Chapter Seventy-One

After that, the time was still spent in the villa, the base, and the mission site, and when it came to the first time it was close to winter, the tasks of the organization suddenly increased a lot, and he was busy for several months in a row, and even went to the United States several times, and when he came back, he had missed the young master's tenth birthday at the end of the year.

But after a few months, Ikekawa Na suddenly changed a lot.

The ten-year-old began to smoke at this time, but not much, and when he walked into the study, the other party was reading, with a gloomy shadow between his eyebrows, but it seemed that it was only because of the light.

"I want you to keep teaching me these things." The ten-year-old boy blocked the door of the training room with the people who had returned from the mission, "□□, daggers, and everything else, I have to learn." ”

Gin glanced at his still thin arm and quickly looked away, "You can't learn." ”

He hadn't forgotten the other party's wrist hurt and he went to drag the housekeeper's clothes and shed tears.

"I can learn." Ikekawa Nai gritted her teeth and looked at him, a hint of suppressed emotion flashed in her eyes, "Moreover, you shouldn't be able to refuse my request, right?" I want you to teach me these things starting today. ”

The silver-haired man raised an eyebrow.

He didn't mind teaching the other party, but he expected that with the young master's temper, he wouldn't be able to practice for long, so he simply lost his strength during the first training, and sure enough, it didn't take long for the other party's round eyes to become wet again because of the pain on his body.

But what I didn't expect was that this Chikawa Nai really carried it without saying a word, and didn't even let the tears fall, just motioned to the man to continue with his eyes wet, and then even to the extent of practicing day and night.

The boy's clever brain is obviously also manifested in this aspect, no matter what kind of weapon he learns quickly, and his current physique can't compete with gin, he has learned to attack skillfully, and after half a year, he can actually stalemate with the number one killer who has been cultivated by the organization since childhood.

Although it will be knocked to the ground in less than five minutes.

After increasing the amount of exercise, Chikawa Nai's size also began to draw with age, and by the time he was fourteen or fifteen years old, his height was almost 1.7 meters, and there was a tendency to continue to rise.

At the end of another training, the boy took off the gauze wrapped around the back of his hand, and while panting, he tied his sweat-soaked hair back high, and after parting his broken hair, he had immature and handsome eyebrows, and Gin poured cold water into his mouth, looking at the person who was resting against the wall panting, and suddenly figured out where he had seen the familiar look when the other party asked him to teach him before.

It was a long time ago, when he was still in the training base of the organization for the training of orphans, a numbered body that was ranked last and would be disposed of if he didn't find a way, and when he looked up at himself, it was this kind of look.

The young master who is pampered and pampered in the villa also needs to consider this kind of problem?

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The loud sound of the glass being smashed echoed in the room, and Gin walked to the source of the sound the moment he heard the sound, and when he arrived at the bedroom, the butler was standing by the bed early.

The boy threw the milk that appeared on the tray every night on the ground, and there was an astonishing sharpness in his eyes, "I don't understand, I don't need these things, books, toys, I don't need any of this, why do I want to stay in this place all the time?!" ”

He rarely spoke so loudly, even to the point of hysteria, and the butler tried to go up to comfort the other party, but the outstretched hand was opened with struggle.

"Stay away from me!" He shouted, with obvious tiredness and collapse between his eyebrows, like a little beast that had finally been cornered, and the emotions that he had usually suppressed finally exploded at this moment.

“…… Master, you are sick, I will call the doctor now. The housekeeper frowned, but still did not rush to the other party, and within ten minutes of dialing the phone, the doctor came in a hurry.

Motioning for the two to hold the boy on the bed down, the doctor didn't say anything, and quickly pulled a syringe out of the box and stabbed him in the forearm.

"What is this?" Before the tip of the needle pierced the skin, Gin stopped the other man's movements with a frown, his voice visibly hoarse.

"A soothing potion, which has a calming and sleeping effect." The doctor explained, he glanced up slightly at the other party's expression, and added, "The newly developed drug in the laboratory is harmless to the human body. ”

With that, the injection was pushed into the boy's body, and within a few minutes, the newly researched drug worked, and Ikakawa unloaded her strength and curled herself up into the soft futon.

"I'm sorry." Waiting for the doctor to leave, Ikekawa Nai whispered, speaking in an emotional outburst just now hurt his throat, making his voice a little hoarse now.

