Chapter 7: Hayashi Yoshiki's Calculations
Drizzle… Drizzle… Drizzle…
The sound of water in the bathroom gradually subsided until it became quiet.
A moment later, Hayashi Yoshiki walked out wearing a yukata, wiping his wet hair with a towel while opening his flip phone to unlock it.
"Tomorrow evening at seven, come to the bar."
It was still a text message from an anonymous number.
After reading it, Hayashi Yoshiki didn't have any particular reaction; he just deleted the message and then walked to the bedroom window.
—Gin arranging another meeting was something he could have foreseen, but this time he couldn't grasp Hayashi Yoshiki's weakness, and it was unknown if he still had any ideas.
But for now, none of that mattered.
In Hayashi Yoshiki's opinion, the Organization was quite easy to navigate.
As long as one could complete the tasks assigned by the Organization and not harm—or rather, not be discovered harming—the Organization's interests, many other things were negotiable.
For example, Gin, who could arbitrarily deal with Organization members, could tolerate the mysteriousness of intelligence agents like Vermouth and Bourbon, and endure Binga's blatant provocations, simply because these individuals had outstanding professional abilities and he hadn't caught them red-handed.
However, if he were to be highly valued by Gin and frequently sent to do dirty work from now on, this situation would not be so pleasant.
"So, next, it would be best to quickly raise my social status…"
Just like Pisco in the Organization, because his public social status was relatively high, even if he was occasionally assigned tasks by the Organization, his "attendance" frequency was quite low.
Therefore, Hayashi Yoshiki felt that being just a mystery novelist was not enough.
"If I were to become an active, well-known Detective…"
Hayashi Yoshiki looked down at the window sill.
[Specialization Aquired: Assassin
Assasin LV1(0/1000): Physique bonus 0.1]
[Name: Hayashi Yoshiki
Physique: 0.9 (Ordinary Person= 1 Point)
Psionic Power: 1.1]
When Yoshiki killed the person using Death-Note, this Specialization was acquired. Now his Physique has increased to 0.9.
"But I still need to exercise more"
Looking at the Physique Points that was even lower than ordinary person, he felt distressed.
In the previous world, he was just an ordinary high-school Teacher. And he was even an Otaku.
Inescapably transmigrating into this world and getting a Death-Note, he felt flustered because if he remembered right, Death-Note belonged to Shinigamis.
If he has one, it means very likely it was dropped by someone in this mortal world.
'But, Since I have gotten it, don't even think about taking it back'
Yoshiki sneered inwardly. He didn't dare say this outright though.....Who knew that Shinigami might be watching him making a fool of himself.
The Organization didn't lack a useful executioner, but a Detective who could participate in various cases and openly investigate various information would undoubtedly be more useful to the Organization.
Furthermore, becoming a Detective was an idea Hayashi Yoshiki had from the very beginning.
'I can even get a Detective Specialization, killing two bird with a stone.'
The death note was indeed very useful, but if he only used criminals found through the Organization's intranet as consumables, over time, something might be noticed.
But as a Detective, even if he came into contact with many cases and criminals, no one would find it conspicuous, and he could also come into contact with some very useful talents.
For example, the assassin "Scorpion" who appeared in the movie version and liked to snipe the target's right eye, Kevin Yoshino, a good sniper and former US Marine Corps sergeant, and Maya Tachibana, a professional assassin in the play who was good at strangling targets with steel wire…
Although Hayashi Yoshiki, with the death note in hand, probably wouldn't need to rely on these "talents" to help him do anything.
However, the identities and personal abilities of these people were very useful.
After all, even with the death note, if he wrote for target A, who had no gun experience, to use a sniper rifle to headshot target B from six hundred yards away, the result would only be an impossible cause of death, leading both parties to die directly from heart attack… But controlling a sniper to do it would be another matter.
And because they were criminals or professional assassins, no one would suspect anything no matter how many people they inexplicably killed.
"…"
Suddenly thinking of some interesting characters, Hayashi Yoshiki put down the towel, his still-damp hair hanging down, and sat down in front of the computer.
He opened the computer, typed "Lupin III" into the search engine, and pressed enter… Under the slow internet speed, the blank webpage took several seconds to display the search results.
Lupin III, internationally wanted phantom thief, descendant of the great thief Arsène Lupin, has committed multiple crimes worldwide since his appearance, and is currently wanted by over thirty countries jointly—
He actually found him…
The bright light of the display screen illuminated Hayashi Yoshiki's face.
Looking at the wanted photo in the search results, which looked a bit like a monkey, he quickly read the relevant information.
Lupin III is the protagonist from a popular work of the last century, the 1970s. Although it's an old work, it later had two movie crossovers with "Detective Conan"… Now that his information can be found online, it's likely that the two worldviews have merged.
There are quite a few powerful characters in "Lupin III"…
He let his thoughts wander from this.
Before transmigrating, Hayashi Yoshiki was not a professional assassin or spy. He had never touched a gun. Although he had learned some fighting, compared to the human tyrannosaurs in this world, it was truly just superficial martial arts.
Seriously, People of this world were very strong. Sera Masumi and Ran Mouri could even punch and kick steel plates and make a fist dent in it.
'I need to increase my Physique Points first more'
Therefore, once he fell into a critical situation, he seemed to be helpless—in a critical moment, the speed of writing a name on the death note was obviously not faster than a gun.
Hayashi Yoshiki thought of many things.
Supernatural abilities exist in the Conan world; the most direct phenomenon is the magic of the witch Koizumi Akako…
However, learning magic was still somewhat impractical. But he can get a Specialization though. Psionic points should not be wasted, just that 0.1 point of increase in Psionic Points has amplified his senses greatly.
But what interested Hayashi Yoshiki more was another character from "Kaitou Kid," just like Koizumi Akako: the world-renowned illusionist—Gunna von Goldberg II.
He was publicly a world-renowned illusionist, but secretly he was an assassin codenamed "Spider" hired by a mysterious Organization. In the plot, he tried to kill Kaitou Kid several times. His illusions were almost equivalent to magic, and they seemed to be achieved through technological means.
As his thoughts ran through this, Hayashi Yoshiki simultaneously searched for information about the person online—because he was a famous illusionist, there was a lot of information and photos of him on the internet.
Hayashi Yoshiki took out the death note, copied the person's name onto a blank page, and wrote the cause of death.
"Gunna von Goldberg II"
"Tokyo time, March 19th, 00:14:31, make an international call to 0081-xxx-xxx-xxx. After the call connects, begin to follow all instructions from the other end of the phone."
"Tokyo time, April 12th, encountered robbers outdoors and was shot dead."
In the original work, Saguru Hakuba once said that "Gunna von Goldberg II" was actually a pseudonym, and even his nationality information was fake. Therefore, Hayashi Yoshiki only wrote it down with a try-it-and-see attitude.
He waited until 00:15, but his phone remained silent.
As expected, it was a pseudonym…
Hayashi Yoshiki didn't feel disappointed.
He only regretted that he couldn't use the Shinigami Eyes yet; otherwise, he would have known the person's name directly from the photo.
He had to find another way
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To be continued ...