Chapter 322: The Metropolitan Police Department's Kabukicho Patrol

Senior Mai's Invisibility Technique essentially covers her entire body with a layer of Spirit Power, erasing all information radiated to the outside world. From then on, she can no longer be captured by anyone, so naturally, her existence is never noticed, and no paparazzi have ever been able to take photos of her private life.

Of course, even when going out alone, one needs to communicate with others. At such times, there is no need to completely seal oneself off; one only needs to release a faint sense of presence. The other party will perceive that someone is speaking and communicating with them, but afterwards, they will not be able to remember who you are.

Even if one acts as a tour guide or eats at the same table for a long time, it only makes people feel a sense of familiarity that is quickly forgotten.

Senior Mai relies on this method to enjoy the pleasure of going out freely on her days off without being noticed, and she can also adjust her sense of presence according to her needs.

"From now on, you can go out as you please just like me." Senior Mai laughed, and at the same time, she handed Uesugi Muneyuki a business card: "This is for you."

"This is..." Uesugi Muneyuki took the business card, which had "Hamada Rikka" and a string of phone numbers on it: "I remember she seems to be your agent."

"Right, go contact her when you go back tomorrow and sign with my personal agency; this can help you avoid taxes." Senior Mai laughed: "I have a private trust fund within Nomura Holdings called the Black Stone Foundation, where professional agents are responsible for helping me manage a portion of my assets, and they can also help you avoid taxes. In the future, I will add your name to all of my assets."

All the assets Senior Mai inherited from her master and the Head of the Alliance of the Kanto Shrine Alliance are at least eleven digits (in yen), and she wants to split half of that with herself?

Uesugi Muneyuki gasped at this, wanting to say something, but could only remain silent.

Being a kept man is truly sweet!

No, is it really sweet? This was exchanged with the Courage I collected from my hard work solving cases!

Senior Mai's tactics really come one after another, yet Uesugi Muneyuki is very susceptible to her various ploys. The union between the two can be considered a mutually beneficial win-win, it's just that he is always being manipulated.

Uesugi Muneyuki was originally quite annoyed, but Senior Mai pulled out the Tokiwa Middle School winter school uniform, which he simply couldn't resist!

Sure enough, seemingly having seen through Uesugi Muneyuki's thoughts, Senior Mai said very naturally: "What of it? You are going to split half of your Courage with me—of course I can split half of my assets with you too. After all, I cannot generate Otherworld Energy myself; this is a fair trade. Don't feel like you owe me anything; every other existence in the Inner World would be willing to exchange most of their assets for this."

"Senior Mai, you seem to be the face of many famous brands, right? Harry Winston? YSL? Valentino? Oh, I remember there's also Chanel and Kao, and was it Gucci or Prada?" Uesugi Muneyuki laughed.

"Gucci, but if you ask which brand I like most among my endorsements, it has to be Sony on Nogizaka Road!" Senior Mai laughed and took out her mobile phone: "I have always used a Sony mobile!"

Heh, Senior is just endorsing these old brands.

Uesugi Muneyuki couldn't help but smile, thinking that although these are all internationally renowned top luxury brands, if I were to pull out the Myojie Neck and Shoulder Massager, Mengya Electric Toothbrush, Winona Men's Facial Cleanser, Hailisheng Fish Oil, Maden Workwear, and Magic Little Deer Little Ice Quilt—these truly "Lili-certified" world-famous brands—how would you respond, Your Excellency?

"Um, Senior Mai—"

"Senior Mai?" Bai Chuan Mai deliberately delayed speaking for a few seconds, then reached out and grabbed Uesugi Muneyuki by the collar, biting her back teeth and saying with a half-smile: "It's come to this, and you still call me Senior Mai?"

"Then—Senior?"

"Hmph~ playing dumb on purpose, right?" Bai Chuan Mai's face showed anger; the look in one's eyes when they want to kill someone cannot be hidden. Uesugi Muneyuki had no choice but to say: "Ahem, then should I just call you Mai-sama from now on?"

"Hmph—hmph!" Senior Mai was finally satisfied, hugging her chest with both hands and muttering softly: "In public, we are senior and junior, in private we are Mai and Muneyuki, is that settled?"

"..." Uesugi Muneyuki nodded slightly. He gazed at the stars in the sky and closed his eyes in contentment.

