Chapter 428: A Sudden Thunderclap on Level Ground!

The violent upheaval in the police world could certainly not be hidden from the outside; as Public Security Police and SAT stormed into the Sakurada Gate Headquarters and numerous local police stations in large numbers to arrest people, all of Tokyo realized something had definitely happened!

The first to arrive was naturally the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office right next door; Chief Prosecutor Nishikawa immediately sensed something was wrong and dispatched many prosecutors straight to the Metropolitan Police Department to inquire, but they were all stopped by Public Security Police.

"A secret arrest operation is currently underway! Please, everyone from the District Prosecutors Office, remain calm." The police stopped the prosecutors.

"Arrest? Who authorized it? Why didn't you apply for an arrest warrant? Why dare arrest people without a warrant?" The leading Prosecutor Kamibayashi angrily grabbed a Public Security officer by the collar: "We at the District Prosecutors Office have a right to know! We demand to know what specifically happened! Even Public Security cannot act with impunity!"

"My apologies, everyone." At that moment, Inspector Kinoshita Tōya of the National Police Agency Security Bureau said coldly: "According to Article 210 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, if there is an emergency necessity — such as a suspect possibly fleeing or destroying evidence — the police have the right to make an emergency arrest and apply for an arrest warrant afterward."

"Yes, that's right! But you must apply to the court within 48 hours, otherwise it's an illegal arrest!" The District Prosecutors Office side was furious but powerless, yet faced with the legal article presented by the police, they could do nothing.

"Then please come back in 48 hours." Inspector Kinoshita Tōya sneered, gesturing that they could leave: "Though, it probably won't even take 48 hours."

"Nani?"

"Nothing. Please trust our Public Security Police's efficiency; 36 hours at most, and everything will be handed over to you prosecutors. At that time, our police will still need to cooperate with you District Prosecutors, hehe."

Cooperate? I'll cooperate with your mother's head!!!

The District Prosecutors Office side was towering with rage, yet helpless, and could only leave for the time being.

When Prosecutor Kamibayashi returned and reported the current situation to Chief Prosecutor Nishikawa and Special Investigation Headquarters Chief Kirekawa Ryoichi, both high-ranking officials of the District Prosecutors Office realized the Metropolitan Police Department absolutely had a major problem — a problem big enough to blow up the Sakurada Gate Headquarters!

But they still didn't know anything!

Chief Prosecutor Nishikawa was so angry his whole body's muscles swelled up like Arnold's; he gritted his teeth, knowing the District Prosecutors Office had already missed the best chance to intervene, but he was unwilling.

"Investigate! All of you, go investigate! Find out exactly what happened inside the police! Investigate!"

"Ritual Phrase! How many times has this been! The previous Toshima Ward Ghost Case, this Metropolitan Police Department turmoil, and before that, even before that, Bakayaro! Why in recent years is our District Prosecutors Office always one step behind, every step behind, with all the credit and fame taken by the police? Where are we supposed to put the face of us prosecutors?"

"Investigate!!!!!!" Chief Prosecutor Nishikawa roared.

Investigate, investigate — currently not a single clue; how to investigate?

Headquarters Chief Kirekawa Ryoichi and Prosecutor Kamibayashi before him only felt like a tiger trying to eat the sky — no way to start.

Just then, Prosecutor Kamibayashi suddenly said: "Chief Prosecutor, I have a guess, not sure if I should say it?"

"Speak!"

"Although there's no evidence, I just feel this matter seems inseparable from the Special Mission Unit and Uesugi Muneyuki again." Prosecutor Kamibayashi said with a strange expression: "Perhaps we can learn something from his side."

"In recent years, what major incident at the Metropolitan Police Department hasn't involved Uesugi Muneyuki and his Special Mission Unit?" Headquarters Chief Kirekawa couldn't help saying: "Wrong, all wrong. When he was first discovered, he should have been brought into our District Prosecutors Office!"

"Bring him into the District Prosecutors Office, what a joke?" Prosecutor Kamibayashi just felt this was Monday-morning quarterbacking: "Who could have predicted it back then? And even if we wanted to bring him, how would we handle his student status? He himself is a Forensic Pathologist; our District Prosecutors Office isn't the Metropolitan Police Department — we don't hire Forensic Pathologists at all."

"And we don't have that big-breasted, big-buttocked, long-legged Judo beauty policewoman, nor a daughter of the Face of the Metropolitan Police Department." Chief Prosecutor Nishikawa followed with impotent rage: "Women who can enter our Prosecutors Office are extremely few to begin with, and those who pass the exam are elites among elites; after a few years of apprenticeship they're 30, married or have boyfriends — how could it be like the Metropolitan Police Department with beauties everywhere?"

"Eiji, you like this are really despicable!!!"

