Chapter 167 Love and hate blocked her noisy mouth. ...

Great! The evil little black face was completely furious!

Rejoice morning and night.

After much observation, she finally understood. If a plot involving a darkening and imprisonment plot required a central figure, Scotland was clearly not the culprit. Although he had expressed the pain of being "betrayed" during the initial showdown, he was also hiding something and felt guilty about being forced into house arrest, so he likely wouldn't turn evil.

And after all, he was her former godfather whom she had recognized before. He was a very good person and gentle and upright at heart. It was absolutely impossible to expect him to do something extraordinary like imprisonment, mental control, or severe torture or interrogation.

So who could possibly decide how to develop that plot? It had to be Blackface! After careful observation and analysis, she'd discovered that Blackface's limits were more flexible than Scotland's when it came to carrying out the mission. If she refused to cooperate or obey, he'd likely resort to some drastic measures... That would be a drastic plot twist, right?

The players' evil plans were going on in their minds, but from the perspective of Rei Furuya, the air was awkwardly silent.

The moment he asked that question, he regretted it. What was he angry about? Wasn't asking that question just asking for humiliation? He knew she hated him right now. If he asked that question, she would probably just say something like, "What else?" which would only make him even more annoyed.

But for some reason, when she didn't answer, he wanted the answer even more. In the suffocating silence, he asked again, "...In your heart, am I so despicable? You actually think I would put drugs in food?"

Chaomu was originally still thinking about how to stimulate him to turn evil, but after hearing this question, the answer did not require much thought.

"What else? Think back to how you two brought me here?" She rolled over, finally willing herself to look him in the face, a look of bewilderment on her face. "Since you two have done this, isn't it normal for me to suspect you put drugs in the food?"

...Furiya Rei regretted asking her that question even more. Damn it, he had no way of refuting it... But they were completely on the same page, right? To deal with a suspicious individual like her, whose origins and positions were unclear, and who possessed such dangerous intelligence that could potentially put their lives at risk, taking action was necessary, right?

Reason told him that he should try his best to accommodate her and coax her, but the blond young man looked at her for several seconds and still felt unable to swallow his anger.

"Before you question others, I suggest you reflect on how suspicious your own behavior is, young lady." He smiled wryly. "You were the first to expose Hiro and my identities in front of us—you forced me to take action."

When Chao Mu heard his last sentence, she felt guilty for two seconds. After all, she really wanted to see if there would be any exciting plot in the side quest of blackening and imprisonment... But after thinking about it carefully, she realized that the little black-faced man was not talking about that.

Seeing his sarcastic expression, her mood suddenly brightened a little, and she became interested. She sat up and prepared to argue with him: "You're angry with that expression? Are you finally giving up on acting?"

She looked like she had evil intentions written all over her face. Fūya Rei's eyebrows twitched slightly, and he sat up straighter. "After all, didn't a certain young lady say she didn't like my acting and thought it was fake? I'd like to be gentler with you, but I'm afraid you'd think I have ulterior motives."

"That's true. Whenever you smile, I feel uneasy. I wonder what you're up to behind my back."

Chaomu didn't deny this. She looked up and down at the familiar yet unfamiliar face so close to her with a certain curiosity, pinching her chin. "You look... so-so now, much more pleasing to the eye than when you were pretending."

She said this suddenly, and compared to her usual sarcastic tone, she actually showed a certain calmness and gentleness. The blond young man's eyes widened for a moment, and he almost instinctively leaned back a little: "... pleasing to the eye?"

Did she mean... that she liked him better now? Thinking back, it seemed like every time he was in front of her before, it was always in various situations that required acting. He was either playing Amuro Toru or performing Bourbon...

...In other words, if he had appeared in front of her as "Furuya Rei" from the beginning, she would actually... not hate him, right?

This strange association almost shook his mind at that moment. Furuya Ling pursed his lips, gave up this meaningless imagination, and shifted his attention back to the girl in front of him.

"Compared to your evil, dark-faced image, you're indeed much more pleasing to the eye." Chaomu didn't notice his momentary distraction, and after admiring his face for a while longer, he replied seriously, "You look almost as pleasing now as you did the night you said you'd give me money. You both look easy to bully... ahem."

Fūya Rei's Half Moon Eyes: "I heard you—you just said you're easy to bully, right?"

He knew he couldn't expect her to say anything serious... He really couldn't stand this idiot.

At this moment, the blond young man's expression was much more lively than before. With his home clothes and his youthful face, he looked a bit like a male college student, and was quite youthful.

Chaomu's gaze was unconsciously drawn to him for a moment, and she felt like rubbing his head, but then she realized: No! Shouldn't the little black-faced guy be easy to bully at this time? Shouldn't he be a dark, two-faced sadist? If he becomes an easy-to-bully dog ​​man, who will make up for the imprisonment and O plot she needs?

