Chapter 10 Meeting with Shirley
Chapter 10 Meeting with Shirley

Walking into the shooting range and looking at the rows of targets, I felt as if I had returned to my previous life.

"Ming. How are your grades?"

"OK Feng~ Only one shot hit the nine rings. The rest all hit the bull's eye~" Ming was looking at the target and recording.

"100 is 1 off?" I smiled. "Haha. Ming. Increase the distance."

"Hey, hey. Wind. It's already 85 yards. If you increase the range, it will be 100 yards. Even if you are using a modified Desert Eagle, the bullet will be affected by the trajectory."

"It's okay, come on." I picked up the gun again. Ming looked at me speechlessly and changed the target paper again. I pulled the distance to 100 yards.

boom!
A bullet spurted out of the muzzle.

"I told you it wouldn't work." Ming pouted. "This shot hit the 7th ring. It's way off target.

boom!
Another shot. "9 rings. Hey, Feng, you can't be..."

boom!boom!boom!boom!boom!
Five shots were fired in succession.

"1010 rings...all hit the bull's eye..." Ming said in disbelief.

Then the same action. Change the magazine. Load the gun. Shoot. Change the magazine. Load the gun. Shoot. . .

About ten minutes later, I put down the gun and looked in Ming's direction.

"Ming. How are your grades?"

"See for yourself..." Ming looked at me as if I were a monster.

I received the score sheet. Except for the seven rings in the first shot and the nine rings in the second shot, the rest were all ten rings.

"100 minus 2? Well... not bad." I said lightly.

"bright."

"What are you doing... monster."

"Keep increasing the distance."

"..."

Thinking back to the past, it seems like it happened just yesterday. A nostalgic smile appears on the corner of my mouth.

"Hey. Kid!" A cold voice echoed in the empty training ground.

I turned around. A man with long blond hair and a black windbreaker stood beside me. Gin. Is he my mentor?
"Uncle Gin. Are you my mentor?" I asked even though I knew the answer.

"Ah. Vermouth asked me to train you personally." Gin said coldly. "I once owed that woman a favor. This time you are my chance to repay her favor. So you have to pay attention to me."

"Yeah. I will train hard." I smiled at Gin with my white teeth bared. Although I know that one day we will be on opposite sides, but for now, I can only pretend to be a good child as I am living under someone else's roof.

Gin walked to the target and set the target distance to 50 yards.

"Are you left-handed or right-handed?"

"Right hand."

"Watch. I'll only show you once." Gin picked up the gun with his right hand, turned off the safety, inserted the magazine, and loaded it. He aimed.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Five shots in a row. Then he turned his gaze to me. "Do you understand?"

I looked at him, pretending to understand. Then I looked at the five ten-rings displayed on the automatic target reporting device. Then I nodded silently.

"Eyes, sights, and targets, all three points are in a straight line. Don't hold the gun too tightly or too loosely. Pay attention to the recoil of the gun. There are five rounds left, you shoot." Gin removed the magazine, turned off the safety, and put the gun back on the table.

I walked to the table and looked at the gun on it. M645, an American gun. I used it in my previous life, but it was too weak. It's a good training gun. I picked up the gun and found the safety switch on the right side of the gun. Then I inserted the magazine and finally pulled the bolt. The gun was loaded and my right hand was raised horizontally. I imitated Gin's posture and aligned my sight with the front sight.

Bang! I fired my first bullet in this world. 5 rings. The number on the target indicator made me raise my eyebrows slightly.

"Go on." Gin said coldly.

Bang! 8 rings.

Bang! 9 rings. Bang! 7 rings.

Bang! 9 rings.

After firing five rounds, I turned around and looked at Gin. But Gin didn't comment on me. He just gave me the next order coldly.

"Finish that box of bullets. 100 rounds. Ten clips. Read the instructions for reloading. I'll be back in about half an hour. Use up all the ammunition before then. And make sure you get more than 850 rings. I'll check your results when you come back. If you don't meet the requirements, you won't have any food today. Do you understand?"

"Got it~ I will complete the task~" I said to Gin with a smile, showing my little white teeth.

After saying that, Gin turned around and left the shooting range. After seeing Gin take the elevator, I filled all ten magazines with bullets. I grabbed a magazine and inserted it into the pistol. Loaded it. With a wicked smile, I switched the gun that I had been holding in my right hand to my left hand. I made a beautiful gun pattern. I fired ten rounds in a row. Then I changed the magazine, loaded the gun, and fired another ten rounds in a row. The whole action took less than a minute to complete. I looked at the results on the target monitor. Twenty rounds of bullets scored two hundred rings. With a contemptuous smile, I switched the gun back to my right hand again. I shot again, one shot at a time, like a baby learning to walk.

That's right. Like Gin, I am also left-handed. In my previous life, I always shot with my left hand. But now, in order to prevent Gin from finding out the flaw, I decided to use my right hand. And I will keep my left hand. In the future, when I face the organization, the trajectory of my left hand will also give me an extra ability to protect myself.

Soon, Gin came back.

"What are you doing?" Gin said coldly as he looked at me staring at a pile of pistol parts on the table.

