As Saeko neared the unconscious waiter to check his pulse, she exclaimed in amazement "He is dead Ryo! What did you do to him?" Ryo, who was planning to decide which girl on the street to hit upon, turned back to her as if by reflex. "What? He is dead? Are you sure Saeko?" he asked in disbelief and went to check the matter. The young waiter was evidently dead, he had no pulse, and what was more, he was shot dead! Ryo moved towards the only window in the room which had a broken pane. It was the same window through which the masked man and Kaori escaped. He thought hard "Could it be…? No that's not possible. The main road is just across the window and beyond it are a series of shops. All of them are busy. It's a busy crossing after all!" Suddenly a thought sparked in his mind "It seems impossible, but it's not. Unless the man is…"
To tell the truth, in the underworld, there are not many men who can surpass Ryo when it comes to physical abilities and above all, shooting. But Ryo does have had a neck-to-neck contender in shooting. He's the only person in the underworld who is at par with Ryo's shooting skills. The man is famous in the underworld for his accuracy in shooting. "It must be him! But the question is 'WHY?'" exclaimed Ryo, with his fists clenched. Saeko answered "Who are you talking about? Why did he kill this young boy?" Ryo answered with a hard jaw in between his breaths "Robert…. So you're here?" then he came out of the café, leaving Saeko with her formalities for the death. He started straddling towards Cat's Eye. On the way, he stopped at the flower shop. He didn't ask for anything, still the old lady gave him red roses. 6 of them with a Tsubaki (camellia). He could understand what she wanted to tell. The word 'Kaori' in Japanese means 'aroma' which was a symbolic for Tsubaki and the roses represented love and hope. The old lady wanted him to hope the best for Kaori. He wanted nothing else, "Where are you Kaori? How are you?" thought Ryo. Something dawned on him and he rushed to his apartment, but as soon as he reached there, his eyes widened. The door was open, it was broke open by someone. Ryo searched through the apartment top to bottom, nothing was amiss from any of the rooms except Makimura's pistol and Kaori. None of them could be seen anywhere near. When he reached the sitting-room, his gaze turned towards the telephone. The receiver was hanging from the table. He put it back on the table and wondered "Seems like Kaori had a phone call just after I left. Who called?" As he was wondering, the phone rang suddenly. Ryo took the call on its first ring itself. It was Saeko. She had reached the police station and she had called to inform him that the person had finally opened up. He had told the police that his name was Tairo Murizaki and that someone had paid him to search for a disc in the apartment. About the question of seeing his employer, Tairo had answered that he didn't happen to see his face but had noticed a peculiarity in him. Whenever he met Tairo, he used to wear a mask, but the peculiar thing is whenever Tairo would look in his eyes, he could gradually feel losing control over himself. As the person blinked, Tairo would return to his senses. Saeko gave further information that Tairo had divulged no more information about the disc he was sent to look for. He only knew that it was a videotape. And that he would find it in her room. The police had asked him how he knew the apartment she lived in. Tairo had answered that a man with yellow hair had helped him identify the apartment. Tairo told the police that the person carried a gun. "That's all for now Ryo! I don't think he has any more information for us! Have you found out something?" Ryo gave a deep sigh of relief and answered "No Saeko! I can't think of anything now. I will cal you when I find anything. Bye for now." Saying this he put the receiver down. He went in to Kaori's room again and looked at the belongings from the door itself. There was nothing wrong with any of it, or anything suspicious. "So? What's the matter? What's Tairo talking about? What is the matter of this videotape?" thought Ryo as he sat on her bed. It pained him to recall that she was present here only a few hours ago. As he picked the photo frame that held a picture of both of smiling together, a folded piece of paper fell from it. The paper was tucked behind the frame such that it might never be discovered by anyone who doesn't know about its presence. It was Kaori's writing on the paper, he knew it very well. Kaori had addressed this to him. It was a sort of a letter alright, but it was old; the paper as well as the writing on it. "Could it be before Kaori had that incident a year ago?" he wondered as he opened the folds to read it – "Ryo, if you ever get this, know well that I need you. If anything happens to me, it would be for one man – Fujimaki Masashi. I wanted to tell you about him from the very first day I had met you. I loved you from the from the very first moment, Ryo! Read this letter thoroughly Ryo….
Coming to the fact – I knew this person since childhood. He was my batch mate. From the very beginning he was not very good with studies, but he had an eerie look in his eyes for the girls of the school. All of the girls in the school were terrorized by his mere eyes. As we reached high school, things started to change a bit. Nothing changed with his look, but the strange thing was that he would be seen with different girls every day. All of us were a bit surprised, but we didn't give it a second thought.