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@alexsher99: I'm glad you're happy about the update! And ah! Tears! *gives tissues* Thanks for the kind words!
@kurogumi: Well, realistically Mayu only has less than 72 hours to find Jurina, do all of the trials and save her daughter. So if we think about it, she doesn't really have much time to spare for getting new clothes.
And don't worry about the food, LOL. Mayu definitely did stop in between her trials to grab a bite. It's just minor details that I didn't bother to add. And let's just wait to see if Yuki will soon find out about Mayu's little dangerous mission and if she will do anything about it~
@mayuki_daisuki: Mayuyu is risky~
Of course, it's for her daughter and she cares for her so much, so it's no surprise she would go all out for Jurina.
@cisda83: I'll let you find that out in the next chapter update about the trial~
@Yuki88: Thanks for the welcome back~ *huggies back*
And hai! Takamina action in this chapter!
@gek geki: Hai hai~ I promise to finish this fiction to the very end like my other series, so don't you worry about that.
@Llyloo: It is sorta mean, but at the same time, you have to understand how Mayu feels if Yuki were to be put into the same dangerous situation as Mayu. That would probably kill her emotionally and internally if something happened to her ex-wife.
@Shinoki: Hai, it's for Yuki's sake of safety. But we'll see what happens as the story progresses through~
@Wmatsui22: Mayu is a bit cold to Yuki for reasons with her safety (even though it's killing us shippers.
) LOL, I hope so too with Mayu ending the Origami Killer once and for all after this and save Jurina!
@Chanaline: Yep! Yuki still cares for Mayu after all in the end~
Alright, here's an update on this series! I'm pretty sure after this chapter, you're all going to most likely start a mob and hunt after Carter Blake for his level of being a douche is leveling up at a faster rate with every appearance.
Enjoy this chapter! (and got less than three more weeks of school!
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[Chapter 18]
Within the police station located in Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan, there were multiple officers and individuals dashing to the left and right in their own business. Some were working on the case of the Origami Killer. Others were working on their own personal, assigned cases by the captain. Aside from the individuals out in the main room, there was an important matter to attend to for certain officers in the interrogation room located in the far right in the very back of the room.
“I didn’t do it! I swear I didn’t do it.”
The fellow that was loudly proclaiming these words was none other than Kuro. Bruised from being beaten by Takahashi Minami a while ago, he was in the interrogation room with the other police officers. The officers were standing in guard, keeping their eyes sharply glued to the young man. The male figure had his right arm handcuffed to the closest metal leg of the table in front of him. Sitting within his chair, he expressed his anger towards the accusation of him being the Origami Killer’s true identity.
“I’ve got nothing to do with that business… I never killed nobody!”
“Oh no? Then why did you run away when they came to question you?” Kasai questioned as she paced herself back and forth in front of the man. Her arms were across her chest as she watched the man from the corner of her eyes. Kuro didn’t seem pleased when he was presented with this sort of question from the situation a while ago. Growling under his breath, he lowered his head briefly before lifting them up and making excuses.
“I already told you, I forgot to report to my parole officer. I didn’t want to go back to prison...” he explained. “When I saw the cops, I just bolted. I wasn’t thinkin’ straight…”
Behind Kasai was a mirror that reflected her back and the suspect sitting down on the wooden chair. But upon closer inspection, one could tell that there were people behind the mirror. Behind was a huge video camera. The white and black machine was recording the room with Kuro, Kasai and another police officer, Kitahara Rie. It was positioned within another room. And that room held three people: Takahashi Minami, Carter Blake and Aki Takajo.
The agent was sitting idly, watching with boredom as Blake paced himself back and forth impatiently in front of the window. His eyes were flicking left to right in fast progression. Anger was easily seen behind the pair as the breaths that left his respiration system came out loudly through his nose. Aki standing right next to Minami lowered her head as her two hands rested on the top of the chair. A small mutter came exiting out of her partly opened lip. “We check out his statement. He has an alibi for at least three of the murders…” This set off Blake. Badly.
“Fuck!” he snarled, whipping his head towards Aki. The glare that he sent out was enough to make just about anybody feel a shudder run through their spine from the looks alone. “That bastard was the perfect fit… Shit!”