Being alive is truly wonderful.

The spring night is short, the hibiscus tent is warm, and the secrets within are not to be told to outsiders. For this entire day, only he and Senior were in Meiji Jingu. Uesugi Muneyuki stood before the shrine of the Taisho Era, watching the sunrise and sunset with Senior before the statue of Konohanasakuya-hime. Amidst the incomparably magnificent and majestic Yoyogi Forest, even his state of mind seemed to have ascended significantly.

Bai Chuan Mai already held the title of National Goddess, and after the two achieved One Lotus Together Born, they were bathed in the radiance of love. Goddess Senior, with her jade face and cherry lips, looking both happy and shy, was like a blooming lotus on a single stalk—charming, noble, and breathtakingly beautiful. The two practiced Dual Cultivation for the first time, sticking together like glue and lacquer, with endless tenderness and sweetness, almost forgetting everything in the Outer World.

However, happy times are always short-lived. The next day, December 28th, Senior Mai had to start getting busy again, busy with rehearsals for the Kohaku Uta Gassen and a series of year-end activities.

Likewise, Uesugi Muneyuki also had other things to attend to. As the sun rose, the two had to part ways once again.

When Uesugi Muneyuki returned to the Sakuradamon of the Metropolitan Police Department, he found that the Special Mission Unit was also in a state of year-end slackness.

Miss Minami was sitting at her exclusive desk for a Police Inspector, reviewing various year-end reports—which ones could be signed first, which needed auditing, and which had questions that needed to be reported.

Okada Keibu and Igarashi the Patrol Officer had gone to practice Kendo, while Kai Toru was wearing headphones and an eye mask, sitting at his desk with his eyes closed to rest, looking very tired. Date Nagamune was staring intently at the Metropolitan Police Department's notices.

Eirina was playing Solitaire; today's record was 2 wins and 16 losses.

Ishihara Mikoto was reading a report, while also preparing to order some New Year's gifts for her family in Osaka.

Seeing Uesugi Muneyuki appear, Miss Minami did not doubt it: "Uesugi, you're back? How did the matter go?"

"It was alright. Sigh, I have lost too much, but fortunately, I gained quite a bit." Uesugi Muneyuki looked exhausted. He had truly been almost sucked dry by Senior Mai; all the Courage he had stored up previously was completely gone, and his state was very listless.

He had told Minami and Eirina that he needed to go out due to shrine matters. Minami and Eirina naturally assumed it was the Uesugi Shrine in Yonezawa and did not suspect anything, because to this day, his grandfather Uesugi Kuninori still regularly plays the role of Uesugi Kenshin in the Yonezawa Uesugi Festival. Heaven have mercy, Lord Kenshin only lived to be 49, and his grandfather is already 73.

"If you're tired, get some good rest. Anyway, there's still time today." Miss Minami leaned lazily on her chair and complained: "Because you don't have the qualifications for an autopsy right now, our entire Special Mission Unit has come to a standstill; we can't do anything now."

"I see that not many people in the entire headquarters want to work either; they're all waiting for the New Year holiday."

"Ikeda, why don't you take Uesugi to get some rest." Minami arranged casually.

Eirina's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she immediately stood up to signal for them to go.

"No, no!" As soon as Uesugi Muneyuki saw Eirina's expression, he knew what she wanted to do. If it were normal times, he might have been very happy, but now—he really didn't have a drop left: "I'll just rest in the room inside for a while; call me if there's anything."

"It's fine, what else could there be?" Miss Minami replied quite lazily: "Even if there were something now, they wouldn't come to us. We have to wait for your qualifications to be processed. Get some good rest, but you have to be in high spirits by tonight! There is no normal clocking out today."

Uesugi Muneyuki, who had been sucked dry by Senior, went into the inner room and fell into a deep sleep. Outside, the few people in the Special Mission Unit smelled something different. Eirina, upon seeing "No more moves possible" on her screen, pursed her lips in slight displeasure. Hearing Minami say this, she asked curiously: "What matter? Why can't we clock out normally today?"

Ever since the Hakone hot spring trip, Minami was always with Eirina, and the sisterly bond between the two had grown increasingly solid.

Eirina's courage had also grown quite a bit.

"Today is the day for the Superintendent General's routine inspection of Kabukicho." Miss Minami laughed mysteriously.

