Tokyo Unnatural Forensics

Chapter 41, The Girl Chosen by God

For more than a month, Uesugi Muneyuki maintained his master-disciple relationship with Ikeda Erena, and worked hard to improve his abilities. At the same time, he continued to deepen his relationships with major police stations in Tokyo. His reputation gradually spread, and police stations in many districts would come to him for help when they needed to look at corpses. According to the same rules, Uesugi Muneyuki's price for examining a corpse was 10,000 yen, and he was very efficient in examining corpses, which allowed him to quickly earn more from side income than from his salary.

So the routine of life gradually became fixed. Early every morning, Ikeda Erena would drive to the Tokyo Medical and Dental University where Sosetsu Uesugi was. No matter if she had anything to do or not, she would arrive on time. If there were police officers from other departments coming to help, Erena would follow Sosetsu Uesugi. If not, Erena could even stay in Sosetsu Uesugi's laboratory and office for a whole day, watching him write reports and papers from time to time, and sometimes taking the opportunity to guide Sosetsu Uesugi's training progress.

Due to the arrangement of the police station, Uesugi Sosetsu and Ikeda Erena have the same rest days, so when both of them are resting, they will rent the training room of Otsuka Police Station for karate training.

As for why karate instead of judo, Uesugi Sosetsu felt it was very strange that he might have to come into close contact with possible creatures from the other world, so he took the initiative to learn karate first.

Ikeda Erena also felt a little embarrassed when she thought of the scene of Uesugi Sosetsu learning judo with her. There was a reason that was not easy to explain: karate allows men and women to practice sparring, but judo does not allow men and women to practice sparring. Since Uesugi Sosetsu took the initiative to say that he would learn karate first, Erena naturally had no reason to disagree.

So the two sides formed a new relationship. They were partners during the week and went to get off work together. On weekends, they were master and apprentice to each other. Uesugi Sosetsu would teach Erina some forensic medicine. Although Erina didn't understand most of what he said and couldn't figure out how the pattern of alcohol production after death was related to solving the case, she listened very hard.

Unfortunately, Uesugi Sosetsu couldn't teach, he could only teach Erina some basic forensic techniques.

With goals, work and training, August passed in a flash, and the golden autumn season of September arrived with the arrival of red leaves in Kyoto.

After a few rains, the weather gradually became cooler.

Over the past month, Uesugi Sosetsu has looked at forty or fifty corpses in a row. However, to his disappointment, none of the corpses could trigger the Dead Soul Contract. Apart from collecting a very small number of souls that had not yet dissipated from the corpses, he did not gain much more.

The lack of progress on the road to the other world makes Uesugi Sosetsu a little anxious, but he currently has no way to get involved in higher-level cases. The Metropolitan Police Department has not contacted him since the last arson case.

As we all know, the level of cases that local police stations can handle is limited, and the real major cases are directly investigated by the Metropolitan Police Department.

There needs to be more, and there needs to be access to higher levels.

Uesugi Sosetsu was thinking in his mind, and he had a bad feeling.

According to my brother's investigation and Ms. Kurosawa's statement, the supernatural should really exist in this world.

But now he often uses supernatural powers, but he has not encountered any people or supernatural creatures with supernatural powers.

This shows what?
"Uesugi, this is today's schedule. There are two bodies in Toshima and Shinjuku that I need your help to look after. One seems to be an elderly person who lived alone and died of a sudden heart attack at home, and the other one fell from a building accidentally."

Early in the morning, several policemen were already standing at the door of the Forensic Pathology Department of Tokyo Medical and Dental University. Ikeda Erena naturally received them at the door and after briefly looking through the information, she summarized the situation with Uesugi Sosetsu.

As the weather turns cooler, Ikeda Erena changes back into her usual outfit of a suit jacket, shirt, trousers and leather shoes. She still looks neutral, but it still can't hide her charming slender figure under that simple uniform.

