My teammates turned out to be Gin and Rai, and it was an offline mission, is it that exciting? !

Jiang Lai was shocked.

In the previous amusement park incident, Lamb Icewine also worked with the two of them remotely - to be precise, it was Gin who assigned him the task and asked him to work with Ley.

From this point of view, Gin probably recognized the ability of Little Lamb Ice Wine, which was a good thing. Jiang Lai thought in his heart. However, correspondingly, last time he revealed the fact that Ice Wine was Little Lamb, and once again cheated Akai Shuichi of his money.

The ill-fated relationship between Xiao Mian Yang Ice Wine and Akai Shuichi has really become very deep in these money transactions (frauds)!!

This time they have to do it offline... When Shuichi Akai sees the little sheep up close, will he really not do anything to the little sheep?

Although both parties know that they are currently in the same camp under the cooperation of the hidden boss and the FBI, this does not affect the use of missions to bully the little sheep and vent their anger!

Wei, little sheep, danger.

Jiang Lai pondered for a moment and decided to follow Gin.

Big Brother Gin, no matter what, will not let Lei deal with the technicians for no reason! The technicians are very important in the mission! !

Jiang Lai, who was lying on the sofa, heard the sound of the door opening. He turned around and saw the figure of the silver-haired boy.

"Hey, Brother Jiang Lai is back!" A smile appeared on Kurosawa Akira's face.

"Xiao Zhao is out of school." Jiang Lai waved his hand, "Where's Lu Chuan?"

"Midorikawa-san's work hasn't finished yet, so I'm going home by myself today."

It is very common for Japanese elementary school students to go to and from school by themselves. However, since it was convenient for them to go there, Jiang Lai and Morobushi Kagemitsu would often drive to pick up Kurosawa Akira.

When both of them had something to do, Kurosawa Akira would go home alone.

"It's really hard work. On weekends when other kids are resting and having fun, Xiao Zhao, you still have to go to school for training." Jiang Lai said with emotion, "How is the training with Xiao Heizi going?"

"It feels good." Kurosawa Akira's long silver hair was tied up high, looking neat and tidy. "If you want to gain something, you have to give more than others - and it's actually very happy to be with friends."

"As long as Xiao Zhao is happy~" Jiang Lai responded with a smile.

Kurosawa Akira, who was approaching, now looked at the coffee table in front of the sofa and noticed a few pieces of candy on it. His eyes lit up and he said, "Are these the beautiful candies that Brother Jiang Lai gave me?" The silver-haired boy reached out to take them.

"Oh no!" Jiang Lai quickly raised his hand to block it so that Kurosawa Akira wouldn't touch him.

"...Hey?" The silver-haired boy was taller than Jiang Lai who was lying on the sofa. He lowered his dark green eyes and tilted his head and asked, "Is that the beautiful candy that Brother Jiang Lai reserved for other children?"

"Not really." Jiang Lai put the candy away from the coffee table, "Someone gave it to me."

"Oh? These are candies given to Brother Jiang Lai by others." Kurosawa Akira pouted, "Some older brother or sister or kid gave them to me, so much so that Brother Jiang Lai was reluctant to share them with me."

"You can't eat it." Jiang Lai raised his hand and poked Kurosawa Akira on the forehead. "It's related to the organization." He said bluntly.

Kurosawa Akira quickly put away his awkward expression and asked seriously, "What happened, Brother Jiang Lai?"

"..." Jiang Lai did not answer immediately. He stood up from the sofa, sat up straight, and looked at Kurosawa Akira with his warm brown eyes. "Should we open our hearts and have a good chat about the organization, Xiao Zhao?" He asked softly with a warm smile, "Do you want to talk to me now?"

The silver-haired boy blinked gently, raised his bright eyes and replied, "Sure, Brother Jiang Lai."

The two sat together in the study, with a glass of water in front of each of them. However, Jiang Lai did not create an overly tense and formal atmosphere. Instead, he placed some snacks and fruits on the table and told Kurosawa Akira that they were just chatting and having a small family gathering.

