Tokyo: Rabbit Officer and Her Evil Partner
Chapter 182 - 104: Leap of Faith

Chapter 182: Chapter 104: Leap of Faith

Five minutes earlier.

"Jump off the train quickly!"

"We’re about to collide, run away now!!"

Panic-stricken shouts filled the carriage, spreading fear through the crowd. The dense footsteps, like a drumbeat, reverberated through the floor of the carriage, transmitting to inside the cardboard box where Taira Sakurako sat, making her increasingly uneasy.

She clasped her head in both hands, covering her ears, eyes tightly shut.

The swaying of the carriage reminded her again of the fear of weightlessness from that day.

"Someone changed the tracks, we’re about to crash, jump off now—"

Taira Sakurako heard the shout. She patted her own leg, forcing herself to open her eyes and peek outside through the gaps in the cardboard box. She saw ankles running back and forth outside, like trees with legs running wildly.

She couldn’t die yet...

She was about to find her mother, how could she die on the way?

She hadn’t fulfilled her promise to Aoi yet; how could she make the same mistake out of fear?

With great effort, Taira Sakurako built up the courage to poke her head out of the box, and the train had already passed the bridge. Desperate cries filled the crowd.

Hotta Hidego leaned out the window, the track was straight like destiny, and he could only watch death approach swiftly without being able to do anything. Once the trains collided, whether they could survive was left to fate.

The Golden Watch Team reacted the fastest. They planned to hide at the end of the carriage, where the impact would be minimal. Before they could slip away, Fushimi Roku’s shout came:

"Break into the cockpit! Detach the train head and carriage urgently! As long as the carriage stops, we can all live!"

This statement was like a torch, igniting everyone’s hope. Instead of hiding at the end of the carriage and resigning to fate, it was better to fight for survival and take a gamble.

All the men present had knives or guns; they weren’t a mix of travelers but elite criminal police of the Police Department and members of Japan’s second-largest designated violent group, the Inakawa Association. These people might lack discipline, capability, or patience, but they certainly weren’t lacking in courage.

That’s right...

Tamako promised her she would be back soon...

Taira Sakurako silently shrank back into the cardboard box; she was just too scared. Since someone had already stepped forward, wasn’t that enough so she wouldn’t have to do anything?

Screams and explosions erupted outside the window, and she heard Minamoto Tamako shout, "What about the train opposite?!"

Indeed, what about the train opposite?

Taira Sakurako hesitated again and poked her head out. Crawling to the window side, looking at the train from an angle, she realized Fushimi Roku had lied.

——Even if the train head was detached, it was too late.

They were on a downhill slope plus the carriage’s own inertia, even with brakes, it couldn’t stop—the carriage’s braking system had already been trashed in the melee, whether it was the Heavenly Punishment Group’s deliberate sabotage or stray bullets from the Investigation Division inadvertently shattered it, the fate of collision was unavoidable, only the impact might be smaller.

The driver of the opposing train was more professional; he didn’t brake, turning and then braking held the risk of overturning. While chaos ensued on Fushimi Roku’s side, he had already been directing conductors to detach the train head, braking each carriage using manpower brakes, using mechanical transmission devices to make brake shoes contact the wheels for braking.

However, the braking force of manpower brakes was relatively limited, mainly used to prevent vehicle slippage after stopping or assist stopping at low speed and short distance.

But the train’s speed had already increased; relying on manpower braking alone had a negligible effect. The piercing screech of friction was incessant inside the carriage, and the men among the passengers got up to help, pulling the emergency brake together; mothers held their children, comforting them softly; infants in swaddling clothes wailed, despair spread unceasingly...

People leaned out the windows, watching as the distant train rushed in, even accelerating.

...

"If any of us survive, deliver the will to the relatives of our brothers," Hotta Hidego wrote a short will and stuffed it into his pocket, "It has been an honor to know you all."

"Boss..."

Inakawa Association members were in tears.

