Chapter 82 Artificial Weapons 18
Bourbon's craftsmanship is so good that there is nothing to say. If Akiyama Kanade were to rank the reasons why he didn't want to give up his Sakura vest, there would be no way he could justify insisting that Bourbon Begging must be at the top of the list.
As for the second place on the list... he hasn't thought about it yet.
No, it’s better to say that there is no reason for this list at all?
"Are you full?" Bourbon asked. "There's more in the kitchen."
Sakura Kanade nodded, "I can't eat anymore."
This body's stomach was injured while at the tissue research institute. Although it has recovered a little now, it cannot handle the digestion of too much food.
One bowl of udon noodles was actually too much, but Akiyama Kanade didn't feel any pain and finished it all.
After all, it’s a delicious meal that you eat less and less.
Bourbon looked at him, "...you've lost a lot of weight."
As Sakura Kanade requested, when he changed his wet clothes, Amuro Toru found him a black T-shirt. The round collar of the T-shirt had a gap, which rose and fell slightly with his light breathing.
The young man looked down at himself, "Have I lost weight? ... Well, a little bit."
He adjusted his collar to hide the scars on his chest and shoulders.
Bourbon watched his movements. "Are those scars from experiments?"
Those scars that he had seen more than once before, crawling across his entire body and leaving marks on his snow-white skin.
Yingtao Zou paused for a moment and nodded, "Maybe, I can't remember clearly."
He moved his body nervously, "Bourbon, aren't we going back to the organization?"
According to Akiyama Kanade's understanding of Bourbon, this man who was obsessed with climbing up the career ladder by performing meritorious deeds should have informed the organization as soon as he found the cherry brandy. By the time he finished eating the udon noodles, the organization's people should have arrived.
Everyone will do what they should do at that time. Cherry returns to the institute to lie down, Bourbon continues to work at Poirot, and the original body arranges the performance and prepares the prelude to deceive Bourbon. They all have a bright future.
But the current situation seems to be different from what he imagined.
Perhaps it was because the safe house was too remote and the surroundings were too quiet. All I could hear was the wind, rain, lightning and thunder outside the window.
It's not really a good weather.
Bourbon did not answer his question, but said, "Go to sleep. I'll be watching over you, and no one will hurt you."
Akiyama Kanade was very energetic and had no need to sleep. However, under Bourbon's order, he still lay down on the bed.
His head sank into the soft pillow, and the warm quilt embraced his body. The bed beside him was slightly concave, and the person sitting there seemed to be approaching him infinitely.
The blond young man had a complicated look in his purple-gray eyes, which was a mixture of struggle, sadness, and a determination as sharp as a knife.
Akiyama Kanade has become accustomed to never being able to guess what Bourbon is thinking.
Just like it is difficult for a person to walk out of a maze like the ocean alone.
He closed his eyes, pretending to be asleep, and controlled his breathing to be slow and slow.
The bandage on his body was making him uncomfortable, so he wanted to tear it off by dreaming.
A warm hand stopped him and said softly, "Don't move, it will break."
Bourbon has been awake and watching over him because he's afraid he'll tear the wound again?
Akiyama Zou thought he was being too cautious and making a big deal out of nothing, but he did not move until dawn.
When Akiyama Kanade got up in the morning, Bourbon had already prepared breakfast.
"I'm going to go out and do something. You can sleep for a while after you finish eating, or read some books on the shelf or watch some TV programs."
"But you must not go out," he emphasized.
Then Bourbon went out and locked the door tightly, leaving Cherry alone in the safe house.
He opened the window. It had rained heavily last night, but it was sunny this morning. Unfortunately, the stingy sunlight refused to penetrate the dense forest and shine on him.
If the lights were not on in the room, it would be as dark as evening.
Neither the sun nor the moon will shine upon it.
Akiyama Kanade guessed what Bourbon was going to do.
The other party clearly discovered Cherry Brandy's whereabouts, but did not report it to the organization, but locked him in a safe house belonging to the public security.
Has he reported to the police now?
Perhaps the police are also eager to make moves on man-made weapons.
If he had to choose between the Public Security Bureau and Cherry Blossom, Akiyama Kanade had no doubt that Bourbon would choose the former.
He did not feel sad, and the cherry brandy was accustomed to it.
At most, I just feel that such time is really tiring.
Akiyama Kanade could still hold on, but Sakura Brandy felt that her body was exhausted to the limit.
He reconnected to Cherry Brandy's body just to find out where Bourbon was.
Now that the entity has grasped Bourbon's movements, there are no obstacles to its actions, and it seems that there is no reason to stay any longer.
After graduating from the organization's research institute, he entered the FBI research institute. After graduating from the FBI research institute, if he entered the public security research institute again, Cherry Brandy would be too pitiful.
Sakura Kanade thought about it and suddenly changed her mind.
He didn't want to go back to the institute, no matter the organization, the FBI, or the police. This time, Cherry Brandy wanted to choose a place for himself.
There was no one to disturb us.
He put a tub of water in the bathtub. In the dim bathroom, the water surface was as dark as a calm lake.
He slit his wrists and sank deep into the lake.
You can sleep well now, Sakura.
Akiyama Kanade severed the conscious connection.
