Tokyo: From Lawless Madpolice to Minister
Chapter 340 - 311: The Rage of the Green Giant! The Organization Has Decided

Chapter 340: Chapter 311: The Rage of the Green Giant! The Organization Has Decided

Just as Aoyama Xiu Xin thought Nakamura Shinichi had finished his report, he heard him add, "There’s another discovery."

"Oh?" Aoyama Xiu Xin made a show of listening intently.

Nakamura Shinichi said, "Mrs. Shimura spent the afternoon of her death having tea with a friend, who noted that she was wearing a necklace and a bracelet. According to the friend, the clothes Mrs. Shimura was wearing when she died were the same ones she had on that afternoon. Since she hadn’t changed clothes, it’s unlikely she would have changed her accessories, yet only her wedding ring was found on her body."

These high-society women have a plethora of various kinds of jewelry, and priding themselves as upper-class, they don’t wear the same pieces for long. They match their jewelry with different outfits, sometimes wearing them and sometimes not.

"The murderer must have taken the necklace and bracelet but didn’t touch the wedding ring, likely because it’s a custom-fitted ring that’s difficult to sell, and because there would be obvious marks on the finger if the ring were removed, the police could easily spot it," Aoyama Xiu Xin mumbled to himself.

Even her wallet wasn’t taken, indicating that although the killer was greedy, they were somewhat restrained in their greed.

Nakamura Shinichi nodded, "That’s what I think as well. Even the on-site forensic team concluded there was no loss of property. If it wasn’t for Mrs. Shimura’s friend who observed carefully and proactively disclosed this to us, we would have overlooked it."

Women tend, after all, to take notice of the jewelry their friends wear; it’s usually quite memorable.

"The murderer will surely try to fence the necklace and bracelet. Pay close attention to the Tokyo shops known for dealing in stolen goods," Aoyama Xiu Xin instructed.

Criminals are aware of which shops will buy stolen goods at low prices, and so, naturally, are the police.

But sometimes they turn a blind eye.

It’s too much hassle to crack down on these illegal merchants, besides keeping them around can be useful for catching thieves looking to offload their loot.

Nakamura Shinichi nodded and said, "I’ve given the instructions. I’ll report back to you with any updates."

"Alright, it’s getting late; let’s call it a day," Aoyama Xiu Xin glanced at his watch, stood up, and stretched lazily.

Nakamura Shinichi bowed and then turned to leave.

As Tokyo welcomed the after-work rush hour, over in Osaka, Mrs. Yamazaki also experienced her own rush—out of bed—after spending the afternoon with her blond paramour. She took a bath upon returning home.

"Back already? Did you have fun today?"

Yamazaki Katsu asked his wife with a gentle tone.

"Quite fun, the child wasn’t too fussy, was he?" Mrs. Yamazaki smiled tenderly, sat down beside her husband, and turned her gaze to their son sleeping soundly in the crib.

Smelling the faint fragrance coming from her, Yamazaki Katsu was romantically distracted and reached to encircle her waist, answering, "Our son’s been very good."

As he spoke, he pressed his wife down onto the sofa.

"No, stop that, I’m a bit tired."

Mrs. Yamazaki’s eyes showed a hint of disgust and impatience as she struggled to push her husband away.

"What’s wrong? It’s been a while since we’ve done it. Don’t you want to?" Yamazaki Katsu sat up with an awkward smile, asking.

He was in his prime and his desires were strong.

After all, it wasn’t the third leg that was broken.

Mrs. Yamazaki pulled her slipping strap back into place, covering up unexpectedly exposed skin, and taking Yamazaki Katsu’s hand she whispered softly, "Husband, I agreed to marry you because Mr. Shimura told me about you being crippled while saving him. It’s your loyalty and righteousness that I admire. I never had high demands for that sort of thing. Otherwise, why would I have chosen you?"

Having spent nearly an entire day with her boyfriend, she was quite satisfied and had no interest in pretending to be happy with this useless cripple.

Yamazaki Katsu was touched by her words, feeling shameful and guilty for his earlier presumption.

"I’m sorry, I..."

"Shh!" Mrs. Yamazaki raised a finger that had just caressed her boyfriend earlier to her husband’s lips and said with a tender smile, "A married couple should understand and tolerate each other. There’s no need for apologies at every turn. I truly am a bit tired today. I’ll make it up to you another day."

