Chapter 105: , Nationwide Broadcast!

"Regarding the two points of doubt left by the Metropolitan Police Department in the documents."

On the way back, inside the high-end black Toyota sedan, Prosecutor Kamibayashi briefly browsed through the documents; he was already confident about this public prosecution.

In fact, it was already a public prosecution without any difficulty; the confession, physical evidence, and murder weapon were all present—at a glance, it was the ultimate tailwind situation.

The conviction rate for public prosecutions in the Japan Public Prosecutors Office is 99%; these prosecutors enjoy considerable privileges within the Japanese system, especially the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office Special Investigation Division, which runs rampant and considers itself peerless.

Inside the car, Prosecutor Kamibayashi looked over the documents organized by the Metropolitan Police Department Investigation Division 1 again and instructed his subordinate: "First, regarding the doubt about the handwriting, arrange for a forensic expert back in Tokyo, one who identifies handwriting, and tell him to change the forensic determination; just say the handwriting matches the journal perfectly and was written by Saijo Yasue herself."

"Yes," the subordinate replied.

"Then, take note: once we return, re-question the perpetrator and change that 'he' she mentioned during her episodes to something she hallucinated," Prosecutor Kamibayashi continued: "Send a word to the Metropolitan Police Department; they should also want to close the case just like this."

"Yes." If they believed there were masterminds or accomplices behind the scenes when submitting for prosecution, closing this case would be troublesome, but whether it was the District Public Prosecutors Office, the Metropolitan Police Department, or the Cabinet Secretariat, everyone hoped to close the case quickly; on this point, everyone's interests were aligned.

"Tsk, why is it so troublesome?" Prosecutor Lin Yanzhen, sitting in the front, said impatiently: "Also, are we letting that little monk go again this time?"

Prosecutor Kamibayashi felt quite helpless after hearing this.

The Korean-descended prosecutor meant that if they were in South Korea, it wouldn't be this troublesome.

In some countries, a system of police-prosecutor integration is implemented, meaning prosecutors lead the police in handling cases.

In other maritime-law-based countries such as the UK and US, police-prosecutor separation is implemented; the police handle the investigation and case-solving, prosecutors intervene in cases relatively late, the Public Prosecutors Office and the criminal investigation team are independent of each other, there is no relationship of leadership or being led, and the Public Prosecutors Office basically does not participate in detection, only being responsible for approving arrests and public prosecution after the case is solved.

Japan is relatively special; Japan has a mixed police-prosecutor system where the Public Prosecutors Office and the criminal investigation team are independent of each other without a relationship of leadership or being led, and both can participate in handling cases, though the prosecutor's status is slightly higher than the police's; the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office Chief and the Superintendent General are of equal rank, and the Supreme Public Prosecutors Office Chief is also of equal rank to the National Police Agency Commissioner; when Superintendent General Watanabe Eiji faces the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office Chief, he might be slightly weaker, but the ranks of both sides are equal and there is no superior-subordinate relationship.

South Korea is the first type of system; the National Police Agency Commissioner is only fit to carry the shoes and bags for the Prosecutor General, and the South Korean system is a Supreme Public Prosecutors Office criminal case decision system; the Prosecutor General possesses the world's greatest prosecutorial power, even including the dictatorial power over whether to initiate an investigation and whether to close a case; the National Police Agency Commissioner is not only a whole major realm lower than the Prosecutor General, but in terms of real power, one is in the sky and the other is on the ground.

To give an example, the South Korean President only has the "right of suggestion" regarding cases being investigated by the Supreme Public Prosecutors Office, and the superiors of the Supreme Public Prosecutors Office only have the "right of suggestion" regarding cases handled by their subordinates.

In other words, once a case is assigned to a certain prosecutor, then from investigation to arrest, submission for prosecution, and trial, the prosecutor's power is infinite.

Whether to file a case, how to file it, whether to investigate, how to investigate, whether to arrest, how to arrest, whether to prosecute, whom to prosecute, whether to sentence, and roughly how to sentence—in South Korea, it is all up to the prosecutor.

Although Japanese police are also uneven in quality and full of useless people, there are still some high-ranking public servant elite bureaucrats sitting in places like the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and the Osaka Headquarters; as for South Korea, if one needs a metaphor for the status gap between police and prosecutors, it is like that Patrol Sergeant who was full of flattery while responsible for delivering green tea and yakitori in the smoking room versus the Career Track masters of the Headquarters Investigation Division 1.

"The Public Security side's meaning is clearly not to touch Uesugi," Prosecutor Kamibayashi said: "Forget it, this time it really was his hard power."

