Chapter 290 Thirty-five Villains

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The blonde actress lazily sank into the sofa and stretched out her hand to snap a finger in front of his eyes: "Come back to your senses, Bourbon. Your partner in this mission is still Kaluuya."

She raised her red lips and said jokingly, "It seems that your relationship has always been pretty good - at least better than the last time Gin had a fight with Kaluuya, right? If you lose, I won't call an ambulance for you."

In his heart, Furuya Rei just wanted to sneer at this statement: What Vermouth said was right, was he referring to the last time that guy said he would treat him to a meal, but ended up making a plate of curry rice that was so spicy that he had a stomachache for three days? Or was he referring to the time before that when Kalua used the mission as an excuse to snatch the breakfast sandwich that Hiro brought for him?

What kind of mission would require a sandwich?

However, it is necessary to maintain friendship with Kaluya on the surface. Apart from his occasional private mischief, Kaluya has always been a very reliable teammate in the organization's missions. There is no need to worry about any accidents when working with him.

Sometimes, Rei Furuya feels that he is too reliable, which gives him a headache as an undercover agent. But at least when he is with Kaluuya, he doesn't have to worry about being backstabbed by members of the organization. After working together for so many years, he can almost trust each other.

So he just nodded casually to what Bermode said: "I understand. I will talk to Kalua later."

This time the mission seemed to be to go to a mountain? Furiya Rei recalled the mission information. It seemed that they were just going there to check out the place. They would have to wait a month to officially carry out the mission.

Although, Furuya Rei didn't understand what kind of mission it was that would require two code members to scout the location a month in advance.

He soon regretted his easy thinking.

Sitting on the floor of an abandoned wooden house in the mountains, Fūya Rei felt for the umpteenth time that if there was a mirror in front of him, he would definitely be able to see that his face was even darker than usual.

Because of various accidents, he and Kaluuya are now trapped in this wooden house and cannot escape directly. There are too many people guarding outside... Even if his partner is a killer in the organization whose performance surpasses Gin, they can't take down more than 20 people, right?

While thinking about the escape plan, Fūya Rei couldn't help but touch the wound on his leg with some depression. It was a scratch from a stray bullet during the previous encounter. Although it was not serious, it did affect his ability to move.

When Fūya Rei was feeling depressed, the black-haired killer stood by the window observing the situation outside. Without even turning around, he suddenly said something powerful: "I went to this place recently."

The killer gave an address and Fūya Rei's face froze.

That was the high school he and his childhood friend had attended, long buried in the past along with the two identities of 'Furiya Rei' and 'Murofushi Kagemitsu'.

Why did Kaluuya suddenly bring this up?

Furiya Rei was very sure that the photos and other information they had left behind had been destroyed, and even if Kaluuya went to their alma mater to look for them, he would definitely not be able to find any information.

There is one thing that Rei Furuya, who is so sure of this, has long forgotten, but Kaluya remembers it.

——They were classmates in the police academy.

Even if he was the most unfamiliar classmate, even if Kalua had not interacted with anyone from the time he entered school to graduation, and even if he deliberately lowered his presence so that Rei Furuya didn't even know there was such a student in the class until graduation, this could not change the reality.

So yes, Kaluuya, who had memorized the list of police academy members, actually recognized Bourbon and Scotland as undercover agents when he first saw them in the organization. The two people on the opposite side didn't recognize who he was at all because he often changed his disguise.

It must be said that Akajina Yue really knows himself very well, just like what a certain loser A did in the other person's own world. Kaluya, who discovered this, did not report it to the organization, but secretly helped the two men clean up the mess.

Kaluuya would be happy to place a few or several groups of undercover agents in the organization. He hopes that they can cause trouble for Karasuma Renya and allow the organization to sprint in the opposite direction on the road to prosperity.

The killer at the window said slowly, "Don't play dumb, I know you are an undercover agent, as is Scotland. I have seen you both when you were in the police academy, Fūya-kun."

"I will not reveal your identities to the organization, but there are two conditions in exchange." The killer did not look at Furuya Rei, as if he did not know how strong the murderous intent of the blond undercover behind him was towards him at that moment. The killer just spoke at his own pace, neither fast nor slow.

He could have used his own identity as an "undercover child" to do what he wanted to ask Furuya Rei to do, but Kaluuya had unilaterally severed ties with the police after graduation, so he naturally couldn't ask the police for help with confidence.

But Rei Furuya is different. After observing him for several years, Kaluuya is sure that he sees something different in Rei Furuya. He thinks that if it is this person, he may not violate their agreement.

Before Rei Furuya could say anything after being overwhelmed by the amount of information, he heard the killer say, "The first condition is that if you find that I am no longer myself after a month, please kill me without hesitation."

The young man with black hair and red eyes turned around and narrowed his eyes at him.