Minami could only squint her eyes with disapproval at Blake’s reaction towards the result of the situation at hand. Did the man only care about grabbing the culprit and nothing more? She somewhat questions how Captain Akimoto Sayaka consider this man to be doing his job right when all he does is terrorize the poor suspects? ‘This man is such a jerk…’ Minami mentally groaned to herself as Blake’s left hand came up to touch the side of his head, which soon trailed upward and roughly ruffled his short hair.
While they were observing the interrogation room and Kasai trying to demand answer from Kuro, a loud beep resonated from the black wired telephone on top of a white flat-surfaced table before Aki. Pushing herself away from the very metal chair she was leaning on, she lazily walked over and picked up the receiver Aki lifted the object and placed it above her left ear. “Hai? Oh… hai. Wakarimasu.” Then just as fast as she had picked it up, she clicked the receiver back to its original position.
“Kojima Haruna and Yuko are here,” she announced to both Blake and Minami. “They both would like to speak to you both.”
Both of the figures aside from Aki had their ears perked up from hearing her words. Blake took a couple steps forward to Aki’s direction, eyes widened just slightly. “Very well then. We’ll see to them right away.” He did not hesitate to walk out of the very room he was in and slammed the door shut behind. Both the agent and other police officer flinched at the rashness of his actions. Fixing her composure, Aki flicked her attention over to the FBI agent that was now standing up from her seat. Minami adjusted her collar before returning the stare back at the officer.
“I might as well be on my way too,” she mumbled under her breath with a quick bow of her head to Aki before taking her leave.
When she exited out of the room and clicked the door close behind her back, someone unexpected decided to appear before her eyes. Maeda Atsuko was standing on the right side of the door. From the way she was standing, it seem as though she had been waiting for Minami. Raising an eyebrow, Minami then asked, “Do you need something, Maeda-san-“
“I told you call me ‘Acchan,’ Bakamina,” Atsuko sharply interrupted. Minami merely blinked back in response and raised both of her hands up into the air in defeat. 'What's up with the nickname, 'Bakamina' now?' “Okay okay, Acchan. Is there something you need from me?”
There was a short-lived silence coming from the other girl before she answered. And when she answered, there was a faint color of pink on her two cheeks. Eyes were suddenly trailing away from Minami’s face and down to the floor. “Well, I… I just wanted to ask you if you are doing alright so far…”
A little ‘oh’ came out of Minami’s partially opened mouth. Then a faint smile formed with her lips. Her hand reached out to pat the top of Atsuko’s left shoulder gently. Honestly, this girl is the first to be asking the agent such questions. It warmed her heart just a little hearing it from Atsuko. “I’m doing alright so far, thanks for asking. I just have to deal with some individuals that requested me about the case at the moment.” Removing her hand from the taller girl’s shoulder, Atsuko completely understood the situation at hand and bobbed her head.
“I understand. I need to get back to my work anyway,” she answered back with her own smile. The two individuals then parted way to their own business to attend to.
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Kojima Haruna and Yuko were seated right in front of Lieutenant Blake and Agent Takahashi Minami. The two females were in, simply put, a mess. Hair untidy and rushed, there were hints of lack of sleep due to the dark shadows underneath their eyes. They were weary and exhausted. Exhausted and tired from the turn of event that was going on with both Mayu’s and Yuki’s life. It was surprising since they worried so much for the two girls.
“Honestly, I don’t know what happened with both Mayu and Yuki…” Yuko admitted as the two authorities focused their attention to the shorter girl. “They were both lovebirds and gotten married. Thanks to the technology these days, they managed to have two very beautiful and cute daughters… But now that one is dead and another in danger…” Yuko shook her head, tears threatening to escape from the corner of her eyes. “I’m so very worried about the two of them. Especially Mayuyu.”
Yuko maintained a very close relationship with Mayu specifically. Back when they were in their high school years, they both continued on to college together as the infamous ‘Oshiri Sisters.’ Always running around in their younger adolescence life, groping butts and ticking off both males and females was their hobbies before settling down in their adult life. As their titles stated, they were close like sisters. And when Yuko has heard that Jurina was kidnapped, she knew how devastated Mayu must’ve felt. Though she was a bit startled to see how the young girl could’ve lost her own kid, it was understandable due to her unstable health after the unfortunate accident.
