Chapter 463

It was mentioned earlier that in Japan, yakuza groups currently occupy a very awkward position.

Many people like to say Japan is the only country that recognizes yakuza as legal, but that's actually wrong; Japan does not recognize "gangster legality," but rather, forced by the constitution to acknowledge "citizens have freedom of association," it cannot compulsorily designate yakuza as "illegal organizations," after all, yakuza won't openly tell you they are gangsters—so, if Tanaka Kakuei can form the Oyamakai, why can't I form the Giyōkai?

Under this premise, yakuza are legal organizations, but with the introduction of the Violence Group Countermeasures Law, these people have also been driven into the sewers.

When the Organized Crime Control Department of the Metropolitan Police Department appeared, it immediately launched a red alert against yakuza in the name of "assisting fugitives" and "harboring criminals," and the Metropolitan Police Department's heavy-handed crackdown is also legal.

According to Articles 103 and 104 of the Japanese Penal Code, as long as police suspect any yakuza executive or member of knowing but not reporting, they can conduct legal searches and temporary emergency arrests.

For ordinary citizens, Japanese police must adhere to "presumption of innocence," but for yakuza, police can directly apply "presumption of guilt."

Moreover, once yakuza are involved in a case, police can immediately "direct" all banks, real estate developers, construction companies, hotels, convenience stores, and even markets that have business dealings with the organization to immediately cut off all transactions with them.

This action is also completely legal, and yakuza cannot receive any sympathy from society.

Police will not negotiate with yakuza, because doing so would be equivalent to recognizing yakuza as a "legitimate autonomous body" qualified for engagement, and they certainly will not "cooperate" with yakuza; police will only hint through the above two methods that yakuza should "figure it out."

Thus, the Giyōkai immediately informed the Metropolitan Police Department through a third-party lawyer of Kurozaki Ryūji's whereabouts, while also providing evidence showing Kurozaki Ryūji merely liked to come play at our shop and was not our member, declaring they had been honest and begging for leniency; then the chairman, young head, and younger brother head respectfully escorted an assistant police inspector of the Organized Crime Control Department out the door.

And so, the Metropolitan Police Department's operation began.

In the early hours, the sky faintly lightened.

Inside the shop, smoke and miasma filled the air; gamblers lay terrified on the floor. Kurozaki Ryūji sat at a mahjong table in the corner, stacks of bills before him, a cigarette clenched in his mouth, his face full of ferocity.

When police descended like divine soldiers and pressed him to the ground, cuffing his hands behind his back, he was first stunned, then erupted into furious struggling and cursing.

"Damn it! What are you doing?! What crime did I commit?!" Kurozaki Ryūji roared, like a trapped beast: "I came to play mahjong, what do you want?"

"Kurozaki Ryūji! You are suspected of murdering Okada Miki and Koizumi Ryosuke in the XX apartment and robbing property! Now you are under arrest by law!" Kashiwagi Jin shouted sternly, his voice suppressing anger.

Upon hearing the charges laid bare, Kurozaki Ryūji's struggling paused for a moment, a flicker of ferocity crossed his face, then he actually twisted into a laugh, with a desperate, reckless madness:

"Hah! So what if I did it?! Those two bitches deserved it!" He struggled to lift his head, his gaze sweeping over the angry police around him, especially Kashiwagi Jin and Inspector Shimano of the Fourth Section: "It was that gold-digging bitch who forced me! I only wanted to get back the money she owed me! But she not only refused to pay, she even dared to send that pretty boy to deal with me?! Pah! They're the ones who forced me! I didn't want to kill! I just wanted the money!"

His words were full of shameless self-justification. Then, he seemed to feel it wasn't stimulating enough for these police upholding the "hero" comrades, his face showing an extremely vulgar and vicious smile, he licked his lips, deliberately shouting at the top of his voice:

"But anyway… that 'Heroic Superintendent's' wife… tsk tsk tsk… she really fucking tastes amazing! That expression before she died… hehehe… worth it!"

This sentence was like lighting a powder keg!

"Beast!""Shut up!!" All police at the scene instantly had bloodshot eyes! Especially Kashiwagi Jin!

Thinking of the injustice and suffering Okada Masayoshi endured, thinking of Okada Miki's miserable state before death, then hearing Kurozaki so vilely insult the deceased and desecrate the wife of a comrade, Kashiwagi Jin's pent-up anger could no longer be contained!

Several police exchanged glances, a plan forming in their minds.

As Kashiwagi Jin roughly escorted Kurozaki out of the shop and into the police car, in the brief dark corner (avoiding the main angle of the police bodycam), several strong detectives could no longer hold back, delivering several punches and knee strikes filled with thunderous fury, precise and heavy, slamming hard into Kurozaki Ryūji's abdomen and lower ribs!

"Eight Trigrams damn it, I'm in too!" another officer couldn't help himself either.

"You damn bastard! If it weren't for now…… if it were before…… if this place were the United States…… you wouldn't get off so easily!" Several officers took turns delivering several black-handed blows.