"If this condition is achieved one day, the Public Security Bureau will get what you want - such as a weakened organization and intelligence that can once again severely damage the organization." He said, "Of course, the other condition is also relatively simple... probably. Please give up hunting down Bermode after I die and give her a chance to choose."

Furuya Rei should have continued to struggle, but Kaluuya even revealed his real name. It was estimated that everything he should and shouldn't know had been exposed. Now the only thing in front of him was a single-choice question of "either agree or die."

Fūya Rei took a deep breath and looked at Kaluuya with a stronger sense of scrutiny in his eyes.

Finally, he agreed to the deal.

After escaping from the wooden house, they opened up completely. It can't be said that the relationship between them was one of mutual defense. It can only be said that perhaps based on the transaction of confessing each other's greatest weaknesses, they established a more fragile but also more real friendship.

After removing the filter of hatred for the members of the organization, Rei Furuya discovered that Kaluuya's character in life seemed to be his true personality, and they were unexpectedly compatible. To be honest, he began to think that if they met outside the organization, they might really become friends.

...Unfortunately, there is no if.

【Scotland is an undercover agent.】

From the moment he received the news, all his beautiful fantasies collapsed as quickly as a landslide, and the development of the situation gradually became uncontrollable. When Furuya Rei rushed to the scene at lightning speed, his childhood friend had already died on the rooftop in front of Lei.

Rei Furuya had thought about his own death after his identity was exposed, but he had never imagined that the death of his childhood friend would come faster than him, so fast that he would be caught off guard, so fast that he would... feel pain.

Instantly, Furuya Rei thought of Kaluya. The fragile friendship that he had built over the past month was almost shattered. He couldn't help but suspect that Kaluya had unilaterally torn up the terms of the transaction and exposed Morobushi Kagemitsu's identity... The only thing that could make him regain some sanity was that his identity was not exposed.

After being cautious for a long time since the death of Morobushi Kagemitsu, Rei Furuya finally confirmed the matter, so when the alarm was almost lifted, he finally found Kalua and wanted to ask for clarification.

"Hmm?" The killer whom he hadn't seen for a while somehow made Furiya Rei feel strange. He smiled as stiffly as a puppet, "What deal? I don't seem to understand what you are talking about, Bourbon."

…

This person is no longer Kaluuya.

Fūya Rei clearly realized this.

He immediately understood what Kaluya meant when he made the deal with him: "no longer look like me." Although the face was Kaluya's and the body was Kaluya's, the soul seemed to be locked deep inside the body, and the one talking to him was just a shell without the ability to think.

According to the terms of their deal, Furuya Rei should have killed the other party cleanly and swiftly when he found out about this, and then tried to deceive others by pretending that Kaluya had died accidentally, so that their deal could go on smoothly... But when he looked at that wooden face and dull eyes, his hand holding the gun froze for a long time, and he was unable to pull the trigger.

It was probably not Kaluuya who exposed Scotland's identity. The other party abided by their agreement, so he should also abide by the agreement.

But I can't do it.

Furuya Rei suddenly realized that he thought the emotion between them was fragile, but it was not until then that he discovered that it was actually stronger than he had imagined. Even now that Morobushi Kagemitsu has died, it has become the last thread connecting him and the identity of "Furuya Rei".

All his good friends died in the line of duty, and the only "friend" still connected to his time in the police academy was Kaluuya, whom he had not even remembered at the beginning.

Rei Furuya put away his gun and decided to break their agreement. He wanted to find a way to change Kaluuya's appearance instead of just killing him... but he couldn't do it.

Besides, a living Kaluuya could provide more information, right? He explained this to himself, and the more times he explained it, the more he almost believed it.

A doubt was suppressed deep in Fūya Rei's heart, and was only brought up later.

In fact, Rei Furuya had thought about why Kaluya wanted him to kill him at this time. He thought it was because Kaluya didn't want to live under the control of brainwashing, and thought they still had a chance to change, so there was no need to let Kaluya die like this.

He made a mistake which he deeply regretted.

Three days after that meeting, Vermouth died. The one who killed Vermouth was Kaluya - or to be more precise, it was the controlled Kaluya.

When Rei Furuya read the message, he could almost piece together Kaluuya's bloody despair from those few lines.

Being able to make Kaluya propose such a deal to the Public Security Bureau, Vermouth must be a very important person to Kaluya. Just like Furuya Rei couldn't imagine the day when he killed Morobushi Kagemitsu, he couldn't imagine Kaluya's collapse now.

He only knew that not long after he learned the news, the mysterious boss of the organization called him.

More precisely, it was the 'traitor Bourbon' that was summoned.

When he met the old man who could only be kept alive by a ventilator, Rei Furuya, who had been tortured as a traitor for a while, had already suffered a lot of injuries. This was because the people in the organization only dealt with his wounds hastily in order to prevent him from dying so quickly, and did not provide him with any other treatment.

