Chapter 080: Bounty Hunter Gin
They are the same person.
Whether it's the physical skills and abilities learned since childhood, the strong physical fitness honed through hard work, or the brain with consistent thoughts.
So when they face off, no one can predict the final result, not even the two of them.
Every breath, every movement, could be connected instantly. At this moment, they all felt strangely excited and impatient.
The excitement lies in their synchronization and the waiting of strength, which means that they can perform well without any worries.
Impatience is...too annoying. When every time you think there is someone else who thinks the same thing as you, it feels like you can never win. It's really disgusting.
Chidori looked at the man in front of him who looked exactly like him. He had more wounds on his body. It was obvious that Gin would not show any mercy to him.
After all, Gin still clearly remembered Chidori's teasing of him in the beginning, and he was a person who would never suffer a loss, so of course he had to get it back.
He realized that this was someone who was heading towards a different future than himself, but Chidori was not unable to understand Gin's choice.
So he spoke first, looking at the man on the other side who was also injured, and said: "This [organization] is not worth your stay."
He said this in a positive tone. Having come into contact with the "Organization" many times in his own world, he understood how powerful this force was.
Even though he was trained by the [Organization] in the beginning, he still did not choose the [Organization].
Maybe there were other reasons, but more importantly, it was because he didn't think this [organization] could always let him live the life he wanted.
Because in that house, the first belief they were taught to have ingrained in their bodies was: "I am the property of [the organization]."
Gin responded with just another bullet. He had no intention of explaining to the person in front of him why he wanted to stay in the [Organization].
This is his job, just like it belongs to his territory, so he actively completes the task and tries his best to drive away the mice in the house.
He just wanted to make his own place better and make himself live more comfortably.
This has nothing to do with his loyalty, and even less to do with his choices.
Regardless of whether this [organization] has value or not, when Gin chose to stay here, it had value.
As expected, they are still different. There was no emotion on Gin's face. He looked at himself in front of him and suddenly laughed.
It looks like a gust of wind, but in fact, you are just controlled by yourself, and the wind disappears after it blows past.
When the opponent came at him with a pistol, Gin turned around and pinned the man to the ground with the strength of his body.
The blade hidden in the sleeve came out instantly, and the sharp edge was aimed at Chidori's neck.
Gin did nothing more, but he finally spoke, his voice unaffected by the injury, still calm: "I have no opinion about this place for now, nor do I have any of your emotions."
He looked at the person who was controlled but did not resist, and left before people from other forces arrived.
When Chidori left, the countdown in his heart ended. He knew that the fun game was over and now was the time for the troublesome cleanup.
In order to control Chidori, Gin knocked her out with just the right amount of force.
Before Chidori fainted, she heard Gin's last words: "I burned that tree with my own hands."
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That tree?
Oh, that tree with beautiful cherry blossoms in full bloom, the only gorgeous existence in the white house, belongs to Kurosawa Jin.
Kurosawa Jin's name was given by the aunt at the orphanage. It wasn't because she liked him, but because he needed a name to exchange government money for the orphanage.
He and other children queued up to get this name. After receiving the money approved by the government, the orphanage sent him and other children to the organization's training institution without hesitation.
It was a place with almost only white people, and all the children were locked up together, where they were taught and tested to learn all the techniques to kill people.
They were not strictly required to have no thoughts of their own. Instead, the trainers used all means to stimulate the blood in their bones and make them fight each other.
Just like raising snakes, putting countless snakes together and letting them fight and compete with each other, only the one that survives at the end is qualified to walk out.
All children know that only by becoming strong can they be qualified to survive.
Kurosawa Jin was obviously the best among the others. No, at that time, he only had a numerical code and was not qualified to have a name.
After coming in first place several times, he asked the experimenters for his reward. For the first time, he did not ask for a weapon, but for a cherry blossom tree that happened to be in season.
Obviously the experimenters didn't quite understand this sentence, but they still carved the code name of the Kurosawa Group on the tree.
After that, he loved staying there the most. Even if the petals had withered, he would go to take a look from time to time, probably wondering if the tree would bloom again the next moment.
He actually adapted well in the White House. Apart from the adaptive training, he was always the best at learning physical skills.
