Toru Amuro felt as if he was in a movie, and every second was a clear and long frame.
He widened his eyes and looked at Angstra outside without blinking.
There was no lighting in the phone booth, only an old street lamp next to it. Amuro Toru could clearly see Angstra outside, and the only intact red eye was smiling crookedly.
He was very happy and smiling at him.
Angstra, who sent him to a safe place and planned to face all enemies alone, smiled at him and said to him——
"Thank you for staying with me."
The ground beneath their feet began to vibrate, making a sound of mechanical operation, and the two people in the phone booth slowly sank downwards.
"Don't be afraid, wait for me to come back. I said, I will not leave you behind."
Toru Amuro pressed his fingers on the piece of glass and dragged his finger marks downwards. He watched helplessly as their hands missed each other, and Angstra remained outside, getting further and further away from him.
"Angstra!"
He struggled and reached out his hand unwillingly, but he could no longer touch the glass.
…
In the rehabilitation training room of the hospital, Angstra once comforted him like this.
Behind them is a set of two-way stairs dedicated to rehabilitation, with only five short steps on both sides.
Normally, he could easily jump over with his eyes closed, but after lying down for more than two months and just starting rehabilitation training, he was trembling when he stepped up a level - he even almost fell to the ground because he failed to hold on to the handrail next to him.
Then he fell to the ground, but luckily Angstra hugged him in time.
He held his body and let him sit back in the wheelchair to rest temporarily.
Toru Amuro's expression was numb. He was embarrassed in front of Angstra, and the shame in his heart almost overwhelmed him. He glanced at his junior boss and asked questions several times.
"Angstra, do you want to give up on me?"
As soon as the question came out of his mouth, he regretted it because he had already asked it once not long ago.
This is a very strange mentality. If you don't ask, you will worry about the gains and losses, and you will doubt yourself. If you ask, you will be afraid that your boss will find it annoying. No matter how you choose, it will be a torment.
Angstra looked down at him, with a tenderness in his eyes that he was willing to die for.
"I will not give up my men." He said firmly.
After saying that, he put his hands on his armpits and used his own body as support to lift him up from the wheelchair.
"I won't leave you."
…
Angstra's gentle voice still rings in my ears.
Toru Amuro kept his head raised in a daze, his breathing almost stagnant, and the smell of blood was faintly boiling in his throat.
——He completely lost sight of Angstra, who said twice that she would not abandon him.
……Why?
Amuro Toru's mind went blank. He felt something exploded in his ears, causing his ears to buzz. He could not hear what Ireland behind him was saying to him at all.
Why did you say you wouldn't leave him behind, but still sent him to a safe place alone, unwilling to face the enemy with him?
Why does Angstra regard him as someone to be protected - even for important code name assessment tasks, one must be carefully selected that does not require the use of violence?
Why does Angostura doubt his ability so much, and why does he have to protect him in every way...
Like a flash of light in the dark night, Toru Amuro suddenly became enlightened.
Angstra's protection of him started when he witnessed the death of Ethan Hondo.
——During that mission, he felt that he would be afraid of dead people, so he had been carefully protecting him from then on.
Amuro Toru's breathing became rapid, and his heart was filled with regret.
It was his fault, his own misbehavior, which gave Angstra that ridiculous delusion.
If time could go back, this time he would beat that damn undercover to a pulp in front of Gin.
If you give him a chance...if you give him another chance...
The light in Toru Amuro's eyes completely disappeared.
Darkness from all directions swallowed him up, pulling him down and sinking deeper into the depths.
————
Irish Whiskey moved his arm and after confirming that the injury was not serious, he began to observe Toru Amuro next to him.
He has never met Panno, and he has no interest in the French undercover who died at the hands of Angstra, and he will not vent his anger on Toru Amuro - he is not the kind of Gin who bites anyone he catches.
, to confirm that the other party is not a clean lunatic.
The blond mixed-race man was stiff. He didn't know what he was thinking. He didn't even notice that the elevator had stopped.
Ireland touched his chin and felt that deliberately whispering "Angstra is dead" in his ear at this moment could completely drive the man in front of him crazy.
But he wasn't so bad as to make such a joke. He just stretched out his hand and gave Amuro Toru a hard push on the shoulder.
Toru Amuro was pushed out of the elevator unprepared and fell to the ground near the light strip.
Ireland watched Toru Amuro sit up from the ground, but did not stand up. He just sat there, as if he was an injured person recovering from a serious injury and waiting for rehabilitation. He could not stand up completely without the support of others.
"Angstra..."
He heard him whispering to himself as quietly as a mosquito, with his eyes covered by his fallen hair.
"..."
Alas, this kind of mentality is not good. If there are dangerous elements in the base and he bumps into them like this, this small life saved by his superiors will be lost soon.
Ireland is so cool swish thinking.
In fact, he could understand Toru Amuro's mood at the moment. If it were the boss who faced the enemy alone and sent him to a safe place to hide, he would most likely go crazy on the spot.
But it was Angstra who was up there at the moment--sometimes, the Angstra that no one in the organization dared to mess with--and Ireland felt that he was making a fuss out of a molehill.
"Okay, Amuro, get up quickly, Angstra will be fine."
Ireland walked towards Toru Amuro and reached out to help him up.
There is a saying that "it depends on the owner to beat a dog." Bermod said that Toru Amuro is Angstra's loyal dog.
So no matter how curious he is, a little research is enough. If he goes too far, the bottle of dangerous bitter wine will not let him go. Most of the time, he still cherishes life.
Just when Ireland was about to reach out and touch Toru Amuro's shoulder, Toru Amuro, who was sitting there with his head bowed, suddenly stretched out his hand and grabbed his wrist.
"!!"
Feeling the strength on his wrist, Ireland was startled and looked down.
He saw Toru Amuro still sitting on the ground and finally slowly raised his head. The bangs on his forehead slid aside as he raised his head, revealing a pair of purple-gray eyes underneath.
There was a light strip on the ground under their feet, and they could see each other's expressions and eyes clearly.
The moment he saw those eyes clearly, Ireland was stunned for a moment, and then he seemed to have discovered something interesting, and despite the severe pain in his wrist, he showed an interesting smile.
"What a nice look." He praised.
It turns out this is not just a loyal dog.
Rather, it is a vicious dog that runs in the dark and will rip out the throats of everyone except its owner at any time.
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Police dog, loyal dog, vicious dog = a bottle of bourbon with varying alcohol content