Tokyo Unnatural Forensics

Chapter 400, The Hunting Ground of a Sea of ​​People!
As Watanabe Eiji finished his vow, the Metropolitan Police Department's high-ranking officials and bureaucrats were preparing to disperse. Most of them had not been involved in the case and naturally could not feel the suppressed, fiery determination in Watanabe Eiji's deep voice.

In reality, although Watanabe Eiji said that, he had never actually met the Sato family and did not know them. However, during the investigation at the time, he found that Sato Kenichi was a very good and traditional typical Showa man. He worked very hard, was conscientious and responsible, loved his wife, family and children, was not good with words but always gave the best to his wife and children and took the hardest part for himself.

It's not easy being a man, no matter how hard it is, I never complain. I lie down and soothe my sorrows.
Being a real man isn't easy; he remains steadfast amidst the risks. His tender feelings for his children are hidden deep within his heart.
Modern Japanese men have lived through an era of de-emphasizing responsibility and giving up, making it difficult for them to understand the strong sense of responsibility and mission that the older generation of Showa-era men possessed.

However, the era also rewarded Showa men with huge benefits, which is debatable.

The crowd began to disperse, and a commotion arose. The reporters prepared to pack up, while mystery enthusiasts discussed the "performance" they had just witnessed with lingering enthusiasm.

Uesugi Muneyuki's roar shattered the false peace like a thunderclap!
"It's him! I've found the murderer! It's him! Catch him!" Uesugi Muneyuki's urgent, hoarse, and frantic roar, filled with incredible joy and fury, exploded from in front of the stone tablet. From a distance of about fifty meters, his slender fingers transformed into a poisoned javelin, stabbing straight and fiercely towards the dark gray figure on the outskirts of the crowd!

A moment of deathly silence!
Then came chaos like a landslide and a tsunami!
At this moment, several major television stations were broadcasting live. They were initially bored with the otherwise uneventful situation, and as for Eiji Watanabe's vow, the television stations had seen it countless times, so it naturally didn't move them much.

However, with Uesugi Muneyuki's roar, all the cameras, like vultures smelling blood, turned sharply! The live stream signal instantly spiked!

"Breaking news! Breaking news! Special Missions Unit forensic investigator Uesugi is suspected of identifying a suspect at the scene! Repeat! Uesugi Muneyuki is identifying a suspect at the scene!" Fuji TV presenter Tsutsumi Reimi's voice was sharp and distorted with excitement and disbelief. The flashes of the cameras were no longer just decorations, but a crazy, daytime-like explosion of flashes! Reporters pushed forward desperately, trying to capture the "target".

The onlookers were stunned for a moment. Following the direction Uesugi Muneyuki pointed, the crowd subconsciously dispersed, revealing the figure wearing a scarf and a dark gray down jacket.

"Ah—!" Terrified screams spread like wildfire!
The crowd near the direction Uesugi pointed was like a pot of boiling oil, pushing and shoving backwards!

Those around, bewildered, were jostled and pushed about, their curses and cries filling the air.
"Someone got stepped on!"

"Help!" "Who is it? Who is the murderer?!"

After a brief moment of shock, the YouTubers watching the live stream were extremely excited!
"Holy crap! They really identified him?!"

"Quick, take a picture of the one in the gray shirt and scarf!"

"Has Uesugi Muneyuki gone mad?! Or has he really discovered something?!"

"Hey everyone, this is a live stream! Let's get the rockets going! Type '666' like everyone else!"

Uesugi Muneyuki was indeed quite far from that person. Normally, a human's visual ability to clearly see a person's face within 20 meters is already considered to be at the level of a pilot. It is almost impossible to identify a person by their face at around 50 meters. The scene was crowded and noisy, and Uesugi Muneyuki knew that he definitely could not catch up with this guy. So he immediately pointed out that it was because there must be a large number of plainclothes police officers hiding at the flower-laying ceremony. Considering that the Superintendent General of Police was present, the Public Security Police must also be there!
Uesugi Muneyuki's judgment was correct. The Metropolitan Police Department had indeed placed many plainclothes police officers at the scene, including several right next to the "Ikebukuro Ghost." However, when Uesugi Muneyuki gave the order, the first reaction of the police officers closest to the Ikebukuro Ghost Division upon hearing Uesugi Muneyuki's earth-shattering roar was one of astonishment and bewilderment!

They instinctively looked in the direction Uesugi Muneyuki was pointing, and there was indeed a man in a gray down jacket. But then they looked at their direct superior, their eyes filled with confusion and disbelief.

A forensic pathologist who's only 24 years old, not even a formal police officer, suddenly pointed at an inconspicuous guy in the crowd and yelled "Arrest him!" after the ceremony? That's absurd!

Could it be that the forensic investigator, Uesugi, was under too much pressure and was hallucinating from studying the case so much lately? Their actions were a beat slower, and they even hesitated about whether to listen to him.

