Two Americans sat in thier studio. In the background, threw the big window behind them everyone saw the hill with the famous Hollywood-sign. Each of them with a laptop in front of them and with a lot of colorful stickers on them. It was a bright sunny day in Los Angeles. And the two young man welcomed all the viewers to thier live-stream... The video was already a few hours old but it was a live-stream when it went online. Comments for the video were deactivated shortly after...
The two told about the content of thier today's show. Just average Youtuber talking... nothing really serious. Normally...
"Why you want me to see this?" Makoto asked.
"See..." the channel-director said and pointed on the screen.
The two man didn't seem to mention, that right behind them a chair was moving...
"What the...?" Makoto jelled.
"Sshhh... The best part follows..."
The two men in Los Angeles, slowly realized that something was going on.
"What was that?" one of the man asked and turned around.
Both spoke English in the video. There was an automatic translation in the subtitles. A very poor translation, but Makoto's English was pretty good. So she understood everything.
"We get this weird live comments from you... we don't have any special effects here." the other man said.
"Hello... is there someone?" the other one asked.
It was obvious that the two men were not alone.
"We are LIVE." the other man continued. "Who is there... AGHHH..."
Suddenly the chair behind them moved again. This time at least one of the man saw it.
"What the hell... Is this a prank?"
"What? No, I swear..." the other one respond again. Before suddenly a piece of paper 'flew' in front of the camera.
'THIS IS A MESSAGE FROM THE SHINIGAMI!' was written in English, Spanish, Russian, Japanese and Chinese on it.
One of the Youtubers tried to remove the flying paper. But as soon as he was able to grab it he was thrown threw the room. The other man screamed in fear. It was obvious that an 'invisible' force was with them and attacked both men. The other one tried to crawl to the door but something (or someone) invisible grabbled him by his leg and pulled him back.
"AGHHH... WHO ARE YOU?" the man screamed like he was suddenly able to see it.
The man's face turned to the camera and than back to the 'invisible' force. He became pale and the viewers could see that something grabbled his shirt and hold him.
"...yes, this is live... no... I don't know... please... what?" the man seemed to have a conversation with the invisible force. "What... okay... but please, don't hurt us..."
"Who is this Samurai?" the other man, seemed to be able to see the invisible force, too now.
The other Youtuber, was pulled up on his shirt again. With fear and terror in his face he looked into the camera again...
"Ladies and Gentleman... you can't see them. But right now are three Shinigami with us in the room." the youtuber said afraid. "They want us to tell you thier statement..."
In the background the laptops and the smartphones start to beep endlessly because they were bombed with comments. The viewers were able to see how the laptop was suddenly smashed close and how a smartphone was lift of the table and smashed on the ground were it shattered.
"HEY, MY PHONE..." the man in front of the camera screamed. "...AGHHH..."
Suddenly he turned back to the camera. A tear running down his face.
"No, please! We do whatever you want!" the other man yelled in fear.
The man in front of the camera continued... "...Dear viewers... This is a message from the Shinigami! These three Shini... aghh... okay.. okay... We are members of the eleventh division of the Gobei... ehm.. Gotei 13... Our whole kind is very very furious about the current situation. And we order all our human henchman... you have human hench... aghh... Our human contact Keigo Asano is hereby ordered to tell the humans the truth about us. And to clear up with the lies that were told about us. Humans... remember that you... gosh... how dare you to insult us... aghhh..."
The two Youtubers suddenly fell down unconscious... the video was stopped and the normal TV-broadcast continued, showing footage of both men beeing treated by paramedics and having absolutely no memory on what happened.
Makoto was shocked. But in the Soul Society Ichigo, Chad and Captain Kurotsotchi were much more shocked. Because this was not really helping to improve thier bad image in the world of the living...
"Oh..." it happened not often that Mayuri Kurotsotchi was speechless. "Looks like someone is in trouble now."
"Who did that?" Ichigo said angrilly.
"I thought you told them to not to use Keigo?" Chad asked. He was shocked, too.
