Chapter 29:

Busy Day.

Hang in There Mister Guard!


Just like many other times, today the mall has a large amount of visitors, the stores are packed with them and the halls are barely walkable with all the amount of people that are going to the stores and the ones waiting or just looking at the stores from the outside.

On the food stands two women are having a long conversation sitting on one of the tables, the purse of one of them is perched on the edge of the chair she’s sitting, and the man on he chair behind her has noticed it; whilst looking as if he was just stretching, his hand reaches towards the purse, opens it and then he rattles inside of it looking for something good to steal.

Once he found a little box that he considered valuable he sat straight in his chair, put the little box inside his jacket and then stood up to flee the scene.

But as he took a step outside the table he just left the figure of a security guard stands in front of him, it was Ryoichi, his face was menacing, for about a second and a half he just stared at the man, then with he spoke to make sure that almost everybody in the area could here what he was saying despite there being a quite lot of people talking already.

“Good afternoon sir, excuse me but I am going to need to search through your belongings and I need your total cooperation.”

“E-e-eh?” Asked the man shocked, he was still trying to figure out where the guard came from, since he didn’t see anybody as he acted early. At the same time, the entire area got really quiet.

“I said that I am going to search through your belongings and I need your total cooperation sir.” Said Ryoichi unfazed.

“Why?! You have no reason to do so!”

“But I do have sir, I am conducting this due to the suspicion that you have pick-pocketed this woman’s purse.”

Suddenly the room was filled with chatter of a different kind, all the eyes were centered on them and all you could here was:

“What’s happening?”

“Is that man a robber?”

“Watch your stuff!”

Pressured by all the eyes staring at him he tried to push Ryoichi to the side and run, but as soon as he grabbed his shoulder to push him out of his way, Ryoichi made a quick movement to hit him on the Sciatic nerve dropping him to the floor.

Whilst the man was on his knees, Ryoichi immobilized him with one of his legs and searched through him quickly, finding the box the man took from the woman’s purse.

“Excuse me miss, do you recognize this box?” Ryoichi asked to the woman.

“E-e-eh?! Yeah, I think that’s mine.”

“Then that settles it.” And he put a pair of handcuffs on the man’s hands. “You are under arrest for the intent of robbery.”