Chapter 91: The Assassin in the Pupils

After simply eating some fruit from the fruit platter left by Miss Minami, Uesugi Muneyuki seized the time to sleep; the body would be delivered at dawn, and there would be plenty to be busy with after that.

While Uesugi Muneyuki was fast asleep in the hotel, the Joint Special Investigation Headquarters launched a heavy-handed strike in three directions, with local police stations and local branches setting up dozens of monitors to check surveillance, as the monstrous waves caused by the third case led the Criminal Investigation Department to go full throttle.

Tokyo, Public Security Police secret facility.

"Ahhhhhhh!"

Bursts of screams came from inside the secret facility.

The professional interrogators of the Public Security Police were performing a gentle "Japanese-style stick massage service" on the members of the Violent Group who had been dragged in, loosening their muscles and bones for them.

There were also humanized and warm physiotherapy services such as Japanese-style skin care and Japanese-style skin diving.

Among them, the situation of the Futaba-gumi, who were caught earliest, was the most miserable; under the heavy punishment of the Public Security Police, there was not a single intact patch of skin on the body of their leader Takakura, and he had been tortured to the point where he wanted to directly enjoy a full 24 hours of sleep every day.

At this moment, someone appeared and interrupted the train of thought of Security Department Chief Kudo Tsuyoshi.

Metropolitan Police Department Public Security Department Management Officer Superintendent Ichijo arrived before Kudo Tsuyoshi and relayed Uesugi Muneyuki's analysis and judgment from the previous joint special investigation meeting to this Public Security leader.

Yes, although it was a meeting for the criminal faction, the Public Security side could easily learn the content of the meeting.

After relaying Uesugi Muneyuki's judgment in full to Chief Kudo, Superintendent Ichijo saw that his superior's face looked very ugly and could only tentatively ask: "Chief, I think Uesugi Muneyuki's judgment makes a lot of sense. Should we try to shift our direction? Change our way of thinking? If we can never get a breakthrough from the Violent Group side, this matter will be troublesome."

"Things were already very troublesome to begin with, Ichijo-kun." Chief Kudo fiercely stubbed his cigarette butt into the ashtray; his eyes were bloodshot and his hair was disheveled, clearly having not rested well for a long time: "What Uesugi Muneyuki said does indeed have some merit, but we cannot change!"

"Why?" Superintendent Ichijo looked around.

"Has Ikawa Botaro confessed?" Chief Kudo asked coldly.

"How is that possible? He has a perfect alibi." Superintendent Ichijo shook his head in distress: "He firmly refuses to confess and does not admit to the murder."

On the Public Security side, ever since they captured these people from the Futaba-gumi, including other Violent Group organizations in Chiba Prefecture, they had been trying to "persuade" these people to confess, especially Ikawa Botaro, for whom a cigarette butt was left at the scene as key evidence.

However, Ikawa Botaro also understood very well that murder is a serious crime, especially since the victim was an elementary school student, and he himself had a perfect alibi, so this guy would rather die than confess, even when the Public Security used torture.

Until the outbreak of the third case, the entire Public Security system had its face slapped swollen.

At this time, even Security Department Chief Kudo knew that, no matter what, it was unlikely that the third case was committed by the Violent Group.

Just as Uesugi Muneyuki said, is Tokyo a den for the underworld?

"Do you know why I haven't gone out to kneel and apologize yet, Ichijo-kun?" Kudo Tsuyoshi asked back coldly.

Superintendent Ichijo was silent, because the Public Security is a covert department, and because the Public Security cannot be wrong.

"Because they really are smuggling drugs, you idiot!" The Security Department Chief raised his chin, lecturing his subordinate.

"If we fail, it's a crackdown on organized crime! If we succeed, it's solving a serial murder case!"

No matter what, we in Public Security will never be wrong.

Kudo Tsuyoshi grabbed Superintendent Ichijo by the collar: "You and Godai keep an eye on that side; report any news to me immediately!"

"Yes!" Superintendent Ichijo looked at the prisoners inside with sympathy, but this little bit of sympathy soon vanished.

Death is hard to avoid, and suffering is inevitable, especially in a situation where the Public Security has lost so much face this time; it is necessary to give them a heavier sentence as a fig leaf.

But this is also what they deserve; who told them to actually smuggle narcotics?

This is also the fundamental reason why their Public Security system has not been fully liquidated.

They didn't hit the big tiger, but they did hit some wolves and dogs.

Chief Kudo, you had already thought of a way out, hadn't you?

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Uesugi Muneyuki was woken up by Watanabe Minami at 3:30 in the morning.

"Uesugi-kun, the body for the third case has arrived." Miss Minami's voice sounded very tired.

"Good, I'll come right now." Uesugi Muneyuki was still a bit sleepy, but upon hearing this news, he immediately got up and rushed to the Joint Special Investigation Headquarters fifty meters away.

Watanabe Minami and another Detective, Okada Masayoshi, the Director General's personal driver who had appeared many times before, were already waiting for him.

"How is the situation with the body?" Uesugi Muneyuki quickly greeted the two: "Were there any other discoveries regarding the victim's relationships and the scene?"

"The victim's relationships are still the same as the previous investigations; Yamato Rina's family is wealthier compared to the two families in Chiba Prefecture. The victim's family members were very emotional, and it took us a long time to persuade them to agree when they heard about the autopsy." Watanabe Minami, wearing standard patent leather high heels paired with thick black stockings and the Metropolitan Police Department's winter police uniform, walked in front: "Everything is ready."

