Chapter 13 Shadow

Police and doctors were busy inside and outside the hotel. Although no one died in the two explosions, many people were slightly injured. The police rescued the desperate Naoto Masada from the utility room. The latter was mostly sober and insisted that he accidentally bumped into the mirror and passed out.

But I don't know who locked the storage room.

"Maybe the cleaner didn't notice there was someone in there and locked the utility room directly," guessed the inquiring policeman.

Amuro Toru heard this sentence when he was walking by with Akiyama Kanade. Akiyama Kanade had his head covered by his coat, and half of his body weight was leaning on the blond young man. Amuro Toru felt that the arm he was leaning on seemed to be broken in the middle, and half of it was bent in a strange way.

He didn't dare to use force, for fear that he would not be able to hold on and fall again, causing secondary injuries.

Akiyama Kanade, however, acted as if nothing had happened. When he heard the policeman say this, he even laughed at him quietly, "This Masada-kun is such an idiot."

Amuro Toru was both angry and amused. He helped Akiyama Kanade get into the car and said, "You made him unconscious, didn't you?"

The brown-haired young man leaned softly against the back of his chair, blinking his eyes very obediently, "Who knows?"

Amuro Toru took Akiyama Kanade to a safe house of the organization in Kanagawa Prefecture. Akiyama Kanade took a simple shower with the arm that could still move to wash off the blood on her body, and changed into a black long-sleeved shirt in the safe house.

Seeing that he didn't want help, Toru Amuro made him something to eat.

Akiyama Kanade is waiting for Amuro Toru's question.

After Cherry Brandy's alias was first generated, he reported to the boss out of curiosity and fun. For almost two years, Cherry Brandy was locked up in the research institute for experiments.

It is a bit boring, but another advantage of the monotonous daily life is that you don’t have to work for the organization for nothing.

Cherry Brandy started going on missions frequently more than a year ago. At that time, Akiyama Kanade had already learned through his number two vest what a black-hearted company the organization was. It was the kind of company that once you enter, you have to work until death - you are my person in life and my ghost in death. There is no five social insurances and one housing fund, and there is no welfare protection. The capitalists called them insiders, and Marx cried when he saw the black-hearted company.

His first mission was to hunt down a traitor in the organization. The man was a researcher with elderly parents and young children to take care of. He felt guilty and did not want to do those anti-human research anymore, so he defected.

Akiyama Kanade is not a saint, he is just an ordinary dead man who strives to be resurrected.

Although his memory before death is already vague, he still remembers that he has a sister who depends on him for everything.

If my sister knew about my death, she would probably be very sad.

Because we have lost something, we know how to cherish it. Because we have died, we know how precious life is.

He is not a saint, but he still wants to do his best to save the people in front of him.

So he played the life of Cherry Brandy, whether truly or falsely. He was ruthless to those who should be killed and secretly saved those who should be saved. In order to cooperate with Cherry Brandy, he also created a third vest for this purpose, and "Shadow" was born out of thin air.

He did it so successfully that even the people who were rescued didn't know it had anything to do with cherry brandy.

Cherry Brandy in the organization is still a ruthless man-made weapon, and his code name alone can scare people into death.

Akiyama Kanade quite enjoys this kind of life where she deceives people all the time.

In fact, when he first created the account, in addition to the idea of ​​creating demand to sell things, a large part of it was just for fun.

Honestly, although his shop rules stated that as long as the goods sold in sufficient quantity, he could be resurrected and go home, but there were only three products on the shelf now, and he really didn't see the need to use the words "sufficient sales".

Perhaps these three products are just appetizers, equivalent to the internship period. After becoming a full-time employee, you still have to work for many years.

Moreover, he had no basis for words. Akiyama Kanade had no idea what was behind the supermarket. What if the other party was just teasing him and would kick him out after he finished his work, and his resurrection was just a scam?

He doesn’t even know how long he’s been dead. Can he really go back?

Akiyama Kanade didn't want to pay attention to this problem - even if there was some power behind the supermarket, he couldn't do anything about it, so he might as well take advantage of the opportunity to sell goods under a disguise to experience a full life, so that even if he really died one day, he would not regret it.

Therefore, Akiyama Kanade is not in a hurry at all, and is even willing to spend one, two, or three years to run his own account. If he only wanted to sell the goods, at least one copy would have been sold by now.

But once he sells them, he has to cancel the fake accounts to avoid subsequent troubles. However, he is not tired of these fake accounts yet, so he is not in a hurry to sell them.

He only had the account Cherry Brandy, and he was a little tired of playing. As a man-made weapon of the organization, his character was supposed to hit wherever he was pointed. If the target of the mission was an unforgivable gangster, it would be fine. If it was an innocent traitor or undercover passerby, he would have to find a way to save his life, but he couldn't go against the character of Cherry Brandy.

So at times like this he would usually use vest number three to rescue the person first, and then go through the motions using the cherry brandy vest.

Sometimes when Gin is my partner, and I keep a close eye on him, he would even use the [face-shaping machine in the game] to shape the spare body into the appearance of the mission target, and perform a "I kill myself" on the spot. It turns out that I am the master of time management.

So after Akiyama Kanade got tired of playing, he thought about canceling his account. Although the innocent were pitiful, he could just ignore them as long as he couldn't see them.

If he hadn't recognized Bourbon through Vest No. 3 at that time, cherry brandy would have returned to dust by now.

The explosion happened too urgently, otherwise he would have had a better way to disguise himself. The rest of the incidents were fine, he could say it was for self-protection or for the mission, but it was hard to justify him protecting Matsuda Jinpei during the explosion.

