The blond senior who was deserting his post almost laughed out of anger.

The orange-haired student across from him whispered, "Senior, next, it's time to teach me how to maintain my gun."

His eyes swept across the parts on the table, which were trying hard to arrange but were still in a mess from a professional's perspective, and then moved to the orange-haired student's pretending to be well-behaved smile. Furugani Rei's fingertips that were resting on the edge of the table moved slightly.

I inexplicably wanted to pinch that face hard.

The dark-skinned fingertips curved in a barely perceptible arc, then naturally hid beneath the tabletop. Fūya Rei said calmly, "There's gun cloth and weapon maintenance oil in the cabinet next to it. Grab them."

Hasegawa Yu immediately got up to get it.

Sitting there, Jōgu Rei lowered his eyelids slightly, not looking at anyone, and rearranged the gun parts on the table one by one according to his own habits.

When Hasegawa Yu came back with the things, he only saw the blond man retract his hand.

He looked down at the various parts that seemed to have become more organized, and he hesitated to let go of his hands. Finally, he carefully placed the gun cloth and weapon maintenance oil near the edge of the table.

It's just connected to the back of an empty magazine, like two abrupt marks.

"Senior, I'm ready!" Hasegawa Yu looked up and said excitedly.

Jōgu Ryo's gaze unconsciously drifted to the young man's face, and he suddenly met the brilliant orange-gold color, and said "hmm" a little slowly.

For members of an organization, as long as it does not affect the use of the gun, there are not many rules for gun maintenance.

He said calmly, "Gun maintenance is very simple. Xiaoyou, please follow the order I arranged the parts for you one by one."

"Okay~"

After explaining the newbies' matters, and seeing them carefully following his instructions and treating his own habits as "rules", Jiang Gu Ling's eyes darkened, "..."

After a while, the blond and dark-skinned man supported his chin with one hand, and his eyes fell on the orange-haired young man with a slightly blank look. It was rare for him to relax a little in front of someone other than You Xunran.

Fūya Rei was thinking about the conversation he had with Koujunran a few days ago.

"Boss sent Hiro to test Hasegawa Yu?"

"Yeah." Zhu Fujingguang narrowed his eyes imperceptibly and said without warning, "I shot the gas tank of the car he was driving."

Fūya Rei's heart skipped a beat.

"The young master still has some skills."

Zhu Fushiguri, taking in every subtle expression on his friend's face, leaned back in his chair and slowly added, "He jumped out of the car before the bullet hit the fuel tank."

Furiya Rei's tense muscles slowly relaxed, and his usual smile curled up the corners of his mouth. "Maybe it's like Hiro said last time, there's a magic called 'time reversal'."

So the incoming bullets were anticipated in advance.

"It's also possible that the AI is constantly monitoring my movements." Zhu Fushi Jingguang remained noncommittal about Xiao Xunran's statement. "Anyway, I didn't see any magical effects or anything like that."

When talking about topics related to Hasegawa Yu, both of them would turn on the signal blocker, so the conversation was quite frank without using complicated and difficult to understand codes.

"Zero, are you worried about Hasegawa?" Morofushi Kagemitsu stared at his childhood friend inquiringly, "Are you worried that he'll die?"

Jiang Gu Ling said nothing.

But sometimes silence speaks volumes.

"You always say that I'm popular in the organization." Zhu Fu Jingguang changed the subject, "But Zero knows exactly what my relationship with those people is."

Fūya Rei raised his eyelids slightly, "Of course."

Compared to the Speyside people who have a very friendly look on their faces, the Scots' expressions are very dull most of the time.

But just as a good person will not be praised even if he does ten good deeds, he will be criticized by thousands of people if he accidentally does one wrong thing; the gentle smile that Scotland, who is decisive in sniping, shows outside the mission is enough to confuse most people.

It was like a silent drizzle, clearly not very aggressive, but when people came to their senses, they found that their whole body was soaked in the damp water vapor.

Scotland is this drizzle that has a very low presence but cannot be ignored.

"I think sometimes, Zero is the one who is easier to approach between the two of us." Zhu Fujingguang smiled.

Simply put, some... high attack and low defense? Doesn't seem quite accurate.

He didn't say the description out loud.

