Chapter 33 The strongest swordsman in the East China Sea!
On this late autumn night, a report about "Sigmund Tokyo Trading Company's Criminal K's Trafficking and Prohibited Fruit Experiments" was published in a less eye-catching section of the evening daily of the Asahi Shimbun online version, and it was vaguely
The target of the attack was a certain celestial member of the World Government's Upper House.
Sharp and objective writing style, detailed and simple narration, everything that happened that night at the "Exhibition" was narrated.
Although the signature at the end of the article was "a reporter motivated by interest" and not his real name, it still stirred up a lot of waves.
You must know that the Asahi Shimbun is not an ordinary third-rate tabloid, but one of the representative newspapers and periodicals in Wano that mainly targets the intellectual class and is full of liberalism and professional journalism.
In addition, the recent frequent disappearances of people in New Tokyo have already caused some panic. In the early days, even the families of the missing people went to the entrance of the Metropolitan Police Department to sit-in and protest, asking them to solve the case as soon as possible. As soon as this report came out, it immediately ignited the anger of the family members.
Emotions have also plunged ordinary people into shock and anger.
When heavenly beings enjoyed various privileges in this world, they endured it; when heavenly beings were domineering and domineering above the law, they also endured it; now those heavenly nobles actually treat human beings like livestock, imprison them for experiments, and even
It's selling!
This time the people couldn't sit still!
Also unable to sit still...
And the angry big shots.
...
At night, Tomimori Keita, who had just poured a cup of coffee in the Asahi Shimbun office, made a cup of coffee and enjoyed a short break during overtime work. He is thirty-four years old and has been divorced for two and a half years and is currently single. He is just an ordinary person in the new Tokyo metropolis.
An ordinary wage earner.
Jingle Bell-!
The phone call from the office broke the tranquility of the night!
"Fumori! Are you crazy! That report...you...do you know what you are doing?" As soon as the call was connected, the editor-in-chief of the Asahi Shimbun said with trembling lips from the other end.
roar.
Keita Tomimori was stunned for a moment, took a sip of coffee, and smiled on his face, "Of course I know it, did you recognize it was me?"
"Nonsense! That sharp and distinct style! I'm not the only one who can tell that." The editor-in-chief on the other end of the phone lowered his voice and gasped, "Listen to my words of advice to Fusen, it's still too late to stop now, you don't need to gamble.
If you are concerned about your own future and life, if they are found to be you, those guys may send you to jail with just a casual slander without evidence."
"I'm sorry, there is something you may not be clear about."
Keita Tomimori stood by the window of the high-rise office building, looking out at the brightly lit city night. He took a deep breath and said, "I am a single father, but my daughter disappeared last month. To this day, I still hope
She just traveled far away, but the Metropolitan Police Department called me today to inform the families of the victims, hahaha..."
Upon hearing the news, the other end of the phone fell silent.
"Don't worry, I'm fine now." Tomimori Keita smiled and continued, "Slander without evidence? Then just let them come."
Thinking of the two video recordings that the man sent to his mailbox tonight, Keita Tomimori showed a pale and cold smile on his face.
"And...who says I don't have evidence?"
...
Edogawa Ward.
In a brightly lit convenience store.
Higashinohara and the grumpy boy from before checked the goods and paid for the shift, then changed into a convenience store uniform and came to the bar. No one came in at this time, so he had nothing to do and checked his mobile phone.
Captain Dragonfly?
Did that grumpy guy just say it happened last night?
Higashinohara opened several portals, and his face was slightly startled when he saw the hot search list. When he saw the horse-racing video that was the most played on the site today and clicked in, his face became even weirder. Below the video
In just ten minutes, it was filled with comments from various netizens.
"It's unbelievable! Such a thing actually happened in New Tokyo, Wano?!"
"Are those young people locked in iron cages ready to be sold? Bastards! How abominable!"
"I seem to have heard that the office building of Sigmund International Trading Company's branch in New Tokyo is in the suburbs of Ota Ward in the south! A cousin of mine even went for an interview, but I didn't expect it to be such a magical cave!"
"Strongly demand that Sigmund get out of Wano! Severely punish the mastermind behind the scenes!"
