Chapter 60 The Man Destined to Drown

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After realizing this, Shen Youkui fell silent.

He was wondering what exactly Ethan knew and why he brought him here?

The cemetery behind the temple courtyard was not very large. The group quickly passed through the rows of gray and white tombstones and arrived at the tomb of "Kenji Hagiwara".

The purple-gray pupils suddenly shrank for a moment, and Amuro looked at Shen Youkui consciously.

The silver-haired boy's expression was very blurry in the rain, and he stood there silently. Nothing could be seen clearly.

When everyone stopped in front of the tombstone with the name "Kenji Hagiwara" engraved on it, Kamiya Aoi had only one thing to say: "As expected."

Now, he was more curious about how Ethan knew this place than about the achievement he was about to complete. What did he know?

As if seeing his doubts, Ethan explained, "Since the villa, I have been concerned about your attitude towards Bourbon. Although you have concealed it well, I can still see that there is a familiar atmosphere between you. In an organization like the Black Organization, it is very strange."

"Although I can't hack into the intelligence database like you, I have my own way." Ethan Hondou glanced at Amuro Toru.

"CR, you are not the only one who has the ability to obtain secret information as a means of forcing others to act in accordance with your wishes—"

After Ethan Hondou finished speaking, he motioned to Mizuno Renna to take out the bullet from the left wheel. It was obvious that he had no intention of explaining what method he used and what he knew.

While he was running around outside under the pretext of a mission, Ethan Hondou started asking around with the secretly taken photo of Amuro Toru - with such a conspicuous appearance, anyone who has seen him would have some impression of him - of course, his inquiries were not aimless, as he mainly targeted a circle with a radius of five kilometers, with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Academy as the midpoint.

As a result, not only did he get information about Toru Amuro who seemed to be a police academy student, but he also got other unexpected gains.

——For example, this temple and this tombstone.

Every year, people would sweep his grave and light incense and candles around the anniversary of his death. There were also anonymous donations, and flowers and magazines were offered continuously in June and November.

In fact, it was Bourbon's own overly eye-catching appearance that was to blame. When Priest Ethan narrowed down the scope of his inquiry and came to this temple, he never thought that he would gain such a reward.

Later, when Ethan learned that Scotch Whisky was seriously injured and hospitalized, he went to observe from afar just to confirm whether his information was accurate.

After confirming that Scotch Whisky was damaged and that those guarding nearby were all Japanese police, Ethan Hondou finally called Kamiya Aoi and decided to carry out his own elimination.

This tombstone...is the bargaining chip he left to shake the god Youkui.

Now, it comes in handy.

——Let him see whether "Mr. CR", who is mysterious and cruel, calculating so many people without mercy and treating so many lives as playthings, can do it and mercilessly kill his friend in front of the grave of the person who has done him a favor.

All the bullets in the revolver were taken out. A bullet and a revolver with an empty magazine. Mizuki Ryunai held these two things: "Who will reload?"

"I'll do it."

No matter what Ethan Hondou and Amuro Toru think, in Kamiyakui's eyes, these two are not his allies anyway. He still has to seize the initiative.

Mizuno Rinnai handed the things to him.

Shen Youkui lowered his eyes and loaded the bullets into the magazine. At this moment, he felt really bad from the bottom of his heart that he was surrounded by the enemy.

[Spies eliminated: 23/30.]

Fortunately, the Yamaguchi-gumi and the Sakura-gumi fought fiercely enough, and the only ally, Gin, acted as a third party to assassinate the cadres of both sides before leaving. The subsequent effect finally emerged after Kamiya Aoi issued missions to the undercover agents targeting the two groups respectively.

The clueless undercover agents thought they were merely carrying out ordinary intelligence gathering or common assassination missions.

They plunged headfirst into the "battlefield" formed by the Yamaguchi-gumi and the Sakura-gumi, where they had already become furious and would not show mercy to members of the other organization. They also hated the third-party organization that provoked this conflict.

At this speed, Shen Youkui felt it was slower than he had expected.

After loading the bullets, Amuro Toru, who had been silent all the way, suddenly spoke up: "Since the bullets were loaded by CR, for the sake of fairness, shouldn't I be the one to turn the magazine and fire the first shot?"

Kamiya Aoi looked over, his vision blurred by the rain, and he could not clearly see the expression on Amuro Toru's face.

"Don't bother."

The silver-haired boy finished speaking, and smoothly completed the movement of turning the magazine. At a speed that no one could react to, he raised his hand and fired a shot at Amuro Toru who was facing him.

"Bang!"

Empty gun.

[Fuck... In front of Hagi's grave... Esen Hondou, you really hate the god Yuuki.]

