[“Jingguang, hide here first! You can only come out when I tell you to!”]

[“You must remember, even if… even if Kong Liang is crying, you absolutely, absolutely cannot come out!”]

[“Keimitsu, Dad and Mom are both dead… Can you tell me what happened?”]

[“…Do you know where Mommy hid Kong Liang? I didn’t see him.”]

【“Why save him? I saw the news, Sotomoichi, the murderer who killed our parents.”】

[“If you didn’t save him, Jingguang, he would have died at the explosion site. You obviously hate him, don’t you?”]

[“Has the mission been completed?”]

[“Are you sure you’re done?”]

The shower in the bathroom sprayed a fine and gentle stream of hot water from top to bottom. Morobushi Jingguang stood in the middle, letting the hot water soak him completely. His soft black hair stuck to his face, and the young man with cat eyes gently closed his eyes.

[“Have you ever thought that maybe Sora Ryo…actually remembers what happened when he was a baby?”]

How should he react to this?

Years of undercover life have made him accustomed to concealing his emotions. Even when he is facing his fellow police officers and is asked by the organization to kill innocent families, the hands of sniper Scotland never tremble.

After becoming an undercover agent, Morobushi Kagemitsu was fully prepared. It was not impossible for his former friends and partners to become enemies.

Because the public security and the organization are the enemy. He immediately arranged undercover training after graduation and never appeared in public. Therefore, except for his colleagues and the partners and superiors who recorded the undercover files, no one knew that Morobushi Jingguang was also a policeman.

No police officer would show goodwill to Scotland, a member of the organization, just as Scotland would never protect the police.

Even if you don't recognize your relatives or friends and just pass by them, it may increase the possibility of exposure.

How many undercover agents have had their identities exposed because they shouted out their real names when meeting their relatives and friends, or even because their expressions only revealed a clue?

Morobushi Kagemitsu has always been very good at this. He can treat his childhood friend Rei Furuya as if they were meeting for the first time, testing each other and acting as strangers.

He could pretend that Morobushi Kagemitsu had never existed, and the only person with a name was the organization member Scotland.

So the reason he was exposed was not because of a flaw in his disguise, but because there was a traitor inside the public security. Therefore, he cannot contact the public security now, which will lead to - no, Kong Liang will protect himself and Brother Gao Ming.

Bailandide is better than Scotland in hiding her identity.

After all, he has been a member of the organization for nearly ten years.

"This is really..." Zhu Fu Jingguang let out a helpless smile under the sound of dripping water, but the rising water mist also concealed his expression at the moment.

Only when he was alone did Morobushi Kagemitsu dare to reveal his emotions. Even when facing his past peers, Morobushi Kagemitsu did not dare to express his true thoughts.

Habitual probing, flattering, and shifting the focus. On the contrary, Hagiwara has not changed at all. Or rather, he has not grown at all.

Missed seven years? No wonder.

But even the Hagiwara of seven years ago was not easily led astray by him. Hagiwara had always been the best at flattering people and had the highest emotional intelligence among them, but he was not sharp when dealing with people, just like flowing water, moistening things silently, never making people wary, but instead making people ignore his terrifying talent in this aspect.

...It's because of trust.

Because he trusted his past colleague, Morobushi Kagemitsu, he was not on guard and easily told the information he knew.

Otherwise, he would probably have to go around for a long time before he could get what he wanted from the side.

According to Hagiwara, Rei is also here and has a good relationship with Sora Ryo. Although being an undercover agent in the organization does not mean that you have to work for the organization all the time. The members of the organization also have their own lives.

But according to Zero's habit, there must be something here that requires him to cover up his identity, so he would stay in one place for a long enough period of time. And in order to prevent his habit from being noticed by the organization, this matter is probably also a task of the organization, so he will appear in front of people openly.

...Little Rice Flower has gathered Bourbon and Bylandite. What is he investigating? It's impossible that he discovered Bylandite's identity and suspected Bourbon, so he asked him and Bourbon to investigate each other?

It's not impossible, the organization likes to play this game. When Lei exposed himself to the FBI, if he didn't lie, then Lei was probably also suspected, so they sent him to hunt him down.

Even if he trusted Lei at that time, the next situation would probably be that Lei was exposed.

"Turns out, I'm still alive." Zhu Fu Jingguang turned off the faucet, and the water flow from the shower stopped. The water droplets on it gathered and dripped onto the ground.

Morofushi Kagemitsu covered his head with a towel, put on the pajamas that Hagiwara Kenji lent him, and as soon as he went out, he ran into Hagiwara Kenji who was looking at him with an angry and helpless expression.

Can't I really hide it from Hagiwara? This thought flashed through Morofushi Kagemitsu's mind. But since he was willing to show it like this, it meant that Hagiwara was not really angry.

