Su Xin thought about it and felt that the red spot on her shoulder should not be considered as such, so she shook her head and said, "Thank you, I'm not hurt."
"That's good." The gendarmerie officer who was in charge of asking about the situation nodded. "We have a general idea of what happened. Now I hope you can describe the details."
"Um...like?"
"For example, we will describe what the suspect did to you, both completed and attempted. We will determine the severity of the suspect's crime and the corresponding measures to be taken based on your description."
Su Xin was a little hesitant, because when the Royal Ark followed the destroyer, she was caught by Ayanami and locked up for a month or two. If you really think about it, what Akagi did was much more serious than just following.
To put it in a more serious way, it is possible that he will be imprisoned for a year or two. If he does not repent during this period, it is estimated that the day of returning to Hong Kong will be even more distant.
Su Xin was of course very angry and sad about Akagi's ridiculous behavior, but this fox was still a family member after all. Besides, if Akagi was taken away like this, Tiancheng at home would probably become depressed.
Taking these two aspects into consideration, Commander Su Xiao made a decision. He sighed and decided to downplay Akagi's crime.
The police officer had handled cases before, so she knew exactly what the little girl was up to. She immediately reminded her, "In fact, Captain Eugen from the neighboring city had already contacted us before we received the report."
Su Xin was stunned, silently trying to figure out what he meant, "Hmm... so even if there was no call to the police, you were still prepared to come and rescue me?"
"Yes." The police officer opened the ballpoint pen, "The ship girl in Guigang and the military police team worked together to find your location, and then contacted us to go out first."
"They are on their way. I think you will be able to see them in less than an hour."
"But before that, we have to complete the investigation first." The police officer looked up and looked at the commander, "Ms. Tiancheng from Guigang asked us to convey a message to you before coming."
Su Xin clenched her fists lightly, suddenly feeling a little nervous. She licked her dry lips before asking her, "What is it?"
"...whatever is to be done, shall be done."
Commander Su was stunned when he heard this and remained silent for a long time. In the end, he still insisted on his original testimony and did not really push the man into jail. The police officer did not try to persuade him anymore and just wrote down what he was told.
Su Xin omitted the incident of attempted coercion, and she did not tell anyone about the miraculous operation of unsuccessful reverse deduction. After deleting and reducing the details, the only thing left was the crime of kidnapping the commander.
He took the person away from the bed in the middle of the night, fled to the next city and stayed in a hotel for less than a day, and even went out to play for a while.
Rather than forcibly abducting a woman and secretly imprisoning her, this description sounds more like a date between the two.
But the first two charges still had to be determined, and the police knew that the description was questionable, so they did not let him off any further. In addition, the victim was three months away from becoming an adult, so this was enough to sentence him to a long term.
"Commander Su, do you have anything else to add?"
"...there is none left."
"Okay, that's all right. You can go to the rest area and wait for the ship girl in the port to pick you up. Just turn left when you go out."
Su Xin stood up as she was told, paused, and then asked, "Will this case be handed over to Captain Eugen?"
"If you insist and Captain Eugen is willing to take over, it's possible." The police officer pressed the tip of the pen back and packed up his things.
"I see. Thank you. Thanks for your help."
"You're welcome."
"Ah, classmate Su, you're out?" New Jersey changed his bored look and stood up from the metal chair, "Is everything okay? Do you want something to eat?"
"...No, thank you." Su Xin forced a smile. She didn't feel very happy after being safe. "Just call me by my name, or call me Su Su like everyone else."
"Well, then it's still Susu, right? She's very cute."
Su Xin curled her lips in response, then shifted her gaze to the person sitting next to New Jersey and found that she was more familiar with this person than New Jersey.
"...thunder?"
"Hmm, you know me? I see, is this a genius?"
Su Xin, who has always been shy and self-abased, did not dare to respond to the word "genius" and hurriedly explained, "Well... no, I just... have heard of you."
"Oh~ I see, you've been keeping an eye on Master Lei, right? Hmm... what do you think? Do you want to consider worshipping him? Any wish can be fulfilled, you know?"
New Jersey raised his hand and placed it between the two horns on Lei's head, like a handrail, the height was just right
"Don't talk nonsense like that."
She felt inexplicably jealous when she found out that her beloved classmate Su knew Lei, with whom she had no connection, but did not know her who had been with him for so long. She was immediately unhappy and took her anger out on her bad friend.
"She must have been following me, so she got to know you by chance!"
Lei covered his head with his hands in dissatisfaction, "Let go quickly, if you keep shaking like this, sooner or later I will be crushed by you and unable to grow taller... When that happens, I will definitely log off the line and never come to see you again."
"What do you mean offline or online..." New Jersey curled his lips and didn't take it seriously. He had obviously heard it many times before and still remembered to explain to the little conductor: "She is just like that. She always says things that are hard to understand. Don't take it seriously."