"I want to know, who did that!" Ichigo repeated.
Kurotsotchi's shock was replaced with amusement quickly... "Who ever went there, I am sure it will have consequences."
The ways to the world of the living were officially open again. Under new much harder safety precautions, Shinigami were allowed to go back to the world of the living. There were still Hollows to handle or Souls to bury. So it would be really bad to close all ways to the world of the living permanentely. But according to this video shown in TV, one, two or three Shinigami used the media in the world of the living to humiliate the Soul Society and bust Keigo Asano. But what for? There was an order to not to involve Asano because he would not be able to help?
Ichigo and Chad stormed out of Kurotsotchi's office to look for the others. The incident in the United States (many Shinigami didn't know which district and which Shinigami was involved) caused a lot of agitation in the Soul Society. Now everyone wanted to figure out who humiliated the Shinigami so badly in the world of the living. And of course why he or she did it! What nobody knew was that the entire incident was just a show...
The woman, who was responsible for the exposure in the first place, knew what will happen in the live-stream. She wrote the script for them, she paid them for the special-effects. These Youtubers were only interested in subsribers. And now they had thier 15 minutes of glory, five hundred thousand more subscribers within a day and she finally had Keigo's name in the mess. As no Japanese media dared to publish Keigo's name, it was the best way. Actually she wished to see Keigo's face now. Not knowing that Keigo was still totally unaware about what happened...
"Yamashiro-san... I swear that I will rectify everything!" Makoto said in her director's office.
"How?"
Makoto start to tell him about her plans for a show with several victims of the Shinigami. From all over the world...
Keigo tried to act calm and healty when the doctor visited him again. He had to be released from here... at any cost. But the doctor didn't seem to let him go. Not because Keigo was in coma, nor because he had a cardiac-arrest. He didn't want to let him go because Keigo tried to kill himself with an overdose of painkillers and sedatives.
"I swear that I am okay..." Keigo begged.
"I can't permit that you leave on your own." the doctor said.
"I will... go to my family doctor in Tokyo!" Keigo said, hoping that it will convince the doctor to let him go.
"Not alone!" the doctor insisted.
"I won't be alone!"
"Who will accompain you?" the doctor asked.
"A friend!" Keigo thought that Shino or Akira will accompain him home.
In Karakura meanwhile, Yupa hoped that his parents will take him home. He felt alone and abadoned in his room. His parents meanwhile sat in the office of the chief psychiatrist. Waiting nervously for the doctor's statement about thier son's mental health status...
"I'm sorry that you had to wait so long." the psychatrist said when he entered the office.
"Doctor, how is our son?" Yupa's mother asked scared. She was afraid.
"Is he still jinxed?" his father asked scared, too.
"Well,... honestly supernatural magic is not my speciality." the psychartrist said, trying to relax the situation. "Your son... I don't think he is sick! He is also not suicidal!"
"Oh, what a relieve!" Yupa's mother said.
"It think you son is just... how I describe it... he is blinded. He does not see the Shinigami as 'death' he sees them as... well... as Superheroes!"
"Superheroes?!" Yupa's father said shocked. "What? This guy is a Soul-Eater. He is not Superman, Spiderman or anything like that... He is a Soul-Eating Shinigami with a Katana!"
"I think it is your son's way to handle the situation. He is in a age where... he looks for an idol. And according to your reaction you seem to jealous... because your son idiolizes Kurosaki more than you."
"Wha... a... what... that's absolutely..." Yupa's father was shocked. He, jealous on Kurosaki? For what? But suddenly he realized that it was true...
Yes, he was jealous of Kurosaki. Because that 'soul-eater' was able to get his son's adoration and stole it from him. Maybe his son was not 'jinxed' magically... but he was definetely jinxed mentally.
"I think it will be the best to have a final conversation with your son all together." the psychatrist adviced. "Would you please follow me..."
