Uzo's Double

Originally, after sending out the assignments, Gin had planned to have Jiang Xia regularly contact those Peripheral Members as "Uzo."

What he hadn't expected was that Uzo had a similar idea—and had gone even further, creating a convincing-looking "Uzo"... His ability to take action was as strong as ever.

Gin was rather displeased that Jiang Xia had not found someone within the organization, but had instead brought in an outsider.

But soon, he remembered Sherry's defection and the order he had received to silence Miyano Akemi.

Gin remembered that he had sent Uzo to the front desk of a hotel to collect the ten billion yen Miyano Akemi had left behind.

At the time, Jiang Xia had still been an inconspicuous Peripheral Member. Gin's actual thought then had been: given the hotel's surveillance coverage, once Jiang Xia went there, he could naturally be added to the hit list.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Xia had not gone himself, but had called in some child from who knew where.

The young scapegoat looked only six or seven years old, yet every movement had been steady and composed. His choice of escape route and the way he cleaned up the scene had both been highly professional... If that child had not been silenced by Uzo on the spot, Gin would actually have wanted to recruit him and throw him into the organization for training. Recently, the trend of "lying flat" had become widespread. Fewer and fewer people were willing to risk their lives for the organization, while quite a few Undercover Agents had been cultivated instead... Heh. What was the world coming to?

Gin's mindset briefly drifted off course.

He pressed a hand to his temple, pulled his attention away from those annoying Rats, and refocused on the matter at hand.

In short, it seemed