Chapter 484: Belonging to the Fiancée's Exclusive Treat

Just as Uesugi Muneyuki was puzzling over it, a cheerful laugh came from the doorway: "Ta-da~ Uesugi Chief's exclusive delivery, arrived!"

Upon hearing this voice, Uesugi Muneyuki couldn't help but break into a smile, and he immediately opened the door.

"Ta-da~"

Minami Ojou-sama stood prettily before him, a moving smile blooming on her sweet apple face, both hands carrying two large bags; the moment she caught sight of Uesugi Muneyuki's figure, her clear eyes flashed with a moving light: "Muneyuki, you've worked hard~"

It seemed to be a private visit; perhaps because it was late at night, she wasn't wearing a uniform, but a forest cake cream style gradient fleece-lined long-sleeve paired with a brown checkered long skirt; beneath the skirt, a pair of slender, delectable beautiful legs were wrapped in black opaque velvet pantyhose, her feet treading a pair of relatively lightweight peep-toe square-buckle rhinestone high heels — truly radiating charm plus the unique refined young lady aura belonging to Minami in full measure.

"Minami! How did you come over?" Uesugi Muneyuki subconsciously wanted to hug Minami, but quickly realized the two large bags in her hands: "This is?"

"This is a treat, a treat, you id~iot!" Minami Ojou-sama smiled with narrowed eyes and winked at Uesugi Muneyuki, very satisfied with his surprised look; her black-stockinged beautiful feet in high heels kicked the ground a few times, and she pouted: "You've worked hard, I came to bring a late-night snack! Everyone should still be awake, right?"

"Everyone should still be awake, right?"

"Mm." Uesugi Muneyuki reached out to take them from Minami's hands, but Minami Ojou-sama shook them away: "The Management Officer herself wants to treat the hardworking Special Mission Unit subordinates, no need for Uesugi Chief to take over; now my fiancé, Investigation Division 1 Chief Medical Examiner Uesugi Muneyuki, personally guide this Management Officer — where are my adorable subordinates?"

Hearing this, Uesugi Muneyuki couldn't help but smile; he lowered his head and, taking advantage of Minami's hands being full, kissed her on the lips, then said: "Come with me, my Ojou-sama."

Soon, in the Special Investigation Headquarters conference room, the Special Mission Unit members who were discussing and investigating clues from all aspects saw their Management Officer.

The Management Officer came to bring us a late-night snack!

Minami Ojou-sama set down the large bags in her hands, inside which were three large boxes of assorted sushi, a large box of fried chicken pieces, and a box of strawberry daifuku: "You've worked hard, everyone, take a break first, eat something."

"Oh oh oh! It's the Management Officer, we're saved!"

"Awesome, Management Officer, just felt hungry."

"Meow meow meow, the Management Officer would actually do this for someone like me!"

The Special Mission Unit members all burst into cheers, especially upon seeing Minami brought sushi, they were even more moved.

Sushi is a fine product for sharing, refreshing and not greasy, suitable for eating after overtime; moreover, what Minami brought wasn't ordinary conveyor belt sushi, but "artisan sushi" reserved from a famous ryotei or high-end supermarket, ingredients meticulous (such as chutoro, sea urchin, star eel), packed in exquisite multi-layered lacquer boxes, still fresh upon delivery in insulated bags.

She even specially ordered an extra portion for her fiancé of his favorite kinds — shrimp tempura sushi and lobster meat gunkan sushi.

As for fried chicken pieces, they are a universally loved food, good cold or hot, very suitable for sharing; made with thigh meat, juicy and delicious.

"Mikoto-nee, you come too." Uesugi Muneyuki smiled and gestured for Ishihara Mikoto to come over.

"Thanks, no need, I don't like eating sushi." Ishihara Mikoto shook her head; for some reason, she really didn't like eating sushi.

"Don't worry, I know." Minami smiled and called the forensic beauty over: "Look, what's this?"

A small box of eel rice, the golden-yellow soft glutinous grilled eel coated in thick salty-sweet sauce, rich texture, able to quickly replenish energy,

widely loved.

"!!!" Ishihara Mikoto was somewhat moved; the forensic beauty's fox-like charming eyes glanced at Minami Ojou-sama, seemingly marveling at her thoughtfulness; after hesitating a few seconds, she finally pressed her slightly thick sexy lips together and whispered a thank you.

"Where's Eirina?" Uesugi Muneyuki scanned around, not finding his beloved master's figure.

"Hehe~ Don't worry, she'll be here soon." Minami Ojou-sama gestured reassurance, I've arranged it all.

Sure enough, not a minute later, Ikeda Erena appeared in the conference room carrying another large bag, inside which was stuffed a full large bag of Suntory bottled oolong tea.

Just like that, the Special Mission Unit members began enjoying their late-night snack, making the other divisions of the Metropolitan Police Department Investigation Division 1 next to them green with envy; they were eating only various bentos and bread.

Special Mission Unit's benefits are so nice! Damn, so enviable!

Second Division's Shiratori Sho Keibu involuntarily thought of his girlfriend Okada Sayaka, thinking damn, next time I'll definitely make Sayaka cook Chinese food for me! And not just cook, but have her personally deliver it to the Special Investigation Headquarters!

