Chapter 78, Eighteenth Cycle (22)
Task completed.
Scotland and Ray smuggled the scorpion, who was still disguised as Amuro Tooru, out of the casino and handed it over to Gin, thus concluding their mission.
Overall, it's not difficult; they can go back now.
The hardest hitter was actually Bourbon. Gin was in charge, Vodka was supporting, and Cohen and Chianti, as backups, didn't even get a chance to shoot.
Moreover, now that the mission is over, Bourbon rushed back to the safe house to take a shower and change his clothes, only to find himself having to go over there to interrogate Scorpion, torture him, and process intelligence and follow-up work.
By the time he returned, it was already midnight.
Bourbon, who reeked of blood, opened the door and came in. Scotland, who was sitting on the sofa, immediately got up to greet him.
Bourbon closed the door and glanced around the house with a slightly strange expression: "Where's Ray?"
Scotland paused for a moment: "He left not long after you left, I don't know what he went to do, he hasn't come back yet."
Rei Furuya took out a signal jammer and whispered the code to him: "A cherry blossom."
Morofushi Kagemitsu's expression also turned serious: "Five petals? What happened? What's wrong?"
Furuya Rei smiled to reassure him, then sat down and reluctantly handed him his phone: "Looks like you didn't receive their email."
This is not surprising. Although Furuya Rei tampered with Morofushi Kagemitsu's phone, making it impossible for ordinary hackers to intercept and obtain his information, most people still communicate through him just in case.
Judging from his attitude, Morofushi Kagemitsu realized that it didn't seem to be a very serious matter, so he relaxed a little and curiously picked up his phone to read the email sent by Hagiwara Kenji.
The email was quite long, and although it was sent using Ken Hagiwara's second phone, it was clearly a compilation of the three people's words.
The content was very simple: they asked them what kind of tasks they had done that day and expressed their concerns about Furuya Rei.
Morofushi Kagemitsu: "..."
Morofushi Kagemitsu touched the stubble on his chin and said embarrassedly, "They saw us in the end."
Furuya Rei, with half-moon eyes: "Yeah, luckily they didn't rush out and get discovered."
Matsuda Jinpei ran downstairs to defuse the bomb. Because he was careful and hid in the dark, he was not discovered. However, he did not expect to witness the scene of them carrying the injured and unconscious "Amuro Tooru" into a car and driving away from the underground garage.
He immediately contacted Kenji Hagiwara and Wataru Date by phone, but they unanimously decided not to participate in order to avoid disrupting their plans.
Even when Matsuda Jinpei clenched his fist so tightly that his fingernails left deep marks on his palm.
Rei Furuya was so badly injured, with both wrists broken and blood flowing from the corner of his mouth, that he was unconscious. The dangerous long-haired man impatiently hoisted him onto his shoulder and then roughly threw him into the car.
If Morofushi Kagemitsu hadn't been watching silently from the sidelines, Matsuda Jinpei would definitely have rushed out.
However, since Morofushi Kagemitsu has not made any move, he will choose to trust their decision.
But that doesn't mean they aren't worried about anger!
Having no other option, Morofushi Kagemitsu and Furuya Rei could only direct their anger at the long-haired man.
Furuya Rei laughed gleefully at this.
Morofushi Kagemitsu looked at Furuya Rei helplessly: "Did you explain it to them?"
If he doesn't explain this, he'll probably get a severe beating from those three gorillas the next time they meet.
Rei Furuya scratched his cheek: "I didn't dare to check the message before. I only saw it on my way back and then explained it to you."
He then showed a helpless expression: "They're still wrapping up their efforts to shut down the illegal casinos, and I got a reply as soon as I sent a message. Looks like they've been waiting all along. Honestly, they're underestimating me by worrying so much."
"You really scared them this time, and they worried for so long. Apologize properly next time." Morofushi Hiromitsu smiled as he handed the phone back to him. "Zero, you didn't just want to talk to me about this, did you?"
Upon hearing this, a very complex smile slowly appeared on Furuya Rei's face.
"Yes, Hiro, the last piece of the puzzle is complete." He sat up straight and looked seriously into his childhood friend's still bright blue cat eyes, solemnly announcing the good news.
