Dogs would jump over walls when backed into a corner.
No one could guarantee that Hatano Ryu (Qin Yulong) wouldn't bite back with everything he had when he was out of options.
A thief's bite went three inches deep into the bone—and this was the far-right Senkai Association, an organization that even the Japanese government found troublesome.
Yamamoto Takeo's visit to Li Bai also showed, in another way, that China was putting pressure on Japan.
Otherwise, if a Japanese citizen was causing trouble, the Japanese government could simply play dead. Why bother getting involved?
But relations between nations didn't work that way. To some extent, they were more like interlocking fangs. If the east couldn't deal with you, the west had plenty of ways to do so. Your big shot was still your big shot, and you had to accept it.
Once things came to a head, the Japanese government would be left in an awkward position, too.
"Mr. Li, Mr. Li, please wait!"
Yamamoto Takeo panicked and hurried after him.
"Mr. Yamamoto, please stay where you are!"
Li Bai's words took effect at once. Yamamoto Takeo's feet seemed nailed to the ground, and he couldn't lift them again. All he could do was watch helplessly as Li Bai walked farther and farther away.
"Shimata!"
At last, Li Bai disappeared from view. Though Yamamoto Takeo could move again, his expression was almost tearful. He had absolutely no way to resist the hypnotism, and the experience had left him with a trauma too deep to measure.
His mission had gotten off to a terrible start!
It was easy to imagine the big shots at the police bureau chewing Yamamoto Takeo out for accomplishing nothing. He could forget about leaving Africa for the rest of his life.
Hot, poor, filthy, chaotic, dangerous...