Chapter 406

After a long absence, I had another unpleasant dream.

The scene in the dream was like an old faded photo, with a warm and sickly light yellow hue.

"Wake up - Jin, the mission is completed, we should go back."

A man's voice vaguely sounded nearby.

"I am not a child anymore, you should take me with you - Gin."

The boy who had just woken up from the back seat said this to the man who sat in the driver's seat.

"I'm sorry, I'll take you there next time - but forget it this time. After all, seeing that you were sleeping so soundly, I couldn't bear to disturb you."

The man with short black hair smiled and answered the boy.

The man and the boy's meeting had not been friendly - in long-faded memories, the two had met at the organization's training facility.

When they first met, the man with short black hair shot the boy - from a long distance and damaged the training facilities.

——Of course, the boy’s face was also injured because he failed to dodge in time.

However, the boss of the organization seemed very angry at that time, and scolded the man who was "Gin" at that time.

So after Gin brought the boy, who was still called Kurosawa Jin at that time, out of the facility, they first went to a research institute belonging to an organization. Although both Gin and Kurosawa Jin thought that it was no problem to leave a scar, Brandy, who had come to the training facility at some point, talked to Gin for a few words, and then Gin took Kurosawa Jin to the research institute with a sour face.

"After all, people generally prefer to treat their wounds themselves, and only the doctor who used to run a clinic here at the institute knows how to reduce the probability of scarring."

Gin leaned against the wall, yawning listlessly, while waiting for the doctor who looked like a strawberry cake to apply medicine to Kurosawa Jin.

"After all, Jin-chan's face looks so cute, and you can't help being lectured by that adult if you ruin it."

The doctor replied with a smile, "Gin."

——Later, the doctor was executed by the Kurosawa Group for betraying the organization.

The boss suspected that the doctor had given the successfully developed drug to someone else - because in addition to Vermode, there were other members in the organization who did not age.

After executing the doctor, the Kurosawa Group was given a rather sinister code name - "Gin "Geneva".

Then, Gin, who had just started to act alone, was assigned by the boss to carry out a mission with Gin.

——Now that I think about it, maybe the boss started to suspect that Gin was a rat at that time.

In other words, the boss at that time could no longer tolerate others holding partial control of the organization, and it was just that Gin, as a rat, accidentally exposed his identity and ran into the muzzle of the gun - but the young Gin still knew nothing about it.

"Ah, my partner for this mission is you——Xiaoqin."

"I already have a code name, Mr. Moran - please don't call me that anymore."

"It's not Jin, it's Gene. Don't you know? The liquor called Geneva is Dutch gin, which is a type of gin."

Gin always keeps two Sherlock Holmes books in his car - one is The Last Case and the other is The Empty House.

Both Kurosawa Jin and Gin had laughed at Gin's habit, but Gin rarely responded to his ridicule seriously - but that day was obviously an exception.

'Gin' completed the mission normally - he didn't go crazy and shoot 'Gin' beside him, nor did he go fishing for women first; instead, he went to the sniper point very normally according to the plan, waited there for the target of the mission to appear within the sniper range, and then ended the target's life with one shot.

Then, when Gin mentioned the two Sherlock Holmes books again, Gin replied to the young sniper:

"I don't like Sherlock Holmes, I even hate him; I don't like Moriarty, the head of the criminal group - but what I hate most is Moran, the sharpshooter Sebastian Moran."

"You always use this name when you introduce yourself to others - don't you find it disgusting to use a name you hate?"

"You will understand when you grow up - Xiaoqin."

Although Gin finally gave a perfunctory answer to Juniper's question, Juniper had to admit that Gin's perfunctory answer was, in a sense, the correct answer.

—That MI6…

The day Gin revealed his MI6 identity was a fairly uneventful one, as he took Gin on a sniper mission with him - but as he was leaving, Gin pointed his gun at Gin and pulled the trigger without hesitation.

——He still had a deep impression of that day and could fully understand why Amber said that MI6 was a lunatic.

Even if Gin was wearing a bulletproof vest, Gin should have been able to cause damage to him by shooting at close range - at least not with such a fast speed.