Meanwhile, the mid-level police officers from the Metropolitan Police Department's Security Division and Criminal Investigation Division, who were in charge of on-site security, were ashen-faced. He had not received any notification about the operation or the suspects!

He looked at Uesugi Muneyuki, then at the commotion in the crowd, and cold sweat instantly broke out on his forehead. One of the police inspectors pulled out a walkie-talkie: "Chief! Chief Uchimura, forensic officer Uesugi has identified someone as the culprit at the scene... The situation is unclear, requesting instructions! The crowd is extremely chaotic! Repeat, the situation is unclear!"

The police officers from the Metropolitan Police Department did not move for the time being, but Uesugi Muneyuki saw that there was no response after he shouted. His sharp eyes, like those of a hawk, were locked on the man. When he saw the man's barely perceptible tension and that he had begun to move, Uesugi Muneyuki was so anxious that his eyes were about to burst!

With all his might, he stopped yelling orders and let out a desperate, frantic shout at Watanabe Eiji, and at all the police officers present: "It's him! The ghost from Toshima Ward! Catch him! Don't let him get away! Trust me!!!"

In those chaotic few seconds, Superintendent General Eiji Watanabe was initially displeased by Uesugi Muneyuki's inexplicable actions, thinking that today's young people simply do not understand the sense of responsibility and mission of our previous generation. However, when Uesugi Muneyuki identified the murderer, Eiji Watanabe felt the despair and fury that had been building up for fifteen years explode in front of the stone monument!
That flame that had never been extinguished for fifteen years, that unwavering determination to never forget, never forgive! He also saw the incredibly fluid and alert movements of that dark gray figure amidst the shoving crowd—movements far beyond those of an ordinary bystander!
"Chief Inspector? This..." Before Criminal Investigation Department Chief Uchimura Kanji could even hesitate, Watanabe Eiji had already given the order: "Everyone! Take control of the target as instructed by Forensic Inspector Uesugi! Repeat! Do as he says, take control of the target immediately, and apprehend the suspect!"

"Yes, sir!!!" The Superintendent General's voice was resolute, and the emergency arrest warrant blared through the public address system into all the police officers' earpieces! This was a gamble based on Uesugi Muneyuki's past exceptional judgment, the unusual situation at the scene, and his instantaneous assessment as Superintendent General!
The order has been given! The long-awaited manhunt has finally begun!

The Metropolitan Police Department officers closest to the suspect pounced without hesitation, like arrows released from a bow! But that brief hesitation gave the Ikebukuro ghost the most fatal activation time!
When Uesugi Muneyuki's roar rang out, when countless eyes focused on him, and when the police initially hesitated, the man in the gray down jacket tensed up for only a moment, like a viper sensing a vibration. When Watanabe Eiji's order blared through the walkie-talkie into the police's earpiece, a faint, cold look of confusion flashed in his eyes.

The two were at least fifty meters apart. How did Uesugi discover him?
However, this was not the time to think so much. Like a nine-time champion jaguar that had been poised for a long time, it moved! Not in a panicked escape, but in a violent breakout like a precision machine starting up!

Without hesitation, without wasting words, without even attempting to explain or feign, the dark gray figure suddenly burst forth with astonishing speed and precision amidst the jostling of the crowd!
"Hey! Stop! Don't move!" A tall patrolman opened his arms to tackle him head-on, but just as the officer's fingertips were about to touch the down jacket, the Ghostly Man slid down like a boneless eel, his entire body skimming the cold, damp ground as he narrowly passed between the officer's legs! The officer missed his target and stumbled to the ground. An undercover police officer arrived from the side, his baton whistling as it struck the Ghostly Man's shoulder! The Ghostly Man's slide to his feet was swift and decisive; using the momentum, his left elbow shot out like a cannonball, striking the undercover officer's right ribs with precision and ferocity! "Crack!" A sharp, teeth-grinding sound (a broken rib) was clearly audible!

The plainclothes police officer screamed and curled up on the ground.

"Stop! Don't move!" Two policemen lunged at him from behind, trying to lock Ghost's arms! Ghost lunged forward, using the momentum and the inertia of the attacking officers to execute a textbook over-the-shoulder throw! One of the policemen was slammed hard onto the stone floor, howling in pain!
At the same time, Ghost's right foot lashed out like a scorpion's tail, delivering a lightning-fast back kick. His shoe struck another policeman squarely in the abdomen, sending him flying backward and knocking over a mystery blogger who was holding a phone and a selfie stick!

The whole process happened in the blink of an eye! The Ghost's movements were not fancy at all; they were all deadly fighting techniques honed in street battles, pursuing absolute efficiency! The dark gray down jacket tore open during the tearing, revealing the black fiber protective vest that clung tightly to his body underneath.

In an instant, this guy single-handedly took down four nearby police officers!

Then, he instinctively glanced at a spot near the park where a Yamaha motorcycle was parked.

