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Ch. 134: What is the Role of Ai Otaka?

Yes, the man standing gallantly on the roof of the building was Otaka Ai, a police detective of the first investigative division under the auspices of Shohei. He is also the son of General Otaka who is now the Chief of the National Police. However, his current figure is not as a detective or a general's son, but part of the Black Shadow team that is tasked with spying in the stronghold of Kazuya Toda.

Otaka Ai joins the cast of Black Shadow and Mr. White, starting when Shohei sent a dark article that Kei wrote about his father's involvement in illegal arms sales. Shohei deliberately does that to test Ai, whether she will hold on to justice and righteousness or hide her father's crimes.

At that time, detective Shu leaked a conversation between Shohei and one of the policewomen who were members of the forensic team.

"The bottom line .. The perpetrator of the stabbing of Yamazaki-san and the perpetrator of the arrest and murder of the late justice minister is most likely the same person! But ... To my surprise, why is Yamazaki-san keeping this a secret to all of us? Why did he choose to investigate it himself?" search detective Shu at the time.

"That means, the chairman doesn't trust us. Or ... he might suspect one of us." Ai Otaka suddenly raised a voice after choosing silence for quite a while.

"How can we do that to the chairman?" The other policemen seemed offended by Ai's baseless remarks.

"As Shu-senpai once said, a detective's job is to suspect people. I don't think it matters if the chairman suspects any of us. Isn't that right, Shu-senpai?" At that moment, the words that came out from Ai's mouth were indeed intentional to insinuate someone.

Unfortunately, after saying so, he even got a slap once he received a mysterious email related to his father. Ai is not a fool who is easily consumed by hoax news, but somehow he believes the content of the article and the evidence presented. It made him unable to come home and call his father.

"Moshi-moshi, is Ottousan home now? Or still at the office? I want to talk to you!"

"I'm still in the office. Come to the house tomorrow!"

"No. I'm going to your office right now!"

Ai rushed straight to the national police department and found her father. There, he inquired directly about his father's involvement in illegal acts as alleged in the article. Unfortunately, his father dismissed the allegations for unsatisfactory reasons.

"What's your goal in forcing me into the police? Is it just because you want someone to continue your profession? Do you know, while I was in police education, I often received bundles because I came in by replacing someone who should have escaped? At my current workplace are still those who dislike me because they think I am unworthy to be among them!" attack Ai on her father with a raging rage.

"Then, where's the fault? Isn't everything I do for your own good? Those who blaspheme you and dislike you just because they can't be in your position. After all, didn't you ask to be transferred to the Metropolitan Police?" Mr. Otaka refutes his son's accusations quite calmly.

Ai was silent for a moment while looking fully at her father. "Remember, Otto is a lawman! The purpose of entering the police force should be to eradicate crime, not to commit criminal acts and unlawful acts!" scream Ai with a loud voice.

"You'd better focus on your duties as an investigator!" his father said while back busy with a number of files on the desk.

"Because I'm an investigator, then I guess this is part of my job. If Otto were to hide something from me, then I would use my skills as an investigator."

General Otaka was jolted at the statement of his son. "So you want to investigate your own father?"

At that time, Ai no longer responded to her father's questions. He immediately turned around and walked out of his father's office with a sense of disappointment and worry. Walking straight towards the deserted corridor, he instead saw Shohei standing not far from before him.

"Chairman, are you here?" Ai was quite astonished to see the presence of Shohei there.

"I'm here to see you," Shohei replied flatly.

The two of them spoke four eyes in a narrow and quiet alley. Shohei opened the conversation by revealing honestly that he was the one who sent her an email. Hearing that, Ai gasped. Doesn't that mean the contents of the email are likely valid?

"If my father did, why didn't you report it?" ask Ai.

"It's not that easy. Your father was only involved, but not the main culprit. That's why I want you to work with me!"

"Cooperation in what?"

"Enforcing truth and justice" Shohei replied with an inside look.

Ai squinted her eyes. "Is the Chairman trying to use me? You want to use me against my own father, right?"

"Tell me like that, if you think I am!" reply Shohei without covering up his goal to invite Ai to join his team.

Ai laughed without a sound as she threw away her face. "Do you know, a child will protect his father. Even if my father is the world's greatest man!"

"What I'm offering you is also a way to protect your father. Do you want your father to stay on the wrong path? I'm sure you're one of those people with a high sense of justice. No matter if he's the one closest to you, as long as you find out he's doing the wrong thing, you'll try to stop him."

Ai Otaka was pensively pensive, as if Shohei could tell what he had been feeling all along. "All right! But I wanted to ask you before. Is the Chairman .. is Mr. White?"

Shohei. Not allowing or avoiding.

"Since the stabbing incident, I've always been monitoring the Chairman secretly."

"Why are you monitoring me?"

"Because I'm afraid the incident is repeated. The one who does that is the person closest to you. I saw it firsthand because the scene back then was my patrol area. Unfortunately, I couldn't reveal it, because he was also my closest person. I asked my father to be transferred to the Metropolitan. That's my way of looking after you and preventing him from returning to crime. But unfortunately, it seems I failed."

