Chapter 430

Tokyo, Chiyoda Ward, right next to the Sakuradamon Metropolitan Police Department Headquarters, not far away, is the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office.

Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office Prosecutor General Nishikawa Takahiro and Special Investigation Headquarters Chief Kirekawa Ryoichi and others stared wide-eyed as they watched the entire Metropolitan Police Department's news conference, which could be described as explosive upon explosive.

Originally, the Metropolitan Police Department's news conference was something the District Prosecutors Office went to watch to get an explanation of the case details, and at the same time wanted to see if there were any undisclosed details in the Toshima ward familicide case, and whether there might be any discrepancies with the submitted materials.

As a result, after Uesugi Muneyuki finished speaking, the Metropolitan Police Department exploded!

It exploded completely!

Starting from the announcement of a comprehensive random inspection of 100 bulletproof vests with live ammunition testing throughout the metropolis, in which as many as 87 were found unqualified, Prosecutor General Nishikawa and Headquarters Chief Kirekawa and others stared with their mouths open throughout the entire process.

TMD, after this heaven-shaking level scandal, are these Metropolitan Police Department people, Eiji and these few guys, not afraid of death? How dare they actively expose it?

Moreover, a full 87% of the bulletproof vests are unqualified, which is really too outrageous, isn't it?

I've found the prey!

Ace hunter, applying for deployment!

However, as the Metropolitan Police Department further announced, an entire interest chain and list, the arrested Daiwa Bōgu personnel in full and over a hundred implicated police officers, as well as the complete secret ledgers, various audio recordings that could be accepted by the judiciary, and even the overseas accounts of those implicated mid-to-high level personnel, were all completely netted by the Metropolitan Police Department without a single one missing.

Now the District Prosecutors Office understands why yesterday the SAT and Public Security Police went crazy and sealed off the entire area in a fire line.

Now the District Prosecutors Office understands why the Metropolitan Police Department this time must dispatch Public Security Police, and rarely face the prosecutors' side with extreme hardness, using Public Security privileges and emergency arrest regulations in the absence of having applied for search and arrest warrants, and harshly demanding that the prosecutors' side come back 48 hours later.

Now the District Prosecutors Office understands why the Metropolitan Police Department is rushing to hold this press conference, wanting to announce this matter as soon as possible.

It's to guard against the prosecutors' office getting involved!

The prosecutors' office intervening to investigate and expose, and the Metropolitan Police Department proactively exposing itself and bringing its own problems to light, are not the same situation! The former represents the police being completely controlled by the prosecutors, in this matter the positions of police and prosecutors would become like South Korea's, where the police chief only deserves to carry the prosecutor general's bag.

The latter, however, represents the Metropolitan Police Department completely isolating the possibility of prosecutors' intervention.

Prosecutor General Nishikawa's eyes stared like copper bells, shooting out lightning-like sharpness, his ears stood up like antennas, listening to every suspicious sound!

Metropolitan Police Department?! Again the Metropolitan Police Department! Last time it was the Toshima ward familicide case, the time before that it was the Kabukicho super-large indiscriminate murder case, before that again it was something like the Kanagawa second appraisal! Every time the Metropolitan Police Department moves one step ahead, every time after the Metropolitan Police Department finishes the case, they leave only some bone scraps for the prosecutors to lick.

A strong surge of elite prosecutors' office-exclusive fury mixed with helplessness violently rushed into Prosecutor General Nishikawa's forehead, he fiercely slammed his palm on the desk, his chest feeling suffocated with anger.

What else can he do?

Damn Watanabe Eiji! Cunning! Too cunning!

Nishikawa Takahiro roared in his heart.

The Metropolitan Police Department has already arrested everyone, locked them up, the evidence is solid, the reasons are sufficient, the ledgers have been found, the cash flow marked, the overseas accounts have all been listed out and successfully linked to relatives, not to mention an entire 10-year over 200 entries of audio and video have been harvested by the Metropolitan Police Department.

Under these circumstances, how can one refuse the Metropolitan Police Department's supplementary application for search and arrest warrants afterward?

Reason? Excuse?

He racked his brains but couldn't come up with even half a decent one!

What guts, Eiji! Assuming this kind of surprise attack ends up finding no evidence, then it's him who's doomed!

This is probably what is meant by failure being rebellion, success being revolution?

