There was a shooting incident in the Metropolitan Police Department?

Hearing this, the first reaction in the minds of everyone in the conference room was what kind of joke was this?!

But seeing that the secretary's hurried face obviously didn't look like a joke, everyone's faces suddenly became serious, and they followed the secretary downstairs quickly.

Walking at the back, Tsukasa Sugita, who was waiting for the next elevator, frowned slightly, and had a faint premonition in his heart.

The third floor of the Metropolitan Police Department.

Behind the corner at the end of the hallway, the room where the dull sound of gunfire had just resounded throughout the floor.

After a period of hesitation and waiting, the door of Deputy Section Chief Matsuo Hayabusa's office was slammed open by the officers of the Criminal Department who rushed to arrive, and the group of the 3rd Investigation Group, who had just come down from the express elevator, happened to arrive.

Seeing Shin Takagi, the head of the Metropolitan Police Department, who had slammed open the door of the office, immediately politely and respectfully made way left and right.

Takagi Shin walked in with a calm face, and everyone behind him followed.

The next second,

Everyone's eyes shrank suddenly.

I saw a large pool of shocking blood stained on the glass curtain behind the office chair, Matsuo Hayabusa was lying weakly in front of the desk, and the originally clean and tidy desktop was also stained red with blood.

From the scene,

This is clearly a suicide by swallowing a gun!

At this moment, there was a rush of footsteps outside the door.

A female secretary walked in in a hurry, and suddenly saw the crime scene in the office and wanted to exclaim and subconsciously covered her mouth, and then hurriedly reported, "Report!" Deputy Chief Matsuo Hayabusa has just sent an email to everyone's mailboxes in the Metropolitan Police Department. ”

An email?

Shin Takagi, the head of the Metropolitan Police Department, did not ask about the contents of the email, but walked behind his desk, looking beyond the corpse on the desk to the sending box on the lit screen.

The content of more than 2,000 words, most of which is a description of when he began to change his thinking and began to derelict his duties and take bribes to make money for so many years, is accurate to the morning and afternoon of a certain day, and it is impossible to be so accurate if it is not written by himself.

In the end, Matsuo Hayabusa recounts how he accidentally killed the deputy section leader, Nakagawa Tsuru, after arguing, and disguised it as suicide in a panic, and tried to leave clues to the others.

What happens after a person dies.

All the confessions and confessions are in this email.

"No one escapes the condemnation of conscience."

After a brief silence, Shin Takagi, head of the Metropolitan Police Department, said in a deep voice with a solemn face, his eyes around him, and in a deep voice, "Although it is a cowardly act to not be able to face the judgment of the law, at least it also gives others a clean slate, and I hope that everyone will take this as a warning." ”

With that, he was the first to walk out of the office.

Just a few minutes

Soon, the news of the suicide of Matsuo Hayabusa, the deputy head of the first search section, spread throughout the Metropolitan Police Department.

The case of Deputy Section Chief Nakagawa Tsuru, who was classified as a suicide, was also reopened, and after an investigation by the Special Investigation Division, all the details of the death were consistent with the description of Deputy Section Chief Matsuo Hayabusa's post-death email, and a new round of anti-corruption and anti-malfeasance operations began within the Metropolitan Police Department.

As for the captain of the 13th team of the 3rd Investigation Group, Tsukasa Sugida, it was like a person who accidentally discovered the vicissitudes of life around him, and he had inexplicably lost the opportunity to make a final statement.

Juro Miyano, the captain of the sixth team, came to persuade him to give up the investigation, after all, now Kimura Hakutaku has officially become the acting leader of the third investigation team, and there are many urgent matters to be dealt with urgently.

If Tsukasa Sugita still holds on and delays the matter, it is easy for people outside to think that the whereabouts of the Tokugawa Kurita are unknown, and this group of capable people who usually enjoy various preferential treatment in the Metropolitan Police Department will start to fight for power and profit.

Sugida did not answer.

It's just that his face is even more indifferent,

The thin lines of the face are like sharp knives.

If Kimura Hakutaku was just a suspect in his eyes, then after this coincidental death, he was almost completely sure in his heart that the guy with a gentle smile on weekdays must have something to do with the death of Nakagawa Tsuru, and even Deputy Section Chief Matsuo Hayabusa, who had just committed suicide by swallowing a gun, and he might not be able to get rid of it!

It's just that

What is the purpose behind all this?

Don't blame others for not being able to understand and believe.

For any normal person:

Kimura Hakutaku's illustrious family, the aura of a prestigious school, and his gentle and friendly personality are not related to such a dark thing as a murder.

Inexplicably, Sugida's heart moved slightly, and he remembered the funeral shrine at the cherry blossom crossroads.

The rooftop of the Metropolitan Police Department building.

After expressing his gratitude, Kimura hung up the phone gently, and the smile on his face quickly disappeared - it was Foreign Minister Taku Amuro who had just spoken to him.

The other party showed off the secret huge strength of the cabinet stability maintenance faction and the "Group of Seven" on the phone, and he only needed one phone call to settle the trouble for Kimura Hakutaku.

Needless to say, the implication is that it is needless to say.

Naturally, they wanted to absorb him into the other party's faction.

I have to say that behind this seemingly rough and stupid way is a shrewdness, obviously trying to urge him to join them as soon as possible through such means.

"What a bunch of greedy guys."

Kimura Shirato shook his head gently, squinting his eyes and calculating the upcoming time in his heart, and sighed secretly, it seems that he has to step up the "work" at hand

The end of the year is over.

Time will become very fast.

Koshimizu Town, Shari-gun, Hokkaido.

Higashinohara returned to Hokkaido on the 28th of the previous year, and a lot of things happened during the period, but now in a blink of an eye, it is time to say goodbye to his family and return to New Tokyo.

The winter break ends on January 7th.

School will start on the 8th.

When Higashinohara and Nishimarumiri were leaving, her mother Ryoko Mizue prepared a lot of seafood and sorceries from Shari County, and stuffed them into the small van borrowed by Takeshi Higashino, who sent the two to the station.

Even Higashino Yukino was in tears - her mother stuffed everything she ate into the minivan and brought it to Higashinohara and Nishimaru Miri.

These days, the salvage and search and rescue work in the North Sea is still continuing, but the search and rescue scope has been expanded to some desert islands in that area, although there is still no news of the Tokugawa chestnut tiger, but the seven-year-old girl Nishimaru Miri, who has grown a year older after the New Year, has really matured a lot.

She bowed gratefully and said:

"Aunt Mizue and Uncle Higashino, I'm very happy here these days, I've caused you trouble, please take care of your health."

After saying goodbye, the two got into the minivan and arrived at the slashing station half an hour later.

Many people returned to work after the New Year, and many young people said goodbye to their loved ones at the station gate.

Higashinohara looked at the time when it was almost up.

After he got out of the minivan, he carried his things in large bags, took Nishimaru Miri to say goodbye to his father Takeshi Higashino, and then squeezed into the gate and disappeared into the crowd.

But just as Higashinohara and Nishimaru Miri were about to take the bus back to New Tokyo.

In the crowd of people coming and going outside the car.

A few people of apparent alien appearance looked around vigilantly, and then hurried through the security check and walked towards the waiting hall where Higashinohara and Nishimarumiri were located.

At the beginning of the month, I asked for a ticket~

(End of chapter)