"Public Security, is it Public Security again?" Prosecutor Lin shook her head with resentment.

"............ In the end, we were still one step late," Prosecutor Kamibayashi also shook his head helplessly, casting his gaze out the window: "This time, we let the Metropolitan Police Department get there first; this kid is so impressive, looking at the documents, how on earth did he judge that the perpetrator was actually a JK?"

"F**K, if we had known he was this strong, we should have gotten him into our District Public Prosecutors Office Special Investigation Division earlier."

"Huh?!"

Likewise, with matters finished on the Chiba Prefecture side, Uesugi Muneyuki also sat in the car of Okada Keibu to return to Tokyo.

With the major case finally solved, Okada Keibu was in an incomparably joyful mood, humming a song through his nose, intending to chat a few words with Uesugi Muneyuki, but he discovered that Uesugi Muneyuki was thinking about something the whole time.

"Uesugi-san, what are you thinking about?" Okada Keibu still decided to take the initiative to strike up a conversation.

This person Uesugi Muneyuki is different from the kind of social phobia of traditional Japanese people; he seems relatively casual, and while many Japanese people hate others taking the initiative to strike up a conversation, Uesugi Muneyuki can chat casually with anyone, though the price is that he speaks directly without being tactful.

Was that "he" in Saijo Yasue's mouth something she hallucinated, or did he really exist?

Uesugi Muneyuki knew he would not get an answer; the person had already been submitted for prosecution, and what needed to be asked had been asked for the second time; thinking that the case was finally closed, a smile also appeared on Uesugi Muneyuki's face: "Thinking about what to do when I get back? Okada-san, do you intend to treat me to a meal?"

"Then you should just let Miss Minami treat you," Okada Masayoshi estimated how much of a subsidy he could get from this business trip, and as soon as he heard about treating someone, his handsome face immediately turned bitter: "I really have no money."

This topic was killed instantly.

"Speaking of which, is Kashiwagi-keibu okay?" Uesugi Muneyuki also decisively changed the subject.

"A bit of trouble; although there is a recording proving it was self-defense, Kashiwagi still hit someone; we might need to find connections to beg the District Public Prosecutors Office not to prosecute," finally reaching a topic Okada was good at, he said indignantly: "Clearly the Public Security side could have just mediated! In the end, hmph, Public Security is indeed Public Security!"

The first two of the three troubles found by the District Public Prosecutors Office were decisively resolved by Public Security stepping forward, but when it came to the third trouble, the Criminal Investigation faction originally thought that since both sides had cooperated closely to solve the case this time, you Public Security would at least owe us a favor and help us out.

Facts proved that the Criminal Investigation faction thought too much.

Once the matter was done, the Public Security officers didn't care about the life or death of these detectives; Ichijo-keishi greeted Uesugi Muneyuki and intended to leave directly.

Both sides erupted into a fierce argument and finally parted on bad terms.

The case was solved, but the hatred between the Criminal Investigation faction and the Public Security faction deepened once again.

"Oh right, Uesugi-san, Director General Watanabe said that tomorrow there will be a nationwide broadcast Metropolitan Police Department press conference to announce the results of the case, and you must attend," Okada Keibu continued to the next topic.

"Oh? Am I not in poor health tomorrow?" Uesugi Muneyuki raised his eyebrows: "I remember I was 'in poor health' last time for the Fuji TV Case."

"Hehe," Okada Keibu laughed awkwardly, thinking to himself that it was just because they were afraid he would talk nonsense: "In any case, this will also count as official business."

Uesugi Muneyuki naturally had no objections, but Okada Keibu had a worried look on his face.

This major case mobilized over a thousand police officers, with over eleven thousand person-times, attracted national-level attention at home and abroad, and was solved in just over a week, which could be called a complete victory and a huge win; plus the previous Fuji TV Case, it was no exaggeration to say it was a rebuilding of the Metropolitan Police Department's glory.

Afterwards, there was naturally no shortage of rewarding based on merit.

Not to mention Uesugi Muneyuki, he was definitely the number one contributor, but which faction contributed the most overall was a subject of endless debate within the police.

The Criminal Investigation faction felt that they were the ones who saved the honor of the Japanese police; if it weren't for us finally getting the chance to intervene and letting you Public Security continue to investigate, the honor of the Metropolitan Police Department would have been finished long ago!

And the Public Security faction's attitude was that if it weren't for us providing special regulation support, with an investigation method like Uesugi Muneyuki's—shooting the arrow first and then drawing the target—all the evidence, confessions, and arrest operations of your criminal investigation would have been illegal all the way to Hawaii; of course, our contribution was the greatest.

