Chapter 62 Zero'side
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So far, Furuya Rei has experienced three time restarts.
The first time the time restart node was before Kami Yuuki performed a certain task. The change that occurred was that Kami Yuuki changed from performing the task alone to inviting Furuya Rei to participate together.
The ending is that Shen Youkui died in the Dorobiga Amusement Park from a double sniper attack by the Black Organization and an undercover police officer.
The second time point of time restart is when Furuya Reigo changed his name to Amuro Toru and infiltrated the Black Organization, and was undergoing identity screening.
The changes that occurred were that Rei Furuya dragged Kamiya Aoi to attend a meeting to investigate undercover agents, Kamiya Aoi suddenly established the United Company Karas... and so on.
As a result, Kamiya Aoi claimed to have hacked into the CIA and had sufficiently secret intelligence. Because of her own talents and her attitude of killing all undercover agents in the Black Organization, she was shot and killed by Ethan Hondou.
Now is the third time to restart...
If it is true as Furuya Rei guessed, each time time is restarted is because of the death of Kamiya Aoi.
As the condition for the restart, does Kamiya Aoi know that time will restart again after his death? Will he carry the previous memories like Rei Furuya, or will he know nothing and just restart unconsciously?
The blond young man pondered these questions while waiting, trying to calm himself down.
It turns out that it is worth taking some time to think about these unanswered questions.
Because when Kamiya Aoi appeared in front of Furuya Rei with her usual expressionless face, even though Furuya Rei had prepared himself mentally and thought about enough irrelevant things to force himself to calm down, he still couldn't suppress his emotions and was excited for a moment.
"Bourbon, what are you surprised about?"
The strange emotion was fleeting, and even though Furuya Rei adjusted his abnormality so quickly, he was still caught by Gin who seemed to be observing him all the time.
Furiya Rei thought about it, and deliberately looked the silver-haired boy up and down with an unpleasant look, "I just didn't expect that there are members with code names in the organization who are so young."
The tone was definitely not one of concern or surprise, but rather one that contained a hint of indifference and contempt.
This was the first time that Rei Furuya met - in Rei Furuya's memory, this was what happened when the two of them truly met for the first time.
With the experience of the previous two times as a foundation, Fūya Rei will not act rashly this time and will not arbitrarily change what has happened in the past.
Gin glanced at him, showing no extra emotion. But Furuya Rei, or rather Bourbon, could see that he disagreed with him under his expressionless face.
Hearing Furiya Rei's contemptuous remarks, Kamiya Aoi, the person involved, looked even more indifferent than Gin.
The silver-haired boy's forest green eyes turned to look at him slightly, and Kamiya Aoi just glanced at him as in Fūya Rei's memory, turned around and walked out.
"I hope your rumored abilities are as great as your ability to offend people."
The blond young man stood there and said nothing.
Perhaps because things did not change at the restart node, what happened afterwards was similar to what Furuya Zero remembered.
Soon, the two will work together for the first time as a team to carry out a mission.
Without Furuya Rei doing anything, his first mission with Kamiya Aoi went smoothly, and ended smoothly with no changes from before.
During a mission, Rei Furuya pays attention to Kami Yuuki's behavior and compares it with the mission process in his memory.
Then, Rei Furuya discovered that as long as he didn't make any changes, what had happened would continue to develop along its original trajectory.
The blond young man was driving the car and sighed softly for no reason - wasn't this mocking his naive behavior of trying to change something by his own efforts?
But...if I do nothing...
The purple-gray eyes slightly shifted their focus, and glanced at the silver-haired boy in the passenger seat who was staring out the window in a daze.
If I do nothing... doesn't that mean that Kamiya Aoi will still die with regret?
Watching the predetermined outcome unfold step by step was not a pleasant feeling, and it made Fūya Rei feel unwilling to admit defeat and accept his fate.
It is impossible to do nothing, but Furuya Rei still needs to plan carefully what to do next.
The car stopped downstairs of the apartment building, and the silver-haired boy got out of the car and left without saying a word, without even looking back.
Seeing this, Fūya Rei thought about it and found that during both missions, whether it was the one in his memory or the one that just ended, Kamiya Aoi's attitude towards him was to avoid him as much as possible.
If you can avoid talking, don't talk. If you can avoid contact, don't contact. From body movements to words, everything expresses a capital "rejection".
Looking at the silver-haired boy's back gradually disappearing behind the apartment door, Furuya Rei curled the corners of his lips.
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In the next few days of free time, the unconvinced Rei Furuya carefully recalled all the details he could remember.