[Hot Knowledge: In the Russian Roulette game, only one bullet is loaded into the left wheel. As long as your hands do not shake when you rotate the magazine, the bullet will sink to the bottom under the action of gravity. It is about the position of the fourth magazine. If the close-up of Shen Yukui's hand just now does not mean that he knows this point and adjusts the position of the bullet, when the first shot was fired at Amuro Toru, the first shot with bullets must have been taken by Shen Yukui himself.]

[…I think that close-up was to emphasize that Kamiya Aoi did nothing.]

[How could he possibly kill Furuya Rei in front of Hagiwara Kenji's grave? ! !]

[Wait, no, wait. I suddenly realized something!! Aoi threw all the undercovers he found as cannon fodder, but Jingguang was in the hospital and Aoi didn't let him go! Toruko was not on the list from the beginning to the end!]

[Damn, I give up. Even Tetsuguro can't bring himself to do something to someone related to Hagiwara Kenji, right?]

[What I'm saying is... it's raining nicely... I don't know if the water on my face is rain or tears...]

[Don't kill TT]

Toru Amuro's heart was about to beat out of his chest.

Just as the bullet screen said - how could Shen Youkui not know the method of artificially adjusting the bullet position in the "Russian Roulette"? If he didn't know, he wouldn't have let him be the one to shoot in the villa, giving Cointreau a chance to escape.

Now, affected by the rain, Toru Amuro didn't know whether Kami Yuuki's hand was steady when she pulled the magazine. His familiarity with firearms was really too low!

If Shen Youkui's hands trembled, even just for a moment, the position of the bullet would change. What if...

At this time, Shen Youkui put the left wheel, which was still slightly smoking, against his temple.

"If I die, there is really nothing I can do." Shen Youkui confirmed the content of the bet with Ethan Hondo, "But if your Bourbon dies, will you really let me go as promised?"

"Now you have three guns pointed at me, and I can't seem to trust your credibility."

The suit soaked with rainwater was tightened, and it was a bit tiring to keep raising her arms. Shen Youkui put down her hands temporarily and unbuttoned the buttons on her abdomen with her other hand so that her arms could move more freely.

"Weisslin, you and Kiel should leave first."

"but……"

"No buts!"

Ethan looked at his daughter intently, hoping that she could understand his meaning.

Mizuno Renna did not disappoint his expectations. She immediately understood what her father meant - now Kamiya Aoi is in their hands. Although they don't know what Kamiya Aoi meant by "things they don't want to see happen", there are very likely clues in Karas Company, Kamiya Aoi's lounge, and office.

She had to find it!

"I understand." Mizuno Rinna gritted her teeth and turned away decisively. Weislin followed her.

After the two figures completely disappeared, Shen Youkui slowly pulled the trigger at himself.

"Bang!"

Empty gun.

[Number of spies eliminated: 28/30. ]

Two more to go!!

Shen Youkui turned the gun around and shot at Amuro Toru - but unfortunately, this shot also missed.

Fourth, shoot!

In Toru Amuro's eyes, everything seemed like a slow-motion shot played frame by frame. The silver-haired boy slowly raised his hand in the gray rain and pointed the gun at himself.

"etc!"

Fuck the best timing!!

Amuro Toru took two steps forward and held Kami Yuuki's hand: "Mr. Ethan Hondou, Kami Yuuki - CR is a criminal I have arrested as a Japanese public security officer. The jurisdiction and trial of his crimes are in Japan. As a foreigner, you have no right to deal with him. Please leave Japan immediately, otherwise I will issue an arrest warrant for you on the charge of espionage."

Shen Youkui looked at him in surprise.

Ethan Hondou's hand holding the gun was still steady, just like his attitude, unmoved: "I already knew you were a Japanese policeman, Bourbon... No, should I say, Fūya-kun?"

The chip that shook the god Yuuki was this tombstone, and the chip that shook Bourbon was the name that Ethan accidentally learned.

Amuro Toru - or should I say, Furuya Rei, really couldn't hide the shock on his face this time.

Seeing the blond young man frozen in place, Ethan Hondou almost sighed in his heart, "As an undercover agent, having too much presence is fatal... Moreover, you are too dependent on the intelligence of the Japanese Public Security Bureau and too confident that your whereabouts will not be exposed."

"But, Japanese police, Mr. Furuya - human eyes are the cameras that cannot be avoided and are everywhere. No matter how powerful the Japanese police are, they cannot delete the memories in people's brains."

Furuya Rei calmed down, "No matter what you say, I will not let you take Kamiya Aoi away. And, you, Margo, who said such a thing - aren't you also an undercover agent? FBI? CIA? Or MI6."

