On late autumn nights, even the moonlight was bleak, and the cold night wind blew through the tree trunks and branches, casting mottled light and shadow on the white quilt on the hospital bed.

The swaying shadows cut and shattered the pure white color, just like the fragile figure covered in the white quilt.

She lay quietly on the bed, her face as pale as snow—no, it was a white that was more transparent and fragile than snow, as if the sun would melt away as soon as the sun rose.

There seemed to be no rise and fall in her chest and nasal cavity, and she was just lying silently on the quilt. Only the occasional rising instruments beside the hospital bed revealed the fact that she was still alive.

Toru Amuro occasionally feels that Furukawa Kumisa is out of tune with this world.

She has always been a person who goes her own way. She has her own set of concepts and rules of conduct, free and unrestrained.

He often feels that she is like a wisp of wind that cannot be grasped and will disperse from his side at some point.

She didn't care about his feelings - not just him, but also Akai Shuichi, Kudo Shinichi, Matsuda Jinpei... She saw their feelings clearly, with a panoramic view, but she never thought of responding.

She understood what they were thinking, she was grateful for their efforts, and she could even feel guilty about it - but she never thought of responding positively.

Furukawa Kumisa's care in this world is pitiful, and even her emotions are weak. It seems that no one can be a tie to her. She doesn't know when, maybe just turning around, she will disappear into this unrestrained world.

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But Tohru Amuro never thought that she would "disappear" in this way.

Lying quietly on the hospital bed, tightly closing his usually smart and cunning eyes, he quietly waited for life to come to an end.

The air in the ward was cold and silent, and Toru Amuro felt that his breathing was a little bit colder. The coldness spread from his heart and chest to his limbs and bones, and he could no longer get warmer.

He couldn't help but reach out his hand, wanting to touch the person on the hospital bed to get a little bit of warmth.

There was a soft "click" sound, and the muzzle of a cold gun pressed against the side of his forehead.

"I said, Bourbon, no one can enter this ward - otherwise, they will be treated as traitors." It was Gin's voice.

Toru Amuro took a deep breath, as if she didn't want to argue with him, and as if she didn't want to wake up the person on the hospital bed.

"I also said, Gin, I am the most innocent person in this whole thing."

He repeated the already prepared rhetoric almost mechanically, "I don't know your plan, I have no chance to tamper with your car, and I was not in Tokyo even that night."

——That was the "alibi" he had prepared long ago. Even if Gin really went to check, he would still be able to see evidence of his entry and exit at Kansai Airport that night.

Gin knew this, but without putting his gun down, he just repeated: "No one can get close to her."

Apart from himself, Gin no longer trusted anyone at this moment - not even Vodka could enter Furukawa Kumisa's ward without his permission.

In an almost stupid way, he childishly avoided any danger that might come close to her.

Of course Toru Amuro knew what Gin was thinking. In fact, he had already killed someone in the organization because of this incident.

——A real killing spree.

If he and Mizuno Reina hadn't prepared sufficient alibi for themselves in advance, they probably wouldn't have been able to escape.

Toru Amuro didn't look at him, his eyes were fixed on her on the hospital bed from beginning to end.

"If you want to vent your anger, you should go to Mescal."

Toru Amuro closed her eyes, still not panicking at all: "If Natafi wakes up and knows that you killed me, how do you think she will react?"

He knew that Gin had long seen the unusual relationship between him and Furukawa Kumisa, so he openly brought it out.

Gin said nothing.

He felt that, according to his usual character, Toru Amuro's words could not stop his murderous intention.

He would attack anyone who stood in front of him or stood between him and her without mercy.

But Bourbon's words touched him - "If she wakes up."

If she wakes up peacefully and sees something happening that she doesn't want to see happen, she will be sad.

Gin had a ridiculous, unconfirmed guess in his mind, but even if it was just a guess, he no longer wanted to make the same mistake again.

Toru Amuro noticed that the gun on his forehead was put away, and he slowly said: "What did the doctor say?"

Gin subconsciously wanted to light a cigarette, but suddenly remembered that this was her hospital room - and she didn't like the smell of smoke.

He put the hand in his pocket and slowly took it out, reaching out to stroke the hat on his head.

