Chapter 207: Reconnecting the Past

Uesugi Muneyuki spent a long time away; he did not return to the Metropolitan Police Department for lunch, nor did he return during his lunch break, and by the time the afternoon shift began, Uesugi Muneyuki still hadn't returned to Sakuradamon.

What is going on?!

Miss Minami certainly has plenty to keep her busy; despite rarely going to crime scenes and usually sitting in the office, she is solely responsible for the coordination of all documentation, reports, and resource allocation for the entire Special Mission Unit.

Police Inspector Okada does not need to drive; he ran off to Investigation Division 2 to chat with the detectives there. As mentioned before, Investigation Division 1 and Investigation Division 2 are like fire and water, mortal enemies; one could say they are not just separate, but irreconcilable.

But Okada Masayoshi is different; because his father is the Financial Services Agency Commissioner, the group in Investigation Division 2 has to give him face regardless, and he has taken advantage of this to maintain a good relationship with them.

Consequently, with Minami busy with miscellaneous tasks and Okada running off, Ikeda Erena, left behind in the Special Mission Unit, was very bored. She had become accustomed to "digesting" in a storage room somewhere in Sakuradamon with Uesugi Muneyuki after lunch if they weren't out on field duty, but today, Uesugi Muneyuki had been gone for several hours without returning.

Unable to restrain herself, she thought for a moment and gave Uesugi Muneyuki a call.

The phone rang for a while before Uesugi Muneyuki answered.

From the other end of the receiver, Uesugi Muneyuki's slightly joyful breathing could be faintly heard.

"Uesugi, why have you been gone so long?" Ikeda Erena didn't think much of it and complained: "Didn't you say you were going to reject that female forensic pathologist who came to apply?"

"Oh... oh, is that Master Erena?" Uesugi Muneyuki's voice was filled with joy: "I changed my mind. Professor Okochi's deduction makes a lot of sense; she is indeed very capable, and I think she's the one."

"Ah?! Didn't you say you didn't want a woman?" Ikeda Erena thought that since he could make Uesugi-kun change his mind, this female forensic pathologist must be very excellent, as excellent as her: "Then why did it take so much time?"

"It couldn't be helped; the new female forensic pathologist is too enthusiastic and kept pulling me aside to discuss techniques."

Uesugi Muneyuki held the phone in one hand, while his other hand hooked the back of a knee belonging to a beautiful leg wrapped in skin-colored 0d ultra-thin long stockings, and said softly: "I will be back a little late."

"Oh, then hurry up; I'll wait for you at the department." Ikeda Erena didn't suspect anything, hung up the phone, and excitedly said to Miss Minami: "Uesugi-kun confirmed that the female forensic pathologist who came to apply is a very capable person, and he decided on her."

"Is that so? To be recognized by Muneyuki-kun, the other party must be a very impressive person, right? What is her name? How old is she, and where did she graduate from?" Minami looked up from behind her computer, feeling a bit interested upon hearing this.

"Uh, this..." Erena thought, it's over, I forgot to ask.

"You..." Miss Minami rolled her eyes, truly speechless: "Forget it, we'll get to know her soon enough anyway."

Meanwhile, on the other side, near the Tokyo Medical and Dental University, at the Tokyo Ochanomizu Hotel, in a double room.

The room had fallen back into silence, with only a pair of open-toed camel-colored high-heeled shoes lying messily on the carpet to one side.

After a long while, Uesugi Muneyuki, leaning against the headboard, turned on the bedside lamp and said softly to the beauty wrapped in a bath towel on the other side: "It really has been a long, long time. Mikoto-nee, how have you been these past few years?"

"............" The other side of the bed did not answer immediately; only the trembling of the woman's body could be felt, her beautiful legs and feet visibly tense, five fair and rosy toes tightly curled under the skin-colored stockings, the tips of her feet straining against the seamless toe seams as if trying to burst through them.

"Mikoto-nee?" Uesugi Muneyuki reached out toward the woman.

