Chapter 801

The former face of the Metropolitan Police Department isn't just for show.

Kashiwagi Misa has a unique temperament among people—she is both mixed-race, coldly beautiful, and ice-mountain-like, yet also possesses the gentleness and composure of a married woman; she carries the sacred, inviolable sternness of a female officer, yet beneath her hard exterior lies hidden weakness and gentle obedience.

Back then, her photo in police uniform was posted on the Metropolitan Police Department's recruitment poster; now she is Lao Ren's wife.

But that face, that figure, that temperament that makes hearts race—none of it has changed.

Running into Kashiwagi Misa here was unexpected for Uesugi Muneyuki.

You're a section chief in the Personnel Division—why are you here at the Forensic Science Laboratory?

We're going to the Forensic Science Laboratory to attend a meeting and listen to a report! You're just a desk-duty female officer… are you deliberately blocking me here?

Uesugi Muneyuki walked in, pressed the floor where the Forensic Science Laboratory is located, the elevator doors closed, and in the cramped space, only the two of them remained.

Kashiwagi Misa said nothing, merely silently watching the numbers jump on the elevator door, but her fingertips had, at some point, quietly touched Uesugi Muneyuki's fingertips—her hand was cold, her fingertips slightly trembling, intertwining with his.

Uesugi Muneyuki's hazy consciousness was correct.

Kashiwagi Misa came here specifically to block him.

As for why she would know… she knows that as the Metropolitan Police Department's ultimate weapon, Uesugi Muneyuki will certainly be forced or voluntarily participate in this case, and she only needs to feel whether the strange floral pattern he drew on her lower abdomen causes pain or itching to determine if he is nearby.

She cleverly stood behind Uesugi Muneyuki, exactly where the surveillance was blocked; the mixed-race ice-mountain wife smelled his familiar scent, her breathing immediately became rapid, her silk-stockinged, high-heel-wrapped beautiful legs lightly rubbed against each other, the light in her eyes blazing bright, almost dripping with water: "Muneyuki, you came?"

"Misa?" Uesugi Muneyuki's gaze burned fiercely.

"Shh!" She didn't look at him, her eyes still fixed on the numbers jumping on the elevator door, but the corner of her mouth twitched slightly, like a smile, yet like something else: "Ren took that case, you know, right? You're here for the meeting, right?"

Uesugi Muneyuki nodded slightly: "I know."

"Actually, Ren didn't sleep all last night," her voice was very soft, soft as if afraid of being recorded by the elevator's camera: "He sat in the study drawing maps, drawing until three in the morning; I brought him a cup of coffee, but he didn't even glance at me."

Uesugi Muneyuki did not respond.

This old Ren has strength!!

He felt her fingers lightly drawing circles in his palm, one after another, as if tracing some pattern.

"This time I might need your help again." Kashiwagi Misa's face flushed crimson, she spoke in a low voice, her voice still soft, but the two words "need help" were bitten especially hard by her: "Really, I really need it!"

"This time I really can't help." Uesugi Muneyuki's voice was also kept very low: "No corpse, no deceased, nothing I can intervene in—your Ren has to face this case himself."

The elevator stopped at the Forensic Science Laboratory's floor, and the doors opened.

Someone passed by in the hallway, footsteps and voices drifting in.

Kashiwagi Misa immediately released his hand, stepped back one step, restored her ice-mountain beauty expression, as if nothing had happened; Uesugi Muneyuki walked out of the elevator, the door behind him remained open, and Kashiwagi Misa immediately resumed her aloof and proud demeanor, making it seem as if the woman just now was merely an illusion.

"Professor Uesugi." She called out to him: "Can you come over for a moment?"

The two moved silently to an empty stairwell—there was no surveillance here, and Kashiwagi Misa instantly became much bolder, almost unable to wait as she lunged into his embrace, tightly wrapping her arms around his waist: "You bastard! Why won't you help Ren?"

"I said I can't help with this!" Uesugi Muneyuki also embraced her, unable to suppress a wry smile: "I need a corpse—or at least some trace—to work a case; I'm not Grand Theft Auto! Car chases, bank robberies—those aren't my domain…"

"Liar!" Kashiwagi Misa violently interrupted him, then rose onto the tips of her silk-stockinged feet and kissed him on the lips: "I know… I know why?"

"Huh?" Uesugi Muneyuki blinked, stunned—has this woman recently changed her personality?

"You Sakurada Gate Lewd Devil! Others don't understand you, but I still don't? You must be… must be because I haven't given you… lately, so you refuse to help Ren—it must be this, I know you too well, you bastard controlled by your lower half! All day long, your head is full of lust!" Kashiwagi Misa said rather urgently: "It must be this!"

She stared at him, and in those cold, icy eyes now surged an indescribable emotion—like shyness, like boldness, like some long-repressed desire finally finding an outlet.

Her lips moved, her voice dropping to near inaudibility: "You can pay in advance."

"Huh??" Uesugi Muneyuki couldn't speak, wondering what was going on?

"What I mean is, you don't need Ren to have a need for me to come find you again—I mean you can usually come find me… in short, if there's anything you can help with later." Her voice trembled, but each word was crystal clear: "You must help him." Uesugi Muneyuki looked at her, silent for several seconds.

Then he suddenly laughed, that laugh carrying a sense of "I've seen through you all along."

