Chapter 6 Six Ghosts Behind the Scenes

"I once believed that God existed in this world, but the God who saved me when I was in trouble has long since died."

"When he died, a fire was ignited in my chest. Even now, that fire has not been extinguished, and I certainly don't want to be burned a second time." Amuro Toru just got out of the car and heard the back of the person standing in the rain with an umbrella saying this in a calm tone, "So now, I no longer believe that there is a God or any other gods in this world."

Belmode?

Amuro Toru frowned, quickly shifted his gaze from the car that Bermode was facing, and slowed down his pace - he didn't intend to interrupt Bermode and let the vengeful guy remember him.

At the same time, he heard Chi Jiang Na Yue, who was floating leisurely beside him, suddenly say without any context: "It's different now."

"What's different?" Amuro Toru asked in a low voice.

"The Sharon now is different from the Sharon I remember," the boy said, lowering his eyelashes. "She is an atheist."

For some reason, Toru Amuro always felt that the boy in front of him looked extremely lonely when he said this.

Toru Amuro moved the fingers hanging by his side, but in the end did nothing.

In fact, the "difference" that Akae explained was not exactly what he had been thinking before. His real thought was that what Vermouth said to Maori Ran and others was different from what Kudo Shinichi had said to him in his memory.

The biggest difference between this world and the main world is the death of 'Akajiang Nayue' - naturally, the savior immediately recognized that the God that Vermode was talking about was the 18-year-old alias he was currently playing.

It sounds like the death of 18-year-old Akae Nayue has had a deeper impact on Vermode than he imagined.

"...At least I can be sure that the angel has never smiled at me sincerely, not even once."

In the car, Mao Lilan listened to Sharon Wynyard's words in a daze. Before she could ask any further questions, a strange blond young man slowly walked out from behind Sharon.

The other party sounded helpless and said to Sharon: "Sharon? You should ask your friend to park the car in the parking lot first and then come out to chat. If we don't go in, we will be surrounded by people."

"You really have no patience, detective." Sharon's voice suddenly became quieter, with a faint smile on her face. She turned her head and spoke to the visitor, "Then I'll leave it to you."

"Eh? Sharon, who is this gentleman?" Yukiko Kudo asked in surprise in the driver's seat.

Even Kudo Shinichi's curious eyes were drawn to the young man because of the word "detective".

"He's someone I know, a private investigator." Sharon said calmly, "I'm sorry, Yukiko, I have to leave for something, so I'll ask Amuro-kun to show you around the backstage."

The young man called Amuro-kun remained calm, nodded in the direction of the car, and said with a gentle smile: "I will introduce myself to you formally when I return from the parking lot."

Even until Kudo Yukiko rolled down the car window and drove them to park the car, Mouri Ran still looked as if she had not recovered from the shock.

"Oh, that's terrible, it's completely full." More than ten minutes later, Kudo Yukiko rubbed her hair in distress in the driver's seat, "Shin-chan, you take Xiaolan over first, I'll go see if there are other parking spaces."

Kudo Shinichi nodded nonchalantly, then pulled his childhood sweetheart out of the car and walked towards the emergency passage.

"Hey, Lan, you're not still thinking about what that famous star said, are you?" In the quiet passage, the detective boy suddenly turned around and asked, his blue eyes full of helplessness, "You've kept this expression for a long time."

"Um."

Mao Lilan grabbed her sleeves and expressed her doubts hesitantly: "What exactly did Sharon mean by that?"

"The Wednesday War, the line she said about 'burning' or something, is from this book."

Kudo Shinichi put his hands behind his head and answered casually, "She was just expressing how unfortunate she was. It sounds like someone very important to her passed away. And my mother should know more about these things. If you want to know, you can just ask her directly. She won't hide it from you."

"But it's not nice to talk about Sharon's sad things behind her back..." Before Mao Lilan could finish her rebuttal, her childhood sweetheart suddenly turned around and covered her mouth. The girl subconsciously hid behind the corner of the wall with her eyes wide open.

"Tsk!" Kudo Shinichi frowned, "Someone is here... I think I heard someone mention my dad's name."

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After the car drove away, the calmness on Amuro Toru's face disappeared, and his expression turned cold: "What do you mean? I didn't know that in addition to completing the mission, I also need to play with the children on your behalf, Bermode."

"That's not what you said just now. They were completely fooled by you." Akae Natsuki, who was floating on the side, immediately exposed the truth - although only Amuro Toru, who was exposed, could hear his voice - he covered his lips and laughed, saying with a bad taste, "As expected of a bad adult, even if you don't know anything, you still act so convincingly."

Not yet accustomed to the little devil's occasional shocking remarks, Toru Amuro tried hard to tell himself in his heart not to bother with the child, and barely suppressed the conditioned reflex to complain back... Look, after only one day of getting along, he has developed a conditioned reflex!

