Chapter 51 Two Shotas

"In his later years, Karasuma Renya was a very suspicious leader. It can be said that Gin's decision to show no mercy to anyone who had anything to do with the traitors was inspired by him."

On the deserted bridge, a young boy in a black sweatshirt and hat sat steadily on the railing, facing outward, his back straight, his calves swaying slightly in the air, as if he was staring down at the river surface reflecting the neon lights on the river bank.

Akae Nazuki, who was actually chatting with Book, said cheerfully, "Even if I in this world didn't survive that one-month experiment, Karasuma Renya would definitely make the same choice as him in the main world."

All the experiments Karasuma Renya did on Akae Nazuki were based on accidentally obtaining half a real page of a book. For a long time, Karasuma Renya even believed that he created the four-year-old Akae Nazuki and regarded himself as his creator.

As a book-created person, Chijiang Nanyue's physical qualities were different from those of ordinary people from the beginning, and the excellent researchers in the organization were able to discover this within a month.

In order to eliminate all possible threats to herself, Karasuma Renya would never allow anyone to discover the connection between Akae Nazuki and herself.

Therefore, after a month of experiments, Karasuma Renya in the main world chose to kill everyone in the entire experimental base except Akae Nayue.

Only the dead tell no secrets.

Therefore, even if Akae Nazuki in this world had already died as A, Karasuma Renya would not forget to silence the researcher. Rather, it is precisely because the experiment failed that Karasuma Renya is more likely to feel angry.

After all, there is no other Chijiang Nayue who could be stolen by that gang into this world.

"The dead won't reveal secrets, but they can't wake up and tell the truth either." Akajinazuki shrugged with a sly smile on her lips, "So, what exactly happened to 'Experimental Subject A' fifteen years ago? Isn't it up to me to tell the truth?"

[Book] If it were a humanoid, its eyes would be wide open now. He instantly understood what his savior wanted to do, and said in a subtle tone: [Is this why you asked me to put you back in the Chiba base half an hour ago?]

The boy, his face hidden under the brim of his hoodie, smiled and nodded.

They entered this world an hour ago, and took Furuya Rei, who was currently undergoing undercover training in some corner of Japan, as their anchor, and followed Akae Nazuki's instructions to drop him on the rooftop of the apartment where Hagiwara Kenji was defusing the bomb. Therefore, Akae Nazuki's explanation of deliberately fanning the flames to Matsuda Jinpei was actually not a lie at all, and 'Granty' was just passing by the bomb defusing scene.

Only after he had moved around in front of the other party and to Jinpei Matsuda behind the phone in a mysterious identity did he let the "book" put him back in place, performing a "turn around" in this way.

Needless to say, the effect is definitely very good.

The purpose of his doing this was to save Kenji Hagiwara while leaving a deep impression in the minds of those two people, so that it would be easier for him to proceed to the next step of his plan.

The reason why the second deployment was in the organization base in Chiba was the most important part of the plan.

Confirm the death of all researchers who knew about Subject A's existence at the time, and destroy all research data on Subject A that still exists at this point in time.

Only by ensuring that no one except Karasuma Renya knows the details of the experiment that took place on the child codenamed A fifteen years ago, can Akae Nazuki take the blame for Karasuma Renya... ahem, just give it her all in this world.

[Book] His filter for Chi Jiang Na Yue was too thick. Even though he understood that what the other party did was to pave the way for his future mission and identity, he still didn't understand what kind of script Chi Jiang Na Yue had prepared for him in this world.

In the first world, Na Yue Chijiang arranged the most reliable scenario of the ghost behind the scenes because he was still testing the various mechanisms of the mission and the mission world's tolerance for them. Now that the test is over, God knows how the savior who treats the mission as a vacation will want to mess around in this world.

"What a pity. I should have punched that Hagi-kun before leaving." Akae Natsuki said with regret, "I even specially made a body of a twenty-something year old."

When Granti met Hagiwara Kenji in the building an hour ago, he used the image of Akae himself when he was about 24 years old. He looked younger simply because he looked young.

But the person sitting on the bridge now is really his re-creation of the 19-year-old image.

Just like helping him reshape his body into that of the spirit behind him in the previous world, in other mission worlds, [Shu] was able to help him change all the values ​​of his body according to Chijiang Nanyue's requirements, naturally including his age.

Of course, if some special requirements (such as non-existent ghosts) are to be truly implemented, they need to be recognized by the world consciousness of the mission world.

[But why is it called Grandy?] The consciousness of the world asked hesitantly, [Is it the 'Grandy' I was thinking of?]

Oh, the all-knowing Book also has uncertain moments?

The black-haired boy, with his hands on the railing at his sides, narrowed his eyes and did not directly answer the question. Instead, after two seconds of silence, he hummed a song with a strange tone in a soft voice.

"Solomon Grundy,

Born on Monday..."*

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"You're not wearing an EOD suit and you're smoking next to a bomb?" Matsuda Jinpei stood aside with his arms folded, staring at his friend on the bench in front of him with a sneer, "Hagiwara Kenji, why didn't I know you were so capable before?"

Kenji Hagiwara sat obediently with a bitter look on his face. The part of his face where he was hit had been applied with medicine, but he dared not say a word in retort, for fear that his friend, who was still angry, would punch him in the other half of his face again.

Even though they both knew that if the bomb really exploded, the explosion-proof suit would not be able to protect his life, and at most could only leave him with an intact body, Matsuda Jinpei was angry because of his not so serious attitude towards bomb disposal in the afternoon.

Thinking back to the bomb disposal incident an hour ago, cold sweat broke out on Kenji Hagiwara's back.