"Stop him!" Uesugi Muneyuki also began to act. Except for Minami and Mikoto, the members of the Special Missions Division immediately rushed towards the location of the Ghost Guest. However, there were many people at the scene, and in the panic, the crowd was in chaos and blocked the way everywhere, making it impossible to move forward at full speed. Seeing that the Ghost Guest was about to escape, Uesugi Muneyuki had no choice but to continue shouting. He stumbled and tried to get through the chaotic crowd, his eyes fixed on the Ghost Guest's figure.

The ghost had already broken through the first wave of three or four police officers and was less than ten meters away from his Yamaha motorcycle parked near the park! But ahead, two police officers who had reacted were trying to form a human wall to block the exit!

The man's eyes were as cold as iron. He didn't slow down at all; instead, he accelerated! Just as he was about to crash into the wall of people, he suddenly bent down, grabbed a police bicycle weighing over ten kilograms, and lifted the heavy bicycle with one hand! Without pausing, using the momentum of his sprint, his arm muscles bulged, and he swung the bicycle like a shot put, drawing a low, spinning arc, and whistling as it crashed into the police at the alley entrance!

"What?!" Amidst the exclamation, the flying bicycle, carrying immense force, slammed into the two policemen with a deafening bang! The intense pain caused their vision to blur, and their batons flew from their hands, falling to the cold ground.

At the same time, the ghostly figure had already flashed out of the park entrance like a phantom. He ripped off the dark cover on his motorcycle, revealing the keys already in his hand!
Stepping forward, starting the engine, twisting the throttle—the movements were executed in one smooth motion, as if they had been practiced a thousand times!
"Vroom—Boom!!!" The Yamaha motorcycle's iconic single-cylinder engine roared with a deep, wild sound, instantly shattering the screams, sirens, and gasps of the media at the scene! White smoke billowed from the exhaust pipe, and the motorcycle, like a black beast breaking free of its cage, shot out of the narrow alleyway with a screeching sound of tires, rushing into the "Ikebukuro Station Front Street" main road, which was already showing signs of traffic!

Wow, so fast! When Uesugi Muneyuki and the elite police officers from the Metropolitan Police Department finally pushed through the crowd and arrived, they could only see the other party's exhaust fumes.

The scene looked as if it had been hit by a bomb!
The police officers from the precinct and plainclothes police officers who were lying on the ground groaning in pain (at least four were injured, one with a fractured rib) were clearly injured and incapacitated. The scene shocked and made the crying crowd, the media reporters who frantically chased after them, and the cameras of NHK and the four major TV stations were glued to the taillights of the departing motorcycle. The equipment that was knocked over was scattered all over the ground.

"My God! Is...is it really the murderer?!"

"Forensic investigator Uesugi is amazing!"

"That guy's a formidable fighter!"

"Why didn't the police move at first?!"

"Live! Watch the live stream! The killer has escaped on a motorcycle!"

The scene was in chaos.

The television station broadcasting the incident suddenly reacted like sharks smelling blood. The news anchor shrieked, "Unbelievable! A major twist has occurred at the Metropolitan Police Department's annual apology ceremony! Forensic investigator Uesugi has identified the suspect in the Toshima Ward family annihilation case! The suspect violently resisted arrest, injuring several officers before fleeing on a motorcycle! Chaos ensues! Repeat, forensic investigator Uesugi has identified the suspect, and chaos ensues!"

Seeing that he couldn't catch up, Uesugi Muneyuki told Hironaka Mariko to follow the ghost, and immediately yelled at Watanabe Eiji who was rushing behind him, "That's him! Chief! Chase him! The murderer especially likes to return to the crime scene, believe me!"

Watanabe Eiji stared at the fallen police officers, his face pale with shock and anger, but his eyes burned with an almost manic light as he stared intently in the direction where the motorcycle had disappeared.

"Immediately issue a Tokyo-wide alert! Deploy the Traffic Division! Everyone, give chase! The target is a gray Yamaha motorcycle! The driver is male, extremely dangerous! Emergency deployment on suspicion of murder! Deploy mobile forces!" Watanabe Eiji calmly ordered everyone: "The day to solve this 15-year-old cold case is today! Metropolitan Police Department, all personnel! Mobilize!"

"Yes, sir!!!" More than 50 of the more than 100 Metropolitan Police Department officers at the scene immediately took action, getting into their cars and riding motorcycles to prepare for the pursuit. Only a small number of security police and public security police immediately signaled Watanabe Eiji to get in the car, indicating to the Director that it was dangerous here, and escorted him back to Sakuradamon.

"Don't touch me, I'm not going anywhere!" Watanabe Eiji angrily shook off the police officer's hand and stared intently in the direction where the ghost had disappeared.

He knew that Uesugi had made the right bet!

That man in the gray down jacket is most likely the real murderer. He probably watched "The Hand of God" and came to the scene to admire his own work and enjoy the fruits of his victory!
Since you dare to show up again, then don't leave!
The real storm has only just begun!
(End of this chapter)