Chapter 48 Chapter 48 “A very romantic story begins…

The story of Kenji Hagiwara and Jinpei Matsuda is not long, but it is quite dramatic.

Jinpei Matsuda first noticed Kenji Hagiwara on his way home from get off work last November.

It was a chilly November evening in Tokyo. The curly-haired officer first noticed someone helping an anxious man fix a noise problem with the valve train of a motorcycle's tappet. The man's movements in removing the camshaft were so clean and efficient that they had a sense of powerful beauty, yet he also showed patience and meticulousness in handling the parts.

Then Matsuda Jinpei looked back along the strong forearms revealed after the sleeves were rolled up, and found that the young man with half-long hair looked handsome and casual in a very stylish and light windbreaker, but he couldn't help shivering when a gust of cold wind blew.

Matsuda Jinpei: “…”

He withdrew his gaze and was about to move forward when he heard the man asking the boss for a certain model of camshaft sprocket bolt, so he looked over again.

This car was so unique, Jinpei Matsuda realized that a different type of camshaft sprocket bolt was more suitable than the original one. This was the first time he'd discovered someone else had the same idea.

Perhaps because he lingered on her gaze for too long, the young man with semi-long hair raised his head, revealing a delicate face—if you ignored the streak of dust on it—and his beautiful purple eyes curved, "Sir, would you like some help?"

"Wait," Zhu Fujingguang couldn't help but interrupt when he heard this, "Is this really a coincidence?"

Matsuda Jinpei leaned back in his chair and looked at Morobushi Kagemitsu. The smile in his azure eyes made him look carefree and relaxed. "Ah, no. I didn't think much of it at first, but ever since I realized Hagi's true position, I've started to have some doubts."

Would Hagi really be so kind as to repair a motorcycle for a stranger, just when he's getting off work and on his way home from get off work?

Human nature is complex, and coincidences do happen, but now that Jinpei Matsuda understands Hagiwara Kenji's style of doing things, he can't help but feel suspicious.

Perhaps it was the fact that Matsuda Jinpei agreed to his confession that gave him the confidence, or perhaps it was because he realized that the truth of the matter did not have much impact on Matsuda Jinpei, so after pretending to be interrogated by Matsuda Jinpei for a long time, Hagiwara Kenji admitted it.

Here, Morofushi Kagemitsu originally wanted to tease, "In fact, maybe this was a forced confession. Hagiwara couldn't stand your torture, so he said it out loud." But before he could say anything, he felt a strong sense of fullness, so he continued to listen quietly to Matsuda Jinpei.

Kenji Hagiwara confessed to Jinpei Matsuda that he had met Jinpei Matsuda on an occasion a few days before, but he was busy with something and couldn't leave at the time. Later, he investigated Jinpei Matsuda's information and preferences and then staked him out in a very targeted manner.

"A very romantic beginning to the story," commented Zhu Fujingguang.

Matsuda Jinpei shook his head. "But that wasn't the first time Hagi and I met. As I was repairing the motorcycle with him, I remembered that I had met him two years ago at the scene of an explosion."

Two years ago, when they were 22 years old, at this time, there was the explosion scene, and Kenji Hagiwara was still alive and kicking... Morofushi Jingguang's eyelashes trembled, and he instantly had an unbelievable idea.

Matsuda Jinpei's next words confirmed his guess.

It was also autumn, and Jinpei Matsuda led his team to defuse bombs as usual. There were bombs in two places that day, and the deputy team leader went to another one.

Arriving at the scene, Jinpei Matsuda asked some of his team members to help expedite the evacuation while he led the remaining few to the bomb site. At the stairwell on the floor where the bomb was located, a tall, young man passed by him.

He was busy defusing the bomb, and since many residents were evacuating downstairs at the time, he didn't observe the other person carefully. Only the pair of purple eyes with drooping corners remained in his mind when they passed each other.

When Matsuda Jinpei arrived at the bomb site, he found that it had already been defused. He also slipped a small note: "I just found a small roadblock that was blocking my work, so I dismantled it. No need to thank me too much~"

The curly-haired officer holding the note paid no attention to the officer cordoning off the scene as he nervously explained that he hadn't noticed a stranger approaching the bomb. Instead, he suddenly thought of those purple eyes. In such cool weather, tiny beads of sweat could be seen on the man's forehead and neck, yet his face showed no sign of panic.

He immediately called the police officer in charge of evacuation downstairs to pay attention to this person, but in the end it was unsuccessful, and all the public surveillance videos in the vicinity that day were lost.

Although it is impossible to find out who defused the bomb, the job of the bomb disposal police is to defused the bomb, so it is fundamentally a good thing that the bomb was defused.

Not to mention that after returning to the Metropolitan Police Department, they told Matsuda Jinpei with a look of relief: one of the prisoners died in a car accident while escaping, and the other prisoner held a grudge against the police and directly detonated the bomb, and the time of the detonation was exactly when Matsuda Jinpei was supposed to start defusing the bomb.

Not to mention the person involved, Jinpei Matsuda, even the bystander, Keimitsu Morofushi, was terrified: it turned out that even if Kenji Hagiwara had not become a bomb disposal officer, he would still encounter a bomb at the same time and place.

