Never Not
ch. 146: Time to Rise

..."Sometimes ignorance is happiness."...

...~Shohei Yamazaki~'s...

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The late Matsumoto did not commit criminal acts of corruption, money laundering, or tax evasion as committed by Kazuya Toda and the nine officials. However, he had a big hand in covering up the crimes of all of them. In other words, it does abuse of power¹. Not to mention, he got a position as justice minister, by manipulating the mandate of the previous Prime Minister.

Shohei was still frozen with a glance fixed on the laptop screen. The secret file that he most wanted to know its contents, has now been revealed. His vision, the great secret that the late Matsumoto had kept all this time, posed a great dilemma for him. He bowed deeply while clutching his own hair.

How do I explain to Seina that Mr. Matsumoto committed suicide? Should you explain that Mr. Matsumoto has been an ally of his main enemy all along? And should he tell her that his future father-in-law once cheated on his own father?

Nah! He can't do it. Really can't.

So, how did he expose the case in public? Revealing Kazuya Toda's crimes with evidence left behind, is like exposing Matsumoto's late infamy in politics. Should he do that to his deceased lover's parents? Moreover, Seina had harvested a lot of blasphemy due to the corruption charges her father made during the fake Black Shadow captivity. Does he have to get his girlfriend back to public blasphemy?

Shohei picked up his phone, pressed the phone call to Seina's number.

"Moshi-moshi ...." A feminine voice softly ran through her ears.

Gobbling roughly, Shohei said in a hoarse voice, "Seina-chan, I have managed to open the secret_file that your father saved."

"really?" Seina reacted in shock as well as delight.

"Hum ... his password today, the date your father set for our marriage."

Seina was getting aghast. Really, he did not know that his father had planned their wedding today.

"Is the content of the file useful to you and your team?"

Shohei took a long breath. "Yes ...."

"Yokatta .... Quickly reveal the file in the media!" Seina's voice sounded relieved. Unfortunately, it wasn't as easy as the woman thought.

Shohei tightly grasped his phone with a clear puddle that filled his eyes. "Seina-chan, aishiteru Yo."

Shohei's trembling voice, slightly raised a question mark on the woman.

"Aishiteru mo," Seina replied with lips that formed an arch of a smile.

"Seina-chan, aishiteru," he repeated with a breath that seemed to be stuck, "whatever has passed. My parents ... also accept you being part of their family. Therefore ...."

"Shohei-kun, I don't understand what you're talking about right now."

"I'm not asking you to understand. I just want you to know."

"No, I mean .. I thought you were worrying about something. Does it have anything to do with the contents of the flash my father left me?"

Shohei nodded without making a sound. Clearly, he was worried about the woman's feelings if he knew the truth. Is it not better to know nothing than to know this harsh reality?

"I'm a cop. I can't hide the slightest truth." Shohei's voice grew weaker and almost inaudible.

Silence ruled both. For a moment, there was no sound.

"Shohei-kun, I told you I will always support you. Don't worry about me! I feel guilty if I become your obstacle."

"August ...." Shohei smiled bitterly along with the relief that flowed from within him. "remain choosing with me no matter what happens in the future!"

Sheina bit her lower lip. "Why am I so lucky?" she said she laughed, but with teary eyes.

"After this mission is over, let's plan our wedding!" bring Shohei.

Seina gasped for a moment. "Is this a proposal?"

"Eh?" Shohei was surprised. However, the next second, the pair of lovers both laughed bitterly.

Shohei ended the phone. He was stunned as he thought about the fate of his team. Rai and his friends are hiding with their status as fugitives of the radikall group. Meanwhile, Ai is still in a coma at the Hospital. Only he can be free without having to face the pursuit or stakes of life as his team is currently experiencing.

It is time to end this mission. For the trust that Matsumoto-san gave me, for the sake of the people I love, for the lives that have been lost, for the people they have deceived all out, for the sake of Rai and the others who were willing to take their time and energy to help this mission, and ... for the sake of truth that many people must know! I'll risk everything.

Shohei then typed in an official letter addressed to the police institution. It seems to be the biggest decision he has made and has certainly been considered for a long time.

Seina walked towards the temple. He threw a coin into the box, bowed twice and then clapped his hands once before offering a prayer.

We-sama, please help Shohei and all those who fight for justice in this country!

On the other hand, general Otaka along with his guards walked quickly into the Hospital, after getting news that his son had been killed after the bullet surgery was successfully carried out.

General Otaka entered the ward and approached Ai who had been unconscious for three hours.

"How are you doing now?" the general asked with a attentive look.

"I'm fine," Ai replied in a weak voice.

Ignoring her father's current emotions, Ai asked quietly instead. "How about ... with Seto-kun?"

General Otaka was silent for a moment. "The ashes have been kept in public funerals. You can fly over there when you've recovered."

