4

"Gin, I'm here." Hearing the weak voice coming from the corner, Gin instantly gave him a knife-like look.

"Explain it."

"Oh, when we were interrogating him, we heard the alarm, and then we set a fire after silencing him." Noel said slowly in a hoarse voice. He was still dressed in black. Even though the high-collared jacket couldn't cover his mouth, the mask on the back was wrapped tightly without any gaps. Even his fingers were wrapped with a thin layer of bandages and fingerless gloves, as if he would die if exposed to the light.

"Clues?" Gin asked coldly.

"The other party was very careful and handled it in advance," Noel lied without any guilt, "I sent you a message to explain."

Gin was too lazy to pay attention and threw another piece of information about missing low-level personnel to the other party.

"Who is this?" Noel asked, looking at the headshot on the profile.

"The person who drove you yesterday." Gin was not angry. He was the first one to discover Grappa's severe face blindness.

"Oh, he accidentally fell into the sea." Noel said, as if his excuse was very reliable.

"Who would believe this?!" Vodkat couldn't help but speak out. Can the lies be more reliable these days?

"And you drove?" Gin continued.

"Yeah." Noel told the truth.

"This is a new mission." Gin did not ask any more questions in the face of Vodka's shocked eyes, but took out another document and threw it to Grappa.

Noel opened the file, which contained a member of Congress's information, only a few pages thick, three photos, some personal information, and the location of a lecture. He then understood his mission.

"Can we just kill him directly?" Although most of the missions given to Grappa were assassination missions, Noel still wanted to ask cautiously.

"We'll attack him when he gives his speech the day after tomorrow," Gin said crisply. "I'll arrange a temporary partner for you."

Oh, I see. The idiots who offended the organization were used as demonstrations. Noel understood and put away the information. He was confused after hearing what Gin said.

"Partner?" Noel felt that this word was very unfamiliar, and there was undisguised confusion in his grey eyes, as if asking if I needed this?

"To prevent you from failing to recognize the target and killing the wrong person, and to drive you there." Gin explained coldly.

Noel recalled that during a mission, he shot his partner who had the same hairstyle as the target person and killed him instantly... He felt a little guilty.

"No opinions are allowed regarding the organization's arrangements." In order to prevent the other party from causing any trouble again, Gin said in a firm tone, although Noel had never heard Gin's tone so gentle in all the years he had known him.

He might not even be able to say an imperative sentence, Noel couldn't help but think, and then he heard the other party's command sentence again.

"Go to Shirley now, get your new medicine and have a checkup." Gin was about to turn around and leave when he heard someone behind him mutter:

"I feel like I'm in much better spirits now. I don't need to take medicine anymore." These words successfully made Gin stop and he gave him a mocking look as if to show his lack of self-awareness.

"The organization will not let your health be affected just because you hate that woman." Gin looked at the bandages on the other party and said, "After all, your body is also an important asset of the organization."

"I don't hate that woman." Noel retorted. His real life in his previous life was Haibara Ai.

Gin was in no mood to respond to this, he just felt that the other party deserved a beating again.

"I told him the truth but he didn't believe it. Can you blame me, Xiao Hei?" Noel couldn't help but complain to Xiao Hei.

"Who are you talking to?" Gin's eyes suddenly became sharp. He strode over to look at Noel, his tone as sharp as an ice knife.

"Xiao Hei." Norse said without hiding anything.

"Who is he?" Gin realized something and asked.

"My new friend." Noel, who clearly disliked Xiao Hei very much a few days ago, said this with a matter-of-fact look on his face.

"Oh, here." Noel pointed to his head, as if his new friend lived there.

"Now, immediately, go get Shirley to prescribe medicine, and check my brain thoroughly." Gin's aura was so cold that it seemed like ice chips were about to fall off, making Noel wonder when he had offended the other party. After confirming that he had not, he even felt a little aggrieved.

"Oh——" In order to avoid trouble, Noel could only respond obediently, even though the deliberately prolonged ending tone sounded weird.

"Brother, this kid's brain problems are getting more and more serious." The sturdy Vogt couldn't help but say to his elder brother. He had long felt that Grappa was a weird kid.

"As long as the weapon is useful, that's enough." Gin said coldly.

"That low-level person?" Vodka asked cautiously. He didn't understand why his elder brother would accept such an obviously flawed statement.

"He wants to drive." Gin still has some patience with his personal little brother, "This is not the first time."

Want to drive? What does this have to do with the death of the lower-level personnel? Vodka couldn't help thinking, and then he thought of his eldest brother's last words, and suddenly an idea flashed in his mind.

"Because his subordinate was in charge of driving and he wanted to drive, he killed the other person?" Vodka blurted out, and his shocked eyes met Gin's affirmative eyes, and he was completely stunned.

There has always been a rumor in the organization that although Grappa has never worked with anyone, he often takes a few low-level members with him as his subordinates to drive and cook for him. The mortality rate is shockingly high, and only a few people can survive. As a result, all the low-level members who are chosen to be Grappa are tacitly expected to die.

So he killed himself?!

Vodka immediately decided to stay away from this psychopath.

———

"I always feel that Gin's existence is against me." Noel said to himself in the corridor, "He obviously doesn't even treat me as a human being. He controls my medicine more strictly than anyone else."

【Don't worry about him. 】

Xiao Hei's voice paused, and he spoke slowly.

"Plus, you have to prevent me from committing suicide every day. Does that mean..."

"He finally realized his feelings for me!" Noel's tone suddenly rose, causing Xiao Hei to successfully freeze the machine.

How did you deduce this?

"Just kidding, after all, anyone could do it except Gin."

"Just put the bomb inside his favorite coat next time."

[You may anger him by doing this, but he won't kill you. He will just throw you back into the lab.]

