Inside the quiet reception room!
Shuichi Akai, Masumi Sera, and Ai Haibara!
The three of them were anxiously awaiting Qing Mo's arrival, each second feeling like an eternity!
Time passed, second by second!
Ever since entering the reception room, Masumi Sera, increasingly worried about her mother's safety, had been pacing back and forth nonstop, unable to sit still!
Ai Haibara, on the other hand, had quietly found herself a seat the moment she entered. She did not touch the hot tea Azure Frost had brought earlier, merely clutching the backpack in her arms in silence!
Though Shuichi Akai was just as anxious inside, he was not like Masumi Sera. Instead, like Ai Haibara, he sat quietly and waited!
When Shuichi Akai had first entered the reception room and learned of Azure Frost's former identity, he had indeed considered capturing her alive on the spot!
He had even thought of taking Azure Frost alive and using her as a hostage to exchange with Qing Mo for his mother!
But the instant that thought arose, he immediately dismissed it!
Leaving aside the fact that Azure Frost was now Qing Mo's woman!
Even if she were not!
During his time undercover in the Organization, he had never even heard of her. She had to be one of its core figures—certainly no ordinary nobody!
If he had truly made a move against Azure Frost just now, especially on the territory of Qing Mo, a god!
The consequences would likely be that Qing Mo, that god, would make every one of his friends and family—
As well as every agency and institution he currently served—vanish from this world forever!
At that thought, Shuichi Akai was instantly seized by lingering fear!
After nearly half an hour of agonizing waiting!
Qing Mo's clone, dressed in a black