Chapter 450

The death of this 83-year-old elderly person was neither suicide nor accidental death; it is highly likely to be homicide.

Kitano Kinya's soul is crying out for justice.

He was neither suicide nor accidental death!

He was drunk, wanted to sit by the roadside to rest for a while, and in a dazed state was hit by something, thus falling into the sandpit and dying!

Therefore, this is not an accident, but homicide.

But the old man also does not know who did it, what enemies he has, he was too drunk at the time, his mind unclear,

and this has increased the difficulty for Uesugi Muneyuki, who needs scientific basis to make a judgment,

After thinking, Uesugi Muneyuki did not hastily make a judgment, he carefully observed the scene, and after inquiring with the family and local police,

obtained family consent, and performed an administrative autopsy on the deceased!

This aspect is naturally handled by Ishihara Mikoto; Uesugi Muneyuki himself actually does not do much of this autopsy work, and as the only person who has ever personally witnessed Uesugi Muneyuki's on-site autopsy, Superintendent Higurashi Keishi of the Metropolitan Police Department loves to brag about:

Oh yeah, I've seen Uesugi~ (In the Bunkyo Ward fire, Uesugi used a scalpel to cut open the deceased's trachea, proving it was not death from Shitsoku in a fire room)

"Kai, Date, Igarashi, you go check nearby surveillance, and also investigate the surroundings, see if anyone has clues about today's early morning incident, Ikeda, you come with me, Mikoto, you take charge of the administrative autopsy." Uesugi Muneyuki calmly commanded: "I think this case could possibly be homicide."

"Alright, Date, Igarashi, let's go!" Kai Toru eagerly said.

The Special Mission Unit split into two groups; the hospital side immediately began the autopsy work.

In the afternoon, the autopsy report came out.

One, fractures of the left first to ninth, eleventh ribs.

Two, injury to the left upper lung lobe (damage caused by fractured ribs piercing the lung).

Three, hemothorax of 600 milliliters.

Four, fractures of the third and fourth lumbar vertebrae,

Five, fracture of the left femur.

Six, blood alcohol concentration of 2.4 mg/ml, in a state of severe intoxication.

After the autopsy was completed, Uesugi Muneyuki and Ishihara Mikoto discussed this issue.

"As for the cause of death, I lean toward blunt force trauma." Mikoto-nee, after working overtime to complete the autopsy, appeared somewhat tired, she said while vigorously eating the beef fried udon and oolong tea bought by Ikeda Erena: "The cause of death is accidental death due to drunkenness."

"I see." Uesugi Muneyuki thought for a while, then said: "If purely from the autopsy perspective, this is just accidental death after drunkenness, but I believe it is not purely accidental; if from the essence-refining manifestation, is there a place to verify my claim, is there a possibility of third-party causation of the fall?"

"If Muneyuki you insist on explaining it this way, it can also be explained." The forensic beauty furrowed her brow, she softly said: "According to testimony, the deceased was found in a prone position, with the head located near the sidewalk wall, about forty to fifty centimeters away, and the feet located distally."

"Friends who often die from accidental falls know that if sitting and rolling backward from a height of four meters, the head should face downward, the back toward the wall, so it should appear as feet hitting the wall, head outward, landing in a supine position."

"If the corpse is like this, then it is highly likely to be an accidental death due to drunk fall."

Ishihara Mikoto pointed at the report and said.

Uesugi Muneyuki nodded; this point is the same as the situation in the jumping suicide case encountered before the Fuji TV Odaiba building-sealing case,

In such cases, the head usually suffers a major impact, hence scalp contusion, skull comminuted fracture, brain contusion, etc., with immediate death and massive bleeding.

But in this case, the deceased showed no head injury, and moreover, was not found supine but prone, with the head near the wall, the state completely opposite.

Therefore, concluding this case was not accidental death due to negligence, and unable to make a reasonable explanation.

But if following Uesugi Muneyuki's assumption, that the person was intentionally pushed down, what would the corpse manifestation be?

"If subjected to third-party push force, the body would generate acceleration, posture would correspondingly flip about 270°, landing on the ground in a prone position, thus the head being near the wall and feet far from the wall would be reasonable." Uesugi Muneyuki said while weighing: "The deceased's face would suffer major impact, producing facial fracture, skull fracture, facial deformation, and accompanied by massive bleeding."

"Furthermore, due to chest impact, the front chest would suffer multiple rib fractures, rib fractures piercing the lungs, causing lung injury, forming hemothorax; in this situation, sometimes heart rupture may occur, but humans have instinctive reactions to danger; if using both hands to shield the face or subconsciously avoiding, it is also possible not to form skull fracture and facial fracture."

"In this way, the autopsy results would be very reasonable!" Uesugi Muneyuki and Ishihara Mikoto exchanged glances, very firmly said: "Correct, this is not an accidental fall death, but a fall event involving third-party intervention!"

"Report the conclusion to the local police station, immediately start investigation! This is homicide!!!"

Uesugi Muneyuki made the judgment, Ishihara Mikoto sought reasons and evidence, reversed cause and effect, after a brainstorm, a complete logical evidence chain was born, flawless, this is the tacit understanding unique to him and Mikoto-nee.

Only the tall beauty beside them got angry and depressed, pouting.

These two people · are too professional!

I can't even get a word in!

After Uesugi Muneyuki made the judgment, the local police station wanting to settle things peacefully was quite helpless, but facing Uesugi Muneyuki as the chief, they could only admit bad luck, immediately formed a task force for investigation.

Unexpectedly, the text gave Uesugi Muneyuki's judgment correct.

After pre-determining murder possibility and strictly screening suspicious persons passing by nearby surveillance, police immediately identified a suspect with major suspicion.

