nycdaug Chapter 268 A Harmonious and Happy Family
Chapter 268 A Harmonious and Happy Family
Stretching and yawning, and changing into clean and complete clothes, Heimen Yaoye walked briskly down the empty headquarters corridor:
"Wow~ exercising really does make a difference! After mixing some drinks, I feel as refreshed as if I'd applied Tiger Balm all over and then gone to the Arctic wind!"
“Right? Sogrid.”
Kurokawa Kagemitsu nodded helplessly in agreement: "This is the punishment I deserve. Whatever makes you happy, boss."
A refined and gentle young man followed behind, his gaze calm and composed. It was hard to imagine that just ten minutes earlier he had been lying in a pool of blood, gasping for breath like a fish out of water.
Seeing that he showed no abnormality, Kuromon Haruya withdrew his gaze with satisfaction and turned his wrist: "127 times, don't forget."
"As ordered."
Kurokawa Kagemitsu looked down at the ground, neither happy nor sad.
127 times. This is the number of times that Kuromon Haruya personally eliminated him, excluding the reconciliation procedures. It is also the number of non-black background targets that he needs to eliminate for the organization before the next reconciliation.
Although Yoruichi Kuromon exhibited an unusually bloodthirsty preference on certain occasions, surprisingly, he was quite weary of personally annihilating these immortals.
Sogrid once inquired about it, and received a bland reply from the person involved:
'For you, a painful death is a relief. It refreshes a collapsing will and awakens a forgotten meaning to life, so physically torturing immortals brings me no pleasure.'
But whether those you care about can be so relaxed is another matter.
As it turns out, there are many things in the world that are far more terrifying than death.
He had already done everything in his power to protect the small group of people he cared about, with his last remaining willpower. As for Miyano Akemi... wish her good luck. If she can't adapt to the boss's mediation, saving her multiple times will be in vain.
Just as he was lost in thought, a childish, synthesized electronic voice rang out: [Boss, the repair work has been confirmed to be completed precisely, and the softening and preservation process is functioning well.]
"I understand, Hiro."
Sogrid paused, thinking he had misheard.
But Kuromon Haruya seemed to see through his thoughts, and walked back a few steps with a smile, standing next to him and introducing him: "You heard right, this announcer's name is Hiro, and he is the person in charge of the 'Bluebird' dispatch system."
"Come on, you two, say hello to each other!"
[It's a pleasure working with you, Sugarled Whisky.]
Kurokawa Kagemitsu recalled that the main base hadn't adopted such an advanced broadcasting system when he last returned. However, he didn't connect it with the Noah's Ark that had appeared a few days ago, simply assuming it was another structural change within the organization.
Without a doubt, he knew this was definitely something the boss did on purpose: "It's a pleasure working with you... Mr. Hiro."
[I am not yet an adult, so please just call me by my code name, Bluebird; there's no need to use honorifics.]
What... a minor!
Kurokawa Kagemitsu knew Sherry's background and was aware that the organization had a habit of training underage members. However, in the years he had actually been involved, aside from dropouts who acted as informants and thugs, Kurokawa Kagemitsu had hardly encountered any underage members, so he naturally put the matter out of his mind.
But he never expected that the monitor who had witnessed so many bloody and distorted scenes since the beginning of the mediation was also a minor!
Receiving his shocked look, Kuromon Haruya narrowed his eyes: "What's wrong? It's not surprising that becoming a police officer requires a police academy, and that the organization has its own training institution, right?"
Or is it that you feel particularly uncomfortable because you feel you've become one of the materials used to corrupt the minds of teenagers?
"...Whatever makes you happy." Kurokawa Kagemitsu couldn't lie or deny it, so he could only look away. Especially when the other person's name was similar to his own.
Kuromon Haruya shrugged, returning to his conversation with Noah's Ark: "Thank you, where should I collect my gift?"
[Go straight for 50 meters and turn left. The refrigerated truck is already properly stored in the storage room and is ready for immediate use.]
"Thanks a lot."
Having received a reply, Kuromon Haruya led the clueless Sogrid to the preservation room mentioned in the broadcast.
Pushing open the heavy metal door, the condensed water vapor from the cold air seeped out from the bottom first, and in the huge space, two lonely movable freezers were placed in the middle.
The glass lid on top of the freezer was open, and Kurokawa Kagemitsu, standing in the doorway, couldn't see the contents inside. More than the gifts themselves, he was drawn to the patterns engraved on the side of the freezer—
Unlike the raven emblem that can be seen everywhere in the organization, it is the complete opposite, a white dove with outstretched wings as its logo.
Kurokawa Kagemitsu vaguely felt that the pattern looked familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it before.
He only glanced at it for a few seconds. When he followed in Kuromon Haruya's footsteps and saw the gift in its original form, he had no more lingering thoughts.
"How about it?"
Kuromon Haruya leaned over and braced himself against the edge, reaching out to gently stroke Sleeping Beauty's dark hair. "If Mary knew she had so many more family members, she would be very happy. Hiro went to great lengths to repair them both."
Lying in the freezer on the left is a dashing blonde foreign woman, wearing a classic light blue uniform of an American police officer, with an employee badge on her chest that reads "FBI Agent: Judy Sterling";
In the freezer on the right lay a familiar face: Yumi Miyamoto, the policewoman who had recently shocked the entire Japanese police force with her double suicide. However, she wasn't wearing her police uniform; her exquisitely crafted pure white wedding dress was covered in ice crystals in the low temperature, making it even more beautiful. But the bloodstains on her chest indicated that this wedding dress was one of the pieces of evidence from the scene of her double suicide.
Under his suffocating gaze, Kuromon Haruya deliberately extended his index finger and poked Miyamoto Yumi's cheek. Her pale skin wasn't stiff; it was even incredibly smooth and delicate.
"Two brides-to-be who were in love but could not be together. One was abandoned by the one she loved and lost her life while trying to save him, silently drowning in the torrent of tragedy; the other was clearly in love with him, but because of her pointless stubbornness, she lingered in a state of happiness that was both gain and loss, and was ultimately forced to run towards death together."
"Caught in the complex and turbulent fate of the Akai family, they became dramatic victims. How pitiful~"
"..."
Even so, in his shock, Kurokawa Kagemitsu didn't miss the markings engraved on the corner of the freezer: [Kuromiya Akemi][Kurokawa Kagemitsu]
"Oh, do you care about that?"
Following his gaze, Kuromon Haruya's lips curved into a sly smile, like a child who had successfully pulled off a prank:
"Don't worry, this is indeed the plan to entertain Bourbon. However, it's an old, scrapped plan. It's more suitable to use it to entertain Mary Akai now."