{"id":5948,"date":"2013-09-15T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T20:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/2013\/09\/15\/goodbye-3\/"},"modified":"2013-09-15T20:56:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T20:56:00","slug":"goodbye-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/2013\/09\/15\/goodbye-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;God damn you can\u2019t even answer your phone, Hattori?!&quot;\u00a0<span>Hakuba\u2019s voice, clearly frustrated, strained. \u201cWhat would you like me to do\u00a0<em>now?<\/em>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><span>Silence on the line, aside from the detective\u2019s breathing, before he was answered with a gruff and muffled male voice. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cProceed.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&quot;Ha\u2026 certainly.&rdquo; Bitter, hard. Angry. &ldquo;Hattori, I\u2019m to tell you to pass a message along to my dear daddy and the rest of the boys on the for- ah, fine, FINE, stop-&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Muffled clatter. A ragged, broken gasp from the detective.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Silence. One\u2026 two\u2026. three\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&ldquo;Hattori.&rdquo; Quieter, calmer. Broken. &ldquo;The Superintendent General needs to know that if he wants to see me again that he\u2019s to wait next to\u00a0<\/span>Hachik\u014d\u2026\u201d He coughed, then released a shuddering breath. And then, in English, quickly. \u201cDon\u2019t let him leave the house. They\u2019re going to intercept at- ahgh!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>The definitive sound of gunfire. Four shots in total. More muffled, shifting sounds. The thud of something heavy hitting the ground.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&quot;Tomorrow evening\u2026&rdquo; The previous male voice said into the phone. &ldquo;Seven o\u2019clock sharp.\u00a0<em>If<\/em> he wants the body in one piece.\u201d<em><br \/><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Click.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;God damn you can\u2019t even answer your phone, Hattori?!&quot;\u00a0Hakuba\u2019s voice, clearly frustrated, strained. \u201cWhat would you like me to do\u00a0now?\u201d Silence on the line, aside from the detective\u2019s breathing, before he was answered with a gruff and muffled male voice. \u201cProceed.\u201d\u00a0 &quot;Ha\u2026 certainly.&rdquo; Bitter, hard. Angry. &ldquo;Hattori, I\u2019m to tell you to pass a message [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2078,4737,195,556,128],"class_list":["post-5948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-death","tag-goodbye","tag-hakuba-answers","tag-meitanteiosaka","tag-memes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}