Fujino watched Bourbon's retreating figure. Even without dwelling on it, he could sense the murderous intent radiating from him.
Clearly, this dark-skinned young man genuinely dared to kill Shuichi Akai now.
After all, he believed that Shuichi Akai, that FBI agent, had killed his colleague in order to get closer to the Organization's upper ranks.
Logically speaking, they were both undercover agents. He shouldn't have been thinking that way.
But emotion surpassed reason.
At least, that was how Fujino believed humans worked.
Put simply, everyone had double standards and protected their own.
As an undercover Public Security officer, what would you think if your colleague and good friend died in front of an FBI undercover agent, with the killer still holding a gun?
Would you believe that FBI undercover agents never killed people?
That would be utter bullshit.
In the eyes of the two organizations, neither side was trustworthy.
Japan's Public Security would rather believe that you killed my good buddy than believe that bullshit about the FBI not killing people.
This wasn't some theory about human nature. It was simply that, judging from objective facts, so-called "human nature" really was an objectively existing pattern.
The fact that emotions influenced people under certain circumstances was exactly that: an inherent characteristic and pattern that existed universally on physiological, psychological, and social behavioral levels, independent of subjective judgment.
People were always talking about theories of human nature, but what were they exactly?
At the end of the day, they were subjective evaluations of human nature, not objective ones.
For example, slapping labels on people like "humans are inherently good" or "humans are inherently evil"—that was a theory of human nature. The objective facts of human nature, meanwhile, were not based on inherent goodness or evil, but merely on how emotional human nature