Annan was taken aback by what the Thrush had said.
—Well, this is indeed something.
Annan hadn't thought much of it before, but he hadn't expected that the last stretch of the Thrush's words could cram in so many death flags.
"This job isn't dangerous, I just need to escape with my life," "With so-and-so here, I won't die," "Just one more and I'll have reached my goal," "After this one, I'm retiring to the second line," "After this one, I'm going back home to get married..."
This was truly a skilled move and deserved appreciation.
If you added the earlier "It doesn't matter if I die," or "I will escort you," these secondary death flags, the aura of death about him was about the same as someone who habitually signed their name on the title page after finding a Death Note...
Originally, Annan had planned to leave him here to play cops and robbers, then he could just walk away.
However, with such a density of death flags...