"Click."
Vodka opened the door to the gas chamber, looked at Miyano Shiho curled up in a ball, lifeless, and then threw a stack of photos on her.
"Thud."
Miyano Shiho remained motionless, her whole person like a puppet with its strings cut.
"Pick them up and look at the photos."
Vodka reminded her, but Miyano Shiho didn't move, not taking his words to heart.
Having no other choice, Vodka picked up a photo from the ground and placed it in front of her, saying, "See who this is!"
Vodka shook the photo, but found that Miyano Shiho still didn't react. His heart immediately thumped, and he couldn't help but think: It's over... Has this child really gone mad? Even her sister's photo isn't working...
Vodka glanced at the photo, only then realizing that the room was too dark, and the photo was pitch black, making it impossible to see anything.
He quickly turned on the light, then placed the photo in front of her again: "Hey... You..."
Before Vodka could finish speaking, Miyano Shiho suddenly snatched the photo from his hand, looked at it seriously, and said in a hoarse voice, "How... How did you get these photos?"
Seeing that Miyano Shiho could finally speak like a normal person, Vodka immediately breathed a sigh of relief: "Your sister left them for me... Said that if anything happened to her, I should give these photos to you as a memento."
Miyano Shiho didn't speak, only staring straight at the photo.
Vodka was quite good at killing people, but not very good at comforting them.
He simply didn't bother comforting her and said directly, "I'll give you two days to figure it out, and then reinvest yourself in drug development, understand?"
Miyano Shiho still didn't respond, only silently picking up the other photos on the ground, looking at them one by one.
Vodka saw that Miyano Shiho was ignoring him, feeling that he had lost face. After all, he was the second-in-command here.
Seeing Miyano Shiho about to pick up that photo, he immediately stepped on it with his foot, saying, "Hey, Sherry. Did you hear what I said?"
Miyano Shiho's hand paused slightly, then slowly looked up at Vodka. Although she didn't speak, her cold gaze warned him to take his foot away.
"..."
Slowly moving his foot away, Vodka somewhat hated her gaze, which, in a sense, was the same as the boss's.
Perhaps, that was why the boss paid special attention to her.
Vodka stood up and said, "In any case, I'll give you two days to reflect. If you're still like this after two days, then don't blame me for being ruthless... I'll snatch those photos away and burn them! Believe me, I can do it!"
After throwing down this harsh remark, Vodka turned and left the gas chamber, slamming the door shut and locking it.
Miyano Shiho picked up the photos from the ground one by one, then looked at them carefully one by one.
Only after there were no outsiders did she reveal her emotions, sobbing softly, "Sister..."
Flipping through one photo after another, Miyano Shiho's emotions were stirred by Akemi's image, and then she cried out loud.
Vodka thought that these photos would ease Miyano Shiho's emotions, but he didn't expect that the photos might also intensify them.
Seeing that her sister had died like this, and that she was alone in the world, she really couldn't understand what she was still living for.
The more she looked at the photos, the more Miyano Shiho strengthened her resolve to commit suicide.
Without the slightest hesitation, Shiho Miyano took out the APTX4869 from her pocket, softly whispered "I'm coming," and swallowed the pill.
… … … … …
Shiho Miyano's third-person perspective disconnected.
"Huh? It's gone?"
Lin Yi was stunned for a moment, then realized that Shiho Miyano's body had begun to change, becoming a child, no longer matching the image of "Shiho Miyano" in his mind, which was why the vision had been cut off.
"Damn it, I didn't expect it would be like this…"
Lin Yi felt a little pained. He had originally planned to find her whereabouts by monitoring her.
But he didn't expect this to happen.
"But it doesn't matter, I still have Plan B."
With that, Lin Yi grabbed his umbrella and went out, heading towards Professor Agasa's house.
Since he couldn't actively find her, he would just wait for her to come to his door.
He would just wander back and forth in front of Professor Agasa's house, and intercept her decisively when she appeared.
"Patta patta…"
Raindrops hit the umbrella, and Lin Yi began to think: "How should I greet her naturally when I meet her later…?"
"Forcefully take her away? It's not impossible… but I'm just afraid that after she's eaten her fill, rested enough, she'll run back to Professor Agasa's place again."
"I have to think of a way to make her follow me willingly and happily…"
… … … … … …
"Clang…"
From a drainpipe under the riverbank, a little girl covered in dirty water crawled out.
She didn't care about getting dirty water on her body. What she wanted to do now was to leave this place as soon as possible.
After coming up the steps to the road, the little girl walked along the side of the road. The pouring rain blurred her vision and took away her body temperature, causing her body to tremble involuntarily.
So… where should I go now?
The little girl walked and walked, then suddenly stopped.
She subconsciously took out the stack of photos, touched the photos of Akemi with her little hand, and murmured, "Sister, where do you think I should go now?"
The world is so big, but there is nowhere for her to go!
Thinking of this, the little girl only felt an incomparable desolation in her heart.
Suddenly, the little girl's hand recoiled as if it had been electrocuted, and the photos fell to the ground with a patter, scattering everywhere.
"…"
The little girl looked at her finger, which had been cut open, and blood was flowing out of it.
Looking at the scattered photos on the ground, the little girl stared blankly. She realized something. She didn't bother to wipe her tears and picked up the photos again.
This time she carefully touched the edges of the photos.
After careful inspection, the little girl noticed that the edges of the photos had obviously been trimmed. Her finger had just been scratched by the rough edges.
The little girl then searched for the next photo.
This one doesn't have it.
This one doesn't have it either.
This photo has it!
The next photo doesn't have it.
… … … …
After checking all the photos, the little girl found that there were a total of 13 photos in the stack that had trimmed edges.
She didn't think it was just a mistake. She was more willing to believe that this was a clue left to her by her sister!
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