Chapter 96 Forty-seven Shotas

To blame Karasuma Renya, this was what Akae Nayue had thought of at the beginning of the script. In order to achieve his goal, he had set up the stage long before he knew it, and set up one trap after another for Karasuma Renya, which led to the emergence of this world-famous painting that is beyond comprehension.

From an angle that Bourbon couldn't see, A, who had forgotten how to make facial expressions in the setting, smiled at Karasuma Renya in an extremely evil way, shocking Karasuma Renya to instantly realize that this guy had been playing dumb from beginning to end, and immediately planned to expose A's "true face".

A was much more experienced than him. The moment Karasuma Renya looked over, he grabbed Bourbon's hand and moved it back, looking so forbearing and innocent, so pitiful.

If A's setting hadn't been for the Three-Nothing Shota, Akajenna Tsuki would have planned to use the three-piece set of weakness that he hadn't used for a long time.

Karasuma Renya on the opposite side looked so angry that she couldn't even finish her sentences.

Chi Jiang looked at the scene where the old man almost had a myocardial infarction calmly, and even wanted to lend a helping hand and help him die quickly.

But isn't this too cheap for this guy?

So Akae Nazuki controlled the Last Order and jumped onto Karasuma Renya's bed, grabbed the alarm that he had hidden under the quilt, and then when she returned to A, she threw it on the ground and stepped on it, then turned around and raised her eyebrows at Karasuma Renya.

"I'm sorry." Last Order said kindly, "Rum has turned to ash. No one will come to save you."

Karasuma Renya's eyes almost popped out of his head, his chest heaving rapidly, and a hoarse sound coming from his throat.

Bourbon's mouth twitched at the side. He felt as if the positions were reversed and they were the bad guys who beat up the centenarian for no reason.

Bourbon then realized that this centenarian was the boss of the organization, and instantly felt that this kind of thing might happen a few more times.

According to Akae Nazuki's idea, Karasuma Renya would not die so easily just once. He would let the old man experience 10,572 deaths in his sleep with the pain restored 100% as he said - the two extra times were the last one and the real A - and the rest had nothing to do with Akae Nazuki.

You know, the one who was killed by Karasuma Renya was not him, but Little A who died early in this world.

The savior doesn't care about the 10,000 times. It's just the script he wrote. For his script to come true, it also needs to be judged feasible by the world consciousness.

This also shows that the world consciousness believes that if conditions permit, Karasuma Renya will really do this, and will do it even more outrageous than this script.

Anyway, Chijiang Nayue is ready. When Xiao A is resurrected, he will immediately have an excellent living environment, and the old man, his enemy, will be tortured to the point where he cannot live or die. By then, it will be up to Xiao A to decide whether to kill the old man or not.

Besides, if Karasuma Renya, who is detained by the police, were to die and come back to life in her dreams, wouldn't this be more intimidating to those ignorant old men who didn't learn their lesson and didn't know how to live or die who might attack A?

A took a step forward and knelt on one knee at the edge of the bed, his knee sinking into the soft bedding. He approached the man in the soft light.

"God loves the world, Karasuma Renya." A pronounced the other person's name for the first time, no longer using the title that had bound him for twenty years. From Bourbon's perspective, it seemed a bit sad and compassionate at first glance, but it disappeared the next second. "But no matter in the past, present or future, no God will be watching you."

Karasuma Renya longs to reverse time and compares himself to God and Satan, but no one in this world can become a true god, and no one can play with time without cost.

A stared straight at the person opposite him. No one noticed that his eyes were shining slightly, bewitching Karasuma Renya's mind. His words seemed to have magic, and every word of them penetrated into the latter's mind and could not be shaken off.

"May you have a long sleep."

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"You mean, after just one sentence like that, Karasuma Renya really fell into a coma?" Scotland rubbed his forehead with a strange expression, "Are you sure she wasn't pretending?"

"I think so too, but it's true." Bourbon had a headache, "Now there's one more thing to cover up..."

"Just say you fainted." Lei said slowly while leaning against the wall.

Bourbon glared at him. "I know that without you telling me, FBI!"

The three of them suddenly became quiet again.

After a while, Scotland spoke first: "The explosion area is being excavated, but we have only found Rum's body so far."

There is no extra individual who should have died with Rum.

The cigarette in Lei's mouth trembled in the air without lighting it. He looked at the ceiling for a while, and his voice was a little unclear: "Ah, this is also one of their secrets."

