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[Tatsuo feels those three dots so deeply right now]

Yeah. Yuiko-sensei.

I had no idea she was a cop. I mean, she could have left the dept before running the group home. But she wouldn't have been much older than she was in that photo.

Shit. He must have been even more confuse than I am.

I can understand it. A cop wanting to get out of the life if you think you aren’t doing enough good? And doing something more direct like running the home?

It makes sense on paper, as if it were some story in a book. But does it ring true to what you know of Yukio-sensei?

She loved those children. I know she did. She was raising them with such care.

But she had a gun the night she was killed. Ikuo didn't get a good look at it, but I think it was a service revolver.

Doesn’t have to be mutually exclusive. She loved them all the more knowing what she was helping prevent in their lives.

But finally, it’s a detail that starts to explain why a black ops group would be dispatched to kill her. What else has Ryuuzaki learned so far? Was it wiping out a whole task force or group?

Hah. Seriously. One time Ikuo and Tatsuya stole some candy from a store in town. When she caught them, she gave them quite the lecture about living upright lives.

[clearly, the lesson did not stick]

I think it was just her. When she went to retrieve the gun, she called the local police and left the phone off the hook.

Hah! Good for her for trying.

She couldn't have known the people coming after her were other government agents. Might have just been a break-in, it would have been reasonable to think the police would come to help her.

I mean. Could she have expected this?

[aaaand five or so minutes later after Tatsuo processes a new memory]

I don't think it was a break-in, as she came back inside the house to get the gun.

Also. Something is weird. They went to talk to someone who knew Yuiko from twenty years before. And from a conversation this person had with Yuiko, she didn't quit the police. It almost sounds like Mahoroba WAS her assignment.

[why would the police need a house full of orphans :|]

[Wat]

A long-term assignment? Undercover? The hell?

Can I ask, how does Ryuuzaki know so much about the sequence of events? Did the police take really detailed notes of what turned out to be a cover-up killing?

Yeah, five years into her career, Yuiko told this person she was getting reassigned and that she had to cut off contact. Then a few years later she bumps into Yuiko while she's buying Christmas presents, for children.

[Tatsuo has a sneaking suspicion he's gotten Ikuo's present from that Christmas]

There might have been records somewhere, but he couldn't get to them. He tried looking Yuiko up in the police service records after he saw this picture, and the records were locked.

[which means her employee file with the police still existed, confirming she had been police, and something in that record made it worth locking to somebody else in the police]

He was the primary witness and was having to work of his own fractured memories of that night. And then his yakuza friend was very good at finding information once he had something to work with. He's the one who found this staff person from the facility where Yuiko grew up.

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