"Pah—"

A "beep-beep-beep" sound came from the receiver. Amuro Toru hung up the phone expressionlessly, turned around and walked out of the public telephone booth.

"Mission accomplished."

He turned his head and said to Aoi Hoshino, who was squatting next to the phone booth, bored and scratching an ant hole with a small wooden stick:

"Rena Mizunashi has agreed to join the organization and work for it."

"Ah, so fast?"

Aoi Hoshino curled her lips, looking somewhat dissatisfied:

"I thought she could hold on a little longer, but I didn't expect her to succumb to evil so quickly."

There was a hint of regret in Hoshino Aoi's voice, but when Amuro Toru heard it, he instantly understood what she meant.

She felt that the other party surrendered too early, so she hadn't had enough fun yet...

"After all, he's just an ordinary person, so it's normal for him to be scared by a bomb."

Toru Amuro blinked gently, and as his eyelashes trembled, he used this action to completely hide the coldness in his eyes.

"But speaking of which, as a companion, I don't even know when you, Middles, planted the bomb... Don't you think you need to explain this to me?"

After all, they are companions, right?

In the end, he didn't even know what her action plan was. He was just dragged here by her phone call, and then he kept waiting, and finally the time came for her to call.

Then, he called Rena Mizunashi according to the number she gave him, and the mission was completed...

Although Toru Amuro had no intention of snatching the mission from Middles from the beginning, and this time he was indeed thinking that if possible, he would try his best to take advantage of Middles's action and let Rena Mizunashi fake her death and escape while successfully capturing Middles.

So when he found out that she had other arrangements, he happily gave up this mission.

But on the surface, he had a cold face and spoke to her unhappily.

Unfortunately, in response to his cold face, Middles squatted on the ground, supporting her head with her hands, and looked at him from bottom to top, feeling quite innocent.

"Explain? Explain what?"

There was a hint of confusion in her eyes, as if she really didn't know what she should explain to him.

after all……

"Shouldn't you be the one thanking me?"

She helped him complete the task directly.

So shouldn't he be the one to thank her?

Why does she need to explain?

Middles' little head was filled with big doubts.

"But according to Gin, this is 'my mission', and your mission is to assist me in completing it, not to act on your own and abandon me, right?"

Amuro Toru deliberately put some emphasis on the words "my mission".

"What does it matter? I ended up playing it anyway... well... I'm still happy, I guess... and I did complete the mission this time, so isn't that enough?"

Middles looked unconcerned.

"At worst, when you report back to Rum, you can just take all the credit for yourself. I don't care about that stuff anyway."

As she spoke, she shrugged her shoulders, threw the small wooden stick into a nearby trash can, patted the dirt off her hands, and said nonchalantly:

"For me, the most important thing is whether it's fun or not, so as for the rest, you can handle it yourself."

Amuro frowned slightly.

To be honest, he has seen the shadow of 'Hoshino Aoi' in 'Middles' more than once.

This has nothing to do with appearance, but is a vague feeling.

But her eyes and the expression she had when facing him were so strange.

It was so strange that even when they first met, Toru Amuro had never seen a similar expression in her eyes.

This was one of the reasons why he thought they might be twins with very different destinies, and he also thought that maybe 'Hoshino Aoi' was also a member of the Black Organization like her, but he never considered that they were actually the same person.

But why can he always see the shadow of 'Hoshino Aoi' in her?

One of them was so hardworking and serious, and even died in the line of duty protecting confidential documents within the Metropolitan Police Department.

The other one, however, had an attitude of playing with the world, as if as long as this thing was fun, she would do it. As for whether this thing would cause any serious consequences or hurt other people, it didn't matter to her.

They were clearly two completely different people no matter how you looked at them, but for some reason, he saw the shadow of 'Hoshino Aoi' in her again and again.

Could it be a coincidence?

After sending Middles back to the downstairs of the apartment building where she lived, Toru Amuro looked at her back as she left and gradually fell into deep thought.

He never believed in any coincidences in this world.

So he would not think that this was just a coincidence.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have asked Yuya Kazami to help him retrieve the file information of 'Hoshino Aoi'.

If you calculate the time, he should have submitted the application by now, right?

Just as he was thinking about it, suddenly, the cell phone rang.

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