Tokyo Unnatural Forensics

Chapter 321, Chief Inspector of Kabukicho

Mai-senpai's invisibility technique essentially involves covering her entire body with a layer of spiritual energy, eliminating all information emitted to the outside world. From then on, she will no longer be noticed by anyone, and naturally, no paparazzi will ever be able to take photos of her private life.

Of course, even when traveling alone, you still need to interact with people. At this time, you don't need to completely shut yourself off. You only need to release a faint sense of presence. The other person will sense that someone is talking to them, but they won't remember who you are afterward. Even if you are a tour guide or have a meal with someone for a long time, they will only feel a sense of familiarity and quickly forget about you.

Mai-senpai enjoyed the pleasure of traveling freely on her days off without being noticed in this way, and she could also adjust her presence as needed.

“From now on, you can travel freely like I do,” Mai-senpai said with a smile, handing Uesugi Muneyuki a business card as she did so: “This is for you.”

“This is…” Uesugi Muneyuki took the business card, which read “Hamata Rikka” and a string of phone numbers: “I remember she seems to be your manager.”

“Yes, when you get back tomorrow, contact her and sign with my personal agency. That way, I can help you avoid taxes.” Senior Mai smiled and said, “I have a private trust fund in Nomura Holdings called the Blackstone Foundation. There are professional brokers there who help me manage a portion of my assets and can also help you avoid taxes. In the future, I will add all my assets to your name.”

Mai-senpai inherited at least eleven figures (in Japanese yen) of wealth from her master and the head of the Kanto Shrine Alliance, and she has to give half of that to herself.
Uesugi Muneyuki was speechless. He wanted to say something, but could only remain silent.

Being a kept man is so delicious!
No, does it really smell good? This is something I earned by using all the courage I gathered from solving cases!
Senior's schemes are truly endless, and Uesugi Muneyuki happens to fall for them all. Their relationship is a win-win situation, but he is always being manipulated.

Uesugi Muneyuki was initially quite annoyed, but Mai-senpai pulled out Tokiwa Middle School's winter uniform... and he simply couldn't resist it!
Sure enough, as if she had seen through Uesugi Muneyuki's thoughts, Mai-senpai said naturally, "What's wrong with that? I'll take half of your courage... Of course, I can also give you half of my wealth. After all, I can't generate the energy of the inner world on my own. This is a fair trade. Don't feel like you owe me anything. Every other being in the inner world is willing to exchange most of their wealth for it."

"Mai-senpai, you seem to endorse a lot of famous brands, right? Harry Winston? YSL? Valentino? Oh, I remember there's also Chanel and Kao, and Gucci or Prada again?" Uesugi Muneyuki said with a smile.

"Gucci, but if I had to pick my favorite brand among all the ones I endorse, it would still be Sony from Nogizaka46!" Mai-senpai smiled and pulled out her phone: "I've always used a Sony phone!"

Ha, my senior is just endorsing these old brands.

Uesugi Muneyuki couldn't help but laugh, thinking to himself, "These are all internationally renowned top luxury brands, but what if I pulled out the Miaojie Neck and Shoulder Massager, Mengya Electric Toothbrush, Ximuyuan Men's Facial Cleanser, Hailisheng Fish Oil, Madeng Workwear, and Magic Deer Xiaobing, all of which are genuine world-renowned brands certified by PiliPili? How would you react then?"

"Um, Mai-senpai..."

"Mai...senpai?" Shirakawa Mai deliberately delayed speaking for a few seconds, then reached out and grabbed Uesugi Muneyuki by the collar, gritting her teeth and saying with a half-smile, "Even after all this, you still call me Mai-senpai?"

"Then... senior?"

"Hmph~ Pretending to be stupid, huh?" Shirakawa Mai's face showed anger, and the desire to kill someone was impossible to hide. Uesugi Muneyuki had no choice but to say, "Ahem, then from now on, just call her Mai-sama?"

"Hmph...Hmph!" Mai-senpai was finally satisfied, crossing her arms and muttering softly, "From now on, in public we're just senpai and junior, but in private we're Mai Muneyuki, it's settled then~"

"Aww~" Uesugi Muneyuki nodded slightly, gazing at the stars in the sky, and closed his eyes contentedly.