The biggest trouble with people like them getting along is that no matter how close their alliances are, they will always have their own secrets, secrets that they will never tell anyone.

Whiskey and the other two did learn about their plans from Granti and the others...

"What about the last work?" Scotland asked suddenly.

They had gathered outside the lounge not long ago, and almost everyone in the manor above had been controlled. There was no news yet about the situation of the organization's base abroad, but Bourbon knew from Lei's calm look that it must be good.

By this time, the destruction of the organization was almost over.

Bourbon always felt a little relieved, mainly because the most dangerous and critical things (such as Karasuma Renyalum and bases in various places) were done by the Grantis. This kind of success made him feel unreal, and the other two must have thought so too.

Bourbon paused and his face changed.

"Last Order. He just said he was going to get something very important, and A went with him." He murmured, "Yes, the purpose of A's cooperation with us has been achieved, but the purpose of Last Order was to get the tool that could save A from Karasuma Renya from the beginning."

The question is, what exactly is that prop?

The three had always thought that the Grandis were referring to the fact that Karasuma Renya had a method to keep A's mechanical heart going, but shouldn't that kind of thing be kept in the research institute? Why would Last Order and A need to go alone to get it...!

The three of them looked at each other, and then ran towards the passage leading to the manor above.

On the other side, a pair of boys who looked like twins were walking hand in hand in the corridor on the second floor of the manor.

The people here were under control, and in order to avoid accidentally destroying any important evidence hidden in the corners, the public security department did not leave a large force to search each floor. Instead, they guarded all the doors outside and did not let anyone in, intending to conduct a full-scale search after it was completely over.

These are two cheap little potatoes that can be sneaked directly from the underground laboratory.

For a moment, the only sound in the corridor was the rubbing of clothes. The sound of footsteps was almost drowned out by the thick carpet.

A was the first to speak. He said calmly, "As expected, you guys made some changes to the memories you uploaded."

A never remembered seeing what the Grantis were looking for, but when Last Work casually mentioned to Bourbon that he was coming up, Bourbon showed an expression of sudden enlightenment, and it was obvious that he knew what Last Work was going to look for.

Even Bourbon, whom he had only known for a few hours, knew about it, which meant that it was obviously not something that Last Work did alone. There must have been other Granthis involved. Even so, A still doesn't know about it, which proves that the Granthis were deliberately hiding it from him, to the point that they even deleted his memory.

"Now can you tell me what you are looking for?" A turned his head and looked at his only remaining brother, and said bluntly, "I don't like this."

The Grantis all knew that A hated being deceived, and the final work was no exception.

The last work shook his right hand, which was holding A's, in a flattering way: "You will know it soon, brother. This is a surprise we prepared for you!"

It was also a farewell gift that all of them prepared for their brother.

The last work is brisk: Of course, he won’t tell his brother about this.

The two of them walked into Karasuma Renya's study with a clear purpose, and did not avoid surveillance at all along the way, which made it convenient for the Whiskey Team to find them by following the surveillance.

Strangely, the latter rushed over but found nothing, as there was no one in the study.

They searched for a long time and finally set their sights on the only floor-standing mirror.

"There's something behind it," Lei said calmly, tapping the mirror. "It's a two-sided mirror."

Bourbon turned around and quickly closed the curtains in the study, and Scotch closed the door. It suddenly became dark in here, and they were able to vaguely see what was happening behind the mirror.

There turned out to be a brightly lit secret room.

"No, this mirror is specially made." After the three tried to smash it but failed, Bourbon frowned, "Do you have guns?"

Scotland was silent for a few seconds, then smiled bitterly and said, "I did bring it."

But not long ago, when Last Order and A left together, they expressed their concern about an accident and asked them for their guns. The three of them thought that the situation in the laboratory was under control, so they gave them the guns without hesitation.

Unexpectedly, the final action was to keep them out.

The three people looked at the two people inside with worry through the mirror - now they could only wait and see what would happen while trying to find a way to get in.

When Bourbon saw A wearing his coat, he suddenly remembered that he probably still had a wiretap in his pocket.

In other words, they could hear what the two people were saying inside!

Move forward a little bit in time, before the three people arrived——

After entering the study, the last work reluctantly let go of the hands that the two were holding, trotted to the back of Karasuma Renya's desk, searched for a while, and then held up a wooden box that looked very familiar to A.

"That's it!" The Last Order pushed the desk, stood on tiptoe with half of his head exposed, and winked at A. "Come to think of it, Brother, you don't seem to know what's in this?"

