Chapter 401

Watanabe Eiji's oath had just been spoken, and at this time the senior officials and bureaucrats of the Metropolitan Police Department were preparing to disperse, most of whom had not participated in this case, and naturally could not feel the repressed, fire-like determination in Watanabe Eiji's deep voice.

In fact, although Watanabe Eiji said that, he himself had never actually met the Sato family and did not know them, but during the investigation at that time, he discovered that Sato Kenichi was truly a very good and typical Showa-era man, working extremely hard, conscientious and responsible, loving his wife, family, and children, not good with words but always giving the best to his wife and children, and keeping the hardest for himself.

Being a real man is hard, even if suffering, one does not complain~lying down oneself, stroking one's sorrow, being a real man is hard, yet still persisting in the midst of risk? The affection between men and women, all hidden in the heart's recess, today's Japanese men have experienced the era of responsibility-shifting, lying flat, and giving up, making it difficult for them to understand the intense sense of responsibility and mission of the older Showa-generation men.

However, the era also rewarded Showa men with huge dividends, and this point is also debatable.

At this time the crowd began to stir, clamor gradually rising. Reporters were preparing to wrap up, and case enthusiasts, still unwilling to leave, discussed the just-concluded "performance".

Uesugi Muneyuki's roar, like a thunderclap tearing apart this false calm!

"It's him! I found the killer! It's him! Catch him!" Uesugi Muneyuki shouted urgently, hoarsely, madly, with incredulous delight and furious rage, exploding from before the stone monument, about fifty meters away, his slender fingers turning into a poisoned javelin, straight and vicious, stabbing toward the dark gray figure on the outskirts of the crowd!

A moment of dead silence!

Then came a chaos like mountains collapsing and seas flooding!

At this time several major TV stations were broadcasting live on site; they had originally found the whole stable situation boring, and as for Watanabe Eiji's oath, the TV stations had seen it many times before, so naturally they could not say it was particularly moving.

However, as Uesugi Muneyuki's roar sounded, all camera lenses, like vultures smelling blood, turned in unison! The live signal instantly spiked!

"Breaking! Breaking situation! Uesugi Shougenshou of the Special Mission Unit apparently identified a suspect at the scene! Repeat! Uesugi Muneyuki identified a suspect at the scene!" The voice of Fuji TV host Tei Reiji, excited and incredulous, became sharp and distorted, the flash lights no longer mere decoration but mad, like daytime burst flashes! Reporters rushed forward without regard, trying to capture that "target".

The onlookers in the crowd froze for a moment, then, following the direction of Uesugi Muneyuki's finger, the crowd unconsciously parted, perfectly revealing the figure wearing a look at the currency, dressed in a look dark gray down jacket.

"Ah—!" Terrified screams spread like a plague!

The crowd near the direction Uesugi pointed exploded like a frying pan of oil, desperately pushing backward!

Those around, confused, were squeezed left and right, curses and wails rising in unison:

"Stepped on someone!"

"Save me!" "Who? Who is the killer?!"

And the YouTubers broadcasting live on site, after a brief shock, became extremely excited!

"Holy shit! Really identified?!"

"Quickly film the one in gray clothes wearing a scarf!"

"Is Uesugi Muneyuki a mad forensic examiner?! Or did he really discover something?!"

"Hey folks, we're live on site! Light up the rockets! Bros, drop a 666!"

Uesugi Muneyuki was indeed somewhat far from that person; normally speaking, human visual ability can clearly see a person's face within 20 meters, already pilot-level vision, and around 50 meters it is nearly impossible to recognize a person by face; the scene was crowded and noisy, Uesugi Muneyuki knew he definitely could not catch this guy, so he immediately identified him, because at the flower offering ceremony site, there were definitely many plainclothes police hidden, and considering the Superintendent General was present, public security police were certainly also on site!

Uesugi Muneyuki's judgment was correct; the Metropolitan Police Department had indeed deployed many plainclothes officers on site, with several right beside that "Ikebukuro Phantom Guest", but when Uesugi Muneyuki gave orders, the few police closest to the Ikebukuro Phantom Guest, upon hearing his earth-shattering roar, first reacted with error and bewilderment!

They instinctively looked in the direction Uesugi Muneyuki pointed, and indeed there was a man in a gray down jacket, but they turned their gaze to their direct superiors, their eyes filled with confusion and disbelief.

A forensic examiner just 24 years old, not even a regular police officer, suddenly pointing at an inconspicuous figure in the crowd after the ceremony ended and shouting to catch him? This is too absurd!

Could it be that the Uesugi Shougenshou is under too much pressure, and having recently studied this case constantly, has produced hallucinations? Their movements slowed by half a beat, and some even hesitated whether to obey.

Meanwhile, the mid-level police of the Metropolitan Police Department Security Bureau and Criminal Investigation Department responsible for on-site security had faces ashen, as he had received no notification whatsoever about any operation or suspect!

