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    Calm cracks, old shadows reappear (Complete of Volume 2)

    The afternoon sun slanted into the living room, and the faint fragrance of coffee lingered in the air.Shuichi Akai was sitting by the window, flipping through intelligence materials, while Gin was quietly wiping his pistol beside him, his movements neat and regular. The room was quiet except for the faint sound of metal scraping.

    The rare peaceful time is like a fine and soft net that isolates all the wind, rain and undercurrents of the past few days.

    Gin suddenly stopped and looked up towards the door, his green eyes darkening slightly.

    “Someone is coming.”

    The voice was very soft, but it carried an instinctive vigilance that had been tempered by life and death.

    Akai Shuichi immediately closed the document and listened carefully.There were unhurried footsteps outside the door. There was neither the tight alert of the FBI nor the sneaky probing of the organization members.

    There was a gentle knock on the door, the rhythm polite and restrained.

    “Mr. Shuichi, are you there?”

    It’s Conan’s voice.

    Akai Shuichi released the door lock and opened the door.Conan stood at the door with his schoolbag on his back, his expression as usual, but his eyes behind his lenses shone slightly, obviously he had noticed the atmosphere in the room.

    “Conan? Why are you here at this time?”

    Conan walked into the living room, his eyes swept across the room naturally, paused for half a second on Gin, then took it back as if nothing had happened, and raised the paper bag in his hand:

    “The doctor asked me to bring some snacks. By the way… I have something to tell you.”

    Akai Shuichi motioned for him to sit down, and Gin put away his pistol and leaned on the sofa without speaking or showing any hostility.

    Conan has long been accustomed to this strange yet stable atmosphere of coexistence between the two, and goes straight to the point:

    “The Metropolitan Police Department has recently been investigating several mysterious disappearances. The backgrounds of the missing persons are all related to old members of the organization.”

    Akai Shuichi raised his eyebrows slightly: “Rum’s handwriting?”

    “The possibility is very high.” Conan nodded. “It looks like we are cleaning up the insiders, and… one of the missing places is very close to the area where Belmode was active before.”

    Hearing the word “Belmod”, Gin’s action of wiping the gun body suddenly stopped. The soft sound of the metal firing pin and the gun body stopped abruptly, and a faint hint of sinister lust flashed in his green eyes.

    Belmode.

    The most elusive woman in the organization, she is at odds with Rum and has a close relationship with Boss. She is also one of the few people who understands the subtle relationship between him and Shuichi Akai.

    “She won’t interfere.” Gin said calmly, “She only acts according to her own rules. She won’t help Rum, nor will she get in our way easily.”

    “That’s what I say…” Conan held his chin and spoke in a deep voice, “But if she finds out about your current relationship, will it be detrimental to me, Sister Xiaolan and the others?”

    Akai Shuichi looked slightly serious: “She will not touch the people around her. In this regard, she has always been measured.”

    Conan was still a little worried, but he also knew that talking more would be useless. He put the snacks on the table and stood up:

    “Then I’ll go back first. Contact me anytime if anything happens.”

    When he reached the door, he suddenly turned back and winked at the two of them:

    “You continue, I won’t interrupt.”

    The door closed gently, and the room returned to silence.

    Gin looked in the direction of the door, his eyes darkening slightly: “If Belmode really shows up, it will be very troublesome.”

    “She knows too much.” Shuichi Akai answered, “Your position, my identity, the situation of the Akai family… As long as she reveals anything to Rum, it will become extremely difficult.”

    Gin turned his head and reached out to gently pinch his chin, forcing him to look at her:

    “No matter what she wants to do, I won’t let anyone hurt you.”

    Akai Shuichi looked at his close eyes, his heartbeat was slightly turbulent, he did not dodge, he only whispered:

    “Me too.”

    Simple in two words, the portion is enough.

    When the atmosphere became gentle again, the personal communicator at the corner of the table lit up without warning.

    An anonymous message, just one line:

    【I know you are together.Don’t relax too much, the game is not over yet.】

    No signature, no redundant content.

    But the familiar, playful and mysterious tone was clear to both of them.

    Belmode.

    Akai Shuichi picked up the communicator, his fingertips slightly tight.

    Gin’s face turned a little colder, and the aura around him once again took on a dangerous edge.

    The cracks in the calmness quietly opened at this moment.

    Old shadows reappeared, and the gaze in the darkness was finally no longer hidden.

    Gin held Akai Shuichi’s hand tightly, and his voice was cold but extremely firm:

    “No matter who it is, don’t try to break us up.”

    Akai Shuichi held him in his arms, his eyes sharp and steady:

    “Come on.

    All the old scores, all the enemies, all the darkness – together we can make it clear.”

    The sunshine outside the window is still bright, but the air in the house has quietly become tense.

    The appearance of Belmode broke all the short-term stability and pushed everything to the final chess game.

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