If it were any other ordinary person, police would absolutely not dare to do this.

But yakuza…… even if they're fringe yakuza, the gray area in law enforcement is much larger, put bluntly, without cameras to alert the Metropolitan Police Department about violent law enforcement, lawyers taking the case would just glance at it.

Oh my, yakuza, oh my, murder charge, oh my, killing a police officer's family.

Sorry, not taking it.

"Ugh——!" Kurozaki's wild laughter instantly turned into a painful groan and cough, his body curling up like a shrimp.

Kashiwagi Jin grabbed his hair, and in his ear, using a voice only the two could hear, he coldly growled: "Scum! Wait for hell!"

This is the "extra hospitality" meted out by disciplinary units in extreme anger toward extremely despicable individuals—unrecorded but mutually understood.

Many people at the scene witnessed this, but no one thought the police had done anything wrong, nor did any police intend to speak of it.

This is the organization's tacit understanding.

……………………

After Kurozaki Ryūji was taken to the Metropolitan Police Department, at first this guy still wanted to make excuses, but as the Metropolitan Police Department presented piece after piece of evidence and reasoning, Kurozaki Ryūji muttered a few curses, admitted he was unlucky, and had no choice but to confess.

It turned out, Kurozaki Ryūji was Okada Miki's former official boyfriend! The two first met at the night school of Communications High School, the delinquent boy and spirited girl combination being a match made in heaven, especially since Kurozaki Ryūji owned a very imposing and beautiful motorcycle, was willing to spend money, and was deeply liked by Miki, making it a normal relationship.

However, after Okada Miki graduated, because she was very beautiful she soon got the chance to experience Tokyo's prosperity, the delinquent boy persona was no longer attractive enough, so she actively cut ties with Kurozaki Ryūji.

Since Kurozaki Ryūji was part of the delinquent boy motorcycle gang bosozoku, he had some counter-surveillance and fighting ability, he had always longed for Okada Miki, lurking like a poisonous snake, constantly seeking Miki; Okada Masayoshi's injury and Miki's ruined reputation gave him the scent of an unprecedented "big deal" opportunity. His goal was not just to extort a sum of money, but to long-term control Miki as an "ATM."

Of course, to keep him in check, Miki also had relations with him that day and afterward.

The Heroic Superintendent's wife is just awesome! Let Kurozaki reminisce endlessly, better than the previous spirited girl, just thinking that now she is the superintendent's wife, Kurozaki simply felt ecstatic.

Since Okada Masayoshi's rescue went viral, Kurozaki, through tailing and observation, figured out all the surveillance camera positions and blind spots of the apartment building and surroundings, he especially paid attention to the emergency stairwell, back door passage, and garbage disposal monitoring coverage.

"I didn't want to kill! From start to finish I didn't!" Kurozaki shouted angrily: "I just came to ask for money! Miki promised to give me five million, but she kept delaying giving it to me! So I thought about going to ask her for money that morning!"

"So you discovered…… uh, Okada…… uh, Okada's wife and the bartender Koizumi having an affair?" Kashiwagi Jin sat opposite him, likewise shouting sternly: "Was it the other side threatening you? Or did you strike first?"

He understood, he fully understood!

Classic mystery is supreme!

"That's right…… I opened the door through special methods, then discovered this bitch Miki was cheating with someone, hey…… the Heroic Superintendent really…… well, anyway, I came for the money." Kurozaki said disdainfully to Kashiwagi Jin: "Miki was telling me the money hadn't come through yet, but that Koizumi had already been scared silly, taking advantage of me and Miki talking, he probably went to the kitchen to get a knife, intending to……"

Understood, fully understood!

Kashiwagi Jin understood again.

The bartender Koizumi Ryosuke, this coward, at the critical moment displayed the hysteria of a coward, he was so afraid of being discovered that he instinctively wanted to kill Kurozaki to silence him!

But Kurozaki, this fringe yakuza and bōsōzoku fighter, how would he fear this? He casually grabbed a bronze ornament from home, directly struck Koizumi's occiput, killing him.

He had killed someone, Okada Miki was greatly startled, so she took out her phone wanting to call the police and threaten him to stand still obediently, Kurozaki was enraged, seeing the fruit knife Koizumi dropped on the ground, a vicious framing scheme instantly formed.

He quickly used the fruit knife to kill Miki, then staged the scene as lovers fighting over love and hate, lightly scavenged some cash, then silently left again from the garbage room, avoiding all surveillance.

After leaving the building a certain distance, he found a secluded, unmonitored river channel, sank the canvas bag containing the coat, shoe covers, gloves, and bronze ornament into the water, these items difficult to trace back to him.

But he never expected, just then Okada came back!

Staging it as adulterous lovers killing each other out of love and hate failed, instead framing Okada Masayoshi himself!

Thus, this one-door double corpse case was finally laid bare.

However, at the scene, Uesugi Muneyuki realized there was something problematic.

There are two most critical parts, Kurozaki didn't explain clearly!

(Chapter End)