"It doesn't matter where I come from." Ethan said, "Since we have the same goal, I'll tell you straight - you can leave, but CR, there's no way."

Furuya Rei looked back at him without flinching: "Then I'll tell you that you can leave, but you can't take CR with you, considering that we share the same goal of destroying this organization."

After a moment of silence, Ethan Bentang spoke expressionlessly, "You just heard what he said. Even if there is a one percent chance, I don't want to bet on whether he really did something to the undercover agents and whether he really has access to our country's confidential intelligence."

"Either I take him away or I kill him here. There is no other choice."

Furutani Rei secretly put his hands behind his back and took the revolver from the silent Kamiya Aoi: "Then I can only arrest you for espionage as well."

Ethan saw through his move and did not stop him. Instead, he said, "There is only one bullet in it, and we don't know which magazine it will be in. Do you think this will pose any threat to me?"

At this time, Furuya Rei smiled confidently: "It is precisely because you cannot be sure whether the next shot will fire or not that you dare not move."

Regarding this, Ethan neither confirmed nor denied it.

And silence is sometimes a definite answer itself.

[Aaaaaaaah!!!]

[Is this the official approval? Love it!]

[At this time, Kazami is still on his way by car.]

Kamiya Aoi watched the confrontation between the two quietly. He did not expect that Furuya Rei would stand up and choose to protect him at this time.

The achievement is about to be completed. Kamiya Aoi doesn't really care whether she will be killed by Ethan Hondou and end this round with death.

His sight shifted slightly, meeting the spotless smile on the tombstone that was exceptionally bright and gentle in the rain, and Shen Youkui looked at the achievement panel silently.

Achievement, why is it not completed yet?

"Achievement Name: [Pure Black Executioner]

Achievement Description: Hate, resentment, anger... Enjoy the black fire that has been ignited for you. Traitors should be punished with severe punishment.

Achievement prerequisites: ①: Curse and despair of the dying. ②: Successfully find all undercover agents. ③: Unlocked after completing the achievement [Shadows Under the Curtain]. ④: Unlocked after completing the achievement ???. ⑤: Get the approval of Gin/Belmaud/Rum (one is indispensable). ⑥: Eliminate 30/30 spies. "

Wait, this first one...???

Shen Youkui read the achievement description again and confirmed that the first item was probably provided by the spies in the sixth item.

Generally speaking, the first one is the easiest, and should be triggered the first time the player executes a traitor.

However, Shen Youkui took a unique approach and went through a long detour before closing the net, and only then was he able to complete the first one at the same time when all the limited-time achievements were completed.

And... Shen Youkui takes back what he said before. The fourth item has not been resolved yet, he has not completed this achievement, and he cannot die yet!

Thinking about what to do next for herself, Shen Youkui put away the achievement panel and couldn't help but look at the tombstone again.

Speaking of which, Kenji Hagiwara... Kamiya Aoi only came into contact with him in the HE cycle, but that contact was also so brief.

Because not long after that, Kenji Hagiwara was killed in the plot.

In the subsequent BE round, Kamiya Aoi subconsciously chose to enter the game from the saved game after Hagiwara Kenji was killed in the plot, so the parts of his past contact with Hagiwara Kenji became part of the background identity template of "Kamiiya Aoi" while inheriting the saved game.

In the HE week, Kamiya Aoi, as a rising star recognized by the Metropolitan Police Department, came to present flowers to Kenji Hagiwara.

Although he was not in the Explosives Division at that time but in the Criminal Investigation Division, based on his relationship with Hagiwara Kenji and his own achievements, the Metropolitan Police Department finally decided to make an exception and give Hagiwara Kenji's police number to Kamiya Aoi.

So when Kamiya Aoi came to present flowers to Kenji Hagiwara in the HE week, she was wearing a formal police uniform with the same police number on her chest as the latter.

Now standing here again, as an "executioner" of a pure black camp, eliminating traitors - Shen Youkui suddenly felt the full malice from the AI ​​deduction.

Just as he was distracted, the confrontation between Furuya Rei and Ethan Hondou came to an end with the sound of approaching footsteps.

"Mr. Furuya!"

Yuya Kazami, who had been driving on the road, finally arrived with the police.

Their arrival basically announced the failure of Ethan Bendon.

Then the man with a cold face sighed, put down his gun, relaxed and indicated that he would not do anything else.

Furukaya Rei still remembered what Ethan Hondou had said before, and he waited for a while. When it seemed that the latter would not act rashly again, he lowered his arm and moved the gun away.

Then, he opened the left-hand magazine.

That one single bullet was lying quietly in the magazine, in the fourth position.

The moment he confirmed this fact, a smile appeared on the corner of the blond young man's lips involuntarily.

