Chapter 664

You just let him go like that?

In the deep autumn night, the rain kept falling, and Uesugi Muneyuki walked alone through the pitch-black rain-soaked streets, the streetlights of Tokyo illuminating his body, his shadow flickering in and out of the rain.

Ōsumikawa Minoru, who bore the codename "Matsudaira Yoshiyuki" as an agent of the Lianchuan Renewal Army, couldn't help but complain to Uesugi Muneyuki: "This is too generous!" "I was involved in this case, I paid with my life, I got back Rina's innocence and ultimate revenge against Minister Akimoto and his son—I won't mention that, it's my decision. But what about them? That Warehouse Stone Junxiong isn't the mastermind, he just supplied guns, ammunition, and a small portion of funds, acting as an accomplice... well, plus violent resistance to arrest—anyway, he wouldn't get the death penalty either way."

"The Fujisawa brothers committed three murders, all premeditated, they might get life imprisonment or the death penalty—you think the law should punish them, and I don't oppose that."

"But our Mr. Sakamoto Ryoma, this guy, the source of evil, you actually let him go so easily?"

Ōsumikawa Minoru was fuming, his daughter Rina nodding vigorously, yes, he's essentially the mastermind behind the scenes, the planner and initiator of the scheme, even nearly harming Asuka—how could you let him go?

"I let him go because I have the qualification to let him go." Uesugi Muneyuki's eyes were somewhat unfocused, that gaze which had once been as steadfast as Yuen Wenbo choosing Draven in dire straits flickered with a few strands of complex emotion, he let out a faint sigh: "It's also letting myself go."

Arriving here, seeing no one around, Uesugi Muneyuki simply raised his voice: "Who wasn't a hot-blooded youth in their youth? When I first took up forensic medicine, wasn't it also to defend the living and speak for the dead? Do I only want to be a lackey and guardian of the system, a brainless defender of the state, brainlessly believing in our mother's war rabbit? Just for my current annual salary of 9.4 million yen and various favorable benefits?"

"Hard to say." Ōsumikawa Minoru tugged at the corner of his mouth, he didn't deny that Uesugi Muneyuki had some faith and ideals, but the realistic component in him was obviously greater: "You are indeed often a dog of the system!"

"Then, doggie, whose dog are you?" Uesugi Muneyuki couldn't help but laugh and scold.

"I'm the Junior Student, I'm Shirakawa Mai's dog!" Hironaka Mariko also joined in the fun, she stuck out her thirty-centimeter tongue, deliberately mimicking licking something.

Uesugi Muneyuki's old face turned red, knowing that the scene of him being intimate with Senior Student Mai inside the Odaiba Building had been seen by Hironaka, he deliberately coughed a few times: "Fine, you've got guts, I'll count this as me not having explained things clearly."

"Then you say it." Ōsumikawa Minoru complained.

The rain kept falling, at this moment even the Village Flower Palace was watching Uesugi Muneyuki.

"Killing him serves no purpose." Uesugi Muneyuki fell silent for a moment, organized his words, and said: "You should also understand, the true mastermind is the eternal crocodiles of Nagatacho wrapped in three or four layers of protective shells, they perhaps hope we arrest Sato Liang, they not only early on severed justice, but also could use this to inversely strengthen and consolidate their position."

"That's a force even Father (Watanabe Eiji) cannot oppose, we rashly move aside from self-destruction, it has no effect, other than that, you see how much force I've used trying to deal with the foreign minister, one after another? Aristocracy, Imperial Household Agency, Imperial Family, University of Tokyo, Metropolitan Police Department National Police Agency, finally still needing the support of Chief Cabinet Secretary Onoda Kimiaki (his younger brother Onoda Kimiaki) to clearly hint, then carefully design a plan to provoke the United States CIA, sacrificing your life, before I dare to act."

"In the end, Sato Liang is merely an intermediary, his girlfriend Alice suffered treatment almost identical to Asuka's, although Sato Liang likely doesn't know Alice early on went out to accompany drinks and serve customers, and was the active party... but I can understand his pain and confusion, just as I would choose any means after those around me are harmed, I can, he naturally can too." Uesugi Muneyuki walked in the rain with his hands behind his back: "This is humanity, beneath the cover of reason and wisdom, lies fierce wildness and purest desire." "I can unleash bloodlust and desire, then Sato Liang certainly can too."

"So for him, I chose forgiveness, I actively chose forgiveness, I have the qualification to forgive him, and I did so."

"That's true, I, Ōsumikawa Minoru, have abided by the law since birth, I've upheld the nation's foundation, if not for Rina's matter, I wouldn't... you say this, I understand." Ōsumikawa Minoru listened and nodded, the aging Showa-era chemical worker sighed: "But why didn't you let him leave Japan?"

"This is precisely my second consideration." Uesugi Muneyuki raised his second finger, he smiled and suddenly said: "Do you know the famous Imamate Paradox?"

"What does it mean?" Ōsumikawa knew Uesugi Muneyuki had a habit of showing off his learning, he too wanted to hear.

【Want to hear, want to hear!】*4 The grudge spirits nodded frantically.

