The Metropolitan Police Department building in New Tokyo adopts a cold architectural style, and the exterior walls are all blue-gray marble with square glass curtain walls, and the winter sun penetrates through the building.

This morning, a meeting was held in the conference room of the 3rd Investigation Group on the top floor of the Metropolitan Police Department building.

The third floor of the Metropolitan Police Department building is the exclusive floor of the Investigation Division 1 of the Crime Department.

In an office behind the corner at the end of the corridor, one of the deputy directors of the Search Section, Deputy Section Chief Matsuo Hayabusa, is working here on a daily basis.

Today, as usual, he greeted the beautiful female assistant at the front desk with a smile and a cup from the vending machine downstairs, and then walked slowly into the office.

After a while, the female assistant came in and wanted to question him about a case from yesterday.

Unexpectedly, after knocking on the door and entering, I found that the easy-going and humorous deputy section chief Matsuo Hayabusa was sitting with his back to the desk, holding a cup of coffee in his hand, staring at the winter scenery of the street outside the floor-to-ceiling window.

The female assistant said a few words, the other party didn't react, just nodded with her back to her, she thought that her boss was thinking about something, so she put down the information in her hand and walked out and closed the door first.

After the female assistant went out, Deputy Section Chief Matsuo Hayabusa's eyes fell on the mobile phone screen in his hand, and his face was complicated.

He didn't think at all,

Something like this one day befell him.

maybe

He shouldn't have been a member of that organization in the first place.

Turning his head, there was a photo of Zhang's family of three on the table in Matsuo's office.

I still remember that when I went out to work this morning, my five-year-old daughter had a little temper, and he squatted down and promised to bring good food home after work to coax the little princess.

Available now.

Deputy Section Chief Matsuo looked at the email on the computer screen on his desktop with some unpleasant feeling, lying quietly in his draft box since he arrived at the office in the morning - it looked like the words he had written in the "painful confession" he had stayed up all night these days.

"Twenty years ago, I joined the Metropolitan Police Department under a sacred oath as an ordinary graduate of the Shin-Tokyo Central Police Academy, and at that time I was enthusiastic and the law was sacred in my eyes."

"I don't know when, my mind was eroded, I began to derelict my duties and take bribes, watching others rise step by step, and I was still a small deputy section leader for so many years, and my heart was like holding a fire."

"Why! Why was he promoted to section chief? ”

"I finally released this fire, and after the quarrel, I accidentally killed the most competitive deputy section chief, Nakagawa Tsuru, and disguised it as suicide, but after that, I fell into extreme confusion and painful repentance, and I began to reflect on myself, reflect on what I had done, but I couldn't talk to anyone, and the doctor said that I had some depressive tendencies."

"The condemnation of conscience, the sanctity of the law made me realize that it was too late to turn back, and I wanted to put an end to it all."

“.”

Reading the text in his email draft box, Deputy Section Chief Matsuo gently stroked the photo frame with his fingers.

He is not a native of New Tokyo, his family is ordinary, and his wife is also an ordinary-looking middle-aged woman in Wano Country, but the slight difference from the family photo in the frame is that now his wife's abdomen is slightly bulging, and she is eight months pregnant, and their small family in New Tokyo is about to usher in a new life.

The five-year-old daughter may suddenly realize this morning that the upcoming little life in her mother's womb is likely to threaten her status as a little princess at home in the future, so she was angry and declared her sovereignty, but she was soon coaxed by his food promise.

Thinking of his daughter's cute appearance with her mouth puffed out when she was angry, Deputy Section Chief Matsuo Hayabusa's face was a little inexplicable, and he reached out and slowly opened the drawer, and his fingertips touched the cold black old-fashioned police gun, the old guy who had accompanied him for many, many years.

Suddenly, Matsuo Hayabusa's breathing became a little short.

A conference room on the top floor of the Metropolitan Police Department building.

After someone said a certain sentence, the atmosphere in the conference room fell into a freeze for a moment.

The captain of the thirteenth team, Sugida Tsukasa, stared straight at the captain of the fifth team, Kimura Shirata, who was sitting on the right hand side of the first team.

The latter's face was as usual, with a warm smile on the corner of his mouth, and his expression was still so melancholy and calm under his slightly long hair.

As the captain of the Sixth Team, Juro Miyano, said, these two men are the most popular "ideals" among the girls in the Metropolitan Police Department building in the Third Investigation Team.

And one day, when these two people compete against each other, for some girls, I am afraid that they are a deer in their hearts, and they are so excited that they can make up hundreds of thousands of words of harmonious content.

