After landing in Osaka, Japan. I, then went to the warehouse where my friend, Marino resided. Little did I know he set up a trap for unknown threats.

As I opened the door of the warehouse, I stepped forward accidentally on top of a wire, which triggered the alarm to turn on and because of that all of the entrances were closed.

*beep* *beep* *beep* *beep*

"What the hell?" I exclaimed.

I saw the timer of a bomb going down on the screen and the cameras looking at me from the corner of the wall.

"Marino, you shithead. Turn off the bomb. Are you trying to kill the both of us?" I shouted towards the door of the basements.

"Is it you Ryusuke, tell me the pin and I'll let you in?" Marino replied to me on the speaker.

*, self-destruct in t-minus 60 seconds*

"You f***ing shithead. Stop this at the moment idiot, and let me in."

"The code Ryusuke, tell me the code. Or we both die in fifty seconds." Marino shouted on the mic.

I could hear his voice even from the beeping sounds on the screen.

"F**k fine. It's your mother's birthday. The 20th of December."

*, self-destruct in t-minus 45 seconds*

"No, it's too easy. Tell me the last conversation we had."

I started to think Marino had lost his mind.

*, self-destruct in t-minus 20 seconds*

"Marino, you Idiot! If you do this we both will die. Open the door you Spanish-addicted shithead!" I shouted so loud that I thought I had to bring out the shield.

*, self-destruct in t-minus 10 seconds*

*self-destruct sequence deactivated*

Just as I saw the door open, I jumped inside and ran downwards.

"Ryusuke wait, wait. I was being cautious."

I ran and tackled him so hard, that he almost fainted.

"Cautious, You almost blew us up!"

"Please u-understand, that I was being threatened," Marino told me as he almost fainted.
"Threatened? again? God’s sake Marino how many times have I told you that you should leave drugs."

I left him and he started to cough so hard that his face became red.

"I left drugs a long time ago-" I cut him off by saying.

"Long time, as in 4 months ago, huh?" I looked at him aggressively.

"Look Ryusuke, it isn't about the drugs. It's about my family. they have been threatened. What do you expect me to do about it?" Marino told me with his shivering voice.

"*sigh* Your right, my bad. Let's take care of our mission then we can take care of those people who threatened you." I told Marino while being disappointed in myself and rubbing my hair.

"I don't know Ryu, I don't think I can do this work anymore. My family's life is on the line." I could feel Marino's voice shivering in fear.

"Marino, my friend. I may not know how it feels to have a family. But I have you and Alfred and I can't see you both in any trouble or pain. So please help me and I promise I would resolve this threat that has you in here." I told him while putting my hand on his shoulder to comfort him.

"All right fine, I’ll try my best and make sure that I can help you with all I can," Marino told me with a little confidence in him.

"That's my brother, come on let's do this work and finish all of it as soon as we -" Marino cut my sentence.

" And the threat?" He looked at me a look with a gaze.

"yes, and the threat," I told him with confidence.

"All right, then Ryu. Let's get to work then, shall we?" Marino replied to me by making himself gain confidence.

Marino hopped on his computer and started to make my fake personality so I could not be recognized. Then we planned how we would infiltrate the building of Yoshida Itsuki.

After the discussion, Marino handed me a card for Yoshida Itsuki's party.

"Here you are. This ticket will let you to the mansion of Yoshida. And this Identity card will help you be considered as a member of Itsuki's corporation." Marino said to me while handing me the card and ticket.

"Great. Where is your ticket? I assume you are coming with me, right?" I asked him with a confused face.

Marino looked at me with a funny-looking face. I could tell he was going to do some crazy things on the mission. Marino hopped on his computer and showed me the virus he used to hack into the police, he used to call it the game-changer.

"What are you going to do when I'm at the party to kill that person," I asked him with a smirk on my face.

"you know me Ryusuke, I go crazy when I see security and I want to go super crazy on this baddie," Marino told me while laughing hard.

"Marino just don't go too crazy. I still need you on this tab okay." I told him while he got off his computer and went to his library.

"Ryu, If you want to get some rest then just jump on the bed and get some sleep I'll keep us on check party."

Marino had always got my back on things. I knew I could rest while he would keep up all day and keep me in check, but I couldn't do that so I told him he can also rest for now then later we can see together if there would be a problem.

"All right man, I guess we both could use some rest for now. especially you Ryu. We need to complete this mission better than the last." Marino told me with confidence.

"Not to worry Marino. We definitely will be successful on this one. And guess what, I talked to Alfred about you, on the acceptance for you to join the Organization." I told Marino.

His face was full of excitement and then he later thanked me for helping him. Then we went to rest but I kept on working until morning and I didn't even know I had slept. I had prepared everything for the necessary means.

Just as the morning arrived, I was trying to wake Marino from his sleep.

“Mom, I don’t want to go to school,” Marino mumbled in his sleep. His words made me wonder what it would have been if I wasn’t in this business and had a family. A person whom I would have called my mother and another person whom I would have called my father.

“Oi, wake up Marino. We got to get to work, we don’t have enough time. It’s already been half a day.” I told him while lightly shaking him so he would wake up.

“I don’t want to. Can’t we do this work some other day, Ryu?” I placed my hand on his mouth to make his breathing stop. For a second Marino didn’t move an inch but then suddenly flinched and he started to shake up.

“AHHHH! Are you trying to kill me, you shithead?” Marino screamed and jumped as soon as I left my hand from his mouth.

“You weren’t waking up. So, I thought that this would have been the best way to wake you.” I told Marino with a straight face.

“May god forgive your enemies after you kill them, No one can escape from you,” Marino told me with a weird look on his face.

“You’re up now, right? Let’s get dressed up. We need to get started now.” I told Marino as he got up and started to do his thing on his computer.

“Crap! The function has been postponed to two days ahead, Ryu.” Marino said in Anger.

“Not to worry about it, Marino.”

“Not to worry, Ryu? We have to worry, I have to make the whole preparations again.” Marino said while showing his anger towards me.

“No, It’s perfect. I can infiltrate the mansion today. And find out any details I can about it.” I told Marino.

“Well, you’re not wrong. Hell, fine we’ll do it your way.” You go and ask me anything you want. I’ll go eat something. I feel like dying right now.” Marino told me with a sigh.

“Then, I’ll get going. Keep me updated on everything. From the Police patrol to any person coming toward the Mansion. And keep some food left for me.” I said to Marino.

“You got it, boss. So, get going now. We don’t have a lot of time. Also, another thing….” Marino replied but stopped at a question.

“What?” I asked him.

“Nothing, get going now.” He told me while declining my question.

“Fine by me, Your choice man!” I told him while leaving out of the basement.

And I left the warehouse towards the mansion at night.