"Wait..."
Takeshi suddenly extended his hand to stop Takumi: "Let me do it!"
"What?"
"It's reckless for you to go out like that. I'll help you save the child." Takeshi snorted coldly: "This time I'll pay you back, and we'll settle everything in the future. Don't let that child come to me again..."
Takumi looked at him strangely. 'What child?'
Takeshi turned and said a few words to his boss, pushing her aside and taking two steps forward.
"What are you going to do?"
Takumi asked.
Takeshi did not reply. He pushed his way through the crowd, moving away from Takumi and his boss, then stretched, took a deep breath, and ran forward.
"Hey, hey, hey!"
"Brother, don't be impulsive!"
The others were scared. 'Why did this guy suddenly run off? Didn't they see that the child didn't let anyone get close?'
Takumi's expression was also tense. 'Why was Takeshi so impulsive? With his fierce face, he would scare the child and make her jump into the river if he rushed.'
"Wow, oh, oh, oh!"
"Don't come!"
As expected, the child got scared. She backed away and missed. She leaned back and fell off the railing.
"Oh my God!"
"Careful! Save her!"
The crowd at the scene shouted. Takumi panicked and ran forward like the others. But in an instant, they saw Takeshi approaching the spot where the child fell. He kicked off the ground and flew from the bridgehead. Like the male protagonist of a Hollywood blockbuster, Takeshi embraced the child in mid-air and then fell into the river.
"Shit..."
Takumi's eyes widened. 'This was truly incredible. This bodyguard was so manly.'
"Hold her! Go see if she's been rescued!"
"There are yachts under the bridge!"
"Great!"
The crowd loudly looked down at the railing. Several yachts appeared below, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"Hurry, hurry!"
These yachts were working on the lake, and soon they saw Takeshi emerging from the river.
Takumi suddenly admired Takeshi. 'Only he knew there was a yacht under the bridge, but the bodyguard didn't. Takeshi must have thought of swimming back to shore from the middle of the river. It was winter, and the river water could freeze people. This bodyguard was truly brave.'
"Hey, take me to shore,"
Takumi reminded Takeshi's boss. The woman was so scared that she turned pale, but her eyes kept sparkling. She was very happy that her bodyguard was so manly.
"Okay, okay."
The woman opened the car door and was stunned: "I don't know how to drive."
She couldn't drive due to her physique. Normally, Takeshi drove.
Takumi frowned slightly. He didn't know how to drive, so he had to walk quickly to shore.
No one cared. There were many young people watching. The journalists shouldn't doubt it. Even if they did, there was no evidence to prove that he was Mirai-sensei. Takumi left when the others weren't paying attention. He was the first to return to the shore where the yacht was rented.
Shortly after he left, the yacht and the crowd returned to shore, and people praised the yacht company for its ingenuity.
Since Takumi had said in advance that confidentiality would be maintained, the yacht company's employees took all the credit and announced it happily.
Takeshi also accepted the cheers from the crowd, but he didn't want to stay long, so the company gave him a note. Takeshi changed his clothes and took the child.
"I'll take the child to the hospital; don't worry,"
he told the others, then met with his boss and left.
"..."
Takumi, who was in the dark, watched them leave, and his tension finally relaxed.
"Alice."
He called Alice and made her come.
"What happened?"
Alice, driving a Porsche towards the Kamo River, was very nervous: "You said she jumped into the river, what's the situation?"
"Nothing, a false alarm."
Takumi told her what had happened and then asked: "I want you to send someone to Tokyo University Hospital. I asked Takeshi to take the child there. She seems a little abnormal."
He only saw that the child in Takeshi's arms was motionless and became very worried.
"And it's not convenient for me to go there. It seems some journalists want me to appear." Takumi frowned and said: "Takeshi's employer might not cover the medical expenses. You can find someone to help you. And the child's situation seems very complicated. She seems to show signs of domestic violence."
"Okay."
Alice nodded. 'She has more contacts than Takumi. These kinds of things are simple:' "I'll find some lawyers to handle this matter. As for the money, the company..."
"No need, I'll pay." Takumi smiled bitterly and said: "After all, it's my business. I'll pay, not the company."
Alice did not object.
That night, Takumi slept peacefully.
The next day, Alice told him that the child had woken up from the coma and was fine. She had only been stunned when she fell from the bridge, and the medical expenses were only a few hundred yen. Alice also hired a lawyer to help her deal with the domestic violence against the child. The child did not know who had saved her, and Takumi kept it a secret.
Although some reporters photographed him at the scene, his identity would not be revealed.
Furthermore, the lawyers handling the domestic violence incident unexpectedly received a surprising message from the child, which caused a greater stir than Mirai-sensei's identity.
It turned out that the child ran away from home due to domestic violence, but jumping into the river was not her idea. After being stopped by Hinotori Publishing security guards, she met several people who took her to the Kamo River and suggested that she could meet Mirai-sensei as long as she threatened to jump into the river.
Some of the young girl's behaviors seemed somewhat pathological due to prolonged domestic violence. She accepted the proposal, and then what happened next occurred.
This incident shocked the lawyers, who immediately contacted the police. After the investigation, the police discovered that the person who had persuaded her was a journalist from a newspaper. They did it for the purpose of reporting. Public opinion immediately criticized the newspaper.
Mirai-sensei's connection to this incident was diluted. No murder occurred. Although it was reported in the newspaper, there was no problem.
Takumi asked Alice to thank Takeshi on his behalf. If it weren't for the bodyguard, he would have found it difficult to escape this disaster.
"If you want to thank him, why don't you invite him? I think he has a good impression of you and will surely agree..." Alice smiled and said: "Although last night was a special case, there's no guarantee that there won't be other situations in the future. You can let Takeshi be your driver and bodyguard."
Takumi thought about it. He was used to leaving everything to Alice, and that wasn't the solution.
"Okay, ask him for me."
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