This place is where important departments of Wano gather. Across the street to the east is the Ministry of Justice, to the south is the High Court, to the west is the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, to the south is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and a little further south is the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.
To the north is the Sakurada Gate of the Wano Imperial Palace.
As for the building with the cherry blossom emblem in the middle, it is the Metropolitan Police Department main store that once appeared in Wano Country morning dramas and various comics, film and television works.
...
The third floor of the Metropolitan Police Department.
Search the office of the principal of Section 1.
"You mean...since September this year, that is, two months ago, there have been dozens of cases of missing teenagers in the city?" A tall and thin young man wore a navy blue protective clothing that was very different from ordinary police uniforms.
Wearing a windbreaker and uniform, his eyes under his silver-rimmed glasses were slightly evil.
Sitting in front of him was Masato Ishikawa, the section chief of the 1st Investigation Division. He was a thirty-nine-year-old middle-aged police officer, but his rank was the same as that of the young and promising Captain Sugita Tsukasa of Team 13 of the 3rd Investigation Team.
Faced with Sugita Tsukasa's aggressive questioning, Ishikawa Masato calmly picked up his work thermos and took a sip of water. After putting it down, he looked into the other person's eyes and said, "No... to be precise, it was early September, and it has been three months since then.
It’s been months.”
"Three months, so many missing cases, and not a single one has been closed?" Tsukasa Sugita lowered his head slightly, "I understand your pressure, but...is this a bit too exaggerated?"
Ishikawa Masato shook his head and looked away from Sugita Tsukasa, "I don't think it's an exaggeration. In our line of work, you should know that tens of millions of people go missing in the world every year, and a few dozen people only occupy the first ten million percent of them."
one."
"Those are not data." Sugita said with a slightly cold tone.
"Those can only be data." Ishikawa Masato raised his head.
He silently stared at the policeman who was almost ten years younger than him, and suddenly sighed and said, "Captain Sugita, you should know what the order and stability of Wano are based on. There are many things that cannot be investigated.
It’s not that the case cannot be investigated, it’s that it cannot be investigated because the water here is too deep..."
"I am clear."
Tsukasa Sugita nodded to interrupt him, then shook his head again and said in a stiff tone, "But this does not mean that I accept it. All subsequent disappearance cases will be sent to me, and the Thirteenth Team will be responsible for thorough investigation."
Ishikawa Masato was stunned when he heard this.
After the air was silent for a moment, he suddenly looked up at Sugita Tsukasa and asked, "Where are the people above you? Does Team Leader Tokugawa know you did this?"
Tokugawa Ritora.
Leader of the third investigation team.
Title: Chief of Police.
There are nine levels of ability users in this world. The lower three levels are ordinary ability users, and the middle three levels are super power users. However, Tokugawa Kuritora is an absolute ability user in the seventh level and fourth level!
At the same time, he is also the ability controller with talent serial number 25 [King Kong].
It can be said that his strong personal strength has established the status of the Third Investigation Team in the Metropolitan Police Department. Even in front of the Metropolitan Police Department’s top officer, the Police Director, it has a huge say. In other words, as long as Sugita Tsukasa moves out of this place.
The Metropolitan Police Department is a mountain, and Masato Ishikawa of the Investigation Division will definitely not say anything more.
However, Sugitaji shook his head.
"Team Leader Tokugawa doesn't know."
Tokugawa Ritora was someone he respected, and his character also determined that he was not someone who could just use others as a shield.
After a moment of silence, Sugita Shido said, "But what I did was officially to implement the belief of Captain Tokugawa - the sword of justice, without haze."
Justice?
Ishikawa Masato stared at the promising young captain in front of him and suddenly laughed, "Captain Sugita really looks like a friend of mine back then. Alas, it's a pity that he has retired from the police force now, but if I have the opportunity to introduce you to him,
I think you will definitely have a great time talking to each other."
Dong dong dong—!
Suddenly there was a knock on the door outside the office.
"Please come in."
Ishikawa Masato said casually.
The door was pushed open, and a policeman ran in with a file in his arms. He stood at attention and saluted, then glanced at Tsukasa Sugita who was sitting next to him. After receiving permission from Masato Ishikawa's eyes, he reported:
"Section Chief, there was another missing case in Ogawa Town, Edogawa District yesterday. The person who reported the case was a single father. The missing girl was six years old at school..."
"A six-year-old girl..."