He looked at Uesugi Muneyuki, then at the tumultuous crowd, cold sweat instantly breaking out on his forehead; one Security Bureau Assistant Police Inspector pulled out his police radio: "Superintendent General! Uchimura Bucho, on site Uesugi Shougenshou has identified one person as the criminal, situation unclear, requesting instructions! The crowd is in extreme chaos! Repeat, situation unclear!"

The Metropolitan Police Department police temporarily did not move, while Uesugi Muneyuki, seeing his shout had elicited no response, locked his hawk-like spiritual eyes on that man, seeing that man's almost imperceptible tension, already beginning to move, Uesugi Muneyuki became so anxious his eyes seemed ready to burst!

He exerted all his strength, no longer hoarsely commanding, but issuing a shout of urgent fire attacking the heart, toward Watanabe Eiji, and also toward all police on site: "It's him! The Phantom Guest of Toshima! Catch this person, don't let him run! Believe me!!"

At this very moment, amidst the chaos of a few seconds, Metropolitan Police Department Superintendent General Watanabe Eiji was interrupted by Uesugi Muneyuki's inexplicable action; initially somewhat displeased, he thought today's youth fundamentally do not understand our previous generation's sense of responsibility and mission, but when Uesugi Muneyuki identified the killer, Watanabe Eiji felt the fifteen years of suppressed despair and furious roar explode before the stone monument!

That unextinguished flame for fifteen years, that determination never to forget, never to forgive! He also saw that the dark gray figure, amidst the crowd's pushing and shoving, displayed a movement utterly unlike ordinary onlookers—overly smooth and alert!

"Superintendent General?" Criminal Investigation Department Chief Uchimura Kanji still hesitated a moment, when Watanabe Eiji had already ordered: "Everyone! Follow Uesugi Shougenshou's instructions to control the target person! Repeat! Do as he says, immediately control the target, apprehend the suspect!"

"Yes!!!" The Superintendent General's voice rang out like a metal clap, the emergency arrest warrant blaring through all police earpieces via the public channel! This was based on Uesugi Muneyuki's past superhuman judgment, the abnormal situation on site, and his instantaneous judgment as Superintendent General—a gamble!

The order was given! The belated encirclement finally began!

The Metropolitan Police Department police closest to the suspect had no more hesitation, like arrows loosed from a bow they surged forward! But that brief hesitation gave the Ikebukuro Phantom Guest the most critical activation time!

When Uesugi Muneyuki's roar sounded, when countless gazes focused, when the police's initial hesitation appeared, that male figure in the gray down jacket merely tensed for an instant, like a poisonous snake sensing vibration, when Watanabe Eiji's order exploded through the police earpieces via the radio, this person's eyes flashed with an extremely faint, icy look of confusion.

The two were at least fifty meters apart; how did that Uesugi discover himself?

However, this was not the time to think so much, like a nine-time crowned king jaguar that had long stored its power, he moved! Not a panicked, flustered flight, but like a precision machine starting up, a violent breakthrough!

No hesitation, no nonsense, not even attempting to explain or disguise. The dark gray figure, amidst the crowd's pushing and shoving, suddenly burst forth with astonishing speed and precision!

"Hey! Stop! Don't move!" A tall patrol officer opened his arms for a frontal grapple; the Phantom Guest, at the instant the officer's fingertips were about to touch his down jacket, his body slid like a boneless loach, low and sliding, he pressed himself against the icy damp ground, slipping perilously under the officer's armpit! The patrol officer lunged empty, losing balance and falling backward.

A plainclothes public security police officer approached from the side, his baton whistling as it swung toward the Phantom Guest's shoulder! The Phantom Guest's rising slide had no hesitation, using the momentum of rising, his left elbow like a cannonball fired from the barrel, precisely and ruthlessly striking the plainclothes public security officer's right soft rib! "Crack!" A sound making teeth ache, clear and audible! (rib fracture)

The plainclothes public security officer cried out, curling up and falling prone.

"Stop! Don't move!" Two police officers simultaneously lunged from behind, trying to lock the Phantom Guest's arms! The Phantom Guest's body surged forward, using the forward momentum and the opponent's incoming inertia, executing a textbook shoulder throw! One officer was slammed hard onto the stone slab, wailing incessantly!

Simultaneously, the Phantom Guest's right foot lashed out like a scorpion's tail, lightning-fast to the rear, the sole of his shoe squarely hitting another officer's abdomen, sending him flying backward, knocking over a case blogger holding a phone and a selfie stick!

The entire process occurred in the blink of an eye! The Phantom Guest's movements had no flourish, all honed in street life-and-death combat, seeking absolute efficiency in deadly martial arts! The dark gray down jacket tore in the struggle, revealing a black fiber-reinforced protective vest snug against the body.

In an instant, the four nearby police officers were all overturned by this guy alone in the blink of an eye!