After sitting in the room and thinking for a while, Furuya Rei was a little speechless when he discovered that—
In the past, he disliked Kami Yu Aoi in every way! For a long time after the mission was completed, because he knew that "CR" was a very capable hacker, in order to avoid being constrained during the operation, Furuya Rei slipped away in the name of investigating intelligence.
For more than three months, almost four months, no one could find him, let alone have any contact with Shen Youkui.
It is precisely because of this that he and Kamiya Aoi are known as "nominal partners" in the organization.
What should he do during this long period of time? Furiya Rei sighed, tore up the notes he had written down to help him recall the details of the past, and threw them into the toilet.
In short, it is clear that the way to act is not to rashly change what has already happened, and for events that have not yet happened, we must be careful not to let our actions be like the wings of a butterfly, causing an unknown hurricane.
"This feeling of being restricted is really familiar." Furiya Rei muttered to himself and decided to stay calm for the time being and maintain the "original state of affairs."
Find a place to do your own thing and secretly keep an eye on Kami Yuuki - with the experience of the previous two times, Furuya Rei decided to respond to all changes by remaining unchanged.
Until finally, the moment came when Shen Youkui died from a two-way sniper attack.
In the "Russian Game", no one knows when the bullet that eliminates all interference will be fired. The only thing we know is that the moment it is fired is enough to change everything.
Rei Furuya wants to be this "bullet".
As before, Furuya Rei applied for solo action afterwards, as he had some follow-up work from his previous intelligence mission that had not been completed yet, so he had to sort it out.
Gin, who got the news, called quickly and warned: "I told you, put away your 'mysticism' style."
This is exactly what I said before.
Furuya Rei also answered word for word: "Then I will ask him to go to Russia with me now."
As expected, there was silence on the other end of the phone. Furiya Rei was also silent. He counted the seconds in his mind. When he counted to five, the call was hung up harshly.
There are rumors in the organization that Gin is very special to "CR" and does not even allow the latter to leave Japan. So at that time, Furuya Rei deliberately asked Kamiya Aoi to go to Russia with him to discuss the follow-up of a mission, thinking in his heart that he was testing whether the rumor was credible.
Putting away his phone, Furugaya Rei opened the door and walked out of the room - he had to find a suitable place to stay for the next while.
Everything went smoothly.
Last time, Rei Furuya was just making an excuse, so of course he won't really go to Russia this time.
The only difference is that last time he wanted to get out of Kamiya Aoi's sight and continue investigating the Black Organization, but this time, he wanted to prevent Kamiya Aoi from disappearing from his sight.
——It was not until he personally carried out the mission that could be called "monitoring Kamiya Aoi" that Furuya Rei once again discovered how clear Kamiya Aoi's actions had always been.
For more than three months, Shen Youkui has never left the "safe house" of the Black Organization - to be more precise, he probably has not even stepped out of his own house.
At the same time, the support operations provided by "CR" continued to increase. Every day, when Furuya Rei opened the mobile phone that contacted the organization, he could see what Shen Youkui did the day before.
Invading American financial companies to empty their accounts, invading biopharmaceutical companies to steal the latest research data and send them to laboratories, invading the intelligence databases of other criminal organizations to obtain more chips for organized transactions, and even using gangs to directly hand over certain criminal organizations to the hands of governments such as the FBI, invading the front companies of many intelligence agencies to steal data, lists, and various intelligence... There are countless such examples.
Of course, if that were all, Shen Youkui would at most be doing things according to mission instructions.
Only Rei Furuya knew that during this time, while Yuuki Rikami was completing the Black Organization's mission, she must have also been investigating the bomber.
Rei Furuya checked each event one by one, connecting what was happening with what had happened in his memory, and repeatedly confirmed that critical time point.
I waited patiently for nearly four months.
Furiya Rei returned to the Black Organization's safe house in silence.
When the date on the electronic clock ticked to "April 7th" - the long-silent cell phone finally rang with the call that Furuya Rei had been waiting for.
The blond young man sat at the table, picked up the phone, and waited for a few seconds. "What's up?"
"Three minutes to get ready, I'll come find you, Gin has a mission."
A cold voice came out of the receiver, exactly the same as what I heard last time.
This was exactly the result that Rei Furuya had been waiting for for a long time. "Got it." After saying that, he was the first to hang up the phone.
So far, all memorable nodes have been calibrated, so the results should be the same!
A few minutes later, Furuya Rei saw Kamiya Aoi, who looked tired and indifferent. She glanced at him lightly and did not speak.
