Chapter 54, Twelfth Week (3)
November 1st.
It's 3 a.m.
Rei Furuya had just finished dealing with the bomber and said goodbye to those guys when he got home and started removing his vampire makeup. He was halfway through removing his makeup when his phone suddenly received an email.
This is the inbox for [Sakura].
The signal jammer is ready. When do you need it? What do you plan to use it for?
—Professor Agasa
Rei Furuya abruptly put down the makeup remover in her hand, ignoring the half-black, half-white makeup on her face, and picked up her phone with both hands to start operating it rapidly.
While dealing with the matter, he was also thinking.
Dr. Agasa is indeed more capable than the professional departments of the Public Security Bureau. Such a talented person should be handed over to the state.
Of course, if he doesn't want to join the police force, he can simply be a covert police assistant.
Rei Furuya was able to realize how much help such a talent would bring to them in the future.
Professor Agasa, do you have any intention of cooperating with the Sakura Organization of Order, Goodness and Justice?
--Cherry blossoms】
[The Sakura Organization of Order, Goodness, and Justice? Is that the organization you founded? What does it do?]
—Professor Agasa
"This isn't my organization! It's the police! Aren't police badges cherry blossoms? You don't even know that?!"
--Cherry blossoms】
What?! You were a police officer before?!
—Professor Agasa
Dr. Agasa was utterly shocked. Had the police now been illegally employing child laborers, and with such severe cases of adolescent delusions?!
Are you kidding me? I'm a super hacker that no one can control! How could I possibly be part of any organization?!
I only cooperated with the police because I couldn't stand evil! I was just an assistant to the public security!
Remember this! Super hackers are beings that are not bound by any rules of the world!
Please don't associate me with the awful real world! If I could, I would only ever engage with the wonderful world of anime and manga! But what can I do? I've discovered a shocking conspiracy by a dark organization in the real world!
To save the world, I have no choice but to interact with humans in the three-dimensional world! But don't get me wrong! I will absolutely not be corrupted or assimilated by the three-dimensional world!
--Cherry blossoms】
However, this case is indeed related to the police, mainly to curb the increasingly rampant bombers and punish evil in the world.
After all, I have such power, so of course I cannot sit idly by and watch the evils of the world go unpunished.
The significance of my being born in this era is also like this.
That's right, it was all Steins;Gate's choice!
--Cherry blossoms】
Dr. Agasa: "..."
So, what exactly is Steins;Gate?
Has he completely fallen behind the thinking of today's young people?
The police professionals started their research around the same time as you, but they haven't even reached halfway.
Your abilities far surpass theirs, so you are more qualified to cooperate with me.
In order to fight against the transnational criminal organization that casts a shadow over the world in the future, and to prevent the world from falling into chaos and darkness, I need more comrades to fight alongside me.
Dr. Agasa, shall we become partners in justice together?
--Cherry blossoms】
Dr. Agasa sighed.
Here we go again. He often couldn't tell if the other person was serious or just having a fit of teenage angst. But if they were really cooperating with the police, then he could rest assured.
Haha, of course! It would be great if it could help the police stop criminals.
However, I don't really want to join a department with too many rules directly, so can I become a covert assistant like you?
—Professor Agasa
Of course, we can establish a friendly cooperative relationship.
I might order some small gadgets from you again in the future, Doctor.
Of course, if I discover any interesting scientific information in the future, I can provide it to you for free.
After all, equivalent exchange is the key to understanding the truth of the world.
--Cherry blossoms】
Professor Agasa breathed a sigh of relief inside the villa.
Great! He was still wondering whether to call the police and set a trap to catch the other party during the delivery. It was terrifying.
After all, a highly skilled hacker with so much advanced knowledge secretly threatening him to help create a signal jammer—something with wide applications and terrifying implications—makes one wonder if he's a foreign spy or a member of a criminal organization plotting something.
