【Red G】Let him fall

Judy walked back and forth in the safe house uneasily, the clock hanging high above was ticking, and the hour hand passed 11 o'clock in the passing of minutes and seconds.

It was pitch black outside.

She and Akai Shuichi had just finished a phone call, and they exchanged some information to determine the next development of the situation.

Then the topic fell on Gin.

"It's okay, Judy. He'll be back." Akai still said flatly when he heard the news of Vermouth's death and Gin's insistence on cleaning the Porsche alone—

"He won't run away. It's just that right now, he needs someone to watch over him."

Judy held her forehead until the sound of a key unlocking the door sounded.She turned her head and saw Gin walking in with lowered eyes, and under the artificial light source, she clearly captured the inexplicably extra bloodstains on his face.

"Sorry." Gin coughed and handed the bread bag over, "Eat it?"

She took the bag.Judy can be regarded as well-informed, but it still made waves because of this, not because Gin bought her bread, but because this man finally had a tinge of popularity.

Finally, it is not the extremely restrained and repressed person in the daytime, the frightening unobstructed barrier, although you can spy and guess wantonly, but Judy can see the emotion and see its inaccessibility.

Not anymore.Judy breathed a sigh of relief.Although there may be [-] kilometers of water mist between her and that emotion, although she is still unable to intervene, she has gained a little popularity after all.

"Xiuyi can move freely tomorrow morning, he needs to meet up." Judy took a bite of the bread.

Gin nodded, indicating that you guys go to work, and I will stay here obediently.

Judy also nodded: "I'm going to find James tomorrow, and I have some important materials. Go pick up Xiuyi, he just wants to see you."

Gin doesn't want to go.He told himself clearly in his heart that it hurt his self-esteem more than the gratitude caused by being saved.So he didn't really want to see Akai Shuichi.

"Okay. Give me the car keys." Then he complied.

Judy looked at him in surprise: "I don't have your car keys."

Gin said blankly, "The car keys for the car in the garage."

"And your Porsche...?"

"I couldn't fix it."

"You walked back?"

"I walked back."

Judy felt speechless for a moment, and also felt weird.But she still left the car keys and said nothing about the new blood on Gin's face.

Akai Shuichi tidied himself up cleanly, he was about to usher in a new day, most of the things had already been arranged, he didn't panic, he just decided to give it a try.Just today, right next moment.

He opened the door of the villa, and at this moment the daylight fell into the deserted street, only a silver Chevrolet was parked lonely beside a tree. Gin leaned against the car door with his back to him.

"Gin." He stopped slowly and called out that name.

Gin turned around, and the man in the knitted hat in front of him showed an infinitely gentle smile, revealing a little bit of cunning that had nowhere to rest.The bleak rainy night in his memory jumped into his mind in a unique way, tearing the air around him together with the current scene.

Akai sat in the co-pilot familiarly.The way he took off his coat, the way he put on his seat belt, the way he turned on the car music, the way he turned his head to talk——Gin saw himself in his shining warm green eyes, and all the past .

The time of that partner was so far away that it seemed to be a matter of a previous life. Gin didn't realize until now that he cherished those times a little bit, and it was enough to cherish those times every night that he couldn't get past the pain, but it shouldn't be a big deal to Shuichi Akai. Gin could take it as a fulcrum in his life, but he knew enough that it wouldn't be Shuuichi Akai's.

"Let's go here first, and then... um? Are you listening?" Akai asked suspiciously.

Gin came back calmly: "I'm listening."

"what happened to your hand?"

"Accidentally rowed."

"The face too?"

"Ah."

That must have been extraordinarily careless.Akai asked calmly again: "Where's your Porsche?"

"It's not fixed." Gin stepped on the accelerator, glanced at the location marked by Akai, "A dessert shop, where are you going?"

"Yeah." Akai slumped into the co-pilot comfortably, "It's okay, I can repair the car with you."

It's time to go to work. Even so, there are customers sitting in twos and threes in this dessert shop, which is not deserted.

They ordered a black forest cake and two glasses of Americano.To put it more clearly, it was Shuichi Akai who insisted on ordering a Black Forest cake.

"You complained that I didn't interrogate you personally, so now I have some questions, will you answer them?" Akai said while stirring the coffee.

Gin raised an eyebrow to signal him to continue.

