Christmas Extra, Red

Merry Christmas.

Noel said to himself as he climbed out of bed, then stretched and opened the door, only to see his eldest brother sitting in the living room with an expressionless face.

"What's wrong, Brother Xiu?" Noel rubbed his eyes. He was still wearing the spare pajamas that he had found out of Shuichi Akai's closet last night. His hair was disheveled and spread out behind him, like a female ghost that had just crawled out of a well.

"Aren't you looking forward to Christmas today?" Akai Shuichi looked at his brother and nodded, then sighed and asked:

"And then sleep until twelve o'clock?"

"I'm suffering from jet lag." Noel replied righteously, sitting on the sofa opposite Akai Shuichi. After a while, he collapsed as if he had no bones.

Akai Shuichi was too lazy to argue with him, and did not ask whether the other party had gone to bed before ten o'clock last night and slept until twelve o'clock today because of jet lag. He pointed at the box on the table and said:

"Sandwiches from the Café Polo. Did you order them?"

"Hmm, it tastes really good," Noel lazily turned over and yawned, "Let mom and Zhenchun have a taste."

Akai Shuichi was silent again. He carefully looked at his brother and confirmed that he looked calm. He could not say anything else but "Are you going to the hotel to look for them now?"

"I've reserved a seat. Don't worry, it's very private." Noel lay comfortably on the sofa with his eyes squinted, but suddenly saw something and stood up abruptly and asked, "Did you fight?"

Noel rubbed his eyes again and looked at Akai Shuichi carefully. The other party's instinctive avoidance made him more certain of this idea. However, since he could move normally, it meant that the problem was not serious and it was just a superficial injury at most. This made Noel immediately ask with great interest: "Who hit you? I'll go and talk to him... I mean, I'll go and avenge you!"

"Stop making a fuss," Akai Shuichi twitched his lips and said calmly, "Send me the address of the restaurant. I'll go there this afternoon."

"In the group chat," Noel said with a sullen face, then he picked up the sandwich on the table and suddenly an idea flashed in his mind: "Is it Mr. Amuro Toru from the Poirot Café? You know him? And you have a grudge against him!"

Akai Shuichi smiled without saying anything, grabbed Noel's collar with his left hand and threw him out the door.

Noel stood outside the door in a daze for a moment, holding the sandwich tightly in his hand. Then he turned around as if to react and wanted to make an international friendly gesture towards the door, but was suddenly covered by a coat that was thrown out and covered his head.

Akai Shuichi, I will remember this grudge. After pulling the coat off his head, Noel still did not raise his middle finger. He put on the coat and left angrily. He did not forget to make a special phone call to his other brother, Haneda Hideyoshi, to complain, so as to ensure that everyone in the family would stand on his side at the Christmas party.

Thinking of the Christmas presents he had prepared, Noel felt guilty for a moment, and felt that his mother would not stand on his side.

———

"Is it your younger brother?" Seeing Haneda Hideyoshi put down the phone, Miyamoto Yumi asked with a smile. She had heard her lover mention her younger brother, and he sounded like a very interesting child.

"Sorry, Yumi, I can't accompany you tonight." Haneda Hideyoshi said apologetically.

"It doesn't matter. Family is important." Yumi Miyamoto waved her hands nonchalantly, then said with a stern face: "But you have to spend more time with me next year!"

"Understood." Haneda Hideyoshi responded quickly, but then he thought of his brother's request to bring her home to celebrate Christmas together next year, and his face turned red. He could only ask in a disguised manner: "So what are your plans tonight?"

"I've made an appointment with a friend to go to the movies together." Yumi Miyamoto thought of something, and gently lifted her hair, revealing the delicate necklace around her neck, and said with a bright smile: "I have to show off my necklace."

Haneda Hideyoshi blushed suddenly, and the two of them were sweet and affectionate for a while before reluctantly parting.

