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"Can you believe me?"

"Xiao Guang, I believe you." Noel looked at the laboratory, trying his best to control his body trembling. He couldn't tell what he was afraid of. Trust Xiao Guang? Of course he trusted him. Even if he had doubted his worth in the past, his actions proved it again and again. Even so, he was still cared about. But wasn't this another kind of pain? This laboratory was simply telling him that if he left one day, Xiao Guang...

The fact that he had been avoiding was once again placed before his eyes, and even though Noel tried to put on a smile, it was so stiff and forced, as if someone had put a gun to his head. He had already begun to regret following him. Although running away was shameful, it was definitely useful!

Zhu Fu Jingguang sighed, gently held the other's slightly trembling hand, and led the other out of the laboratory step by step.

He thought about Noel's aversion to the laboratory, especially Murakami, but he still brought him here. It was more to let him understand the situation and slowly accept it. After all, with Noel's stubborn personality, he would definitely think too much if he suddenly found out that he had set up a laboratory behind his back. Absolutely!

As for why he didn't tell Noel when he started planning... Morobushi Jingguang did think about just kidnapping the person and forcing him to receive treatment without Noel's knowledge, but unfortunately it ended up in nothing.

After all, as for Noel's words, he really didn't want to ignore his wishes for the sake of his good name, even though the efficiency would be slower.

"Noel, for dinner tonight..." Morofushi Jingguang was about to steer the topic towards a more daily and peaceful direction to ease the other party's tension, but was suddenly interrupted by a slightly trembling voice.

"Feel sorry......"

The black-haired man was standing on the stairs below. He raised his head slightly and looked at the boy who was pulling him up. He pursed his lips and then spoke with difficulty, pleading:

"Xiao Guang, can you please stop going on?"

"Noel, I..." Before Zhu Fu Jingguang could say anything, the man broke free from his hand, turned around and walked away quickly, leaving the three people behind without a chance to stop him.

———

"Then, how about these few days?" Shuichi Akai continued to ask, sitting on the sofa in Natsukawa's house.

"He did come back that night, but he didn't say anything and just went back to the bedroom." Zhu Fu Jingguang poured himself a refill of water and took a sip.

And it was another empty bedroom, not the bedroom we shared before. I guess he slept in that cabinet.

"He was avoiding me, except when he was eating, but he didn't say a word." Morobushi Jingguang calmed down after thinking of Noel's reaction, and then said again: "He returned to the bedroom after lunch today, but left soon. He must have received an order from the organization."

Shuichi Akai did not express any opinion. After all, if the other party was not extremely troubled, he would not come to him to talk. He just wanted to listen. This time he came to Natsukawa's house just to discuss laboratory matters with him.

Obviously, Morobushi Kagemitsu also knew this truth, and without saying a few words, he changed the topic to the laboratory.

"How's that Murakami guy?"

"They are supervising," Akai Shuichi paused and said, "I won't go there next time."

"After all, the FBI has its work to do." Morofushi Jingguang said with a smile, with a hint of ridicule in his tone. Although, it was still somewhat sarcastic, after all, he was also quite unhappy about the FBI's illegal entry into Japan.

Shuichi Akai could naturally hear the implication of his words, but he didn't care. He handed the previous information to the other party and left.

Morofushi Kagemitsu looked down at the screen of a laptop in his hand. In the camera image of the laboratory, Dr. Murakami, wearing a white coat, was doing some research. The surveillance video was synchronized to Ai, so there was no need to worry about him doing anything behind her back even if they were being monitored by the other party. Miyano Akemi was in the flower shop. She knew some basic fighting skills. Although she was not as good as a professional, she was more than enough to deal with a scientific researcher who worked in the laboratory all year round and did not exercise much.

Shuichi Akai's main role was to go to the organization's branch with him that day, kidnap Murakami, and then place him in an experiment.

Morobushi Kagemitsu thought of the conversation that took place when he brought Murakami back to the laboratory that day.

"Hello, Dr. Murakami."

At that time, Morobushi Jingguang, who was wearing a sports suit, temporarily recovered his body. Looking at Murakami who was gradually waking up, a trace of indifference flashed in his eyes. He found out that Noel had been in charge of experiments by this man for a period of time. With the help of Noah's Ark, he even got a piece of experimental records. The words on it almost made him lose his composure. If it weren't for the fact that keeping the other party would still be useful, the habit from several years of undercover life made him want to shoot the other party directly and then destroy the body.

