Chapter 511

Uesugi Muneyuki didn't expect the scene before his eyes.

It's impossible, the security check at the Imperial Palace is so strict, the explosive device and circuit board can be disassembled into parts and smuggled in, but the explosives can't escape the detection of the security equipment!

So the only explanation is that the bomb itself is that inner world existence, which was brought into the Imperial Palace through special ability, and handed over to Horiguchi Nen for assembly!

But if that's the case, the problem arises again, since that inner world existence can send the bomb into the Imperial Palace through special ability, why doesn't he do it himself, but instead rely on a 58-year-old insider? Isn't he afraid of entrusting it to the wrong person?

Moreover, as a 30-year employee of the Imperial Household Agency, also considered mid-to-high level, what exactly is Horiguchi Nen's purpose for doing such a crazy thing?

Uesugi Muneyuki knows this matter must be suspicious, but now is not the time to think about these questions!

What to do?

He has the Spirit Sphere and Spirit Vision abilities, Hironaka Mariko can control, Miyahara can spit smoke, but these abilities temporarily cannot solve this bomb crisis! Because Horiguchi only needs to lightly press the detonator to explode! And the explosives on his body will detonate completely with a violent touch!

Touching is not an option, not touching is not an option, now we're in trouble!

Hironaka Mariko is control, not immobilization, the other party's fingers can still move, and firing the Spirit Sphere is equivalent to helping him detonate!

As for the Village Flower Palace……the Village Flower Palace is still absorbing Zaizen Professor's soul and memory!

Damn it!

Uesugi Muneyuki's face twisted ferociously, indeed, the power of the inner world has limits!

Village Flower Palace, I don't want to be human anymore! I want to be a Southeast Asian yellow-skinned monster! A big golden guy!

At this moment, the Aizen Myōō Dharma Image also keenly sensed the change in the surrounding atmosphere.

Uesugi Muneyuki could feel that every Imperial Palace Police officer's face around him showed near-collapse fear and helplessness, the air filled with suffocating despair, each of Horiguchi Nen's staggering steps made everyone's heart rise to their throats; each of his waving motions with the detonator drew a suppressed gasp.

They watched helplessly as this mad bomber slowly walked down one corridor after another, approaching that sacred area where even high-ranking officials usually need to hold their breath and remain silent.

The ancient pines and cypresses, the clean gravel plaza, the beautiful Tang broken wind roof……all this solemn and tranquil background formed the most terrifying, most surreal contrast with the mad running human bomb before their eyes.

Everyone present knew that once he was allowed near the palace, or even just detonated beside any important building, its political significance and symbolic disaster would be unparalleled. This is no longer a simple murder case, but a terrorist attack on the nation's core currently unfolding!

"Negotiation expert! Call the negotiation expert quickly!"

"Where's the SAT?! Explosive disposal team?!"

"Evacuate! Emergency evacuation of core area personnel!"

Various frantic orders intertwined over the radio, but distant water cannot save nearby fire.

At the scene, only that madman intent on "jade shattering" remained, and a group of guards pinned to the spot by fear, hesitant to act.

They could do nothing!

As Horiguchi Nen drew closer to the building complex representing the center of the Japanese imperial family, his face showed a smile mixed with madness, relief, and a distorted sense of victory.

Let the flames purify everything!!!

The despairing clouds, like substance, enveloped the entire Imperial Palace.

Time seemed to be stretched and compressed, each frame filled with heart-stopping shock, as more Imperial Palace Police arrived with weapons, what awaited them was extreme tension to stop them, and the police on scene even used their bodies to block the gun barrels!

"It's a bomb!"

"It's a real bomb! Don't act rashly ah ah ah!"

"Don't shoot! Don't shoot!!!"

Whoever first let out a distorted, off-key scream, like ice water poured into boiling oil, instantly triggered uncontrollable panic among the armed police rushing to the scene!

All gun barrels pointed at Horiguchi Nen showed violent trembling, the Imperial Palace Police originally preparing to rush forward and apprehend him, as if blocked by an invisible wall, violently staggered backward.

The command channel fell into dead silence, then was drowned out by various hoarse, exhausted shouts, distorted by extreme fear:

"Cease all actions! Stop!"

"Retreat! Everyone retreat!"

"Bomb disposal team! Where is the bomb disposal team?! Quickly call for reinforcements!"

"TMD! He's heading for the Imperial Palace!"

"Request guidance! Request guidance!!!"

In the Imperial Household Agency's temporary command center, those who saw this scene through real-time footage, including the Director of the Imperial Household Agency, had their faces turn deathly pale in the same instant, losing all color.

"How…how could this……" Maeda Toshisuke of the Imperial Household Agency plopped down on the ground, his body swaying, on the verge of collapsing, barely held up by Takeuchi Jichou beside him.

His eyes no longer held the composure of an official, but utter, faith-shattering terror.

Within the Imperial Palace, a human bomb rushing toward the core palace has appeared? This is an unprecedented postwar nightmare, capable of grinding the entire nation's symbol into dust!

"I I I……he he he, how……I……why……give him……I don't have……" Nakajima Jikan had already been frightened to the point of near fainting, a terrifying scene already appearing in his mind.

Before the purification of the Six Rivers' source, he wore plain white clothes, washing a brand-new ribs sword with water, at this moment a Public Security Police officer from the Police Department, Watanabe Eiji from Aizu, with a white cloth tied on his head reading "Heavenly Punishment National Traitor," calmly approached him, drew his tachi, and said softly: "Sir, I come to assist you in suicide!"

Damn it!!!

