Chapter 151: The Daily Life of the Special Mission Unit

The layout of the Special Mission Unit office in the Metropolitan Police Department's Criminal Investigation Department is different from that of Investigation Division 1.

The Special Mission Unit office was arranged next to the Soshiki Hanzai Taisaku Daini-shitsu; it was in a prime location, though the office was only about forty or fifty square meters in total. Acting Unit Chief Watanabe Minami sat alone at a large curved desk, while Acting Unit Chief Okada Masayoshi sat at an L-shaped desk next to her. As for Ikeda Erena, who had been seconded, her desk could only be placed in the very corner of the office.

Uesugi Muneyuki's own desk was in a small room within the office, less than 20 square meters in size. Watanabe Eiji had indeed fulfilled Uesugi Muneyuki's request for an independent office, though it was not very large, and he had even specially sent over a coffee machine.

Miss Minami had bought several bags of high-quality Blue Mountain coffee beans, and hot water was kept ready in the Special Mission Unit so coffee could be brewed at any time. If police from Investigation Division 1 or the entire Tokyo 23-ku 102-sho needed help from the Special Mission Unit, they had to come to the Special Mission Unit in person to seek assistance, and if Miss Minami did not agree, they would find it very difficult to see Uesugi Muneyuki himself.

Only a direct order from the superior Criminal Investigation Department or a higher-ranking Superintendent or above could bypass Miss Minami to make Uesugi Muneyuki take the initiative to go out and execute a mission.

And the establishment of the Special Mission Unit lived up to expectations; Uesugi Muneyuki solved a major case right out of the gate.

There were four nurses who had graduated from the same nursing school, were roommates, and worked at the same hospital in Nerima Ward.

Three of them were married and one was unmarried. The four were in close contact. The eldest among them, who was also the "leader," discovered during a gathering of the four sisters that her husband was actually seducing her close friend and sister, so she developed the intent to kill. She said to the other three nurse classmates: "I didn't expect my husband to be such a frivolous piece of trash; he's truly hopeless. Let's just buy insurance for him and kill him."

The four nurses discussed it and felt it was a viable plan, so they first bought a high-value insurance policy for the eldest sister's husband. This husband was known for being a habitual drunkard, so they mixed sleeping pills into his alcohol to make him fall asleep, and then used a syringe to inject exactly 596ml of high-proof vodka directly into his stomach, a lethal dose.

The husband cooperated quite well by dying of acute alcohol poisoning, and the four of them split the 20 million in insurance money.

But this money wasn't enough to spend, so the second sister's husband entered their sights.

This time it was sleeping pills again. Since the second husband didn't drink a drop of alcohol and was unlikely to die of acute alcohol poisoning, the four sisters used a syringe to inject air into the victim's veins. Once air enters the cerebral blood vessels, it causes a cerebral infarction. Sure enough, the second husband immediately fell into a critical state, and not long after, just as they had wished, the victim died. The deceased was diagnosed with "acute heart failure" and "death by illness."

The four sisters successfully split 28 million yen in insurance money.

This money was also not enough to spend, and it was squandered away a few months later.

No problem, three of the four sisters were married, and wasn't there still one last husband? It was time to let him contribute his value.

The old routine: alcohol mixed with sleeping pills, syringe injection of high-proof whiskey.

As it turned out, an accident occurred with the third husband. This husband had a high tolerance for alcohol, and a liter of high-proof whiskey didn't cause him to die of alcohol poisoning. After struggling for several hours until dawn, the husband was still not dead.

The four sisters were slightly panicked and decided to make full use of their medical knowledge. They injected water into the husband's body, causing red blood cell hemolysis in the man. He soon became critically ill, was rushed to the hospital, and died shortly thereafter.

However, this time, they didn't get the insurance money.

