Chapter 109 Gunshots from the Metropolitan Police Department
Chapter 109 Gunshots from the Metropolitan Police Department
The new Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department building adopts a cold architectural style. The exterior walls are made of blue-gray marble with square glass curtain walls. The winter sunlight penetrates through, making the entire building look rigid and square.
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This morning, a meeting was held in the conference room of the Third Investigation Team on the top floor of the Metropolitan Police Department building.
The third floor of the Metropolitan Police Department building belongs exclusively to the Criminal Investigation Section 1.
In an office behind the corner at the end of the corridor, one of the deputy section chiefs of the Search Division, Matsuo Hayabusa, works here on a daily basis.
Today was the same as usual. He was holding a cup of morning coffee from the vending machine downstairs. He smiled kindly and said hello to the beautiful female assistant at the front desk, and then walked slowly into the office.
After a while, the female assistant came in and wanted to question him about a case yesterday.
Unexpectedly, after knocking on the door and entering, I found the usually easy-going and humorous Deputy Section Chief Matsuo Hayabusa sitting with his back to his desk, holding a cup of coffee in his hand and staring blankly at the winter scenery on the street outside the floor-to-ceiling window.
The female assistant said a few words, but the other party didn't respond. He just nodded with his back to her. She thought her boss was thinking about some important case, so she put down the information in her hand and walked out to close the door.
After the female assistant went out, Deputy Section Chief Matsuo Hayabusa looked down at the phone screen in his hand, with a complicated expression on his face.
It never occurred to him,
One day something like this will happen to me.
perhaps,
He should never have joined that organization in the first place.
Turning his head, there was a photo of a family of three on the table in Matsuo Hayabusa's office.
I still remember that when I left for work this morning, my five-year-old daughter had a little temper. He squatted down and promised to bring delicious food home after get off work to calm the little princess.
But now.
Deputy Section Chief Matsuo Hayabusa looked at the email on the computer screen on the desktop with some discomfort. It had been lying quietly in his draft box since he came to the office in the morning - it looked very much like him.
The words were written when Tian stayed up late at night in "painful confession".
"Twenty years ago, I was just an ordinary graduate of the New Tokyo Central Police Academy. I joined the Metropolitan Police Department under the sacred oath. At that time, I was full of enthusiasm and the law was sacred and inviolable in my eyes."
"I don't know when my thoughts were eroded, and I began to neglect my duties and accept bribes. I watched others rise to the top, while I was still a small deputy section chief for so many years. It felt like I was holding a fire in my heart."
"Why! Why can he be promoted to section chief?"
"I finally released this fire. After an argument, I accidentally killed the most competitive deputy section chief, Nakagawa Tsuru, and disguised it as suicide. However, after this period of time, I fell into extreme confusion and painful repentance.
During this period, I began to reflect on myself and what I had done, but I could not talk to anyone about it. The doctor said that I had some depression tendencies."
"The condemnation of conscience and the sanctity of the law made me realize that it is too late to turn back today. I want to end it all."
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Reading the words in his email draft box, Deputy Section Chief Hayabusa Matsuo gently touched the photo frame with his fingers.
He is not a native of New Tokyo. He comes from an ordinary family. His wife is also an ordinary-looking middle-aged woman from Wano. However, what is slightly different from the family portrait in the photo frame is that now his wife’s belly is slightly bulging, and she is already eight months pregnant.
It's been a month, and their little family in New Tokyo is about to usher in a new life.
The five-year-old daughter may have suddenly realized this morning that the upcoming little life in her mother's belly might threaten her status as a little princess in the family in the future, so she had the baby and declared her sovereignty, but she was quickly coaxed by his promise of delicious food.
Already.
Thinking of his daughter's cute look with her mouth puffed out when she was angry, Deputy Section Chief Hayabusa Matsuo's face felt inexplicably sad. He reached out and slowly opened the drawer, and his fingertips touched the cold black old-fashioned police gun, which had accompanied him a lot.
An old friend of many years.
Suddenly, Deputy Section Chief Matsuo Hayabusa's breathing became a little rapid.
The top-floor conference room of the Metropolitan Police Building.
After someone said a certain word, the atmosphere in the conference room fell into stagnation for a time.
The captain of the 13th Division, Tsukasa Sugita, stared straight at the captain of the 5th Division, Kimura Hakutaku, who was sitting on the right hand side of the leader.
The latter's face remained as usual, with a warm smile on his lips, and his expression remained melancholy and calm under his slightly longer hair.
As Miyano Juro, the captain of the 6th Division, said, the most popular "ideal types" among the girls in the Metropolitan Police Building in the Third Investigation Team are these two men.
