For Toru Amuro, who is lurking in a criminal organization, working as a convenience store cashier is a very suitable disguise.
There is a mixture of people here, and there is a lot of traffic. The police officer responsible for contacting him can blend in with the customers who come to shop. When checking out, he mixes the information note with the change and hands it over. Occasionally, he can also pass on information through the laughter and banter between colleagues.
Toru Amuro stood in front of the cashier, counting and calculating the prices of the products one by one. Then, in a corner where outsiders could not see, blocked by the large items, he hid a piece of paper that was as wide as a palm or two fingers without leaving any trace. Inside the sleeves.
"This is change, please walk slowly."
He counted the coins and put them back in his hand in front of the person opposite. The customer with the basket nodded and left the long queue.
After continuing to receive a few more customers, Amuro turned to look at another waiter: "Uesugi, can you help me temporarily? I feel a little uncomfortable."
After getting permission, he walked into the bathroom, took out the note, and opened it to read.
At this sight, his face became serious.
For the sake of concealment, the size of the note was small, and naturally the content on it was only a few words.
However, although the content is small, the meaning is clear-for necessary reasons, Sato Keigo cannot be killed before being prepared.
Necessary reason? be prepared?
Amuro Toru guessed the possible reasons behind this. As a secret policeman, he knew a lot about some dirty ideas. For a while, various power and money transactions came to his mind...but he rejected them one by one.
His current undercover mission is the absolute first priority. If nothing unexpected happens, it would be perfect for a bureaucrat who has committed numerous crimes to use it as a bargaining chip for an organization to gain trust.
Why be prepared?
That night, when he made sure that there were no surveillance around, he found the person in the team who was in contact with him - Kazami Yuya.
That is, the guest who passed information to him during the day.
"How is this going?"
The time for the meeting was tight, and every minute was extremely precious. Amuro asked Kazami Yuya the first time he saw him.
"That's right, after discussion with the people above..."
"Keigo Sato has many victims. If he dies accidentally, the investigation into his crimes will come to an end."
"In this case, the victims will have no choice but to swallow their anger and will not be able to obtain the compensation they deserve."
In the island country, if you make a mistake, you must bow before doing something wrong. If you can't do it, you should kneel down. If you can't do it, you can commit suicide.
Under the concept of the dead being the greatest, all mistakes will end with the death of the person involved.
And if a bureaucrat like Sato Keigo is assassinated and dies during his term of office, and someone investigates and discovers that he committed various crimes during his lifetime and caused countless damage to the people——
In this situation, in this magical place like the island country, the response is often not that he deserves to die, but -
Is it any sympathy for you to still chase people after they are already dead?
He did so many wrong things during his lifetime, but now that he is dead, those people he hurt are still alive and well!
In this case.
Of course, it's not that these people don't understand the truth and say such ridiculous things. They just stand and talk without pain. When injustice happens to them, the cries of these guys are more earth-shattering than the last. .
Moreover, for other bureaucrats, this kind of thing will also have a sense of sadness. In order to avoid the same fate in the future, they will tacitly put pressure on the investigators to end the investigation quickly and treat it as nothing. Happens generally.
As for the voice of the victim...it doesn't matter. The upper class and the lower class are of different races. Who really cares about the life of the hens laying eggs in the chicken pen?
"So..." Toru Amuro opened his mouth. He knew this truth. If he wanted to expose the truth and let the victim get justice, he could only send him to the trial stand...
But is this really the reason?
Emotion made him choose to believe, but reason made him question it.
When did the island nation’s public security forces, which were restructured under the guidance of the CIA, do such humane things?
He looked into Kazami Yuya's eyes, trying to read other meanings, but to no avail.
The junior's eyes were full of calmness, as if he firmly believed in this statement.
In fact, the former Jianggu Ling, like this younger generation, believed in justice and due retribution. Criminals must be brought to trial and lynching must be strictly prohibited. Legal principles are more important than anything else.
And now——
Apart from ambitious goals, the essence of being an undercover agent is to allow good people to force themselves to become bad people, and good things to become evil.
Of course, in this process, those with perseverance can restrain their thoughts, keep themselves firmly in front of the bottom line, and never go beyond the limit.
Rei Fukiya, the character who regards the island country as his lover, certainly has such perseverance.
But now, when we all know what happened, there is a slight flaw in his persistence.
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For anything, it is difficult to go from zero to one, but it is easy to go from one to many.
Just like when he thought that the bomber who killed Kenji Hagihara deserved to die...then by the same token, he, the person who killed Kagemitsu Morofushi...also deserved to die.
When holding this belief, rather than completing the undercover mission of the public security, it is better to say that he is doing his best to use his own means to make this country better at the last moment of his life...
For him now, it is also worth doing to directly kill people like Sato Keigo to prevent them from continuing to harm the people.
"Okay." Toru Amuro, who couldn't find any doubts in Kazami Yuya's eyes, accepted the result and continued to ask, "Then what should be done as follow-up actions?"
"It's like this. The higher-ups plan to pick up a death row prisoner with a similar height and build from the prison and use it as his substitute. The assassination method will be a bomb, and Sato Keigo's mansion will be blown up together with it."
"What about Sato Keigo himself?" he asked.
"He himself will be secretly detained until the dust settles, and he will be judged accordingly and receive the punishment he deserves!"
Hold a trial after the organization is destroyed... Amuro Toru thought about it, and this method did seem much more reasonable than killing him now.
As a stand-in, the death row prisoner can cope with the organization-the organization is not ready to do DNA testing on just any dead person.
Secret detention can stop Keigo Sato's crimes and will not cause more victims.
Post-event judgment can also ensure the authority of the law and maintain social stability.
Kill three birds with one stone.
After thinking clearly about the joints, Toru Amuro agreed to this method. After confirming the subsequent contact information, he left here alone.
However...will things really go as smoothly as they planned?
