The Accusation

Evening arrived.

Hiroshi found himself at his hotel, thinking about what to do next.

Ejin is like a sword over my head. Ejin, where did he appear from? Everything has broken down, I don't know what to do now.

Time is short and the work is plenty.

Hiroshi thought and thought until, at a certain point, after various schemes he had made and various theories, he remembered the ruby that the old man had given him. So he took it quickly and began to heat it by rubbing it between his hands. He rubbed it quickly as if there were no tomorrow and, about two minutes later, the ruby changed from red to purple.

Good, now I just have to go meet them and see what to do moving forward.

Hiroshi prepared to leave and, as soon as he opened the room door, he saw some old faces.

"Hi Rania and Duraan, what are you doing here?" were Hiroshi's first words, looking at them as if nothing had happened.

"Can we come in?" she asked.

"Yeah, but how did the guards let you in?"

"We told them you're our childhood friend and they let us in."

"What security, I should say."

The two entered the room.

"Alright guys, I have to go somewhere, see you later," Hiroshi said before leaving.

"WHERE ARE YOU GOING? COME HERE :)"

"Hey! What are you doing!? STOP IT!"

Some time later, Hiroshi found himself tied with rope in his own room by two individuals: Rania and Duraan.

"What do you want?" Hiroshi asked.

"Answer our questions. Why did you make people say you were dead?"

"Duraan, tell Rania not to worry and to let me go, it's urgent."

"I'm sorry man, but here I cannot do anything," Duraan said.

"So there was a reason behind this," Hiroshi said.

"What reason?"

"I can't tell you."

"Then why did you hide all this?"

"I can't say."

"Then what is all this about?"

"I can't say."

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"THEN WHAT CAN YOU TELL US?!" Rania shouted.

"Nothing, but I'll tell you everything when it's the right moment, so leave right now."

"NO! YOU'LL SAY IT NOW!"

"I can't."

"WHY?!"

"There's a risk."

"RISK OF WHAT?"

"I can't say."

"THEN I WON'T LET YOU GO!"

"Let me go."

"NO!"

"Why?"

"I DON'T WANT TO!"

"The reason?"

"YOU'RE NOT ANSWERING THE QUESTIONS!"

"But there's a reason why I'm not answering."

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Some time later.

"Alright, for now you can go, but in exchange you must keep your word with us," Rania said, having surrendered before the impassive Hiroshi.

"I'll try."

* * *

After that, Rania and Duraan left and Hiroshi departed for the meeting with the ZYTOON.

Hiroshi arrived running quickly, without being noticed by his guards, since he had climbed down from his room window.

He arrived in the city center and found two hooded men there. Hiroshi approached and showed the ruby; consequently, they did the same.

"You're late," one of the men said.

"I apologize, there was a problem to solve."

"Alright. Tell us why you called us."

"You must have seen this morning's case, it's about that," Hiroshi said.

"We had assumed something like that, but we were too late with the execution. The government has already started playing its game, so we can't stay behind either. Here, in this file you'll find many routes you can use. That's all for now. If you need anything else, call us."

So the men gave him a file and left.

Hiroshi somehow returned to his room in silence and then spent all his time reading those documents and making his schemes and calculations.

* * *

Two days later, the day of the case arrived again.

"Today's case may begin," the judge said.

Hiroshi was the first to speak.

"Your honor, as you have seen, last time there was something very traumatic for many to see, and obviously for me as well, and in my opinion it created discomfort for many people, so I had decided to investigate a bit. And now what I'm about to say will shock you greatly. The death of Mr. Ging was not a coincidence," then Hiroshi took a breath, "BUT RATHER A MURDER!"

The people seated in the courtroom began discussing what had just been said, and the journalists were running out of ink in their pens.

"What do you mean, Mr. Vassair?" the judge said.

"Your honor, look at this paper, which is the post-mortem report of Mr. Ging Klow. It says he was poisoned, and this poison was given to him just as we had called him to the courtroom. The doctors said this is a poison that shows its reaction very quickly, within half an hour. Therefore, I refuse to say it wasn't a well-orchestrated murder! I don't know what the main motive behind this was, why they had to silence him."

He paused.

"And furthermore, I tell you that all the casinos and businesses he managed and that were in Mr. Ging's name have passed into the government's hands, instead of to his family."

Another pause.

"And then, your honor, the most shocking thing was that no one from Ging's family said a word while this was happening. In my opinion, they were silenced, because it's not possible that in a family where there's a wife and his five children, of which three are girls and two are boys, no one, but absolutely NO ONE among them tried to raise their voice to get what truly belonged to them. Doesn't that seem strange to you, your honor?"

He looked around the courtroom.

"I don't know about you and everyone else, but to me it seemed very strange. I repeat, I'm not a judge who will decide what's strange or not, but I also have a brain with which I think, and to me this thing seemed very unrealistic."

His voice grew slightly stronger.

"How will such a large family manage to live if they don't have money?"

He spread his hands.

"I DON'T KNOW, I truly don't know."

The entire speech Hiroshi had made, he had done in perfection: he had stood when he needed to stand, he had made gestures when they were necessary, the tone of his voice matched perfectly with the words and their meaning.

But someone didn't like this at all.

"What do you mean, Mr. Vassair, huh? Do you think I had him killed since I had the documents in which his lies and deception were written?" Ejin said.

Hiroshi raised his hands in a sign of surrender and said, "No, no, no Mr. Ejin, how could I accuse you in this way? And besides, you know, I don't even have proof, so it would be like cutting off one's own head with one's own hands."

"Then what do you really mean? Tell us directly, the court doesn't have time for the stories you invent."

Hiroshi stood up and raised his voice as well.

"ALRIGHT MR. EJIN! I'LL TELL YOU EVERYTHING, BUT STAY WELL SEATED BECAUSE THE NEXT WORDS THAT WILL COME OUT OF MY MOUTH WILL SHAKE THE GROUND FROM UNDER EVERYONE'S FEET!"

He pointed.

"AND I THINK THAT BEHIND THIS IS THE GOVERNMENT! EXACTLY THAT PERSON YOU SEE SITTING UP THERE, HE IS THE CULPRIT!"

This was like a bomb exploded in one's own hands. Hiroshi, at this moment in front of everyone, had said that the king himself was a killer.