Kenji Hagiwara was in charge of evacuating the hostages.
He led one of the hostages out of the bank as if in a primitive barter, handing the hostage over to the police and receiving a million yen himself.
In the early days, when the bank's stock of hostages was relatively large, this kind of transaction was not dangerous, and the police would honestly abide by the principles of the transaction.
The slower transaction allowed the police to mobilize a sum of money urgently, and then mobilize more money later.
This was a live transaction.
Even though the police have clarified that this is a drill, many Tokyo residents are watching the scene, even more so, and this attention seems to create a heavy pressure that makes Kenji Hagiwara, who is wearing a gas mask, feel tense.
What makes him even more nervous is: "How long will it take to pick up the kindergarteners from school..."
Over the headset, Ichijō Mirai complained, and the sound of chairs being swiveled, "What a pain in the ass."
He reflected seriously, "Next time, I won't keep hostages, I'll just grab and run."
...Don't just reflect on it! Is this something to reflect on?
There's no such thing as 'next time'!
Then came Matsuda Jinpei's comment, "How long does it take to unlock a safe? Why is every safe locked?!"
He's opening the safe on the ground floor.
The safe is reserved by the customers, and the bank has recorded the unequal amount of money in it, and as vicious robbers, they don't want to let go of even the money and gold nuggets in the safe.
But now it's not a question of whether they'll let the safe go, it's a question of whether it'll let them go. "I don't want to pick the lock anymore!"
"How many bags have you moved? Hurry up," Furuya Rei urged, "After evacuating the hostages, I will go down and continue moving the money in the vault. I have only moved less than half of it."
I have only moved less than half of it. He'd gone down to the bank lobby to guard the hostages, and now his head was spinning.
Just thinking about the layers of cash and gold bullion in the vault made his back and legs ache.
Money is hot, but money that's meant to be returned is a bit of a turn-off.
"Probably not soon enough, there's a lot of cash in the safe, some of it isn't cash, it's other people's valuables that need to be screened," Wataru Date said, "This one's open!"
On his side there was a slight turning sound, the sound of the lock turning and the door opening as he pressed his ear against the safe.
"Two-thirds of the box is open, and we haven't filled it with ten bags of bills yet... Didn't the bank say they kept a record of the cash in the safe? It's in the office, isn't it? Want to go get it?"
"Why don't we go get it, we're robbers anyway..."
Even the serious Wataru Date was cracking up, and Kenji Hagiwara couldn't help but respect him.
He led a thirty-something year old kindergartener to hand over the hostage to the police.
The police officer was not happy that his child was out of school, and looked at him angrily: "You arrogant, smug, tail-wagging muggers!"
In view of the drill, there's probably a correction to be made: fake robbers.
Kenji Hagiwara: "..."
In fact, ignoring the guy yelling about boredom and hanging his tail in shame, they weren't at all proud and wild, let alone wagging their tails smugly, they were all hard at work, each one of them shrugging their eyebrows and dying of exhaustion.
He took the case from the police officer, tugged on it, pulled it over, smiled perfunctorily in his gas mask, and turned back.
The police were on lockdown ten meters from the bank.
Kenji Hagiwara was tired of walking the short 20 to 30 meters from the lobby to the security area 30 to 40 times, and he was tired of carrying bricks.
In the midst of his fatigue, he heard a statement that was more in keeping with the police's furious glare, "I saw the police transporting a lunch, and I want to stop it now, it's twelve o'clock before the first meal, and I saw a couple of police vans transporting lunches, so should we continue with the trade of the hostages?"
"Do you have any plans for lunch, will you not accept food from any source, will you ask the police to bring the police food here, or will you order it?"
It's Morofushi Hiromitsu.
He emphasized 'ordering', obviously favoring ordering.
It was also possible that he thought Ichijō Mirai would choose a la carte.
Almost instantly, Ichijō Mirai replied, "Order."
"If you order," He explains, "the parents picking up the kids from school will be even angrier,"
"It won't help, but I'll be happy."
"...Next time, no hostages at all."