Furiya Rei was silent for a moment, and then he began with "What day is it today?" and repeated the conversation that he had just recalled for the first time.
Next, it was Gin's call.
This time, Furuya Rei paid special attention to the map information in the tablet, and pretended not to have noticed that Kamiya Aoi sent an extra copy of the information to Gin.
The two walked towards the door in silence, and Gin's call came as expected.
The familiar scene was repeated. Furutani Rei was not surprised at all. He responded naturally and said goodbye to Kamiya Yuuki and left.
However, the person he met at the agreed location this time was not Gin.
"Why you?"
The blonde woman wearing sunglasses pressed down the frame with one finger, revealing a pair of beautiful eyes. She said in a deep male voice that was totally inconsistent with her bright appearance, "Why can't it be me?"
No! Something must have gone wrong! Furuya Rei quickly calmed down, "Did you pretend to be Gin and call me to disrupt my mission?"
Bermode: "You should say that it was Gin who asked me to pretend to be him and disrupt your mission. Otherwise, I would still be on vacation now."
Fūya Rei's face darkened, "Why?" Interfering with the missions of other organization members was reason enough to be angry.
Bermode did not directly answer his question, but just smiled and asked him to sit down. "Some people think that his little cat is not well behaved, so they plan to teach him a lesson in person."
The problem is not him, but Kamiya Aoi? Furuya Rei quickly cleared his mind. Did Kamiya Aoi do something that was discovered by Gin?
But this shouldn't be the case. No one influenced him this time...Why was Kamiya Aoi suspected by Gin in advance?
Various questions lingered in my mind, but due to the lack of key information, they could not be transformed into answers.
Bermode pushed the computer on the table and asked, "Would you like to take a look together?"
Upon hearing this, Fūya Rei, who was in deep thought, took a quick look and suddenly discovered that what was displayed on the computer was actually a drone aerial image, and the target was Gin.
Fūya Rei: “…”
He looked at Bermode deeply.
[SOS, Sister Bei is really the most entertaining person in the winery.]
[As long as she doesn’t do anything to her son, she will be ruthless, hahaha, but being ruthless doesn’t have to interfere with the fun.]
[I’m here, I’m here. How many times has Kui Kui died?]
[Fuck, there are people who come here just to watch death scenes?]
[The underworld scene ahead]
[…I watched it backwards, first watching the last episode of my personal collection, which I like to call A Hundred Ways to Die.]
The barrage, which had not been online for a long time, appeared again, adhering to the style it had when it first appeared, and started with testing Furiya Rei's blood pressure health.
What is "One Hundred Ways of Death"?
Furiya Rei stood up suddenly, and Bermode immediately looked at him warily, "Are you so excited to see Gin, Bourbon?"
Since the situation has gone astray, there is no need to calibrate it. Furuya Rei's face was as gloomy as water, "I want to ask Gin why he did this."
After finding a half-hearted excuse, the blond youth turned and left. Behind him, Bermode smiled as if he found it very interesting, his eyes fixed on a man wearing a black windbreaker and with a hard outline on the screen.
Relying on the route map he had memorized before, Fūya Rei took a shortcut to reach his destination.
As I drove on, I noticed that the number of vehicles on the road gradually increased abnormally. If I paid a little attention, I found that most of them were turning in from other neighborhoods.
Furiya Rei thought for a moment, then turned on the radio in the car. The host's voice immediately flowed into the car, "There was an explosion at Sanbanchi 4-chome. Please go to the main road of the town in that direction. Vehicles on the Hakomatsu branch road should be careful to detour. Vehicles from Sanbanchi to the intersection of Haido Town should detour."
"Repeat, there was an explosion at 3-4-chome..."
Explosion?! The purple-gray eyes suddenly shrank, and Furiya Rei suddenly remembered that Dorobiga Paradise was not the first time that Kamiya Aoi died.
The time of the first death should actually be "April 7th" before the first restart, the "April 7th" when Shen Youkui died while performing a mission alone!
What if the timeline he entered was actually before the first restart...
He stepped on the accelerator to the floor and steered the car almost frantically, forcing his way into the Kansong Branch Road while brushing past the increasingly dense traffic along the way.
There were fewer and fewer vehicles. Fōtani Rei looked out of the car window and could already vaguely see the black-gray smoke from the fire at the explosion site.
The explosion... was done by Kami Yuuki, but his purpose was only to destroy Sanjo's house. Since Sanjo is still working at the Metropolitan Police Department, his life will not be threatened at all.
