Chapter 67 Eighteen Shotas

Although the atmosphere between the two has warmed up now, Bourbon still cares about what happened before.

He thought for a moment and decided to start from a less important direction.

"I really didn't feel your pulse just now." Bourbon couldn't hide his curiosity. "What did you put under your arm?"

The cabin wasn't very big, and the ranger hadn't moved away the heavy-looking wooden furniture before abandoning it, so the two didn't need to worry about the snowstorm blowing open the doors and windows. After struggling for a while, they were finally able to sit down on the ground by the wall with peace of mind.

Since Bourbon himself didn't like smoking, he never carried a lighter or matchbox with him, and Chijiang Nayue was even less so. Fortunately, the ventilation system in the house was still functioning normally, and Bourbon found the remaining half barrel of special solvent from somewhere, and took some effort to light the heater in the corner.

Unfortunately, it takes time for the heater to heat up, so for safety reasons, the two of them basically maintained the same sitting position as before entering the house - Bourbon wrapped the child tightly in his coat, relying on the simplest artificial method of warming the child with his body temperature.

However, Chijiang Nayue also knew that his body was as cold as ice. If they stuck together like this, only Bourbon could keep him warm, and his pressure would not be of any use at all.

Also because he was sitting in Bourbon's arms, with his short arms, legs, neck and the angle, Akagi Nayue couldn't see the expression on the person's face when he said this, but he could feel the other person's arms around him moving, as if he wanted to pick him up and shake him.

Chi Jiang Na Yue calmly held down Bourbon's restless hand, and then said calmly: "It means exactly what it says."

There are many ways in the world to temporarily weaken a person's pulse to the point where it seems to have stopped, such as "pressing the arm with something" as Bourbon said after he came to his senses. However, when Akae Nazuki said this, he was not joking.

This body, molded by the Book according to his instructions, really has no filth in it.

Thinking of this, Chijiang Nayue's eyes darkened for a moment.

As mentioned before, in each world, his body can be adjusted with the help of the "Book" to adjust various values, which is why he can appear as "Grandy" and "A" at different time points.

But you have to know that the Grandy group does not exist in this world, so he can arbitrarily write all kinds of strange settings for Grandy, including clones.

But in the real past, A did exist, even though he died about twenty years ago.

For example, Granti is an illegal individual without a trace. As long as all the people and information that could expose him are dealt with, then it will be up to him to decide whether or not Granti ever existed in the organization, even if Karasuma Renya, the only person who knows the truth, defends himself.

Will Bourbon and the others believe the "explanation" of Karasuma Renya, the culprit?

A is an illegal person who has left traces and will be resurrected in the future. Chijiang Nayue's mission is to make others recognize A's existence, which is equivalent to giving A a "household registration".

If he was playing the role of A but had the body of a teenager, when the real A came back, would he tell others that A had shrunk after taking the A drug?

As for the question of the dirty heart, it is not difficult to guess with this connection, right? This body has been like this since it was molded. Of course, A had no dirty heart when he died 20 years ago.

Akae Nazuki entered the World Gap for the second time during the final battle with the World Consciousness of the Tokyo World. At that time, in order to shock him, the old consciousness filled the dark space of the World Gap with corpses.

The corpses died in different ways, but they all had one thing in common: they all had the same face—the same face belonging to ‘Chijiang Nayue’.

Because that was Chi Jiang Na Yue, who was the only surviving miracle in the myriad parallel worlds and all of them were dead.

The young savior was not frightened at that time. He patiently spent an unknown amount of time to help these people, who almost all had their eyes open, close their eyes.

Many of the bodies belonged to Subject A, who looked like children.

Chi Jiang Na Yue remembered all the ways of her death, and therefore also remembered that the corpse of A that matched the information of this world had an empty hole in the chest, and the heart that should have been there was missing. There was no despair or hatred on the young face, only confusion.

Akajangazuki knew very well that it was because the child who had not even celebrated his fifth birthday and had lost all his memories before that did not know why he was "abandoned", why he became a discarded experimental subject, and died as an experimental rabbit.

Every time she recalled this incident, Akae Nazuki would have an urgent urge to pull out Karasuma Renya, the Old One whose corpse was forcefully fed to the Guild by Chuuya-sensei, and kill her again.

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To Chijiang Nayue, the body molded by the book was originally a ball of energy, and eating and vital signs were only simulated. Whether he had a heart or not did not prevent him from acting like a normal person. However, in order to reshape A's identity more realistically, he chose to keep the appearance of A's corpse intact.

