(sob)
Vodka was lost in wild thoughts when he suddenly heard a cry of alarm from beside him.
Mayonaka Tachibana sprang to her feet and pressed herself against the bus window, staring at a round building by the roadside. "This house that looks like a ball... I think I remember it!"
Vodka followed her gaze and glanced outside. The moment he recognized the building, his scalp went numb. Th-this was a fucking gas station, wasn't it?! What was she trying to do?! If it really blew up, everything within miles would be caught in the blast!
He stared at Jiang Xia in shock while opening his mailbox and frantically typing out a message to Gin: [Big Brother, Uzo has gone insane! He wants to blow up a gas station in the city—please think of something!]
But before he could hit send, Vodka suddenly noticed something and paused.
Vodka: "..." Something was off. Looking closely, the courtyard wall here seemed rather dilapidated. And besides...
He exited his mailbox and quietly searched for it, the corner of his eye twitching.
"This is a gas station that was abandoned over a decade ago. No wonder I had no memory of this place—tch, is Uzo trying to weaken Big Brother's trust in me with a Boy Who Cried Wolf tactic? Good thing I was cautious enough. If I'd really sent that email, Brother Gin might have thought I was the one who'd gone crazy."
As he thought about it, Vodka let out a weary sigh. That was why he hated working with Uzo—when he was with Big Brother, he had to work overtime around the clock too, but Big Brother did the thinking for him, so nothing could go too badly wrong. But with Uzo...
If he failed to think two steps ahead in