Of course, Vermouth didn't know that the surroundings were actually very lively. Her face, hidden by her glasses, looked very cold. After walking a few steps towards the theater, she turned around and said, "Let's talk about it somewhere else."

…

"Your explanation?" Toru Amuro leaned against the wall of the dim passage, playing with the staff ID card that Vermode had just given him, with a fake smile on his lips. "Let me make it clear in advance, if you are just playing a trick on me to make things difficult for Rum, I will not be so kind as to keep it a secret for you."

"The FBI is investigating a big case recently, and the organization's informant got the news that Ley would be involved in the manhunt, so I originally planned to disguise myself as a highway demon and seduce him with a fake identity."

After arriving in the United States, Bermode, who had changed into a short-haired Sharon, adjusted her round-frame glasses and said with a slightly dissatisfied tone, "But I don't know who leaked the mission information, and the operation time has been changed. I need to go now."

Amuro Toru snorted and cooperated with a gloomy expression: "That man..."

"So I will leave right away to attract Lei's attention in advance." Bermode nodded, casually fiddling with the exquisite manicure on his hands. "I'll leave it to you, Bourbon."

"Oh?" He raised his eyebrows.

"Kudo Yusaku has connections with the FBI." The female star said meaningfully, "Don't tell me you didn't recognize that the woman in the driver's seat of the car was Kudo Yukiko."

"Anyway, I'll contact you again once the action begins."

Bermode straightened his back, turned around and walked out, his high heels tapping on the marble floor. "If everything goes well, we can take him away before the midnight magic wears off."

"Ha, then I hope you don't mess up again, Fairy Godmother." Amuro said sarcastically, "Otherwise I might find a way to send you and your Cinderella back home together."

Vermouth stopped walking, turned her head and glanced at the young man behind her meaningfully, then left without saying a word.

The passage became quiet for a while.

"You have ruined the dreams of countless children." During their conversation, the little devil, who had rarely interrupted them, sat cross-legged in the air and suddenly murmured, "I feel that when I see the word Cinderella in the future, the only thing left in my mind will be the picture of Ley in the file. How scary."

As Amuro Toru was about to return to the theater, he coughed violently, and the expression on his handsome face was extremely distorted. Apparently, his smart brain instantly put the face of his old enemy on Cinderella's body.

"Don't say it..." Amuro Toru groaned weakly and looked like he was about to vomit. "This is even more terrifying than the conjecture that he is the angel actor tonight."

Chijiang Nayue didn't care how frightened his friends from the other world were by his terrifying remarks. He was thinking about what Vermode said and his weird behavior.

"She mentioned Scotland's identity on purpose to irritate you." He said what he had guessed from the beginning, "Her purpose was to lure you to New York."

Amuro Toru was stunned, and quickly recalled what Bermode looked like at that time in his mind: "Why?"

Although he couldn't tell whether Vermouth did it on purpose, after all, she was an actress with superb acting skills, but based on his trust in Akae Nazuki's reasoning that grew crazy in a short period of time, Toru Amuro quickly believed it.

Chi Jiang Na Yue showed an expression of wanting to say something but hesitating, and thought for a while: "Actually, I have reminded you before."

He quickly changed the subject: "Come to think of it, you should be a pretty good marksman."

They actually got off the plane quite early, but during the trip, Toru Amuro went to the organization's branch base in Manhattan. Now, most of the parts of his body covered by his windbreaker are fully equipped.

You have to have a staff card, otherwise there is no way you can pass the theater security check.

"There will definitely be no problem dealing with that guy." Amuro Toru replied dimly.

He was basically ready to hunt down Akai Shuichi at any time.

Nazuki Akae could understand Toru Amuro's anger and resentment towards Shuichi Akai very well, and he had no intention of comforting him at all - not to mention that Zero-kun was extremely stubborn no matter which world he was in, and a few words could not change anything.

Just tell me, why does he want to be enlightened?

It's true that he knew Shuichi Akai, but come on, he also hates the FBI.

Moreover, if a fight really breaks out, he can secretly help Amuro Toru punch Akai Shuichi a few more times. Isn't this more interesting than drinking chicken soup?

——Tsk.

"Hey, Xiaoxin, what are you and Xiaolan doing? Didn't I let you go in first?"

Kudo Yukiko's voice was heard from behind the corner.

Toru Amuro's expression changed. His attention had been focused on Vermode and the spirit behind him, and he didn't even notice that there was someone there... No, it could be that person just came in.

Therefore, Toru Amuro, who lowered his head and thought for a moment before walking over there, did not notice the lack of surprise on Akae Nayue's face.

oops.

The savior who knew everything and said nothing sighed softly behind Amuro Toru.

That's right, if Shinichi-kun gets rid of this strong, cat-killing curiosity, he will no longer be Shinichi-kun.