On the other side, Minamoto Tamako was thrown back. The Investigation Division’s criminal police scrambled to catch her, and Taira Sakurako crouched behind them, through numerous legs, she saw Minamoto Tamako’s back—saying farewell to Fushimi Roku in life and death.

At that moment, Taira Sakurako seemed to see Aoi reaching towards her from the rooftop.

Unconsciously, she stood up, carrying the cardboard box, pushing through the crowd, breaking into a run.

"Hey, there’s still a kid here? Whose kid is this?"

"Frightened, right? Don’t run around..."

"Wait—she’s going to jump off!! Stop her!!"

Inakawa Association members exclaimed in shock, even the distant train caused a commotion, passengers pointing to the small dot, shouting loudly that a child had jumped off—everyone craned their necks, only to see Taira Sakurako spring off with a leap!

Like a top ski athlete, using the high-speed inertia, she deftly placed the cardboard box underneath, using her lighter weight, larger contact area, and precise entry angle, sledding down the snow at top speed!

A thin white line appeared in the middle of the U-shape track, Taira Sakurako was taking the shortest straight line between two points, attempting to reach the end of the U-shape track before the trains collided—there was a manual switch there, and pulling it would shift the track to prevent the trains from colliding!

Within several kilometers, the manual switch standing by the track looked like a black dot.

Everyone understood the child’s intention, holding their breath, not even daring to shout. The raging blizzard swept across the land, that tiny figure seemed negligible, yet carried a sharp resolve enough to break through mountains and waves.

Taira Sakurako took off her glasses, tore off her mask, threw away her hat, the voice of Fushimi Roku echoed in her ears: ’If you want something, you fight for it yourself’; followed by the voice of Minamoto Tamako from the other side: ’Enduring a bit for the ones you treasure is nothing’...

Meanwhile, Fushimi Roku, with Kazama Chihime on his back, jumped off the train head, rolling a few times on the ground. Catching his breath, he sighed, catching a glimpse of a familiar silhouette passing by within his peripheral vision—turning his head, he squinted, seeing a special momentum in Taira Sakurako.

——It was the malice of sharpness and the tenacity of justice.

"Go, Sakurako."

The whisper of an old friend came with the wind, Taira Sakurako’s hair danced wildly forward, Yukimura Aoi must be embracing her from behind, pushing her forward. The crossroads of fate descended again, this time she would not repeat the same mistake!

Minamoto Tamako cupped her hands around her mouth, eyebrows tensed, crying and shouting:

"Sakurako!! Good luck!!"

Taira Sakurako leapt, abandoning the cardboard box, stepping on the masks tied to her feet, abandoning the cardboard box, sliding down at an even faster speed.

Passengers stretched their hands out of windows, shouting towards Taira Sakurako, their blood boiling in their veins, all shouting with all their might, praying from the depths of their hearts.

In the last hundred meters, with a gentle slope, losing inertia, her speed slowed down increasingly. Taira Sakurako kicked off the masks from her feet, sprinting with all her might. Operating a manual railway switch to change the direction took at least thirty seconds... because the track movement itself took thirty seconds.

She had fiercely earned herself about a minute, the train had already turned the U-shape track, diving onto the final section of the slope—the last hundred meters, as long as she crossed these final hundred meters in thirty seconds!!

Breathing heavily, Taira Sakurako disregarded the train head rushing with a roar and the tracks’ buzzing tremors, nearly diving to reach the lever, pulling it down with all her strength.

The railway switch slowly turned, everyone’s hearts hung up.

Taira Sakurako stood in the middle of the railway switch, supporting her knees, breathing heavily, feeling her lungs about to explode.

A moment later, she lifted her head, and at that moment, the two trains sped past her on either side, turbulent airflow swirling her clothes. Cheers erupted from the train, and she collapsed on the ground, leaning against the lever, raising her head to gaze at the narrow sky above, suddenly feeling this world wasn’t so terrifying.

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