Chapter 221: , The Floating Corpse Parts in Tokyo Bay

PS: The sudden temperature rise to 33°C has left me numb; I didn't sleep well all night, the heat soaked through my sheets, and after turning on the AC, I caught a cold and got a runny nose. Irritated, irritated, irritated. Only one chapter of 4,600 characters today, sorry about that~

Due to the sudden turn of events, Uesugi Muneyuki had to temporarily stop the meeting between Saito Asuka and Ishihara Mikoto. He hailed a taxi for the girl so she could return to the Sakata Bridge Tower by herself, while he took Eirina and Mikoto with him to the port terminal in Ota Ward, Tokyo.

By the time he arrived at the port terminal, over a dozen police cars were already parked along the road. Both the Ota Ward Police Station and the Metropolitan Police Department headquarters had dispatched a large number of police officers. A yellow line had already been set up at the scene, and outside the yellow line, swarms of reporters were gathered near the terminal, trying to find out exactly what had happened.

However, the police officers at the scene all stood with their hands behind their backs, saying nothing, and the reporters gained nothing.

Seeing Uesugi Muneyuki appear, the nearby reporters immediately caught a whiff of something, and they immediately abandoned the scene and swarmed around Uesugi Muneyuki.

"Forensic Examiner Uesugi? May I ask what happened? What is the reason the Metropolitan Police Department sent you here personally?"

"For the Special Mission Unit to show up, this must be a very major incident, right?"

"Was a corpse discovered?"

"Forensic Examiner Uesugi, we are from the Asahi Shimbun. Could you tell us your thoughts on the disappearance case of the female executive from Sumitomo Mitsui in Kanagawa? Do you think it was a voluntary disappearance or an involuntary one?"

"May I ask what your relationship is with this beautiful Forensic Pathologist beside you? There are reports claiming she is pregnant with your child?"

"Forensic Examiner Uesugi, we noticed the presence of Public Security Police. Does this mean this case is related to Terrorists?"

The reporters all crowded around, and it seemed like some strange things were mixed in among them.

"Quiet, everyone." Uesugi Muneyuki wore a smile and reached out to signal everyone to be quiet. Once the reporters had all shut their mouths, he pointed to his own casual cashmere short-sleeved shirt and white trousers: "Compared to you all, I am the one who wants to know what happened even more. I was urgently called in while on my day off."

"So, please step aside for now. I need to go in and see what exactly is going on."

After saying this, Uesugi Muneyuki signaled for everyone to move aside, or else it would be obstruction of official duties.

"Forensic Examiner Uesugi! Forensic Examiner Uesugi!" The reporters still wanted to pursue him relentlessly, but the police blocked them and pulled the yellow line for Uesugi Muneyuki: "Thank you for your hard work, Forensic Examiner Uesugi, Police Sergeant Ikeda."

"Mm, thank you for your hard work."

Uesugi Muneyuki entered the terminal and found that Police Inspector Kashiwagi Jin from the Third Subsection of Investigation Division 2 was already there. Beside him was a large group of employees from Tokyo Marine Holdings. In addition to this, Uesugi Muneyuki was surprised to find that Superintendent Ichijo from the Public Security Department of the Metropolitan Police Department and several Police Sergeants from the Organization Countermeasures Department were also present.

"You've arrived?" Kashiwagi Jin trotted over to Uesugi Muneyuki: "Come and take a look quickly."

"This morning, Mr. Kobayashi from Tokyo Marine Holdings was operating a barge when he discovered something hitting the stern..." Kashiwagi Jin said to Uesugi Muneyuki, then signaled for the Tokyo Marine Holdings employee to speak for himself.

According to Mr. Kobayashi from Tokyo Marine Holdings, while the barge was being towed, he discovered something hitting the stern. At first, he thought it was some trash, and for safety reasons, he decided to fish it out. After fishing it out, he discovered it was a black plastic bag containing chunks of meat that had turned white from soaking in seawater.

Mr. Kobayashi could not identify whether the meat chunks were animal or human, but based on his experience, the method of packing the plastic bag was a traditional weaving method used by skilled workers in the aquatic industry.

But this was for packing seafood, not for packing raw meat chunks!

And unfortunately, many people currently working in low-level aquaculture in Japan have more or less some background with the Yakuza of the previous generation.

So Mr. Kobayashi decided on the spot to call the police, and after the police arrived, they sealed off the scene.