Even if the other party is just a hacker with an amazing talent but a delusional personality, we should still be vigilant to prevent chuunibyou from destroying the world.
However, he really didn't expect that such a reckless, arrogant, and immature person would actually cooperate with the police. In this respect, they seemed surprisingly... law-abiding?
He really didn't know what kind of person Sakura was. Maybe she was a genius boy with an eccentric temper but who was still a good kid? He had seen his fair share of crazy mad scientists and geniuses, so it wasn't particularly strange to him.
Relieved, Professor Agasa became excited and immediately sent the message "Happy to cooperate".
Putting everything else aside, how could a mad scientist possibly reject entirely new scientific knowledge and experimental inventions!
Regardless of Sakura's personality, his hacking skills and intelligence gathering abilities are indeed terrifying.
It's so good that the person was just a chuunibyou (a person with delusions of grandeur) and not an antisocial personality.
*
November 7th.
12 noon.
The bomb disposal team, having successfully dealt with two more bombs, returned to the Metropolitan Police Department.
The two signal jammers that had performed so well were once again carefully enshrined by them.
Furthermore, Matsuda Jinpei is strictly prohibited from approaching.
Matsuda Jinpei: "..."
Matsuda Jinpei was exasperated: "Hey! I am indeed very curious about this, but it really doesn't warrant taking action against something so important!"
But no matter how much he swore he would never remove the signal jammer, the others remained vigilant.
After all, Matsuda Jinpei has too many criminal records. He's completely unruly and willful to the extreme. What wouldn't he do? It's entirely possible that he'd dismantle one of them for research!
Kenji Hagiwara, who was standing next to him, almost died laughing.
Matsuda Jinpei rolled his eyes and completely gave up on studying those signal jammers.
There are three signal jammers in total for the explosives unit; they were delivered five days ago.
It is said to be a new technology developed by the public security department that can prevent the bomb from being remotely detonated by the criminals during bomb disposal, thus reducing the danger to them.
It is precisely because of the signal jammer that when faced with a case like today's, where a bomber uses a remote-controlled bomb to control two buildings in the city center and then threatens the police to hand over a billion dollars, they can activate the signal jammer without being affected, allowing all the people to evacuate before slowly defusing the bomb.
Not only in today's case, but they also encountered several bombs in the past five days. It was only because of the presence of the signal jammer that they were able to handle the explosives more safely and smoothly.
Furthermore, it is said that the public security authorities are researching more professional remote-controlled bomb signal interceptors or jammers, striving to narrow the control range and ensure that the radio communications of police officers who are not at the center of the bomb but are carrying out evacuation or arrest operations at the explosion site are not affected.
This instantly increased the favorability rating of the explosives response team members, who, like most police officers, were dissatisfied with the tough style of public security.
Only Matsuda Jinpei and Hagiwara Kenji knew that this thing was originally supposed to be invented several years in the future, and the reason they were able to use it now was because of that guy who traveled back from the future.
Oh, and there's his amazing cross-world chat group; it seems he's learned a lot of incredible things from other worlds.
"Now everyone can finally relax, right?" After laughing, Kenji Hagiwara leaned on the table and pretended to complain to Jinpei Matsuda sitting next to him, "Hagi-chan has been watched so closely these past few days, and has been repeatedly reminded and lectured. I even suspect that everyone has been so nervous these past few days that they haven't been sleeping well."
Matsuda Jinpei, who indeed couldn't sleep last night: "..."
Nonsense! If I knew in advance that my childhood friend was going to die tomorrow, I wouldn't be able to sleep no matter how well I prepared!
“Yeah, I bet that blond bastard is so busy he hasn’t had a proper night’s sleep.” Matsuda Jinpei’s expression remained unchanged.
“You guys aren’t much better off.” Kenji Hagiwara took out his phone to show him his email.
When Matsuda Jinpei looked, he saw that in the middle of the night, not only Furuya Rei, but also Morofushi Kagemitsu and Date Wataru had sent emails to Hagiwara Kenji, basically instructing him to wear his bomb suit properly and bring a signal jammer.
