Dice has to give me spoilers for the plot of Ke Xue

Generally speaking, the daily lives of Tokyo citizens are quite peaceful. At least during the whole day of duty today, there were no fatal cases.

Although handling several theft/robbery cases in uniform and under the sun is exhausting enough.

Sitting lazily in the car, after blowing on the air conditioner for a while, Liya finally felt that she had recovered from that listless state, and couldn't help sighing in a low voice: "It feels like I've come back to life again."

"It's really exhausting." Seeing that her voice had become weak, probably because she was exhausted, Matsuda Jinpei calmed down while waiting for the red light, "Go back and have a good rest, this kind of thing won't happen too much."

She said so, but because she often had to wear heavy and stuffy protective clothing for bomb disposal work in the explosion detection team, Matsuda Jinpei is more used to it now than she is, and her physical strength and mental state are no different from usual.

Not only that, while driving, he also thought about inviting the squad leader to dinner next night, and invited his girlfriend with some expectation.

To this, Liya politely refused with "too sudden", so he had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​showing off to the squad leader this time, and sent her back with a little regret.

The white Mazda parked steadily under the apartment building.

After a few seconds of ecstasy, Liya yawned and was about to unbuckle her seat belt, but was preempted by a hand stretched out beside her, and a passive farewell kiss.

Since there was going to be dinner later, Matsuda Jinhei had a very self-controlled taste this time, and quickly sat back upright.

"See you tomorrow." Feeling better, Riya smiled and said goodbye to him.

Just as he was about to respond, he suddenly remembered a certain detail. The curly-haired young man narrowed his eyes and blocked her hand from opening the door in time: "I've exhausted so much energy today, so it shouldn't be a sandwich anymore, right?"

"How do you..."

The half-drooped green eyes looked up at him in surprise, as if surprised that he would know this.

After all, she still prepares her work lunch well, and occasionally she will be lazy at home and use a sandwich instead of a regular meal... This habit is only known to her brother who often visits her during the internship.

When did they know each other? Obviously, she still considered her brother's ability to bear it, and decided to tell him solemnly the next time she met...

As if being told, Matsuda Jinpei thought for a while, then slowed down his tone unhurriedly: "If you wait for me to come back and find that you haven't eaten properly..."

Deliberately and meaningfully left a blank space for her imagination.

"Absolutely no sandwiches." Recalling that he had made an appointment to call the female star that night, Riya chose to surrender immediately, "Curry rice tonight."

So it was temporarily let go.

Under the same darkness.

When the phone rang, Belmode had just stopped in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows wrapped in a towel and holding a glass of wine.

Glancing at the caller number, her bright eyebrows softened a little, and a smile unconsciously formed on her lips.

However, once connected, her tone changed abruptly and was full of jokes: "Calling at this time, I would think your nightlife is over early, okay?"

Riya, who was still hesitating to be blunt or euphemistic in his opening remarks, didn't know how to answer for a moment.

"...It's only nine o'clock now." Looking at the time on her phone, she sighed helplessly.

"I'm sorry," said the insincere words of apology, the female star propped her cheek with one hand, and her eyes casually scanned the night scene outside the window, "I thought your love game was going on very happily."

"Or, are you playing the more innocent kind?"

This time, Riya could really hear the faintly targeted meaning in her words, which was hardly hidden, but she was just a little puzzled.

"Are you also interested in such insignificant little things?" After pondering for a few seconds, she chose to pass the topic lightly, and by the way strengthened her tone a little, "But as long as no one disturbs me, I really enjoy it."

The response was a low laugh of unknown meaning.

Unaware of her sudden emotion at all, Riya simply gave up on further research, skipped the entanglement and went straight to the point: "What is the name of the CG producer in Gunma Prefecture?"

"Itakura Taku, an annoying guy." I don't know if she heard her obvious avoidance intention, the female star's voice became a little deeper.

Just placing an order without even meeting in person.

When she decided to take over the task, Riya already had a preliminary plan. At this moment, she only paid a little attention to her undisguised disgust, and nodded as if she didn't realize it: "Leave it to me."

"His contact information?"

"So anxious," Belmode couldn't help raising his eyebrows slightly with this attitude of preparing to solve it efficiently, "Didn't you say that you have other things on hand?"

After contemplating for a moment, thinking that she will see Shirley and even get in touch with the experimental materials later, and that this is the right time to test her attitude in advance, Riya feels that she can tentatively tell a part.

"It's Shirley's business."

"As you said before, she took over her parents' business. I will inevitably be curious about how similar the incomplete works in your mouth are to her parents' works."

"After all, to be evaluated as an imitator by you, she should still have some talent, right?"

