Despite several hours having passed since the phone call, the mafia leader, known for being strong and terrifying, was staring at his desk with a profound look in his eyes.
Suddenly, he straightened up with a composed expression. With quick and powerful strides, he proceeded directly toward the room where the boy was located.
A few minutes later, he stopped in front of a room in the middle of a long corridor and slowly pushed the door ajar. Through the crack in the door, he could clearly see the boy sitting on a chair and reading a thick book.
Having noticed the door opening, the boy lifted his head from the book and, after briefly scrutinizing the leader, resumed reading his book.
This cold attitude disturbed the leader, and this discomfort was reflected on his face. He walked with quick, military steps right up to the boy, took the book from his hand, and began examining it.
"Kid, isn't this book too heavy for your age?"
"You're right, it's not suitable for someone my age, yes, but do you think I am the same as my peers?"
The leader was about to respond when the boy took a small, old flash drive from his pocket, offered it to the leader, and continued speaking.
"Everything you are curious about regarding me is available here. Now, may I take my book back?"
The Leader took the flash drive the boy offered, examined it briefly, and gave the book back to the boy, then left the room.
Following this conversation, he became certain about the connection between his master and this child, and he even realized that everything that had happened was a part of his master's plan, understanding that this child was not normal.
The Leader returned to his room, took one of the dozens of laptops stacked on top of each other there, and placed it on his desk.
When he plugged in the flash drive, he found it contained a single video that could be viewed only once before self-destructing. Without hesitation, he immediately opened the video, which contained nothing but an old man speaking in a language known by only two other people on Earth.
"Son, you are probably surprised to see me. Also, if this message is with you, I am definitely dead. Anyway, I won't prolong this too much. The child who delivered this video to you is my grandson, and if he has come to you, it means he has no place left to stay. I know we haven't seen each other for a long time, and I doubt you have many good memories of me. You might even be happy I'm dead, right? Haha... but I have a request for you. Please take care of this child. The things he has experienced so far are not unlike your own childhood, so I believe you will be the one to understand him best. That is why I ask this of you with all my respect, Son... or rather, Tora."
The video ended in this manner and was erased, never to return.
"So, he is your grandson, is he, old man? Now I have one more reason to raise this child. But the real problem is how we will raise him. I don't think I can personally look after him, and no matter how much he is your grandson, I cannot allow him to be in the headquarters directly."
While the Leader, Tora, was thinking these thoughts, the door to the room knocked again. When he gave permission for the knocker to enter, the woman from hours earlier entered the room again, and after greeting Tora, she said the boy wished to see him.
The Leader was not surprised that the child wanted to speak with him; in fact, it was as if he had been expecting it. When he allowed him to enter his room, the woman exited the room as she had come, and the boy entered the room.
"Were you available, Sir?"
"What happened to your arrogant attitude all of a sudden?"
"I was acting that way only to get your attention and to make you watch the video. Otherwise, if you had seen me as an ordinary child, I wouldn't be here right now, would I?"
"So, the reason you were on that rooftop was to get my attention?"
"No, if you hadn't come there, I really would have committed suicide. In fact, until I saw you up close, I couldn't even realize you were the person my grandfather talked about. Of course, what happened after that was an act, but I suddenly got distracted and forgot that KTora is known as a trading company, and I directly mentioned that you were the mafia."
"Amazing. I hadn't paid any attention. Also, congratulations, you succeeded in your aim. Now you are under my protection, so tell me, what do you want to do?"
"As far as I know, my father is foreign, and as you may have noticed, I don't look all that much like a Japanese person. Also, I came to Japan to be with my grandfather. When he died, I started staying at the orphanage."
"What about your family, then?"
"They are all dead, but that is not the topic at hand. I finally escaped from the orphanage, and I am probably being searched for right now. If it were up to me, I would prefer to be declared dead, leave the country, and not return for a long time."
"You're right. Then you are leaving tomorrow, and don't think you're going somewhere peaceful."
"Understood. No one wanted to go to a peaceful place anyway."
"The sin is on you, then."