Hehe~
After tossing the cleaned-up corpse into the swamp and watching it slowly sink to the bottom, Gin wiped his hands and turned toward the riverbank.
He had long felt that something was off about this trading partner. Compared with an actual deal, their probing remarks sounded more like fishing.
So, during the contact phase, he had arranged for Vodka to be "accidentally" coaxed into revealing some identity-related details.
Vodka was fairly capable in that regard—so by now, those people on the other side should have believed that the Organization member who had come to Hokkaido to trade with them was an ordinary-looking young woman with a pleasant temperament.
With that as a premise, although the roads around the hotel were currently blocked and he could not leave for the time being, Gin was not anxious in the slightest.
—He had already confirmed that, in order not to alert the target, the other side had sent only two people, one overt and one covert, to check into the hotel aboard the Silver Meteor. The others had planned to arrive by train after the Silver Meteor reached its destination, blending in with the huge crowd of guests disembarking from it.
It was a good plan, but unfortunately, while the Silver Meteor was en route, a sudden landslide had cut off the roads here. Their massive reinforcements were tearfully blocked halfway by the collapsed mud and rocks.
Now that the two pieces of bait had gone to their graves, even if more people from the other side came looking, they could only investigate the hotel's many female guests one by one. By the time they finished, he would already have gathered enough intelligence, then either wipe out the other side or leisurely take the train away, depending on the situation.
...Come to