And naming the hostages, "Furuya-san, find out what kind of meal the hostages will be served, Kenji-san, suspend the deal for now, Morofushi-san, stop sniping and come down."
Then, as if coaxing a child, he casually coaxed his hard-working classmates, "It will take some time for the police to deliver the lunch, so in the meantime, order some adult males to help load up the money in the vault and carry all the cash to the lobby, okay?"
The coaxed children did not include Matsuda Jinpei and Wataru Date.
Matsuda Jinpei said quietly, "We have to keep opening boxes."
The hostages can move cash, but they can't open safes.
It's too late for emergency training. It'll make the robbers anxious.
"But," Ichijō Mirai says with relief, "the other students can help you."
"You can teach Furuya-san and the others, then rest for a while, guard the hostages, and listen to Furuya-san and the others open the safe, how about that, isn't that great?"
Morofushi Hiromitsu didn't move, "I'm still in charge of the sniper guard."
Kenji Hagiwara: "..."
He could hear it: Private Marseille, classmates, you guys do the dirty work, and we're just barely getting by on our own.
But we can't help it.
Ichijō Mirai is the conductor, and he's responsible for the overall situation, for gaining some advantage for the red side, for setting up a victory when the red side is in the ascendancy, and for making a breakthrough when the red side is in the disadvantage.
Morofushi Hiromitsu is the best sniper among them.
Both of them have a good reason to be fishing.
And it wasn't exactly 'fishing', although they weren't doing any physical work, Kenji Hagiwara guessed that they must have been mentally strained, and it wasn't any easier than they were...
"Rationally," Wataru Date's voice came along with the sound of the safe opening, "I realize that Mirai-san and Morofushi-san are busy, much more so than opening boxes, but,"
Furuya Rei: "I don't know why, but I've always had the urge to punch someone."
"the urge to punch someone," Kenji Hagiwara closed the door to the bank and rummaged for a closed sign to hang, "is it just me?"
"Don't doubt yourself," Matsuda Jinpei said quietly, "Be firm."
He questioned firmly, "What are you two doing with your teammates' mentality!"
Ichijō Mirai went along with the crowd, "How can you bully a teammate, Morofushi-san?"
"We haven't reached the hardest part of our bank robbery plan yet, there must not be a single gap between teammates, or else all of them will probably be eliminated, how can you engage in a teammate mentality at such a crucial time?"
"I'm disappointed."
Morofushi Hiromitsu: "."
"I'm sorry to disappoint you," he looked at the police through the sniper scope, "but the police seem to be more disappointed,"
"They seem to be getting a little anxious that we're not continuing the hostage exchange."
In the sniper's eye, the police who had been methodically, partly in charge of picking up the hostages, partly in charge of taking the time to calm them down, letting them sign the agreement and sending them to the hospital, got anxious in the same place, they looked at the bank's closed sign, and talked to each other and discussed a lot.
The snipers in the vicinity were also more eagerly observing the situation inside the bank.
Morofushi Hiromitsu didn't pay attention to the three or four snipers in the vicinity, and the snipers didn't pay attention to him either, as they silently crossed their horizons and observed each other's camps, "Some high-ranking police officers got off the bus and walked up to the cordon, and are supposed to ask us why we're not exchanging the hostages all of a sudden and if there's any change inside the bank."
"How do we answer?"
It's not just about the answer, it's about the attitude.
Offering to exchange attitudes is a gesture of goodwill on the part of the robbers.
Demanding a million yen for a hostage is a gesture of goodwill compared to the threat of hostage-taking.
Demanding that the robbery be broadcast live on TV is a provocation, and one that's not meant to be, but is clearly aimed at pressuring the police.
In the absence of a live broadcast, even at a disadvantage, the police have some initiative, and the source of that initiative is simple: the police have surrounded the bank.
When the bank is surrounded, even if there are some bad clashes and the police make some bad decisions for the hostages in order to subdue the robbers as soon as possible, the police will still be able to turn black and white without changing their colors and put some of the blame on the robbers when they announce it to the media.