After listening to Mr. Kobayashi's judgment, Kashiwagi Jin felt it made sense and did not dare to delay, immediately reporting it to the headquarters. The Metropolitan Police Department then dispatched the Organization Countermeasures Department, and because it might involve violent terrorism, the Public Security Department also volunteered to come along.

"We found a doctor from a nearby hospital to identify it, and it is confirmed to be a human body part." Kashiwagi Jin's expression was serious: "Uesugi-san, could you help us take a look?"

"Is this the only piece?" Uesugi Muneyuki arrived in front of the human body part on the ground.

Due to some unspeakable reasons, the specific state will not be described in detail.

This was a corpse part located between the area above the human navel and the base of the thigh, about 30cm long and about 28cm wide. The wound was cut very neatly, as smooth as if it had been cut by a lightsaber from Star Wars. Because of the soaking in seawater, it had severely decayed, and the part could only be barely identified.

Uesugi Muneyuki tentatively raised his right hand to trigger the Death Soul Contract. There was still a faint Soul remaining on the corpse part, but the Soul reaction was already very weak, and because the corpse was incomplete, it was impossible to communicate.

Based on experience, Uesugi Muneyuki immediately judged: "This is a female, age approximately 25-50 years old. The time of death is not very long, but based on the decay reaction, it should have been soaking in seawater for at least 5 days. It was cut using professional tools and techniques. Other than that, I cannot obtain more effective information."

"You all investigate first. I will take this thing back to the Metropolitan Police Department and hand it over to the Forensics Division for dissection and testing." Uesugi Muneyuki said to the crowd.

"I'll leave it to you." Kashiwagi Jin nodded.

"How are you going to perform an autopsy on this? Uesugi?" Sure enough, on the way back, the curious baby Eirina habitually asked: "The blood has all drained out, the meat has all rotted, you can't measure anything from this, right?"

Uesugi Muneyuki did not speak upon hearing this, because he knew someone would answer for him.

"Police Sergeant Ikeda, you'd better not ask." Sure enough, Mikoto looked impatient: "So what if the meat is rotted, so what if the blood is drained? We can still perform DNA Extraction through bone, prioritizing the collection of the pubic symphysis or iliac bone marrow to measure DNA. We can also perform pubic morphological analysis, and determine gender and age through the inguinal ligament bone."

"Besides that, we can also use 3D laser scanning to reconstruct the cut surface, electron microscopy to detect residual metal particles, muscle atrophy trace analysis to see if there was any binding before death, and we can also measure whether the body was dumped in Tokyo Bay or drifted from somewhere else based on the degree of cell deformation caused by seawater osmotic pressure."

"Correct." Uesugi Muneyuki nodded: "On the plastic bag, through the comparison of residual fishing ice crystal components, we can even trace which aquatic market the plastic bag came from."

"Oh? Uesugi-kun, your forensic medicine has indeed improved a lot!" Mikoto's eyes brightened, her slightly thick, sexy lips pursed slightly, and a blush uncontrollably spread across her face.

She just loved this kind of high-quality dialogue between the two of them involving academic exchange, professional Q&A, and brainstorming; it made her unable to help but want more.

And Eirina's experience was not as good; she thought to herself, who understands what you are saying?

Can you explain it more clearly? You start off with a bunch of technical terms!

Uesugi, say something!

Eirina pouted, looking at Uesugi Muneyuki with grievance.

However, Uesugi Muneyuki did not notice; he was currently thinking about this strange corpse part.

Yakuza? Dumping a body in Tokyo Bay?

Professional meat processing plant cutting tools? Dead for several days but not particularly long?

Can feel that the Death Soul Contract can be triggered, but the Soul remaining in the existing corpse part is insufficient for communication?

Uesugi Muneyuki keenly realized that this corpse part might not be simple.

The three of them returned to Sakuradamon under the escort of the Metropolitan Police Department's Public Security Police and came to the Forensics Division. Unfortunately, Higashiyama Takeshi and Kamioka Hideo were both busy today, and only Nakadō was still there.

"Where is Dr. Nakadō?" Uesugi Muneyuki asked.

"In the dissection room." Higashiyama Takeshi replied helplessly: "Resting in the dissection room."

"Huh?"

