"Did they dismantle this one too?"
"Yeah, completely. This time it was the sign outside the toy store... That bastard really..."
Matsuda Jinpei straightened up, yanked down the deadly "little piece of clay," and cursed.
Without an outside perspective like Tangze's, they naturally could not estimate Suehiko Ito's situation as well as he could. From their point of view, Suehiko Ito's intentions were extraordinarily malicious.
The Fantasy Park theme park had only been built within the past year or so. Before that, it had merely been a resort operated by the Suzuki Group.
Building a resort district along Yokohama's coast was perfectly normal. After all, the Suzuki Group's core business was related to it. They had always been real estate tycoons; even industries with little direct connection to them inevitably had to buy or lease land from them. Their immense influence in the business world partly stemmed from that.
—That was probably why Sonoko Suzuki often took her best friend's entire family out for trips. Her family was in that business, after all.
Suehiko Ito was different.
His family had always been wealthy, true, but they had nothing whatsoever to do with amusement parks. Yet it was only after he got into a car accident while fleeing, became paralyzed and blind, broke away from his old company, and took over part of an upperclassman's business that he began building Fantasy Park.
The fact that he could so freely control the surveillance, wiretaps, and various installations throughout the amusement park was inseparable from his involvement.
A fugitive hiding his identity chose to build a theme park, then installed explosive traps inside it. The hostage-taking intent was practically written all over his face.
"All right, cursing him won't help." Hirotsugu Morofushi packed away the dangerous little thing for Matsuda Jinpei again and