The two officers in front of them listened carefully to their words and understood Yuko’s worries. “I understand your worries, Mrs. Kojima Yuko, but we are trying our best to find Watanabe Jurina from the killer,” Blake responded back in his usual rough voice. He leaned back against his rolling chair as Minami was standing right by Haruna’s side with her right hand resting on the back of her neck. The two saw Yuko buried her face into the palm of her hands. She was shaking, which made Haruna beside her place a reassuring hand on top of the squirrel’s lap. How long was it going to take for the police to find Jurina?
Haruna then spoke up in Yuko’s place.
“There was something… Off about Mayu when Yuko stayed over at her house on rare occasions.” Hearing this statement made both Minami and Blake perk their ears up with full attention. Their interests caught, Blake sat up straighter in his seat. The taller girl was about to speak but Yuko took her position back.
“It was a few months back; the middle of the night. It was pouring down. Mayu came home completely drenched at about three. I asked her where she’d been… She… She spoke about drowning… the rain… She didn’t make any sense. There was something… something in her eyes… As if it wasn’t really her… There may be no connection but the next day… there was that announcement about another victim of the Origami Killer…”
As much as the two girls wanted to believe Mayu had nothing to do with the Origami Killer and Jurina’s disappearance, they couldn’t help but find some sort of relation with the mentally unstable girl. They’re not accusing Mayu that she is the Origami Killer. They’re merely giving out what information they know about the girl pertaining to this case. This gave the two authorities before their eyes some hints. Blake and Minami quickly exchanged glances with each other for a brief moment.
Then looking away, Blake returned his focus on the other two figures. “Now can you tell me when exactly this started?”
“After she has awoken from her coma a long time ago,” Haruna answered.
“So who does she frequently visit for her check-ups?”
Yuko and Haruna glanced at each other nervously before saying the name of the very doctor that they knew so well along with Watanabe Mayu.
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Shinoda Mariko was busy clicking away on the keyboard of her laptop. The bright screen displayed a document that is in regards of a patient that just recovered from a traumatizing family situation. The doctor was focused with her personal assignments in hopes to prepare herself for the very patient shown on her screen appointment tomorrow. For a brief moment, she stretched her arms up into the air due to the lack of movements for today.
‘After I review this patient’s information, I should probably pack up and head home…’ she mentally noted to herself before resuming back to glancing over the data.
However, there was a sudden interruption with her work. The door to her very office room that her patients regularly enter in opened up to reveal two high authorities.
Blake and Minami scanned the area before them. Assured that there is nothing out of place within the room, they turned their full attention towards the only doctor sitting in the room.
“I’m Police Lieutenant Carter Blake and this is agent Takahashi Minami of the FBI,” Blake introduced themselves as he approached the desk. Seating himself in one of the two chairs across the doctor, he continued to explain their reasons for being here. “According to our information, Watanabe Mayu is one of your patients. We’d like to ask you a few questions about her.”
Mariko frowned at such demand from the man. Especially when it’s about one of her many close friends, Watanabe Mayu. ‘Just what exactly did they want to know about her?’ she mentally questioned as she shook her head. “I’m sorry. That’s impossible.”
“I beg your pardon?”
There was a small sigh coming from the doctor while she finally got off of her computer to face the lieutenant. “I’m bound by an oath of secrecy. Under no circumstances may I discuss my patients.” It was true. The doctors weren’t allowed to speak about the patients. It was rule that all medical professions must follow unless they wanted to get into trouble.
That sort of response from the doctor only ticked off Blake. A low growl leaving his clenched teeth, he leaned forth with a dangerous aura surrounding the man. “My job is to find Watanabe Jurina alive and I don’t give a damn about any bullshit oath.”
“It’s your duty to inform the police if you suspect one of your patients, Doctor,” Minami explained in a less vulgar language compared to Blake. She was hoping that her gentle yet firm approach would make the psychotherapist open up.