As the Metropolitan Police Department's ace department, the Special Mission Unit originally had better treatment and benefits, this point everyone was already used to; the only one moved to nearly tears was the newly hired Nango Yui.

For Nango Yui's family background, let alone high-end sushi, even a meal costing ten or twenty thousand yen, even a high-end ryotei costing five hundred thousand yen, he hadn't not eaten before; but he'd long heard police work was bitter and tiring, long prepared to eat bentos and bread during overtime.

New to the workplace, don't make a fuss about special treatment.

Yet what he was eating during overtime now was high-end sushi, fried chicken pieces, and desserts, plus oolong tea to cut the grease! And personally delivered by a superior!

This nearly made Nango Yui shed tears.

Nothing more to say, Watanabe Management Officer, to you, I can only say two words.

Loyal! Devotion!

Also, Father Son is truly ten thousand percent grateful for your arrangement!

This Special Mission Unit place, high level, friendly colleagues, good treatment, nice words — I super love it here!

After everyone ate a late-night snack, the topic naturally returned to this case.

Uesugi Muneyuki stood before the whiteboard, his voice calm like a scalpel, dissecting one by one the truth told by the three corpses of Imazaki Hiroshi, Nakai Rika, and Iehara Riko.

"Everyone," he opened, "the scene was meticulously disguised as a chaotic silver party accident caused by drug overdose. But our scientific examination shows this is a cold-blooded, highly organized homicide. Below are my grounds for judgment."

"First, is corpse stiffness (Rigor Mortis)." Uesugi wrote this term on the whiteboard.

"After death, muscles gradually become rigid; this process has a certain time pattern. Usually appears 2-4 hours after death, reaches full-body peak stiffness at 12-24 hours, then begins to relax."

"Found at the scene was Imazaki Hiroshi's right arm pressed under his own body in an extremely unnatural posture; this posture looks like it was forcibly twisted into place during peak corpse stiffness."

"If he died in this posture and naturally formed corpse stiffness, joints and muscles could not withstand this degree of twisting without severe damage. My conclusion: someone moved his body after corpse stiffness began forming, arranging this 'intimate' posture. This means someone was still at the scene arranging things for a period after death occurred. This completely overturns the 'no outside intervention' accidental death theory."

"Second, also the most crucial point, stomach content analysis."

"After oral ingestion of poison/drugs, the stomach and duodenum are the main residual sites. By analyzing the composition, quantity, and digestion degree of the contents, one can judge ingestion method, time, and approximate type."

"After our examination we found large amounts of undigested mixed alcohol, sedatives, and stimulant components in Imazaki Hiroshi and Iehara Riko's stomachs, consistent with the components of the wine bottles on the bedside cabinet."

"However, Nakai Rika's stomach was nearly empty, only a small amount of liquid; her drug and alcohol concentrations were far below lethal dose, even below levels causing severe consciousness impairment."

"This means she did not participate in this 'binge drinking' at all. She was injected with lethal poison via syringe while nearly fasting; the sleeping liquid DNA on the wine cup was applied artificially postmortem, a crude forgery."

"Then there is the multi-spectral imaging analysis of needle injection marks and toxicological screening."

Uesugi Muneyuki's gaze swept over his shocked colleagues: "In summary, there is only one conclusion: this is a meticulously planned murder case where sedatives were first used to control victims, then professional poison was injected to execute them, and finally the scene was meticulously arranged to conceal the truth. The perpetrator possesses considerable medical or forensic knowledge."

"Therefore, this is undoubtedly a homicide!"

This calm and professional analysis, like an invisible scalpel, thoroughly dissected the curtain of lies meticulously woven by the perpetrator, locking the case nature as "homicide," and pointing out the absolute direction for the next step of police investigation — trace the poison source, track suspects with medical backgrounds, and uncover the deeper secrets that forced the perpetrator to go to such lengths to conceal.

"Please everyone analyze carefully, boldly verify, investigate seriously, must find any possible clues; do not treat this as an accident, but view it as a meticulously planned murder!"

"Yes!" All police were awed by Uesugi Muneyuki's efficiency and ability, responding loudly one after another.

After setting the tone for today's investigation results, the Special Investigation Headquarters announced adjournment; everyone returned to rest, preparing to wait until tomorrow morning when other precincts would mobilize elite forces to concentrate and begin a comprehensive search.

However, when Uesugi Muneyuki was also preparing to go back and enjoy the exclusive labor belonging to his fiancée, the forensic beauty Ishihara Mikoto suddenly called out to him: "Muneyuki, wait a moment, look at this?"

"What's wrong, Mikoto-nee?" Uesugi Muneyuki took the document handed to him by the forensic beauty, and found it was an image scanned by a multi-spectral imager: "Wasn't the pinhole already scanned out?"

"No, it's this, look!" Ishihara Mikoto pointed to several of the images: "I discovered this."

"When I was conducting a more detailed scanning examination on Nakai Rika's corpse, I found a small cluster of extremely tiny, recently laid fly eggs deep in her long hair!"

"This could, be the key to solving the killer's identity!"