Chapter 193: The Toyokawa Group Case Solved in One Day

PS: I originally wanted to write a case about the economy, but after investigating in detail, I found that the various technical terms and financial operations were too complex. To explain them clearly would require long-winded writing over a dozen chapters or more, and it wouldn't be interesting to write, which would be a pity. Therefore, I won't write about overly complex economic cases in the future. This part of the content is also coming to an end soon. I really didn't think this through, and I apologize here. Hontou ni sumimasen~

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After the room door sounded, Yamabuki Ryuhei's girlfriend, Ikeda Marika, prepared to open the door.

Just at this moment, her phone suddenly rang.

The phone rang urgently and suddenly. Picking it up to look, it was a phone number she had never seen before.

Ikeda Marika hesitated for a long time, but still decided to answer the phone.

A very gentlemanly and very calm voice came from inside: "May I ask if this is Ms. Ikeda Marika? This is the police. No matter what you are doing right now, please be extremely careful! Someone is coming to your door to threaten your life!"

"Eh?" Ms. Ikeda Marika glanced at the room door.

"Knock, knock, knock~" The person outside the door, seeing there was no response from inside, knocked again: "Hello? Ms. Ikeda? Are you there?"

The woman looked toward the doorway and was so scared she almost collapsed to the ground.

She clutched her phone as if grabbing a savior, crawled a few times on the floor, hid inside the kitchen, and spoke incoherently: "They're here! They're really here, Officer, what should I do?"

"They are already at the door, are they? Please do not panic, Ms. Ikeda. What you need to do now is lock the door. We police are on our way. As long as you hold out until we arrive, the matter will be resolved."

"Okay, okay, I understand!"

The men in suits at the door suddenly noticed there was no reaction from inside the house, and their movements became much more intense. They knocked on the door desperately, but even for residents of an ordinary apartment, there are anti-theft doors. Without professional tools, they really couldn't easily break in.

After holding out for a few minutes, the sound of sirens came from downstairs. Looking down from the balcony, a large group of police appeared, and a small number of District Public Prosecutors Office special investigation team cars also arrived.

The few men in suits at the door cursed a few times and hurriedly retreated from the back.

"Like this, it's safe."

In the Ebara Station conference room, at the Special Investigation Headquarters, Investigation Division 1 Chief Sugishita Ukyo put down the phone and let out a light breath: "He really is a child who doesn't walk the beaten path!"

And right beside Division Chief Sugishita, Minami was dumbfounded.

Although the front lines were sending back news at any time, and although Uesugi Muneyuki and the others were always keeping in touch with the investigation headquarters, Sugishita Ukyo had relied solely on the clues in his hands to realize that Ikeda Marika would encounter danger before Uesugi Muneyuki and the others had reacted, and had preemptively let the remaining police use their connections to dial her number!

Looking at his performance alone, Sugishita Ukyo was simply the same as Uesugi Muneyuki—an ultimate genius at solving cases!

Their styles of solving cases were also very consistent; both started with a conclusion and then looked for evidence, belonging to the action-oriented school of deduction.

However, Minami thought that their styles were different after all. In the aftermath, Uesugi Muneyuki could always explain everything with forensic science, perfect the entire chain of evidence, and prepare the case files for prosecution.

And according to her investigation, Police Superintendent Sugishita Ukyo's style of handling cases in his early years was similar to Uesugi Muneyuki's—both gave the conclusion first and then looked for evidence.

The difference was that sometimes Sugishita Ukyo could not find ironclad evidence with enough weight. At such times, he would play some little tricks to persuade the criminal suspect to surrender, such as using a very offensive honorific tone to force the other party to reveal a flaw, such as taking out indirect evidence obtained through illegal searches to blackmail and coerce the other party, or such as redescribing the crime process to fish for a confession, letting the suspect expose themselves.

Compared to a police officer, he was more like a detective. As a guardian of the law, his investigation methods were constantly breaking the law. This kind of behavior of his would not be tolerated by the Metropolitan Police Department.