And one day, when these two people are competing against each other, for some girls, it may be that their hearts are racing, and they are so excited that they can make up hundreds of thousands of words of harmonized content in their minds.
But for those present in the conference room, the surrounding air seemed to have suddenly dropped to freezing point.
"Ahem."
The captain of the first team, Tsukada Masaru, coughed dryly.
As Tokugawa Ritora's once most capable right-hand man, Tsukada Masaru, who was broad-bodied and majestic, had a lot of Tokugawa Ritora's shadow.
In the past, when Tokugawa Ritora was on a business trip, he was responsible for all matters of the New Tokyo Group 3, whether large or small. Strictly speaking, the sudden emergence of Kimura Hakutaku, the captain of the fifth division, took his place.
However, at this moment, Tsukada Masaru looked at Tsukasa Sugita, the youngest captain of the 13th Division of the third group, and said in a serious tone:
"Sugita, the whereabouts of Team Leader Tokugawa are currently unknown. I don't want anyone to affect the unity within the team. This is also what the team leader does not want to see. Any accusation without evidence is a slander that affects unity."
The captain of the 6th division, Juro Miyano, once discussed this issue privately with Tsukasa Sugita when Judge Miguel Gioia first arrived at the Metropolitan Police Department.
In the end, there was no evidence.
But Miyano Juro didn't expect that Sugita Tsukasa, the youngest member of the 13th Division, would have such an upright personality that he would take the initiative to bring it up in such an important meeting today.
Is he still investigating during this time?
Or have you found some solid and reliable evidence?
Miyano Juro was thinking this, but Sugita Tsukasa's next words stunned him.
"I have no direct evidence, but I can prove to everyone through a series of reasoning that Captain Kimura of the Fifth Division is the biggest suspect in the murder of Deputy Chief Nakagawa of the Search Section 2."
Hearing his words, the captain of the first squad, Tsukada Masaru, couldn't help but frowned.
Any reasoning without evidence, no matter how rigorous and self-consistent the logic is, is just a hypothesis.
Tsukada Masaru knew that because he had been helping Tokugawa Ritora act as agent for the Third Investigation Team, many people regarded him as the next successor to the team leader, and their hearts were biased towards his side.
Now, as soon as something happened to Team Leader Tokugawa, the person who was pushed up was Kimura Hakutaku, the captain of the fifth division who usually works part-time at the Fruit Ability Research Institute, often disappears, and has a relatively unfamiliar relationship with everyone.
It is inevitable that everyone will have some resistance in their hearts.
But this cannot be a reason to split the three groups.
What's more, Tsukada Masaru is actually the same as Tokugawa Ritora in his heart. He is more optimistic about the little girl he adopted with dual talents. Under the personal training of Team Leader Tokugawa, he will have unlimited room for growth in the future.
He didn't want this petty emotion and the irrelevant position of acting team leader to affect the internal unity of the Third Investigation Team, and he wouldn't be able to face it if Tokugawa Ritora came back one day.
"Sugita, Deputy Section Chief Nakagawa's case has been closed. If you have evidence, you can provide it to the Special Investigation Section, but today is the ceremony for Captain Kimura to be inaugurated as acting captain. I hope everyone can unite and not let down the team leader's wishes to everyone.
expect."
Tsukada said to Sugita Tsukasa with a majestic face.
Sugita took a deep breath and raised three fingers.
His eyes swept over the people with different expressions around the conference table, and finally fell on Kimura Hakutaku, whose face was still calm, and said in a gentle voice:
"I just don't want to live up to the expectations of Team Leader Tokugawa and not insult his unshakable justice, so I stand up. I only need three minutes."
At this moment, Shin Takagi, the head of the Metropolitan Police Department who temporarily helped preside over the meeting today and announced the position of acting team leader, suddenly said with a serious face:
"But you have to know that any reasoning is based on evidence."
"I understand. I just hope that after listening to my words, everyone can ask the relevant departments to reopen the case of the death of Deputy Section Chief Nakagawa. I will personally investigate to the end."
"Okay, I'll give you three minutes."
Takagi Shin turned to look at Kimura Hakutaku, remembering the intricate family forces behind him, and carefully said his words, "No matter what misunderstandings there are, I think Team Leader Kimura also needs a chance to prove his innocence."
Kimura Hakutaku nodded lightly and turned to look at Sugita Tsukasa calmly.
However, at this moment, there was a sudden knock on the door of the conference room.
After a while, the door opened.
The secretary outside the door looked a little anxious and said, "It seems something happened down there. A colleague from the Search Division called and said that there was a shooting incident on the third floor of the Metropolitan Police Department."