Mariko paused for a split second upon hearing the name of Jurina. She remembered hearing the news that the younger daughter of Mayu and Yuki had been kidnapped a few days ago. She remembered how worried and depressed she has been when she got out of her work. The poor little girl and their parents… The doctor eyes saddened but remained firm. “I’m sorry. I can’t help you. Now I must ask you to leave.” She knew for sure that Mayu was not the Origami Killer. Based on her MRI testing results and other tests on her brain, though she was emotionally unstable after such traumatizing event, she wasn’t the type to go out and drown little children; especially her own child. For sure, Mariko knew that Mayu could not be the murderer. Her brain was back to normal and she only suffered from depression.
Blake got up from his seat. “You need to cooperate for your own sake.”
Minami had a feeling she knew what Blake might be up to if this doctor didn’t give the answers that they needed. So she quickly added in, “I know you don’t want to protect a murderer. If you know anything, you must tell us, Doctor-”
“Are you threatening me?” Mariko’s voiced raised up slightly louder. “And how dare you call one of my patients a murderer!”
“I’m just giving you some free advice, Doc.” By the time the man had uttered those words, he was right up on Mariko’s face. His hands slammed against the surface of the gray desk. This caused the young lady to push away from the desk a bit, somewhat nervous about the lieutenant. The psychotherapist was not pleased at all though.
“Blake, that’s enough… Let’s get out of here,” Minami urged the middle age man to move out.
While Minami was going to pull Blake away, she heard Mariko’s angry remark towards their actions. Or more specifically at Blake’s actions. “I’m going to call the police and make a complaint about your behavior,” Mariko clearly voiced out her opinion as she reached over to the red wireless telephone to her left. It was to be expected since Blake has rashly demanded answers at such vulgar and terrorizing style that would make just about anyone cower. But just as she picked up the cellular device, Blake’s hand snatched the object away from the doctor’s hand.
When she shot a glare at the lieutenant standing above her, the color on her face drained when she saw his furious expression painted all over his facial features. She swore that the vein appearing on the side of his head could burst at any given second from such anger. Without warning, with the red device in his right hand, he grabbed the collar of her white lab coat. Minami became alarmed at such action from the lieutenant. So she hurriedly rushed over to the two individuals that were locked in a heated argument.
“Doctor, you’re really pushing my buttons. The only thing I’m interested in is saving that kid’s life. So you’re gonna be a good girl and tell me what I want to know or I’m really going to LOSE MY TEMPER.”
“Blake, stop that immediately.”
Minami was, once again, forced to resort trying to convince Blake to unhand the poor innocent victim. She didn’t want the same incident to occur with their previous encounter of the religious man earlier; especially to a well-known doctor like Shinoda Mariko.
The doctor could only slip a few words out of her barely parted mouth. “Let go of me, lieutenant. You… you have no right to threaten me at such an extent…” She was perplexed at the situation in hand. She really did care and worry about Jurina, true. She was scared about how she is doing, where she is, and whether the girl was dead or not. But for this authority to come up to her face and snarl how he only cared about saving the kid without caring who the culprit was only someone she so very disliked and view as a lower-being.
As if Minami’s and Mariko’s words actually was heard, Blake removed his grip on the doctor instantly. He backed away a few steps. Turning around, he then placed the red device from his hold onto the surface of the table. Then returning his attention towards the doctor, he did what nobody had expected. His hands flew out to grab the collar of Mariko’s once more and lifted her up roughly till she was standing on her two feet from the chair. In one move, he threw her to his left side. This caused the poor older girl to crash into her medical textbooks and files stacked on top of each other, soon landing hard on the floor beneath their feet.
She was in shock at the lieutenant’s action; just lying on the floor and groaning quietly in pain. “C’mon Doc, there’s an easy way and a hard way,” he warned. This should be enough coming from such authority. But Blake has more planned than what the other two individuals in the room were expecting.
Blake quickly walked around the desk and came upon the doctor. Lifting her up once more, he shoved her till her back was leaning against the edges of the desk. “It’s your fucking choice, sweetheart.” Then ruthlessly, he used one hand to keep his hold on her while the other hand to punch her straight across the face. That didn’t stop right there at all. The lieutenant was violent despite the victim’s gender, racial ethnics and age. He plunged his fist right into her stomach, causing the poor doctor to gasp. Right after that punch, Blake gave another right on Mariko’s left side of her face. She could do nothing other than become helpless at the hand of such violence.