Compared to the first time they met, Erina's mental state has changed a lot. To put it simply, although she is still being ostracized and suppressed in the police station, although she is still excluded from the Criminal Division, and although she has been a patrol officer for several years, Erina now has a light in her eyes!
Her mental state is completely different from before. With light in her eyes, Erina's whole body exudes a brilliant glow like fireworks. The skin exposed within the neckline is delicate, shiny and warm like egg white. The magnificent, firm and full breasts under the neckline stand proudly. Her slender figure is perfect, and the muscles of her calves are well-proportioned, tight and streamlined, full and round. There is not a trace of excess fat on her body. She is a hot and attractive beauty with an aura full of Iberian Mediterranean flavor.

Naturally, the policemen who came to look for Uesugi Sosetsu were frightened by Ikeda Erena, the tall and beautiful woman with a notorious reputation, so naturally, everything had to be handled by Erena.

She seems to enjoy her duties as Uesugi Sosetsu's guardian.

The only trouble was that there was another person in the Forensic Pathology Department.

The elderly Professor Okochi walked into the room with a briefcase. Compared with Uesugi Sosetsu who was still wearing short sleeves, Professor Okochi put on a thick long Armani coat after the autumn. It is obvious that the elderly's body heat production ability cannot be compared with that of the two young people.

This old professor was one of the very few men that Ikeda Erena did not dislike. He was over seventy years old, highly respected, and was also Uesugi Sosetsu's mentor. He would occasionally glance at her, and Erena really could not feel any disgust.

Professor Ohkouchi was used to Erina appearing here every day, but today was different. He specifically signaled Uesugi Sosetsu to come over: "Uesugi-kun, come here. Let's talk about the last arson and murder incident in Bunkyo District."

The old professor glanced at Erina casually, thinking that this policewoman didn't seem to be a good match for his student.

"Yes." Uesugi Sosetsu came in front of Professor Okouchi and bowed his head respectfully.

He always doesn't care about the follow-up after the autopsy. He rarely participates in the autopsy report and subsequent certification. Most of the time, it is handled by Professor Ohkouchi's other graduate students and the relationship with the Medical Bureau. However, the income from the police station is enjoyed by him alone.

The Tokyo Medical and Dental University naturally had no objection to this. After all, Uesugi Munesetsu handled all the autopsy work by himself. However, Uesugi Munesetsu had to owe a favor to Professor Ohkouchi. If it were not for Professor Ohkouchi's connections, the Medical Bureau and other students might not be willing to write so many autopsy reports for him.

Japanese culture is like this: the work is done by Uesugi Sosetsu, but Professor Qian can take it away openly. The subordinates' credit goes to the boss, and the boss's mistakes are borne by the subordinates!

In other words, Professor Ohkouchi doesn't care about these things. He is too old and has seen everything.

"The Metropolitan Police Department said they may need you to write another report on the last case." Professor Ohkouchi frowned. "During the prosecution process, the District Prosecutor's Office found that Ms. Akashi's ex-husband had serious domestic violence and cheating problems during their marriage, so they requested a retrial of Ms. Akashi's lawsuit. The Metropolitan Police Department needs your help."

Uesugi Sosetsu also frowned, he knew about this.

The Bunkyo Ward arson and murder case became complicated when it was actually prosecuted. On the surface, the problem was simple, that is, Ms. Akashi murdered her ex-husband Kengo Koyama, so she could be prosecuted for arson and intentional homicide.

But the matter became very complicated when it reached the district prosecutor's office. First, the prosecutor found out that the ex-husband had a history of domestic violence during marriage, and then it seemed that they also found out that the ex-husband had cheated on her during marriage. Secondly, because the divorce alimony was not paid on time, the district prosecutor believed that Ms. Akashi was not fully responsible, and that the sentence imposed by the Metropolitan Police Department was too heavy, so they requested a re-audit.

This matter involved Uesugi Munesetsu.

