Chapter 7 Seven Spirits Behind the Scenes

When Kudo Yukiko's voice rang out, Kudo Shinichi immediately started and thought, "Oh no!"

He quickly cooperated with his mother by making gestures and winking eyes while the people over there were not coming over yet: He didn't ask for anything else, but at least he couldn't let the other side know that he and Xiaolan had been listening to this for a while.

Kudo Shinichi gestured as he recalled the words he had heard, and his eyes and brows unconsciously became a little serious and solemn.

Although he still didn't know who Sharon and Amuro were, it was not difficult to tell from their conversation that they were here for his mother because of his father's connection with the FBI... Damn it, if he had known earlier, he should have come faster. He didn't even hear what those two people said before!

Kudo Yukiko is indeed an excellent actress who has a tacit understanding with her son. She immediately understood the meaning of cooperation and confidently made an OK gesture to her son.

The next second, a handsome young man with blond hair came out from behind the corner, with a bright smile on his face and a slightly apologetic tone: "So some of you have already come. I'm so sorry. I should have reminded you that the parking lot is a bit crowded."

"Let me formally introduce myself. My name is Amuro Toru, and I'm a private detective." Facing Mao Li Ran's surprised eyes, Amuro Toru instantly understood what the little girl was surprised about. He pointed at his face and shrugged, "Although I look a little dark, I am indeed Japanese."

Mao Lilan blushed and bowed quickly: "Sorry, Mr. Amuro! My name is Mao Lilan."

"It's okay." Amuro Toru kept smiling, turned his head to look at the nervous young detective Kudo, and the Kudo Yukiko who didn't start acting directly because she didn't know the situation, and asked kindly and gently, "So this is the famous Baroness of the Dark Night, Ms. Yukiko who is both a female detective and an actress? And Kudo-kun, I heard that your reasoning skills are also very impressive. Maybe I can discuss it with you sometime."

Wow.

Floating in the air, Akae Nagetsu listened to these people walking and testing each other with words. When Kudo Shinichi deliberately mentioned a certain alibi mystery novelist, Amuro Toru pretended to be ignorant and admiring when he did not know anything.

He almost looked surprised.

As expected of Zero, even though he exaggerates his reasoning skills, he is actually a very meticulous guy with amazing acting skills.

Just relying on Sharon's mention outside that 'Amuro-kun' was Kudo Shinichi's performance as a detective, and the information about Kudo Yukiko that she had learned in the past, she was able to accurately say this... uh.

This paragraph perfectly raises the favorability level of the Kudo mother and son above the level.

Akae Nayue said with emotion: "Is this the world of adults?"

This easy-to-say statement earned a glare from Toru Amuro, who was busy with his work.

...Oh, he is the spirit behind, floating, so it's okay.

"Don't worry too much." The self-proclaimed kindhearted Akae Nazuki changed her posture and mercifully lay behind the keeper, saying lazily, "From the looks of it, it's clear that Kudo brat and that girl only heard the beginning part of what Kudo Yusaku said."

"That's why I wanted to test your intentions."

He curled his lips, relying on the fact that the ghost behind him was invisible and weightless, and simply moved up, with his long legs wrapped around Amuro Toru's waist, and his chin resting in the whorl of hair on top of Amuro Toru's blond head, like a long black cat living behind Amuro Toru: "If he heard what you said about the FBI earlier, this kid's curiosity would definitely go in that direction."

Even without weight, he could still feel the chill coming from behind him. That was the effect of the spirit behind him. Amuro Toru was almost frozen and staggered, and the veins on his forehead twitched.

While they were backstage and the three of them were talking to the actors, he turned his head and pretended to speak into his phone, "What are you talking about 'this kid'? You're not much older than him."

"Don't mistake death for age." Chi Jiang Na Yue said seriously, "So I'm no longer a child. If you calculate, I'm already 26 years old."

"A 26-year-old who needs someone to carry him around?" Toru Amuro asked back, a little speechless.

"Okay." Akae Nazuki shook his head regretfully. If he had a real body, Amuro Toru could have expected that his hair would be messed up by this guy. Then he said readily, "Then I'm six years old."

It has been a long time since Toru Amuro felt so choked up that he was speechless.

Calm down! He advised himself not to bother with the child.

If no one but him could see the little devil that was bullying him on his back, Amuro Toru was sure that he would jump up and try to throw Akae Nazuki off. Absolutely.

What he didn't know was that what Akajinazuki himself was actually thinking at this moment was 'I'll go back to the main world and try to catch Zero-kun. It'll feel pretty good without having to walk.'

He was still thinking: This little ghost clearly knows that it will be very cold when the spirit behind is close to humans? There is air conditioning in this place, is he trying to freeze him to death?

Toru Amuro suspected that he really owed Akajiang Nayue a huge sum of money in his previous life, and he came to repay the debt in this life.

This made him lose the interest in getting to know Kudo Yukiko properly - since Akae Nayue had reminded him that there was something wrong with Vermouth, how could he still believe everything Vermouth said and really get close to Kudo Yukiko?

Toru Amuro is not stupid, on the contrary, he is very smart.

There must be a pit here, and Bermode is waiting for him to jump in.

While he was talking to Chijiang Nayue, the three people on the other side also finished chatting with the actors. Although they were disappointed that Sharon did not come, the actors were still very kind and said that they could take them to the stage to take a look before the show started.

Kudo Yukiko was very interested and was about to nod in agreement, but her sleeve was pulled by her son.

