"Mr. James was kidnapped?" Officer Takagi was startled, then became a little puzzled. "Who's that?"
"..." Suzuki Sonoko slapped the flyer down in front of him in exasperation. "Did you forget? Look at that face in the photo and think carefully!"
"???" Officer Takagi was even more confused. He took the flyer and looked down, his eyes immediately landing on the large, ornate bolded words—Randy Hawke.
"Randy Hawke? Isn't he the director of that circus? I saw him while researching date ideas... Ahem!"
Realizing he had let something slip, Officer Takagi hurriedly changed his story and steered the conversation back on track. "He probably hasn't been kidnapped. When I passed the shop next door just now, I saw him appearing on a program. It was a live broadcast..."
Jiang Xia interrupted, "The one who was kidnapped wasn't him, but a foreign gentleman who looks a lot like him."
Officer Sato had just finished up and walked over. She looked down at the photo and froze. "Someone who looks a lot like him... Could it be that James?"
An FBI leader had actually been kidnapped?
Officer Sato scratched her head, feeling surreal. "Could there be some misunderstanding..." For example, maybe James's subordinates had needed to see him, and those fierce-looking, agent-like subordinates had been mistaken for kidnappers by the high school students?
Nearby, Hashimoto Maya latched onto another key point.
"Randy Hawke is on a live broadcast?" He stroked his chin, using the gesture to hide the upturned corner of his mouth. If the kidnappers saw that program and realized they had kidnapped a fake... wouldn't they silence him?
The sinister prayer of a Organization member came true.
Inside a speeding Fake Police Car.
One of the kidnappers casually turned on the car radio. The synchronized program came through the