Just 10:40 - twenty minutes before Tokyo Tower closes, Matsumoto Kiyonaga sent a text message to Chiba.

[The Metropolitan Police Department seems to be telling me to return to the team, which is a bit strange.] 】

[What's going on?] - Chiba Tachibana

[Just now, the National Police Agency checked the situation of the personnel at the Metropolitan Police Department on the grounds that it was preparing for an operation, and then found that I was not there, and asked me to rush back immediately.] —Kiyoshi Matsumoto

[So what to do?] - Chiba Tachibana

[It's almost time for Kosuke Mizutani to do it, and it's impossible for me to go back. So I need to go to the toilet and change my outfit and get rid of this layer of Matsumoto Kiyoshi's skin. We met at eleven o'clock at the counter of the coffee shop that had opened on the observation deck. —Kiyoshi Matsumoto

Why do I have to stay? I'm not a good fit here, am I? - Chiba Tachibana

[Now only you can help me, everyone else is too far away from here.] If something goes wrong with me alone, you can help make up for it. Rest assured, you won't be in danger. —Kiyoshi Matsumoto

[Then I have to hide, otherwise it will be difficult to be cleared by the people here when the museum is closed.] - Chiba Tachibana

[You can hide in the utility room of the large observation deck, and then come out to meet me when the time comes.] —Kiyoshi Matsumoto

[Won't the electricity be cut off?] If I break it, I'll be trapped here, hey......] - Tachibana Chiba

[Each observatory has an emergency power-on valve, and as long as any of the power-on valves are open, the elevator will be electrified.] As soon as you get something, I'll shoot and smash the door and take you out. —Kiyoshi Matsumoto

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Chiba hid in the utility room of the Great Observatory, listening to the bustling voices outside gradually fall silent.

Matsumoto Kiyocho is really familiar with this place, and he even knows that there is such an unlocked utility room here - as long as it is not locked now, Chiba can hide in, even if it is locked by the staff when it is closed, Chiba can directly use a traceless umbrella to break the door directly.

But why did he have to keep me too? This is just dealing with a guy who has no firearms, only a knife, and judging from the meeting place he requested, he should be planning to ambush Kosuke Mizutani - as a member of the organization, he must be equipped with a gun on a mission, so what does it mean......

At this moment, a faint but audible explosion suddenly came from the door.

“？” Qian Yu looked at the door in astonishment.

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A few minutes later, the special lookout.

Kosuke Mizutani slowly walked out of the coffee shop's utility room with a backpack on his back - he had stepped here before and had successfully spent the night here, so he knew exactly where he could effectively evade the staff's clearance.

It's almost time, and there are still 3 minutes and 50 seconds left until that moment.

At 11:09, that's the time when Nanako's body was lifted out as shown in the final report.

Taking out a brand new bottle of red wine and a corkscrew from his backpack, Kosuke Mizutani punctured the packaging on the top of the red wine bottle and slowly tucked the corkscrew into the cork.

This bottle of wine was obtained and given to them by Nanako Honami's brother Kazuki Hongami for a lot of money after Nanako Honami and Kosuke Mizutani eloped from Chiba to Tokyo - it was a 1969 Lafite, which was of very good quality and happened to coincide with Nanako's birth year.

He will never forget what Ben said to the tree that day.

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"Brother?" Kosuke Mizutani was in the living room when he suddenly heard the exclamation of Nanako Hongami who went to open the door, and hurriedly walked out.

"You're really here," Motogami and Aki at the door said lightly when he saw Kosuke Mizutani coming out. "It took me a long time to find you."

"I'm not going back!" Nanako Motogami pursed her lips, and her tone was quite resolute compared to the somewhat cute expression. "I love Kosuke so much!"

"Why are you going back?" Kazuki Motogami didn't know if he was amused by Nanako Motogami's expression, or if he was amused by what Nanako Motogami said, so he asked with a smile. "Go back to a man who has money but doesn't love you, and you don't love him either?"

"Huh?" Nanako Motogami was stunned. "Then brother, what are you here for?"

"For this," Kazuki Motogami brought the paper bag he was holding in his hand to Nanako Motogami. "Open it and take a look, it's for you."

"Given to us?" Nanako Motogami took the paper bag and found that it contained a bottle of red wine.

"'69-year-old Lafite, '89-year-old 20-year-old," says Kazuki Motogami. "You were born in '69 and met Mizutani in '89, and this bottle of red wine is perfect for the two of you, isn't it?"

"Brother, you...... Not against us being together? Nanako Motogami hesitated. Then why do you have to ...... when you're at home?"

"At that time, my father and mother were angry, and if I still look at you, I don't know if I will make them angry." Kazuki Ben smiled wryly and spread his hands, but his expression quickly became serious. "From falling in love to getting married, only with love can you get true happiness. Wealth and wealth are certainly factors that need to be considered, but they must not be allowed to dominate. Otherwise, it's not love, it's just a cold marriage that each takes what he needs. I can see that you love each other, and he will always love you, which is why he will support you to be with him. ”

"I don't know when you're going to get married, and I don't know if I'll have time to come at that time, and I don't even know if anyone from our family will come to congratulate you then......" Kazuki Motogami said this, shifting his gaze to Kosuke Mizutani. So, Mr. Kosuke Mizutani (who deliberately used a very formal way of addressing him), on the day of his wedding, drink this bottle of wine in one gulp. On behalf of our family, I would like to hand over to you the treasures that have been brewed in 69 years and brewed in 89 years, and I hope that after you drink this bottle of wine, you can take care of the most precious treasures of our family like a part of your body. ”

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Kosuke Mizutani is indeed ready to protect Nanako Motojo forever. It's a pity that he didn't have time to make this eternal guardianship vow at the wedding, and the person he wanted to protect eternally had already turned into cherry blossoms and scattered with the wind.

Pulling out the cork and pouring himself a glass of red wine from the goblet he was carrying in his backpack, Kosuke Mizutani pressed his thumb and forefinger on either side of the glass at the foot of the goblet, and slowly walked to the floor-to-ceiling viewing window of the special observatory with the glass, quietly looking at the sky outside the window - as a veteran astronomical observer, even such terrible weather conditions could not prevent him from forming a horoscope map in his mind, although a little rough, but full of key constellations.

"Nana," Kosuke Mizutani muttered. "I'll be with you soon."

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Author: In the original book, Kosuke Mizutani drank with a wine glass...... This is a terrible way to drink red wine (I think the original one is a red wine) because holding the glass in your hand will cause the temperature to transfer to the wine, which will ruin the taste of the red wine...... Only brandy would hold the cup, but the glass of that wine was much shorter than the one in the original book, and it was obviously not one.

So I'm here to have Kosuke Mizutani pinch the foot of the glass directly with two fingers, which is basically the best wine tasting posture in the standing position.