The two exchanged very frankly about the hidden BOSS and the organizational information they knew about each other.

The information about the hidden boss is similar to what Jiang Lai analyzed at the time, that is, a location that has always existed and is inherited, and is intended to stop Karasuma Renya's experiment and restore the organization that once benefited mankind. And the mailbox was indeed conveyed to Jiang Lai by Kurosawa Akira using his suggestion ability.

Jiang Lai patted the other person's head and said, "Didn't I tell you not to use this skill on your family without their consent?"

"Just this once." Kurosawa Akira nodded obediently, and he raised his dark green eyes, "The main reason is that I'm not sure whether Brother Jiang Lai really wants to be this... so I gave him a conditional hint."

"Okay." Jiang Lai held his chin up and asked curiously, "Come to think of it, who was the neighbor who sent you to my house back then? And why did he choose me to be your guardian?"

"…There was a rumor that there was a fire in the organization that left no one alive." Kurosawa Akira blinked softly, "But it's not true that no one survived."

When Kurosawa Akira mentioned his deepest secret, Jiang Lai straightened his face and listened attentively.

Kurosawa Akira brushed it off lightly, and simply replied, "I happened to be staying right across from you. Well... I actually chose you because I feel comfortable with Brother Jiang Lai on weekdays, and we can see Brother Jingguang and Brother Matsuda together, so it feels like home."

A faint smile appeared on his face and his eyes were shining.

Jiang Lai was stunned for a moment, and thoughts emerged in his mind.

So...it's not actually about finding the next hidden boss, but about finding a home?

Indeed. After all, Kurosawa Akira will not grow up and age, and he is a hidden, truly perfect and successful experimental subject with a strong psychological suggestion ability. He can continue to be the hidden boss without passing it on to the next person.

When Kurosawa Akira walked out of the laboratory, he experienced a world that was completely different from the one he had lived in before.

Perhaps because he longed for such an ordinary life, Kurosawa Akira divided himself into two personalities, experiencing the perspective and thinking, warmth and happiness that a child should have.

He wanted to have a real childhood, and he chose his home.

Perhaps Kurosawa Akira once thought about giving up those things of hiding the BOSS and just being an ordinary child - but later he found that these things were too deeply involved with him and also connected with his beloved family members. If he could not eradicate the organization led by that gentleman, he would not be able to have a truly peaceful daily life.

Jiang Lai himself later expressed his desire to become the boss of the organization.

Of course Kurosawa Akira would realize this wish, so he neatly handed over the identity of the hidden boss to Jiang Lai, and secretly assisted him in achieving his goals.

There may be thorns on the road ahead, but they will always stick together through thick and thin.

Jiang Lai and Kurosawa Akira looked at each other. Many words did not need to be said, as the other party could understand them clearly.

They smiled at each other and then moved on to the next topic.

"Were these candies given by Pinot Noir? Has he set his sights on you?" asked Kurosawa Akira.

"Yes, I wasn't sure if there was anything wrong with these candies, so I brought them back anyway." Jiang Lai nodded. They had just exchanged information about Komiyayama Yuu.

"...Why do you always target Brother Jiang Lai? It's so annoying." Kurosawa Akira muttered to himself.

Jiang Lai half-jokingly said, "Maybe I'm possessed by some strange aura. Maybe I can go to the temple to worship next time." He made a pious gesture.

Kurosawa Akira raised his head: "However, as you said, Brother Jiang Lai, from the overall situation - maybe it's a good thing."

"Because from him, we can get the drugs that the organization is researching in real time, and we can develop something similar to an antidote based on these." Kurosawa Akira's eyes were as deep as a mountain lake. "This is very important, a turnaround."

"..." Jiang Lai blinked.

