Tokyo Unnatural Forensics

Chapter 154: Who is on our side?

"I've never seen a special investigation headquarters this small."

Uesugi Muneyuki did not answer Inspector Kosaka's question. He said calmly, "I remember how many people came from the Chiba Prefecture Joint Special Investigation Headquarters last time? One thousand people? How many people came this time? Fifty people?"

"41 people." Inspector Kosaka sighed. The two of them stood together in the air-conditioning room in the basement of the Oiwake dormitory, examining the dust on the door handles. "Normally, this department should have transferred personnel from local police stations, but the University of Tokyo does not allow that."

"Does the University of Tokyo not allow it, or does this office simply not want to investigate?" Uesugi Sosetsu discovered that the door handle leading to other buildings from the air-conditioning room had been locked and was covered with dust.

"That's exactly what I want to ask you." Inspector Kosaka put his hands in his pockets. He was tall and slender, and looked quite capable under his suit. However, there was a look of deep worry on his face: "What exactly do the police think?"

"What on earth are you thinking?" Uesugi Sosetsu answered the question with a question: "Tell me first, did you leak the information?"

When Inspector Kosaka heard this topic, his body subconsciously straightened up. He frowned and asked, "You suspect me too?"

"Because I found that you seem to be particularly persistent in this case. Normally, this shouldn't happen." Uesugi Muneyuki shook his head: "You are a non-professional group. You don't have the protection of a senior civil servant. You can be sent to a remote place at any time. Why?"

"You are making an inference without any reason." Inspector Kosaka did not directly answer the question: "You have seen the current situation. It is not right to investigate, and it is not right not to investigate."

Many times, no answer is the best answer.

Uesugi Sosetsu didn't dwell on this issue any further. He leaned on the railing of the air-conditioning room and said, "The reason is very simple, because the woman that Professor Tsuda saw was not Mrs. Tsuda at all!"

"?!" Inspector Kosaka opened his eyes wide: "Who is that?"

"It's Watanabe Minami." Uesugi Sosetsu smiled. "She's 160cm tall, petite, and wearing a down jacket. The photo was taken at am this morning. Do you know how much effort I put into convincing her?"

"What??? This is... This is fake evidence! This is illegal!" Inspector Kosaka was shocked at first, but then he became excited: "Wait, Professor Tsuda's choice to approve it means that he..."

"What false evidence? We didn't say that. He confirmed it himself." Uesugi Muneyuki rolled his eyes. "Yes, Professor Tsuda should know very well that this is not his wife at all, but he still admitted it because as long as he admitted it, he could not only clear his suspicion, but also distort the direction of the investigation."

"But he didn't expect it. In fact, we don't know which direction to investigate. Did Mrs. Tsuda disappear on her own initiative or involuntarily? Did Professor Tsuda know about his wife's running away from home or not?" Uesugi Munen whispered, "But through this method, we can figure out one thing. Professor Tsuda not only knows the inside story of his wife running away from home, but he also knows exactly where his wife is going. He knows that he can't see his wife's figure in the surveillance at this location. Do you know what this shows?"

"Professor Tsuda, there is a major suspicion." Inspector Kosaka was convinced by Uesugi Sosetsu's deduction and technical methods: "As expected, it's always the husband."

"It's too early to conclude that he killed Mrs. Tsuda. I went to his house yesterday, but I didn't find anything, and I didn't smell a corpse. So there's a question: where did Mrs. Tsuda go?" Uesugi Munen was very cautious: "So the problem has to go back to the core - the PT project led by Professor Tsuda, and the reason why Mrs. Tsuda repeatedly remitted money overseas."

"But it's hard to investigate." Uesugi Sosetsu smiled bitterly. "Minami will agree to help play the role of Mrs. Tsuda who 'ran away from home', but she may not agree that I will continue to investigate further. Okada... I still don't know him very well. I don't know what he is thinking, and I don't know if he will support us. I am a forensic doctor, and I want to make things clear."

The "we" that Uesugi Soyuki said gave Inspector Kosaka great comfort.

"Yes, Kashiwagi and Shiratori both graduated from the University of Tokyo." Inspector Kosaka shook his head bitterly.

"What about you?" Uesugi Sosetsu asked casually.

"Private Fengnan University."

"Then I want to tell you what the logic of the University of Tokyo is for this kind of thing." Uesugi Muneyuki said with a smile, "If we lose, we will bear a grudge, and if we win, we will take revenge. It would be best if we have solid evidence. But if we really have solid evidence, the University of Tokyo will not let us go. There will be no place for us in Tokyo in the future. Or I might be let off lightly with a slight punishment, and then you will be completely finished, Kosaka. This is probably why you are going all out, right?"

“…………”Uesugi Sosetsu’s words truly revealed the desperate situation that the Metropolitan Police Department and Shinichiro Kosaka were facing. The 41-year-old middle-aged man leaned his head against the wall dejectedly.

If you investigate, you will die. If you don’t investigate, you will die. If you obey orders, you will die. If you disobey orders, you will die!

Who can understand the pain of a non-professional group like his, who has no backing in the office and no alumni association to support them?
"But at least, they are still on our side." Uesugi Sosetsu signaled not to be so desperate, there was still a chance.

