Akai Shūichi's eyes settled on the hesitant tone of the texts, recalling those spirited red eyes.
He looked up, meeting the carelessly amusing text messages on the projection screen, and lowered his eyes again, [What did you find out...].
The cell phone vibrated silently, and a message replied: [I found a Tokyo police cadet.]
The agent who went to Tokyo to investigate the information was an MI6 agent.
At Akai Shūichi's request, Mr. Agent sneaked into Tokyo without telling MI6 or any of his friends or family, under the guise of a trip to Paris.
The reason why Akai Shūichi asked this agent to do so, and why this agent was so dedicated, was the same: this agent was a colleague of Akai Tsutomu.
They were close.
The MI6 agents who are close to Akai Tsutomu are not necessarily very good or very capable, but this agent is one of the strong ones.
If there are clues in Tokyo, he can find them.
Akai Shūichi looked down at the large number of text messages displayed on his cell phone screen, and took stock of the agent's investigation: it had been difficult and clueless, and the progress of the investigation had been almost nil.
But after casually coaxing a lost child, his investigation progress suddenly soared up.
The child hesitantly asked him, 'Are you, are you looking for [Messiah]? I might know something.'
And he told him about a Mr. Police Cadet who was almost famous in Tokyo some time ago, but had disappeared in the last month or two.
According to the bright-eyed child, Mr. Cadet was so good that because of him, the people of Tokyo had a lot more confidence in the Tokyo police, a lot more expectations, and the children were no longer hesitant or afraid to seek help from the police at the first sign of danger.
Because Mr. Messiah has helped children, and has done so more than once, they believe that other Tokyo police officers, who are also police officers, will more or less help the children as well.
More or less.
Hearing this, Agent MI6: "..."
He was a bit surprised by the strange reputation of the Tokyo police, then remembered that Akai Shūichi, who had asked him to investigate, was an FBI officer with an even worse reputation, and quickly understood.
The boy also asked, 'Are you a foreign tourist who came to offer condolences after hearing the news of brother Savior's death?' .
The reason why 'Messiah', who had been a big name in Tokyo, had disappeared was because he had died.
Shortly before the MI6 agents arrived in Tokyo, he died in a huge fire.
'He was trying to save people,' The child's expression lowered, his eyes no longer bright, much dimmer, 'he rushed into the fire over and over again to save people, and in the end saved everyone, but was trapped in the middle of the fire, and by the time the firefighters got there and rescued him, he was already dying,'
'The doctors failed to save our Savior from Satan...'
There was a huge difference between the 'Messiah' spoken by the child and the 'Messiah' spoken by Akai Shūichi, a police officer that even a child admired, and a highly intelligent criminal who played around with the FBI carelessly.
If he hadn't heard the keyword 'Satan', the MI6 agent would have just coaxed the kid a little more and walked away.
When Akai Shūichi asked him to investigate, he didn't say much, except that a criminal code-named 'Messiah' was looking for 'Satan', probably from Japan.
Hearing this keyword, the MI6 agent asked the child a few more questions, and only after confirming that the child had no other information, did he think of leaving.
The child's last words were, 'Brother Savior is in a public cemetery and likes green flowers, maybe you could bring a bunch of green roses to him, he'll like you.'
Green roses are generally representative of new life and vitality, full of life and vigor, signifying blessing and hope, and the flower language is to look forward to a bright future.
In the case of Scottish green roses, the flower language also has the meaning that even the torrent of time cannot change or weaken certain things, often symbolizing eternal youth.
Public cemeteries are easy to find, but there are so many headstones that it can be difficult to find someone whose name you don't even know.While searching the Internet for the keywords he had just learned, and obtaining an endless stream of rumors about the police cadet, Agent MI6 went to the public cemetery with the intention of trying to find him first.
He got the cadet's name: Mirai.
No one seemed to be calling the cadet by his last name, in public all police and cadets called him by his first name, and after the police kept their mouths shut in a serious manner and were very secretive about the sadly deceased cadet, the public only knew him by his first name.
Finding a headstone in a cemetery by name was a bit of a challenge.
Agent MI6 thought it would be tough.
But as he walked around the cemetery, he saw Savior's headstone, and the moment he saw it from a distance, he realized that it was what he was looking for: green, as if spring grass was sprouting, vibrantly occupying one of the headstones, quietly stretching its body in the corner of the cemetery, displaying its vitality.
Savior's headstone was filled with things, both suitable and unsuitable for paying tribute to the deceased, including roses, moonflowers, carnations and other flowers, as well as greenery such as succulents and other green plants, cakes, teddy bears, rabbit balloons, and greeting cards.
They're all green.
But not only green, there are soft petals of white, there are succulents stained with crystal red, there are rabbits smiling bright red, all of which decorate the tombstone with vitality.
Because there were so many things that were no longer appropriate for the deceased, the headstone suddenly became less a symbol of the deceased and more a young man sitting on a park chair, idly reading a book and keeping an eye on other people's belongings.
The card was written by a child, and the message was simple: he had heard that there were green cherry blossoms, and when they bloomed in the spring, he would find one and bring it to the gravestone.
It's very simple, but the sentiment is very sincere.
MI6 agents have never...
Never met a man so popular.
Not like a Hollywood star who gets some hot publicity, but a quiet, gentle, non-lethal love, as if it's been drying out for an hour or so on a summer day and has turned from boiling water to warm, cool water that's ready to be consumed.
It's admiration, it's regret, it's respect, it's the 'people's heart' which is the result of complex positive emotions.
But the one who did all this was a police cadet.
Just a police cadet.
In a text message sent to Akai Shūichi, MI6 agents expressed regret.
It was the pity of one man for another, the pity of an old man for a young child, and the pity of a capable man for a capable man.
He sent a video he found.
It was a video of a bank robbery, the only time 'Messiah' was actually in the public eye.
In the video, the red eyes seemed to glow as he held out his hand to the cameraman, as if to everyone off-screen, "It's my duty to protect the people."