Morifushi Kagemitsu paused slightly, his eyes widening slightly: "You mean to say..."
Rei Furuya smiled and nodded: "It's been three years. We can start reaping the rewards now."
Morofushi Kagemitsu stood there stunned for a full three seconds. After regaining his senses, he rushed over and gave Furuya Rei a big hug, then happily shook his shoulders, saying, "That's great, that's great, that's really great..."
He spoke somewhat incoherently, and by the end his voice was even a little choked up, but he laughed again after being comforted by Rei Furuya's hug.
Three years have passed. Although he has tried his best to get used to the dark, bloody, and dangerous life in the organization, and has indeed performed perfectly, Morofushi Kagemitsu is actually completely unable to get used to it.
He still feels pain and must remain absolutely vigilant even when sleeping to prevent any possibility of revealing his identity and implicating Zero and his brother, causing them to suffer inhumane interrogation and torture before dying.
That was a consequence that Morofushi Kagemitsu absolutely, positively, positively could not accept; it was something he could never forgive himself for, even if he died ten thousand times.
But he knew he couldn't die. If he died, Zero would immediately commit suicide, reload the save file, and start all over again from scratch, making all his efforts over the past few years futile.
All of these are pressures on Morofushi Kagemitsu.
The only place he could relax was by Zero's side.
They are childhood friends who know each other completely and trust each other absolutely.
One reason is that he genuinely believes Zero is reliable, and another is that he'd be happy no matter what if he lived with Zero. But most importantly, seeing Zero alive and well, still shining brightly towards his goal, is enough to shatter all of Morofushi Hiromitsu's anxieties, allowing him to immediately step into the darkness and work together with renewed energy.
However, he always has an uncontrollable worry that his promiscuous childhood friend will die somewhere he doesn't know, just like the nightmares that still often haunt him now.
After all, he knew very well that those were not just nightmares, but facts that had happened before, and a desperate and cruel reality that could come again at any time.
During the time Zero wasn't around, during the period when Morofushi Kagemitsu was smoking the most, he even felt that every dead person he saw had turned into the appearance of the blond young man, and then into the corpse of a new way of dying in his dreams.
The faces of everyone who died—those he killed, those killed by Ray, those killed by Gin, those killed by other members of the organization—were deeply imprinted in his mind and then transformed into the face of the blond youth.
The corpses were everywhere in his world, piled up like mountains, blotting out the sky.
He dreams every day of ending it all as soon as possible, destroying the organization, completing the mission, and then returning to the sunlight with Zero, to a normal life where he doesn't have to worry about killing or being killed.
He never expected that his dream would come true so quickly.
Morofushi Hiromitsu's eyes shone brightly, and he couldn't contain his smile any longer. He simply grinned foolishly and hugged his childhood friend tightly again: "This is so great! Since Zero said so, it must be over soon, right? We can meet everyone openly soon, and I can go home to see my brother. Hagiwara and the class president said they'd take us to meet my sister and Natalie..."
He chuckled as he spoke, "And the promised five-colored Mazda team will be appearing in front of everyone soon. Let's drive them together to find Instructor Onizuka!"
Rei Furuya gave a helpless smile: "Instructor Onizuka will definitely laugh at us for being naive."
They have been undercover for more than three years since graduation.
The organization's intelligence, influenced by the butterfly effect, has now been completely collected. Rei Furuya has also gained the trust of the organization's boss because of Pandora. This successful capture of Scorpion and the extraction of a large amount of information is the final piece of the puzzle.
"I can destroy the organization," Furuya Rei was confident.
He planned to resolve the organization's problems before the crisis of Matsuda Jinpei arrived in the fourth year.
Rei Furuya hopes that this huge change will completely alter the death points of the other people, bringing them all to another timeline where they can survive safely.
He also hoped that since he had such power, he could destroy the organization as soon as possible and prevent more tragedies from happening.
He knew all too well that beneath Hiro's perfect undercover performance lay pressure that time could never erase. He couldn't ignore the difficulties and pain Hiro endured just because he could do it. He wanted Hiro to take off his mask and show his gentle and kind side in the sunlight without any concealment.
