Tokyo Unnatural Forensics

Chapter 83, Chiba County Serial Murder Case
As the emergency message came in, the scene became a mess.

The senior public security officials present looked confused and seemed to have not figured out what was going on.

But reporters have already started asking questions.

"May I ask why there is another murder case?"

"Didn't the police say they had already brought the possible suspect to justice?"

“Was this really the work of a violent gang?”

"Is there any connection between the two murders? How does the police plan to handle the follow-up incidents?"

The reporters at the scene gathered around frantically as if they had eaten gunpowder, vying to ask questions.

"Please be quiet! Keep quiet!" Immediately, the public security police came up to maintain order. They pushed back the sharks that smelled blood: "Keep order!"

The senior public security officials on the stage finally reacted, and when they thought of the promise they had just made, they all felt their faces burning.

But after all, he has been doing this job for so many years, so he has to be a bit shrewd. The National Police Agency Security Counselor on the stage took the initiative to say: "We don't know the specific situation yet, and it will take some time to understand the situation, but please rest assured, all citizens."

"This concludes the press conference."

After saying that, the counselor of the National Police Agency's Security Department forcibly stopped the press conference, and the senior executives turned pale and quickly walked off the stage.

What the hell? Hasn't the person been caught? Hasn't the situation been brought under control?
Why did something go wrong again? What on earth is the Chiba Prefecture Police Headquarters doing? If you hadn't done your job poorly, wouldn't this have happened?
Minister, our police will arrange for you to be punished and dismissed this year!

The press conference on the Chiba Prefecture dismemberment murder case, which had originally been a benchmark for the Fuji TV case and had been filled with high hopes, ended in a whimper. Faced with the sudden outbreak of a new case, the public security department was at a loss. They themselves did not even know what had happened or whether there was any connection between the two cases.

The only thing they knew was that they were extremely embarrassed this time!

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That night, Uesugi Sosetsu responded to Miss Minami's call and rushed to the Metropolitan Police Department.

The Japanese police work all year round, so even at night, this place is still crowded. Superintendent Watanabe Eiji, who had just been chatting and laughing with Uesugi Sosetsu in the afternoon, Criminal Division Director Mori Takayoshi, and Miss Minami are all there. The first two have already changed into uniforms, and only Miss Minami is wearing casual clothes.

The first thing Uesugi Sosetsu said when he arrived at the Metropolitan Police Department was: "Is this considered overtime?"

Watanabe Eiji was completely speechless at the gluttonous Uesugi's attitude. The Superintendent of Police took out a document from the drawer in a bad mood: "Yes, you will be paid for overtime and you will also be given extra time off!"

"But since you're working overtime, you better show some attitude, Kora!"

"Uesugi-kun, I give you 20 minutes to understand this emergency autopsy report and then explain the case to us in words we can understand. The time limit is 10 minutes!"

"Why are you in such a hurry?" Uesugi Sosetsu had an expression that said "you're trying to trick me".

"Because I have to report the situation across the street in 45 minutes." Watanabe Eiji pointed to the National Police Agency across from the Metropolitan Police Department and said, "Do you know how serious this incident is? People are already panicking because of a case of a primary school student being dismembered and murdered. Now a second murder has broken out, and it was also a case of dismemberment! And it was an elementary school student! The whole of Kanto is going to be scared now."

"Please, Uesugi-kun." Miss Minami bowed to Uesugi Sosetsu meekly, with three parts of expectation and three parts of apology: "I'm sorry to bother you, but we really need your help. You are an expert in this area, please help us, okay?"

With a sweet face and beautiful appearance, after being asked by Miss Minami, Uesugi Munen's anger at being urgently summoned dissipated a lot. He nodded and frowned as soon as he received the report: "Who wrote this autopsy report? He is not a forensic doctor, right?"

"It was done by a professor of pathology at the National Hospital in Chiba Prefecture." Watanabe Eiji nodded. "Chiba Prefecture doesn't have a forensic medical institution. The public security police rushed into the hospital and arrested the professor of pathology and asked him to perform an on-site autopsy."

"How arrogant, the police." Uesugi Sosetsu sighed, "Is there no law that can control them?"

"As long as the public security department deems it necessary, they can do so. They can act first and report later. This is with the special permission of the cabinet."

