extreme, freak out.
Ran's face took on color again, everything she heard from him, even if there were only a few words, had struck her and she turned pale. With such an encounter she hadn't thought and therefore didn't know what to say. "Eh? Actually, I'm pleased that I met you. It's just, I wonder what you're doing in a place like this. You should be in the States and keep working," said Ran quietly. She hadn't really been aware why she said it, but she noticed that she could trust him, even if she was afraid then, but today she had a different feeling. Shuichi made a really cool impression on Ran, but she also thought that he had a protective instinct, otherwise he wouldn't talk to her like that.Shuichi moved a little to the side and leaned against the cold wall of a shop. He lifted his foot, put it back and looked at her piercingly. The girl could really talk a lot when she wasn't standing rigid with fear, he noticed. And then she was like many other women and just babbled on it, no matter whether you wanted to hear it or not.
"Vacation," he replied when asked what he was doing here. He couldn't have said anything else or should he tell her that he was after an organization that was unscrupulous towards the people who tormented them and had their thirst for power as their goal? No, he couldn't say that, it would only have scared her and talked about his job.
In Japan he had been more or less an undercover agent, although his enemies knew that he was here, but they would not look for him in a public place.
He could still move freely here as he wanted, but that might soon change. What else should he say now? He was not a man of many words, almost never spoke and sometimes drove his enemies insane with it. He had had his own way of doing the job. He insisted, in clear and few words, on cornering his enemy psychologically and then beating him.

"Do you never smile?" Asked Ran. After that it had been quiet again for a long time between the two of them.
Shuichi's way, it was different from what Ran thought. She had had little to do with such a person before. But that was exactly what fascinated her about him. He didn't treat her like the other people she acted on. Ran wasn't afraid of him anymore, she was more afraid of the situations and of what was going to happen. When she heard that he was vacationing here, she smiled a tiny bit and it occurred to her that he never smiled.Why was that?
The silence worried her a little, people kept smoking past both of them, but somehow there was an uncomfortable calm wave.

Smile? He didn't really know that anymore.
Why?
He had often asked himself this one question. In public it often looked like he was a silent person, but on closer inspection, many became scared, scared, when they saw his 'poison green' eyes. But he didn't care, if people should think what they wanted, he stayed the way he was. Nobody could change it, even if they tried, it had never worked.
Why he never smiled, his colleague had already asked him, and he kept replying that he had nothing in life that he could give a smile to. Why? He had lost everything.
"You're a tough guy," Jodie had always said, and she was right about that.
He had always been tough on him and never let himself get down because that would be a sign of weakness, a weakness that he would never allow.
When he saw her smile, he wanted to turn around, he didn't like it when people just started smiling for no reason. And the way she smiled, he wouldn't give her a smile, he couldn't do that and said he'd already forgotten how to do it.
The silence had been his friend, when it was quiet he could concentrate much better and think better too. He closed his eyes briefly, only to tear them open again in the next moment.
"Why don't you say anything?" He wanted to know from her and wondered if he had intimidated her so much that she fell silent again.
"You didn't seem to care what I said so far, so I stopped," said Ran, now looking at him. "Tell me, isn't life as an FBI agent hard sometimes?" She wanted to know. But actually she just wanted to involve him in a conversation, so that the quiet would not return.In addition, she had so many questions for him and wanted to know so much.
"It's definitely not easy," he replied and looked at her again, piercingly. His green eyes fixed the girl and he studied her. Like him, she was from Japan and yet a lot had changed after his departure, including the young people's understanding of the work of the police and other American institutions.
"You know what. I think I could never keep up with something like that. I mostly can't find my way around life on my own and then I also tap into everything," said Ran and she thought that she was always saved by the others had to be, the others always had to take care of her and she herself was considered strong just because she did karate. But it was all like a farce. "I could never do such a feat," she slipped out.
"You do what you can," said Shuichi.
Again he had been taciturn, but that didn't bother him. And even if she talked a lot and only spoke, he noticed what was going on in her. But he had had a look, he had suspected that she was not how others saw her.
"You learn at work ..." he mumbled softly. Oh yeah, and how to do that, the training had been tough and you were trained for all sorts of situations and to show you how you would react. They went through all the different scenarios in the training, they trained for all possible processes, everything was presented so that one could react accordingly in a real situation. The most important thing, however, was that you had to protect your protégé, the human, no matter what was coming, even if you had to let the enemy slip away.
"Do you feel weak?" He wanted to know from her and was amazed himself that he asked her that.
"Where ... where from ...?", Ran was amazed. He had just spoken to her for a few minutes and it already seemed to her as if he knew her and knew how it was going on inside her."But what if you have the feeling that there is nothing you can do for your fellow human beings? I have the feeling that I am always protected, but I am actually useless and put people in danger," the girl muttered. Again she remembered then.
Back then.
Because of her, Shinichi was in danger and she didn't want to be so afraid for someone again. Maybe that's why Shinichi left and didn't want to see her anymore.
"That's bullshit," he plumed at her. "As long as you're just trying to help someone, your conscience should be clean, because that alone is sometimes enough," he added, looking up. The sky was cloudy now and it looked a lot like rain, like it did in the States. “You're a girl, you can't help everyone and you shouldn't worry about it.” Clear words echoed through the place and the people slowly withdrew. Many went to her home, others went into the shops so as not to be surprised by the cold rain that would set off within a few minutes.
"Thank you," said Ran softly. His words resonated with her and she felt a lot better. He didn't even have to say much, but what he said was enough for her. Ran also looked up and then she got the first drops on her nose. "Rain like back then ..."
He didn't reply, because he had known that she didn't have to say thank you for his words. But she did it anyway. He noticed that she was very strange, not like the other people who would rather have avoided him, even if they had already met in a foreign country.
"Do you often speak to strange men whom you have once seen in a foreign country?"
The rain was now falling on the earth, he was told earlier as a child that the angels wept, but he did not believe in any angels or in any God. Since he resembled an old 'acquaintance'."Not really. But I can trust you. After all, you knew from the start how I felt and I had already suspected that you were working for the FBI," said Ran.
"I could still be your enemy ... maybe I've just changed and wait until I'm alone with you," he said seriously and if you didn't know him better, you could say that there was something threatening in his voice lay. He was like that too and a lot of time had passed, changes can always happen, he experienced it himself and you had to be prepared that a person did not always stay as you knew him.
"I just knew ... you can't be a bad person after all. You warned me not to speak to strangers. If you really wanted to harm me, then you could have done it a long time ago", said Ran and looked at him. She was right, if he really wanted to hurt her, then he would not have spoken to her about it or warned her.
"Still, don't speak to strangers, not everyone is as nice as me," he said and started moving. He did not run from the rain, he would much rather go to his post, even if she was one of them.

At first Ran didn't move an inch, but then she leaped forward and followed him.
A little glance flicked to the side, where she was already standing again. She followed him like a dog, caught his eye and actually he should have smiled, but didn't.
His gaze stayed the same and, as always, he looked grim.
"Now don't look so angry, you're not a bad person," put in Ran. She didn't even know why she said it, but she didn't want the conversation to end now. Or maybe she just wanted to take a walk with him so as not to speak to Shinichi. She was still afraid that he no longer liked her, no longer wanted to see her."Hmm," Akai muttered softly. You really are one of the few people who do not say he is a bad person, but he was what he thought of himself, but one. "Be careful what you think of me," he replied.
"Don't you find it? I will keep thinking no matter what you tell me. I listen to my intuition," said the girl. She couldn't understand why he didn't think he was a good person, but she hadn't known what was going on either.
"Think what you want", the young man gasped and looked at Ran. Only then did he notice