It seemed, Shohei had found out the figure Ai meant. "For that matter, I am also in the same dilemma as you. I suspected it, but tried to keep a positive mind. But, it seemed like all of that was disputed when a few hours ago one of the forensic teams confirmed some evidence. All the clues point to him. Neither he nor your father, nor my late future in-laws cooperated with the tenth target."

"Ten target?" Ai tilted her head with a face full of question marks.

Ai then agrees to join Shohei's team. He went to the headquarters and met the other members. Seeing Kei, of course he immediately recognized him as a leading young journalist.

"Ah, you're that brave journalist, right? Have you been Black Shadow all this time?" asked Ai who was curious about the original Black Shadow figure.

"Not me," Kei replied flatly.

"What are you?" ai asked Yuriko, but a moment later she said, "where can Black Shadow be a woman!" His eyes then turned to Ryo who was sitting leaning back in a lethargic style. "Ah, don't you be Black Shadow!" Ai watched Ryo from toe to head, then said while stroking her chin. "Where might Black Shadow's appearance be dry and weak like this!" he said while lifting the corner of his upper lip.

Ryo stood up in annoyance. "Originally, you know, I used to be a cop! Even if it's a lie!"

Ai's presence on Shohei's team, was coldly responded by Kei, Yuriko, and also Ryo. Aside from Ai's pretty annoying attitude, they thought Shohei would make him as Rai's replacement. However, Shohei stressed to them that Ai's presence was not to replace anyone, but to increase the strength in their stronghold.

Shohei then explained to Ai about their plan to enter the safe room.

"Only three people have access to the safe room: Kazuya Toda, Eita Kaze and your father. To get into that place, we might need an id card between those three people."

"I understand" said Ai.

Ai then asked her father to meet in a small bar. Mr. Otaka who came first there, immediately got a free cocktail reception from Ryo's concoction disguised as a pramutama bar. He deliberately made Mr. Otaka drunk by putting high levels of alcohol into the fresh fruit drink.

Later, Yuriko comes to run him over by pretending to be a heavily drunk girl. He took advantage of the opportunity to take the wallet of general Otaka. Once out of the bar, he immediately picked up the id-card to scan and sent it to Ryo. Not long after, Ai came to him and Yuriko immediately returned Mr. Otaka's wallet to him.

"Arygato!" yuriko.

"You guys are a hassle!" ketus Ai who went straight into the bar to bring home his drunken father.

When a bomb threat takes control of the police force, Ai and Seto are assigned to a Tokyo tower to secure a terrorist attack. But not following the police. The man turned the corner and deliberately trapped the car in the middle of traffic. The goal is to be able to join the Black Shadow team that is in the harbor. He infiltrates Kazuya Toda's team, then orders them to withdraw during a confrontation with Kei and Yuriko.

Even today, when Shohei and the rest of the team split up to find out the whereabouts of the bomb, he instead chooses to disguise himself as a member of Kazuya Toda's team.

"Please listen carefully! The bomb was on the top floor of the plaza and was attached to my lover's body. Please don't move, because I'm thinking of a plan to save everyone."

Hearing the emergency signal and the shrouded message from Shohei, Ai immediately rushed towards the top floor of the plaza. He entered the detention center and rejoined the team formed by Kazuya Toda. Then look for loopholes to steal the remote control of the bomb in the last minute remnants.

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At this moment, Kazuya Toda, who was standing on the side of the glass wall of the restaurant, stared at his watch which had been showing at four o'clock in the afternoon Tokyo time. He took his cell phone, then called someone.

"Why didn't the bomb go off?" asked the antagonist man while staring far across the building.

"I'm sorry, sir. Looks like someone hacked into our team to retrieve the remote."

Kazuya Toda's face darkened instantly. "Find the guy and get it over with!"

Still standing on the roof of the building, Ai Otaka reported the emergency situation to the entire team. "Hurry out of this building and save yourself. They take video footage of Ryo-san wearing a mask and ask people to leave. Kei-san and Yuriko-san have been caught by the building's CCTV. I'm afraid you're getting cornered. For that, hurry up and hide to a safe place! I've set up a car in the west area of this building. Use the car and run as far as possible" said Ai Otaka a little unsettled.

"Everyone, follow Ai's orders right now! The most important thing right now is your safety. Kazuya Toda will definitely not be silent! Don't get caught by the members!" Shohei gave his team an ultimatum to move immediately.

Rai, Kei, Ryo and Yuriko immediately ran towards the area where the car Ai had provided.

"Ai-kun, where are you? I want to talk to you!" ask Shohei later.

"I'm on the rooftop of this building, Chairman!"

"Well I'll be there soon." Shohei entered the elevator and headed towards the highest floor of the building. Seina was still faithfully at the side while clasping her hands.

At the same time, Ai heard the sound of footsteps heading towards her. He also slowly rotated his body. Naas, a bullet instantly shot towards him and penetrated into one of his body parts. In the next few seconds, he collapsed and collapsed on the floor with his body drenched in blood.

Ai stared at the figure of the man who had just shot her. "Ke–why ... you .. do this pa–to me, Seto-kun?"

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