Chapter One Hundred and One

Belmode settled down and walked in.

Only then did she notice that the man was not wearing clothes, but a fox with a snow-white coat.

He wears a metal collar around his neck, which looks similar to the one that appeared around Ikekawana's neck.

However, the frenulum is mostly blocked by fluff and cannot be seen clearly.

The fox heard the movement, swept its tail, and looked this way.

His eyes became more rounded under the snow-white hair, and he glanced at it before leaning back against the man.

It seems that it has just taken a big hit.

Belmode covered her mouth and laughed, "Cute little one...... This is the young master's new pet? ”

The 'new pet' twitched his ears twice, and buried his head in his clothes as if he were evading, and did not lift it up again for half a sound.

"I'm sorry." Shuichi Akai explained appropriately, "He's timid and scared of life. ”

As he spoke, he felt another blow to his arm with his tail.

Belmode covered his mouth and laughed: "It seems that the young master's new pet doesn't seem to be very kind to your subordinate." But he's really like Columbeth......"

Akai Shui, who was disguised as a subordinate, heard this and subconsciously glanced into his arms.

From the beginning of turning into a fox, Ikekawa Nai either buried her head in his chest and said that she would not lift it up, or she would twist her head away, and she was unwilling to turn her head at all.

In short, the word 'resistance' is written all over his body, but I don't know if he was numbed by a series of things, and his resistance is also very Buddhist.

Don't struggle, don't resist, let the hug let you suck, just turn your head or bury your head in your clothes, anyway, you just don't look at people.

It's a feeling of being out of sight and out of mind.

Akai smiled and didn't reply.

Seeing that there was no figure in the car, thinking that he was just holding the new pet as instructed to check his body, Belmode touched the fox's soft fur and walked into the building first.

Unlike the exterior of the factory, the door opens to reveal a minimalist bar, which is rarely crowded during the day, and the bartender wipes his glasses at the bar.

Because there were few people, Akai Shuichi saw the assistant who usually followed Ikekawa Na at a glance.

He remembered that in his own world, after the collapse of the organization, she left Japan to work for a company in the United States called Aurora.

The two should not have anything to do with each other, the other party just works in a company related to the organization, and in the end they are not implicated, and the other party will even send some special products from the United States as greetings during the New Year's holidays.

Just now, he had already used Ikekawa Na's mobile phone to send a text message to the other party, and Akai Shuichi walked over directly and temporarily put the little fox in his arms on the bar.

"Hello. The young master asked me to get the information he needed. ”

Seeing the other party's conscientious appearance of playing a subordinate, the fox shook his ears and couldn't help but hit him with his tail again.

Sounds so weird.

"Hey...... Good. Assistant Katori paused, and when she saw the car parked at the door, her mind suddenly became a little confused.

Wasn't that car in the garage of the safe house, this man was from...... Did Master Ikekawa come directly from the safe house where he stayed yesterday?

She looked down at her phone, and when she saw a few lines of text messages [I'm inconvenient for the time being, let my subordinates pick it up], the assistant's brain 'coaxed-', which was even more chaotic than when she saw Ikekawa Nai and Gin holding hands at the airport.

Halfway, she let out a painful wail in her heart, took out the company documents in her bag and handed them over, "This." Actually, I can send it over directly, so I don't need to bother you to run another ......."

As he spoke, Assistant Katori finally noticed that the fox who had been waiting at the bar for a long time was stuck in his throat with the second half of his sentence.

"Wow!" Her eyes lit up, "Little fox, it's actually a little fox!" ”

"Also、It's still the same heterochromatic pupil as the young master......"

It's completely different from the scary-looking snow leopard! It is said that pets are like owners, and the young master should have a little fox next to him!

It looks fluffy, and it's definitely much easier to touch than Enoch.

In winter, if the young master wears that coat with a fur collar and holds this little fox, he will look at people with two pairs of identical eyes of different colors.

The brain fills up the picture, and Assistant Katori feels like he is about to fall down happily.

Seeing what the other party was thinking at a glance, Shuichi Akai also thought about it, and had to admit that it was indeed cute.

It's a pity that Chikawa Nai and this little fox are destined to not appear in the same frame.