Sitting in the taxi on the way to the destination, Haneda Hideyoshi looked at his appearance in the rearview mirror and suddenly felt a little regretful that he should shave again, but then he thought about it and felt that Noel would not care too much, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

Haneda Hideyoshi felt a little guilty towards his younger brother. He was always so sensible that it made him feel distressed. At that time, his father had just disappeared and his elder brother was not around, so he wanted to spend more time with him. However, he naively thought that everyone would like shogi, so he took Noel to look at chess manuals and play shogi every day. Now he thinks that the child probably didn't like it, but just didn't want to reject him, and he was the one who was taken care of.

When he was adopted into the Haneda family, although he was reluctant to leave his family, his passion for shogi overcame everything and he entered the shogi world without hesitation. Would the boy who always followed him at that time be sad? But he stood in front of him with his chest held high and said firmly that he would take good care of his sister and mother. He was obviously the older brother, but he was taken care of by his younger brother.

/We are almost there, just ten more minutes. /

Seeing the other party's urging message, Haneda Hideyoshi couldn't help but smile and responded, which made the taxi driver in front of him couldn't help but ask: "Are you going on a date with your girlfriend?"

"No, with my family."

———

Noel pushed open the restaurant's private room and saw his mother and sister sitting on the sofa watching TV. He couldn't help but walk over and picked up the petite Akai Mari and said:

"Merry Christmas, Mom!"

"Put me down." Akai Mary gave him a cold look. Don't think she didn't notice that this guy wanted to lift her up and spin her around. Don't underestimate the sensitivity of an MI6 agent.

"Ah, did you find it?" Noel put the man down with a guilty conscience, then looked at his sister's resentful eyes and said with a smile, "Zhenchun, Merry Christmas. This is a sandwich from a restaurant I just found. It's delicious. Have you had lunch?"

"Brother Nor, don't think you can get away with this. Did you forget about me just now?" Sera Masumi took the sandwich and immediately recognized that this was the restaurant that Xiaolan and the others liked. The food there was indeed delicious.

"Did you receive the car?" Noel continued to change the subject skillfully, but this time it was obviously successful. Sera Masumi immediately said excitedly: "It's amazing! And the silver-blue paint is super cool!"

Noel knows her sister's taste very well. She prefers handsome or cool styles rather than cute and soft things. Although she is often criticized for being a tomboy or like a boy, a sister is a sister and needs to be pampered. If she likes cute things, she will give her cute things; if she likes cool things, she will give her cool things. As a sister-con (she does not admit it), she naturally arranges everything.

"What about my gift?" Akai Mari, who was standing nearby and watching the interaction between the brother and sister, finally asked.

Shuichi Akai gave intelligence, his sister gave him a motorcycle, his second brother gave him a chess set, but the gift for Mary Akai has not been revealed yet.

"I have been preparing this gift for Mom for three or four months!" Noel said proudly, then looked outside the door and said, "But I have to wait until Brother Xiu and Brother Er arrive."

His words immediately aroused everyone's expectations, and they were eager to see the gift that had been prepared for three months.

So, when Shuichi Akai removed his disguise and walked into the private room, he immediately attracted the attention of everyone in the room.

"Long time no see, what's wrong?" Before Akai Shuichi could get over the shock of witnessing his own mother turning into a child, he found that everyone was looking at him eagerly.

"Brother Xiu, long time no see." Only Haneda Hideyoshi greeted him seriously, while Sera Masumi in the back couldn't wait to say, "Brother Xiu, please sit here first. We'll talk about whether you're not dead later. Come here now, and let's look at the gift that Nor-ge sent us."

Shuichi Akai sat on the sofa, confused, watching the TV in front of him.

Seeing that everyone had gathered, Noel smiled, then took out a disc without a cover, put it into the disc reader, and said mysteriously: "This movie will be released in theaters tonight, but I asked the director for an internal version, it's confidential."

Looking at the movie title projected on the screen, Revenge, Shuichi Akai already had a bad feeling. He remembered that he had seen the promotion of the movie, and it seemed to be starring...Chris Vermouth.

As expected, in the first shot, Bermode's delicate face appeared on the screen, with her silver hair as white as the moonlight scattered behind her, and a pair of aqua eyes with a hint of tenderness as she looked at the person opposite her and said:

"Sidney, let's elope."

