Tokyo Unnatural Forensics

Chapter 14: The Face of the Metropolitan Police Department
It was drizzling in Tokyo in May, with lightning and thunder. After a whole day's work, Uesugi Sosetsu returned to his apartment. The fine raindrops hit the transparent glass windows, and the raindrops that flowed down from above drew a transparent chessboard of different sizes along the glass.

Tokyo has a special kind of beauty under the rain. Although Uesugi Sosetsu commented that it was not as wonderful as the feeling he had in his previous life when he went to a garden in the south of the Yangtze River and it happened to rain and he sat in a theater among the rocks and waters and listened to Kunqu and Wu opera, it was still a second-rate enjoyment.

Normally, Tokyo is a city of chaos and bustle with the hustle and bustle of traffic. Pedestrians come and go on the streets, it is lively and indifferent. Except for a few tourists, most passers-by will not stop, and at most they will cast a quick glance at something unusual.

This city is really noisy, but also really indifferent.

The city under the rain curtain has undergone some quiet changes. The rain curtain has drowned out the original noise of the city in the sound of raindrops, and it seems to have become a little quieter. However, because of this rainy season, the indifference between people has been slightly alleviated. The originally crowded streets and roads seem to have become much wider and smoother under the washing of rain.

"Looking at this time, it is drizzling, it is May."

Uesugi recited a poem by Akechi Mitsuhide, a famous barbecue chef from the Japanese Warring States Period, and raised his right hand.

After a week or two of experimentation, he roughly understood the benefits of the Aijan Myo-o Dharma relative to himself.

His appearance became more majestic and charming, his words became more infectious and persuasive, and the Myōō Dharmakāya gave Uesugi Sosetsu an unquestionable strong temperament, as if he was the guardian Myōō sitting on the throne, and no outsider could escape his third eye.

"I need more spirits." Uesugi Sosetsu said to himself.

He still has too little soul. He needs to inject more soul into his Dharma image. He needs to continue to improve himself, strengthen his supernatural powers, and tell everyone that he is not a ball that can be kicked around.

He needed the robe that would identify him.

After a while, the phone rang. Uesugi Sosetsu picked up the phone and took a look at his notes.

Kansai, the flowers are so beautiful.

After answering the phone, Uesugi Sosetsu listened to the apology from the other end for a long time before he said with emotion: "I see. I understand."

"That girl from Kansai has grown up."

"Okay, I accept. This is my last wish. You must be happy!"

"Eh? Wait, what I mean is..."

Uesugi Sosetsu ignored the other party and immediately hung up the phone, then easily added the other party's number to his blacklist.

There is actually no shortage of women around him, but just like he knows several women, the other party has also selected several potential stocks in Tokyo. It may be because they feel that Uesugi Muneyuki cannot provide her with the resources to gain a foothold in Tokyo, or it may be that there are better options. It is very normal for one party to propose to end the relationship, and Uesugi Muneyuki never cares.

He didn't come here to be a monk! Moreover, Japanese Buddhism has no taboos on drinking, eating meat, marrying and having children. The master of the law is passed down from father to son, and from uncle to nephew.

Uesugi Sosetsu instinctively scrolled through the address book, and when he came across the name of the person from Hokkaido who was studying at Musashino University, his finger paused for a moment and he wanted to click on it.

However, at this moment, a phone call came in, which was faster than Uesugi Sosetsu's fingers.

Naoki Tanaka, Otsuka Police Station.

Is it Lao Deng?

Uesugi Sosetsu almost forgot that Tanaka Laodeng's real name was Tanaka Naoki. He called him Laodeng all day long, and he felt a little uncomfortable when he saw his name for a while!

"Hello? Something's happening?" Uesugi Munen looked at the gloomy sky in the distance, and asked excitedly, "What's this time?"

"What?" Tanaka Laodeng's lazy voice came: "Hey, Uesugi, we are having a dinner party with the Criminal Division of the police station, are you coming?"

