Science: The Little Shota of the Maori Family

"Let's go eat first, and then go to the hotel." Belmore said with a smile.

hotel?

Watanabe Toru widened his eyes in disbelief. He looked at Vermouth, then at himself, and said shyly, "But I have the body of an eight-year-old now."

Vermouth's smile remained unchanged: "Don't you still have the antidote for aptx-4869?"

Is this why you asked me if I had an antidote?

Watanabe Toru was stunned.

152. First Blood

"Hey, hey, hey, Vermouth, what are you doing?"

"Don't move. Just do as I say."

"Is this the reason you asked me to take aptx-4869? Do you know that this antidote is very precious?"

In the hotel room, Vermouth wrapped in a bathrobe, pointed her phone camera at the shirtless Watanabe Toru.

Watanabe Toru was indignant. What was he doing? Taking a photo of himself as a handsome man?

He's a killer! Not a figure!

He tried to grab Vermouth's phone, but she dodged it deftly and said with a smile, "McCallum, don't forget you still owe me a condition."

Watanabe Toru: “…”

He never imagined that Vermouth's condition would be taking photos.

He decided to adopt a conciliatory policy: "If you really want to take the photo, can you let me put on my clothes?"

"No, that's it." Vermouth said, "I'll just take one photo. Don't worry, I won't release it to anyone."

Watanabe Toru was skeptical: "Just one? And it won't be released to the public?"

"Are you still not confident in my character?" Vermouth rolled her eyes beautifully and charmingly.

Your character is a negative number in my heart.

Watanabe Toru was helpless and had to compromise: "Okay, how do you want to shoot it?"

Vermouth pointed to the bed and said, "Lie down on it first."

Watanabe Tetsu followed his instructions and lay on the bed. Then, he saw Vermouth crawl over and lie in his arms. Her left hand was around his neck, her cheek was intimately against his chin, and she raised her phone with her right hand and said, "Come on, smile."

Watanabe Toru forced a smile.

After taking the photo, Vermouth was silent for a moment and shook her head: "No, I always feel like something is missing..."

She thought about it carefully, pulled down the collar of her bathrobe, and took another photo in the same pose, only then was she satisfied.

"Okay." She said happily.

Seeing Watanabe Toru looking at her intently, Vermouth glanced down and chuckled, "I originally thought that Macallan, who never showed any affection to the women in the organization, was not interested in women. Now it seems that he is a normal man after all."

Watanabe Toru's impulse finally overwhelmed his reason.

He rolled over, pressed Vermouth under him, and said in a deep voice: "Ever since I became small, I suddenly understood a truth."

"What's the logic?" Vermouth looked at him, without any of the panic and anxiety that an ordinary girl would have when encountering such a situation.

"Life is short, there are some things that cannot be missed."

Vermouth was silent for a moment and put her arms around Watanabe Toru's neck.

"I agree."

……

Vermouth lay in Watanabe Toru's arms, her cheeks flushed.

Watanabe Toru looked up at the ceiling and finally calmed down.

Thinking about it, I felt scared. Where did I get the courage and guts to do such a thing to Vermouth?

Although he felt that there was a high probability that Vermouth had a good impression of him, it was just a guess after all and there was no substantial evidence.

If Vermouth shot him after he did that, he would have no way to seek justice.

But now it seems that Vermouth does have a good impression of himself, no, it should be said that it has gone beyond the scope of good impression.

Although we don’t know what happened between Vermouth and Macallan, we can be sure that the two of them were merciless.

"What are you thinking about?" Seeing that Watanabe Toru was slow to speak, Vermouth rested her chin on his chest, looked up at him and asked.

Watanabe Toru collected his thoughts and met her eyes: "I was just thinking about how stupid I was to leave the cabbage in front of me uneaten."

Vermouth chuckled and said, "Ever since I last met you, I feel like you've changed. It feels like you're no longer yourself, but have been replaced by another soul."

My intuition is so accurate.

Watanabe Toru touched his nose and said, "Do you like me as I was, or as I am now?"

Vermouth thought for a moment. "You used to be like a block of wood. Apart from the mission, you were not interested in anything. When a female member of the organization expressed her love for you, you would just tell her to get lost. That's why the organization has always spread rumors that you might be gay."

Watanabe Toru: “…”

How much did Macallan hate women in the past? Despite his personality, Vermouth actually liked him. What happened between them?

Toru Watanabe really wanted to find out more about this, but he was afraid of arousing Vermouth's suspicion, so he gave up after thinking about it.

At this moment, a sharp pain swept over him, and Watanabe Toru couldn't help but groan, and his breathing became rapid.

Noticing something strange about Watanabe Toru, Vermouth's face tightened: "What's wrong? Are you okay?"

Watanabe Toru took a deep breath and explained, "The antidote has expired."

Under Vermouth's stunned gaze, Toru Watanabe completed the transformation from an adult to a child in front of others for the first time.

“It’s truly amazing.” Vermouth was amazed as she looked at the eight-year-old Watanabe Toru. “If this technology can be successfully developed, it will definitely cause turmoil in the entire world.”

