Chapter 145 Overtime Pay for Model Workers

Day 11 of the road survival game!

Looking at the events three years later, including the death of Amanda, the US presidential candidate who was determined to eradicate the organization, and the car accident that left Kuroda, the Japanese official who was sent to meet with Amanda, in a vegetative state, we can clearly deduce some of the issues involved.

How much Silver Bullet data did the US steal from the organization's research institute 20 years ago? They must have gained some information, but they couldn't manufacture the organization's Silver Bullet models from that time. That's why, when Amanda intended to eliminate the organization, she might have committed a betrayal similar to that she did to Shuichi Akai's ex-girlfriend's father.

Otherwise, the level of security surrounding a popular presidential candidate would be difficult for even an organization to breach, not to mention the fact that the organization was able to obtain information about Amanda's meeting with Administrator Kuroda so quickly, which is even more suspicious.

Applying this to my own situation, I only noticed the connection between the president of the paying company and the Miyano couple because of that check. Not long after, my identity was exposed by other undercover agents, and then so many absurd things happened during the evacuation...

Clearly, some people behind the scenes in the Japanese government knew about the Silver Bullet at this time. How did they find out? Did Amanda pass on this intelligence when she met with Japanese officials?

The Silver Bullet incident is likely a closely guarded secret by those behind the scenes in the US government. There's a high chance that Amanda, who isn't one of them, wouldn't know about it. Of course, it's also possible that her faction's FBI agents discovered the existence of the Silver Bullet again.

After all, given that Shuichi Akai's ex-girlfriend's father and his partner were capable of such a feat, and considering that he was a top American capitalist and it was for a legitimate purpose, there must have been many FBI agents willing to risk their lives for him, so it's not surprising that they were able to find out.

However, there is another possibility: the research institute where Dr. Miyano and his wife died was the Karasuma Research Institute in Japan. After the institute was destroyed, the Japanese authorities would definitely conduct an accident investigation, and perhaps they had already found some information at that time.

That's why he deliberately leaked information to the organization when Amanda was supposed to meet him, allowing the organization's people to accurately arrive at the place where Amanda was supposed to meet the Japanese Public Security Bureau and kill her to cover it up. Morofushi Kagemitsu felt that this possibility was not small.

Because Amanda wanted to eliminate the organization, she met with Japanese officials. Until she arrived at the meeting place with Administrator Kuroda, she was safe and sound in the United States. However, she was silenced by the organization as soon as she arrived at the meeting place with Administrator Kuroda.

In her presidential campaign speeches, Amanda consistently stated that she would crack down on crime and address the country's rising crime rate if she took office, yet she remained unscathed until she became a presidential nominee.

If an organization intends to eliminate someone who stands out in the anti-crime camp and is highly likely to become the next president of the United States, wouldn't it be easiest to do so during normal times or when she is giving a speech?

Based on his professional experience and understanding of organizational tactics, the organization had assigned him sniping missions several times when the target was engaged in public activities, an environment that would reduce a sniper's killing intent.

Furthermore, even with the strictest security during public events, it is actually the easiest time to make a move. Conversely, when targets are meeting secretly with others, security is exceptionally tight, making it very difficult to take action.

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Therefore, if the organization had been planning to take action against Amanda for a long time, the best opportunity would have been during her speeches or other public events. There is a high probability that they would have acted when Amanda met with Administrator Kuroda, a location that would have been unfavorable to the organization.

The organization also made a last-minute decision to take action against Amanda. They didn't act when Amanda was giving a speech advocating a strict fight against crime, nor when she was elected as a presidential candidate, but they did act when Amanda was meeting with Japanese government officials...

The most logical reasoning would be that the US officials were summoned by Amanda and, knowing she was planning to take action against the organization, likely because they had already discovered the existence of the Silver Bullet and, before they could obtain the complete research and development data of the Silver Bullet from the organization, they decided to take action.

They didn't want the organization to be eradicated, causing the complete research data on the Silver Bullet to fall into the hands of the righteous faction, who insisted on fighting crime and were highly likely to deny the existence of the Silver Bullet. They also didn't want a situation like the burning of the Karasuma Research Institute during the process of eradicating the organization to occur, resulting in the destruction of the Silver Bullet research data...

So he simply leaked the information that Amanda was planning to attack the organization to the organization, and even revealed the location that Amanda was sure to arrive at, which made the organization hurriedly mobilize its forces to strike first before the organization was targeted...

Sure enough, thinking about it this way, everything from the past fits together perfectly and is very logical. Sigh! It seems that you can't let personal feelings interfere with intelligence gathering and reasoning. Suspecting everyone equally, like Gin does, makes it the easiest way to deduce the truth.

