PUBLIC SECURITY INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, CHIYODA, TOKYO.

JUNE 18

A frustrated man enters the room, almost destroying the door from the blow he was thrown to open it. The man although walking his gait was fast, time was running out, he would soon have to face unforeseen consequences of his actions. The man was trying to find some way for at least his honor to survive. Mr. Miyazaki picked up his office phone and quickly dialed the number of the source of his displeasure, the I.S.C. had reached an agreement with his superiors, one that they could not fulfill and that only further exacerbated the flaws of the project. The waiting sound ended and a tired voice replied.

"Goddamn, you Brandon!"

"What the hell was that all about!?"

"What the fuck was that? That's all your stupid dogs can do!?"

"What the hell happened!?"

"That's the same thing I want to know!"

"I gave you the fucking schedule of what we were going to do and where we were going to do it"

"If so then why the fuck were there three fucking factions creating an all-out war on the stupid fucking block!"

"Can't you keep your own safe for one stupid day?"

"My creation failed because of the stupid amount of shit that happened in a fucking ten minutes."

"I had to destroy it myself so that the alliance would not discover it when the police showed up because you couldn't secure the place"

"...."

"Looks like the rumors were true"

"Your fame is just a product of working with your former partner, as you cannot prove that you are on his level"

"Don't bring him into this"

"I'm much better than the old man!"

"Well, I can't see the how"

"Maybe if I turn on the TV I can see .... Oh look yes!"

"You sure know how to screw up to get this mess on the international news, Mr. Secret Agent!"

"Fucking bastard!"

"You got a job in the first place thanks to me!"

"I work for my company, if it wasn't Japan I would still be doing the same thing somewhere else"

"And this is a business between us and your superiors, you are just the message boy"

"Remember your stupid place and try not to draw any more attention to yourself, superstar"

The call ended with Brandon hanging up, as he did not want to continue wasting time with someone he was not interested in, which made Mr. Miyazaki even angrier. The man threw his phone against the wall in a stupid act of protest. If only he had known that Senator Yoshida was watching him from the doorway waiting for him to end the call, perhaps he would have held back a little more. When he heard the door open behind him, Miyazaki knew he had screwed up again.

"It's good to see what a mature man you are Mr. Miyazaki."

"If only you had learned more from your time as a junior trainee"

Miyazaki was furious, he just wanted to explode and destroy everything in his path, but he didn't, because he didn't have the courage to risk everything he had done to get to where he was, like a coward he thought. Yoshida continued walking and sat down on the big chair in Miyazaki's own office and insisted the guest in his own office sit down. Despite the insult, Miyazaki complied with the order like a good boy.

"Tell me, why am I here ?"

The man in question did not say anything.

"Tell me, why am I here Mr. Miyazaki?"

.....

.....

"Because of what happened yesterday, right?"

"No shit Sherlock"

"Tell me, why am I here"

"Because of the failure of the supersoldier test?"

"Damn you, Miyazaki"

"You are an intelligence agent not a scientist"

"Your job is to know things, not to know the periodic table by memory"

"Your job is to look for threats against our nation!"

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"A nation that was attacked on the very day we had such an important visit!"

"May I ask where our intelligence division was while there was a fucking war going on just a couple of streets away from the Senate and the Emperor's?"

"Sir, there was no way of knowing that foreign agents would infiltrate to cause such a level of damage!"

"And yet foreign agents still managed to find the threat and take care of it."

"..."

"Hell, even Yamamo showed up in the middle, that man is like seven hundred years old and he arrived before you on the scene!"

"What's the point of having an intelligence division if they're not intelligent!"

"Sir, all my efforts were focused on making the supersoldier test go as smoothly as possible"

"Ah yes, the test"

"The test in which the little white fox girl killed in like about two minutes."

"Do I have to repeat that sentence again?"

"How come I have to say that in the first place?"