He was not mistaken, Shen Youkui... in the end she was still the same as in his memory.

Even if he didn't know that he would stop the Russian turntable halfway, he didn't know that Kazami and the others were nearby and would soon come to the rescue.

Kamiya Aoi still pulled the threat of death tightly towards himself, and did not take action against Furuya Zero.

It now seems that Keimitsu, who was sent to the Yamaguchi-gumi, has never been in Karas. Isn't this just a way of getting rid of him with an excuse?

"You..." Furiya Rei turned around and found Kamiya Aoi staring at Hagiwara Kenji's tombstone in a daze, "Do you want to be alone with Hagiwara for a while?"

Shen Youkui glanced at the approaching police officers including Kazami Yuya and others, "Aren't you afraid that I might run away?"

Since the Japanese public security officers were on the scene, Kamiyakui thought, his personal safety would not be a problem. The only thing left to consider was how to get out of the interrogation room of the Public Security Bureau intact.

Furuya Rei has already walked to the other side with his long legs spread out. "You won't. Besides, I think it's better if you don't."

The silver-haired boy's face, which usually lacked vivid emotions, suddenly showed an expression similar to "speechless".

The blond young man found it quite funny and walked away a few steps, pretending that he didn't see it.

then.

At the moment when Kamiya Aoi's figure was completely exposed from behind him——

"Mr. Furuya! Be careful!!!"

"Bang!"

“Bang! Bang!”

…

Ethan Hondou, who was standing there and ready to surrender, suddenly jumped up, snatched the service pistol from a public security officer, raised his arm, aimed at Shen Youkui and pulled the trigger.

Three shots in succession, fast, accurate, and steady, all hit Kami Yuuki who was standing in front of Hagiwara Kenji's tombstone.

The smile on Furiya Rei's face had not even completely disappeared. He stood there, staring at Ethan Hondou in a daze.

That frozen expression seemed as if he had no idea what had just happened in front of him.

Yuya Kazami and the others threw away the umbrellas that were in the way and ran up, pinning down the unresisting Ethan Hondou from behind.

The middle-aged man with a cold and hard face was subdued in silence, but he still raised his head and looked at Fūya Zero with his lips moving:

"I don't want to gamble."

If there was anything wrong with Kamiyakui, it was because his ability was too great. So great that even an experienced agent was terrified and decided to kill him at all costs.

Maybe Shen Youkui had no backup plan and was just trying to buy time. But even if there was a one in ten thousand chance, Ethan Hondou didn't dare to bet on it.

The rain washed down violently, distorting the vision.

Everything in the blond young man's eyes became unclear. How Kazami Yuya pressed Ethan Hondou to the ground, how he spoke to him anxiously, how Ethan Hondou looked expressionless, what he said word by word... all of it was unclear.

Fūya Rei: “…”

His beautiful purple-gray eyes widened slightly as he stared at Yuya Kazami. He clearly saw the latter's lips opening and closing, but not a single sound reached his ears.

"Mr. Furuya! Mr. Furuya, are you okay?"

“…”

Furukaya Rei suddenly came to his senses, pushed Kazami Yuya away, and turned his head abruptly to look behind him.

The excessive force made people wonder if he would break his neck in an instant.

However, turning your head to look behind you will not break your neck.

Just like a person who has fallen to the ground cannot stand up again.

Gray rain lines were drawn from the sky to the ground. Under the lead-blue sky, the ground was so turbid.

The long, silvery hair is so conspicuous that you can still see it even with your eyes closed.

The solution is still unsolved.

Why?

Why? ?

He walked forward slowly.

The delicate-looking boy was pale, his forest-green eyes half-closed, his fixed gaze fixed on the tombstone. The rain kept falling, even forming a small transparent pool at the edge of his sunken eye sockets.

why???

The black suit was open and spread on the ground like its owner, and the white shirt was tightly stuck to the body. On the chest, large clumps of blood spread out, forming a rose with irregular petals.

It sucked every drop of blood from the silver-haired boy, and bloomed so wildly under the lead-colored clouds and in the rain that no one could ignore it.

Fūya Rei stretched out his hand, slowly, slowly, picked up the boy who had stopped breathing, and gently held him in his arms.

Why is all this happening...

The author has something to say:

"He who is destined to drown will never be hanged." This is a Western proverb, meaning that the fate of death is inevitable.

The third round is a mystery round, so it won't be too long. Some foreshadowings from the previous chapters, such as why Gin treats Aoi like this, and some things that the babies didn't notice will be revealed.

Because of the writer's block in the previous episode, the middle part of this episode was not well written. But the ending still met my expectations.

Hope you like the result too :)

—A kiss—