We can listen to a story again!

"We assume there is a nonexistent religion, this religion has a sect leader, considered the final interpreter of all scriptures and all laws, we tentatively call him the Imam." Uesugi Muneyuki said.

"Naturally, as sect leader, holy lord, and final arbiter, this Imam must disclose his identity and real name and conduct public activities."

"However, public activities and public identity likewise mean extreme danger, and as everyone feared, from the first Imam's public appearance to the eleventh, without doubt they were all publicly executed or assassinated."

"This is the major flaw of public identity."

"Thus, by the twelfth Imam, everyone adjusted the plan to not disclose his identity, no one knows who he is, naturally making assassination or poisoning impossible, so he no longer needs to worry about safety."

"But this likewise means a problem, since identity is not disclosed, how is he to interpret scriptures? How to perform leader's rites? How to conduct final judgment? Everyone doesn't know who you are, naturally won't listen to you, and if you want everyone to listen, they must know who you are."

"This is falling into the Imam Paradox, at this time there is no good solution, so everyone came up with a 'contact person' scheme, namely by having a person who knows the Imam's true identity act as a contact person to conduct public activities, the contact person responsible for contacting the Imam and issuing various commands and judgments on his behalf."

Uesugi Muneyuki smiled and said: "This way the problem seems solved, but did you notice what problem?" "Of course, essentially this hasn't solved any problem." Kamioka Hideo spat: "Isn't this just like when the partner is absent and you find someone to substitute? You're always absent, always absent, so in time the contact person just becomes the new partner? Who cares about a comedian who no longer performs?"

"nogizakabingo!" Uesugi Muneyuki laughed and snapped his fingers: "Over time, the contact person becomes the actual Imam, they begin to be rotated in assassinations, and since only the contact person knows the true identity, when the contact person dies, the world will have no one who can prove the Imam's true identity, we go deeper: conversely, the contact person kills the true Imam to impose his own will, and likewise no one knows."

"Thus, the contact person becomes the true holy lord."

"And as a contact person is assassinated yet no clue is found to prove who the true Imam is, the entire system descends into chaos and actually disintegrates."

"Sato Liang is this contact person, if he dies, is arrested, then no one will ever know the true identity of the mastermind behind the scenes!"

"Conversely, if he lives, then as a contact person, he becomes the Imam in actual effect!"

"So I must let him go, because a living, publicly active Sato Liang who can directly give orders" Sakamoto Ryoma' is far more useful than a dead person or a contact person completely isolated and imprisoned by public security!"

"Moreover, our Mr. Sakamoto, after knowing all the truth, will he still be loyal as before? Very blue indeed!"

"Let him go challenge Nagatacho to a duel!"

"Search and catch dead~that road or more!"

The grudge spirits all let out sighs of "I understand," Ōsumikawa even more so shaking his head repeatedly, thinking how could the righteous Lord Kenshin have a descendant like you?

Uesugi this brat, truly black! Five-colored black!

Blacker than Tokyo's night!

At the same time, elsewhere.

Saito Asuka, under Uesugi Minami's insistence, still first came to the Metropolitan Police Department to give a statement, to prevent the girl from being traumatized or suffering secondary harm, the Metropolitan Police Department specially called in Personnel Division's Officer Kashiwagi Misa and the widow mentioned earlier, Officer Yamada Yuki, Officer Yamada Nanase, the female patrol officer. Thus, besides the Prosecutor's Office, in the room stood Uesugi Minami, Ikeda Erena, Ishihara Mikoto, Saito Asuka, Kashiwagi Misa, and Yamada Nanase—six female officers and one female forensic officer, the scene rather awkward and strange.

Fortunately, Saito Asuka was indeed only frightened, nothing actually happened, the girl simply recounted the events, added embellishments, speaking of the Fujisawa brothers' disgrace and repeatedly saying "Fanny," "Winter Niya," "Marie-White恩士," even reaching to undo her belt and pull out her crotch, uttering vulgar words, finally the two brothers, arguing over "who first," broke into a quarrel and scuffle, ultimately evolving into drawing guns and mutual shooting and beating.

The girl on the road had already gone through all the content in her mind once.

Poison-tongued bird, apply for battle!

The female prosecutor of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office Special Investigation Unit, Lin Yanzhen, wore a face full of hatred and contempt, gesturing "yes, I'm noting it, you continue."

Asuka's account matched the determination of the forensic doctor Kamioka Hideo from the Forensics Division, although the Metropolitan Police Department also doesn't quite understand why the two brothers, over a woman, could reach the level of drawing guns and shooting to kill each other.

But is this important?

No, this is no longer important.

Oh my, guilt increased by one level!

Thus, after completing a series of statements, outside it was already late night, and when Asuka got into the Lexus driven by Erena to return to Hankyo Bridge, a black Mercedes 600 suddenly appeared out of nowhere, abruptly blocking the Lexus's path.

"Courting death!" Erena stomped on the brake, gripped the steering wheel, and shouted angrily.

However, Asuka's reaction was different, she screamed in the back seat, her voice trembling with tears.

"Mai-sama!!"