He walked up the stairs, pressed the door, leaned close to her ear, voice so low only she could hear: "Misa, you just wanted it, didn't you?" Kashiwagi Misa's ears instantly turned crimson. She neither denied nor admitted it, merely turned her face away, unwilling to look at him. That face, cold as frost, now bore a faint flush, like a hot spring rising beneath ice, scalding her so much she was caught off guard: "Anyway, anyway it's all going to be yours… Tokyo has cases every day… just treat it as an advance payment…"

Uesugi Muneyuki looked at her flushed ears, chuckled, and stepped back one step: "Shall we go to the meeting first?"

"Let's go to the meeting first." Kashiwagi Misa lifted her head, her eyes bright and sparkling, like holding an entire Milky Way.

In the large conference room of the Forensic Science Laboratory, the room was full of people.

On both sides of the long table sat the elite detectives of the Special Investigation Headquarters—one by one from Criminal Investigation Division One, Section One and Section Two—each in Western suits and leather shoes, notebooks spread before them, expressions stern.

Shiratori Sho sat to the right of Kashiwagi Jin, flipping through a thick stack of documents. The projection screen on the wall lit up, displaying a map of Tokyo, covered in red and blue lines and markings. The air smelled of coffee and tension.

On the other side, Minami Ojou-sama also sat nearby, but she clearly wasn't focused, since this wasn't the Special Mission Division's affair, and Minami had no intention of participating—she had merely come to observe.

Everyone was already seated neatly; Kashiwagi Jin coughed a few times, signaling to everyone that preparations could begin.

Just then, Uesugi Muneyuki pushed open the door and walked in, wearing a dark gray shirt, sleeves rolled up to his forearms, expression calm, steps unhurried.

He came?

Uesugi Muneyuki's appearance instantly gave all the police present infinite confidence!

However, Uesugi Muneyuki said nothing; he made a gesture indicating he was merely here to observe, then greeted Minami, and proceeded toward the back of the large conference room.

You really came, my rival! Yeah, this grand performance would be incomplete without you!

Kashiwagi Jin's face immediately broke into a smile; he greeted Uesugi Muneyuki, originally intending to signal his subordinates to make space for Uesugi in the first row, when the door sounded again.

The former face of the Metropolitan Police Department, Kashiwagi Misa, walked in wearing a summer police uniform—her appearance instantly cooled the hot August air, yet also heated it up considerably; she wore a dark blue short-sleeved police uniform, her skirt reaching above the knees, revealing calves wrapped in flesh-toned stockings, her feet in black low-cut high-heeled shoes. Her gait was elegant, but her steps were light, as if she didn't want to disturb anyone.

"Misa-jie!" Minami Ojou-sama happily greeted Kashiwagi Misa.

"Hmm." Her face still bore that signature ice-mountain expression, her brows and eyes carrying a distant, icy aloofness, but as her gaze swept across the conference room, it paused momentarily on Kashiwagi Jin, then moved on.

The two took seats in the last row of the conference room.

Kashiwagi Misa naturally placed her bag by her feet, then naturally sat down beside Uesugi Muneyuki.

Not the kind of seating with one seat between them—"colleague relationship"—but shoulder to shoulder, elbows nearly touching. Kashiwagi Jin stood above, saw this scene, and his heart twitched slightly.

Uesugi Muneyuki wasn't saying he couldn't help—so why did he come?

His gaze shifted to his wife.

Kashiwagi Misa was turning her head to the side, saying something to Uesugi Muneyuki.

Her expression remained cold, but her lips moved only slightly, as if saying something she didn't want a third person to hear. Uesugi Muneyuki slightly lowered his head to listen, the corner of his mouth bearing a faint, elusive smile.

Kashiwagi Jin suddenly understood.

It was Meisa who brought Uesugi Muneyuki here!

Although Meisa is an Assistant Police Inspector and section chief of the Personnel Division, she has nothing to do with this case, but her relationship with Uesugi Muneyuki has always been good— or rather, as the former face of the Metropolitan Police Department and former Equipment Management Department, now an administrative female officer in the Personnel Division, she gets along well with many people in the Metropolitan Police Department. Probably hearing that this case is difficult to handle, she specially invited Uesugi Muneyuki to come and bolster the lineup.

A warm feeling welled up in his heart.

Since that incident last time, Meisa has been speaking less and less at home, and after sleeping in separate rooms, it has been cold and quiet, and he has been returning home less and less, often going to Alice's place, but at the critical moment, his wife still thinks of him!

Thinking of this, Kashiwagi Jin's gaze softened somewhat.

He glanced at Shiratori Sho and Uesugi Minami sitting in the front row, then at Uesugi Muneyuki in the back row, and suddenly felt a sense of solidity in his heart. Shiratori Sho is an elite of the Second Division, steady in his work, with strategy and awareness of the bigger picture, and is his left and right hand.

Uesugi Muneyuki is the emblem of the Metropolitan Police Department, the Case Solving God, and although he says he can't help much on the surface, he still came.

And he, Kashiwagi Jin, standing above, is the center of the entire Special Investigation Headquarters.

The Metropolitan Police Department's Absolute Dual Pride— one is the magic user of case solving, the other is the hunter of criminals.

The two have different styles, but each has their own strengths.

At this moment, his wife is sitting beside that person— what does this mean?

This means: I and Uesugi Fengyun unite in harmony, Mahō boundless! Sugi and Kashiwagi evergreen, never dying!

He did not feel uncomfortable, but rather felt very reassured.

With Meisa bringing Uesugi, this round is secure!

He continued to explain the case on stage, his voice more calm and steady than before.

"Regarding this case, there is a concerned point on the earth……"