"..." Conan choked and stuffed the knife into Kudo's hand, urging him, "It's not important! Cut it quickly."

A knife was stuffed into his hand, but fortunately it wasn't the familiar feel of the knife, so Kudo was still able to control his thoughts and not let them wander to anything that would ruin his mood.

With more strength, Kudo held the cheap plastic knife and kept his eyes on the cake.

It was a very delicate cake...but his memory was uncontrollably drawn back to a low-quality, unpalatable cake.

The result of that incident, the result of Incident 01.

The result was that he followed the clues all the way to the whereabouts of 01's sister, but he did not see the person he imagined.

...He only saw a slightly raised mound of earth, and his sister was buried under the wet, cold and heavy soil.

My body kept shaking, and suddenly my vision went dark. I could see nothing except that small mound of earth. My ears were ringing, my eyes were dizzy, and I couldn't control the shaking.

I wasn't sure if it was out of fear or anger, but my body was shaking and my teeth were clenched tightly.

My mind was blank, as if I was thinking about everything. My thoughts were confused during this period of time, and I became dazed and confused. I completely lost the shrewdness I had just shown when I used my mind to scheme against the experimenter.

It was not clear how he moved, but when he came to his senses again, he was standing in his own cage.

His eyes were sore, but he still saw that there seemed to be something hidden in his cage.

He bent down slowly, and his stiff joints seemed to make cracking sounds as if they could not bear the weight. Only after he took the object out did he silently roll his eyes and look at the thing in front of him.

It's a cake, very complete.

Perhaps from today's perspective, the cake was cheap and of poor quality, a typical example of cheap but poor quality.

But for Kudo, the cake was like a bolt from the blue, a stab in his heart.

When he was eight years old, he made a friend who had no surname, just a single name, “Yang”.

That child was just like his name, like the warm sun in the cold month of winter. Not as glaring as the scorching sun in June, but instead with just the right warmth.

But his friendship with Ayang only lasted for two years. Two years later, Ayang died on the laboratory table.

Then, one month after Ayang's death, he was accepted by 01's sister as her so-called "son" without rejection.

01 has some mental issues, but there is no doubt that she is a good person.

In the eyes of the experimenters, 01 is a trouble. Mental illness is the most difficult disease in the world, no doubt about it. This is also true for experiments - mental illness may lead to inaccurate experimental results.

Unfortunately, 01 was the one with the best drug compatibility in their experiment and was also the most successful experimental case, so they had to keep her.

This also caused the group of experimenters to be annoyed with 01 wandering around all day, but they couldn't do anything about it.

But among the experimental subjects, 01 is the undisputed protective umbrella for all the experimental subjects.

Notorious among the experimenters, but famous among the subjects.

It's ridiculous.

For a month after Kudo was taken under 01's wing, he showed a rejection attitude, and then he gradually softened. It took him a full six months to get to the closeness he has now.

Half a year later, 01 died.

Kudo simply didn't know what to do. Maybe he shouldn't have made friends at all.

Looking at the cake in front of him, he suddenly remembered 01's mysterious words before he left last night.

The woman proudly told him that she had obtained something incredible today and would show it off to him tomorrow.

--tomorrow.

But there is no tomorrow.

01's life will always stay at today.

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His eye sockets gradually became moist, and his sea-blue eyes were suddenly covered with a layer of mist, like the thick fog lingering on the sea, obscuring the situation in the sea.