On July 12, Izaru went to the Police Department to go through the admission procedures, and by the way, he transferred the electronic file of the girl accidentally fell into the water.

Without special means, the electronic database of the National Police Agency has certain usage rights:

If it is a major criminal case, he, a newly recruited police officer, is not qualified to check it. He can only check these small cases that were closed by various accidents.

Seeing the photo of the girl's corpse attached to the electronic file, Izaruen felt nothing in his heart.

He glanced at the name recorded in the file by the way: Jing Baiyu.

...the last name again?

Yi Zerun sighed: He himself is an undercover agent of the Diving Entry Team. Before departure, he met the head of the Jing Team. He saw Jing Baiye with the family's signature black hair and red eyes at the boss the day before yesterday. Today, I checked the file and met again... Wait a moment.

The triple-undercover, who was used to doing things calmly, was accustomed to being calm and handling all affairs, reacted with hindsight and looked at the photo of the girl's body again.

Although she closed her eyes, she could still see that she was very cute, and her facial features were very similar to that of the boy named Jing Baiye.

The same surname, similar age, similar appearance, also from the Eguta-cho of the main family of the faraway group... Are they related by blood?

Yi Zerun didn't have time to think about it, he was about to leave after counting the time, and he would go to the boss in the afternoon.

He wrote down the names and facial features of the police officers in charge of the case, fiddled with the computer browsing records, and completely erased the records of his access to the case.

If someone was suspicious and browsed through the records, he could only see that he was investigating a juvenile kidnapping case that had a successful outcome six years ago, and the party involved was himself.

Yizerun completed the entry procedures in the morning, sent Liu Jishun an email to inform him of the names of the police officers, and drove to the boss in the afternoon.

The boss will change his residence every once in a while, some are luxury villas far away from the city, and some are an unremarkable residence in the bustling part of the city. This time the interval was short, and he was still in the mansion on the top of the hill.

Izaru stopped at the old place and took the elevator to the underground.

He didn't come today to report on the mission, but simply wanted to meet the boss. This is the privilege of the group of people who have been in the human laboratory together... In the future, he will be very busy after he officially joins the job, and the number of times he can meet the boss will increase. less and less.

The road was very empty. When passing by the shooting training area, Yi Zerun saw Jing Baiye strenuously pad his feet to touch the touch screen of the score-recording device that was very high for him.

"..."

Izuru stopped.

He looked around and found that there was only Jing Baiye in the training area, Belmod and Gin were not there, so he walked over, put his hands on Jing Baiye's armpits, picked him up, and lifted him to a height where he could easily touch the screen .

"Can this be met?"

The boy is lighter than his peers, and his summer clothes are so thin that he can feel his bones in this hug.

Yi Zerun looked suspiciously at Jing Baiye's cheeks with obvious baby fat... The flesh on his body won't grow to his face, right?

"thanks."

Jing Baiye thanked him obediently, and his voice made Izerun in a trance as if he heard the boss calling him. The boy stretched out his fingers and touched the screen a few times, patting the back of his hand: "Okay, Jerez."

Yi Zerun put him down, glanced curiously at the record displayed on the instrument, and said in surprise, "Not bad."

Jing Baiye lowered his head and muttered, "It's not that good, I've made a lot of mistakes."

"With your age and physical condition, it's already very good."

Yi Zerun comforted that he did not advocate stick education and spiritual suppression, and he praised as much as he should.

He bent down and touched Jing Baiye's head, remembering the actions of Belmod and Gin the day before yesterday, and he touched his face itchy and pinched a few times.

It feels really good in the hand, it feels like it can be pulled out for a long time, and it will snap back to its original shape after letting go.

But Izaruon just thought about it, children are fragile, and no matter how cute they look, they can't pinch their faces at will... This is what Liu Jishunyi specially reminded him in the children's related course, because he pinched a few wow wow The faces of the children's models, and their heads were accidentally screwed off.

It's not that he hates children. He doesn't like noisy children. He is cute and obedient and does not cry, such as Jing Baiye in front of him. He will not reject it.

Yi Zerun touched his mobile phone. He sent an email to Liu Jishun in the morning, but he has not replied yet.

"..."

Thinking of that friend of the same period, he thought of the accident of the girl he asked him to check... the case of being accidentally drowned, and his eyes fell on Jing Baiye's face.

The more Izairun looked, the more he felt that he was similar to that girl, and couldn't help but ask - but he didn't mention the girl directly. If they were really relatives, taking the liberty to ask would be a pain in the ass.

"Bai Ye... Can I call you that?" Seeing Jing Baiye nodding, Yi Zerun asked, "Do you still remember where your home is?"

