Waiting for the police to come to the Metropolitan Police Department, after seeing Momozaki Orange get into the police car and leave, Ritsu Sasashima walked towards his car with peace of mind, saying that he also parked illegally in order to save people.

He opened the car door and was greeted by the smell of alcohol, fastened his safety belt and rolled down the window, he looked sideways at Yuna Hayasaka who was curled up in the co-pilot, taciturn really doesn't look like her character, obviously she has been a lot more lively recently, and she will scold herself from time to time.

"What? Is it thinking about the consequences if we don't go down this path? ”

Yuna Hayasaka was slightly stunned when she heard this, and was silent for a few seconds before she said slowly: "Well, sort of." But there are other reasons, and I'm thinking about a very serious question. ”

Ritsu Sasashima couldn't help but laugh when he heard this, and he started the car and rushed towards Hayasaka's house, asking with interest, "Serious question?" You? Don't you always say that your IQ should be used on the case, and you want to be a three-nil girl with an empty brain on weekdays? ”

"Why do you remember this thing so clearly!" Yuna Hayasaka glared at Half Moon and said dissatisfied, but thinking that he didn't notice his mind at all, his face became ugly again, and he even turned his head directly and didn't intend to look at Ritsu Sasashima's familiar and unfamiliar face.

The familiarity was that she already knew who he was, and the strangeness was that it was the opposite of what she had been.

Yuna Hayasaka has been quietly investigating everything about Takashi Akizawa since the Seiichiro Motoshi case, and she suddenly discovers that Takashi Akizawa has a lot of extreme reversal points. It's like Sasashima's predecessor's favorite is Calpis, and the most hated is bitter coffee, while Akami Izawa is exactly the opposite.

But in some ways, there are strange similarities - such as the ability to solve cases and the way of logical reasoning, and the gradual intimacy with those Sasashima seniors' friends, these are too strange.

Seiichiro's case was the trigger for her suspicions, but it was the next observations and temptations that made her sure that Takashi Onizawa was Sasashima-sen, the Sasashima-senpai who made her think about it until now.

Why did he deceive himself? It must be related to an undercover mission.

So why did he "shut himself out" again? Is it because you don't feel that you are not strong enough to be a partner?

Yuna Hayasaka looked sideways at Takashi Akizawa, who didn't wear glasses today, which made her feel strange. I don't know if it's a girl's sixth sense, or if she can't pretend to be stupid anymore, she feels that if she doesn't say it, she may not have a chance.

When Ritsu Sasashima heard Hayasaka's words, the corners of his mouth raised slightly: "My memory has always been very good, and you don't know it!" ”

"Really? That's a coincidence, Sasashima-senpai's memory is also very good. After saying this, Yuna Hayasaka turned her head to look out the window, she didn't dare to see what kind of expression would be on Kitazawa's face.

This sound of Sasashima senior really stunned Sashima Ritsu, he faintly sensed that something was wrong, but he still didn't choose to go in that direction to investigate. He chose to follow this sentence and continued: "It seems that you know your Sasashima senior quite well. ”

"Isn't it? I knew he was alive. ”

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If it weren't for the good enough psychological quality, Ritsu Sasashima would have slammed the accelerator directly into the telephone pole in front of him. His eyes widened for a moment and he didn't know what to say, he heard it right—Hayasaka said she knew she was still alive? I guess I heard it wrong.

Yuna Hayasaka still couldn't help but turn his head to look at the expression of the person next to him, it seemed that he was ready to pretend to be stupid again. But this time she won't give him such a chance, at least ask about his identity, as long as he is alive.

"Even so, aren't you going to tell me?"

“……”

Ritsu Sasashima parked the car to the side, bowing his head like a child who had done something wrong, and for some reason, he always felt that he had done something wrong when he was asked this question bluntly by Yuna Hayasaka.

Just like them, they will complain that they carry everything on their shoulders and are unwilling to say it. He had imagined that if it weren't for the email from Karasuma Renya, he would probably never confess to Jingguang and them for the rest of his life.

"Although I don't know the cause of these changes in you, I can tell you unambiguously that I now know that you are Ritsu Sasashima." Yuna Hayasaka frowned and looked at Ritsu Sasashima, who was avoiding her gaze, and said seriously: "So I just want to ask you one question now, you're still alive, right?" ”

When this question was asked, Yuna Hayasaka felt that she was ridiculous, and it was really rude enough to ask such a question to a living person. But if you don't ask that, this living person will just continue to pretend to be dead.

Ritsu Sasashima thought that Hayasaka would ask herself a lot of questions, such as the time in Hokkaido when she knew that she was confessing to herself, but pretended to be a good senior to help her analyze the problem, and what she was doing during the time she disappeared, and why she became like this now.

But he didn't think that Hayasaka didn't ask anything, just asked himself if he was still alive.

He knew the meaning of this sentence, so he also raised his eyes to look directly at the beautiful dark gray eyes, reverted to his original voice, and said in a deep voice: "Still alive, not dead." ”

For Yuna Hayasaka, Ritsu Sasashima is the best to live, even if it is no problem to deceive herself, people only have a future if they live, right? Even if his future does not include himself, presumably he became like this in order to complete a mysterious mission.

Clever enough to guess that it was the same task that Zero was performing. Because Yuna Hayasaka once visited the Onitsuka instructor who taught Sasashima Ritsuka after the "death" of Sasashima Ritsu, and he also saw a graduation photo of the six of them on his side.

The six people in the photo are making strange movements, and Ritsu Sasashima, who is standing in the center, has a reluctant look on his face, which is an expression that he has never seen in the process of getting along with each other at work. What did you think at the time? It turns out that Sasashima's seniors will also show such a look, it's not that the face is paralyzed.

It was also from that time that she knew some of Ritsu Sasashima's stories in the police academy, so she could guess that Zero Tsuya, who had changed her identity and became Toru Amuro, should also be on a secret mission.

"When you take off your glasses, are you going to say goodbye to your current identity?"

Ritsu Sasashima showed a surprised expression when he heard this, but soon he also noticed the other party's surprise, and he realized that Yuna Hayasaka was just saying it casually, but when he saw his own expression, he understood that her casual statement was true.

"Well, it will end with an accidental death in the middle of a mission."

"Well, you're leaving again."

Ritsu Sasashima also gave up his identity as a policeman, but when he came to work in the Metropolitan Police Department, he was ready to leave, and he was ready from the beginning. He stretched out his hand and wanted to pat her on the head as encouragement, but thinking that this action was not good, he withdrew his hand and put it on the steering wheel, and after thinking about it for a long time, he softened his tone and said, "It's okay, I'll come back again." ”

"Really?"

"Hmm."

Yuna Hayasaka seemed to think of something, and she clasped her hands around her chest and said with a proud face: "Really? Then your position will definitely not be as high as mine, right? When the time comes, please call me Hayasaka senior, the future junior! ”

“？”

Is a woman's face changing so fast? This made Sashima Ritsu completely unexpected, he scratched his cheek and restarted the car, and said with a wry smile: "When the time comes, you will be promoted to the police department first, maybe you are still my subordinate." ”

"Then I will definitely apply for a transfer to another department."

"Why?"

"Staying in the same department with you, I'm afraid I'll have to be a model worker for the rest of my life."

“……”