Thinking of this, the child deliberately took Bourbon's hand, pressed it against his chest through his clothes, and repeated seriously: "I really don't have a dirty heart."

Bourbon, who was standing behind him, almost choked himself to death. He was shocked and asked subconsciously, "Am I the last one to know?"

If you say that Scotland was very busy during this period, Bourbon was actually not much less busy. If you count carefully, before today, only Scotland and Ley had worked as child movers, and today was Bourbon's first time on the job.

Speaking of this, Chi Jiang Na Yue's tone became strange: "No, you are the first."

Because A had been pale and weak since the first time they met, and Scotland and Ley would not deliberately pay attention to the child's pulse. Even if they occasionally found it and didn't feel it, they would probably just judge that "the pulse is too weak to be felt" based on the child's appearance.

So, Bourbon was indeed the first person to discover that A had no dirty heart.

"No, wait, if you don't mean it, how can you..." Bourbon swallowed the rest of his words and tried to calm down.

"Are you asking how I survived?" Chi Jiang Na Yue said openly, "Before I left the organization, they used a mechanical heart to help me maintain my vital signs, but I spent most of the time in the life support chamber, which is why I am barely alive now."

He spoke calmly, but Bourbon felt extremely complicated as he listened.

"Life support cabin?"

"It's the, uh... frozen kind."

The child yawned quietly and said, "Actually, I'm not always active. They only thaw me when they need me for a research project. Normally, I'm frozen in the life support chamber."

Chi Jiang Na Yue would not write anything too fake in the script. The life support chamber he talked about really exists.

If his use value was not higher than his research value, Karasuma Renya would have thought about freezing him. Even if Bourbon wanted to look for it later, he could find such a capsule in other bases of the organization to prove the truth of his words.

Bourbon whispered, "Why are you telling me this?"

A's previous personality was not like this. Bourbon didn't expect A to really tell such a big secret. He only used the topic of heart disease as a prelude to get to the important topic, but he didn't expect...

The child in his arms, who was not warm at all, sat there without moving, only his head was moving a little bit, as if he was sleepy. A light voice murmured into Bourbon's ears.

"Because I'm the only one you chose." A said, "The first person is always special."

Bourbon fell into deep thought, unable to remember what he had done.

He was silent for a moment, then asked, "Isn't it Scotland?"

The child's head stopped moving and his whole body was stiff for a few seconds, then quickly relaxed.

"Come to think of it, I haven't found you in the missing children records for the past five years and... Sorry, I'm not doubting you, but according to what the life support module said, why would the organization let the Grantis teach you as clones? Sometimes, your behavior really makes me feel disconnected."

Bourbon said helplessly: "Also...what do you mean by insufficient time and cycle?"

"Of course you can't find me." A seemed to be ready to answer each question one by one, and said as a matter of course, "Because I haven't been missing for the past five years."

Bourbon suddenly realized that after he was fully prepared to show his cards, the child's attitude became much more casual and genuine. In just half an hour, he spoke to him almost twice as much as before.

He responded: "What?"

"It's hard to explain... Actually, my physical age is only two years younger than yours."

The child curled up quietly, his voice flat. "At first, they fed me a strange drug, and then froze me in a life support chamber. It has been almost 20 years since then, and my body has shown no signs of growth."

This time it was Bourbon's turn to freeze.

"But I haven't been conscious for long. If you think about it, I'm still a child." A patted Bourbon comfortingly, "It can't be considered teaching. The organization doesn't know about this."

Having said this, A was silent for a moment before speaking again.

"Perhaps something went wrong when they used my genes for cloning. On the seventh day after the birth of the first Granty, A01, I received the memories of A01 while I was supposed to be dormant in the life support capsule." A said calmly, "Later, the memories of A02 and A03 also appeared, and I found out the reason - when Granty died, their memories would be received by me."

A pursed his lips and lowered his eyes: "I can see the outside world through their memories. The Grantis are like my eyes."

"A pair of eyes that can only see for seven days."

Bourbon heard A humming a melody.

"Born on Monday, die on Sunday..." Bourbon suddenly remembered what A had said to him, and instantly guessed what A meant. "You mean, as clones, the Grantis only have seven days to live?"

A's voice seemed to be mournful, but it also seemed to be just Bourbon's illusion: "Yes, this is Granty's life."