The man led them to the other room. Yupa was supposed to wait there. But the boy did not want to be here anymore. He wanted to leave. He wanted to go to the Soul Society, too to be with his friend. He wanted to apologize to Kazui, that he ruined everything. He had to break out. He did not know how, and he did not know when. But he knew it was the best moment when the nurse, that was with him permanentely was gone for just a second, when he sneaked out and looked for an open door... or a window... He found a window. Open and without bars. In a storage-room. Yupa was able to climb out of the window in the ground floor and sneak away threw the bushes and into the next alley before his parents and the others realized that he was gone...
Michiru Ogawa meanwhile, was working hard to live her life again. After she was released from hospital, she spend several days at home to recover mentally before she went to work again. Her colleagues and her parents adviced to her to wait a bit longer. But she had to get out of the house. She had to live again. After beeing 'dead' for a couple of seconds, she really had to work again. But she did not endure the curious questions of the customers. Every customer she cashed, asked about the Kurosaki's. Questions she was not willing to answer, nor was able to. So she asked to work in the warehouse of the market. Her boss agreed, knowing how difficult it was for her. But so her other colleagues were forced to listen to the customers questions...
"Hey, Ogawa... here is someone who want's to see you!" one of her colleagues jelled into the warehouse, where Michiru was counting the last delivery of fruits.
"Who?" Michiru asked.
Her colleague did not respond. Instead a man appeared...
"Ogawa-san..." he said friendly. Michiru did not recognize him. He was a foreigner. "I am from TV JPN!"
"I am busy..." Michiru said with an ice cold glare and threw her clipboard away to leave.
"Ogawa-san, please wait. I know this is a very difficult situation for you. For everyone in this city. We are..."
"I won't give a statement." Michiru said mad when she turned around again to face the man. "Neighter to you, nor to any other channel. I did not know. And I didn't see anything when I was there. Believe me there are way better sources."
"I am not here to interrogate you Ogawa-san. And I am not here to interview you about the Kurosaki's. No I hoped that you can tell me about a friend of the Kurosaki's... Mr. Asano Keigo..."
Michiru studdenly stopped. She knew it... It was a matter of time before Asano gets in trouble because of it. According to the media, he did not follow them. According to everyone in school, he was 'not' a friend of Ichigo. He was his victim! And Asano himself... he sucessfully escaped from them and out of this terrible city and build up a life. Everyone was convinced that he will end up as Kurosaki's willingless henchman. But he proved that he was more. And now Michiru was not sure what to say now. Should she tell him about thier 'complicated relationship'? No... No suddenly she felt that she couldn't do it. Asano will have enough problems of his own now. Carefully Michiru went a step closer to the reporter.
"I know Asano! We were classmates. After graduation he left. This town is not really a place where you would like to spend your life."
"It's just... We recieved contrary informations about Asano's relationship to the Kurosaki's." the reporter said, taking out a noteblock from his jacket. "Some people say, Asano was 'a deadbeat who was so terribly bullied that it is a miracle that he did not kill himself'. And others say he 'was a friend of them recieving thier protection'."
"Honestly... I don't know. Asano's so called 'relationship' to Kurosaki and his gang is a mystery to everyone. I would lie if I tell you that he was abused by them in sadisim. But I would also lie if I tell you that he was thier friend." Michiru said. She did not want to tell to much. She did not want to hurt anyone. Neighter Keigo, nor Orihime, nor anyone else.
"So... You would say that he is jinxed?"
Michiru was about to leave but than she turned around again and went another step closer to the reporter. "Everyone... And I mean really everyone in this town is jinxed. At night it is too dangerous to walk in the streets. In our high-school there was a suicide every month because the bullys were never punished. Behind every corner could wait a mugger with a knife to slice your throat. Kurosakis is just the cities littlest problem. And now please... I am very busy."
"But there are still..."
"SECURITY!" Michiru jelled as loud as possible. The reporter finally left... But Michiru was so upset that she needed a break...
