Now that she sees Jiang Xia returning home smoothly, Haiyuan Ai finally feels relieved. After all, as far as she knows, the loss rate of Ginjiu's peripheral members is quite high...
Looking at Jiang Xia who was opening the door, Hui Yuan Ai trotted to the wall, climbed through the gap in the fence, and climbed into Jiang Xia's yard.
Conan also followed immediately.
Unlike Haihara Ai, Conan did not know that Jiang Xia was an ancestral member of the organization.
Therefore, he was still thinking about how Gin had shown a hint of admiration to Jiang Xia on the Beidou Star a few days ago.
Although at that time, Conan remembered that Gin and Vodka had left the station first, and there were more than a dozen exits there. It was impossible for the men in black to get to Jiang Xia and lure him into the group. On the other hand, Conan felt that he had also used
In his own way, he cut off Jiang Xia's curiosity about gin and tried his best to push Jiang Xia away from the organization - there should be no intersection between the two parties.
But after returning, I remembered the cunningness of the organization, and found that Haibara Ai, who was very familiar with Gin, looked shocked after hearing his story about "meeting Gin and Jiang Xia on the Beidou Star at the same time."
Conan, who was very suspicious, suddenly became alert again, wondering whether the organization was more persistent in "wooing the talents he liked" than he had predicted before?
The two fake children ran to Jiang Xia worriedly.
Jiang Xia glanced at their expressions and asked in confusion: "What's wrong?"
Hui Yuan Ai's lips moved, but he stopped talking.
She is actually a little concerned about Jiang Xia's current situation.
In Haibara Ai's impression, Gin rarely repeatedly contacts a specific peripheral member in formal missions - firstly, the loss rate of Gin's temporary subordinates is very high, and many of them are dismissed for making mistakes midway.
Killed by one shot, or killed by one's own mistakes, the dead cannot be reused.
The second is that Gin is worried that after regular contact, people with ulterior motives will try to use that information to arrest him like Shuichi Akai did, so he will take the initiative to avoid this situation.
So now, after Haihara Ai discovered that Jiang Xia and Ginjiu appeared on the same occasion several times, she felt more and more something was wrong.
——In the past, before Hui Yuan Ai defected and was still "Shirley", because Jiang Xia's parents pushed her away in a car accident, she was turned into a pulp... Shirley has always taken good care of Jiang Xia who they left behind.
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At that time, because of Jiang Xia's cold attitude, Shirley thought that this colleague's child hated her, and was worried that Jiang Xia would refuse her help, so occasionally, she would avoid showing up in person, and instead asked Gin to give Jiang Xia some safer tasks.
This can not only achieve the mission rate required by the organization, prevent Jiang Xia from being sent as cannon fodder because he failed the assessment, but also ensure his safety as much as possible.
However, after she defected, Jiang Xia still appeared near Ginjiu from time to time...
This couldn't be an ordinary "accidental encounter" - if it really was such an "accidental encounter", Gin's bullet would have been embedded in Jiang Xia's head long ago, even if he had no evidence.
There is only one truth, ruling out other possibilities... Haiyuan Ai thought to himself, could it be that Ginjiu discovered Jiang Xia's talent and wanted to promote him?
When she thought of this possibility, Hui Yuan Ai's mood suddenly dropped a lot.
——In her opinion, this is obviously too high a risk for Jiang Xia, who once admitted that she “only regards the organization as work” and sounds like she just wants to paddle happily.
Haihara Ai is very concerned about the relevant situation.
However……
She glanced at Conan next to her calmly. In order to help Jiang Xia cover her vest, she could only silently swallow back what she wanted to say.
...Forget it, since Jiang Xia seems to be fine, let's change to a more daily topic for the time being.
Hui Yuan Ai reached into her pocket, touched it, and took out an exquisite gift box. It was about the size of a palm and tied with a beautiful ribbon.
She took Jiang Xia's hand and put the handmade chocolate into his palm: "Yili Chocolate - today happens to be Valentine's Day, this is for you."
...I heard that high school students in normal schools like to give each other chocolates during this festival.
Other high school students have it, and Jiang Xia had better have it, so that he can make him realize that he is actually still a student who should focus on his studies. It has a good mentality and can also relieve the pressure of being forced to work in an organization.
——This is what Haihara Ai thought when making chocolate yesterday.
But now...
She glanced at the small box of chocolates she had made.
Then he raised his head again and silently glanced at Jiang Xia's filled mailbox and the gift boxes piled to the top of the mailbox.
Suddenly, she understood why she didn't see Jiang Xia when she occasionally came to the living room to stay with Jiang Xia this morning. Instead, she saw several different female high school students every time.
...Jiang Xia's high school experience seems to be very perfect in some strange aspects, even a little too perfect... Speaking of which, with how often he skips classes, how on earth do he know so many female classmates who know his address?
Is there someone secretly selling Jiang Xia’s address?
With complicated emotions, Hui Yuan Ai looked back at the chocolate pile and wanted to raise her hand to pat Jiang Xia's shoulder, but she couldn't reach it.
In the end, he had no choice but to pat Jiang Xia's hand and sigh softly: "Pay attention to your privacy."
Jiang Xia was a little confused about where her emotion came from, but he had long discovered that people in this world seemed to be very good at thinking. Everyone has a variety of worlds in their minds, and it was normal for him to not be able to keep up with his thoughts.
So he nodded skillfully and pretended to understand.
He glanced at the chocolates Haibara sent, thought for a while, and took out a small paper box from his pocket:
"When I left, I didn't expect that there would be a holiday so soon. I didn't have time to prepare holiday gifts... I'll give you this as a return gift. I brought it back from this business trip."
...Although it is a little different from chocolate, at least the color is quite similar.
"Thank you." Hui Yuan Ai raised his hand and took it, looking at the hand-folded paper box curiously.
The cardboard box is only about the size of the circle between your thumb and index finger. Judging from the size, it may be a small jewelry inside.
Judging from what he just said, this should be something Jiang Xia bought for himself...
Just as he was thinking about it, Haiyuan Ai suddenly heard a soft "rustling" sound coming from the carton. The place where the palm of his hand came into contact with the bottom of the carton also felt a slight tremor, as if something was scratching.
Haibara Ai:"……?"
She was stunned for a moment, with a vague premonition of something bad. She raised her head and glanced at Jiang Xia inquiringly.
After sending the return gift, Jiang Xia had straightened up and was looking at the chocolates on the mailbox next to her, as if thinking about what to do with the pile of sweets.
...Jiang Xia's attention did not continue to be on the small cardboard box, which shows that this is not something shady, it should be a normal gift.
Haiyuan Ai hesitated for a moment, but finally could not resist his curiosity. He opened the small cardboard box a little and looked inside.
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This chapter has been completed!