"Really?" Furuya Ling raised an eyebrow and looked at Xiao Xunran calmly, "I just want to confirm the unstable factors."

It is unknown what the contract for his Soul Crown is and what conditions he agreed to.

"Really?" Zhu Fujing asked back, following his tone and changing the words.

"Does Zero want to control the unstable factors, or does he want to control him?"

As the words fell, the room fell silent.

Just then, a cold wind blew outside the house, bringing with it a whistling sound of winter, loudly announcing its arrival to mankind.

Thick clouds piled up in the sky, scattering fine snowflakes to the earth.

The season of encountering the soft-hearted God arrives quietly in the night.

“Is there a difference between the two?”

A few seconds later, inside the warm house, Furuya Rei spoke first, "Don't worry, Hiro. I told you, I know what's going on."

Zhu Fujingguang: "Oh, I know."

He thought of Speyside, who also had special feelings for Hasegawa.

"I vote for the option that the young master is the heir." Zhu Fu Jingguang agreed with the long-abandoned identity hypothesis without any context.

Not long after arriving, he had already "won over" the two top intelligence experts in the organization.

Intelligence experts are starting to turn a blind eye to intelligence.

Zhu Fujingguang had no doubt that if the boss had not sent himself or Gin to carry out this mission, Speyside would most likely submit a report that everything was normal.

As for the exploding electronic products, what is that? It's the fault of the manufacturer's poor quality, what does it have to do with the innocent people being hunted?

Zhu Fujingguang suddenly realized that he knew Speyside quite well and got goosebumps again.

Where does this terrifying "tacit understanding" come from?

Seeing Xiao Xunran showing a disgusted expression, Furugaya Rei said:?

Did his "knowledge" disgust Hiro? No way!

"Anyway, I can handle the Boss." Fūya Rei cleared his throat and ended the topic.

“Artificial intelligence is not omnipotent after all.”

Recalling the various battles the man before him had waged against artificial intelligence in the United States, Zhu Fujingguang patted him on the shoulder and said, "If you want to control humans, do it now."

Take advantage of the fact that the boss has not yet focused all his attention on this, so that there will be less trouble later.

As he spoke, the black-haired man with phoenix eyes cast a meaningful glance at the blond man.

Whether it's faking someone's death or imprisoning them, he can help.

Hearing the hidden meaning of Yukunran's words, Furuya Ling neither agreed nor disagreed.

“Senior…Senior!”

Fūya Rei suddenly came back to his senses.

"I've called you senpai several times." Hasegawa Yu showed him the repaired parts, "Senpai is really slacking off."

"Put the gun back together after you've taken care of it."

"What were you thinking about just now, senior?" It was the first time that Hasegawa Yu saw a man in a daze in front of him, and he couldn't help but be curious.

Fūya Rei looked at him intently, his tone unclear, "Xiaoyou really wants to know?"

Seeing this, Hasegawa Yu slowed down his gun-fighting movements and said hesitantly, "Do you want to... do you want to?"

It's strange, I feel a hairy feeling on my back again.

The orange-haired young man looked around. There couldn’t be any ghosts in broad daylight!

The intuition is a good one, but my brain can't keep up.

Furiya Rei collected his thoughts and said, "I'm thinking about work. Xiaoyou, do you still remember Takizawa Shinichi?"

A few days ago, Megure Juzo passed the bribery list to the public security personnel without the knowledge of Date Ko, in order to seek help.

Yuya Kazami also received the news.

There are several people on the list who are related to the organization. As an informant developed and trained by Bourbon within the Public Security Bureau, Kazami Yuya immediately revealed the existence of the list to Furuya Rei.

The list that can be handed over to the public security is a copy, and the original is still in Megure Jusan's hands.

Feng Jianyuya asked him for it in the name of public security, but the old police officer was extremely vigilant. Unless the public security and the Souichi Section cooperated to catch the man, he would not give it to anyone.

Things have progressed to this point, and according to the organization's previous style, they should kill to silence the witnesses.

But Rei Furuya suppressed the matter.

The arrest and imprisonment of Shinichi Takizawa aroused the vigilance of those on the list, and the people on the list sent the truck incident to silence them just in case.

