Tokyo: From Lawless Madpolice to Minister
Chapter 119 - 115: Which Building at Night, Lying Down Again All Night and Got Promoted

Chapter 119: Chapter 115: Which Building at Night, Lying Down Again All Night and Got Promoted

Aoyama Xiu Xin groggily opened his eyes, the bright light a bit harsh, causing him involuntarily to squint again. Only after a moment of adjusting was he able to slowly, fully open his eyes, and what came into view was a white ceiling.

By his ear, he heard some movement, and turning his head towards the sound, he only saw a nurse bending over, doing something. Her white nurse’s uniform was stretched tight over her ample peach-shaped bottom, hips seen but not the waist, and beneath the hem of her skirt, a pair of long legs wrapped in white stockings.

By looking at her buttocks, he recognized the nurse as Tanaka Naoko, "Mrs. Tanaka."

"Ah!" Tanaka Naoko, who was focusing on her task, was startled by Aoyama Xiu Xin suddenly speaking. She turned around and patted her chest, her eyes somewhat joyous as she looked at Aoyama Xiu Xin, "Mr. Aoyama, you’ve finally awoken."

Aoyama Xiu Xin was unharmed; she was indeed very happy.

After all, if something had happened to Aoyama Xiu Xin, she would lose the person paying the hospital fees for her comatose husband lying in bed.

Well, true love, truly heartwarming.

"How long have I slept?" Aoyama Xiu Xin asked, while glancing outside the window, noticing that it had already turned dark.

Tanaka Naoko walked to the bedside, placed her hands in front of her lower abdomen, and bowed slightly, "You’ve been sleeping since you were brought in this morning, but there’s no serious issue. You just need to be observed for a couple of days to see if there’s any problem with your head."

"Was the driver who hit me caught?" Aoyama Xiu Xin, subconsciously touching his head, asked with a frown.

This morning’s car accident was definitely no coincidence.

Someone was trying to kill him!

Who would be so disrespectful? He hadn’t even fallen from power yet, and someone was already trying to physically eliminate him.

He had to find this person. If they could try to kill him once, they could do it a second time.

He suspected two people in his mind.

One was Nipponjiro, who bore a grudge against him for stealing his wife. This arrogant debauchee, out of spite and a desire for revenge, was capable of anything when infuriated.

The next was Heize Xin. Although he was temporarily detained awaiting trial and his followers were being purged, a centipede dies but never falls down. He definitely still controlled a portion of his power, and if he knew that the photos were given to the Yanchuan family by him, it was very likely that he wanted him dead.

After all, he was responsible for killing his political career.

Aoyama Xiu Xin could kill others, so naturally, others could kill him too. Nobody would just passively take hits.

"Ah! I...I’m not sure about that." Tanaka Naoko shook her head, seeming a bit embarrassed to say.

"Go get me a glass of water." Aoyama Xiu Xin saw the mobile phone on his bedside and picked it up to call Nakamura Shinichi, "Shinichi, it’s me."

"Deputy Director, are you awake?" Nakamura Shinichi’s voice was very excited, "I’m coming to the hospital now."

"No need, it’s too late," Aoyama Xiu Xin refused his visit for now, "What’s the situation with the driver who hit me? Was he caught?"

"He turned himself in, drunk driving, and he also has late-stage liver cancer. We pressed him, but he insists it was an accident caused by mistaking the accelerator for the brake due to his drunkenness," Nakamura Shinichi said gravely.

Drunk driving, late-stage cancer.

Truly a classic combo.

Aoyama Xiu Xin cursed inwardly, then pondered for a moment before asking, "Does he have any family?"

"A wife and a pair of children. The son is in high school, and the daughter is in elementary school." Nakamura Shinichi obviously had already investigated these details and spoke clearly, "The son is a troublemaker, always getting into fights and brawls. I’m planning to use him to our advantage."

"Alright, arrange it." Aoyama Xiu Xin agreed, the driver taking on the job of hitting him was no doubt seeking to leave some money for his family before dying. The core of the matter was still his family; he didn’t believe the driver wouldn’t care about his son.

"Roger that," replied Nakamura Shinichi.

After hanging up the phone, Aoyama Xiu Xin called Yamakawa Ichiro, giving instructions, "Find me someone with a family and severe illness, keep them on a stipend."

Once the mastermind behind the scenes was exposed, he planned to pay them back in their own coin. Since they dared to set up a truck for him, they couldn’t blame him for arranging a dump truck for them.

"Roger that," Yamakawa Ichiro responded, then quickly added, "Mr. Aoyama, are you alright? I wanted to come see you, but I was afraid my identity wouldn’t be appropriate."

"I appreciate the thought, it’s nothing serious, just a superficial wound," Aoyama Xiu Xin replied with a smile.

"May you have a great fortune after a great disaster. I’ll bring you a gift to express my well wishes once you’re discharged."

"I’ll look forward to it then, ha ha."

Seeing that Aoyama Xiu Xin had hung up the phone, Tanaka Naoko, who was holding the glass of water, hurried forward, "Here’s your water."

"Feed me," Aoyama Xiu Xin put down the phone.

"Roger that!" Tanaka Naoko first placed the glass on the bedside cabinet, then moved forward to support Aoyama Xiu Xin to sit up. She herself delicately perched on the edge of the bed, allowing Aoyama Xiu Xin’s head to rest against her chest, before finally picking up the glass and bringing it to his lips.

Feeling the softness against the back of his head, Aoyama Xiu Xin felt extremely comfortable and began to drink some water.

Tanaka Naoko put the water cup aside and was about to get up, but Aoyama Xiu Xin caught her hand.