"Eh eh eh???" Minami's words shocked the entire Special Mission Unit.

What the hell?

"Wait~ wait! Today is the day for the Director General to inspect Kabukicho? That's not right, is it? I mean, uh, Management Officer,"

"Isn't it the convention for the Superintendent General to inspect Kabukicho on the last day of every year?" Date Nagamune couldn't help but say. As a former Self-Defense Official, he was very sensitive to time and rules. This guy detested changes to established items and temporary tasks, because this mostly meant that idol activities were temporarily rescheduled or the schedule was changed so he couldn't go to the idol event!

In the hierarchy of the Japan Police, once one reaches the rank of Police Commissioner, it is almost impossible to leave the office, but such a convention does indeed exist—every year-end, the Superintendent General personally leads a team to inspect Shinjuku Kabukicho.

The reason, as mentioned earlier, is that Shinjuku Kabukicho is one of the largest entertainment centers (and also the largest red-light district) in Tokyo and even Asia. The endless public security issues, gangs, gun violence, and the sex industry have always been on the edge of legality. Since the turn of the millennium, the Japan Police have continuously and vigorously rectified it, including installing a large number of surveillance cameras, establishing Kobans and even Special Police Stations, and strengthening patrols and the revocation of sex industry licenses to further control this place.

Likewise, to show the importance the Japan Police places on it, the Superintendent General routinely conducts a personal patrol of Kabukicho every year.

Leading a police battalion of a thousand people to sweep from one end of the street to the other, and then delivering a routine speech, stating that our Metropolitan Police Department has always attached great importance to the management of the sex industry, gang groups, and Pachinko parlors!

Whether they really attach importance to it is debatable, but the convention of the Superintendent General personally inspecting it has been preserved.

However, what made Date Nagamune feel strange was that the timing was wrong!

"Nonsense, normally, the day of the Superintendent General's routine inspection would be notified in advance, the sex shops and host clubs would all close, and the Pachinko parlors would also strengthen their management. But this year, Father doesn't intend to do a routine inspection." Miss Minami laughed wickedly: "Father plans to do a surprise attack!"

"All departments and nearby Police Stations will only receive the emergency assembly order at 4:30 PM, and our Metropolitan Police Department will be dispatched urgently, suddenly—*Duang! *—killing our way into Kabukicho to personally check the situation! Any evil will be brought to justice!" Miss Minami swung her fist in the air: "This is Father's plan."

"A surprise attack? Well, after all, he is the most powerful and best-reputed Superintendent General in nearly forty years, and he has successfully been reappointed, so it's normal to be able to do this. New officials bring new policies, after all." Kai Toru, who was next to them, finally became a little interested: "So,"

"Are we going too?"

"Of course, the entire Special Mission Unit is going, including Uesugi; he is, after all, the face of our Metropolitan Police Department right now." Miss Minami nodded with a smile: "It's all set with NHK, they will be broadcasting live, so everyone will be filmed."

"Is that so? That's fine and all, but won't we run into any trouble?" Eirina recalled the time she went to Kabukicho with Uesugi Muneyuki to investigate.

"No, how could that happen?" Miss Minami giggled incessantly, amused by Eirina: "Do you think Kabukicho is still in the golden age of gangs from the seventies and eighties? These people now are just rats in the sewer; if they really get caught by a surprise raid from Father, they'll be crushed underfoot!"

"Don't worry, Eirina, and everyone else, nothing will happen, I promise." Miss Minami said quite contentedly, already thinking about how she would spend the New Year holiday with Uesugi Muneyuki.

And so, at four o'clock in the afternoon, the entire Metropolitan Police Department suddenly received an emergency assembly order!

The successfully reappointed Superintendent General Watanabe Eiji suddenly announced that he would follow the custom of previous years and personally patrol Kabukicho!

As for the time, it was right now!

The Superintendent General's sudden action left everyone bewildered, yet by this day there was no power left within the Metropolitan Police Department that could oppose him, so the entire Sakuradamon was mobilized; when the time reached four-fifty in the afternoon, nearly one thousand police officers gathered from all directions and made a grand appearance at the edge of Kabukicho!

The scene was a chaotic mess of wailing ghosts and howling wolves, with a large number of tattooed and shaved-headed Violent Group members screaming as they ran to spread the word.

The Metropolitan Police Department is raiding the village!