Chapter 229 The temperature of the soul (two in one chapter)
"Weak...firefly?"
Time returned to the present, and Izarun muttered to himself as he remembered the past.
He has a very good memory, and the past events of his first encounter with Angstra seven years ago and his exposure to Gin about being an undercover police officer half a year ago are still vivid in his mind, as clear as if they happened yesterday.
The colleague sitting opposite him completely missed his almost whisper: "Boy? Is he your brother?"
"No, it's a child adopted by a friend. He's very cute."
Belmode was indeed his friend - Yizerun, who told the truth, smiled helplessly and stood up with the finished dinner plate: "I'm going back first. There are a lot of documents today, and I want to start working early.
"
He left the cafeteria. There were many resting police officers in the rest area at the door. He took off his glasses and wiped off the moisture that had gotten on them at some point. He stood by the window and took out his mobile phone.
Above is the email Gin sent him recently: [That brat has returned to Japan and is currently in Miwa Town. Stay away from there.]
Yi Zejun has three jobs, but he can't be said to be conscientious. He can only be said to be lazy and fishy.
Take the undercover work, which is very important in theory and practice, as an example. He has never covered his waistcoat seriously - just like now, openly and openly, in the busiest place of the police station, to check on an associate of a criminal organization.
The message he sent.
He put away his cell phone, walked forward, and passed by an inconspicuous man.
Izawa Jun recognized him - this was the same public security policeman who called out Nippon Whiskey's real name a year ago, causing him to be completely exposed.
The undercover agent of the organization sighed quietly. Every time he thought about the unlucky Japanese whiskey, he was glad that his contact person was the suspicious and extremely cautious Gin.
He continued walking forward and came to a corridor. Several cherry blossom trees were planted on both sides of the corridor, and they were already in bloom.
His pace slowed down involuntarily, and he looked at the trees quietly through a thin layer of lenses, thinking in his mind of what happened after the party at the izakaya.
…
Jun Izawa was not sure what time Gin would make his move, so he deliberately ordered a few more dishes in order to drag Junichi Yanagi to the safety of the izakaya.
But even if he deliberately delayed, they still finished the meal around ten o'clock in the evening.
Liuyoshi's house happened to be on the way from the izakaya to the station, so the two of them could walk together for a while.
The surroundings were eerily quiet. Yi Zejun was holding the mobile phone in his pocket while waiting for Liu Jishunyi to talk to him. In fact, he had already vaguely guessed something - during the meal, his friend had been looking at him intentionally or unintentionally, especially
It was when he looked at his phone.
It was his undercover identity that was exposed... No, Shunyi didn't know about the existence of the black organization and wouldn't have thought of being an undercover... Does that mean he knew he was doing bad things?
Izawa Jun thought bitterly that just as he understood Liu Jijunyi, Liu Jijunyi also understood him.
This was the fatal mistake he made as an undercover agent during his time in the police academy - treating a person who should have been his enemy based on his identity as a true friend.
When he took over the undercover mission, his boss reminded him that undercover agents should not have true feelings for the people in the organization or institution they infiltrated. If they wanted to make friends, they could only be friends on the surface. They could not understand each other, let alone have a heart-to-heart relationship.
——Once you surrender your sincerity, it’s a countdown to death.
There was no response from the phone in Yi Zerun's hand. He couldn't help but peek at his friend who was walking a little ahead of him, and then their eyes collided unexpectedly.
"..."
The undercover agent of the organization felt a wave of embarrassment and guilt that was difficult to relieve.
"you……"
"he……"
The two of them spoke at the same time, and they were both stunned. Izarun spoke first: "What do you want to talk to me about?"
"After you joined the police force, I found the orphanage that took Bai Ye in. The director said that there was a kind-hearted American lady who didn't mind his physical defects and chose to adopt him. On June 20, she took him out of there...
"
Liu Jishun stopped and looked at him, his tone serious and calm: "Tell me, is he okay now?"
...As expected, you know?
It was like a stone that had been hanging in the air for a long time finally fell to the ground. Izarun, who had expected it for a long time, let out a long sigh.
"When did you find out?"
Thinking that he is about to cry behind bars, restart the Earth Omline, or tearfully kill friends... No, he can only choose one of the two. They don't have guns on them, and when they are one-on-one with bare hands, he can't beat Liu Jishunyi without playing tricks.
The guy can break concrete pillars with his bare hands, which is not comparable to a guy like him who can only dodge bullets...
Yi Zerun wiped away the non-existent tears and waited for the other party to reveal his flaws.
"...I was just suspicious at first, but after hearing your words, I was convinced." Liu Jishun gave him a complicated look, "You are so deceitful, I thought it wouldn't be so easy."
