Chapter 144: The Whitechapel Serial Murders This story begins when I met you...
Haibara Ai:?
She stopped crying, raised her face from Lin Xi's shoulder, and looked at the USB flash drive stuffed in her hand.
But the other hand was still tightly holding Lin Xi's shoulders.
"This is……?"
Her voice still had a tearful tone.
Lin Xi patted her back lovingly: "Your sister left this for you. This is the voice she recorded for you."
Haibara Ai:!
elder sister?
The first person she thought of was Lin Xi.
But she soon realized that Lin Xi was referring to Miyano Akemi.
Ah, is that the voice that her sister recorded for her?
How could Punch be there?
Could it be...
Was this recorded in the past? Or, or...
Is my sister still alive?
She hesitated for a few seconds, but ultimately couldn't bring herself to ask the question in her mind:
Is my sister...really dead?
She was afraid of getting a negative answer from Punch.
Haibara Ai admitted that she was a cowardly coward.
Once there was a glimmer of hope—the hope that his sister might still be alive—he was reluctant to destroy it.
"Punch..."
She clenched the USB drive in her hand, but her arms were around Lin Xi's neck again.
"Does the organization know you're here to see me? Have you... already defected?"
"No! Ah, how is that possible?" Lin Xi retorted subconsciously.
The boss defected from the organization? How could she have such a dream?
She defected, what happened to Gin and Rum?
"But I've already defected." Haibara Ai's voice was still tearful.
But behind Lin Xi's back, her eyes were very calm, like a young animal learning to hunt for the first time.
"Will you be affected by meeting a traitor like me?"
"Uh, I..."
Lin Xi was speechless.
How should I answer this?
Will it be affected? Yes? No?
Rather, apart from Gin who might mind, even if other people knew that Haibara Ai had defected, they would not dare to interfere and help her deal with it, right?
So, you see, Haibara Ai has not been tracked down until now...
After thinking about it, Lin Xi decided to tell the truth:
"...No, Shiho."
"Don't worry about yourself. I can handle the affairs of the organization."
In the darkness, Huibara Ai's expression was obscure and unclear.
She whispered, "Really? If it causes you trouble, I'd rather turn myself in. Anyway, I don't want you to get hurt, and I don't want you to leave. Even if I remain imprisoned in the organization and can't go anywhere, it doesn't matter... as long as you're with me, I'm fine."
Lin Xi:!
Oh my god, my baby.
"No, no!"
"Don't worry, Shiho, I have super powers. I won't get hurt, and I won't leave you. I promise!"
"Organization... since you're not happy there, then don't go back."
"You are more suitable for the outside world, Shiho." Lin Xi said sincerely.
She still remembered the conversation she had with Miyano Akemi in the warmly decorated cottage many years ago.
[If, I mean if, in the future, you were to die one day... then what would be your most desired wish?]
Hearing Lin Xi's question, the black-haired girl smiled knowingly and said -
【I hope Shiho can live freely in the sunshine. 】
She clearly remembered the girl's tone and expression when she spoke.
She promised her at that time.
No matter what, Miyano Shiho or Huihara Ai will always have a choice:
If you want to run towards the field full of sunshine, then run as much as you can.
The organization that distorts human nature and breeds darkness is just Lin Xi's own comfort zone.
She was free and carefree in it...but she didn't want Haibara Ai to be forced to turn black just because she was under her protection.
"Live well, Shiho."
Lin Xi added, stroking the child's hair: "The smaller Shiho is just as cute... Oh, now I can make up for the time I spent with Shiho in her childhood, right?"
Huiyuan Ai said gloomily, "I don't want to become smaller... This is the medicine I took in the gas chamber in order to escape."
She swallowed the words "to commit suicide".
No, that was because she had lost her memory at the time... She had no memory of Punch at all, and she just thought that everyone she cared about in the world was dead, so she thought about committing suicide.
Now she doesn't want to die at all!
She wants to live a good life!
With Sister Lin, and with... Punch.
"Oh." Lin Xi couldn't help but pinch her face: "I really want to see you grow up."
Huiyuan Ai curled her lips: "Really? But you missed my birthday from when I was thirteen to when I was seventeen."
"Sorry, I will make up for it from the age of seven." Lin Xi said with a smile.
"Until I'm seventy-seven."
"Ha..." Huibara Ai felt embarrassed and turned her head away: "I don't like celebrating birthdays. But you, you... when is your birthday?"
"I want to give it to you, too."
Lin Xi suddenly fell silent.
Ah, she hadn't considered this question either...
Apart from creating a new character while playing games, who would consider the username’s birthday when creating a new username for themselves?
How about making one up at random? And it has to coincide with "Lin Xi's" birthday... Oh, no, it's too troublesome just thinking about it...
