Chapter 410: Huiyuan Ai: Something is wrong with Gin
Now that Jiang Xia returned home safely, Huiyuan Ai finally felt relieved. After all, as far as she knew, the casualty rate of Gin's peripheral members was quite high...
After looking at Jiang Xia who was opening the door, Huihara Ai trotted to the wall, climbed over the gap in the fence, and flipped into Jiang Xia's yard.
Conan followed immediately.
Unlike Haibara Ai, Conan didn't know that Jiang Xia was a member of an ancestral organization.
Therefore, he was still thinking about the time a few days ago on the Beidouxing, when Gin showed a look of hidden admiration to Jiang Xia.
Although Conan remembered that Gin and Vodka left the station first, and there were more than a dozen exits there, it was unlikely that the men in black could wait for Jiang Xia and recruit him. On the other hand, Conan felt that he had used his own way to cut off Jiang Xia's curiosity about Gin and tried his best to push Jiang Xia away from the organization - the two sides should have no intersection
But after coming back, he thought of the organization's cunning, and discovered that Haibara Ai, who was very familiar with Gin, was shocked after hearing him say that she "met Gin and Jiang Xia on the Beidousei at the same time". The suspicious Conan suddenly became alert again, thinking that could it be that the organization is more persistent in "winning over the talents they like" than he had previously predicted?
The two fake kids ran to Jiang Xia with worried looks on their faces.
Jiang Xia glanced at their expressions and asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"
Huibara Ai moved her lips, seeming to want to say something but stopped herself.
She was actually a little concerned about Jiang Xia's current situation.
In Haibara Ai's impression, Gin rarely repeatedly contacts a specific peripheral member in formal missions - one reason is that the loss rate of Gin's temporary subordinates is very high. Many of them are shot dead because of mistakes they made in the middle of the journey, or die from their own mistakes. Naturally, the dead cannot be reused.
The second is that Gin is worried that after regular contact, people with ulterior motives will try to use that information to arrest him, just like Akai Shuichi did, so he will take the initiative to avoid this situation.
So now, after Haibara Ai discovered that Jiang Xia and Gin appeared in the same occasion several times, she felt more and more that something was wrong.
——In the past, when Haibara Ai had not yet defected and was still "Sherry", Jiang Xia's parents had pushed her away in a car accident and turned themselves into a pulp... Shirley had always taken good care of Jiang Xia who was left behind by them.
At that time, because Jiang Xia had a cold attitude, Shirley thought that this colleague's child hated her and was worried that Jiang Xia would refuse her help. So occasionally, she would avoid showing up in person and let Gin get Jiang Xia some safer tasks. This way, she could achieve the task rate required by the organization and avoid Jiang Xia being sent to be cannon fodder due to failing the assessment, and could also ensure his safety as much as possible.
However, after she defected, Jiang Xia would still appear near Gin from time to time...
This couldn't be an ordinary "encounter" - if it was really an "encounter" to this extent, Gin's bullet would have been embedded in Jiang Xia's head long ago, even if he had no evidence.
There is only one truth, excluding other possibilities... Haibara Ai thought, could it be that Gin discovered Jiang Xia's talent and wanted to promote him?
When she thought of this possibility, Haibara Ai's mood dropped significantly.
——In her opinion, for Jiang Xia, who once admitted that he "only treated the organization as a job" and sounded like he just wanted to have fun and do nothing, this was obviously a risky thing to do.
Haibara Ai is very concerned about the situation.
However……
She glanced at Conan beside her calmly, and in order to help Jiang Xia cover up her vest, she could only swallow back what she wanted to say.
...Forget it, since Jiang Xia seems to be fine, let's change the topic to a more daily one for now.
Huiyuan Ai reached into her pocket and fumbled around, then took out an exquisite gift box, palm-sized and tied with a beautiful ribbon.
She took Jiang Xia's hand and placed the handmade chocolate in his palm: "Giri Chocolate - today is Valentine's Day, this is for you."
...I heard that high school students in normal schools like to give each other chocolates during this festival.
It would be best if Jiang Xia had what other high school students had, so that he could realize that he was still a student who should focus on his studies. It was good for his mentality and could also relieve the pressure of being forced to work in an organization.
——This is what Haibara Ai thought when she was making chocolate yesterday.
But now...
She glanced at the small box of chocolates she had made.
Then he raised his head again and silently glanced at the stuffed mailbox at Jiang Xia's house, and the gift boxes piled up to the top of the mailbox.
Suddenly she understood why she didn't see Jiang Xia when she occasionally came to the living room to wait for Jiang Xia this morning. Instead, she saw several different female high school students every time.
...Jiang Xia's high school experience seemed very perfect in some strange ways, even a little too perfect...Speaking of which, considering how often he skipped classes, how did he get to know so many female classmates who knew his address?
Could it be that someone is secretly selling Jiang Xia's address...
With mixed feelings, Haibara Ai withdrew her gaze from the pile of chocolates and wanted to raise her hand to pat Jiang Xia's shoulder, but she couldn't reach it.
Finally, he could only pat Jiang Xia's hand and sighed softly: "Pay attention to personal privacy."
Jiang Xia was a little confused about where her sigh came from, but he had long discovered that people in this world seemed to be very good at imagining, and everyone's inner world was diverse, so it was normal for him to not be able to keep up with her thoughts.
So he nodded skillfully and pretended to understand.
He took a look at the chocolates that Huiyuan Ai had given him, thought about it, and took out a small paper box from his pocket:
"When I left, I didn't expect the holiday to come so soon, and I didn't have time to prepare holiday gifts... I'll give you this as a return gift. I brought it back from this business trip."
…Although it’s a little different from chocolate, at least the color is similar.
"Thank you." Haibara Ai raised her hand to take it, looking at the hand-folded paper box curiously.
The paper box was only as big as the circle between the thumb and index finger. Judging from the size, there might be a small trinket inside.
Judging from what he just said, this should be something Jiang Xia bought for himself...
Just as she was thinking, Haibara Ai suddenly heard a rustling sound coming from the paper box. She also felt a slight vibration where her palm touched the bottom of the paper box, as if something was scratching it.
Huiyuan Ai: “……?”
She was stunned for a moment, and had a vague feeling of bad premonition. She raised her head and looked at Jiang Xia inquiringly.
After giving the return gift, Jiang Xia stood up and was looking intently at the chocolates on the mailbox next to him, as if he was thinking about what to do with this pile of sweets.
...Jiang Xia's attention was not constantly focused on the small paper box, which showed that it was not something shameful and should be a normal gift.
Haibara Ai hesitated for a moment, but finally couldn't resist her curiosity, so she opened the small paper box a little and looked inside.
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(End of this chapter)
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