After listening to the report, Ishikawa Masato subconsciously glanced at the photo frame placed on the desk - in the photo, he was wearing a heroic police uniform, with a five or six-year-old girl next to him with a bright smile. After divorcing his wife three years ago,
Now he is also a single father.
If one day his daughter disappears, then there is no doubt that he may be so crazy that he will dig up the entire New Tokyo and search every corner.
"I think I understand Captain Sugita's determination."
Immediately, Ishikawa Masato said in a joking tone to the reporting subordinate, smiling, "Starting from the case in your hands, I will unpack it for everyone in the future. All cases of missing teenagers in the city will be handed over to Ten
Team Three takes over.”
"Ah? Yes!" The subordinate was stunned, but still obeyed the order and handed the file to Sugita Tsukasa.
Tsukasa Sugita took the file and glanced at the bald middle-aged man sitting behind the desk holding a thermos cup - in his mind, this guy was a well-known veteran in the investigation divisions of the Metropolitan Police Department's Criminal Division.
In recent years, he has taken no part in the internal struggles of the Metropolitan Police Department.
Before walking into this office, he was already prepared to return without success, but he didn't expect that the final development of the matter was unexpected.
"Thanks."
Sugita Tsukasa nodded.
Having achieved his goal, he acted decisively and turned around to leave.
"no need to thank me."
However, Masato Ishikawa shook his head and said something to Sugita when he left, "You should have guessed who is hindering the investigation of the case. You must be prepared to resist pressure in the future."
A heavenly world government?
Tsukasa Sugita muttered silently in his mind, his eyes turned cold, and he walked out of the office without stopping.
One minute later...
The building of the Chiyoda-ku Metropolitan Police Department.
From top to bottom, all the members of Team 13 of the Third Investigation Group were like a compact and compact machine that had the start button pressed, and the gears began to mesh crazily and began to operate at high speed.
...
At the same time, a black stretch car drove into the gate of a villa in Minato District, New Tokyo.
This is a single-family villa along the coast. There are no other houses around. It should be very desolate, but in fact, in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows on the second floor of the villa, you can see Tokyo Tower and Rainbow, two major landmarks of New Tokyo, at once.
The bridge comes into view together.
At night, when the lights are brightly lit, the lights of Rainbow Bridge and Tokyo Tower are particularly colorful and charming, and the gentle waves lap quietly on the Odaiba coast.
The atmosphere is quiet and peaceful,
It's so beautiful that it can heal people's hearts.
...
However, without warning,
Suddenly there was a girl crying in the villa.
The entrance to the basement of the villa.
A girl who looked like a high school student with a dark gold collar around her neck was about to enter the basement elevator together with the girl with a dull face who was walking in front of her.
The moment the elevator door opened, she suddenly turned around. Her face was covered with snot and tears, and she knelt on the ground with a trembling body and begged a sturdy man behind her, "Please! I don't want my ability anymore, let me go."
Go back! Please... I want to go home!"
There is an obvious black stripe on both sides of the flat nose on the man's face, extending from the corner of his eyes to his mouth. On his head is a pair of light brown cheetah-like ears.
He looked at the girl kneeling on the ground with a ferocious smile on her face, and at some point a tough whip appeared in her hand.
Snapped!
The whip exploded in the air!
In an instant, the girl's clothes were torn apart, revealing a shocking blood mark, and her whole body collapsed to the ground.
"I told you... to shut up! You inferior idiot, you took the initiative to find me in the first place." The man said contemptuously. Seeing the girl lying motionless on the ground, he raised his whip and wanted to continue beating her.
Suddenly, a hoarse and magnetic voice came from behind him, "Dick, have you forgotten the punishment the president gave you yesterday? These are our precious [exhibits]."
The Tianbao man named Dick suddenly turned his head, and a thin figure wearing a white lab coat, a hat and a mask jumped into his eyes. The spectacles refracted by the light blocked his eyes.
Dick's face darkened, then he shrugged nonchalantly and threw away the whip in his hand, "Doctor, you know... I just want to give these inferior races a long memory, that's all."
The man called "Doctor" didn't look at him, he just stared at the girl lying limp on the ground quietly...
One second, five seconds, ten seconds...
At a certain moment, the body of the girl on the ground suddenly twitched violently, and then suddenly turned over, and the collar around her neck began to flash wildly.
"Has it started yet?"
Dick's eyes suddenly shone with excitement.
Unexpectedly, the 'doctor' who was watching all this calmly shook his head, turned around and said indifferently, "No, it's over."
As soon as he finished speaking, the girl on the ground kicked her legs violently a few times, the pupils in her eyes expanded sharply, and then she suddenly became quiet.