Most importantly, intelligence is time-limited.
Rei Furuya has now collected all the puzzle pieces, but if he doesn't start assembling them now, and as the world changes over time and many uncontrollable butterfly effects occur, the puzzle pieces in his hands will no longer be complete, and he won't be able to assemble the whole ending.
The longer it drags on, the more butterfly effects will occur, and the less certain he will become.
Unless his position in the organization and the public security becomes increasingly higher, eventually gaining more power and intelligence from both sides, he will have almost all the effects of the butterfly effect under his control.
But it took too long, three years after three years, and during that time his friends who were his enemies faced death crises due to the world's malicious attacks. He couldn't guarantee that he could perfectly take care of everything.
Rei Furuya understands better than anyone that he is not perfect or omnipotent, which is why he works even harder to learn everything useful and trains constantly to become stronger.
To protect his friends, to protect the country where everyone lives, to protect this beautiful world, and to achieve a happy ending where everyone can live happily, he was even willing to cooperate with Shuichi Akai.
This is also why he deliberately emphasized his dislike for "Akai" in front of Ray.
Shuichi Akai is a very perceptive and vigilant man who has great faith in his intuition.
The reason he ran away is probably because he's worried that Bourbon has already discovered his true identity and has gone out to contact the FBI for investigation and questioning.
However, as long as Bourbon doesn't say it directly, or Gin puts a gun to his head, Shuichi Akai is still Rai.
However, he would certainly not be at peace until the result was confirmed, and he would still test Bourbon in some ways.
Furuya Rei maliciously considered how he would react when the time came.
He planned to scare Shuichi Akai for a few days, making that bastard worry and be afraid for a while, to get revenge for the guy and the Kudo family teaming up to frighten him before.
Jiang Guling turned off the signal jammer, picked up his phone, and started typing rapidly to send an email to the administrator.
Morofushi Kagemitsu came over to watch together.
The email was simple, yet it was powerful enough to be impactful.
This is an email that has the power to change the world.
Rei Furuya plans to directly disclose the list of undercover agents they sent to the Black Organization to the FBI, CAI, MI6, BND, and CSIS, and then force all national agencies to sign the "Agreement on Jointly Combating the Black Organization and Mutual Judicial Assistance," so that the major agencies can temporarily put aside their vigilance and scheming and work together to eliminate the Black Organization.
Once the agreement is successfully stamped by several countries, he will tell Shuichi Akai his true identity, confess his secret, and then form a real alliance group to destroy the organization together.
After finishing typing, Furuya Rei checked the message with Morofushi Kagemitsu again.
Then, he stared intently at the email and slowly pressed the send button.
[Sent successfully]
Thump—thump—
"Thump!" The phone suddenly fell to the ground, making a loud noise in the quiet room late at night.
"zero?"
Rei Furuya's trembling hands gripped his clothes tightly at his chest. He opened his mouth and gasped for breath. A tearing pain shot through his heart, leaving his hands and feet cold and his body stiff, unable to move. Even his mind went blank for a moment, and his vision went black.
If Morofushi Kagemitsu hadn't reached out and caught him, he would have definitely collapsed stiffly to the ground.
"Zero? Zero! What's wrong with you?! Zero!!!"
Rei Furuya heard Hiro calling his name repeatedly in panic and fear, and frantically tried to resuscitate him using methods such as cardiac arrest and cardiac paralysis, but he was unable to respond.
His heart had stopped beating, and his breathing was rapidly weakening.
"Zero! Zero, please! Please! Don't die! Don't die!"
"Please, don't die in front of me again..."
Rei Furuya has completely lost control of his body; only his hearing remains, but he is unable to respond to the calls of the living.
He eventually lost his breath little by little in Morofushi Kagemitsu's arms.
Even after he died, those desperate cries continued to echo in his mind.
You are dead.
[End of 18th playthrough]
[Resulting in a Bad Ending: Haste Makes Waste]
So, it turns out that it's not possible to beat the game quickly?
Sorry, Hiro, you've witnessed my death once again...
[Load save/load]
【yes】
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