Chapter 63 - Who Are You?
Though he also volunteered to join them, Ming Yue asked him to stay at home without getting into another trouble.
In the rooftop house, Kousuke was having a mental breakdown as he waited for Yojiro, who went to drop Ming Yue at her new workplace aka the enemy lair.
After their conversation/debate about working right under the nose of Wan Yi Jun, he wasn't so sure about sending his Nechan away from their sight.
"Did you drop Nechan at that officer's house? How's it?" Kousuke inquired as soon as Yojiro took a seat on the couch.
Just as he sat on the couch and chewed his nails in stress, Yojiro entered the living room, playing with the car key just opposite his brother.
If something happens to her, then that's it. None of them will be able to leave this country alive.
"Nah. Nechan asked me to drop her someplace away from that house," Yojiro replied as he placed the key onto the centre table, " But, weirdly, he lives in the outskirts, unlike the rich people in the city. That house is so deserted that there aren't vehicles going to that area."
He explained without hiding anything.
"That's weird. But do you have any idea how Nechan became closer to that officer? Did she say anything about it?" He made a vague effort to sneak some information from a tight-lipped Yojiro who refused to share anything regarding Ming Yue's plan.
"No idea. But it seems like that officer trusts Nechan. So we should also trust her belief."
As soon as Yojiro stopped, Kousuke fell into silence instead of bombarding the other with questions. However, it didn't last for a long time when his eyes drifted towards the cell phone on the centre table.
It was Ming Yue's phone, and she left it home to eliminate the chances of getting caught as well as tracking her.
No matter how many times, they tried to persuade her, she refused to carry the phone.
Well, unlike her peers, Ming Yue wasn't very much dependent on electronic gadgets or technology, so it was easy for her to handle things without a phone.
However, her habit was a huge headache for the people around her, especially since they were staying in a foreign country.
"Okay. But where do you planning to plant the tracker?" Yojiro asked in a serious tone, "Wristwatch? Neck chain or something else."
The moment Kousuke heard the question, he quickly understood his mistake. Planting a secret tracker on Ming Yue was an impossibility,
It was true that she was never overly dependent on tech, but that doesn't mean that she was unaware of the usage of tech and gadgets.
But the thing that confused them most was something else,
"How about we plant tracker on Nechan without letting her know, you know for her safety?" Kousuke asked after contemplating for a while, only to get thrashed by Yojiro's condescending scoff.
"I have never seen Nechan wearing any ornaments or using any accessories daily, not even a wristwatch. If we get something for her, she could easily recognize it is a tracker and probably leave it somewhere safe, just to confuse us." Yojiro stated as a matter of fact. The moment Ming Yue boarded the flight from Daisun, she removed her engagement ring and kept it away.
"I just hope we could find the murderer and leave this country as soon as possible."
"Finding the murderer and reverting the police's attention from us won't be enough." Yojiro paused for a moment and sighed when the memory of Ming Yue's decision for last night, "I don't think Nechan would leave this country unless she finishes her mission."
"Do you have any idea what's her mission is all about?" Kousuke asked all of a sudden. It has been a week since they landed on imperial, and still, Ming Yue hasn't explained why they came to this foreign country. "She hasn't given me any heads up regarding it."
"I'm scared, Yoji. Nechan working with a police officer while we sit here, unable to know what's happening with her. What if something goes wrong?" Yojiro repeated his lines as he pulled his hair in worry.
"Even I don't know where she used that jammer." Yojiro opened his palms and explained his side of the story.
"You know how eccentric her hobbies are. I'm damn sure this mission is something like we did earlier. Maybe she is fulfilling her bucket list before settling down with Tora." Yojiro made an assumption that sounded so true when it comes to their previous experience with Ming Yue, who had always been eccentric and different from any woman they knew.
Total psychopath.
"The day we reached here, Nechan asked me to assemble some scrap and build a signal jammer, while she asked you to set up a low key rental house and car," Yojiro spoke in an honest voice that depicted that he was also unaware of Ming Yue's plan in the capital city. The day they reached imperial, three of them stayed in a hotel until they find a new place. However, while they were trying to get over their jet lag, Ming Yue went outside and got the raw materials to assemble a signal jammer. As soon as the jammer got ready, she went out without telling them a word and returned only at midnight.
"But this is not the right place to try out her bucket list," Kousuke said in a harsh voice, to which Yojiro agreed for the first time,
"When she returns, we should ask Nechan what exactly her plan is. Otherwise, we are going to be stuck in this hell."
"Yeah. But, let's go and have some food. I'm starving." Yojiro suggested and stood up from the couch. Though they had a small kitchen in the rooftop house, their kind landlady, who also owns a restuarant, had permitted to come over for breakfast.
As soon as Yojiro and Kousuke entered the restuarant, the old landlady widened her eyes in surprise,
"We are still looking for work, grandma," Kousuke replied in a fake disappointed voice and bowed his head. "We apologize for being a burden for you and our sister."
"You two are still here? Don't you have to go work?" She glanced at the clock and doubtingly asked. As far as she know, her tenants were three orphans who came to the capital looking for a job, and that's why she took extra care of them.
"Hey, don't say like that. You three went out two days, so I thought you got a job. But it's alright. Grandma knows how hard is to find out a job nowadays." The old lady consoled them and served the breakfast for them.
"Why didn't you ask your sister's friend? That young man looked like he is from a wealthy family."
As soon as the term 'friend' fell from the old lady, Kousuke and Yojiro exchanged confused glances with each other.
"Which friend?" Kousuke, who failed to hide his curiosity, unknowingly blurted out. As far as they knew, their Nechan doesn't have any friends or any acquaintances in the capital city. It was only recently they got to know that Ming Yue grew up in a border village of Daisun.
"He?" Kousuke almost yelled in horror, only to get scolded by the grandma.
"The young man who came with your sister on new year night. He even stayed for dinner." The old lady smilingly informed as she tried to remember the polite young man who stayed for the dinner.
"She went for a date? With whom?" He asked once again.
"His name was really nice, but It is a shame that I don't remember it. But one thing that I remember, he was indeed a good looking guy."
"Don't act like a jerk, boy. Just because Xiao Yue is your sister, that doesn't mean that she had to take care of you all the time. She is a young woman at the age where everyone falls in love. She deserved to be with someone who takes good care of her." The old lady advised the Kousuke, who clearly expressed shock and jealousy as soon as he heard about a man in his sister's life.
"Huh, who is that?"
"I think your sister likes that guy. So why don't you talk to her and get her married to that guy?"
"Are you thinking the same thing that's on my mind?"
"No."
"No? Aren't you even worried a little bit about what will happen if Tora knows that Ne Chan is seeing someone else?"
"Are you even worried about what will happen when Nechan knows that you have sneaked information to Tora?"
"But that's wrong. She is already engaged to someone else."
"Do you think that Nechan is planning to cheat Tora with some other man?"
"Of course, she is a gorgeous woman, and it is nearly dangerous."
"I'm damn sure she knows what's she doing,"
"Hello, is this Ming Jiang."
"Yes, it is."
"We are calling from the south city police station. We called you to ask you about a murder that happened on