Ai's eyes looked teary. His heart suddenly throbbed pain. Even more pain than his surgery. The first news he heard after his coma was the death of Seto Tanaka. In fact, he hoped that the man would survive.

"Ba–what about the masked people who are in Shibuya district?"

"They are still in search. The national security chief deployed the entire Japanese army to search for them."

"Ottousan, do you know why Seto shot me?"

"He's the wrong guy. He thinks you're one of Black Shadow's radical groups." The reply of general Otaka is certainly in accordance with what is circulating in the police. So the young police assume the suicide by Seto Tanaka as a form of regret.

"What if I'm a part of them?" Ai's speech style sounded serious than usual.

"What are you saying!" A stern tone came back out from the man's mouth.

"Seto is not wrong. I am in the Black Shadow camp. So, I actually deserve to die, don't I?"

"Ai-kun, don't talk that no-no! Rest up! I'll be leaving soon too!" General Otaka turned around quickly, deliberately avoiding the topic.

"Why?" intercept Ai for a moment, "from now on we've crossed, Ottoan!"

"Black Shadow must have brainwashed you! That's why they're called radikall! They influence people to hate the government!"

"Instead, it was Otto who had been brainwashed by Toda-san. Whether washed, or indeed Otto is actually the same as Toda-san! Do you still deserve to be said to be law enforcement while you yourself have played with the law."

General Otaka silenced. His tongue suddenly fell. No more pleadings came out of his mouth.

Ai tried to reach his father's hand, then again said, "Ottousan, it is still not too late to admit the mistake. Please acknowledge what you have done all this time! Don't worry, you're still a hero in my eyes!"

General Otaka came out of his son's nursery with a sigh. He looked back at what Ai said. He also went with his guards.

"What's my schedule tomorrow?" ask her to her private secretary.

His personal secretary then looked at the schedule of the national police chief. "You don't have anything busy. But, you will attend the graduation ceremony of general Toda Kazuya's daughter.

General Otaka's face darkened instantly. "You're the representative. I'm not coming to the show!"

At the same time, Rai and others just opened a folder that was inside the laptop. They were astonished to see the national police data that Yuta had hacked.

"So they're manipulating the actual data reports?" kei said after checking one by one the data.

Ryo actually focused on staring at Yuta's laptop. Which is, the laptop they always take anywhere while on a fraudulent mission.

"Yuta-kun, I still didn't expect you to be gone. The sound of your growl always reprimanding my mistakes is still ringing today," murmured Ryo with a sad expression following him.

"Are we going to continue like this? Hiding in fear like a guilty man? If we continue to stay in place, there may be more victims!" cetus Rai is fiery.

"Really! Stay here like they're waiting for us!" yuriko.

"Then how should we?" ask Ryo in despair.

"I ... won't hide anymore! I. .. will go to the prime minister and expose all the rottenness of Kazuya Toda. I will make Kazuya Toda pay for his crimes all along! No matter if I have to die!" With eyes splashing with flames, Rai was as if he was declaring war.

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abuse of power; acts of abuse of authority committed by an official for a particular interest, either for the benefit of oneself or others.

author notes ⁇ ️️️️️

sorry I gays, actually want the update four days ago, but this chapter script is erased... and it makes me digblank, bad mood until want to nelan hp 🤣. So, I had to rewrite it from the beginning and think the same words so I could feel it again, and it took a few days of concentration because I wrote on the sidelines of work.

don't you think I've been writing all six of my novels in the cool style of professional writers, cake sitting for hours in front of that laptop. No, yeah. So Brother Yu has a way of writing that is quite strange but real.

I just wrote Samson, with a cracked screen in some parts. The clock is written I do not care. when had time to just. kek again nyetor at wc, suddenly remembered Rai directly nulis, again ngupil, remember Shohei immediately wrote again. the writing is not from the beginning paragraph until the end. Mostly, I even often write the last paragraph first, gays. it's still, the paragraph that always hangin you guys 🤣. sometimes write the middle paragraph first. Sometimes make the dialogue used to be new narrative.this way of writing applies to all my novels.

about the next idea or storyline, I do not need to think again gays, because that was my plan carefully. So want to njelimet no matter how the conflict, I already know the solution as well as the ending. So I can give spoilers in GC for the long-running chapter2. Like spoilerr if someone will die, it was I spill in GC from chapter 90s. and just realized in chapter 130s.

Well, the lack of a cave when writing is that if the spirit of the cave is fiery to nuangin the idea in the head, the cave writing will collapse, the cake is full of tipo, repetitive sentences, sentences flipped back and forth, and so on, word wastage etc. Well, so it takes time to also edit the manuscript to make it look cute. because the online writer is the editor himself.it also sometimes still escapes my eyes. for that, for that, I say thanks to you guys who have been typosetter of this novel.

okay, so many unfaithful conversations.thank you many are still faithful waiting.do not forget likes and comments, yes.