However, the reason Takizawa Jinyi went to jail was murder, and there was indeed a murder case in the municipal building that day. There were no signs of intrusion in the computer where the list of names was stored. After the truck attempt to silence the witnesses failed, the people on the list restrained themselves and waited to see what would happen.

Therefore, the only person in the organization who knows that Megure Juzo has the accurate list is Furuya Rei.

Perhaps we should add Jinpei Matsuda, who has nothing to do with this matter. He broke into the office with Hasegawa Yu that day.

Regardless, this list is clearly a tricky one.

Fūya Rei looked at the orange-haired young man. He knew that the other party had a good relationship with Megure Jusan and the others.

The hairless orange-haired young man scratched his head in confusion, and replied to his senior, "I remember."

Hasegawa Yu was deeply impressed by the fact that he only knew three people, but two of them were involved in crimes, and subconsciously asked, "Did he escape from prison too?"

"No." Furuya Rei told the truth.

With Takizawa Shinichi's connections, it would have been easy for him to find someone to redeem him after killing someone, but the other party is still serving his sentence in prison.

He would not believe it if Noah's Ark had not been secretly obstructing him.

"Takizawa Shinichi is, to some extent, my colleague," said Furuya Rei, referring to their position as a council member. "I've heard a little about him, too."

"Like a bribe list or something."

"Ah." Hasegawa Yu suddenly became nervous and asked quickly, "What happened to the bribery list?"

"There are several people on the list who are collaborating with the organization." Furuya Rei said calmly, "Xiaoyou should be aware of the style of the people in the organization..."

Wouldn’t that be very dangerous for the police officers?

When Hasegawa Yu thought about how Megure Juzo and Takagi Wataru were almost hit by a truck, he was so scared that he even frowned.

Getting hit by a truck hurts!

"Everyone on the list is basically waiting and watching. Not only the organization, but others may also take action to silence them."

Hasegawa Yu pursed his lips, worry flashing in his eyes.

Nasty bad guys!

Thinking of this, his gaze unconsciously drifted towards the blond villain not far away.

Fūya Rei, who had been observing his reaction, looked back at him calmly.

Hasegawa Yu, who was trapped in a sea of purple and gray, asked inexplicably, "Senior, do you have any ideas?"

Otherwise, why would the senior remind him about the list?

"If I had a way, what would Xiaoyou do?"

Fūya Rei rested his elbows on the edge of the table, folded his hands, and tilted his head slightly, causing his blond hair to sway slightly. "Although I am a senior, I am not responsible for everything for my juniors."

Hearing this, Hasegawa Yu looked at him eagerly, with expectation hidden in his orange-gold eyes.

Fūya Rei smiled, looking completely unmoved.

"Then, can I buy something on credit from you, Senior?"

Hasegawa Yu raised his index finger and thumb to indicate, and once again resorted to the credit method, whispering: "Hmm... use now and pay later?"

"?"

Seeing that ingratiating smile, Fūya Ling wanted to pinch his face again.

"I can't think of anything I can give you right now."

At this point, Hasegawa Yu clasped his hands together and looked up at the man, with little stars twinkling around the corners of his eyes. "Senior, please, please~☆"

Fūya Rei, who was hit on the head by little stars: "..."

So flashy.

"I have a very good credit and will never owe money!" Hasegawa Yuu assured, "Senior~ Furuya-senpai~ Furuya..."

An idea suddenly flashed through his mind, and he changed his tone and called out, "Brother Ling?"

Fūya Rei's eyes flickered.

Hasegawa Yuu seemed to have realized something and continued, "Zero-kun~ What do you think of my proposal?"

Seeing the man remained silent, the orange-haired young man leaned sideways onto the table, fiddling with the assembled pistol with one hand, muttering, "It's okay to be a good villain every now and then."

His eyes fell on the young man's rounded profile, and Jōgō Rei thought, it turns out that the young master still has a lot of flesh on his face.

Finally, the blond man slowly opened his mouth and asked, "What is the adjective for good or bad person?"

Hasegawa Yu, who had been pricking up his ears secretly, suddenly stood up straight and said, "He's a bad guy who can do good things!"

There's nothing wrong with using the analogy of a police officer doing bad things.

When you look at it normally, there isn't that much flesh on the face.

