Aishiteru, Takah!

Chapter 24's

In a short time, the internet was filled with news about Taka and Mina. Mina's supporters who sympathize with what Mina is going through begin to attack Taka and O'Clock supporters who do not believe in Mina's confession will not lose to defend Taka. They fight comments in cyberspace and make the relationship between fans heated up.

Shinoda rubbed his face rough. Mina's press conference which was expected to be a news reliever before was even bigger because of Mina's statement which was clearly lying. Unfortunately, there was no evidence or any eyewitnesses so the case has left the public wondering.

***

"I have to meet Mina" I told Toru's wife. "I will force him to confess to the public if he lies."

"How is it?" ask the woman.

"With something I know. What I don't know is how to meet him. The situation is getting heated up, and taking action without talking about it with Shinoda-san or Taka is not a good idea."

"Silence, Rinai-san! We'll find a way. I can't believe a word Mina said. The girl's a snake! I didn't even have to ask Taka anything because I trusted him."

That's absolutely true. I also don't need to ask Taka if the thing Mina said was true or not. I know exactly what that girl said was 100% a lie.

***

Shinoda was stunned and Taka just silently heard what I said. I asked Shinoda to meet me with Mina.

"It will be a little difficult, Rinai-san. I've tried to contact her many times, but there's no response at all."

"Send a message to the people closest to him, Shinoda-san. Tell him, if he doesn't pull all his words in the media, there will be someone who shows up and proves if he's lying" I said slowly.

"Do you mean to confess, Rinai?" ask Taka.

"Actually no, if he's willing to spend some time meeting with our side. However, if he doesn't want to see us, I don't think I have any choice but to confess."

Shinoda nodded his head. "I agree with you, Rinai-san. As much as possible, the girl should respond first to the opportunity from us even though I disagree if you confess now. Don't misunderstand me, Rinai-san. I'm worried about the impact you'll have."

Shinoda tries to contact Mina back through some of the girl's closest people. Every minute we go through with tension waiting for the next news.

***

"Taka! Mina replied to my message. He wants to see you, only you," Shinoda said a few days later.

We decided we would still be staying temporarily in South Korea until the issue got a way out. It wasn't just our side that was looking for Mina, some television stations were hunting the girl to get her information.

"Where does he want to see me?" ask Taka.

"At a hotel in the Myeongdong area."

Another trap! The reason why the girl wanted to meet Taka at a hotel was to lure Taka into another trap.

"But as planned, I turned it down and proposed a small cafe in Bukchon Hanok Village. It's not too crowded and it's safe from the media" Shinoda added.

I, who had expected this, began to devise a further plan. Taka will meet Mina and me and the others will hide for a while. I'll put my phone in Taka's pocket which will connect to the earphones I'm wearing and wait for the right time to bring myself up.

***

The day before the meeting with Mina, Shinoda asked all the existing personnel and crew to return to Japan. Only Toru and his wife stayed with us.

Shinoda called on personnel returning to Japan to help calm and defuse the anger of their fans.

Taka himself prefers to stay in the hotel. The media crew faithfully waited in the hotel parking lot to ask for information from Taka. Even though it was silent, I knew exactly if this situation was taking her a hit.

***

"I'm tired" said Taka, hugging me from behind as he looked at the lights from the hotel room window.

I was surprised because a moment ago he was sleeping suddenly turned around and hugged him tightly.

"Calm down, I'm here" I replied trying to calm down. Tomorrow is the day Taka will meet Mina.

"I'm afraid I can't help being angry and losing my temper. Maybe I'll make it flat on the ground."

I led him to the sofa and asked him to sit down while I made him a glass of tea.

"Sit down and lean on me" I said softly after putting two glasses of hot tea on the table.

The tension created made Taka and I unable to sleep well lately. We both hope the morning comes to settle the matter soon.

"What does this tattoo on your hands mean?" tanyaku lowered his body towards Taka's arm.

To be honest, I'm not interested! From the very beginning I met him, I was never interested in asking him the meaning of the tattoo on his body. I feel I will not be able to accept if it turns out that the tattoo was made to commemorate the love story of Taka in the past. But tonight is different. Since it's been too tense discussing the matter related to Mina, it's good that we talk about things lightly.

"This is the first tattoo I made" Taka said pointing to the tattoo on the bat-shaped left wrist. "This is a lucky tattoo. Because the sound of kanji fu (luck) is the same as the word fu (bat) in Chinese."

"There is a picture of the sun. The Sun represents Japan (Country of the Rising Sun). The sun can represent life, strength, truth, leadership, the brightest light."

I nodded in understanding as he explained one by one the meaning behind his tattoo. Luckily, none of the tattoos are related to love stories in the past.

"Then this one?" tanyaku rubbed an arrow-shaped writing tattoo down on the inside of the right arm. I couldn't read it because it was too small.

"𝙒𝙖𝙩𝙘𝙝 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙨

𝙒𝙖𝙩𝙘𝙝 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨

𝙒𝙖𝙩𝙘𝙝 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙨

𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙬𝙖𝙩𝙘𝙝 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚

𝙞𝙩 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙮.

𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙠𝙖𝙣 𝙥𝙞𝙠𝙞𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙢𝙪 𝙠𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙖 𝙞𝙩𝙪 𝙖𝙠𝙖𝙣 𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙟𝙖𝙙𝙞 𝙠𝙖𝙩𝙖-𝙠𝙖𝙩𝙖

𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙠𝙖𝙣 𝙠𝙖𝙩𝙖-𝙠𝙖𝙩𝙖𝙢𝙪 𝙠𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙖 𝙞𝙩𝙪 𝙖𝙠𝙖𝙣 𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙟𝙖𝙙𝙞 𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙖𝙠𝙖𝙣

𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙠𝙖𝙣 𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙖𝙠𝙖𝙣𝙢𝙪 𝙠𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙖 𝙞𝙩𝙪 𝙖𝙠𝙖𝙣 𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙟𝙖𝙙𝙞 𝙠𝙚𝙗𝙞𝙖𝙨𝙖𝙖𝙣

𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙠𝙖𝙣 𝙠𝙚𝙗𝙞𝙖𝙨𝙖𝙖𝙣𝙢𝙪 𝙠𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙖 𝙞𝙩𝙪 𝙖𝙠𝙖𝙣 𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙟𝙖𝙙𝙞 𝙠𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙠𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙢𝙪

𝘿𝙖𝙣 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙠𝙖𝙣 𝙠𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙠𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙢𝙪 𝙠𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙖 𝙞𝙩𝙪 𝙥𝙖𝙙𝙖 𝙖𝙠𝙝𝙞𝙧𝙣𝙮𝙖 𝙖𝙠𝙖𝙣 𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙟𝙖𝙙𝙞 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙙𝙞𝙧𝙢𝙪."

I was silent to Taka's explanation. One sentence I can say is, I love this tattoo!

***

Me, Taka, Shinoda, Toru and his wife arrived at the place where Taka and Mina would meet, an hour before the appointment time arrived. We were in one of the small cafes that provided freshly cooked bread and also coffee. Shinoda asked the cafe owner for permission so that we could occupy the room behind the cafe. Fortunately, the kind owner allowed it. In fact, he delivered our order very kindly.

"I'd better wait in front" Taka said and got up. "I don't want Mina to be suspicious if she sees me getting out of here."

We all nodded and refocused on the conversation. I put my phone in the pocket of the hoodie Taka was wearing.

Half an hour passed, Taka whispered if he had seen Mina who was walking towards the cafe where we were waiting for her.

***

"It seems like you miss me a lot, Taka-san. To the extent that you have arrived here before the hour we agreed," said Mina who quickly sat in the front seat of Taka.

"Why did you do that, Mina-ssi? Why are you lying and saying that in front of the media? What you said is a lie."

"Who wouldn't believe me, Taka-san? I have a lot of fans supporting me. The proof, now they believe that you did abuse that night" Mina smiled.

"Snake woman," maki Taka slowly.

In front of her, Mina leaned back against the chair and crossed her arms. "I don't care about Taka-san. Honestly, I'm happy to do this to avenge your arrogance. I'm satisfied they're starting to censure you in cyberspace."

"You're really dangerous, Mina-ssi! Please tell me, in which part of 'my pride' makes you do something this low?"

"You rejected me Taka-san! When the men of this country are fascinated by me, you reject me! Wh why? Is it because you're harboring feelings for your assistant? I saw you guys dropping Bobby off at the hotel to give a present to your assistant. I saw how you were jealous and pulled your assistant's hand hard!"

"Snake woman s*alan!" maki Taka again.

Mina laughed, "Don't be angry. I came here to offer you a way out." The girl advanced her body towards Taka.

Me and the others observed the two of them in silence. My own emotions have almost reached the highest level. I had imagined approaching their table as soon as I could and was hailing the girl with a chair.

"Roof out?" tanya Taka was curious.

"Yes. What if we make this an opportunity? Make a close relationship with me, and I'll make sure that all the negative news about you disappears" Mina made an offer.

"If I don't want to?" challenge Taka.

"Prepare for public anger. I have proof of the counter*ception tool you left behind" Mina smiled.

Enough is! I'm sick of being with that girl. I intended to approach their table before looking at Shinoda who was unexpectedly nodding his head.

"What counter-*ception tool do you mean, Miss Mina?" My voice surprised them both. Taka stood up to see me. Slowly, I pulled up my chair and sat down. "A contraceptive tool that you provide yourself? Or did you order it from somewhere? I'm guessing that if you order that thing from Japan, so the public will believe that Taka is actually harassing you."

"Nobody invited you here, assistant! Go fast before my patience runs out." Mina looked at me sharply and I replied to her with a cynical smile.

"What you're doing is fatal. Trapping someone who comes from another country in the hope that the person will not have much support in this country."

"Don't know everything! You don't know shit. You don't know what it's like to be harassed and dumped!" Mina's voice began to rise.

"What harassment? There is absolutely no harassment here. The proof you make an ace is a counter*ception tool, right? Unfortunately it's impossible. You won't get your wish."

"I'll bring that counter*ception tool to the media after coming back from here!" snapped it.

I laughed so hard. My head is already full of swear words but inevitably I have to be calm or everything will be messed up. "Let me ask you one thing."

"What?!"

"Is it true that Taka-san harassed you and left her counter tool*selection?" tanyaku seriously.

"Yes! He harassed me by using the counter*ception tool! He even brought a few more as stock and dropped one when it was done ruining my life!"

I exhaled a deep breath and turned my gaze towards the cafe owner who was cutting bread. I felt like running and grabbing the knife, then Menu*suk Mina's head was strong because I had thought about something men*gift with my husband.

"All right then" I said in the end. "Go away from here and bring your evidence to the media. No, not just the media. Take all your evidence to the police station and make an official report."

"What?!" Mina could not cover her shock.

"Yes, just report it wherever you want" I said short.

Taka frowned and I still stared intently at Mina's eyes.