TMD, how is this guy's luck so good? Since he took office, every time there are crises everywhere, every time he's in absolute danger, every time he encounters major cases that shake the nation, but every time he turns danger into safety and perfectly solves the case, unconsciously, in Nagatacho, his influence and reputation, Watanabe Eiji has already surpassed him, you know the Prosecutors General have always been one head above and pressing down half a level on the Police Superintendents!

Damn it, now the Chief Cabinet Secretary's younger brother is also an official in the Police Agency, the Financial Services Agency Commissioner's son is under Uesugi, plus Uesugi himself representing the peerage, and the Midway-joined Mitsui Sumitomo representative Igarashi, the son of the Uwajima Date family, the son of Justice Ministry Administrative Vice-Minister Kai Mineaki, and while another son of Mitsubishi UFJ Bank South Village Managing Director is also already fully equipped and waiting to take up his post!

Unconsciously, already so many forces have taken Watanabe Eiji's side.

And this time, it's the same! Again TMD exactly the same!

The Metropolitan Police Department has already finished everything! What are we, the esteemed District Prosecutors Office, to do? What can the District Prosecutors Office do? Faced with mountainous ironclad evidence, what the District Prosecutors Office can do is only like in the previous few cases, wait for the Metropolitan Police Department to finish the meat, slurp the noodles, drink dry the soup, and finally mix some bone scraps and eat the leftover black wood ear and sour bamboo shoots!

"Prosecutor General...... what should we do?" Prosecutor Shinbayashi said dazedly: "The Metropolitan Police Department side should soon be sending people for inspection, should we prosecute according to the Metropolitan Police Department's standards......"

Upon hearing this, Prosecutor General Nishikawa exploded on the spot, he grabbed the calendar on the desk, roaring as he smashed it toward the television, smashing it toward the TV set with that annoying face!

"Get your horse's head moving!!!"

"No way! Even if the Metropolitan Police Department has complete evidence, even if they have prepared all the content, even if there are confessions, physical evidence, witness testimony, and overseas account cash flows, our Prosecutors Office will absolutely not be the Metropolitan Police Department's puppets!"

"Abso! lute! ly! im! poss! ible!"

"We demand a joint trial, joint investigation, at least, at least in the final submission and preparation of materials, we should get some influence, some presence, this is extremely likely to be the first corruption case after the millennium, how can we, the District Prosecutors Office...... how can we!!!!"

The enraged Prosecutor General Nishikawa frightened Prosecutor Headquarters Chief Kirekawa and Prosecutor Shinbayashi into hastily agreeing, quickly slipping away.

If we stay longer, it won't just be those police who are doomed, but them too!

"Trash! All trash! Incompetent trash!" Prosecutor General Nishikawa saw his subordinates running away fast, then compared to the Metropolitan Police Department's Absolute Dual Pride, one Kashiwagi Jin and one Uesugi Muneyuki, he was so angry he flung the documents on the desk to the floor, covering his chest feeling waves of pain.

"Ah ah ah ah, damn it to death!!!!"

……………………

Several hours later, in the hospital room, night deepened, cold winds blew in waves, flowers bloomed in clusters.

Kashiwagi Jin half-leaned on the hospital bed, his arm in a cast (after being electrocuted he violently struggled and fell, injuring his arm), his face still had bruises, but his spirit was unusually excited.

The hospital room was piled high with consolation flower baskets and fruit baskets sent by Metropolitan Police Department superiors, colleagues, and even media. He was facing a young junior officer from Investigation Division 1 who came to visit, his eyebrows flying and his face flushed with excitement as he "reconstructed" how he "remained calm in crisis", "wisely obtained evidence", and "skillfully transmitted information" in his "thrilling" process.

Although the details are full of loopholes, but under his confident, unquestionable tone, it seemed already a legend.

The hospital room door was respectfully knocked. Immediately after, three men in sharp suits, with strong auras, entered in single file under the guidance of the secretary. The originally somewhat frivolous atmosphere in the hospital room instantly became solemn and even reverent.

Leading them was the highest official of the Metropolitan Police Department——Superintendent General Watanabe Eiji, his face dignified, his eyes like torches, naturally carrying an aura of unangered superiority.

Following closely behind was Criminal Investigation Department Chief Uchimura Kanji, his build solid, his eyes sharp, he is a figure of real power in the Metropolitan Police Department.

Lastly is Kashiwagi Jin's direct superior, Search One Section Chief Sugishita Ukyo, his demeanor cold and aloof, his thinking meticulous, slightly carrying a transcendent air of seeing through fame and profit, not having the near-fawning attitude of Uchimura Department Chief toward Watanabe Eiji, but at this moment his face also bore a rare, heartfelt respect.