"..."
"Is the guy wearing the dark gold dragonfly mask the 'Captain Dragonfly' in the news? He's so strong! Neither the pirates nor the smiling tiger are his opponents!"
"He's talking about justice driven by interest? Haha! I like it! Is this a satire on the top brass of Wano Country?"!
"The Metropolitan Police came out to be beaten! Isn't the 'justice without haze' that you advertise as straightforward as the 'justice driven by interest' in the face of crime?"
"..."
The comment area is still flooded with new comments, and there is a vague tendency to form a public opinion storm.
Higashinohara looked at the figure wearing a dark golden dragonfly mask in the video. Under the circumstances at that time, he didn't think there was anything wrong.
At this time, looking at it from a third perspective, I felt a little embarrassed, especially the phrase "justice driven by interest" that caused countless discussions in the comment area...
Well, it must have been because he came to Wano Country that he calmly said such shameful words in hindsight - Higashinohara felt that he had found the root cause.
...
Young teenager is reflecting.
At the same time, the "big shots" who saw the video on the Internet fell into deep thought.
The country of Wano is separated by more than a dozen countries to the west, and is located at the junction of the northern and southern continental plates of the Eastern Hemisphere - this is the capital city of Shangjing, the seat of the world government, which is a giant urban area centered on Shangjing.
It is said to be a metropolitan area, but the actual area covers three small countries with a land area of 100,000 square kilometers. There are ten large and small airports in the metropolitan area, and the corporate headquarters buildings of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and countless world oligarch-level companies are conveniently located.
Located in this huge urban area, both transportation and economy are the most prosperous and convenient in the world.
Shangjing Tianren Special Zone, on the top floor of the Sigmund International Trading Company Building.
Congressman Hope, who had just left work at the Capitol building in the city center known as the "Blue Palace", turned off the ultra-thin light screen on the wall, held a glass of scarlet wine, stood up and walked to the floor-to-ceiling window to look at the feet outside the transparent curtain wall.
of all living beings.
What he was thinking about was in Shangjing District... No, there must be many celestial beings and humans in more than 300 countries in the world who, like him, saw the video that his subordinate had just forwarded to him.
The country of Wano in the East?
Humans...are really troublesome and dirty bugs.
He took a sip of wine gently, trying to convince himself to stay calm and not let the anger in his heart dominate his nerves and brain.
Because Congressman Hope knows that as the latest member of the noble House of Lords.
His enemies are not only the humans who regard him as a cruel alien, but also the Celestial Family who watch all this with cold eyes in the dark.
For example, the World Bank Headquarters, a tall building more than ten kilometers south of the Sigmund Trading Company building and closer to the center of Beijing, as well as the old fox of the Bart family on the top floor of the bank building, and the one that was placed in his house a few years ago.
Chess pieces around you.
He knew all this in his heart, but the chess game played by the big shots obviously couldn't overturn the table. As a newcomer, he could only try to keep up with the "pace" of the big shots, and then casually inserted the chess piece into the country of Wano, but he didn't expect it.
leading to such "operational accidents".
Councilor Hope took a sip of his drink, his face lost in thought.
The "Nine Families of Heaven and Man" withdrew from the world stage a hundred years ago during the human revolution - although Hope has always vaguely felt that there was some unknown trick behind "that revolution forced the Nine Families to withdraw from the stage of history".
But it is undeniable that since then, the Celestial Beings have made certain concessions in various matters faced by humans in the past hundred years, trying not to cause pressure from world public opinion on the Celestial Beings. This has gradually become
A certain consensus reached among the top aristocracy of heaven and man.
Then yourself...
Should we also give in once?
Congressman Hope's amber vertical pupils flashed with unusual brilliance. After pondering for a moment, he walked to his desk and dialed the number of a certain minister in the Wano cabinet.
You can give in.
But as a successful businessman, superficial concessions are often made to clear more obstacles.
After hanging up the phone, Representative Hope drank the wine in his glass in one gulp.
...
The next day, November 22.
Wano Country Labor Thanksgiving Day.
Early this morning, the entrance to the Metropolitan Police Department was blocked by a large group of reporters. Every person who walked out would be chased by countless media reporters like bees and butterflies.
