Tokyo: From Lawless Madpolice to Minister
Chapter 212 - 205: Gunfight! We were caught and I didn’t know?

Chapter 212: Chapter 205: Gunfight! We were caught and I didn’t know?

Tokyo, Edogawa District.

In a quiet, standalone villa.

Takai Baoyu sat on the sofa, saying to his two bodyguards with emotion, "You two are the men I trust most. As long as you come with me to the United States, I will certainly not treat you poorly—money and women will be plentiful!"

He was already old, and without family by his side, he needed two trustworthy assistants to mix in a foreign country, and these two bodyguards who had been with him for many years were currently the outsiders he trusted the most.

"Hi!" Both bodyguards bowed simultaneously.

"Ring-ring! Ring-ring!"

One of the bodyguards’ phone suddenly rang.

He hurriedly tried to hang up subconsciously.

However, Takai Baoyu said, "Answer it. It might be a family member calling. Remember to put it on speaker."

The bodyguard nodded, answered the call, and turned on the speaker, "Mosi Mosi, I am Matsuboto."

"Hirokuni, I heard something happened at your company this morning. Dad and I are very worried about you."

A hurried female voice came through the phone.

Matsuboto Hirokuni looked up at Takai Baoyu.

Takai Baoyu waved his hand, "Go on, talk to your family a bit more, and also mention traveling abroad."

"Hi!" Matsuboto Hirokuni acknowledged with a bow and then took the mobile phone toward the backyard.

"Traveling abroad? What trip abroad?"

"Mom, I’ll explain it to you in a bit." Matsuboto Hirokuni turned off the speaker and went to the backyard to explain the reason for going abroad, "This opportunity to go abroad is rare, and the boss is offering good conditions; I can’t miss it..."

"Matsuboto-kun, what’s more important, money or your family?" a strange voice came from the other side.

Matsuboto Hirokuni was startled, "Who are you?"

"Better keep your voice down; do you want to summon Takai Baoyu?" The person chuckled, speaking ominously, "Tell me where he’s hiding, or your gentle wife, your elderly parents, and your adorable child will all meet unfortunate ends. You don’t want that, do you?"

"You... you can’t do that!" Matsuboto Hirokuni hissed, his face filled with anxiety.

"Then tell me where he’s hiding."

Matsuboto Hirokuni looked back, his face expression changing unpredictably, before he slowly uttered an address.

As a bodyguard, protecting his boss was his duty, but as a son, a husband, a father, he had to ensure his family’s safety; he had no choice.

"Very well, we’ll be there soon. If we arrive and find he’s not there, then Matsuboto-kun, you better prepare to collect the bodies of your family."

The person on the other side hung up after dropping those words.

"Beep~Beep~Beep~"

Matsuboto Hirokuni swung his fist in anger, took a deep breath to calm himself, and turned back to the living room.

"So, did you talk things over with your family?" Takai Baoyu asked without turning his head as he heard footsteps.

Matsuboto Hirokuni replied, "Hi! It is my honor to follow you, sir. My family has no objections."

"Yoshi! Very good! Matsuboto-kun, you’ve made the right choice," Takai Baoyu said with a smeared smile.

About half an hour later, the bodyguard who was monitoring suddenly cried out, "Sir, people are arriving at both the front and back doors; we’re blocked in."

"Is it the police?" Takai Baoyu exclaimed in shock.

The bodyguard replied, "No, they’re all in plain clothes, and the weapons they’re carrying are not police guns."

"Idiot!" Takai Baoyu’s sharp gaze shifted around the two bodyguards; he suppressed the suspicions in his heart and said to the monitoring bodyguard, "You come with me upstairs; Matsuboto, you stay down here and stall them."

"Hi!" Both bodyguards drew their guns.

Matsuboto hid behind the couch, while the monitoring bodyguard escorted Takai Baoyu upstairs to an office.

"Don’t shoot, we’re on the same side!"

After the two went upstairs, Matsuboto, who was hiding behind the couch, immediately surrendered and helped to open the door.

"Damn traitor!"

Takai Baoyu in the office cursed furiously upon hearing the noise, his gaze at the bodyguard beside him turning suspicious.

"Sir, I don’t have a family; you gave me a life without worry about food and shelter, so my loyalty is only to you," the bodyguard said, meeting his gaze. After finishing, he directly stuffed his gun into his hand, "Maybe this will make you feel better. I’ll distract them while you find a chance to escape; this is the last thing I can do for you."

"Police! Who is there! Put your gun down!"

"Bang! Bang bang! Bang bang!"

"Idiot! The police are here! Retreat!"

Gunshots erupted outside the room.

"The police are here." Takai Baoyu suddenly relaxed, then handed the gun back to the bodyguard. He opened the office safe, took out several thick file bags handing them over, "With the police here, my life is no longer in danger. I’ll draw the police’s attention; you take these files and head to Capital City... wait for my contact. As long as these documents don’t fall into the hands of the police and Yokoyama Ryohi, I still have value."

"Hi!" the bodyguard solemnly replied, tucking the document bag into his waistband, "Sir, rest assured, even if it costs me my life, I will protect these documents!"

