Chapter 104 Thoughts and Background

In short, even though he couldn't save them from the organization in time under various circumstances, he knew that Miyano Akemi's life as a grassroots member of the organization over the years was not clean, and he still kept track of their information.

The hope is to find an opportunity to help them break away from the organization, while also allowing the police to obtain intelligence from them that their investigations, which the core research institute has been unable to uncover, have failed to obtain.

When Shuichi Akai's identity was exposed, he was worried that Akemi Miyano would also be targeted. He volunteered to keep an eye on her for more than a month, claiming that he might be able to catch Shuichi Akai through her. He only left after confirming that the organization would not target her because of her sister Sherry.

Unexpectedly, in just over a year, the organization did not take any action against her, but she actually believed the organization's lies that even a three-year-old would not believe, and took the initiative to apply to complete the task of collecting funds and accumulating merits so that she could take Shirley away.

By the time she heard the news, it was too late. Her robbery gang had been implicated in a murder case, and two more people died within a few days. She had also disappeared, and according to the police investigation, she had fled to avoid punishment.

However, he had just learned from Rum that Gin's reply was that he had already silenced the witnesses, but the police arrived too quickly, leaving him no time to take the body back to the organization for disposal, and it remained at the crime scene...

What exactly happened? Could it be that Miyano Akemi wasn't being foolish, but rather faking her death to escape the organization? It's not easy to fake death in front of Gin; she couldn't do it on her own unless she found an accomplice willing to help her.

It's absolutely impossible that Gin showed mercy, deceived the organization for her sake, and spared her life...

Regardless of the truth, now that it has been determined that Miyano Akemi may have faked her death, the news must be kept under wraps to prevent the organization from finding out. The police should be arranged to investigate her whereabouts before anything else is discussed.

And what if her sister gets into trouble because of her faked death? Does she know that her sister planned her faked death to escape? It's going to be another stressful day for the blonde, dark-skinned police officer!

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Bourbon was puzzled, and the distillery boss who received the emails from Gin and Vodka was also very puzzled. Could such a fantastical mission report really have come from Gin and Vodka? Had they been disguised by someone with ulterior motives?

Although the thought flashed through his mind, he knew it was impossible, because this was a work report email sent from within the base, with extremely high encryption. The verification criteria for entering the base included multiple verifications such as fingerprints, palm prints, and iris scans.

Even Vermouth's disguise wouldn't work there, so these two emails were indeed sent by them. Gin is known for being the quietest and most ruthless person; he's not the type to waste words.

Vodka may not be the brightest, but his loyalty to the organization is unquestionable. He was sent to be Gin's partner because he was the most reliable person to keep an eye on Gin.

After all, Vodka had no idea that he was acting as his spy, so he wouldn't feel guilty in front of Gin. If he didn't feel guilty, he wouldn't reveal any flaws in front of Gin, and he wouldn't be like his previous henchmen, easily tricked and killed by him.

Despite his lack of sharp mind, his mission reports were always the most truthful and direct account of what happened. Now, the reports from the two of them were very brief, while Gin's were very concise and Vodka's were very verbose.

Aside from various exclamations of shock, disbelief, and horror at the organization's research, their statements were essentially consistent, indicating that although they successfully completed the mission, they truly encountered something incredibly unbelievable.

That's the matter.

But time travel? I've never done any research in this area, and I've never even considered this research direction. After all, there's been a possibility of achieving it with pharmaceuticals, but time travel is such a fantastical and nonexistent concept.

He wouldn't be foolish enough to make an investment that would turn a large sum of money into a dream bubble, especially since what he wanted was a body that would grant him immortality and eternal youth, and ideally, a miraculous drug that could bring the dead back to life.

Rather than this kind of technology that allows one to travel through time and use future information to change the fate of the past, even if a genius in this field were to provide a very feasible research paper, I would not be able to invest a large amount of money in this area.

This report, however, tells me that time travel technology is not far away, only 11 years away? That feels faster than developing a real silver bullet!

Furthermore, even though their mission report did not mention the relationship between this technology and the organization, why did Vodka believe that the organization's technology had been stolen?

It's because the right to use this technology now belongs to Gin's sister. Gin also crashed sometime in 2015, or maybe a year later. He felt that he would reuse his sister after losing Gin.

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-_-|| Do you think I'm that picky? Humph! His useless sister wouldn't even look down on him as a low-level member. From looks to personality and abilities, she inherited everything from her stupid Chinese mother.

If you hate Japan and like China, then go back to China and stay there. How could I possibly entrust such an important ability to an idiot? How could I? Even if Gin is gone, there's still Vermouth!

Besides, Gin is still his great-great-grandson, and he has been laying the groundwork for him and elevating his status without reservation, except to restrain Rum's influence on the organization.

