When Koga Mizuo returned home, it was already one o'clock in the morning.

Everything was silent, as if the whole world had died and there was no sound.

Earlier in the hospital, the doctor asked Koga Mizuo to rest in the ward for a few days, and she nodded in agreement. Then, taking advantage of the doctor and nurses' inattention, she quietly ran away from the hospital.

—There's no point in staying there anymore.

She was a little girl, wandering aimlessly on the street in the middle of the night, her mind blank.

In this situation, she unconsciously walked back to her own home.

When she heard from the surgeon, "Resuscitation was unsuccessful, we're sorry we couldn't save her," Koga Mizuo's soul had already floated away from her body, leaving only a lifeless shell.

Mom is dead.

That was the only thing left in Koga Mizuo's mind, the only thing she knew.

She had no strength to think about anything else.

Back at home, she sat in the entrance hall, burying her head in her lap, motionless.

—Nothing matters anymore, just keep going like this.

Moonlight from outside the room shone through the loosely closed door, its cold illumination matching Koga Mizuo's current mood.

The mother and family that she had struggled so hard to save had met with such a tragic fate because she was foolish and stubbornly ignored her mother's warnings, insisting on investigating and attracting this disaster.

—Mom was killed because of me.

Koga Mizuo was engulfed in deep self-blame, unable to free herself.

At the same time, while Koga Mizuo was in despair, Araki Yukoto, codenamed the Hou, began her second mission of the day under the command of Bai Yaxin.

Araki Yukoto first confirmed Koga Shiyi's death at the hospital, and then lied and managed to get information about Koga Mizuo's ward. She moved swiftly and without hesitation, infiltrating the ward, only to find that Koga Mizuo was not there.

She quickly searched the room and could basically confirm that Koga Mizuo didn't temporarily leave to go to the bathroom or buy something. Instead, she had secretly escaped from the hospital, deceiving the doctors and nurses.

What would make a little girl, in this situation, sneak out of the hospital?

Araki Yukoto fell into thought and quickly came up with the worst possibility... The operation plan had been leaked and Koga Mizuo, who knew the news in advance, had escaped the hospital... If that were the case, Araki Yukoto's own situation would also become unsafe.

After completing these thoughts, the always cautious Araki Yukoto immediately left the hospital. Unlike the wolf spider and brown bear in the organization, she didn't have the ability to confront her target head-on. At most, she was a bit resourceful, a white-collar secretary, an investigator, an assassin who could escape in one strike.

After leaving the hospital, Araki Yukoto got into her car, started the engine, and thought about where to go.

Back to the organization?

Or somewhere else?

Thinking of the angry and desperate look on Bai Yaxin's face when she left, going back now without completing the mission would only bring trouble to herself... Then, where should she go...

—Let's go to Koga's house and take a look.

It was just a fleeting thought, to go to Koga's house, observe the situation from the outside, and if there was an opportunity, to assassinate, and if there was no chance, to withdraw.

Yukinari Araki stepped on the accelerator.

Little did she know, there was a young boy who had already beaten her to the spot, waiting for her there.