Uesugi Sosetsu stopped talking and began to read the report carefully.

The victim, Ayaka Kawanishi, was 9 years old and a third-grade elementary school student.

He also disappeared two days ago, his parents also called the police to look for him but to no avail, and his head was also cut off. There are too many similarities between these two cases.

Just as the Chiba Prefecture police were concentrating on investigating the dismemberment murder case of Junpei Doima, the body of Ayaka Kawanishi, who had been missing for two days, was found under the temperature detection device of a weather station in Chiba Prefecture.

The weather station is rarely visited and usually no one is working there. Someone comes once a week to collect data. Not many people know about this place and it has been closed for a long time. Many people living here don't know that there is a weather station here.

Apart from the fact that his head had been cut off, the difference from the first case was that there were wounds on his head from severe blows, and his skull was shattered. He was unconscious before being killed and dismembered.

And unlike the first case, there was a death message left at the scene. Someone stuffed a note into the dead person's mouth, with "This is the result of betrayal" written on it in distorted bright red words.

Similarly, the on-site investigation did not find any other effective clues, and there was little surveillance in the surrounding area. It was obvious that the murderer had a strong anti-reconnaissance awareness.

"It was murder." Uesugi Munen said without hesitation: "Not only was it murder, but it must have been committed by the same murderer as in the first case."

"Why do you think so?" As expected, Watanabe Eiji and Mori Takayoshi looked at each other and thought, this is what we want!

"Look at the wound." Uesugi Sosetsu pointed to the picture in the file: "Generally speaking, using a knife to behead a person requires a lot of experience, but unless you can cut it off in one go, beheading a person always requires multiple cuts."

"People always form muscle memory. When the knife pierces the flesh and then the hand is withdrawn, the angle of the knife tip will change."

"From what I've seen so far, the angles of the knife tip inserted and retracted at the incisions are almost exactly the same in the first and second cases. This is muscle memory." Uesugi Munen said affirmatively: "So, this is a serial murder case."

"But this is just what is written in the data. It would be great if you could let me do an autopsy." Uesugi Muneyuki pushed the data away and shook his head. "The existing data alone cannot reveal anything else. I need an on-site autopsy. Director Watanabe, can you arrange for me to go to Chiba Prefecture for an on-site autopsy?" Watanabe Eiji frowned when he heard that this was a serial murder case. He was about to ask something else, but when he heard Uesugi Muneyuki's request for an autopsy, the head of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department could only smile bitterly and shake his head, "Sorry, I can't do it."

"Mr. Uesugi, we are the Metropolitan Police Department and we only manage Tokyo. Unless the Chiba Prefectural Police Headquarters asks for help, we have no right to interfere." Miss Minami also said.

"Then ask the Chiba Prefecture Police Headquarters for help!" Uesugi Sosetsu threw the documents down irritably. He was really annoyed. One after another, serious and vicious murders happened in front of him, but he couldn't perform an on-site autopsy and could only look at the information.

If you only look at the information, his level is not necessarily much better than other forensic doctors. His strongest point is the Dead Soul Contract. Now this feeling of being unable to use his strength makes him very annoyed.

I've already joined the Metropolitan Police Department, and I have a direct line to the Metropolitan Commissioner through Miss Minami, so why am I still restricted when it comes to doing things?
How can I be a good forensic doctor with this bunch of insects? !
"Don't be angry, Uesugi-kun. I want to solve this matter more than you do. It is our duty to protect the health, property and physical safety of the people. I asked the chief of the Chiba Prefecture Police Headquarters to secretly fax this information to you. It is an illegal document." Watanabe Eiji patted Uesugi Muneyuki on the shoulder and comforted him, "The family of the deceased is very sad and swears to find the murderer."

Uesugi Muneyuki didn't appreciate it at all: "Then why don't you ask the Chiba Prefecture headquarters for help? Is it a matter of face?"

"You kid...face issues are totally irrelevant in front of human life. If you can catch the murderer on the spot, I can go to Chiba Prefecture to bow down." Watanabe Eiji pinched Uesugi Sosetsu's shoulders and said softly: "The main thing is that the public security has sealed off the scene and has taken full control of the second case."

