Since that day, Rum's status has risen rapidly.

He left Manniu's stock company and joined a giant company called "Karasuma Group".

Gradually, he also learned that the "Karasuma-sama" he met that day was the president of the Karasuma Group, Renya Karasuma.

In the Japanese political and business circles at that time, Renya Karasuma had immeasurable power and could almost be said to be the most powerful person in Japan.

And Rum also began to realize that the "huge empire" that Chairman Karasuma called back then was not just the Karasuma Group.

Even all of Japan!

This is a great achievement that Rum has never dared to think about since he was born!

This made Rum even more crazy about playing for Karasuma Renya Kurama.

It was not until 47 years ago that Renye Karasuma took the initiative to retreat behind the scenes, and rumors began to spread that Renye Karasuma was in poor health.

Rum began to take the stage to replace Karasuma Renye at various events and speak in public.

This also officially established his position as the organization's second-in-command.

Then 40 years ago, Renya Karasuma "died", and Rum had the greatest degree of organizational decision-making power, and his position could no longer be shaken.

Rum even believes that Renya Karasuma may pass the No. 1 position to him at any time.

This thought lasted for 40 years.

In the past 40 years, Rum has rarely received orders from Renye Karasuma, and he has basically made the final decisions on major and minor matters within the organization and the group.

The crisis of Amanda's collaboration with the Japanese police 17 years ago and the crisis of FBI undercover agents entering the organization two years ago were all handled by him personally.

It can be said that in order to successfully inherit this "huge empire" from Renya Karasuma, he worked hard to manage it and did not dare to neglect it at all times.

Fortunately, Karasuma-sama gave him the anti-aging medicine, otherwise he would have died of overwork now.

Because of this, Rum believes that pill is the only medicine in the world.

Even if it is not unique, only the owners and future heirs of the "huge empire" should be eligible to take that magical drug.

In the future, Karasuma Renye will not only hand over the "huge empire" to her hands, but also the formula of that medicine.

Rum has always believed this in his heart.

Until some time ago, Ireland, who undercovered the Japanese Metropolitan Police, came back with information saying that high school detective Shinichi Kudo was still alive.

Originally, Rum didn't care much. It was normal for the grassroots members of the organization to occasionally make mistakes when killing people.

Just be more careful in the next life...

But when he pulled up the organization's data, he found that the person who killed Kudo Shinichi was Gin, the most capable among the younger generation of the organization.

The way to kill him turned out to be APTX-4869, the organization's latest drug development.

In order to keep Gin for his own use, Rum used his true face to meet Gin and test his attitude.

But the result of that conversation was not ideal. Gin is a very stubborn person and he will only be loyal to the boss of the organization.

Although he couldn't take Gin under his wing, Rum also appreciated Gin more.

He neither believed that Gin deliberately let Kudo Shinichi go, nor did he believe that Gin was not powerful enough to kill Kudo Shinichi.

The only thing that may cause problems is the organization's new development of APTX-4869.

In the organization's internal plan, this drug is a new type of poison, and its toxicity cannot be detected by any toxicology test.

Rum had used this drug on Amanda and Koji Haneda 17 years ago.

It's just that he doesn't understand why, after 17 years, this drug is called a "new drug" again?

And he became unkillable to Shinichi Kudo?

It wasn't until Rum shifted the focus of the investigation to Kudo Shinichi that he finally found clues.

At a party held by an aristocrat in London, England, Kudo Shinichi was photographed chatting and laughing with the aristocrat.

Rum has been operating in the organization for so many years, and is very familiar with the financial trends of the Karasuma Group, and he also has some knowledge of Karasuma Renye's life experience.

Every year, part of the Karasuma Group's funds flow to this family.

The Kingston family seems to have some kinship with Karasuma Renye himself, and may be a family of servants attached to Karasuma Renye.

Kudo Shinichi was able to chat and laugh with people in this family, and he still survived after taking poison that was obviously fatal.

Facing the most capable and loyal boss in the organization, Gin is still alive and well.

This made Rum think of a possibility.

The boss may be using him to achieve some purpose that even he doesn't know about.

Ever since Karasuma Renya announced his "death" to the world, he has been in a state of almost complete retirement, indifferent to the operations of the Karasuma Group and the organization.

At first, Rum thought that there was a limit to being a human being. Renya Karasuma might have felt that the end was approaching and that he had only a few days to live, so he no longer had the intention to manage these affairs.

But 40 years have passed, and Rum has never heard the news of Karasuma Renya's death.

Even his father, the previous "Rum", was informed of his death last winter.

You must know that Isekawa Gozo was still in his prime at that time, while Karasuma Renya was a haggard old man.

Instead, it was Karasuma Renya who tortured Isekawa Gozo, who was who was younger than him by who knows how many years, to death.

Rum himself, who took anti-aging drugs, went from being 30 years old to looking like an old man close to 60 years old.

Because of this, Rum felt that he might not survive Karasuma Renya.

Even the lifespan is not comparable to Renya Karasuma, let alone the heir to the "huge empire"?

Karasuma Renye is actually using herself, commonly known as "painting the pie".

Or there is another possibility. Karasuma Renye has died a long time ago, and someone is secretly controlling the entire organization, including himself, in the name of Karasuma Renye.

No matter which one it was, Rum smelled a lie.

Renye Karasuma must be hiding something from herself.

There must be secrets in the organization that even I don't know about.

So, on the one hand, Rum ordered Bourbon to investigate Kudo Shinichi's information and confirm whether this kid had any background.

On the other hand, he began to search all plans within the organization as well as related facilities and locations.

Finally, he found a place he hadn't noticed.

A ship anchored under the name of the Karasuma Group houses the organization's "New Potential Laboratory".

Regarding this place, Rum has never visited it personally.

He only remotely connected to the system there through the Internet, and took under his command Curacao, an excellent agent trained there.

The choice to save Curaçao from Belmode had two purposes.

First of all, he lacks loyal young subordinates. The new generation like Belmod and Gin are all fans of the boss.

Although he can order them, they are not his confidants after all.

The second is the special ability of his left eye, which he had to give up in order to escape from the enemy.

It was also after that incident that Rum realized that it would be very risky for him to appear in public as before.

As a result, he began to spread rumors about his image within the organization, and would not show up personally if he could not do the tasks of the organization.

Even if you show up, you have to change into someone else's image.

But no matter how careful I am, I can't regain the lost power of my left eye.

However, Curacao's abilities are similar to his own, and he might be able to help him regain the power of his eyes one day in the future.

Now, Rum wanted to investigate the ship's information again, but found that the content of the database was empty.

Not only that, even his exclusive line couldn't be connected to the ship's system.

In other words, the ship was completely out of the control of him, the second-in-command of the organization.

The only person in the entire organization who has the ability to do this kind of thing is No. 1 who is still above him.

This further confirmed his previous suspicion that the boss was hiding something from him, the "heir".

Rum even thought of a more terrifying possibility.

Even the "heir" thing was a lie to himself.

In order to further confirm his thoughts, Rum thought of an invasion incident reported below many years ago.

At that time, the ship was still under his control, and the two intruders on the ship were Akai Mutake and Rachel Asaka.

Through the video sent back from the scene, Rum recognized Asaka's identity as Amanda's bodyguard.

Later, the two escaped from the ship. Although the organization sent killers, they only killed Akai Muwu.

Asaka's whereabouts are unknown since then.

However, reports about the Haneda Koji case have recently appeared on the Internet, and there are even some details of the case that have not been disclosed by the police.

Rum felt something was suspicious, so he asked his men to investigate.
To be continued...