r18novel Chapter 121 Never seen someone become a father unexpectedly before!
Chapter 121 Never seen someone become a father unexpectedly before!
Lin Xiuyi's voice was urgent and loud, sounding particularly jarring in the originally quiet coffee shop, instantly attracting the attention of everyone in the coffee shop.
The guests, who had been talking in hushed tones, stopped talking, looked up, and stared at them curiously, their eyes full of inquiry and gossip. Some even whispered among themselves.
A waitress quickly came over: "Excuse me, sir, could you please keep your voice down so as not to disturb the other customers..."
"Shut up, all of you!"
Before the waitress could finish speaking, Lin Xiuyi shouted, cutting her off.
"What are you all looking at? Haven't you ever seen someone suddenly become a father? You're all just bored out of your minds, aren't you? Keep looking, and believe me, I'll smash this place up!"
Seeing that Lin Xiuyi looked furious and ready to attack at any moment,
The gossiping customers in the coffee shop immediately swallowed back the complaints and comments that were on the tip of their tongues, lowered their heads, and dared not look in their direction for fear of getting into trouble.
Even the waitress who had stepped forward to offer advice turned pale with fright, gave an awkward laugh, quickly turned around, and hurried back to the bar, no longer daring to meddle.
Lin Xiu turned around and sat back in her chair.
He took a deep breath, trying to calm his disordered breathing.
Akemi Miyano lowered her head, not daring to look at him.
……
In a booth not far from them, a woman was silently observing everything through the lenses of her sunglasses.
Judy Sterling changed into a dark gray coat with the collar turned up high, perfectly covering the lower half of her face.
Her chestnut-brown short hair was tucked into a fedora, and her sunglasses almost covered half of her face.
From the outside, she was just an ordinary female customer passing the time by drinking coffee alone, casually flipping through a magazine she had picked up from the bookshelf.
Only she knew that the magazine hadn't been turned for a full three minutes.
Her gaze went beyond the edge of the page and landed firmly on the booth by the window.
The moment Akemi Miyano came into view, Judy's breath almost stopped for a second.
Akemi Miyano.
The name was like a tiny thorn, silently piercing the depths of her memory.
She certainly knew this woman; in fact, she was practically "familiar" with her.
She remembered every time that person came home late, the fleeting tenderness in his eyes when he looked into the distance, and the last thing he said to her.
"I'm sorry, Judy."
Then he turned and walked toward another woman.
Judy had imagined countless times what it would be like to reunite with Akemi Miyano.
On the streets of New York, in an alleyway in Tokyo, or outside the police cordon at a crime scene.
She even considered how she would face her: whether to nod calmly or ignore her coldly.
But she never imagined that on such an afternoon, in this ordinary corner café, she would be watched through a thin pair of sunglasses as she sat opposite her boss.
Judy's fingertips unconsciously tightened around the edge of the magazine, leaving a shallow crease on the paper.
A terrible thought suddenly seized her.
Lin Xiuyi, the man she had gradually lowered her guard against and even begun to trust, could he really be connected to the Black Organization?
Judy recalled the complicated relationship between Hayashi Shuichi and Vermouth, his secretive attitude towards the organization, and his words, "I have my sources of intelligence."
Now, he sits here again, calmly conversing with members of another organization.
Judy's back tensed up little by little. She subconsciously slowed her breathing, her fingers stealthily reaching inside her coat, where her ever-present sidearm was tucked.
Just then, a loud shout pierced the air of the coffee shop without warning.
"Then why did you just say that Shiho Miyano is my daughter!"
Judy's hand froze halfway through.
She stared blankly in that direction, and through the edge of her sunglasses, she saw Lin Xiuyi glaring angrily at Miyano Akemi, his hands on her shoulders like a lion whose tail had been stepped on.
Then she heard the second sentence.
"What are you all looking at? Haven't you ever seen someone unexpectedly become a father?"
Judy's lips parted slightly.
She realized that her expression must be very silly, but fortunately, the sunglasses and the upturned collar were wide enough to completely cover up her blunder.
She slowly withdrew her hand from the pistol she had been reaching for.
So... it's not a connector?
Not a conspiracy?
It's not some upcoming purge of FBI undercover agents?
But -
Judy watched silently as the two people fell into a stalemate again, and suddenly felt that her own thinking also needed some time to "reboot".
She lowered her head again, pretending to turn a page of the magazine. The pages rustled, but she didn't read a single word.
The phrase "becoming a father unexpectedly" kept echoing in her ears, like a stuck record that she couldn't get past.
Judy picked up the cup of coffee in front of her, which had long since gone cold, and mechanically took a sip.
It's bitter.
She suddenly wanted to ask Lin Xiuyi, no, to ask her boss, "How many more 'surprises' do you have that I don't know about?"
And why would it be Shiho Miyano?
Judy sat in a booth not far away, feeling her mind reeling.
Shiho Miyano, isn't that Akemi Miyano's younger sister?
That core member of the Black Organization, responsible for drug research and development, holding an extremely important position...
Wait a minute, if Shiho Miyano really is the boss's daughter, then Shuichi Hayashi... could he actually be a high-ranking member of the Black Organization?
But looking at his angry and shocked expression just now, almost like he was about to explode, he doesn't seem like a big shot hiding his true abilities at all.
Judy became increasingly confused, her eyes widening behind her sunglasses, completely engulfed in chaos.
……
"Mr. Lin, everything I said is true."
Akemi Miyano lowered her eyes, her face filled with helplessness and embarrassment.
Clearly, she also cannot agree with what her parents did back then.
"When you were seriously injured back then, my father was giving you emergency treatment when he unexpectedly discovered... that there were some abnormalities in your body."
The girl's voice was soft, tinged with barely concealed embarrassment:
"Both he and my mother felt that your constitution was very special and worth studying."
"But at that time, the institution they worked for had just gone bankrupt, and the two of them were just ordinary doctors in a small clinic. They had no power to force you to stay and do research, let alone control you..."
At this point, Akemi Miyano's cheeks flushed bright red, and her lips opened and closed several times, but she was too embarrassed to say what she was going to say next.
"and then?"
Lin Xiuyi was suddenly startled, and the scene that Eri had mentioned flashed through his mind...