Su Xin showed a lot of interest. She sat next to Lei and continued chatting with her. "Your elder sister and younger sister are here at home. Xiao, Xiang, and Dian are all here. Do you want to meet them?"
"I see... Are you trying to salvage the boat?"
Except in her previous life, Su Xin hadn't heard the term "salvage ship" for a long time. When the commander asked the ship girl to join, the terms used were usually very euphemistic, and the ship girl herself would not say that.
After thinking for a while, she asked again: "You are also...playing games and can't quit?"
Lei's eyes widened, and he looked at her as if she were a ghost. He scanned her from head to toe, but apart from her good looks, he could not see anything.
Su Xin found this funny, and out of the corner of her eye she saw New Jersey sitting next to her with a confused look on his face, as if asking, "Which sentence did I miss?"
After all, Commander Su Xiao was helped, and he didn't want to just say thank you. Besides, there were six drivers in the house and three were missing. Xiaodu had been looking for them for so long, so he should let them see him.
Although the timing was not right, Su Xin still invited the two to visit the port area. New Jersey was very happy about this. Lei was a little hesitant, but when he thought that this person actually knew his situation, he decided to test it.
The three of them chatted for a while, and after almost an hour, there was a lot of noise outside.
Su Xin realized that it might be her own ship girl who had arrived, and subconsciously stood up to take a look. She just happened to see Lafite flying towards her, and Yixian following closely behind with a worried look on her face.
She caught the white rabbit steadily, held its slightly trembling body in her arms, raised her hand and rubbed its head, "It's okay, don't worry."
"I'm sorry..." Lafite clutched the clothes tightly, "It's all Lafite's fault... I only know how to sleep..."
"It doesn't matter. No one knew this would happen. Next time, we'll put torpedoes next to the bed. As soon as they go off, you can get up and save me."
Even though she knew that he was just teasing her, Lafite still couldn't help herself. She dropped her beads and laughed softly. Then she felt shy and buried herself in the little commander's arms again.
Su Xin sighed and looked up at Yixian who was walking in front of her, "Well... I made you worry."
"That's good, that's good..." Yixian smiled, "It seems that I, as the secretary ship, need to continue to work hard."
"It's not your fault, sister..."
As Su Xin spoke, she turned her gaze to the ship girls who swarmed in afterwards, listening to them chattering to express their concern, or angrily scolding Akagi for being unreliable.
Tiancheng was at the back. Seeing that the young commander was safe and sound and that the area around him was crowded with people, he temporarily gave up the idea of greeting him. He sighed lightly and prepared to walk towards the room where Su Xin had just stayed.
The little commander saw it with his sharp eyes, and immediately called out to her: "Sister Tiancheng, are you... going to see Sister Chicheng?"
The hall suddenly became quiet. Tiancheng turned around and looked at Su Xin softly, then nodded, "Yes, she made a big mistake this time, and I am responsible."
"Besides... the accomplice must also receive the appropriate punishment."
Chapter 577: Good junior? Bad junior?
"...accomplice?"
Tiancheng didn't explain any more. He glanced at Yixian, smiled softly at the young commander, then turned and entered the interrogation room. He gently closed the door with his backhand, blocking the view of everyone outside.
Su Xin stared at that direction in a daze. After thinking for a while, she understood, "Did Sister Tiancheng... help secretly?"
"...Um."
Yixian raised his hand and touched the commander's head, "Hidden information, delayed time, saw a text message from an unknown number on her phone, which contained your specific location."
"Ah... maybe it was the spirit that sent it?" Commander Su thought, "So Sister Tiancheng already knew where I was, but... she didn't come to find me right away."
"She took the initiative to tell us." Yixian looked at Su Xin with a complicated expression, "There is a relevant record in the chat interface between her and Chicheng. She said she would help and asked Chicheng to think about it carefully."
The message could be deleted, but Tiancheng didn't do so. Obviously, she didn't intend to evade responsibility. After making sure that enough time had passed, she told everything, reported the case across town, and asked someone to handle it.
Continuing to think deeply, Su Xin could probably guess that the [Spirit] was hired by Akagi to protect him. Otherwise, given Akagi's unpredictable style of action, how could the missing [Spirit] have happened to be discovered?
"Amagi-sister...she really cares about Akagi-sister...
Su Xin sighed silently, feeling sorry for Tiancheng's hard work as an older sister, and at the same time angry at Akagi, her ignorant younger sister.
She hesitated for a moment, and finally made a decision with a frown, "No, I have to think of a way to bring Sister Tiancheng back. This matter... is not her fault."
Yixian stood by without saying a word, just carefully observing the little commander's expression. When he saw her look change from doubt to determination, Yixian sighed secretly in his heart.