But for those present in the conference room, the air around them seemed to drop to freezing all of a sudden.

"Ahem."

Tsukada Masa, the captain of the first team, coughed dryly.

As the Tokugawa Chestnut Tiger's once powerful right hand, Tsukada Masa, who is generous and majestic, has a bit of the shadow of the Tokugawa Chestnut Tiger.

In the past, Tokugawa Kurita was on a business trip, and he was responsible for all the affairs of the three groups in New Tokyo, and strictly speaking, the sudden rise of Kimura Hakutaku, the captain of the fifth team, was to take his place.

However, at this moment, Tsukada Masa's eyes looked at the captain of the third group, Sugita Tsukasa, and said in a serious tone:

"Sugida, the whereabouts of the Tokugawa team leader are unknown now, I don't want anyone to affect the unity of the group, this is also what the team leader does not want to see, any accusation without evidence is a slander that affects unity."

The captain of the sixth team, Juro Miyano, once ruled on Simic. When Judge Joya first arrived at the Metropolitan Police Department, he and Tsukasa Sugita discussed this issue in private.

In the end, there was no evidence.

But Miyano Juro didn't expect that Sugita Tsukasa, the boss of the thirteenth team, would have such a straight personality and would take the initiative to propose it at such an important meeting today.

Could it be that he is still investigating during this time?

Or did you find some solid evidence?

Juro Miyano was thinking so, but Tsukasa Sugida's next sentence stunned him.

"I don't have direct evidence, but I can prove to you through a series of reasoning that Captain Kimura of the fifth team is the biggest suspect in the murder of Deputy Chief Nakagawa of the Second Division."

Hearing his words, Tsukada Masa, the captain of the first team, couldn't help frowning.

Any reasoning without evidence, no matter how rigorous and self-consistent the logic is, is only a hypothesis.

Tsukada knows that because he has been helping Tokugawa Kuritora to act as the agent of the third investigation team, many people regard him as the successor of the next team leader, and their hearts are biased towards their side.

Now the Tokugawa team leader has just had an accident.,It's the fifth-team leader Kimura Hakutaku who is pushed up who works part-time at the Fruit Ability Research Institute on weekdays.,Often the dragon doesn't see the head and the end.,And the relationship with everyone is relatively unfamiliar.

There was inevitably some resistance in everyone's hearts.

But this is no reason to split the three groups.

What's more, Tsukada Masashi is actually the same as Tokugawa Kurithu in his heart, and he is more optimistic about the little girl he adopted with dual natural abilities, and has unlimited growth space in the future under the personal cultivation of Tokugawa Team Leader.

He didn't want to affect the internal unity of the Third Investigation Group because of such petty emotions and the inconsequential position of acting team leader, and he would be embarrassed when Tokugawa Kurita came back one day.

"Sugida, Deputy Section Chief Nakagawa's case has been closed, and if there is evidence you can provide to the Special Investigation Division, but today is the ceremony for Captain Kimura to be appointed as acting captain, and I hope that everyone can unite and live up to the expectations of the team leader."

Tsukada said majestically to Tsukasa Sugida.

Tsukasa Sugita took a deep breath and held up three fingers.

His gaze swept over the people with different expressions around the conference table, and finally landed on Kimura Shirakuta, whose face was still calm, and said in a nonchalant voice:

"I just don't want to live up to the expectations of Team Leader Tokugawa and not dishonor his unmistreated justice, that's why I will stand up, and I only need three minutes."

At this moment, Shin Takagi, the head of the Metropolitan Police Department, who temporarily helped preside over the meeting today and announced the position of acting team leader by the way, suddenly said with a serious face:

"But you see, any reasoning is based on evidence."

"I understand, I only hope that after listening to my words, you can let the relevant departments reopen the case of the death of Deputy Section Chief Nakagawa, and I will personally investigate to the end."

"Okay, then give you three minutes."

Takagi Shin turned his head to look at Kimura Hakutaku, remembering the intertwined family forces behind the other party, and said after considering the wording, "No matter what misunderstandings there are, I think Kimura Team Leader should also need a chance to prove his innocence." ”

Kimura Hakutaka bowed his head slightly, turned his head and looked at Tsukasa Sugida calmly.

However, at this moment, there was a sudden knock on the door of the conference room.

Moments later, the door opened.

The secretary outside the door said with an anxious face, "It seems that something is going on below, and my colleague from the Search Division called to say that there was a sudden shooting on the third floor of the Metropolitan Police Department." ”

(End of chapter)