It's nice to be alive.

The spring night was short, and the boudoir was warm. The secrets between them were not for outsiders to know. All day long, it was just him and his senior in Meiji Shrine. Uesugi Muneyuki stood in front of the shrine from the Taisho era, watching the sunrise and sunset with his senior in front of the statue of Konohana Sakuya-hime. In the incomparably magnificent and majestic Yoyogi Forest, even his state of mind seemed to rise a lot.

Mai Shirakawa was already known as a national goddess. After the two were reborn from the same lotus, they were even more bathed in the glow of love. The goddess senior had a jade-like face and cherry lips, seemingly happy yet shy, like a pair of blooming snow lotuses, charming, noble, and breathtakingly beautiful. The two cultivated together for the first time, inseparable, with endless tenderness and sweetness, almost forgetting everything in the outside world.

However, happy times are always short-lived. The next day, December 28th, Mai-senpai was busy again, busy with rehearsals for the Kohaku Uta Gassen and a series of year-end events.

Similarly, Uesugi Muneyuki had other things to do, and as the sun rose, the two had to part ways again.

When Uesugi Muneyuki returned to the Sakurada Gate of the Metropolitan Police Department, he discovered that the Special Missions Division was also in a state of stagnation as the year drew to a close.

Miss Minami was sitting at her superintendent's workstation, reviewing the various year-end reports, deciding which ones could be signed first, which ones needed to be reviewed, and which ones had questions and needed to be reported.

Inspector Okada and Patrolman Igarashi went to practice kendo, while Kai Toru, wearing headphones and an eye mask, was sitting at his workstation with his eyes closed, looking very tired. Date Chomune was intently watching the Metropolitan Police Department's announcement.

Erena is playing FreeCell, and her record today is 2 wins and 16 losses.

Ishihara Mikoto was reviewing a report and preparing to order some New Year's gifts for her family in Osaka. Upon seeing Uesugi Muneyuki appear, Minami, without suspicion, asked, "Uesugi, you're back? How did things go?"

"It's alright, sigh, I've already lost too much, but fortunately I've gained quite a bit." Uesugi Muneyuki looked exhausted. He had almost been drained dry by Mai-senpai, and all the energy he had stored up was gone. He was in a very weak state.

He told Minami Erena that he needed to go out for some shrine matters. Minami and Erena naturally assumed it was the Uesugi Shrine in Yonezawa and didn't suspect anything. Even now, Grandpa Uesugi Kuninori still plays Uesugi Kenshin at the Yonezawa Uesugi Festival. Good heavens, Kenshin only lived to be 49, while Grandpa was already 73.

"If you're tired, take a good rest. Anyway, there's still time today." Miss Minami lazily leaned back in her chair and complained, "Because you don't have autopsy qualifications now, our entire Special Missions Department has come to a standstill. We can't do anything right now. I don't think many people in the entire department want to work. They're all waiting for the New Year holiday."

"Ikeda, why don't you take Uesugi to rest?" Minami casually suggested.

Erina's eyes lit up as soon as she heard that, and she immediately stood up and gestured for us to go.

"No, no!" Uesugi Muneyuki knew what Erena wanted to do as soon as he saw her expression. Normally he might have been happy to oblige, but now... he really had no more left: "I'll just rest inside for a while. Call me if you need anything."

"It's nothing, what could it be?" Miss Minami replied rather lazily. "Even if something happens now, they won't contact us. We'll wait until your qualifications are processed. You should get some rest, but remember to stay alert tonight! We're not closing at the normal time today."

Uesugi Muneyuki, drained dry by her senior, went into the inner room and fell into a deep sleep. Outside, the members of the Special Missions Department sensed something was amiss. Among them, Erina, upon seeing the message "There are no more cards to move" on the screen, pursed her lips slightly, looking displeased. Hearing Minami say this, she asked curiously, "What's wrong? Why can't we leave work normally today?"

Since their trip to Hakone hot springs, Minami has always been with Erena, and their sisterly bond has grown stronger day by day. Erena has also become much bolder.

"Today is the day the Superintendent General of Police makes his routine inspection of Kabukicho," Miss Minami said with a mysterious smile.