If Hagiwara Kenji concealed his feelings and communicated with Morofushi Keimitsu as if he knew nothing, Morofushi Keimitsu would become more alert and start to suspect Hagiwara Kenji.

Hagiwara Kenji put the hot milk in his hand heavily on the table: "Mr. Hagiwara is angry! A certain student needs to apologize immediately!"

"Sorry." Zhufu Jingguang said immediately.

"..." Hagiwara Kenji paused, stared at Morobushi Kagemitsu for a long time, then covered his face and said sullenly: "You don't have to be so cooperative, little Morobushi."

He was so cooperative that he didn't know what expression to make. He wasn't really angry.

He was just helpless: "If you don't want to trust me, then don't be so contradictory... You're so obvious, are you afraid that I can't see it? You too, Zero too."

A certain Mr. Zero rushed into the room openly to check if there was any surveillance.

"...Because you are Hagiwara." Morofushi Kagemitsu softened his expression. In the midst of Hagiwara Kenji's astonishment, he took the initiative to reach out and hug Hagiwara Kenji, feeling his breath and heartbeat under his palms, and gently continued, "You are still alive."

"I have to be suspicious of anyone who comes near me, who gets close to me. Because that's my job."

"I want to trust you, but I can't. When someone who has been dead for many years appears in front of me, I can't let down my guard no matter what." Morobushi Kagemitsu's blue cat eyes seemed particularly gentle at this moment: "But I am still happy that you are alive. Very, very happy."

"I think Zero thinks the same as I do." Morofu Jingguang released his hand, and the emotions in his eyes had been completely restrained. "No matter what you encounter, whether your personality changes, even if you become an enemy."

"But it's great that you're still alive."

"..." Hagiwara Kenji looked away a little uncomfortably and touched his nose: "You have fully grown up, my dear."

"You were never good at saying things like that before. This is so scary. I'm going to be conquered by you."

Kenji Hagiwara did not feel his own death, nor did he encounter the death of any of his companions. Unlike Morobushi Kagemitsu, who immediately faced the death of his classmates after graduation, Jinpei Matsuda received the death of his childhood friend. And the worst happened to Rei Furuya, who was the only one left among his classmates who died when the plot began this year.

He knew that his family and friends would be surprised by his being alive, but he could not be sure how much this surprise would mean to them.

Even the news of Matsuda's death was not real to him. He had not experienced it, so he could not empathize with him.

"If Jinpei-chan changes that much, it will be terrible." Hagiwara Kenji touched his chin. "Jinpei-chan has always had a plain face and a bad personality, which has prevented him from finding love. If he grows up, then I won't be able to compete with him!"

"…So this is the point?" Morobushi Kagemitsu noticed the message in this sentence and couldn't help but wonder, "You met Zero and Sora Ryo, but you didn't meet Matsuda?"

Matsuda Jinpei's personality is more... well, casual? He rarely pays attention to things he is not interested in, but that doesn't mean he is not sharp enough. Just like Furuya Rei can recognize his childhood friend at a glance, it is impossible for Matsuda to not recognize Hagiwara when he meets him.

And from what Hagiwara said, he wasn't avoiding him on purpose - if he was avoiding him on purpose, he should be able to see Matsuda Jinpei from a distance, instead of seeming to know nothing like he does now.

"…Ah, is it a small situation? You see, I am in a very busy situation now, do I have a chance to meet anyone? I met Furuya and Sora Ryo when I was not in a clear mind at the beginning." Hagiwara Kenji complained.

"Is that so?" Morofushi Jingguang nodded.

Matsuda Jinpei died after Morobushi Kagemitsu, and Morobushi Kagemitsu has not had time to confirm the situation at the same time.

The news pursues the latest hot topics, and Mika is updating the latest news information every moment. Morofushi Jingguang has no way to accurately find the situation that happened three years ago in such a large amount of information. He was just perfunctorily brushed aside by Hagiwara Kenji.

The main reason is that the identity of childhood friend is too intimidating, and Hagiwara Kenji behaved too naturally, and Morofushi Kagemitsu didn't even find any suspicious points on his face, nor did he think about the possibility of death at the same time.

Hagiwara Kenji raised the milk in his hand, hid the smile on his lips, and his eyes curved. It turned out that he couldn't stay in the room all the time. He wouldn't know what happened outside in time.

I'll talk to Xiaokong Liang later, Hagiwara Kenji thought.

——The hospital next door.

Matsuda Jinpei, who was lying on the hospital bed with his eyes blank, suddenly sneezed. The nurse who had been taking care of him immediately began to check his body anxiously to determine whether he had caught a cold.

The bandages wrapped around Jinpei Matsuda's body are to protect the layer of skin that he lost due to burns. Losing a layer of skin will have a great impact on the human immune system.

But... is he paralyzed and unconscious? Why can't he feel any pain and have an inexplicable sense of disharmony? Matsuda Jinpei thought to himself in boredom.