"Quick! Quickly move His Majesty! Move ah ah ah!" Takeuchi Jichou shouted shrilly: "No matter what method, move him immediately ah ah ah!"

"Even if you say that……it's difficult to achieve in the short term, and……at least we need to stabilize him first……" Nakajima Jikan also trembled with his lips, his face snow-white.

He regretted it, he shouldn't have said he knew Horiguchi had spoken extreme left-wing rhetoric, this is clearly asking for trouble! He should have said he knew nothing!

This explosion will destroy not only nearby buildings, but also their entire lives!

At this moment, they could only focus their gaze on the Special Mission Unit members present.

Invincible Uesugi Chief! Use your omnipotent forensic ability to think of a solution!

At the same time, the Prime Minister's Office, the Cabinet Crisis Center.

"Eight fang tooth road (damn it!)!!!" Police Commissioner Tamaru Juzaburo slammed his fist on the table, roaring into the radio, his voice hoarse from despair: "SAT! Deploy all standby SAT! Let the Chief Steward notify the Security Department Public Security! All get up for me! Intercept him! Intercept him at any cost! But don't provoke him to detonate the bomb! Hurry up!"

"Immediately call Watanabe Eiji over!" Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission, Higashi Kotaro also roared, at this moment he couldn't care less about anything else, Nagatacho is right next to Sakuradamon: "He doesn't have much experience handling emergencies? I've fully entrusted everything to him! Give it all to him!!!"

Orders were issued hastily, but distant water cannot save nearby fire.

An even more deadly order also came from the mouth of the Chief Steward Onoda: "Notify the Defense Ministry! Order the special warfare group of the Self-Defense Forces in the capital region to standby! Quick!!"

Mobilizing troops into the Imperial Palace? This very idea made all those in the know feel a wave of dizziness, this is already the last option in an apocalyptic script.

Defense Minister Watamari heard the order from the Chief Steward Onoda, he glanced at the Prime Minister.

Obviously, without the Prime Minister's permission, he simply wouldn't dare to issue this order!

Post-war Japan is a country that strictly restricts the military, and as Minister of Defense, he knows exactly how much combat power the Self-Defense Forces actually have.

However, Prime Minister Yamada had already slumped in his chair, eyes vacant, muttering: "Too late, too late."

Even if we mobilize the military now, it's already too late!

Seeing the Prime Minister not nod, the Minister of Defense ultimately still didn't give the order.

Thus, a Cabinet Crisis Management Center, a pile of limp attendees.

Marala!!!

But the situation at the scene wouldn't stop just because they gave up; Horiguchi Nen screamed hysterically, waving the detonator, like a wriggling maggot, slowly squeezing into the Ninomaru Garden!

The Imperial Police futilely formed a human wall, yet under his frenzied charge and the obvious death threat, they kept retreating, only able to hoarsely shout "Calm down!" "Stop!"—the scene completely lost control, despair spreading like actual ink.

Watanabe Minami's face turned ashen, her fingers gripping the walkie-talkie tightly, yet she realized any order she issued in front of this madman was utterly powerless.

At this moment, Watanabe Eiji had just received the news; the Superintendent General, his liver and gallbladder torn apart, immediately got into the car rushing to the Cabinet Crisis Center, but as the situation streamed in via walkie-talkie, the Superintendent General closed his eyes in the back seat, cold sweat sliding down his temples, his heart already a sheet of icy despair—It's over, everything is over.

Political life, the reputation of the Metropolitan Police Department, even the nation's dignity—all will vanish like ashes and smoke with that possible explosion.

Hurry, hurry ah ah ah ah!

At this very moment when all things fell silent and despair reached its peak!

The Imperial Police froze from extreme terror, the scene filled with suffocating despair.

Special Mission Unit Detective Kai Toru was equally extremely tense; he nearly slipped on some garlic he hadn't steadied his footing on, but was pulled up by Igarashi to regain his footing, and in that instant, Kai Toru suddenly noticed Horiguchi Nen also hadn't steadied his footing—he slipped slightly on some garlic, muscles tensing, grip tightening on the detonator, and that slip triggered a frenzy of pounding heartbeats and startled cries from the surrounding Imperial Police.

Don't explode! Don't explode!

Fortunately, Horiguchi Nen soon steadied himself; he himself realized this was dangerous, so he moved his finger slightly off the button.

And while everyone was praying, Kai Toru, a young non-career-track detective from the local precinct with countless street chases and on-site emergency response experience, had his brain, under extreme tension, filter out all bureaucratic hesitation, leaving only the most primal police instinct and keen environmental observation.

He didn't just stare at that terrifying detonator like everyone else; his eyes darted over Horiguchi Nen's moving feet and the area he stepped on—the transition zone connecting the hallway to the open garden, paved with large, smooth pebbles (jade gravel).

For aesthetics and drainage, this gravel was laid not tightly, surface smooth.

Unlike all the Special Mission Unit officers, Kai Toru had been abandoned since childhood; his grades were poor from middle school, he argued with his father, deliberately slacked off, mixed in society as a yellow-haired ghost-fire youth brawling in the streets, accumulating extremely rich street-fighting experience, and after joining the police force, he long served as a patrol officer and detective, frequently facing such tricky situations.

In this regard, he differs from everyone in the Special Mission Unit!

Suddenly, an idea flashed in his mind.

A very dangerous idea!

But doing nothing now is also death, making a grand plan is also death—rather than just waiting to die like this, die for the country, is it acceptable?

Die for the country!

"Uesugi Chief, Watanabe Management Official!" Kai Toru suddenly said in a low voice: "Can you cover me?"

"I have a plan!"

(Chapter End)