Qianxue Qingyi felt that her heart at this time was like a rabbit, and she was pounding. Stretched out a hand to caress her chest, lowered her head, looking at the childish side face of the boy on the bed in the light, her heart was nervous, and even felt overwhelmed, she faintly felt that this boy was pulling her nerves all the time, making her excited and happy, and making her frightened. She was driven by an inexplicable emotion, excited......

Is it you? Could it be you? Chiyuki Kiyoi struggled to calm her already stagnant heart, with a panic on her face that was about to cry and not crying.

But how is that possible? I know you're dead, and he told me you're dead, so how can you be alive when he said it?

She remembers, when she first heard the news that Cointreau was dead, she felt as if her sky had fallen, and that the child she had been silently observing, the light that she had longed for since childhood, had just disappeared?

Therefore, whenever she recalls those past times, Chiyuki Kiyoi feels as if her heart is dripping blood. She didn't want to remember, but she didn't want to stop remembering him, she didn't want to dream of him again, but she begged every day to be able to meet him again in her dreams, although it was painful, but what could she do? Because this was the only way in the world to see him again.

Oh, it's ridiculous, who is she?

She knew that maybe she was nothing to Cointreau, and she even knew that maybe in Cointreau's world, a small character like herself might not even bother to understand. Cointreau, he probably didn't even know that there was such a person as himself. His world was small, with only a handful of people who could count on even a pair of hands.

But so what? She's not who he is, so what? What's so funny about that?

I just like him, what's wrong?

Qianxue Qingyi imagined countless times in her heart that one day she would be able to say such a thing to Cointreau in person, Cointreau, I just like you, what's wrong? I don't care if you care about me or not, whether you know me or not, but I just like you.

I don't want you to know me, I don't even want you to know that I exist, I just want to be on the sidelines, silently watching you.

That's enough, Chiyuki Kiyoi thought. To be able to look at you from a distance like this, to know that you are okay, even if I know that you are not happy, even if I know that you will be covered in bruises every time you come back from a mission, but you are still alive and will appear in my world, and that is enough.

What Qianxue Qingyi needs is such a small satisfaction. Even if it seems to outsiders to be just a small satisfaction, for Qingxue Qingyi, she feels that her heart is about to overflow with sweetness. She was so far away, silently guarding the light in her heart, full of joy.

However, one day, even such a small, even humble will, was shattered.

She will always remember the day when the girl who values Cointreau the most said to herself: Cointreau, he is dead.

――――――――The following is Chiyuki Kiyoi's own statement――――――――

My name is Imperial, and the first time I heard this name, I was so angry, Imperial, it sounded quite lofty, but if I thought about it, it translated as emperor, is it so ugly? I'm a girl, is it really good for a girl to give me such a name? Especially knowing that this name will accompany me for the rest of my life, until I die, I am even more depressed.

"Naa, do I really have to call such a broken name for the rest of my life? Can't I change it? It's so ugly. I glared and pleaded at the silver-haired boy in front of me who looked like a block of ice and would take the air conditioning with him. Anyway, a 14- or 5-year-old boy should be able to talk well......

"Okay...... Yes, why are you staring at people. "What answered me was a cold glare, cut, if you don't speak, don't speak, what kind of cold air is put on randomly. It's cold here, so don't even make the atmosphere so cold......

Retracted his gaze, puffed his mouth angrily, inexplicably targeted by this strange organization, and was brought here from the orphanage, who knew it would be such a dreary place.

I looked around, yes, I couldn't see the light yet.

"The rules here tell you, don't run around, otherwise, it's none of my business if my life is gone. The air-conditioner man who claimed to be GIN sneered at me with his own air-conditioning.

Cut, if it weren't for looking at you as handsome, I wouldn't have bothered to pay attention to you. "Got it......" puffed out my mouth, and blew the curtain on my eyes depressedly, and I was reluctant to return.

And just like that, my organizational life began.

I first met Cointreau when I was 6 years old......

It was, I remember, in a class where the "machine" was taught. Cointreau was late, and his careful inquiry at the door looked very cute, as if he had not been educated by the organization, simple and ignorant, with great vitality, as if it was hope, and for me, who had lived in this dark organization for a full year, it seemed to feel the light that I had not seen for a long time.