"Not all of the people under that gentleman are loyal, but they have to obey orders and show loyalty because they don't know the actual situation of the experiment and are afraid that they will be captured by the gentleman who organized the experiment and have their self-images erased and replaced with obedient personalities and false memories." Kurosawa Akira said softly, "After all, no one wants to be erased."

If a person is brainwashed and has new memories implanted into him, becoming a dog of the organization, then he is no longer the same person he once was. Jiang Lai understands this. That is why Akai Shuichi would rather be tortured to death by the side effects than let himself sink into depravity.

——Fortunately, there is Xiao Zhao.

"I'm not omnipotent," Kurosawa Akira responded. "So, if we can analyze and infer the organization's research direction based on these drugs, and then develop an antidote to the resistance... then the balance of victory will tilt towards us."

Jiang Lai thought for a moment and asked, "Hasn't anyone secretly researched an antidote before?"

"Yes." Kurosawa Akira tilted his head slightly, "He was the person in charge of finding the hidden bosses a few times before."

Jiang Lai nodded, and then asked curiously: "What happened next?"

"Later, the person in charge was found out, but the antidote research data may have been preserved and passed on to someone else." Kurosawa Akira spread his hands, "However, that possible other person also died due to some accident, and the whereabouts of the data are unknown."

"Who was it passed to?" Jiang Lai tried to explore the possible destination of the data from here.

"Hatsuji Miyano and Elena Miyano."

“Huh?” They turned out to be the parents of Miyano Shiho and Miyano Akemi! The Miyano family!

"However, I heard that they died in a laboratory fire." Kurosawa Akira continued, "The gentleman at the time was not aware that the research data was passed on to them, because they belonged to another research - that is, the reversal of time and life and death, not the memory aspect."

"But later, the gentleman found out about this from somewhere, and just in case..."

Jiang Lai pursed his lips and said, "Clean up the two remaining children in the Gongye family, right?"

"Because when the Miyano couple died, Miyano Shiho was just born. Even if the antidote data is still preserved, it will not be in her hands, but in her sister's hands - although her sister is not very old." Kurosawa Akira said, "In addition, Miyano Shiho's research talent is still useful to the organization."

Jiang Lai had an epiphany after hearing this: "Miyano Akemi's death was not due to the exposure of Akai Shuichi's identity, but because of the possibility of retaining the antidote research data!?"

"Yes, that's essentially what happened. The organization doesn't need the antidote data, so no matter where the data is, they just need to get rid of everyone who might know about it." Kurosawa Akira nodded. "However, the antidote data is also a secret. So they used the excuse of preventing Akai's brainwashing from failing to get rid of Miyano Akemi, who was close to him."

So that's how it is, Jiang Lai thought. No wonder the organization was so persistent in hunting down the defecting Shirley, more persistent than any other defecting member. It turned out that there was another layer of the Miyano family's identity, and they were worried about the secret being leaked.

“Those data…are they still useful after so many years?”

"It's useful because that was the data used to crack the drug from the very beginning." Kurosawa Akira exhaled. "Now it's much more difficult to crack it because that gentleman added a lot of things to the drug to confuse and disguise it."

"..." Jiang Lai was silent for two seconds, "The antidote data may have been destroyed in the laboratory fire along with the Miyano couple, or it may have been passed on to Miyano Akemi, who was not very old at the time. So the focus now is on the Miyano family..."

"Anyway, Miyano Shiho is most likely only exposed to APTX, which can reverse time and life and death." Kurosawa Akira blinked, "But this is also the focus of Haibara and Conan."

When the two were exchanging information just now, Kurosawa Akira said that he actually knew the true identities of Haibara Ai and Edogawa Conan.

"What about you, Xiao Zhao?" Jiang Lai jumped back and stared at the silver-haired boy. "If you want to grow up, do you need an antidote?"

Kurosawa Akira's legs stopped shaking under the table. He paused and said, "...Maybe."

"Maybe?" Jiang Lai tilted his head.

"...I don't know." Kurosawa Akira shook his head and replied in a muffled voice.

