Mmmm. I often think about Chikage's placement as a salaryman in the company he's in. Potentially it was just so he'd have a cover for travelling all around the world and someone behind the scenes was influencing what branches needed him so he'd be in the correct countries when

they needed him to run missions but also it's likely there's some corruption at the company they wanted him to infiltrate to investigate. Something they were suspected to be involved with that the organisation wanted Chikage to be able to get closer to. We don't know the end goal

of the mission the trio were working on, nor the true scale of it but hm. With Chikage now allowed to stay in Japan and him having taken August's job on it may just have been an excuse to have him travel when they needed that but now he's more useful in Japan simply doing info

gathering. At the same time he may have dealt with whoever it was in the company that needed to be dealt with and all is fine there now and it was simply a coincidence that he suddenly got to stay in Japan instead of travelling all the time. Then there's the 3rd option that shit

is still shady af inside the company, the org doesn't care so much what Chikage's doing in it as long as he's working his way up and getting his fingers stuck into those who are responsible and one day it is going to fall into ruin based on the current mission and Chikage is just

out here like ah yes my roommate works here too but I won't let him know that one day soon he may very suddenly lose his job because I played a part in destroying the very company he's worked for since graduating university.

Any way the entire point of this thread was that last idea that if whatever the org is doing could result in the company's downfall meanwhile he's sharing a room with someone who is clearly doing his best to work his way up the ranks there, there's a bit of dark humor to that