Preparations at the I.S.C

February 9

I was on my way to my office earlier than usual because the operation that I had planned to execute yesterday went in the worst possible way. It seems that despite the precautions we take and the information collected, we underestimate what Mrs. Adelis is capable of. Apparently, she had a highly trained assault team waiting for our slightest move. The fact that in just one hour they managed to detect her disappearance, obtain our location and organize a rescue in record time only shows that we are dealing with expert people. Damn, I can't even start my project if I can't stop people first they will interfere with my project. The boss put me in charge here, I must be able to prove that I am capable too, otherwise this will be my last job.

After finishing walking down the hall, I finally get to my office where I have to try to quickly resolve what happened yesterday because there is a lot to do. The first thing to do is deal with our agents dead in the warehouse because the police arrived so quickly, we couldn't remove them in time. The good thing is that I take precautions not to use our agents directly, if not that I made them pass through an American insurance company. So you should lower your suspicions or at least buy time. Unfortunately, the warehouse was ours, but I think I can simply say that we didn't use it. But in case the police manage to bring the investigation to our doorstep, we have to prepare. I can't believe that just for a miserable hour they had to wait in the warehouse for the plane to arrive that would take the hostages out of the country was what caused the whole plan to fall apart. At least the pilots were instructed to leave here in case of a thirty-minute delay, so I no longer have to take care of that plane without having to give him instructions. First I must erase all the information we had. Then I will have to find a way to leave us alone so that I can go back to look for Adelis and her mysterious team. The project may be a bit delayed but if I can get it up and running without pause there should be no problem afterward.

I was still organizing my ideas and planning my strategy when I received a call on the office phone. As the situation was, I couldn't afford to be nervous, so I took a few seconds to calm down and breathe deeply, then I answered the phone.

"Good morning, am I talking to Mr. Brandon?" said the man on the other end of the phone.

"Correct"
"Are you Mr. Miyazaki"
"Why do I owe your call so early in the morning?"
"If it's something about the project, I already told you that I'm just the head of the Japanese branch"
"If you want more in-depth details, you will have to speak directly with Mr. Damien, because he is he who is personally in charge of the important projects of our clients"

"Normally we do not get directly involved with what happens with the companies we hire"
"But what happened yesterday in the port is certainly something that we cannot simply ignore"

Damn Mr. Miyazaki already found out. This is terrible, now what do I do not put the I.S.C in a bad position? I lie to him about the issue or I only accept the consequences of that

"Relax a bit, you don't have to be so nervous about it"
"We all make mistakes at some point"
"The difference is that yours could end this before I even get started"

"What does that mean?"
"I'm sorry but I don't think I can follow the topic you are talking about"

"What I mean is that your problems have come up here"
"Which means you're giving us trouble"
"But this project is also important to us, so we can't just throw it away so early"
"I have reached a small agreement to prevent you from losing your job and your boss maintains the right to do business in this country"
"We will make sure that all this did not happen"
"But you will have to collaborate so that it stays that way"
"In other words, make sure that this only stays with what happened in the port"
"Sacrifices must be made in order of progress so that the country maintains a high head in front of the world"
"Due to the recognition that precedes Inspector Yamamoto, we cannot tell him to do the same, because if he discovers what is happening, he could turn everything upside down"
"We can deviate a little from the investigation of Mr. Yamamoto, but we cannot get too involved in the affairs of the police because if any reporter realizes how much it will be our end"
"You must ensure that the police or journalists do not investigate you"
"So you will have to take care of that, completely ALONE, you understand me"
"But if something like this comes to light, then we will have no choice but to side with the people and do what we should be doing"
"And at that moment I can not even guarantee if your head will remain attached to the rest of your body"

Damn that damn already has us in a bad position from so early. But although I would like to tell him to answer him with something, his proposal is quite convenient, because if he is the Inspector he could appear here sooner or later, so having his superiors with me is a good idea.

