Chapter 78 Rum, the Scapegoat

Moreover, regarding his relationship with Rum, Curaçao, a loyal member currently under Rum's control through hypnosis, is Rum's true confidant. Among his trusted followers, Binga, who harbors great hostility towards him, is the most suitable for this title.

Bourbon wasn't part of the action team; he was better at intelligence gathering. Aside from the secrecy typical of secret society members, the intelligence he collected generally needed to be reported to the organization. If Rum was involved, he wouldn't keep it from the organization's boss.

He has completed all the tasks assigned to him by that person and Rum. So far, he doesn't seem to have any intention of betraying that person along with Rum. He seems more like one of the neutral factions in the organization.

However, the fact that he was directly under Rum's intelligence group still made Gin suspicious of him. He believed that even if Rum did not openly betray the organization's boss at a crucial moment, he might secretly observe the winds of change and then choose the side with the greater chance of winning to defect...

Therefore, after hearing Bourbon's words, Gin didn't believe that he was a black-hearted organization boss who would tip off that person. He thought it was more likely that he had seriously messed up Rum before his downfall.

Bourbon sensed that Rum was about to fail, so he belatedly chose that person to surrender and do some underhanded things like tipping him off. Hmph... what a serious injury, he can only do training new recruits now.

It's likely that the higher-ups saw through his schemes, and after dealing with Rum, he was sidelined and sidelined by the organization. That's why he started trying to deceive and recruit newcomers to improve his standing within the organization...

Gin didn't bother to expose Bourbon's little scheme. The only thing that bothered him was that since the organization had developed this time travel technology and Rum died after him, there was no possibility that Bourbon was being watched and tricked by Rum.

How did Fat Piglet get involved with the organization and even control this time-travel technology? Could it be... that gentleman did those little things that he suspected Rum would do?

The man couldn't be sure whether he was alive or dead when the car overturned. Because his job as a 'cleaner' revealed too many of his and the organization's secrets, the man became uneasy and dragged Fatty into the organization.

Thinking about this, Gin was very unhappy that his partner hadn't kept their promise. He was the type who would rather betray the world than allow others to betray him; he was capable of being two-faced, untrustworthy, and breaking promises...

If anyone else did that to him, Gin would send them to meet their maker if he had the ability. So even if the person who did this was the organization boss he used to respect, after figuring this out...

The organization's boss was immediately addressed as "Sir" instead of "Your Excellency," demonstrating his capricious and fickle nature—he could turn on anyone in a heartbeat and show no respect for anyone. -_-||

At the same time, Bourbon realized what Gin's answer meant: "Do you think Rum is the ultimate winner?"

If Rum can win, what does your sister have to do with it? How exactly did Hagiwara and Matsuda manage to improvise and lead Gin to such a ridiculous speculation?

"Hmph!" Gin snorted coldly at Bourbon's taunt, issuing a warning: "Watch your mouth. I don't want Rum to hear about today's events, or else..."

You should know very well what the consequences will be!

"OK!" After Bourbon agreed, he deliberately made a self-deprecating remark to dispel Gin's suspicions: "The future is in your sister's hands. If you don't want to bring about your own destruction, you don't need to threaten me. I know exactly what to choose."

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"Your self-awareness is somewhat reassuring," Gin said meaningfully, then stood on the high-rise building gazing at Twin Towers A, which had turned into a giant pillar of fire.

Imagine him editing and rewriting his experiences of the day into a new email to report to the organization. Even as the third-in-command, he was facing a diligent, hands-on boss who wanted to know every detail of the organization's movements.

After each mission, he also needs to give a work report. Like today, even though it seems like only he, Vodka, Cohen, and Chianti were on the mission, it doesn't seem like there were many people.

In fact, including those who planted the bombs, those who kept watch within a 500-meter radius of the building, and those who were planted within the police force, there were at least dozens of members in the organization.

Today's actions, the reactions of other members... even if I don't report them, other members will. And if those guys report them and I don't email them, the organization boss will definitely suspect my loyalty.

However, the specific content of the email is entirely up to me. Besides, if I want to take action against Rum, it will have to be when that gentleman makes up his mind.

That person originally planned to eliminate Rum's right-hand men, such as Curaçao and Binga, before finally eliminating Rum himself. It seems that this plan failed in the past. No! Perhaps this is the kind of success that person most desired.

