Early the next morning, as expected, Officer Shiratori did not take the initiative to invite Jin Kuroki to stop Tsuji Hiroki as he did last night.
Kuroki Jin slept late last night, and when the alarm rang, he turned over reluctantly.
And it was this turn over that made him completely sober.
"Huh——" Kuroki Jin, who almost fell under the sofa, let out a long sigh of relief, patted his chest and wiped away some cold sweat, then lowered his head to check the time on his watch.
At half past five in the morning, the sky was bright, and from his angle, he just saw a white light in the sky outside the window.
Kuroki yawned in distress, wiped his face with his hands, stood up from the sofa, and first glanced at the closed door.
I don’t know if his low alarm woke up Hui Yuan Ai.
The doctor's house has disposable toiletries, which Kuroki knew when he stayed here last time. He tiptoed to the bathroom to wash up, splashing cold water on his face and feeling refreshed.
Then he saw Haihara Ai standing in the corner of the door reflected in the mirror.
"...It scared me." After being frightened twice in the morning, Kuroki Ren's heart, no matter how young he was, couldn't bear it.
Haiyuan Ai looked like she hadn't woken up, her head moving little by little, as if she might fall asleep at any time.
"What are you doing standing here so early in the morning without sleeping?" Kuroki Ren thought she was coming to use the bathroom, and when he asked, he specifically moved out of the way.
"Aren't you the same." Haiyuan Ai yawned and said vaguely. Taking advantage of his short stature, Kuromu Ren squeezed in before Kuromu Ren could completely get out of the way, and then slammed the door shut.
"Wait for me a moment."
Kuroki smacked his lips, returned to the sofa, and began his daily activity of scrolling through his phone.
The organization's intranet will update logs anytime and anywhere. With Kuroki Jin's authority, most of them can be viewed. He always uses this as news when he is bored.
"What are you looking at?" came the question from directly in front of you.
Kuroki Jin exerted a little force on his fingertips. When he reacted, he quickly looked at the screen and found that he had clicked on the answer by mistake.
Kuroki Ren: "..."
Kuroki Jin: "You seem to be walking without making a sound."
Haihara Ai: "I'm wearing slippers."
Haibara Ai feels so innocent. This is the doctor's home, which is equivalent to her current home. She didn't mean to scare Kuroki Ren. She was just walking normally. She shouldn't look for the reason why she didn't hear footsteps.
?
Kuroki Jin was really reflecting on himself. The people he met in the past could not feel the hidden breath of gin. Even Belmod, he seemed to have that feeling.
Of course, Belmode did it on purpose, let’s not worry about it for the moment.
But with his vigilance and sensitive senses, he really shouldn't be able to detect the approach of an ordinary person who has never thought about hiding and has never learned any skills in this area.
He thought confusedly for ten seconds and gave up. Then he looked at his phone with a grimace on his face.
"What did you order?" Haiyuan Ai sat opposite him, looked around and found that he couldn't get a pot of morning coffee, and he was a little listless.
"The mission..." Kuroki Ren glanced at it briefly, "It was posted anonymously on the organization's intranet. It seems to be a mission to find something."
"Does the organization still have such a fresh and refined mission?"
Haiyuan Ai was a little surprised. She had also browsed the intranet, and at random, nine of the ten items were assassination missions, and one was to assist in the assassination, or to track someone down. Basically, there were no other exceptions.
Haibara Ai subconsciously avoided mentioning the organization when facing Kuroki Ren, so she originally walked towards the direction where Kuroki Ren was sitting before sitting opposite him. The answer she got from a casual question made her subconsciously
to look up at him.
Looking at it, she discovered the pendant swinging on the phone still in Kuroki Jin's hand.
The pendant is a Q version of a boy holding a Coke bottle about the same size as him and smiling happily.
"This pendant..."
"Ah?" Kuroki Ren was still reading the mission details. Hearing this, he turned over his phone and hit the pendant precariously on the phone case.
"Isn't this a gift from you? Forgot?"
"My memory is not that bad." Haiyuan Ai said lightly, "I just didn't expect you to hang on to it all the time. It seems that I saw it not long after I became a child."
"I hung up the gift as soon as I received it." Kuroki Ren said, "By the way, when is your birthday? I want to give you a gift in return."
"One month before you."
Kuroki Ren: "..."
He stopped looking at the details of the mission. He slowly raised his face from the phone screen and stared at Haiyuan Ai indifferently.
"...Don't look at me like that." Uncomfortable, Haiyuan Ai looked away and tightened her collar.
"Okay." Kuroki Jin sighed and looked down at his phone again.
Without the aggressive gaze, Haibara Ai turned her gaze back. Her eyes reflected Kuroki Ren, who was looking at his phone very seriously.
Under such close observation, Haihara Ai discovered some details that she had not noticed before.
"Are you left-handed?"
"Huh?" Kuroki Jin raised his head blankly, and quickly turned his attention to the mobile phone screen, "No, I'm just used to using both my left and right hands, so it doesn't matter which one I use."
He always uses his left hand to hold the phone to check messages, and sometimes types using his left hand.
"Based on your previous coursework, it's not easy just to finish it ahead of schedule. Why do you still need to practice with your non-dominant hand?"
"Well..."
Haihara Ai suddenly chuckled, and his voice came out unhurriedly: "Isn't it because of worshiping idols?"
Hit the target!
Kuromu Ren lowered his head and made a hesitant sound, confirming Haihara Ai's guess.
Gin is left-handed, and Kuroki Jin has been good at observing since childhood. He already knew it during the brief contact before being brought back to the organization, so he spent a lot of time practicing the use of his left hand despite such busy training.
Not only that, the first thing he did when he graduated was to name himself after the code name of Gin, and the second thing was to go to the organizational rest area and dye his black hair into blonde.
Then he was beaten up by Gin and forced to die.
Of course, this kind of thing is so outrageous that even Kuroki Jin would not say it to death.
He quickly changed the topic, "Guess what this mission is about? It's a shame this can be called looking for something."
"What are you looking for?" Haiyuan Ai cooperated with him to change the topic.
"Memories." Kuroki Ren was full of interest. "The mission description said that he is looking for memories from his ancestors. I hope that the person who takes the mission can help him find them together."
"Huh?"
"The most interesting thing is that he attached a picture."
Kuroki opened the picture and turned the phone over to show it to Haibara Ai.
——A colorful egg. This is Huihara Ai’s first judgment.
"I checked online and found out that this egg is called the Egg of Memory, and it is the last legacy of the Romanov dynasty."
"Disregarding the fifty that have been published, the fifty-one Memory Egg, which has recently become popular, is in the hands of the Suzuki Foundation and will be exhibited in their art museum soon."
"This thing is worth at least several hundred million to him. It's a shame that this person calls this looking for something. Isn't this asking me to steal and rob..."
"Black wood..."
"You think so too, right? No, I have to find a way to cancel the mission. This is too bullying."
"I want to say..."
Haibara Ai stared at Kuroki Ren's phone screen, or to be precise, at the time display in the upper right corner.
"It's almost six o'clock now. Didn't we get up early to stop Hiroki Tsuji's helicopter from taking off?"
"..."
The air suddenly fell silent, and Kuroki, who was chattering incessantly, seemed to have been pressed on the shutdown button, and he did not say a word.
The next second he put away his phone, stood up, dragged Haiyuan Ai and ran out.
"Go, go, go, the plane is about to fly!"
"I got it!! Put me down first!!!"
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