Last Work took a step back, allowing A to see him pry open the box with practiced movements.

Then, Last Work carefully took out a page filled with words from the box.

"This is a magical thing, just like the universal wish-granting machine in the game." The Last Order said, "We found that it can make any wish come true!"

After this absurd and completely unscientific thing was seriously said by the Last Work, it became more credible - A firmly believed that the Grantis would not lie to him.

So, A nodded seriously and said, "So, do you have any wishes that you want to realize? Like becoming a human, or living longer or something like that?"

The last work sighed.

"Sometimes we really think that Brother is playing dumb." He looked at A and whispered, "Brother is going to die, right?"

A froze, pursed his lips and refused to look at Last Work, saying, "I have lived longer than all the Grantis."

"This is different." Last Work came over and simply grabbed A again, walked towards the floor-to-ceiling mirror, and said without looking back.

"We all know that Brother-sama's heart has been in trouble for a long time... But don't worry now, we won't let Brother-sama die."

A felt a strange emotion in his chest. He couldn't describe how he felt when he heard these words. It wasn't until the Last Work pulled him into the secret room behind the floor-to-ceiling mirror that A woke up from his dream.

"You have to pay a price for this," he said firmly, "otherwise, you wouldn't have kept it a secret from me until now, and Karasuma Renya wouldn't have fulfilled his wish until now."

Last Work had already walked to the center of the secret room with the book page in hand, and had put some distance between him and A. Upon hearing this, he turned around and looked over, and readily admitted, "Indeed, the price of such a big wish is something Karasuma Renya cannot afford. He can only use the wishing machine to fulfill those small wishes."

Fake.

In fact, the page in Karasuma Renya's hand is a torn page of the "real book". In the world of people with special abilities, it can indeed fulfill the wishes of others in some way, but in this world that is incompatible with special abilities, it can only be a weakened version of Doraemon.

A stared at the final work.

"Everyone hid me just to prepare for this moment." Last Order said, "We can't let Brother know in advance, because--"

"Because I won't agree with you doing this, right?" A's voice was very dry, "That's enough, this is the last work, I'm already very satisfied, don't..."

"But we are not satisfied." Last Work loosened his grip, and the important page fell to the ground.

"We are not satisfied, brother." He repeated, "We will not let brother die."

As he said this, he finally pushed the corners of his mouth with his fingers, trying to smile.

Even after he moved his hand away, the curve of his mouth did not lower, but became more and more natural. His curved eyes were full of childish innocence as he looked at A intently.

The latter showed an incredible expression and stood there in a daze.

——This was the first smile of the 10,571 Grantis.

How is this possible? A himself forgot how to smile in the past twenty years, but the Grantys are obviously born without the facial expression module.

Their emotions are only influenced by A. They cannot even freely make any facial expressions to express their emotions, and others can only guess their emotions with difficulty.

They are even more unable to understand human emotions than A - this is Granty's, and also the nature of these clones.

Is it possible to go against nature?

"Brother always says that we are happy people living in misfortune, and that we have the freedom to be bound by shackles. In fact, Brother is just blaming himself and feeling guilty." The Last Order rubbed his knuckles and said in a relaxed tone, "You think it's all your fault that we live in misfortune... I don't think so."

"Being able to be created as a clone of Brother-sama, and being able to live or die for Brother-sama, this is the luckiest thing." He said with a smile.

"Grandy is a lucky person. Her life is a happy one."

The last work suddenly took a step back, pointed the tip of the pen in his hand at his throat and stabbed it hard!

A's face showed such panic for the first time. At that moment, he didn't have time to think about anything. He took a step in that direction and blurted out: "Stop!"

The last work obviously heard it. He smiled and turned his wrist, showing his unharmed throat and the pen spinning between his fingers like magic.

He didn't poke it at all. A, who would normally be able to find it, was really fooled by this little trick.

The boy who looked exactly like A said to him slyly, "I win this round~"

At this time, A, who had already run to the front of the Last Order, was startled by the other party's tone and realized that something was wrong, but it was too late.

The ignored pages on the ground did not leave him a chance to maneuver. They rose into the air and emitted a dazzling white light beside the two of them. Within the range of the white light, A felt that his limbs were trapped in the suddenly sticky air and he could not move. However, the Last Work was still able to move freely.

The boy who looked exactly like him looked up at the universal wishing machine that was floating up and pretending to be a light bulb.

The Grantis are very clear about where their inhuman characteristics are manifested. They don't care about worldly rules at all. They do whatever they want without any scruples.