Looking down, Kudo Shinichi was trying to make her refuse with his eyes - the talkative Mr. Amuro didn't seem to be planning to go on the tour, and he even wanted to follow the other party!

Mr. Amuro, who is very good at talking, did not plan to visit at first, until Akae Nazuki, who admitted that she had played the role of a little mute since she was six years old and pretended to be a large back ornament, suddenly said, "It's very interesting, let's follow them? These actors are not simple."

Amuro Toru paused, then gestured to him to continue without changing his expression.

"Hera and Michael have been dating for at least five years." Chi Jiang Na Yue didn't think there was anything wrong. He shared what he saw with relish, and directly used the names of the characters played by the actors instead of their real names that he had no interest in remembering. "But Athena and Aphrodite are also dating Michael."

The gentle and polite smile on Amuro Toru's lips froze for a second.

Before he could stop her, the little devil had already happily finished: "What's even more interesting is that the fierce-looking Elise is actually married to Michael!"

A series of coughs came out of Amuro Toru's throat. He apologized to the others whose eyes were drawn to him, and then struggled to suppress the urge to look at that 'Michael' with shocked eyes.

My goodness, is this raising fish? This is basically Aquaman, raising fish around him...Are you really not afraid of a car accident? Even when he was doing HoneyTrap, he didn't play like this.

"So," Chijiang Nanyue's voice quickly cooled down, and it sounded like she was less interested in what she was saying than the gossip before, "That Aphrodite is going to kill her Michael, and she even carries a gun with her, how boring."

"Do you want to stop her?" Chijiang Nayue asked the question in an affirmative tone.

It was as if he knew that after learning about this, Toru Amuro would definitely choose to stop it.

Kudo Shinichi, who had been paying attention to Amuro Toru, suddenly noticed that Amuro Toru's expression became subtle. He didn't understand what he meant, and he said to the others: "Sorry, I won't go with you. It's almost time for the show, right?"

The actors looked at the time and exclaimed, "Oh, really! It's time for us to go on stage. Come and play with us after the show is over!"

Kudo Shinichi frowned, feeling that things were not simple.

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The ticket that Vermode gave Toru Amuro was not for an ordinary seat, but for an independent observation deck on the second floor. Therefore, with them being the only ones left, Toru Amuro finally pressed his forehead with a slightly tired look after confirming that there was no eavesdropping around.

When he was on the plane, he anticipated that it would be impossible for him to keep his identity a secret from Chijiang for long, and he was prepared to drop the mask of "Public Security Undercover" at any time. Even though the little devil still had an organization's code name on him, Toru Amuro knew that the other party was not interested in his identity at all.

Therefore, he was not too worried about being discovered by Akae Nazuki. When he heard the affirmative question "Do you want to stop her?", Amuro Toru immediately understood what Akae Nazuki meant.

It is impossible for the other party to believe that an intelligence officer working for a dark organization would choose to save ordinary people who have nothing to do with him. The fact that Chijiang Nayue said this can only mean that her identity has been discovered.

Only undercover agents care about the lives of ordinary people.

Amuro Toru unexpectedly and inexplicably trusted Akae Nazuki, which made him not say anything stupid like "How did you know?", but instead he and the other party tacitly skipped the topic of introducing their identities, as naturally as if they had been honest with each other from the beginning.

No one wanted to continue the conversation with the heavy weight of the undercover identity.

"There's a good chance that Vermode also knows about Aphrodite wanting to kill Michael." Akae Nayue was no longer on Amuro Toru's back. He sat on the narrow railing of the observation deck, crossed his long legs, and looked at the performance on the stage with a cold expression as he lowered his eyelids.

He said it casually without any explanation, and made a gesture of "□□" with his hands in front of his face. He turned his head to look at Amuro Toru and suddenly smiled brightly. His whole spirit came alive: "This angle is just right. You can prepare for rescue. Use the gun you brought."

"Bang." Akae Nayue imitated the sound of a bullet leaving a gun and narrowed her eyes. "Go ahead, Mr. Amuro!"

Amuro Toru looked at the little devil who was acting like a childish kid for once, and swallowed the words that were about to come out of his mouth, and replaced them with other protests.

"Don't talk like I'm some kind of Pokémon." He sighed helplessly, as if he had let out all the anger he hadn't felt in the years he was an undercover agent. As smoke rose from the stage, he aimed his gun at the hand of Aphrodite on the stage, "Tell me about Belmode later."

Very strange.

Amuro Toru knew that he shouldn't be like this, whether he continued to complain along with the little devil, or was treated as a mobile human rack, or had trust from unknown sources... It shouldn't be like this. He has always been cautious and difficult to approach, and he was like this when he first came into contact with Akae that month.

But for some reason, his tolerance towards Chijiang Nayue reached this level within just one day.

Are they so familiar with each other? Why does Toru Amuro always have an illusion? Whenever he wonders if he is too relaxed, that illusion reminds him that 'this is how you and this little devil should be.'

"Maybe..." After confirming that he had hit the target with his shot, he turned around quickly and fled out of the theater according to the direction given to him by the smart boy behind him, his words drifting away with the wind.

Chi Jiang Na Yue curiously walked over and asked, "What?"

"Maybe I really owed you in my last life." Amuro Toru said sincerely.

"It doesn't matter. Anyway, I'm pestering you to 'collect debts' now." The little devil laughed and said, "Let's go, this place is not suitable for us. If you are ready, we will start to escape next!"