"It's okay" I told him
"After all, I planned to do the same anyway"
"This is just something that took us a bit by surprise but it is nothing outside of what I.S.C can do"
"I can fully assure you that nothing in the project is at the slightest risk"

"Okay, I'll take your word on this"
"So you can take this favor that we are doing you as a token of our faith in you"
"Don't waste it" he hung up the phone after that.

I couldn't waste time now that even Mr. Miyazaki had done something like that. So my priority right now should be to lower all suspicions about our company and avoid being caught by the police.

I still have the recordings from the warehouse security cameras here. I ask for an investigation as soon as the report of yesterday's attack arrived. But unfortunately, there was not much to see because between the shooting, whoever did it took the freedom to shoot and take the cameras out of service as well. The agents who survived the encounter are under police surveillance so I cannot bring them here to ask for information about who attacked them. To make matters worse, it seems that having messed with Inspector Yamamoto's family was undoubtedly a mistake because now without a doubt is It is the fuel that drives your investigation and that you will do everything possible to discover the truth. An hour after the phone call, the inspector himself appeared with several of his men to check our offices with a court order, what he did not know is that it was part of the plan so that he believes that he is in control of the situation. , but in reality, their bosses like us were supporting us.

The inspector decided to speak with me personally while his team took copies of the security recordings. But considering that there was not much material and that I asked to cut the most important parts, those videos no longer worried me. I took the inspector to my office to be able to speak more calmly, and that he is only collecting evidence about what happened, he cannot arrest us yet, so I can act as one more victim of the attack.

"It's hard to believe that we would meet again this way, Mr. Yamamoto"
"The last time I spoke to you, you only took care of a door on that aircraft carrier"
"Now look, in charge of the police investigation section, the major leagues for civilians"
"Without a doubt a big change of title, but fundamentally you keep doing the same thing, preventing people from following the rules"

"In fact, I did not expect to find us like that too"
"The last time we met you were crying like a child for me to let you go through a door"
"Although I would like to make fun of the ridiculous thing that you did until recently, I am a grown man with work to do, so I will only focus on that"
"Yesterday an attack happened on a warehouse in the port of Tokyo"
"The place belonged to you for almost three years, is that correct?"
"Why was an unidentified armed group in that warehouse yesterday?"

"Well, as you know, our company is quite large and we work with vast logistics worldwide, so it is difficult to maintain precise control of all the properties we have and how they are used."
"The port warehouses despite being a good place in recent months we have brought new equipment for our new mega-building where we plan to move all our departments to a single place to avoid this and because all this is brought by air as less preoritarian things Like a warehouse in a place so far away that we hardly used it lately because I think it resulted in someone getting in to use it without us noticing"
"I'm sure this is not the first time this has happened"
"Am I correct, Inspector?"

"The strange thing is the calm with which the I.S.C is reacting to the matter because one of its premises ended up in a shootout with several dead people and even so I see that you take it quite calmly"

"I don't think being nervous improves the situation"
"And this, as you say, is a delicate situation, so I still cannot make any movement that headquarters tell me what I should do."
"Obviously let's collaborate with the police with everything we can, but I can't do much without the approval of my bosses first if I want to keep my job for the next week"

"Do you have any idea who these people were who were in your warehouse?"

The inspector seems to have resigned himself, his initial fury seemed to have subsided. So I think I may have managed to handle his suspicions outside of us

"I'm sorry but I have no idea, the warehouse was used before to store medical equipment before mounting them on cargo ships for our clients around the world, but due to the crisis in Europe now most of what we do is transported by plane to the different field hospitals out there as quickly as possible."
"But I am sure that the warehouse should be empty because obviously, we would not leave such valuable equipment without custody"
"May I ask what did you guys find there?"

"I'm not sorry but right now we are reviewing each box"
"I still haven't received the report so I don't even know what's there"
"Apart from the recordings of the security cameras, I will also ask for the transport records of that medical equipment when the warehouse was emptied"

"Of course, no problem"

The inspector then stood up, he looked a little down when he saw that he could not get the information he expected to find. From my office window, I could also see that the other fellow inspectors were finished gathering their things to leave. But suddenly the inspector stopped suddenly and before crossing the door he came back to me and spoke again.