"Wife, you’re so kind. Marrying you is the greatest fortune of my life. I’m even grateful for losing this leg," Yamazaki Katsu’s eyes reddened as he hugged her tightly, but soon his expression stiffened.

He saw several faint red marks on his wife’s back—were those finger marks?

Boom!

In an instant, he felt as if struck by lightning.

His mind was blank, in utter chaos.

No! No! It can’t be! It can’t be!

He kept muttering to himself, trying to convince himself.

But his eyes uncontrollably began searching for other suspicious signs: there were faint red marks on the outer side of her thighs, the back of her calves, and even on her neck...

Yamazaki Katsu’s face twisted in rage, his clenched jaw trembled slightly, and he felt as if his recent emotion was a joke, with himself as the fool!

"Alright, dear, I’ve been out all day and my feet are killing me. I need a shower and then I’ll come back down to keep you company," Mrs. Yamazaki was unaware that her affair had been exposed, and with a gentle tone, she said this and then pushed past Yamazaki Katsu, heading upstairs.

Yamazaki Katsu sat, soulless, his gaze vacant, his mind a swirling chaos.

After finding evidence, his wife’s many abnormal behaviors suddenly all made sense. No wonder she was always out early and home late; no wonder she seemed to lack any desire...

Yamazaki Katsu was a brave man and wouldn’t be like some fools who wait to see their wife turned into a cream puff right in front of them to believe they’ve been cuckolded.

Now that he was sure of it, who was the lover?

Shimura Ao!

This name instantly surfaced in Yamazaki Katsu’s mind.

His wife had been introduced to him by Shimura Ao, and was it really premature when their child was born two months early?

Besides, Shimura Ao, merely a godfather, seemed to care more for the child than he, the father, did...

So, the truth of the matter was crystal clear.

"Damn it! Adulterers!"

Yamazaki Katsu forced the words through clenched teeth, his fists balled up, veins on his forehead bulging with fury.

After he was crippled, Shimura Ao had indeed taken great care of him, and he was grateful. So if Shimura Ao had been honest from the start, he might have been willing to marry that wretch to cover up for them.

Shimura Ao treated him like an idiot and deceived him!

To onlookers, it looked like he was simply using Shimura Ao’s money to sleep with Shimura Ao’s woman—no loss there.

But he, unaware of the truth, really invested his emotions in this marriage! So when he discovered the truth, the pain was particularly bone-deep and unforgettable, filling him with resentment and a desperate need to vent his fury.

Those who become physically disabled later in life tend to be especially sensitive, and their reactions to stimuli much stronger, amplifying negative emotions immensely.

The gratitude he once had for Shimura Ao turned to double the flames of hatred at this moment, wanting to burn him alive.

He wanted revenge, he absolutely needed to get revenge!

When consumed by anger, full of murderous intent, he wanted nothing more than to lash out regardless of the consequences, but when he calmed down, Yamazaki Katsu realized he couldn’t be impulsive; he had to make a long-term plan.

He at least had to find solid evidence of Shimura Ao cheating with his wife, otherwise what if he was wrong? Wouldn’t that be repaying kindness with ingratitude?

This shouldn’t be too difficult after all; that little slut surely wouldn’t be too cautious around a cripple who had trouble getting around. Just tracking her comings and goings would suffice.

Additionally, with his gimpy leg, though young, he might not be able to beat Shimura Ao in a fight. Even if the adulterer was indeed him, he needed to come up with a detailed plan for revenge.

.................

Two days later, October 27.

"Police Chief, we’ve identified the source of the online rumors smearing you. Those people were paid to post, but since their employer didn’t pay the final amount on time, they’ve stopped spreading rumors about you."

Asakura Yurong reported to Aoyama Xiu Xin.

"Stop looking into it; there’s no need for further investigation," replied Aoyama Xiu Xin upon hearing that, guessing who the employer was.

It was definitely Kikumura Hazuma. He must have had further plans, but now that he had been reassigned to Osaka and was out of conflict with Aoyama, recognizing the gap in their capabilities, he naturally wouldn’t want to continue with the unrewarding task of offending Aoyama.

Asakura Yurong responded, "Yes, sir!"