Fūya Rei tapped his fingertips on the table, ignoring the question of who was good or bad. "In that case, I'll only be responsible for the dangers from the organization, and I'll set the deadline for the credit. Is that okay?"

His inner worry for the police officers took over, and Hasegawa Yu simply agreed, "No problem!"

Being able to reduce the risk is part of it.

His eyes suddenly brightened, "What is the solution that Brother Ling has in mind?"

Fūya Rei mentioned it briefly.

The bright eyes blinked and turned into mosquito-repellent eyes.

"...I'll take care of it, that's all." A feeling of helplessness rose in Furuya Rei. "If I lie later, Xiaoyou won't know either."

"No." Hasegawa Yu looked at the man frankly, never avoiding eye contact. At this moment, his orange-gold eyes were focused on reflecting the figure of only one person.

He said firmly, "Senior, if you promised me, I will believe you...Zero-brother."

Bathed in the young man's scorching and trusting gaze, Xiao Junran's suggestion suddenly emerged in Xiao Junran's mind.

Avoiding the eyes of artificial intelligence and everyone, he faked someone's death and locked himself in a place known only to him.

In this way, no matter what kind of influence the other party has on him, he can control it.

Hasegawa Yu once again looked around cautiously, "Brother Ling, there haven't been any rumors of ghosts in this training ground before, right?"

Here it comes again, that fuzzy feeling!

"..." Furuya Rei's eyelids twitched, "No."

He paused for half a second and then said, "Let's practice shooting while there's still time."

Hasegawa Yu, whose attention was diverted, did not suspect anything and said, "Okay~"

The two came to the simulated training range together.

Jōgu Rei took a look at the man and seriously doubted whether the young master's body could withstand the recoil of the gun.

He tossed the young man a pair of noise-canceling earmuffs and gestured for him to put them on. "Get your gun."

After thinking for a while, Jōgō Rei finally replaced the man with a training gun with less recoil to prevent him from getting dislocated or broken bones, which would have made him cry.

"Stand with your legs apart, arms raised straight, and hold the gun with both hands."

Hasegawa Yu did as he was told.

Fūya Rei was concise and to the point. As he adjusted the person's position, he said, "This is the most basic shooting position. But no matter what position you use, if you don't want to injure your wrist from recoil, Xiaoyou must keep your hand holding the gun tight and straight."

"The shoulders can bear more of the recoil than the wrists."

Fūya Rei glanced at the young man's wrist and felt that he could wrap it around with one hand.

Wearing noise-canceling headphones, Hasegawa Yu could still hear all the sounds clearly and noticed that the man was approaching him.

It exceeded the normal social distance, and he moved reflexively. Thinking that his senior was giving him guidance, he quickly accepted the other person's action.

A large hand with skin much darker than Hasegawa's rested on the gun handle and adjusted the muzzle angle for him.

Hasegawa Yu, who was holding the gun handle with both hands, was unconsciously attracted by the obvious contrast in skin color, and momentarily ignored the touch of another person on the back of his hand and the body hugging him from behind.

Hmm, looking at this, is Senior's skin tone natural? Or is it tanned? It doesn't look like a tan...

Ah, speaking of it, blonde hair and dark skin are a very rare type in the entertainment industry with so many handsome guys!

Even the senior’s eye color is rare!

"Xiaoyou, what are you thinking about?" Noticing that he was distracted, Fūya Ling whispered in his ear.

The main function of the noise-canceling headphones at the shooting range is to block the impact of harmful noise on the ears without hindering the perception of surrounding sounds.

A magnetic and pleasant voice came through the headphones, and Hasegawa Yu, whose hearing was different from that of ordinary people, immediately came back to his senses and expressed his thoughts, "If Ling-brother became a star, he would definitely be very popular!"

The fans’ support colors are also easy to choose, purple-gray, unique and will never clash with others!

Jiang Guling:...?

I really want to get into the young master's mind and see what he thinks about all day.

"Just give it a shot, Xiaoxian."

Rei Furuya chose to give up studying the idiot's thinking.

Hasegawa Yu pulled the trigger without distraction.

The bullet flew out of the muzzle at high speed and hit the target not far away.

