Chapter 164: , Considering You Are a Dignified University of Tokyo Professor

Inside the waste warehouse, everyone's gaze was fixed on the fragment, the length of an index finger, at the tip of the steel tweezers in Uesugi Muneyuki's hand.

This thing, is it Tsuda's Wife???

Principal Komiyama was stunned, Department Manager Furuya widened his eyes, and even Uesugi Muneyuki's grandfather, Uesugi Kuninori, raised his eyebrows high.

In fact, Uesugi Kuninori had not wanted to come today; as a 73-year-old rehired professor at the University of Tokyo, he would truly reach mandatory retirement age in two more years.

But the University of Tokyo demanded he come, because his status as a Count of the Old Nobility was one of the few existences capable of intimidating the Kirenkawa Special Investigation Headquarters Chief (Kirekawa is a Viscount), and Uesugi Kuninori was currently exerting the remaining glory of six generations, trying every possible way to squeeze his two grandsons into the University of Tokyo before retirement, so he could only agree to the invitation from the University of Tokyo's principal.

Why did such a thing happen?

Why? Grandfather raised his white eyebrows; the high-level officials of the University of Tokyo were all seasoned experts, and when they saw Professor Tsuda's reaction, they already understood well enough.

Meanwhile, the people from the Metropolitan Police Department were dumbfounded.

How did he find it?

There were over a hundred barrels lined up on that side of the warehouse! Every barrel was filled with colorful waste liquid! And the third-party agency designated by the District Public Prosecutors Office had checked the composition of every barrel of waste liquid and found nothing special!

Are you just that good at finding corpses? Is your sense of smell really that good? Uesugi Muneyuki, you guy!

However, the moment they found the evidence also meant they would now have to... engage in a head-on battle with the University of Tokyo.

This is the University of Tokyo!

For a moment, apart from Ikeda Erena, who was shouting "Yay yay yay yay~" very cutely, Watanabe Minami, Kashiwagi Jin, and Kosaka Shinichiro all wore complex expressions, among whom Miss Minami subconsciously looked at the University of Tokyo high-level officials beside her.

But Uesugi Muneyuki did not give them more time to think; he held the fragment with the tweezers and pointed at Professor Tsuda: "Professor Tsuda, if I am not mistaken, this fragment should be a part of your wife, right?"

"…………" Professor Tsuda looked at Uesugi Muneyuki, silent and speechless.

"I have to say, Professor Tsuda, your level of corpse disposal is quite something." Uesugi Muneyuki carefully took a self-sealing bag from the side, slowly inserted the bone fragment into the bag, and in front of everyone, Uesugi Muneyuki said: "The problem with using strong acid to dispose of a corpse is that even if you have the richest experience and the most excellent disposal methods, and know how to add hydrofluoric acid to the strong acid to dissolve bones, it is still unavoidable that a small amount of bone residue will remain."

"The testing agency of course couldn't detect a problem; this was originally waste liquid from the Agriculture and Forestry Department, and using strong acid and strong base reactions to measure elements is quite reasonable. At the same time, because the test samples likely contained microorganisms, and soap is used when washing hands, it is also quite reasonable to detect the presence of fatty acid soaps."

"At the end of the day, the testing agency is just like that; what could they possibly analyze out of a pot of filthy sludge?"

"However, the only thing that cannot be completely dissolved is this!" Uesugi Muneyuki held up the self-sealing bag in his hand: "Bone residue!"

"Professor Tsuda, as long as the bone residue is sent to a testing agency, the corroded exterior ground off, and the DNA measured, it can be determined that this bone comes from Tsuda's Wife." Uesugi Muneyuki said softly: "This is decisive evidence. As for where Tsuda's Wife is now, I don't need to say more, right?"

Everyone looked at the rows of large barrels lined up in the corner, their pupils shaking violently, especially the white-haired principal, professors, and School Board Members from the University of Tokyo.

Tsuda's Wife, easily soluble in waste liquid?

"Uesugi-kun, this might be a misunderstanding, and..." Principal Komiyama spoke up, and he said deliberately: "And, even if it can be proven that this piece of bone belongs to Tsuda's Wife, that only proves..."

Uesugi Muneyuki ignored Principal Komiyama entirely; he just continued to roar at Professor Tsuda: "Still planning to deny it? Professor Tsuda?!"

"Yukimatsumaru! Answer the principal's question!" Uesugi Kuninori roared: "This is the University of Tokyo, you must learn to respect others!"

"I don't care if this is the University of Tokyo or not! This is Tokyo! Tokyo is under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Police Department! I am Uesugi Muneyuki, a Special Field Consultant for the Special Investigation Division of the Criminal Investigation Division 1 of the Metropolitan Police Department! This is the evidence I found!"

