Tangze: Why Are You Asking Me?

Ai Haibara looked utterly baffled, Akemi Miyano silently held her forehead, and Hirotsugu Morofushi, surrounded by a circle of people, had gone completely on guard.

Things had come to this. Rather than let himself be at their mercy, he might as well make a desperate gamble...

Tangze watched him tense up, raising an amused eyebrow.

Clearly, this undercover police officer he had forcibly summoned back from the dead was still mentally trapped in the moment before his death, when he had been exposed and hunted down. For the time being, he could not spare the attention to distinguish the finer details.

From his perspective, he had probably been on a rooftop one second, cornered with nowhere to go and resolutely taking his own life. Then, after closing and opening his eyes, he was lying in a cool-toned laboratory, surrounded by a group of vaguely familiar people putting on a "You're awake.jpg" act...

Thinking about it carefully, it was pretty terrifying.

Tangze chuckled and was about to explain when a crisp child's voice beat him to it, breaking the laboratory's bizarre atmosphere of harassment.

On the main screen in the center of the laboratory, Noah's chibi avatar appeared directly. "Leader, the FBI lady called. She said the person in charge over there wants to meet with you and Miss Shiho..."

"Not happening," Tangze said without turning around. "I already refused to join the witness protection program before. There's even less chance of me agreeing now. Tell them to give it up."

"Understood. I'll send a reply declining directly." Faithfully playing the role of an intelligent assistant, Noah did not waste a single extra word.

"Yeah. Shiho won't be going either. They want to get the full set of our research results without lifting a finger, and they can't even guarantee one