Late at night, in a dimly lit room, the butler gently closed the door and left the room.
He came to the coffee table and poured the prepared drug into a cup. Looking at the milky white liquid after it had been mixed evenly, the butler suddenly thought of the Uzo Effect.
...And then he thought of the chain of reactions Uzo had set off today.
"Gin actually thinks they failed to kill Akai Shuichi this time because he wasn't cautious enough..."
The butler sighed, feeling somewhat sympathetic toward the rather responsible executive. "But in reality, as long as Uzo's subordinate sent Vermouth a warning to dodge, Akai Shuichi would see it at the same time—meaning that even if Gin and Chianti fired simultaneously, they could at most wound Akai Shuichi."
What had truly led to the failure was not the tiny Time Difference between the two snipers, but Vermouth's life.
"A script is ultimately only a broad plan. It's difficult to control every person's every action down to the details. If Akai Shuichi had happened to be facing another direction instead of the same way as Vermouth, or if Vermouth had happened to blocked his view... then this operation might have ended very differently."
To achieve such a level at so young an age was truly astonishing. Even more rare was that, faced with the temptation of Akai Shuichi, Uzo had still remembered to consider his colleague's life...
With anyone else, that might have been a flaw. But when Uzo did something like this, it only made people feel reassured.
After all, no one wanted their subordinate to be a human grinder that despised everything for the sake of amusement. Such a machine was certainly powerful, but who knew whether one day it might suddenly decide to stage an