Chapter 268 Confession
Chapter 269 Confession

"Hoo... Heh... Hoo..." Heavy breathing passed by Shiho's ear. After being shot by Ling, he flew across the roof to the other side to escape. With the shrunken Shiho in his arms, I felt my body getting heavier. But I couldn't stop.

"Kaoru, your wound..." Shiho, who had turned back into her former grayish appearance, grabbed my clothes tightly. However, she got a bright red liquid on her hands through the clothes.

"It's okay. Let's run first, hold on tight." My brows were furrowed, the pain in my body and the loss of blood made my vision blurry. After escaping from Beihu Building, I didn't dare to rush to the street immediately, but shuttled back and forth between several buildings using the short distance. It was not until I was a street away from Beihu Building that I dared to come to the ground and drew the car from the necklace. I drove away all the way.

"Call Conan and the others and ask them to go back. Tell them to see you tomorrow." In the car, I swiped the phone from the necklace and handed it to Shiho, who was sitting next to me and putting on her childhood clothes again.

"Yeah." Looking at the route I was taking, Shiho thought about it, and understood what I meant, then she called Conan and told him our whereabouts. "Kudo. We are fine, we have escaped, but Kaoru is injured, I need to take him to the hospital for treatment first, and we can go back tomorrow. You must pay attention to safety tonight, clean up the mess, don't leave any traces, and don't do anything unnecessary. Okay, that's it." Soon, Shiho hung up the phone.

The car drove for dozens of minutes and finally stopped in front of my villa. After parking the car, Shiho and I walked into the gate of the villa. After entering the door, I fell on the sofa and I breathed a long sigh of relief. The last bit of tension in my heart was relieved.

After entering the room, Shiho did not rest. She immediately took medical supplies from the bathroom, then ran to the sofa where I was sitting, took out a pair of scissors, and cut open my clothes.

"The wound is about two centimeters below the clavicle, and it's penetrating. Judging from the amount of bleeding, no major blood vessels were damaged, but the bleeding time was a bit long. The other parts are fine, but Bing, didn't you wear a bulletproof vest this time?" Shiho, who already knew a lot of my affairs, completed the work at hand with high concentration despite the fact that she was still running a fever.

"We're out of stock. It takes a lot of time to make that kind of clothing. And it's disposable," I said listlessly. "It's okay. I just lost a lot of blood. I'll be fine after a good night's sleep. Give me a bottle of sugar water."

"Let's remove the bullet first and sew up the wound." Shiho frowned slightly. "The glucose is right next to it. Are you sure you don't need a blood bag?"

"No, glucose is enough." I felt the condition of my body and said. "By the way, why haven't I become smaller yet?"

"I was going to ask you something." Shiho disinfected the tip of the surgical scissors. Then she took a cotton swab and dipped it in iodine and applied it to the wound on my shoulder. "It's been nearly half an hour since I became smaller, how come you haven't changed at all?"

“It won’t be impossible to change back, right?” I raised my eyebrows.

"Who knows?" Shiho said, picking up the dropper beside her and collecting some of my blood into a test tube and then capping it. "Leave some blood and go back for testing."

"Well, whatever you want." I smiled softly, then tilted my head back and relaxed my body. The blood loss that lasted for half an hour made me feel a little dizzy. So I had to relax myself and let Shiho's surgery go smoothly.

"Can you tell me about your necklace?" Shiho asked softly while stitching.

"This... I really don't know how to start." Facing Shiho's question, I was a little speechless. "If I say that when I died in my previous life, my memory was preserved, would you believe it?"

"Nerve." My words made Shiho's hands stiffen for a moment. After a few seconds, her nimble hands continued to work. At the same time, she said calmly, "But I believe it."

"Eh? Ugh!" Before I could react, Shiho pulled my arm slightly, and the pain in my shoulder made me fall down. I fell on the sofa. "Ouch... it hurts." I complained a little while lying on the sofa, although I knew it was just a little punishment from Shiho before she treated the wound on my back. "You believe all this?"

"If this is the answer, then maybe I can believe it." Shiho said calmly. "In this way, all the miracles that I thought were impossible in the past ten years from the moment we met can be solved one by one."

"Well... for example?" Perhaps out of curiosity, I asked this question.

"For example, why were you able to kill a full-fledged member of the organization at the age of seven? For example, you were able to complete the mission independently after only two years of training in the organization. And you have created one miracle after another in the organization over the years. If you say that when you came to this world again, your body was filled with the soul of an adult, then everything would make sense."

"Um... you're not calling me a pervert or a lolita fan in your heart, are you?"

puff.

My words made Shiho chuckle. At the same time, the scissors in her hand trembled slightly, and I grimaced in pain. "Yes, you pervert, you attacked a seven-year-old me. Are you still human?" Shiho smiled as she treated my wound. At the same time, she secretly increased the strength in her hand, causing me to twitch again in pain.

"Anyway, for you who are full of mystery, I can accept such an answer." After a little fuss, Shiho once again focused on treating my wound.

"Hey, I never thought that I would have such an adventure. But it's a pity that you believed it. I thought you would just scold me." I muttered while lying on the sofa.

