Sacrificed Again+ "Boss, Sayu is gone."
"WHAT?"
+ "It looks like she knocked him out and escaped."
"How...who is she?"
- "Boss!", another worker at the headquarter of the Ministry of Defense interrupts, "We might have found something useful!"
Still shocked about the news, he goes over to see whether they really found something useful.
- "The explosion at the farm destroyed everything, but a police man found a half-burned note. Look."
"810..That's Fukuoka, right?"
- "Yes."
"How many of our own agents do we have there?"
- "A handful..."
"How soon can they get to that address?"
- "They are already on their way, should not take more than 5 minutes."
"Good job, I hope for you that we will find something there."
- "Boss?"
His boss, the head of MoD, sounded very serious about this. In his current mood, he probably won't have any problem to fire people. It's just too bad that this worker can't really do anything for himself, except of observing what is happening in Fukuoka.
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"You are trying to tell me that....Aichan is my sister?"
The girl in front of the mirror now moved away the towel and it really is Takahashi Ai. She looks tired and a bit sad. If she already knows about Koji's death?Reina only nods.
"Sorry, but ... I can not really believe this.", Eri moves away from Reina.
- "But it is the tru..."
"STOP IT!", Eri struggles to believe her words.
- "Eri..", Reina tries to calm her down.
"Just...leave me alone...!", Eri runs away. This has been too much for her tonight. The death of Koji and her father. Then Reina told her that Koji actually isn't her brother. And lastly she is supposed to understand that Aichan is her sister? There is no way for her to understand it all at once. Reina knows this, but she just can't let her run away. It is too dangerous show herself in public right now. However, she suddenly gets a text message.
"Units moving to the safe house. ....Konkon"
Reina stops chasing Eri down the house. She looks at the message with a shocked expression.
"No...not now. This can't be. It's too early...", she mumbles to herself while dialing the number of Konkon.
- "Yes?"
"How accurate is this information?"
- "Very accurate."
"Are you sure?"
- "I wouldn't have told you, if I wasn't."
"...alright.", Reina hangs up again. First she remains silent for a couple of seconds, but then decides to catch Eri first. The only problem is that she can't see her anywhere.
"Shit..", she dials a number again.
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The location switched to the bathroom again. Aichan still stares at the window, when the phone starts to ring. She looks at the door, but doesn't seem to bother about the phone. Then suddenly somebody else picks it up, but Aichan remains calm.
"They found out about the safe house. You know what to do.", Reina explains on the side of the line.
- "Got it.", a male voice answers.
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Reina doesn't waste time again and immediately hangs up after telling the only important fact again. Then it's already time for the next call. This time Sayu picks up he phone. She is still on her way to Reina, but Reina explains her about the newest happenings. Sayu is as shocked as Reina.
"What now? We can't do anything from here.", Sayu asks.
- "I informed him. He should be able to at least keep them busy long enough. We have another problem here."
"What problem?"
- "Eri ran away after hearing the truth and now I can't find her anywhere."
"What? When did she?"
- "About a minute ago. We have to find her before somebody else does!"
"Okay, I will be there in one minute as well. Start searching already.", Sayu says and hangs up. Reina tries to find her somewhere on the streets, but the fact that it's in the middle of the night doesn't really help the search. Sayu soon starts to help searching as well. The problem is that she could have ran anywhere.
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Back to Aichan. She leaves the bathroom, passing a small cupboard with a picture of Risa standing on it. It probably wasn't easy for her to see her best friend getting killed right before her eyes. Two years have been passed since then, but there is no doubt that she still thinks about her. And now her father and brother, if he even is her real brother, also died. Nobody would want to switch places with her, her life became the opposite of nice since two years ago.
Aichan is still drying her hair with the towel. Just now it becomes visible that she cut her hair short. Only with a pair of shorts and an undershirt she is on the way to her room. She looks at the couch and it's obvious that somebody is sitting there. However, Aichan doesn't panic at all.
"Who was on the phone?"
- "Reina, she...", a male voice answers while we still only see Aichan. It now is obvious that they know each other and that he is supposed to be there. Anyway, he gets interrupted by some sound, the sound of a car. He seems to move to the window and Aichan follows him with her eyes, the camera still focusing on Aichan. The man moves the curtain a bit to the side and let's us peak at the street. A car just arrived right in front of the house. Because of that this house is a single-family house, it is clear who they are and what they want. And it's no use to act like nobody is at home, because it's night and they still have their light on. Aichan is still clueless about what is happening and lays the towel around her neck.
"Kazuaki?", she asks and we finally find out who the mysterious man is. So, he survived the shooting of two years ago? And now he does what, protecting Aichan? Why? She isn't connected to the documents at all, or is she? We just found out that Aichan is the sister of Eri. Does that mean that she is more connected to the whole case then we believed? It sure is not easy to follow this anymore...
