Akai Shūichi was certain that the man he was chasing had no sense of pain.
Anyone with a sense of pain wouldn't be able to jump from the fifth floor and then move normally, even if there was something in between, even if he didn't land directly on the ground, but on the roof of a car.
He was also sure that the guy he was chasing was deliberately letting him chase him.
It wasn't a hard thing to speculate on, when the first time he lost him and soon found his trail by accident, it might be hard to speculate.
But when the second, third, fourth time, every time he tries to follow him reasonably well, he finds traces of the target again when the hunt is over, whoever it is, will be able to figure it out without a second thought.
It's not so much a pursuit as it is an assessment by the pursued of the pursuer's ability to observe the pursuer.
So the question is: why would a criminal assess the capabilities of an FBI agent?
An ordinary criminal will only have two emotions when faced with an FBI agent he has never met before, one is fear and the desire to run away, and the other is disgust and rejection and the desire to kill.
Genius criminals, generally only have these two emotions, and occasionally will have a sense of sympathy for a particular FBI, but basically only in the case of the FBI investigator, understand the strength of the FBI, that they are evenly matched, just different camps.
At the very least, it is the FBI investigator's outstanding growth ability, that one day he will grow to an incredible point, qualified to become his opponent.
The third emotion can simply be understood as a sense of seeking rivalry after a long period of impunity, due to the fact that one rarely encounters any effective setbacks.
But not the 'Master'.
He doesn't understand strength before sympathizing, nor does he recognize potential before cultivating it.
Rather, he evaluated Akai Shūichi's strength without moving.
...He must have been disappointed with the suited FBI man in the hotel lobby.
Akai Shūichi was surely disappointed with the suited FBI man in the hotel lobby.
He sends another message to Jodie with a short report of his findings.
Discovery 1: The 'Master' is a full-fledged criminal.
The reason why he has just come into the view of the New York FBI is because he has just arrived in New York, not because he has just become a criminal in New York.
Finding 2: No pain perception.
Finding three: looking for a rival, currently targeting the FBI.
And...
[Bad personality, strong desire for control.]
The FBI had already had a theory about this, but Akai Shūichi had only verified it from the fact that while the pursuer seemed to be chasing the pursued, the pursued was actually controlling the pursuer in an unquestionable manner.
There is no need to verify, after all, the code name 'Master' expresses it very well, and the code name 'Inuo' which corresponds to the subordinate of the other party expresses it even more vividly, and even if a novice who has never known this case where there is no murder can speculate, it can be inferred that the other party is a person with a strong sense of control.
And it is assumed that the 'Master' has a criminal career of at least three years.
Considering his age, it could be up to fifteen years.
Three years is not enough to meet the level of sophistication that 'Master' has revealed, but he is a talented criminal who can spend three or five years of a normal criminal's life in one year.
After sending the message, Akai Shūichi received a quick reply from Jodie: [OK...]
[I'll go to the database and make a match right away.]
Jodie added additional information for Akai Shūichi: [No blood detected in the broken vehicle...]
[1/3 of the escape route has been detected, vehicles used along the way have been detected, and all fingerprints have been collected, but the target's fingers in the video have Band-Aids on them, so the probability of fingerprints being left behind is not high...]
Sweat and hair are more difficult to find than fingerprints.
[The lawyer who talked to the subject is not Inuo, and has already explained the conversation.]
Jodie explained briefly, and said: "The FBI has already gone to her house to look for the basement.
Akai Shūichi looked away from the building-lined New York, stopped on the rooftop, paused in his pursuit, furrowed his brow, and repeated the words from the text message, "...Apprehending criminals?"
The 'Master's' goal is to catch a serial murderer?
From the time he appeared, his target was quite precise, never a criminal, not even to the FBI, even if he encountered the FBI, he would quickly pull out and leave, at most just provoking a few times, without really doing anything to the FBI.
Such a guy, in fact, some strange, for the FBI, is a good news, but also a bad news.
Because: [I have a feeling he's going to be known as the "criminal's nemesis" one day.]
The bad news is that this kind of person will definitely attract a lot of people who worship the strongest.
Akai Shūichi read the message, then looked up into the distance, and saw from afar that the traffic on a certain street suddenly paused, and then dispersed like ants, each scattering.
It was the 'I'm here' signal.
He looked at it, and instead of pursuing it, he replied to Jodie: "You have to be careful.
After evaluating the pursuers, this arrogant and bossy guy with a bad character would probably evaluate the strength of the person in charge of the pursuit.
*
"That's the end of the chase?"
Ichijō Mirai was disappointed. He glanced at his wristwatch and was even more disappointed, "Three hours."
Alas, the warmth of home only lasted three hours.
"It's been a long time since I've exercised so strenuously," He exclaims, "dreaming of the scene of my arrest."
And commented on Akai Shūichi: He has good abilities.
Unfortunately, with only one person, even that ability is discounted.
If you want to catch a criminal who takes long walks without the support of your teammates, you'll have to follow the criminal straight ahead, work twice as hard, and pursue him with no room for error.
"A police force without colleagues is like a small fish swimming alone in a river, only to be caught by criminals," Ichijō Mirai turned back and waved goodbye in the direction of Akai Shūichi, "I hope this gentleman doesn't sit up in the middle of the night and call me by my name, or I'll feel guilty about it."
System: [...]
You're really good at being a player and a villain when you're worried about the world...
"By the way," Ichijō Mirai looks like he just remembered, a little worried, "such a powerful FBI is just out of place with the waste police, he's not just a normal passerby NPC, is he?"
"Could that be one of the things 'I' care about?"
He was a bit gloomy, "Oh no, I didn't think of it just now and accidentally played it, 'I' won't be angry, right?"
According to the game's plot, 'Ichijō Mirai' worked for the FBI.
"Then it could be a colleague you care about, or an enemy you care about?"
Ichijō Mirai earnestly nodded his forehead and shoulder a few times in a gesture of silence, "I'm so sorry for not bringing a friendly experience to my coworkers, and for not directly eliminating the enemy."
"I will definitely change it next time."