Outside an ordinary noodle shop in an ordinary community, in an ordinary van, Takagi Wataru stared at the entrance and exit of the noodle shop with a solemn expression, unable to move his eyes away for even a moment.
It was a hot day at noon. The van was exposed to the scorching sun, and the air inside the car had a strong feeling of heat. This made Takagi Wataru inside the car very uncomfortable.
The current task of Inspector Takagi Wataru, head of the Criminal Investigation Section 1 of the Metropolitan Police Department's Criminal Investigation Section 3, is to follow up. This is undoubtedly a hard job, boring and boring, and requires a high degree of concentration, otherwise the target person will be missed. But I made a big mistake. It was a very thankless job.
But Takagi Wataru didn't complain at all, because in order to prevent accidents, surveillance tasks are usually performed by multiple people. People always take a nap, and it is easy to miss something when one person is watching. Only two people can watch together to reduce the number of people. Errors and omissions.
And now, the person who is being followed by Takagi Wataru's partner is none other than his senior who joined the job two years earlier, the same director of inspections, and the "Flower of the Metropolitan Police Department" whom he admires, Sato Miwako!
Thinking that until just now, he and Sato Miwako were in the same small space breathing the same air, he was still a little distracted, and even greedily wanted to keep the surveillance job longer. As for the stuffy heat in the car, that's not it. What a ball!
"Crack!"
The door of the passenger seat of the van was opened, and a dashing-looking woman with short hair in professional attire got into the passenger seat.
She closed the door, took out a box of hot lunch boxes from the convenience bag she was carrying and handed it to Takagi Wataru.
"Come on, Takagi, thank you for your hard work. This is the lunch box I brought you. I don't know if it suits your taste!"
"I can eat anything, Sato-san, thank you so much!"
Takagi Wataru excitedly took the bento the goddess bought for him. The warm bento heated by the convenience store clerk in the microwave completely warmed his heart and almost melted his heart.
In fact, Takagi Wataru was not hungry. Just when Sato Miwako was away, he took the time to eat two red bean bread and drink a can of milk. The milk expanded the puffed bread, and his stomach was not only not hungry but even a little full, but the goddess' With the lunch box in front of him, he suddenly felt hungrier than ever before and wished he could just swallow the lunch box and the box whole.
As for why he eats red bean bread and milk, this is what Takagi Wataru told him when he asked Yamazaki-senpai, who was respectfully known as "Stalking Yamazaki" in the "Shinbu-gumi", for the secret of stalking.
The Zhenwu Team is a special operations team for combating warriors within the Metropolitan Police Department. It was established only a short time ago. It was specially established a few years ago to deal with the increasing number of crimes committed by warriors. It is specifically used to fight against and arrest those warriors who commit crimes.
After all, ordinary police officers who are only equipped with M37 revolvers are very powerless when facing powerful martial arts practitioners. The use of strong thermal weapons in urban areas can easily cause panic among citizens. Asking martial arts schools to stop everything makes them appear police. The inspection hall is incompetent, so the existence of special operations groups against warriors like the Zhenwu Group is very necessary. When it is not to encircle and suppress large underground organizations, but to deal with a single or a few martial criminals, that is when the Zhenwu Group takes action. Judging from the situation in one or two years, it is indeed effective in combating crimes committed by warriors.
It's just that most of the members of the Zhenwu Group came from various schools. They didn't go to the police academy or pass the National Civil Service Examination to enter the Metropolitan Police Department. The difference in their origins made other policemen in the Metropolitan Police Department naturally reject them. .
Moreover, most of the martial artists who will be recruited by the Metropolitan Police Department are not celebrities. For those serious martial arts schools, they are the so-called country warriors, who are very looked down upon. If a martial artist becomes a policeman, it will be even more looked down upon, and other members of the Metropolitan Police Department The department is also wary of the Zhenwu Group, which can be said to be two-faced.
Fortunately, Kondo, the leader of the Zhenwu Group, is a big-hearted idiot and doesn't care about these discriminations and prejudices. The members of the Zhenwu Group are very convinced of this idiot leader. The deputy chief Hijikata is a very strict person and treats his subordinates who make mistakes. No mercy, with Captain Kondo mediating the conflicts between the Zhenwu Group and the Metropolitan Police Department, and Deputy Chief Hijikata strictly restraining the Zhenwu Group, the Zhenwu Group and other departments of the Metropolitan Police Department did not interfere with each other, and no conflicts have ever occurred, but unless the mission At that time, the two sides basically had no contact with each other.
