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"Shinoda-sama, we managed to hit your target, yet he's still alive," a person began to speak, "Oshima Yuko and a new girl named Watanabe Mayu saved him before he could die."

"We'll just have to kill all three of them before we could get to the main two we're looking for," Shinoda Mariko said, annoyed at the fact that her main target seemed to have gained bodyguards, making her mission harder.

"Hai."

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"Yukirin!/Yuu-kun!" both Tiffany and Mayu yelled simultaneously.

"Hey! Both of you! Just shut up," Yuki said, with migraines encircling him inch by inch.

"Fany, your three years older than me and 6 years older than Mayu. Please do not act like her age," he said bluntly, "And Mayu, your 20, please act mature. Now each of you tell me what you want." Yuki then groaned and pointed towards a small pot of coloured pills.

"Yuu-kun you need your migraine pills," Mayu then asked Yuki before the latter nodded with a pained expression on his face.

"Onegaishimasu," he then said. Passing the pot to the injured detective, she then wondered why his face turned solemn.

"Yuu-kun, is your father really alive," Mayu then asked a really heartbreaking question to Yuki.

"I didn't want to tell you but he's in a better place," Yuki then replaced his solemn face with a seemingly innocent face, "And it's all because of me... Your father is Watanabe Shiro? Am I right?"

"Yeah it is. Your father's name is Kashiwagi Tetsuya, right?" She asked him back.

"Yep. I wanted to protect you because I don't want your father the same way mine did. I didn't have him growing up, he honestly was one of those figures who never gave up on his loved ones. He died trying to save me and your dad," Yuki said with remorse.