Miss Minami and Detective Okada stood on the left and right, pulling open the doors of the temporary morgue inside the police station.

The army of people in suits busy nearby seemed to have a premonition when they saw this scene, stopping their footsteps and their chatter.

Uesugi Muneyuki's expression was cold and stern; he took his white coat from Detective Okada's hand, threw it over his shoulders, and across the corridor, the light from the incandescent lamp refracted into colorful spots, reflecting onto Uesugi Muneyuki.

Confident, serious, cold.

As if he were shouldering the last hope of all the police in Japan.

Come to think of it, he really was!

"The situation outside is terrible; there are reporters everywhere." Detective Okada's face looked very ugly: "The matter has already spread, and even TV Tokyo has canceled its original variety show and switched to broadcasting a special program on the serial murder case."

"What, even TV Tokyo isn't showing cartoons?" Miss Minami's eyes widened.

Now things were troublesome!

TV Tokyo is the true weather vane for heavyweight news.

"The Cabinet has also ordered the Director General, demanding that the case be solved as soon as possible." Detective Okada and Miss Minami looked at the morgue door together.

"Currently, groups one, two, and three haven't had any special discoveries; perhaps our hope must be pinned on Uesugi-kun again."

Closing the door to the morgue, Uesugi Muneyuki began the autopsy.

The victim, Yamato Rina, an 11-year-old elementary school student; the primary cause of death was a stab wound to the liver in the abdomen, and the secondary cause was being strangled by an electric wire.

After only a few glances, Uesugi Muneyuki's brows were tightly locked.

What a sharp stabbing and technique!

Stab wounds are generally divided into two types: the first is with Life Reaction, and the second is without Life Reaction. Simply put, it is whether the victim was alive or dead at the time of being stabbed; being stabbed while alive is having a Life Reaction, and being stabbed while dead is having no Life Reaction.

By judging whether there is a Life Reaction from the wound, one can easily identify the attacker's order of attack and characteristics.

And after Uesugi Muneyuki identified the wound, he realized that the killer could not be a "weakling."

There was only one fatal wound, and there was only one Life Reaction, which means the killer only delivered this one strike.

This situation is unlikely to occur among vulnerable groups, because vulnerable groups or those with unsteady minds easily develop the cognitive fear of not killing with one stab; they tend to commit the crime with a self-preservation mentality of stabbing many times to ensure the other party is dead.

In other words, the killer is not only cold-blooded but also has absolute confidence in their own attacks.

The first case is like this, and the third case is also like this.

Looking at it from this perspective alone, the judgment of Public Security is actually very reasonable; the killer should be an experienced former Yakuza male.

But why was there nothing to show for it?

After Uesugi Muneyuki superficially performed an Autopsy, he felt it was about enough.

He raised his right hand, and the Qinghui Stone was glowing.

A cyan energy vortex shrouded the room, and under his call, the Soul of the deceased was awakened.

【Woooo~ It hurts, it hurts so much, woooo~】 The girl was not pretty, she was a bit simple-minded, her eyes were set wide apart, and she was in a slightly dull state: 【Why?】

【Hello, Yamato, I am Uesugi Muneyuki.】 Uesugi Muneyuki keenly sensed that the girl's Soul Power was depleting extremely quickly, so he introduced himself briefly and immediately pressed: 【Who killed you, who stabbed you with a knife?】

【It hurts so much, it was an older sister!】

An older sister?!

Uesugi Muneyuki widened his eyes, his pupils constricted, and he felt a bit dizzy.

Wait, an older sister?

A female?!

That's impossible, right? The suspicious individuals investigated by Public Security were all male!

【Are you sure? What did she look like? How did she attack you?】

【Woooo~ I don't know, I didn't see clearly, she just told me she wanted to use the restroom, so I took her to a nearby restroom, and then this older sister suddenly took a knife from her body and stabbed me, it hurts so much!】 The girl's Soul was still crying: 【She was wearing a school uniform and didn't look like a bad person, why would she stab me?】

Really a female?

Uesugi Muneyuki suddenly had a vague association.

The data previously sent over from Chiba Prefecture mentioned that in the second case, there was little surveillance near the weather station, and there were almost no suspicious people, only some students passing by after school!

Students?!

It's students?!

Female students!!!

Thinking back to the fact that all three crimes occurred in the afternoon, when school was out but office workers had not yet finished work.

Uesugi Muneyuki suddenly had a terrifying association.

Wrong!

From the very beginning, it was completely wrong!

Whether it was the Detective of Chiba Prefecture or Public Security, they had completely misdirected the investigation!

From the start, they had set the direction of the investigation on adult males with experience related to a Violent Group.

And the corresponding female students were "vulnerable groups" in the truest sense, naturally being excluded from the police's scope of suspicion!

No wonder they couldn't find a suspect even after digging three feet deep!

So this legendary serial killer is a female student!

But if that's the case, the problem arises again: how could a female student possess such excellent killing skills, know how to dispose of a body, and be able to commit the crime so calmly?

The key is, how is Uesugi Muneyuki going to convince the police to change the direction of the investigation?

【Do you know who that older sister is?】 Uesugi Muneyuki asked in a deep voice.

【I don't know, I don't know who she is, and it hurt too much at the time, I can't remember anymore!】

Tsk!

Uesugi Muneyuki's face was as dark as ink and as deep as an abyss, his two eyebrows twisted tightly.

This answer was completely beyond all his expectations.

The killer is an underage female student?

What's even more dire is that the deceased didn't even know the killer!

Who would believe this if it were said out loud?

(End of this chapter)