A white Citroën sedan was parked outside a cafe near the Yoshioka 2-chome intersection. A man with slightly long hair and black-framed glasses was sitting in the car. He supported the steering wheel with one hand, tapping his fingers rhythmically, his eyes always fixed on the red telephone booth not far away.

His name is Tetsuya Takigawa, and he is currently unemployed. Because he has no money, he made a bomb to threaten the police to provide a ransom, so his purpose is very pure - he just wants to make some money.

But for a bomber who threatened the police, his current actions can be described as blatant. He did not choose to observe the transaction location in the dark, but parked his car aside and watched openly.

"Tetsuya, is it really okay for us to be here? Are the police hiding somewhere and watching our every move?"

The man sitting next to Tetsuya Takigawa was wearing a baseball cap. Judging from his face, people who didn't know him would think that he was an honest man who lived a diligent life, but who would have thought that he was an accomplice of the bomber.

"You can rest assured, Miki. I have a backup plan, and we are very lucky." Takigawa Tetsuya thought of the young man he had just talked to. His tone was full of pleasure, and it was obvious that he was very satisfied with the hostage he had delivered to him.

Machida Yaki was a little confused about what his elder brother meant. He blinked in confusion and said:

"Tetsuya, what does this have to do with our luck? Speaking of which, I went to the shrine yesterday to draw a fortune, and the result was a bad luck. There's no luck at all."

"You can just read those fortune-telling divinations at the shrine and laugh about it, but today, Lady Luck is on our side. Otherwise, why would they send a young police academy student as a hostage? The police will definitely be wary of this and won't act rashly."

Tetsuya Takigawa adjusted his earphones and listened to the conversation coming from the bug. Moreover, this time it was a buy-one-get-one-free deal for hostages. He didn't expect that the blond-haired and dark-skinned guy was so courageous. Perhaps these two were outstanding students of the police academy. It was really a big profit.

He turned his head to look at his good partner and noticed that Machida Yaki was still nervous, so he had to pull out the headphone cord and directly play what he heard from the eavesdropping device.

——"What do you think will happen if the police don't do what I want and the bomber explodes?"

"What else can we do? We don't even have a protective suit on us right now. It must have been blown to pieces."

Machida Yaki was stunned after hearing this conversation. He turned his head to look at Takigawa Tetsuya, and his tone seemed a little anxious:

"Tetsuya, these two still sound like children. You're not going to use them as hostages, are you?!"

"Why are you so nervous? Don't worry, I won't detonate this bomb. I'm just pretending to make the police wary. Otherwise, do you think the police will let us take the ransom?"

After hearing what Takigawa Tetsuya said, Machida Yaki felt relieved. To be honest, he just wanted money and didn't want anyone to be injured or die because of their actions.

But just as he raised his watch to check the remaining minutes of the transaction, a sudden noise came from the eavesdropping device, and he could hear one of the teenagers shouting... What was that sound?!

"What's that sound, Tetsuya? Did a bomb explode?!" Machida Yaki's emotions became tense. He couldn't accept the thought that someone died because of their actions.

Takigawa Tetsuya looked at the mobile phone attached to the bomb and saw nothing wrong with it. He frowned and said:

"I don't know either, but it definitely wasn't an explosion. It was more like the sound of an elevator falling. Could something have happened to these two guys while they were climbing the elevator shaft to defuse the bomb? Tsk, they're pretty brave. It seems that the previous conversation was just a deception."

"ah?"

Toru Takigawa patiently explained what the two hostages had done. It was obvious that their plan was to secretly dismantle the bomb and then contact the police, so that they would be caught when they went to the phone booth to collect the ransom.

Machida Yaki's eyes widened. He didn't expect that these two police academy students were so powerful. He looked around and became suspicious, worried that there were police officers watching them closely.

After all, when faced with his own interests, the criminal disguised as an honest man would only look at him. He asked in a low voice with trembling lips:

"Well, Tetsuya, what should we do now? If we detonate the bomb, there will be no hostages!"

Takigawa Toru calmly brushed his bangs, his shrewd eyes gleaming with confidence. He played with the mobile phone attached to the bomb while reassuring his accomplice:

"I've already considered that the cunning police might arrange for someone to sneak into the apartment to defuse the bomb, so I designed two bombs from the beginning. When the police are gloating over their plan's success, I will detonate the bomb in this cafe. This is the first stop on our escape route. A single detonation will easily block the pursuit route, so don't worry, they can defuse this bomb, it won't be a big deal."

"You're really smart, Tetsuya. I wish I were like you. I always hold you back."

"You're my partner. There's no such thing as a drag. The transaction will begin in ten minutes."

Toru Takigawa reached out and plugged the headphones of the eavesdropping equipment back in, but he didn't continue listening. It didn't matter to him whether the bomb was successfully dismantled or whether these two self-righteous police students could survive.

So there is no need to continue listening. It is better to deal with the things at hand.

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