That night, there were still about 4 days and 10 hours before the charity gala was held.

Outside the skyscraper of the headquarters of the Democratic Liberal Party, Higashino Ryusuke, Godai and Ichijou quietly arrived. They looked up at the top floor of the building, which stood like a giant glass tower in the darkness, surrounded by

An unusual silence.

"We must find a way to sneak in. It seems that we are going to play a game between police and criminals." Ryusuke Higashino said in a deep voice, turning back to look at Godai, "Godai, please play the criminal!"

"Huh? Why me?"

"Because you can climb walls, I guess this may be one of your two thousand skills. You can travel around the world without being overwhelmed by your skills." Ryusuke Higashino explained in this slightly teasing tone.

Ichijou also nodded, "It suits you very well."

"..."

"Okay, let's take action. There is one more fifth generation. You must remember to cover your face later. It will be bad if you are seen by others and you really become a fugitive."

Kaoru Ichijo and Ryusuke Higashino walked out of the shadows openly and walked toward the back door of the building. Godai put on a hood somewhat depressedly and sneaked into the building from another direction.

Yiyi showed the police manual to the guard at the back door and said that he suspected that a suspect had escaped here and wanted to enter the building to search.

When the guard looked over, Higashino Ryusuke also took out the manual he borrowed from Shota Asama that afternoon and pretended to be a colleague of Kaoru Ichijo.

The guard's attitude was quite good, but he also doubted: "Did the two police officers make a mistake? There is no escape here..."

However, before he finished speaking, Ryusuke Higashino suddenly pointed in a direction and shouted: "It's right there!"

"What?" The guard looked along his finger. On the third floor of the building, a figure had climbed there and successfully found the window and got in.

"What's going on? Is he Spider-Man?!" The guard jumped up in surprise, quickly contacted other guards on the walkie-talkie, and also let the two of them go.

The guards in the building were quickly gathering on the third floor, while Higashino and Ichijo took the opportunity to take the high-speed elevator to the top floors.

The party had already been arranged in advance. Looking at the various things, Ryusuke Higashino was a little dizzy and asked: "Mr. Ichijo, is there a flow chart for the party? Maybe we can deduce the number 49 from there.

Poison's way."

Ichijo just frowned and said: "I have read that flow chart several times. It is no different from other parties. I have also considered using air or food to poison the attendees, but there are many problems.

There’s no way to explain…”

So far, Ichijo has no less information than him on this matter. But even Ichijo can't infer anything from it. Higashino Ryusuke doesn't think that he can have a stronger reasoning ability than Ichijo, so he rolled up his sleeves and said, "

In this case, we can only use stupid methods!"

The so-called stupid way is to sample everything here and then take it back and analyze it one by one.

Fortunately, their physical strength was beyond ordinary people, which enabled them to complete the work as quickly as possible. When they went downstairs and met the guards, they used the excuse of conducting an investigation to get past them. Of course, since Kaoru Ichijo was not good at lying, such words were ignored.

It was said by Dongye.

This mission was completed without any danger. After reuniting with the tired and panting Fifth Generation, the samples were sent to the Police Research Institute for analysis.

Since this work is not difficult and can be completed by ordinary researchers, there is no need for Enokida to continue to stay up late and work overtime.

…

In the past two days, Enokida has successfully completed the development of a new type of nerve-breaking bullet and the ultra-high-pressure rifle equipped with it. After installing the muzzle brake, it was already manageable for Kaoru Ichijo to test again. It can be said that it was specially built for him.

of.

In addition, the 500 rounds of ordinary nerve-breaking bombs that Sugita once prepared were also complete, and they also secretly discussed a lot about how to kill Gohara.

However, the analysis progress of the scientific police research has been fruitless until now. It seems that everything in the furnishings on the building is normal and there are no "toxins".

Failure to understand the enemy's specific killing methods will indeed lead to flaws in their actions. The best way is to eliminate Xiangyuan at lightning speed before everything starts, but this is not easy...

And after that, Ichijo Kaoru and the others received a warning from above. It seemed that the Democratic Liberal Party noticed that they had infiltrated the headquarters a few days ago and complained to the Metropolitan Police. After all, this charity event was also a self-marketing effort by the Democratic Liberal Party to increase support.

They don't want any surprises to happen.

This makes the operation more difficult, but from the perspective of the search headquarters, this is destined to be a charity party that will not succeed...

…

The time has come for Christmas Eve.

Ichijo, Ryusuke Higashino and Godai conducted a simulation to deal with Gohara. Since he already knew almost all of Gohara's abilities, he could formulate many countermeasures at this stage.

For example, pretending to be an identity that is easy to sneak in in advance, forcing out Gohara's true identity before the charity party begins, and killing him...

But when to contact Gohara, where to fight him if Gohara turns into a monster, etc., if these things are not decided in advance, it will be impossible to cope with it. And evacuation arrangements in emergencies need to be

There is also a mountain of things that must be confirmed in advance, such as obtaining support from relevant organizations.

Almost the entire night was spent like this while everyone was busy in their own business.

It was not until noon on December 25 that the operation officially began.