Yupa meanwhile, did not know where to go now. He could not go home! He also could not go to the Urahara-Shop, as the place was still in the 'restricted-area'. Should he go to one of thier friend's houses... No! Everyone quit thier friendship to him. He was 'a jinxed henchman' of 'a soul-eating-demon'. They would call the police... Yupa walked threw the alleys between the houses. Without shoes, dressed in a white shirt. Everyone who saw him, could see that he was a runaway... He had to go to the only place where he might find help... the Kurosaki-Clinic, or at least that what was left of it...
Keigo Asano meanwhile, was able to get out of the hospital in Okinawa. But only because his manager and his 'girlfriend' paid the hospital-manager more money. And so all three boarded the next aviable flight back to Tokyo...
Keigo looked on both. Shino was worried. And Akira looked mad. After the shock he caused he understood her. But he also saw that she tried to suppress something...
"You have a question, Akira?"
Akira turned to him. Her face became red. She was surprised because she did not expect Keigo to be able to see it...
"Are you... jinxed?" she asked carefully.
"Maybe!" Keigo said. He knew, no matter if he says 'yes' or 'no', Akira would be upset. "But I hope that it is over..."
"The people are talking about you, Keigo!" Shino said from the other side of the aisle. "Your friend Makoto called me to tell me that she is busted. They know now that she tried to keep your name out. How you were able to convince her to help you? Makoto Hirabata is honestly one of the toughest woman I ever met. How did you did that?"
"She owed me something!"
Both Akira and Shino mentioned that Keigo was different. He talked slowly, calm and with a deeper voice. It was like Keigo, was not Keigo anymore... it was so scary that they remained silent for the rest of the flight...
After arrival in Tokyo, Keigo went strait to the baggage-claim to get his suitcase and to get back to the studio as soon as possible. He did not know why, but he felt so safe in that dark, uninviting studio without windows and with a stench of plastic in the air. Because there he would be safe from the outside world. When he works and pretents to be someone else he will feel better. But of course he told the others that he will go strait home and consultate the doctor immediately. While waiting for his suitcase he watched on a screen over the belt. There were news about the 'Shinigami-attack' in Los Angeles. Keigo knew instantly, that not even the Soul Society is so mad to use this way to contact the world of the living. Keigo grabbled his suitcase and turned away to leave. He did not see his own face on the screen...
He mentioned the people looking on him. Whispering about him... Telling himself ever and ever again that it is just because he is seen in TV. They only recognize him because of the series... This has nothing to do with 'Kuro-who'! But he was so wrong...
Keigo did not say anything, to nobody. He walked strait to the waiting taxis and looked for an older taxi without screens inside.
"Keigo, wait..." Akira jelled. "Shino's car is in the parking garage. He will be here in a couple of minutes..."
Akira was afraid to leave Keigo alone. Keigo knew it... but now he wanted to get 'rid of his friends'. That was when he mentioned why Ichigo was always so repellent: "I am fine... Tell him that I am not in mood to wait."
After getting into the taxi he told the driver his adress. Loud enough so Akira was able to hear it. To let her believe that he really goes home. But as soon as the taxi drove away, Keigo ordered the driver to get him to his workplace instead...
In the Soul-Society meanwhile, the gossip replaced the real investigation. The presence of so many humans in the Seireitei gave everone a reason to let his imagination run free...
After Tatsuki's physical attack on Ikkaku Madarame, first Shinigami start to ship them... Others start to believe that this event may ruin the marriage of Ichigo and Orihime... Some thought that Kazui's little human-friend will be accepted into the Shinigami-accademy if he commits suicide... Some believed that Isshin plans to ship his daughter with his successor Toshiro Hitsugaya... Some thought that Keigo, might be a relative of Sozuke Aizen because of the similarity and that this is the real reason why Kurosaki always beated him in school... these and many other rumors where regulary printed in the few 'media' the Soul Society had.
"And I thought that TV is a horrible liar..." Ichigo ranted when he, Orihime, Chad, Tatsuki and Mizuiro looked threw the latest issue of the 'Seireitei-communications-magazine'. Isshin was meeting old friends and Rukia and Renji were on duty. Kazui was with Ichika somewhere. "... I mean, they really dare to compare Keigo with Aizen... this is... oh... now I see it, too..."