Ishihara Mikoto went to change into her work clothes, and Eirina also changed back into her police uniform. Uesugi Muneyuki found Nakadō, who was covered with a shroud, his face covered with a towel, and fast asleep, directly on the dissection table in the dissection room.

"Wake up, wake up, little writer. You haven't written today's words yet; how can you sleep!" Uesugi Muneyuki directly turned on the incandescent shadowless lamp: "If you go on like this, you won't get the perfect attendance bonus, you won't be able to pay the rent, and you won't be able to eat Sea Bream Tempura!"

"Urusai, urusai, urusai!" Nakadō got up from the dissection table, pulled the towel off his face, and threw off the shroud: "Who do you think is the one who caused us to work so hard? You are a forensic pathologist too; you don't perform the dissections yourself and just dump all the work on us!"

"You're right, Dr. Nakadō. If you could perform autopsies on up to 20 bodies a day like me, determine the cause of death and whether it was homicide, suicide, or accidental death for each one without needing to dissect them, and determine 5 suicide cases a day, you could also let me perform the dissections. You can be the Special Mission Unit Forensic Examiner, running all over the 23 wards, 26 cities, 5 towns, and 8 villages of Tokyo, how about that?"

Uesugi Muneyuki said calmly: "Wait until you catch up to my performance, then we can talk about fairness."

"KUSO! What is it this time?"

Dr. Nakadō shook his head in frustration, while behind Uesugi Muneyuki, Ishihara Mikoto could not help but cover her mouth to stifle a laugh.

"This time, the body parts were fished out of Tokyo Bay. This morning, Tokyo Marine Holdings..."

The dissection proceeded quickly because there was not much to examine. With the combined efforts of Nakadō and Mikoto, and under the watchful eyes of Uesugi Muneyuki and Ikeda Erena, the Forensics Division soon extracted the victim's DNA. Then, by measuring the bones, they determined the victim's gender and approximate age.

The victim was approximately 30-40 years old, female, and not tall.

Other details awaited further testing, but by this time, Uesugi Muneyuki had already linked this to a certain matter.

He immediately found Criminal Investigation Department Chief Uchimura.

"We need to perform a DNA comparison!"

Hearing Uesugi Muneyuki's assessment, the Metropolitan Police Department immediately began to take it seriously. The long-overdue Miss Minami formally sent an official letter to the Kanagawa Police, requesting that they provide the DNA of the missing person, Igarashi Aiko.

The Kanagawa Police were quite reluctant, but they had no choice but to cooperate.

At this moment, even Superintendent General Watanabe Eiji felt that something was wrong. A large group of people from the Criminal Investigation Department all came to the door of the Forensics Division, waiting for the results.

The results came out quickly.

Uesugi Muneyuki's Forensic Assistant, Ishihara Mikoto, had changed back into her urban professional OL attire. Wearing a lab coat and stepping in high-heeled shoes, she held the document in her hands and walked toward the detectives from the Criminal Investigation Department and Investigation Division 1 who were waiting outside, her face unable to hide her shock.

"The results are out!"

"According to the STR Testing, all 20 loci match! The probability that these body parts do not belong to Igarashi Aiko herself is less than one in ten trillion. Therefore, it can be 100% confirmed that this is the body... or part of it, of the Yokohama missing person case's Mitsui Project Manager, Igarashi Aiko!"

Upon hearing this news, the expressions of everyone outside, from Investigation Division 1 Chief Sugishita Ukyo to the several male Patrol Officers from the Second Division in charge of the case, changed drastically.

The body parts fished out of Tokyo Bay were actually those of Igarashi Aiko, the female Executive from Mitsui Real Estate who had gone missing in Kanagawa Prefecture?

She had actually been dumped in Tokyo Bay?

And according to the judgment of Tokyo Marine Holdings and the Organization Countermeasures Department, that knotting method really looked like the work of low-level Yakuza practitioners...

Wait, didn't the Kanagawa Police announce that this case was highly likely the work of Igarashi Aiko's superior, Executive Sato?

Regardless, DNA testing cannot be wrong. This body part is Igarashi Aiko herself, which means Igarashi Aiko is not just in grave danger, but has absolutely no chance of survival!

At the thought of this, the heads of everyone in the Criminal Investigation Department felt like they were going to explode.

One must know that Igarashi Aiko was the daughter of former Investigation Division 2 Chief Igarashi Masataka! The father and daughter are currently a member of the Mitsui Real Estate Board of Directors and a Mitsui Real Estate Project Manager, respectively!

