At 10:30 in the evening, the Café Poirot closed. Azusa Enomoto carefully told Toru Amuro a lot of things, and finally patted Matsue Shigure on the shoulder.
"Be careful." Enomoto Azusa said worriedly, "Although Mr. Amuro is very powerful, you should also remember to run when you should."
"good!"
Looking at these two colleagues who had inexplicably entered into caring mode, Toru Amuro always felt that he was out of place.
What do you mean he is very powerful, but Songjiang should run away? If there is something wrong, shouldn't he run away with it?
Miss Xiaozi, please take a closer look. Who is your long-term colleague?
Logically speaking, Matsue Shun had only been working at the café for a short time, and Enomoto Azusa had never met him before, so how did they become so close for no apparent reason...
Deliberately trying to please?
As Toru Amuro looked at Matsue Shunya who was waving with a smile, he always felt that the word "conspiracy" was written in capital letters on his smile!
Amuro Toru raised his guard, covered his lips and coughed, then asked knowingly: "Matsue-kun, can you tell me what you want to do now?"
Matsue Shigure looked over and saw the face that was exactly the same as the first round student Furuya Rei. He felt a little guilty. He cleared his throat and briefly recounted his experience with Hagiwara Kenji at the cemetery.
"...Anyway, this is too much. I have prepared a recording device and a shortcut key to call the police. This time, I must catch that inhuman guy!"
Those blue eyes seemed to be ignited with raging anger.
The corners of Amuro·Buzihu·Toru's mouth twitched. He didn't expect that Matsue Xunya would actually say this matter so bluntly.
He asked: "It sounds very infuriating... but is it worth the risk? After all, going out in the middle of the night to meet someone with ulterior motives is still very risky."
Matsue Shigure looked at him seriously: "Isn't it worth it? No matter what the reason, Officer Matsue's grave should not be treated like this!"
Toru Amuro paused, his purple-gray eyes were silent: "You didn't tell Officer Hagiwara?"
Matsue Shigure shook his head and said tactfully: "Officer Hagiwara is very emotional. If he knows... I'm worried that something will happen to him."
——For example, in the past, the gravedigger was eaten raw, without any sauce.
Toru Amuro looked at the young man's serious eyes and didn't know what to say for a moment.
He really only felt pure anger, without any complicated emotions mixed in.
Indeed, any righteous and passionate person would feel angry about this kind of thing, and it doesn't mean anything.
Amuro Toru lowered his eyes and thought.
He thought about Matsue Shun also getting the note and telling it to Hagiwara Kenji, and then trying to find out more details about the instructor or get closer to him; or he could go there alone and act indignant.
But he never expected that Songjiang Xun would just happen to ask him to help...
He should not have revealed any flaws.
Amuro Toru could only think of two possibilities. One was that the other party wanted to play the long game and was still in the initial infiltration stage, so he would not act rashly. The other was that it was just a coincidence that Matsue Shun looked like Matsue Shigure, that their names were similar, and that she was next to him...
Amuro Toru felt that if this was really such a coincidence, he could write his name backwards in the future!
Although he had a premonition that this investigation was on the verge of failure...
***
At 11:30 in the evening, Matsue Shigure and Amuro Toru were walking on a deserted path. The abandoned factory not far away was looming in the shadows, and the dim street lights stretched their shadows very long.
Toru Amuro walked beside him, with a serious face and no one knew what he was thinking. He had no intention of chatting with him to relax.
Songjiang Shigure could only keep talking to the system.
Matsue Shigure: "Miss Kozue praised Toru Amuro as a kind-hearted man who could do anything, but I see reluctance written all over his face? And the way he asked the question at the beginning..."
System: “What?”
Matsue Shigure made the final decision: "I'm afraid he is an antisocial personality!"
System: “???”
Matsue Shigure: "You think that most people would be outraged if they saw the grave of a morally upright, heroic, and sacrificial police officer being dug up? But Amuro Toru actually asked me why I wanted to go. There must be something wrong with him if he was so reluctant!"
The system was confused by his self-praise: "Don't flatter yourself."