"I believe it because the world is far more complex than we think." Shiho's eyes were full of yearning. "Seven billion humans can survive on Earth, a planet with a diameter of 1.28 kilometers, because the distance from the sun to the earth is just right, enough for life to occur on the earth. The size of the earth is only one million and three hundred thousandth of the sun. Even so, the sun is just one of the most common stars in the universe. There are countless stars like this, or even higher-level stars, hundreds of millions of light years away. So I believe that life must exist on distant planets, or even in parallel worlds."

"kindness?"

"Humans are very small, and technology has not yet expanded that far, but I believe that once we break through the constraints of the four-dimensional space, many things that cannot happen in theory will become possible. For example, what you just said." While saying this, Shiho cut off the extra thin thread that was sewn on my wound. "So, I believe you."

"Well... With a wife like this, what else could a husband ask for? Uwaaa! Be gentle, it hurts..."

"You're not serious again." Shiho said in mock anger. "Okay, the wound is sutured. Take a break. I'll go hang up the glucose."

"Yeah. Sorry for the trouble." I sat up and raised my bandaged shoulder slightly. "Anyway. You can trust me and not have any grudges against me... Hehe, Shiho, thank you."

"It's not the first time we've met, why are you still talking about this?" Shiho skillfully hung the glucose on the hanger and inserted the needle into the vein on the back of my right hand. Finished all this. With a gentle look in her eyes, Shiho looked me straight in the face and said, "And what I know is that I've seen everything you've done in the past ten years. So, there's no so-called grudge at all."

"Hehe..." After hearing Shiho's confession-like words, I couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. Indeed, with Shiho's ability to accept, my worries were really unnecessary. Of course, to say that Shiho only exists in animation or something, let her turn into ashes with the fire in the previous life. Because in this life, she is really by my side. And I am also lucky to be able to know her, understand her, and fall in love with her.

"But I do have something to ask you." As she spoke, Shiho's mouth curled up with a hint of cunning. "How old were you before you were reborn here?"

"Hmm... twenty-one?" Knowing that Shiho had started talking in homely way, I couldn't help but relax.

"College Students?"

"...Killer."

"So you're back to your old job?" "Uh... sort of."

"Is it great?"

“Seventh in the world.”

"No wonder...."

"No. 5 in the world in this life."

"...What about your necklace?"

"You can think of this magical thing brought from the previous life as... a dimensional pocket."

"...Doraemon?"

"Uh... about the same."

"Can I have this one too?"

"Yes, but only I can activate that function."

"Well, it seems that I don't need to bring anything with me when traveling in the future. It's a mobile warehouse."

"..."

"What was the world like in the last life?"

"It's about the same as it is now, but not as good as it is now."

"why?"

"Because you didn't exist in my previous life~ Uwaaa! It hurts..."

"Why haven't you changed back yet?"

"How would I know...Is it really impossible to change back?"

"Then you're really a pervert."

"OvO"

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

That night, I don't know how long I talked with Shiho, nor how much I confessed to her. I only know that after that night, it seemed that the last barrier between me and Shiho was broken. If I really have to say, it should be that our hearts are more closely connected.

The sky in the east was already turning white, but Shiho and I hadn't fallen asleep yet. I was still in the body of an 18-year-old, but next to me was a young figure of seven or eight years old. Although this painting style was a bit evil, I was injured and didn't do anything. I was already very tired just by chatting with Shiho until this time.

"Xiao Xun, Ling is back now. What should we do?" Curled up next to me, Shiho said with a slightly tired look.

"...If it is true as Vodka said, Ling inherited my code name and became the gold medal. Then we can't contact Mary for a while. We can only wait for Mary to come to me herself."

"Will Mary tell Ling about you?"

"I have told Mary not to tell anyone about me, including Ling. But... there is no guarantee that Ling will learn anything from Mary. After all, Ling is now... not to mention her intelligence processing ability, she is already as good as me in close combat. If I were not determined to kill her, I might really have no way to deal with Ling. It seems that Ling has gained a lot in the past few months in Italy."

"Ling... really admired you. I still remember the look of despair in her eyes last night after she learned of your death." Shiho said with some fear. "You and her..."

"I told you everything the day you came back from America." I interrupted Shiho. "What? Are you upset, my princess?"

"No...it's just that I never thought Ling would have such radical thoughts and actions." Shiho said dejectedly.

"Haha, don't talk about you. I didn't expect this myself." Thinking of this, I couldn't help but feel helpless. "That little girl is really capable of doing anything. Maybe, if I hadn't trained her like that back then, it wouldn't have developed to such an embarrassing point today."

"But if it weren't for your training, how could Ling cooperate with you and complete that mission that surpassed S-level and could be called SS-level?"

"Haha, that's right." At this point, my mind quickly turned to that mission. That was the top assassination mission of the SS in the United States. "The waltz of reincarnation played by the angels, the waltz of death danced by the devils. Haha, poor FBI, the only thing left for them was the code name of that operation."

"Overnight, more than half of the officers were killed or injured, the office building was destroyed, and Director Smith was shot dead. All the undercover information and criminal records were wiped out." Shiho recalled the damage of that report. "Who would have thought that two 15- or 16-year-old boys and girls could beat the battle-hardened FBI without any chance to fight back. However, all that was left for them in the cleared database was an operation code typed in English."

"Ah, a code name that they will remember forever." In a trance, my thoughts entered deep memories. I couldn't help but recite the name of the mission. "Heavenly Punishment!"

(End of this chapter)