Tokyo Unnatural Forensics

Chapter 54, The body is found?

PS: A paragraph from the second chapter was deleted yesterday, so I’d better write less in the future.

Unlike what Ikeda Erena had imagined, Uesugi Sosetsu's search of the underground was far less professional than she had imagined.

He neither opened the lids of many things nor opened the doors. He just kept his right hand raised as if sensing something. After staying at each place for a few seconds, he signaled to Erina that she could move on to the next place.

Erina didn't ask why, she had a blind trust in him.

"The last time we searched together was when we went to the gigolo club." There was no one else around, and Uesugi Soyuki was right next to her. Ikeda Erena had no idea that the Metropolitan Police Department and Fuji TV were going crazy at this moment. The tall and beautiful policewoman thought that sealing off the building was... quite interesting. The two of them were about to separate, but now they had to stay together again: "The male host named Takigawa Tsubasa disappeared later, and no one knows what happened to him later."

"Yes, it was an illegal search last time, and it's the same this time." Uesugi Sosetsu nodded, his right hand raised all the time, responding to Erina's questions intermittently: "So we should pay attention to one thing, Master Erina, you must be wondering why I am so tough sometimes and so careful sometimes, right? In the train corpse case, I dared to confront JR East, a Fortune 500 company, but in the gigolo case, I only dared to investigate secretly, and afterwards I had to find an excuse to change the concept and report to the Metropolitan Police Department?"

"Anyway, you always have your reasons, and I can't argue with you." Erina pouted, feeling a little aggrieved, thinking to herself, who would understand such a complicated thing if you told her?
"Some things are worth more than a thousand pounds if you don't weigh them." Uesugi Munen said softly, "Indeed, JR East is one of the top 500 companies in the world, and I, a rookie forensic doctor, am worthless in the face of the entire Metropolitan Police Department, and even the chief inspector personally. But I do things and perform autopsies according to formal procedures and in compliance with regulations, so no one dares to touch me directly or directly reject my judgment."

"This is the system. It has long formed an extremely strict operating structure. In this operating mode, no one can disobey it, otherwise they will be backlashed by the entire system. This backlash will not come quickly, but will gradually become stronger and stronger." Uesugi Munen said in a low voice: "At this point, if you still want to continue in this system, everyone has to abide by this rule."

"This is why I dare to challenge JR East, dare to deny the Metropolitan Police Department, and dare to face the local prosecutors. I have always acted within the rules and handled things according to the way the system operates. Even if they are dissatisfied with me, they cannot cross the rules and attack me directly."

"But Niulang's situation is different from ours. Ours is an illegal search, so we have to be careful about everything." Uesugi Sosetsu sneered, "The system can protect us in a regular search, but not in an illegal search. In this case, we must protect ourselves first."

"You always say such complicated things." Ikeda Erina pouted. She thought about it and felt that what Uesugi Sosetsu said made sense.

Since she started to develop, she has been subjected to constant rumors along the way. Uesugi Sosetsu didn't know what kind of troubles she had encountered in the judo and karate circles before she was admitted to the police station. She refused to give in to her coach and had to leave the dojo.

Who knew that there would be endless harassment in the police force? Fortunately, reports from the police force are much more useful than those from the sports world.

"Then why do I encounter so much trouble? Uesugi? Am I not doing things according to the operating logic of the police system?" Ikeda Erena finally asked the question that had been weighing on her heart for many years.

She thought she had never done anything wrong. She thought she had tried her best to do everything she should do, and she also went through the formal channels!

"Because..." Uesugi Munen smiled and showed his teeth: "Bureaucratic order only cares about order and chaos, not good and evil."

What Uesugi Sosetsu didn't say is: Your existence will bring turmoil and chaos, and you will naturally be excluded by the system. This has nothing to do with good or evil.

The tall beauty's mood instantly dimmed. She didn't fully understand, but she roughly understood what Uesugi Sosetsu meant.

It's all because of the damn fat on her chest, her unsociable height and mixed-race face!

Erina pursed her lips and suddenly asked, "What about you? Uesugi, won't you also bring chaos?"

"Indeed, that's true. The only difference is that the value I can create is far greater than the trouble I cause." Uesugi Muneyuki said with a smile, "Is it more important to tolerate my tough attitude, or to solve the case and return to 'rule' on the same day? The rewards and punishments of the system will tell them the answer."

"Yeah, I'm a woman who has no value at all and always brings trouble." Erina became even more frustrated.

This was not the answer she wanted!
She knew this was the man's character, honest and outspoken.