Ichigo found the page with Keigo's and Aizen's faces next to each other. Now he saw it, too.
"Wow, I never mentioned it. But Keigo really looks a little bit like this Aizen!" Orihime said.
"Who? Oh, isn't that the guy who destroyed the city...?" Tatsuki asked before looking on the other page with the photo of her attack on Ikkaku. "Aww... Really? Who is this guy? And why they ship me with him...?"
"More important is, why they prefer to publish photos of us beeing mad on Keigo than investigating our case..." Ichigo moaned before he mentioned Karin leaving the house. "Hey, Karin. Where are you going?"
Karin turned around. She did not wear her human-clouthes. She weared a beautiful and noble looking kimono with nice embroidery. She made her hair and it was visible that she prepared herself to go out. But for what? A Date?
"Ichigo, I am invited. And I am able to leave the house without Rukia's supervision..."
"Where is this Kimono from?" Orihime asked curiously.
"Rukia allowed me to take some of her clouthes whenever I need something."
"And where you are invited?" Ichigo asked mad.
"You wanna know? Fine! I really have to get out of this house. Nothing against you, I really love you all but... spending all the time with you is difficult..."
"And why do you look like you are attending to a gala?" Ichigo asked.
"Ichigo, don't bother her. Come on, she looks beautiful!" Orihime said.
Karin opened the door and was about to leave but Ichigo jumped up and start to scream. "Hey, you still did not tell us where you are going!"
"I am an adult woman. I don't need to tell you everything... but.. fine... If you stop bothering me with questions, Toshiro invited me for dinner..."
"Toshiro Hitsugaya?" Ichigo asked shocked.
"What, he is a friend... But please don't tell our father! You know what he will think!" Karin said mad and left before Ichigo was able to say more.
"Who is Toshiro Hitsugaya?" Mizuiro asked confused.
"Aww... You already met him..." Ichigo murmured before someone knocked on the door.
"Kurosaki, are you here?" the Shinigami asked when he entered with a shopping-bag from the world of the living. "Ahh... you are all here. We have good news..."
"YOU FOUND THE TRAITOR?" everyone present jelled.
"No!" the Shinigami respond and recieved disappointed looks. "I mean other good news..."
"I really hope that they are good. After this attack on the two Youtubers... It can't get worse."
"Oh, we checked that... It took a while to figure out that this 'Los Anshelef'..."
"Los Angeles!" Chad corrected the Shinigami. He was in Los Angeles several times in the last years.
"Yeah, whatever... we finally figured out that this Los Whatever is partly in district 2341 and partly in district 2342. And both Shinigami responsible for this district, hadn't departed there. So it means,..."
"They faked it!" Ichigo realized. "But... they mentioned Keigo's name..."
"Does anyone know that your little friend Asano has a connection to you?" the Shinigami asked.
"Well, just... a lot of people..." Ichigo realized.
"We think one of them might be curious that Asano was able to stay out of the scandal and forced him in." the Shinigami explained. "But whoever is responsible for this faked show was sucessful. Asano left his hideout. He was seen in Tokyo and is now on the way to his workplace. So now we are able to get his statement, very soon..."
"Is he okay?" Ichigo asked.
"We haven't talked to him yet!" the Shinigami answered.
"Oh... just... is it possible to greet him from me? From us all!" Ichigo asked. "Could you tell him, please... that... I am sorry that he is pulled into this and to take care of himself... please!"
"I can arrange it..." the Shinigami said. But in truth Asano was already thier main-suspect. They were not going to interrogate Asano directly. But to get more evidence they had to get this supposed 'photo of Asano and Hirabata' that was presumbly on Kojima's smartphone. "...I am also here because we have some stuff from the world of the living for your friends here."
Tatsuki and Mizuiro became curious and went closer.
"I mean... I can imagine that it is a very hard for you to adjust to our world. So we brought you some stuff we are sure that it helps you to..." the Shinigami was not able to finish because Tatsuki grabbled the shopping bag so she and Mizuiro could look inside.
