Haihara Ai sometimes thinks that it would be great if life could continue like this.
Going to and from school with that group of children, staying at the doctor's house and taking care of each other, eating meals with my sister when she's not busy, and occasionally skipping school like now and sneaking out to play with this childish guy next to me.
Haibara Ai looked at Kuroki Ren's profile from the corner of her eye. In the dim scene of the movie theater, she could only see the outline. She couldn't see his expression clearly unless she got closer.
But she could feel that Kuroki Jin was watching the movie very seriously.
So Haihara Ai was a little depressed: Is this person so uninteresting? Do couples come to a movie theater simply to watch a movie?!
Although from the outside, you would never guess that the two of them are a couple.
"What are you thinking about?" Kuroki Ren didn't know when he noticed her gaze, and he leaned over and asked softly.
Haiyuan Ai looked away calmly and looked at the screen: "I'm wondering why you chose such a...prison escape movie?"
"Because it's said to be very good-looking." Kuroki Jin said seriously, "It's almost the end, and he's going to run out."
In the movie, the protagonist dug into the walls day after day, secretly transported soil, and dealt with the prison guards. Finally, one rainy night, he climbed out of the dark prison through the sewer. Although he was embarrassed when facing the sky, he was full of hope.
Even Huihara Ai, who was originally complaining, was fascinated by it without realizing it.
Until the end of the show, the two of them still sat in their seats and did not move.
The screening room was still bright at this moment, and Haihara Ai noticed when Kuroki Ren moved, and the two of them looked at each other at the same time.
"...Do you think he will be captured in the end?" Haihara Ai looked at the scrolling subtitles, which were densely packed with records about the people behind the film.
"Maybe, maybe not." Kuroki Ren stood up, took Haihara Ai's hand, and the two walked outside the venue, "But if you don't try, you will never get out."
Haihara Ai tried it. After taking the medicine and shrinking in size, although he hid and dared not show his face, at least he escaped from the oppressive prison of the organization.
Kuroki Jin also wants to try, but his method may be different from Haibara.
"What are we going to eat?" The two of them chose the morning show, and it was lunch time after the show.
Hui Yuan Ai did not answer immediately. She looked around for a week and said with some surprise: "This place has been repaired so well so quickly."
Of course it's because the organization has money. Kuroki swallowed these words back and said with a smile: "But the flow of people is much less. There should be many people who don't dare to come."
The place where the two of them were located was the department store that had just exploded some time ago. It was fully funded by the organization and had been repaired and reopened last week.
There are quite a lot of people on holidays, but today on a working day it seems very empty.
"Why don't we go eat hot pot? It's raining today and it will cool down a bit, so we can have something hot." Kuroki Jin suggested.
"I don't care." Haiyuan Ai was not interested in eating, but he passed by the video game area and stopped for a while.
"If I read it correctly, that is a cocoon...?" She pointed to the object in the center of the area with some surprise.
Kuroki Ren looked in the direction she pointed: "Oh? Really."
"Is it actually going to be launched so soon?"
At this moment, there are some people gathered around Cocoon. Basically, like Kuroki Ren and Haibara Ai, they only discovered the machine here when they passed by.
Kuroki Ren stepped forward to take a look as if he was joining in the fun, and saw the words "桡山 consortium" engraved on the cocoon machine. He secretly said something bad, pulled Haibara Ai, who hadn't seen anything clearly, and left immediately.
"What's wrong?" Hui Yuan Ai was confused.
The look of disgust on Kuroki Ren's face was undisguised: "I'm afraid of getting caught in bad luck."
Haiyuan Ai didn't know what was wrong with him, but fortunately her curiosity was not serious, so she was half-pulled into the hot pot restaurant.
Before entering, she took a special look and saw that there was a sushi restaurant opposite the hot pot restaurant.
…
"elder brother!"
"Brother, please take me to eat sushi~"
"Brother, brother, why don't you speak?"
"..." The cold young man looked broken. He took a deep breath and said as calmly as possible: "You should be in class now."
"Hey~ What does it matter?" The young man put his hands behind his back and said, "It's worth skipping class once in a while and hanging out with your family."
Perhaps he was moved by the word "relatives", so the stern young man didn't say anything more. He subconsciously reached out to help his brother who was lying backward, and his expression softened.
"So brother, let's go to the sushi restaurant in front."
Following his brother's direction, he saw an ordinary sushi restaurant. As an elder brother who favored his younger brother infinitely, he naturally had no objection.
Seeing his younger brother jumping towards the menu, he couldn't help but raise his voice slightly: "Wen Ren, slow down!"
"Know--"
Sitting in front of the window, Bei Dao Hangping seemed to have something to say and glanced at the hot pot restaurant opposite.
…
"... Taking down the cocoon is the first step for us to change careers."
The current president of the former automobile company Masan Mountain Consortium, Hirao Kawahe, whose organization code is Pisk, is holding a meeting with his employees.
"President." An employee raised his hand and spoke boldly: "The current public opinion on the Internet is very unfriendly to us. Before this, the collective accident of [Cocoon] was talked about again, and many consortiums even issued warnings to us.
A serious statement of protest..."
The employee's voice became quieter and quieter, and gradually disappeared under Pisk's stern gaze.
The conference room was extremely quiet. Pisk nodded with satisfaction when he saw this. The young man's arrogant expression was not concealed at all.
"I don't need to teach you the basic operations of co-opting, buying, and dividing." He put his hands on the conference table and bowed forward pressingly: "I will see the results in three days. If there are stubborn people,
It doesn’t work…”
He paused, then a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, with a sinister look on his face: "...Leave it to me!"
With the organization behind him, he has many ways to silence these people.
The [Cocoon] project, or Noah's Ark hidden behind the cocoon, is an organization, something that the gentleman is bound to get, and the reason why he, Pisk, is still alive and living so wantonly is his capital.
He was the most obedient mad dog under that gentleman.
Pisk has always been clear about his position and doesn't see anything bad about it.
Only those who are valuable will survive, and he has long had enough of living the life of a transparent figure struggling on the edge of death.
The cocoon project is moving forward in an orderly manner under the strong promotion of Pisk, and Kuroki Ren, who is eating hot pot, finally waited for the results of his test.
In the sushi restaurant opposite, a gentle young man chatted freely and easily pointed out the murderer hidden among the customers.
No one seemed to pay attention to a certain employee standing in the corner with a thin presence.
"The fox's tail...is exposed."
"What?" Haihara Ai, who was sitting across the table and in the corner, didn't hear what he said clearly.
"I said, let's go to the planetarium to watch the stars later."
"Huh?" Seeing that it was less than two o'clock in the afternoon, Hui Yuan Ai had the words "You are sick" written all over his face.
"Then go to the zoo to see the orangutans, they are the same."