"Not an autopsy?" Uesugi Sosetsu was a little disappointed, thinking to himself, if you don't come to live, how can I make up for the lack of spirit, where will the funds for my activities come from?
"Where did we get so many bodies to examine... Anyway, if you want to come, leave now. The address of the dinner is..." Mr. Tanaka published the address in the newspaper: "Everyone also wants to thank you properly. Section Chief Sudo and Kuwabara are also here."

The head of the Criminal Division of Otsuka Police Station is called Sudo, and his rank is Inspector. If you have noticed, this guy has never appeared in person once.

The reason is simple. In a local police station, a police captain can already serve as the head of an entire department. In a local police station, the people who actually handle cases are the patrol chiefs and deputy police captains. Police captains usually sit in offices and are only asked to personally handle serious cases.

However, when it comes to serious cases, most local police stations have no power, ability or willingness to handle them. All they can do is report to the Metropolitan Police Department and ask them to send someone to take over. At this time, the backbone members of the First Investigation Section dispatched from the Metropolitan Police Department are the police captains who lead the team to handle the case. This group of people is responsible for handling major and serious cases.

After thinking about it, Uesugi Sosetsu felt that it would be better for him to go and meet more people. He needed these people's help to get the spirit he longed for.

The place for the gathering is called [KAKA Zhuang], which specializes in Japanese Okonomiyaki. The restaurant is filled with smoke and crowds of people. You need to take off your shoes when entering. Under the goose yellow light, three or five colleagues and friends sit around the iron grill pan for a meal along the tatami on the wall. The sound of the drizzle outside and the sizzling sound of the grill pan inside are quite interesting.

"Hey, little brother Uesugi, here!" As soon as Uesugi Sosetsu came in, he heard Lao Deng greeting him. He quickly slipped to the dinner place. The familiar Lao Deng Tanaka, the young Inspector General Kuwahara with messy hair and small eyes and obvious pockmarks on his face, and another middle-aged man were there.

The middle-aged man looked much younger than Tanaka, probably in his early forties. He was tall and solid, with full facial features and bright eyes. There was a sunken gap in the middle of his round chin, and he had a big face and was trying hard to stuff food into his mouth.

It seems that this person is Section Chief Sudo of the Criminal Division of Otsuka Police Station.

Uesugi Sosetsu gave him a nickname in his mind and decided to call him Sudo Butt.

Who made this guy's chin look so much like a butt?

Very good, Tanaka Laodeng, Kuwahara Asako, Sudo butt!

Our Otsuka Police Department's Criminal Division is truly full of talented people. This is cause for celebration. This is cause for celebration.

"Oh, you are Uesugi, right? Nice to meet you. I'm Sudo." Sudo waved enthusiastically at Uesugi Sosetsu, motioning him to sit next to him, and then said to the proprietress, "Chowder yaki, chive yaki, and modern yaki. He and the other two will each have a portion of rice noodles, and I'll have a portion of fried noodles."

"Little brother Uesugi, order whatever you want to eat. The section chief is treating us today." Tanaka Laodeng was very rude: "He should thank you!"

Japan's system of seniors and juniors and superiors is full of feudal dregs, with seniors having absolute authority and control over juniors, something Uesugi Sosetsu himself cannot stop complaining about. What he can't stand most in surgery is a phrase that his medical seniors like to say the most: "Are you questioning your senior's diagnosis?"
Once this statement is made, if you don't want to challenge the entire hospital or even the medical community, you must bow your head. However, compared to Korea, the senior-senior system in Xiaori still retains some advantages of Confucian culture. For example, seniors enjoy the rights of seniors, but also have the obligation to promote and care for juniors. In some occasions, seniors must protect juniors and speak for them. At the same time, seniors are basically the ones who pay for dinner and activities.

