Ichijō Mirai is missing.
From the first second of training to the fifth day of training, the police found no trace of him.
If the partially comatose police broadcast of 'I'm Messiah, if you need help finding me, I thank you from the bottom of my heart' doesn't count as a trace, it's the fact that he's been missing since the beginning of the training program.
Most of the police were shocked when the morning news aired and the host calmly uttered a long string of bizarre words, and the anchor didn't cut the feed, letting her flow through it.
They took the host, the anchor and the Minister of Information back to the police station and asked in a friendly manner, "Tell me! Why are you broadcasting for criminals!!!!"
Inuo participated in the interrogation, sitting in the interrogation room, ready to create an accident if these guys said anything wrong, and to make Ichijō Mirai's identity clean even if he was exposed.
But strangely enough, every time he introduced himself, the faces of the people under interrogation changed subtly, and their body language showed that they were in a state of tension.
They all said, 'What, a criminal? Is that man a criminal? Oh my God that's shocking, but he said he was a police cadet and needed help, and he wasn't being chased by a manhunt, he was in a special training program at the police academy? .
The main character is a bewildered, innocent, surprised, and well-behaved guy who tries to put in a good word for Ichijō Mirai.
Not only did the TV station's subjects do this, but the police went to great lengths to find the cell phone store by following the phone number in the code, and then spent several days tracking down the two residents who had answered the phone and interrogating them.
Both the owner of the cell phone store and the two residents, who had been continuously polluting the airwaves in the wee hours of the morning, first reacted to Inuo and the other officers in the interrogation room with the question, 'Oh my God, that man is a criminal, blah blah'.
The coincidence rate is almost 100%.
Almost, because while they, like the TV station's victims, praised Ichijō Mirai's law-abiding behavior and said they were only helping out out of the goodness of their hearts, they also subtly attacked the police, implicitly suggesting that it's not unusual for the Tokyo police to have ghosts, not to mention training for this!
The attack from the taxpayers is strong.
Police: "..."
They held a meeting to discuss the situation.
"The rules aren't perfect," Inuo cuts off some of the police's irritatingly cheeky behavior, "and there's no mention of confidentiality."
"It's not against the rules for a cadet to tell about his training, in fact, it's a miracle that he's convinced so many people that he's proven himself." He analyzed it rationally on the surface, "And the rules of the training had been distributed in advance, all the instructors, the cadets and some of the police knew every single rule."
After all, if an outrageous statement like 'I'm actually a police cadet undergoing special training' can convince people, any other reason can have the same effect.
Adding a temporary elimination rule isn't very convincing.
It doesn't matter whether the cadets are convinced to accept it or not, the most important thing is that it doesn't convince the 'acceptance faction' of the police.
The police are currently divided into two factions, the 'rejectionists', who reject Ichijō Mirai, and the 'acceptanceists', who warmly welcome Ichijō Mirai.
Inuo is clearly the former.
The battle between the two factions could not be decided by one or two police officers, and in the middle of the meeting to discuss whether or not to impose punishment, he received a message and exited the meeting room.
The message was for three ward numbers.
One of them was the ward number of a police cadet who had been unlucky enough to be hospitalized for injuries sustained in an accident during the arrest.
Another was for a police officer who had fallen, hit his head on a closet and had his hand stepped on during an arrest, and who was one of Inuo's men, so he was supposed to visit him.
The last one was in the ward of an interrogator.
When he entered the police station, he was injured, his ankle was twisted and badly sprained, as if he had seen something and ran wildly on his hands and knees in fear, trying to escape, even though he had accidentally twisted his ankle, he ran wildly, and was left with a severe sprain.
According to him, when he was going home, he wanted to climb the stairs instead of the elevator, but he was too tired and fell down and sprained his ankle, and when he gritted his teeth and climbed up again, he fell down and sprained his ankle again.
And she justifiably resisted taking time off to go to the hospital: her salary would be deducted for taking time off.
Letting a man on trial limp out of the police station would be providing the media with a prime source of controversy, so the police forcibly transported him to the hospital and talked to his superiors to secure a certain period of paid leave.
As the three men's wards were in close proximity to each other, Inuo thought it would not be out of the ordinary to stop by the other two wards after visiting his subordinate, and it would emphasize that the 'denialists' were not willing to give up on targeting Ichijō Mirai.
So he went first to the interrogator's ward.
The ward was a single room, and the interrogator was alone. He was lying on the bed working on his computer, and when he heard the door open and saw Inuo, his body tensed up again.
But what puzzled Inuo was that he was clearly in a state of uncomfortable tension, yet he greeted him with a somewhat comfortable and familiar greeting, "Inuo."
And he only called him 'Inuo', and he did it with such familiarity that it seemed like he did it often.
It was after a pause that he added in a sudden realization, "Oh, you're the police department, so I should address you as Inspector Inuo."
As if by default they were on the same side, the subject smiled a little bitterly and patted the desktop computer that had been temporarily moved to the bedside, "Even if you're on leave, you have to work or you'll lose your job if you're discharged from the hospital."
"How am I doing?"
He's a bit nervous, "I'm sorry, it's my first time to be interrogated by the police, I may have made some mistakes, but I'm very loyal to
Inuo: "..."
The interrogator really knows him.
Why? Could it be...?
"You've been very kind to me," he tried his best to contain his excitement and thrill, "My lord has told you about me?"
Or was it 'Don't worry, there's someone of mine in the police station, a police sergeant named Inuo, who will take care of you' that was mentioned with the recognition of his ability?!
Subject: "?"
He's a bit confused: "Huh? No, but you're so obvious, I could tell as soon as you introduced yourself."
So he instantly stopped crying and complaining, and immediately stood firm as if nothing had happened.
I can't help it, even in the police station there is 'Inuo', it looks like even the real name has been changed, it seems to be a completely loyal dog, can't afford to mess with it, really can't afford to mess with it, it's better to hold your nose and continue to believe that 'the Lord is a police cadet' it.
"Because..."
The interrogator continued, and in the middle of his sentence, suddenly heard the wheels of a medical trolley and a knock at the door, and immediately turned his head to look.
The door to the ward was pushed open, and a young doctor pushing a cart entered the ward, with somewhat overgrown bushy black hair, wearing a mask that revealed only a pair of dark red eyes, and said gently, "Mr. Inuo, I've come to administer your medicine."
"Huh, two Inuo?"