Chapter 87, Twentieth Round (6)
Six o'clock in the morning.
After Scottish woke up, he subconsciously thought about what to make for breakfast. But when he remembered that Bourbon had said he wouldn't be back for the next few days, his enthusiasm suddenly waned.
Okay, I'll just do it casually then. I'll go train in physical skills for three hours first, and then go to the training ground to continue target practice.
Scotland knew that Bourbon and Rye were both holding back, but he wasn't. He had genuinely trained from scratch and grown step by step to where he was now. Even so, he still couldn't catch up with those two. He was definitely unwilling to accept it, but he was more worried than anything else.
In this dangerous organization, there is no room for complacency; one must become more careful and stronger.
Bourbon and Ray are already so good, but they have never relaxed and have been working hard to learn more and become even stronger.
Although the two of them seem to have relaxed a lot recently, no longer competing with each other so fiercely that it caused the whole task force to get tangled up.
Although Ray is still learning programming, he no longer has that determination to become a super hacker and defeat Bourbon.
Although Bourbon still occasionally trains in sniping, he no longer has that same urge to immediately break Ray's record and mock him.
Even that gentleman felt that Bourbon's meaningless scrolls would only increase the organization's pressure in vain and thus affect efficiency, so he began to let Bourbon run wild like Vermouth. Even Gin tacitly agreed to let Bourbon continue to be the mystic he liked and disappear somewhere to slack off.
Vermouth even came all the way back from America to mock Gin, saying things like, "You finally couldn't stand Bourbon anymore. Now you know how troublesome that guy is."
Gin didn't say anything, but walked away, radiating a cold aura.
After all, a skilled intelligence officer like Bourbon didn't need to be with the action team all the time. Unless there were special circumstances, that man and Rum never asked anything of Bourbon. As long as the intelligence was obtained, they didn't care where Bourbon was or what he was doing.
However, Gin has achieved his goal. Now he no longer needs to worry about Bourbon and Ray causing any major problems that could affect the organization due to their poor relationship.
The missions now assigned to Scotland have reverted to the original sniper partnership with Rye. Bourbon will only need to participate in about one out of ten missions, while the others will only require long-range intelligence support.
So although the Whiskey Trio were still officially a team, they were practically separated, though they would still occasionally gather together at that safe house.
After all, they were born in the same year, and their strength was so great that no one would hold them back. They had also worked together for a year or two, and their mission completion rate was astonishingly high. Any troublesome missions would be assigned to them.
However, this new arrangement means they no longer need to live together like before, but Bourbon did not move out.
People in the organization believed that Bourbon was addicted to playing around, which is why he didn't move out, but instead occasionally went back to mock Rye and continue to maintain his connection with Scotland.
After all, it seems that Bourbon failed to ruin the friendship between Sherry and Ray this time. Perhaps Bourbon didn't dare to do anything too outrageous to Sherry, who was valued by that gentleman, so he continued to focus his attention on Scotland.
So the betting continues, and the accumulated stakes have reached an astonishing figure.
Scotland ran over and raised the bet that Bourbon wouldn't abandon his game.
Even so, Scotland still felt like it was letting a cat roam free, so much so that it often didn't come home.
He rationally knows that only his cat bullies other animals, but he still can't help but worry about whether the cat will encounter any danger outside, whether it is taking good care of itself, or whether it has gotten hurt again because of its bravado.
However, because it often comes back, the cat doesn't dare to make itself look too bad.
Yes, but he absolutely cannot find out that he's been cat-sculpted, otherwise he'll definitely get furious.
That would be good. If Bourbon had continued his reckless style of churning like before, Scotland might have broken out before Gin.
*
Dr. Agasa's house.
Matsuda Jinpei, with his messy hair, sat on the ground, propped his chin up, and couldn't help but let out a big yawn.
Professor Agasa walked in with a cup of coffee and placed it on the table. Looking at his serious expression and the round-headed white robot in front of him, he asked, "Failed again?"
"No, it's a success." Matsuda Jinpei got up, finished his coffee in one gulp, and said proudly, "It's assembled successfully this time! It didn't fall apart! The next thing to consider is how to make it more human-like instead of a rigid lump of metal that an old man has to help him cross the street."
Dr. Agasa excitedly circled the robot, and after studying it, he found that it had indeed succeeded this time. Then he turned around and asked, "So what were you worrying about just now?"
“We’re thinking of a name for it,” Matsuda Jinpei said. “It can have an official name now, since we’ve been researching it together, so Dr. Agasa, please think of one too.”
Professor Agasa scratched his head, looking embarrassed, and said, "I'm not very good at this, and I only helped a little. It was mainly you, Matsuda-kun, who did the research. You should come up with the name."
Matsuda Jinpei placed the cup on the table, revealing a malicious smile, and said, "In that case, let's just call it Unit Zero."
Dr. Agasa: "Huh?"
Matsuda Jinpei turned around and patted the robot's head, which only reached his shoulder, forcefully: "This guy's official designation is [E0]. Professor Agasa can also call it [Unit Zero], or [Gundam Unit Zero]."