For example, Senior Morishita from Etajima will bully you severely, beat you with a spirit-infusing stick, and taunt you verbally, but he will also cover you with a blanket, rush in front of you in battles and protect the younger generation first, and he must treat you when you go out to play. If you don't have a wife, he will introduce you to the eldest daughter of a branch family of the nobility.

The Korean military veterans just want you dead.

But if this is the case, Park Kaka and Jeon Young-jong of South Korea can be considered the true heirs of their Japanese predecessors. As long as you follow them firmly, you will be treated very well and you will have meat to eat by following the big brother.

"One serving of salt-grilled cartilage, one serving of pork stewed with ginger, one serving of beef fried udon, and a bottle of Coca-Cola." Uesugi Sosetsu ordered a few dishes at random, and said, "Cold."

It is worth mentioning that in Japan, Coca-Cola has an absolute dominant position in carbonated beverages, and Pepsi can only be affiliated with Suntory Beverages and represented by it.

Uesugi Sosetsu appreciated this and said that those who like Pepsi are heretics!

"cheers!"

After a while, the dishes were served and the three policemen and a forensic doctor toasted.

"I really, really, really want to thank you this time, little brother Uesugi." As men, after a few bites of food and two glasses of beer, the atmosphere immediately became lively. Section Chief Sudo personally poured a glass of shochu for Uesugi Sosetsu: "Yesterday, the Metropolitan Police Department's commendation came down. The entire Criminal Division, especially the three of us, received a letter of appreciation from the Metropolitan Police Department!"

"That's right. They commended us for our effective handling of the cases. All three cases from April to May were solved in one day." Patrol Chief Kuwahara nodded excitedly. "The higher-ups really appreciated our performance."

"We can't help it. The four of us are just too strong!" Tanaka Laodeng raised his arms triumphantly: "Cheers to five days of paid leave!"

"Cheers~" Uesugi Sosetsu also raised his mug, calm and relaxed.

The section chief, department chief, and members of the Criminal Division who were primarily responsible for handling these three cases were given five days of paid leave.

"Come to think of it, I don't even know when was the last time I took a vacation." Kuwahara Asako took the initiative to start the conversation: "I'm busy all day long. I'm so tired~"

"Oh, you call this tired? Young people really have never suffered. Do you know that when I was young, I once chased criminals for a whole month. The apartment manager saw that I hadn't returned to the apartment for a month, and the electricity and water meters hadn't moved at all. He thought I was dead!" Tanaka Lao Deng smiled evilly and patted his subordinate's shoulder: "What kind of work intensity are you doing now? Can you compare with us?"

"That's right." Sudo pulled Uesugi Sosetsu over and said, "Look at little brother Uesugi. He was in contact with corpses and worked overtime on payday, but he never complained from beginning to end. That's what young people should be like."

"That's enough. No matter how hard we local police stations work, we can't compare to the Metropolitan Police Department." Kuwahara Asako looked very depressed: they can get regular promotions just by sitting in the office, but us? I just hope I can be promoted to deputy inspector before I turn fifty. Amitabha Amitabha, Namo Hachiman Great Bodhisattva!"

"Well, after all, there is a difference between on-site and administrative work. If you have the ability, you should be admitted to the Metropolitan Police Department, and you won't end up in the local police station." Sudo Butt didn't care about Kuwabara's loss: "Since you have already done it, cheer up, you bastard!"

"Does the section chief know much about the Metropolitan Police Department?" Uesugi Sosetsu became interested.

"That's still a little bit of an understanding." Sudo Butt immediately became interested when he heard that his younger brother was interested. This guy was obviously a bit of a know-it-all: "Recently, there must be another batch of senior executives from the headquarters who are going to be transferred out."

In the police world, all the elites are in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and the Osaka Police Prefecture. Among them, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department is the most important. The real elites gather there, and no one is willing to leave Sakuradamon, the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Department.

"Why?" Uesugi Sosetsu asked curiously, "What happened?"