“As expected… Amagi, you’re really cunning…”
In fact, anyone with a discerning eye can see that Tiancheng's actions are just to gain sympathy.
She was certain that the young commander would not have the heart to let her be imprisoned, and would instead try his best to reduce her sentence in order to bring her back as soon as possible.
If she succeeds in guessing Commander Su's psychology in the first step, then it will be clear what Su Xin has to do next.
First contact Eugen to take over the case, and then as a party concerned, give a letter of understanding to reduce Akagi's sentence, and adjust the originally light punishment to a smaller one.
As long as the charges against the principal offender Akagi are reduced, the gendarmerie will naturally give a lighter sentence to Amagi, the accomplice. Amagi will be able to escape while helping Akagi.
"You have a good plan...
Yixian pursed her lips, not wanting to say it directly. If she advised Su Xin too much, it would make her look petty. After thinking about it, she felt unhappy anyway.
So after making sure that the young commander was safe, Yixian withdrew and went to the door of the gendarmerie to find some peace and quiet.
She took a deep breath of the cold air, then exhaled slowly, looking up at the dark night sky in a daze.
There weren't many people outside, which made her feel more comfortable than the noisy environment inside, and it also made it easier for her to deal with her emotions.
Unfortunately, as soon as Yixian left the house, someone followed him.
"You seem...in a bad mood."
"Yeah, of course I'd feel bad if something like this happened."
Xianghe chuckled a few times, sounding harmless, "I thought people like you would always look calm and indifferent."
Yixian didn't have a good impression of Akagi, and could even be said to dislike him. In addition, due to the fact that Amagi played tricks on Su Xin, she was influenced by her emotions and had some prejudice against the Sakura Empire's ship girls.
Yixian knew that this was not right, but the feeling of dissatisfaction still existed, which caused her tone towards Xianghe to be not as gentle as before.
"So what are you doing here?"
"I'm here... well, of course, to apologize on behalf of my useless senior~"
Yixian can tell the difference between good and bad. "This matter has nothing to do with you. Besides... the person she feels sorry for is Susu, not me."
"Commander, once she figures it out with her pig brain, she will take the initiative to seek forgiveness... I can't stand her behavior either, so I came to you because I want to help you."
"Oh?" Yixian's beautiful eyes moved, and she looked at Xianghe who was smiling, and asked her softly: "What do you mean specifically?"
"With the help of Sister Amagi, the senior will eventually regret it. As long as she regrets it, she will have to ask the commander for forgiveness." Shokaku said with a firm tone, as if he had it all planned out.
"With her intelligence, she only knows about eating and drinking. Commander, you have tasted the delicious food you made, how can you be impressed by her kindness?
Yixian was praised invisibly. Although she knew that the other party said it on purpose, her mood still improved a little because it involved the little commander.
Shokaku began to give advice, "I know you don't like Senpai, so when she gets anxious and has no clue what to do, I will lead her...to you."
“Music, chess, calligraphy, painting... anything is fine. Just pick something you are good at and let her learn it. If she makes mistakes and can't learn it..." Xianghe smiled with his eyes narrowed.
"You can use verbal abuse or corporal punishment. As stupid as she is, how could she dare to resist in order to seek forgiveness? You say...right?"
It may sound immoral, but Yixian didn't think it was inappropriate. Her lover had been trapped by him for more than ten hours. She would never believe him if he said he didn't suffer during that time.
The idea was indeed good, but Yixian was unsure of Xianghe's motives, so he simply asked her, "What good will this do for you?"
"Ah... I just don't want our Sakura Empire's reputation to be ruined by her alone." Shokaku sighed and chuckled twice, "Besides, I like to see her angry and helpless look~"
Yixian glanced at her and guessed that Shokaku was trying to help Akagi regain his popularity. However, if things really developed in this way, she would be happy to see it happen, so she nodded and agreed.
"I do know a thing or two about music, chess, calligraphy and painting, but she doesn't look like she can calm down... Let's play the pipa, it's easier and can be taught anywhere."
"Well, I don't have any objection." Shokaku turned his head and looked into the inner room. "I thought that even a fool like you... wouldn't dare to have any objection, right...?"
Yixian didn't respond, but her mood improved. A conversation with the Fifth Carrier Fighter made her give up her opinion of the Sakura Empire. She guessed that this was the purpose of the other party saying this.
"Then I'll go in first."
"Well, I think your days as a teacher... won't be long~"
"Ah."
Silence returned to the outside of the door. After the person left, Shokaku, with a smile on his face, raised his hand to rub his cheek and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Fortunately, he was generous and agreed to it even though he knew what I was doing."
"Unlike you...you always get into trouble."
"Ahh... How annoying! If only I were your senior..." Shokaku wrinkled his nose and sneered, "I'll scold you to death, hum~"
