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~ Same day evening ~

At SPF center, police men are gathering in the emergency meeting room. They take out the big white board and everybody gathers around the big meeting table, in the middle of the room with a huge screen set to the front of the wall. But nobody gets seated. " The Captain is coming in. " A cop shouted. Everybody turns towards the door. The captain came inside. " Captain Salute! '' the cops saluted. «" Salute Salute! Everyone gets seated, we don't have time to play around." the captain said while getting seated. One man went in front of the meeting room and switched on the big screen that is connected to a computer. He opened a powerpoint with some pictures in it. "Sir... these are the men that officer Yuudai captured the other day with my help. These men are not giving us any information at all. We also looked into their information and we found nothing. They are completely non-existing people in our system. What my guess is that there is someone in Inaho valley or the crime valley, who is able to hack into our system or delete information from data files." "You mean like a hacker?" Captain Lee asked. "Well there is no way that there shouldn't be hacker in there if they have all kinds of people in there, don't you think so officer?" Captain Lee added.

"Yes sir. But my point is that punching and kicking their asses and arresting their men isn't gonna help us. Cuz all this time we had only done that and it hasn't changed a single thing. They would gather more men as we take them out." The officer standing in the front said. "What we should do is find an easy way to get into Inaho valley. That's the only way we can start taking them out. There is no point of attacking them and no point of planning anything without knowing what's going on inside there. Right captain?" The officer asked again. "True. Whatever we plan here won't work there since we have no idea what they are planning on doing next. Like last time, we knew they were kidnapping women but when we got in there, there were no women at all. They simply fooled us so we would break into Inaho so they could easy transport all the weapons from the port." Captain Lee puts his hand under his chin and thinks.

The meeting room has gone silent. The police officers who are in a higher position are the only ones inside the room. The rest is standing outside of the emergency meeting room, looking inside through the glass walls. They can say that everyone is deep in thoughts. "Actually...." Shoyo lifted up his head. "Yes officer Yuudai?" Captain Lee spoke. "We might not be able to do anything since we know nothing in there cuz we aren't in there. But what if.... "We hire someone inside the valley. Like a betrayer. That's right. That's the easiest way." Before Shoyo could finish his sentence, officer Sato said. Sato kind of stole Shoyos' idea.

"No sir. That was not my idea." Shoyo said while looking at the captain. "That's of no use sir. Like you see, we arrested these men the last time but they didn't tell us anything no matter what we did. So do you really think that would work?" Shoyo asked, getting up and looking at officer Sato. Everyone else also looked at Sato. Captain looked at Sato for a moment and then questioned, "Then what is your plan Yuudai?" "What I was going to say, we shouldn't take anyone away from them, instead we should give someone to them. One of our men. Someone can be trusted by both us and Inaho gangsters. Someone who can be like a third party. Not a police man though. If we go, they will find out about it. We have to send someone who can do what they want. Like killing people and taking part of their job. As for us, we can't do that since we are police. But if we send someone who can do that.... then there will be no problem. He can send us information while working with them and not getting caught." "So you want somebody to go and kill people?" Officer Sato asked. "That's the only way I see if we weren't able to do nothing about those bastards for all these years. Right Officer Sato?!!!" Shoyo raised his voice. Once again everybody looked at Sato.

"So you want to send on of your fighters officer Yuudai?" Captain Lee asked. "Yes." "What's the point? Its the same as going undercover. Except he is allowed to kill." "yes. but this fighter is like a ninja. when I say a ninja.. he is like a ninja in all those movies sir." Shoyo said while smirking. Everybody looked at Shoyo and looked at captain Lee and nodded. Meaning they all are in the same side as Shoyo. officer sato is the only one looking at shoyo aggressively. captain looked at sato and looks back at shoyo. "Alright then!" he said. "Officer Yuudai can do whatever he wants to get this thing done. And also, make sure our fighter doesn't get hurt either." "Yes sir. And no way I would let him get hurt. He is someone important to me... I wouldn't wanna loose him." Shoyo said. After a few minutes of discussion and chattering inside the meeting room, Captian left. Shoyo takes his notebook and leaves too. Officer Sato doesn't get up from his seat and keeps looking agressively at Shoyo who leaves.

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~Outside of SPF Center~

"Officer Yuudai... hang on a minute." Captain Lee yelled. "What are you really planning to do in Shoyo? Sending a fighter? Remember they are fighters. For this job, it should be someone that is smart enough to act carefully, not to fight. What am telling is.... whoever it is, I don't trust him." Captain Lee... a straight man. Who speaks his mind straight no matter what other people think. "I know. But this guy is a special one sir. I trust him to the fullest. No need to worry sir. We can manage this." "Do you really trust him that much? He is just hired civilian, you know that right?" "For you, yes. For me... He is the most trustworthy person ever." Shoyo said while putting a smile on his face. He can say that captain Lee is doubting. "Trust me captain." Shoyo says to himself while looking at the captain.

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~ At hotaru's ~

An old couple are arraging the dinning table. "Oh it's hot!" "Here is the fish." "Keep it there." Three rice ball cups wtih chopsticks, spoons and forks. An old man places the water cups near the rice balls. At the middles of the table is a big cooked fish surrounded by lot other side dishes to eat with rice.

"Mmmmm... It smells good. I'll dig in." "No wait! Hotaru isn't home yet. You will finish the fish and there will be nothing to her." "Oh! You only worry about her. Not about this old man who lived with you for almost 50 years! How cruel! The grand-father of Hotaru gets up at the dinning table and sits on the couch out of anger. "I do worry about you honey.... It's just.. Hotaru loooooves fish. You are like Hotaru when she was little and her mom said her to not eat the fish until dad gets home." Grand-mother walks to the living room and took the photo album out of the cupboard underneath the TV. She sat next to grand-pa and looks through it. Few seconds later, drops of tears started to apear on the photo album.

"Hotaru was looking for this since her birthday. It was under there the whole time?" Grand-pa asks while wipping away her tears. "Yes. I didn't want her to see this. It's filled with good memories that can turn into bad memories in no time. That's why I burned it infront her eyes about a week ago. But I took away the photos." "But, why would they turn into bad memories?" "Because... granny closes the album and looks at grand-pa. "Am afraid, if she recalls that incident we would loose her smile. And her!" "Am home!" "Welcome back!" Grand-ma quickly wipes away her tears and puts the album under the couch.