Conan: Chief of Rice Flower's Science Points

Chapter 52: Slightly injured but unable to leave the line of fire
On the morning of October 10, Kawai, who was about to get off his night shift, was yawning and cleaning his car in front of the 12-chome intersection when...

call--

A huge figure rushed past in front of him.

Kawai:? ? ?
"Minister Fuji! I seemed to... see the director just now!" Kawai quickly turned around and said to Fuji Seiko in the communication room.

"It's not the first time you've seen it, so there's nothing strange about it." Teng was making a record of last night's police call and didn't even look up.

"But...wasn't the director bitten by a killer whale?" Kawai thought - this happened the day before yesterday, right? Am I remembering correctly?

"Yeah, so... hey, it won't be easy to ask for injury leave from the boss in the future!" Teng complained at this time.

Despite injuries like being “bitten by a killer whale” and “requiring more than seventy stitches”, the director only rested for two days, and those two days included the day of the injury. How can others ask for leave in the future?

Kawai:……

Sure enough, at this moment, Director Igazaki of the 5-chome intersection came on duty and reminded: "Kawaai, Fuji, remember to go to the morning meeting at the station after get off work. I will stay on duty... The director is back from injury leave today and will speak at the morning meeting. Don't be late."

……

At the morning meeting, Bai Shi personally educated everyone on what it meant to "stay on the front line even if you are slightly injured," and then started today's work.

The inability to move his left arm still had some impact, and the efficiency of "stamping" was obviously much slower - Bai Shi was not fully recovered, after all, it had been less than forty-eight hours since he was bitten!
At this time, Bai Shi's left arm was still tied up...

Although there is nothing wrong with just taking a break for half a month, and even if he goes back to work half a month later, everyone will be amazed at how quickly the director's injury has healed. However, Shiraishi took into consideration that he had just taken office and Director Ebihara was going to retire in December, so now was the time for Shiraishi to get familiar with the director's work.

Therefore, Shiraishi only stayed in the hospital for one day for observation and returned to work as usual today.

After the morning speech, Shiraishi went to the Criminal Division instead of his own office as director.

It was both a belated welcome to Kunikida and a farewell to Shirai - in the past two days, Shirai had also completed the handover of power and responsibilities.

"Director Shiraishi, this time... thank you!" Shirai said sincerely.

"Okay, don't look so sad...you have to go to the publicity class in the future. Look...Section Chief Kunikida looks very kind now!" Shiraishi joked.

That’s right, Kunikida was very familiar with the department that Shirai was transferred to, after all, he had been in the publicity department for six years.

Compared to the fat-faced Shirai, Kunikida does look a lot kinder. His classic "Mediterranean" hairstyle even gives him the feeling of a greasy office worker. He no longer looks like a tough detective. In the criminal department, he is one of the kindest faces!

Shiraishi could also see his attributes at this time. The name of this Section Chief Kunikida was the same as Minamoto's, both were "Seiji".

[Kunikida Seiji (Chief of the Criminal Division of the Yūka Police Department):

Age: 50 years old.

Overall rating: SR.

心：正义（55）、原则（98）、温柔（60）、主观（41）、热血（39）、坚韧（89）。

Body: Anxiety, mysophobia, baldness...

Skills: Reasoning (SSR), Evidence Search (SR), Interrogation (SR), Inspection (SR)...

Potential: All aspects are difficult to improve. Although the potential is not great, but... Not only are the attributes of high level, but also the three sets of reasoning, evidence collection, and interrogation are very high. It can be said to be a top criminal investigation talent, especially "reasoning", which has reached SSR, and "inspection" has also reached SR.

But the problem is obvious...

This [Principle] and [Tenacity] are both somewhat abnormal!

[Principles] can be as high as 98, which means that he will never violate the principles under any circumstances. Even some "small tricks" will be very resistant to it and there will be absolutely no compromise.

Similarly, if [Toughness] is too high, it means that it is not easy to "break through the defense", but it also means that once "broken through the defense", he will have great psychological problems and will be affected more greatly.

On the contrary, people with low [Toughness] will be broken every day, but they will be fine after a good drunkenness...

Moreover, Kunikida's [Passion] and [Subjectivity] are both unusually low for a veteran detective, and his number one health trait is still "anxiety."

It can be said that in addition to the high level of "skills", the whole body is DeBuff!

Thinking about what Iwata had told him before, Shiraishi understood...it seemed that the head of the Kunikida department had not yet gotten over the case from six years ago!
……

Seeing that Shiraishi was still embarrassed, Shiraishi specifically said, "It would be good if you stay in the publicity class more often, so that your grandson won't think you're mean in the future."

"Section Chief Kunikida, you will have to work hard in the future! The Beika Police Station has always had a lot of cases, and... although it can't be considered an order, I personally still feel that our station should take on more responsibilities, and we can't just throw slightly more serious cases to the Metropolitan Police Department." Shiraishi said as he shook hands with Kunikida.

"Don't worry, Director. I treat all cases in my jurisdiction equally." Kunikida was not afraid - after all, he was the head of the Souichi Department and did not have that kind of awe for major cases.

"Hmm? By the way, I've met Detective Kanzaki before...and there's also Detective Kogure who has been transferred here as well, right?" Shiraishi looked around the Criminal Investigation Division office and didn't see any unfamiliar faces.

In addition to Kunikida, a detective from Hara Souichi, Kogure Tsutomu, was also transferred.

But Shiraishi didn't see him, and at the same time... Shiraishi always felt something was strange, as if something was different about today's criminal class.

"Oh, Detective Kogure and Detective Haidani are out on a mission. I'll ask them to go to the director's office when they come back," Kunikida explained.

It seems that Kogure was arranged to partner with Haitani. Haitani is a capable member of the Criminal Division. With the addition of Kogure, this group should be the "sharp knife" of the Criminal Division.

"Don't bother with that. Just focus on the case." Bai Shi shook his head.

After Shiraishi sent Shirai away, he happened to find Kunikida waiting for him at the door of the office.

"Section Chief Kunikida, what's wrong?" Seeing this, Shiraishi took two quick steps forward and invited Kunikida in.

"It's nothing serious. It's like this... Director, I noticed that the inspection process within the agency has been adjusted. Now you have to sign it in person, right?" Kunikida confirmed calmly.

"That's right. It's not that I don't trust anyone. After all, something like that happened in the agency before..." Upon hearing this, Bai Shi thought that he was dissatisfied with this "distrust", so he explained.

However, Kunikida shook his head and said, "No, I have no objection to the Director's personal signature. I also agree with Yan Jing's decision to send it to the inspection, but... according to the regulations, the inspection must be signed by me as the head of the Criminal Section.

"I think this cannot be omitted. The regulations within the agency can be more stringent than the above regulations, but steps cannot be omitted. From now on, we should both sign before sending it for inspection."

Shiraishi:……

(End of this chapter)