If she had known, she wouldn't have asked!

I’m so annoyed, so annoyed, so annoyed!
"Don't think like that, Master Erina. At least, you are very important to me!" Uesugi Sosetsu continued, and gave the tall beauty a thumbs up: "You are my master and partner!"

"Hmph, it's too late to make amends now!" Ikeda Erina turned her head slightly, not wanting to pay attention to him.

This was the answer she wanted.

He probably didn't know that to him, she was at most just an important person around him.

But for Erina, he is almost everything in her life. To her, he...

As the two chatted, Uesugi Sosetsu had already roughly searched the entire basement.

not found.

Next is the second underground floor, which, in addition to a large number of props and set boards, also has many pipe rooms and basements.

The stench became stronger. In addition to the pungent smell of rust and paint, there was also a slightly sweet fishy smell in the air.

"There doesn't seem to be any surveillance on this floor." Ikeda Erina had a vague premonition of something bad happening. She took the initiative to stand in front of Uesugi Sosetsu and said, "Be careful. The air smells a bit strange."

"No, not here." Uesugi Sosetsu kept his right hand raised and shook his head: "Keep going, keep going."

The underground area was very large, and the two people moved for a long time. They turned several corners, took the wrong path, and went around in circles twice. Uesugi Sosetsu suddenly felt something.

"Follow me!" Grabbing Erina's wrist, the two of them trotted all the way to the door of a basement.

When I opened the door of the small room, an extremely unpleasant smell hit me in the face.

However, the view inside the small room was unobstructed. Apart from the pipes on the ceiling, the construction materials and some cleaning supplies piled on the ground, and a cart, there was no place to hide.

"That's right, it's here!" Uesugi Sosetsu said confidently: "Ms. Hironaka Mariko is hiding in this room!"

"Ah?" Erina looked around the room with four bare walls and a puzzled look on her face: "But..."

"You can notify Inspector Higurashi now and ask them to come over!" Uesugi Sosetsu exerted a little force with his big hands and said word by word: "Tell them that we have found Ms. Hironaka!"

"But... there's nothing here!" Erina was still checking the entire room again and again in vain: "Where's the evidence?"

I can only smell the stench but not see the person.

"She is right here..." Uesugi Sosetsu raised his right hand, and in the area that Erina could not see, the azurite was glowing.

The dead soul of Hironaka Mariko activated the contract.

The female anchor's body is in the wall of this basement!

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Fuji TV Odaiba Building, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 9:30 p.m., the Odaiba Building has been closed for two and a half hours, and Fuji TV Live Broadcasting has started for the second hour.

The female anchor of Fuji TV has been replaced for the third time. All the information that can be made public has been made public back and forth. The story has shifted from the missing Hironaka Mariko to her colleagues, her department, and the programs she hosted, and then to her hometown and her alma mater, Keio University. Finally, they have started talking about the traditions of Keio University and the alumni dinner hosted by the current president of the Keio University Alumni Association, Hironori Uesugi, some time ago.

The person still hasn't been found.

The female host's description gradually deviated from the key issues, her attitude gradually became casual, and she even secretly put on makeup again.

She was relieved, but the Fuji TV executives who were still waiting outside were already jumping up and down in anxiety.

In the weather at the end of September, President Kameyama was only wearing a long-sleeved shirt, but he looked like he had been fished out of the water.

The water tower on the top floor was searched.

The president’s office was searched.

The confidential archives room was searched.

Conference halls, broadcast studios, sound stages of major shows, even the cold storages used by restaurants to store food, stage scenes that had not been sold for years, and even large backstage clothing boxes left over from the 1980s that were filled with performance costumes and had not been opened for years were all searched.

No, no, just no!

God knows where Mariko Hironaka went!
"President, the live broadcast ratings are dropping rapidly!" a staff member at the scene shouted.

"understood!"

When Fuji TV just started live broadcasting, it instantly attracted the attention of the entire Kanto region, and the ratings once exceeded 25%. At least several million people in the Tokyo metropolitan area witnessed the Metropolitan Police Department searching every floor, not to mention rooms and large cabinets, even places the size of shoe cabinets were not spared.

Still nothing.

As the heat died down, Fuji TV began to face troubles one after another. For example, President Kameyama's cell phone ringtone was ringing like crazy, and Miyazaki Takataka, one of the Miyazaki brothers from the Soul Agency, had threatened to sue Fuji TV because the agency's treasure, national actress Shirakawa Mai, was also locked up.

