"Akemi-chan, you're dating the Forest Police Department, right?"

"When did you start your relationship, for the purpose of getting married?"

"Akemi-chan, may I ask what happened to you and Satochu-kun before, and did you have a relationship with two men at the same time?"

……

"I'm sorry, please let me go!"

"Does your current silence mean that you are acquiescing?"

……

Seeing the group of excited reporters gathered around the parking lot, Takashima Sae couldn't help but feel a headache. However, the experienced Takashima Sae also knows that the reporters are still just throwing stones to ask for directions, deliberately creating all kinds of speculative news. Anyway, as long as the parties bite to death and don't admit it, those reporters have no evidence of the relationship between Akemi and Lin Xiuyi. After a long time, this turmoil will slowly be forgotten. However, during this time, it is better for Lin Xiuyi and Akemi not to meet, so as not to be exposed to the truth after being photographed by reporters.

When Sae Takashima finally escorted Akemi out of the TV station and back to the apartment, those reporters who did not give up had been waiting for a long time under Akemi's apartment.

As Akemi's van slowly drove into the underground parking lot of the apartment, an ordinary van gradually pulled up to the side of the road, and as the window was slowly rolled down, a telephoto lens came out of the window, and then shot at the apartment across the road.

"Ah...... I'm really envious, I didn't expect the colleagues in the entertainment version to use such good shots, our political and economic version doesn't have such treatment!"

"Huh...... Shimomura-senpai, are you jealous of us? No way, if you don't take a clear picture, those artists will never admit it......! I really didn't expect that we would be able to work with the social version of our colleagues one day, and now that I think about it, it's a bit incredible!"

"There's no way, who let the hero of this scandal be an elite bureaucrat of the Metropolitan Police Department! I heard from acquaintances inside the Metropolitan Police Department that the Lin Police Department is said to be transferred to the Shinjuku Central Police Station as the director soon. Although most of the reasons for the promotion of police officers before the age of 30 are due to the elite bureaucrats on the other side, the Shinjuku Central Police Station is not an ordinary place, and I think you should understand what news we are digging for!"

"Could it be...... What do you want to talk about is the inside story of the collusion between the Gokudo organization and the bureaucrats of the Metropolitan Police Department? It's really admirable, Shimomura-senpai, I realized that I lacked a keen sense of smell like you, so I took the initiative to ask for a transfer to the entertainment version. But...... How did you come up with this clue?"

Seeing that the junior he once took care of, Naito, who is now the head reporter of the entertainment edition of Nikkei BP, humbly asked him for advice, and Shimomura, who was in charge of social news, couldn't help but feel very proud, so he patiently explained to Naito:

"Naito-kun, you've been working in the entertainment version for so many years, I think you've heard more or less about the Yakuza organization's secret control of the entertainment world!"

"Uh...... This, I can only say that it is a secret that cannot be said, although there is no evidence, but everyone actually knows what is going on in their hearts, not to mention anything else, just talking about firms like Yoshimoto Kogyo and BURNING PRODUCTION, even ordinary people know their relationship with the Yakkudo organization behind them. But what does this have to do with your investigation of Akemi Sonoji?"

"Naito-kun, the elite bureaucrat of the Metropolitan Police Department is about to be transferred to Shinjuku District, the base camp of the Yakuza organization, as the chief of the Shinjuku Central Police Station, and at this time, there is an affair with the popular female artist Akemi Sonoji and this bureaucrat, if there is really a secret matchmaking between the Yakuza organization, I think...... This scandal may not be just a simple incident, I suspect that Akemi Sonoji may have been forced to use the bait of Lin Xiuyi at the request of the Yakuza Organization, if we can prove that my guesses are true, don't you think this will be a big news enough to cause a political earthquake?"

"Senior, do you mean that Akemi Sonoji was forced by the Gokudo Organization to open a pillow business (unspoken rule) to the executives of the Metropolitan Police Department, which ...... It's incredible!"

"It's really incredible, but if you speculate from the current situation, don't you think that what I said is very likely to be the truth? Thinking of Lin Xiuyi's upcoming transfer to the Shinjuku Central Police Station and the time when the scandal between the two was discovered, the result is about to come out!"

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Hearing this speculation from his former predecessor Shimomura, Naito's heart was immediately shocked. He was amazed at Shimomura's news sensitivity, and that he could think of such a deep potential connection with just a little scandal. However, just when Naito was still in shock and couldn't calm down for a long time, Uchimura, who was sitting in the car, suddenly seemed to remember something, and began to look at the apartment across the road.

"Strange why I think this apartment building looks familiar!"

"Eh, senior, do you remember something?"

"It seems that I remembered some important clue, looking at the surroundings, I remember that I used to squat here for a while, but for a moment I forgot the reason why I was waiting here in the first place. That one...... How long has Akemi Sonoji been living here?"

"It must have been a while! I remember...... Sonoji Akira seems to have moved to the Hirata office and was arranged to live here. If that's the case, I think it's almost two years!"

"Two years? That's the end of last year or the year before last, wait a minute, Naito-kun, I'll see if there are any clues in my work record about that time......

Shimomura said as he casually opened the text editing software on his phone, and soon, Shimomura looked up the news he was tracking down a year ago, and when he typed the name of the apartment where Akemi lived in the address bar, it didn't take long for the software to locate the manuscript that he had mentioned here in his previous article.

"The murder of Marunouchi-sen...... Suspect...... Goto-kun, I can't believe it!"

"What's the matter, senior, have you found any important clues?"

"Hou Tengjun, I really seem to have discovered something amazing!"

"Huh, senior?"

"Do you know who I was here for a year ago?"

"Who? You're going to kill me, senior!

"She's ...... She is the current Chief Cabinet Secretary of the National Police Agency - Keiko Nagao, the most important subordinate of Nobuko Anto, the leader of the Ando faction of the Democratic Constitutional Party!"

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