Moreover, Sugishita Ukyo had a strong sense of justice and had already ruined the good things of high-ranking officials in the Metropolitan Police Department and local station chiefs regarding post-retirement re-employment many times.

No wonder he was transferred to the Life Safety Division.

Minami analyzed it to this level and discovered that Uesugi Muneyuki and Sugishita Ukyo looked the same on the surface, but in reality, when peeled open, they were completely different. Uesugi Muneyuki placed great emphasis on legal searches and legal evidence collection. Even if he played some little tricks, he would eventually return to legal procedures. If there was something that really couldn't be done legally, he would find people who could make them legal, such as the District Public Prosecutors Office or Public Security.

Frankly speaking, there are many excellent police officers in the Metropolitan Police Department, and the veteran detectives of Investigation Division 1 can often see who is suspicious at a glance.

But to be able to catch the culprit and the stolen goods like Uesugi Muneyuki, with ironclad evidence like a mountain, this is the only case.

Minami revealed a happy smile.

After all, he is the man I chose; he can't be anything less than excellent!

However, when these two people who both reach conclusions before finding evidence meet, perhaps a different chemical reaction will occur!

One Uesugi, one Sugishita.

Things are becoming interesting.

……………………

On the other side, Uesugi Muneyuki was truly troubled by his lack of evidence.

How was he to explain his series of judgments?

Stop pretending? Actually, I am the Wisdom King of Aizen from the Inner World!

What a joke.

Ikeda Marika opened the trunk of her car, which contained three boxes of documents.

This was the key evidence left by Yamabuki Ryuhei regarding the Toyokawa Group's black money transactions and insider trading!

"That's right, this is it! This is it!" The District Public Prosecutors Office special investigation team was extremely excited. They immediately collected the documents while looking at Uesugi Muneyuki with vigilant eyes: "What do you plan to do with this stuff?"

Uesugi Muneyuki thought for a moment and decided to be straightforward and kick the ball to the District Public Prosecutors Office: "Then, up to this point, can we consider the deal a success? The credit here will all belong to you as agreed."

"However, I have two conditions," Uesugi Muneyuki said. "I'm sure you will wonder why I know so much, because I have a special source of information, but I cannot tell you, so I beg you all at the District Public Prosecutors Office not to ask anymore. Just like Ikeda Marika, once exposed, it will put them in danger."

"What secret informant, you can't even tell us at the District Public Prosecutors Office? From Public Security?" Prosecutor Kamibayashi agreed to this condition very readily: "What else?"

"Also, these documents will involve issues regarding black money transactions, so please investigate Station Chief Kurosu of Ebara Station." Uesugi Muneyuki proposed a second condition.

His subtext was that Station Chief Kurosu definitely had problems, but once they investigated Station Chief Kurosu, they could stop.

"We cannot decide on this matter, but we will report it to Headquarters Chief Kirekawa."

"Then, this is a gift for your special investigation team." Uesugi Muneyuki nodded and patted Prosecutor Kamibayashi on the shoulder: "As for how to explain it afterward, I'll leave it to you at the District Public Prosecutors Office to figure out."

The District Public Prosecutors Office acted quickly and immediately left with a pile of documents, leaving behind the people from the Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Division 1.

Sure enough, everyone was very dissatisfied with Uesugi Muneyuki's decision.

"This is a great achievement! Uesugi-kun, why did you give it to the District Public Prosecutors Office?" Kashiwagi Jin of the Third Subsection couldn't help but come up and ask: "Even if we were to give it to the District Public Prosecutors Office, it should have been after we investigated and sent the evidence to the Prosecutor's Office when submitting the case! In that case, wouldn't the credit all be theirs?"

"Uesugi must have his reasons for doing this," Shiratori Sho of the Second Division took the initiative to excuse Uesugi.

"He will tell us why," Ikeda Erena was still full of confidence in Uesugi Muneyuki, and at the same time, she still felt a bit unfulfilled.

Such a big case, a 16.8 billion case, ended like this with a whimper?

From setting up the special investigation headquarters to finding the key evidence, it hadn't even been a day!

