"Okay, all of you remember how we told you the story of why the Captain keeps the sunglasses?"

"Yeah, the crew constantly hid the sunglasses from you so the two of you agreed he would keep them until necessary"

"That wasn't the entire truth, there's a reason. Okay so you know that the original crew I served with used to play jokes on me in regards to my sunglasses by hiding them from me. They didn't know just how serious the Captain and I were about the fact that I needed the sunglasses to function, they thought I was making it up because at the time I didn't want anyone who didn't need to know about my disability to know and I figured at the time that only the Captain of the station needed to know. One day though they took the joking too far and one of them hid the sunglasses on their person knowing I would never directly ask them to tell me where they were because again at the time I didn't want to admit a weakness to anyone not knowing it was hurting everyone by hiding the truth. We were called out to a fire and I acted like nothing was wrong and even went on a search and rescue mission despite the Captain's worries. Everything was fine, until an explosion happened, but no one knew that I was involved at first, they thought I was in another area at the time. Due to my decreased vision I was hit by falling debris but the victims I was rescuing didn't know about that because of the fact that the debris only really skimmed me, not to mention I had gone slightly ahead as a scout to make sure the path was safe so they never saw the falling debris hit me and I never mentioned it. I walked out under my own power and never reported the incident to the Captain though I should have. We eventually returned to the station and I was given the sunglasses back by finding them in my locker after meal time was over. I kept up the act that I was fine for several days secretly tending to injuries that the uniform hid whenever possible, until one day it all came crashing down. We were at a fire and several people needed rescuing so we split up our duties like normal and at first everything was fine, until the fire suddenly spread due to an explosion and several people became trapped. We didn't have any heavy equipment available to handle the debris so we used our hands and fallen debris that would help us with leverage. Unfortunately my injuries prevented me from properly using the leverage despite several attempts and at one point I cried out in pain and grabbed my left shoulder. The Captain thought I had strained it only just moments earlier so he took over and didn't ask any questions, simply ordering me to do other work that wouldn't strain my shoulder any further. Afterwords he took me to the hospital for treatment and that's when he discovered I had actually been injured in the explosion and had never told him. He asked me what had happened and I finally told him the truth about how without my sunglasses I had been hit by debris and had actually been involved with the explosion they all thought I had missed. Once I was cleared for light duty the Captain and I talked about the jokes and the hidden truths that had been going on at the station since I first started and we came to an agreement that he would hold onto my sunglasses as a way to keep them safe from co-workers who didn't care I needed them. We also agreed that I would no longer hide my disability which is why I told each and every one of you as you joined about my vision issues. The crew that played the jokes on me apologized about what they had done and did a few things to make amends all of them each transferring due to other issues besides me. During the time I was on light duty however one day the Captain called me to his office and I wondered what I had done wrong, finding out that hiding my injures had made the Captain mad, even if he understood my motivation when I explained things to him. He gave me a two hour lecture at the first opportunity in regards to lying to him about my health. The first lecture was only five minutes but it was essentially the same lecture as the two hour one, just more condensed and job oriented then the two hour lecture. We also came up with the agreement that for six months he would check on me personally after each shift to make sure I wasn't lying about injuries, after that we've used the honor system except whenever I am obviously injured and taken to the hospital for treatment"

"So when he saw you wince with a gentle back slap..."

"He knew I needed medical attention, thus the warning about getting another lecture about letting my injures remain untreated for so long, because of the fact I did that before the shoulder took longer to heal than it should and the burns became infected and I have a few scars where they cut my skin open to drain all the infection away"

"Why didn't you speak up immediately then when you got back like you were supposed to?"

"Honestly didn't think I was injured, yes I was near the explosion but I honestly thought I was far enough away that I avoided injury, though now that I think about it the blast did knock me down so that must have been when I got burned and didn't notice because of my protective gear"

"Wait there might have been one other time you got burned without notice, remember that one incident during the escape attempt?"

"Oh, it could have happened then too because the coat briefly came off to help another victim"

"Exactly, how mild is the burn anyways?"

"First degree burn, just a large area is all, the nurse said it's possible that I actually have a second degree burn that hasn't matured yet and thus regular checkups either at her place or the office until further notice"

"Understood, if it gets worse than what you have now you know that you're on light duty right?"

"I know and can agree to that"

"By the way we're all getting time off tomorrow"

"What for?"

"Rescue Force invited us to their base with Rescue Fire requesting we do some training with them"

"This should be interesting, tell me Captain how did they refer to me as?"

"Akeshi, they invited you as Akeshi per your request"

"Eh?"

"Sorry guys, can't explain, not yet anyways"

"So you still haven't..."

"No, not yet, it's hard all things considered"

"Understood, let me know when you do?"

"But of course Captain"

"Part of what you can't explain yet Akeshi?"

"Yep"

"By the way you never explained why you had to take another route"

"Oh that, everyone knows that I tend to be observant during search and rescue missions right?"

"Yeah"

"Well I noticed on that floor when I thought about using the roof for the escape that one of the doors led to a room that controlled the shut off valves of the chemicals we were dealing with, but I also knew that the fumes would still probably cause an explosion, however with the chemicals no longer active it would help the rest of the team fight the fire much quicker. There are such rooms on every floor but only that one at the time still had access to it unlike the other floors"

"So that's why you had to take another route, you were taking care of the shut off valves that the workers never had time to deal with"

"Exactly"

"That actually makes a lot of sense now that I understand what you're thinking, but then how did you get the rest of the way down?"

"That's a bit more complicated, you see I knew that most routes were closed off but I figured that there had to be escape routes from the shut off rooms just in case and I was right, though it was a bit tricky finding the new escape route since we didn't have diagrams of the building before hand like we should have"

"Yeah...that's because of the fact that the company was working on updating the diagrams and would have given them to us given enough time to finish the update, they had already told us about it before the fire and we would have been receiving updates within the week if not for the fire"

"Oh, didn't know that"

"We know, it's not something we advertise often but on occasion you find out about updated plans for buildings coming to us within a certain period of time"

The next day they arrived at the Rescue Force base and the rest of the team was pretty impressed, Obuchi of course knew the base from before and while he wasn't as impressed he was interested in a few changes he noticed from his time there before, including when he had snuck in as Daen