Chapter 5: Verde's approval
Five or six minutes passed.
The automatic door at the back of the Testing Room slid open, and Luo Shu walked in wearing blue-and-white striped hospital clothes, rolling his neck as he came.
"Can you really get the results just like that? Without drawing blood or anything? Won't they be inaccurate?"
Hearing Luo Shu's doubts, Verde, seated in a specially made chair, immediately pushed up his glasses and said in displeasure:
"Don't lump my technology in with that of those mediocre fools outside."
Luo Shu glanced at Verde at that, then turned toward Tachibana Kirika, whose expression was peculiar.
"And this is?"
Tachibana Kirika looked Luo Shu up and down as though he were some "rare specimen," and explained:
"This is Dr. Verde, the head of the SDS Research Laboratory."
"Verde, huh!"
Seeing Verde, who looked like a spiky-haired baby, Luo Shu thought of the "Arcobaleno."
It was the name of a group from a mafia-themed anime.
There were seven members, all among the world's greatest talents. For a particular reason, their bodies had been cursed and forcibly restricted to infant size, earning them the name "Arcobaleno."
Even a character like him has shown up. What is going on with this world? Is it a sieve?
Luo Shu kept grumbling inwardly, but at the same time, he noticed the subtle change in Tachibana Kirika's expression.
Seeing that, he could not help teasing her:
"What, did learning my 'big secret' scare you speechless?"
"A little, actually."
With a cigarette between her lips, Tachibana Kirika said with a somewhat complicated expression:
"Now I understand why you kept everything under wraps and acted so paranoid. Turns out you really would have people out to get you!"
Never mind anything else-if the governments of the world learned about Luo Shu's