It was only after they came out of the apartment that they found out that there were two bombers. One was hit and killed by a car during the pursuit, and the other detonated the bomb in advance, hoping that all of them, the bomb disposal police, would be blown up.

So Hagiwara Kenji was very clear about how close he was to the god of death today. If it weren't for the intruder who he had never met before, he would definitely have been trapped in that apartment building forever by the prematurely detonated bomb.

So in reality, the young man named Granty could be considered his savior.

Jinpei Matsuda had also thought of this. He took a deep breath, calmed himself, and sat down on the empty seat on the bench next to Kenji Hagiwara.

After the bomb exploded and the second criminal was successfully captured, the traffic control in the area was lifted. At this time, other police officers had basically left one after another. They stayed here only because Kenji Hagiwara wanted to look for any trace of Granti nearby.

But they searched for almost an hour and found nothing.

If Hagiwara Kenji hadn't still been holding the bullet casing that fell to the ground when the man fired the gun and shattered the glass, and Matsuda Jinpei still remembered the voice he heard on the phone, he might have suspected that there was something wrong with his memory.

And what's strange is that they checked the resident list of the apartment building and did not see Granti's name on it. After asking the apartment manager, they learned that none of the residents fit the description of "sickly teenager with black hair and red eyes."

Granty was like a person who appeared out of nowhere and disappeared out of nowhere.

Hagiwara Kenji rubbed his hair in distress and stood up first: "Forget it, let's leave here first, Xiaozhenping."

"Not going to look for it anymore?" Matsuda Jinpei leaned back in his chair and raised his eyebrows slightly.

"How is that possible?" The half-long-haired police officer shook his head. "It's just that since he didn't do anything bad, apart from the suspicious fact that he was carrying a gun, he still saved our lives. Now that he doesn't want to come out on his own initiative, I don't need to rush to find him."

Kenji Hagiwara could more or less guess the reason why Granti was reluctant to show up. After all, not everyone could knock down a group of police officers with an anesthetic needle or break the glass with a gun.

Moreover, just from the fact that the gun used by Granty was not any kind of sidearm of the Metropolitan Police Department, we can conclude that the other party did not steal it from any policeman, but that he was carrying it himself.

A man who would walk through the busy streets of Tokyo with a gun, a man who looked dangerous no matter how you looked at him, it was probably an accident that the policeman saved him.

So if Granti showed up on his own initiative, wouldn't that be the same as turning himself in, even if Hagiwara Kenji had no intention of arresting or reporting him? He didn't intend to give his 'lifesaver' the impression that he was repaying kindness with enmity.

Just let it go. Tokyo is so small that we will run into each other sooner or later.

...But it can't be that fast, right?

When Kenji Hagiwara and Koumaran walked onto the bridge, his gaze was naturally drawn to a figure sitting on the railing.

Jinpei Matsuda also saw it.

Hagiwara Kenji didn't recognize who it was, but he was shocked, thinking that it was a young boy who was about to commit suicide. He quickly grabbed the young boy who wanted to run over subconsciously and lowered his voice: "Wait a minute, little formation, the position is wrong, it will stimulate him!"

The two exchanged glances, slowed down their pace, and tiptoed towards the figure.

As Hagiwara approached, he heard a strange but inexplicably attractive melody.

"Solomon Granty,

Born on Monday,"*

The young man turned his head and looked in his direction. The soft singing gradually slowed down, and the words with standard pronunciation flowed out, "Baptism on Tuesday..."*

The person in front of him was none other than Granti, whom Hagihara Kenji was originally looking for. However, Hagihara Kenji was a little uncertain.

Because the person in front of him was obviously a teenager no matter how he looked at it. Although he did look alike, the boy's facial features looked a little more immature than Granti whom he had met an hour ago.

Just when he was in doubt, the boy stopped humming, stared at him for a while, tilted his head, and showed an expression of sudden enlightenment.

"It's you." His face was expressionless, but his voice was quite excited, completely different from the calm tone he had in the afternoon. "I'm Granty, Mr. Hagi. It seems like you need my help with anything?"

Kenji Hagiwara was stunned: It was actually Granty.

No, he still felt a deep sense of disharmony...

"I just wanted to say thank you. Thanks to you, I was not killed in the explosion." He quickly regained his composure on the surface and told you his previous purpose, which was also a test.

Young Granty seemed to be thinking about something.

"It's okay, no need to thank me." Young Granty shook his head and said, "I told you, I'm just an insignificant passerby."

"But judging from the results, there is no doubt that you saved me." Hagiwara Kenji said frankly, "My friends and I want to express our gratitude to you."

On the other side, Jinpei Matsuda rolled his eyes at Kenji Hagiwara from an angle that Grandy couldn't see, and then nodded in cooperation when Grandy looked over at him.

"So you're a consequentialist, Mr. Hagi." The Granti boy hummed in response, blinked, and looked back up. "So, it's just a thank you, right?"

He suddenly stood up on the narrow railing, facing the two people's nervous gazes, his expression was calm, and his voice was cheerful and lively: "Then I'll excuse you first."

The Granti boy fell backwards, leaving them no chance to rush forward to stop him, before he fell off the bridge and disappeared in the white water foam below the bridge.

Kenji Hagiwara's brain was confused again: Is this young Grandy really the same Grandy as before?

If Akae Nazuki, who had actually let the book throw her somewhere else in mid-air, could hear this, she would definitely answer:

Even if it is true, Kenji Hagiwara has to think it is not true.

Otherwise, why would he ask [Book] to create another body of a different age?

The boy in a black sweater skipped through the crowd, heading in one direction, humming, "Saturday is dead,

Sunday was buried in the ground."

"…such was the life of Solomon Granty."*