Chapter 85 Artificial Weapons 21

There was a small open space behind the safe house, facing Cherry's room. One morning, Cherry got up and opened the window, and saw a field of roses in the faint morning sunlight.

The sunlight turned into golden silk strands that fell to the ground due to the Tyndall effect, and the red roses were covered with dew.

The morning breeze blew away the fragrance of the earth. A bird perched on the windowsill, lowering its head to preen its gorgeous feathers.

The blond young man was watering the rose garden with a water bottle in his hand. He raised his head and winked against the sunlight, with the corners of his lips raised high. "Good morning."

He was wearing a black shirt with his sleeves rolled up to his forearms. Sweat was dripping from his hair, and there was a faint trace of dirt on his cheek.

"How is it? Do you still like it?"

Yingtao Zou was stunned for a long time, "...Didn't you sleep last night?"

Unlike the main body that is on standby for 24 hours, Akiyama Kanade's backup body still needs to be recharged by sleep. When in sleep mode, the main body's consciousness will also fall asleep.

Sakura Kanade's health was not very good, but it was getting worse. So he slept soundly at night and didn't hear anything.

But generally speaking, the roses in this garden could not have been sent overnight by the god of the neighboring Rabbit Country.

And seeing that Bourbon now looks like he has had a friendly exchange with the soil, this patch of roses is probably from his hand.

Bourbon didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Since I worked so hard to grow so many roses, you should at least express your feelings, right?"

Sakura Zou carefully leaned on the window frame and looked towards the small flower bed.

"Three months."

"What?" Bourbon asked in confusion.

The young man at the window smiled and explained in a soft voice: "If I pick one every day and put it in my hair, it will last for about three months."

Bourbon was helpless, "In less than three months, the roses will be out of bloom. I'm afraid you can't use them all up..."

Sakura Kanade immediately showed a regretful expression, and dragged out her tone to express her dissatisfaction, "Eh——"

Bourbon was very happy to see him slowly recovering his spirits. He smiled and said, "When they wither, I will help you plant new ones. You can use this time to think carefully about what kind of flowers you want next."

Unexpectedly, the young man at the window shook his head.

"I still don't want it."

"Don't you like flowers?" Bourbon looked at him in surprise.

Sakura Kanade tapped the area under her eyes and said, "It will be very tiring."

Bourbon was stunned, his eyes softened, "It's just planting flowers, it won't be tiring. And I'll be happy to see these flowers grow more and more beautiful."

Sakura Sou actually believed what Bourbon said. Compared to other things he had to do, growing flowers was not tiring at all, and could even be considered a leisure activity.

This man goes to bed at dawn every day and gets up before dawn. He does physical training, prepares breakfast, works for Poirot, works for the organization, and helps the police catch criminals... The closer he gets to Bourbon, the more Akiyama Kanade feels that this man seems to have turned himself into a pilgrim.

Are you really not tired?

Akiyama Kanade's original body tried to sell goods several times during this period, but was either ignored by the other party or was persuaded to give up with a gentle and polite tone as soon as he started.

Including several times when he pretended to be a god but all failed, this man is a damn iron wall.

After hitting a wall many times, Akiyama Kanade also became indifferent.

Never mind. There's always a chance.

The original character, Kanade Akiyama, gave up wandering around the safe house and replaced Kurosawa Shun, using the "Shadow" intelligence network to find out information from both the organization and the FBI.

The people in "Shadow" just thought that their boss was concerned about their brother's career again, and helped him organize intelligence as usual.

But because the Shadow is scaling back its operations in the inner world, it is now difficult for them to gather intelligence perfectly.

Despite this, Akiyama Kanade pieced together Bourbon's plan based on fragmentary intelligence.

Hiding Cherry in the safe house is not a long-term solution. As long as the organization fails to find their artificial weapons, this matter will never end. So Bourbon thought of a way to cut off the source of the problem once and for all.

He wanted the organization to believe that Cherry had died at the hands of the FBI's temporary research institute, and wanted the FBI to take the blame.

To be honest, this plan is very bold and risky.

Because most of the organization's intelligence comes from Bourbon, once the truth is revealed, even if Bourbon is not considered a traitor, he will be considered incompetent.

No one can escape death.

No matter how you look at it, helping Cherry Brandy is not in an undercover agent's interest.

But that's what Bourbon did.

Ever since Sakura Sora was rescued from her suicide attempt, she knew that there were eavesdropping devices installed everywhere in the safe house, and Bourbon had no intention of hiding this fact.

Sometimes during the day, Sakura Kanade would talk to Bourbon, who didn't exist but whom she knew was always there.

For example, "Hello went to the refrigerator to eat something again." or "Although I opened the refrigerator, I was not the one who stole the chocolate."

Occasionally he would tell a few jokes or read some stories.

He likes reading fairy tales best.

Sakura Sou knew that even if Bourbon didn't have time to listen to him during the day, he would fast forward through the nonsense he occasionally said throughout the day at night.

Bourbon seemed to find his fairy tale reading very atmospheric, and he even used it as a bedtime lullaby.