We now can see the man and he really is Kazuaki. He grabs for something, a shotgun standing right next to the door. Through the window he can see five man. One stays in the car, three come to the front door and one goes around the house. Kazuaki turns around to Aichan and arms the shotgun.
"The backdoor, run!"
- "W...what? What is happening?"
"No time for answers, just run! You still might have time to escape!", he says. However, she is running out of time, because one man is walking to the backdoor right now.
- "But.."
"AICHAN!", he screams at Aichan and she startles.
"Sorry, but..please...you have to run now. You know my condition, I won't be able to hold them back for too long. I only have one option and you know what this means."
- "..only one option? Wait, are you trying to say that you are going to do the same like Koji?", So she actually knows what happened to him.
"Please, run away!"
- "NO!"
The doorbell rings and a man knocks at the door.
+ "Hello? We are from the police, we got a complaint from your neighbors. Can you please open the door?"
"Shit..", the situation is not really turning for the better. Kazuaki now has to act in a rude way and even hurts Aichan by grapping her at her arm. Once again he says, no, orders her to start running now. His rude actions are shocking for Aichan and she even looks like starting to cry, but at least she realizes that she really has to run now. This shows that Kazuaki might have reacted a bit rude, but it was effective to get her out of the house. Aichan first wants to put on some clothes, but Kazuaki can't allow it. The men at the front door are becoming furious. She ends up being thrown out of the house, only with her shorts and the undershirt. The man who went around the house didn't reach the back yet and so it first seems like she is able to escape, but the man soon spots her. He now has to chase her.
At the front door the men try to break through the door, when suddenly a shot of shotgun ammunition makes it's way through the door and takes down one of the men. The others immediately move away from the door and draw their weapons. The in the car now also approaches the house. He gets the order to move around the house. Kazuaki sees this, shoots two times to keep the two at the front busy and then moves to the backdoor. You now can see that one of his legs actually is almost completely stiff. It must be a result from the shooting two years ago and explains what he meant with "my condition". With this leg he is too slow to reach the backdoor before the man and so he is able to enter the house. Kazuaki, however, is able to nail him down in the kitchen with his shotgun. While this man might not be able to come out of his cover, the two man at the front entered the house as well. They aren't deaf and heard the shots at the back of the house. Kazuaki now has to fight on two fronts. The man in the kitches is able to watch out of the window and can see how one of his colleagues is chasing after a girl.
"There! A girl!", he says and tries to get to the door to help him catching this girl.
Kazuaki notices this and has to stop him with his shotgun. This was a bad move, because the two men at the front could easily shoot him in his back, but not so that he would die immediately. He had to sacrifice his cover in order to protect Aichan, but that's not all. He only has one shot left. These men are professionals and of course also noticed this fact. The man at the backdoor makes a second attempt and Kazuaki has no other choice than to use his last round to stop him again. The other two men now rush towards him and take him down. Not knowing whether he might be important or not, they can't kill him. The man in the kitchen now finally can head to the door without the fear of getting shot, but Kazuaki still has one last trump card in his hand. Yes, we already know what is going to happen now. Kazuaki knows this and also Aichan knows this. Right when the man is going to step out of the door, Kazuaki pushes a tiny trigger in his hands and *BANG*, the whole house gets destroyed in one big explosion.
Aichan hears the bang and stops. Even though she should keep running, she has to look back at the house. Kazuaki, yet another friend she lost... . The good thing is that the man chasing her also got distracted by the explosion. However, they were "only" colleagues and for a professional like him his objective comes on first place. He quickly concentrates on Aichan again and is able to get closer to her. Aichan still doesn't move, but when seeing how close he already came, she has no other choice than to continue running. However, at the next street he is able to catch her and pushes her down on the asphalt, handcuffing her before she regains enough energy to run away again. Passenger are becoming curious, but he can identify himself as an agent without problems. He moves away from the street. Aichan tries to get get free, but once they are in a less crowded area, he anesthetizes her. She quickly looses her consciousness and he is able to get her back to their car. Bribed police men later will make the bodies of the other men disappear and cover up the whole story as accident.
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Eri still wanders around the streets. She tries to understand it, but it's impossible for her to believe that Aichan is her sister. They are way too different, it's just...impossible. Suddenly a black van stops right next to her. She looks to the side, but it's too late to react. Two men are dragging her into the van and close the door. The driver then immediately steps on the gas. Eri tried to break free, but her attempt was too late. Reina just turned into the same street, but all she can see is the leaving black van. It doesn't take long for her to realize, that Eri might be in this car.
"I failed to protect her.....", Reina says to herself.
Now both girls got captured....BUT were they captured by the same group of people?
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[Feel free to correct any mistakes and typos I made. ...I only added them to test your attention! ]