The wounded Rei Furuya learned a shocking thing.

"Kaluya has been the vessel I have nurtured myself since the very beginning of his creation." The organization's boss said, "I will transfer my consciousness into his body - Bourbon, you and Kaluya seem to be friends, right? Well, when the transfer is successful, I will let you die painlessly in his identity."

That wrinkled face had a disgusting look of 'this is just mercy'.

No wonder the boss who had been hiding all this time let him see his face. It turned out that it was because the boss thought that the body of 'Karasuma Renya' would be discarded soon, so it was not important.

Fūya Rei couldn't believe it. He couldn't imagine how Kaluuya would feel if the scene he described really happened. He had already killed Vermouth with his own hands, so did he want Kaluuya to kill him with his own hands?

There were only three people in the room at this moment: the boss who was sitting behind the desk with a pen in his hand about to write something on a piece of paper, Kaluuya who had a blank look in his eyes and seemed to be controlled, and Rei Furuya who was half-kneeling on the ground with injuries all over his body. Therefore, any action of any one of the three would be extremely obvious.

Especially when the boss put pen to paper, Kalua's pupils began to tremble and his expression was in great pain. The boss closed his eyes and slammed his hands on the desk, as if he had really transferred his consciousness into the young body using a method that Fūya Zero could not understand at all.

Until Kalua pulled out a flashing sword from his waist and was about to stab it into his body.

Until Kalua's other hand knocked the sword away without his control, causing the weapon to fall in front of Furuya Rei.

…Until Furuya had no time to hesitate, the black-haired killer shouted at him: "Do you remember our agreement? Bourbon!"

Fūya Rei shuddered all over and picked up the item as quickly as he could. His body perfectly executed the instructions from his subconscious before his brain could react.

He once regretted his breach of contract because Kaluya was forced to kill Vermode, so subconsciously, Furuya Rei knew that he must kill Kaluya this time and he could not breach the contract a second time.

As an undercover agent, Furutani Rei's hands are naturally stained with blood. Under the organization's request and surveillance, he once coldly sent bullets into the head of a researcher who wanted to escape from the organization. Afterwards, he had to suppress the urge to vomit and pretend to be indifferent.

In his spare time during the mission, Rei Furuya also thought about this. He wondered how everyone he killed would hate him. Even if they could never say the three words "I hate you" to him in person again, he knew that the hatred in their eyes was all directed at him.

It may sound strange to say this, but this hatred can indeed keep Rei Furuya awake in the darkness, because he knows that these are the weight of his life, the weight he needs to carry to move forward, and he must not fall down halfway on this road, otherwise hatred or love will become a joke.

When Kalua fell, he was caught in the arms of Fūya Rei, who was as dazed as if he had killed someone for the first time. The latter dragged his wounded body against the wall and barely supported the weight of the two of them. However, the black-haired, red-eyed killer of the organization did not look at him. His dead eyes stared at the blood oozing from his wounds.

"I thought you wouldn't break our agreement." He sighed, "But you didn't... Why didn't you kill me then?"

"I have killed many people with a □□." The killer changed his tone, his tone full of research spirit, "This is a very convenient tool. I only need to pierce about 8 centimeters into any part of the target's body, and my mission can be easily completed. But now it seems that this trick is not very useful to me... After I die, please burn me with fire. I don't want to be someone else's experimental material anymore."

He paused. "Just consider it as paying off what you owe me, okay?"

Even now that he has been pierced through the heart by a □□, he can still speak as if nothing has happened. This is enough to reveal the specialness of this body to Furuya Rei, and it is also enough for Furuya Rei to understand where the organization boss's desire for this body comes from.

"…Is it really possible to transfer consciousness?" Furuya Rei answered irrelevantly. "Don't talk anymore. We still have time to discuss how you killed people in the public security monitoring room later."

"He didn't transfer into your body. After all, you're the only one who can say that in this situation, right?"

As Fūya Rei spoke, he licked his cracked lips. For a moment, he couldn't tell whether the rusty taste on his tongue was left after he bit his tongue, or the killer's blood had just splashed on the corners of his mouth.

He just stared at the killer stubbornly, holding on to a glimmer of hope, and his words became a little confusing: "So you don't need to talk now, the public security personnel will be here soon, and you don't have to die, right?"

The killer finally looked at him, but rolled his eyes at him. The last words he said to him were also in a very normal tone, as if the killer was not going to die, but just preparing to take a nap.

The killer said, "Don't think too much, Furuya-kun. I don't hate you."

Whose suicide note would be to say to the murderer that he or she killed him or her, "I don't hate you"? Oh, it was the murderer, Kalua, and Akae Nazuki.

When getting out of this rusty memory, Furiya Rei thought again: He is finished, he will never forget for the rest of his life that he killed someone who didn't hate him.