Chapter 14 Fourteen Ghosts Behind the Scenes

Kuroda Heiwei had met Akae Nayue eight years ago, in a cemetery.

He had just gone to pay respect to a former descendant as usual, but unexpectedly he saw a young man holding a black umbrella on a sunny day sitting next to the descendant.

At first, Kuroda Heiwei didn't think anything was wrong. When he accidentally discovered that the names engraved on the two tombstones next to him were the undercover couple who had received the sacrifice message two days ago, he looked up to look for the worshiper who had passed by him, but he was the only one left in the cemetery.

Later, Kuroda Heiwei also asked someone to keep an eye on the cemetery, but the boy he had met by chance never appeared again.

As for the identity of the boy, he naturally thought of the only child of the Akae couple, Akae Nazuki. However, during the investigation, he found that during the period overlapping with the boy's appearance, Akae Nazuki, who was secretly protected by the public security, happened to visit the Metropolitan Police Department. Theoretically, it was impossible for him to appear in the cemetery at the same time.

But apart from Chijiang Nayue, who else would safely bury the two undercover agents whose sacrifices should not even be made public?

However, that was also the last time they heard about Chi Jiang Na Yue, because after that day, the young undercover son was declared completely missing.

It was not until a month later that they found a charred corpse similar in shape to Chijiang Nanyue in Chijiang's house which had been deliberately burned down.

It is because of this incident that Kuroda Heiwei always feels guilty towards the people of the Akae family.

After graduating from the police academy, the Chijiang couple infiltrated the organization and have been undercover for more than ten years. Chijiang Nayue appeared in the year they were undercover.

Originally, whether for the sake of a smoother undercover mission or for the safety of the child, the two undercover agents would not openly register Akae Nazuki under their own names. Since even Kuroda Heiwei didn't know of the existence of this child before Akae Nazuki was five years old, they should have continued to hide the child as they did before.

However, since the public security arrangements were not complete at the time, the risk of hiding Chijiang Nayue was even greater than exposing her.

Kuroda Hei guessed that this was probably the reason why the Akae couple could only raise the child as members of the organization.

Later, the public security information was stolen by an undercover agent, and the undercover identities of the Chijiang couple were also exposed. When they received the warning message from the public security, they were already on the plane returning to China.

There is no doubt that they eventually perished in the sea along with the entire planeload of people.

Kuroda Hei lost two outstanding successors with a bright future, the Public Security Bureau lost two trustworthy undercover agents deeply buried in the organization, and Akae Nazuki lost his parents on his eighteenth birthday.

As for Chi Jiang Na Yue's death, he also took a lot of responsibility on himself: if they had protected the child as soon as they knew that the undercover was in trouble, he might not have been silenced by the organization as the son of a traitor.

The reason why Toru Amuro was prevented from finding out information about Akae Nazuki was, firstly, because of guilt, and secondly and most importantly, it was really dangerous for Toru Amuro - after all, the death of Akae and his wife was caused by the organization.

So after discovering that the data he had personally sealed had been accessed, Kuroda Heiwei prepared for today's conversation.

Rather than letting the other party continue investigating and attracting the organization's attention, it would be better for him to say everything he can to dispel the other party's curiosity and serve as a reminder to the undercover agent.

Amuro Toru on the opposite side was speechless after hearing this. He tried hard to control his subconscious desire to turn around to look at the expression of the smart boy behind him. His mind quickly sorted out the information he just learned, and he soon discovered that there was something wrong in Kuroda Hei's explanation.

The Chijiang couple had already obtained their own code names at that time, and had been lurking in the organization for more than ten years, and were already deeply involved in it. However, as their child, Chijiang Nayue had never been involved in the organization's affairs according to the public security records.

This is almost impossible.

The children of every member of the organization will be controlled by the organization. They will either be peripheral members and the organization's omnipresent spies, or join the organization and repeat the same mistakes as their parents.

Not to mention, even if everyone else didn't understand Akae Nazuki, after spending a few days together, Amuro Toru had already deeply realized how exaggerated the boy's strength was.

Whether it was the kind of reasoning that saw through the truth at a glance or the various abilities that the other party intentionally revealed to him, Chijiang Nayue was a dazzling genius.

Perhaps the police don't understand because they don't have frequent contact with undercover agents, but it's impossible for the organization that is always in contact with the Chijiang couple to know nothing.

Akae Nazuki should be a code name member of the organization like the genius researcher Shirley... Well, in fact, he is indeed 'Kalua'.

But now it seems that the police didn't know about this, and it is very likely that Chijiang Nayue was silenced by the organization in the end.

Why? The value of Chijiang Nayue alive is definitely higher than death, and the time of death is one month later - when the Chijiang couple just died, the police had no time to protect Chijiang Nayue, and that was when the benefits of the plan of silencing them were maximized.

