Never Not
Ch. 144: What is the contents of the flash?

..."The mask is also a very powerful political vehicle. By wearing a mask, politicians can get to the position they want. They know for a fact that people are easily fooled by social actions that look real and continue to use it to deceive the people."...

...~Black Shadow's. Ch: Mask~...

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Not noticeably, the sky began to blacken. Rai and Kei have returned to their hiding place. Yuriko and Ryo greeted gratefully as both seemed to be fine.

"I'm sorry, I can't keep my promise to go home sooner" Rai said with sad eyes.

Yuriko. "It's okay. You guys are back in good shape is more than enough."

"Then, what about Yuta? Is he hiding in the place Oniichan suggested?" ryo asked with a cheerful expression.

Rai did not answer. He drowned his face in apparent sadness.

"He didn't survive." Kei said in a soft tone.

Instantly, the smile that framed on Ryo's lips was blurred. "What do you mean Yuta-kun .. died?"

Kei nodded small.

"Ti–no way!" Those words were unable to make Ryo blur.

Still unmoved, Rai dragged his steps slowly while tightly hugging the laptop left by Yuta. He went into the room and slammed his body into the bed and lay on his side. The laptop he just put on the table. The traumatic mixed grief is still deeply rooted in him. During his time as Black Shadow, this was the second time he had seen death with the naked eye.

Yuriko walked into the room, staring at the weakly lying Rai helplessly. He walked slowly to the side of the bed, then pulled out a blanket to wrap Rai's body. No sound came out of the woman's mouth because she understood enough that Rai needed this time to calm herself down.

The atmosphere of the house was suddenly silent and silent. The dinner that Yuriko and Ryo had prepared was untouched. Each of them was just pensive without any movement.

At the same time, Kazuya Toda's troops stopped their car not far from a wooden house that was located quite remote from the crowd. The booty car Rai and Kei used was parked in the house at this time. Apparently, the car was equipped with GPS features so that they easily tracked the direction of the two men's destination.

One of them picked up a cell phone and called. "We're in front of their base. It looks like they are inside" he said, monitoring the condition of the wooden house in which there is a light lamp.

"Capture them and let no one escape! If you need to shoot it." A gloomy voice with a commanding tone was heard.

"Good."

The special forces began to move. They infiltrated into the courtyard of the wooden house and scattered on each side of the building so as to make the house besieged. Some of them had been on standby at the doors and windows with pistols in each other's hands. There were even snipers hiding and looking for loopholes to aim at them from afar. The house was very quiet, as if there was no movement of humans inside.

Feeling the infiltration is safe and unstoppable, they also compactly enter while pointing the gun forward. The team in black uniforms was even flabbergasted when they found that no one was there. They then unpacked the files lying on the table, hoping to find a speck of evidence. Unfortunately, the contents of the file is just an old document that indicates the house was once used as a foundation.

"We're fooled! They're tricking us!" screeched the head of the army furiously.

Yes, Rai and Kei did use their car to enter Tokyo. However, on their way to the location of the bar, they chose to use public transportation and left the car at the border of Tokyo, precisely in an old house that the troops came to at this time.

Still sitting at his desk, Shohei's eyes widened because he did not expect the secret file to be open. The content of the file is a video of less than ten minutes duration and also audio recording. With trembling hands, Shohei started moving the cursor and chose to view the video first.

The man in the investigator's profession could not be separated from looking at the screen of his laptop. His eyes were glazed over and his breathing seemed to be choked listening to what Seina's father had said. Apparently, the video was recorded by Matsumoto in his office. A line delivered by the justice minister then reminded him of the speech Seto before he decided to jump from the top of the building.

"I didn't kill the justice minister!"

"I told you I didn't kill the justice minister!"

Shohei then hurriedly picked up his phone and immediately contacted Rai.

Rai and others are now gathering at the dining table to enjoy the dishes that have cooled down. He who had no appetite, suddenly gasped for a phone call from Shohei.

"It's Shohei" he told Kei, Ryo, and Yuriko. He answered the phone and deliberately used a loudspeaker so they could hear it too.

Rai looked at his backpack, then rewinded his memory for a moment. He certainly understands the knife that is meant by Shohei is a knife that was thrown by a fake Black Shadow as a trap to lead him to be the perpetrator of the murder of the justice minister.

"Yes, I kept it."

"Have you ever touched that knife?"

"Only on the night of the incident did I wear gloves."

"Good! We're gonna do a fingerprint check to confirm the mystery of Seina's father's death."

"What?! But, shouldn't the perpetrator wear gloves as well?! Because as I recall the fake Black Shadow also wears gloves."

"As far as I know we can't identify fingerprints that stick to objects past six hours." Kei's connecting.

"really. We will not identify. We'll just check the position of the fingerprint on the handle of the knife. Stainless steel objects will keep fingerprints longer" Shohei explained as he tidied up the stalk.

"Then how do you check it?"

"I'll guide you. We need super cyanoacrylate glue. Heat the glue and bring it close to the knife. The vapors from cyanoacrylate will mix with moisture and give rise to invisible fingerprints."

"I think I have glue with that stuff." Kei directly hacked into his tool and found the glue in question.

While Rai picked up the knife he kept in his backpack and wrapped in thick tissue. The dried blood still attached to the knife made him recall the fateful incident.

They instantly did as Shohei instructed. Shortly thereafter, the knife revealed a trail of fingerprints that began to fade.

"We got it!" exciting Rai.

"How's the fingerprint?" ask Shohei quickly.

Rai frowned and slightly did not understand. While Kei who was used to writing big cases of murder, could immediately read what happened. The man's face darkened.

"Ce—the fight is upside down!" kei said stammering, "fingerprints with an inverted grip were seen on the knife" he said with teary eyes.

"That means?" ask Ryo.

"Uncle .. suicide!" reply Kei weakly with a look of disbelief.

"Really! Matsumoto-san himself held the knife and stuck it into his chest." continued Shohei with eyes fixed on the video of Matsumoto's upload two days before the abduction occurred.

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author notes ⁇ ️️

I've said yes, one day in this novel takes four to six chapters to describe. So any things that still contain question marks will definitely be revealed, and all figures will have clarity.it is important to be patient! read mystery novels especially those on going to have to be patient, yes 🤣

oh, yeah, I always had a song that inspired me to make scenes in novels. And for this novel, I had two songs that I used to play before I wrote.

again first there is the song Lil Nas X the title of the baby industry. This I hear if I want to make an action scene, or the scene reveals every crime perpetrator. like everyone has certainly heard the song. cave always shadow every action scene in the novel NN accompanied this song.vibesnya very suitable for the story of BS and Mr. W which is full of mystery and there is a hero like that. btw, do not be surprised to see the video clip 🤣

continue to romantic-romantic, I like to hear songs from Japanese singer legend Utada Hikaru whose title is Kimi ni muchuu. this is easy listening, very easy, the pop genre rnb is in line with the love story of the characters here who are not too melow.

please listen directly in Yusup yes. if you yourself have a song recommendation does not represent this story? don't forget to keep the likes and comments.to gift love to sin.