"This girl is one of the best and most protected secret soldiers the Alliance has at its disposal"

"It is not so easy to know what she was capable of, this time we were able to study her on our own soil and measure what she is capable of!"

"And what's next, testing a bomb in Ninomaru Garden, next to the emperor so he can also study how much damage it does?"

"Sir if you give me more time I can fix it!"

"I can have a new test in an acceptable time!"

"I'm sure next time we can kill the white girl to prove the effectiveness of our program!"

"There is no more time!"

"It's over!"

"....."

"We have already lost"

"...."

"Tomorrow the Prime Minister will speak with Adelis and the President of the United States"

"He will accept the current deal"

"Mr. Yoshida, this is a mistake!"

"If we agree, we will be forced to entrust our security to foreign states!"

"We would be leaving the door open for them to walk all over us in the future!"

"Security that our intelligence division is not capable of providing."

"Or how this stupid plan for a bigger budget left us with a terrorist attack between 2 different gangs on the day there were more cops on the street in the last 10 years!"

"Wait a minute!"

"Getting more budget was your idea originally!"

"I expected the project to be much more finished before I presented it!"

"You were the one who wanted a demonstration for the Minister of Defense!"

"That's when I was being duped by your bullshit about progress!"

"You're just looking for quick wins to pad your resume!"

"What do you expect to happen when everyone sees that half of it is lies?"

"Who do you want to impress with that?"

"Sir, please give my department a chance to shine!"

"...."

"The Kanenaga Terrorist Group!"

"I can bring them to justice!"

"I am able to lead the investigation against them!"

"I could arrest them all in the next 3 months!"

"3 months!"

"Damn you, Miyazaki!"

"Right now they are the most wanted group in the whole country!"

"The Americans want them dead yesterday!"

"CIA and Secret Service agents are arriving as we speak to look for them"

"Yesterday an NYPD detective even showed up at my office asking for information on the case!"

"I didn't even know that we have an agreement with the NYPD for joint investigation in terrorism cases!"

"...."

"The Kanenaga group is now a group of dead men"

"The Minister of Defense promised to wipe them out either more dead or less alive"

"Your former partner, or rather babysitter, Mr. Yamamoto is personally directing the investigation"

"Right after receiving his medal he went to his office and went to work immediately"

"I don't know how he did it but he has made amazing progress, he is almost finished in fact"

"In the next few days the police will raid every house, every warehouse, every room, every box, every stone of its members and they will arrest them immediately"

"And those who resist, well .... this will not make it to the newspapers in the first place"

"The Kanenaga terrorist group will simply vanish in the next few days without anyone knowing it"

"Incidentally Brandon will happily accept donations from the new test subjects"

Miyazaki was completely furious. If the person in front of him wasn't so important he would have thrown him out the window a long time ago. What affected him most was the clear preferential treatment of someone as old as Yamamoto. He was his former co-worker, the two of them worked together in the late 80s and 90s, and it was because of Yamamoto that Miyazaki was never appreciated in his job in the first place. If he hadn't been there, Miyazaki would probably already be working as a defense minister despite his relatively young age. He thought that when he retired it would finally be his turn, his time to shine, but no, even after that Yamamoto was still considered better than him.

"I can do it!"

"I said 3 months! I meant 3 weeks!"

"I will go out into the field myself to stop their leader!"

"Just stop it, Miyazaki"

"Have you no honor?"

"At least accept your defeat like a man"

"Didn't you learn anything from him?"

"...."

"Damn, the new agents don't have guts like the old ones."

"...."

"The only thing I need from you, for now, is to stay here and do nothing"

"Just watch the TV feed of how the terrorists are arrested."

"I'll find out where you can help better later, you'll probably have to go abroad again."

"...."

"The super soldier project has not been canceled, we will just keep it a secret"

"One that we will only use in extreme cases to avoid a repeat of yesterday's ridiculousness"

"And you'd better keep it secret about the same one ...."

"You don't want to end up in Brandon's lab, do you?"