Detective Conan: Shadow Legion Office

19: Chapter 19 Rainy Night Slaughter, Saving Shiho MiyanoInside the underground conference room of Lins Office, the light was dim, with only a giant projection screen emitting a ghostly blue light.

Lin Long sat at the head of the table, his fingertips tapping unconsciously on the surface, his eyes fixed intently on the image on the screen, the air pressure around him so low it was suffocating.

The image showed a cold metal room, the walls covered in pipes and gauges, with invisible toxins seeming to float in the air—this was a specialized gas chamber of the Black Organization.

In the corner of the room, Miyano Shiho was curled up, her hands clutching her knees tightly, her face buried deep in her arms.

She was wearing a thin white coat, her originally smooth long hair sticking messily to her cheeks, the exposed line of her neck looking slender and fragile.

Gone was the calmness and sharpness she usually displayed in the laboratory; at this moment, she looked like a young beast drenched in a heavy rainstorm, exuding an aura of despair and sorrow from head to toe.

Every subtle tremor was like a needle pricking the heart of Miss Akemi, who was watching from the side.

”Sir, according to the real-time monitoring by the Shadow Guards, this is the third basement level of the White Dove Pharmaceutical Factory in the suburbs of Tokyo, a secret stronghold used by the organization to detain ’disobedient’ members and conduct live experiments.”

The Shadow Guard standing next to the screen reported in a low voice, his tone devoid of emotion, yet unable to hide the cruelty of the content.

”Miss Miyano Shiho has been locked up here for three days.”

Lin Long’s fingers stopped abruptly, his knuckles turning white.

Three days... In this sunless gas chamber, repeatedly tortured by despair and lies, how did this eighteen-year-old girl manage to hold on?

”Tell me in detail.”

His voice was low and hoarse, as if it had been rubbed with sandpaper.

”Yes.”

The Shadow Guard nodded and called up a clip of surveillance footage, and the cold face of Gin appeared on the screen.

”Ever since Miss Miyano Akemi was rescued by us, Gin has sent people to hunt her down multiple times without success, and added to the fact that Miss Miyano Shiho kept asking about her sister’s whereabouts.”

Gin, in a fit of rage, told her three days ago—that Miss Miyano Akemi had been executed by him personally.

In the recording, Gin’s voice came through the cold metal door, carrying malicious cruelty:

”Your sister? She betrayed the organization, tried to run away with one billion yen, and was taken care of by me on the spot. What, do you want to follow in her footsteps?”

In the image, Miyano Shiho lifted her head abruptly, her face pale as paper, her eyes bloodshot, looking at Gin outside the door in disbelief:

”What did you say? Impossible! My sister wouldn’t...”

”Impossible?”

Gin sneered, the sarcasm in his tone cutting like a knife.

”Do you want me to show you photos of her corpse? Oh, I forgot, the body has already been disposed of, not even ashes are left.”

”No—!”

Miyano Shiho let out a shrill scream and lunged at the metal door, but was blocked by the cold bars, leaving her to watch helplessly as Gin’s figure disappeared at the end of the corridor.

From that day on, she fell into complete silence.

”She started a hunger strike, refused to conduct any experiments, and even destroyed some of the equipment in the laboratory.”

The Shadow Guard continued his report, pulling up another segment of footage where Miyano Shiho smashed an experimental test tube hard onto the ground, glass shards splattering everywhere, but she seemed not to feel any pain, only looking ahead with empty eyes.

”Gin thought she was intentionally provoking him, so he ordered her to be locked in the gas chamber, released a low concentration of neurotoxins, and threatened her, saying that whenever she was willing to work again, he would let her out.”

The Shadow Guard’s voice paused.

”According to our detection, the toxin concentration in the gas chamber is slowly rising. If this continues, even if she doesn’t seek death herself, her body will gradually fail.”

Lin Long’s breathing became heavier and heavier, his chest feeling as if it were blocked by a giant rock, stifling and painful.

He knew what would happen next—in two more days, a completely desperate Miyano Shiho would find the APTX4869 she had secretly hidden, trying to end her life with the poison she had developed herself.