"They? You mean this office?" Kosaka Shinichiro finally got some good news: "As expected of Director Watanabe, he is indeed a man of courage and integrity..."

"No, I mean the Americans. In this search, only the Americans are on our side."

Uesugi Sosetsu's answer made Shinichiro Kosaka laugh: "Enemy often disguises himself as an ally." Come to think of it, it is true. In the Tokyo University case, the only person who can be considered to be on the side of justice is the American, the conservative Puritan old professor William Edwards.

Ok?
Uesugi Souji's hint suddenly reminded Inspector Kosaka of something: "You mean?"

"Yes, the District Public Prosecutor's Office, the District Public Prosecutor's Office Special Investigation Department." Uesugi Munenyuki put his hands behind his back: "At this moment, the District Public Prosecutor's Office should have smelled the blood."

The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office's Special Investigation Team is a valuable legacy of the Five-Star Emperor Mai, which is typical of "it's hard to say whether the original intention was good or bad, but the job was done well."

Only the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office's Special Investigation Team, with the support of the Americans behind them, dares to strike hard at the political and business factions, and is not afraid of being liquidated afterwards.

Emperor Mai left a lot of this kind of legacy to Japan, including land reform that was more thorough than that of most countries, the abolition of untouchables and illegal industries, the post-war liquidation of the old system, the reconstruction of the national education system, reducing the proportion of hereditary members of Japan's parliament from 60% to 3%, the promulgation of laws on gender equality, the dismantling and confiscation of zaibatsu assets, and the acquisition of several sky-high orders for post-war Japanese industry (the Korean War). To be honest, if Emperor Mai was not a devout Christian, all Japanese shrines would have to reserve a tablet for him in the side hall.

The famous five-star general Mike Sang-hyuk once said: "I want to say to those who have never left us and always believed in us, this fifth crown (referring to the fifth star on the shoulder) is dedicated to all of you."

However, what neither Uesugi Sosetsu nor Kosaka Shinichiro expected was that there was a policeman standing on the other side of the locked door of the air-conditioning room next to them.

Inspector Kashiwagi Hitoshi from the Second Department of the First Investigation Division also came here to investigate, but he was investigating the other side. He did not expect that he could hear the conversation between Uesugi and Kosaka through the door.

However, Inspector Kashiwagi's attention was not on the leak or the conspiracy, his attention was all focused on "Professor Tsuda being a major suspect."

Always the husband!

I'll tell you! The orthodox reasoning can't be wrong! It's the person involved! It's the person involved!!!
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After the two of them had reached an agreement, the subsequent search operation became much simpler.

Through this action, Uesugi Sosetsu made the University of Tokyo and Professor Tsuda relax their vigilance. They expressed their request to continue to review the surveillance video and asked teachers and students whether they had seen any subsequent whereabouts of Mrs. Tsuda.

Professor Tsuda also wanted to close the case quickly, and for the sake of Uesugi Sosetsu's grandfather, Uesugi Kuninori, he agreed.

So, Uesugi Sosetsu got the opportunity to contact Professor Tsuda's students, while Inspector Kosaka summoned everyone in his department, under the pretext of finding out where Mrs. Tsuda had gone, but in fact he was looking at Professor Tsuda's movements in the past few days.

This check did yield some findings.

Early in the morning of May 5, Professor Tsuda did not appear in the elevator's surveillance camera, but the surveillance camera in the laboratory building captured him pushing a cart loaded with a large amount of equipment into the experimental site. Professor Tsuda in the camera looked calm and composed, pushing a cart like he did every other day, nothing special.

However, with the successful test of Uesugi Sosetsu, Inspector Kosaka and others shot arrows first and then drew the target. Knowing in advance that there was something wrong with Professor Tsuda, they did find some traces!
Because the PT project involves academic secrets, there is no internal monitoring. However, from May 5 to May 7, Professor Tsuda went in and out of the laboratory building alone from beginning to end, and did not call students to continue the project experiment at all.

Later, Uesugi Sosetsu confirmed this by asking the students in the research group. On May 5, the students in the research group received a notice from the professor asking them to go to Kyoto University to attend a biology lecture and inspect the advanced cutting-edge experimental results of Kyoto University. The research group did not return to Tokyo until May 7.

That day happened to be the day when Professor Tsuda reported the case.

The inside story of the case began to make some progress. Ikeda Erena was very excited, Uesugi Sosetsu seemed thoughtful, Okada Masayoshi showed no emotion, but Watanabe Minami had a complicated expression.

As they get closer to the truth, it means... they are also getting closer to danger.

Miss Minami decided to warn Uesugi Sosetsu about what can and cannot be checked.

After dinner, Miss Minami returned to the Special Investigation Headquarters of Honfuji Police Station and decided to talk to Uesugi Sosetsu alone.

But when she arrived at the door of Uesugi Sosetsu's room, she heard a voice coming from inside.

The voice was very thin and weak, and it was hard to hear what the two people were saying, but Miss Minami's heart was immediately alarmed!
Because she recognized this voice!

The national actress of Soul Agency, Mai Shirakawa!

(End of this chapter)