Yi Zerun was stunned, and Liu Jishun smiled when he saw him like this, and repeated the question just now: "Is Bai Ye okay?"
"It's pretty good." She was adopted by a rich and beautiful...mature sister.
"Will anyone hit him again?"
"No." The most ruthless killers in the organization did not attack him cruelly, they only liked to poke his face with a gun.
"Does anyone really love and protect him?"
Yi Zerun was silent for a moment and said firmly: "It will happen."
Liu Jishun breathed a long sigh of relief: "You suddenly called me to the izakaya today, and you kept ordering something and finding excuses not to leave... Is it because someone wants to do something to my home or Bai Ye's old home, and you came to deliberately delay me?
"
"Yes." Yi Zerun held the phone, and he felt the phone finally vibrated.
Almost at the same time, there was a deafening explosion in the distance. The two of them turned back and looked there, only to see the fire there, and the thick smoke mixed with dust floating upwards, which was particularly eye-catching in the dark night.
Liu Jishun wanted to run over as soon as he had a conditioned reflex, but he seemed to have thought of something and stopped.
He turned around and looked at Yi Zejun again.
"My last question -"
He looked at him with twinkling eyes, "Are Izarun and Ryuji Junichi friends?"
"Yes." Yi Zejun sighed, "I want to ask, where did I show my flaws?"
"I have suspected you since I was in the police academy." Liu Jishunyi said, "I have been in contact with Bai Ye's father, and I have seen his eyes that don't take other people's lives and dignity seriously countless times, and even though you are wearing glasses,
I tried to cover it up, but when I took a children-related course that time, I showed a colder look than his... But you don't usually act like this. I'm not sure whether you particularly hate children or you are a bad person."
"...Then why didn't you call the police and arrest me?" Yi Zerun asked strangely. The number one in the police academy hates evil very much.
"It wasn't necessary in the past because you didn't do anything at that time, but now..."
The explosion was much louder than the murder, and someone who heard it had already called the police. Hearing the beeping sound of the police car getting closer and closer, Liu Jishun stood there motionless.
"I'm not a policeman, so there's no need to worry about it." He raised his eyes and looked at the police car speeding by, then passed him by.
"——Even if you are the police, there is no need to take care of everything."
The former number one in the police academy announced this in a cold tone.
…
At the end of the memory, twenty-six-year-old Izawa Jun looked at the cherry blossom trees and fell into silence.
Angstra returned to Japan after a few years, but Junichi Yanagi disappeared half a year ago.
He couldn't find his whereabouts based on the intelligence within the police department and the organization, but he discovered his existence in the network of friends in the group.
His friend who gave up his dream of being a police officer would not fall into darkness even if he was disappointed with the police. He chose to embark on another path of justice.
After graduation, Yoo Gil Soon-il became a drug investigator and went to the front line of anti-narcotics, facing more dangerous jobs and enemies than ordinary police officers. Because he was still thinking about the tragedy of his neighbor's brother and sister, he accepted an undercover mission and sneaked into the police force.
The mafia family behind them has been selling drugs all year round.
——He wanted to spend the rest of his life burning away the bottomless darkness that had hurt them.
Yi Zerun looked away and smiled to himself.
Undercover agents like Ryu Gil Soon-il are unsung heroes, but what are undercover agents like him?
Thinking of the photo Liu Jishun showed him with his two junior students in middle school, the faces of the two organization members flashed before Jerez Brandy's eyes, and he couldn't help but sigh.
Although it was a good achievement to achieve three kills as an undercover police officer, he didn't want to do that for the time being.
Liu Jishun had protected him back then, so he also chose to protect his two younger brothers.
And he felt that the boss seemed to be very aware of how many undercover agents there were in the organization... and had acquiesced that they were lurking inside.
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On the fourth floor of Sake Internet Cafe in Mika Town, Jing Baiye opened his eyes from the sofa in the office and took a nap at noon.
Last night, he spent 20 million yen to convert it into bonus points, and upgraded the [Death in Place] skill, which had tricked him twice, by one level. He was so distressed that he couldn't sleep well all night. When he woke up in the morning, Toru Amuro was hit by his
The dark circles under my eyes frightened me.
He lay on the sofa blankly, looking at the ceiling, and suddenly poked at his system.
[System, after the original owner’s wish is fulfilled, where will their souls go?]
【...Why do you think of asking this?】
[I had a dream and recalled what happened when I signed the contract with that child...the original owner.] Jing Baiye suddenly sighed, [He and I are completely different existences.]
…
After the system made a contract with the original owner, Jing Baiye, who had been a wandering soul for more than ten days, finally had a body again.
Then he saw the soul of the original owner in a strange place, which in systematic terms is the inner world.
His soul was as black as sludge, and one look at it made people feel almost suffocatingly gloomy; that child was the complete opposite to him, his soul was very pure, bright and warm white.