"I don't have a home now. The home I used to be is at 6-24, Egutian-cho." Jing Baiye's voice was clear and fluent, "The place is rented, and the landlord is unlucky, and has already sold it."

"..."

Of course Izarui knew where it was, and the 25th place next door was Liu Jishunyi's home.

There was only surveillance in the training area, no bugs. He squatted down with his back to the surveillance, so that his line of sight was level with Jing Baiye.

He stared at the boy's only red eye, and continued to ask softly, "Then do you know someone named 'Liu Ji Shunyi'?"

Judging by Liu Jishun's liking and caring for his children, if there were any cute children living next door to his house, he would definitely not care. He remembered that he always regretted that he was an only child and wanted younger brothers and sisters very much.

Jing Baiye's eyes didn't change, as if he just heard a stranger's name, he shook his head calmly: "I'm sorry, I don't know."

Izaru was stunned for a moment, it wasn't "don't remember" or "don't know"... but "don't know"?

He wanted to ask again, but a voice interrupted him: "Come here, Jerez."

He looked up there and saw that the BOSS was standing at the door at some point.

The temperature inside the villa is lower than that outside, about 24°C. Today's BOSS only wore a black suit, and rarely did not put on the coat of the same color.

"Continue to practice here, and come find me in five minutes." The boss took care of Jing Baiye.

While the two of them were talking face to face, Izaru suddenly had the absurd feeling that someone was talking to the other self in the mirror.

Izaru followed the BOSS to the office. After the boss sat down, the three-legged crow with deformed feet flew from the bird stand beside him to his shoulder, and made several strange calls that were different from ordinary crows.

"You can ask me anything you want to know." The boss looked at him calmly.

"...This child, should have seen my friend from the police academy? Why do you say 'I don't know'?"

Izaren asked directly and directly. There are some things that can't be said to Rum or Gin. They will exclude him from making friends with police school students, but the BOSS will not care.

"Because he really doesn't know. That's someone he knew in the past, and it has nothing to do with him now. He doesn't have that memory."

The boss's words left Izaru at a loss. Could it be that the boy lost his memory?

"—Selled his soul to a demon, and a demon put on his skin and lived in his place." BOSS put his chin on his hands, "This is how Gin described me back then, and it applies to him now. "

Yi Zerun felt a chilling chill creep up his back from his tailbone, and when he recovered, cold sweat soaked through the clothes on his back.

The triple undercover agent, who considers himself unremarkable, sighed and lifted the glasses on the bridge of his nose.

"Sir, please don't tell me such an important thing in the future..."

He just wants to work in an ordinary job and get a three-point salary in an ordinary way. He doesn't have much to think about. He is completely satisfied with his current status and treatment. He doesn't want to know this kind of secrets involving BOSS.

Belmod said that bosses are both gods and demons. That boy is also a demon, so what is the other side of him?

dong dong dong.

There was a knock on the door, and Izaru realized that it was Jing Baiye next door.

He subconsciously looked at the boss to ask for his opinion, and when he saw the boss nod, he went to open the door.

"Are you discussing things? If you have something to say, I can continue to wait for you outside." Jing Baiye looked at them.

"It's alright, it's over." The boss said gently, "Don't you have something to ask Jerez to help with? You can talk now."

...I didn't say anything before asking for help, but now I say it in front of the boss, I have to help if I'm busy, right?

Yi Zerun sighed in his heart, watching Jing Baiye walk to his side, holding up a mobile phone to him. The phone was not locked, and there were several face images drawn with professional software on the screen. He immediately recognized the person above.

——It was the police officers who were in charge of the Egutian-cho case that he had seen in the morning.

"I want to ask you to find their addresses." Jing Baiye raised his face, and the way he looked up at people had a sense of ignorance and innocence unique to children.

But what he said the next second made Izerun open his eyes.

"It's been more than half a month, and my shooting results are still not good, so I want to find some human flesh targets to practice..." He pointed at the portrait on the phone with his finger, "They are very suitable, can you find them?"

"..."

Izuru was silent.

He looked down at the hand he had squeezed just now, and fell into deep repentance.

This is suspected to be an out-and-out little devil. He just pinched him, won't he be retaliated against? He remembered that in fairy tales, the devil would fry the unpleasant person to medium rare, or cut open the stomach and eat the internal organs raw. It seems a pity that life ends with such a bad end...

If I knew it earlier, I would squeeze it a few more times, and then try to see if it can bounce back. The undercover comrade who likes to sigh sighs again in his heart.

...

It took Yizerun two days to find out the current residences of those people, and asked a few members of the bottom to put sacks in the middle of the night, kidnap them and send them to the boss.

In the past two days, he understood Jing Baiye's family background and the reason why he did this, and also remembered why he felt familiar when he first met Jing Baiye.

