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"Jiang Xia?!"
Kinoshita Yoko rushed over in delighted disbelief and gave him a fierce hug.
This touching scene was captured by the cameras and instantly spread across the internet to countless places.
Vodka had just entered the newly opened livestream when he unexpectedly saw that scene.
His face twisted sharply, and his fists clenched. "That bastard Uzo must be using Miss Yoko to provoke me, trying to lure me to the livestream scene." ...Endure it. I can't fall for it!
Gin glanced at him. "..." If there were any spare psychiatrists, one could be put to use on Vodka.
Uzo clearly had countless ways to provoke him, and he used them all the time. Yet when it came down to it, Vodka reacted most strongly to celebrities... Hmph, what an idiot who couldn't tell what mattered.
...Then again, Vodka hadn't become an idiot overnight.
So Gin merely let the thought drift through his mind and ignored him.
Compared to his foolish assistant, he was more curious about why Uzo had insisted on causing such an explosion at the factory.
As he thought, he reviewed the missions currently in his hands, but found nothing connected to that Abandoned Factory.
Gin: "..." Was it a mission someone else had? Or was Uzo simply looking for amusement as usual?
He scrutinized Jiang Xia's expression on the screen and suddenly noticed something: this time, after encountering an explosion, Uzo hadn't displayed the absent-minded trance he had shown before... Could it really be fighting poison with poison? Having seen too many explosions and caused too many himself, had he become immune instead?
Was he consciously correcting his own weakness?
It was just that this method of treatment...
Remembering the news report he had just heard announcing Jiang Xia's death, Gin's temple twitched violently. Wasting