Yuugo: Koushounin (Yugo The Negotiator)

''Negotiator'' A person who makes a living by mediating talks with concerned parties for the purpose of bringing a specific thing about.

Where is Mr. lwase?

Mr. lwase is...

Until we can confirm that Mr. lwase is safe,

the company can't take up negotiations!

Why are you staying silent?

Are you having some kind of doubts about me?

Please say something!

Just what are you dissatisfied with?

Haven't l've come out here alone like this, just like you instructed me to?!

l thought l told you to come alone.

You're not a hero.

Hey, yeah

Do you understand where you are?

Yes, right now you're between truth and lies

Oh, the time is ripe

l don't need words of grief

Oh, at this rate we'll end up losing the means to change anything

Deep inside of my small heart, into the light

lt began to move

Nothing can be sweeter than your smile

What l sealed away was the sound of my life being saved

Sometimes l think that is me choosing the way

Body trembling

You must not say l don't care, tell me why

What l'm letting fly is the sound of my life being saved

Pakistan, May 13

ls this area all right, Mister?

Yeah.

That's fifty rupees even.

Thanks.

l can hear the adhan.

You know your stuff, Mister. Welcome to Pakistan.

Thanks.

Are you a tourist, Mister?

No, l came to negotiate.

Honestly! l've been telling you that you shouldn't stay overnight at the office, haven't l?

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Oh, Ms. Custodian... Good morning.

Don't you ''Oh, Ms. Custodian'' me.

Sheesh, and you went to sleep on top of the billiards table.

Honestly!

lt was just so convenient. l let the feeling take me.

That smile of yours just takes people in.

Here, the morning paper.

Thank you.

But why did you go to the trouble?

You have a customer.

You're Mr. Yugo Beppu?

Miss Mayuko... You're Miss Mayuko lwase, aren't you?

Am l wrong?

No...

Yes, you're right. l'm Mayuko lwase.

But how...

lt looks like the negotiations in Pakistan aren't going well.

Mr. lwase's Safety Still Uncertain Rumored Gunfight With Criminal Group lt looks like the negotiations in Pakistan aren't going well.

Mr. lwase's Safety Still Uncertain Rumored Gunfight With Criminal Group

Without Sleeping A Wink, She Watches the Phone

You knew l was Mayuko just from this newspaper article?

lt was half a gut feeling.

A woman with a face that said she probably hadn't slept a wink,

coming to my office early in the morning with a brooding look...

lt's been a week since they demanded a ransom.

l thought he'd be released safely, but...

lt looks like the situation is worsening, isn't it?

Someone who was a subordinate of my father's told me yesterday.

The man in charge of the negotiations was murdered.

Was the company carrying out the negotiations on its own?

They said the Pakistani army was backing them up fully.

So it would definitely be okay, they said.

My father would definitely be released, they said.

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What do the company people say they'll do now?

They just said they'd do their best and told me to wait and not worry.

Please.

Please save my father!

Miss Mayuko...

l heard about you from a newspaper reporter who came to interview me.

He said you were a professional negotiator, the best of the best.

He said you've negotiated with any number of kidnappers,

and that you've succeeded in all your cases.

Not all of them. That's an exaggeration.

But...

Mr. Beppu...

l don't have a mother. For me, my father is my only close relative.

But when my father's in trouble, l can't do anything.

l can't do anything but cry.

lf the negotiations were to be broken off because of this,

my father would... my father would...

Please, l beg you! Save my father!

The ones who kidnapped your father are dacoits.

l've been told they are a kind of bandits.

Well, that might be a little off the mark. Come look.

Certainly, they're hiding themselves in a mountainous area, but...

Right about here, maybe.

They're not just lawless bandits. They're anti-government guerrillas.

Guerrillas?

The goal of their activities is to deal a blow to the current government

and effect a regime change.

For those activities, they need funds.

ln short, they want ransom money.

So l don't think they'll give up on negotiations so easily.

Then my father...

lt's all right.

He should be doing fine.

Mayu, put the nine-ball to the west of Larkana, in the mountainous region.

Okay.

We'll think of the nine-ball as the dacoits.

And to the north of Larkana is the four-ball.

This is the army. ln other words, the government troops.

Larkana, where your father's company has their task force,

that's the eight-ball.

And Karachi Airport is the one-ball.

Take a look. lt's a very delicate layout,

with everything acting as a check on everything else.

First, it's necessary to start out from the one-ball, Karachi,

and without being noticed by the army or the task force,

make contact with the dacoits.

The negotiator who was murdered had ties to the government troops.

No, it's possible that he was actually military personnel.

Most likely the dacoits found that out.

That's why he failed.

Then if we could negotiate directly with the dacoits...

That's the only way to free your father safely.

But you know, even if we were able to negotiate directly,

if the negotiations dragged out and were noticed by the army,

that would end it.

We wouldn't sink the nine-ball.

ln this case, money,

time,

and human psychology...

The important thing is to boil matters down to those three things,

and sink our ball with a bank shot instead of a straight one.

lf the timing is just right...

This matter has room for negotiation.

Then you mean...

As a general rule, the client pays the expenses, all right?

And one more thing.

Yes?

The fact that l've been hired is to be kept secret from everyone.

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Yes.

The four-ball, eh?

They've lined up some pretty flashy tools.

Things have gotten more tense than l'd reckoned.

lt's like l thought. l have to avoid contact with the army as much as l can.

Buy one of these, Mister. l'll take the price down for you.

Who's that?

That's the Hero.

The Hero?

That's the best-selling one right now.

ln that case, would you give me one of those photos?

Thanks for the business!

Yusuf Ali Mesa...

People are calling him Hell's Hero.

You're sure about that, Rashid?

Yeah, he's a famous man among reporters.

Yusuf Ali Mesa...

There's a particular characteristic to the way he kills.

He does this with their necks...

He kills by twisting them until they break.