Because a series of similar incidents made Nippon Life Insurance and the local police station suspicious. The consecutive deaths of husbands from sudden illness caught the attention of the insurer, Nippon Life Insurance. Moreover, this time the four sisters felt the previous insurance amounts were too low—each person only getting a few million each time wasn't enough to spend—so this time they bought 200 million yen in insurance for the third husband in one go.

The local police station, harboring suspicions, classified the cause of death as "unnatural death," and Nippon Life Insurance subsequently proposed coming to the Metropolitan Police Department to find Uesugi Muneyuki for an autopsy.

For an autopsy, we only recognize Uesugi Muneyuki!

Uesugi Muneyuki was ordered to act, and through deduction and the Death Soul Contract, he immediately saw where the problem lay.

The police followed Uesugi Muneyuki's judgment and investigated backwards, and sure enough, they discovered that there were also fishy circumstances surrounding the deaths of the previous two husbands. However, all four sisters were nurses and had connections within the hospital, colluding with doctors to issue death certificates. The first two husbands had even been cremated at lightning speed, leaving no evidence.

However, thanks to Uesugi Muneyuki's sharp judgment and his insistence that the previous two sudden deaths were suspicious, the police followed these clues all the way back. The doctor at the hospital that issued the death certificates finally couldn't withstand the interrogation and confessed. The truth behind this joint serial husband-killing case was revealed, shocking the entire Tokyo Metropolis. That day, every front-page headline was about this bizarre case.

These four good sisters were dubbed the "Tenkei Yonshimai" by the Asahi Shimbun, and they would face a maximum sentence of the death penalty or life imprisonment.

The Special Mission Unit had pulled off a big one right out of the gate. Besides the Tenkei Yonshimai, at least five doctors had their medical licenses revoked as a result.

The Metropolitan Police Department immediately promoted this as a major selling point and held a press conference. From then on, the Metropolitan Police Department's Special Mission Unit began to enter the field of vision of the people of Tokyo.

Oh! So Dr. Uesugi has officially joined the Metropolitan Police Department!

Special Mission Unit? Super Unit!

This is our Super Unit Forensic Pathologist, Uesugi-san! He is truly excellent and dazzling. Do you all have an Uesugi like this?

Inside the Special Mission Unit, Miss Minami was handling official business. Police Inspector Okada held his coffee and, seeing from afar that Ikeda Erena was surfing the internet to check how much a Toyota commuter car cost, laughed and said, "Ikeda-san, don't hesitate. Toyota cars are quite cheap now. A Corolla costs about 2.5 million yen on the road. Just buy it."

"... I'll look a bit more, to see if I really need it." Ikeda Erena spent most of her time in the office daydreaming or playing on the computer. She didn't understand paperwork at all, and she didn't know how to receive guests either. However, she didn't need to worry about these things; Miss Minami's positioning for her was as Uesugi Muneyuki's bodyguard, driver, assistant, and... bed partner.

She had actually completed all these tasks very well. Since having her, Uesugi Muneyuki hadn't gone out to find anyone for Princess Connect for five whole months; all his energy was spent on her.

Regarding this point, Ikeda Erena herself was quite proud. She could feel Uesugi Muneyuki's infatuation with her, and she was also unable to extricate herself from the joy of having a bumper crop in both career and love. Since achieving intimacy with Uesugi Muneyuki, her temperament had also changed over time. Her tall, sexy figure became even more magnificent, and the aloof, cold iceberg seemed to have melted somewhat. The hot, spicy Iberian flair flowed secretly between her lively brown eyes, and the ladies' suit in the same color as her short black hair, combined with the black pantyhose inside her uniform trousers, acted like armor hiding the fiery intensity she showed when alone with Uesugi Muneyuki. The sharp, ringing sound of her commuting High-heeled Shoe hitting the floor could always make every detective nervous about her arrival.

What's more interesting is that before she had a relationship with Uesugi Muneyuki, all the male detectives in the Metropolitan Police Department hated her, feared her, and stayed away from her.