"Where did the organization go?" Akai asked, a question no different from the interrogation room in a prison.

"Mister didn't tell me." Gin looked erratic.

It was the same answer as "I don't know", but Shuichi Akai liked it.

It turns out that Mr. is right, as long as Gin stays, the FBI will definitely focus on him. When they realize that Gin really doesn't know where the organization is going, the organization will not let the FBI catch even a feather. .In a way, Mr. has achieved his goal.

"That Christmas Eve two years ago?" Akai looked up at him.

"I do not remember."

"I remember, let me tell you." Akai leaned forward, met Gin's uninterested eyes, and said, "You gave me a bullet with a pattern, but I lost it."

Then Akai briefly recounted the complete process of the Christmas Eve shooting.

After the case was finished, the Black Forest cake was also served on the table.

Akai asked him: "So I am not a clean person, are you disappointed?"

"It has nothing to do with me." Gin didn't even look at him.

"Okay. I will return to the United States in a few days. Arnold's case will be heard in a court in the United States, and I will also attend. After that, James will help me arrange a new job, which is probably the foreign office, over there in Europe." Akai drank his coffee.

"Okay." Gin nodded, picked up the fork, but didn't reach for the cake.

Akai has already changed into a business-like tone: "I will not come back after I leave Japan. There are a lot of luggage to pack, and the time is very tight."

"it is good."

"Then I'll go first?"

"Ah."

"Goodbye then."

"Ah."

Gin didn't look at Akai Shuichi from the beginning to the end, and didn't even change his posture. He held the silver fork firmly in his left hand, and he was indifferent to the sudden farewell of the person opposite.

No one can keep their eyes closed when they see the point of a knife coming for the first time, not even Gin.He chose not to look at this long-known result.

Akai Shuichi stood up, turned and left.

He stopped at the door.It only took a few seconds to walk here from where he was sitting, but he felt like he had walked a year or more.Did not stay, did not get a look.

Some customers looked at him curiously, but he didn't care.

Akai Hideichi leaned against the door and saw Gin sitting there still in the same posture, not in a daze, it looked more like he was studying the making of a fork or the chocolate crumbs on a cake.And it dawned on him that Gin wouldn't even realize he wasn't leaving because Gin wouldn't look up at him.

This dessert shop is a small and warm style. Although there are not many people, the air is full of warmth and crowding.But Gin was there alone, the warmth and crowd hit him, and instantly shattered into black powder. Gin's characteristics are incompatible with this world.

Akai Shuichi sighed deeply.

To understand Shuichi Akai, it is not enough just to see his success.Brilliance and wisdom are synonymous with him, but one cannot understand his worth without understanding the failures of Shuichi Akai's life.He is constantly demanding himself, exhausting himself.

And repeated defeats.

And Akai Shuichi already understood very well that all his confidence comes from Gin's non-refusal.

Gin felt that a shadow was suddenly cast on the tabletop, he raised his head hesitantly, the fork in his hand slipped suddenly, and rubbed against the edge of the plate with a "stab".

"You make up your mind that I'm really leaving, but you just refuse to ask me to keep me?" Akai Shuichi's voice seemed to be soaked in rain and thunder, wet and dull, and it was higher-pitched than before.

It was like a boulder smashed into the sand dune in Gin's heart, forming a depression, and the fine sand quickly filled the cavity.

"Why didn't you leave?" Gin asked, a crack appeared in his expression.

They sat across from each other again, and Shuichi Akai ordered another cup of coffee. Gin stared at the Black Forest Cake, then took the knife and sliced ​​it open, the knife sinking into the soft surface and penetrating the inside until it was completely cut.

Akai said seriously: "Of course I want to leave Japan, but why did I leave you? Gin, why do you think I rescued you? It has nothing to do with Arnold, nothing to do with torture, nothing to do with anyone or anything, From the moment I knew you turned yourself in, I decided to bring you out."

Gin clenched the handle of the knife tightly, he stared at Akai Shuichi, his lips parted slightly, some words slipped from his tongue, and finally said nothing.

"Human beings are a mess, right? You can say sonnets to Anuo, but not keep me. Talk to me, Gin, don't you really understand?" Akai said helplessly, with a little effort Hidden grievances.

He waited for a long time, and then there was the crisp sound of a knife being placed on the table, with the rich cherry juice in the cake still on the blade.