"Rejuvenation, in a sense, is immortality." Watanabe Toru echoed, "If something like this, which defies the laws of nature, were to appear in the world, there's no telling how many people would flock to it. Therefore, Shirley's betrayal would have alarmed the organization even more than mine."

Vermouth smiled and said, "Before Shirley develops an antidote, I will do my best to ensure her life. But after that, no matter what the organization does to her, I will not interfere. I will even help the organization arrest Shirley. Except for you, I don't care about the life and death of others."

Although she was smiling, Watanabe Toru could still feel the indifference towards Shirley in her words.

Watanabe Toru guessed that these two people must have other conflicts.

"By the way, can you get me some guns?" Watanabe Toru suddenly remembered something important.

The last time he fought Gin, he was far behind him in terms of equipment. He didn't want to face Gin again. He only had two bullets in his magazine.

153. The roles of aunt and nephew

Hearing that Watanabe Toru wanted a gun, Vermouth was not surprised at all and asked directly: "What kind of gun do you need? Do you want a bomb?"

Watanabe Toru pondered for a moment and said, "Any pistol will do, the model doesn't matter, the more bullets the better. As for bombs, I won't use them for the time being."

Now he mainly focuses on self-protection and does not need weapons with too much power.

"Okay." Vermouth nodded: "I'll contact you after I get the goods."

"Thank you for your help."

Vermouth smiled and said, "Why are you being so polite to my aunt?"

Watanabe Toru glared at her, and in the face of her provocative look, he suddenly pounced on her, turning into a hunting lion and biting his prey.

Country Y on the other side of the ocean.

Curacao sat in front of the computer, looking at the email sent five minutes ago.

The content of the email was a photo. In the photo, Vermouth was wrapped in a yukata, looking very charming, lying in the arms of a handsome man. Both of them were smiling, like a loving couple.

There is text below the photo.

Curacao, it seems I won this time.

"Vermouth." Curacao gritted his silver teeth, and his rare two-color eyes seemed to be about to spit out sparks.

She picked up the phone that was placed beside her and sent a text message.

"Rum, the work in Country Y is almost done. I want to go back home and rest for a while."

……

next day

Di 703 Dan Primary School

Because they had to rehearse a stage play, the Junior Detective Team and some other students who were going to participate in the performance stayed after school.

Since no one was willing to play the role of the prisoner, Yuantai was chosen by drawing lots.

Four thirty.

Everyone packed up and prepared to go home.

Conan suddenly said: "By the way, Dr. Agasa said he can take us camping this weekend, do you want to go?"

"Really?" Ayumi's dark eyes sparkled with joy: "I want to go."

"I'll go as well."

"If I go with the doctor, my mother will definitely agree."

Genta and Mitsuhiko also raised their hands.

Conan looked at Watanabe Toru: "Watanabe, are you going?"

"I……"

He wasn't very interested in camping and was just about to find an excuse to decline when Ayumi hugged his arm and said in a sweet voice, "Of course, Tohru has to go too. It's been a while since you've participated in any group activities with the Junior Detective Team."

"That's right." Yuan Tai said in a deep voice, "Xiao Che, you absolutely cannot not come this time."

"Okay." Watanabe Toru sighed slightly.

……

weekend.

Dr. Agasa took the children and drove his Beetle on the mountain road.

Toru Watanabe was surprised. The car had limited space, but it was just enough for six children to sit inside.

After driving over a stone bridge, the view suddenly expanded. In front of us was a large flat land with a stream flowing beside it. In the distance were mountains, and below were forests. Below the forests were layers of terraced fields.

After Dr. Agasa parked the car, Genta, Mitsuhiko, and Ayumi couldn't wait to get out of the car and ran towards the stream.

"Wow, the water is so cold."

"Look, there are fish."

"Okay. I'm going to go down and catch a couple of fish in a minute."

Toru Watanabe got out of the car yawning, looking like he hadn't woken up yet.

"You look a little down." Huiyuan stood beside him, gazing at the distant scenery. "Didn't you sleep well last night?"

"Yes." Watanabe Toru nodded: "In order to be able to fight Gin next time I meet him, I ordered a batch of pistols."

In fact, he had been tossing and turning with Vermouth all night, and the two of them acted out the scenes of aunt and nephew. When he woke up in the morning, he obviously felt his eyelids were heavy.

Huiyuan pursed her lips and was about to say something when she heard Conan say to Dr. Agasa in a helpless tone: "Doctor, you really forgot to bring the tent."

Toru Watanabe and Haibara looked in the direction of the sound and saw Dr. Agasa scratching his shiny head awkwardly.

Without a tent, the camping plan had to be cancelled.

On the way back, Yuan Tai grumbled dissatisfiedly: "Doctor, you are too careless. You actually forgot the most important tent."

Mitsuhiko followed up with a complaint: "A good vacation is ruined just like that."

"Besides, are we lost?" Huibara looked out the window and felt that the road they took was completely different from the one they came from.

Dr. Agasa wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "It's all because of you guys chattering around that I got distracted and took the wrong road."

"That means we will most likely have to spend the night in this desolate mountain wilderness tonight, right?" Conan crossed his arms and curled his lips.

"Ah? No way." When Ayumi heard that they had to spend the night here, her face turned pale, and all kinds of monsters and ghosts she had seen on TV appeared in her mind.