Chapter 89 Artificial Weapons 25

After the successful persuasion from the Phantom Thief Kid, Sakura Kanade no longer wanted to make Bourbon dislike him. His face turned red, and his cunning words turned around in his chest for several times. When he was about to spit it out, he met Amuro Toru's gaze and stopped.

There didn't seem to be any anger or resentment there.

At this time, the fountain's fountain returned to silence again, and the gorgeous neon lights and starry sky once again covered the entire night.

Toru Amuro stood there, looking up at the starry sky. His golden hair brushed across his eyebrows and passed by his temples. The lingering moisture moistened his purple-gray eyes.

The overly flamboyant Hawaiian shirt he was wearing blended strangely into the night, like a clown actor taking his final bow into the darkness.

Sakura Kanade quietly reached out and tugged at the corner of his clothes. As if a dream was shattered, Amuro Toru's eyelashes trembled slightly and he looked back at him again.

People were passing by in the square in twos and threes.

"I'm sorry." Sakura Kanade said softly.

Amuro sighed and looked at him with complicated eyes: "Let's go back first."

Why is it that I feel like I've been sentenced to suspended death?

Sakura Kanade nervously followed Amuro Toru back to the safe house. He didn't know what the other party was thinking. Haro jumped up and bit Sakura Kanade's trousers as usual, and he didn't even bother to compose a new song to mock it.

Gradually, Harrow seemed to sense that the atmosphere was not right and retracted his claws and teeth.

Toru Amuro pushed Sakura to sit on the sofa, ignoring her cautious look as if she wanted to say something but couldn't. He slowly poured her a glass of water, took out the medicine box, took out the medicine that Sakura should take, and stared at her while she took the medicine.

Throughout the whole process, his expression was very calm.

This is even scarier! Sakura Kanade wailed silently.

"Do you know you're wrong?" After all this was done, Bourbon finally spoke slowly.

Sakura Kanade heaved a sigh of relief and said quickly, "I understand."

Bourbon opened his eyelids and looked at him for a while, then pulled the corner of his mouth and said, "What's wrong?"

"...You shouldn't kill people." As soon as Sakura Zou saw Bourbon's expression, he knew that his answer might be wrong, at least not completely correct. He bit the bullet and tried to make up for it, "...But, but that was a mission given to Bourbon by the organization. It had to be done, but Bourbon didn't like killing people..."

Bourbon was stunned for a moment, "Is that why you killed him?"

Because I found out that he didn't like it, I did something for him that he didn't like.

The blond young man closed his eyes, and his aura sank like a punctured balloon. "...Idiot."

Sakura Sou took advantage of the situation and tugged at Bourbon's sleeve, "Don't be angry, okay?"

Bourbon said helplessly, "I'm not completely mad at you for killing him..."

After working undercover in the organization for many years, Toru Amuro's values ​​in some aspects have gradually entered a gray area. He had long since discovered the countless illegal activities committed by Taro Hatoyama. Due to many unspeakable reasons, the public security department turned a blind eye to his illegal and criminal activities.

Therefore, Toru Amuro would not blame Sakura for the death of such a person.

He was just worried that Cherry would be contaminated by the organization and unable to give up her habit of killing people, but such concerns disappeared in the reasons given by the other party.

He paused and ruffled Sakura's hair to ease her anxiety and uneasiness. "I'm more worried about you... Your killing method is too iconic. Once discovered by the organization, you will be in danger again. Do you know what will be waiting for you then?"

"You will most likely be captured and brought back to the organization, and locked up in the institute again as a laboratory, under stricter surveillance."

Sakura looked nonchalant, "I'm not afraid of this anymore."

Bourbon choked. He had never expected the other party to answer like this. "What?"

Cherry's long legs were draped over the edge of the sofa, swaying slightly. He quietly kicked Harold, who was about to fall asleep, awake. Harold, who was disturbed from his sleep, jumped onto the sofa angrily and started a fight with him.

Cherry giggled and took the time to answer Bourbon: "Because I already have the little prince. I have the most precious treasure in the world."

The Little Prince?

Was it the fairy tale that gave him the courage?

Bourbon understood. No wonder Cherry liked reading fairy tales so much recently.

Bourbon rescued the defeated Haro from Cherry, "No matter what, you shouldn't have left the safe house without saying a word... As a punishment -"

Sakura Kanade continued: "You can beat me up."

"I won't cook for you this month—including udon noodles."

Sakura Kanade: “!”

Bourbon, how can you be so cruel!

Bourbon turned a deaf ear to Cherry's tearful pleas for mercy, and Haro returned to his den with a proud look on his face and fell asleep. Cherry continued to chase Bourbon until he washed his face, brushed his teeth, and went to bed. Bourbon was annoyed by his buzzing and found a random topic to divert his attention.

"When did you find out that I was an undercover police officer?"