"You're just too tired, just rest for the night." The butler reached out to help him straighten out the quilt, and when he stroked the other party's cheeks and hair soothingly, large tears fell out of the boy's discolored eyes, and he rubbed his forehead in the butler's palm, and whispered, "I'm hungry, can I eat something?" ”

"Of course, you didn't eat much for dinner today." When the palm of his hand came into contact with tears, a deep guilt and distress flashed in the eyes of the housekeeper who had taken care of him since he was a child, "What does the young master want to eat, I'll prepare it now." ”

The boy seemed to be thinking about something, and after a moment he spoke, "Fish, the scales were red last time. I want to eat grilled fish and miso soup. ”

"Red?" The housekeeper thought for a while, and then remembered that not long ago, when he was passing by the town below the villa, he saw someone selling this kind of local fish, which was introduced to the young master who came to the kitchen to see it when he was cooking dinner, "I should be able to buy it now, but it's too late, and the round trip will be delayed for a long time, so if you're hungry, eat something else first, right?" ”

“…… But I really want to eat this. ”

"Okay, little master." The butler touched his head, and the lingering guilt and apology in his heart made him quickly agree to this request today, and he told Gin to accompany each other in the room now, and left in a hurry.

It is rare to encounter this situation, the man stands on the side of the bed, there is no movement or words except for rubbing the corners of Ikekawa Na's eyes and side face with his fingers, the boy buries his face in the pillow, a trace of clarity flashes in his eyes, and quickly changes back to what he was just now.

He propped himself up from the bed, leaned against the head of the bed and looked out the window, and as the car drove out of the villa, he glanced at the clock on the bed, and scratched his finger at the edge of the bedside table.

Waiting for the vehicle to completely disappear from the road, Ikekawa turned her head, pointed to a conspicuous-looking pine tree next to the road not far away, as if chatting, and asked, "How far is that place from here?" ”

When he got the answer, he replied in a low voice, and then sat back down, his fingers scratching the side of the bedside table for a while, the effects of sleep and tranquilizers had made him so sleepy that he would close his eyes and fall asleep at any moment, but the boy held on until the butler's car returned, he watched the car drive into the villa, glanced at the clock again, and scratched his fingers slightly underneath, and then fell asleep in the bed.

Gin frowned.

Many times he passed by the room, and the light inside was still on.

In the winter, Ikekawa would be sleepy from morning to night, often sleeping in the study or on the swing for most of the day, and the boy who needed to be called to wake up sat on the chair next to the desk.

And now, most of the time, the people in the room frowned, and there was obvious sleepiness in their eyebrows, but they still looked seriously at the textbook in front of them, which did not seem to be entertaining at all, and the knowledge points on it were already out of the scope of what children in this grade should learn.

Probably too sleepy, he yawned, then mercilessly pinched his arm, leaving a red mark and pinch mark on his delicate skin, and looked at the page again after recovering from the pain.

No one knew what he was doing, his skills in disguise were like a head, and the child whose eyes were about to be moistened with tears at every turn became a well-mannered teenager, and the tears that expressed his emotions were suddenly far away from him, except for the physiological tears stimulated by the wound during training, Gin rarely saw the other party shed tears again.

The boy who used to cry by the hem of other people's clothes became uninteresting, and carefully laid out the etiquette taught by the housekeeper, and when his eyes were not moistened by tears, they were a little dimmer than usual, like a puppet that was half-carved and preferably revolved around a fixed trajectory for the rest of his life.

When he looked at the bodyguard who already had a terrifying prestige in the organization, his original vivid appearance jumped out of the crack again.

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The fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy walked a few steps, deftly pulled out a cigarette case from the pocket of a black trench coat hanging on a hanger, took one out of it, held it in his mouth, and then lit it with a lighter like a man.

The next second, in Gin's gaze, he choked on a string of embarrassed coughs and tears from the smoke.

"Ahem——!

The man scoffed, as if to laugh at his childishness.

"Why do you like this kind of thing?" Chikawa Nai frowned, looked at the pipe in his hand, looked like he wanted to rush to the bathroom to brush his teeth immediately, his face puffed out, his eyes were full of disgust for the taste in his mouth, "Smoke smells like this?" It's still just that you can't smoke it. ”

He looked at the cigarette in his hand suspiciously, stuck out his tongue again, and then rushed to the bathroom to brush his teeth.

I slept more soundly than usual when I was holding a coat full of cigarettes, but at this time, I hated the smell of cigarettes.

He seemed to think that there must be other good-smelling cigarettes, and every time he waited for the gin task to finish, he would come over and snatch the tobacco in his pocket from the other party, and then run to the toilet to rinse his mouth with a frown, I don't know if he was annoyed, and the silver-haired man rarely took out a pack of cigarettes with fruit on the shell when he came back

The pipe is more slender and smells very fruity and minty.