Members of the search headquarters secretly dispatched ordinary vehicles to patrol within a five-kilometer radius centered on the Democratic Liberal Party headquarters, and contacted the regional police station to prepare them for unexpected situations at any time.

Sugita and Ichijo discussed various possible trends after the battle began, divided the work, and made important arrangements in some possible places in advance, and then quietly waited for the final moment to arrive.

At 18:00 p.m., Ryusuke Higashino and Godai also arrived at the scene. Higashino dressed up as an unknown reporter, while Godai put on the clothes of a joint fundraiser staff member so that they looked invulnerable. They pinned the small electronic communicator to

Wear bone conduction headphones on your chest and behind your ears. If you don't know the inside story, it will be difficult to see.

The party was scheduled to start at 19:00, and guests were originally scheduled to start entering at 18:30. However, Sugita led the police to block the party outside, ensuring that the entry time of the participants was delayed until the last minute.

But before that... Higashino and Godai's mission is very simple. They are to sneak into the building before the party starts, find Gohara and force him to reveal his true face. This process will be transmitted to a to-be-determined line outside the venue via radio.

Together with Suita and others, they can cooperate perfectly to defeat the enemy.

Of course, because Kuuga's transformation principle is to change body particles, they have also considered the problem that the radio communicator will be changed together and cause failure. But then it also means that the battle will begin. Even if contact is lost, it can still be used as a

A signal to Ichijo waiting for someone!

After making good disguises, Ryusuke Higashino and Yusuke Godai approached the building under the guidance of Ichijo in their headphones. The guard at the door was not the one from a few days ago, so they were able to sneak in successfully.

Ichijo came to another building carrying an ultra-high-pressure rifle and a new type of fragmentation bomb, and planned to go to the top floor from here. There was mixed noise in his earphones, and various voices came from it - a man who was giving some instructions.

The sounds of people being moved, the sounds of various objects being moved, the sounds of guards talking...

In order to avoid the many people on the first and second floors, Higashino and Godai deliberately took the stairs to the fourth floor before choosing to take the elevator. However, when the elevator door opened, they happened to bump into a guard.

The guard glanced at the camouflaged reporter ID hanging on Higashino Ryusuke's chest, "Hello, I'm sorry that reporters are not allowed in yet... Alas, you are not the policeman from the past few days... ugh!"

Ryusuke Higashino simply knocked him unconscious before he was about to be recognized. Unfortunately, this person was the guard who guarded the back door a few days ago.

He casually pressed the earphone and explained: "Mr. Ichijo, he was the guard from a few days ago. I knocked him unconscious."

A reply came quickly from the earphone, "The top priority is to find No. 49. If you need to take some special measures, just do it."

They put the fainted guard aside, took the high-speed elevator to the top floor, and met another guard on the way out. Ryusuke Higashino was the first to recognize that it was another guard they had seen when they were evacuating, and he saw the same thing.

I've seen his face with Ichijou.

So I heard what happened next through the headphones in another building far away.

"You! What is one plus one equal to?"

"Equal to two...wait, are you...?"

"Bang!" There was a thumping sound mixed with the victim's muffled groan, and then there was no more voice of the guard.

"You know too much." With the cooperation of Fifth Generation, Dongye once again completed the achievement of knocking out the guard.

Next, under the instructions of Kaoru Ichijo, they went to where Gohara was most likely to be as a member of the parliament, and in an office with two floor-to-ceiling glass, they found Gohara waiting here.

Hearing the sound of the door opening, Xiangyuan turned around and said, "There is no need to advance for the party... Oh, is it you?"

"We meet again, Kamen Riders. Thank you for saving me last time at Antikawa Company." Gohara finally took off his human disguise and said with a faint smile, but no matter how he heard it, it felt like

A mockery.

Ryusuke Higashino decisively summoned the Aguru Belt, and in the roar of the spiritual stone, it transformed into the primary form and then immediately transformed into the primary sublimation. The fifth generation also turned into the amazing black omnipotent Kuuga at the same time.

Without any luck, they chose to exert all their strength without any reservation.

"Stop talking nonsense, as long as I eliminate you now, the party will not become your killing game..."

However, Xiangyuan looked scornful and said, "I was indeed misled."

"What?!"

"Do you still think that my target is these people at the party..."

…

At the same time, Kaoru Ichijo, who had arrived at the sniper point on the top floor of another building, was preparing an ambush, planning to deliver a fatal blow the moment Gohara appeared.

The electromagnetic wave signal suddenly lost in the headphones connected to him and Higashino Goyo, probably because they had transformed.

At this time, he received a call from Enokida. At this time of the call, there would be nothing other than the progress of the analysis results, so Ichijo answered the call without thinking.

"I'm Enokida, the matter has come to an end!" A very urgent tone came from the other end of the phone.

"How's it going?"

"...Active special biological proteins were detected on those flyers, which have the property of penetrating into the human body upon contact with the skin. In addition, with the cooperation of the investigation headquarters, we found out the source of these flyers. Almost all of them were produced by Yichuan

The company is responsible for the printing.”

Ichijo's heart suddenly felt as if a bomb had been dropped, and he exploded in shock, "Doesn't this mean..."
To be continued...