Sakura Kanade was very curious, "Will you sleep well if I read you a story?"

Bourbon was a little embarrassed, "I slept very well, and didn't have any e...dreams at all."

Sakura Kanade was sure that he swallowed one syllable of "噩".

From that day on, he insisted on reading fairy tales every day.

From "The Little Match Girl" to "Blue Beard", Sakura Kanade's favorite is still the story of "The Little Prince".

Because Bourbon also looks like the Little Prince. Except for the color of his skin.

Sakura Kanade boldly speculates that there has never been such a black little prince. There is absolutely no discrimination.

Prince Po also planted a rose patch and took care of the cherries as he did the roses.

Sakura still couldn't escape from continuing to study the "Six Laws".

Bourbon seemed to have no intention of hiding the truth. He gave Cherry Zou an ideological education lesson every day, telling him to do more good deeds and become a healthy person who is beneficial to society.

Yingtao Zou felt drowsy after listening to him, so she deliberately asked him, "Bourbon, I want to set off some bombs for fun, is that ok?"

Bourbon was so angry that his face turned black. He took a few quick deep breaths and said, "No!"

Yingtaozou was sentenced to copying the statement on crimes endangering public security 100 times.

By the way, Bourbon discovered Sakura's stomach problems not long after Sakura committed suicide. Sakura thought about it over and over again but couldn't figure out how he could see this without the help of professional medical equipment. Anyway, after being discovered, Bourbon's face turned even darker than it is now.

From then on, Bourbon strictly forbade him to eat foods that were difficult to digest. He did not know how he managed to get some stomach medicine for him.

In order to eat delicious food quickly, Sakura Sou cooperated very well. After many days of rest, his stomach was much better and his complexion was much rosier. He was finally no longer as pale as if he was about to turn into a transparent person.

Everything seems to be moving in the right direction.

Bourbon's plan is already half successful. The organization gradually believes that Cherry has died at the hands of the FBI. After a while, when the storm has subsided, perhaps he can be sent abroad by Bourbon, change his name, and live an ordinary and happy second half of his life.

It sounds like a dream.

For the first time in his long yet short life, Sakura met someone who saw him for who he was, rather than the values ​​​​congealed in him.

He no longer had any doubt that they were friends.

It was a sunny day, and Yingtao Zou sat on the rooftop, lazily stretching out one hand to block the sun. As she raised her wrist, a section of her sleeve slipped off, and the golden sunlight fell on the exposed thin and pale forearm, like honey melting on cream.

The endless sky is vast and huge, with soft white clouds flowing overhead.

Summer seems to be coming soon, and the air is filled with dry heat and the chirping of early cicadas.

"Congratulations on having spent the day in good health without any major incident today." He picked up the wine bottle beside him and clinked his glasses in the air.

Although the code name was cherry brandy, this was the first time he tasted the flavor of this wine.

The wine is golden in color and rolls on the tip of your tongue, carrying the unique fragrance of cherry.

Sakura Kanade raised a hand to wipe the wine that overflowed from the corner of her lips, and looked into the distance with slightly misty eyes.

As far as Sakura Kanade could see, the blond young man was working in the Poirot Cafe. Sakura Kanade was too high up to see the other person working, she could only see the young female high school students going in with smiles on their faces and coming out with even bigger smiles on their faces.

Judging from this, Bourbon should be able to make them very happy with his face, mouth and skills.

He is truly gifted in the service industry.

No, there is nothing this hexagonal warrior is not good at.

Fortunately, he is an undercover agent, otherwise those parasites in the public security department would not be able to defeat him.

That's right, Yingtao Zou didn't stay in the safe house obediently as Bourbon ordered. It wasn't because he was rebellious or bored, but because he was worried about Bourbon's safety.

Ever since the original body discovered Bourbon's plan, Sakura Sora would quietly follow Bourbon out every day, lurking beside him in an invisible place to protect him.

The opponent played too big a trick this time. Sakura Souma was worried that Bourbon would be exposed without her knowing and be killed by the organization without saying a word.

Fortunately, all these days have passed without any incident.

Sakura Kanade is not sure what the organization has judged her current situation. The information she can get now is that after a fierce confrontation with the FBI, both sides have temporarily fallen silent.

It seems the organization sent another intelligence agent to verify Cherry Brandy's situation.

The entity was unable to find out the code name of this intelligence agent.

A bottle of cherry brandy was empty. Cherry Zou shook the empty bottle. Suddenly, her throat seemed to be blocked by something. Cherry Zou put the empty bottle aside, skillfully took out a handkerchief from her pocket and wiped the blood she spat out, making sure that no trace would be left on the roof.

It's not a big deal, but because he has no sense of pain, he only notices it when he is about to vomit blood.

Sometimes it would catch him off guard.

Two more high school girls came out of the Poirot Cafe. They seemed to be the young lady of the Mori family and her friend.

Young girls are bright, cheerful and full of energy.

Sakura Kanade looked at them, then squinted at the sunlight, and suddenly knocked her left palm with her right fist, muttering to herself excitedly.

"Tomorrow, let's try the bourbon."