When the series chief, Fujiwara Takahiro, arrived on Aoyama Xiu Xin’s orders, he saw a group of gunmen orderly entering the villa from the yard, and a fierce gunfight broke out immediately.

Facing the sudden arrival of the police, the gunmen knew they had no chance to capture Takai Baoyu, so they started retreating while fighting, and after leaving several corpses behind, they successfully evacuated thanks to their early arrival to take control of the back door.

After the gunfire ceased, Fujiwara Takahiro didn’t rush into the villa because he feared an ambush, so he cautiously approached the main body of the villa with his men.

"Don’t shoot! I am Takai Baoyu! I will come out and surrender immediately, please do not shoot!"

Takai Baoyu shouted loudly outside.

"Everyone, stay alert!"

Fujiwara Takahiro pointed his guns towards the villa door with both hands.

Soon, Takai Baoyu’s figure appeared in everyone’s sight, his arms raised high, looking very disheveled.

"Bang!"

Suddenly, a gunshot rang out.

Takai Baoyu was hit in the chest, stumbled, took two steps backward, and incredulously fell to the ground, his eyes wide open, full of reluctance.

Aoyama Xiu Xin... you’re ruthless!

"Ha~ha~ha~"

Blood bubbles continuously emerged from his mouth, and he clenched his fists, wanting to yell Aoyama Xiu Xin’s name but unable to make a sound, eventually blacking out.

Fujiwara Takahiro sharply turned to look behind him.

"I... I fired by accident," Yoshikai Yoshitsune said, his face pale and his hands trembling slightly, stammering.

He remembered the words Aoyama Xiu Xin had said to him alone in the office before the mission.

"Takeda Fuji and Nozawa Financial Corporation must go down, if Takai Baoyu doesn’t die, this matter won’t end, if he dies, Nozawa Financial Corporation will be unstoppable, and your family’s factory can rise a step higher by producing automatic loan machines."

"Yoshikai, I appreciate you and I want to promote you, but you have to help me. I like people who are grateful, kill Takai Baoyu, he’s a guy who deserves to die, isn’t he?"

Yoshikai Yoshitsune had always seen Aoyama Xiu Xin as his family’s savior and idol, and though the request was excessive, he still carried out the order.

Fujiwara Takumi looked at him deeply and said indifferently, "Prepare to be investigated."

Whether it was an accidental discharge isn’t for the shooter to decide, it’s for the superior investigation to determine.

The reason Aoyama Xiu Xin sent Yoshikai Yoshitsune to carry out the task of killing Takai Baoyu was because Nakamura Shinichi was about to be promoted and couldn’t be delayed at this time.

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"What a bunch of idiots! Can’t even handle this simple task!"

Yokoyama Ryohi yelled into the phone.

While he was venting, the desk phone rang again, he picked up the handset and after listening to the other side’s words his expression was incredulous, "Dead?"

Takai Baoyu had been accidentally shot dead by a police officer!

It struck him in an instant that it was Aoyama Xiu Xin cleaning house, he sighed in relief, better Takai Baoyu dead than alive and caught by the police.

After all, he wasn’t willingly going to turn himself in.

If caught, he would certainly threaten to use the evidence he held to force Yokoyama to save him, and if Yokoyama couldn’t, he might hand that evidence over to the police.

Now that he was dead, no matter where those documents were, at least they wouldn’t end up in police hands.

But the next sentence on the phone made his heart rise again, "And a bodyguard is missing?"

Yokoyama Ryohi’s face fluctuated, and after a moment of contemplation, he said, "Find this person!"

He wasn’t sure if the missing bodyguard had just run away or had left on some order from Takai Baoyu, just to be safe, he had to be found.

That afternoon, the Police Headquarters held a press conference, omitting the gun battle between the police and another group of mysterious people at the scene, and publicly stated it was during the arrest of Takai Baoyu, when a gunfight broke out between the police and his bodyguard.

Takai Baoyu was hit by a stray bullet during the gun battle and died after unsuccessful resuscitation; the cause of death was altered, and the incident of Yoshikai Yoshitsune firing accidentally naturally wouldn’t be investigated further.

The reason for doing this was that the Police Headquarters understood the gunmen trying to capture Takai Baoyu definitely had significant backing, if they disclosed the existence of these gunmen, then what was there to investigate further?

If nothing came out of the investigation, the public would question the police’s capability, and if something did come out, it would be even worse, thus these gunmen couldn’t be exposed.

At 9 pm, in the Capital City.

A middle-aged man with a black mole with hair at the corner of his mouth and a young man with a small braid, both appearing dazed, walked out of an underground gambling den. After battling continuously inside for half a month, the money they had obtained from kidnapping Heize Shengli’s only son for ransom in Tokyo had nearly all been lost.

"Big Brother, look, the newspaper says the two of us have been caught!" the young man with the braid noticed the newspaper under his feet while tying his shoelaces and picked it up.

"Stop talking nonsense, how would I not know if we were caught?" Big Black Moles took the newspaper and said.

The newspaper was from yesterday, and it had a news report about the son of a politician being kidnapped and killed. The case investigator, Sanmu Ichiro, mentioned that three suspects, a Japanese and two Koreans, had already been detained.

Big Black Moles and the young man with the braid looked at each other.

"No, what exactly is going on here?"