1 Shiba Ryusei

He is Shiba Ryusei, age 16-year-old, He has a face you might call handsome as seen by the amount of fan-girls he has in his high school, they wouldn't be in thousands but they were certainly in hundreds. He had a middle-class family with his Dad working in a company and his Mom as a housewife.

What the High School did not know was that he was a part of the Detective Agency which he works at with his alias as Sherrinford4869, 4869 can also be pronounced "Shi-Ya-Ro-Ku" in Japanese (シャロク Sharoku), which translates into Sherlock

One of those days, he solved a Robbery Case in a mansion, however the weirdest thing he witnessed that day, was when he was returning home, he saw two people, whom he strongly believed were part of a murder crime, unfortunately, he couldn't present enough proof about it at the time.

The two had been present in the crime scene last week, but he was not capable of finding their weapon of murder, or any evidence they had done it, the police was left with no choice but to release them, now he was very excited, he could get a chance to get some evidence against those guys!

He pulled out his phone from his pocket and called the police's number and spoke to the Police inspector in a calm and serious voice, "Sir, the suspects that I told you about are right in front of me and I am going to follow them and find if I can get any evidence against them. Please trace my location through the transmitter you have on me."

He didn't even listen to the inspector say anything before he hung up the phone as currently, time was of essence and he didn't want to waste time by explaining things to the inspector right now. One of the two was taller than the other one significantly. The one who was taller, looked around before reaching for the driver's seat of his car, and the shorter man sat in the passenger seat.

The Taller guy had silver hair which were very long and covered his back and had a cold expression on his face. It wasn't like he wanted to scare someone but it was like it was his normal look with which he looked at everyone. It was like he was watching a dead man.

As for the Shorter man, he had a grin on his face which looked honest but Ryusei wasn't really sure if it was true or not but he noticed that he didn't really have a cold look in his eyes. He wore a black hat which was used to completely cover up his hairs, it was as if he was cautious enough to not leave his hairs somewhere.

Ryusei looked around the surroundings near him, and noticed a Taxi near the end of the road, he quickly ran towards it, and entered it. The taxi driver shivered from his sudden entrance, which seemed as if he was running from a crime scene, Ryusei demanded for him to start the engine, but he did not do so.

The Driver didn't move his car from his position, why would he, a person just came in and said to follow another car. He was doubtful that this passenger was a criminal and he didn't want to get caught in helping a criminal.

Ryusei saw his expression and knew what he was thinking and pulled out a badge from his pocket, a Lion on the front side and the Tiger on the backside was imprinted on the badge. This was the badge that the Police Inspector had given him in the form of an honour for helping them in various cases.

The moment the Taxi Driver saw the coin, he knew that the matter was related to police and the guy was a helper of the police, he started the engine of the car and followed the White Car which wasn't too far ahead right now.

Ryusei just noticed what he was doing, without much stuff to protect himself with, no backup and he was chasing two people who might've murdered a human, stolen a human life from this world. It wasn't that he liked to solve cases because he wanted to be some hero or anything. It was because they were interesting, challenging and also the law was at his side, so it caused his work to be much simpler as he didn't have to work in shadows. Besides, who dislikes having fans, so that was also a plus point.

This also strangely, reminded him of mystery movies or some of the mystery novels, chasing cars. It just adds spice to this adventure, strangely, in a moment where he should be very anxious, besides being a bit nervous, he was overwhelmed by excitement! He was a big fan of Sherlock Holmes, so this event really managed to make him excited.

After a long time, the white car stopped near a port, the two both left their car, and Ryusei motioned for the taxi driver to stop nearby, he noticed that they were walking towards a man with a round face and a really long moustache. He gave the taxi driver some money and started to sneak towards the three.

Ryusei heard the taller man say, "So, did you bring them?"

The man nodded and clapped a few times, a huge box which was slowly lowered down by the Crane, after it was fully lowered down. The man cut the cables connecting it to the crane and pulled the cloth covering it, when it was uncovered.

The box or should we say cage, shockingly had humans inside, not only were they 'humans' but they clearly were minors, Ryusei was sure that most of them were even younger than him, merely young kids and girls!

Ryusei gasped as he saw young boys and girls trapped in a cage. He understood that this was the case of Human Trafficking, he noticed them signing the deal and waited for the Inspector to come.

After some time, he stared at his wristwatch and thought as he calculated in his mind 'The police station is about 20 Kilometres from here, so it should take Inspector about 30 minutes to get here but if he followed the route from when I was tracked then the time taken should be even less unless he gets caught in the traffic.

Today is Wednesday, there shouldn't be a huge traffic today so that must mean that the Inspector is coming in about 20 minutes. That means he will have to keep them occupied till 20 Minutes, to make sure that they are caught red handed or I should just make their video and show it to Inspector as Proof.'

He pulled out his One Plus 6 phone and started videotaping both of them, he videos them for around 10 minutes, they changed position and started walking away. From his position, it wasn't really clear, so he moved from this position a bit and it caused a slight noise because of the scratching of his bag against the wall.

The entire area was completely silent, so when a sound came, all of them turned towards his direction. He knew that he was discovered but still stayed completely still so that they wouldn't check it and think that it was some dog.

But it seemed that the taller guy was extremely paranoid and moved closer towards the position of Ryusei who was thinking of a good solution to pass up the time and save himself. He then took up a deep breath as he thought 'Looks like I will die, now all I can do is delay my death and try to save these kids and others trapped like them.'

It was as though he resigned himself and accepted death and no longer feared it, he stepped out of his hiding place as he looked at the Taller guy with an Arrogant Expression which was quite difficult to maintain when he saw the gun in his hands.

Ryusei internally sighed as he said, "It seems, I was right about both of you being murderers that day, I knew you were hiding something, however… Who would've thought you were also part of a human trafficking case?"

The taller man was silent, as he pointed his gun at Ryusei, he finally responding to him, with a cold and merciless expression on his face," It matters not whether you know about it or not. Nobody else can know about it after you, Sherrinford4869."

Ryusei smiled as he heard his words and responded like he had expected it, "You cannot kill me, tough guy, when I started my Detective career, I had a transmitter planted near heart, when I die, it will send the coordinates of my location, to the police station, maybe you will escape, but they will all investigate this case my death you can't keep it hidden for a very long time now...What will you do tough guy?"

Obviously, Ryusei was bluffing, while some people were trying to create such a transmitter, it would be very dangerous to any human to undergo such a surgery to put a piece of metal inside one's body, however it was being heavily studied and many detectives took the risk and applied it in their bodies.

Inwardly gulping, Ryusei waited for his fate, and the tough guy frowned, not knowing if he was hesitating or not, the shorter man said, "Big Brother, let's make him unconscious for now and dump him along the way."

Ryusei thought 'Good, make me fall unconscious. Believe my bluff and perhaps even I will have a chance of surviving this.' He had resigned and accepted his death but it wasn't like he would sit there and wait for his death, he was going to do everything to have a slim chance of survival.