Chapter 86 Chapter 86 "Unfortunately, I'm waiting for you."...

62.

Shortly after Ley and Bourbon left, I walked out of the corner, came to the side of the road, and opened the door of the white Mazda RX-7.

"Oh, what a coincidence." I greeted the blond and dark-skinned handsome guy in the driver's seat with a smile, sat in naturally, and lowered my head to fasten my seat belt.

Bourbon put one hand on the steering wheel and looked sideways at me: "Unfortunately, I was waiting for you."

I raised my head and paused for a moment, then smiled even brighter. "Wow, Mr. Bourbon, you're going to make me think you're seducing me, aren't you?"

He raised an eyebrow: "So... does that count as seducing you?"

"You're not me. You don't understand the other implications of this conversation." I sighed and shook my head, quickly switching back to a relaxed tone. "But I still want to thank Mr. Bourbon for offering to take me home!"

"It's not entirely my own initiative, Yingzi. You deliberately sent Lei away. Perhaps you have something else you want to talk to me about alone? Or is it something about Pramya?" Bourbon's fingers tapped the steering wheel intermittently, making a soft clicking sound. His tone became slightly more formal. "I checked the car, and there's no bug. What about you?"

"If I had, would I have come looking for you? Would I have dared to get in your car alone?" I asked matter-of-factly, leaning back lazily. "I told you all, Gin doesn't know I came looking for you. I certainly don't have any bugs on me."

The engine started, and the car merged smoothly into the traffic. Bourbon didn't ask the question I hadn't answered. He just drove quietly, as if waiting for me to speak first.

The light and shadow outside the window passed by quickly, casting flowing light and dark on his well-defined profile.

I looked at the road stretching out ahead and finally broke the silence.

"Pramya's situation is basically as I just said," I said. "I'm talking to you alone, not because of him."

"Oh?" Bourbon uttered a questioning tone, his eyes still focused on the front, but I knew his attention was completely on me.

"I don't like to owe favors to others." I said slowly, my tone becoming serious. "I still owe you two favors, as I remember."

Bourbon laughed but said nothing.

"Now," I turned my head and looked at his profile, which was a little blurry under the light from the window, "I can pay it back in one lump sum."

Hearing this, Bourbon glanced at me quickly, a gleam in his purple-gray eyes. "Pay it off in one lump sum? Sounds tempting. How are you going to pay it back?"

The car fell into a brief silence. I took a deep breath, looked directly at his profile, and spoke a few words clearly:

"Falling valley zero."

“!”

Almost as soon as I finished speaking, the car jolted ever so slightly. Although Bourbon immediately regained control, the loss of control was still evident. His fingers gripping the steering wheel suddenly tightened, their knuckles turning white. He didn't look at me immediately, but his aura instantly became cold and dangerous.

Without pausing, I lowered my gaze to where his hand, freed from the steering wheel, was resting. Under his suit jacket should be the pistol he always carried. At this moment, his hand must have subconsciously rested on the handle.

I continued speaking, my voice low, but each word struck like a hammer in the frozen air:

"And Scotland? Or should I call him Zhufu Jingguang?"

The moment the name uttered, the air in the car seemed to freeze completely. Bourbon, or rather, Furuya Rei, finally turned slowly and looked at me.

The usual mask of fake smile on his face had completely disappeared, replaced by an extreme coldness and scrutiny. Complex emotions surged in the depths of his purple-gray eyes.

But, no surprise.

A few seconds later, he spoke first, his voice much deeper than before: "...Do you know what you are saying?"

"Of course I know." I met his oppressive gaze without flinching. "Don't worry, I'm the only one who knows these two names."

I deliberately emphasized "currently" and "only me", and I think Rei Furuya has heard it.

He didn't respond immediately. Instead, he parked the car in a secluded corner before speaking, his voice emotionless: "I know. Otherwise, Gin wouldn't have allowed you to be alone with me. Otherwise, Scotland and I... would have been 'dealt with' long ago."

At this time, he was still carefully reciting Zhu Fu Jingguang's code name.

"So," he continued, "what's your purpose? To keep this secret in order to offset two favors?"