Jing Baiye was seventeen years old when he died, and was much taller than this child. He looked down at him and trembled, but still raised his head and whispered to him:
"Are you the devil brother?...Then can you fulfill my wish?"
"Of course. Your intention is to kill that couple, right?"
"...Yes, please kill them and avenge my sister."
"How do you want to kill? I can refer to your opinion."
"Just kill..." The boy made a pistol gesture with his fingers, tapped his temple, and added: "Just kill them, kill them cleanly, and don't hurt other people."
Jing Baiye said strangely: "Don't you want to vent your anger? Your physical strength is a little weak, but as long as you think about it, I will try my best to find a way..."
At the cost of your soul, make such a simple request?
"No, I don't like torturing people."
"Why?"
"Because it hurts...Although I hate my parents, I don't want to treat them like that."
Jing Baiye was silent, only hearing the boy look at him with cautious expectant eyes: "Brother Devil, can I see my sister?"
"...I'm sorry, I can't do it." He remembered the price mentioned by the system and added: "Your soul...may go to a completely different place than hers."
The boy's mouth dropped a bit, and his only intact right eye was bright.
"I know, this is my sin, Shun... once told me that there is a price to pay for crimes, especially criminals who kill."
The former super high school level criminal who was fined 444 times for killing 444 classmates nodded: "That's true."
"If I hadn't wanted to kill them, the demon brother would not have possessed me... Therefore, I will bear the responsibility of killing them. But my sister is different from me. She is clean and her soul will go better.
place.”
Hearing such innocent words, Jing Baiye looked at him quietly for a while and suddenly asked: "Are you afraid?"
"I'm not afraid! I just...miss my sister a little bit. I miss her so much..."
The boy lowered his head: "I want to continue to be siblings with her... No, I want to be a brother, just like she protects me. This time it's me to protect her... But it's no longer possible. I have to pay for what I'm about to commit.
Sin, you must pay the due price.”
Jing Baiye stared at this pure white soul and said softly and seductively:
"You paid such a heavy price, do you only want to kill two people? You can kill a few more, so you might be able to exist longer..."
"Killing is wrong." The boy raised his head again.
"What about those policemen? Don't you hate them?"
"I hate them. But they also have family members, and people will be sad if they die... I am very sad when my sister dies. If they die, their families will be sad too..."
"I don't want to see anyone as sad as me," the boy said.
…
Seven days of cherry blossoms. In fact, the blooming period of cherry blossoms is longer. Jing Baiye set seven days to observe the boy, and then spent a longer period of time to witness his withering.
... He could have lived longer, if only he had added a few more targets for revenge, such as those policemen.
Once the wish is fulfilled, the contract will take effect and the system host will completely take over the body. There is a loophole in this - if the contractor makes any agreement that is difficult to achieve, or the system host deliberately delays the completion of the wish, the two souls will
Coexisting in one body, becoming one body and two souls.
Maybe they control their bodies alternately, or maybe one suppresses the other. The weaker one can only come out for a while every day, but after all, it still exists in this world.
Jing Baiye liked the original owner very much. Sharing the same body was not only not annoying, but also made him very comfortable. The boy's soul had a temperature that would not burn people... He originally wanted to persuade him to kill a few more people so that he could kill him every few times.
Kill one person every year to delay the completion of your wish and allow him to remain in the world for a while longer.
It's a pity that the boy refuses to hurt more people; the only scumbag parents he wants to kill can cause physical harm at any time, so they can only be dealt with as soon as possible.
Jing Baiye finally took over the body completely, and at the same time he also violated the agreement with the boy.
Soon after joining the organization, he found a suitable opportunity and killed all those annoying guys.
Anyway, he is called "Brother Demon". It is normal for a demon to fool a child... Besides, he himself hates those guys. The sooner he gets rid of them, the better, lest they be killed by others.
[He is indeed a good boy.] The system changed the topic and said, [Host, you are much gentler than you were in the previous life.]
[Is there any?] Jing Baiye asked strangely.
[In your previous life, in order to reduce the trouble caused by Enoshima Shields, you killed all the people who might have influenced her. Some of them were innocent, so you did not hesitate to kill them.] The system sighed, [Change
At that time, you were tricked by an undercover agent once, and you would not easily find subordinates in the future, let alone let them take personal care of you... Although you are still extreme sometimes, on the whole, you have become gentler.】
【Your soul is no longer as black as it used to be.】
Two souls are in the same body, no matter how short the time is, and one of them is stronger, the later one will still be affected uncontrollably.
The boy who was willing to sacrifice his soul for his sister's revenge used the warmth of his soul to inject a touch of white into the dark soul of a criminal, bringing him a bit of softness and innocence.