Matsuda Jinpei, who said the same thing to his childhood friend as soon as he woke up that morning: "..."
Kenji Hagiwara cupped his face in his hands, feigning shyness: "Oh dear, what a sweet trouble."
So he needs to find a way to solve Kofutani's problem as soon as possible, together with everyone.
Matsuda Jinpei, enraged, started hitting people.
The others watched the bickering and playful duo of the Virginity Explosion, and all showed expressions of relief and emotion.
No matter how capable they are, those two are still young people who have just graduated.
In reality, they didn't handle bombs that quickly and easily before; often, there wasn't enough time to defuse them, and they would detonate them within the area of least damage.
However, these two new recruits, who had only recently graduated from police academy, possessed astonishing talent. Within just one month, they perfectly resolved several bomb incidents, making their promotion to captain a matter of course.
Matsuda Jinpei and Hagiwara Kenji were the fastest promoted graduates in this year's police academy.
Unlike other departments, the Explosives Division does not have strict hierarchical or promotion rules; those with outstanding abilities will only earn the respect of others.
They only value ability; those who want prestige or rigidly adhere to seniority and background will not appear in the virginity-boosting group.
After all, every "achievement" involved a genuine brush with death.
Even with signal jammers, there are still time bombs and touch bombs that can easily take the lives of bomb disposal officers.
Since Matsuda Jinpei and Hagiwara Kenji arrived, their exceptional abilities, experience, and temperament have made them captains, always rushing to the forefront of danger.
But they are so young, they have only graduated a month ago.
Even among the virgins, these two are the most respectable heroes.
Even though they are the youngest, everyone respectfully calls them Captain Matsuda and Captain Hagiwara.
*
November 22nd is Matsuda Jinpei's birthday.
He received many gifts, most of which were from his colleagues in the "virginity-breaking group".
Because of Kenji Hagiwara, everyone knew his birthday and prepared birthday gifts in advance.
Among the pile of gifts, there was an ordinary gift box that was completely unsigned, with only a simple "0" drawn in the corner.
Kenji Hagiwara immediately recognized who had sent it and curiously leaned over to watch him unwrap the gift.
Then the two of them saw a wolf fang necklace.
Hagiwara Kenji: "?"
Matsuda Jinpei: "?"
"What? He gave me the wolf fang necklace because I dressed up as a werewolf for Halloween last time?" Matsuda Jinpei immediately picked up his phone and started rantting, while also complaining non-stop, "That guy was mocking me, wasn't he? He almost ripped my wolf ears off! Although I almost pulled out his vampire fangs too..."
He received a reply very quickly.
"This is an apology to the dentures I knocked out," said Rei Furuya.
Matsuda Jinpei: "..."
Kenji Hagiwara slammed his fist on the table and burst out laughing.
*
December 24th.
Christmas Eve.
A grand party is being held at the Twin Towers on Central Street, attended by prominent figures from the business and political worlds.
But because it was Christmas Eve and the upcoming Christmas, the presence of three Santa Clauses dragging sacks into the venue didn't attract much attention.
After all, not long ago a Santa Claus came in and left a lot of gift boxes in the elevator and under the Christmas tree at the entrance, which was probably part of the party.
A Santa Claus also walked into the venue of another building in the Gemini complex, but similarly did not attract much attention.
It wasn't until people started asking if the signal was bad that they gradually realized something was wrong.
"Please don't panic, everyone. I'm a police officer. We've activated the signal jammer." A Santa Claus stood up from the pile of gifts at the door and showed them his police ID.
The police officer's ID showed a young man with a buzz cut, named Date Kou.
Date Wataru ripped off his white beard and red hat, signaling Matsuda Jinpei, who had just dealt with the bomb at the elevator entrance, to handle the largest and most complex bomb below the stage. Then he took charge of calming the crowd.