"Was it from the lab? Isn't it about to be delivered to the villa, I'm in charge of preparing the room and toys, and he won't be swallowed by Enoch when he stays with him, right? ”

Katori's assistant chattered and began to prepare.

"Ahem." Shuichi Akai interrupted the other party's rambling words, he sat down, ordered a glass of wine, and after taking the bartender next to him away, he whispered, "Did Belmode enter through that door?" ”

"Hmm." Hearing this, Katori's assistant's expression immediately switched back to a serious state, "It stands to reason that this base is rarely visited, the location is remote, and there are no important settings, so Belmode should not appear here." ”

However, the other party will suddenly appear, indicating that this place is not as simple as imagined.

"I don't have any reason to enter the lab right now, though." Any anomalies in the organization should be noted. Assistant Katori thought for a moment, and suddenly said, "What if you take him in to check his body?" ”

"Nope." Shuichi Akai refused without the slightest hesitation.

No matter what this fox says, it is Ikekawa Na, and bringing the inspection is just an excuse for Belmode just now, and he can't really send the other party to the experimenter.

After hearing this refusal, the fox dumplings on the bar first expressed their dissatisfaction.

“…… Can you walk? Listening to the other party's suspicious cry of opposition, Akai Shuichi leaned over and asked a key question.

Dango suddenly fell silent.

Oops! He had no idea if he would be able to walk if he became like this.

It should be no different from walking with a human being......

Thinking about it, the hairball tentatively stretched out its paws forward.

Akai Shuichi quickly squeezed his hands before the other party fell to the ground, so as not to let his little head hit the edge of the bar.

"By the way, let's put this on for him first." Suddenly realizing that he still had something in his bag that he was going to bring to Enoch, Katori's assistant took out a small box and took out a small nameplate from it.

On the front is Enoch's name, and on the back is engraved 'Columbai' in floral script.

She tinkered for a while, and as the fox fumbled to learn to walk, she saw a stitch and hung the nameplate on the other's neck ring.

The fox shook his messy fur, and after learning to walk, he quickly gave Akai Shuichi a 'don't stop me' expression, and jumped off the bar and walked towards the entrance of the base.

Akai Shuichi didn't stop for a while.

He snorted, feeling that after turning into a fox, the young master suddenly had a 'liveliness' that he had never had before, he cut his hair, checked his disguise, and prepared to chase the fox in.

"He's so small, he shouldn't be able to run far, so don't worry too much." Seeing that he was leaving, Katori's assistant comforted, "With a collar, the people in the base can know that it is the young master's pet when they see it." Maybe it's better than us. ”

Shuichi Akai: ......

That's just as well.

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The fox that ran into the base was treated really well.

Seeing the sign that Katori's assistant had just added on the neck ring, the experimenter, who was about to ask which laboratory was lost, withdrew his hand and took several steps backwards.

After that, he could be said to be unimpeded in the laboratory.

The doors to the lab were closed, and although they looked like long, narrow hallways of pure white, there were many forks in the road.

He came in with Belmode, chased someone at one of the forks, and had to poke his head outside the open laboratory first.

The fox was so short that it could only see the experimenter's legs, and he flicked his tail and was about to look up when he was suddenly picked up from behind.

"How did you get in, little one?"

The woman's slightly hoarse voice came from behind her ears.

The white pointed ears trembled, and the fox tilted his head to look at her, relying on the inability of the two to communicate and avoid the problem openly.

"Did the green-eyed man lose you?" Belmode smiled and reached out to rub his soft ears, "Then come with me first." lest you be brought back by some unsightly experimenter. ”

As she spoke, she adjusted her posture so that the fox was separated from the bouquet she was holding in her hand and walked towards the inside of the laboratory.

Before entering the door, the expressionless experimenter used a metal detector to check one person and one fox as usual, and then removed the fox's neck ring before letting him go.

The smell of disinfectant water fills the room inside several floors of doors.

Placed casually on a test bench, the fox tilted his head and watched as the woman walked over and placed the large bouquet of flowers in her hand on the head of the hospital bed.

"You're here."

She waited until she put down the flowers and leaned against the man sitting on the hospital bed before she spoke.

His misty blue eyes still tinged with gray tones in the bright hospital room.

Unexpectedly, the gentleman who had been staying in the core area would appear in the laboratory of this base, and the fox danzi's ears immediately stood up, and his tail was vigilantly guarded by his side.