Uesugi Muneyuki was not surprised by her ex-husband's bad deeds. According to social surveys, at least half of Japanese men have domestic violence habits to varying degrees, and the probability of Japanese couples cheating after eight years of marriage is more than 50%. A TV station once investigated single-income housewives in Kanto and found that % of the anonymous couples in the survey sample admitted to having cheated.

But the district prosecutor insisted on using this matter to make a fuss, which still made Uesugi Sosetsu feel a little strange.

"This is only the first time you've encountered this kind of thing, Uesugi-kun. You'll encounter more and more of these things in the future." Professor Okochi said in a deep voice: "In some cases, if the Metropolitan Police Department believes that a heavy sentence should be imposed, then the District Public Prosecutor's Office will request a lighter sentence. If the Metropolitan Police Department believes that a lighter sentence should be imposed, then the District Public Prosecutor's Office will request a heavy sentence."

Uesugi Sosetsu nodded thoughtfully and asked tentatively, "It seems to have nothing to do with the case itself... Is it because of factional confrontation?"

"That's right." Professor Okochi pinched the pen in his hand with some annoyance: "Everyone wants to have more power. The confrontation between the Metropolitan Police Department and the District Public Prosecutors Office has lasted for decades. Uesugi-kun, you should pay attention."

"You can still avoid offending both sides now, but...if you continue like this, sooner or later, you will completely lean towards one side." Professor Ohkouchi looked out the window: "You are different from me, Uesugi-kun. I know you don't like staying in the lab. If you continue to do this, you will have to face these things."

“We are not here to be politicians, but we cannot avoid politics.”

Uesugi Sosetsu narrowed his eyes and subconsciously glanced at Erina in the distance.

Should I choose the Metropolitan Police Department or the District Prosecutors Office? ————I am the dividing line of choice————

It is also the golden autumn season, with the maple leaves under the paulownia trees sending the whispers of autumn. The cloudless evening above the clear sky reflects the brilliant sky, and the hot evening breeze is mixed with a barely perceptible chill as it blows into a community of a super-large danchi building in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo.

If you mention the word "danchi", the first thing that comes to most people's minds is probably "danchi wife" (laughs).

But this is not what the real danchi means.

The so-called "Danchi" in Japanese refers to super-large living communities. If we use the Chinese analogy, these communities are like the rows of dormitories in universities, the worker dormitory buildings in factories, and some large residential communities. There may be seven or eight households on each floor, and a building with thousands of people. The smaller ones have five or six floors, and dozens of people on each floor.

The danchi is naturally equipped with corresponding supermarkets, schools, and hospitals. The entire danchi will also have a special danchi management office. However, compared with the high-end apartment where Uesugi Sosetsu lives and the traditional single-family house, the danchi has no walls, no doormen, and basically no elevators.

This makes the distance between people very close to each other. Since every household lives in close proximity, people have to engage in a lot of socializing even if they don't like it. At the same time, there will be a large number of strangers visiting the community, selling goods, delivering goods, preaching, making friends, and even thieves and people with ulterior motives.

This is how the concept of "Danchi wives" came into being, because ordinary people would never come into contact with real noble ladies who lived in garden houses like Uesugi Sosetsu's mother, Uesugi Tomoko, in their daily lives. On the contrary, the wives who lived in the Danchi were easy to remember and coveted because they had to socialize a lot and live in a particularly densely populated area.

"I am back."

In a large danchi building in Setagaya Ward, a 15-year-old high school girl opened the door alone, shouted casually to the empty room, kicked off her worn and almost faded leather shoes, and walked into the house.

Even though she was only wearing the most common and ordinary JK clothes, her thin body and slightly sallow complexion due to malnutrition still could not conceal the girl's graceful figure. Under the simple sailor suit jacket, the girl's clean and refreshing classical long straight hair draped over her shoulders, and under the swaying pleated skirt, a pair of slender bony legs wore pilling elephant trunk socks, and her delicate and moving waist was filled with youthful vitality.

