The Reincarnation Room
The Past of Riko

With Vlad defeated, the Ocean Cradle Tanker Ship incident came to an end. Ryan then asked Riko to stop the four speedboats moving around the ship, so as not to shoot again the passengers. 

While Aria, he rushes towards the engine room to secure the bomb. After successfully defusing the bomb, Aria immediately informed the Skipper that the Ocean Cradle Tanker Ship was safe. 

That way, the ship can sail back to the harbor of Akademi Island.

Shortly after, rescue helicopters sent by the Butei Bureau and the Metropolitan Police Department over the Reiki report arrived aboard the Ocean Cradle Tanker.

Quickly, members of the Butei Bureau and the Metropolitan Police Department arrested Riko and Sayonaki. They also began to secure the passengers who were guests of Ocean Cradle Dance Party.

Many guests were traumatized and frightened by all these events. The guests denounced Ryan and Aria's actions.

They blame Ryan and Aria for not warning the organizers of the Dance Party before to cancel the Dance Party, and finally make them all experience terrible things.

This made Aria upset. "We have sent a formal warning letter to the organizers. Unfortunately, they did not heed our warnings at all! If you are planning to sue us, please!”

“We are not afraid at all! Because this is one of the organizers themselves!”

Upon hearing Aria's explosive explanation, the guests fell silent. If that is the case, then the one to blame is the organizer of this Dance Party, not Ryan and Aria.      

However, this did not make the guests praise the rescue made by ryan and Aria. Due to the nature of Butei that only moves when there is money, then automatically these guests have to pay the rescue costs done by Ryan and Aria.

As a result, these upper class societies could only swallow the bitter pill because they had to pay objective compensation for the fact that Ryan and Aria had managed to save them.

With the large number of victims, the accumulated amount of compensation that Ryan and Aria received was very large.

Because Aria's mood is bad, she gives all the money they paid to Ryan, which causes Ryan's bank account to have several zeros instantly.

In other words, in this mission, Ryan earned a lot of money. As for Aria, he gets a big fish like Vlad, and also the original Butei Killer. This can certainly reduce, even free his mother from all penalties, depending on the attitude of the prosecutors later.

But for now, on Ryan's protection, Riko is not directly imprisoned, but is admitted to Butei's Hospital.

The next morning, Ryan and Aria are in the hospital to see Riko's condition.

“Aria, can you give me some time to talk to Riko? For the Butei Killer problem, can you wait for him?”

Hearing Ryan's request, Aria thought for a moment, Before long, she agreed with his request.

"Although Butei Killer is the main reason why my mother is imprisoned, I will not suppress Riko for a while.” 

“After all, with the capture of a big fish like Vlad, it is likely that the court will give a lot of remission to my mother.”

"In addition, I feel sorry for him too. Riko and I both got the nickname defective products. But our conditions are much different. Therefore, you should talk to him carefully, Ryan.”

After saying so, Aria left the hospital and immediately contacted her lawyer to deal with her mother's problems.

Ryan then went into the room where Riko was being treated. Inside the room, Ryan sees Riko sitting on the bed as if he did not notice Ryan's arrival and sees the scene outside the window.

Fortunately, the injury suffered by Riko was not heavy. With the bulletproof uniform, the pain caused by a bullet hit would be equivalent to the punch of an iron rod.

As a Butei, this was common. Even while undergoing training at Assault, there were a lot of stray bullets that accidentally hit the bodies of Assault class students.

And this should also apply to Riko. It only took him an hour to recover. So, the injury experienced by Riko actually did not have to be treated at the Hospital.

But, in order to delay the legal process that Riko will undergo, Ryan arranged everything so that Riko could be admitted to the Hospital.

Just as Ryan was about to speak, Riko suddenly opened her mouth first.

"Ri-Ri, do you remember saying that after I was eight years old, no one ever helped me celebrate my birthday?"

Ryan nodded at this question.

"When I was eight, both my parents died in an accident." 

While continuing to look out the window, Riko resumed her speech as if she was talking to herself.

"After that, Vlad came to my house and claimed to be a friend of my parents. He said he would adopt me. I was a kara at that time, agreed to his offer.”

Hearing this, Ryan's forehead creased. Ryan can guess that Vlad adopted Riko just for the sake of getting the Lupin family genes.

And sure enough, Riko's next words had confirmed Ryan's thinking.

"Vlad just wants to get my genes. As Sayonaki had said before, I did not inherit all of my Grandpa Buyut's abilities at all. I'm just a defective product." 

Riko turned her back to Ryan and said in a soft voice, "To get a superior gene, to, Vlad had locked me in a cage and intended to use me as a pet and a blood-producing device in order to obtain the superior genes of my descendants.”

"In the years that followed, I was always in the cage." Riko took her uniform by the bed and laughed to herself. 

"Said Vlad, the cattle don't need clothes, so he didn't give me any clothes at all. I can only wear a washcloth to cover my body.” 

“When I was there, I always wished there was a hero figure who saved me, like the one in the bedtime story. With that confidence, I always wait and wait, but no one comes to save me.”

Ryan sighed when he heard all of them. Ryan's heart ached with Riko's bitter experience.

‘So because of that, Riko is very interested in beautiful and funny clothes. To the extent that she modifies her uniform to look cute and beautiful.’ Inner Ryan.

"Until the end, I was able to escape from the cage. To escape Vlad, I joined IU.” 

“Fish but. Vlad is a member of IU. Like a curious spirit, Vlad kept haunting me, not even wanting to let me go." Riko bites her lips as soon as she remembers the irony that Riko has.

"Vlad then promised me that if I could prove that I was capable of surpassing my great-grandfather and crossing the line of my genes, then he would set me free."