"It's very simple. The term of the previous Superintendent General Hakuba has ended. The next Superintendent General has been selected as Deputy Director of the National Police Agency, Superintendent Eiji Watanabe. Deputy Director Watanabe was born in the Criminal Division, so there will definitely be a wave of personnel adjustments when he takes over." Sudo shook his head and said, "Deputy Director Watanabe is a powerful figure in the criminal faction. He has served as the Chief of the Investigation Division 1, the Criminal Director of the Metropolitan Police Department, the Director of the Criminal Bureau of the National Police Agency, and the Deputy Director of the National Police Agency."

Watanabe Eiji? Uesugi Munesetsu remembered that he had heard of this name before.

Oh yeah, didn’t this guy participate in activities organized by his father? Isn’t he one of the very few elite police officers who has become the chief of the First Investigation Division of the Metropolitan Police Department and actually goes to the scene to investigate in person?
"Yes, that's right, it's him." The wrinkles on Sudo's face were smoothed out: "This time our criminal faction won after all!"

"Wait, wait! What do you mean by criminal faction?" Uesugi Sosetsu quickly signaled Sudo to slow down.

"Oh, you don't know." Sudo Butt suddenly realized: "Then I have to talk to little brother Uesugi."

"The Superintendent General is the highest officer of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, and is at the top of the pyramid of 38 police officers in Tokyo. Even in the entire police world, he is second only to the Commissioner of the National Police Agency. However, the Commissioner of the National Police Agency is a political official directly appointed by the Cabinet, so the Superintendent General is the ultimate pinnacle of the rank of our police officers."

"This position is usually held by three factions: the criminal faction, which means they are from criminal investigation, the public security faction, which means they are from intelligence and special forces, and the last one is called 'official residence puppet', which means they have no previous contact with police affairs but are directly appointed as the Superintendent General." Sudo Butt concluded: "Watanabe Eiji-san is from the criminal faction. We should have a better chance of promotion in the next two and a half years in the Criminal Division of the Criminal Department. Many people from other factions will definitely be transferred out."

"Generally speaking, is it possible for elites who are transferred out to return to the Metropolitan Police Department?" Uesugi Sosetsu understood.

"Occasionally, it happens, but the probability is very small. Basically, once you are transferred to a local branch, your career is doomed." Tanaka Laodeng picked up a large piece of pork, accompanied by lettuce and shochu. "Unless you have made great achievements and have been appointed by the higher-ups, who would be willing to take the risk of appointing a loser?"

"Tanaka!" Sudo suddenly realized that he had said too much. He didn't know why, but he always felt that Uesugi Sosetsu's words were very infectious and charming. He couldn't help but want to answer his questions, so he quickly changed the subject: "Speaking of which, Vice Minister Watanabe... um, soon to be Director Watanabe, he has a super beautiful daughter. She is a beauty, a great beauty. We all know her even though we are not in the Metropolitan Police Department."

"Yes, she is the beauty known as the 'Face of the Metropolitan Police Department', Section Chief, did you see her the last time you went to the headquarters?" Asako Kuwahara showed a pig-like expression.

"Tsk, I'm already a father of two children." Sudo shook his head repeatedly, then remembered something: "Hey, Tanaka, Vice Minister Watanabe has only one daughter like you, and he is only 3 years older than you, and he is only 50 years old this year."

"Only one of my daughters is the same!" Tanaka Laodeng squinted his eyes, "What kind of background does she have? Vice Minister Watanabe's father was once the president of the National Railways, and his second uncle was once the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare. Are you worthy of her? I think among us, only my brother Uesugi, who is from a prominent family, has a chance!"

"The face of the Metropolitan Police Department?" Uesugi Munenyuki remained expressionless: "What's her name?"

"Her name is Watanabe Minami, and she's an inspector in the First Personnel Division of the Metropolitan Police Department."

Watanabe, Minami?
Uesugi Sosetsu always felt that he seemed to have heard this name from his mother.

Could it be that our family has any intersection with the other party?

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(End of this chapter)