Uesugi Muneyuki's voice was louder than the old man's: "Is the University of Tokyo some kind of concession that enjoys extraterritoriality? I am in the middle of an investigation, and now, I am asking Professor Tsuda, is this a bone fragment of your wife?!"

"Uesugi!" Department Manager Furuya roared.

"Watanabe!" Principal Komiyama roared: "And Kashiwagi! Do you know what you are doing?"

The Metropolitan Police Department side trembled; the pressure from the University of Tokyo was truly too great, so great that they could not resist. Even though the evidence was already in Uesugi Muneyuki's hands, the Metropolitan Police Department side remained very weak and dared not respond.

"Professor Tsuda!" Uesugi Muneyuki continued to roar: "A dignified University of Tokyo professor, with nothing in your salary account, and on the overseas Singapore FX platform, your wife still owes over 120 million yen in leverage margin, and your real estate has also been mortgaged. Over these years, Tsuda's Wife has remitted 1 billion yen abroad! Tell me, what job allows you to earn 1 billion yen in over ten years? You are a University of Tokyo professor, not a Pachinko parlor president!"

"It's not just the District Public Prosecutors Office investigating; we at the Metropolitan Police Department are also investigating! Professor Tsuda, if you don't admit it, today is not the end, it is just a beginning!"

"…………" Professor Tsuda still hung his head. He was silent for a long time, then suddenly laughed: "Hahahaha~"

"Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha~"

The unusually silent and heavy scene was filled only with his hearty laughter.

"I give up." The short, thin old man hung his head for a long time, then suddenly looked up at the incandescent light above the warehouse at a forty-five-degree angle: "Actually, I don't even know which barrel my wife's bone residue is in. I thought I had disposed of it cleanly enough. Uesugi-kun, you don't mind if I call you that? I know you have a fierce reputation, but... how did you find it?"

Once these words were out, the Metropolitan Police Department side all breathed a sigh of relief. Miss Minami couldn't help but take the initiative to hold Ikeda Erena's hand.

Erena is still the best; this woman can spend the whole time staring at Uesugi Muneyuki with infatuated eyes, without having to think about anything else.

Miss Minami was scared to death!

Her father wouldn't dare roar at the University of Tokyo principal! Uesugi Muneyuki actually roared at half of the University of Tokyo School Board by himself?

That is the University of Tokyo! The University of Tokyo that monopolizes half of Tokyo!

Uesugi Muneyuki was silent for a few seconds.

Actually, just as Professor Tsuda said, Tsuda's Wife had been dissolved cleanly enough. Normally, a corpse destroyed to this extent would not be able to trigger a Death Soul Contract.

However, Tsuda's Wife's maddening, ink-black hatred was still attached to the final body fragments, which were sensed by Uesugi Muneyuki. Those few bone residues located at the bottom of the waste liquid barrels were still emitting the aura of a Cursed Grudge.

"Just when the District Public Prosecutors Office was inspecting, I noticed it." Uesugi Muneyuki said slowly: "Actually, if the District Public Prosecutors Office had thoroughly tested and inspected the barrels one by one, they might still have discovered it."

"Hehehehe~" Professor Tsuda shook his head repeatedly: "Impossible, they don't understand medicine like you do."

After finishing, Professor Tsuda unloaded the last burden in his heart. He laughed loudly, his face full of the heartiness of one who is willing to admit defeat: "Although I have always known you have a fierce reputation, to be able to find even this, Uesugi-kun, I don't feel wronged falling into your hands."

"Wait! Wait!" Seeing that Professor Tsuda intended to confess, his superior, Agriculture and Forestry Department Head Furuya, immediately interrupted Professor Tsuda: "Even if you found a bone fragment, so what? That only proves Tsuda's Wife is dead, it doesn't prove that Tsuda is the one who killed her! Uesugi-kun, stop being unreasonable and dragging in irrelevant things! I'll ask you, I'll ask you, can this bit of bone fragment prove that Tsuda is the murderer? If you can't prove it, are you prepared? We will file a complaint against you!!! The University of Tokyo will file a complaint against you!!!"

"Just a Specialized Physician, not knowing the immensity of heaven and earth, no wonder you can only go to study as a Forensic Pathologist! Uesugi-kun, I tell you, over 70% of hospital directors in Tokyo are graduates of our University of Tokyo. If you can't produce evidence of murder, you know the consequences!"

"If you say Professor Tsuda is the murderer, then bring out the evidence ahhhhhhhh!"

"Evidence?" Uesugi Muneyuki sneered: "There is plenty!"

"For example, the salaries of the project team members in the PT Project. On the surface, Professor Tsuda reimbursed 46 million yen from the fund over 6 months, but in reality, the monthly salary distributed to the entire research group was only 430,000 yen!"

"At first we thought Professor Tsuda embezzled it, but in reality, it was distributed to the entire Agriculture and Forestry Department, right?!"

