Chapter 63 The First Player

Scotland...what a surprising choice.

Saikai Haruto choked at first and subconsciously wanted to refute, but then he realized that what Gin said was exactly right - good temper, good patience, can cook, and can drive; Scotland, that is, Morobushi Kagemitsu, really meets these conditions perfectly.

But Xi Haiqingdou didn't consider him at first, and even subconsciously ignored him. After all, how could others not know him, who had a God's perspective? This guy was an undercover police agent! Xi Haiqingdou didn't consider him at all.

Of course, he couldn't say this to Gin. Morobushi Kagemitsu on the other end of the line was not sure what he was doing, and the call was not connected, so Saikai Haruto still had a lucky mentality and asked Gin again with a smile as if nothing had happened: "Hey, are there really no girls? When I think about a stinky man trying to get close to my sister, I'm very unhappy as a guardian."

Gin looked at him speechlessly - he spoke as if he wasn't a "stinky man" and was even provoking him.

"No," Gin said, "I don't have any women under my command. If you don't want Scotland, then don't take it."

There are far fewer female members under Gin than male members, and there are one or two who have very bad tempers. Gin knows it clearly in his heart that if he throws them over to take care of children, firstly, it would be a waste of talent, and secondly, those women themselves don't have the patience.

——As for Scotland, although he is also a code member, his ability is not that outstanding, and his personality is not that good either, but he is silent and doesn’t like to talk, which in a sense can be considered "patient", and there are no missions recently that require Scotland to be taken along.

People like this with average personal abilities and average performance usually have little presence in Gin's eyes, just like a piece of chicken ribs that is useless to eat and a pity to throw away... But when Xi Hai Qing Dou made such a request, Gin almost immediately thought of him.

This can be considered as recycling, Gin thought.

"What are you guys talking about?"

Akai Shuichi, who appeared out of nowhere, asked with a strange look on his face.

He had just come to the training ground, originally intending to do some shooting training, but he had not expected that in addition to Gin, Saikai Haruto would also be there today. As he approached, he only heard the last sentence of Gin's answer to Saikai Haruto, and could not help but ponder in his heart.

...Is there anything that only women and Scotland can do?

"Yo, what a coincidence, Lei."

Saikai Haruto greeted him and was about to say something when the call was finally connected.

A cold and restrained voice came from the other end of the phone, and it was impossible to tell the emotion inside: "Hello, Gin? What do you want to talk to me about?"

Haruto Nishimi raised his eyebrows and made a gesture to Shuichi Akai, indicating that it was inconvenient to talk at the moment. Then he gave Gin a look, took a step to the side and leaned on the railing again, indicating that the venue would be left to Gin and Shuichi Akai alone.

"Scotland, do you remember my voice? I am Cointreau."

"Jun Du?" Zhu Fu Jingguang's voice finally showed a hint of surprise. He paused for a moment and asked again, "What's the matter?"

His attitude was lukewarm, with just a hint of suspicion - it seemed as if he couldn't understand why the call from Gin turned into Cointreau after the call.

Saikai Haruto smiled and repeated to Morobushi Kagemitsu what he had said to Gin.

Forget it, let's just let Morobushi Kagemitsu be Morobushi Kagemitsu... It's not impossible. Morobushi Kagemitsu has a calm personality, so he shouldn't be able to do anything to Miyano Shiho, right? Maybe he can get a few more shots.

Well, at worst he could just go back and prepare some self-defense stuff for Miyano Shiho.

On the other side, Morofushi Jingguang's thoughts were stuck for two seconds.

When Gin got through, he was surprised to hear that it was Cointreau, but the mission was to help take care of Shirley...

The member of the organization codenamed "Sherry" is a little girl who looks only about thirteen or fourteen years old. Not a few people know about this, but not many either. Although he should know nothing about it as "Scott", as an undercover police agent, Morofu Kagemitsu learned about this from Furuya Rei and Asahina Kazuma as early as when Shirley returned to the organization - especially Asahina had a different kind of "excited" expression and attitude towards this news.

Even Furuya Rei had vividly described to him the scene when the two of them met Cointreau and Shirley in the organization's base that day, including the scene when Kazuma loudly asked "curiously" about Cointreau in person...

Of course, the two of them also had a serious discussion behind Kazuma’s back afterwards, about Kazuma’s sexual orientation, cough cough cough…

So, he had some understanding of "Shirley" - a 14-year-old female genius scientist who was suspected to have grown up in an organization since childhood. She had just returned from the United States and seemed to have a very cold personality. Her current guardian was Cointreau.

The information about her is pitifully small, and even if there is only this much, it was collected carefully and secretly by Zero Furuya. The organization seems to value her very much, and no one is allowed to deliberately explore her information, and the confidentiality level is very high. Zero said before that when he tried to probe, he was slightly warned by Cointreau.