Everything was silent again.
The collar around his neck also stopped flashing.
"Doctor" casually picked up a tablet on the workbench next to him. The homepage of the tablet read "Sigmund International Trading Company" and the company logo was a sphere surrounded by two alternating arrows.
He entered his fingerprint to unlock it and then swiped down a few times. He calmly clicked the "X" next to the avatar of a smiling girl - choosing to delete all relevant information and observation data.
After deleting it, he returned to the tablet homepage and pressed call.
After a while, two Celestial men in black suits walked in from outside the villa without saying a word, put the girl on the ground into a body bag, zipped it up and moved it out.
Her final destination will be in the dark and quiet deep sea under Tokyo Bay, from precious [exhibits] to insignificant waste...
Just for a moment.
.....
"Tsk tsk tsk...Human...
What an extremely weak race."
Dick licked his lips, glanced disdainfully in the direction of the underground storage room of the villa, and asked the 'doctor' next to him, "This time...there are less than twenty, right?"
"Well, it's just a matter of probability."
The 'doctor' said this in an understatement, but his eyes fell on the smooth and plump oranges placed in the transparent glass cabinet of the experimental table, and he expressed sincere admiration on his face:
"But they are also a very smart race. They can actually develop this kind of ability to compete with the 'gods' for natural authority. It really shocks me every time I see it."
Dick sneered when he heard it.
"What's the use? We've developed a fruit, but not many humans can successfully transform after eating it. Otherwise, we wouldn't have spent so long preparing for this year's [exhibition]."
When the "Exhibition" was mentioned, the "Doctor" also frowned slightly, because the guests of the "Exhibition" came from all over the world.
Some are not so easy to talk to.
"Is today already Friday...?"
The doctor lowered his head and seemed to be talking to himself, "It seems that we need to speed up. Should we inform Wu Lai... to shorten the observation period?"
Wu Lai is a celestial being of the Skyhawk tribe. He has awakened the [Eye of True Sight] with talent sequence 38. He is one of several "special agents" of Sigmund International Trading Company's New Tokyo Branch.
"Oh, that guy must be asking for it."
After hearing this, Dick laughed and said, "Last time, he actually lost a mixed-race woman from the Tianhu tribe, and the president had to use his connections to exert pressure to get her out of the Metropolitan Police Department. This time
If you make another mistake...I'm afraid it won't be that simple."
While the two were talking, the elevator had already reached the third underground floor. The fluorescent lamps on the ceiling overhead illuminated the place as if it were daytime, but the scene inside was shocking.
A cage...a cage...still a cage.
Young men and women of eighteen or nineteen were standing, squatting, or lying down, their faces either numb or fearful, trapped in steel cages. They all wore dark gold collars around their necks, and an electronic sign was fixed on their ankles, which stated
Assessment of age, race, natural ability, and growth potential.
Although the people in the villa call them precious "exhibits", at a glance... they seem like "two-legged animals" waiting for others to choose at will in a noisy vegetable market...
In the corner, a little girl of about five or six years old was curled up on the ground, hugging the little bear tightly in her arms. Her breathing was somewhat rapid and disordered, and her face looked very pale.
However, although she was locked up in a cage, she had to say that this was the first time she had grown up and lived in... no, the first time she had seen such a spacious and bright house.
If only this was really "home"...
The little girl thought to herself.
...
afternoon.
Half past three o'clock,
Takehara Minami Private Academy.
Today is Friday. After the actual training session, Higashinohara packed his things and prepared to go home.
Speaking of which, after the scene in the practical class yesterday afternoon, the atmosphere today is a bit strange - many people in the class are secretly discussing Higashinohara's training methods and discussing whether to run on the playground every day in the future.
A few laps.
As for Sagi Hikaru, who was taught a lesson yesterday, he must be unconvinced.
But in the Academy of Superpowers, strength comes first.
Yesterday, he was easily broken through by Higashinohara even after deploying the second-level technique. Even though he was not angry, he still had no confidence to go to Higashinohara to compete again to regain his face, so he could only endure his anger for the time being.
There is ample time.
Anyway, everyone is only in first grade now.
In addition, I heard that there are some "good guys" in the class who made a bet after seeing Higashinohara's performance yesterday, and placed bets on whether Higashinohara, a well-known "three-war veteran" in the first grade, could pass the assessment and be promoted next year.
Entering second grade.
The bet accepted by the banker was not large, and many people joined in the fun.