"What can you tell me about the I.S.C transport plane that landed yesterday at the airport and took off again 30 minutes later?"
"A shipment of medical equipment is not something that can be mounted on a plane in record time"
"What was the reason for the quick visit?"

That caught me off guard. Try to look as serious as possible and not move my face in the slightest, otherwise, that could be used against me later. He had thought that due to the short time the plane was there, the police would not realize who it was or would suspect what they were doing. But I seem to be wrong.I had to think of something quick, something credible that explains why.

"Mr. Damien Raven came to visit the country to meet one of his clients, but due to his schedule and because of how other companies investigate everything he does, he sometimes has no choice but to travel like this unexpectedly."
"You do not know the problems that he causes with that, even I myself am surprised by his sudden visit to the country"

"Are you saying that the president of the I.S.C himself is here in Japan right now?"
"If so, I hope to be able to speak with him as soon as possible. I myself will take care of asking him to come and give testimony at the police station about what happened"

I couldn't believe what I just did, Mr. Damien must be very busy right now with everything that happened in Europe in addition to organizing the presentation of the new brand of products and the meeting of investors. It is impossible that he is going to bother to come here just because of a mistake I made. But I cannot retract what I just said because if so, Mr. Yamamoto will know that I am hiding something.

"I'm going to talk to him to see if he can set aside some of his free time for you to see"

The inspector returned to the waiting car without saying a single word. But you could see that he was clearly saying that he expected to speak to him at any cost. After that, all the policemen left the place.

Seeing that now if I would probably need at least Mr. Damien to be informed of what I had done, I called him It was five in the afternoon here, so in Vienna it should be like nine in the morning, I hope he answers me and can at least tell the police that he is not available to talk to them.

But despite the concern I had, when I heard that the phone was answered it was even greater. The boss did not say a single word while I informed him about what had happened and what I had to do. He didn't even seem to be on the phone, nor if he wanted to when he heard about taking Mrs. Adelis out of the game he didn't say anything. But when I got to the part where she had told him her name to ward off the inspector's suspicions, he finally said something.

"You told him that I got a plane yesterday to talk to a client as an excuse to drive him away" He said no in a furious tone, just disappointed

"For the same reason, I am going to tell the inspector that you simply did not have time to talk to him and that you returned to Europe again," I told him my idea to get out of the situation in which I put him

"NO"
"Do not do anything"
"A man never retracts his words, Even if you used my name to lie, I am a man of my word"
"I'm going to take the next flight to speak with Mr. Yamamoto, just as you swore on my behalf"
"But I want to make it clear that as a man who keeps his word, February 14 is my wife's anniversary"
"As I swear to her, I would always visit her on that date, so any business they need will have to be in these two days before he returns"
"If I can't visit her on that date"
"I hope you understand what is going to happen"

I immediately understood the risks of what Mr. Damien just said. But now I could retreat back because even that would have even more consequences

"Regarding the attack, we must investigate who it was that attacked us, but we must be careful not to underestimate the enemy because we do not know what they are capable of"
"Treat them with respect as they have shown yesterday that they deserve it"
"Regarding the investigation, we cannot take any more risks, because it seems that if that alliance team realizes what we are doing, there will not tremble when it comes to attacking us immediately"
"It may be more difficult for business and delay the project, but try not to develop it directly, use different companies that take care of the different parts, that way we will have more room for maneuver."
"I will take care of the repercussions later personally"
"Also as a precautionary measure to send several of our best agents to help you find out who attacked us"
"Remember to do things with caution, you do not attract more attention"
"I don't want to have to bury more of our employees," He said with the most serious tone I have ever heard in my life.

After that, he hung up. because he now had a very busy day thanks to me. But he was right in his words. I have to prepare for an enemy I don't know who may already have some useful information about us. I had to get going to carry out the advice Mr. Damien gave me.