"Punch, don't you know your birthday?"
However, Haibara Ai interpreted this silence as having another meaning.
She said quietly, "So, no one has ever celebrated your birthday..."
Lin Xi: “…”
Who will celebrate Punch's birthday?
Gin and the others all know that Punch is Lin Xi!
Under Huiyuan's scorching gaze, Lin Xi's eyes drifted away:
"...Like you, I don't like celebrating my birthday either."
“So there’s no birthday.”
Haibara Ai didn't give her a chance to continue explaining and jumped to the conclusion.
"Hey, don't ask me about my business, Shiho..."
Lin Xi raised her hand, wanting to change the subject.
"But I want to understand you!" Huiyuan Ai's voice rose slightly, tears welling up in her eyes again: "You never gave me the chance to understand you, but you know everything about my life..."
“I sometimes feel it’s unfair…”
Ai Haibara rejected Lin Xi's request and threw a tear attack bomb at her.
Lin Xi's conscience suffered 99 points of critical damage.
"I'm sorry," she said sincerely, "I overlooked that."
Her relationship with Haibara Ai has always been uneven.
She knows everything about Haibara Ai, but Haibara Ai can only guess her whereabouts.
Even people who don’t understand psychology know that such a family is not good for the child’s mental health.
"Shiho, I didn't mean it. Many times it's not that I don't want you to understand me, it's just that sometimes, due to some objective reasons, I can't do that."
"But if you have any questions about me, you can ask me... I will tell you everything I can."
Huiyuan Ai hesitated for a moment, then asked slowly, "Can you really ask anything?"
Lin Xi nodded: "Yeah."
"Then..." Huiyuan Ai pulled Lin Xi's face closer and stared into her eyes: "Punch, are you Lin Xi?"
Lin Xi: ...
This is not the way to speak freely!
Has this directly led to the stage of stripping off the vest?
She controlled her facial expression with the acting skills of an Oscar-winning actress and raised her eyebrows: "Are you talking about the one sleeping next to you?"
"Ah, she's really like me in the way she takes care of you... But, Shiho..."
Lin Xi said, "I can't have a good chat with the FBI."
"And there's Akai Shuichi in there... Hehe, you know me, Ai. If it were me, I would definitely be happy to take his life."
Looking into her eyes, Haibara Ai knew she was not joking.
She even released a little murderous aura - the kind that always made Haibara Ai terrified - of course, it was okay now... as long as Punch or Lin Xi was by her side, that uncomfortable feeling would blow away like the wind, quickly coming and going.
So she said, "Don't kill him. You might be in danger."
"The United States is the FBI's territory."
Lin Xi was stunned for a moment, as if he had never expected Huibara Ai to say that.
Ah, this was not the reaction she expected...
Well, why does it feel like Ai has become a little darker?
Before she could savor it carefully, Huiyuan Ai spoke again: "So you have actually been nearby all the time."
"Otherwise, I wouldn't know that Sister Lin made new friends in the FBI."
Lin Xi: ...
Sweating profusely.jpg.
But in this regard, she really has nothing to hide: "I miss you and I'll keep an eye on you."
"The higher your quality of life, the happier I am."
Huiyuan Ai curled her lips: "If you have always been by my side, why did you only come to see me now?"
Lin Xi: That’s of course because she didn’t create this vest before completing the story mission!
After coming back from five years ago, she quickly came to find Haibara Ai!
"To be honest, I haven't been able to show up in recent years for some reasons," she said.
"I've always been alive. Sometimes I keep an eye on you. But if I come to see you, it's very likely that both of us will be in danger."
Lin Xi was talking nonsense.
Huiyuan Ai asked with concern: "Is the matter resolved?"
Lin Xi said vaguely: "Uh, that's about right. At least I can come to see you more often in the future."
"oh."
Haibara Ai was very happy - this time her emotions were not embellished or exaggerated.
"I have another question, Punch—"
"——Did you send Sister Lin?"
Lin Xi:.
Me? I send myself?
Was Lin Xi sent by Punch?
Hmm...why not?
She smiled and said, "Meeting you, taking care of you, and becoming a family with you was entirely Lin Xi's own will."
"We should all be thankful for the coincidence that she happened to be next to the garbage dump that day, and you happened to be there too."
"This story begins when she met you. Think of it in a more romantic way—"
"-Maybe she came there just for you."
Huihara Ai stared blankly at the bright smile on Lin Xi's face.
ah.
Did she really deserve all of this?
People like her are also loved...
She used to think she was unfortunate because the world kept taking everything away from her...from her parents, to her freedom, to her sister.
But now she feels that she is the luckiest person in the world.
She whispered in her heart, World... I forgive you... I forgive you for everything you have done to me.
Thank you for sending me the two best people in the world - no, maybe one person.
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