When the sky turned completely dark, the white Porsche happened to be driving near Nagano Prefecture.

Toru Amuro stopped the car slowly and said calmly: "If we go further, we will have to take the mountain road. It is too late now and it is not safe."

"Are you new to driving?" Hinata asked simply without any negative emotions.

Then I got a very frank admission from the other party, "Yes, I'm really not very good at driving. I'm afraid of an accident, so I can only drive slower."

Hinata glanced at the other party reasonably, lowered her head and adjusted the radio, turning it up a little louder to show that she didn't want to talk to the other party at all.

The second tape was too homely and sounded very private. Although it was not her own privacy, Hinata would still feel slightly uncomfortable playing it in front of other people.

Therefore, what the tape recorder is playing now is still the story of the snow girl.

He held his chin up and looked out the window.

The gentle female voice in the tape recorder was describing the unusual behaviors of the snow girl with a smile.

He also described the woodcutter's ambivalent mentality of "perceiving an abnormality, so he is uneasy and afraid, but he has not faced the abnormality directly, so he is not sure, and he feels pity for the snow girl as he does for human women."

"Would you like a bento or sushi?" Toru Amuro asked while rummaging through things, "There is soup in the lunch box, but it's already cold, so you might as well drink water."

Then he unscrewed a bottle of water and handed it over.

"No, I've already had dinner." Hinata refused reasonably and added a thank you, "Thank you."

The bottle of water was taken back again.

While Toru Amuro was eating quietly, he listened to the sound of the tape recorder and quickly replied to another continuous sound machine.

[Not a nurse, but a male friend.]

【I am safe and will return to Tokyo soon.】

After eating, Toru Amuro shook off the blanket and handed it over, "Would you like to sleep?"

The phone continued to vibrate, and Hinata responded to the message while refusing without raising her head, "Thank you, I don't have to sleep."

"..." Toru Amuro was silent for a moment, trying to organize his words, "Do you have any objections to me?"

"Sorry, I chased you before because I thought you were suspicious and I wasn't sure if you were a member of the organization, so I chased you."

Actually no.

Hinata's reasonable impression of this colleague is quite...well, actually it's very bad.

I kind of hate each other.

Not only is he a golden retriever, but he also has strong physical strength. He is not easy to mess with at first glance. He also has good abilities. Otherwise, he would not be sent by Gin to go on missions. He is both sharp and intuitive, and he also meets the most basic black requirements. He has touched it in his hands.

Blood.

No matter how you look at it, it is an excellent organizational seedling.

This is why Hinata legitimately hates each other.

Especially when his current extreme shortcomings happen to be the areas the other party is particularly good at.

If he were Gin, he would definitely be ecstatic. With such a subordinate, all the dirty work in the future can be thrown into the golden trash can, and he can only collect points comfortably.

But he is Gin's subordinate, and the other party is also Gin's subordinate.

The two of them have a competitive relationship. Even though he is now a quasi-code member, the other is still a low-level member.

With the opponent's ability, as long as he doesn't die, he will definitely get a code name, and then he will still be a competitor.

Reasonable Hinata hates this.

Gin is the boss, so he can't blatantly hate the other person before he kicks him. The police dogs are completely unrelated personnel, not even his subordinates.

Only the golden-haired guy in front of me is in a subtle stage of competition with him.

The other party chased him and bit him.

It's weird if you don't hate it, right?

Of course, to hate is to hate, and to suppress and conquer is to suppress and conquer.

Hinata reasonably retorted on the spot, "The reason why I don't eat or drink water is because I have already had dinner. I have already repeated this sentence for the second time. The reason why I don't sleep is because I have caught up on my sleep in the afternoon, and it is not safe here."

But he didn't say whether he had any opinions.

He raised his chin and motioned Toru Amuro to observe the surroundings, "The nearby mountains are very high and visibility is low at night. The white car is very obvious. Once someone attacks us from a distance, it will be very dangerous."

And the surroundings are very quiet, with only the sound of wind and the rustling of leaves, and from time to time there are the activities of other animals.