At this time, Aida Yuta, who was in the back row of Higashinohara, poked him and asked, "Higashino, do you have any plans for the weekend holiday?"
Oh, by the way, this guy is the one who opens the market.
"work to earn a living"
Higashino didn't even look back.
"In addition to working?" Aida Yuta asked.
"Of course I still work part-time."
Higashinohara was angry.
"Hey, Dongye, do you want to work so hard?"
Aida Yuta couldn't help complaining.
"Didn't Mr. Nakazaki say in this afternoon's practical class that your strength level should already be level 2 and level 2? As long as you work hard to improve it by one level and advance to the second grade next year, you will be able to resume accommodation subsidies and free lunches. Now work hard
Why do you make so much money working part-time?”
"hehe."
Higashinohara laughed, turned around and asked, "What is the current housing price in New Tokyo?"
Aida Yuta's parents are both real estate agents. After hearing this, he said without thinking, "The average price is about 850,000 yen per square meter, right? There are cheaper ones in more remote areas. What's wrong?"
"Think about it, if I stay in Tokyo after graduation and want to buy a 50-square-meter second-hand apartment, it will cost 42.5 million yen. Based on the average annual salary after graduation, it will probably take me 12 years without food or drink."
"Based on my current part-time salary of 1,000 yen per hour, I would have to work at the same place for more than 40,000 hours to buy a second-hand small apartment."
After finishing speaking, Higashinohara looked at Yuta Aida with a smile, "Now will you ask me why I make so much money?"
Aida Yuta was stunned immediately.
He has lived in New Tokyo for so many years since he was a child. Although he occasionally works part-time, he only makes some pocket money to buy his favorite mountain bikes or game consoles. He has never thought about this problem.
Higashinohara smiled, feeling helpless and at the same time he couldn't help complaining that since he had traveled through time, why not dress him like a native of New Tokyo? At least he wouldn't have to worry about being able to stay here in the future.
Shaking his head, he said goodbye to Yuta Aida for the time being, and Higashinohara took the train home first.
Although working is a guarantee of life, he also knows what his foundation is in this world, and he will definitely not fall behind in daily exercise.
...
Back at the apartment, Higashinohara had been thinking about the missing Nishimaru Miri today, so he couldn't help but go to the third floor to find Satoru Aragaki from the detective office to inquire about today's progress.
The result is...no news yet.
Perhaps because Higashinohara was a little disappointed, Aragaki Satoru smiled and patted Higashinohara's shoulder, "Don't worry, the Metropolitan Police Department has taken these disappearance cases seriously, and the files have been transferred from the Smiling Tiger of the Investigation Section 1 to the Third Investigation
Form the Thirteenth Team. My daughter said that the captain of the Thirteenth Team is a reliable guy and I believe he will be found soon."
The third investigation team?
Higashinohara thought of the crisp arrest at the station that night, and he couldn't help but feel slightly relieved. The people in the Third Investigation Team were indeed much more reliable than the police from the Metropolitan Police Department.
But remembering what Shunsuke Nishimaru said about oranges, Higashinohara frowned again, feeling that the disappearance of Miria Nishimaru was not as simple as it seemed.
But now he wants to investigate but there is no way to start.
There are twenty-three administrative districts in New Tokyo, with a population of tens of millions. If he just wants to find someone, it is like looking for a needle in a haystack. He can only wait for further news from the third investigation team.
Carrying a handbag, he returned to the fifth floor to rent a room by himself. Dongye originally cooked himself a cup of ramen for dinner.
While eating noodles, he checked the bank account he had left with the Metropolitan Police on his mobile phone - the wanted bounty had indeed not arrived yet, and it would probably take seven working days.
Really...
So can I earn interest by keeping some money?
Higashinohara complained in his mind. After eating the noodles, he logged into a regular part-time job app and checked to see if there were any suitable part-time jobs on Saturdays and Sundays.
After he swiped the screen a few times, a recruitment message for an [exhibition waiter] whose salary was due the day after tomorrow suddenly jumped into his eyes.
Working hours: Sunday.
Work location: Private villa in Odaiba, Minato City.
Job content: Greet guests, serve dinner, and leave on your own before the start of the exhibition after settling your daily salary.
Job requirements: Priority will be given to those with excellent body and facial features, priority will be given to those with good image and good temperament, priority will be given to those with ability...
Are you recruiting a waiter or a male publicist?
When Higashinohara saw the fourth article, even though he knew it was him he was talking about, he still couldn't help but complain...
