperation~~~~"
Baishi Hui took his wine glass and clinked it, saying, "Happy cooperation."
After the two took a small sip, before they could delve into deeper conversation, Vermouth's phone rang.
"Tsk... A call at this very moment." Vermouth took out her phone and looked, her tone quite impatient.
"I'll take a call." After throwing down this sentence, she got up and walked towards the balcony.
Baishi Hui drank his wine, listening to the other party softly saying completely worthless words like "Okay," "Okay," and "Got it."
Vermouth returned to the living room. After putting down her empty wine glass, she said helplessly, "I was still thinking of developing some feelings with you... It seems like it's not possible anymore."
"Something came up temporarily that I need to handle, let's talk about developing feelings later!"
"I've already sent a friend request, remember to accept it."
Baishi Hui picked up his phone and looked, and there really was a friend request.
He opened it and found that the applicant was Vermouth.
After clicking accept, he heard the sound of the door opening from the entrance.
"Alright, we're already friends... If you need anything, just contact me through friends." Vermouth waved her hand without looking back and left the entrance.
With a bang, the room fell silent again.
Baishi Hui looked at the table; the other party had taken the wine glass she had drunk from.
Cautious enough!
But why did you also take my two bottles of lafite 1982?
Just at this moment, Baishi Hui's phone rang.
Vermouth sent a message: [I took your two bottles of lafite 1982. In exchange, you can ask for a piece of intelligence worth two bottles of lafite 1982!]
Baishi Hui thought for a moment, a smile playing on his lips, and replied: [I need to know the whereabouts of Kudo Shinichi.]
After he picked up his wine glass and took two sips, he quickly received a reply from Vermouth: [I'll reply to you in two days.]
Seeing this reply, Baishi Hui immediately knew that Vermouth was stalling for time.
Judging from her performance on the cruise ship, the other party clearly already knew Conan's identity.
"She's not an honest woman either..." he said, picking up his wine glass and drinking.
Events unfolded beyond Baishi Hui's expectations.
He didn't expect Vermouth to go to such lengths, intercepting the intelligence for Ran.
He didn't expect the other party would actually seek him out and want to cooperate with him.
However, Baishi Hui didn't pay too much attention to these unexpected changes.
As long as he maintained his abundant martial prowess, no matter how Vermouth played tricks, he would be invincible.
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The next day at noon, Teitan High School Class 2B.
"When I saw the news on TV about you disappearing at sea, I was really startled!"
"I immediately had Dad and Mother send people to search and rescue you at sea! They couldn't find you for several days, you don't know how I spent these past few days!"
"Fortunately, you all came back safely... If something had happened to you all, what would I do in the future?"
"..."
Sonoko let out a long sigh of relief upon their safe return.
"I'm sorry, Sonoko. I made you worry." Ran said with a face full of apology.
But at the same time, she was also very happy that the other party cared about her so much!
This friend wasn't made in vain!
"What exactly happened? Why were you on the ship at that time?" Sonoko turned her gaze to Baishi Hui, wanting to know the sequence of events.
"It was like this." Baishi Hui explained the situation at the time to Sonoko while eating his bento.
Ran occasionally interjected a couple of sentences on the side as supplements.
When Sonoko heard that Conan had suddenly turned back, she couldn't help but say, "That little brat Conan really loves causing trouble for others!"
"Yeah... Yukiko Aunt has already asked me to keep an eye on him from now on!" Ran nodded with great empathy.
Hearing this, Baishi Hui knew that Conan's good days were over from now on!!
After school in the afternoon, Sonoko pulled Ran to go shopping.
This was a shopping trip between best friends, where they would whisper secrets. They didn't bring Baishi Hui along.
Baishi Hui was also quite happy about this situation.
He still had to go to Akemi's place... This saved him the trouble of finding an excuse.
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Inside the villa.
Baishi Hui bathed with Akemi after a long time and brought up the matter of the maritime disaster once again.
After bathing for nearly two hours, the two finally came out of the bathroom feeling satisfied and lay down in the bedroom to rest for a while.
"How's the investigation going? Did you encounter any trouble?" Baishi Hui asked while gently kneading Akemi's beauty.
"No... They just treat me as a regular employee." Akemi lay on Baishi Hui's chest, saying while panting heavily, "I deliberately got close to a female employee who had worked at the bank for many years."
"After having drinks with her a few times, she told me all sorts of gossip within the bank."
"Here... This is their specific information."
Saying this, she took out a file bag from under the pillow and handed it to Baishi Hui.
The latter took out the information from the file bag and read it carefully.
After Akemi waited patiently for a while and saw Baishi Hui put down the document, she finally spoke, "The bank's security measures are very complete... If we try to force our way in, it might not be so easy to succeed."
"How complete are its security measures?" Baishi Hui began to inquire about the bank's security situation.
If the level of security measures wasn't high, then he wouldn't need to make any plans.
Just kill his way in!
Grab the stuff and run!
As long as his movements were fast enough, he could escape before the police arrived.
"It might not be very clear if I just say it, I'll draw it for you!" Akemi said, wanting to get up.
But Baishi Hui pulled her back with a grab and chuckled, "No rush... Let's rest first, we have plenty of time!"