"Hmm? Uncle Gin. You're back." I smiled. "I've run out of bullets. I was a little bored so I took the gun apart to see the internal structure. But I found that I couldn't put it back together after taking it apart." Actually, it was because I wanted to practice the speed of disassembling and assembling the gun. But Gin came back just after I did it for the third time. I had no choice but to act out this play.

Gin didn't say anything. Instead, he looked at the scoreboard. 871 rings. He had successfully reached the target.

"Not bad, kid. Few people can achieve excellent results in their first attempt." Gin smiled coldly. But Gin's smile seemed more excited. Although it was fleeting. Faced with this rare compliment, I couldn't help but give him face. I grinned, showing my little white teeth.

"Don't worry about the parts. Disassembly and assembly will be knowledge for the next class. You have completed the goal. You can eat." Gin returned to his original coldness.

Following Gin's footsteps, I took the elevator back to the cafeteria I just passed.

On the way back to the cafeteria, I kept thinking. Now I am in this organization. And the time has not yet entered the main story. If I am lucky, I should be able to meet Haibara. Oh no. Miyano Shiho and her sister Miyano Akemi, right? The young man in black just said. People with code names live in the corridor on the right side of the cafeteria. That means in this corridor where I am now, there should be a room belonging to Shiho. I looked at the door next to me. There is a code name next to each door. It seems that I just need to find Sherry's code name.

————The scent of orchids, the scent of lavender, the scent of home & the wings of angels, the wings of demons, the wings of guardians————

"Let me go!" Just as I was thinking about how to find Shirley, a childish voice sounded in the corridor in front of me.

I was shocked when I heard the voice. I hurried forward and looked over there. I saw an adult man of about 18 or 19 years old wearing a black suit holding a girl of about 6 or 7 years old with brown short hair, wearing a white coat and a dark red high-necked T-shirt in the air and holding her against the wall.

Shiho? My heart trembled. Although it was the first time I saw her, I recognized her at a glance. I didn't expect that Shiho is the same age as me now. (Because I lost my memory, I don't know the timeline.)
"Hey! You! Let her go!" After a brief moment of distraction, I yelled at the man in black.

"Ah? Where are you from?" The man noticed me. He turned his head and looked at me with disdain. I had a temporary badge with the code number 7 on me. It was given to me by the young man in black who had just led us. The man saw my badge and said even more arrogantly. "Oh~ So you are the new kid. Tsk. As a newcomer, don't be so arrogant!"

"I told you to let her go!" I ignored his arrogant attitude. I jumped high and appeared in front of him at a very fast speed. Before he could react, I used all my strength to punch him in the face. Maybe he underestimated me too much. This punch actually knocked him out. And the hand that was holding Shiho also let go at the moment of being knocked out.

"Are you okay?" I ignored the young man who flew out, and immediately ran to Shiho who had just fallen to the ground, and asked with concern.

"Yeah." She looked at me with her dark eyebrows tightly together. From her expression, I could tell that she was in pain. But she still told me firmly that she was fine. Although it was just a simple word, she made me know clearly. She was Shiho. It was Shirley. It was Ai.

"Damn it. How dare you, a newcomer, do this to me? Die!" The young man got up from the ground. He took out a pistol from his arms and pointed it at me. I turned around and protected the young Shirley behind me, staring at him intently, and murderous intent rushed out unconsciously. How dare you bully my Shirley? You have been sentenced to death!

Maybe I was too focused on the young man who bullied Shirley, and I didn't notice that Gin, who was leading the way in front of me, had been watching me quietly from the beginning. Until the moment I released the murderous aura. Gin's eyes flashed unconsciously. That was the special performance of his body when he felt the strong murderous aura. But I didn't know this.

The young man in black was also a little distracted by my murderous aura. But he quickly came to his senses. "Damn you little brat..." Just as he was about to shoot, he felt another suffocating gaze. Yes, at this moment, Gin looked at him as if he were a dead man.

"Gin. Brother Gin..." The young man's body was shaking. "Yes... I'm sorry, Brother Gin. I was rude." He put away the gun and bowed respectfully to Gin.

"Let's go, No. 7." Gin ignored him. After greeting me, he walked straight ahead. After Gin left, the young man trembled and went back to the room behind him. After he entered the room, I also retracted my murderous intent. Turning back, I found Shirley sitting on the ground. She was shaking with her hands on her shoulders.

Yes. Gin was right beside me just now. Shirley was so scared because of the terrifying murderous aura.

"Are you okay?" I helped Shirley up and asked with concern.

"Yeah." Another simple word.

"Haha. I'm glad you're okay." I smiled. "Let me introduce myself. I'm new here. My temporary code name is No. 7. Please give me your guidance."

"Shirley. That's my code name." Finally, Shirley stopped talking. This made me really happy for a long time.

"I'm going back now. Thank you for just now." Sherry felt a little embarrassed when she saw me looking at her and smiling. She simply said this and turned around, swiping the card to open the door behind her. I looked up. There was the name Sherry written in black letters on a white background next to the door.

So this is Shirley's room, I smiled. Then I turned around and looked at the door that the man just entered. Next to his room door, a code name written in white on a black background appeared in front of me.

IceWine. I memorized the name. With a wicked smile, I walked towards the cafeteria. If I didn't go there, I thought Gin would kill someone.

(End of this chapter)