"No more, no more! If you do it again, I'll die!" The woman scrambled toward the foot of the bed in a panic, both loving and fearing him.

"Then answer my question, Mikoto-nee, where have you been all these years?" Uesugi Muneyuki chuckled and patted the woman's bottom through the quilt: "You left without saying goodbye back in high school, and now 6 years have passed!"

"I knew it, coming to apply would turn out like this." Slowly, a soft, fox-like pretty face emerged from the quilt, her slightly thick lips sexy and hot, her eyes brilliant and slightly bewitching, her face flushed with a rosy glow like a sunset. The beautiful doctor stared blankly at Uesugi Muneyuki's face, then lowered her head and said: "I really didn't intend to see you again."

"Then why?" Uesugi Muneyuki tilted his head.

"But my body doesn't seem to listen to me; it missed you too much." The beautiful doctor laughed with self-deprecation; her bright eyes and white teeth were visible, and her slender, jade-like hands were covering her slightly thick, sexy lips. She looked at Uesugi Muneyuki with a flowery smile. Seeing that she looked no different from all those years ago, Uesugi Muneyuki was dazed, and then he heard her continue: "I didn't expect that after so many years, your ability hasn't regressed in the slightest! Still so strong and powerful."

Uesugi Muneyuki felt a bit proud upon hearing this; his ability had been fully enhanced by the Wisdom King and the Inner World, capable of handling even fitness experts and martial arts black belts like Ikeda, let alone weaker and petite women like Miss Minami and Mikoto-nee.

He let Mikoto-nee experience what it meant to have her "feet not touch the ground."

"So why did you suddenly leave Gunma Tokiwa High School back then? Do you know how hard I looked for you? If I didn't understand before, in the last few months, the entire Tokyo Metropolitan Area should have heard my name; why didn't you come to find me?" Uesugi Muneyuki finally found the opportunity to ask the question that had been buried in his heart.

He hadn't intended to hire a woman, and on the way to the Medical and Dental University, he had already thought about how to reject this female forensic pathologist who had come to apply. Even though Professor Okochi told him that he felt this applicant had solid skills, Uesugi Muneyuki was still full of thoughts on how to politely decline.

However, when he arrived at the conference room and saw the woman who had come to apply, dressed in a standard urban office lady style, turning around somewhat shyly yet excitedly, smiling at him, Uesugi Muneyuki only felt his head go 'bang', his mouth wide open.

Mikoto-nee?!

The female forensic pathologist who came to apply was actually her?!

The subsequent events had no suspense; she was a graduate of the Osaka University School of Medicine in forensic science, her qualifications were sufficient, and although she hadn't worked as a forensic pathologist since graduation and was a woman, none of these were problems for Uesugi Muneyuki. After his review, the applicant "Ishihara Mikoto" successfully passed the assessment and signed the preliminary employment procedures with the Medical and Dental University.

Afterward, Uesugi Muneyuki cordially "invited" Ishihara Mikoto to lunch. Mikoto-nee did not refuse, and after the two had a high-quality Japanese barbecue, Uesugi Muneyuki again cordially "invited" his Mikoto-nee to reminisce. Thus, the two opened a four-hour hourly room at the nearby Ochanomizu Hotel and "reminisced" fiercely, reminiscing until Ishihara Mikoto couldn't even move her fingers.

After asking, he learned that Satomi was her former husband's surname; after the divorce, Mikoto-nee returned to her original surname, Ishihara.

"I..." Ishihara Mikoto was very melancholy upon hearing this: "Do you remember what you said to me after we had been fooling around together for a week?"

"I..." Uesugi Muneyuki pondered for a long time. He only remembered the week after they had become intimate, when they were stuck together every day; it was with Mikoto-nee that he first found happiness and a sense of reality in this world, so he had said something very seriously to the beautiful school doctor before him.

