Tokyo: From Lawless Madpolice to Minister
Chapter 407 - 362: If I Say You Should Die, Then You Must Die (Requesting Monthly Pass)

Chapter 407: Chapter 362: If I Say You Should Die, Then You Must Die (Requesting Monthly Pass)

Aoyama Xiu Xin stepped out of the car and strode toward the Osaka Prefecture Police with a group of people, their faces as grim as the water’s surface.

Wherever he passed, everyone made way.

After all, for police officers, Aoyama Xiu Xin’s face was one they all knew by heart; it belonged not only to him but to the entire police force.

"I am Aoyama Xiu Xin, who’s in charge here!"

He continued to walk forward as he asked.

The crowd’s gazes instinctively shifted to Chongtian Xingping.

"Police Chief Aoyama, I have long admired your reputation. I am the Director of Osaka Prefecture Police Headquarters, Chong..." Chongtian Xingping stepped forward to greet him, attempting to shake his hand with feigned composure.

However, before he could finish speaking.

Aoyama Xiu Xin had already unleashed a kick.

"Ah!" Caught off guard, Chongtian Xingping screamed as he fell to the ground, clutching his abdomen and rolling like a cooked shrimp, his body curved in pain, large beads of cold sweat instantly emerging and sliding down his forehead.

"Aoyama Xiu Xin! How could you..." A close aide of Chongtian Xingping immediately stepped forward to reprimand him.

Aoyama Xiu Xin backhanded him with a slap.

"Smack!"

The aide immediately fell to the ground unconscious, the blessings of youth allowing him to sleep so soundly anytime, anywhere.

In an instant, everyone felt a shared uneasiness.

The oppressive atmosphere was like a giant stone weighing down on everyone; no one dared to even take a deep breath.

"Damn it all!" Chongtian Xingping eventually recovered, his face flushed with anger as he tried to rise and settle the score with Aoyama Xiu Xin. He knew that at this moment, he couldn’t afford to appear weak. As long as he hadn’t been formally convicted, he still held the title of Director of Osaka Prefecture Police Headquarters, a rank and position above Aoyama Xiu Xin.

He had to seize the initiative at this opportunity.

"Aoyama Xiu Xin, you’ve got some nerve..."

Before he could finish, Aoyama Xiu Xin unleashed another kick, sending Chongtian Xingping back onto the ground.

Just as he tried to rise, Aoyama Xiu Xin stepped on his back, pressing his face close to the ground. Chongtian Xingping’s legs kicked and flailed, but he couldn’t stand.

"It is you who are bold," said Aoyama Xiu Xin with an icy tone, looking around him, "And all of you! To brazenly gang up on and murder members of the Police Headquarters!"

All the officers from Osaka Prefecture suddenly felt uneasy; after all, they had indeed committed such acts.

If responsibility were to be assigned, none could escape.

"Chief," Nakamura Shinichi said at this moment, supporting a wounded officer as they limped down, his eyes red and his voice choked, "We’ve lost two brothers."

"Aoyama Xiu Xin! Let me go! You damn bastard, daring to show such defiance! Let go of me!"

Chongtian Xingping continued to struggle and curse.

Aoyama Xiu Xin turned, grabbed his subordinate’s sidearm, aimed the barrel downward, and pulled the trigger at Chongtian Xingping’s head. Bang! The shouting and cursing of Chongtian Xingping ceased abruptly. He stopped struggling, his head heavily falling to the ground, blood flowing from the back of his skull.

Dead.

In that instant, utter silence fell over the room, everyone looking at Aoyama Xiu Xin with eyes filled with shock and terror. He had just shot and killed a Director in full view of everyone!

Damn it, has he lost his mind?

"The affair of attacking the Police Headquarters members was orchestrated solely by Chongtian Xingping. After the plot was exposed, the desperate man attempted to take me hostage but was shot and killed by me. Any objections to writing the report this way?" Aoyama Xiu Xin slowly raised his head and stated.

Anyone who dared to order an attack on him deserved to die.

"No! No objections! Yes, yes, yes, Police Chief Aoyama has a keen eye, a discerning vision; he deserved to die!"

"It was him, him! It was all his command; we were just following orders!"