Just as Morofushi Kagemitsu was prompted by Gin's casual suggestion of another approach to develop a more rigorous and logical deduction, Hagiwara and Matsuda also had similar ideas.

In other words, they lacked sufficient information about the Japanese Public Security Bureau's internal system, organization, and the Miyano family. They had only heard the general details of the Karasuma Research Institute incident and the Amanda case, and were unable to make more detailed deductions like Morofushi.

So after thinking for a moment, Hagiwara brought up another matter with Gin: "Oh right, there's something quite important I haven't told you yet. During our multiple time travels, we discovered that time has changed since 2014..."

It's now confirmed that the cycle has already lasted three years. After speaking with Bourbon about this, he said, based on the information we'll provide in the future, that it might cycle for several more years before your situation occurs.

"Why did he say that?" Sensing something was amiss, Gin became intrigued, wondering if Bourbon had gathered some kind of intelligence that allowed him to deduce this outcome. As for whether time loops could really happen, he wondered.

He was by nature a cautious person who liked to doubt everything. After hearing Hagiwara's words, he thought that if time really did cycle through the same year, then he must have had completely different experiences on the same day.

Realizing this, he naturally tried to recall his past experiences between 2014 and 2015, but his memory told him that everything was normal, and there were no problems with the year, month, or experience.

It wasn't until he thought about the day he met Darmo, Granwitt, and the fat piglet in another dimension on the Shinkansen last year that he wondered if he had done any other work.

He even recalled a scene from that same day, where he was at the Daikoku Building bar in Tokyo exchanging information with a computer engineer and incidentally handling the cleanup work to silence him.

Another instance was shortly after killing Akemi Miyano, when the man ordered him to intimidate Sherry, who protested by halting her research work after her sister's murder.

As it turned out, Sherry escaped from the gas chamber that day. He had been busy searching for Sherry's whereabouts for the next few days, and he didn't have time to take the Shinkansen to Nagoya on either of those trips, nor did he have time to go to the Daikoku Building's territory for drinks.

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After thinking about all this, Gin first realized that the existence of manipulating time and space in this year cycle also seemed to affect people's perception of time. After all, before today, he had never noticed anything wrong with his experience.

However, the people and experiences that Fatty and his friends encountered after traveling through time seemed to have the effect of dispelling their perception of time, but only on the day they met them. When they looked back on other times, they still thought everything was normal...

Finally, it occurred to him that since there really is a time loop, given his workload, he might have worked for a third of the past three years without pay, and there would be no overtime pay for things he didn't remember happening.

Gin was furious that Gin hadn't calculated overtime pay for the three times he worked in the same year, given his workload. He also hated people who manipulated time. At the same time, he felt that he had to settle the overtime pay for the other two years before he changed jobs. Humph!

Hagiwara was unaware that while Gin appeared interested in Bourbon's words, he was secretly planning how to get his two years' worth of overtime pay from the organization's boss before switching jobs. Hearing his question, he realized that he couldn't reveal anything except Kofuya's relationship and identity with the Public Security Bureau.

There was nothing else to hide, so he directly told Gin about the Twenty Faces case, and concisely told him about the accident in March 2015 where the CEO of the Bellende Group died, and how a new CEO quickly took over.

Then he continued, "...So since he had never heard of the existence of the Twenty-Faced Man before, it means that the cycle will continue for several years from 2014 to 2015, which is why the incident in 2016, in which the Japanese policeman became the new Twenty-Faced Man and escaped legal punishment, occurred."

Our current problem is that we can't determine which month of 2015, March or April, you had the incident. We'll probably have to try again and again in the next 2015. Also, was the CEO of the Bede Group targeted by the US government or Rum before your incident?

Or was the post-incident investigation not thorough enough? After all, with the organization severely damaged, the surviving cadres, who were developing their businesses using undisclosed secrets, simply dared not deal with people who seemed suspicious and whose allegiance was uncertain.

Furthermore, we unanimously believe that the fact that the Belende Group's assets themselves did not suffer any damage after the organization's incident, but only that the CEO was replaced, can only be explained by two possibilities: either the US government had already secretly taken over the organization, causing its assets to fall into the hands of the other side.

Another possibility is that Rum betrayed the organization. He may have cleaned up his act and arranged for his confidants to take over the group. We have found out that when the group's CEO died in an "accident," Rum's confidants were already the CEO's trusted subordinates.

We have a clearer understanding of the future, but we lack knowledge of your current situation and intelligence. Do you have any suggestions in this regard? Where would be a better starting point for our investigation if we were to enter other timelines in 2015?