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CHAPTER 10: CHANGE
"Kirisawa Fuuko, I am here to appoint you to a new district to continue your search for Iyono," Hyo, Tokiya's assistant who had replaced him after his death, gravely said.
Fuuko, even though she was still worn out, nodded. "I'll go."
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The very next day, Fuuko arrived, all in black, in the said district office. "Good morning," she asked a thin, buggy man.
The man, however, as he laid eyes on her, accidentally spilled his morning coffee all over himself.
"Oh!" Fuuko said kindly. She took handful of tissue paper and helped the man wipe the mess on the table but he pushed her out. "The chief's office is over there!" he shouted desperately, as though Fuuko was contaminated by meningococcemia or whatever. Fuuko, with a confused face, went to the chief's office.
"Ms. Kirisawa, before we start, we saw this in the late Prosecutor Mikagami's possession and it is named to you," he said, handing Fuuko a book.
Fuuko took it and placed it inside her bag. She tried to say thank you but to be able to choke back the tears, she bowed low. "Why does this man have to say 'The late'?"
The chief pressed the buzzer. "He'll be your next partner, Miss Kirisawa," he said, pointing to the man, bewildered about this idea.
Fuuko looked at him, her eyes widened a little.
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"It's bad luck, Ms. Kirisawa, we had him here," Saiko shouted at her.
Fuuko nodded and using her wind-like abilities, she started to run after the crazy murderer. For the first time, she seriously wanted to catch him. To commit revenge…
"But I was the one who killed Tokiya," a voice in her mind sounded. She tried to shake this voice away as she chased Iyono, finally cornering him in a parking lot. She jumped and ducked as Iyono fired aimless shots all around. "Are you blind?" she managed to say as she rolled to the next car, the next post, etc.
"Are you still lamenting, dear lady?" Iyono asked her, rather shouted, drowning all the gunshots.
Fuuko was really angry. "Shut up!" she shouted, as she started firing shots again.
Iyono sniggered. "Are you avenging him? Why don't you kill yourself? You killed him," he said.
Fuuko stopped. She looked at the side guiltily. She was giving up. "Then kill me then," she said bitterly, standing, defenseless, in front of him.
"No!" Saiko interrupted. Fuuko blinked. She was awake from this hypnotic nightmare. Iyono, however, shot directly to Fuuko's heart and she fell. Iyono ran but Saiko shot his back, killing him instantly.
"Miss Kirisawa!" he exclaimed.
Fuuko smiled. "Saiko, leave me here," she ordered.
"But…!" he tried to retort.
"I should be left here to rot," she said. "I should kill myself after what I have done," she said, more to herself.
Saiko looked at her guiltily and said, "No, Miss Kirisawa. It was I who shot Prosecutor Mikagami. You didn't see me but I accidentally shot him when I thought he was Iyono's backup. Please don't do that to yourself, Miss Kirisawa, it's my fault," he cried like a little boy.
"That doesn't change anything, you know," she said. She lost her consciousness before the other police backup arrived, one of them carried Fuuko to a stretcher and another carried Iyono to another stretcher.
"You are really a police officer," the chief told Saiko. "You told Miss Kirisawa the truth even though it risks her temper," he remarked.
"Aren't you going to arrest me?"
"Nah, it's an accident and it is in the law," the chief said. "Best thing that we can do is hope that Miss Kirisawa is arrive or she'll be with the prosecutor forever," he sighed.
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