Belmode never bothered to hide his dislike for Shirley, even to the extent that he would feel better when he heard others echoing him. Now that he discovered this, Riya deliberately followed her to show the same attitude when communicating.

But unexpectedly, Belmode was silent for a few seconds, and laughed uncontrollably.

It wasn't the usual cold sneer, on the contrary, Liya could even hear the obvious amused meaning from her speech: "Ania, you are so cute."

As soon as she finished speaking, she covered her mouth and couldn't stop laughing as if she couldn't hold it anymore.

"Hey……"

"I'm sorry, sorry, I understand, you just want to make me happy." Putting down the wine glass, the female star wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes with her fingers, and managed to control the trembling voice due to the smile to the normal range, "But it's very It’s rare to hear you talk about other people in such a cynical tone...haha...it’s a bit like Bourbon.”

Unexpectedly, she accidentally heard the name of one of her bosses from the mouth of the female star, and Riya's heart stopped beating for a moment.

But after reacting, she realized that it was purely her own carelessness, so she took advantage of the situation and showed just the right doubts: "Who is Bourbon?"

"The newcomer in the intelligence team, Rum's confidant, is a very capable and interesting guy."

"You seem to have a high opinion of him?" Since it was mentioned, Riya casually asked her opinion.

After all, he is one of the bosses, and no matter which world is generously helping him, now I will take the opportunity to check and make up for him as a reward.

"It's just that it's rare to see a newcomer who is barely pleasing to the eye. You know, I still don't like the rough style of gin...Of course, he is quite interesting." Belmode leaned back in the chair gracefully , the posture is very relaxed.

"Where's Ley from the sniper team and the other newcomers, how do you feel?"

"He's in Gin's action team. I haven't seen him a few times, but I heard that he's pretty good; the other new snipers seem to be doing pretty well too."

"That's it." Since the two bosses were quite comfortable, Riya just nodded thoughtfully and wrote down the new information.

"Want to change to something new?" After a pause, it seemed that it was rare to see her ask about the newcomers in the organization in detail, Belmode said again with a bit of consolation, "They can't contact you for the time being... their own authority Not to mention that it’s not enough, and they all entered the organization after they were adults, so it’s too dangerous for you.”

"Anyway, you are having a good time in the Metropolitan Police Department, so it's good to keep it for the time being."

Although she was almost used to her talking and laughing, this weird tone still made Riya feel a little bit subdued, suspecting that she was persecuting her reputation intentionally or unintentionally.

"...Don't make things so strange, I'm just asking casually," Zhengshi clarified a little, and Li Shiya caught the details she accidentally revealed in a joke, "Speaking of it, if someone who knows me Authority, there are not many people who have it, right?"

"Of course, except for the dead. Besides you, I will know about the boss." Unprepared, Belmode responded casually.

"On this point, I think BOSS did the right thing. After all, it is the 'only miracle' that cannot be reproduced. I can't take it too seriously."

Her heartbeat accelerated slightly, and she unconsciously leaned against the head of the bed, exhaling with a half-smile and half-sigh: "Should I feel honored?"

The best result that was even more surprising than expected - the smaller the scope of knowledge, the easier it is for her to erase the traces.

"Who knows." Facing her rhetorical question, Belmode looked away noncommittally.

"Almost forgot, you don't need to rush to find him with Itakura Takumi," the female star naturally changed the subject, "I asked someone else to go there once before, and the reply was that he stopped developing because of vision problems."

The programmer's vision problem seems reasonable, and Riya couldn't help frowning: "Where is the progress of the software?"

Then bring back the semi-finished product and let others continue to study it. Anyway, the organization seems to have collected a lot of programmers, and this one is not bad.

"Such a delay in progress will make the BOSS unbearable, and the deterioration of eyesight is just an excuse." Taking a sip of the wine, the female star's beautiful face is still smiling, her tone is relaxed, but the content is undeniably cold." I've got the peripheral members already in action, and he'll definitely say yes in the end."

"Wait patiently, I will inform you when the time comes."

"..." Sure enough, compared with the dangerous people in the real darkness, I was still a little bit worse.

Slightly silent, Riya responded softly: "Then wait for your good news."

"One last thing," Belmode added in a low voice, as if thinking of something before ending the call, "I haven't gone back to the Twilight Lodge this year, but it can only be delayed until December at the latest. Don't overdo it."

"……understood."

We had to wait for the news on the two important matters, so in the seemingly return to normal work, the hot July turned over like this.

It wasn't until mid-August that things changed.

During a drowsy lunch break on an unremarkable Tuesday, Riya received a brief email from Furutani Rei.

[Tomorrow night at eight o'clock, prepare to receive Shirley's information. ]