So that if his physical condition were ever exposed in the future, he could be pushed to the forefront to deter the ambitions of certain people in the organization. Not telling him his true background was also because his personality was already quite willful and reckless.

When he's caught up in passion, he can completely distort his own orders to carry out his own ideas. If he really knew that the true young master of the organization was him, given his personality, he would probably turn the organization's ceiling into a huge hole, and he wouldn't care if he got so angry that he vomited blood.

Although Karasuma Renya pursues immortality and will never relinquish the wealth and power he possesses, he is also prepared to leave the best of everything to the person he most wants to leave it to if he is unable to control his own destiny...

It can be said that among his few remaining descendants, Gin was the first successor he chose after long-term observation. The reason for keeping his background a secret was not only because he felt that Gin was still young and impetuous and prone to excessive passion, but also to avoid him being deliberately targeted and destroyed before he could fully mature.

Vermouth is not his direct relative, but a descendant of his mother's side of the family from Italy. She is a distant relative who was used as a shield for Gin for a few years, but he was prepared for that.

In case Gin doesn't have enough power and dies like the others, Vermouth will become the true 'successor'. This was his thought three years ago, after his body degenerated too much and he became the size of a child less than two weeks old...

More than half a century ago, with the massive funding and support from the United States, Japan's economy took off. The Karasuma family, already one of Japan's top capitalists at the time, saw their assets expand many times over. They were even able to send their butlers to attend world zaibatsu gatherings held by the United States.

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He had seemingly unlimited funds to invest in medical and technological research on resurrection and longevity, and secretly used bribery, coercion and inducement to collect ancient Chinese herbal medicine formulas, imperial formulas, Tibetan medicine formulas, Miao medicine formulas, and various Western chemical drugs and medical research materials...

He devoured any medical information related to longevity, eternal youth, and immortality, whether it was a secret recipe, a legend, or even alchemy, by any means necessary, like a greedy mythical creature that never refuses anything. He achieved considerable success, which allowed him to live to be over 140 years old.

However, as the United States began to suppress the Japanese economy and the era of economic bubble arrived, his Karasuma family conglomerate was also greatly affected, with a large amount of funds being invested in secret medical technology research such as life extension and regeneration.

When the economic bubble burst, assets shrank drastically, and neither Japan nor the international community could quickly recover funds. As a result, the Karasuma family's cash flow broke down. If no solution was found, not only would all the research have to stop, but the Karasuma zaibatsu would also go bankrupt.

So 40 years ago, he personally planned a fake death and a lucrative auction of collectibles. Of course, before that, he knew that the Karasuma family would definitely be targeted by the 'victims'.

So before faking his death, he deliberately fabricated various illusions, pretending that his direct descendant had died in an accident, and that he himself had died from excessive grief, pushing the collateral branch of the Karasuma family to the forefront to vent his anger on the 'pre-selected victims'.

Gin's father is a descendant of his eldest son. 42 years ago, he was the first to fake an accident and immigrate to Russia. The information he created for him, such as his household registration, was that of a native Russian.

After all, he inherited his mother's Italian bloodline, and he looks European inside and out. There are quite a few people of Italian descent in Russia, so it doesn't look out of place at all if he's mixed in with them.

At first, the child was obedient and did not have any contact with the Karasuma family or the organization. Later, he fell in love with a woman from Iceland and had a son named Gin. However, after he refused to go back to Iceland with her, the two separated.

Later, when the child received news that he was critically ill and wanted to visit him in Japan under the pretext of work, he unexpectedly died during a mercenary mission. His useless biological mother actually took the child's compensation money and abandoned the child.

With numerous enemies on their side and close scrutiny from various countries, even adults would struggle to cope. Naturally, they couldn't bring back the weak and helpless to care for. They could only rely on the mercenary company to provide discreet care...

Various memories flashed through Karasuma Renya's little head, which was probably only 1.8 weeks old now, 180 years ago. He then clenched his little fist and thought thoughtfully, if he didn't consider the difficulty of realizing it.

Looking solely at the information that the good-for-nothing brought from the future, if this technology truly exists as that girl claims, and if, as Vodka speculated, someone used it multiple times in 2015 to kill Gin, then...

The only possible beneficiaries are Rum or Vermouth. He personally leans towards Rum, as Vermouth is too inexperienced against Rum. Could it be because he concealed from Rum the fact that the ATXP4869 restored by Sherry, combined with the harmonizing agent left by Atsushi Miyano, would have a childish effect?

The fact that he wouldn't die from the poison made him realize that waiting for the silver bullet to be completed was hopeless and would never restore his eye. So, was he secretly plotting something? Did he secretly fund the research on time travel technology?