A bead of cold sweat trickled down Professor Agasa's forehead: "Haha, watch out, Gundam might sue you for copyright infringement!"
Just as Matsuda Jinpei was about to continue speaking, he suddenly felt the head of the robot under his command tilt to the side and then begin to tremble violently.
Matsuda Jinpei: "..."
Dr. Agasa: "..."
"boom--!"
Shinichi Kudo was startled by the sudden explosion. He ran from his study to the balcony and looked next door, only to find that Professor Agasa's villa had indeed been blown up again.
Two people fell out of the broken wall and sat on the ground coughing. They didn't look injured, but they were in a really sorry state.
But Shinichi Kudo had already gotten used to it, even become numb to it.
He leaned on the balcony, his eyes half-closed, and said, "So, whose experiment exploded this time?"
Matsuda Jinpei sat on the ground, deep in thought.
"Haha, sorry Shinichi, I disturbed you again." Professor Agasa looked up and grinned foolishly.
Shinichi Kudo immediately understood: "It seems that Mr. Matsuda's robot has exploded again this time."
Matsuda Jinpei looked up and loudly corrected, "This time it worked! I just accidentally broke it!"
Shinichi Kudo: "..."
He was at a loss for words: should he complain that the robot, which exploded with a single tap, was too fragile and dangerous, or should he wonder if Mr. Matsuda, who could smash the robot with his bare hands, was a gorilla?
"And now it has a name." Matsuda Jinpei got up from the ground and said proudly, "Remember to call it Unit-00 from now on!"
Shinichi Kudo drawled, "Okay, so it's Mr. Matsuda's Unit-00 that exploded again today?"
Matsuda Jinpei: "..."
Matsuda Jinpei felt like this was saying Zero had exploded again.
His surviving cell phone in his pocket suddenly rang; someone had sent him an email.
Matsuda Jinpei opened his phone and found that it was a message from the guy he had just been thinking about.
Well, then I'll just tell him about Unit-00.
However, after opening the email, Matsuda Jinpei's smile gradually disappeared.
After reading it with a serious expression, he immediately deleted it, apologized to the doctor, said that the repair costs would be on his tab, and then drove off in his black Mazda.
It's 7 PM now. Neither Date Wataru nor Hagiwara Kenji are working overtime, so Matsuda Jinpei easily got them to meet up.
According to Rei Furuya's information, just like in the previous playthrough, although he warned the boy using Sakura's identity, the boy's sister was still kidnapped by human traffickers and sold to a casino, which was illegally operating human trafficking and organ trafficking.
If the boy's sister cannot be rescued before she is murdered, he will use a homemade bomb to blow up the casino in revenge. Even if the bomb is defused and the explosion is prevented, he will kill the human traffickers who are spending money at the casino with a knife and then commit suicide.
Last time, although the explosion was prevented, many people still died and many tragedies occurred.
But this time, there's still time.
However, Rei Furuya cannot show his face; he can only provide information from behind the scenes, and the police officers are still needed to resolve this matter.
They have three things to deal with.
1. Go to the boy's house and destroy or retrieve the bomb he is making.
Second, rescue the boy's sister.
Third, destroy that illegal casino.
Moreover, this matter cannot be explained to the Metropolitan Police Department, since their source of information is unclear. They can only investigate half of it themselves before notifying the Metropolitan Police Department.
Of course—no problem!
*
After receiving a reassuring reply, Furuya Rei smiled; of course he trusted them.
But at times like this, he couldn't help but think of the Five-Colored Mazda team again, and he wanted to laugh even more.
Rei Furuya put away his phone, started the car, and prepared to go back to check on Hiro.
Actually, he doesn't have anything particularly busy to do outside right now, he's really resting and relaxing.
However, Bourbon's persona couldn't allow him to stay with the task force in such obvious and predictable locations indefinitely, so he couldn't remain by Scotland's side indefinitely.
Bourbon needed mystery and secrecy to lay the groundwork for many things he would do later.
I've been a member of the organization for almost three years now, and the preparations are basically complete. All that's left is to wait for the key plot points to arrive one by one, until the final happy ending.
He won't end the game quickly this time, so unlike the last playthrough, he'll take it slow. There's no need to tell the organization's boss all the information at once and then take action against that zoo organization. He just needs to use this information and Pandora's experiment to gain the organization's boss's trust and successfully make contact with Sherry.
Since the organization won't be catching Scorpions anymore, the three of them have to handle the casino situation themselves, and it's best if Bourbon doesn't show up at that casino.
Rei Furuya wasn't worried about this. With such ample intelligence, he was confident he could handle those three guys safely.
He was now contemplating Matsuda's impending death a year from now, and Hiro's death just a month later. Based on Hagi's previous experience, it wasn't impossible for their deaths to coincide with some time difference.
However, a very important plot point will occur during this period.
That was the death of Ethan Bendo.
This will be a very important experiment for him.
This is a main character who isn't an ordinary person, but he's not a particularly crucial undercover agent either. Can he save him?
If his reasoning is correct, then Ethan Hondou and Hiro should be roughly the same.
However, Ethan Bendo's death affected Kiel, while Hiro's death affected him.
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