Chapter 35
If the explosives disposal unit had off-duty hours, Japan's death rate would double.
Therefore, when Matsuda Jinpei, who happened to be on duty, received the call from Usuo Saiki, he was somewhat shocked by the purpose of the call, but he quickly reacted and organized his team to go to the rescue.
Meanwhile, without hanging up the phone, Matsuda Jinpei, while preparing to leave, instructed him: "Go and disperse the surrounding crowd, tell them not to come near."
Police academy is essentially pre-service training. Students start receiving a salary as soon as they enter the school, and when needed, they are required to step in even before graduation. Therefore, Matsuda Jinpei was very natural in directing Usuba Saiki and used him directly as a patrol officer.
Usoya Saiki readily agreed, saying, "Understood."
As he spoke, he stood up, patted his trench coat, put it on casually, and glanced around.
He had been checking the package, and because he couldn't move around too much for fear of accidentally turning on the switch, he had crouched down to inspect it. This probably attracted some attention, and before he knew it, a group of people had gathered around him, watching him from a distance.
The suspicion level kept increasing rapidly, leaving the system speechless with delight.
Now that he stood up, these people seemed to finally react. None of them dared to look him in the eye, and when he looked over, they all looked away. Only a few young people with a strong sense of justice, who were out walking their dogs, dared to approach him with their dogs to ask questions.
"What are you doing?"
As they asked, they pulled hard on the dog leash, feeling quite puzzled.
—That guy over there is dangerous! Don't go wagging your tail like that, okay? I brought you here to make a show of force, not to beg for pets! You're making me look bad!
Some people hesitated, thinking that although it felt scary, small animals would like it, so it couldn't be a bad person, right?
Then they heard the handsome young man opposite them, with a gloomy and dangerous air, calmly say something.
"There's a bomb here, don't come any closer."
Everyone: "…………"
A few seconds later, everyone heard a scream, and someone ran away shouting, "There's a bomb! Where are the police?!"
With that shout, the others seemed to finally come to their senses and rushed out of the park with lightning speed. In just a few seconds, there was no one left in Bo Yezaki's sight.
Matsuda Jinpei, who hadn't hung up the phone and could hear the commotion on the other end, thought: "………………"
Bo Yezaki calmly brought the phone back to his ear: "The area has been cleared."
Matsuda Jinpei: "...It's an evacuation."
At this moment, Matsuda Jinpei was somewhat devastated.
"There's a bomb here, don't come any closer"—Strictly speaking, there's nothing wrong with that. If no one is there to help set up a cordon and a bomb is discovered unexpectedly, he would say that to prevent onlookers from causing trouble. So, when he first heard it, he didn't actually realize there was anything wrong with it.
But how could he forget the kind of impression that Han Chuan Shenliu gave off?!
Sending Han Chuan Shenliu to evacuate the crowd and then saying such things—what's the difference between that and intimidation?!
The bomb threat hasn't been resolved yet, and now there's a stampede!
It's this late, there shouldn't be too many people. I hope nothing bad happens...
Having witnessed others running away with incredible speed, Bo Yezaki wouldn't worry so much. He simply bent down and glanced at the countdown again: "Now that no one's around, what am I going to do?"
How much longer is left in the countdown?
"It'll be a long time. They'll probably blow this chair up in the middle of the night. If the target isn't a homeless person, then it's for an experiment."
Matsuda Jinpei clicked his tongue: "Tsk, then you stay away, find a safe place, keep an eye on this area, and prevent others from getting close. I'll bring people over right away."
"Received... Ah, the patrol officers are here."
The patrolman arrived on a bicycle and quickly approached Usaku Saiki.
Bo Yezaki neither dodged nor dodged; he stood still, tucked his phone under his shoulder, opened his trench coat, and reached into the inner pocket.
The newly arrived patrol officer thought he was about to draw his gun, so he slammed on the brakes and stopped a distance away. At the same time, he jumped out of the car, his burly body tense, his hand secretly gripping the baton, ready to use grappling techniques at any moment.
The person on the other end of the line was the same as the person who called the police.
With deep red hair and a sharp, imposing presence, his military-style trench coat was slightly open, revealing a white shirt and black trousers underneath. He was like a bold, colorful silhouette, exuding a breathtaking and aggressive sense of oppression.
"Did you plant the bomb here?"
The patrol officer spoke calmly, trying not to appear aggressive, and attempted to persuade them verbally: "It's very late now, even if there's an explosion, not many people will be hurt. I think you just have some grievance that you want to make your voice heard, right? If you don't mind, could you tell me?"
The patrolman gazed earnestly into those dark red eyes, as red as a blood moon, while also keeping an eye on the other man's hands, which were not visible to him.
Finally, the suspicious young man withdrew his hand from the inside pocket of his trench coat. The patrol officer tensed up, wondering what he had taken out...
Huh? Not a gun?
It's very thin, like an ID card, what exactly is this...?
"Hello, senior." The young man, who seemed more like he should be in the defendant's dock, calmly showed him the police handbook in his hand, politely using the most respectful language. "I am a student in the Onizuka class of the Metropolitan Police Department Police Academy. I just discovered this bomb."
Patrol officer: "………………"
The patrol officer was a little confused by the reversal between the "criminal suspect" and the "police academy junior."
Especially when he calls me "senior," I always feel like I'm going crazy.
"Is...is that so?" His tone was somewhat unsteady. "I'm also in Onizuka's class..."
At that moment, he saw the young man listen intently to the ongoing phone call for a few seconds, then make a gesture of handing over the phone: "Senior, Matsuda wants to talk to you."