In the conference room at the top of the Metropolitan Police Building, the heads of important departments such as the Security Department, the Transportation Department, the Criminal Department, and the Organized Crime Countermeasures Department were sitting around the conference table with tense faces on this rare national holiday.
The noise of reporters outside could still be faintly heard outside the floor-to-ceiling windows.
At the head of the conference table, the head of the Metropolitan Police Department, Shin Takagi, who was the only one wearing a brochure, glanced at Tsukada Masaru, the acting leader of the First Division of the Third Investigation Team, who was sitting in the corner of the conference table and was attending the meeting, and said slowly:
"Who leaked those two videos to the media? It is meaningless to pursue it now. What we have to do now is how to deal with the mess in front of us. The good news is that the Prime Minister called today to express his determination and agreed to let us deal with it.
Tenjin employees in Sigmund in Wano and seized the Tokyo branch office building of Sigmund in Ota Ward.”
Having said this, Takagi Shen paused and continued:
"But Ryunosuke Kamiya, the captain of the second division of the Sakamoto Dragon Pirates who was captured together, will also publicly execute a death trial on the Rising Sun artificial island in the east to the whole world as a warning to others."
Public execution?
The expressions of the heads of departments present were a little subtle.
Perhaps different from other countries' attitudes towards pirates, Wano has always been relatively "tolerant" to the "Sakamoto Dragon" pirate group, one of the two largest pirate forces in the East China Sea adjacent to the sea - this is not only because these pirates sometimes
Intentionally or unintentionally, they will help some governments. More importantly, the ancestors of these pirates were the "anti-barbarians" of Wano who fought against the invasion of heaven and humans thousands of years ago.
If that war was victorious, then there is no doubt that they are all descendants of the world's heroes. It is a pity that the winners and losers, the top human beings and the gods finally reached a compromise, and they could only live at sea.
Perhaps for this reason, as long as they do not go too far at sea, the Metropolitan Police rarely targets members of the Sakamoto Dragon Pirates.
But this time...
It is actually a death trial.
There is no fool who can sit at this conference table today. Someone soon thought of the trading ships that Sigmund Trading Company has frequently robbed in the East China Sea in recent years - the Sakamoto Dragon Pirates are the largest among them.
A force suddenly realized that the so-called "decision of the Prime Minister" was just a cover for a secret deal.
The building of Sigmund's Tokyo branch and all properties in New Tokyo were sealed, and all the company's employees were sent to the prosecutor's office for trial, which seemed to have quelled the overwhelming public outrage.
But how could a heavenly being be sentenced to death?
Maybe not long after, there will be another company under the banner of "Donggmund" trading company doing the same thing in Wano Country, and Sigmund Company has used this to scare the pirates in the East China Sea.
No!
More than just a shock!
At the corner of the conference table, Tsukada Masaru of the First Division quickly smelled something unusual.
If a death trial was to be carried out, where in Wano country could it not be carried out? Why did it choose the artificial island in the East China Sea? The East China Sea is the base camp of the Sakamoto Dragon Pirates.
Those pirates who are the descendants of those who resisted the barbarians thousands of years ago would watch helplessly as the officers on their own ships were executed? There was also the man on the Sakamoto Dragon ship who was known as the "strongest swordsman in the East China Sea" of this era.
Would he watch the general who boarded his ship and had a drink with him being executed in the East China Sea under his nose?
Tsukada was feeling a little uneasy in his heart, he frowned and wanted to say something.
At this time, there was suddenly a loud noise downstairs.
Everyone looked out through the floor-to-ceiling windows next to the conference room, and were suddenly shocked to find that the street to the west of the Metropolitan Police Department had been jammed with people swarming through the parade. At a glance, dense black spots were like waves heading towards the Metropolitan Police Department.
rushed towards the building.
The head of the conference table, Takagi Shen, his face darkened and he spoke very quickly:
"It's decided! The captured pirates will be executed next month! Now! Everyone has it! All Sigmund's properties in New Tokyo will be seized immediately, and we must give an account to the people!"
"yes!"
Everyone nodded in agreement.
Tsukada was stunned for a moment and sighed inwardly.