Tokyo Unnatural Forensics

Chapter 556, Lord Kenshin, the Kanto Kanrei, returns!

P.S.: Tomorrow I'm leaving for another city to be a groomsman at a high school classmate's wedding. Updates might be a bit irregular for the next couple of days. I'll try to only take one day off. Please understand! Long live understanding!
The next morning at 9:00 AM, Sakurada Gate, Metropolitan Police Department Special Investigation Headquarters!
At this time, the Special Investigation Headquarters had learned that another case had broken out in Shizuoka Prefecture: the kidnapping of a member of parliament's daughter, who was four months pregnant. Since the "repairman's" lead went cold, there had been no further progress, and everyone felt immense pressure.

Knowing the inside story, Uesugi Muneyuki was also shrouded in a shadow.

What is the connection between the Sakikawa Restoration Army and the Red Canary?
Who exactly possesses the power of the other world?

Who exactly is that repairman?
Why are different organizations using ANFO explosives from the same source?

The new god from Kansai clearly promised not to come to Kanto, so why are all sorts of things still breaking out in Kanto? There's no need for him to put on a show. If he wanted to keep causing trouble, he wouldn't have made that promise. But he made a promise and is still causing trouble, which makes him seem... very low-class!
This is not something a being capable of becoming a new god would do, especially as the village flower palace said, that a new god must reach the limit in some aspect and become part of the world concept in order to become a new god.

Uesugi Muneyuki couldn't understand this.

But he knew he had to be quick! Otherwise, these beings from the other worlds could hide much more easily than anyone else!
Just as Uesugi Muneyuki was pondering, the doors of the command center were pushed open one after another, and an unprecedented torrent of knowledge and authority swept in!

"The University of Tokyo, Chemical Analysis Team, led by Professor Ryosuke Miyazaki, has come to report for duty at the summons of Dr. Uesugi!" An elderly man with gray hair but vigorous spirit stepped in first, followed by a dozen or so University of Tokyo elites with sharp eyes and carrying cases of precision instruments.

The University of Tokyo, here to report!
The nation's most prestigious university has finally mobilized its most elite forces when the country needed help the most!
Before anyone could react, another group of people stepped in, carrying the strict aura unique to the Metropolitan Police Department: "Metropolitan Police Department Scientific Police Research Institute, Trace Evidence Analysis Division, Section Chief Masami Kobayashi, along with all the key personnel of the division, are here to conduct a full-scale analysis!"

The Metropolitan Police Department's Forensic Science Division was also mobilized in full force!

But that's not all. These two parts are just the regular forces. The forces that are hidden in society finally made their official debut at the call of Uesugi Muneyuki!

As large trucks bearing the logos of the Mitsui Group and Sumitomo Group drove up, Uesugi Muneyuki finally got what he needed.

"Mitsui Chemicals, Advanced Materials Analysis Department, Manager Kento Takashima, has been dispatched by Executive Director Sato to lead an expert team to provide support! Our company has activated the highest level of access to the national chemical composition database!"

"Sumitomo Chemicals, Specialty Chemicals Traceability Team, headed by Kenichi Sakuma, is hereby ordered to cooperate! We have a thorough understanding of the historical industrial additive components!"

"Sumitomo Forestry's Timber Identification Center Chief Expert Shigeru Morita is here with archives of preservative use in forest farms across the country from the Showa era to the present! No wood shavings can escape our eyes!"

One after another, resounding names, teams representing the pinnacle of Japanese academia and industry, gathered like knights summoned by their king at this moment concerning national dignity, all within the confines of the Metropolitan Police Department! They brought their own state-of-the-art equipment, instantly transforming the hastily assembled joint analysis center into a world-class forensic science laboratory!
The scene instantly erupted in cheers!

The headquarters, which had been somewhat subdued due to a dead end in the leads, was suddenly invigorated! All the investigators stood up, their eyes fixed intently on these figures they usually only saw in news reports or academic journals. An indescribable excitement and awe filled the air.

And standing at the eye of the storm was none other than Uesugi Muneyuki.

Looking at the group of industry leaders and elites who had gathered here because of his phone call and report, and seeing in their eyes the same desire for the truth and the same dedication to science as his own, an unprecedented surge of emotion welled up in his chest!
He was once a solitary scientist at the autopsy table, and a maverick forensic pathologist in the police force.

But at this moment, he clearly realized that he was no longer mobilizing a few people from the Special Missions Unit, but rather the national-level forces of most of the Kanto region, and even the whole of Japan, in the fields of chemistry, materials, and forestry! A sense of pride that "all the talents in the world are under my control" mixed with a huge sense of responsibility made him almost tremble.

This is power, this is the joy of having a hundred followers at your command, this is what countless people throughout history have pursued!
"Everyone!" Uesugi Muneyuki's voice rose slightly with excitement, but remained clear: "Time is of the essence, so let's skip the formalities! The objective—to dissect the remaining 'Ghost' bombs at the molecular level and find their 'birthplace'! I'm counting on you!"

"Oh—!" came a unified, energetic roar in response.

Without further ado, the all-out battle commenced instantly!
The University of Tokyo team and experts from the Japan Institute of Forensic Science immediately gathered around the latest mass spectrometer and isotope ratio mass spectrometer. Professor Miyazaki personally adjusted the parameters, and the data stream began to scroll frantically on the screen.

Manager Takashima of Mitsui Chemicals directed his team to conduct ultra-high-speed comparisons of the elemental composition of explosive residues with raw material databases from chemical plants across the country, searching for tiny, yet decisive, differences.

Sumitomo Chemical's team leader, Sakuma, focused on those trace additives and impurities, trying to find "time signatures" pointing to specific eras and processes.

