Everyone on the red team: "..."
After a month or two together, they had gotten used to listening to Ichijō Mirai's every word and acting on command.
But they'd also gotten into the habit of pretending not to hear this guy's provocations at the right moment.
Only two of them reacted to this, Matsuda Jinpei gave a sly sneer, signaling: "Don't run away from school if you can".
Morofushi Hiromitsu, on the other hand, sidled his head and thought hard for a few seconds before asking with a smile, "Mirai-san has never used cash before, right?"
He had lost his meal card on the first day, so he swiped theirs randomly every day.
He had never seen Ichijō Mirai use cash.
Ichijō Mirai took a good look at it, and said, "I'm impressed, Morofushi-san."
It's a white dumpling filled with sesame seeds.
"I can't believe you're picking on my sadness!"
He turned to Onidzuka Hachizo and asked, "But there are some things that are controllable and seemingly uncontrollable, aren't there?"
"Like the amount of cash in the bank."
"If the police or the bank purposely minimize the amount of cash during the training period, just to make ends meet..."
This could be exploited if the bank was smart enough to say something in advance about an event, and only open for a few days, or only a small amount of business.
If you know that someone is going to rob you, and you know that it's going to be in the last few days, the easiest thing to do is to just get through the 10 days, and then clean up your act and give out benefits to your customers, and they'll be happy instead of disgruntled.
Onidzuka Hachizo knew this, and immediately said solemnly, "Administrator Matsumoto mentioned this."
"Depending on the number of Blue Police personnel available for special training that day, the bank will appropriately increase the amount of cash for that day," He said, "and these are reconciled by the bank and the police personnel the day before,"
"If something goes wrong the next day, and the police can suddenly increase the number of people involved in the training, then the extra people are not allowed to enter."
He emphasized the words 'change' and 'suddenly', obviously knowing that this is also an opening, and after a pause, added, "...Will not whore you out."
Then he lowered his voice and said, without changing his color or his mouth, "In the first few days, there will be about 300 million yen in cash in the Beika Bank."
One percent of that is three million.
But: "You have to succeed in the robbery and evacuate to get the money."
Onidzuka Hachizo was alert, "You don't really want to rob them all and let the red team win, do you?"
"This time the police are standing by!"
"It's easy to rob a bank, but by limiting it to a bank where a cash truck is present, and requiring a successful escape, you're deliberately limiting you so that you can't win."
Loading cash takes time.
To Onidzuka Hachizo's way of thinking, the easiest way would be to do it quickly, grab a small or large sum of money, and run away before the police arrive.
But Ichijō Mirai was a little concerned about the amount of cash.
It's not so much a case of grabbing a small amount of money and running away, struggling to win on the red team, as it is a case of grabbing it all in one go.
...That's no way to win!
Ichijō Mirai smiled at Onidzuka Hachizo, "Okay."
Instead of answering the question, he lazily took a few steps back and exited the group of instructors, "Then we should be able to move around freely for the next few days, right?"
"After all, robbing a bank involves stepping on the spot."
Onidzuka Hachizo nodded his head, "According to the rules, from now on, you will be able to move around freely, all the cadets from the blue team will still reside at the police academy but will be centralized every day, going to the police station in the morning to perform auxiliary help, and returning to the academy in the evening to rest,"
"During this time, you will have no personal contact."
He looked to Ichijō Mirai, and to the other members of the red camp, "The police academy has been notified, and I will be sending the red camp numbers and membership forms to the range later, so you can go directly to the range to pick up your weapons of action, and as long as they are within the realm of the 'robbers can do it', you can use them, no matter what, and if they are not available, the police academy will find them, and pass them on, even if it's a machine gun. Even if it's a machine gun."
"But."
Onidzuka Hachizo was serious, "Just because the weapons will be replaced with special drill weapons and the bullets will be pigmented bullets doesn't mean they're just toys, and they'll still cause a certain amount of pain and damage when they hit the human body,"
"If you hit the forehead or heart at close range, and the other person's body is weak, it could be fatal."
"...This is just a drill, no innocent people should be hurt, that's what we all agree on, right?"
This advice, Onidzuka Hachizo focused on the rest of the Red Team: after all, they're just police cadets, and they're likely to behave in a panicked manner, so it's important that they're warned ahead of time.
Ichijō Mirai is also a key message to the rest of the Reds: Ichijō Mirai is very good, but he has a dangerous edge to him.
He's only 20 years old, a young adult, and he's usually calm and collected, but he also has a mischievous streak in him.
Ichijō Mirai replied, "Yes, yes, yes."
"Is there anything else you'd like to announce?" He inquired, turning around and waving his hand without looking back, "If not, then I'm leaving, right?"
Onidzuka Hachizo: "Yes."
So Ichijō Mirai stopped and turned back.
"For the last operation, all the cadets were given individual cell phones with a locator device inside," Onidzuka Hachizo said, "and your own cell phones are still here at the academy,"
"Are you going to take it for this operation?"
It was a no-brainer, and Ichijō Mirai answered briskly, "No."
And he replied for someone else on the same team, "We're not taking it."
The cell phone has been sitting there at the police academy for so long that it's uncertain if there's anything foreign inside, Onidzuka Hachizo agrees with the choice, nodding his head slowly, "Then."
He paused again and again, as if he knew he shouldn't say certain things, but nevertheless, in front of everyone, he stood up in military posture and solemnity, his head hung down, and solemnly uttered the blessing that police officers shouldn't say to robbers.
"I wish you good luck in your endeavors."
A system alert popped up.
[Mission Name: Bank Robbery.]
The mission details read.
[It's a duel of unequal camps. The Red team, with only six men, is about to pull off a bank robbery in bustling Tokyo, but the vastly outnumbered Blue police are waiting to capture the unrivaled Sun....
...As the commander of the red team, the sun that both camps have jointly certified, what kind of incredible cases will you commit?]
The rewards for the missions are divided into stages, and will vary depending on the level of completion of the mission.
Ichijō Mirai had gotten so used to this that he now only looked at the highest level rewards, defaulting to his obsessive-compulsive approach to completing quests with a high quest collection level.
As he casually scanned the hints, he walked toward the shooting range with such skill that he didn't even need to look at the road.
The range was guarded.
Two police officers, not very old, twenty-five or twenty-six at the most, with stern faces, realized Ichijō Mirai was on his trail when he got very close, and immediately said, "No one involved, please stop, this place is now..."
Their gazes caught Ichijō Mirai's red eyes, and their interruptions came to an abrupt halt as one of them stared in disbelief, "Me-Messiah?!"
The other immediately opened the door and led the way, "Messiah-san, please follow me, we've already set up the conventional weapons."
They had ten copies of each of the conventional heat weapons, such as pistols, laid out on the table.
Ichijō Mirai casually picked a pistol, tossed it, weighed it, raised it, pointed it at his forehead, and pulled the trigger without hesitation.
"Boom!"