"It seems you've long suspected I knew your identities?" I didn't answer directly. Instead, I posed a question, a hint of curiosity. "How could you not have dealt with me as a potential threat in advance? Were you afraid that if you took action against me, Gin would trace you back to you, or was it because I indirectly saved Hagiwara Kenji that you thought I might not be completely on the side of the organization?"

Furuya Rei didn't answer the question. His expression remained unchanged, but silence itself was an answer. He avoided my question and asked:

"Tanaka, I mean, the bomber you asked me to arrest is being given 'special care' in prison. It was you who arranged it."

It looks like a rhetorical question, but it is actually a statement.

Sure enough, when I asked him to find the bomber who had harmed Hagiwara Kenji and might continue to harm Hagiwara Kenji and Matsuda Jinpei, Furuya Rei already suspected that I knew his true identity. He had been testing me many times before, probably wanting to know how far I had investigated and whether others knew.

And also...

I tilted my head and smiled, "With your abilities, you were able to find out this, but you didn't stop me from having someone attack him. Is it because you wanted to do the same thing? I had someone do it for you, so you chose to acquiesce, or even be happy to see it happen?"

Otherwise, how would Rei Furuya know that I had specifically arranged for the Black Organization to plant people in the prison to attack the bomber? Rather than saying that he was "welcoming", perhaps the head of public security was "going with the flow".

This time, Fūya Rei neither admitted nor denied it, but the corners of his mouth moved almost imperceptibly, like a faint smile.

"Since you already knew our identities, why did you choose to reveal them now?" He returned to his original question. "Are you so confident that I won't attack you right now? There's no bug in the car. This is the streets of Tokyo. I have countless ways to make you disappear 'reasonably'."

I looked at him calmly and even smiled slightly. "I'm relieved. Even if you have your hand on the gun right now, I believe you won't touch me."

He narrowed his eyes.

"Even if you don't have a favorable impression of me and don't trust me," I continued to explain calmly, "I believe that a mature undercover agent will know how to weigh the pros and cons. Killing me might temporarily silence you, but can you guarantee that Gin won't find out about you? We just met with Ley. Even if Gin doesn't know you and I are together, Ley will be happy to provide him with clues."

Humph, tremble, Touzi!

You wouldn’t believe it, I have a brain!

Everything is according to this clever guy's plan!

My eyebrows danced with pride, my head shaking twice. "More importantly, if you kill me, you'll completely lose someone... uh, someone who might be able to help you, or rather, provide you with assistance in the future? And someone with whom you can trade. In comparison, isn't it more valuable to keep me and cooperate with me? I've been keeping your identities a secret from the beginning~"

I saw the flicker in his eyes and knew that what I said hit the nail on the head.

It’s hard to say how much Rei Furuya knows about me, but I have known Rei Furuya in my previous life, so I know he will definitely accept what I say.

Sure enough, after a moment of silence, he released his hand from the gun handle.

"So," he began again, "you're promising to keep our identities secret? That would certainly offset two favors."

"It's to offset one of them," I corrected. "I'll do my best to keep your relationship with 'Furuya Rei' a secret."

He immediately grasped the key point: "What about Hiro?"

The name has changed.

"The reason I came to you alone," I said frankly, meeting his suddenly sharp gaze, "is because my Scottish identity may soon be exposed."

He tightened his grip on the steering wheel again, and said in a suppressed voice, "Who is it?"

"It has nothing to do with me!" Although he didn't ask if it was me at first, I denied it immediately.

Fūya Rei nodded: "I believe it."

Tsk, it looks like a letter, but I wonder if if something really happens to Morobushi Kagemitsu, and if Furuya Rei, who was originally going to vent his anger on Akai Shuichi in the plot, will then suspect me, since he has long suspected knowing their true identities because of the "butterfly effect".

Otherwise, I wouldn't have come to him to kick Zhu Fujingguang's ass.

"You should know that it's just like you are in the organization." I shrugged. "The organization has also planted people within your public security."

He immediately asked, "Who is it?"

