Chapter 60 Chapter 60 He doesn't like red

Jinpei Matsuda: “…” Doesn’t that sound weird?

This time, Olga continued the story on her own without Jinpei Matsuda asking any more questions.

"Wash you clean, wrap you in satin, tie a pretty ribbon, and send you off." She seemed to be getting excited. "What do you think? Ah, maybe I should also consider your mood. What color do you prefer for the wrapping? He doesn't like red, except for red."

Matsuda Jinpei: “…” The more he listened, the weirder it became.

Jinpei Matsuda felt that Olga was describing a piece of beef, or something else, but not a living person.

"Stop it..." Matsuda Jinpei held his forehead, feeling truly powerless. "How about we wait until I catch the bomber and then we can discuss this? I'm really anxious right now."

Olga shook the bomb in her hand in front of him again, and the meaning was obvious.

"Or maybe let Pramya blow up all of Shibuya. I think Thanksgiving would be a good day for that."

Matsuda Jinpei: “…”

Matsuda Jinpei sighed harshly. "Alright, alright. I'll take the deal. Once I catch the bomber, I'll go with you, okay? I hope you don't cut me into pieces and give me away."

Olga felt a little better after hearing this. She stuffed the bomb back into her coat pocket. "As much as I want to, he obviously won't like you being torn into pieces."

Matsuda Jinpei: “…”

Matsuda Jinpei had given up struggling. He'd just take it one step at a time. It would be even better if he could just arrest Olga. He didn't want to be some weird "gift"!

*

"I can help you catch the bomber," Olga suggested as they neared their destination. "Why don't you just come with me now while I let someone else catch the bomber? I see there's a direct flight to New York leaving in an hour and a half."

Matsuda Jinpei: “…”

Matsuda Jinpei had learned to ignore Olga's trash talk. He pushed open the car door, put on sunglasses, and, carrying a simple bomb disposal tool kit, walked toward the giant Ferris wheel in the center of the Waito shopping mall.

"Hey, wait for me!"

Olga also got out of the car. Matsuda Jinpei noticed that she had put on the large hood of her sweatshirt, sunglasses, and even a mask!

...It's like a big star going out.

Ah, wait.

Matsuda Jinpei's thoughts wandered. He seemed to have seen a villain who looked very similar to Olga in a popular movie. It was quite famous. The actor's name must have been... Arthas?

He couldn't remember clearly. After all, he didn't like watching movies very much. He went to see that movie just to accompany his friends.

While he was thinking, Matsuda Jinpei had already arrived at the Ferris wheel. The pod No. 72, which contained the bomb, had just turned around. He jumped in without a second thought.

He saw Olga's disapproving look on the platform: "There's a bomb in here."

"So I came in." Matsuda Jinpei said as he squatted on the ground and opened the toolbox.

Olga propped herself up against the pod's door frame. "It doesn't matter if it explodes. This pod will be up soon anyway. This low-yield bomb will only damage this one pod at most."

As he was speaking, the control room of the Ferris wheel not far away on the ground exploded, accompanied by billowing smoke rising into the sky.

Screams were immediately heard all around, and the crowd fled in all directions away from the Ferris wheel.

Olga glanced at the crowd with disinterest and said to Matsuda Jinpei, "Now there's no need to worry about the bomb. There's no one around anyway."

"I didn't realize you knew so much about bombs." Matsuda Jinpei shrugged and stopped talking, focusing only on the bomb placed under the seat.

Suddenly, Olga's cell phone rang.

She took out her cell phone impatiently and took a look at it, then her expression suddenly changed.

"Come down!" She said to Matsuda Jinpei almost in an imperative tone.

But Matsuda Jinpei ignored Olga completely, as if he didn't hear what she said at all.

As pod 72 was about to depart, Matsuda Jinpei heard Sato Miwako's anxious cries from afar. But he felt relieved instead—getting along with the bomb was better than getting along with Olga.

Now, he wouldn't have to see Olga for at least half an hour.

Unfortunately, ideals are full, but reality is very skinny.

At the moment when pod No. 72 was rising, Jinpei Matsuda saw Olga jumping in in an extremely dangerous posture.

Matsuda Jinpei sighed silently. "Why did you follow me in? There are bombs in here."

Olga's face was grim. She folded her arms and sat down on the chair on the side without the bomb. Her voice was breathless: "You know there's a bomb in here!"

While defusing the bomb, Matsuda Jinpei said, "I really don't understand why you're so persistent in following me."

"I already told you I was going to give you away, but how can I do that if you're dead?" Olga said, kicking him on the back with the tip of her shoe. "Focus on defusing the bomb and don't talk to me."

Matsuda Jinpei: "...I could easily defuse a bomb of this caliber while playing video games."