Only then did everyone realize that the three Santas who had been squatting under the Christmas tree, working diligently, were actually defusing bombs. The curly-haired Santa who had removed his disguise had already gone to defuse another bomb, while the other Santa at the door still hadn't taken off his disguise.
Only those who are relatively close can barely make out a pair of blue, upturned cat eyes.
Santa Claus in another building also dropped his disguise, revealing Kenji Hagiwara's face, and began to officially defuse the bomb.
*
Across the street from the Twin Towers, a Santa Claus looked tired and was resting behind a beverage vending machine at the entrance of an alley.
Suddenly, Santa Claus frowned and tapped his phone a few times, then started adjusting his headphones.
"What's going on? Is the signal bad?" Santa Claus glanced at the bustling, crowded main street in front of him, then at the towering Twin Towers, and clicked his tongue in annoyance. "Is it because there are too many people and the buildings are too tall that the signal is bad?"
Before he could figure out his next plan, a man dressed as a reindeer approached him.
Santa Claus frowned slightly as he put the things in his hands into his pocket, then turned to look at the dark-skinned, blond reindeer.
The blond reindeer blinked his adorable, innocent, droopy purple eyes as he approached Santa Claus, smiling shyly as he said he wanted to take a picture with Santa Claus, who was dressed so perfectly.
The clock struck midnight in the bustling central square, and then music celebrating the arrival of Christmas began to play.
A child holding his mother's hand was excitedly and curiously looking around when he turned his head and saw what was about to happen at the alley entrance.
Child:"……"
The child was stunned and quickly tugged at her mother's hand to let her see.
"Mommy! Mommy, look! The reindeer are beating up Santa Claus!!!"
The mother turned her head and glanced at the child, but saw nothing. Exhausted, she forced herself to pat the child's head.
She laughed and said, "Oh? Really? That's probably because Santa Claus was exploiting the reindeer too much, so the reindeer finally couldn't take it anymore and rebelled, just like how Mom almost beat up her boss's head after working overtime all this time, hahaha."
Child:"……"
*
In the dark alley.
The reindeer and Santa Claus have finally revealed their true colors.
Rei Furuya pinned the bomber against the wall, whispering in his ear with a chuckle: "God grant you happiness, sir. Merry Christmas."
His voice was deep and chuckled, but his aura was so sharp and sinister that it chilled people to the bone.
The bomber screamed in terror, "Who...who are you? What are you going to do?!"
Rei Furuya continued, "And I will, in the name of the devil, bestow upon you blood and death."
“Demon…” The bomber froze. Hearing this, and feeling the terrifying killing intent emanating from the man, he suddenly realized who the other person was. The only similar aura he had encountered recently was that one.
The bomber suddenly realized what was happening, then became even more terrified: "You...you're from that black organization?! Why? I was about to complete the mission! I can prove I'm useful!!!"
Rei Furuya grabbed the bomber's hand and twisted it off. Amid the bomber's screams, he casually tossed the twisted arm aside, took the bomb remote control from the bomber's pocket, removed the batteries, and stuffed it into his pocket.
[Danger cleared, squad leader can come down and arrest the culprit.]
After sending the message, Furuya Rei did not intend to leave immediately, nor did he even tie up the hands of the bomber who was curled up on the ground screaming.
"Alright, time's limited." He put away his phone and started to stretch his wrists.
The bomber, clutching his broken hand and trembling with cold sweat, looked up at him.
"Actually, I'm not very good at this kind of thing, and the environment is quite basic right now, so my methods might be a bit rough."
The man in the adorable reindeer onesie flicked his wrist, and a gleaming knife appeared in his hand.
"So I hope you'll obediently tell me everything you know, so you can suffer less."
With his sunny blond hair, warm and sweet complexion, cute baby face, and innocent droopy eyes, Mr. Reindeer bent down and slowly revealed a chilling and cruel smile to the terrified Santa Claus.
“Then, the interrogation will begin,” he said.
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