The most dramatic thing is that Kenji Hagiwara, a member of the organization, discovered the bomb in advance and dismantled the bomb that would hinder him from completing the organization's mission. Not only did he survive successfully, he also indirectly saved Jinpei Matsuda and other team members present.

When Kenji Hagiwara was working as a bomb disposal officer, he was killed by a vicious bomber; but when he stood in the darkness, he survived by accident.

...Even if we attribute all this to fate, it is still too ironic.

Matsuda Jinpei, who recounted this incident, appeared calm and even tilted his head slightly to ask the young man with cat eyes beside him, "What disrespectful thing are you thinking about?"

Since that's the question, then Zhu Fujingguang asked a somewhat rude question: "You didn't agree to date Hagiwara just because he saved you, did you?"

The plot is old-fashioned but classic, and everything makes sense, which can fully explain why Jinpei Matsuda has such a high tolerance for Kenji Hagiwara's identity and stance.

However, after asking this question, Zhu Fujingguang immediately guessed how the other party would answer.

"I like Hagi just because he is Hagi."

*

Jinpei Matsuda has dealt with Kenji Hagiwara, and now the tricky task falls to Kagemitsu Morofushi.

He needs to tell Rei Furuya that Tennessee wants to change his position, and ask Rei Furuya to help mention this matter to the public security.

...The risk is too great for Rei Furuya.

Furuya Rei had fought Tennessee two days ago, and even if he were to act as a bridge between Tennessee and the Public Security Bureau, he wouldn't let Tennessee know that Bourbon was behind the incident. But with the Public Security Bureau, Furuya Rei was tied to Tennessee's reputation.

If Tennessee stabs the Public Security Bureau one day, Furuya Rei will definitely be implicated.

This is also the reason why Jinpei Matsuda did not go directly to find Rei Furuya. It is obvious that the emotional foundation between him and Rei Furuya is stronger than that with himself, but he would rather go to him. There must be a reason behind this that he does not want to implicate Rei Furuya, who is already walking on thin ice as an undercover agent.

However, he didn't expect that the person Zhufu Jingguang was looking for was Jiangu Ling, and it could only be Jiangu Ling.

In the intelligence exchange with Furuya Rei over the past six months, whether in terms of the quantity or importance of intelligence, the information provided by Morobushi Kagemitsu is generally higher.

Zhu Furuya Jingguang was not sure whether Furuya Rei had mentioned the existence of the "cat" to the public security behind him - given his serious personality, it was very likely that he had. Even if he didn't say it so specifically, the public security would probably know that someone was steadily and continuously revealing the organization's information to Furuya Rei.

Therefore, it may not be appropriate for Jinpei Matsuda to ask Rei Furuya to connect Tennessee and the Public Security Bureau, but the "Cat" has already accumulated enough chips.

It was originally supposed to be Zhu Fujingguang's bargaining chip for retreat.

However, turning the "cat" who had been providing intelligence into an informant cannot be confused with turning Tennessee, who had never noticed similar clues before, into an informant in terms of reliability.

The young man with cat eyes decided to add another chip.

Densely packed red and black dots on the computer screen gradually emerged from large to small, and finally merged into a river of crime.

That was the organization's intelligence distribution center, or the suspected base of the intelligence distribution center, which he collected bit by bit after obtaining the authority of the logistics team.

Such a large underground organization, in addition to important items that are escorted by special personnel, there are also a large number of scattered items that are not up to this level but need to be circulated.

The purpose of these intelligence circulation centers is to serve as transit stations, supporting the daily operations of this huge organization like worker ants.

The jurisdiction of the Intelligence Circulation Department naturally does not belong to the Logistics Group, but due to their large number, their existence can be traced and requires manpower and material resources to maintain.

Zhu Fujingguang was looking for commonalities in the resource allocations given by the logistics team every day, such as which resources were in high demand but had irregular usage locations, and which locations needed resources intermittently... He screened and marked them repeatedly, slowly unraveling the mystery and finally compiling this map.

These circulation points shown in the picture are often not fixed, and the things that enter them will be quickly taken away by the person who hands them over.

But as long as it exists, there is a possibility of leaving traces. Not everyone in the organization's large number of peripheral members will be as cautious as the code-named members. There will always be some unexpected gains from these large numbers of ongoing or past tense circulations.

Zhu Fujingguang planned to take this opportunity to give such an important picture to Jiang Gu Ling.

Adding chips to Hagiwara Kenji's identity transformation is only one of its functions, but more importantly, Morofushi Kagemitsu has never found an opportunity to hand it over to Furuya Rei before.

Except for the initial period, "Cat" and Furuya Rei have always communicated information in the name of "intelligence transaction". There is a very important reason for this that both parties understand - free things are often the most expensive. If "Cat" wants Furuya Rei and the public security to use the intelligence he provides with peace of mind, he must ask for compensation from Furuya Rei.

Zhu Fujingguang's current map was too important to give out, so he had to wait a long time to give it out.

Fortunately, 1207 doesn't understand much about things other than love, otherwise he would definitely start to suspect that Zhu Fujingguang did not leave him any way out.

Having made the decision, Morofushi Jingguang called Furuya Rei using the "cat" number.

"Zero, today I want to tell you something very important."