“I really don’t know why you would buy a house here.”

Vodka said jokingly:

"Tell me, it's been a year since you bought this house. How many times have you lived in it? Not even once."

He asked and answered his own questions directly.

After all, for people like them, buying a house is far less convenient than renting one or staying in a hotel.

Of course, safe houses are another matter.

However, it is obvious that Hoshino Aoi's apartment is not used as a safe house, otherwise she would have directly asked the organization to reimburse the cost of buying the house.

However, Hoshino Aoi said:

"Maybe it's an obsession etched in our DNA? After all, whether you're renting a house or staying in a hotel, there's always that feeling of not being at home and living there being inconvenient."

"...Don't just randomly engrave anything into your DNA!"

Vodka's sunglasses perfectly concealed his white eyes, but even if Hoshino Aoi saw it, she wouldn't have any big reaction.

She waved her hand perfunctorily, said casually, "Come pick me up when the time comes," and turned to leave, which made Vodka open his mouth and then close it again.

"Brother, is this really okay now?"

As if to confirm something, he turned his head and looked at Gin:

"Actually, I don't quite understand. Since Rum has begun to suspect Middles, why doesn't he just get rid of her?"

Human life is not a big deal to them, so Vodka doesn't understand why Middles is the exception.

Gin originally had his eyes slightly closed. After all, Hoshino Aoi was sleeping soundly on the plane, as if she didn't notice his cold eyes at all. But he couldn't sleep for a second, for fear that if he fell asleep, she would turn around and fall towards him, and he would have a stress reaction again.

Injuring people is not scary; what is scary is causing a riot, which will delay the mission.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have acquiesced to going back to rest first.

It was not until he heard Vodka's words that he opened his eyes and glanced to the side.

"That Middles... huh... can be considered one of the few smart people in the organization."

He chuckled and said:

"She has a keen sense of smell and is smart, yet also very cautious. If she doesn't think about it herself, it would be difficult for others to catch her."

I have suspicions, but I can't find any evidence.

"You've carried out missions with her before, so you should have a deep understanding of these things."

Vodka scratched his head:

"Indeed, when she was doing a mission, it was almost like one thing after another, with every step planned out. I even wondered if she could see the future."

Otherwise, how could you guess the reactions of the people around you?

Although Hoshino Aoi felt that she had taken a shortcut, after all, she knew the identity of each of them, and had been in a God's perspective, analyzing their personalities through their actions, and even put herself in the creator's perspective to speculate on how they would react after doing something.

So when making a plan at the beginning, I will put them in their shoes, and then improve my plan based on their possible reactions.

But in the eyes of others, it's a little scary.

They don't even know whether they made such decisions because they thought and acted in this way on their own or because of her guidance.

"So for Rum, he couldn't help but wonder whether he had thrown her there to be brainwashed because he wanted to, or whether she had other plans and deliberately led him to throw her into the laboratory."

Gin's words were a bit confusing, and it took Vodka a while to fully understand what he meant.

But after understanding it, he felt a little amused.

"No way... who would want to undergo a brainwashing experiment? And before Middles came out, we didn't even know the organization had this experiment."

"Maybe..."

Gin said in a calm tone:

"But the organization won't kill her. This is definitely within her expectations."

Seeing that Vodka still looked confused, Gin simply made his words clearer.

"No matter what, both of Middles's adoptive fathers were key members of the organization. The first one died because of Rum. Even if it was just to show others that as long as they were loyal to the organization, the organization would not mistreat him or his family. Rum wouldn't have ordered her to be killed just because of a suspicion before she had clearly betrayed him."

This is one of the reasons, the second is -

"And Pisco and Ireland won't just sit there and watch Rum kill Middles just because of a suspicion of their own."

"But she took Shirley away from America..."

"But she didn't hide her whereabouts."

Gin said in a deep voice:

"The reason why Vermouth and I got involved was entirely because Vermouth mistakenly trusted that MI6 undercover agent. He even covered up Middles and Shirley's whereabouts. If Middles hadn't contacted him at the time, perhaps Rum and that gentleman wouldn't have known about this."

So this isn't really an act of betrayal at all.

In other words, there is not enough evidence to prove that she did it on purpose.

Everything was just speculation based on their understanding of her, but it was far from being evidence.

"So that's how it is..."

Vodka's face showed some realization:

"I thought it was really because of Pisco and Ireland's pleas, but it turns out this is the case... That's why Rum came up with the brainwashing method. Even if everything was her plan, as long as the brainwashing experiment is successful, there's no need to worry about her doing anything else."

And if the brainwashing experiment did not succeed, it was because she herself could not withstand the punishment, and it had nothing to do with Rum.

"So now, Rum is worried that although he made the decision, he is actually following the path she designed for him?"

Is it also for this reason that you doubt Middles from time to time?

Gin didn't say anything else, obviously agreeing with what he said, which made Vodka frown and scratch his cheek.

“It’s so complicated…”

Vodka complained:

"It seems that we should have just not let her leave the lab."

As a result, he didn't doubt her at the time and let her out directly. He also gave her a code name, making it seem like she was his confidant. But then he turned around and started to doubt her because of his own speculation.

This is really...

Vodka sighed and said nothing more.