Chapter 9 Outstanding Graduates of the Police Academy - Katsumi Uehara
"Hiss! It hurts! Can't you apply the medicine gently? I am a wounded person now, a wounded person. Do you understand a wounded person? Do you know what this means?"
Moon Shadow Island Clinic, Dr. Asai's Office.
The huge room was filled with Katsumi Uehara's howling like a slaughtering pig. Asami, who had changed into a white coat and was still holding a sterilizing device in his hand, had a dark face, but his movements were not slow at all.
The torn floral shirt was crumpled into a ball and thrown into the trash can. The shirtless man who was undergoing back disinfection grinned in pain and his facial features danced online.
"You should be lucky that they didn't have guns or that the thing that hit you was not a blade, otherwise it would have been more than just a superficial injury."
After finishing applying the medicine, Ansheng took out the medical bandage and performed a simple bandage on his friend with skillful movements. There was a little bit of happiness in his words.
Uehara Katsumi was somewhat disapproving: "If they hold guns or knives, that would be another way of fighting. Do you understand how to be flexible and adaptable?"
Aso, who was accustomed to tying the bandages into knots, rolled his eyes and said nothing. He stood up, took off his gloves and threw them into the trash can.
"Eh? No, you should change this bow for me. I don't have any clothes, will you let me go out wearing this bow later?"
"What's wrong? Your old Mitsubishi in Tokyo is still pink. What's wrong with the bow?" Aso Minoru, who picked up the tea cup and poured himself a glass of water, shrugged and couldn't help laughing.
"That's called a male fan, you don't understand." Uehara Katsumi, who is extremely confident in his own taste, seriously corrected the title: "It's different from a girl fan."
"Stop talking nonsense here, let's think about what we should do next. When will your colleagues come to support? How long should we hide in the clinic?"
"When the soldiers come to cover up the water and the soil, what else can I do? I'm not a superman who can wear my underwear outside and then rush into the drug dealer's den and kill all those guys."
Compared to the worried Aso Minoru, Katsuki Uehara was obviously much more calm. He raised his eyes and glanced at the clock hanging on the white wall, and said happily: "It doesn't take too long to get to Tsukikage Island from Tokyo, and it should be the same for Sato."
Coming."
"That's what I'm worried about. The people on the other side must know that time is tight. What if they send someone to rush into the clinic and shoot us out regardless of the safety of the patients and nurses?"
Now Aso has no doubt that those people can definitely do such a thing.
"Then let's go out."
Katsuki Uehara spread his hands, his eyes were clear, and he said righteously: "As a police officer, I will never allow this to happen, so I must just surrender and let those people invite us back for an interview."
"..."
Aso Minoru blinked his eyes in shock, feeling that there might be something wrong with this person's brain circuitry. Since everyone on the left and right was being arrested, why did he waste so much effort to escape before?
"The first time is to catch, the second time is to invite, the meanings contained in them are different."
Perhaps sensing the doubts and confusion in his friend's eyes, Katsuki Uehara smiled, stood up from the bench and moved his shoulders: "Don't forget, our ultimate goal is Kawashima Hideo and Kuroiwa Tatsuji from the beginning to the end.
Waiting for someone, right?"
Aso simply lowered his head to drink tea, then frowned and said, "Wait a minute, what do you mean..."
"Don't you want to catch the murderer of your family with your own hands?"
Katsuki Uehara's rhetorical question caused Aso to fall into silence, but the flashing look in his eyes undoubtedly said everything.
"Catch the thief first. Capture the king first. I have no interest in the gangsters in the underground. The only way to end this drug network is to truly arrest Hideo Kawashima and others as the leader.
But the problem is that I'm not familiar with them, and with the power of these two people, it's easy to find out that I'm a policeman from Tokyo. Once I deliberately get close to them, I'll be on guard very easily."
Walking to his desk, he casually took out a pen from the pen holder, opened a book and wrote the names of two targets in the blank space. Uehara Katsumi smiled and exchanged words between "Kuroiwa Tatsuji" and "Kawashima Hideo".
"A circle was drawn on these two names: "In the past six months, I have carefully investigated and collected the personalities of these two people.
"Kuroiwa Tatsuji is a typical politician personality, so he can quickly become the new village chief after the death of the previous village chief. It is best to deal with this kind of person, as long as he understands that my existence is both a threat and a species to him.
help, then he will try to contact me personally with a little sincerity;
"As for Kawashima Hideo, he is a very profitable businessman. Although he has always wanted to develop into a politician, the businessman's interest trading mentality has always limited him. This can be seen from the fact that he failed several times in the competition for village chief.
Gotta come out.
"So after experiencing a failed arrest, as a businessman, the first thing that came to his mind was to use money to bribe me, just like he used to bribe other police officers.
"Based on the personalities of these two people, I think they should have completed their meeting by now, and they should have made two or even more offers to buy you and me.
"Because my sensitive identity as a Tokyo police officer will make it difficult for them, and your behavior of coming to Moon Shadow Island three years ago will most likely be understood by them as the Tokyo police sending people to the island three years in advance as an undercover agent. The most important thing is
Your deliberately disguised identity will prevent them from finding this woman [Makoto Asai] in a short period of time. This is one of the reasons why I brought you in.
"So, in their analysis, rushing to kill will undoubtedly make the Tokyo police more suspicious of Moon Shadow Island's methods. Then, under this premise, bribery becomes a plan that can allow them to reach a consensus.
"This is also the reason why the bodyguards at the barbecue restaurant didn't know how to use guns. They have been used to enjoying life for more than ten years and will not give up everything on the surface and run away unless they have to."
Piece by piece, piece by piece, the plans and speculations that Katsuki Uehara recounted made Aseng realize the truth and couldn't help but open his mouth to say something, but in the end nothing came out.
Even the identity of a girl he had pretended to be on the island for three years was included in the scheme, which became the evidence that made Kuroiwa Tatsuji and Kawashima Hideo even more hostile. He didn't know what to say for a while.
"This is why we must escape the first arrest, because only in this way will we have a relatively equal opportunity to talk to these two people. If the first arrest is successful,
Then all that awaits us is torture and threats from drug cartel groups.
"But if the first time fails, then the second time they will use various methods to invite us to the negotiating table to have a face-to-face negotiation. And this will allow me to get close to them without appearing to be
Deliberately, there will be no opportunity for them to be suspicious and distance themselves.”
"But how do you know they will want to negotiate next?" Aso asked in a serious voice, twirling the teacup in his hand.
"They can't afford time. You have been on the island for three years disguised as an identity. They will think that you have collected something. Stealing the ledger is one of the evidences. So they will definitely want to complete the victory in one battle, first be polite and then attack."
The pen tip in Uehara Katsuki's hand wrote the English word for time, and drew a circle on it: "Negotiate first, and take action immediately if the negotiation breaks down."