These three top figures of the Metropolitan Police Department's pyramid came together to visit, the standard so high it could shake the entire police world!

"Kashiwagi-kun!" Superintendent General Watanabe stepped forward with big strides, his voice loud and full of emotion, actively taking hold of Kashiwagi Jin's uninjured left hand: "You've suffered! Your deeds have shaken the Metropolitan Police Department up and down, and also invigorated the entire nation! You are the pride of the police world, a national hero!" His words struck the ground with sound, full of undeniable affirmation.

Criminal Investigation Department Chief Uchimura also nodded firmly, his voice deep: "Prosecutor Kashiwagi, your courage and wisdom are exemplary! Venturing into the tiger's den, remaining calm in crisis, in such peril you still managed to obtain and transmit such crucial ironclad evidence! Truly admirable!" He patted Kashiwagi Jin's shoulder, the force carrying praise.

Section Chief Sugishita then spoke simply and sincerely, but his eyes were genuine: "Kashiwagi, you did really well~ Search One Section takes pride in you." These few short words, spoken from his mouth, carried immense weight.

Faced with this sudden, coming from the highest level, mountain-moving-like praise and affirmation, Kashiwagi Jin only felt his head "buzz" with a sound, instantly struck by a huge sense of honor, making him dizzy. His earlier arrogance toward the junior officer instantly vanished, replaced by a feeling of being pleasantly surprised and hot-blooded surging. He struggled to sit up straighter, his face flushing from excitement and excitement.

However, deep in his heart that weak thread of doubt about the truth (where did that evidence come from? How did I "transmit" it? My memory only has the embarrassment of being captured and the pain of electrocution) resurfaced inopportunely.

When Superintendent General Watanabe mentioned "obtaining and transmitting crucial information", Kashiwagi Jin's smile on his face showed an extremely subtle stiffness, his eyes also briefly flickered once.

Details……those crucial details, how were they linked together? Why do I have no memory of them at all?

But this bit of embarrassment and guilt, under the scorching, sincere gazes of the three big shots—gazes full of "We all get it, you're amazing"—was as fragile as a dewdrop in sunlight, evaporating completely in an instant!

"They all believed it! They need me, this hero! I am that hero!" A powerful voice roared in Kashiwagi Jin's mind. His immense vanity and greedy craving for honor completely overwhelmed that pitiful conscience and doubt. He began to wildly fabricate, self-hypnotizing:

It must be me!

During the interrogation? In the burst of subconsciousness at the moment of coma? Or did some tiny device I wasn't even aware of activate?

Yes! It must be this way! That honor rightfully belongs to me, Kashiwagi Jin! It's mine, earned through my suffering!

"Director! Department Manager! Section Chief!" Kashiwagi Jin's voice trembled with excitement as he straightened his chest, forcing a resolute expression. "As a police officer, upholding justice, striking evil—it's my calling! I only did what I was supposed to do!" This "humble" stance of his, paired with his wounds all over, made him appear all the more "noble" and "tragic."

The three big shots, upon hearing this, showed even deeper emotion and admiration on their faces.

At this moment, Watanabe Director straightened his expression and dropped a bombshell proposal: "Kashiwagi-kun, in light of your unprecedented achievement this time, as well as your extraordinary ability and character, the Metropolitan Police Department decides to promote you to Section Chief of the Equipment Section, General Affairs Department (Superintendent rank)! This is full recognition of your ability and contribution!"

"Ah?!" Kashiwagi Jin froze in place.

Equipment Section……Section Chief?

Shouldn't I have been promoted to Management Officer of Investigation Division 1?

This… this seems a bit different from what I imagined?

Something feels off?

At the same time, the hospital room doorway.

Kashiwagi Misa originally wanted to go in, but seeing the three big shots inside, she immediately stopped, wanting to flee. The ice mountain mixed-blood beauty wife now feels ashamed—well, she could let it go, but her husband blatantly stole a huge credit and actively concealed it, which really makes her unable to face all of this.

However, just as she turned around, she saw someone.

Uesugi Muneyuki's figure appeared at the doorway, wearing proper casual attire, holding an exquisite fruit basket in hand, his face bearing a flawless, gentle and polite smile.

"Mrs. Kashiwagi, sorry to disturb." Uesugi's voice was calm, his gaze quickly sweeping over the hospital room, lingering on Misa for a moment; in the depths of his eyes flickered a hint only she could understand—a smile tinged with amusement and control.

"Shall we talk?"

(Chapter End)