After confirming that the students were leaving, Goro Daimon checked the door lock of the kendo gym and stopped by the sports warehouse to see if there were any unlucky people locked inside.

After doing this, he went back to the staff locker room, changed into the "formal clothes" that he had been in as a physical education teacher, Goro Mondo, that is, the sportswear, put on a suit, and left the school.

Drinking a drink after work is an important part of social interaction in Japanese society.

If you don't participate in this kind of drinking activity all year round, you will be excluded from the company, and sometimes even your work will be greatly affected because you can't get the cooperation of your colleagues.

Naturally, Goro Daimon is not exempt from vulgarity.

But today he didn't attend a small gathering of school teachers, but an appointment with an old classmate who had spoken to him on the phone in the afternoon.

The place of appointment is a mobile cart on the side of the Edo River, called Hokkai-tei.

At this time, Tokyo did not have such strict urban management, and the management power at the grassroots level was basically in the hands of various local councils, town councils, and Gokudo.

Such mobile vending carts are everywhere.

A skilled "general" pushes a cart full of ingredients and a small stove with an integrated gas cylinder, stops on the side of the road, hangs a "warm curtain" indicating that it is open, and the business of a vendor begins.

Although the thing that looks like a half-cut curtain hung by the vendor is called "warm curtain", it is just a customary name, and it doesn't matter whether it is warm or not, hanging this thing means that the store is open.

In particular, the "Hokkai-tei", which usually stops at the Edogawa River, is actually quite windy, and at the end of April, when it is warm and cold, people who have no roots may not be able to enjoy the craftsmanship of the Hokkai-tei.

Daimon Goro found the Hokkai Pavilion, which was a little out of the way where he parked today, and lifted the warm curtain.

The general glanced up at him and said, "Rare guest, I haven't seen you for a long time." ”

"It's been half a year. It's too cold in your position. Winter is a bit of a sin. Goro Daimon pulled over a stool and sat down, "Old-fashioned, please." ”

"Hey." The general responded, and then took the ingredients out of the box containing the ingredients, and continued the topic just now, "Drinking in the snow has a different artistic conception, and young people nowadays have no roots." ”

Damen Goro is in his thirties, but he was called a young man by the "general" of Beihai Pavilion, he didn't have any temper, after all, when he was still a hairy boy, the general wrapped the flower headband around his head and did business here.

Daimon Goro also asked why the general chose such a place to do business, even if there are not many people, the wind is still strong.

At that time, the general raised his head and looked at the Edogawa River flowing towards Tokyo Bay, and said in a deep voice: "Water is the road to the land of yellow springs, and in the dead of night, my students will come to my stall to catch up with me, and carry the red flowers I put on them when I took them on the train, as if they were reprimanding me. Reprimand me for not seeing through the lies of those bastards with human faces and beast hearts, and reprimand me for not hiding them! ”

When Daimon Goro was a child, he didn't know what it meant, but now, he understands it without asking.

Running an obscure stall in the cold wind and watching over the Edogawa River rushing to the sea is probably the way for a former junior high school teacher to atone for his sins.

However, after so many years, the skills of the general of Beihai Pavilion have been perfected, so he has accumulated a lot of regular customers like Daimon Goro, and the business of Beihai Pavilion is actually good.

Smelling the aroma of fried fish, Goro Daimon's saliva flowed down.

He stuck out his head to look at the slowly ripening fish, and said, "I found a child among the students who might become a dragon among men. ”

"yes, congratulations." The general responded calmly.

"But he's had some troubles, some tests, and I don't know if he'll be able to get through it." Goro Daimon took a sip of his wine.

The old man said in a deep voice: "Dragon, you can't be trapped. ”

Daimon Goro sighed, "I hope so." ”

At this moment, Goro Daimon's old friend, Inspector Sayama, lifted the warm curtain - although this kind of itinerant vendor has no door at all and can sit without lifting the curtain, it is a polite gesture to show "I have entered the store".

"It's early to get off work, Inspector San." The general greeted.

"Today is special." Zuoshan glanced at the gate, "Gorou, here." ”

"Hmph. Why are you suddenly interested in my students? ”

"Not that I'm interested." Zuo Shan gestured to the general, "Same as before." ”

"Hey." The Admiral nodded.

"I've been transferred to the Organized Crime Countermeasures Section, you know?"

"Just knew."

"Your student, that Geumsama Heita, who is bitterly flattened, is the Jidao Shinshan who is famous in our department, and we judge that they are likely to be promoted from the third-generation organization to the direct line within a few years."

"So fierce?" Goro Daimon asked in surprise.

"yes, that's it. Geumsan Heitai has achieved brilliant results, basically fighting all the way. From the younger brother, to the public, the younger brother's head, the first ...... Every step is to step on the blood of other extremes. ”

"It sounds like he's sinful, why don't you just arrest someone?" Daimon asked with a frown.

"Jidao is also very good now, most of the time they only beat people, not kill people. When we really kill people, we can't find any evidence of the crime, and we rarely even find corpses. ”

Goro Daimon was speechless: "Go to Tokyo Bay to fish for cement pillars." ”

"That's the problem, if we want to salvage the cement pillars, we have to hire the ship boss and find the crew, right? And Jidao was originally developed by organizations such as dock unions. ”

"What about the Self-Defense Forces? What about the Coast Guard? ”

"The people who are thinking about how to squeeze the forces of the Self-Defense Forces and the Maritime Protection Force out of Tokyo Bay every day, and you ask us to ask them for help? Are you kidding. Zuo Shan shook his head, "This thing is complicated, although everyone knows that a person who has a problem with Jidao suddenly disappears, and he should go to Tokyo Bay to fish for cement pillars, but the police have the right to fish, and they can't find reliable skilled people, and people with the ability to fish have no law enforcement power."

"This is the status quo, but there are other links that can be broken through, such as finding the first crime scene that has not been cleaned, but this kind of prosecutor's office will not necessarily prosecute, they will only prosecute those crimes that can be convicted, after all, Japan is a country with a 100% conviction rate, the first in the world!"

Zuo Shan's final tone was very yin and yang.

"So we're just pulling the criminals with a mountain of hard evidence. And the biggest ironclad evidence is the confession of the prisoner. How can someone who can be the leader of the group not be able to push out a few loyal little brothers who are willing to take the blame? ”

He took a sip of wine and smiled self-deprecatingly.

"Now, tell me about your student."