"Chongtian Xingping is truly wicked, with his position as a superior, he forcefully compelled us to attack our colleagues from the Police Headquarters and even tried to take Police Chief Aoyama hostage to escape from the scene, simply unforgivable! Unforgivable!"

All the officers from Osaka Prefecture, after a brief moment of stupor, began to echo these sentiments, each one feeling grateful to Aoyama Xiu Xin for the death of Chongtian Xingping would mean that all blame lay with this deceased man.

With that, the pursuit of anyone else’s responsibility came to an end.

There was no longer any possibility to pursue it further.

"Get the wounded to a hospital; all officers from Osaka Prefecture are to temporarily follow my orders and cooperate with our investigation. Arrest whoever is on the list I provide," said Aoyama Xiu Xin, casually tossing the gun back to his subordinate before stepping toward Nakamura Shinichi.

"Hi!" Two to three hundred officers on the scene responded in unison, their voices thunderous, shaking the heavens.

Tanaka Guikuma was anxiously waiting for news of Chongtian Xingping, but what he got instead was Aoyama Xiu Xin.

"What are you doing? You can’t come in here!"

"Damn it, get out of the way! Don’t block the path!"

Noise erupted from outside the living room. Tanaka Guikuma, who had been feigning sleep with his eyes closed, opened his eyes and saw Aoyama Xiu Xin entering with a crowd of policemen in tow.

The vigor in him dissipated in an instant.

Realizing that the situation was beyond his control, he understood there was nothing he could do.

"Where’s Chongtian Xingping?" Tanaka Guikuma took a deep breath to gather himself, curious about the man’s fate.

"Dead," replied Aoyama Xiu Xin, followed by, "I killed him with my own hands."

"Police Chief Aoyama lives up to the title of ’Police Tiger’ of the Police Headquarters. Such courage," Tanaka Guikuma nodded in praise, then added, "And such a man, too lacking in ability to succeed yet ample enough to fail, deserves death."

If only Chongtian Xingping had been efficient, killing Nakamura Shinichi and the others first, the situation wouldn’t have deteriorated to this point.

"You deserve to die too," said Aoyama Xiu Xin, looking at Tanaka Guikuma without concealing his malice. This man’s actions fit all his preconceived notions of a villain.

Tanaka Guikuma laughed, stood up leisurely, and stretched his neck, "But that’s the world for you; those who shouldn’t die often do, and those who deserve death often live. Well then, let’s go. I’ve never had the pleasure of visiting the Police Headquarters. I wonder how your coffee tastes; I have a sweet tooth, you see..."

"Bang!"

A gunshot rang out, and Tanaka Guikuma fell back onto the couch with a shot to the chest, slowly raising his hand to touch the bullet hole before looking down in horror at the pool of fresh blood in his hand. He looked up, eyes wide with disbelief, at Aoyama Xiu Xin who stood opposite him, gun in hand.

He had never dreamed that the other man would kill him.

"I said you deserve to die, and so you shall," Aoyama Xiu Xin stated calmly, without a ripple of emotion, then pulled the trigger again.

"No..." Tanaka Guikuma’s eyes shone with fear—not because he was calm, it was because he didn’t believe he would actually die, not that he wasn’t afraid of death.

"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"

Three more shots rang out, and he died on the spot, his chest soaked red with his own blood.

His eyes were wide open, staring at the ceiling in a mix of horror and unwillingness, refusing to close even in death.

"Clean this up," Aoyama Xiu Xin said as he put away his gun and left, knowing someone would arrange the scene to look like Tanaka Guikuma had been killed while attempting to resist with a gun.

His death was partly an outlet for pent-up rage.

And also to prevent the situation from escalating further.

From the sex bribes that Tanaka offered to the bank managers, it was clear that there were no shortages of high officials involved. If Tanaka were to name those people, would the Police Headquarters take them into custody, or not?

Only in his death could there be no trouble.

And no one would seek vengeance for his death.

Moreover, the evidence secretly photographed by Nakamura Shinichi tonight was enough to convict those local dignitaries and celebrities of Osaka Prefecture, and that outcome alone was enough to satisfy the wrath of the public.

As for which of the arrested individuals would escape punishment and which would be duly executed, that would depend on how strong their connections were and how much money they had.

If their connections weren’t strong enough...