There is another competitor around. The opponent has weapons, but he only has a windbreaker.

Only ghosts can sleep.

Hinata made a reasonable understatement and took the topic off topic: "At times like this, someone needs to keep watch, so you can go to bed first. I'll keep watch tonight."

Then go stare at your colleagues.

He didn't quite believe that his colleague could fall asleep, especially when his attitude was obviously not very friendly.

However, the colleague paused and accepted the statement without too much hesitation, "Okay, then I'll rest first, and you can rest again during the day tomorrow."

Can you sleep here?!

After the colleague put on a blanket and closed his eyes, Hinata counted each other's breaths reasonably and silently.

For the first ten minutes, my breathing was normal and I was obviously not asleep.

Then, the other party's breathing gradually became longer. Hinata waved her hands and moved her body reasonably and tentatively, but the other party did not suddenly become alert.

he:"……"

No, you didn't regard me as a 'source of danger' at all, right?

He lowered his head and continued to reply to Matsuda Jinpei's message.

The mobile phone and the radio are stuck together, and the sound of the mobile phone's key presses is covered up to the greatest extent.

Toru Amuro closed her eyes, continued to breathe longer, and then tried hard to catch the subtle sound of key presses amidst the natural buzzing sounds of Elena Miyano and the radio.

This time, it took him much longer to assemble it. Fortunately, the key-pressing sound was not high-frequency.

[Officer Matsuda, are you going to be promoted recently? 】

...I'm chatting with Matsuda Jinpei again. Didn't I warn him that it's reasonable to stay away from Hinata?

Toru Amuro continued to distinguish the key click sound of the next message.

[No, I just feel that you are very happy recently, more lively than Officer Hagiwara. 】

He continued his analysis.

[I didn’t mean that you were too girly for a high school student. Please don’t get me wrong. I just thought that Officer Matsuda was a hot-blooded and cheerful type, but he would continue to act coquettishly...]

The sound of pressing keys paused, and another special sound sounded. Hinata pressed the delete key several times reasonably, deleted the last half of the sentence, and sent it.

This shouldn't be an illusion.

Toru Amuro thought with her eyes closed.

From the contact at the New Year's celebration, he could confirm that Matsuda Jinpei was indeed very lively... The comment about 'female high school student' was very accurate, although the other party's original intention was to explain, not to complain.

But from the perspective of contact, Matsuda Jinpei is deliberately lively, like a dog that keeps rubbing, addicted to sucking humans, and always has a strange smile on its face.

why is that?

There are too many doubts about Hinata's rational body, and this is only a very small part of them. When Toru Amuro analyzed them one by one before, he had not analyzed this problem yet, so he could only try to figure it out temporarily now.

Anyway, from the contact point of view, it was not Hinata who deliberately approached Matsuda Jinpei, but Matsuda Jinpei discovered something and deliberately approached Hinata.

That guy is smart enough, and since he maintains an overly lively attitude when faced with Hinata's reasonableness, it means that Hinata's reasonable behavior is followed by this.

Well.

Toru Amuro thought for a moment about the scene where he was smiling and touching Hinata, but he always felt like he would be kicked out of the car.

Today, several times, this underage posture was clearly ready to kick someone.

When the analysis came to this point, a sound suddenly came from the mountains not far away, a 'bang' sound, like... it was a gunshot!

Toru Amuro subconsciously opened his eyes, sat up suddenly, followed the direction of the gunfire, and looked straight over.

Not far away from a high place, there was a cluster of firelight. It flashed at an extremely fast speed and made a soft crackling sound at the same time.

It's a firecracker.

Was that sound just now the sound of firecrackers?

Toru Amuro frowned. He turned around and said, "The gunshot just now..."

His words stopped abruptly.

Hinata closed her eyes reasonably, and her long hair almost covered her eyebrows.

The other person huddled up in the seat. The phone was no longer in his hand, but it was still vibrating slightly in the gap between the seat and the door.

Huh? Ten seconds ago, wasn’t there a key-pressing sound?

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Chapter completed!