"Where did the fox come from?"

The hairballs on the metal countertop stood out, and the man quickly looked away.

"The little guy who came out of the lab has no research value. Right now...... It should have been taken to Columbai as a pet. Belmode arranged the flowers, "Would you like to bring them to you?" ”

"No, you don't."

Before the fox could breathe a sigh of relief, the man smiled and continued, "...... Just give it a try. ”

He looked up and saw that the other party had put down the book in his hand, and his right arm, which had been blocked, was exposed, emitting a metallic luster in the light.

The tail, covered with soft white fur, gently swept the platform below.

He remembered that the last few times he had visited his titular adoptive father, it was rare that the man who had liked him the most for his dependent posture had not let him lie on his lap.

Thinking so, his round eyes looked down.

During the movement, he saw the color of the metal on the other party's lower body from the gap exposed when the quilt was lifted.

The man sitting on the bed stretched out his hand, and the metal fingers that were the same as those of the robot in the movie slowly spread out, causing the lights to light up several of the instruments on the bench that had been turned off.

...... he is operating these devices remotely?

The fox's tail slapped restlessly on the metal surface a few times, and soon the instruments were manipulating him onto the stage and to the man in the hospital bed.

Grabbed by the back of his neck and held up in front of him, the fox squinted at him, and saw another metallic color through the open mouth of the man's clothes.

The flesh and skin are closely intertwined, and the interface is showing a bluish and red color, and it can be vaguely seen that the flesh and blood that has been out of the scope of human beings can be seen inside, and it is connected to the body below with dense metal wires.

The scalp was numb for a while, and all the fluff on the fox's body exploded, making it even more fluffy.

"Are you scared?" A smile appeared on the man's face, and his expression was soft as if he were an ignorant child, "The pursuit of immortality is not a terrible thing. ”

The fox turned his head away from him.

"No wonder the lab wants to give you to Nana. You two are really alike. Ignoring the fox's attitude, he sighed in his voice, "The only difference...... Should you be born with different pupils? Bub. ”

“BOSS。” Belmode said at the right time, "Next is ......"

"No, this plan is over." The man glanced down at his half-converted mechanical body, "I'm not going to cover my whole body in steel, at least not yet." This is not the final result, and it is not enough. ”

"With this immortal body, it can only be confined to the body. Unless ......"

The unfinished words at the end are well known to everyone and every fox present.

He still wanted to copy his consciousness into electronic devices, and achieve immortality in the data that was integrated throughout the time.

"Before that. I need to find the key first to undo the wounds left by this body from too much trust. ”

“…… Nai Ikekawa. Belmode lowered his head to arrange the bouquet, the smile on his lips stiffened for a moment, "He doesn't seem to think of anything at the moment." ”

"When he himself remembers the shadow that was buried in his veins decades ago?" The man chuckled, "That woman isn't that stupid. If I can leave my own child to die, I am sure that I will not be able to find what I want from him in a short time and kill him. ”

"It turns out, and it does." He gently touched the soft fur of the fox in his arms, and the metallic surface only brought a strange coldness.

"Oh? Do you want to give up looking for clues in him and try it in other ways? Belmode lowered his eyes.

"Nope. I don't want to wait any longer. The man put down the fox group in his hand and looked indifferent, "Who was originally arranged for this mission." ”

"Gin. It's a bit ...... just to deal with a traitor who left on a cruise ship and let him go."

"Then let Columbai go, and revisit the old place...... If he can't think of anything, he can only take the initiative to find the answer in his head. ”

"Really? I hope his head still holds. ”

Belmode took the fox group in the other party's hand, "Then I'll go out first." ”

After receiving the answer, the woman left the room as usual, and put the collar on which he had been left outside.

She leaned against the wall of the laboratory hallway and was silent for a few moments, only to notice that the fox in her arms, which was not very large, had not moved.

"Little one." Belmode rubbed the fox's soft ears, "How do you feel that you are not as smart as that snow leopard, and you look a little dumbfounded." ”

The fox looked up and bared its teeth at her.

The woman chuckled twice and reached out to pick him up, "All right, smart little one. ”

The faint smell of perfume poured into his nostrils, and after turning into a fox, his senses became much more sensitive, and he couldn't help but turn his head and sneeze.