And this time was completely different from the last time; there was no deduction process at all!

Erena always felt it wasn't satisfying enough, and even felt a little bit of resentment.

If the Special Investigation Headquarters closes, I won't need to stay in a hotel anymore, so wouldn't the pair of glossy garter stockings in my suitcase have been brought for nothing?

"Because this bit of evidence isn't enough to kill the Toyokawa Group," Uesugi Muneyuki said after a moment of silence, shaking his head. "On the contrary, we will be the ones to face retaliation from the Toyokawa Group."

"The District Public Prosecutors Office Special Investigation Department isn't afraid of retaliation or the zaibatsu, but what about us?"

The people from the Metropolitan Police Department all fell silent upon hearing this, and Police Inspector Shimano of the Fourth Unit took the initiative to say, "The Forensic Examiner thinks so far ahead."

"Therefore, as long as the final result is good and the facts are clarified, it makes no difference whether we or the District Public Prosecutors Office expose it," Uesugi Muneyuki said, nodding as he saw that everyone understood. "Let's go, we still have work to do."

"We are going to arrest Toyokawa Trading Company President Toyokawa Kiyotsugu!"

"Oh, oh!"

After obtaining sufficient evidence, the Metropolitan Police Department immediately launched an arrest operation for Toyokawa Trading Company President Toyokawa Kiyotsugu.

By the time Chief Kurosu of Ebara Station received the news, it was already too late; Investigation Division 1 had already brought Toyokawa Kiyotsugu into custody.

That evening, just as Chief Kurosu was panicking and didn't know what to do, the phone rang.

An old, steady male voice came from the other end: "Didn't I tell you to rule Yamabuki's case a suicide? You gave me your word."

"Chairman Toyokawa?!" Chief Kurosu's hand holding the phone was shaking. "I did rule it a suicide, I didn't request the establishment of an investigation headquarters; it was the Metropolitan Police Department acting on their own!"

"Forget it," the voice on the phone said, noncommittal to this excuse. "The agreement for your retirement is void."

Having said that, the person on the other end hung up the phone directly.

"..." Chief Kurosu's face turned livid; he kept a straight face and muttered to himself, "You're finished, Sugishita Ukyo, I'm going to report you, I'm going to..."

"Knock, knock, knock~" The door rang.

"Who is it?" Chief Kurosu roared impatiently. "I'm busy!"

The person outside ignored him and opened the door directly; Kirekawa Ryoichi, Department Manager of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office Special Investigation Department, walked in with several prosecutors and took out a piece of paper: "Chief Kurosu, your arrest warrant is out. You are being arrested for suspected bribery from corporations and having unexplained wealth."

"What? Why?" Chief Kurosu stared, feeling blood rush to his head, frantic and exasperated: "Why arrest me? Everyone is taking money, why only arrest me? This is unfair, I want to see the Director General! I want to see Director General Watanabe!"

"I only took 5 million last year, are you going to arrest me for just 5 million?"

The District Public Prosecutors Office Special Investigation Department was already used to such ugly displays, and Department Manager Kirekawa, who was in the lead, signaled for them to take him away directly.

The person was taken away, but Department Manager Kirekawa stood where he was, not moving.

"Department Manager?" Prosecutor Kamibayashi asked.

"That kid is too formidable. Come to think of it, I even saw this kid at the Peerage Assembly in Kasumigaseki; he was just mediocre back then with nothing special, who would have thought he would soar after changing professions?" Department Manager Kirekawa couldn't help but remark: "Can we think of a way to poach him from the Metropolitan Police Department? Our District Public Prosecutors Office needs talent like this."

"Department Manager, he has already officially joined the force; poaching people like this is a major taboo."

"... Then does he have any hobbies?"

"Uesugi Muneyuki doesn't smoke, doesn't drink, isn't greedy for fame or profit, and doesn't care much for money. According to our investigation, he seems to have only two hobbies: the first is that this person has a large appetite and loves all kinds of gourmet food, and the second is... women!"

"Women?!"

(End of chapter)