Chief Prosecutor Nishikawa was right; unlike the Metropolitan Police Department which hires large numbers of General Affairs Section women, women who can enter the Prosecutors Office are not only extremely few in number but absolute elites; most enter in their 20s, and after a casual apprenticeship start at 30 — either have a boyfriend or are married; and while these female academic elites can't be said to have zero beauties, the proportion is extremely low compared to the Metropolitan Police Department.

The previously mentioned Korean-descent Prosecutor Lin Yanzhen already counts as decent-looking, yet Uesugi Muneyuki didn't spare her a single glance from start to finish, clearly having zero interest.

"Still need to find a way to establish a private secret contact method with Uesugi Muneyuki; otherwise this happening again and again, our Prosecutors Office will become the Metropolitan Police Department's Assistant! This kind of thing would be the greatest, most evil shame in Tokyo District Prosecutors Office history!"

"Yes!"

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Time flew by amid the Metropolitan Police Department's emergency operations, and the next day, the "15-Year Toshima Ward Family Annihilation Cold Case Solved Press Conference" was formally convened by the Metropolitan Police Department's Public Relations Division.

As always, Uesugi Muneyuki was responsible for narrating the entire case — from the flower-offering apology ceremony scene that day, to Uesugi Muneyuki determining he was the culprit based on the Ghost Guest's gaze and the brown fibers left at the scene, together with the brown color revealed in Sakuma Kaito's black hair translucent under the morning light.

The fierce battle at the scene: the Ghost Guest alone took down four police officers, rode a motorcycle speeding recklessly through Tokyo, and the Traffic Mobile Unit's Metropolitan Police Department squad's pursuit; the Ghost Guest suddenly drew his gun and shot Inspector Kikuchi Fūma (posthumous promotion), broke through the encirclement, stormed into a nursery school; Inspector Okada's distinguished service and injury; then SAT's decisive battle with Sakuma Kaito at the ruins of the Toyota Auto Show Center, the culprit escaped; then the Special Mission Unit entered the sewers for the crucial arrest.

The entire process was told so vividly that the 200-plus media outlets on site were entranced, unable to tear themselves away.

And when Uesugi Muneyuki recounted Sakuma Kaito's life origins and the process leading to this series of tragedies, the many journalists on site were even more stunned beyond words.

Being a descendant of US Forces Japan is quite normal; everyone had guessed that before. As for the mother being Japanese… regarding this point, US Forces Japan in the 1960s even specially established separate search, support, and registration agencies in Japan precisely to handle the large number of descendants left by US Forces Japan.

A legendary seaman, a mad beast tempered by blood and fire on the ultimate dangerous sea route, a lowly miserable past… his story was so legendary that people on site already started planning adaptations.

And his reason for killing was merely… that family was too happy, he couldn't help but want to destroy it.

Uesugi Muneyuki described the murder motive, and told everyone the culprit stayed at the scene so long just to blend in and experience the feeling of having a home; but as he spent years searching for his father in the US at great expense, only to discover his father Benjamin had long been dead, he completely gave up the thought of having a home.

Uesugi Muneyuki's description made the few US representatives on the side look askance.

The Sakuma Kaito incident had extremely bad international impact, and with ironclad evidence and a nationwide broadcast, US Forces Japan had no choice but to send a Major General, a Brigadier General, and a Colonel to the press conference.

A few dead Japanese don't matter; two police officers martyred is just an internal affair; but the culprit breaking into a nursery school and attempting to kidnap four-to-five-year-old children touched the Americans' bottom line — US Forces Japan had to make a showing.

"Are we Americans all perverts who like killing, kidnapping, and taking children hostage?"

"Red Bean Paste Private Mosaic~" The three US Forces Japan officers bowed to the cameras: "Caused trouble for Japan's Mina-san, really very sorry~"

Things looked like they would conclude here, but at this moment, the Metropolitan Police Department's General Affairs Department Public Relations Division Chief suddenly said: "Everyone, please wait a moment!"

"Our Headquarters today still has a major emergency matter to announce!"

"Presumably everyone on site has noticed that our Headquarters yesterday conducted a series of emergency mobilizations, deploying SAT and Public Security Police to conduct emergency searches on multiple police stations and the Sakurada Gate Headquarters."

"Now, the matter has preliminary results; please allow our Headquarters to inform everyone."

Finished speaking, the screen behind the press conference lit up, displaying two sharply contrasting inspection reports and X-ray scans.

Emergency Appraisal Results (Flash Report) of the NIJ Level 3 Police Bulletproof Vests Worn by the Martyred Yamada Yuki and Inspector Kikuchi Fūma!

Appraisal Result: Unqualified!!!

Crack!

A sudden thunderclap exploded.

All journalists, media, even the Americans, were dumbstruck.

The bulletproof vests on the martyred police officers — unqualified?!

(End of Chapter)