I spread my hands, with a helpless tone: "Please, I'm just a bartender, how could I possibly know? Don't look at me like that, Gin wouldn't tell me such a thing."

"But what I do know is that what that person has been able to find, or will soon be able to find, is likely only information about 'Zhufushi Jingguang', not 'Fugu Rei'."

I paused, giving him time to digest the information. "This may be because although you two are both public security police officers, your affiliated systems, file management permissions, or encryption levels are different."

Furuya Rei's expression grew extremely solemn. He quickly digested this shocking information, his mind clearly racing as he considered response strategies and the direction of his internal investigation.

"...I understand." He finally said in a deep voice, his tone returning to calm, but the heaviness lingered.

"Well," I nodded. "I believe that with your abilities, you will immediately notify the relevant personnel to conduct an internal investigation and strengthen your security, especially his file security. But..."

I changed the subject and posed a more pointed question. "Have you seriously considered having two police officers with almost identical career paths working undercover in the same dangerous organization? Doesn't that in itself increase the risk of exposure? It seems Scotland is already on the verge of being exposed."

Furuya Rei fell silent. This question clearly touched upon a long-held concern both he and Morufushi Keimitsu had harbored. Undercover work in the Black Organization was fraught with danger and uncertainty. While working together provided support, if one of them got into trouble, the risk of the other being implicated was extremely high.

It can even be said that the Black Organization found out the identity of Zhufu Jingguang, but Zhufu Gaoming is not the only one who is fine... If you check Zhufu Jingguang's life, you will find that the big carrot of Furuya Ling has not been pulled out. It is really a golden finger given by 73.

"These..." When he spoke again, his voice was filled with a more complex mix of emotions: vigilance, gratitude, and deeper confusion. "This is no longer something that can be offset by so-called favors. Yingzi, you know that reminding me like this is just as dangerous for you, so why did you go to such lengths? Why did you take such a big risk to help us?"

Bourbon hesitated and asked softly, "Is it for gin?"

I was stunned.

"If in the future... I will definitely protect you. As for Gin..." He shook his head and said coldly and firmly, "He can't do it. The crimes he committed are not enough for you to help us keep our identities. Unless..."

"It's not for him." I interrupted him, "You don't have to think that you can ask me to turn Gin against the organization. He won't. He won't betray the organization for anyone, including me."

Rei Furuya's expectations of me are quite high, almost unrealistic. But I know for sure that Gin's indulgence and feelings for me are genuine, but that's separate from his loyalty to the organization. He might temporarily turn down Black Organization work to take care of me, but he would never betray them for me.

Fūya Rei was silent for a moment before he slowly said, "...That's true. If that's the case, why did you do that?"

I smiled sweetly: "Of course it's because I do good deeds, say good words, and have good intentions. I allow you to call me 'Three Good Things in Opening the Door'."

Jianggu Ling: "..."

Looking at his hesitant expression, he seems to be used to me saying something out of the blue while I'm talking.

"Okay, I won't tease you anymore." I burst out laughing, covering my mouth and saying, "I'm helping you because I want to. It has nothing to do with anyone else. Oh, if you're willing to let me go free in the future and not arrest me because I haven't killed anyone, that would be even better!"

Fūya Rei looked at me so intently that I could barely contain my laughter, and then he said solemnly, "I owe you one."

"Can we not keep owing each other so much?" I tried to negotiate with Rei Furuya. "This makes me feel like we're alienated!"

Fūya Ling's eyebrows moved, and he finally revealed a relaxed smile: "Eiko, what do you want?"

I extended my hand, dimples forming on both sides of my cheeks. "From now on, are we good friends?"

Fūya Rei lowered his eyes to look at my hand and gently held it.

"Yes, we are good friends."

63.

I was so happy that he became my good friend who was recommended and recognized by me that I even hummed songs while swinging my legs while playing with my mobile phone on the bed at night.

The raised calf was grasped by a slightly rough palm, and the silver-haired man asked quietly, "Where did you go to play today?"

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I'm so busy TT, I'm even considering changing my update schedule, but I decided against it because I'm afraid I won't have the same sense of urgency as I do now [chin rests]

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