"As you can see the victim is in the courtroom today due to the fact that two days ago I discovered that he'd regained the last bit of his missing memories, now then before anyone cries foul over this no one influenced him mentally, instead his memories were regained through outside influences"

And so Li began to explain everything that had happened to him in person, remembering where he had left off and then went into detail about every rape he had been forced to endure, drugged and not drugged. When questioned about his memories during the drugging part he did admit that they may have raped him during periods of unconsciousness, but that they had also made sure that sometimes the drugs were paralytics where he couldn't move while being raped but was fully conscious of what was being done to him

"Then I guess I'm finished your honor"

"As am I"

Once closing statements are done the jury is sent out to deliberate and Li's lawyer makes sure that Li was okay with what he had done emotionally

"I should be fine, but I'll be talking to some friends later today for sure"

"Of course, and by the way the recordings are yours to access anytime you wish since you're the victim it's your right"

"Understood, I might want a copy of the recordings for future reference, other cases"

"Understood"

That night he did indeed talk to his birth family for a little bit and then talked to his Japanese friends who mentioned coming over to the States in three weeks for some secretive reason that he couldn't be told about (this was because his doctors wanted to surprise him with the news that while he wasn't completely finished with outpatient PT he could go home to finish what was left, they would also inform him of being in the clear for STD's at the same time since they were there when they found out he had regained the last of his memories)

"I'll see about having someone pick you up then"

"Don't worry Li, it's all been arranged already"

"How?"

"Our bosses are involved in this"

"Oh, okay"

Once Li hung up on his end Kindaichi, Akechi and Kenmochi all look at each other for a moment and then sigh in relief

"We are in so much trouble if he finds out we lied to him"

Suddenly they hear a new voice

"It's not a complete lie actually, we are involved in what's going on with Li in the United States"

"Wait what?"

"You three are the main people who got things arranged so that Li could finally come home even though his physical therapy isn't completed, however we also worked to make sure that could happen by talking with the American police about his health on a regular basis and delaying your phone calls a few times, besides that you're going next week instead of three weeks from now for some cross training and this time it's you three who will be training the American police, not the other way around"

"Okay, how so?"

"Earthquake training, they want to do earthquake training and rescuing after such a disaster happens, and what sort of evacuation plans can be given in the immediate aftermath of the event seeing as how quite frankly there's no way to evacuate during an earthquake"

"Understood, good thing Kindaichi and I speak English"

"Agreed, they'll make sure to have a translator on standby though in case they ever need to speak with Kenmochi when either of you are occupied else where's and unable to translate"

"Understood"

And so they spend the rest of their time in Japan getting ready for the trip and making sure that any active cases were transferred to officers that had been involved as well

"So...shall we tell Li that we're coming early and staying for three weeks?"

"Can't, bosses say Li can't know about us until we were originally scheduled to arrive to help him pack up to go home, though little does he know that yet"

"Understood, so earthquake training, wonder if they have search and rescue dogs on the police force or just trained for other aspects of police work"

"We'll find out soon enough"

Several hours later they landed and were driven to the hotel that they would be staying in for the duration of their stay where Kindaichi who was unable to sleep on planes immediately fell asleep and Akechi and Kenmochi followed an hour later since they arrived at night. The next day they went to the station and discovered that the department had a good starting bases with three dogs cross-trained in search and rescue and one other aspect of police work

"We always make sure to have at least one dog cross-trained in search and rescue for...personal and also complicated reasons"

"How often are they tested and trained?"

"They are re-certified once every year and training happens at least once every three months, we have arrangements with certain facilities that make that a possibility, in fact both Rosco and Juno recently went to Central America to help with an earthquake, and by the way Juno is a girl in case you thought she was male"

"Let me guess the third dog here stayed behind as a precaution?"

"Exactly Sandra was left behind here as a precaution in case another disaster happened that required her specific skills in search and rescue, and in the meantime as a drug dog she was still helpful in other ways"

"Having search and rescue dogs will certainly help matters, but there's more to it than just that which is why you've called us isn't it?"

"Yes, we're fortunate enough to not have an earthquake yet, however there was one in California recently and as stated Central America had one recently and we helped with the Central American one since California's earthquake was actually relatively minor and they could handle the issue themselves"

"Understood, shall we then?"

And so for the next three weeks the Japanese group trained the officers in earthquake evacuation and also recovery while making sure to avoid Li at all cost but finally it was the day they would surprise Li

"So...how are we going to do this?"

"An officer is going to drive us to Li's apartment and then we're going to tell him the full truth including the fact that we arrived here three weeks early for training, our boss has given us permission to do so by the way"

And so an hour later and the group was in Li's apartment and Li was sitting on the couch in shock at what he'd heard

"I can truly go home?"

"Yes, you're medically cleared to return home, you'll need outpatient therapy still, and cleared by the Hong Kong police doctor to return to work but you don't have any medical issues keeping you from home, and from what we heard the case in the US is basically over with, now all that's left is the rest of the group in the international field, we're here to help you pack up"

"And you've known this for at least three weeks?"

"Uh...more like we've been here for three weeks doing training and have known about the plans for you returning home for about a month and a half"

"How did you manage to keep that a secret?"

"Making sure that we were never in the same place at the same time"

"Makes sense, so...when are we leaving?"

"Two days from now, we know that you don't have much to pack necessarily but there's a couple of things we want to do tomorrow on our last free day and we're taking you with us"

"Very well, but I'm staying in the hotel with you three then"

"The department figured you'd say that, we're going to pack up and send the majority of your things ahead of you even though you'll arrive ahead of them"

"The mail system?"

"Not much choice"

"Granted, well guess we'd best get to work then"

They had Li packed within five hours and then they were all at the hotel. The next day Li found out what the group wanted to do, besides being tourists since they knew they were going to be packing Li up for the journey home they decided to take Li to the one place he didn't think he could go, a tour of a specific location. And then the next day it was time to go home

"So um...there's something we haven't quite told you yet"

"What is it?"

"You're not going straight back to Hong Kong, our superiors actually want you in Japan for a bit to help us with your case on the international level since we've recently had officers go missing, but with the fact that you're not actually medically cleared for duty..."

"It's a catch-22 situation for them"

"Exactly"

"We'll figure it out later I guess"

"Guess so"

And so they board their flight and that's when Li learns about Kindaichi's inability to sleep during plane rides because he heard a flight attendant actually ask Kindaichi if he wanted something to help him sleep this time around and Kindaichi denied them saying nothing would work