But generally speaking, the reputation of the Zhenwu Group in the Metropolitan Police Department is not good, and it has always been synonymous with vulgarity and brutality in rumors from other departments of the Metropolitan Police Department.
Takagi Wataru also met Yamazaki-senpai by chance during a mission to cooperate with the Zhenwu Group. He found that the Zhenwu Group was not as rude and arrogant as other colleagues said, and was quite easy to talk to, so he formed a bond with Yamazaki-senpai. We often keep in touch in private and play badminton together in our free time. This time Takagi Wataru took on the task of tracking. This was his first time performing such a task. He was afraid that he would not perform well, so he went to ask Yamazaki-senpai for advice on what to pay attention to when tracking. matters, and strive to have an outstanding performance in front of the goddess.
"You can only eat red bean bread and milk while watching. This is a ritual and a belief!"
When Takagi Wataru asked Yamazaki-senpai for tracking techniques, Yamazaki-senpai said this to Takagi-senpai. Takagi-senpai took it down seriously and swore in front of Yamazaki-senpai that he would abide by Yamazaki-senpai's instructions. It's just a goddess bento. The temptation was too great, and Takagi Wataru could only bear the pain and break his oath.
Being able to eat the bento that Sato-san heated for me (heated by the convenience store clerk), I really...I really...death is worth it now!
Yamazaki-senpai, I'm sorry, but besides, the bento is so delicious!
Takagi Wataru ate the lunch box and burst into tears.
"Hey, Takagi, why are you crying? Is the bento too spicy? I'm sorry, I heard someone said that you seem to like spicy food, so I ordered spicy chicken rice. The Sichuan cuisine in Zhongyuan is indeed too spicy. Is it spicy? Come on, I bought you a bottle of water! Drink some, it will feel better!"
Sato Miwako shed tears when she saw Takagi Wataru eating bento. She thought he was crying because he was being burned. She had also cried because of the Sichuan cuisine in the Central Plains. She thought Takagi Wataru was also like this. Fortunately, she was prepared. , hurriedly took out a bottle of mineral water and gave it to Takagi Wataru.
"Thank you, thank you Sato-san, I'm fine, the spiciness is just right!"
Of course, it was impossible for Takagi Wataru to tell Sato Miwako that he was moved to tears. He just took the mineral water and drank it in a big gulp.
"Takagi, thank you for being willing to accompany me in tracking." Sato Miwako looked at Takagi Wataru who was eating and drinking happily and said movedly, "I applied to the superiors for a partner to be followed, and you are the only one who is willing to accompany me without disdain that I am a woman!"
There have always been more men than women in the police profession, especially those on the front line of criminal investigation, and there are even fewer of them. Among criminal police officers, there has always been contempt for women, because women are not qualified for many of the tasks of male criminal police officers. of.
Take the ongoing stalking as an example. Unless there is a reason, the task of stalking will not be assigned to a female detective. The reason is also very simple, because a female detective cannot stand and pee!
When stalking, you often need to stay in place for several hours or even ten hours without moving. You can prepare food and drink in advance, and you can drink energy potions when you feel sleepy. But what about other physiological problems? The big one can hold it in, but what about the small one? The male detective can stand and use a bottle to solve the problem, but what about the female detective? Can you prepare a basin?
The target of this tracking is the biggest suspect in the case that Sato Miwako has been tracking for a long time. The owner of the noodle shop they are tracking. This suspect is very cunning and has never exposed himself in front of the police, but no matter how cunning the suspect is, he cannot remain so. Cunning, that's why Sato Miwako proposed to keep a 24-hour surveillance on the suspect. As the direct person in charge of the case, of course she has the unshirkable responsibility for this surveillance mission. She can't pass the hard work to others and then come back to pick peaches after she's done. It looks too ugly to eat like this.
So when her boss, Officer Megure, planned to assign another person to be responsible for tracking, Miwako Sato took the initiative to take over the task.
However, she encountered something very embarrassing when she applied for a partner to tag along with her. No one was willing to tag along with her. In the end, Takagi Wataru saw Miwako Sato's embarrassment, so she "reluctantly" accepted this thankless task.
This mission is not just a case that she is responsible for, but also includes Sato Miwako's determination to prove to others that female detectives can be as good as male police officers. However, she encountered a cold start before she even started, so Sato Miwako is very grateful for her. She rescued Takagi Wataru.
