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Atom's P.O.V
My name is Atom. I'm one of the three detectives in Robotown. It's true that I'm a detective, but my experience is still below the other two detectives who have been working as detectives for a long time.
Oh yeah! I forgot to tell you about those two detectives. The two detectives I'm referring to are Ambush and Noisy Boy. Ambush was the most senior among the three of us. He always told me that a detective should be hard-boiled. Although I didn't really understand, I always tried to be a hard-boiled detective like Ambush said. Unfortunately, whenever I tried to be hard-boiled, most of my clients didn't take me seriously. Some even find me cute, despite my efforts to be a hard-boiled detective.
Why is it so hard to be cool and hard-boiled?
Then there's Noisy Boy, err..., I mean Noisy niichan.
Maybe you're wondering why I call Noisy Boy that?
Actually, Noisy asked me to call him that, but to be honest, I actually prefer to call Noisy Boy "Noisy niichan" because in terms of experience, Noisy niichan has more experience as a detective than me.
Although Noisy niichan is more experienced than me, he's actually friendly. Sometimes he'd let me into his office when he didn't have a client to investigate. Sometimes he'd offer me to drink green tea from Japan and show off his katana collection. He also often gave me advice on how to become a great detective. On the wall of his office, I saw a picture of a gold-colored robot with a mohawk. Right above the robot's face, there was a kunai stuck. I asked Noisy niichan about the robot, but he always refused to talk about it. Since Noisy niichan refused to talk about it, I never asked about it again.
Then about this town.
This town has always faced problems caused by mobster gangs. According to the townspeople, there are five members. But Ambush said that the mobster gang originally had only four members.
According to reports, the members (before the arrival of new members) were Blac Jac, Axelrod, Gridlock and Danger Zone.
Blac Jac was the first member of the mobster gang. He initially worked at a casino, but the casino was closed after a raid by the police because the casino where he worked was actually an illegal casino.
Then, the second member is Axelrod. He used to work as a waiter at a famous French restaurant, but he was fired because one of his customers mistakenly referred to him as a woman even though his identity card said that he was actually a man, which made him hit the customer.
At the time, Axelrod was wearing a male waiter's uniform. How could the customer have mistaken Axelrod for a girl?
Wait a minute, Axelrod became a member of a mobster gang because of that trivial matter?
I don't understand his way of thinking.
As for Gridlock, I don't know that much. All I know is that he's from Switzerland and once participated in a boxing championship. But before he could participate in the match, he had an accident that cost him the chance to compete in the championship.
You could say that he became a mobster gang member because of his failure to enter a match.
About Danger Zone, hm...
There is little information about him. But some people say that he used to be a street fighter. Somehow he was recruited to become a member of that gang. Compared to his three colleagues, he was the one who rarely acted. Even if he did, it was only to beat up anyone who tried to get in the way of his comrades. He also rarely spoke.
The fifth member was still unknown, but it was said that he was the newest member as well as the leader of the gang.
How strange is that?
Shouldn't the leader be Blac Jac, who was the first member of the gang? He was also the one who formed the gang and recruited the members. Why is the leader the newest member? The identity of the newest member is also unknown until now.
Unless the fifth member has a talent as a leader, maybe that's the most reasonable reason.
The phone rang. It was time for me to end the conversation.
There is currently a client who needs my help.