(hug)
Apart from being a little short of the legal age of adulthood, Jiang Xia already looked like a perfectly normal grown man in every other respect.
But That Lord's long life made "little fellow" sound perfectly natural. It also lent him an air of composure—although the doctors sent over had been killed one after another, and his dignity had indeed been slighted, it was no more than fooling around with a junior. If an elder truly fussed over every little thing, it would only make him seem petty and narrow-minded.
By now, the butler fully understood how The Boss intended to deal with Uzo, who had been indiscriminately killing doctors.
He respectfully offered him an out. "Uzo was not challenging your authority. Perhaps Irish had nearly approached his secret, and that imminent threat inevitably made him excited.
"Furthermore, when Uzo had been keeping an eye on Bourbon, he discovered Yoshimura, that psychiatrist, through him. He did not wish to violate your order forbidding private conflict by killing Irish, so he could only kill someone else instead. Unfortunately, that someone happened to be a doctor—Uzo had always been particularly fond of the profession of 'doctor,' especially psychiatrists. I heard that psychiatrists had fallen into his hands before, in extremely humiliating ways."
The Boss gave a slight, noncommittal nod and did not press the matter further.
Compared with one dead Peripheral Member, he felt that Uzo's mental state was more worthy of attention.
He silently sighed. "Perhaps the organization's doctors are not suitable for him—that child is simply too sensitive to the scent of darkness and crime. Faced with our doctors, he cannot put himself in the position of a 'patient' at all. Instead, he is more like an eager hunter. At this rate, even if ten times as many doctors