Never Not
Ch. 126: Flashback

Two weeks ago, Shohei had a one-on-one conversation with Yuriko's father, a former member of foreign security research, in which Kazuya Toda was once the commander of the force.

"Hajimemashite, I am Yamazaki Shohei, Metropolitan first division investigator." Shohei introduced himself politely and formally before Yuriko's father.

Yuriko's father was stunned for a moment. "So you're the great detective from the Metropolitan?"

Shohei shook his head while unraveling a subtle laugh. "Ah, I'm not as good as the news in the media."

"Aren't you the son of General Yamazaki?"

Shohei nodded slowly. He took a chair and sat down on the side of Mr. Aizawa's bed.

"How can my mediocre daughter get to know someone like you?" Mr. Aizawa seems to not believe his daughter brought a friend of the son of a respected general in this country.

"Yuriko-san is no less great. In my eyes she's a hardworking, tough, high-spirited woman!"

Mr. Aizawa chuckled to hear Shohei praise his daughter.

"I heard a lot about you from Yuriko. You used to be a policeman assigned to the special forces. I can't imagine how great you are through Yuriko's stories."

Mr. Aizawa looked ahead while sighing with a face that darkened instantly. "The boy was still proud of his father who was just an outcast policeman" he said with a bitter smile.

"You are not wasted. You're just a victim of someone taking advantage of that situation." Shohei begins to lure lord Aizawa so that he can explore the events of fifteen years ago involving Kazuya Toda.

Mr. Aizawa then looked at Shohei blankly. He flinched for a moment, before finally saying, "it's just a story of the past."

"Wouldn't crime still be a crime, it won't change even if it's kept for years" Shohei said.

"You're right."

"Then why don't you try to report the actual incident?"

"Unfortunately, I have no evidence of my commander's illegal cooperation at the time with Russia. He created a fake terrorist attack and was willing to sacrifice the lives of his own team just to make his name rise to the public and rise to office."

"What does it mean that the bombing has been arranged?"

"Yes, before the incident happened, I had seen him meet with a foreign man of Russian nationality in the port. And the moment the bomb went off, I saw clearly the terrorist who detonated the bomb was the man who met him. The incident put me in a coma for weeks. When I woke up, I only learned about the death of my colleagues. Funnily enough, my commander instead rose through the ranks," explained Mr. Aizawa recounting the incident fifteen years ago.

"Didn't you tell me what you saw?"

"My situation back then had been flawed like this. And the first day I entered the office, I was stopped from the police, because my commander testified that I and my team were undisciplined by hearing his orders to negotiate, so the bomb finally exploded."

Shohei is visibly infuriated to hear Yuriko's father's entire testimony about the case fifteen years ago. Kazuya Toda turned out to be very smart to turn the facts around. That man is more cunning than he thinks.

Before Shohei leaves the room, Yuriko's father tells her something she doesn't know about as a police officer.

"We used to set up a basement located west of Tokyo harbor. Inside the basement was a secret room located in the basement. The place was built for emergency room escape in case of enemy attack. Ah, I don't know if the room is still functional or not because when I saw the news coverage, the basement was just an abandoned warehouse.

Hearing that, Shohei's eyes flashed sharply. He is then interested in the secret room in question and asks Kei to find out.

At the same time, Rai also got valuable information from Yuta. It turns out that the one who hacked Black Shadow's broadcast all this time was Yuta. However, there is more important than just knowing the hacker, which is who uses the services of his former friend. Although Yuta did not give a specific answer, but he was sure that the official who told him was related to the tenth target of Black Shadow and Mr. Whites. This is reinforced by their fraudulent mission that targets the dirty treasure of a major official in the country.

At first he no longer cared about anything related to the political world. However, upon learning that Kazuya Toda had risen to the position of national security chief, making the other side of himself as Black Shadow seem unacceptable and unable to remain silent.

The voice that became a parting sentence between her and Shohei made her stop to contact the man. He hung up the phone and left. Just a few steps away from the phone box, the man was even remembered by all the fighting actions he had done with Shohei. A con man who becomes a prisoner with a severe case, must be very difficult to escape the law that will ensnare him. But Shohei came to help him. A dark person like him, it must be very impossible to turn into a figure that is beneficial to others. But Shohei has made it happen. A metrosexual man like himself, who only knows the glittering life of the night, would be very unreasonable if suddenly good at martial arts and perform heroic acts like an action movie actor. But again Shohei has helped him prove it.

Now, isn't there just one more target? Why do they have to be like this when the mission is almost complete? Why could he only resign without being able to do anything to the person who had helped him so much?

Rai stared at the deep night sky as he exhaled a rough breath. As it turned out, Black Shadow had completely fused within him. He turned around, walked quickly and re-entered the public phone box.

In a different place Shohei had just come home after eating together with Megumi Jun. He immediately grabbed the phone when ringing. His brows were surging, staring at the unknown number on the phone screen.

"Moshi-moshi ...."

Suddenly Rai's tongue became confused to make a sound, his hand felt stiff just to turn off the call. A few seconds of silence before a sound was heard.

"Relance ...." In the end, only that word was spoken from his lips.

Shohei who recognized the voice, then slightly snapped. "What's wrong?"

"It's about Kazuya Toda. I know it's none of my business, but let me help you with any information that might be useful to you and your new team."

"Tell me!"

"I think I need to tell you everything from the beginning." Rai then told me everything. Including about him who is actually an ex-con, and now back to being a fraud.

"Two weeks to come, I will petrify my old colleagues to retrieve the treasure of Karun Kazuya Toda stored in the safe room," explained Rai.

"Safe rooms?" Shohei suddenly remembered the basement that Yuriko's father had revealed. Because, according to the information provided by Yuriko's father, the basement that was supposed to be the training ground of the foreign research team was never used again.

"Yes, that secret place is located in the basement of one of the customs warehouses. Unfortunately, I didn't know where the warehouse was because my old partner didn't want to tell me before the time of the action came. So, inevitably I have to get involved in a scam. But take it easy, I'll make myself a bait! Once you know the room, I'll tell you and your team soon."

"Arigatou" said Shohei after getting information from Rai about the treasure warehouse that allegedly belonged to Kazuya Toda. Now, just find out the origin of the treasure and the location of the safe room itself.

"Gum." Rai nodded in darkness. "Ganbatte, huh! I'm also looking forward to Kazuya Toda in prison" he said at the end of their conversation. After that problem, their way of speaking feels formal and rigid. Like everyone else.

Just as Rai was about to hang up the phone, Shohei suddenly made a sound.

"Rai-kun, come back with me!" shohei said in a hoarse tone of voice, "it's okay. It's okay .... I'll try to be professional. Don't you still want to work with me?" shohei said slowly. Of course the pain is still there. But, he tried to swallow all that while lowering his ego that had risen. All this for the sake of the mission.

Rai was stunned for a moment. "Gomen, but our path has been different. And what's more, I don't deserve your forgiveness" he said in a voice that almost disappeared. To be honest, his little heart was about to agree to the man's invitation.

"Our paths have been different, but not that our goals remain the same. You have abandoned yourself as Black Shadow and returned to being your old self, but still met with Kazuya Toda. Doesn't this mean there's a red thread that ties us?"

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author note:

This chapter answers your question of how Rai and Shohei can get back together. Next-next chapter there will be a scene brawl, gays. Was the tenth target executed this time? Keep this novel under control until the end by providing support that encourages the author.

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