The camera slowly pulls away, and the environment the woman is in gradually emerges. It is a greenhouse garden full of flowers and precious trees. Unlike the cold environment outside with snow, the garden is warm and beautiful, but the heroine standing in it is not obscured by her radiance. A simple silk white dress makes her look innocent and beautiful.

Unfortunately, for Shuichi Akai and Mary, who knew his identity, they could not relate to this scene. Their hearts were already filled with doubts. Why did Noel suddenly play Bermode's movie?

The camera slowly rotates, and finally the man named Sidney, the man who made such a beautiful woman elope, appears on the screen.

First, a hand holding a paintbrush appeared. The bony and fair hand had a thin thread and blue veins underneath. Behind it was a painting that was not yet finished but was so gorgeous. The owner of the hand gently put down the paintbrush and said in a gentle but helpless tone, "Sheila, you are a princess of the Abraham family. We can't do this. We can't do it."

The camera finally moved to Sidney. He was wearing a simple beige shirt and had his long hair tied behind his head. His gray-green eyes were full of tenderness and hidden pain under the warm light. He looked at the woman so gently, as if he was looking at his most precious treasure. Seeing this look, the audience could immediately realize that he also loved the person in front of him. Therefore, the rejection just now made his eyes so painful, as touching as a broken gem.

Everyone in the Akai family looked at Noel with confusion in their eyes. Obviously, they needed an explanation, especially Akai Mary and Akai Shuichi, who knew Vermode's identity. They clenched their fists.

"It just happened that the director asked me to play a small role. Sidney is also a painter. I am so handsome and I am a painter with a good reputation. He said it is a good fit."

"So you're three months?"

"I'm going to film a movie." Noel waved his hand and looked at his mother and eldest brother who looked like they wanted to say something but couldn't. Finally, he couldn't help laughing: "Hahaha, how about continuing? I acted really well!!!"

Shuichi Akai's expression was numb. Watching his brother act like a lover with his enemy was a kind of extreme torture. And Akai Mary was ready to teach this suicidal third son a lesson herself. You know, the A drug she took was fed by Vermode, and it was a kissing method! Now watching the other party act like a lover with her son, she was already hurt to death. No, I'm going to kill this unfilial son today!!!

"Don't worry, I'll be dead in a moment. I didn't act anything I shouldn't act. I'm Bai Yueguang!" Noel explained seriously, "I'll save my first kiss for my future girlfriend!"

The plot continues to play out, and just as Noel said, Sidney's role actually only has a few shots. The heroine's family is a mafia family, and they were retaliated and massacred tonight by their enemies. In order to protect the heroine, the painter Sidney led the enemy away and refused to reveal the heroine's location after being interrogated. In the end, he was shot to death. The heroine, who was hiding in the cargo nearby, held back her tears and witnessed the death of her lover but was powerless to do anything, and finally embarked on the road of revenge.

In fact, it is a very clichéd plot, but the excellent director can interpret the cliché very well. The fighting and wits in the movie are very online. At the end, the heroine presented a bouquet of red roses on the lover's grave, which was beautiful and sad in the snow. Although it has nothing to do with the theme of Christmas, it is still a very good movie.

Although Shuichi Akai and Mary Akai were unable to get into the role throughout the entire show, and the other two who were unaware of the situation were a little distracting at the beginning, they were obviously enjoying the show after Sidney's death, and they were able to deduce the truth faster than the characters themselves when it came to reasoning.

"Is this your Christmas present?" Mary Akai said gritting her teeth after the movie ended.

"Wait, there's more."

When it came to the Easter egg part, Noel dressed as Sidney and Belmode dressed as Sheila suddenly appeared and greeted the camera, "Merry Christmas, Mom!"

Vermouth on the other side also smiled brightly and said:

"Merry Christmas to Noel's family."

Apparently, Noel had specifically asked the latter to record it, and it is a unique gift in this CD.

"Noel, if you want to die just say it!" Akai Mari finally couldn't help it. Her originally calm and cool expression turned into ashes. At this moment, all she could think about was how to teach this bastard a lesson. She stood up and kicked him.

Giving blessings from your enemy as Christmas gifts, this is crazy thinking!

