TW!!!: I made a few changes in the previous chapter after publishing, you can check it out. This chapter may have some triggering content. Proceed at your own risk.
(FLASHBACK)
"They are shipping prostitutes to somewhere," you told Mitsuya and Naoto, "is there anything we can do?"
"Nothing," Naoto said glumly, "if we could that would make it impossible to find the killer of Hanma Shuji."
"Can't you locate the ship and tell Manila Police to catch them en route?" Mitsuya told Naoto.
"Thant can be done," he hummed, "but that would raise suspicions on Y/N."
"Cover it up as a regular check as soon as they land on the location," You said.
Naoto hummed and ran a call...
"It will be done Y/N, just keep up the act for a few more days, we are very close."
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Saying that you were scared was an understatement. You were shaking. The whole ride with Takeomi to the location had been so uncomfortable.
The car had tinted glass and it was late evening, but you could see that you were being driven close to a port.
Your gaze consequently moved from the scenery to the iPad and to Takeomi. You could only wonder how people can change so easily.
"Something bothering you?" he asked while taking another puff of a cigarette, you should have been used the smoke after living with Shuji for so many years, Shuji never smoked in front of you as he was concerned for your health,
"No, sir," you whispered, "just...a little nervous."
"Cute," he laughed and you forced down the gag of disgust.
The ca came to stop at the port. You quickly got off the car and opened the door for Takeomi to get down. The salty sea breeze made you shiver in delight and anticipation.
Closing the door behind you, looking at the sea, a mixture of churning and vicious lapping tides that sing their melodious song watching to grab you by your feet and yank you under.
Takeomi walked ahead as you walked behind, leading to one of the containers inside a ship that was read to set sail.
"Turn on the lights," Takemi said and a man moved to switch on the lights that flickered on slowly. It took your eyes a while to adjust to the lighting, but as soon as they did, you wished you had never seen it.
There were at least thirty men and women, stripped to their underwear, hands and legs tied up. Some of them were beaten, bruised, and bleeding. Tears welled in your eyes and you pressed your nails in your palms to control yourself from lashing at Takeomi.
"Remove the cloth from their mouth, let me check em'."
Then removed the clothes, the captives were too petrified to even utter a word.
Takeomi went near each of them, looked closely and moved to the next, your blood was boiling in your veins.
"Nice stock you got," Takeomi said to the dealer as if they were some animals.
"Would you like to have one for your own personal preferences, "the man suggested slyly.
"I am good," he said quietly, blowing a puff of his cigarette, "let's go we are done here."
"Si-Sir my money?" the man asked and was immediately shit with a suitcase full of money dropped on the ground for him.
"80 billion dollars, hard cash," Takeomi threw him a wink.
THE NEXT DAY
You stood next to Ran Haitani.
From left to right the arrangement was: Ran, Rindou, Takeomi, Mochi and...Manjiro Sano.
He arrived a lot later than the others and Mikey looked so different from the one you knew years ago.
His eyes were expressionless yet held the screams of despair and anger silently, severely pale and malnourished. His eyes bore into your flesh, you kept your head low and avoided eye contact.
Ran cleared his throat and looked at Mikey, "may we start the meeting boss?" He nodded in response.
"I'll cut to the chase, Bonten is losing in many ways. Our number two and number three and Kokonoi were captured by Japanese police," Mikey said sternly, "our last two secretaries are both dead: one was killed due to leaking information and other committed suicide." He looked at you and you gulped.
"and yesterday..." he switched on the TV in the conference room."
BREAKING NEWS
"During security checks at one of the ports in India, a ship cargo full of human traffic was found. A total of 30 men, women and children were in the cargo."
The cargo was supposed to be shipped to a European country, but due to an alert from the Japanese government, the cargo was stopped in the nearest port at Vishakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh in India.
15 of them were from Japan, 4 from Africa, 2 from India, 4 from the Philippines and 5 from South Africa. The governments of the countries are working to reunite these people wth their families or provide them safety and shelter as soon as possible.
The men operating the ship have been arrested and we will continuously update you about the case."
"We need to do something about this," Ran sighed
STEP 1/3 COMPLETE
MISSION SUCCESS.
SUSPICION RATE: 3%
A/N: can Y/n complete all the steps without being busted?? Dun dun...