"Tsk, the flag is flying high."

Matsuda Jinpei: “…”

*

Facts have proved that people really can't set flags randomly.

"What's wrong? Take it down." Olga looked at Jinpei Matsuda who had stopped what he was doing and had a bad feeling in her heart.

At that time, the cabin No. 72 they were in had almost reached the highest point of the Ferris wheel.

Another explosion, accompanied by screams, came from below the Ferris wheel, causing Olga to frown and cover her ears. "Is this going to end?"

The Ferris wheel suddenly stopped, and Olga was caught off guard and almost fell forward to the ground. Fortunately, Matsuda Jinpei supported her with his backhand.

"I told you not to follow me."

"Tsk." Olga stood firm, leaned on the window, and looked down at the Ferris wheel.

Sure enough, another control room was also blown up.

"So, after you dismantle this bomb, we won't be able to get down there." Olga's mood was extremely bad. She took out her phone and checked it again.

Or let Gin drive a helicopter to pick her up?

Tsk, Gin definitely wouldn't want to.

Matsuda Jinpei's voice interrupted Olga's divergent thoughts: "Tsk, this is troublesome."

"What's wrong?" She couldn't help but move closer to take a look.

At this moment, Jinpei Matsuda's cell phone rang.

He didn't answer Olga's question immediately. Instead, he wiped the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand and answered the phone: "The tremor just now activated a very dangerous switch - mercury column."

Olga finally saw the bomb clearly at this moment.

Theoretically, this isn't a difficult bomb to dismantle.

She looked at Matsuda Jinpei, who continued, "The ball inside will roll if it's slightly shaken. If it hits that line, I'm doomed."

Olga: “…”

Olga looked at Jinpei Matsuda with some suspicion.

"If you don't want to see me blown to pieces, then don't move the Ferris wheel until I deactivate the bomb."

At this moment, there are still five minutes before the bomb explodes.

Olga began to consider the possibility of defusing the bomb herself.

How about giving Ling Ling a video call? Since it's Ling Ling... this bomb shouldn't be a problem, right?

Then, Olga heard Matsuda Jinpei say in a leisurely tone, "Such a simple device only takes me three minutes."

Olga: “…”

Before Olga could breathe a sigh of relief, she saw a line of words running across the bomb display screen.

Olga's Japanese level is very average, and her listening, speaking, reading and writing skills are just barely passable.

Fortunately, this time Olga didn't have to work hard to recognize the Chinese characters and hiragana katakana, as Matsuda Jinpei read the sentence directly.

"'This officer is truly courageous. I cannot but commend you for your courage. I will give you a hint as to where another firework, even bigger than this one, is. You will see my hint three seconds before it explodes. I wish you success.'"

This was clearly a trap set by the bomber. If Jinpei Matsuda cut the power cord and dismantled the bomb now, he wouldn't be able to see the warning.

But if he tries to read the clues... he will be blown away by the bomb.

Matsuda Jinpei deduced that the bomber might be nearby, watching them. "Also, I know where the other bomb might be."

Based on the content of the fax received in the morning, Jinpei Matsuda speculated that another bomb might have been installed in a hospital.

Just as Olga breathed a sigh of relief and was about to call Gin to pick them up by helicopter, she heard Matsuda Jinpei say, "I'll contact you when I find out which hospital it is."

After saying that, he hung up the phone.

Olga: “…”

Olga's eyes widened in disbelief and she stared at Jinpei Matsuda.

"Did I understand you correctly?" Did he really intend to wait until three seconds before the bomb exploded?!

Matsuda Jinpei lit a cigarette and looked at Olga with a guilty look in his eyes. He sat on the ground with one knee hunched up, leaning back against the chair: "Sorry, I might-"

The cigarette smoke spread rapidly in the nearly enclosed space, causing Olga to cough and even feel suffocated from lack of oxygen.

My lungs started to ache.

She snatched the cigarette from Matsuda Jinpei's mouth and put it out on his shoulder, burning a hole in his clothes. The exposed skin turned red, causing him to gasp.

"Sorry." Matsuda Jinpei calmed down a little but was not angry. He just smiled helplessly at Olga, appearing unusually kind.

That’s right… kind.

"Since we already know it's a hospital, why keep waiting?"

A violent emotion spread in Olga's heart. She wished she could immediately cut open Matsuda Jinpei's head to see how much water was inside.

"There are many hospitals nearby." Jinpei Matsuda sighed.

"Then evacuate everyone!"

Olga felt that this group of saintly people were her nemesis, whether it was Toru Amuro or Jinpei Matsuda. Each of them could precisely irritate her.

She had never been able to understand the thinking of such people, never.