"It seems that the statue of Guan Gong in the section chief's house is not hungry."
Miwako Sato, who was looking along the man's line of sight, slightly tilted her head and joked with a smile.
She had been to Uehara's house, so she naturally knew how the statues of gods in this man's house were treated. If there really was such a thing as "spirits in heaven" in this world, then Katsumi Uehara's culpability would probably be too numerous to describe.
To make a lazy donkey work hard, you have to dangle a carrot from its mouth.
"Generally speaking, gods don't eat these things. What's more, our section chief is obviously the kind of person who can't even do superficial things. He hasn't wiped off the dust on the statues."
After putting on the gloves, the man pushed away the incense altar and the offering plate. As he spoke, he reached out to lift the gray-stained statue of Guan Gong and put it aside, carefully checking whether there was anything hidden inside the shrine.
Regrettably, after groping for a long time, Katsumi Uehara did not gain anything other than being disappointed.
"Uehara Police Department, something has been discovered."
Just as he was returning the statue to its original place, a police officer's greeting immediately attracted his attention——
"We found a secret secret compartment in the wardrobe of the section chief's son's bedroom. This is what was placed in the secret compartment. Judging from the records above, it should be an account book."
"His son's wardrobe?"
Katsuki Uehara raised his eyebrows in surprise, took the account book and opened it. The records, line by line, fully explained how much money this old section chief, who was about to retire, had made through the power he held over the years -
In other words, power-for-money trading.
"No, no, this account book only seems to be from the last five years." Miwako Sato, who came over, had her nose just one step away from her partner's ear, but she didn't realize it. She quickly reached out and flipped to the recorded time on the last page of the account book. This was the only one.
The amount of money and various assets recorded by our firm shocked her——
"Hmm? Wait a minute, if I remember correctly, the actual controller of these companies is also Masuyama Kenzo?"
After turning the pages and seeing a few impressive company names on the way back, Miwako frowned: "Isn't the acquaintance between the section chief and Matoyama Kenzo because of the matchmaking by Counselor Uno? From what is recorded above
Judging from the time, the correspondence between them is earlier than what we found."
"A blind eye."
Uehara Katsuki narrowed his eyes and subconsciously figured out the answer: "The arrest of Gin and his team was an accident. If it hadn't been for this accident, our attention would have been focused on discovering clues one by one and completely ignoring Saburo Wada.
, and then devoted himself whole-heartedly to the operation to capture Counselor Uno. In this way, Saburo Wada would naturally not have to commit suicide by being exposed."
"Then the question is wrong. Why did he commit suicide? We have come to this point, isn't it good to be alive? If we are alive, there is still hope of escaping even if we are caught."
Chiba Kazunobu, who followed closely behind, also looked through the account book and was a little confused.
"No, on the contrary, his death is the best ending."
Hearing this, Katsuki Uehara shook his head: "If he hadn't died, this brewery would have tried every means to kill him, even if he was exposed for rescuing Gin and others, and he might even be implicated.
His family. He died so simply now, most likely he died voluntarily in exchange for the safety of his family."
"Is this criminal organization you're talking about so honest and trustworthy?"
Sato Miwako is obviously skeptical about this: "If I were a senior executive of this organization, I might be more aggressive as long as the section chief is still alive, but he is already dead. I can just kill his family just in case.
, there is no obstacle at all.”
"Good question, where are the section chief's family members now?"
"Don't you know? He was taken to the Metropolitan Police Department by Takagi and interrogated by Chief Inspector Odagiri himself——"
Before she finished speaking, Sato Miwako's tone was stagnant, and she instantly understood the key point.
Seeing her like this, Katsuki Uehara bit his lip with some reluctance, and sighed: "The winery must have been sure that Saburo Wada's family didn't know about the organization or didn't know much about the organization, so they abandoned the car like this.
The decision to protect the commander-in-chief.”
Is Saburo Wada important?
Of course it's important.
Searching for the Chief of Section 1, even if he is approaching retirement, he is still the Chief of Section 1. But compared with Gin and others, this Section Chief hiding in the shadow of the Metropolitan Police Department does not seem so important.
"Saburo Wada knew that the Metropolitan Police Department had been investigating who the mole was, so he started making arrangements very early to ask Counselor Uno Tadayoshi of the Criminal Division to be his scapegoat.
"For this reason, he contacted Masuyama Kenzo and played a double act with him."
After taking back the account book from Chiba and looking at the transactions between Wada Saburo and Masuyama Kenzo's actual holding company, Uehara Katsumi continued to combine all the information he had obtained so far:
"First of all, Kenzo Masayama first became friends with Uno Tadayoshi. After gaining trust, Uno Tadayoshi, who was always willing to matchmaking for his old subordinates, introduced Saburo Wada, who was about to retire, to get to know Masayama Kenzo, thus forming the first person who could sit down.
The logical chain of Uno Tadayoshi’s suspicion;
"Secondly, to create further evidence for Uno Tadayoshi's undercover identity, we have worked hard to find out about the money transactions;
"In the end, although all those financial transactions had nothing to do with Uno Tadayoshi himself, it was his wife who was implicated. Husband and wife are natural interest groups that are difficult to separate.
"At this point, Uno Tadayoshi can no longer clear himself of suspicion. Because as a senior police official, his butt is really dirty. If he confesses the facts of his crime, it is likely to involve the consortium behind him and others.
In the end, in order to save his family, the high-ranking official had no choice but to suffer the loss of being dumb.
"Even more, I suspect that Saburo Wada has arranged some conclusive evidence that Tadayoshi Uno is a mole, waiting for us, the police, to discover.
"In order to prevent their own interest chain from being exposed, the interest groups behind Uno Tadayoshi are very likely to have him shot eight times in the body under the guard of the police and determined to have committed suicide.
"With this, the suspicion of Wada Saburo being a traitor will be completely eliminated, and Uno Tadayoshi will become his scapegoat..."
With the gears in his mind turning slowly, Uehara Katsumi explained the conjecture he had linked to, which made Sato Miwako and Chiba Kazunobu stunned for a moment.
"That's the truth indeed, but if that's the case, why did Gin want to kill that Masama Kenzo? If it was just a frame-up, there would be no need to kill him at all -"
Wait a moment?!
Miwako's words suddenly stopped, and her pupils suddenly shrank: "Unless Kenzo Mayama is not dead!"
If Kenzo Masayama's death was just to place the blame, just to let the police trace him to Uno Tadayoshi, the scapegoat, then there was no need for him to die.
Katsuki Uehara nodded: "That's right, we never found Kenzo Masayama's body from beginning to end. What we found in his villa was just a pile of bones that were burned to the point where it was difficult to even detect them.
"As for the death of Kenzo Fanshan, we have no conclusive evidence. We have only two indirect clues: the bones were found in the fireplace in the basement of Fanshan Villa and the side testimony of vodka."