Both sides were arguing over who would do the reporting, and on this point, they would not yield an inch.

Finally, they couldn't argue anymore, but they couldn't give the credit to the District Public Prosecutors Office, so both sides could only compromise—let Uesugi Muneyuki report it himself, with the Criminal Investigation faction and the Public Security faction each sending one person to sit next to him.

Hope this guy doesn't say anything strange!

Okada Keibu still wanted to use this credit to transfer to Investigation Division 1; the position of personal driver for the Superintendent General was originally just a transition, and taking advantage of this merit, he could just transfer to become a formal detective.

Tokyo is not far from Chiba Prefecture, and Okada Keibu soon drove Uesugi Muneyuki back to the Metropolitan Police Department; welcoming them were the young lady Minami, wearing a police uniform and a tube skirt, and the Superintendent General Watanabe Eiji himself.

Just as Okada Keibu said, that evening Superintendent General Watanabe Eiji personally treated them to a simple meal; at the dinner table, young lady Minami gave Uesugi Muneyuki a thousand instructions and ten thousand warnings on what he should say at the press conference, and only after going over the lines did it pass.

It was not yet time to celebrate.

Everything was ready; that evening, the Metropolitan Police Department General Affairs Department Public Relations Division Chief, Police Superintendent Togasaki Tomonobu, was honored to announce to all external media in front of the cameras that the Chiba Prefecture Serial Murder Case had been officially solved!

This news instantly ignited all of Japan! That day, NHK and the five major television stations all temporarily interrupted their ongoing programs to switch to breaking news of the Metropolitan Police Department announcing the case was solved.

Subsequently, the Metropolitan Police Department announced to the outside world that it would hold a press conference tomorrow to explain in detail the case details of the entire Chiba Prefecture murder case and the process of solving the case, the entire thread of the whole case!

This move received the affirmation of almost all citizens.

The Japan police have actually managed to pull themselves together!

By the eight million gods and buddhas! Ever since the bubble economy burst, the Japan police have seen a cliff-like decline in both quality and capability; I never expected that after all these years, they would finally pull themselves together!

The Japanese public has long been accustomed to the uselessness of local police, but this time, from the Metropolitan Police Department's formal intervention to the successful resolution of the case, it took less than ten days; the performance of the Metropolitan Police Department in the Fuji TV Case and the Chiba Prefecture Serial Murder Case can be said to have made the public sit up and take notice.

It's not easy, is it? A day where you lot aren't wasting the citizens' tax money?

All of a sudden, the attention of all of Japan was on tomorrow's official Metropolitan Police Department press conference.

Naturally, Police Sergeant Ikeda Erena of the Criminal Investigation Division at the Otsuka Station in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, was also paying special attention to this matter.

She had been very bored for the past two weeks, very, very, very bored.

After the previous Fuji TV Case, the attitude within the police force toward Ikeda Erena had changed slightly; at least they knew she wasn't just purely crazy but actually had real talent, and many Judo experts within the police force admitted that Erena's technical level on that move was close to, or even reached, the national team standard.

This earned Erena a measure of respect within the Police Station.

But what use was that? The Criminal Investigation Division was still the same as always; they didn't call her for dispatches, didn't look at her during daily routines, and didn't include her in conversations, leaving her as a pure island, hearing Tanaka Laodeng praying every day, saying that when Uesugi little brother wasn't around, he hoped no trouble would come.

Oh right, Uesugi Muneyuki had gone on a business trip; she only found out when she went to the Medical and Dental University one day to habitually look for Uesugi Muneyuki and discovered he hadn't come to work, and Professor Okochi told her that Uesugi Muneyuki was away on a temporary business trip for a few days, without saying what it was about (confidentiality obligation).

I haven't seen him for two weeks!

Ikeda Erena curled up in her rented apartment, her eyes hollow, like an empty shell without a Soul.

I haven't met with him for two whole weeks!

The tall beauty wrapped herself in a blanket, her hands gripping her phone tightly, checking every half minute to see if Uesugi Muneyuki had replied.

She wanted to see him, very much, extremely much, wanting to the point of madness.

Her fingers were typing, and the chat box messages were almost entirely one-sided.

Just then, the Metropolitan Police Department's press conference for the Chiba Prefecture Serial Murder Case officially began; seeing that Uesugi Muneyuki hadn't replied, Erena put down her phone, and with her strong sense of justice, she was naturally interested in this major case; if she didn't have to work, she would have insisted on going to Chiba to see the scene herself.

However, when she saw that familiar figure sitting in front of the camera, Erena froze.

"Huh?!"

(End of this chapter)