"People leave me all the time." Gin put his hands on his forehead, "but this should be a normal thing."

"Will my departure be classified as a normal thing by you?" Akai asked.

You should have left a long time ago, when you found out that I am such a person, when you found out that I killed Miyano Akemi. "Miyano Akemi." Gin said a name, "Shuichi, you should have left me long ago."

Akai froze.Miyano Mingmei, she is like a huge gap between the two of them, she is very innocent and very sad.Akai had to stuff himself a mouthful of cake with too much sweetness to suppress the bitterness surging in his chest.It's not just Gin alone, he hurt Akemi Miyano too.

And the embers of that hurt still carry sparks.

Gin continued: "I fired the shot. Then I got back in the car and I held the steering wheel and I was scared for the first time in my life. It made me feel like I was walking in a big wave. The bullet was out, the person was dead, You will definitely know. Then why don't you leave?" He looked into Akai's eyes this time, the ice green pupils concealed the shadow of being shattered by a single blow.

"It was a mistake, we can't help it...Gin, I can't help it either. I am willing to continue my life in mistakes, what about you? Do you want me to leave? Do I make you feel heavy?" Akai continued to ask .

The world sees the world with eyes, so people see that Gin wants to kill Akai Shuichi, and people see that Akai Hideichi wants to arrest Gin.But Akai Shuichi looked at the world with his heart, and he could see love in the false atmosphere of infinite upside-down riots.

The crow perches on the shoulder, and love shines in the dark depths of the universe.

"You can leave." Gin replied.

Akai was surprised to find he didn't feel defeated.He said: "Will you go to America with me? I really don't have enough time, but I still have to ask you over and over again, would you like to go to America with me?"

Of course Gin wouldn't respond to him.But he will not be rejected either.

Once again, Akai realized that the source of all his courage and confidence.

Akai said: "I am willing."

Gin frowned at him.

"You are willing too." Akai decisively helped him make a decision.

The rift in the blond man's expression was getting closer and closer to a human being.From the moment he feels fear, regret, and pain, he gradually becomes a human being.From the moment he realizes that he made a mistake, he suddenly becomes aware of human nature.

"You are willing too." Akai stated again, adding more force, "I can work harder to let you really understand that we like each other." He thought of Gin's days and nights in prison, those powerless days and nights, and now everything It's all over.

Without this accident, Akai Shuichi would not be so persistent.Love this thing about Gin, he'll take it to his grave.But he doesn't want to be like this now, if Gin is falling from a height, Akai Shuichi firmly believes that he can catch him.

Gin made a childish gesture, he raised his hand to cover his eyes.

Akai said with a smile: "No way, love is always blind and sinful."

They walk out of the dessert shop.The parking lot is across the road, and the two of them are now on the side of the road, waiting for the green light to turn on.

Akai said: "I have a plane at seven o'clock in the morning the day after tomorrow. Remember to come to the airport to find me, although you didn't really promise me."

As soon as the voice fell, the green light came on. Gin took the first step.

The first is the exclamation of passers-by.It happened completely instantaneously.

The speeding private car rushed towards the zebra crossing in disregard of the traffic rules.

Akai blurted out and shouted Gin's name, the distance between them was no more than the thickness of a contemporary masterpiece, and Akai's hand passed through this thick space in horror.

Many times, countless times, Akai thought he would lose Gin because it was so easy.A bullet, a car accident, a confrontation.But this time it was so real that it almost made him cry out in fear, almost breaking his heart full of bad deeds.

Gin only felt that the sudden force of grabbing his right hand could crush bones, and then he was dragged into a stormy embrace.The car that caused the accident passed by at high speed, barely brushing the back of his left hand, with burning pain.

A real hug. Gin's eyes widened, he heard Akai's heavy breathing in his ears, the strength of his arms clenched with despair hitting his brain.

Blinking his eyes, Gin slowly put his arms up Akai Shuichi's back, feeling his trembling.

Gin used to think that the ending of narrow escape would always be connected with an inevitable ending of death, and that fate could not be truly reversed, but now he thinks that there might be something different, maybe not everything will end in death.

They keep making mistakes, struggling and resisting.

Gin saw it.The future they will finally usher in, together with the old days, truth, lies, sin, and love, rushed towards them together.

He heard Akai Shuichi tremblingly whispering in his ear——

"I caught you."

END