The missing person case is about to be upgraded to a criminal case, and the matters involved will expand who knows how many times over.

Moreover, the fact that a high-ranking executive of the dignified Sumitomo Mitsui Group was dumped in Tokyo Bay is an insult to the zaibatsu, an insult to all the police in Japan, and even more so an insult to the image of all of Japan!

If things go on like this, will foreigners still dare to come for tourism? Will foreign businesses still dare to come and invest? Will foreign cargo ships still dare to come to Yokohama to unload?

This criminal case also involves the entire Yokohama Port Revitalization Plan. If this grand plan with a total budget exceeding 1.5 trillion yen falls through because of this incident, it might eventually lead to the mass resignation of the entire Kanagawa Prefectural government!

The detectives of the Criminal Investigation Department are now starting to feel fortunate that the incident did not happen in Tokyo, but in Kanagawa.

This thought is extremely despicable and shameless, and also extremely refined and selfish, but except for Erena, the vast majority of people think this way. Even if they feel very ashamed, they are still incredibly relieved.

But regardless, the body was discovered within the jurisdiction of Tokyo, and the Metropolitan Police Department undeniably bears responsibility and obligation.

Now, the situation is serious.

Before Investigation Division 1 Chief Sugishita Ukyo could say anything, Criminal Investigation Department Chief Uchimura Kanji immediately rushed out from the crowd and snatched the document from Ishihara Mikoto's hand: "Kashiwagi, Uesugi, come with me. Let's go report the matter to the Director General together!"

"Yes!" Uesugi Muneyuki and Kashiwagi Jin exchanged a glance and hurried to follow.

Five minutes later, in the Superintendent General's office, the three of them reported their findings to Watanabe Eiji.

The body parts discovered in Tokyo Bay this morning belong to the missing Igarashi Aiko herself!

Watanabe Eiji's expression could not hide his shock either.

From the investigation results alone, the Superintendent General knew that this case involved gang problems, a super-large project with a budget of 1.5 trillion, the Sumitomo Mitsui Group, the Kanagawa Prefectural government, and a whole bunch of retired high-ranking officials within the Metropolitan Police Department.

Watanabe Eiji paced back and forth for a few minutes and began his arrangements.

"Send someone to notify former Division 2 Chief Igarashi and tell him this tragic news!"

"Send someone to notify the Sumitomo Mitsui Group. We, the Metropolitan Police Department, have confirmed the death of Igarashi Aiko. Ask them what they intend to do? How do they plan to characterize this incident?"

"Notify the Public Relations Division to release the news that the body parts fished out of Tokyo Bay this morning have been confirmed as parts of Igarashi Aiko's body, and that the Metropolitan Police Department will hold a special press conference to announce this."

"Seek help from Tokyo Marine Holdings and the Coast Guard headquarters. Apply to seal off the nearby waters and send ships to fish for more possible body parts to see if there will be any new discoveries."

"Yes!" Criminal Investigation Department Chief Uchimura Kanji swallowed hard: "Then, the support from Public Security and the Organized Crime Countermeasures Department..."

"Request support from Public Security and the Organized Crime Countermeasures Department!" Watanabe Eiji said sternly: "This matter involves the face of our entire Metropolitan Police Department, and even the entire Japanese police force!"

"Yes..." Uchimura Kanji thought to himself, why am I so unlucky? I've only been in office for a few months and something like this happens!

"Director General, I apply to join this investigation." Uesugi Muneyuki stepped forward.

Watanabe Eiji paused upon hearing this, looked intently at his foster son, and said with some bitterness: "The Special Mission Unit has to join regardless. Forensic Examiner Uesugi... I didn't expect that in the year or so you and I have been at the Metropolitan Police Department, we would encounter so many major events. Is this our good fortune, or our misfortune? I cannot say."

Uesugi Muneyuki nodded and exchanged a glance with Kashiwagi Jin beside him. He saw an indescribable fighting spirit, just like his own.

It is foreseeable that once the news that the body parts are confirmed to be Igarashi Aiko's is released, it will shock the entire Kanto region, and even the whole of Japan.

The heavy burden of a thousand jun is once again falling onto the shoulders of this pair of father-in-law and son-in-law, who are also father and son, Uesugi Muneyuki and Watanabe Eiji.

(End of this chapter)