Takemura Tadashi, 38 years old, a corporate slave who missed the last train, thus found a place to drink until drunk as a skunk,, thinking of his hard work for over ten years, still living in a rental house as a dispatched employee, no money to marry and have children, furious beyond measure.

And quite unfortunately, he happened to meet the equally bragging Kitano president in the izakaya,

Kitano president at this time was spreading his "business experience" to others.

His Akakasa Takegawa Metal Company has always been known for not liking to employ young people, while employing many elderly people, when others asked him why, Kitano president proudly said.

Elderly people are good, elderly people should be employed!

Now in Tokyo, young people, although the minimum hourly wage is 1050 yen, but for metal industry work requiring factory entry, the hourly wage is not opened to 1500-1700 yen, so no young people are willing to do it, and moreover the company must also pay social security for these young people, actually the labor cost exceeds 2300 yen per hour.

Thus, the company has little profit.

But elderly people are different, employing elderly people only needs an hourly wage of 1200-1300 yen, this very meager wage (at this time equivalent to only 70-80 soft girl currency), elderly people are willing to work, and moreover, elderly people from the Showa era are more diligent, work quite skilled, compared to young people, I don't know how much higher it is.

And more importantly, no need to pay social security for the elderly, only need to pay work injury insurance and accident insurance.

Thus employing elderly employees actually greatly reduces company costs.

Kitano president proudly said, his company will in the future cut down young people and regular employees on a larger scale, use more dispatched employees and employ more elderly employees on a larger scale, save costs!

"These silver-haired elders are the wealth of our nation! The last bonus of Showa!"

As a result, this remark was overheard by Takemura Tadashi beside him, the middle-aged corporate slave gritted his teeth in anger, naturally came to hate this old man.

When he thought of himself still having no fixed residence before, earning a meager wage of 1200 yen per hour, no money to marry and have children, life from one failure to the next failure made him burn with rage, he hated bureaucrats, hated zaibatsu, hated this and that, finally he didn't expect that the one stealing his job opportunity would be, in fact, the elderly of his own country!

Thus he grew angrier the more he thought, the more he thought the more resentful, fortunately, one night he went out for a night stroll, wanting to find a place to sleep, when he again encountered the Kitano president sitting and resting on the monument platform.

No one around, Takemura Tadashi, in anger, decided to do something for his failed life.

He pushed Kitano Kinya slightly, sending him falling from the monument platform.

Facing police questioning, Takemura Tadashi naturally shouted: "This isn't murder!"

"I did this for the country, for Japan's future!"

"Unless we thoroughly eliminate these elderly people, the country will have no future! Citizens will have no way out!"

"I am carrying out Heaven's Will, I am serving the nation loyally. The on-site police saw this guy spouting nonsense and decided to shut him up."

Only Uesugi Muneyuki stood outside the interrogation room, coldly gazing at this middle-aged office worker who had lost hope.

People will instinctively resent those who snatch away their livelihood; this is human nature, and as long as it is properly vented, regional discrimination, ethnic nationalism, and state nationalism will naturally arise.

But Japan reaching the point where its own elderly snatch livelihoods from its own youth, with corporate social security and pension burdens so heavy that labor costs cause the elderly to overturn and defeat the youth, remains extremely rare worldwide.

This has led to a deeply ingrained "elderly-aversion" atmosphere in Japanese society, where the younger generation despises the elderly, and many invincible individuals often target the elderly in indiscriminate attacks.

Correspondingly, South Korea exhibits "child-aversion," for a very simple reason: raising a child is genuinely too arduous, too exhausting, and too costly.

As a result, most young people in South Korea are unwilling to have children; since they do not wish to reproduce, they naturally feel no need to empathize with children, harbor negative sentiments toward children in society, and consequently, nearly three-tenths of shops in Seoul clearly refuse entry to children.

Japan's aversion to the elderly, South Korea's aversion to children—this too is genuinely a rare phenomenon in reality.

Uesugi Muneyuki thought: Fortunately, this is Japan; other countries comparatively exhibit less of this phenomenon—how delightful, how delightful!

Thus, the case of Akasaka Takegawa Metal Company President Kitano Kinya's drunken fall from the monument was solved in a single day!

And following the Toshima Ward Phantom case, Uesugi Muneyuki, whose spotlight had once been "taken" by Kashiwagi Jin, once again demonstrated his formidable strength!

Throughout March, the Special Mission Unit, under the equipment, actions, and perfect case-solving prowess of Chief Medical Examiner Uesugi Muneyuki, continuously resolved various cases, while the entire Metropolitan Police Department was preoccupied with major personnel reassignments and disciplinary actions, compounded by Tokyo Metropolis' strangely silent observation, causing criminal cases to seemingly decrease significantly after the concentrated outbreak of the Toshima Ward Phantom case.

Investigation Division 1 even strangely encountered a leisurely situation with no cases for three consecutive days, prompting the Metropolitan Police Department's office-worker detectives to loudly exclaim their inability to adapt, little expecting that we too would have days spent drinking coffee, reading newspapers, and standing by in the office?

Thus, time arrived at April.

The people's heroic superintendent, Special Mission Unit Chief Okada Masayoshi, after nursing his injuries for over a month, finally neared discharge.

April 14th, Black Valentine's Day.

Originally, today was Okada Masayoshi's follow-up examination day, but the heroic superintendent, having endured over a month in the hospital, could bear it no longer; he failed to notify the hospital, slipped out secretly, wished to return home for a visit, and on the way bought a large bouquet of roses, his heart filled with the satisfaction of having survived calamity and escaped death.

Hehe, Miki, I'll give you a surprising tooth!