Xiao Hei answered rationally.

"Tsk——" Noel didn't want to pay attention to Xiao Hei anymore. He had just arrived at his destination, the organization's laboratory.

"Grappa," the girl with short light brown hair said, "Gin asked you to come over?"

The girl codenamed Shirley is only fourteen years old this year. Her cool and delicate appearance makes her stand out among a group of adults and even the elderly even though she is wearing the same white coat, which raises the average level of her appearance. But it is enough to illustrate her strength. She grew up in the organization and both of her parents are important researchers, so she has now been given a codename and started to be in charge of an independent project.

As soon as she said this, Shirley laughed at herself in her heart. Apart from Gin's order, there was no way the boy would come to the laboratory she hated the most, let alone see her.

After all, I also participated in that experiment that year.

"The medicine is not enough." Noel took out his medicine box and handed it to the other party skillfully.

"Dr. Murakami hasn't been here for a few days, so he prepared the medicine in advance." Shirley took the medicine box, confirmed that the other party had been taking the medicine on time, and breathed a sigh of relief.

"I need to check my body..." Shirley looked at Noel, but found that he was slow to move.

"It's just a normal inspection. If you don't like it, you can let someone else take charge." The girl suggested, suddenly realizing that the other party might not be able to accept letting her take charge.

"Just come on."

"Your situation is just a special case. The large production investment is not proportional to the return, so it does not have much research value." Shirley explained with a subconscious sigh of relief, trying to make the other party understand that this is just an ordinary inspection. The past experiments were of little value and would not be carried out again.

"I know all this very well. After all, the results of the experiment are of no value." Noel didn't understand why the other party kept explaining this point, when he, as the only survivor of the experiment, knew it best.

"..." Shirley was silent. The atmosphere between them began to become awkward until the equipment was adjusted and the physical examination began.

"Just draw some blood and take some X-rays." Shirley took out the tools skillfully and looked at the bandage on the other person's arm. She felt her conscience ache again.

"Remove the bandage."

"Oh, I almost forgot." Noel had just been telling Xiao Hei how cute Xiao Ai was in his mind, and he almost forgot that he was in front of the real person.

Watching the young man removing the bandages one by one, there was not a trace on his too fair skin, let alone scars. There was not even a string on his palm after removing the bandages. It was completely different from the scars that others had guessed.

The bandages were not covering up wounds, but rather the absence of wounds. After all, it was too strange for a member of an organization that was often in high-intensity combat to have no wounds on his body. Another possibility was that he didn't like this body, Shirley guessed. Or maybe all the members who knew about the experiment assumed this was the reason.

After all, the main purpose of the experiment that Grappa participated in was just to enhance the healing of wounds, but it was stopped because the side effects were too great and there was no possibility of elimination. The only remaining survivor began to work as a member of the organization again.

She put on a bandage because she didn't want to see it, because she was afraid of recalling the experiment again... The girl's mind is quite emotional. She was born in an organization but still retained her kindness and compassion. But because of this, she was powerless to do anything and was even forced to participate. She always had a strong sense of guilt towards Noel. She should be younger, but she is still living in this cage.

"By the way, Gin also mentioned that he needed to have his head checked."

"Is the mental problem serious?" Shirley immediately became alert, worried that the other party's series of side effects would become serious again.

"Probably not." Noel felt good about himself.

"That guy is really troublesome." Shirley breathed a sigh of relief and couldn't help but say that she was the only one who dared to say a few bad things about Gin behind his back, but she couldn't disobey him and could only take Noel to the testing room.

Lying in a familiar testing instrument with various equipment surrounding his head made Noel feel very familiar.

"Don't worry, it's just a routine checkup." Shirley emphasized again, worried that the other party would recall his past experience.

"It's okay even if you cut it open directly." Noel wanted to comfort the girl who seemed a little nervous for some reason, and responded, "I'm looking forward to it."

Shirley's face successfully darkened.

[As expected of my natal character, she is still so cute. 】

As the examination was going on, Noel continued to talk to Xiao Hei about his own destiny in his mind.

[Isn’t she your experiment manager? ]

[That was much later. I had already killed the lunatic at the beginning. It was Shirley who took charge and stopped the experiment on the grounds that it was meaningless and wasted precious materials. She should be considered my benefactor.]

【Why are you still so cold? 】

Since meeting Shirley, Noel has been talking very little, and even his tone has been calm, which makes Xiao Hei feel that he is like a schizophrenic boy who is shouting crazily that the goddess is so great in his mind.

[After all, she is a goddess...]

Noel was silent for a while, and suddenly said, with a hint of shyness in his tone?

[You are shy?!]

Xiao Hei's mechanical sound could no longer be suppressed, and the tail sound emitted a sharp and piercing noise, which made Noel's head hurt a little.

【Xiao Hei, you are so noisy. 】

Xiao Hei, who had finally recovered from the shock of "this bastard is actually shy", suddenly felt something was wrong.

[Why do I feel like her attitude towards you is... weird, have you done anything like that before? ]

[Before in the lab, I often asked her to remove the tube for me or change the medicine to a more stimulating one, but she refused.]

[Have you set your goal of reincarnation so early? ]

[I decided this right after I crossed over, so I was thrown into the laboratory because I made too much noise.]

[Anyway, we rarely contacted each other after I left the lab, but I would occasionally ask her for some new poison to try first, but she always refused. But I don’t know why, she finally gave it to me. It was the legendary drug A, and I got several pills.]

[He also said that if you really can't bear it, just eat it, at least it won't hurt. ]

[It turned out to be completely useless after I ate it, so I had to keep it in my collection. But then, by some strange coincidence, someone else ate it.]

After Noel gave a brief explanation, he found that Xiao Hei suddenly became quiet and did not say a word until the test was over.