Chapter 14: Whisky Group Meeting at the Distillery
"We were told to assemble at the base, but now they've left us alone..."
There was a fake smile on Amuro Toru's face, but his tone was very casual. If you ignore the hint of coldness in his smiling eyes.
There was a glass of bourbon on the bar in front of him. He bent his index finger and flicked the rim of the glass with his fingertips. When the glass made a crisp sound, he raised his eyes, and looked directly at Gin with a smile in his purple-gray eyes.
"Can I understand that you want to give us a warning?"
The atmosphere fell into a tense stagnation after Amuro Toru finished speaking. The two men who were also sitting at the bar and had been given new code names also turned their eyes to Gin. They did not speak tentatively like Amuro Toru did, but the clear questioning intent in their eyes was obvious.
"Hey! Bourbon!" Vodka, realizing the change in atmosphere, stepped forward immediately.
"Well, don't get excited." Amuro Toru smiled and raised his hands, making a 'surrender' gesture. "Just a friendly reminder, we are now peers, not...superior and subordinate."
"Furthermore, we suddenly received an order to form a team, but you're not even willing to give us any information about your future teammates?"
Gin didn't even raise his eyes. He stared at the wine in the glass. The light yellow wine looked almost green under the light. "Soon, you will be able to meet."
"It seems like the new teammates don't have much sense of time."
Despite the dissatisfaction of the three codename members, Vodka tried to find a reasonable excuse for the player's lateness: "Maybe he encountered an emergency and was delayed on the way..."
"Gin-senpai! Vodka-san!"
Vodka turned back towards the exit: "Ah! She's here."
'she? '
The three people except Gin keenly caught this information and turned their heads to look at the source of the sound. Among them, Amuro Toru's mood was slightly different.
Is it an illusion?
He had heard this voice somewhere before...
Toru Amuro's gaze naturally shifted to the only entrance of the bar.
The purple-gray pupils suddenly shrank when he saw the other person's face in the dim environment, and then returned to normal in the next moment. The gloomy pupils reflected the figure approaching in their direction.
Shuichi Akai, who had also met the player once, was much calmer.
When Shuichi Akai received the order from Gin to form a team of four, including himself, he had the possibility that he would be among the other three candidates.
He chose to start with the organization's top killer, deliberately showing his outstanding abilities and a ruthless character that treated his enemies without mercy, so as to obtain the code name as quickly as possible.
Gin, who would hardly tolerate a fool staying around, took her on the mission, which was the most direct proof that she had some special talents that he had not yet discovered.
Meeting with two bottles of whiskey who have been in the limelight in the organization recently, the last one has not arrived yet, so they meet at one of the organization's bases disguised as a bar. Gin frowned more and more impatiently, and Vodka also looked towards the door frequently.
Shuichi Akai had some guesses about the identity of the other missing person.
Because of this, he was prepared in advance. The pair of eyes that flashed with a special light in the dim environment fell on Gin and Vodka's faces one after another. The clear eyes like glass beads moved slightly, looked around, and after seeing the faces of everyone present clearly, they looked directly at him with purpose and waved at him friendly. Akai Shuichi was able to nod calmly.
Compared to his two colleagues/contemporaries who had seen the player, Scotland's mood was purer. He took a sip of the wine named after him, opened his eyes, and felt a touch of bright color burst into his vision that was once dominated by darkness.
However, it was just his illusion.
Like most members of the organization, she wore black clothes that looked like crow's wings.
Maybe it has something to do with her age, but she walks with a playful attitude, deliberately taking a slightly heavier step, causing the hem of her clothes to sway slightly as she walks.
Scotland put down his glass in silence, and turned his gloomy eyes to Gin.
"explain."
As Fushimi Kyoji approached, she heard Gin speaking to her in a concise manner.
The Berle Tower clearly placed on the bar left no doubt that if she answered too late, she would be shot at the next second.
"Fushimi, sit here!" When the player was about to speak, Vodka asked her to sit down.
Fushimi Kyoji looked at Bo Le Ta, and then at Gin who didn't react to Vodka's behavior, and chose to move to the empty seat between the two of them and sit down.
The U-shaped bar makes it easy to make eye contact with everyone at every seat. One of the benefits of being in a criminal organization is that you don't have to greet everyone present.
Politeness often does not circulate within organizations.