If Bourbon questioned him, he should say that he was trying to build a good relationship with the police so that he could get information in the future? No, no, what information could Matsuda, a member of the explosives disposal team, know?

Or maybe he likes bombs, so he wants to have a good relationship with Matsuda so that he won't have to defuse bombs in the future?

No, wouldn't it be better to let him die?

The brown-haired young man stared at the miso soup with a frown on his face. The scratch on his face had already scabbed over, and after the blood had been washed off, his face looked even paler.

Amuro Toru asked softly, "Is it too hot?"

Akiyama Kanade, who was in deep thought, vaguely heard Amuro Toru talking. His voice was very soft and he couldn't hear it clearly, but it sounded very much like the tone Bourbon used when he usually asked for information.

Akiyama Kanade straightened up reflexively, "Yes, I fell in love with Matsuda-kun at first sight."

Amuro Toru: “???”

what???

After much thought, this was the only reason that could explain why he wanted to save a policeman without causing Bourbon to have a bad impression of him.

Wait, Bourbon isn't a homophobe, is he?

Akiyama Kanade cautiously tested, "Bourbon, you won't discriminate against me, right?"

Amuro Toru said with difficulty: "That won't happen."

Akiyama Kanade breathed a sigh of relief and emphasized, "Although I like him very much, my favorite is still Bourbon."

Does he really understand what love means?

Amuro sighed, "Do you want to take a break?"

This body was temporarily unable to move, and Akiyama Kanade nodded and was supported by Amuro Toru to walk into the bedroom. Amuro Toru noticed that his body was particularly cold, a few degrees colder than usual. If it weren't for the breathing and heartbeat, it would be no different from a dead person.

He fell on the bed and closed his eyes, his breathing quickly becoming heavy.

There were no visible bloodstains on the black clothes, but one could smell blood in the air, which must have been the injuries on his body.

Amuro Toru thought about the scars that crisscrossed his body. How did those scars come about? What had he experienced in the past?

She was sleeping in front of him at this moment, looking completely defenseless.

Isn't he afraid that he might take advantage of someone's misfortune?

Or do you just trust him?

After working undercover in the Black Organization for many years, Toru Amuro felt at a loss for the first time. Sakura was different from the others in the organization. He killed people without blinking an eye, but he had a contradictory simple enthusiasm.

Toru Amuro was very grateful that he saved Jinpei Matsuda at the risk of his own life, but he couldn't even say thank you.

He is undercover.

He has to wear a mask at all times.

But there is one person whose account needs to be settled.

Amuro Toru quietly closed the bedroom door, hid on the balcony and called Fumi Yuya, "Have you tracked down the mole... Get ready to close the net, we must not let him escape this time."

The blond man raised his eyelids, his purple-gray eyes were cold and cruel.

…

After Amuro Toru closed the door, Akiyama Kanade opened his eyes.

He didn't need to sleep, but this body was badly damaged and needed time to recover. But he didn't plan to do nothing during this time.

As I said before, as a dead man, he knows the value of life the most. Although he will never be killed now, if someone dares to attack him, he must be prepared to pay the price.

The young man in black sat on the bed with his back to the window. If Amuro Toru was here at this moment, he would be surprised by the sinister and vicious look in his eyes. His blood-red eyes were like a poisonous snake opening its eyes.

He closed his eyes and connected to vest number three - the backup body of "Shadow" owner Kurosawa Shun.

The backup body will function according to the programmed program when no one is operating it. It is very intelligent and can handle daily life with no problems.

When Akiyama Kanade uses the Cherry Vest 1, the Vests 2 and 3 are all in reserve. If he wants to use the other two vests temporarily, he can connect to the reserve at any time and control the actions of the reserve.

At most times, Akiyama Kanade can control the actions of more than ten backup bodies at one time.

Connected to the backup body Kurosawa Shun.

The man with silver hair and green eyes suddenly seemed to come to life. He struck the bell at hand.

Soon, an elegant waiter wearing a black vest and a white shirt opened the door.

He walked to the desk and saluted respectfully.

"Boss, what do you want?"

The man tapped the table with his pale knuckles. "Did you guys get away with the guy I told you to follow?"

"Don't worry." The waiter gestured across his neck, "Do you want to take him now?"

"No, I'll go myself. Tell me where it is."

"Yes. He is now in Aoki-cho, Nagano Prefecture. I just received a tip that he went into an underground casino there."

"You just got some money, and you're going to gamble?" The man sneered. "Take a few people with you and get ready to act."

However, in order to avoid the Black Organization's headquarters, Akiyama Kanade deliberately chose Tottori Prefecture as the headquarters of "Shadow".

From Tottori to Nagano, it is very likely that the target has already been gambled away.

It doesn't matter. In order to make his "shadow" bigger and to have fun, Akiyama Kanade created at least 200 small vests, if not 10,000. With the [face shaping machine in the game] and the [spare body warehouse], he can have as many vests as he wants.

When the vests were later returned to the warehouse, Akiyama Kanade deliberately left a few in warehouses across Japan in case of future need.

His brain worked quickly, and Akiyama Kanade recalled the vest stored in the warehouse in Nagano Prefecture and connected it.

In the evening, light rain began to fall in Nagano Prefecture.

As the silver-haired man's movements became slightly stagnant again in the Porsche driving from Tottori to Nagano, a warehouse in Nagano Prefecture was opened from inside.

A black-haired woman walked out.

There was no moonlight and the night was dark. She walked in the drizzling rain towards the underground casino.