"Huh? Huh???" Minami's words startled the entire Special Missions Department.

What the hell?

"Wait a minute! Today is the day the Superintendent General inspects Kabukicho? That's not right, is it? I mean, um, Supervisor, isn't it customary for the Superintendent General to inspect Kabukicho on the last day of the year?" Date Chomune couldn't help but say. As a former Self-Defense Force officer, he was very sensitive to time and rules. This guy hated changes to established events and temporary assignments, because these usually meant that idol activities would be temporarily rescheduled or the schedule would be changed so he wouldn't be able to attend idol activities!
In the Japanese police force, once you reach the rank of Superintendent General, it's almost impossible to leave your office. However, there is indeed a tradition that at the end of each year, the Superintendent General personally leads a team to inspect Kabukicho in Shinjuku.

As mentioned earlier, Shinjuku Kabukicho is one of the largest entertainment centers (and also the largest red-light district) in Tokyo and even Asia. The rampant crime, gangs, gun violence, and sex work there have always been on the edge of legality. Since the millennium, the Japanese police have been cracking down on this issue, including setting up extensive surveillance, establishing special police stations, strengthening patrols, and cracking down on the licenses of sex workers, in order to further control the area.

Similarly, to demonstrate the importance the Japanese police place on this, the Superintendent General of the Metropolitan Police Department conducts a routine patrol of Kabukicho every year, leading a large police force of a thousand men to sweep from one end of the street to the other, and then gives a routine speech, stating that the Metropolitan Police Department has always attached great importance to the management of the sex industry, gangs, and pachinko!

Whether it was truly taken seriously is debatable, but the practice of the Superintendent General of Police personally conducting inspections has been maintained.

However, what puzzled Date Chomune was that the timing was wrong!
“Nonsense, normally the Superintendent General of Police would give advance notice on the day of his routine inspection, and brothels and host clubs would be closed, and pachinko parlors would be under stricter management. But this year, Father doesn’t plan to conduct routine inspections.” Miss Minami said with a wicked smile, “Father plans to come by surprise!”

“All departments and nearby police stations will receive the emergency assembly order at 4:30 p.m., while our Metropolitan Police Department will be dispatched immediately, suddenly… Duang, rushing to Kabukicho to personally investigate the situation! Any evil will be brought to justice!” Miss Minami clenched her fist in the air: “This is Father’s plan.”

"A surprise attack? Well, after all, he's the most powerful and reputable Superintendent General of Police in the last forty years, and he's successfully reappointed. It's normal for him to do something like this; a new broom sweeps clean." Kai Toru, who was standing next to him, finally showed some interest: "So, are we going too?"

“Of course, all of us from the Special Missions Unit will be going, including Uesugi. He’s practically the face of our Metropolitan Police Department right now.” Minami nodded with a smile. “NHK has agreed to broadcast it live, so everyone will be filmed.”

"Is that so? That's good, but won't we run into some trouble?" Erena thought back to the time she went to Kabukicho with Uesugi Muneyuki to investigate.

"No way, how could that be?" Miss Minami giggled, amused by Erena: "Do you think Kabukicho is still the heyday of the yakuza in the 70s and 80s? These people are just rats in the sewers now. If Father were to suddenly attack and catch them, he would just stomp them to death!"

"Don't worry, Erina, and everyone else, everything will be fine, I promise," Minami said contentedly, already thinking about how to spend the New Year's holiday with Uesugi Muneyuki.

And so, at four o'clock in the afternoon, the entire Metropolitan Police Department suddenly received an emergency assembly order!

Eiji Watanabe, who had just been reappointed as Superintendent General of Police, suddenly announced that he would personally inspect Kabukicho, as is customary in previous years!
As for the timing, it's now!
The Superintendent General's sudden action stunned everyone. However, there was no force within the Metropolitan Police Department that could oppose him. So the entire Sakurada Gate was mobilized. At 4:50 p.m., nearly a thousand police officers gathered from all directions and made a grand appearance at the end of Kabukicho!
The scene was a chaotic mess of screams and howls, with a large number of tattooed and bald members of violent gangs running around screaming and spreading the news.

The Metropolitan Police Department has come to the village!

(End of this chapter)