Chapter 307: Metropolitan Police Department Storm!

After a two-week vacation, by the beginning of December, Uesugi Muneyuki had mainly accomplished these few things during his two weeks off.

He went to Hakone with Eirina and Minami for three days of fun.

He went to Fuji TV to record the second episode of the program "God's Hand," though this time Senior Mai was very busy (the end of the year involved a large amount of shrine affairs and entertainment industry activities), so Uesugi Muneyuki lectured alone; as for the parts where the two interacted, they would be recorded later, and Fuji TV also announced that the "God's Hand" series would officially begin broadcasting in January, one episode per month.

Only one episode a month? The Japanese public did not seem very satisfied with this arrangement, and the internet was full of complaints.

Subsequently, Uesugi Muneyuki went to discuss the matters of direct doctoral enrollment at Tokyo University and joining the Tokyo University Affiliated Hospital with the Medical Department Director of Tokyo University and Chairman of the Japan Medical Association, Professor Funeo.

Naturally, the negotiations between the two sides were actually not very smooth; Uesugi Muneyuki was a person with a strong personality and naturally would not accept some of Tokyo University's conditions, while Tokyo University's acceptance of Uesugi Muneyuki was clearly based on valuing his influence and ability; the two sides conducted a productive exchange, fully exchanged opinions, established an effective communication mechanism, recognized the important value of the bilateral relationship to the fields of Japanese autopsy and national forensic medicine, recognized the importance of a sustainable, long-term, and mutually beneficial bilateral cooperative relationship, and in the spirit of mutual openness, continuous communication, cooperation, and mutual respect, continued to advance the work of Uesugi Muneyuki's employment and enrollment.

Finally, Tokyo University and Uesugi Muneyuki agreed to each take a step back; Uesugi Muneyuki agreed that, out of avoidance of suspicion, when cases involving the internal affairs of Tokyo University were involved in the future, he would look at the situation to see if a third party should be brought in for the sake of fairness, while Tokyo University agreed to Uesugi Muneyuki's request, namely that provided there was concrete evidence, they must proactively consult with Uesugi Muneyuki on how to handle it.

The negotiations between the two sides could be considered to have made significant progress.

Having completed the matters with Tokyo University, Uesugi Muneyuki spent another week preparing for the engagement with Minami, and finally ended it by putting the engagement ring on Miss Minami's finger.

Thus, by the beginning of December, when Uesugi Muneyuki, Watanabe Minami, and Ikeda Eirina returned to the Special Mission Unit and announced the restart of the unit that had been suspended for two weeks, a storm that no one had noticed suddenly swept through the entire Metropolitan Police Department!

Early December, Metropolitan Police Department Sakuradamon Headquarters, Special Mission Unit office.

"Unit Chief, want a cup?" Eirina had finished working out in the headquarters training ground, and after taking a nice shower, she changed into a winter female police officer's office uniform with a tube skirt and 40D matte flesh-colored silk stockings, and poured herself a cup of coffee at the coffee machine: "Do you like black coffee or with milk?"

"A latte, please. I'm different from you; I don't like American-style black coffee, it's too bitter!" Miss Minami was also wearing a winter Metropolitan Police Department female officer's office uniform with a tube skirt paired with flesh-colored silk stockings, but the same uniform looked exquisite and sweet on Minami, quite like a young lady of a prominent family, while on Eirina it looked tall, heroic, and had a mature style.

"Oh? What's gotten into you two?" Acting Unit Chief Okada Keibu smiled while holding his coffee: "How did you become so close after going on vacation together?"

"Is that so?" "No way!" Minami and Eirina's reactions were not quite the same.

Okada Keibu shook his head with a smile; he could see that although Minami and Eirina had appeared harmonious on the surface before, they were actually very much at odds, but after returning from this vacation, the two appeared to be at each other's throats and dared to tease one another, yet in reality, their relationship was extremely harmonious, and there was no sense of distance at all.

I'm afraid the three of them have already slept in the same bed... Okada Keibu thought to himself.

But that had nothing to do with him; he was just teasing, and after witnessing Uesugi Muneyuki's miraculous autopsy techniques in person, he knew this was something he couldn't envy.

"Speaking of which, Unit Chief, should I call you Watanabe Minami in the future, or Uesugi Minami?" Okada Keibu teased slightly before changing the subject.