"Yes, it seems you still remember. You told me then that you wanted to marry me." Ishihara Mikoto lowered her head apologetically: "At that moment, I woke up. I realized that what was between you and me was ultimately a dream. You were still young, you had a bright future ahead of you, and you shouldn't waste your time on me. It was impossible for us."

"So hearing you say that, I decided to leave Gunma; we couldn't continue." The beautiful school doctor quickly recovered her bright, sunny, and gorgeous expression: "Aren't you living well on your own now? I heard you are even preparing to get engaged to the Superintendent General's daughter; as expected of Muneyuki-kun!"

"And you? These past few years, have you been well?" Uesugi Muneyuki's gaze was somewhat complex, and he sighed. At the time, he had truly wanted to marry her; even after coming to Tokyo, if Mikoto-nee had appeared then, his promise would still have been valid.

It was just that things were different now; he had basically confirmed his engagement to Minami, and the Watanabe Family had made significant concessions to allow him to keep the Uesugi surname while having Minami change hers. If he were to propose calling off the engagement now, it would be a massive earthquake.

"Me? Sigh, after coming to Tokyo, I've been doing odd jobs everywhere. Although I graduated from the Osaka University School of Medicine, I studied forensic science, and I had a period where I was a school doctor without practicing medicine properly. Plus, I'm a divorced woman with no children, so hospitals generally think I'm unreliable and aren't willing to hire me. I can only wander around as a temporary employee, living in a small room above an oden shop, paying bills every month." Ishihara Mikoto smiled awkwardly: "Big sister here is almost at the end of her rope and can only come to rely on little brother-kun."

"As for marrying me, give up on that thought. I really don't want to get married anymore. If you like, you can play with big sister's body as you please; I won't enter your life. I just want a stable job, not to have to scramble for half-price bento every day, and to be able to afford the clothes, bags, and shoes I like." The beautiful school doctor said softly: "You can rest assured and get engaged to her."

"Don't worry, Mikoto-nee, with me here, you will have everything I have." Uesugi Muneyuki finally unraveled the deepest doubt in his heart; he frowned, knowing that Ishihara Mikoto was completely disillusioned with marriage.

His own deep confession had triggered her PTSD, causing her to wake up completely from a brief moment of indulgence and vengeful psychology, deciding to leave him without a word.

It made sense; she was a top student who graduated from the Osaka University School of Medicine, and after graduation, she resigned for love to become a school doctor in Gunma Prefecture, which could be considered a huge sacrifice. In the end, she still divorced, and the biggest reason for the divorce, according to her, was that her husband was dissatisfied with her housework skills and vented his career frustrations at home.

"Alright, then from now on, big sister will be your assistant. Don't worry, I'm very good at field work and dissection!" The forensic beauty said listlessly: "Over these years at local clinics, I've at least seen over 1,000 corpses."

"Alright, I should probably go." After finishing, Ishihara Mikoto tried to struggle, but couldn't get up.

"Mikoto-nee." Just then, Uesugi Muneyuki smirked: "There are still 50 minutes left until the hourly room time is up!"

"No! No, don't, don't, are you trying to kill me?" The forensic beauty was so scared she actually climbed off the bed this time. She grabbed a bath towel to wrap around her slender waist and round, full bottom. Her slim, petite figure was curvaceous, and her legs were shaking as she leaned against the wall to steady herself: "It's been so many years, how did you become even more terrifying? I remember men's abilities start to decline after 18, right? How exactly did you raise yourself?"

"Can I prove myself again?" Uesugi Muneyuki was still somewhat unsatisfied; the surprise of their reunion had given him a huge appetite and high spirits. It seemed he would have to wait until he returned to the Metropolitan Police Department to find Master Erena.

"Spare me, Uesugi-kun." Ishihara Mikoto suddenly knelt on both knees, blinked her eyes in a very chic and fox-like manner and said: "Regardless, please take care of me in the future! Tokyo's legendary new forensic pathologist, the Metropolitan Police Department's trump card, Forensic Examiner Uesugi!"

"Mm! Mikoto-nee, please take care of me in the future too!"

(End of chapter)