Jiang Lai was silent for a moment, raised his hand and rubbed Kurosawa Zhao's head gently: "It's okay, Xiao Zhao, everything will be fine - I will definitely find a way to help you."

The silver-haired boy looked up and said, "If Brother Jiang Lai was with me, this wouldn't matter."

"I can't always be with you." Jiang Lai pulled Kurosawa Akira's cheek, "If you stay a child forever, you'll have to write homework for the rest of your life."

"…Then you should grow up."

Jiang Lai smiled, then changed the subject and said thoughtfully: "So, the situation with Miyano Akemi is very important... No wonder Curacao, who belongs to the hidden boss camp, secretly rescued Akemi." He touched his chin, "But, I don't know what the specific situation is now. Do you think it's okay for me to contact Curacao using the hidden boss email?"

"It's better to do this after you get to know each other better and ensure that the contact process is safe and trusting of each other." Kurosawa Akira's voice is childish and calm. "It's not appropriate to contact rashly."

"Then let's wait a little longer." Jiang Lai exhaled, "There's no rush. I'll try to get more drugs from Pinot Noir first, and then we can do some research here."

"You can give it to Brother Midorikawa and have him contact the Public Security Bureau's research institute for research." Kurosawa Akira reminded, "Because they have a research foundation. The previous incident at the hospital and the drugs that Brother Hagiwara had were all researched by them."

"Okay." Jiang Lai nodded.

Although he couldn't explain his hidden BOSS identity to Morobushi Jingguang yet, he had no intention of hiding other matters from him.

After returning from the Magic Villa this time, he also planned to explain to Morobushi Kagemitsu the identity of Komiyayama Yuu Noir Pinot, as well as the information that the other party was currently targeting him and might get drugs.

Jiang Lai still had one last question in his mind, which was what the relationship between Xiao Zhao and Gin was. However, seeing what Kurosawa Akira said before and how he was just downplaying the past, he didn't ask any more questions.

Since Xiao Zhao doesn't want to talk about it right now, I won't ask for now. Maybe he will know it sooner or later - even if he doesn't know, it doesn't matter. Jiang Lai touched Kurosawa Zhao's head. He always respects children's choices and secrets.

The weather in Osaka is neither too hot nor too cold, and the sunshine is quite dazzling.

Shuichi Akai stood at the agreed meeting place, thinking casually in his mind.

There is ice wine in this mission. When this name was mentioned, Akai Shuichi had a migraine, and his emerald eyes narrowed. This guy, we used to contact online, this time I can finally meet him offline...

Shuichi Akai is certainly not the type of person who would silently suffer in vain. It is certainly reasonable for him to make some appropriate counterattacks without affecting the actual mission and safety.

I don't know what kind of person that guy is. He has a weird habit of speaking like a junior high school student... Of course, there is no way there are junior high school students in an organization like this. Speaking of which, if he says such a bad-taste line with a mature face offline, it's really disgusting.

Someone was approaching from the side, and the sharp-eyed Akai Shuichi immediately raised his eyes to look——

A boy with brown curly hair came bouncing into the sight, his cheeks still had some chubby, tenderness. He looked at Akai Shuichi with his dark eyes, raised the corners of his mouth playfully, waved and said hello: "Hey, is this Mr. Morohoshi? Sorry for waiting for a long time."

Akai Shuichi: "??!"

Ice wine! ?

Is this guy really a minor?

The author has something to say: Kurosawa Akira: It turns out that this candy wasn’t given to me, “Who Touched My Candy”

Jiang Lai: It was given to me by someone else.

Jiang Lai: Good guys, the secret of the Miyano family! Where are you, Mingmei——

Jiang Lai: You never expected that, sir, you thought everything was cleaned up, but in fact, I came to look for it secretly again! Bring it to you!

That gentleman: ...

Shuichi Akai: There won't be any minors in the organization, right? It's really chilling to see an old man with such a face saying "meehee".

Shuichi Akai: WOC Ice Wine is underage! ?