The FBI agent had to take action quickly. And fast. Stepping in, she reminded Blake, “You have no right to hit her!” She was about to grab Blake away from Mariko but the officer decided otherwise. He flicked his attention for a second towards Minami and growled angrily.
“I’m saving a kid’s life, for Christ’s sake!” he yelled as he shoved the agent away with his right arm roughly. This caused the shorter girl to stumble backward at such force from the older man. “If you don’t like it, leave!”
Before the abusive man was about to take it further with the beating, Minami ran into him and shoved the lieutenant forward and away from Mariko, who was half-laying on top of her desk in agony. Her hands were away from her body, grimacing about the bruises and blood that now trailed from the corner of her mouth and end of her nose. This ticked off Minami at such sight created from the man she hated in front of her.
She shot a glare at Blake as he walked right up to her; staring her down with his own pair of glaring eyes. “What’s up with you, Takahashi? You getting cold feet? You don’t like to get your hands dirty, huh?! I thought you wanted to save that kid!”
Minami swore that if she didn’t keep her calm, she probably would’ve beaten this man all over till he was crippled for life with her skills. As much as she wanted to hurt Blake, she knew this was obviously against the rules of her job. At least for the moment. ‘Stay calm Minami, stay calm! As much as a jackass this damn lieutenant is, you need to stay calm.’ Keeping their intense eye contact together, she slowly spat out the carefully chosen words from her mouth.
“I want to save Watanabe Jurina just as much as you do, but that doesn’t give me the freedom to do what the hell I like. So you’re gonna stop this shit right now!”
There was a long silence that came between the two after that statement exited from the agent. Then out of anger, Blake shoved his way past Minami and turned his back against the girl. He was facing the wall on her left side, trying hard to contain his boiling anger that was building rapidly inside of his body. Blake soon turned his train of focus back to Minami. However, there was something different behind his eyes. It wasn’t anger… But rather the thirst for revenge and burning passion to bring a certain someone down beneath his feet. “I’ll get you for this, Minami. Don’t worry, I will not forget!”
Then as if on cue, Mariko’s voice was heard after that threatening message from Blake.
“Watanabe Mayu has had psychological problems since her first daughter died…”
Two figures quickly glanced at the doctor. She was now sitting on the edge of her desk, still retaining the bruised and bloody face thanks to Blake. It seems like thanks to his violence and possibly Minami interfering, she was willing to open up with some information in regards to Mayu.
“She feels responsible for her death… A sort of morbid neurosis… She is haunted by visions of drowning bodies… “ As she explained, Mariko walked back around till she was behind her desk once more. Leaning downward, she pulled open one of the many drawers from her desk. “A few weeks ago, after one of our usual sessions, I found this on the floor. It must have fallen out of his pocket.” And to the surprise of the two, she pulled out an origami figure. An origami figure of a white dog folded neatly in perfection.
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“I want you to assign every available man to finding Watanabe Mayu!” Blake barked his orders in his radio transmitter within the police car disguised as a normal every day citizen vehicle. One hand on the wheel and another holding the device, he was speeding through with the streets. The windswipers were working hard; clearing the many rain droplets that landed upon the front view of the car as fast as possible. Sitting right next to the driving lieutenant was none other than the FBI Agent Takahashi Minami in the passenger seat.
“I want a man outside her place day and night! Notify all agencies to start looking for her. I want you to keep an eye on the train stations, the airports, the bus terminals… I want every cop in the city on her ass so that if she moves, we know about it!”
Minami could only watch in amusement at Blake’s demands to finding this suspect. Oh how much she wanted to grab a recording camera and just record for once his expression just for the hell of it. But at the same time, she somewhat felt… wrong. Minami feels deep within her consciousness that they’re searching for the wrong suspect. That it wasn’t Watanabe Mayu who had done these evil deeds. She just sensed it and usually her tuition are accurate. But she could do nothing except watch.
The lieutenant was still barking and hollering over the transmitter, swiveling around right and left through the rainy traffic. “Yes… Watanabe Mayu is the Origami Killer.”
Mayuyu with be facing the third trial in the next chapter~
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