The most attractive thing is that the girl has a very small face. Her small face with a pair of clear big eyes makes her as cute as if she came out of a cartoon. Her delicate facial features are pure and cute, full of transparency and cuteness. She smiles sweetly, is kawaii when serious, and occasionally has a hint of touching shyness, which fully displays the charm of a girl.

In school, she was known as "the girl chosen by God".

But this was at home, she and her sister were just a pair of sisters who came to Tokyo from Hokkaido.

The small room in the housing estate is really not big, it is only the size of four tatami mats, and such a small area has to accommodate a bathroom and a kitchen, leaving the two sisters with only the size of a table for living. The corners are piled with books and sundries found in the community mutual aid group. There is no TV, and the refrigerator has to be borrowed from the aunt next door. Even the bowls in the sink were found in the community mutual aid group. The large bowl has several cracks, and the small bowl also has signs of cracks.

Saito Asuka smelled the musty smell in the house and called out weakly, "I'm back."

No one answered, because she knew her sister had an appointment in the evening, but she still had to shout, as if it was a ritual that had to be completed.

She washed the dishes quickly, using minimal water, and then lay down directly on the tatami.

The girl who had just finished work was actually very hungry. As soon as she lay down, her stomach started to growl.

She had bad luck today as business at the shop where she worked was good, so she only brought back two leftover seaweed rice rolls, the kind that cost 100 yen each. This amount was not enough to satisfy a high school girl, so she wolfed down the first one and left one for her sister.

She knew she couldn't ask for more. The monthly rent for the danchi was 30,000 yen, which was very, very cheap in Tokyo. But even so, the terrible prices and various living expenses in Tokyo almost crushed the lives of the two sisters, not to mention her sister's tuition and her own tuition. It had only been a year in Tokyo, and Asuka Saito had already understood something from her sister's troubled expression when she paid the bill.

She just lay on her back on the tatami with her limbs stretched out.

Before anything happened, she would try to save her energy in this way to fight hunger.

The autumn afternoon turned into sunset, and my sister did not come back.

The sunset glowed, and the last piece of crimson turned into the dusk of the night. My sister did not come back.

Before darkness completely enveloped everything, the street lights came on and noisy voices and the sound of TV programs came from the residents next door.

My sister still hasn't come back.

Hunger tormented the girl's nerves. She looked at the ceiling and felt that the shabby and peeling ceiling was getting closer and closer to her face.

It looks like today will be another hungry day.

The girl couldn't help it any longer, so she ate the last remaining seaweed rice roll, and her hunger was slightly relieved.

Sorry, sister, I'm so hungry.

still have a question.

Saito Asuka closed her eyes.

Winter is coming.

In the summer, you can still dress like everyone else, but winter clothes are much more expensive than summer clothes, and there are also heating costs...

The girl chosen by God only felt an invisible worry gradually spreading over her body, pulling her into an abyss where no light could be seen.

The night grew deeper, and just when Saito Asuka was wondering whether her sister would be able to come back tonight, a voice suddenly came from the door.

It's my sister!
Asuka immediately stood up from the ground, but almost fell down again because of dizziness.

"I'm back, Ah Xiu!" The elder sister excitedly took off her high heels and put a big wooden lunch box on the table: "You must be hungry, eat quickly!"

The sister excitedly opened the lunch box, said hurriedly "I'm going to eat" and picked up the chopsticks. But when she saw the grilled beef tongue, cheese-baked scallops, wasabi octopus, fried shrimp tempura and a small ball of raw beef slices lined up in the lunch box, Saito Asuka looked up in disbelief.

She saw the red mark on her sister's neck, it was fresh.

"elder sister?"

The girl's eyes were red.

　The construction of the large-scale housing estate was inspired by the Khrushchev Building. The Corn Emperor is truly the light of humanity!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)