Including changing A's inevitable fate.

"Is there a big difference between humans and non-humans? Is the boundary between science and unscience clear? Not necessarily, Brother-sama doesn't care about such things." The Last Order retracted his gaze, breaking the silence, and announced loudly in a joyful tone, "So, we love Brother-sama the most!"

A couldn't hear what the Last Order was saying at all. Urged by the crisis alarm in his mind, he subconsciously rushed forward and wanted to interrupt the ceremony that was already coming to an end.

He only managed to hold onto air. As he moved, the Last Work lightly fell backwards—and then fell heavily to the ground.

The sound of the last work that floated over suddenly faded away.

"Ah, so lucky, I'm the only Granty who can complete the mission by your side."

He lay on his back on the ground, giggling, his arms stretched upward with trembling hands, exposing the vitals of a dying man without any cover, and looked at A who was so close at hand with a dazed look.

Then, he said coquettishly, "It's so cold, can you hug me, brother?"

Condition A reflexively tried to grab Last Order's wrist, but it missed.

Boom! Something lost its power and fell to the ground.

A's hand froze in mid-air and he slowly lowered his eyes.

He could not find any emotion other than contentment on the face of the man on the ground.

A confused sound escaped from his throat, and A couldn't even utter a complete sentence. He stood there staring at the corpse, looking somewhat pitiful.

What happened? A thought with a blank face.

He clutched the fabric of his clothes on his chest, and his palms clearly felt the long-lost rhythm, which washed away his reason. ——The heart that should have returned to silence twenty years ago, the heart that should have been dissected out long ago, was now beating vividly.

As if to answer A's confusion, the page of the book that was the culprit floated down from mid-air and landed in A's palm.

A lowered his head and saw a sentence written in childish handwriting in the only clean corner of the paper.

【I would like to dedicate my heart to our beloved brother. 】

When he came to his senses, A was already lying on the boy's chest, with his ears pressed against the boy's still warm skin. His fingers were trembling uncontrollably as he stroked the corners of his raised mouth and his eyes that were still curved after he closed them.

It's so strange, why should we be so happy about death, which is such a painful and sad thing?

I don't know how much time passed, but A suddenly let go of all his strength and hugged Last Order tightly in a ferocious posture.

He hung his head and unexpectedly cried like a real child.

"I hate you so much, I hate you the most..." A, who is not good at talking trash, just kept repeating these harmless words in a crying voice, "I will never forgive you!"

AI understand everything.

The Grantis loved him so deeply and desperately that they wanted to see him free, happy, and live forever.

So they went against their own survival instincts and filled the ditches on his long journey like moths to a flame, so that he could step on their hearts and be lifted up by them and sent to higher places.

Fly, they said, fly, brother, fly to the future you want.

From now on, he can be the wind, a bird, or a dandelion that flies away when blown; he can love, hate, or accept this world; he can feel everything with his eyes, hands, and kisses.

Because his wish is Granty's wish.

He was free.

A spent twenty years longing for the trust and recognition of others, hoping to be truly loved, and hoping to stand out as a human being. He never looked back.

From now on, there is no turning back.

Even when he was imprisoned on the laboratory table and allowed to be tortured by others, A never shed a tear, but now he was twitching his shoulders and crying and murmuring breathlessly.

"…Am I the one left behind again?"

From the beginning when he just shed silent tears to the uncontrollable sobbing, A seemed to want to vent all the crying that the Grantis had not experienced in the past twenty years. He could no longer control the valves of his tears until he was exhausted from crying.

When Bourbon and the other two finally found a way to open the mirror door and rushed in, they found that A, who seemed to have calmed down after stopping crying, had his empty eyes wide open and was holding a pen on the pages of a book.

"This is the universal wish-making machine." A muttered to himself in a low voice.

"It can bring them back. Is that okay? It must be okay. I can exchange it for anything, as long as... as long as...!"

They stood there as if their feet were rooted, and for some reason no one interrupted this state of A. They watched the falling tears wet the pages again, watched the ink stains on the pages spread, and watched the young hand keep writing until it ran out of strength.

A wrote down his thoughts with hope, but nothing happened.

"Give my brother back to me..." the child sobbed and shrank, like the mournful cry of a migratory bird.

But there was silence in the room, and the pen fell to the ground, pressing on the middle of the mess of pages.

There was only a slight "click" sound.

No one said a word.*

【END】

"We will go against our nature, against our instincts, and love you forever."

BadEnding【Dolly's Selfish Gene】