Matsue Shigure said without blushing: "Is this the point? The point is that we can infer that Amuro Toru must be a cat person! I will turn on reporter mode after tonight!"
System: "Wait, what is reporter mode?"
Songjiang Shigure: "Eavesdropping and surveillance are a whole process, and following and secretly photographing is kept in mind."
System: "...Are you a paparazzi?"
Matsue Shigure feels that the process is not important, the means are the key. He has a hunch that installing a eavesdropping device next to Amuro Toru will definitely yield great results!
The system thought that this guy might have forgotten about Amuro Toru's fighting power, but seeing Matsue Shigure's excited look, it knew that it could not persuade him.
"This is the place, right?" Toru Amuro's voice interrupted Matsue Shigure's thoughts. He raised his head and found that they had already entered the factory.
This is a fuel processing factory, which is shaped like a "冂" with only an incandescent light lit far away at the door. It is pitch black inside and there is no movement at all.
Matsue Shigure glanced at the time and said, "Yes... the meeting time is twelve o'clock. There are still ten minutes left. Mr. Amuro, how about we take a look at the surrounding arrangements?"
Amuro Toru nodded naturally: "Okay, we will split into two groups..."
"No!" Matsue Shigure refused outright. He grabbed Amuro Toru's arm with one hand and said righteously, "That bastard might be hiding in the shadows. If we act separately, wouldn't it be easy for him to fall into a trap?"
System: "Oh~ Someone is afraid of the dark."
Hearing him repeatedly say "unbecoming a human being", Amuro Toru curled his lips and said, "Then, let's go, Mr. Songjiang."
Songjiang Shigure looked around and thought that if he were to hide in an abandoned factory like this late at night, he would definitely choose a place that was easy to defend and had a wide view.
If you are being chased, or considering the consequences of calling the police, you should stay away from the main entrance, which is easily ambushed...
He pointed to the building opposite, which looked like an office building: "Let's start from there."
If we catch that guy, let Toru Amuro beat him to a pulp!
If he can't beat him...Matsue Shigure doesn't believe that he can't react, he actually brought a stun baton!
Toru Amuro smiled nonchalantly: "Okay."
He chose this place because it had been abandoned for a long time and no one had been there all year round. If Song Jiangxun had any problems, he could easily solve them.
Although he was now constrained by this guy due to various "coincidences", it wouldn't affect anything if he just took a casual turn.
——This thought lasted only a minute.
Amuro Toru felt the increasing strength on his arm, and Matsue Shun's inexplicable trembling. He took a deep breath, and then another deep breath. He finally spoke when he was almost tripped for the second time by a foot stretched out from the side.
"Matsue-kun...can you please stop pulling so tight?" He said, almost gritting his teeth, "I can hardly walk."
"Sorry..." The force loosened slightly.
A voice sounded beside him, inexplicably hoarse. In the dim environment, Amuro Toru could not see Matsue Shunya's expression clearly, nor could he judge his situation.
"Are you afraid of the dark?" he asked with a frown.
Songjiang Xunye's voice was still as harsh as if it came out from between his teeth: "No..."
***
In fact, Songjiang Shiyu trembled and said to the system: "Oh my god, is there really no ghost? Why do I feel like there is something floating in front of me?"
System: "Did you watch too many horror movies last week?"
After all, players are not professional actors, and if they draw a character that is difficult to play, the system has an obligation to assist in the role-playing to avoid OOC due to excessive difficulty.
In last episode [Hacker], Songjiang Shigure was afraid of the dark debuff, and it was difficult for him to perform in time without props, so the system just turned on the lights and played a horror movie, making it as scary as possible.
——There will be absolutely no problem with the performance now.
The sequelae are a bit persistent.
***
Song Jiangxun is also trying to be strong.
Toru Amuro consciously put his hand on his coat, and when he pulled up a corner, he suddenly retracted it, and his arm hit the armrest next to him, making a dull collision sound and causing a tooth-grinding tingling sensation.
Songjiang Xun was also a little confused: "Mr. Amuro?"
Amuro Toru: “…It’s okay.”
He broke out in a cold sweat at his subconscious action just now.