"Mom doesn't like this actor?" Haneda Hideyoshi asked in confusion at the mother-son scene, but then smiled and said, "But it's been a long time since we've seen this scene, right, Hideo."

赤井秀一沒有回應，他在等待着，準備等自家老媽揍完他再揍，讓這個家夥理解一下何為家人的愛。

———

At this time, in a Tokyo cinema, a movie had just ended. Xiaolan, who had booked a middle seat, was expressing her admiration for the movie and her shock that Sera's brother had actually acted in a movie. On both sides of her, Conan and Ai had confused looks in their eyes. They looked at each other with bitter smiles.

Behind them, Yumi Miyamoto wiped her tears emotionally and expressed her deep sorrow over Sidney's death. She was discussing the plot with her colleagues, unaware that a year later when she came to the Akai family, the character she had been thinking about was the younger brother in her lover's mouth.

The third row from the back of the cinema is a rather hidden spot. Matsuda Jinpei, who always wears the same black suit, has a look on his face. Amuro Toru, who has already exchanged information with him, stares at his classmate fiercely, suspecting that he has concealed information about his friend "Xiaobai". He is also related to Akai Shuichi and Vermouth, so he is extremely suspicious!

On this wonderful Christmas, many people's outlook on life has been reshaped. They finally made up their minds to visit a scary man named Noel tomorrow.

Christmas is coming to an end. After having a sumptuous dinner and spending time with his mother and brother, Noel is sitting by the window admiring the snowy scenery. A gentle ringtone comes from his cell phone, a ringtone that is specially set for one person.

He answered the call in a panic, adjusted his breathing, and then asked, "Are you still awake?"

"Ms. Zhang."

"I want to say Merry Christmas to you, but I shouldn't disturb you now." The woman's voice on the other side was soft and gentle like flowing water.

"I won't disturb you," Noel explained anxiously. "Merry Christmas. Sorry, I thought you didn't celebrate this holiday over there."

"But it's important for you who grew up in the UK." The other person chuckled, "Holiday blessings are the elders' care and concern. It has nothing to do with the specific holiday. No matter which holiday it is, we hope you are safe and happy."

"Well," Noel's voice seemed to have calmed down as if the gentle voice had calmed him down. He smiled slightly and said, "I hope you are in good health, too, Ms. Zhang."

The voice on the other end was obviously more smiling, and asked Noel earnestly about his recent life. After a few simple instructions, he suddenly asked, "Would you like to experience our traditional festivals? It's less than two months away."

The traditional festival there is in less than two months, and it is the Spring Festival? Before Noel could say anything, he heard the other party say nervously: "I think the British don't have the custom of celebrating this festival, do you want to come and see? I know how to cook many traditional dishes, you can try them. I remember that you like Chinese food, and this is the authentic taste. I believe you will like it. After all, your taste..."

"Same as me."

The last sentence fell softly, and then he calmed down and waited for the other party's answer.

"I...Ms. Zhang, after all, it is a festival for your family to reunite."

"I've already communicated with everyone, and everyone is happy to do it," the person on the other end said a little anxiously, "You can just come here to stroll around, have a meal, and then go back. Just think of it as a trip. The scenery here is beautiful. You like painting, right? Maybe you'll get a lot of new inspiration."

"Yes, I will go, Ms. Zhang." Hearing the care and love, desire and expectation in the other party's tone, Noel softened his voice and repeated again: "I will go, and I look forward to the arrival of that festival."

"That's great," the voice on the other side clearly showed unconcealed joy, but then, as if unintentionally, he asked tentatively, "Can we change our name here?"

"Yeah," Noel finally couldn't hold back the smile on his face, and he said softly, using the language he had learned from a teacher in Chinatown, "Mom, I'll go after I finish my work."

The next day, Shuichi Akai received a plan from his younger brother named "Plan to eliminate the organization in one month". He fell silent when he saw the black curly-haired man and the blond-haired dark-skinned man brought by the other party.

A week later, MI6 received a letter of explanation from the new recruit they had chosen, saying that he had refused to join the organization. After carefully analyzing the various disadvantages, the letter ended with the following:

It's inconvenient to join MI6 and go abroad!