Public Security, Public Security again?
Uesugi Sosetsu became even more annoyed. He suppressed his anger and asked, "What's your excuse this time?"

"Kudo still seems to think that this was done by a gang."

"What gang? It's possible for a child to witness a gang transaction once in a while, but is it possible that he witnessed two transactions in a row?" Uesugi Sosetsu shook his head repeatedly: "The probability is smaller than Mars hitting the Earth, and even if it really happened, didn't the press conference say that all the members of the Futaba Group were detained? Could it be another gang?"

"Anyway, if further clues and evidence are needed, I need to be able to perform an on-site autopsy."

Uesugi Sosetsu gave a conclusion: "In short, this is a serial murder case. The murderer may have experience and background in gangs, but he is definitely not directly linked to the Futaba gang. There is a transaction in the warehouse by the sea, and there is also a transaction in the weather station on the mountain? The first time was witnessed by an elementary school student by chance, and the second time was also witnessed?"

The four of them held a small meeting.

Unfortunately, whether it is Watanabe Eiji, Mori Takayoshi or Watanabe Minami, they all come from the professional team and rarely come into contact with front-line detectives. Even for a professional team like Watanabe Eiji who has personally worked in the Investigation Section 1 and goes to the scene, the number of investigations he participated in is only a fraction of that of Inspector Higurashi who is not from the professional team.

Uesugi Sosetsu's judgment gave them confidence.

"How about we wait a little longer?" Minister Maori tried to suggest to Watanabe Eiji: "How about we wait until there is no result over there and then ask for help first?"

"No, whether it's the public security or the criminal department, we are all police officers! In this matter, we all prosper together and suffer together." However, Watanabe Eiji rejected this proposal flatly: "This is not the time to consider factional fighting."

"I'll call the National Police Agency and ask Chief Kaneko to allow the Metropolitan Police Agency to intervene."

After saying that, Watanabe Eiji went out.

Watanabe Eiji is indeed very responsible. Uesugi Sosetsu felt a little relieved but his brows were still furrowed. He vaguely felt that this serial murder case was not only complicated, but also not over yet.

Maybe he, or even the entire police system, missed something.

But if he couldn't perform an on-site autopsy, there was nothing he could do.

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On the first floor are the Police Department and the Security Department.

A man in a suit fell backwards and knocked the sofa behind him crooked, making his neatly ironed suit wrinkled. But he didn't dare to be negligent. He jumped up from the ground like a spring, straightened his back, bowed deeply, endured the pain in his thigh and shouted: "Private Marseille!"

"You bastard, have you forgotten what I said?" The National Police Agency's Chief of Security, Tsuyoshi Kudo, put his hands in his pockets, his face twisted, "For us public security officers, there is no two suns in the sky. We just need to obey the orders of the cabinet!"

"Who is Watanabe Eiji? He is just the Superintendent General of the Metropolitan Police Department. What qualifications does he have to give orders to us, the shield of the nation?!"

“Private Marseille!”

"You idiot, next time you act as a mouthpiece for the Metropolitan Police Department, you won't just get kicked like you did today."

Security Chief Tsuyoshi Kudo put his hands in his pockets in annoyance.

He was so upset by the outbreak of the second case that his face was swollen.

Where did the second case come from? Aren’t all the suspects arrested? In order to solve the case quickly, the police even resorted to torture!

If he fails to solve the case quickly, he will have no chance of becoming the next police commissioner!

Two years and two years, when will it be my turn?
After all, the National Public Safety Commission chose Watanabe Eiji as the Superintendent General only because they needed a criminal faction. Otherwise, this position would definitely be mine!

Once I handle this case as brilliantly as I did the Fuji TV case, the next Police Chief will be mine, right?
Just at this moment, the phone on the table rang.

"What are you still looking at? Go answer the phone!" The secretary of the Minister of Security limped on one leg and hopped on one foot to answer the phone. After listening to the voice on the phone, the secretary's face changed unpredictably: "Minister."

"Ok?"

"It's Chief Kaneko (the head of the National Police Agency) calling."

"Did he beat him personally?" The police chief's eyes moved.

"Yes."

Kudo thought for two seconds and gestured for him to answer the phone.

　Today is the last day for the double monthly ticket, please give me a ticket~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)