"Mr. Aoyama," Tanaka Naoko was startled.

"Who came to visit me today?"

"Many people, especially your sister-in-law and Asai Police Chief. They stayed very late and said they would come again early tomorrow," Tanaka Naoko whispered gently.

"How is your husband doing? Any signs of waking up?" Aoyama Xiu Xin didn’t forget to care for his old subordinate.

Tanaka Naoko, "No, but I believe he will wake up. I will wait forever, my whole life."

Such touching love.

True childhood sweethearts; it’s a pity that now the childhood friend lays unconscious in a hospital bed, unable to play around with green plums. Instead, it’s yourself who ends up playing with the green plums.

Aoyama Xiu Xin smiled. It might be better if Tanaka doesn’t wake up after all, as that won’t be good for the three of them.

...

The next morning.

Visitors to see Aoyama Xiu Xin were non-stop.

First was his sister-in-law.

She wanted to stay and take care of him, but Aoyama Xiu Xin shooed her away, saying he was not in serious danger.

Next was Asai Ayumi .

She brought some good news; she had just been promoted, and after lying in bed for a night, Aoyama Xiu Xin had been promoted too.

Because Morioka Yu was killed by Heize Xin and mysteriously disappeared, the position of Deputy Director of the First Search Division was vacated. Asai Ayumi, who was to be promoted after her 25th birthday next month, was promoted ahead of schedule to Police Chief to fill the vacancy.

After her promotion, Aoyama Xiu Xin naturally took her place, becoming the Chief of the Homicide Series.

"So who will be the Deputy Chief of our division?" Aoyama Xiu Xin held her hand, asking with curiosity.

His wife was promoted faster than him, who would have thought!

Although his position was below Asai Ayumi.

But his body was always on top of Asai Ayumi.

Ah, no, that’s not right, it was inside Asai Ayumi.

Asai Ayumi answered, "I don’t know; someone will probably be transferred to fill the vacancy since there’s no one with a police chief rank in the division after Jin Cheng Heiji was done for, and Takizawa Mapu was transferred."

"Let’s hope it’s someone smart," said Aoyama Xiu Xin, valuing the candidate for his future assistant.

Asai Ayumi left soon after, followed by Mrs. Yanahara, Police Chief Hattori, Yanchuan Xianyou, and Yamada Yuuji who all visited him with gifts in turn.

Yamada Yuuji had gotten his wish to be transferred to the Special Search Division as Mobile Search Department General Manager and promised to have drinks with Aoyama Xiu Xin to celebrate once he was discharged.

Fujimoto Ryosuke and Nakamura Shinichi came together at noon, each carrying a document.

"Deputy Director... no, I should call you Chief now," Fujimoto Ryosuke’s eyes were full of envy as he handed over the document, "This is information about Saihara Ichiro, the chief editor of Asahi News Political Department."

"I won’t look at it; you just read it," said Aoyama Xiu Xin without taking the document, speaking indifferently.

"Sure!" Fujimoto Ryosuke complied and then began, "Saihara Ichiro, 43 years old, married, his only son Saiyu Cangji is 20 years old, a sophomore in college. His parents are farmers, and he graduated from Tokyo University. He climbed from an economic journalist to his current position. He has close relations with House of Representatives member Ninpei Oshiro, and he gets along well with our police force. It seems like the Renping family put in a good word for him to become the head of the Political Department."

Aoyama Xiu Xin nodded slowly; it looked like Matsubara Zizhi was just Ninpei Erlang’s means of revenge. The car accident should have nothing to do with him, leaving Heize Xin as the only suspect.

"Chief, Noda’s prison buddy, Xiao Lin, through someone’s influence, is currently driving for the Agricultural and Forestry Bank Credit Department Director, Kimura Yakuo," Nakamura Shinichi picked up after Fujimoto Ryosuke finished his report, detailing his progress, "Noda said that Xiao Lin once claimed that hiring them to kill Ayase Mihiko was doing a job for his boss, indicating that the mastermind behind hiring Noda and his associates to kill Ayase Mihiko was Kimura Yakuo."

"From this point of view, the rumors that Ayase Mihiko was a mistress of some higher-up at the main bank branch of the Agricultural and Forestry Bank might actually be true. And that higher-up is Kimura Yakuo; otherwise, why would he hire a hitman to kill an employee of a subsidiary company who, on the surface, had no association with him?"

"However, if Noda didn’t commit the murder himself, then Ayase’s death would have nothing to do with Kimura Yakuo, and there would be no need to investigate him anymore, right?" Fujimoto Ryosuke interjected.

"No!" Nakamura Shinichi denied outright, presenting his analysis, "Perhaps Kimura Yakuo wanted to lead us down this path on purpose. He knew he couldn’t hide his relationship with Ayase Mihiko from the police forever. After her death, he would certainly be investigated, and some traces can’t be concealed. So he doesn’t cover them up; he just fakes it."

"I suspect he hired two hitmen. The first was responsible for the murder and faked the crime scene to look like a robbery gone wrong, and Noda, the unfortunate fool, was specially used to take the fall and mislead us."

"As Fujimoto thought, we easily found out that Noda was hired to commit a murder, but since we confirmed that the person was dead before Noda arrived, we would naturally eliminate Kimura Yakuo as a suspect. At most, he might be accused of attempted murder, not murder."

"And barring Noda’s testimony, we even don’t have any physical evidence that he hired a hitman. Moreover, misled into confirming the murder wasn’t committed by his hire, we naturally won’t waste police resources to investigate him further, allowing him to escape this calamity."