"Ho… so one of them is in the hospital…" I remembered asking at the sudden news that a member of the organization had infiltrated the hospital. "Is your source reliable?" Leaning over the side of the building he continued to look out at the ground below. "That kid again, you seem infatuated with him Jodie."

Honestly, I had every right to be curious. While the most important part in all this was using Mitsunashi Reina to fish for organization members, the kid seemed to be an interesting factor in the whole game.

I am known to the organization by 'silver bullet' instead of my name, but that does not mean I knew everything that happened in the hunt for the crows.

'It's interesting,' I had thought while the kid started calmly lying to an adult that they were neighbors of the Eisuke boy, 'that he is so comfortable coming up with a story and becoming that story. Most kids would get off track and start to forget the agreed lie.' But then again, I knew he had been different since the bus hijack when he subdued a group of criminals only using lipstick and a few kids.

I had talked to Jodie soon after, he apparently found out everything about their plans. He knew everything that was going on, even how the criminals communicated with each other. Jodie had started calling him 'cool kid', fitting. She said the Vermont was oddly protective of the boy, and that she would need to keep investigating until she found out why.

Then he realized Reina was awake. The two of us were the only ones who noticed, but he bounded back inside the room to get proof for himself that the FBI did not have. And then unlike any child I had ever met instead of being excited at discovering something the adults did not know he just stayed silent and smiled about how 'the agent should go back in 'cause it would be bad for her to suddenly wake up.'

Then he showed that while he might not be great at acting all the time, he could easily fool people he just met into thinking he was a normal kid. Going into the rooms of three different suspected organization members was risky, but also being able to stay calm and figure out who the member was without kicking up any fuss was amazing. The FBI as a whole were not able to understand what just had happened by watching the video, to them it was just a kid going around and annoying some people.

I had understood who the criminal so had I decided to see if the kid had as well, "We only need to put one of them under watch...isn't that right boy?"

"Yeah!"

And then we have now. "Say… can we talk for a bit?"

"Maybe your thinking, the same thing I'm thinking." What an odd kid.

None of the FBI members expected this when they first got involved with the kid. Jodie only started to get to know him because Vermont had taken a special interest in him and dubbed him 'cool guy.'

As odd as it was in itself for her to show interest in someone, she had never tried to protect someone before. When on the bus hijack someone got angry at a boy who was making a scene I thought it would be up to the FBI agents in the bus to help him.

But no, it was the murderer who risked her life to save him.

Then again, when he was captured by her, he came back alive, unscathed, and seemingly disappointed that he was not able to catch her. Catch someone the FBI had been trying to catch for years.

"Well, I was just told about how you were involved with the organization by Jodie-sensei," his voice brought me back to the present, "and was wondering if you thought we could get Mitsunashi to continue the job you had been doing?"

"Oh, and how do you think we are going to be able to do that?" I put my phone away, trying to push all memories of Akemi out of my mind for the moment.

"Not for you, the FBI, but as a CIA agent like her father." So he did find out. Honestly, he was starting to become a scary kid.

"I see, though it will be hard to arrange that without letting the other FBI agent know. It is you plan to do that so if our communication is tapped it seems genuine, right?" I saw him give me a very unchildlike smirk and nod, confirming my thoughts.

"Well, we could always use her brother as the prince who will wake our sleeping princess up." Was his response. The kid sure seemed to love theatrics. "But there is one more thing for us to worry about, the organization might test her. How do you think they're going to go about doing that."

I thought about it for a moment, looking up at the night sky, "Well, they're most likely going to have her kill someone, it gets two birds with one stone. James is a possibility considering his rank, but in all honesty the most likely target is-"

"You." He finished for me with absolute certainty, "So we're going to have to fake your death. What will you do after we fake it, pretend to be a different FBI agent?"

"No, they know how I operate so it's too likely they would recognize my style in a different FBI agent and get us found out."

"Hey, you had a relationship with Akemi Miyano, right?" of all things he could have said, that had completely startled me.

"I-I did." pulling my hand into a fist I thought back to the message she left me at the end of the last email she sent to me.

"What do you know about her sister, Shiho Miyano."

"I know she was known to the organization by Sherry. She's a scientist and apparently Vermont thinks she is now the 7 year old girl your friends with."

"Maybe… say could you protect her from the organization after we fake your death?"

'PS… Dai-kun if I'm not able to escape from the organization, could you promise me one thing. Take care of Shiho and Amuro(1) for me. You might not be friends with them but please, they are my family, I need someone to keep them safe without me. Could you protect them from the organization?'

"Alright, how do you want to go about doing that?" I made my mind up. Let's see what you can do 'cool guy'.

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I don't know if that's what her email said, or if she and Furuya had ever met before, but I like this theory so I'm sticking to it.