The original Akiyama Sou, who was waiting outside the grove, followed Bourbon when he left in the morning. Because the opponent's anti-detection awareness was too strong, Akiyama Sou realized after a few minutes that he might have been discovered and Bourbon was deliberately taking a detour to test him.
Akiyama Kanade decisively gave up the pursuit and went back to wait outside the grove.
No matter what Bourbon wants to do, whether to report to the police or notify the organization, he will definitely come back to find Cherry Brandy in the end.
He doesn't even need to wait here. As soon as Cherry dies, the matter will be over and Bourbon's life will return to normal, and he will continue to shine in the Poirot Café.
However, after careful investigation, Akiyama found that it would be a shame not to use the atmosphere of this forest to create something mysterious.
It’s unknown how old these trees are. One by one, they block out the sun. Their tall crowns block out the clouds and the sun, and the roots underground hardly receive any sunlight.
Akiyama Kanade changed into a black priest's uniform, preparing to go for a Western style this time, expand the scope of business, and bring a new experience to customers.
He turned on the prop of "Pretending to be a God" and floated up in a mysterious manner.
Bourbon came back much earlier than he expected. He was still rehearsing when he saw from afar a white Mazda speeding towards him from the distant horizon. He hurriedly straightened his clothes, climbed down from the treetop, and went over his plans in his mind, preparing for his first attempt to sell the goods.
The black priest descended gracefully from the dark sky deep in the dense forest. His figure seemed to fall into the mist, and his clothes were shining. The priest opened his mouth and muttered in a mysterious way.
A white Mazda sped past him, leaving his face covered in dust and a mouthful of exhaust fumes; the blond young man in the driver's seat didn't even look up.
Akiyama Kanade: “…”
Completely choked.
He lowered his head and looked carefully at the ground beneath his feet. The trees were planted so densely in front, behind, and on both sides. How could Bourbon fly in without slowing down and without hitting a single tree?
He is the hidden god, right?
Can I really sell and ship successfully in Bourbon?
Akiyama Kanade fell into deep self-doubt and found a tree hole to talk in depression.
It is a real tree hole, not a network tree hole.
He complained to the hollow tree about how difficult bourbon was, and in a depressed manner, he snatched a few pine nuts from an innocent passing squirrel.
After feeling a little relieved, Akiyama Kanade clapped her hands and prepared to collect the cherry brandy.
According to Akiyama Kanade's plan, Bourbon should be able to see Cherry's body when he returns. Bourbon is not a lunatic, and the most likely way for him to deal with Cherry's body is to find a place to bury it properly.
As long as Akiyama Kanade follows the path and identifies the grave, she can go back and retrieve the spare body.
But as he squatted outside the safe house and waited, a squirrel whose pine nuts were stolen gathered a group of black evil rats to come and collect the debt. He was forced to masturbate by the evil and bored Akiyama Kanade, and lost three pounds of hair.
Night fell again, and by late at night, Akiyama Kanade finally had to admit that if nothing unexpected happened, then something might have happened.
Although reluctant, Akiyama Kanade once again allowed a trace of his consciousness to enter Cherry Brandy's body.
The reason for his reluctance was not that Akiyama Sou disliked this alias. Quite the contrary. As the first alias he created carefully, if he didn't like it, Akiyama Sou would have thought of a way to make him die heroically based on this unfortunate and awkward character background.
The reason for her reluctance was that Cherry Brandy's life was too depressing.
Although Akiyama Kanade knew in his heart that this was just a character setting, after entering Sakura's body - especially after the experience of escaping from the research institute twice this time - every time he felt the sluggishness and delay of his body, he would be overwhelmed by an uncontrollable sadness in his heart.
Cherry doesn't seem to be able to receive the sudden, grand, and intense farewell and onlookers like Blue Curacao. His death seems to be so gray and slow, like a whale being slowly eaten.
Akiyama Sou hated the feeling of waiting for death to slowly approach.
So he left Cherry's body without waiting to confirm her death.
After regaining consciousness, Akiyama Kanade slowly opened his heavy eyelids and was not surprised to see the blond young man in front of him. The other party was half-kneeling on one knee on the ground and stuffed a familiar Rubik's Cube into his hand.
"Don't you like this very much? You haven't succeeded in putting it together yet. Do you want me to teach you?"
His voice was soft and slow, as if he was afraid that if it got any louder, it would break something.
Akiyama Kanade recognized this Rubik's Cube.
While being experimented on and waiting for data to be recorded, Cherry likes to play with it in his hands, but he never fights to the end.
Having said that...but why did Bourbon suddenly give him a Rubik's Cube?
Akiyama Kanade, who didn't know the whole story, was confused.
He raised his wrist. His once snow-white but healthy skin now had a horrible paleness. There was a white bandage wrapped around his wrist. It seemed that the cut on his wrist had been properly treated.
If a person could be saved even with such massive external bleeding, is there a blood bank hidden in this safe house?
A terrible silence filled the air, and Bourbon stared closely at Cherry's fingers as she took the Rubik's Cube. Cherry scrambled the cube again and slowly pieced it together again. This time, he had a complete picture.
Akiyama Kanade regained his thoughts and voice. He put the Rubik's Cube back into Bourbon's hands and asked the question that concerned him, "Why did you save me?"