After Himeko and the others set off separately, outside a certain police station-or, more accurately, a Mobile Unit base-
Standing before Washana was the Mobile Team Captain, who had just received a huge stack of wanted notices and spotted Washana among them.
[Washana, Class B Wanted Criminal. Bounty: 3,000] [Crime: assaulting Lin En, chairman of the Lin En Group. Extremely dangerous. All citizens must exercise caution.]
It also specified when Washana had committed the crime.
The problem was that Washana had never left his sight during that period. There was no way she could have had time to commit it.
"A wanted notice? For me?"
Washana, who had a Brain-Computer Interface installed, naturally saw her own wanted notice too. She was bewildered.
She hadn't done anything, so how had she ended up wanted? That made no sense!
Who was framing her!?
More importantly, as a Wanted Criminal, she was now standing in plain sight of the Mobile Team Captain responsible for apprehending criminals.
Judging by his expression, Washana didn't think he was unaware that she had become a Wanted Criminal.
Were we going to have to fight? This half-man, half-machine guy would probably punch me into a wall so hard they couldn't even pry me out.
"Um... would you believe me if I said I didn't do this?"
"I would."
The Mobile Team Captain closed all the wanted notice screens.
"The moment I saw you, I knew for certain you were a good person."
With a hundred million and a stranger's life before her, choosing either meant losing the other. Washana had chosen the latter.
That alone was enough for the Mobile Team Captain to conclude that Washana was nothing like the sort of thug who would become a Wanted Criminal.
"I'm not as good as you think..."