Takagi She was startled when he heard this, smiled dryly, and did not answer as an excuse to eat.
He didn't know how to answer Sato Miwako's words.
It can’t be said that when she requested to be a partner in surveillance, all the inspection chiefs in the Metropolitan Police Department who were not working got into a fight to get that spot, and then the inspection chief Odagiri found out and reprimanded her severely, and then This tracking task fell on Takagi Wataru, who had just finished his previous case and had some free time.
He couldn't speak, he really couldn't speak. How could he say such a reason? So Takagi Wataru could only remain silent. After finishing his lunch, he said: "Sato-san, don't get me wrong. My colleagues are just busy. You also know that once the stalking starts, you never know when it will end, so I am relatively free, so it’s definitely not that I don’t want to partner with you.”
This is an excuse that Takagi Wataru racked his brains to come up with while eating a bento. He can't always let Sato Miwako think that this is her own problem, right?
This excuse was indeed not clever, but Miwako Sato still nodded with emotion and said to Wataru Takagi: "Thank you, Takagi."
Thank you for comforting me, Takagi.
Takagi Wataru knew that he had used this excuse to let go of Sato Miwako, but he really couldn't think of a better way to say it, so he could only stare at the door of the noodle shop, pretending to be watching carefully.
Seeing that Takagi Wataru was so actively engaged in work, Sato Miwako stopped talking and began to follow closely. After all, two pairs of eyes can find more clues than one pair of eyes!
Sato Miwako didn't show it on her face, but she actually felt sorry for Takagi Wataru in her heart. Just now she said she was going to buy supplies, but her real purpose was to go outside to find a toilet. Couldn't she really use a basin to solve the problem? No matter how strong a woman is, she can't do this!
The female detective is really at a disadvantage when it comes to tracking, and there will be a lot of inconveniences. Takagi Wataru doesn't care, but Sato Miwako always feels that she owes Takagi Wataru.
And what about Takagi Wataru? He stared at the noodle shop with little business and no customers, but what he was thinking about was...
Sato-san actually knows my taste, bought me a bento, and was so polite to me. Is she interested in me?
Men of Takagi Wataru's age are the most likely to have certain illusions. It is not a joke to say that he even picked out the name of his child when he meets someone. Of course Takagi Wataru has not reached that point, but because the goddess actually knows his taste , and kept whispering to him, which made Takagi Wataru couldn't help but have the illusion that almost all men have had - Could it be that Sato-san is interested in me?
Thinking of this, Takagi Wataru's heartbeat immediately increased three times faster, his breathing became rapid, and beads of sweat broke out on his forehead.
Uh, is that spicy chicken rice really too spicy? Why is Takagi still sweating now? Or is it that the temperature has risen again at noon, and there is no air conditioning, and Takagi finally can't stand it?
Sato Miwako felt a little distressed when she saw Takagi Wataru's face covered in sweat. She still had to stay in this sweltering van on a hot day in July. She had just gone out for a walk, but Takagi Wataru had been staying in the car since the morning. , and in order not to attract other people's attention, the van's engine was turned off, and the air conditioner naturally could not work. Faced with the high temperature, they could only resist.
It's time to use your secret weapon!
Miwako Sato's eyes flashed with solemnity, she took out something from her convenience bag and handed it to Takagi Wataru.
The coldness in his hand cheered up Takagi Wataru, who was suffering from the sweltering heat. When he lowered his head, he saw that it was a bottle of frozen mineral water!
"Takagi, just keep holding on. After a while, the sun's position will shift and the van will be covered by the shadow. Then we will feel better. Before that, just hold on with this!"
Sato Miwako said to Takagi Wataru.
"Sato-senpai, thank you so much!"
Takagi Wataru was so moved that he wanted to cry again.
Seeing Takagi Wataru being so excited, Sato Miwako thought it was because he was suffering from the sweltering heat. She couldn't help but feel even more guilty: "Takagi, it's me who should say sorry to you. If it weren't for my insistence on tracking the suspect, You don’t have to suffer like this with me.”
Takagi is a good man. I caused him so much suffering, but he thought he was thanking me so much for a bottle of ice water...
Sato Miwako sent a good guy card to Takagi Wataru in her heart. Of course, for Sato Miwako, the good guy card is a bonus card. Takagi Wataru can get Sato Miwako a good guy card this time, so it is not unfair.