But what is the purpose of Shen Youkui doing this? What does he want to destroy? A group photo? Just a group photo?
Rei Furuya rushed to the scene with countless questions, but because of his identity, he could not appear directly in front of the police who had already arrived.
It was difficult to see what was happening through the cordon tape pulled up by the police.
Just as Furutani Rei got out of the car and tried to get closer, the bomb disposal police from the Metropolitan Police Department arrived.
Several platoon bomb police in protective clothing stepped out of the van one after another. Each of them had a toolbox on one shoulder and a heavy bomb-proof helmet in one hand.
Among this group of people, Rei Furiya saw Jinpei Matsuda.
The other person's fluffy black curly hair and sunglasses were so conspicuous in such a scene that it was impossible to ignore them.
Matsuda...?
Fūya Rei frowned slightly, and took advantage of the cover of the crowd and buildings to move to another more secluded place.
Meeting now will make things more troublesome. The most urgent thing is to find out what needs to be exploded and destroyed in the Sanjo family, where is Kamiya Aoi, and where is Gin.
Seeing Matsuda Jinpei and several platoon bomb police checking each other's bomb-proof suits and waiting to enter the scene after the fire was extinguished, Furuya Rei couldn't help but think.
Shen Youkui's method of creating explosions is to use networked smart appliances. Without other detonation sources, the power is extremely limited. The only advantage is that it can be remotely controlled at a greater distance than traditional bombs.
If it is a pure bomber, the idea should be to be far enough away from the crime scene, but not too far, so that he will not be affected by the scene, and at the same time he can satisfy the satisfaction of seeing the explosion scene with his own eyes.
But Shen Youkui's motive should not be to simply create an explosion, otherwise he would lose the reason for appearing at the scene of the explosion...
No, maybe his motive was different from that of the bomber, but if he wanted to destroy something in the Sanjo family, he would definitely find a way to confirm it in order to ensure that his goal was achieved.
After the explosion, network communications will inevitably be affected. Shen Youkui may not be able to confirm it clearly at the remote end, so he will definitely appear nearby!
The map information emerged in Rei Furuya's mind. He quickly marked the distance with the Sanjo family as the center, and finally locked on a high-end apartment two blocks away from the Sanjo family.
It was a high-end apartment building with 56 floors. As long as the floor was above 20 floors, it would be high enough to see the Sanjo family.
Furuya Rei no longer hesitated.
There is nothing wrong with his reasoning.
On the rooftop of a high-end apartment building that few people step on, Kamiya Aoi, with her long silver hair swaying in the wind, is here. The flames and smoke are reflected in her tired and indifferent eyes.
But he's not alone here.
Behind Kamiya Aoi, Gin, who also had long silver hair but had hard features like steel in the ice and snow, stood there with a gloomy look.
"Where's the stuff?"
"Don't you see? It's burning there."
“…”
Shen Youkui raised one hand and drew a picture in the air. However, the blue sky could not serve as a drawing board to record what he drew.
"Where is the person I'm looking for?"
“…”
"Where did you hide him? I've looked through all the Japanese citizenship records, and I've been looking at all the surveillance footage I could find for over a year, but I can't find him. Could he have been sent to the United States? Is this why you won't let me leave Japan?"
The two incoherent conversations ended, and Gin raised his arm, "You still have a chance before I finish my countdown."
Shen Youkui didn't even look back. He smiled softly at the breeze and the unchanging sky, "I made the finished product of A-something and destroyed it because I didn't want any chances."
"Besides, will your beloved boss let me go? Even if I destroyed something he desired?"
Gin was silent for a moment, then gave an affirmative answer, "Yes."
Kamiya Aoi was really surprised. He turned to look at Gin and thought, "No way, you're going to let me go just like that? Not only did I destroy the only finished product of the medicine, I also deleted all the data. I also cracked the virus you used to keep secret, called Baron. You're going to let me go just like that?"
"Could it be that I am actually the boss's biological son?"
Gin: “…”
"five."
Kamiya Aoi turned her gaze away from Gin and seemed to be talking to herself, "If you want to pour it, just pour it."
"Four."
The sound of loading the gun was almost inaudible.
In a high-end apartment building, a blond young man ran out of the elevator that could not reach the rooftop, and ran towards the rooftop with a slightly anxious look on his face.
"three."
The index finger is bent on the trigger.
The slender wheat-colored fingers touched the slightly closed door of the rooftop.
"two."
Gradually tighten your fingers.
"one."