——When he was at the police academy, Liu Jishunyi showed him a photo with Jing Baiye.

The boy in the photo smiled happily, sitting on Liu Jishun's shoulder like an angel, holding his head and leaning against him carefully. It's completely different from Jing Baiye, whose expression is more restrained now, so he didn't recognize it immediately.

Izaru did not go to watch the human flesh target, but went to Egutian Town to visit Liu Jijunyi.

Liu Ji and his wife accepted him happily and told him that Liu Jishun was watching TV in the bedroom on the second floor, and he hadn’t been out since he came back from the police academy. The Metropolitan Police Department or the Police Department ignored the call to invite him to join the post.

Izaru was surprised. Could it be that this police academy, which has no rivals in brain power and force in this session, first wanted to degenerate into a otaku at home?

"Because of the two children next door, Shunyi suffered a lot." Mrs. Liu Ji was about to cry because of her son, "except for one of his juniors who called him these days, he only talks to you. We have communicated, can you persuade him?"

Hearing the two children next door, Yi Zerun was silent for a while, and he looked up along the stairs: "I'll go take a look."

He knew Liu Jishunyi's home address, but this was his first time here, and it was full of the life of a normal person, which he had not experienced for many years.

Izeron knocked on the closed bedroom door, but no one responded; he tried to open the door directly, but the door locked from the inside. He posted it and listened to the movement. There was only the sound of the TV.

Considering that there were two innocent people downstairs, he did not force the door. He pulled out a paper clip from his pocket, opened it, and picked the lock on the spot.

The door opened with a click, and Izaru walked in.

As soon as Liu Jishun, who was sitting on the bed, heard the sound, he turned his head and glanced at him. He didn't say anything more to his intrusion, and silently lowered the volume of the TV with the remote control.

The mysterious disappearance of the police is being played on the TV, and there are several photos in the lower right corner, with the same appearance as the ones Jing Baiye gave him.

The case maker came to the friend's side, and before he spoke, he felt as if he had stepped on something.

- It's a police uniform they wore on graduation day.

The police uniform was tattered by sharp blades, and the cherry blossom badge on it was violently torn and hung there staggeringly, ready to fall.

"..."

Yi Zerun looked at the police uniform, and then at Liu Jishunyi.

The absurd case of "accidentally falling into the water" of the girl, the photo with the boy, the conflict with the instructor during the police academy, plus his understanding of his character... He had a general idea of ​​why he was so distressed and lost.

Liu Jishun didn't look at him, he looked at the open window; Izaru followed his line of sight and saw the cherry tree in the next courtyard.

"I promised them... After I became a police officer, I would definitely come back to save them."

His voice was hoarse, his eyes were swollen and bloodshot, and he was so embarrassed that he was like a homeless street **** who had not had a good rest for days.

Izorun put the police uniform aside and looked at some tools in the corner: "...So, do you want to take revenge on those derelict guys for that girl?"

Liu Jishun didn't wonder how he knew, he laughed, and the laughter was harsher than the cry.

"...I almost did that."

He looked at the TV screen with a mixture of joy and sorrow.

"You know what? At the moment when I saw this news~lightnovelpub.net~ my heart was filled with joy, I even hoped that these guys would die, thinking that such people are not worthy of being a police officer at all... But, in After I recovered, I realized that I was the one who didn't deserve it."

"They were dereliction of duty, but their sins did not end in death; and I, who almost wanted to commit a crime, wanted to kill those few people and become the most despised criminal I ever had, who can I save... "

"I can't save anyone at all."

Liu Jishun smiled in a twisted smile, tears rolling down his face. He whimpered, his voice getting louder and louder, until it finally turned into a howl.

The pain of not being able to save the two children, the self-blame for not fulfilling the agreement, the shame of almost desecrating the Sakura badge... All these negative emotions accumulated for several days, and now they finally got a vent.

Liu Jishunyi is nineteen years old now, and he was eighteen when he made the appointment. He was only a teenager when he made the appointment—with pure passion and the most sincere feelings, he wanted to help and save others.

This kind of kindness that does not ask for anything in return, and only asks for the well-being of others, eventually came to nothing, and even almost fell into darkness.

"..."

Izeron chose to stand by his side, while Jerez Brandy looked on indifferently.

The mouth of the 19-year-old triple undercover agent moved. He wanted to tell him the location of Jing Baiye and tell him that the child you like is fine, he is alive and well, although he can't see one eye. , but he will grow up well... to be a criminal you spurn.

In the end, he didn't say anything, just patiently waiting for his friend to vent his emotions.

He didn't want to evaluate whether it was good or bad for Jing Baiye to catch living people as targets. He only realized one thing—

The child he regarded as a little devil protected an otherwise clean soul from the contamination of sin.