The man pinched the popping beads inside and motioned for him to smoke them.

This time it was the smell of mint and fruit that poured into her mouth, and Ikakawa Na held the slender pipe and looked at it for a long time, her eyes lit up, and finally threw away most of the rest.

"Don't tell me it's a gift." Chikawa Nai thought about the smell of the cigarette just now, but still frowned, looking like she couldn't understand the taste of adults, "I have a birthday in two months, what are you going to give me?" ”

Sure enough, when he didn't get a response, he pursed his lips, whispered a 'sigh', and turned his attention back to the book.

——

"Gifts."

After the silver-haired man said this, the young man who was originally nestled in the chair reading a book immediately sat up straight.

The sixteen-year-old could no longer sleep in this chair as he had when he was a child, but the back of the chair and the enclosed armrests were still wide for him.

The word gift is very rare to come out of Gin's mouth, and the person who speaks obviously rarely mentions such words, and when he takes something from his pocket, his expression does not mean to give a gift at all, but he frowns, which looks a little scary.

Accustomed to the other party's black face, Ikekawa Na focused all her attention on the gift that was about to be taken out.

The steel reflected a silver glow in the light, and the slender muzzle poked out of it in the middle of the action, and he reached out to take the pistol in the style of a gin gift.

The beautiful body of the gun flipped between his fingers, and he looked down and said strangely, "It's not like your pistol." ”

It looks a little more delicate, and the size is different.

Gin replied in a low voice, without any more words of explanation.

As a gift for her 16th birthday, this □□ looked out of place in the things prepared by the gentleman and the housekeeper, and Ikekawa Na held it up and looked at the light, and said happily, "You can engrave words on the side, I want to engrave something." ”

For the number one member who is only used to kill people in the □□, this sentence is similar to tying a bow on a grenade, and the silver-haired man narrowed his eyes as if he wanted to say something sarcastic, but for the sake of the other party's birthday today, he swallowed back what he wanted to say.

"Thank you, I like it very much-" After dragging a long note of thanks, Ikekawa Nai looked at the □□ in his hand for a while, skillfully pulled off the magazine, and after finding that there was nothing in it, he immediately reached out and touched the pocket of the other party's black trench coat, and sure enough, he found a box of bullets from inside.

"Is Furukawa ready for dinner? There shouldn't be any more vegetable salad tonight, right? He chatted as he put the bullet into the magazine.

"I'll go and see." Gin stood up and prepared to leave.

He hadn't stepped into this villa for a long time because of his long-term mission, and the furnishings of the study hadn't changed much from before, but the books on the bookcase had changed again, and it seemed that the other party had finished reading all the books on it in just one month.

The huge decoration in the corner was moved with a vase, and the man reached out and was about to open the door, and in the reflection of the vase, he saw that the young master had loaded all the bullets into it, and then, he stared at the □□ for a long time, and suddenly raised his hand to turn it upside down, and pressed it against his forehead.

In the next second, he had already taken a few steps and pressed the man down on the chair, and the pistol fell to the ground with his hand off his hand, and the sound was not loud because of the carpet.

Before Gin asked him what he was doing with a cold face, Ikekawa Na smiled and spoke first, "Scared?" I just want to scare you. ”

Frighten? He didn't think the other party's expression at the time was just scaring people.

In the man's gaze, the young man quickly looked away, and even the topic changed together.

"Where did you go on this mission?" He pinched a few strands of silver hair that swept across his cheeks because of this posture, and played with them in his hand, "I've been going for almost a month this time." ”

"Nevada." Gin replied quickly, frowning and holding his hand on the handrail next to him, slightly up.

“…… It's far away. Ikekawa Na thought for a moment where this place was, then let herself sink into the soft cushion on the chair, and then looked at the bandage exposed at the other party's neckline, "Where did the wound on your body come from?" ”

Asking like this, in fact, he already had the answer.

This position and shape did not look like an accidental injury, and the obviously injured person did not resist at all, presumably just a punishment derived from the failure of this mission.

Sure enough, after getting the answer of "task", Ikekawa Nai answered in a low voice and turned his head to look away.

There was a small window in the study, facing the backyard, and it was just sunset, and the unchanging afterglow of the sunset was scattered on the white snow outside. The boy stared outside, and suddenly let out a low chuckle, then he got up from his chair, picked up the □□ that had fallen on the carpet, and put it in his coat pocket, "I'll put it back in the room." ”

With that, and no matter what the man behind him was about to say, he stepped briskly on the carpet and left the study.