But after Miss Minami let it slip that Erena had been seconded to the headquarters at Uesugi Muneyuki's request—almost explicitly stating that the two of them were having an affair—Erena was instead able to greet and make friends with people in the Metropolitan Police Department normally. Those male detectives no longer feared her or stayed away from her and could communicate normally, because she already had a "master."

It was the same for Police Inspector Okada. When the Special Mission Unit was first formed, he was scared to death of Erena, but ever since learning of Erena's relationship with Uesugi Muneyuki, not only was he no longer afraid, but he even dared to joke with Erena.

"Ikeda, if you buy it, you can just pick up and drop off Uesugi every day." Miss Minami was the main person in charge of handling various documents, reports, coordinating various departments, and helping Uesugi Muneyuki review various requests and arrange work. She was still dressed in her standard spring police uniform, skirt, flesh-colored stockings, and High-heeled Shoe. Hearing the two of them joking, she poked her head out from behind the computer screen.

"Uesugi won't give me the key... I can't get into the Tower Mansion!" Speaking of this, Ikeda Erena's little mouth immediately pouted.

It's been four months, and that little girl from Hokkaido has been living with Muneyuki for four months! Do you know how I've spent these four months? Every time I go to his house, I have to see that little face overflowing with black energy and looking unwelcoming! When I'm being intimate with him in the bedroom, there's an extra person in the house!

He just won't give me the key!

"Giggle, giggle~" Seeing the original troublemaker, the police world's killer Ikeda Erena, being tamed by Uesugi Muneyuki, Miss Minami and Police Inspector Okada both burst into laughter. For a moment, the Special Mission Unit was filled with a cheerful atmosphere.

"If you want it, come and get it yourself, through your performance." Uesugi Muneyuki came out of the inner office at this time and also laughed: "You've known this rule for a long time."

"I knew you would say that. You just wait, I will use my performance to make you obediently hand over the key, I promise." Ikeda Erena really wanted that key.

"Then I look forward to it." Uesugi Muneyuki laughed, then he looked at Miss Minami.

"An employee died an unnatural death over in Sumida Ward." Miss Minami was screening tasks for him: "There is a possibility of homicide."

"Alrighty."

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Meanwhile, at the Metropolitan Police Department, Investigation Division 1, Division Chief's office.

"The wife of a University of Tokyo professor is missing, you say?" The new Investigation Division 1 Division Chief Oshima Kenzaburo said in surprise.

Oshima Kenzaburo was quite tall, slightly chubby, and wore his hair in a slicked-back style. His cheeks were sagging due to his age, and coupled with his pair of large ears and small eyes, he looked similar to a large dog breed called a Neapolitan Mastiff (which also has sagging cheeks plus a pair of large ears and small eyes), so people gave him the nickname "Shar Pei" (actually, the Shar Pei and the Neapolitan Mastiff are not the same breed; it was just a misnomer, but it couldn't be changed anymore).

"Yes, his wife is missing. Professor Tsuda and his daughter came to this station in person to report the case, so I think maybe we need the headquarters to intervene." Division Chief Terai opposite him bowed respectfully.

"Since it's a matter involving the University of Tokyo, we must take it seriously." Division Chief Oshima nodded with great interest: "I understand, I will arrange for personnel to search. Thank you, Terai!"

"I am deeply grateful!"

"To think you knew to give me face and come here specifically to tell me about this, Terai, you're quite sharp!" The big Shar Pei said happily: "Sure enough, only we Non-Career Track people can cherish each other like this!"

"This is as it should be." Division Chief Terai was also very excited.

"For this matter, let's arrange for Kousaka from Unit 1 to do it." After careful consideration, Division Chief Oshima said seriously: "Unit 1 is the face of our Investigation Division 1. If we don't produce some results, all the limelight of our Investigation Division 1 will be stolen by the Special Mission Unit!"

"This time, it's our turn, the Non-Career Track, to fight a beautiful battle!"

(End of chapter)