HBWnovel Chapter 48 What Kind of Cointreau Killed for a Melon?
Chapter 48 What Kind of Cointreau Killed for a Melon?
Inside a fruit shop, Bai Yexiu, disguised, touched a bright green watermelon on the shelf, looking at the smiling fruit shop owner with an inscrutable smile.
"Is your melon guaranteed to be ripe?"
Upon hearing this, the fruit shop owner clenched his fist and confidently promoted the product: "Guaranteed ripe, of course! Why wouldn't I guarantee ripeness? Why would a legitimate fruit shop like mine sell you an unripe watermelon?"
"Let's cut it open and see," Bai Yexiu said casually.
Cut it open? Is this kid here to cause trouble?
The fruit shop owner's expression changed. Why would a customer ask to have the fruit cut open?
"Kid, are you buying or not?" The fruit shop owner's expression was impatient. "Why would I cut it open to show you if it's ripe or not?"
Bai Yexiu smiled slightly, and a silver light flashed in his hand. A sharp scalpel appeared out of nowhere, and he plunged it hard into the watermelon that the fruit shop owner was touching.
"You dare to chop my melon?!" After an eerie silence, the fruit shop owner snapped, reaching out to grab Bai Yexiu by the ear and throw him out: "You brat, get him..."
But before he could even reach out, he felt a cold touch on his neck.
A scalpel, still stained with watermelon juice, was pressed against his neck.
"You..." The fruit shop owner stared wide-eyed, speechless with shock, looking at the expressionless boy in front of him with horror.
He now roughly guessed that the young man in front of him might be a member of the organization!
He was just an outsider. Even if he betrayed the organization, would it be worth it for them to send someone to kill him?
A bead of sweat dripped from the fruit shop owner's forehead. He took a shaky step back, about to run away, when he was unexpectedly kicked by the seemingly frail boy in front of him.
This seemingly weak kick, when it hit the fruit shop owner, caused him to slam into the shelf, sending the fruit tumbling to the ground.
"You should have guessed who I am by now." Bai Yexiu took out a handkerchief and wiped the watermelon juice off the knife, a seemingly malicious smile appearing on his face.
"Please don't kill me, I'm just an outsider, I didn't mean to betray you..." As the fruit shop owner begged for mercy, Bai Yexiu squatted down in front of him, the sharp tip of a scalpel slowly sliding across the fruit shop owner's neck.
"I'm not interested in this." Bai Yexiu smiled, lightly made a small cut on the fruit shop owner's neck, then stood up and strode away.
Bai Yexiu took out his phone and crossed out a man's name on the list.
He never expected his luck to be so good this time. He was just going out to buy a watermelon for Amuro Tooru to make a fruit salad when he accidentally ran into a traitor he was supposed to kill at the fruit shop.
It's like finding a needle in a haystack, only to have it come to you effortlessly!
……
"I'm back! Tou-chan!" Bai Yexiu poked his head out from behind the kitchen door, carrying a large watermelon. "By the way, how's the salad coming along?"
Bai Yexiu curiously leaned closer and found that the salad was almost finished, so he swallowed and said, "Not bad."
Amuro Tooru smiled and said, "Go sit down for a while, I need a little more time."
"Alright!" Bai Yexiu readily sat down on the sofa.
After finishing the salad, Amuro Tooru caught a glimpse of a brand-new-looking handkerchief in the restaurant's trash can and wondered why Cointreau would throw it away.
"This is still new, why throw it away? I might as well use it as a rag." Amuro Tooru, true to his thrifty nature, subconsciously thought of picking out the handkerchief from the bucket, washing it, and using it as a rag.
"Don't move."
Bai Yexiu didn't even look up, scrolling through his phone expressionlessly, but as if he had noticed Amuro Tooru's actions, he spoke up to remind him, "That handkerchief is poisoned."
Amuro Tooru's outstretched hand froze in mid-air.
If he wasn't mistaken, this poisonous handkerchief must have been thrown into the trash can by Cointreau when he first returned.
“If it’s poisonous, then you’re not…” Amuro Tooru immediately stepped forward and began to examine Byakuya Xiu’s face, his tone filled with concern: “Do you feel unwell anywhere? Should we go to the hospital?”
Although Amuro Tooru knew that Kimito was a member of an organization who had done many bad things, he felt an inexplicable pity for Kimito, so much so that he always subconsciously regarded Kimito as an ordinary little boy.
"Don't worry, all poisons are ineffective against me~" Bai Yexiu said, leaving Amuro Tooru with a vague understanding before skipping to the kitchen, grabbing a piece of salad, and popping it into his mouth: "Mmm! Not bad!"
Before Amuro Tooru could think it through, a police siren came from downstairs in the apartment building. Ishi quickly walked to the floor-to-ceiling window and looked down—I saw police cars stopping one after another in front of the fruit shop across the street for some reason.
Although the buildings here are quite tall, you can still vaguely see the police carrying out something covered with a white sheet on a stretcher.
It's obvious that a murder has occurred downstairs.
Wait, a fruit shop?
Amuro Tooru suddenly seemed to remember something and slowly turned around to look at the remaining half watermelon on the table.
Just after I bought a melon, a murder occurred at the fruit shop downstairs. Is this a coincidence?
Thinking this, Amuro Tooru's gaze involuntarily drifted towards Jundo. Bai Yexiu noticed Amuro Tooru's gaze, looked up to meet his eyes, and asked, "What's wrong? Is there something on my face?"
"There's been a murder at the fruit shop downstairs," Amuro Tooru honestly told Byakuya Osamu. He then asked, with a hint of probing, "Did you do it?"
"Do I look like the kind of person who would do that kind of thing?" Bai Yexiu said nonchalantly, tossing another piece of apple into his mouth before meeting Amuro Tooru's suspicious gaze.
"..."
After a moment of silence, Bai Yexiu suddenly burst into laughter: "Hahaha, I wasn't kidding you. Yes, I did it."
Amuro Tooru's eyebrows gradually twisted—Kundo would actually kill someone over a melon?
Bai Yexiu seemed to have guessed what Amuro Tooru was thinking, and quickly explained, "Really, don't think of me like that. How could I possibly kill someone for a melon?"
After hearing Bai Yexiu's explanation, Amuro Tooru's eyebrows finally returned to normal.
"That guy was a traitor on the outside. It's all thanks to you that I went downstairs to buy you some melons~" Bai Yexiu winked at Amuro Tooru in an ambiguous way, his behavior exuding a Vermouth vibe.
Amuro Tooru breathed a sigh of relief. As long as Kimi wasn't the kind of violent person who would kill for a melon, there should be a chance to reform him. If reformation wasn't possible, he could at least be sent to a juvenile detention center.