Rum had Pramia discover that Bourbon was a police officer by framing Bourbon for disloyalty.
—The logic was rather convoluted. A massive dramatic effect had been created by the information gap and sheer coincidence on both sides, but after some thought, Tangze finally managed to make sense of it.
Simply put, Rum did not trust any of his subordinates.
From brainwashed, utterly loyal operatives like Curacao to subordinates like Bourbon and Kumeru, who had always been secretly defiant, Rum treated them all with equal suspicion. It could be said that he had never truly trusted a single one of them.
Hirotsugu Morofushi had used his own death to erase both the leaks connected to him and the doubts surrounding his identity. That had successfully dispelled most of the Organization's suspicions toward Bourbon and Rye.
Rum was not among that majority, yet he truly had no evidence that could conclusively prove what was wrong with Bourbon.
Meanwhile, Bourbon, as one of his most productive intelligence agents, kept raising his KPIs higher and higher, until they began feeding his ambitions and made him eager to take Rum's place.
With those factors combined, Rum had released the half-true claim that "Tooru Amuro's background isn't entirely clean, but he is two-faced and greedy for money, so he isn't especially close to his own background either," hoping to throw some obstacles into his flourishing dark emperor enterprise.
To prevent those who received the intelligence from fearing the forces behind Bourbon and hesitating to act against him, Rum deliberately downplayed the Organization's presence. He tried to package Bourbon as something like a mid-to-high-ranking member of a violent gang, hoping to encourage certain people to clash with him.
What he had never expected was that a clash did occur—but Bourbon had clashed with others to protect the