[Year 0, 18:32]
[11th District, Tokyo]
[Wanted Index: Four Stars (Void)]
[Current Debt: 29,992,870.7]
In the living room of the temporary residence, Ichijō Mirai called Gin and asked his own question in a slightly uncertain tone, "If three years later, you arrange for me to be an undercover police agent, what might be the reason?"
He emphasized, "I'm a good Organization Newcomer."
"It's definitely not because I'm too good as a newcomer and the organization can't stand me, so they quickly kicked me into the police force to cause trouble for the enemy camp, right?"
From the system's hints about the conditions for unlocking [Police Academy Newcomer] and Gin's attitude in the 3rd year, this was the most obvious answer, and Ichijō Mirai was able to make a judgment without even thinking about it.
It was a good judgment.
On the other end of the line, Gin, who had no idea what was going on, fell silent.
A suspicious silence.
It's like a normal person just thought 'My colleague really deserves to die', but then received a call from a psychopathic colleague who asked angrily 'Are you planning to let me die because you think I really deserve to die?!' and then remained silent.
Amid the suspicious silence of humanity is the sound of racing cars.
"Hurry up and make up a false story to deny me," Ichijō Mirai urged, "otherwise I will be sad."
Gin: "..."
Vodka's voice came from the sound of racing cars, "The police are still tracking us, what should we do?"
He judged, "They chased us so relentlessly and persistently, yet they were so timid as to just stay far away. They probably mistook us for wanted criminals."
Vodka's voice dropped an octave, "The wanted criminal who committed a crime in a residential area that night..."
The police do not know the true identity of the murderer, but they believe that the murderer is not just one person, but a gang, and they are in a gang-eating gang with the victims.
It just so happens that Gin and Vodka are convicts, and they are not easy to mess with at first glance. Then I wonder if you are the wanted criminals that the police are chasing recently.
There was no other way. As the police explored the ruins of the residential area, they understood more and more about the terror of the perpetrator. By now, the Tokyo police were in a state of panic.
Each member of the team thought that the gang they were in charge of might have participated in the horrific gangster-on-gang operation that night.
Gin was aware of their activities and knew that their undercover agents in some of the gangs had recently either been cooperating with the police to close the net, or had been shaking in their boots in the absence of evidence.
"You heard," Gin asked without answering, avoiding Ichijō Mirai's fateful question, "I'm being hunted."
"Talk to you later."
Just as he was about to hang up the phone without feeling guilty, he heard Ichijō Mirai's serious voice, "If I wasn't so outstanding, would you let me join the police and go undercover?"
[Organization Newcomer] and [Police Academy Newcomer] are two very different episodes, and the most important difference is the time, which means one thing: since the game is set up this way, it means that Ichijō Mirai will go from the organization to the police almost no matter what.
Gin tapped his finger on the bottom of the window and replied, "Not generally."
"What makes you think I'd send you to the police? It's impossible."
Although Ichijō Mirai is a new member who is so outstanding that the Codename Organization repeatedly hesitates, 'Does the organization really need to accept this thing?', but undercover in the police...
Considering Ichijō Mirai's background, it is very convenient for him to go undercover in the police. He does not need to go to great lengths to create a fake identity that is acceptable. He can convince the public with his real identity.
If the organization is willing to give him access to the police.
For the son of a police officer to fall into the darkness, and for the Organization not only to pursue him, but to put him in the middle of the police force, is to give away the talent that they've fought so hard to get.
...Wait a minute, this outstanding talent is Ichijō Mirai.
Ichijō Mirai is a person who is more comfortable than the members of the organization. He is born to be a convict. He doesn't need to worry about defecting to the police. Instead, he should worry about the safety of the police.
Gin immediately changed his tune to, "If necessary, yes."
The organization couldn't be the only one suffering.
The police had to see what their brilliant son of a police officer was really like, swallowing his pain with a twisted face and a belly full of pain.
He asked again, "Why would you ask such a question?"
Ichijō Mirai heard the sudden change in Gin's tone, guessed the reason for the change, and condemned, "You are so cold-hearted and have no sympathy at all. I worked so hard to practice shooting, hoping to impress you."
Gin: "?"
Let's not talk about this description which is definitely malicious at first glance, just say 'I worked so hard to practice shooting'?
"You're not at the temporary residence?" He immediately focused on the point, "Where are you practicing your shooting?"
And skipped all the steps and just asked for the answer, "How many people died?"
That sounds familiar.
Ichijō Mirai says perfunctorily, "Not a single one."
"You can assign me normal missions in the near future. My shooting skills are much more accurate now. I will never miss you with three shots in a row again."
He gave the exact data, "Even if it's a hundred meters, I can hit it with my police pistol."
Gin again: "?"
Again, not to mention the '100-meter pistol shot' which is no longer a matter of marksmanship but closer to luck, it sounds even worse that such precise data can be given.
"There was no big noise or news, and you didn't attack the police station," Gin sorted out the clues and speculated, "You were traveling alone and encountered the police who were searching for you, so you killed them and robbed their guns, and fired with the police gun, and happened to hit the target about a hundred meters away?"
Well, at least two people are dead.
The police had at least two people to act, and each police gun had five bullets, which means "at least ten people died."
"...Hello?"
Ichijō Mirai had hung up.
He tossed the phone into a corner and studied the next question: would what happened in year 0 affect year 3 in real time?
It was a good question.
Ichijō Mirai looked at his current tools: Low-level Painkillers, Low-level Wound Medicine, One-time Case Encountererer.
He clicked on all of them without blinking, then lifted up the hem of his shirt and looked at the wound that didn't hurt at all.
The wound was already scarred.
But now, as if it had been subjected to strenuous exercise, the scar wriggled, and brownish blood spilled out, spilling more and more, and Ichijō Mirai felt no pain, but could clearly feel the muscles in his abdomen twitching.
He casually dried the blood with alcohol and gauze, and looked at the wound again.
The scar had split and was slowly re-scarring, but it was smaller than the initial scar.
After the scarring was successful, it cracked and re-scarred again, and was noticeably smaller than the initial scar by almost a third.
Ichijō Mirai kept wiping the blood away, keeping an eye on the wound until it faded away, leaving only a narrow, faint brown mark.
Without hesitation, he logged out of Organization Newcomer, logged back into Police Academy Newcomer, and lifted up the hem of his shirt in his dorm room at the police academy to see the wound on his abdomen.
The rough scar was gone, leaving only a faint brown shadow.
"Wow," Ichijō Mirai's eyes glazed over, "I can't have a real star on my Most Wanted Index."
Otherwise, the next time you log on to Police Academy Newcomer, you'll probably be in prison.
In other words: "I have to kill everyone."
At the same time as he said those very words, Ichijō Mirai heard Ishida Eiko's voice, muffled as if it were coming from a distant sea.
Immediately, the game prompts: [It is detected that someone has pressed the [Emergency Call] button. Do you want to exit the game?]
Ishida Eiko's voice cleared, "Mirai?"
"You have a delivery, the courier said it had to be signed for in person, yes, it's a delivery from Florida."
"It has the icon of a game pod on it."