Uesugi Muneyuki's voice drowned out Department Manager Furuya, and at this moment, Principal Komiyama and several other School Board Members looked at Department Manager Furuya together, their faces showing shock.

You actually?

"I... I..." Department Manager Furuya's face turned pale.

What does that have to do with me? Everyone was splitting the money; this is the convention, and yet this kid actually wants to put it on the scale?

He is going to destroy the University of Tokyo, destroy all of Japan!

"Professor Tsuda, I respect you very much. According to our investigation, you are a good teacher and also a quite accomplished master of biology. I can tell you directly, I indeed have not found the murder weapon yet, but considering you are a dignified University of Tokyo professor..." Uesugi Muneyuki tried to persuade him.

"Enough!" Uesugi Kuninori's aged voice barked out. Grandfather looked at Uesugi Muneyuki with a pleading gaze, signaling him to stop speaking. "If you act like this, how am I supposed to arrange for you and Chitokumaru to get into the University of Tokyo in the future?"

"Enough!" Professor Tsuda roared as well: "Principal! Senior Kuninori! Department Manager! I confess to all the accusations against Uesugi Muneyuki and the findings of the Metropolitan Police Department! I am the one who killed her!"

The entire room fell silent once again.

"On the night of May 6th, I came home and heard my wife and Megumi (Professor Tsuda's daughter) arguing about Keio tuition fees. I was very tired at the time, so I didn't pay attention and went back to my room to rest, but they just kept arguing louder and louder." Professor Tsuda said with a slight sob, his face twisting in agony.

"Since Megumi was able to get into Keio, of course I had to do my best to support her studies. So, after Takako returned to the room, I told her that we should pay for Megumi's tuition. But she scolded me, calling me a loser who only knew how to teach and do experiments without caring about the house, earning only 14 million a year—how could that ever be enough?"

"I couldn't understand what Takako was talking about at all. I have always handed over all my salary and allowance income, but in the last few months, the food at home has gotten worse and worse. Takako doesn't do much housework either; the sink is often piled with dishes, the laundry basket is often full of unwashed clothes, and the floor is always sticky. So I questioned her: what exactly does she want? Isn't 14 million yen a year enough for her expenses? The whole family relies on my salary; she should be doing the housework!"

"She said this is joint marital property, that her spending is household expenditure, and that these are all her legal earnings; she can spend them however she likes, and it's none of my business. At the same time, Megumi's tuition is out of the question. Takako said to just let Megumi apply for a student loan; the family will not support her attending the Keio University School of Medicine."

"I thought she was completely unreasonable. At that moment, I remembered that I had always kept an emergency reserve of 20 million yen at home, so I planned to take it out to pay for Megumi's first year of tuition. But who would have thought, I searched the whole house and found the money was gone!"

As Professor Tsuda recounted his experience, everyone fell silent.

Especially the University of Tokyo executives; originally, their gazes toward Professor Tsuda were full of hatred and fear, but when Professor Tsuda told the truth, everyone only felt he was pitiful.

"So, you..." Principal Komiyama said sorrowfully: "Even so, you shouldn't have..."

After Professor Tsuda discovered the emergency reserve was missing, he questioned Tsuda Takako. Tsuda's Wife refused to answer and even insulted him, so Professor Tsuda decided to check the accounts. As a result, he not only discovered that all his salary, side income, and allowances from the past ten-plus years had all gone into foreign exchange speculation, but because of a margin call, they also owed the foreign exchange market 120 million in leveraged margin.

Naturally, that 20 million in emergency reserves had also long since been moved by Tsuda's Wife to cover the margin call.

Seeing that her affairs had finally been discovered, Tsuda's Wife became angry from embarrassment. She grabbed a desk lamp and was about to hit him, saying: "Are you very impressive? Isn't it just that little salary? Other professors easily rake in 40 or 50 million a year, and you only make 20 million. I must have been blind to marry a loser like you."

Being insulted like this, the string of Professor Tsuda's sanity finally snapped. At that moment, he bumped into the fishing gear kept in the bedroom, so he took out a fishing line...

"Tsuda, stop talking!" Department Manager Furuya felt his heart twitching with pain; there was a line of police standing right opposite them!

"Shut up!!!" Professor Tsuda knelt on the ground, his face covered in tears, roaring in pain as he pounded the floor with his fists: "Things turned out like this, things turned out like this, I didn't want this either! I really wanted to finish the PT well! I really wanted to give a lecture at MIT, ahhhhh!"

"Uesugi-kun is right. As a dignified University of Tokyo professor, do I not even have the courage to turn myself in? I will bear all responsibility and all problems myself! I killed someone; I am no longer fit to be a professor at the University of Tokyo, I am not fit to be a father or a husband. My life is already over, it's already over, waaaaaah~"

After saying this, this University of Tokyo professor wept bitterly, unable to speak through his sobs.

(End of this chapter)