Afterward, he instinctively glanced at a certain spot near the park, where a Yamaha motorcycle was parked,

"Stop him!" Uesugi Muneyuki also began to act; aside from Minami and Mikoto, the few members of the Special Mission Unit immediately rushed toward where the Phantom Guest was, but there were many people on site, panic causing the crowd to descend into chaos, blocking the road everywhere, unable to advance at full speed, seeing the Phantom Guest about to escape, Uesugi Muneyuki could only continue shouting, he staggered through the chaotic crowd, trying to break through, his eyes locked on the Phantom Guest's silhouette.

The Phantom Guest had by now broken through the first wave of three or four police officers' blockade, and was less than ten meters from the Yamaha motorcycle parked near the park! But ahead, two officers who had reacted were trying to use their bodies to form a human wall, blocking the exit!

This person's eyes were icy as iron. He showed no sign of slowing down, but instead accelerated! At the moment he was about to collide with the human wall, he suddenly lowered his body, casually picking up a police bicycle weighing over ten kilograms, the heavy bicycle lifted with one hand! He did not pause in the slightest, using the inertia of his charge, his arm muscles bulging, he hurled the bicycle like a shot put, tracing a low,

spinning arc, howling as it smashed toward the police at the alley mouth!

"What the?!" Amidst exclamations, the flying bicycle, carrying thousands of jin of force, "Boom!" slammed heavily into the two officers! Excruciating pain made their vision go black, their batons flew from their hands, clattering onto the icy ground.

At the same time, the Phantom Guest's silhouette flashed like a ghost out of the park gate. He grabbed and pulled off the dark cover on the motorcycle, the key already in his hand!

Straddle, ignite, twist the throttle—one fluid motion, smooth as if practiced a thousand times!

"Vroom—one—boom!!!" The Yamaha motorcycle's signature single-cylinder engine erupted with a low, wild roar,

Instantly tearing through the scene's screams, police sirens, and media exclamations! The exhaust pipe belched white smoke, the motorcycle like a black beast breaking free from its cage, accompanied by the piercing screech of tires, it shot explosively from the narrow alley mouth, charging into the already emerging traffic on the "Ikebukuro Station-mae Tsū" main thoroughfare!

How fast! When Uesugi Muneyuki and the others, together with the Metropolitan Police Department's elite from the center, finally pushed through the crowd and caught up, they could only see the other's exhaust fumes.

At this moment, the scene was as if bombed!

The fallen and wailing district police and plainclothes public security police (at least four injured, one with fractured ribs) were clearly wounded and had lost combat power, this scene frightened the weeping civilians, the frantic media reporters chasing to film, NHK and the four major TV stations' cameras clung tightly to the receding motorcycle's taillight, the equipment knocked over scattered everywhere.

"Oh my god! Truly—·truly the culprit?!"

"Uesugi Forensic Examiner is divine!"

"That guy can really fight!"

"Why aren't the police moving, ah?!"

"Live broadcast! Quick, watch the live broadcast! The culprit escaped on a motorcycle!"

The scene was in utter chaos.

The TV station currently broadcasting live suddenly like a shark smelling blood, the on-site news anchor shouted sharply: "Incredible! The Metropolitan Police Department's annual apology ceremony suddenly took a major turn! Uesugi Forensic Examiner on-site identified the Toshima Ward mass murder case suspect!

The suspect violently resisted arrest, injured multiple officers after which he fled on a motorcycle! The scene is in utter chaos! Repeat, Uesugi Forensic Examiner on-site identified the suspect, the scene is in utter chaos!"

Uesugi Muneyuki seeing he truly couldn't catch up, thus had Hironaka Mariko follow that Ghost Guest, immediately roared at Watanabe Eiji coming from behind: "It's him! Director General! Chase! The culprit especially likes to return to the crime scene, believe me ah ah ah!"

Watanabe Eiji looking at the several fallen police officers, his face turned deathly pale from shock and anger, but those eyes burned with near-mad light, firmly staring at the direction the motorcycle disappeared.

"Immediately issue the full Tokyo alert! Deploy the Traffic Brigade! Everyone, give me chase! Target gray Yamaha motorcycle!

Driver, male, extremely dangerous! Deploy urgently on suspicion of murder! Commit mobile forces!" Watanabe Eiji calmly ordered everyone: "The day to crack the 15-year-old case is today, Metropolitan Police Department all personnel! Deploy!"

"Yes!!!" Among the over one hundred Metropolitan Police Department officers at the scene, more than fifty immediately began action, scrambling into vehicles and mounting motorcycles to prepare pursuit, only a small number of public security police and riot police immediately gestured for Watanabe Eiji to get in the vehicle, gestured to the director general that this place is dangerous, escort him back to Sakuradamon.

"Don't touch me, I'm not going anywhere!" Watanabe Eiji angrily shook off the public security riot police's hand, deathly staring at the direction the Ghost Guest disappeared in the distance.

He knew, this gamble, Uesugi had bet correctly!

That gray down-clothed man, eight or nine out of ten is the true culprit, he extremely likely watched 《Hand of God》, came to the scene to admire his own work, and enjoyed the fruits of victory!

Since he still dares to appear, then don't let him go!

The true storm, has only just begun!!!