There was coffee, some sweets, magazines and something that Mizuiro was very happy about...
"Oh,... a powerbank!" Mizuiro cheered up. "Now we can charge our phones!"
"For what you want to charge your phone? There is no service here!" Ichigo said.
"Yeah, but... now we can at least play Homescapes and Candy Crush again..." Mizuiro said. Having a working smartphone let him feel much better.
The Shinigami meanwhile realized that this was his chance to get the photo. "Kojima-san, right? I have to say that I am very curious about this small little boxes every human cares so much about... can you show me how it works..."
It was a lie. This particular Shinigami knew how to use a smartphone. And he wanted to see the photo of Asano and Makoto...
Keigo meanwhile left the taxi, and went inside the building. The driver recognized him as the 'guy from the detergent commercial'. Keigo did not care. He only wanted to be alone in his studio. Away from the people glaring on him like a fair-ground attraction...
"Nagasaki-san, please contact number 10, please... Number 10..." the always bored and bad-tempered man at the welcome desk said into his microphone before he saw Asano approaching him. "Oh... and Asano-san, you are still alive...?"
Keigo knew that the man couldn't know that that was the worst sentence he could use to welcome him now. Especially after he tried to 'commit suicide' because of people he tried to forget. He ignored his anger and aproached him. "Just tell me, what I missed!"
The man opened a drawler and handed Keigo a bunch of envelopes. "You got a lot of mail! More than normaly..."
Keigo took his mail. It was pretty heavy. But he knew that this mail may not be the best mail... He saw letters from various TV-stations. From Karakura... he could imagine that some of them were death-treats and some other stuff.
"Is that everything?"
"No,... just from today! I have six big mail-boxes behind the desk..."
Keigo went to the dubbing-studios. The red-no-entry-light was on over all doors. In all studios, the people were busy. His producer left one of the studios and was happy to see him.
"Oh, Keigo... how are you? I heared about your phneumonia."
"I am fine!" Keigo lied. He was not fine. After learning that the people were still aware about the Kurosaki's and that he didn't got any message from anyone in this almost three weeks now. "I am ready to work again."
"Really? I think you should continue recover for a few days..." actually the producer was aware of Keigo's 'involvement' and wanted to get rid of him.
"I am fine!" Keigo replied slightly irritated.
"Okay..." his producer was a bit confused. "I go inside and look what footage we have..."
"Thank you, I'll wait!" Keigo said and looked around.
He felt strange. This place felt strange. He worked here every-day, for years now. But he suddenly felt like a foreigner. Keigo looked into a mirror that hang on a wall. Before he came here, he took care that he looks 'normal'. But he didn't felt normal. He was not normal. He never was... Knowing that he almost died... that all of this wouldn't be anymore... his whole life... why? Why, the hell... That whole Shinigami-shit is past, why he still waste his minds about them? Keigo woke up from his brooding when someone appeared next to him.
"Hey, Asano-san?" a man said. Keigo turned to see another voice-actor, he knew standing next to him and bowed before handing him a business card. "Take this one. You will need it?"
The man walked away. Keigo looked on the noble looking, stylish card and was surprised: Toranosuke Mota, Lawyer. He knew that name from TV. This man is a famous star-attorney, he knew. Serving only the big-deal cases...
"What is that for?" Keigo asked, but the other one already left. Instead he saw two woman passing him, staring on him like he was an alien and starting to whisper. Suddenly Keigo felt much worse.
"ASANO-SAN... The director wants to see you. Asano-san, please come to the director's office..." the voice of the other man echoed out of the speakers.
Keigo had a really bad feeling. That was the very first time, he was going to see the director of the channel-network. Something told him that it was not good... That was proven by the worried, shocked and sometimes accusing glares of the other people. And when he entered the office, he knew that something was really wrong when he met Makoto in there, too. Next to the directors personal-assistant and two men wearing police-uniforms.
"Ah... Asano... I am very happy that your phneumonia is over. Take a seat... there is something we have to talk about." the director said.
