Spy-x-War Showdown
Chapter 1117 - 1122: Are You Lonely?

Chapter 1117: Chapter 1122: Are You Lonely?

Yang Yi looked at Cupid, and Cupid looked back at Yang Yi.

After exchanging glances for a while, Yang Yi suddenly said, "You can go now, and I need to check if that person is Nicholas."

Cupid nodded and said, "Alright, please, I should go back to sleep."

Yang Yi suddenly said, "Wait, let me finish. Uh, you can leave now, but I would like to have a chat with you. So, how about this, I’ll have my people check the body and confirm its identity, and since we both have nothing else to do, why don’t we find a place to have a drink?"

Cupid shook his head and said, "No, I won’t go. I have no reason to have a drink with you."

Yang Yi smiled and said, "There is a reason, such as making friends?"

Cupid shook his head and said, "No, I don’t have friends, nor do I want to make any. So I don’t want to drink anything with you, nor chat with you."

Yang Yi said with a sense of entitlement, "But if you refuse to chat with me, it means you refuse to be friends with me. If you don’t befriend me, I’ll have to kill you because I have such a strong guard against you, it even borders on fear, so, I really do want to kill you..."

After saying this helplessly, Yang Yi pointed behind him and continued, "There is a gun aimed at your head, not counting those two, so even if you have any arrangements, but if a bullet suddenly blows up your head, instantly severing your cerebellum and leaving you without any neural response, then you wouldn’t have much you can do, right?"

Cupid smiled and said, "Who forces someone to make friends? You shouldn’t do this."

"It’s not good, but I can’t help it. So, you either chat with me, or I kill you, or we die together. Now the initiative is in my hands, I have the right to make requests, and the wisest choice for you would be to agree since just chatting won’t cost you anything. What do you think?"

After thinking for a bit, Cupid said, "That makes sense. Chatting with you is the least costly way for me to get out. So, let’s chat and make friends."

Yang Yi waved his hand and directed at Anton, "Go check the body, take photos, and collect some DNA for identification. I’ll go have a chat with him."

After speaking, Yang Yi extended his hand and said, "Please, what would you like to drink?"

Cupid walked alongside Yang Yi and said, "Is it okay if I don’t feel like drinking?"

"As long as you don’t find it boring and awkward."

"Then let’s have beer, any bar will do."

"Good, let’s go have beer then."

They walked slowly, and suddenly Yang Yi said, "When did you take on this task?"

"Half a year ago."

"So why did you make your move only now?"

"No opportunity, I couldn’t find Nicholas’s whereabouts. Later, he hired me to kill you, and I accepted the job. I must admit you surprised me. I never thought someone could lay two traps in a row for me. Oh, how did you recognize me, the second time?"

Yang Yi thought for a moment, then said, "How about I be frank, and you be frank too?"

"Okay."

"I recognized your hands, your hands are distinctive, I remembered them, so I managed to hold back."

"Impossible! My hands don’t have any distinctive features!"

"They do. No obvious features, but your hands are a bit too perfect, to be honest, quite easy to distinguish."

"Easy to distinguish?"

"For me it is easy, but for others, maybe they can’t tell."

Cupid looked at his own hands and said exasperatedly, "It turns out to be my hands!"

Yang Yi said quietly, "Now I can confirm, you are a man, right?"

Cupid paused for a moment and then nodded, saying, "Yes, of course, I am a man."

"So what’s with your Adam’s apple?"

"Naturally inconspicuous, and I consciously smoothed it out since childhood through training."

"Oh, I see. So, you were hired by Ivan, right?"

Cupid said indifferently, "That’s crossing the line."

"Sorry, let me change the question. Why did you wait until today to make your move? You didn’t finish what you were saying earlier."

Cupid sighed and said, "Because there was no opportunity. Even if I accepted Nicholas’s employment to eliminate you, I still had no chance to meet him. The guy is extremely cautious, very, very cautious. He was even prepared to surrender to you as long as his life could be spared; he was willing to surrender to you."

After revealing a secret to Yang Yi, Cupid smiled and continued, "After taking the job to eliminate you, I met Nicholas once. Actually, I had the opportunity to off him, but the problem was that there were too many bodyguards around him. It’s easy for me to kill him, but hard to escape. What’s more important is if someone finds out I killed my own employer, then do I still even continue being an assassin? So, I could only wait for the right opportunity."

"Like tonight."

"Yes, like tonight. I made an effort to get the bodyguards away from him, and in addition to your strength being formidable, it was highly possible that you would eliminate him without me needing to act. That’s why the opportunity was indeed tonight."

After finishing, Cupid looked pleased with himself and said, "You didn’t disappoint me. I was actually quite worried you wouldn’t be able to find Nicholas, but I had confidence in you, believing you would definitely spot the security vulnerability I worked to create."

Yang Yi also smiled and said, "I just realized tonight that you might want to kill Nicholas. Of course, I wasn’t entirely sure, but I am relieved that you really did."

Cupid’s expression grew colder as he said, "That’s impossible."

"What’s impossible?"

"You couldn’t possibly have guessed I wanted to kill Nicholas."

"It would’ve been impossible, but my partner reminded me, and I suddenly thought, what if you weren’t trying to lure me into a trap but indeed wanted me to kill Nicholas? I wasn’t sure, but that’s certainly what I thought."

Cupid took a deep look at Yang Yi, took a breath, and then conceded, "Alright, I trust you."

"Hmm, and I immediately thought that perhaps Ivan hired you first, or some other means brought you here, but looking at it now, the likelihood that you were paid to come is slim."

Cupid spoke in a low voice, "I owe him a favor."

"Do assassins owe people favors too?"

Cupid admitted it, but Yang Yi wasn’t satisfied and asked him another question. However, this time Cupid did not answer him.

Cupid was silent, and Yang Yi fell silent too. After a while, Yang Yi suddenly asked, "Are you lonely?"

"Yes."

Another silence, then Yang Yi said to Cupid, "Would you like to be friends?"

"Alright."

"My name is Yang Yi."

"I’m Bobby, no... Bobby is the name of my dog. My real name is Sven, Cupid is my stage name. Bobby is the name I use when dealing with people. You can call me Sven, or Bobby, but don’t call me Cupid."

"Okay, Sven, can I have your contact information?"

Sven nodded and gave a phone number.

The two continued on their way, and they arrived in front of a bar. But at the doorstep of the bar, looking at the flickering neon sign, Sven suddenly said, "Maybe we shouldn’t drink, huh?"

Yang Yi thought for a moment and said, "Alright, then let’s not drink. Goodbye."

"Goodbye."

Yang Yi and Sven did not shake hands; they just nodded to each other, one continued on his way, and the other turned to go back.