"Take a look at these first," Morofushi Jingguang didn't want to say anything more, and handed the experimental data that he had asked Xiaoai to organize in advance to the other party.

"So that's how it is. Do you want to study grappa?" Dr. Murakami calmed down after quickly reading the information. He realized that the other party kept him for a reason and he himself was not a person who was loyal to the organization. It didn't matter to him where the research was conducted. Looking at the data on the paper, Murakami frowned and said:

"But I still want to remind you that his situation is very special. It is just a special situation caused by many experiments. It is difficult to replicate." Murakami's tone is a bit unintentionally arrogant. He suggested: "If you want to mass-produce this weapon, it is completely worthless. Let me study other better ones."

Murakami is not unaware of his situation, but as a top expert in the industry, he is fearless because he knows that someone would kidnap him and his brain would be needed. Now that he sees that the other party is trying to study Grappa's body, he even kindly suggests that the research is not worthwhile, so as to avoid the other party finding out that the research is worthless in the end and blaming him.

"Bang——"

A heavy folder was suddenly thrown onto the table, hitting Murakami's hand, causing him to scream with a distorted expression. He then looked up at the man with blue-purple upturned cat eyes in disbelief, and asked hurriedly, "What are you doing? How can I do research if my hand is injured..."

"I don't need these," the tall man stood in front of Murakami and said in a cold tone, "You just need to recall all of Grappa's previous experiments and then repair his body."

Obviously, even with Murakami's IQ which is higher than most people's, he didn't react to the meaning of the words for a while, and just subconsciously looked at the new folder.

"This is......."

“Grappa’s current situation.”

"Have you already captured Grappa?" Murakami finally realized something and subconsciously analyzed, "No, he is still in the organization. Did you secretly instigate him to extend his useful life by using him for a few more years? Impossible, has he escaped the brainwashing?!"

"Don't worry about that," the man in sportswear looked at Murakami expressionlessly and said, "You just need to complete your task, otherwise..."

He looked at Murakami's arm. The sharpness of his raised eyebrows was like a blade, which made Murakami realize something immediately. He quickly responded, "Understood."

"But I'm the only one..."

"There will be others to cooperate." After saying this, Morofushi Jingguang turned and left. Then he saw the message from Hongshu that Noel had returned. He estimated that the antidote would only last for one night, so he immediately returned to the Natsukawa family.

———

/Come see me this afternoon./

Noel slowly opened his eyes in the cabinet, glanced at the message on his phone, and then looked at the notebook at hand.

Above is a simple and scribbled passage:

/I went to see him after completing the mission. He tapped the rum and fed him dates, and that was it. I just watched from the sidelines. Also, I am not interested in your house games, so there is no need to install an electric shock device on the door. /

Noel quickly remembered that before, Big Trash had taken back some of Rum's rights on the pretext of intelligence error, and it seemed that he still remembered to say a few words of comfort afterwards. This was just hitting someone with a stick and throwing a date, a typical way to get to the top. Obviously, except in front of Grappa, Big Trash was considered a qualified boss.

But why did he let me be there? Noel guessed something and skillfully tore off the note that was filled with words and destroyed it.

The Grappa that he split off was easier to communicate with than he had expected. Noel thought self-deprecatingly that they were essentially the same person. If there was a difference, Grappa was just himself before he met Hikaru and before he got the memories of summer. That was his past self, who had no hesitation about killing and didn't care much about the world. The only difference was that he was very obsessed with staying alive at that time, otherwise he wouldn't have easily agreed to the winery's invitation. Although this Grappa had the same personality as at that time, he didn't have any desire to stay alive, and he wasn't even interested in snatching his body away from him...

That's right, it's not that the other person wants to control the body when you kill someone, but that you give control of your body to the other person because you don't want to...

So in the end, it turns out that he just wanted to avoid murder and created a second personality to mitigate the guilt. How hypocritical...

Noel came out of the cupboard, moved his body, and pushed open the door. A current suddenly came from the door handle, but it only made the man pause, and then he pushed the door and left without changing his expression.

Electric current, that is the psychological shadow left by Noel due to his childhood experience, but now he has already taken it for granted. On the contrary, Grappa, who has not undergone forced desensitization treatment in the later stage, dares not touch it at all, and therefore cannot push open the door and walk out of the house to meet the other member in the house.

It is precisely because of this that Noel asked the other party to come out here to exchange information with him. As for the other party’s complaints on the note, I’m sorry, Noel can trust Xiaoguang, but he will not trust himself.

Next, it’s time to meet the troublesome big garbage again.