There were also calls from other agencies such as Xingchen, Johnny's, and Yoshimoto.

If these were still manageable, and the deadlines set by Dentsu, Hakuhodo, and Nippon Life Insurance had not yet arrived, then the calls from the major shareholders behind Fuji TV were like a death warrant. What made Kameyama's head explode was that the head of the security department secretly told him that although the surveillance coverage was particularly comprehensive, there was still a way to circumvent the surveillance by memorizing the location of the cameras, and that it would be fine as long as he worked in the station for a few more years and had the knowledge.

In other words, it is very likely that the staff inside...

When President Kameyama heard the news, his face turned sour.

Hongjoong, where the hell have you been? Are you planning to destroy the entire TV station???
"President, the ratings have dropped to 17.2%!"

"I know, stop talking!" President Kameyama screamed.

The Metropolitan Police Department is also under tremendous pressure like Fuji TV.

Up to now, more than 500 police officers from the Third, Sixth, Ninth, Thirteenth Departments and the Special Squad of the Investigation Section 1, as well as the five police stations in the Port District have all been involved in the search, but after two and a half hours, they still have found nothing.

"Have you found it? Have you found it? Have you found it?"

Two hours after the building was sealed off, Inspector Higurashi began to repeat a sentence neurotically.

As the search continued, one of the detectives from the First Investigation Section bent down to look for any gaps but found nothing. When he stood up quickly, he suddenly fell to the ground, fainted on the spot, and was carried away by the security guards of Fuji TV.

There is no way. Inspector Higurashi and his men have not had any rest since noon, and this buddy can't take it anymore.

Also unable to hold on was the special search headquarters in the restaurant on the first floor.

The remaining thirty or so people were sitting uncomfortably in the restaurant.

The Odaiba Building has more than 30 floors. It took the Metropolitan Police Department two and a half hours to search only about 10 floors. If they continue searching like this, it will take until at least the second half of the night!
Then it's all over.

At this moment, the door of the restaurant was pushed open suddenly, and the star inspector of the Third Department of the First Investigation Division, Kashiwagi Jin, suddenly rushed in.

"Section Chief! Section Chief! Major discovery!" Kashiwagi Ren said breathlessly.

"What?" Section Chief Mikasa and the others all stood up. Even the sweet and beautiful Inspector Minami Watanabe, the Face of the Metropolitan Police Department, came over. At this time, the Face of the Metropolitan Police Department, who was usually calm and dignified, was a little panicked.

"This is the result of our investigation, regarding Managing Director Shimagawa!"

Kashiwagi Ren directly offered his own judgment.

Shimagawa Ren, 31 years old, is a senior executive of Ota Real Estate Company in Taito-ku, Tokyo. With a wealthy family, he got engaged to Ms. Hironaka Mariko last year and their wedding date is tomorrow.

"According to the investigation, Section Chief, Shimagawa has had relationships with many women outside and often visits high-end clubs in Ginza... We have reason to believe that he has a motive for murder." Kashiwagi Hitoshi said confidently, "Moreover, Ms. Hironaka also has an ambiguous relationship with the top management of Fuji TV, which also gives us reason to hate her."

Section Chief Mikasa took the information, took a look at it, and made a decision immediately.

It’s running out of time!
"There's no other way, let's control him first!" Section Chief Mikasa gritted his teeth. If it really doesn't work, he would just announce to the public that his fiancé might be the murderer.

We can't really make it seem like our Metropolitan Police Department is incompetent, right?

At this time, the fiancé Shimagawa and Mrs. Hironaka, who were waiting for the result in the building, were soon taken to a vacated general affairs room on the second floor in the name of "protection".

Shimagawa Ren was still anxiously waiting for news from his fiancée, but when he was surrounded by three members of the First Investigation Section, even though he was uneasy, he knew something was wrong.

"I'm here to find Mariko, what do you want to do?" Shimagawa was shocked and angry and wanted to get up, but was pressed down on the chair.

"Please cooperate with the search."

"Mr. Shimagawa, we have a question for you." Star police inspector Kashiwagi Hitoshi put his hands in his pockets and asked politely but quickly, "You and Ms. Hironaka Mariko, did you meet through a blind date?"

"Yes... but it was more of a family discussion than a blind date." Managing Director Shimagawa had answered this question several times, and said impatiently, "At the time, we felt that we were compatible, and we decided to get married very quickly."