"Keigo, I am so sorry..." Makoto said guiltily.
"Makoto, what did you did...?" Keigo asked worried.
"Oh, Miss Hirabata-san did nothing! That is the problem!" the director said and turned the monitor of his computer to Keigo so he could see the latest article from a gossip-magazine. "Another media did!"
'Famous seiyuu involved in 'Shinigami-affair'? What is he hiding?'
Keigo became pale. An old photo of him and the group was online. Someone gave information to the press...
"Asano-san, we have some questions to you!" one of the police-officers said.
"Asano-san..." the director began and turned the monitor away again. "Since when you are working in our house?"
"I started here... around 10 years ago!" Keigo said, with fear in his voice.
"Yeah... you were working for the company that cleans our offices!" the director said and opened a file. Keigo's file! "Very soon, you got an offer to dub. And today, you are one of the most wanted voice-actors in the country. We allways recieved positive reviews about your work and many animation-studios especially ask for you and your 'very versatile' voice to dub thier work."
Keigo became red. "Oh, thank you! That's really nice..."
"But now... every other media company in this country and in many other contrys worldwide report that you and this 'Shinigami-whatever' attend to the same school. Some tell that you were friends. Others tell that they bullied and brutalized you. And I am confused. Because neighter Hirabata-san, nor any other journalist in this country seem to be able to figure out the truth about your relationship to Kurosaki. Hirabata already was so honest to tell me about your 'conversation' in the boxroom. But now it is time to tell the truth Asano!"
Keigo wanted to scream. He wanted to run away and he wanted to die on the spot! But he couldn't. It was over. His name was in the press now, too. He was lucky that the director seemed to be as worried as him and gave him the chance to tell his point of view, before he airs something really embarrassing on him. Keigo took a deep breath and sighned. The director did not want a scandal, too.
"There is not much to tell!" Keigo said. "I attend to the same school as him. He was one of my glassmates but have nothing in common, else."
"But you knew about him beeing a Shinigami?" one of the policeman asked.
Keigo shrugged. "I knew that he had a secret. And I knew that I will be dead if I tell anyone. And that's it!"
The director looked on him and just shaked his head. "You know that you are committing a crime. You are covering a presumed murderer?"
"I do not cover anyone! You can ask me what ever you want! I do not know anything? And there is no law that prohibits to be able to see Shinigami! I have rights. And one of them is to remain silent."
"Asano-san, you're making it worse." one of the officers said. "We kindly recommend you to cooperate with us... We interrogated allready all of your former classmates. You can't hide it anymore..."
Keigo became pale again. And denied any statement. There wasn't anything he could tell them anyway. He confessed that he was aware of Ichigo's shinigami-powers and that they were pulled into some kind of 'interdimensional war'. But that was everything he knew. They never talked to him about it, punched him when he asked and so he decided to don't ask anymore and left to live his own life...
"You see..." Keigo said and took a deep breath. "...that's all I can tell you! Are we ready now? I still have some work to do!"
"No! You don't!" the channel-director said and lift off his chair. "As long as we don't get a full statement from you, you won't go anyway..."
"That was... the best possible statement I could give to you!" Keigo said. "So if there are no further questions, I need to go! And by the way, there are way other topics you may report about... our country is full of hushed up problems that may need attention! And I know what I am talking about. I experienced nearly all of them on my own."
Keigo lift off too and prepared to leave.
"Asano-san, we kindly request you to not to leave the city in the next time. If we have further questions." one of the policemen said.
"Okay, if it's really necessary?!" Keigo said annoyed.
"As long as this investigation is running, you won't have any screen time." the director said. Keigo didn't care for it. "And... you are not longer part of the cast of 'Crime-Lab-Tokyo'!"
"Fine!" was everything Keigo was able to say. His whole career was shattering and everything he was able to say was 'fine'!
Full of anger he left the office. Everyone stared on him like he was an alien. Keigo just rushed to the elevator to get away from here... Now he even lost this place as safe haven...
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