"Vermouth-senpai knew I was called here, and before she left, she suddenly said she wanted to teach me her most proud skill." Fushimi Kyoji repeated Vermouth's words to her verbatim, "So it delayed me a little."
Gin didn't comment on what Vermouth taught the players, but only said, "Don't reveal your whereabouts to the intelligence personnel."
"Hey, you'd better be careful with your words. Gathering intelligence is a compulsory course. Don't shoot innocent people because of insignificant details." Amuro Toru narrowed his eyes, and a flashing look passed subtly across the player's face.
The first thing that came to his mind was that Vermouth was known as the Thousand-Faced Witch in the organization.
Disguise...?
"Heh." The only response he got was a sneer from Gin.
"I'll notify you of the follow-up mission via email." Vodka stood up at the same moment Gin did. His dark green eyes swept across the faces of the three people in front of him, and his oppressive aura radiated outward without restraint. "If any of you are a rat...just hope I don't discover your tail."
Before leaving, Gin raised his eyes and gave the player a look.
Um……
What does it mean?
"Since we'll be working together for some time in the future, please take good care of me."
Amuro Toru took the initiative to approach and sit in the vacant seat. His eyes narrowed slightly and his tone was friendly: "We occasionally run into Lei and Scotland at the training ground, but we don't know anything about Miss Fushimi. So that we can get along well later, would you like to introduce yourselves?"
"Although this is not the first time we have met," he added.
He recognized her.
Fushimi Kyoji blinked: "Do you like that gift?"
The smile on Amuro Toru's lips did not fade.
He was smiling, perhaps because he was looking at the player too intently, and Fushimi Kyoji felt a subtle sense of pressure - completely different from the feeling he gave him when they met last time.
"……certainly."
"Fushimi, Fushimi Kyoki." After introducing his full name, the player's eyes swept over the faces of the three bottles of whiskey in turn, "I know about you from the information."
"Bourbon, Scotch, Rye."
When the code name was called, the smile in Amuro Toru's eyes became even wider: "From what I know, the information of code members shouldn't be that easy to obtain?"
This sounded like a test, but he said the next second: "The code name members seem to have the authority to access relevant information..."
"No, I haven't got a codename yet." The player shook his head. "Your information was shown to me by Senior Gin, who told me to keep an eye on your rat tail."
...In Amuro Toru's expectation, there was absolutely no possibility that the other party would directly expose the fact that she was sent by Gin to monitor them.
"I see. Please forgive my probing." Amuro Toru apologized for his offense and winked at her suggestively. "Because intelligence officers always have private channels to get some gossip, they almost thought we were 'the same kind'."
similar?
"Based on our relationship, can I be considered half of Vermouth's apprentice?"
He laughed.
Toru Amuro did not lie. He was recruited by the organization as an intelligence dealer and was thrown into the hands of Vermouth for further training for several months. It would not be an exaggeration to say that he was a disciple.
These were all real experiences, and Amuro Toru was not worried that the other party would notice the inconsistencies and be exposed.
Taking advantage of the distance between him and Lei and Scotland, as long as they lowered their voices, their conversation would be inaudible, Toru Amuro gradually used words to lead the topic to "Vermouth".
At the same time, he had to grasp the right measure. If the other party was a pleasure-seeker who was sensitive to emotions as he thought, and noticed his intention, it could be said that it was the intelligence officer's subconscious action.
"But it's all an equal exchange of benefits. However, if it was Miss Fushimi, I would probably treat her differently."
The player noticed the disappointment expressed by the other party: "If you want to know, Vermouth-senpai probably won't mind."
Amuro Toru's eyes moved slightly, and she realized from the casual tone of the other party's words that what Vermouth gave her was most likely not about disguise.
His concern for the players suddenly waned, and Amuro Toru was about to say something casually, trying to change the subject as naturally as possible, but soon he heard a name that was hard to ignore:
"However, if Gin-senpai were here, he definitely wouldn't have told you so openly."
It was also Gin who made Toru Amuro control his patience, hold his breath and listen carefully to the content when Kyo Fushimi approached.
He heard it!
He heard...
——How can we reasonably report the overspent task funds in the task report without being discovered by the finance department?
Toru Amuro: ...? ^ ^
…Who wants to learn how to be a salary thief?
He's good at this kind of thing!
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