"Hey......" As soon as I opened my mouth, I was just a second late, and let Black Cherry take the lead, and then Shirley came, I saw that he was overwhelmed by the two of them, and wanted to laugh, sure enough, it was so cute.

I wanted to be close to him, I wanted to join them, but I couldn't.

After this year, I probably feel that I haven't done enough well, and the organization has already thought of sending me to the periphery, so now I must study hard. GIN told me not to crave friends, let alone in this place, you don't need friends. I hate GIN's dismissive tone, but admittedly, I still think GIN's words are right.

But for some reason, Cointreau is so special to me, I can't control myself from being close to him. I watched him go between Shirley and Black Cherry every day, and they got better and better, and he seemed to be quite happy, and I thought it would be better to just follow him all the time.

After 2 years I went up to the piano, Cointreau was a violin, and I didn't meet him in class. But Shirley I often see, Shirley and I have been in the research room, Shirley is very talented, there, I am just doing it, and Shirley is starting to study drugs, I will peek at the records at night, study on my own, and Gin has found out a few times, but I have not been punished or stopped.

Life is so plain and beautiful, at least for me.

Later, when he heard that Black Cherry had gone to the United States, Cointreau looked angry. I couldn't do anything, I knew he didn't need me, he needed Shirley, and Shirley was always there for him.

It didn't take long for Shirley's hard work to be in vain, she was finally admitted to a university in the United States, and she also left the organization, here, only me and Cointreau remained......

I sometimes hate Shirley and Black Cherry, maybe jealousy, maybe resentment? I don't know, but I often wonder why I don't value him when they both have Cointreau's attention. Perhaps, without them, Cointreau would not have become so cold and lonely in the future.

Cointreau has changed, he has become more lonely, and I often see him alone in a daze.

He has both of them in his heart, and I only have him in my eyes.

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I heard that Black Cherry was back, and I thought he was probably going to have a good time with her. I didn't want to see the picture that made me sad too much, so I chose to escape, and I went to the training ground that day, because I don't usually exercise much, I hurt my leg, and went back to my room to rest. I only knew that the alarm bell was loud outside, but I didn't know that it was Cointreau who escaped with Black Cherry after killing 13 people in a row.

Cointreau fled, and was wounded. I'm not worried about his injury, but I believe he can live healthy, but how can I avoid being tracked by the organization?

Cointreau, you must live.

Shirley is also back, and the organization has also decided on my going to the periphery, after all, the two of us were trained at the beginning, just in case, Shirley has returned from school, and there is no need for me to stay. Because I want to go to the periphery, Shirley, who has never had anything to do with me, took the initiative to find me, 17-year-old Shirley is already very standard, and I, just 16 years old, although only this year, but no matter how I look at me, I am more like a child.

Shirley came to me for a simple reason, in her thoughts, she wanted me to have more contact with her sister, to help her more secretly, and to use the research I still had in my hand to wander around the inside and outside, and bring her more news of her sister.

The contact with her was so natural, and I gradually discovered another delicate and gentle, even a little fragile under her surface, which was different from her calm and strong appearance. Sister Akemi is too, she treats people gently, always thinks about me, and really treats me like her sister.

It turns out that in addition to Cointreau, there are really people who will make me feel that there is light and hope in the world.

Cointreau, Cointreau, what happened to him who has no news so far?

Although it was delayed again and again, in the end, my research was completed, but it was a kind of **, although my academics were not as good as Shirley's, but after all, Gin's ignorance still gave me an opportunity to study, and the organization discovered my ability, and found that I might surpass Shirley's ability, and sent me abroad for further study.

I don't want to go yet, I still want Cointreau. But the order of the organization could not be disobeyed, and the next day I was stuffed on a plane out of the country, and once again missed Cointreau.

Cointreau, Cointreau, you've been caught in the end...

Eight days after I left, Cointreau was brought back by Gin, and the good news was that Akemi-san was not confirmed dead, just missing. But, Cointreau, who had been tortured so much, that Gin didn't know my feelings for Cointreau, and that he didn't know how much pain I had in my heart, and then I smiled and asked him, "And then, is he still alive?"

After that, Gin didn't know why he started to get busy, and stopped telling me every day, I started to worry because I couldn't get news from Cointreau, so I had to try every way to contact Sister Shirley, and Sister Shirley replied to me a long time after receiving the message:

"Cointreau, he's dead"

A bolt from the blue......

How could he die!