"Not optimistic."

He answered calmly, as if all the crazy things he did for her were not his doing.

"It hit a vital point, he lost a lot of blood, and it took a long time to get to the hospital - it's a miracle that he survived."

In fact, no one thought she could survive in such a situation, not even Gin at the time.

In order to give her first aid, he didn't even pay attention to Mescal who was escaping in a hurry, and focused on the person who was shot in his arms. Even so, he was still unable to save himself.

He watched her close her eyes in his arms, her blood draining away bit by bit, and her body getting colder bit by bit - he didn't expect that she could survive.

But she did survive. She might not be able to wake up in this life, but she survived.

"The organization has the ability to cure her."

If one day is not enough, just one week, one month, three years, five years, ten years or eight years. Human life is so long. As long as you are alive, there is hope.

--hope.

A word that was so incompatible with Gin's past life creed.

How ridiculous, for her sake, he began to believe in such illusory things.

Toru Amuro finally looked at Gin for the first time tonight.

For a moment, he had to admire Kumisa Furukawa.

Even someone like Gin was able to conquer her and become what she is now.

He had no time to think about the relationship between her and Gin, whether everything she said in front of him was true or false, and why she blocked the gun for him...

She lay on the bed angrily, and he could no longer care about anything else.

As long as she wakes up.

Toru Amuro nodded to Gin as a farewell.

He took one last look at Kumisa Furukawa on the hospital bed and walked out.

There are still many things waiting for him to deal with.

When Haibara Ai heard the news and rushed into Kudo's house, she thought she would see a messy scene with stools overturned, tables overturned, and wine cans standing everywhere.

But she didn't. She found Shuichi Akai in the study who was on the phone. He had taken off Subaru's mask and was arranging tasks in Shuichi Akai's native voice.

She listened attentively for a while outside the door. They were all talking about tasks assigned to the FBI. It seemed that they were stepping up their efforts to launch an encirclement and suppression campaign against the organization. Each and every one of them was a major event - a major event related to "business".

Serious and cold, as if without any emotion.

Not a single sentence related to her safety, not a single sentence revealed their feelings.

Unable to suppress the anger she had accumulated all the way, she pushed the door open and walked in. She happened to see him hang up the phone and throw the phone back on the table.

Hui Yuan Ai stepped forward and slapped the table, causing the firearms spread all over the table to jump.

"Akai Shuichi!"

It has been a long time since she was so excited that she broke her voice: "She is still lying in the hospital! What are you doing?! What are you doing here? Are you going about your 'business' calmly and calmly? Don't you care about her at all?"

You don’t care about anything, do you?!”

She had seen how Akai Shuichi treated her after her rebirth. Haibara Ai thought that he was different from before. He put her in his heart and put her in front of those "business matters".

She thought that she would no longer be a "chess piece" that could be casually sacrificed by him, and that he would care about her life and her safety.

But what is Akai Shuichi doing now? Furukawa Kumisa is still lying in the hospital with her life and death uncertain, but he has calmly and coldly sat behind the table and begun to assign tasks - through her death and serious injury, this pool of muddy water will be completely wiped out.

mess.

He didn't seem to care about her life or death, he just used her serious injuries as a weapon that could be exploited, holding it in his hand and shooting at the organization.

Haibara Ai's aggressive look did not faze Akai Shuichi at all. He just lowered his eyes indifferently and wiped the weapons on the table with a cloth.

After wiping one piece, wipe the next one.

After a while, Haiyuan Ai heard the response from his mouth.

"Yes, I don't care." Akai Shuichi answered coldly.

"Aka! Well! Show! One!!" Haibara Ai could no longer restrain her anger. She picked up a gun on the table, pulled the bolt, and pressed it hard on his forehead.

Akai Shuichi kept his eyebrows motionless and didn't even look at the gun.

"I don't care," he repeated calmly, "because no matter what, I will go with her."

Hui Yuan Ai's hand holding the gun paused.

He raised his eyes and looked at Haiyuan Ai seriously, as if he just said a very ordinary sentence.

"I will go and accompany her."

Hui Yuan Ai was in a daze for a moment before she understood the meaning of his words.

——When she lives, he lives; when she dies, he stays with her.
To be continued...