Give Uzo a Fulcrum

But Okiya Subaru quickly reconsidered: if it was Uzo, he surely had plenty of ways to get hold of the Seal.

The fact that Uzo had deliberately chosen such a destructive method might simply have been because his initial "peaceful measures" had not gone smoothly. He no longer wanted to deal with the tasteless Ghost Tiger Society, so he had adopted his "Uzo-style" solution partly for the mission and partly as revenge.

After all, Uzo actually looked very young and did not seem particularly imposing. If the person in the Ghost Tiger Society responsible for receiving him had underestimated him because of that, treating Uzo like an ignorant young man fresh out in the world, then this could very well have happened.

"..." More importantly, could Prosecutor Yoshino, who had directly brought about the Ghost Tiger Society's downfall, also be one of Uzo's people? This Prosecutor had always had a good reputation and seemed upright and incorruptible. Tsk, appearances really could be deceiving...

Okiya Subaru rubbed his chin, increasingly feeling that the organization's influence was like a dark spiderweb. It left no corner untouched and had even deeply infiltrated places like the police and the courts.

At that thought, Okiya Subaru suddenly realized a major problem:

When the FBI activated its protection program and sent him away, would they arrange a private charter flight?

If he took a public passenger plane...

An uncontrollable series of scenes surfaced in Okiya Subaru's mind: two months later, he had barely survived Uzo, and the FBI happily escorted him to the airport and onto a plane. Just as he finally reached the shores of freedom and was about to land, the beautiful flight attendant who had looked after him throughout the journey approached, knelt beside him, parted her red lips, and said, "Mr. Uzo