His score popped up on the electronic screen above the shooting range, which was the outermost ring.

Hasegawa Yu was very happy and raised his hands high, "Yeah! I hit the target!"

It seemed like the recoil of the training gun was acceptable. Fūya Rei gave him a complicated look and said, "Keep practicing, Xiaoyou."

When the training ended, it was much darker outside.

After putting on his coat, Hasegawa Yu shook his sore wrists and arms, and he looked in good spirits.

Fūya Rei looked at the young man wearing a Christmas-style outfit with red as the main color, and felt inexplicably irritated.

Today is Christmas Eve, do you have a date tonight?

"Where are you going next, Xiaoyou? Should I take you there?"

"Go back to the safe house."

Hasegawa Yu, who was simply wearing this outfit for the festive occasion, thought for a moment, "Will Senpai eat cake?"

"Occasionally."

So on the way back to the safe house, when Hasegawa Yu bought cakes for himself, Noah, and Mr. Ichisuke, he also brought one for his senior.

"Clang clang~" Hasegawa Yu handed the small cake in his hand to the blond senior, "It's a strawberry cream cake, happy Christmas Eve, brother Ling."

The cake box is not big, and it contains the smallest triangular cake slices.

Fūya Rei took the small box tied with a Christmas bow with an expressionless face. It was still on credit, and now he was asking for bribery?

Twenty minutes later.

Brother Ling, who accepted the bribe, sent the person back to the safe house.

In the evening, after taking a comfortable bath in the bathtub to relieve the fatigue of a day's training, Hasegawa Yu did not forget to enjoy his strawberry cream cake.

The orange-haired young man placed the same cake in front of the Garfield doll and the puppy doll in a formal manner, "Noah, Mr. Yijie, Merry Christmas Eve~"

【Xiaoyou, happy Christmas Eve. 】

Noah's Ark didn't mind this playful scene. [Xiaoyou, please help me eat my cake. Today is a holiday, so just treat it as an indulgence day. No dietary restrictions.]

Hasegawa Yu, who rarely eats high-sugar foods to maintain his weight, shook his head and said, "Hehe~ I'm welcome then. I'll save this for tomorrow!"

【Um.】

In a very good mood, Hasegawa Yu took the electronic piano next to him, plugged in headphones, and started playing in a non-disturbing way.

He stared at the puppy stuffed animal beside the piano. "Noah, what's that sound coming from the bug behind Mr. Yijie's collar?"

[The prayer of the witch at the Poverty Shrine.] Noah's Ark said calmly.

"?" Hasegawa Yu hesitated, "The god of poverty... also has a shrine?"

Will humans still worship the god of poverty?

[Yes, in Nagano Prefecture.]

Wow, does Noah tell these to his seniors every day?

Hasegawa Yu wanted to say something but stopped himself, thinking that the bad senior's eavesdropping behavior was not good, and he stopped talking again.

"Noah, please give us your real voice for five minutes." He touched the piano. "It's Christmas Eve."

Noah's Ark really wanted to say that the black guy was unnecessary, [Okay, five minutes start.]

Not a second more!

Hasegawa Yu played a new song.

It's "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence."

In a house somewhere in Beika Town, Rei Furuya, who used the prayer to the God of Poverty as background music while working, was stunned for a moment, and immediately realized that the voice coming this time was real.

He unconsciously stopped typing on the keyboard.

The piano piece ended quickly, and the pianist added the jingle bells that are most often heard at Christmas at the end.

The cheerful notes gradually died down, and were replaced by an equally cheerful voice.

"This is the interest on the credit. Brother Ling, Merry Christmas~"

The eavesdropper was silent for three seconds before the AI began to transmit the prayer words of the witch from the Shrine of the God of Poverty, which had been pieced together from somewhere by the artificial intelligence.

Furuya Rei turned off the eavesdropping device.

A small box tied with a Christmas bow was quietly placed next to the computer.

The blond, dark-skinned man was silent for a while, then he opened it, revealing the strawberry cream cake inside.

A sweet smell filled the air, and he scooped off a small piece with a spoon and put it into his mouth.

Well, it tastes sweet too, thought Rei Furuya.

A few seconds later, a very soft voice came from the silent room, "...Merry Christmas Eve."