Gin disarmed him before he could react, and his joints were destroyed very quickly, destroying his ability to move. Then - the MI6 did not run away, but slowly took out a pistol in front of Gin.

According to Brandy, who was in charge of the aftermath, the MI6 almost beat "Gin" into a piece of honeycomb coal.

"I never thought you'd still be alive - by the way, Gin "Geneva", the boss asked me to inform you to change your code name."

"Change code name?"

"Gin"——this code name belongs to you. That's what the boss said in the email. "

Gin opened his eyes while sitting in the passenger seat of the black Porsche 356A and told Vodka, "Go to Shirley's research institute."

"Yes, big brother..." Vodka started the car and asked Gin who had just woken up, "Big brother, you seem to be in a bad mood today?"

"I just remembered some unpleasant past." Gin closed his eyes and lit a cigarette. "After all, that MI6 did take action for Miyano Akemi - only that MI6 could hit the target from such a long distance. Even the FBI can't hit the target from such a long distance with just the naked eye."

"He is truly Colonel Sebastian Moran."

"Brother?"

"Drive your car, vodka."

On the other hand, Roman, who applied for annual leave, avoided the acquaintances he met in the Mihua Hospital and sneaked into a newly opened restaurant. Although there are always many people visiting newly opened stores, there are occasional exceptions.

——Just like the restaurant Roman went to today.

“…Well, in addition to the strawberry cake you ordered earlier, I’d like to add a cup of hot chocolate.” In the almost empty store, Roman handed the menu to the black-haired man with blue-gray eyes, smiled and raised his finger at him. “That’s all for now. Sorry to bother you—my companion will arrive later, so I’ll ask him what he wants to order when he gets here.”

When the waiter who took down Roman’s order walked into the kitchen, the door of the restaurant was pushed open again, and a crisp and pleasant doorbell rang - a blond-haired, red-eyed man walked into the store and sat down opposite Roman.

"Long time no see, Dr. Roman."

"For me, it's like we just met again not long ago, Professor William?"

"Compared to the total length of time, it is true." William chuckled and took another menu from the table and opened it. After seeing the numerous dishes on the menu, he raised his eyebrows in surprise, "I didn't know our cafeteria also provides these."

"After all, this place is barely a cafe for light meals." Emiya, who had wandered over to the two of them at some point, crossed his arms and joined their conversation. "Although I'm only a mediocre magician, I can still cast magic to reduce the chances of ordinary people finding this store. However, I can't completely isolate ordinary people, and the menu itself is designed to prevent that from happening."

"Then I'll have the same menu as I usually have in the Chaldea cafeteria - is that okay?" William smiled and winked at Emiya.

"That may take a little time - but today is the weekend, the efficiency of the kitchen will be higher than the following weekdays." Wei Gong touched his chin and answered William, "So, what did you two meet for today?"

"Mr. Emiya, you should know the history of the organization and the history of the drug that turned Kudo Shinichi into a child, right?" Roman put down his phone and turned to look at Emiya. "There is a problem with the time here - the history of the organization that existed before we showed up was problematic."

"The organization was established at least half a century ago, but the boss of the organization was over 100 years old 40 years ago." William elaborated on what Roman pointed out. "Ignoring that over 100 years old can also refer to death, just looking at the literal meaning, the boss was about 90 years old 50 years ago."

"But the drug the organization is researching has shown two effects: rejuvenation and immortality in the test subjects." Roman looked at William. "According to the power of the Karasuma family, they should not have waited until Miyano Atsushi appeared to start research - they should have started research earlier. And, according to the sentence we got before..."

"The purpose of the organization is not immortality or rejuvenation. Even if it is, it is impossible to establish an organization to research related drugs when the boss is already around 90 years old."

"We can be both of God and the devil. Since we're trying to raise the dead against the stream of time." Emiya repeated the ambiguous sentence in the data, "When it comes to the resurrection of the dead, that's it, but reversing the torrent of time..."

"APTX4869," William answered them, "Rejuvenation is to reverse the flow of time."