Chapter 906 How could I bear to let anyone else touch him?

When 01 was pulled out of the collapse, the chip inside its body had already disappeared, so it couldn't open the panel even if it subconsciously tried to.

Because it is a deity, Shenling merged with it completely.

01 In the blink of an eye, a water mirror appeared in front of it.

......

When Gin, Seeker, and the other two returned to the safe house, Bertrand was still unconscious. It wasn't until noon the next day that he yawned as he walked down the stairs.

"Yeah, that's it!"

As soon as Seeker caught sight of him, he ran over and hugged him.

Bertrand yawned again, went to the sofa, and flopped onto the pillow, dozing off in a daze.

Seekert: ?

Sigh, kids just love to sleep.

That was his initial belief.

However, Bertrand spent a very large portion of his day sleeping.

Sekert was getting anxious, but they had sent people to check on Chino Chitake's situation, and everything seemed normal on his end.

Bertrand was curled up on the sofa, hugging a lemon-shaped pillow, scrolling through his phone idly.

He suddenly stood up, then fell back down, his claws wrapping around Gin's arm.

"Koto-chan~"

He tried to make his voice sound sweet and gentle, but they could tell he was about to start begging for help.

"What are you doing?" Gin glanced at him, while also trying to pry Bertrand's hand away.

Bertrand gave him a bright smile. "Let's go to Hokkaido!"

"I'm not going," Gin coldly refused.

Upon hearing this, Bertrand pursed his lips and grabbed his hand, shaking it back and forth.

"Come on! Come on! I want to go! You guys come with me!!"

"Wow, let's go play!"

Gin remained unmoved.

Sekert, sitting on the single sofa, blinked and shrugged, seemingly helpless but actually watching the show. "Oh, if the kid wants to go, just go with him."

Gin glanced at him. "Why don't you go with him?"

Seeker feigned innocence: "But he wants you to come with him."

Bertrand stopped his tantrum and slumped against Gin, suddenly becoming drowsy, but still muttering, "Come with me..."

Seeker looked on helplessly, "Sleeping again..."

Before he could finish speaking, Bertrand suddenly fell forward, but Gin quickly pulled him back.

"...Yes."

Seeing Bertrand's suddenly pale face, Seeker was stunned for a moment, and a sense of panic instantly rose from the bottom of his heart.

The boy, who was lively and energetic just a second ago, suddenly became pale and limp in Gin's arms, which surprised even Gin for a moment.

He immediately picked the person up in his arms, said something to Seeker, and left directly, "To the Boss's side."

"good."

Seker snapped out of his daze and quickly got up to follow.

While the car was in motion, Seeker also took out a blocking drug and fed it to Bertrand.

But he didn't swallow it, which made Seeker so anxious that he almost swallowed the medicine himself.

They informed Karasuma Renya beforehand, so when they arrived outside the laboratory, they found someone waiting there.

Without exchanging any pleasantries, they took Bertrand directly to the laboratory.

His breathing had become very weak, and without the oxygen mask, it seemed as if he could no longer breathe.

"What exactly is going on?"

While Bertrand was surrounded by the experimenters, Karasuma Renya appeared in a wheelchair, looking rather unwell.

Gin lowered his head slightly and replied, "Boss, there's nothing unusual on the symbiote's side, but our informant at the hospital just sent back a message saying that the symbiote's condition is very bad and incurable."

Karasuma Renya remained silent, his fingertips gently stroking the armrest of the wheelchair.

After a long silence, he finally spoke slowly: "Can you get in touch with the church?"

"The answer they gave was that their main members were all missing. Judging from the situation, they might be being targeted by the mastermind behind Death."

Gin answered calmly and respectfully.

"What about Death?" Karasuma Renya asked again.

"They have been missing ever since that cruise ship incident."

After Gin's calm voice fell silent, the space became quiet.

It wasn't until the laboratory door opened that Karasuma Renya looked up. His hand quietly gripped the armrest, and he concealed the slight tremor in his voice with a calm expression, "How is the situation?"

“Boss, he…” The lab technician stammered, unable to finish a sentence. He took a deep breath and stepped aside to make way for him. “Please come in and take a look.”

"……Um."

Karasuma Renya nodded, and Gin pushed him into the laboratory.

The pale-faced boy lying on the hospital bed appeared before him for the first time without making a sound.

Karasuma Renya came to the bedside, reached out and gently took the boy's slightly cool hand, and softly called out, "Kaya?"

The boy's eyelashes trembled slightly, and his breathing seemed to become heavier. After a long while, he opened his eyes with some difficulty, his eyes still carrying a faint sense of confusion.

"Hmm?"

He blinked, his gaze sweeping across the faces of Karasuma Renya, Sext, and Gin. He even had the mind to crack a joke, but his voice was so weak they had to listen carefully to hear him. Fortunately, it was incredibly quiet here.

"Huh? This is the first time I've seen you guys with such ugly expressions..."

Bertrand chuckled twice, his eyes, which had barely opened, drooped again. He forced himself to stay awake, his fingertips lightly grasping Karasuma Renya's hand. His last words were:

"Next time, next time will you go to Hokkaido with me, okay...?"

Then he could no longer open his eyes, and the heart rate and respiratory lines on the monitor turned into a straight line.

But he heard their reply, and the smile remained on his face.

Someone opened their mouth, but couldn't bring themselves to ask, "What should we do with his body?"

Finally, in the endless silence, Karasuma Renya whispered the order.

"Prepare an ice room and an ice coffin."

Some people hesitated for a moment, but still agreed.

"Okay, Boss."

After everyone else had left, Seeker looked on in surprise, his eyes still slightly red. "Boss?"

Karasuma Renya chuckled, "Yes, he's so cute, how could I bear to let anyone else touch him?"

Gin's gaze paused slightly as he suddenly recalled a memory he had long forgotten.

At that time, a certain little madman was talking enthusiastically about his own death.

He did say that it was better to put his body in an ice coffin than to let those mediocre taxiderms mess with it...

Gin clicked his tongue lightly, looked up at Seeker, and said to him in a calm tone, "You've taken care of it. Don't let anyone else touch him."

Seeker looked at him for a few seconds, and finally nodded.

"……good."

Bertrand died earlier than Chizuru disappeared, so much so that when 01 realized what was happening and tried to check on him, all she saw was his body in an ice coffin.

01 is a bit overwhelmed.

He tried to summon Qianzhu's soul, but failed.

Absolutely not!

He wondered if it was possible that he had returned to his former world, but no, He couldn't find it.

01. Stunned on the bed, she suddenly realized that all traces of Qianzhu's past life here had vanished.

It's really gone.

It was as if he had never appeared at all.

01 I don't know why, but the person who said they needed it suddenly disappeared.

Is this a joke?

But this isn't funny at all...

01 Lost in thought, she nestled on the soft pillow, tears welling up in her eyes again.

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