After possessing the tree because of his power, Gin wanted more. He wanted to kill the experimenters who gave him pain, wanted to learn more, and wanted to go out.
When Gin was judged to be the first again and had become the sharpest knife and was allowed to go to the [Organization], he finally did what he wanted to do.
He burned down the white house that had trapped him for decades. The pain, wailing and despair inside were all completely disappeared and burned away in the fire.
But the tree was not actually within the range of the fire. He stood in front of the fire, looking at the withered tree in front of him, silent.
He knew that the tree would also burn down, but the indescribable emotions spreading in his heart held him back from action.
Kurosawa Jin felt that he was cold-hearted enough, but he couldn't even bring himself to kill a tree.
Until a gust of wind blew, fanning the flames and burning more fiercely, soon enveloping the tree, which was left with only dead branches.
He did nothing but watched the tree being buried underground by a gust of wind and carrying fire.
It was not until much later that Kurosawa Jin realized that even though he thought he was fearless at that time, he had learned everything the White House taught him and more or less remembered everything it conveyed.
But he is a human being. Can humans really give up all emotions and not be greedy for that little bit of pleasure and beauty?
He didn't want to burn the tree, nor did he want to burn his true emotions at that time.
Kurosawa Jin is still his name. He plunders lives mercilessly, but he doesn't want to give up the original self who felt the cherry blossom petals falling on his face.
——But he thought, maybe he did it in this world, and he burned the tree with his own hands.
This doesn't mean that he has completely become an emotionless person, but he really doesn't care about the past or his own emotions.
Perhaps he was more decisive than herself. Chidori woke up drowsily and seemed to still be able to feel the fire in her dream.
When his vision returned, he realized where he was.
In the interrogation room of the [Organization], the injuries on the body were simply treated, and the surrounding environment was completely white.
Chidori blinked slowly. He had not expected that [the Organization] would do this.
A common tactic used in the white house is that the child who needs to be punished will first be locked in a blank room with nothing in it, only himself in the vast white world.
This is a mind-destroying trick, and it has proven to be very useful. Many people have gone crazy because of it, and then have been thrown away like garbage.
He didn't think this was a move that Gin would use, and he was disdainful of trying to control Chidori in this way.
The only person who could use such a move was the black crow that flew in front of him.
This should be a mechanical creation, and its scarlet eyes looked at Chidori.
Chidori's hands were tied behind his back on the chair. He adjusted his posture to make himself more comfortable.
He didn't say anything, but just looked at the crow in front of him, waiting for it to speak.
"GIN, this isn't the first time we meet." The crow finally spoke, and the unpleasant hoarse mechanical sounds mixed together to form a disgusting noise.
The man with blood on his silver hair just raised his dark green eyes and looked at him emotionlessly for a while before slowly answering, "Yes, long time no see, Boss."
They all knew that Chidori was not Gin who belonged to the Organization. Everything about him was mysterious, but he held a coveted treasure.
"You should know exactly what you have done and what the consequences will be," Crow spoke again, with no emotion in his voice, "and I am willing to give you this opportunity, GIN."
What Chidori did was indeed enough for the boss to kill him directly. After all, the [organization] suffered a lot of losses this time, and now there are code members missing. The subsequent rescue and investigation will be even more time-consuming.
But as long as Chidori offers something of sufficient value, the boss won't bother with him anymore.
As for what is valuable to the BOSS, if the other party is not clear about this, there is no need to stay.
Chidori looked at him without fear. Since he came out of the [Organization], it must have taken a lot of effort for him to be free.
So he also knew how to deal with the old crow in front of him.
"We can be both of God and the devil. Since we're trying to raise the dead against the stream of time."
He spoke these words slowly in a hoarse voice due to lack of water, which is what the organization has been doing for a long time.
We are both God and the devil, because we want to reverse the flow of time and bring the dead back to life.
Putting aside the entanglement with Gin, his purpose this time may not be unrelated to the boss in front of him.
He was just a little curious, whether the reason why he stayed in the [Organization] in this world was because of the change of the [Organization] BOSS?
But apparently not, the crow is still as smelly and rotten as ever.
He sneered at the crow, his voice was very light, but it made the crow stand still on the ground:
"Of course I know some relevant information. In my world, you have lived to the distant future."