American Emperor, in an old house in Washington, Shuichi Akai walked up the stairs to the second floor.
After the rescue operation against Mihua International Hospital ended, he accepted the order from the FBI headquarters and immediately set off back to the United States, accompanied by James and Judy.
This was not a surprising ending. Even before the rescue operation began, he and Mamiya Shin had already anticipated that they would probably be transferred back to the United States in the near future.
After all, in the previous Naruzawa Sanpei incident, the FBI's forces in Tokyo, Japan, suffered a near-annihilation blow, and the losses were extremely serious.
Whether it is for accountability after the incident or the redeployment of Japanese forces, they really should come back.
But Akai Shuichi didn't expect that Mamiya Kokoro would actually die.
On the night of the rescue operation, while trying to attract the attention of the organization for him and Judy, Mamiya Kokoro was chased by members of the organization and eventually killed.
Until now, not only do they not know who specifically killed Mamiya Shin, they have not even been able to get his body back.
Judy also suffered a great blow in this incident. After returning to the United States, she kept herself locked in her room and saw no one.
Akai Shuichi was indeed worried about her, but he didn't know how to persuade her.
As for James, his injury has improved a lot after returning to the United States, and he even attended an internal FBI meeting today.
Akai Shuichi didn't know the content of the meeting, but he knew without thinking that it must be related to their next move.
Maybe after this meeting is over, they will return to Japan.
Therefore, Akai Shuichi could only take advantage of this short period of time at his disposal to do some things that he had to deal with.
For example, what Mamiya Kokoro left him.
In the basement on the night of the rescue operation, Shuichi Akai was keenly aware that his military bag seemed to have been tampered with.
A note was stuffed inside. On the note was Mamiyaxin's handwriting, which contained a series of addresses in Washington.
Out of a hint of instinct, Shuichi Akai, who had already had a premonition of something bad, concealed the existence of this note from Judy.
Soon afterwards, news came from some low-level undercover agents placed by the FBI within the organization. On the night of the rescue operation, the organization killed an undercover agent lurking inside the organization and recovered his body.
Based on this extremely coincidental time and place, and the identity of the undercover agent they found out about within the organization, Akai Shuichi quickly came to a conclusion that he himself could not believe.
The undercover agent who was shot dead by the organization was Mamiya Shin, who lost contact with them on the night of the rescue operation.
This information came so suddenly and conclusively that they could not even find any place to refute or doubt it.
Mamiya died.
After learning this information, Judy, who could not bear the blow, fainted on the spot. James was not yet awake at the time. Shuichi Akai reported this information immediately.
Soon afterwards, he received an order from headquarters, requiring them to immediately set off back to the United States.
To this day, Judy has not recovered from this blow, and although Shuichi Akai is equally sad, he has not forgotten important things.
After returning to the United States, Shuichi Akai first inquired with his colleagues at the headquarters, and then he learned that the address on the note was the address where Mamiya Shin lived during his time in the United States.
That is the old house he came to now.
This is a two-story small villa with ordinary decoration. Because it is not in a prosperous area, the price is relatively cheap. It is reasonable to buy such a small villa with Mamiya's salary.
Of course, there is another possibility, that is, this small villa was actually delivered to him by the headquarters.
But no matter what the real situation is, in short, after Mamiyaxin left the American emperor and went to the Japanese undercover organization two years ago, this villa was completely empty.
Akai Shuichi also got the key to the villa from the headquarters under the pretext of helping Mamiyashin sort out her belongings.
Although no one has lived in it for two years, there is not much dust accumulated in the villa. Someone should clean it regularly.
This is enough to show how much the headquarters attaches importance to Mamiyaxin. He is indeed a very capable agent.
And his unexpected sacrifice was indeed a big blow to the headquarters.
There is a study room on the second floor of the villa. There is a large bookshelf in the study room. There are a bunch of books neatly and densely placed on the bookshelf, including books from different countries and regions. They are very mixed. It seems that their owner should be a Reading lover.
Although he wanted to say this, Akai Shuichi was keenly aware that these books were actually very new, with almost no signs of being read, and they were most likely used to fill bookshelves.
One of the books corresponds to the information on the note.
“Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance?”
Akai Shuichi raised his hand and took the book off the shelf.
Shuichi Akai had heard of this book, which was published a few years ago. It was hailed as a representative work of American postmodernism and a philosophical book rich in Zen philosophy. Unfortunately, he was not interested in this type of book.
Opening the book, a small hand-drawn postcard fell to the floor. Shuichi Akai stretched out his hand and caught it before it fell to the floor.
At the top of this postcard is written "To my best disciple", and the signature below is...
Black Feather Chikage.
【Heart? Does it mean Mamiya? So this postcard was written to Mamiya by the person signed by Kuroba Chikage? 】
And he also used the title of apprentice...is he Mamiya's teacher?
Disguise.
In an instant, Akai Shuichi thought of this.
Mamiya Kokoro has a very special method of disguise, and her level of disguise is not inferior to the organization's Thousand Faced Witch Belmod.
This person named Kuroba Chikage is most likely the person who taught Mamiya Shin the disguise technique.
[Black Feather Thousand Shadows...]
Akai Shuichi thought about it carefully, but did not find relevant information in his memory.
It's someone he doesn't know. If he has a chance later, he should probably investigate...
Holding this postcard, Akai Shuichi carefully flipped through the book in his hand, but found nothing noteworthy.
[It seems that there is only this postcard. 】
Is this postcard what Mamiya wants to pass on to him?
Akai Shuichi put the book back in its place and looked down at the postcard in his hand.
There doesn't seem to be anything special on the postcard. It's just a simple condolence and blessing from a teacher to his students. The words are not rigid in format, but reveal true feelings.
On the other side of the postcard, Shuichi Akai saw the mailing address of this postcard.
"New York, Queens..."
"Buzz."
At this moment, there was a noise outside the villa. Akai Shuichi looked from the window and saw a black car parked outside the villa.
(﹃) This chapter completely clarifies the relationship between Mamiya Shin and Kuroba Chikage
(End of chapter)