The patrolman was initially wary and hesitant to approach, fearing it might be a trap to lure him in and kill him. But he quickly realized what was happening: "Wait, Matsuda?"
"Yes, Matsuda Jinpei, he said he knows you..."
Matsuda Jinpei shouted from the other end, "Turn on speakerphone!!!"
The hands-free mode is on.
Matsuda Jinpei's cry of "Squad Leader!" left the patrol officer bewildered.
"It really is you, Matsuda..." the patrol officer said in disbelief. "What's going on?"
Matsuda Jinpei explained helplessly, "This is our junior, Kanakawa Shinryu. He called me immediately after discovering the bomb. I told him to evacuate the crowd and keep people away, but he just said, 'There's a bomb here, don't come any closer,' and everyone ran away. I guessed someone would call the police, but I didn't expect it to be you, squad leader..."
"I see." The words of an acquaintance are much more convincing than a bare certificate, and the patrolman relaxed. "I misunderstood, I'm sorry, because the person who called the police said... cough cough."
He coughed awkwardly: "I am indeed your senior. My name is Date Wataru."
Although Ida Wataru is highly capable, he wants to start from the bottom, so he is currently working at the local police station. He was stopped and reported to the police while on patrol, which is why he was able to come over.
"Anyway, the current situation is that there's a bomb, and we don't know who planted it... Hmm, there's still plenty of time left in the countdown. Matsuda, when will your men arrive?"
"Just another ten minutes or so, almost there!"
Thanks to Tokyo Small, Matsuda Jinpei and his team arrived at the park in 20 minutes, despite their hurried pace.
Matsuda Jinpei, fully armed, came over to inspect the area and then breathed a sigh of relief: "It's not a big problem. Check the surrounding area and detonate it on the spot."
Why bother defusing it? Unless absolutely necessary, it's generally not recommended to defuse a bomb of this quality. Just detonate it and be done with it.
So his team members began to check for any potential hazards in the vicinity and then prepared isolation measures to reduce the impact of the detonation on the surrounding environment. They quickly detonated the bomb.
Everyone then dispersed to search for other possible locations where bombs might have been placed. After checking the area and confirming that the park was safe, everyone relaxed and said they were done.
As for finding the person who planted the bomb, that's not their job. The police in charge of that area have already arrived, and if they overstep their authority, they'll be met with sarcastic remarks.
After finishing his duties, Matsuda Jinpei finally formally greeted Usui Saiki and Date Wataru: "All done! Thank you for your hard work."
Date Wataru smiled and said, "I just came to take a look. It was Hanakawa-kun who found the bomb... You're involved in solving a case like this before you've even graduated. Instructor Onizuka would be very happy if he knew."
“Uh…” Matsuda Jinpei’s expression became subtle. “That’s hard to say.”
Date Wataru: "...?"
Matsuda Jinpei turned to Usui Saiki and asked, "Did you tell Hagi?"
"Not yet." Bo Yezaki coughed. "I don't know how to say it."
"Alright, no problem, I'll help you." Matsuda Jinpei smiled mischievously. "Class monitor, it's been a long time since we got together. Are you free later? I'll call Hagi out too!"
Date Wataru was taken aback: "I've actually already left work, but since this happened, I still need to go back to the police station to write a report and give a statement, Kankawa-kun..."
Matsuda Jinpei didn't seem to mind: "Then let's meet at the squad leader's police station. I'll lead the team back to the Metropolitan Police Department first. See you in a bit."
Japan has a vibrant nightlife, and it's common to drink until the early hours of the morning. Besides, it was only shortly after sunset, so when Kenji Hagiwara received a call from Jinpei Matsuda, he wasn't too surprised and just made a lighthearted comment.
"Why are you only telling me now? If you had told me earlier, we could have had dinner together."
"Didn't we just run into the class president?" Matsuda Jinpei asked. "Want to come over?"
Kenji Hagiwara readily agreed: "Sure! I want to see the class president too. Which house should we go to?"
"He said he found a good one near the squad leader's police station. Let's meet at the squad leader's police station."
Kenji Hagiwara had no objections.
He didn't even notice anything wrong when he walked into the local police station until he saw Usakata Saiki.
“…Shinryu?” A sense of foreboding rose in Kenji Hagiwara’s heart. “What are you doing here?”
Bo Ye Zhai Ji: "Writing notes."
Hagihara Kenji: "…………"
"Oh, Hagiwara, you're here." Date Wataru had already changed his clothes and was ready to leave at any moment. He paused for a moment as he approached. "What's wrong? Why do you look like that?"
Kenji Hagiwara's lips twitched: "Uh, I just wanted to ask, Jinpei said he met with the class president today, could it be because of Fukaru...?"
Date Wataru: "Yes, Kanakawa-kun discovered the bomb and was mistaken for a bomber during the evacuation, so someone called me to call the police..."
Kenji Hagiwara couldn't take it anymore and covered his face.
"Little Shenliu, if it really doesn't work, I'll go with you out of school next time..."
—If this continues, Instructor Onizuka won't grant you any more leave!!!
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Bonus chapter for the landmine! Feels like I'll be done paying off soon, I just want to lie down and relax...
The previous chapter contained a short anecdote about the winery creating a group chat to badmouth Bo Ye; you can check it out.
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Hagiwara (seriously): There's a bomb here, don't come any closer!
Crowd: Okay, officer! Be careful too!
Matsuda (frowning): There's a bomb here, don't come any closer!
Crowd: Okay, okay...
Han Chuan (calmly): There's a bomb here, don't come any closer.
Crowd: Help! There's a bomber here!!!
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