The Case of the Mad Scientist

Chapter 24: Three Spies in Trouble

“What!?”

Watanabe was not happy. Veins on his forehead stood out as he rose to his feet.

“My house invaded? By gaijin?”

“Two of them appear to be Americans,” Gato told him calmly. “The other is Nippon. They were armed.” He held up the .50 caliber Desert Eagle that Sled had dropped.

For a long while Watanabe simply stared at the weapon. Then he ignored it and began a limping walk towards the door. “Show me these gaijin!”

Gato did. Sled Speed was still unconscious in his cell but both Blaze and Aiko were awake. They were sitting on the floor of adjacent cells, both still locked in handcuffs.

Watanabe came close to the bars and looked upon each of them for a long time. Finally, he addressed Aiki, in Japanese. “Who sent you?”

“No one.”

are

trying to act ashamed, told him that they had come in to steal what they could. During the time between their capture and this interrogation she had been trying to think of a story that might save them and explain why they were there. The best she could come up with was that they were burglars and looking for something to steal. She hoped that he would simply turn them over to the police and not do something much worse

“That one,” he said, pointing at Blaze,

turn to

work for the American government?

Silence greeted his question.

government,” he said with a faint smile. “I will save them the trouble of a trial. I will execute you myself. Gato-san will arrange

him. “May I suggest, sir, that the

You two will soon wish you had simply been shot.” He chuckled,

test a virus. Especially that fine looking American woman. Then he remembered that he had been going to report to his boss when the alarm system sounded and he and a couple guards were diverted to the lab. He turned to follow

all that?” Blaze

her a summary. “So we are to be turned over to

good, but it’s

screwed. That’s what she is saying:

that we’ll be turned into sex hungry creatures like

what this Dr. Sorren