Then it would be a matter of whether their luck was.

Aoyama Xiu Xin stood in the yard of Tanaka’s mansion smoking a cigarette, needing a moment of quiet after such a tumultuous night.

"Police Chief, this was found in Tanaka Guikuma’s safe," said Nakamura Shinichi after a while, handing him a thick notebook.

Aoyama Xiu Xin took it with a cigarette in his mouth, flipping through the pages, which detailed every sex bribe: the targets, the dates, the locations, the names of the girls selected, and what happened to them afterwards—alive or dead.

"And there’s this," Nakamura Shinichi handed Aoyama Xiu Xin another stack of assorted photos.

Most of them were taken from a voyeur’s perspective, clearly shot by the orphans while the bribers were asleep.

"Put the notebook in my car; let’s not record this one," said Aoyama Xiu Xin as he handed back the notebook.

This could not be used as evidence; otherwise, it would trigger a scandal of the century.

Even if the higher-ups managed to suppress it and it didn’t come out.

Those involved would still bear a grudge against Aoyama Xiu Xin.

"Got it!" Nakamura Shinichi responded.

"By the way," Aoyama Xiu Xin said, "you mentioned over the phone that something unexpected happened tonight?"

"Yes," replied Nakamura Shinichi, as if suddenly remembering, "Tonight at the party, several of the orphans, who had been suffering for a long time, rebelled and took revenge..."

After hearing the report, Aoyama Xiu Xin exhaled slowly.

"They’ve probably been contained by Tanaka Guikuma by now. They’re all pitiable people. Let them go; say they took the chance to escape in the chaos tonight."

"Got it," Nakamura Shinichi promptly agreed.

He then went to the orphanage and rescued Suzuki Makoto, who had been beaten half to death, and took her to a hospital, telling her, "Police Chief Aoyama said that you were all very brave and that you should leave Osaka as soon as possible."

After speaking, he stood up and left.

Suzuki Makoto looked at his retreating figure, feeling her eyelids grow increasingly heavy, eventually passing out, but not before committing to memory the words he had spoken just before leaving.

...

By the time Aoyama Xiu Xin returned to Tokyo, it was already broad daylight.

Without time to rest, he went straight to a press conference, which Renping Kuniaki had already arranged while they were still in Osaka. After all, such a big case had to be announced to the public as soon as possible through the media.

Otherwise, god knows what the story would look like when those journalists caught wind of it and reported on their own.

Under the watchful eyes of the public, Aoyama Xiu Xin stepped up to the podium and bowed solemnly, stating,

"Thank you all for taking time out of your busy schedules to attend this press conference. I think I need no introduction; let’s get straight to the point. Last night, the Police Headquarters solved an extremely vile case!"

"The president of Osaka Bank, Tanaka Guikuma, was in cahoots with the head of the Home of Love Orphanage, Gangcun Xiu, and had long been using orphans to bribe local politicians and businessmen with sex! This process led to multiple deaths."

"Director of Osaka Prefecture Police Headquarters, Chongtian Xingping, was also involved, and attempted to use violence to obstruct the Police Headquarters from investigating the case. He was later shot dead while being apprehended."

In a tone containing shock and gravity, Aoyama Xiu Xin delivered his quick but forceful statements; each sentence sent shockwaves through the reporters below. By the end of his account, the entire venue was in an uproar.

"Excuse me, Police Chief Aoyama, how did you discover the clues? Are all the involved parties now in custody? Has the prime suspect Tanaka Guikuma been apprehended?"

"For the specifics, please wait for the Police Headquarters’ detailed report. Tanaka Guikuma, when cornered, attempted to resist with a gun and has been shot dead on the spot. Thank you all," Aoyama Xiu Xin bowed again and turned to leave.

The case was far from over, more urgent matters awaited him, such as dealing with the bank manager.

"Police Chief Aoyama, don’t go!"

"Police Chief Aoyama, could you please..."

The journalists, frantic like madmen, climbed onto the tables and leaped down, attempting to rush to Aoyama Xiu Xin.

But due to the substantial number of police officers arranged in advance to maintain order, they were blocked by a wall of officers and could only watch helplessly, eyes wide as Aoyama Xiu Xin ignored their pleas and gradually disappeared from sight.

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