(( After her wild trip to the vicious city of sins, Claire was caught by her father who turns to be Special agent John.))
At one of the city's decent tall apartment towers. Claire took the elevator with her dad to the 13th floor and entered the average moderate not very fancy apartment, it was clam and stuffy with the big round table in the living where a woman was standing next to it looking at the pair who just entered but mostly at the old man who hmphed annoyed with blaming eyes.
Claire walked in without greeting her mother who were standing by the door with crossed hands and exhausted expression. She walked to her small room. She threw her body on the small bed next to the small window attached to the fire stairs outside. She dipped her head under her pillow trying to block the shouting of the arguing of her parents outside, piercing her ears over and over.
Outside, In the living room...
"What is it now, John!" said the woman as she rolled her eyes to the man prejudicing his every move.
"Do you know where she was. Do you have any damn idea where I had to pick her up," shouted the angry old man.
"No, John, I don't know"
"Chinatown. The hell shit where all criminals lie in_"
"And you came here to gloat or what" the woman retorted back balmily.
"Gloat!! Is that what I'm doing!!"
"If you're not here to gloat about me failing to take care of my daughter. Then why are you here. Surely not parenting, you've no right to do that. You abandoned us, John, for years. You left us and cut all ties" Lewis raised her tone exasperatedly.
"What? It was work. I was working to give you a better life to protect people from killers and criminals"
"No, you're not doing it for the job. You are obsessed with that killer that killed Kyousuke, at first, I thought it was normal, he was your partner, but you have gone too far. You kept secrets from me. Regret has been eating down our life. You went mad then travelled and didn't return home for years then for the sake of our kid, we got a divorce to provide a normal life for her"
"You're blaming it all on me. I tracked that killer because it's my duty, Lewis. My responsibility to catch him" he panted his finger on his chest taking a step forward, but the woman replied loudly "And we are not? We were also your responsibility... but no more, no, John. You're a father to that girl but you're not the same man I used to know. Goodbye John, I don't want to see you again"
Lewis went to her room while John quietly went to his daughter's room and without entering, he just knocked and gently said "Baby girl, you sleep!"
... Claire sat crunching on her bed.
John stood outside the sill "You know; I do love you. There is nothing more precious than you. Bye Baby, call me if you want anything___"
Loud sound of music interrupted the man, so he left dispirited, with anger rising visibly on his face, cursing the man responsible for his misery.
John returned to the FBI HQ to see Lucas just got in with his stuff. The blonde head man was fixing his staff on the desk accustomed to him in the corner along with other desks cramped together poorly around.
"You're here!" John said to the man taking of his jacket and hanging it on his chair.
"Well, sir its 2.00 am but I guess you all here don't care about this"
"Oh, the newcomer" a redhead chick walked in with her laptop in her right and a cup of coffee in her left scowling the new member of the team with her green eyes as she was wearing casual grey hood and white skirt over black leggings, little too comfortable and not watching for formality in that sense of fashion.
"Yes, I am the infamous newcomer Lucas_" he smiled innocently but was interrupted,
"Lucas Harold, 32 years, 8 years in the wire, one of the youngest leaders in the covert operations in your department... you like China, though you don't eat Chinese food. You are just fond of their noodles, that's why you have those expensive chopsticks in your drawer"
"Wow, nothing less from the FBI" he tried to his his surprise by giving a compliment, but the girl proudly called actively "Nope, that's not a work of an agent… I am," the girl looked to John, John nodded to her. She looked to Lucas. "We're a special team on special targets. I'm Marcie, ex-hacker. Now... I'm here"
Joey entered a room full of disks and people going here and there. He was John's partner who never takes off his shades, he walked to his disk and turned on his laptop.
Lucas turned to the man "And you're Joey. What are your specs!"
Marcie pulled him "He isn't much of a talker, but He is DT"
"Defensive Tactics... I see," the man looked to the big board behind to see a photo of their CCTVs reports hung up with the young man wearing a strange festival mask, he asked "So that masked man__"
"The Goblin" John called strongly.
"The Goblin... is the target so, what do we know about this guy?"
Marcie handed him a USB to the blonde-haired man "ask me if you needed anything else"
"Marcie, about the bags" John called.
"Yes, sir. 40 kilos of heroin went messing after the shootout. But we saw nothing with the goblin on the recording"
"He has someone watching his back" Joey said.
"They might have slipped it from the tunnel" Lucas interrupted.
"What tunnel?" they looked to him.
Lucas walked to a shelf and grabbed a map down to the table "This is the Blue Waves night club. We suspected they have been smuggling gambling money from there to Amano Sushi basement," the man pointed on the map, "as you know they are both Yakuza grounds"
"Joey, get prepared. Lucas, you are with me on the top of the raid, lead the way"
At the entrance of Chinatown, a 2 floors old building containing 5 rooms total, 2 on the first floor and 3 above connected by a metal rusty stairs rooted there at the end of New York city and just at the earthly Hell's gates. Rai walked up the steel stairs to the 2nd floor and reached the first flat in front of him, he pushed his hand between the iron bars on the open narrow window and pulled a hidden key from under a flower pot placed on his window from inside. He opened his door and pulled 4 heavy bags from inside and sent the same text to 2 different numbers on his burner phone then vanished deep into the city...
Rai took his bags and walked in Chinatown masking half of his face by his scarf... he intentionally pumped into a man. The man stopped and looked around then quietly followed him silently, but he lost track of him as he entered a narrow alley in the darkness.
"I'm here, man. Alone as you said__," -Gun cocks from behind freaked the man shouting, "I'm unarmed. I swear"
"I know," called Rai from behind, "that's just for show" the man turned to turn but Rai unchecked the safety button.
"What, man? What!?" the man panicked.
"Still, eyes forward… where is the money?" cool headed and sharp voice ordered, while the man shakenly asked "I have to see my shit first"
Rai threw him two bags beside him the man grabbed them but shouted "Damn, they are heavy"
"Yes, 20 kilos are heavy weight"
"20! No way, I'm a small crook... selling young fellas and junkies. That's for the big sharks"
"Well, isn't it time for you to grow up?"
"I don't have much money"
"Just give me the 20 grand agreed on" the man slipped a chunk of rolled money on a bag behind.
"Are you sure about that! It's your loss"
"I care less about the money... I have other plans"
"What plans"
"..."
"Hey man... are you still here!" The man turned to find the masked ghost had already vanished and moved to another building with another buyer to give him the other 2 bags with the same deal.
After he finished conjuring his secret plans, he made a call "It's done"
A week scarred creepy voice answered "Now, wait for the fire"