"Boss, I have arrived in Austria. I found the mission target, performed counter-surveillance from the mission target, and located the sniper's position."
On a private beach, Toru lay on a beach chair in large floral shorts, with a flashy sun umbrella blocking the scorching sun.
He crossed his legs and sipped his juice while listening to Curacao's voice coming from his phone.
"Keep watching the target. When the target is about to be assassinated, take care of the sniper."
"Yes, Boss!"
Toru hung up the phone and looked to his side.
Vermouth was also like Toru, wearing only shorts and no bra, lying on the beach beside him and revealing her beautiful back.
Her rounded curves pressed tightly against the fine sand, and the bulging curve looked extremely alluring from the side.
There were no other people on the private beach, only the two of them, so Vermouth boldly lay there naked.
"Curacao? She really became one of your people."
Toru did not hide it from Vermouth and contacted Curacao directly. Vermouth naturally heard his conversation with Curacao.
"Rum likes to use people as tools. However, the reason people can display great power is because they have their own will."
"When Rum used Curacao as a tool, Curacao actually lost most of her abilities. In the field of being a tool, people are ultimately no match for robots."
"I merely unleashed all of Curacao's abilities, freeing her from Rum's restraints and turning her back into a real person."
Toru took a sip of juice and laughed heartily.
"Wasn't it you who almost killed Curacao back then?"
"Curacao's memory ability allowed her to see things she shouldn't have seen. The Organization doesn't allow such people to exist. What, does Curacao resent me?"
"Not really. Curacao is very smart. She knows very clearly that it was the Organization that wanted to kill her, not you personally."
After a pause, Toru continued, "...Curacao also clearly understands that all of this was a play arranged by Rum. You and Rum played good cop and bad cop, and he wanted to win Curacao over that way."
"But Curacao had no choice. To survive, she could only choose loyalty. And I merely restored a little of her kindness and humanity, giving her the belief to keep living."
Vermouth lay on the beach, wearing sunglasses, and chuckled. "Looking at it this way, the Organization's way of treating talent has serious problems."
"It's a huge problem. Otherwise, how could there be so many traitors in the Organization? Threats are only the worst way to make people loyal. The real way to make people loyal is to use both carrots and sticks, to make people afraid, give them favors, and strike at the weak points of human nature."
Vermouth looked thoughtful. "So, you were the one who arranged for Curacao to save Naomi Argento's father?"
"Yes. I don't just want access to the full age identification system, I also want its source code. Although Naomi Argento is the creator, individual intelligence can never surpass that of a group. With the source code, I can gather more teams to optimize this system."
Toru said softly, "...Threats might make Naomi Argento hand over usage rights, but not necessarily the source code, because people can sometimes be brave in ways even they themselves wouldn't believe."
"However, the reason this system is powerful, Boy, is that it needs to work together with Interpol's global surveillance system. We can leave a backdoor in this system, but the electrical power required to use it is too great."
Vermouth whispered, "...The reason the Pacific Buoy was built, aside from being located in the Pacific Ocean and being hidden and safe enough..."
"...is also because this facility is equipped with numerous computers and can use seawater for cooling."
"Even if we obtain the system, without that level of computing power, the system cannot be used."
Toru gently stroked Vermouth's beautiful back with his hand and said confidently, "Don't worry, I have already prepared everything in advance."
"Do you know Japan's Advanced Nurturing High School? All right, you probably don't. That high school occupies a large area of land in Tokyo, and it even built an artificial island with the support of some conglomerates."
"On that artificial island, there is a massive computing system, and cooling facilities were also built in the seawater beneath the artificial island."
"After obtaining the system, I will use that system to serve me."
Vermouth raised her eyebrows. "Will those Japanese conglomerates allow you to use these facilities?"
"Haha, of course they won't. But what does the Organization do? Once we become the leaders of the Organization, we can use the Organization's power to coerce and threaten those conglomerates, making them serve us."
"Using both carrots and sticks is true, but favors are important, and threats are equally important. And clearly, the Organization has taken threats to the extreme."
Vermouth smiled charmingly. "All right, let's stop talking about this. Come here, Boy, put some sunscreen on me."
Toru put down the juice, and the two of them stopped talking about these matters. He took the sunscreen Vermouth handed him and gently applied it to her snow-white back.
Vermouth's skin was dazzlingly white, the purest cool white. The beauty of her skin was captivating.
As he applied it, Toru could not resist. He pulled off Vermouth's panties, and under her teasing, they had a battle on the beach under the open sky.
...
Two hours later, the battle ended. After washing up, Vermouth personally helped Toru disguise himself in the room.
With Vermouth present, Toru did not use his 3D human skin mask printing system, instead letting Vermouth fully display her abilities.
If Vermouth's most important ability could be replaced by a machine, she would probably be depressed.
Soon, Toru disguised himself as a blond-haired, blue-eyed man. Vermouth also made some changes to her own facial features.
They were about to infiltrate Interpol, and they absolutely could not show their real faces and become wanted worldwide.
After doing this, the two took their diving equipment onto a private yacht and, like wealthy people heading out to sea, sailed the yacht toward the Pacific Ocean.
The Pacific Buoy was not far from a resort island in Japan. To board that buoy facility, they needed to depart from the island.
As the private yacht approached the island, Toru noticed many figures at the island's port.
He picked up the binoculars and looked over, feeling utterly speechless.
Damn it, why did he run into Conan again? This guy really caused trouble wherever he went, and people died wherever he went.
"What's wrong, Boy?"
"Nothing. Let's prepare to sneak into the Pacific Buoy."
Toru stopped paying attention to Conan. He posed no threat.
His most important task now was to obtain the full age identification system, then eliminate Rum and bring the Organization under his control!
(To be continued.)