Mr. Morita, the chief engineer of Sumitomo Forestry, even put on white gloves and observed the fiber structure and cell arrangement of the wood chips under a high-powered electron microscope as if he were appreciating a work of art, while rapidly flipping through the thick files he had brought.

At that moment, they rallied closely around Uesugi Muneyuki, their commands, discussions, the hum of instruments, and the clatter of keyboards blending into a stirring scientific symphony in the fight for the truth!

Sweat soaked the researchers' white coats, and the criminal police officers volunteered to deliver samples and provide logistical support. Everyone was inspired by this atmosphere of unity and determination, willingly becoming a cog in this massive machine. There was only one goal!
Uesugi Muneyuki is the one who controls this massive machine. He is logical, sharp-minded, and has a clear direction. He skillfully coordinates resources from various parties and propels this giant machine in the direction he wants!

The others couldn't get involved at all and could only silently watch Uesugi Muneyuki work. Not far from him, Watanabe Minami, Ikeda Erena, Ishihara Mikoto who was helping him, and even Kashiwagi Meisa who was secretly watching him from the corner, all couldn't help but gleam with admiration when they saw Uesugi wearing a white coat and suit, his face serious and focused as he meticulously analyzed the situation.

When is a man most handsome?
A man is most handsome when he's serious!
When are men most stylish?

The most stylish person is one who controls vast resources and can allocate them at will, holding power in their own hands and deciding the life and death of others with a single word!

In a fleeting moment, what everyone saw was not the descendant of the Yonezawa Uesugi family, the legendary forensic doctor Uesugi Muneyuki, but that man who, bearing the banner of "Bi," the banner of the chaotic dragon, the long-tailed nine-yōhō, and the Uesugi bamboo sparrow crest, riding the release moon-hair, holding the Shunkei Chōkō, wearing a white monk's robe, and shouting the name of Bishamonten Buddha, who had taken up the position of Kanto Kanrei at Tsurugaoka Hachiman Shrine, had returned!
Duke Qianxin, is that you?
Among the crowd, Watanabe Eiji and Onoda Kimiaki saw more.

Today, Uesugi controls more and more resources. As long as he continues to solve cases and society continues to face troubles, one day he will become an existence that the entire police organization and even the cabinet cannot ignore!

Watanabe Eiji looked pleased, while Onoda Kimiaki looked worried.

However, none of them wanted to change the status quo, because solving cases was the police organization's KPI, and the only meaning of the police organization's existence was whether or not it could solve problems. From this perspective, without Uesugi, there would be no Watanabe and Onoda as we know them today, and without him, there would be no Metropolitan Police Department!
A few hours later.

"Found it!" The first to shout was Takashima, the department head of Mitsui Chemicals, pointing to an abnormal peak that appeared on the screen: "The nitrogen-15 isotope ratio is abnormal! This is significantly different from industrial fertilizer products in the Kanto Plain, and is closer to... the nitrogen cycle characteristics unique to volcanic regions!"

"Chief Uesugi! The δN and δO values ​​here are significantly different from those of mainstream fertilizer products from the Kanto Plain! They are more likely to be... a special, non-industrial nitrogen source!"

Almost simultaneously, Sumitomo Chemical's team leader, Sakuma, slammed his fist on the table: "Confirmed! The preservative is a mixture of chlordane and copper naphthenate. This is a unique formula used in certain forest farms in Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures between 1977 and 1983!"

More than an hour later, the final decision was made by Chief Engineer Morita of Sumitomo Forestry. He looked up, his eyes gleaming with the light of someone who had discovered a new continent, his voice trembling with excitement:
"The wood chip fiber structure has been confirmed to be cypress unique to the Aokigahara region on the northern slope of Mount Fuji! Based on the preservative formula and time frame, the source has been pinpointed to the Aokigahara forest, an old logging area in the direction of Narusawa Village to the east!"

"That's right! It's definitely this formula! And according to our Sumitomo Forestry records, the area where this cypress wood with its specific fiber structure can be used in large quantities, combined with this old preservative, can be further narrowed down—mainly concentrated in the primeval forest area from Fujikawaguchiko Town to Narusawa Village, which is the edge of the Aokigahara Forest!"

"boom--!!!"

When these three top-level judgments from chemistry, industry, and forestry converge and cross-validate, they all point to the same single location—the Aokigahara Forest!

"Confirmed! The bomb's manufacture and the rudimentary ammonium nitrate refined using primitive methods came from the Aokigahara Forest!"

"It's the Aokigahara Forest!"

The entire command center was engulfed in an unprecedented frenzy!
"Hey~ Hey~ Oh!"

The applause, cheers, and shouts of relief almost lifted the roof off! The usually serious criminal police officers hugged each other, and the veteran experts were moved to tears!

They succeeded! They did it! With unparalleled collaboration and cutting-edge scientific capabilities, they carved out a broad road to the enemy's lair from the fog of the microscopic world!
Uesugi Muneyuki slowly loosened his clenched fists and let out a long sigh of relief.

He looked at every excited yet tired face around him, and at Director Watanabe's approving and firm gaze.

A surge of heroic spirit welled up within him.

Science knows no bounds, human power is limitless, and with united will, what fear is there of unrest caused by evil forces?!

"Director! The location has been identified. Please give the order!" Under everyone's watchful eyes, Uesugi Muneyuki handed the results to Watanabe Hideki.

Director Eiji Watanabe slammed his fist heavily on the command platform, his eyes gleaming as if he had spotted prey, his voice slightly hoarse with excitement:
"Well done! Everyone! Target locked—Aokigahara Forest!"

"Special Investigation Headquarters, all personnel! Develop an operational plan immediately! We must uproot the Sakikawa Restoration Army from their fox den!"

(End of this chapter)