The most important thing is that the public security department didn’t even know that Chijiang Nayue was actually a code name member of the organization and had a close relationship with Vermode!

Toru Amuro's face grew heavy: Did the Akae couple know about this and keep it a secret, or did Akae hide it from everyone around her from the very beginning and join the organization on her own?

If the latter, what is the reason?

Toru Amuro didn't think that Akae Nazuki was the kind of person who would like organized life, not to mention how happy the ghost behind the scenes who was in a state of amnesia was when he deduced that the boss had died eight years ago.

For some reason, an outrageous idea suddenly occurred to Toru Amuro.

If we put the four events of the death of the Akae couple, the death of the boss, the falling out between Bermode and Rum, and the death of Akae Nazuki in this order...

Could it be that the boss was the one that Akae Nazuki killed to avenge her parents? Knowing that Akae Nazuki was Kalua and that he was on his side, Vermouth wanted to push the blame onto Rum, so he deliberately showed a hostility towards Rum, but in the end Akae Nazuki still died.

It's over. The more Toru Amuro thinks about it, the more he feels that this guess might be true. The little devil has a vengeful character, so he would definitely do such a thing!

But if things were really as he guessed, how could a person who was able to kill the boss under the protection of the organization and hide the code name Kaluya for so many years, when not many people knew that the boss was dead, be burned to death alone in the Akae house?

"Did he... anything special happen before he died?" Amuro Toru frowned and asked this question vaguely and cautiously.

Kuroda Bei didn't expect Toru Amuro's focus to be on this. He looked at the firm look on the blond young man's face and dropped the refusal that was on his lips: "Why do you want to know? I have already warned you that for your own sake, you shouldn't know things you shouldn't know."

Amuro was silent for a moment, his smile unbroken: "But I know a lot now, don't I, sir?"

He still didn't answer the question 'why'... He couldn't tell Kuroda Hei, because he wanted to find out the truth about Akae Nazuki's death, wanted to help Akae Nazuki, who had become a ghost and was bound to him, to restore her memory, and also wanted to know more about Akae Nazuki, right?

If Kuroda Heiwei knew that the person being talked about was sitting next to him and listening to him while he was speaking, he would never tell Amuro Toru about these things - he wanted to dispel the other party's curiosity, but who knew that he would become even more curious!

However, the fact is that Kuroda Hei didn't know, so before he changed into a disguise and left the store, he still provided a direction to Amuro Toru: "Before Akae Nazuki appeared in the Metropolitan Police Department, the last person he was recorded to have come into contact with was his high school classmate."

"But we didn't find out more from that student, so we ended up dropping this clue," he said. "The organization probably doesn't know about this. If you really want to investigate, then it's only appropriate to start with that student."

"I hope you don't forget who you are, an elite."

…

When Akae Nazuki heard Kuroda Hei talking about the past and mentioned the cemetery, she felt a sharp pain in her mind again like last time, and many fragmented memory scenes came flooding back. The only good thing about it was that these scenes were relatively coherent.

——In the fragments, he saw Karasuma Renya who was tied up and had lost the right to speak, and the black-haired boy holding a knife in his left hand in front of Karasuma Renya.

[You don’t think I will always live as your property, do you?] The boy smiled at the boss and cut the wrinkled face with a knife, [I was born free and don’t belong to anyone.]

At the moment when he slowly stabbed the knife into Karasuma Renya's throat and blood splattered all over her face, the boy carefully picked up a silver chain from under his collar with his only clean right hand, lowered his eyelids and kissed the two glass bottles hanging from the end of the silver chain.

The last scene in the fragments is the boy putting away the glass bottle again, looking down at the already dead Karasuma Renya and saying: "I forgot to say, thank you for the 18th birthday gift you gave me, old man."

When Chijiang Nayue came back to her senses from this memory, her expression became serious.

Damn, the idea of ​​him in this world using the old man's face to paint is also great! When he killed the old man in his own world, shouldn't he have played with him more, or tortured him for a while?

As early as when she deduced that Karasuma Renya of this world had died eight years ago, Akae Nazuki was absolutely certain that it must be herself in this world who killed the other person.

After all, no matter which 18-year-old he was, the common point was that he wanted to kill Karasuma Ren in his dreams! If he hadn't been found by the teacher and taken back with amnesia, he would definitely do so.

However, Akae Nazuki did not agree with some of the things that Kuroda Hei said.

He rested his chin on his hand and looked at Toru Amuro who had just figured out who might have killed the boss.

"Then let's go to Hokkaido to take a look." Akae Natsuki said slowly, interrupting Amuro Toru's brainstorm, "Didn't uncle say that my classmate is in Hokkaido now? Anyway, we all want to know about my situation now, so let's go and take a look."

The ghost behind him, who still pretended to have lost his memory, smiled obediently: "After all, even though I have lost my memory, I can still feel a little bit."

He gestured in the air.

"For example, I wasn't burned to death."