Hearing the faint sound of sneezing, Belmode was stunned for a moment, and suddenly something sounded, "You and that little master are really ...... Like. ”

How to say it again.

I remember getting this comment when I was squatting on the bar before, and the fox shook his ears and looked at her.

Detached from the memory of the sudden recollection, Belmode reached out and tapped his wet nose, his face still with his usual mysterious smile that made it impossible to see through the emotion, "The first time I hugged him, he was like that. ”

He frowned at the faint smell of perfume, and then sneeze with his little hand at her clothes.

The fox didn't even shake his ears.

He didn't remember seeing this member of the group around him when he was a child.

The thoughts were quickly interrupted by the words that followed.

"If you're smart enough, let him be careful. Because of the ship. ”

Belmode hooked the corners of his mouth, and his voice was as soft as a sigh: "But Xia Nai...... The place where his mother was buried. ”

Yu Yi Yi Zheng Yi Quinoa -

Back at the bar, the fox leaned against the blonde's arm and didn't move.

After saying that, Belmode also fell silent, and when she returned to the bar at the entrance, she put the hairball in her arms on the bar counter, and returned to her usual appearance, "Okay, let's go." ”

She glanced at Katori's assistant and green-eyed subordinates on the other end of the bar, suddenly thought of something, and lowered her head and asked, "Do you know how to walk?" ”

Na Ikekawa:?

Who to look down on!

Although he almost fell down on the bar just now, he had already mastered the walking skills, and he was fine all the way from the laboratory to the door of the corridor just now.

The fox immediately sat up straight, shook the fur on his body, and took a step forward with his head held high.

Completely forgetting to close his tail as he stepped and not knowing how far he needed to take to avoid it, he took a big step forward, his hindpaw slaying precisely on the furry tail behind him.

In the next second, Bai Tuanzi fell to the ground with a 'grunt'.

The laughter around them was extremely harsh at this moment.

After hearing that the fox was taken away by Belmode, Shuichi Akai waited at the door, and waited until the two came out before returning to the bar, and after confirming that the other party was fine, he suppressed the smile on the corner of his mouth and reached out to hug him.

Before his fingers touched the furry fur, the small fox was pinched by the back of his neck.

"Tsk."

The man with long silver hair stood behind, his dark green eyes dark under the brim of his hat, and he squinted his eyes up and down at the hair ball in his hand, "Where did you come from?" ”

Fox Cub: ......

At this moment, he finally abandoned his principles as a human being, opened his mouth and bit the other party's wrist hard. Then jump towards the bar when the other person lets go.

Before he landed on the platform, his tail was grabbed again.

Gin raised an eyebrow and pulled the fox cub back with one hand.

A slight cry came from the hairball's mouth, and there was no change in intonation from before.

I couldn't tell if it was hurting or just scolding, but Shuichi Akai's face was still serious.

"This is the young master's fox." He played the role of a subordinate and said with a panicked expression.

"Mr. Gin......" Katori's assistant also quickly stood up, afraid that the other party would be unhappy and take out the □□.

"You've got to be careful not to hurt this little guy. If that little young master gets angry, I don't know if you can resist it. Belmode teased.

Without the slightest sense that this form would be suppressed by force, the fox viciously stomped on the opponent's face with its claws in the air, and whapped the opponent's hair with its tail.

Long hair is prone to static electricity, and as soon as it is hulaed twice, the man's silver hair will explode.

He grimaced and let go of his hand.

I didn't expect this guy to stretch out his hand in mid-air, and he couldn't find a place to stay for a while, so the ball could only throw himself on the other party's shoulder first.

Unable to stretch out his paws, the meat pad was scratched on the clothes several times but could not be caught, and when he saw that he was about to fall, he suddenly felt a weight on his body, and was held up from below.

Gin reached out casually and let the fox cub kick it with all his might, and finally lay firmly on his shoulder.

"His fox?" Dark green eyes swept over the few people on the other side, and he said, "Then let him take it himself." ”

Help me!

The fox's eyes widened instantly, and he struggled to jump down, not wanting to stay on the other person's shoulder even if he fell to the ground.

Fox dealers!

The round, heterochromatic eyes really look a little pitiful now.

How did he take it himself?!

(End of chapter)