4:25 a.m. on August 19. "Who?" Kaede Hoshino didn't show any patience, and questioned in a rather irascible tone.

"Monsieur Champs-Elysées, this is the 309 point of contact." The other side said this quite respectfully.

“309？” Kaede Hoshino immediately frowned, and the impatience on his face turned solemn. "Is something wrong?"

309 is a subordinate site of Main Core 3, and unlike other contact stations, the location of the B-Class sequence of the contact station is not in fact a physical site, but the central command station of Main Core 3: orders issued from here must be obeyed by all members of the main core 3 - of course, low-level members who are not subordinate to Primary 3 are not eligible to be followed by 309 contact station.

"Mr. Gin would like to call an emergency meeting, and the relevant verification ciphertext will be sent to you."

"What's the matter?" Turning on the bedside lamp and ignoring the fact that the quilt on his body was being dragged to the side, Kaede Hoshino took out a booklet from the bedside table.

"Code 019." On the other side, it is only briefly stated that the 309 liaison station is of great importance to the organization, so its intelligence transmission system does not rely entirely on the loyalty of its staff, but rather maintains the speed of instructions through more efficient telecommunications, and at the same time serves as an insurance for the reliability of orders through an independent cipher system. Although the cipher system is not as fast as dictation, it is enough for members of the organization to verify the security password and decipher the location before they are ready to go, and decipher the type of task before they arrive.

"Okay, okay, I got it." Hoshino Kaede sighed, hung up the phone like this, and casually admonished. "Hachihiro, help me with the telegram, I'll go and prepare."

The long strip next to it, which was made of most of the double wraps, rolled and stretched out a hand.

A minute or two later, the verification cipher was sent to Hoshino Kaede's computer - judging from the translation of this ciphertext by Ifuku Hachihiro with the help of the codebook, the news just now was indeed true, and it was indeed Gin who sent him an emergency meeting order at Liaison Station 374, which was set up in a bar. As for the content...... The meaning of code 019 in the latest codebook is one of the most urgent situations.

[Emergency Security Meeting], this code means that there is a major security risk within the organization that can be detonated in a very short period of time.

[It may detonate in a very short time...... Could it be that the No. 3 main nucleus was discovered? Thinking like this, Kaede Hoshino drove himself to Liaison Station 374.

……

Liaison Station 374, a bar.

"Gin," Kaede Hoshino said as he walked into the bar lobby through the aisle and said to Gin, who was sitting in front of him with his back to him. "What's wrong, you want to use 019? Or did you secretly change the codebook but didn't give it—"

Before he could finish speaking, his face had changed, and a pistol was pulled out of his pocket almost at the same time and aimed behind him.

Behind him, Toru Amuro was also holding a pistol at him.

"Bourbon, what are you going to do?" Hoshino Kaede turned around with his gun in his hand and looked at Amuro in shock. And just as he turned around to face Amuro, he suddenly heard the sound of the safety closing from behind him.

"Champs-Elysées, put the gun down." Gin said lightly.

“Gin！？” Kaede Hoshino was even more surprised at this time. "You...... What are you going to do? ”

"Bourbon accused you of murdering the organization's former computer team leader, Yuan Jiaming, and provided relevant evidence, so your position as the leader of the inspection team is temporarily removed and subject to review by the general inspection team. You'll need to stay here for the time being until the results are in. Gin said this and repeated it again. So Champs-Elysées, put the gun down and don't kill yourself. ”

"Yoshiaki Hara......" Kaede Hoshino's brow twitched - this was indeed his doing, but how did Bourbon know?

"Your ability to kill people is good, but your brain is a little stupid." Amuro slightly hooked the corners of his mouth and said to Hoshino Kaede. "I don't know if you still have an impression, but there are many interesting things on the table in the original Garmin's house, such as a photo of the military parade on the Champs-Élysées in France on July 14 every year, a painting of the French pastoral (champs, the first half of the French form of the Champs-Élysées), a miniature statue of Miguel Indurain crossing the line on the Champs-Élysées at last year's Tour de France, and a triumphal arch on the Champs-Élysées...... Can these things refer to a second person in the organization? ”

"......" Kaede Hoshino frowned, staring at Toru Amuro like this - to be honest, he hadn't even paid attention to these things at all, and he didn't even know if these things were real or fake...... It can't be this guy who is fooling himself, right?

And just when he looked at Amuro suspiciously, the other party's body language came with 100% certainty.

"Checkmate~" He just spread his hands at the Champs-Élysées. "What you do is what you do after all, you can't escape, accept your fate."

"......" Hoshino Kaede opened the safety of the gun with a grim face and threw the gun to the ground. But I must state that I need a chance to defend myself. ”

"Well, that's definitely for you," Gin said behind him as he motioned for his men to disarm Kaede Hoshino. "But before we do, we need to inspect your home."

"You ...... Can you let the female members go? Hoshino Kaede's expression suddenly became a little strange.

"What, is there anything in your house that men can't see?" Gin frowned.

"Well, you know, she probably hasn't woken up yet." Kaede Hoshino shrugged.

"She...... I see, I'll let people who aren't interested in women go. Gin waved his hand.

……

An hour later, in a car.

"Why do you want to keep them all under control?" Fujiwara asked with a frown.

"It's just for the sake of the whole thing," Belmode explained, looking at his phone. "Gin's usual style is like this, and all the suspicious objects with reason are controlled. In fact, it was not only the Champs-Elysées who had been imprisoned, and Chianti and Cohen were also confined to Tokyo. ”

"Why are so many people ......," Fujiwara frowned. Also, why are Kiel and the Champs-Elysées imprisoned, but only Chianti and Cohen are restricted? ”

"I should have told you before that we had two assassination plans in place, but both of them met with resistance, right?" Belmode continued. "The road that Bourbon and Champs Elysées were in charge of was attacked by the public security police, and the side that Gin was in charge of was blocked by the Metropolitan Police Department's Search Section 1 - since it was the same plan, why was there a public security police affiliated with the National Police Agency and the Metropolitan Police Department's Search Division? The answer is simple, because the two sides are likely to be called by different people, which means that there is a traitor between Bourbon and the Champs-Elysées, and Kiel is most likely a traitor. As for Chianti and Cohen...... That was just in case, for fear that one of them would be suspicious and deliberately mobilize manpower from both sources to obstruct it after knowing the contents of the two assassination plans at the same time. ”