"Let's stick with Watanabe Minami for now; I'll change my surname after we are officially married." Miss Minami shook the Bvlgari sapphire engagement ring on her right hand and said with a smile: "I'm part of Lord Kenshin's family now too! Gentlemen, the chaotic dragon flag has moved! Follow Lord Oyakata, follow Lord Oyakata forward!"

"Hahahaha~" Okada Keibu was a graduate of Tokyo University after all, so he could get the reference and laughed non-stop; he had gone skiing in Hakuba during his time off and had a quite pleasant time.

The three of them chatted and laughed for a few moments, preparing to check what changes had occurred during this period, when the desk phone on Minami's desk rang.

It was Uesugi Muneyuki calling.

"Something's happened, Minami, you all need to get to the thirteenth floor immediately!"

Miss Minami immediately took Eirina and Okada to the thirteenth floor of Sakuradamon, where an elderly man with white hair in a black suit was leaving in a rage, accompanied by a dozen middle-aged men carrying briefcases.

And behind him, Superintendent General Watanabe Eiji, Deputy Superintendent General Ooyama Ren, Criminal Investigation Department Chief Uchimura Kanji, Investigation Division 1 Chief Sugishita Ukyo, Chief Internal Auditor Okochi Haruki, Investigation Division 1 Management Officer Iijima, and Management Officer Megure were all bowing to express their apologies.

"What happened?" Eirina asked curiously.

"Oh my, oh my, something big has happened." Miss Minami looked at the white-haired old man in the black suit: "That is a member of the Fujitsu Board of Directors, Odagiri Kazumasa."

"Do you know why our Special Mission Unit had to take an emergency leave? Do you know why I advised Muneyuki not to take on cold cases? Do you know why Kashiwagi from the Third Subsection didn't come to the engagement that day?" Miss Minami put away her usual lively and active personality, her expression becoming cold and solemn: "It's because there are too many troubles among the cold cases."

Five minutes later, in the Superintendent General's office, a furious Watanabe Eiji slammed a formal letter of complaint onto the table, his good mood from his daughter's engagement having vanished without a trace: "Muneyuki, Minami, take a look!"

Uesugi Muneyuki took the complaint letter and finally understood why Kashiwagi Jin hadn't come to their engagement that day.

This guy was in trouble, big trouble!

The cause of this incident was that recently, due to the influence of the previous Kanagawa body-dumping case, people all over Japan were petitioning for secondary appraisals, and all sorts of documents were being sent to the Metropolitan Police Department like snowflakes; Ishihara Mikoto and the others were still busy with this to this day.

Among them, one cold case had caused trouble:

About two and a half years ago, Odagiri Ryuji, the son of Fujitsu Board Director Odagiri Kazumasa, who was serving as an executive in the technical department of Fuji TV, had a girlfriend named Kazama Yumi who worked in software development.

Kazama Yumi was developing software related to surveillance camera motion capture and facial recognition classification at another company at the time, but for some reason, after dating Odagiri Ryuji for a period of time, Kazama Yumi suddenly committed suicide, and less than two months later, Fujitsu suddenly announced that they had successfully developed a brand-new facial recognition technology software.

Kazama Yumi's family naturally did not accept that their daughter had committed suicide and demanded an investigation and an autopsy, but the autopsy result from the Tokyo Medical Examiner's Office was death by suicide, and there was surveillance footage as evidence that Kazama Yumi had returned home alone at the time.

As for the developed software, the person involved, Odagiri Ryuji, stated at the time that the software had been developed jointly by the two of them, and since he was the primary author and had completed the development alone after his girlfriend's death, he should rightfully enjoy all intellectual property rights.

Kazama Yumi's family was furious at this, stating that Odagiri had never been engaged in software development before, and had never developed any other software since, so how could he have suddenly learned to write code? It was clearly that he had stolen Yumi's hard work, which led to her suicide!

Both sides held to their own stories, but after all, there was no evidence of homicide, and as for the intellectual property matter, because no outsiders were involved, it became a muddled account; in the end, Fujitsu compensated the deceased's family 5 million yen, and the then-Superintendent General Hakuba instructed the then-Investigation Division 1 Chief Mikasa to close the case.

And this time, this case had been dug up again; during the secondary appraisal, Ishihara Mikoto discovered a flaw in the evidence custody records—the mobile phone and USB drive shattered at the scene were incomplete, and a part had mysteriously disappeared.

