Pragma: Enduring Love

Chapter 21

"Ha! I won! But it was a nice try from Dazai~"

Fukuzawa didn't even bother looking up from the stacks of papers that are in front of him "Is it something I should be concerned about?"

Ranpo just grinned "Ah... it's just a silly bet between me and Dazai, totally normal~"

The tone Ranpo used made Fukuzawa look at the beta in front of him "Ranpo."

Ranpo pouted already knowing that tone, he looked up away from his laptop screen to look at their President "Dazai and I made a bet that by 6:30 pm in our time here in Germany, he would be able to upload everything that we would need for tomorrow's meeting with the German government. But! According to the timestamp here in the server, the video recordings were upload at 6:31 pm, so like I predicted, he lost I win!" Ranpo then turned the laptop towards their President who then looked at it "It's a silly bet, we were bored while planning."

Fukuzawa didn't even need to play the video recording, after all Ranpo already briefed him on what would transpire back in Japan, he is just impressive that everything is going exactly as what they predicted "If I am not wrong... it's 1:31 am back in Japan right?" Ranpo nodded at that "...Any more news from Dazai? After all, even though we now have solid evidence, the German government could only stop their operations here in Germany, but if I am not mistaken, they built several across Japan."

Ranpo sighed as he closed the laptop "That's where things will get messy back in Japan, President~ because of how they operate back there, the others would have no choice but to simultaneously stop all of the operating bases. We can't just stop the one in Yokohama, the only logical move that the 3 of us came up with is to destroy everything all at once." Ranpo hummed "It would have been impossible for us to do that but... we could only be grateful that there are now 3 of us thinking of a plan. Even more thankful that these Germans are so careless even with an absolute ability like the Archive."

"This 3-man plan... I only heard half of it from you and that half was with you being involved, what's the other side in this?"

Ranpo twirled in his chair "Eh~ don't you want for it to be a mystery for now President~?"

"Ranpo."

Ranpo pouted as he stopped to look at their President who is now starting to fix the papers that he was working on "Well... it went down like this, it was months ago when our planning started with the very first victims of the Germans..."

"Ranpo-san... Dazai-san... the three of us should play."

Dazai chuckled as Ranpo leaned over to the chess board, where Yue placed the white queen, in the middle of the board "Bold move Yue-kun~ Are you sure about this? Considering what this means~"

Yue just nodded "The things is... no matter what scenario we do, Mama would inevitably be in the crossfire, so if that were to happen, it's much better to do it our way, don't you agree Dazai-san?"

Dazai sighed "Well... to be fair little hatrack did already talked to me about this. After all the German's first victim was from the port mafia, and the moment it was reported back to him his mind went 'ping!'. Honestly sometimes Chuuya is too smart for his own good." Dazai said as he picked up the white queen "Chuuya wasn't completely honest with our very first meeting, he claimed that the intel he got wasn't... entirely complete. While it was true on his part, Chuuya already got the gist that whatever the Germans was planning here in Japan is already connected to years of disappearances that are happening back in Germany. It was our luck that their first victim here in Japan was an omega, that was the exact moment Chuuya knows that whatever organization is here in Japan, was same in Germany." Dazai placed the white queen back on the board "So I made my research, and to no one's surprise, Chuuya was right. However, to 'throw' us off, they changed their way of kidnapping, in their first victim they left a mural on the wall, but back in Germany they would leave a bouquet of Poppy flower, which means death. So, we could assume that all of their victims there are already dead. However, the files given to Chuuya connecting the first disappearances here in Yokohama... they are now leaving a mural of a DNA structure inside a flask with the English word 'For the World'. It didn't take even a second of my time to know that all of the possible victims here in Japan would be experimented on. Little hatrack so smart for catching that kind of crucial information right from the start~"