This is not the first time that Toru Amuro has done this. The last time he took off his coat and gave it to the person next to him was A.
*As a member of an all-round organization that combines intelligence and assassination, Toru Amuro has to do several times more tasks than others. Sometimes when he sneaks into certain important places, he needs the help of technical members to delete surveillance and block signals.
In order to adapt to circumstances and increase the error tolerance rate, A will not always stay in the organization's room, but will also go with him to safe spots around the mission.
For that mission, he and Gin worked together to settle down in a hidden warehouse before the infiltration. There were many guards patrolling outside. Time was tight and the opportunity was fleeting.
A was taken out of the car by Gin and thrown into the warehouse. He was in such a hurry that he didn't even wear the hood he usually wore. He just hid in a pile of goods holding a computer. His face, which was mostly covered by a mask and bangs, couldn't hide his anger.
They had to hide in the warehouse until night, where there was no light and it was pitch dark.
Amuro Toru was sitting beside him, cleaning his gun and reloading it, and for some reason he felt like there was a quail shaking like chaff next to him.
He squinted and looked over. His eyes, which had already adapted to the darkness, could barely see A's condition: the young man holding the computer was bent over, trying hard to hide himself. Even his light blond hair hung to the ground. However, his motionless legs were not strong enough for him to curl himself up into a ball.
He made no sound, but his whole body was filled with fear and the desire to escape.
Amuro Toru couldn't see his expression, but out of concern for the mission, he still asked, "Are you okay?"
A squeezed out a few words from his throat: "I'm fine..."
Gin, who was leaning on the other side, sneered: "You'd better be useful. If there is any mistake in the mission, you know the consequences."
A ignored him. The hedgehog who usually seemed to be always angry in the organization was now unusually quiet.
Toru Amuro just felt that this guy was shaking more and more, and Gin's words were undoubtedly adding insult to injury.
He frowned, put down the half-assembled gun, took off his black coat and put it on A's head.
Just like pressing the pause button, the person who was shaking so much that he couldn't load his gun properly suddenly became silent.
At this moment, there was a sudden noise outside. Gin quickly gave A an order to cut off the surveillance and alarm, and stood up with a gun in hand: "Action now."
Toru Amuro loaded the gun in two seconds and walked out with Gin. At the last moment, he subconsciously turned his head and glanced at A.
The blond young man had already turned on his computer, his pale fingers jumping on the screen. He was buried in his black coat, wearing a large mask, with messy bangs, and the faint light from the computer shone on his eyelashes, trembling slightly. *
***
Recently, Matsue Jun also appeared. The characteristics that he occasionally revealed inadvertently forced Amuro Toru to awaken his memories about A and Matsue Shigure. He tried hard to restrain himself from thinking about it, but he would often fall into a vortex of confusion.
The emotions brought about by those memories stirred his nerves, making him need to exert greater effort to restrain his behavior.
Amuro Toru hates this feeling, but this is not like the usual missions that can be solved with just one bullet - he is caught in another difficult undercover mission.
A character named "Matsue Junya" tries to rip away the mask he has maintained for a long time, forcing him to reveal his softer inner self.
Toru Amuro will not escape, because he never has a way out... He will find out the truth!
Toru Amuro put his numb elbow against his waist, trying to relieve the pain from his bruised muscles. They had just reached the stairs to the second floor, and the faint moonlight shone down. The young man next to him was visibly relieved.
"Amuro..." As soon as Matsue Shunya's voice rang out, a ball of fire appeared in Amuro Toru's eyes.
"Bang!"
The crisp sound of gunfire came from deep in the corridor, and they disturbed the darkness that should not exist.
Amuro Toru subconsciously pushed Matsue Shun to the side, but found that the other party's intention was exactly the same as his.
The two men collided into a ball, and bullets carrying sparks passed through the gap between them, illuminating their equally stunned expressions.
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Turning off the lights
Matsue Shigure huddled together and said: I want to watch cartoons instead of horror movies, wuwuwu!
The system thought about it and switched to a comedy.
Songjiang Shigure: Laughing till shaking.jpg
Amuro Toru: ...Were you scared and crying?