"By the way." Shen Youkui suddenly spoke, turned to face Gin and smiled kindly, "Actually, I didn't destroy the medicine."
"Bang!"
Fūya Rei pushed open the door breathlessly.
"But he'll never find out where it is."
After the silver-haired boy finished speaking, he opened his arms, and like a free bird, he leaned back and fell straight down.
“?!”
…
…
"hiss."
When Rei Furuya regained consciousness, he felt as if his head was about to split open.
The last thing he saw before his consciousness went dark was Kamiya Aoi falling down a tall building with her back turned. And now... Furuya Rei put one hand on his forehead and looked around. He was in his room.
In the Black Organization's safe house.
The date is April 7th.
The phone rang.
…
Another repetition.
After receiving a call from Gin, Furukaya Rei rushed directly to the rooftop where Kamiya Aoi fell.
This time, Fūya Rei, who had been waiting in advance, saw Kamiya Aoi walking downstairs. He suddenly raised his arm and pressed the earphone on his ear, as if he had received a call from someone.
Then Shen Youkui hesitated for a moment, turned around and left.
With some intense emotions lingering between his brows, Fūya Rei looked gloomy, and without thinking much, he went straight downstairs to catch up.
…
This time, Shen Youkui got on a car loaded with bombs.
The ones who did the attack were not the Black Organization, but a certain foreign gang that had been severely damaged by the Black Organization before and was therefore hostile to it.
…
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Another restart.
It's April 7th again.
The phone rang again.
Fūya Rei held Kamiya Aoi's arm expressionlessly, expressing his decision to act with her no matter what.
Shen Youkui did not refuse, but he asked to take a tour of Shibuya District before going to the mission location.
Shibuya...Furuya Rei probably knew Kamiya Aoi's reasons, so he didn't refuse.
…
This time, it was a premeditated murder disguised as a bank robbery. The other party's method of cutting clues was very familiar, and it seemed to be the operation of an intelligence agency of a European country...
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Again and again, again and again.
The repetitive April 7th exhausted all of Furuya Rei's patience and wisdom. No matter what he did, or if he did nothing, Kamiya Aoi always repeated the same ending on this day.
Retaliation by hostile gangs, elimination of black organizations, targeting by foreign government agencies... different death endings are woven for Shen Youkui in an endless stream.
I don’t know how many times I regained consciousness and came to a new restart timeline.
The blond young man was completely accustomed to the sudden change of scene and time, and he stood up and walked out without any unnecessary movements or expressions.
This time he ignored the ringing phone.
After walking through the apartment corridor countless times, Furuya Rei stopped in front of Kamiya Aoi's room - he even remembered raising his hand and knocking on the door.
The silver-haired boy, with one hand lightly pressing the earphone, slowly opened the door, and saw the blond young man standing in front of his door, showing a moment of surprise.
"Bourbon? You..."
There was no chance to say more. With bloodshot eyes and a look of particularly fierceness, Furuya Rei raised his hand again and stabbed Kamyou Aoi on the side of her neck.
The silver-haired boy's green eyes widened in surprise for a moment, then closed quietly.
Furutani Rei hugged the fallen Kamiya Aoi and without hesitation, he picked her up and walked away.
…
So, when Shen Youkui opened his eyes again, he looked around and came to the conclusion -
This time, it seemed that he was taken away by Furuya Rei just after reading the file.
The author has something to say:
The transition chapter is finally finished...!!!
The next chapter will start the third week!!
This time I woke up but it doesn't count, this time I'm still reading the BE round! (So I'll G again, ahem)
—The dividing line for idle chat—
I wrote a note when my tenosynovitis recurred, but I neglected to write it at the right time. My hands were not very good for other reasons. When I updated the article, I showed you about 20,000 words. But in fact, if I wrote it myself, I would have more than 20,000 words after deleting and rewriting it. That's why my tenosynovitis recurred. I wanted to write with a plaster on in the first few days, but I don't know why during my period, the plaster that I used before suddenly caused an allergy. The area where the plaster was applied was very itchy, and my tenosynovitis became more serious because I didn't rest well_(:з」∠)_My thumb and index finger could hardly move. I went to the hospital for a few days of treatment before I got better. Later, when I was better, I didn't expect that the allergy would be worse because of the food I ate, and it got worse. I didn't write a note at that time QAQ. I have only been feeling better in the past few days. I am really sorry that I was unable to update the article weekly as promised due to personal reasons. I am also very sorry to the readers who are disappointed by this. Anyway, thank you very much for your patience in following the article until here.