With Rum, who had seized control of the organization and was plotting a coup, finally dealt with, Rum himself, the third-in-command whom he had promoted by any means, also fell from grace, and the organization once again returned to a state where he ruled with absolute authority.

Hmph! He has no sentimental attachment to being a stepping stone for others. No matter who the other party is, if they dare to think of using him as a stepping stone, then they should be prepared to be used as a stepping stone to climb to a higher position! o(￣ヘ￣o＃)

As Gin pondered these thoughts, the organization's boss, upon receiving Gin's report, was utterly bewildered. What?! A time travel research project succeeded in the next 25 years? Could Rum have become the new boss of the organization in the future and gained control of this technology?

Rum could guess that he wanted to restore his photographic memory through APTX4869, but 'time travel technology'? That was impossible, at least at this stage, and no organization had ever attempted a technology more impossible than APTX4869 when it was developed to its ideal state.

Could it be that Rum secretly established a research institute to study time travel technology because he had kept Sherry's progress in restoring APTX4869 from him, and Rum realized that he could not achieve his goal through medical technology?

Did the Goodfellas travel back 17 years to change the future where he lost his eye? And did they succeed in the future? Is this kind of research, which is considered cutting-edge technology even in science fiction movies, easier to complete than APTX4869?

He had been struggling to live for 20 years, dragging his frail, rotting body, ever since he took 'APTX4869', a drug developed by the Miyano couple, until they finally met him.

What are the results of researching APTX4869 in the daughter's body and further researching it in the direction of rejuvenation?

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It turns out that since Karasuma Renya took Sherry's 'APTX4869' 3 years ago, and then improved it to another APTX4869 in the direction of rejuvenation, her body has become childlike, and she looks like a baby who is only 2 weeks old and needs to be carried in a stroller.

It would be difficult for someone of this size to maintain a normal working state, given that they would have to fight off the instincts of a growing child, such as drowsiness. In addition, his body was not only a fellow original 'APTX4869' test subject, but also that of his relative, Vermouth.

He and a few close confidants could neither afford nor dare to let others know the effects of the drug, nor could they allow other members of the organization to witness his true appearance. These were things he had to avoid.

After all, if subordinates see that they are loyal to a boss who is just a child, the brainless ones will look down on him from the bottom of their hearts, while the intelligent ones will have designs on his anti-aging medical technology. He will hate both of them.

However, if the organization's boss does not see any subordinates for a long time, and everyone knows that he is very old, it will arouse all kinds of suspicion among his subordinates. If Rum fuels the flames, his subordinates may arbitrarily define him as dead and then elect a new organization boss.

He could only use the excuse of going into seclusion for recuperation while arranging for Vermouth to recruit people to solve this problem, at least to deceive Rum and the rest of the organization into thinking that he was still living with the same physique as before.

To this end, Vermouth even contacted a special effects technician she knew and had secretly investigated, and through some manipulation, she got him to agree to make her a simulated projection system so that she could use this projection system to deceive Rum and the other members about her previous image.

Unexpectedly, that system wasn't even finished yet! In 2025, Rum's time travel technology was not only completed, but he also sent members from the future to travel to this time and the Shinkansen twice.

Fortunately, the coordinates of his technology were not precise enough, and they happened to arrive just in time to witness Gin and his team destroying Yuan Jiaming's servers and hunting Sherry, trapping the two Future Organization members inside the Twin Towers.

In order to avoid being blown up, they were forced to contact Gin to delay the time it would take for them to detonate the bomb, which exposed their identities. Bourbon, the only person they trusted and had contacted, was also forced to make a wise choice under Gin's coercion and intimidation.

Otherwise, if Rum at this time had received a message from his future Rum, suggesting that he had been betrayed and taken over by Rum in the future, he might have become a defeated general much earlier...

As for Gin lying to him and fabricating a ridiculous lie about time travel to the future, Karasuma Renya did not doubt it. First of all, he had conducted a very detailed investigation of Gin when he chose him as his 'cleaner'.

Knowing that he wasn't the type to daydream or spout nonsense, and secondly, Gin had proactively reported in an email that he had also suspected the other party of lying, whether it was the Shinkansen incident or the Twin Towers incident this time.

Those two organization members who claimed to have traveled from the future both mysteriously disappeared under impossible circumstances. He had read the organization members' reports in detail, both the Shinkansen incident and this time.