Her expression became serious. She always felt that her strategy seemed a little wrong. She thought for a while how to stimulate him. She reached out and tugged at his collar, and under his somewhat surprised gaze, motioned him to come closer.

Fūya Rei, whose collar was suddenly grabbed, responded: “…………?”

He inexplicably cooperated and moved closer, lowering his head slightly: "Why suddenly..."

"I'm just suddenly curious, Bourbon." Chaomu put on a badass face, hooked his chin, and smiled wickedly. "I think you're the evil little black face who's led your friends astray. What do you think of me? A two-faced evil woman who deliberately approaches your colleagues and plays with their feelings?"

"You and Midorikawa... Scotland are colleagues and friends from before, right? Seeing him being deceived by me and showing such a hurt expression, how do you feel? Hmm?"

When he heard the first half of her sentence, Furuya Rei thought she was talking about Hagiwara, and his eyes were slightly cold for a moment, thinking that she might know more than he thought; when he heard the second half of her sentence when she said Kagemitsu's pseudonym and code name, he realized that she was only talking about Kagemitsu.

...Looking at her expression, she probably didn't know that Hagiwara, Matsuda and they were classmates in the police academy... No wonder the "Vongola Lady" was so nice to Hagiwara when she was targeting him and Hiro.

Thinking of Hagiwara, and the scene he had specially recorded for the other party to play, wanting Hagiwara to see Chaomu's true face, and looking at her expression pretending to be a mature bad woman, which seemed dark but actually had many flaws, the blond young man twitched his lips slightly, and for a moment he didn't know how to answer her question.

At this point, rather than worrying about his friend, Furiya Rei's feeling was more like: He knew it a long time ago... He had already told it!

He'd already told them she was suspicious, but they'd refused to listen... and now what? One after another, they were befriending the daughters of the Mafia, and the most outrageous one, Hagiwara, seemed to have developed feelings for her, even letting her live in his house...

...It turns out that neither Hiro, Hagiwara, nor Matsuda understood her at all, and he was the first to discover the possible secrets and dangers in her.

This secret, even somewhat complacent thought of "I knew it a long time ago" swirled in his heart, softening Furiya Rei's brows, which had been slightly furrowed by her word "evil woman".

He didn't answer immediately, but his purplish-gray eyes lingered for a moment on her approaching face, his gaze glancing over the corners of her mouth, which were slightly raised by her deliberate curl. It was strange to say, her face was so pretty, yet she was naturally gifted with this sinister expression, naturally carrying three parts of coldness, five parts of sarcasm, and seven parts of ridicule... but not bad, nor evil.

Those lips, pale and dry from weakness, lacking vitality, opened and closed before his eyes, and with their curled lips, they spoke the same unpleasant and harsh words as always: "You must really hate me, right? Hate me for deceiving your friends... Not only that, but you were forced to act like a little gigolo in front of me before. You must be very angry, right? Do you want to kill me?"

"But you definitely can't kill me, because of my identity, my hidden purpose, and... well, my evil plot! So right now you should be thinking about getting me some potions, handcuffs, or something like that, tying me up and interrogating me—Hey, little black face, are you listening? What are you daydreaming about?"

Furuya Rei's gaze was almost completely fixed on her lips.

Her words circled in his ears, entangled him, and together with his own thoughts, questioned his heart.

He should be alert, on guard, as he always was—as he always was. Because of these negative emotions, hadn't he been watching her and paying attention to her?

That attention had lasted for a long time, long enough to shake his mind and allow him to understand her personality, preferences, and background. Furuya Rei had always watched her, confronted her, and even investigated her behind her back... Sometimes he even felt that he knew her better than Hagiwara and the others.

He wanted to be wary. He wanted to be on guard against her. He knew how dangerous she was, how out of place she was among the innocent, good people.

But now, he just wanted to... He didn't know what he wanted to do. Was it because her young lady look was so attractive to him? Why... Why did he want to...

Is it that you don’t know what you want to do, or that you know what you can’t do?

He just wanted to reach out and gently rub his fingertips across her lips, which were dry from not drinking water for a long time. She looked thirsty, but she was still chattering around him: "Little Black Face, say something, little Black Face? What are you staring at... huh?"

Kissing will also help moisten her lips and quiet her noisy mouth.

By the time Furuya Rei realized what was happening, he had already given up on searching for the answer to a question that likely already had an answer. As the girl stared in astonishment, he grasped her chin and kissed her.

He still hated her, he thought. At least he couldn't say he liked her... or loved her.

...But since she and he have been pulled into the same world and the same complicated and troublesome matter, love or hate, at least at this moment, is no longer that important.

Love or hate, there is still a long way to go between her and him.

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The author has something to say: It’s a bit delicious (It’s a bit delicious)

I really like the twisted little black face.