"Before Blue Curacao died," Sakura Kanade said half-truthfully, "he sent me an email telling me to be careful of Bourbon, because he was an undercover police agent."

It was a completely unexpected answer. Bourbon, who was leaning against the bed and planning to read a book, was stunned. "...Why would Blue Curacao tell you this? You have a good relationship with him?"

Sakura Sou raised his lips, and he lay down beside Bourbon, with his hands folded and his chin propped up. "He always comes to visit me at the institute and brings me lots of delicious food."

He thought for a moment and added, "My Rubik's Cube was given to me by him. He also taught me how to play it."

Anyway, there is no evidence, and no one knows where the Rubik's Cube came from.

Thinking of Blue Curacao, the memory of how badly he was cheated by Bourbon came back to him. Akiyama Kanade decided to take a small revenge. He sighed deliberately, "Before Bourbon, my favorite was Blue Curacao."

Bourbon looked down at him, brushed away the hair that blocked his view, and then slowly inserted his five fingers into Cherry's hair, smoothing it out from time to time. Cherry hummed comfortably, and after a long time, Bourbon asked, "Why aren't you angry with me? You know I killed him."

His tone was calm, so calm that his voice was as dry as a dried-up riverbed, or like a storm filled with heavy rain.

Sakura Zou keenly noticed that Bourbon's mood seemed to be a little off. He realized that he might have said something wrong accidentally and touched a forbidden area in Bourbon's heart that no one had ever set foot in.

He raised his eyes and met Bourbon's gaze, and the other party responded with a light "Hmm?"

Sakura Kanade thought of an answer: "It's not your fault. Bourbon is a public security officer. He did this for...his own beliefs."

Looks like I said the wrong thing again.

As soon as he opened his mouth, Amuro Toru laughed at himself, "…It's not your fault."

The blond young man's eyes turned blank.

"I've heard this many times." His men were still unconsciously helping Cherry with her hair, as if they were talking to the only person listening in the room, or to themselves, "Seven years ago, when I graduated from the police academy, I swore in my heart that I would protect this country with honor and a sense of mission - I want to be that kind of policeman."

"Isn't that great?" Cherry Blossom blinked and cupped her hair in Bourbon's palm. "You've done a great job."

Bourbon seemed not to hear him.

"I try to keep my promises, but sometimes I still feel like the world is just one big lie."

“It’s an equal exchange without a clear price tag.”

Cherry listened quietly.

"Seven years ago, I accidentally discovered an underground bomb deal. While I was tracking the criminal, he had a traffic accident. I half-knelt in a pool of blood and leaned close to his ear. From him, I first learned about the existence of the organization. He died in front of me soon after. He was the first person to die in front of me for my mission."

"Not long after that, my first good friend died in a sudden explosion. Because he was in the center of the explosion, his body was gone."

"Five years ago, I unearthed the whereabouts of the organization's stolen bombs. In the process, I was discovered by a traitor in the organization. I killed him and successfully obtained the code name with this achievement."

"A month later, a teacher who had sponsored my schooling died of cancer."

"Three years ago, one of my subordinates in the organization was exposed and caught by Gin. He asked me to participate in the interrogation, and I shot him in the heart."

"Three months later, my second best friend - the friend who grew up with me and existed like my shadow - died...by suicide. He was an undercover agent of the public security organization. Because his identity was exposed, he committed suicide in order not to implicate his family...and me."

"A year ago, on a mission with Cohen and Chianti, I watched indifferently as they killed a child who had accidentally wandered into the scene. He was the son of the target."

"After that... maybe three days, no, maybe two days later, my third best friend died in a car accident."

Bourbon lowered his eyes and looked at Sakura Kanade. He raised his fingers again and smoothed her chocolate-colored short hair from head to toe, feeling the cool warmth of her clinging to him.

"Every time I felt like I had done something wrong, they would say 'it wasn't your fault'."

"I have heard this many times, but I don't believe it. Because I know that the bargaining chip has been secretly marked with a price, and the world will ask me for it."

"You're right, Cherry. I hate murder."

After Bourbon's voice stopped, the room fell silent. Only Haro's little snore in the corner sounded like he didn't know there were so many troubles in the world.

Akiyama Kanade really hoped that Bourbon's problem was the same as Haro's, which was that he didn't want to eat celery.

That way the problem can be solved quickly.

It was rare for him to show some genuine helplessness when facing Bourbon, and in the end he could only get up and hug her - he vaguely knew that he would comfort his sister in this way when she was unhappy in the past.

"Don't be sad, Bourbon."

He thought for a moment and said softly, "Maybe this time, the world will give you a miracle and luck."

Cherry's soft and pleasant voice seemed to have a soothing effect. Bourbon smiled and said, "Will it?"

Akiyama Kanade nodded seriously: "Yes."

"God" will take your soul as the price, and will naturally give you a miracle and luck that is unforgettable enough.