The hostages would not have had a chance to make accusations, and the hostages, who could not have survived much, would have cooperated with the police.
But this is a drill, even if the robbers and hostages are 'dead' out of the game, they can still speak, the police initiative is reduced.
With the live broadcasting of the police's every move under the eyes of countless Tokyo residents, the initiative that was already in jeopardy disappeared completely.
Not only Tokyo residents, but also residents of other areas and even other countries.
Under these circumstances, the Tokyo police have an important role to play: they must solve the robbery perfectly and quickly, under impeccable circumstances, to bring the drill to a close.
At this point, the chances are high.
As high as 0.001%.
And now, Ichijō Mirai can offer two very different choices, but they are both the same.
Option one: make another offer.
The robber's good-natured, good-natured reappearance will make the watching public even angrier at the incompetent police, who will angrily criticize every decision they make, regardless of whether or not it is justified.
The reason for this is simple: the police were helpless in the face of a group of fake robbers with such a good attitude, completely revealing their incompetence and their lack of power to protect the citizens, and the citizens who usually pay taxes and use part of their income to provide for the police will of course be angry.
Option 2: Provoke again.
When the robbers are provoked and the police are unable to do anything about it, the citizens will be angry and accuse the police of being stupid.
"I didn't realize it was noon and their infiltration team hadn't arrived yet," Ichijō Mirai mused as he pulled up the surveillance camera, "I thought that the first time the police surrounded the bank, an attack team would try to break into the bank through the back door or something."
"even though there were many hostages in the lobby."
Hostages are not a big problem. They'll be gone by the end of the fight.
Ichijō Mirai has never eaten pork, but he's seen a pig run, and he's never robbed a bank and not left in time, but he's held hostages in the bank, but he's seen a robber and hostages fly to heaven together.
However, this is the treatment of bank robbery in New York.
Ichijō Mirai, somewhat unskilled at his first bank robbery in Japan, thought for a moment, "Their attack team should be ready to take advantage of the special time for lunch, between twelve and three o'clock."
"Forget it, just give them an anger buff, and get your nose in the air."
He commanded, "Furuya, pick some of the remaining hostages who can't carry sacks, and after Kenji sends out the order list, you stand close to the edge of the bank and shoot the hostages whenever you see any suspected non-cooperation from the police."
Furuya Rei reacted for a moment: "To be caught on camera?"
"Well," Ichijō Mirai said, "let the camera catch it, and after the shot is fired, be careful, retreat at the first opportunity, don't get hit,"
"In case you get red paint on your leg or arm, you'll just be a casualty."
"And Kenji, the first time you shoot you remember to respond to the subconscious attack of the police, they won't necessarily shoot but they will definitely draw their guns and try to subdue you in a physical fight, and if you are subdued..."
He thought for a moment, rephrasing, "If you're overpowered in front of countless Tokyoites, well,"
"You suck."
Kenji Hagiwara: "..."
It's not about being lame!
"But then," Wataru Date hesitated, "the police,"
He knew Ichijō Mirai's strength, knew that as long as Ichijō Mirai was around, he could easily slip the police through the cracks, causing them to lose ground in the eyes of public opinion, and even if they won the drill, they would only be able to lower their presence for a while with their tails tucked between their legs.
But...
It's not good that the reputation of the police is in tatters, and that many people who trusted the police just a little bit are mistrusting them again, even more than before, right?
And at the end of the day, they're police cadets, and they're police reservists.
Ichijō Mirai knew, "It can't be helped."
At the start of the operation, he had predicted that there would be some hesitation or hesitation on the part of his classmates, who had a favorable view of the police, and so he smoothly stated the answer, "I would rather have innocent people killed by robbers as they try to find their own way out of trouble."
"Nor do I want any innocent people to see their survival probability reduced to zero by placing all their hopes of survival on the police, on some incompetent others."
"Now, the police, who can only cower outside the bank and surround it, who are afraid to make a move because of the hostages and public opinion, who haven't even begun to move in with their assault squads..."
"I don't want to admit that they are the police."