"Decided to get married so soon?" Inspector Kashiwagi Hitoshi's face was serious. He took out a few photos from his pocket: "As far as we know, you had close relationships with many women before. Even though your wedding date is approaching, people still saw you going in and out of high-end clubs in Ginza and going out with some hostesses, right?"

"That's right." The fiancé looked a little embarrassed when talking about this. He nodded reluctantly and admitted: "It's only natural to have social events at work, and I'm not married yet."

"That's really strange. The wedding is going to be held in a few days, but you still have the time to attend social events? And since you met through a blind date and got engaged hastily, there shouldn't be any feelings between you. Why were you so excited before?" Kashiwagi Jin slowly leaned forward: "Also, what have you been doing these past few days?"

Managing Director Shimagawa's face became worse and worse. He slowly raised his head and said, "What do you mean? The Metropolitan Police Department is asking me for my... alibi? Do you think I murdered my fiancée?"

"Wait!" A look of "as expected" appeared on Kashiwagi Ren's face.

it is as expected!
It's him!

"Ms. Hironaka Mariko is just missing. Why do you assume that she has been murdered?"

"It's you, isn't it?! Tell me, where have you been these days? Where did you hide Ms. Mariko?"

The search team found a breakthrough in the fiancé.

It’s time to increase our intensity!

"That's right. Judging from what the police and security guards said before, it seems that Mariko was murdered." The fiancé's face flushed, and then turned pale and blue because of extreme anger: "Don't treat me as an idiot! I'm in real estate. The surveillance density of the Odaiba building is so high that she has been missing for four days... Instead of looking for the body or the suspect, you actually come to me? You actually come to me???"

"Please answer the question, Mr. Shimagawa, what have you been doing these days?"

"I...!" The fiancé's face became even uglier. He couldn't provide an alibi: "I couldn't get through to Mariko on the phone. I did come to the station to look for her a few times... The rest of the time, I was at home preparing for the wedding..."

"That means you can't provide a complete alibi!"

"Excuse me, Mr. Shimagawa Ren, could you please stay here and cooperate with our investigation during this period of time?"

One leaned over, one blocked the door, and one stood behind Shima River. Before they knew it, the fiancé could no longer escape.

"Idiot! Instead of catching the real criminal, you actually..." It was too late for Shima Kawanalen to escape. As soon as he stood up, he was pinned back to the spot by two policemen. His emotionally agitated fiancé howled and screamed as he was pinned on the table, making a sound like a slaughtered pig: "Ah ...

Born and raised in Minato, how could he have ever experienced such humiliation? !

Interrogate me severely!

"It has been confirmed that the missing person's fiancé is a suspect." The news from the Special Investigation Headquarters quickly spread through the intercom to the ears of every Metropolitan Police Department police officer in the Odaiba building.

However, the fiancé has always firmly refused to plead guilty and his attitude is very tough.

The most important thing is to find where Ms. Hongzhong is.

"Inspector, inspector!" When Inspector Higurashi was arranging the search, a subordinate came running over: "Inspector Kashiwagi from the Third Department believes that the missing person's fiancé is a major suspect, and there may be a breakthrough in his case."

"Is it like this again? Is it true that every time a case involves marriage, the husband, wife, fiancé, and fiancée are the first suspects?" Inspector Higurashi had been running around all day and was a little tired: "Did you find the body?"

"No, Managing Director Shimagawa firmly denies that he has anything to do with this matter, and denies knowing the location of the body." The subordinate was also under some pressure: "But Inspector Kashiwagi has already detained the person, and now the lawyer from Nishimura Asahi Law Firm, who is contracted by Ota Real Estate Co., Ltd., is rushing here!"

"This Kashiwagi guy! He arrested people without finding the body. Isn't this causing trouble for us? Even the professional team can't do this?" When Inspector Higurashi heard that his fiancé's lawyer was on the way, he felt under great pressure. He was so tired that he squatted on the ground, gasping for breath, and took a Snickers and Red Bull from his subordinates.

Time, time, they are running out of time!

When the police and the TV station were at a loss as to what to do with the current situation, Inspector Higurashi's cell phone rang.

"Uesugi-kun? Is there something urgent? I'm busy right now." Inspector Higurashi answered the phone impatiently: "Please cooperate with the Metropolitan Police Department. Who hasn't been working since morning?"

Higurashi looked up at the clock and saw that there were only fifteen minutes left until ten o'clock.

However, the voice coming from the other end of the phone made Inspector Higurashi scream: "What did you say???!!!"

"The body has been found???"

　This chapter has 5700 words, so it’s considered a super long chapter, right?

　　
　
(End of this chapter)