In other words, Cointreau values ​​sherry; and sherry is very important to the organization.

So Zhu Fu Jingguang couldn't figure out why Jun Du called him and asked him to help "take care" of Shirley - after all, his relationship with Jun Du was average, and his position in the organization was also average... Zhu Fu Jingguang knew very well his position in the organization.

Did Gin say something?

In addition to him, there were some other voices on Cointreau's side. The voices seemed a little farther away, and all I could make out was the sound of two men talking and chatting, but I couldn't make out what they were saying specifically.

One of the two voices sounded like Gin's, and the other one sounded vaguely familiar to him, but he couldn't tell who it was. Maybe it was someone whose voice he had heard before?

The thought went around in my mind, but in reality only a second or two passed.

Zhu Fu Jingguang asked: "Who is Shirley?"

That is the question Scotland would want to ask.

"Ah, you probably don't know yet... Shirley is of course a member of the organization, currently in the drug development team, and is my... um, guardian? Don't worry, the child is easy to take care of."

Cointreau on the other end of the phone said with a smile.

It sounds like a bunch of useless nonsense.

"Was it Gin's order?"

Morofushi Jingguang deliberately lowered and made his tone cold, creating the impression that he was suppressing his anger, and was also a little confused and dissatisfied - logically speaking, he should be angry and confused to let a serious code member of the action team take care of a ten-year-old girl, even if this request was made by Gin or Cointreau, and even if his position in the organization was not very high.

Even Vodka, who has always been by Gin's side, is not responsible for taking care of Gin, and his job is not just to take care of Gin. Moreover, Shirley is not Gin.

"Ah, that's not the case."

Sure enough, Cointreau answered him straightforwardly: "It's just that Gin said you are the best candidate, and the others...are not good enough. Well, what do you think, Scotland?"

...What does this mean?

Zhu Fu Jingguang's heart skipped a beat.

Is it a pie or a trap?

But he still firmly maintained his "Scottish" persona, hesitantly, but finally asked firmly: "Sorry, can I refuse?"

"If you agree... eh, refuse?" Jundu said in surprise.

"Yeah." He explained in a calm and serious tone, "I have no experience in taking care of children, so I probably can't do this kind of thing... It would be bad if I scared her and made her cry."

"Were you rejected?"

Another steady and magnetic voice came closer, with a slightly mischievous smile, as if watching the excitement: "Well, if Scotland doesn't agree, how about you consider me, Cointreau?"

This time, Morofushi Jingguang recognized it - it was Lei's voice.

"Huh?" Saikai Haruto turned his head and looked at Akai Shuichi speechlessly.

He wondered if he had heard it wrongly.

"Are you coming to join in the fun?"

His surprise this time was not fake; he really didn't expect it - one, he didn't expect Morobushi Kagemitsu to refuse, and the other, he didn't expect Akai Shuichi to join in the fun.

It made him question his life. Could it be that the two of them knew something in advance and were now working together to play a trick on him?

"Well, maybe I'm a little bored because I haven't had much to do lately?"

Shuichi Akai said this with a smile, making it hard to tell whether he was serious or joking.

"Of course, you can also think of it as my curiosity about 'Shirley'."

When Saikai Haruto and Morofushi Kagemitsu were talking just now, Akai Shuichi found out the whole story from Gin and realized that he had just misunderstood.

Although he had never heard of the name "Sulli" before, the fact that "Cointreau is her guardian" was enough to make Shuichi Akai curious about her.

To be honest... when Shuichi Akai heard it at first, he thought Gin had finally learned how to joke, or he was just hallucinating.

Are you sure that Cointreau is not the one being taken care of? Can he take good care of people? Could it be that he has taken care of people and finally made them sick, so now he can no longer bear it and is looking for Scotland?

——As someone who once "lived together" with Haruto Saikai, Shuichi Akai has reason to be so suspicious.

After hearing Morobushi Jingguang's refusal, his mind suddenly changed and he asked that question for some unknown reason.

Although he knew in his heart that Cointreau would most likely reject him as a joke...but what if?

He wasn't lying this time.

"Don't give me that." Xi Hai Qing Dou weighed the issue in his mind for less than half a second before making the decision.

He rolled his eyes at Akai Shuichi, his eyes sharp and his words righteously: "Oh, don't dream, Lei, I will never hand Shirley over to someone like you."

He took a step back and said to Morobu Jingguang on the other end of the phone in a gentler tone, "Scotland, how about you think about it again?"

"Shirley has seen Gin's cold face before, so you don't have to worry about what you said. Shirley is not an ordinary little girl who has never seen anything. Don't rush to refuse. I think you can regard it as a request from me?"