□□ was properly placed in the cabinet next to the desk, and when he closed the bedroom door, Ikekawa Na's face was no longer the same as before, and he reached out to pick up the birthday present from the gentleman this year, a snow leopard still in its infancy, sleeping in his bed, and stroking the other person's belly with his hand.

"I've figured it out." Ikekawa closed her eyes, looked at the dark green pupils that were more inclined to the dark green when she was young, buried her face in the soft belly of the snow leopard that was whispering, and muttered to herself.

With that, he got up and felt for the bedside table next to him.

There was a little bump on it, and that's how he recorded the information.

From the villa to the outside...... The butler had taken nearly three hours to make the round trip, and he must have hiked much more slowly, and it was better to find other means of transportation at the foot of the mountain, otherwise he would not even be able to get out of this area.

But if you want to go that far, I'm afraid you need a high-speed train or something else, such as an airplane as mentioned in the book...... But that's not the most important thing.

He only needs to get rid of the gin, which he will definitely be punished if he escapes, and then wait for a while, and when his departure has nothing to do with him at all, he can try to find a chance to leave.

There is an electrical grid above the fence outside the villa, so either you can get something from the villa that can break the iron railing, or you can find a power outage.

He knew that he couldn't escape, but instead of staying here and begging them with all his might to let him go out and have a look, it was better to go straight and force the other party to the point where he couldn't live anymore if he didn't open the door to the villa.

Anyway, after being caught, he and the guy won't be able to see each other again. If he can really hold on when he is caught, and then fight for a chance to get out of here...... It shouldn't be too late to meet again, right?

After that, it went exactly according to the plan, quickly estranged and contradictory, holding the soft new pet in the corridor of the villa countless times, passing by each other without squinting, and putting his tone as indifferent as his expression, until ......

In the flashback memory, the dark green of the man illuminated by the unknown emotion with anger lit up in the darkness, the previous picture shattered into one afterimage after another, the memory of the past gradually faded as the suffocation subsided, and in the countless sounds and images of falling snowflakes, Ikekawa Na heard his own voice without any emotion.

"Get out of here, I don't want to see you here again."

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The moment the restraint on his neck was loosened, the black-haired man no longer had the strength to support his body with his hands and retreat.

He leaned sideways, subconsciously curled up to protect his inner neck and soft abdomen, and then choked intermittently, and fresh air poured down his nose and into his throat, bringing a strong burning and itching sensation that made him cough a little harder.

Physiological tears slid down the corners of his eyes with gravity to the side, and large fingerprints soon appeared on his neck, accompanied by the marks he had scratched when he struggled just now, which looked particularly terrifying.

Gin easily broke his curled up body as easily as he used a knife to pry open the shell of a mussel.

He didn't make any other movements, just pressed his hand to the other's abdomen, watching the black-haired man's thoughts dulled by the lack of oxygen, curling up as the most vulnerable abdomen was easily touched.

Ikekawa Na's tear glands are shallow, as if because there are few tears associated with emotions anymore, so those tears that have nowhere to be consumed have to be vented under the pretext of physiological stimulation, when he hid behind, the tears were still falling out of his eye sockets because of the continuous choking, flowing down the corners of his eyes, crossing the bridge of his nose, and moistening a small piece of fabric on the surface of the sofa.

He knew the problem of this young master, even if he endured it desperately later, his eyes were moist when he was treating the wound, not to mention in that case, he was afraid that he could cry from beginning to end, and the tail of his eyes and the tip of his nose would be red.

So Gin mockingly scraped away the tears on the bridge of his nose and eye sockets with his fingers, ignoring the irritability in his heart when he thought of this incident just now, "You can usually cry like this when you sleep with others?" ”

Ikekawa Na waved his hand away vigorously.

At this time, Rao is he couldn't help but grit his teeth and curse a dirty word, the black-haired man reached out to wipe the tears off his face, not wanting to be too embarrassed, but he was stopped after a few movements, and Gin looked at his movements with a cold face, "Spend less effort, there will be a moment when you cry." ”

The man's eyes widened instantly, his round heterochromatic pupils were full of astonishment, he took a deep breath to calm down his emotions, this time he was not ready to fight hard, he just wanted to leave this room quickly, and before he could act, he had already seen through the intention and pulled back again.

A knock on the door was heard.

(End of chapter)