Aah, we're back at the BO meeting.

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Chapter 9: Favorites

"Wait, Gin, you have been doing unorganized dealings?" Rum turned to Gin in alarm. Gin looked at Vermouth with a sharp glare. "How do you know?!"

"Easy", Vermouth smiled as Gin stood up, banging his hands on the table. She kept up her calm demeanor. She knew more than them all together, after all. "Did you really think there were no spies in the organization?"

"Huh?" Bourbon and Kir blinked in horror. Were they caught this easily?!

"Spies?" Chianti frowned.

"With spies, I don't mean undercover agents from FBI, CIA or whatever", Vermouth elaborated. "I mean our own members who none of you have ever met. Ones that work undercover for us."

"What does that have to do with anything?" Bourbon asked, though he was still a bit worried. Was it possible that he had been caught? There was a possibility, but it was low, right?

"One of these agents spotted Gin and Vodka on an unorganized dealing", Vermouth explained. "Ano Kata is not happy at all. Like I said, the only reason you two get to live is because you're important to the organization."

Gin sat down with a frown. "Who is this person?"

"What, you're going to go and kill him?" Vermouth giggled. "If I was you, I wouldn't even try."

"Why not?" Rum asked.

"Why, did you really think I'm Ano Kata's favorite?" Vermouth rolled her eyes. "I'm not. Those two are."

"Those two?" Kir blinked. This information was new. She had never heard anything about these two favorites of Ano Kata. Who were they?

"Yes", Vermouth smirked. "Those two who you're all going to meet today."

"So, we're meeting Ano Kata's favorites today", Vodka concluded. "That's why we were gathered."

"Yes", Vermouth admitted. "However, Vodka, Gin, you will not like what you will see."

"Why not?" Gin asked.

"Because for your information, Gin, you have killed Red Wine."

Everyone around the table were silent. Eyes turned to Gin once more as the man looked at Vermouth. "What do you mean?"

"That's only your information, though", Vermouth admitted. "Red Wine isn't that easy to kill. Besides, he is Ano Kata's favorite, like White Wine. If you were anyone else, you would have been dead a long ago, Gin."

Those words brought a chill down everyone's spines. Bourbon looked at Vermouth with unreadable eyes. "What do you know about these Red Wine and White Wine?"

Vermouth gave him a look before thinking for a moment. "Well, they're young and related to each other. If I'm correct, then they're cousins, I think."

"How young?" Kir asked.

"They're turning 17 years old this year", Vermouth smiled.

"How long have they been part of the organization?" Korn asked. Vermouth giggled. "For three years."

"Since they were in middle school?!" Kir gaped. "How...?"

"They're intelligent beyond our understanding", Vermouth explained. "Their physical abilities are beyond normal. One could call them perfect humans."

The ones gathered glanced at each other nervously. Gin was the brave one to talk. "Perfect humans, you say?"

"Yes", Vermouth giggled. "Even you, Gin, can't outsmart one of them. If they work together, no one on this Earth can outsmart them."

"Are they really that intelligent?" Rum asked.

"Oh yes, they are", Vermouth smiled. "So intelligent that once you meet them, you will start seeing yourself as stupid and not worth their attention with your intelligence."

"Yeah right", Chianti huffed. "There's no way a human can be that intelligent."

"Does Ano Kata like them because they're intelligent?" Bourbon couldn't help but ask.

"Maybe, maybe not", Vermouth shrugged her shoulders. "Even I don't know why Ano Kata likes them. Maybe it's because they're intelligent beyond human understanding, maybe it's for some other reason."

"You know a lot", Gin stated. Vermouth detected something in his tone that told her to tell what she knew. She smirked. She could have fun with this.

"Without White Wine and Red Wine, our organization would not exist."