"Police Chief Asakura, with Police Chief Kikumura about to move to Osaka and a Deputy Director position opening up, how about you take on that responsibility?" Aoyama Xiu Xin spoke with a gentle tone.

"Ah!" Asakura Yurong was taken aback, then shook her head like a bobblehead, "No, no, no, I’m not up to it. Please find someone more suitable, Police Chief."

As she shook her head, all three of her heads shook in unison.

"You can learn if you’re not up to it. We’re a new department; everything relies on experimentation and discovery. The organization has made its decision, and you will be the new Deputy Director," Aoyama Xiu Xin asserted with an air of authority.

Asakura Yurong felt immense pressure, fearing she wouldn’t do well, constantly making excuses, "But this isn’t following procedure, I’ve only been at Police Headquarters for just over a year."

"The Internet Security Department is a new division; it’s not the same as the other mature departments. Special times call for special actions." Aoyama Xiu Xin cut off her excuses, adding, "I have considerable experience in personnel management. If you’re unsure about something, you can ask me."

"Then... Yes, sir! Thank you for the promotion! I will do my best!" Asakura Yurong reluctantly agreed, with a bitter expression on her small face.

She really didn’t want the promotion and just wanted to be an idle worker, doing what she was good at and just scraping by.

When she left Aoyama Xiu Xin’s office, she still had a worried and stricken look on her face.

"Yurong, what’s wrong with you? Did Aoyama Xiu Xin give you a hard time again?" Kikumura Hazuma, who hadn’t left his position yet, happened to see her and felt indignant.

The image of his sweet and innocent junior sister resisting and struggling while being coerced by Aoyama Xiu Xin to submit to his authority against her will came to his mind.

"Senior Brother Kikumura." Asakura Yurong came back to her senses and bowed, saying helplessly, "The Police Chief has asked me to take over your position. I really don’t want to be promoted."

Kikumura Hazuma: "......"

"Oh, I have something else to do. I must be going."

He lost all desire to continue the conversation.

As he passed by Asakura Yurong, his features twisted in anger, grinding his back teeth, cursing himself for not being a woman, and hating even more that Aoyama Xiu Xin wasn’t gay.

He too wanted to take shortcuts and exploit connections!

At noon, Nakamura Shinichi brought a test report to Aoyama Xiu Xin and said, "Police Chief, the paternity test results are in, but it’s not what we expected. The child isn’t Yamazaki Katsu’s."

"Then it must be Shimura Ao’s, how is that different from what we expected?" Aoyama Xiu Xin asked, puzzled.

Nakamura Shinichi’s mouth twitched, handing over the report, "But it’s not Shimura Ao’s, either."

Aoyama Xiu Xin’s eyes widened in shock upon hearing this.

Damn! Is there another player?

He took the test report and opened it to see, indeed, the annotation indicated the child had no blood relation to either man.

"Ah! Idiot! What the hell is going on then? Could it be that Shimura Ao didn’t even know that Yamazaki Katsu was cuckolded and he treated the child well just because he really doesn’t have any children of his own and sees the child as his own?" Aoyama Xiu Xin said, frowning, but this would also mean Shimura Ao had no motive to kill his wife.

So who really killed Mrs. Shimura?

"Police Chief, is it possible that both Shimura Ao and Yamazaki Katsu didn’t know they’d been cuckolded?"

Nakamura Shinichi cautiously suggested, and then took out another report, "Look at this..."

"Quiet, I’m thinking," Aoyama Xiu Xin raised his hand to interrupt him, thought for a moment to understand what Nakamura Shinichi had just said, and then looked at the new document handed over, "What is this?"

Nakamura Shinichi flipped the file open in front of him.

"Mrs. Yamazaki’s prenatal examination report. The child wasn’t prematurely born; she carried to full ten months before giving birth, which means Shimura Ao could be sure she was already pregnant before introducing her to Yamazaki Katsu."

"This is clearly to make Yamazaki Katsu take the fall and cover for him. They never expected the child wasn’t his, so both Yamazaki Katsu and Shimura Ao thought they were the father, but they’ve both been cuckolded! The child’s biological father is someone else!"

Aoyama Xiu Xin: "......"

He felt like his CPU couldn’t keep up.

"Police Chief, Police Chief?"

"It’s confusing, give me a moment to untangle this."

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