In fact, seeing this, everyone understood that this case was indeed very suspicious, and it pointed directly at Odagiri Ryuji himself; any fool knew that it was ten-to-one that this guy had stolen his girlfriend's results, leading to her suicide.

However, there was no evidence, especially no evidence of homicide.

Yet, Kashiwagi Jin of the Third Subsection had done something earth-shattering.

He had taken some indirect evidence from the case and gone to the Fujitsu headquarters, confronting Odagiri Ryuji in person about whether he had driven Kazama Yumi to her death.

This incident caused extremely bad repercussions for Fujitsu, making the newspapers that very day, and coupled with the atmosphere of overturning cases from Kanagawa, the media scrambled to report that Fujitsu was embroiled in a criminal case, catching Fujitsu off guard.

Odagiri Ryuji denied it on the spot, and his father, Fujitsu Director Odagiri Kazumasa, was absolutely furious.

What is your Metropolitan Police Department trying to do? Are you trying to destroy Japanese IT?

One must know that Fujitsu is one of the three giants of the Japanese IT industry (the other two being Hitachi and NEC), and is a leading enterprise specializing in digital transformation for the Japanese government and enterprises, with businesses covering cloud computing, artificial intelligence, IoT, 4G communications, supercomputers, and other fields; it operates in over 170 countries, ranks in the top ten globally in the enterprise IT service field, and is a Fortune 500 company!

Fine, very fine indeed; a mere Metropolitan Police Department actually dares to bully us at Fujitsu!

If you had evidence, we would have nothing to say, but you dare to come directly to our enterprise to cause trouble without any evidence?

The Fujitsu director with an annual salary of 50 million yen immediately filed a formal complaint with the Metropolitan Police Department in the name of the company's Legal Department on the spot.

Kashiwagi Jin was a Career Track graduate from Tokyo University after all, so the Metropolitan Police Department immediately gave him a "disciplinary reflection" and "internal investigation" penalty, intending to hide him away first to avoid the limelight.

As a result, Director Odagiri waited for a few days and didn't see the Metropolitan Police Department do anything specific, knowing that this was the Todai Kinbyo-gumi protecting their own, so he brought his legal team and lawyers and broke directly into the Metropolitan Police Department.

You say my son has a problem, then produce the evidence!

If my son has no problem, then produce the punishment!

Otherwise, our Fujitsu Legal Department will formally file a complaint with the Ministry of Justice, the National Public Safety Commission, and the Ministry of Finance!

Watanabe Eiji had no choice but to personally lead a group of high-level Metropolitan Police Department officials to nod and bow, and it took a lot of talking to finally send Director Odagiri away.

Everyone was furious to the point of exploding.

What is this? Investigation Division 1 acting on its own?

"I said long ago that his kind of orthodox reasoning would kill him sooner or later." Uesugi Muneyuki read through the case file and the letter of complaint, then helplessly closed his eyes: "Actually, anyone with a normal IQ knows that Odagiri Ryuji has a direct connection to the death of Kazama Yumi; Kashiwagi's judgment was not wrong..."

"I know Kashiwagi's judgment was not wrong, Muneyuki. What I mean is, what is your take on the forensic report?" Watanabe Eiji interrupted Uesugi Muneyuki: "Is there any possibility of overturning the case?"

"No." Uesugi Muneyuki shook his head repeatedly: "The Dissection report confirms it is suicide without a doubt, and the surveillance footage from that day confirms she went home alone. How could a case like this be overturned?"

Whether something led to suicide and whether it was suicide or homicide are two different matters; Uesugi Muneyuki only concerns himself with the latter, and he neither could nor had the desire to manage the former.

Uesugi Muneyuki read through the case file; it was indeed a death by suicide. He is a Forensic Pathologist, and he is only responsible for clarifying the facts.

"Very good." After hearing his son confirm that this case could not be overturned, Watanabe Eiji let out a sigh of relief: "That is Fujitsu, Muneyuki. The vast majority of the government's information services are contracted to Fujitsu. By comparison, I am just a humble public servant..."

"So now the question is, how does the Metropolitan Police Department intend to handle him?" Uesugi Muneyuki put down the case file and rolled his eyes.

A public servant who drives a Toyota Century, is that right?

"This..."

(End of this chapter)