Tokyo: Rabbit Officer and Her Evil Partner
Chapter 43 Flattery and Fawning

Chapter 43: Chapter 43 Flattery and Fawning

"Criminal Index": 21%

"Vices": Believes society is run by privileges, obsessed with clinging to power

"Clearance Reward": Eliminate the sins of Yoshimura Yu to obtain lv3 Flattery

While Yoshimura Yu was shouting, three lines of small characters appeared above his head.

Fushimi Roku was slightly surprised, never expected even Yoshimura Yu could highlight a level-three skill; indeed, no one is a complete waste.

Since unlocking the skill panel, he gradually understood the level classification system within five months.

lv1 is entry-level, mastering the skill proficiently can light up the first level;

lv2 is comprehensively thorough, having fully grasped all essentials;

lv3 is transcendental, able to perform the skill even with eyes closed, currently, Yoshimura Yu’s Flattery skill is at this level.

lv4 is Master, with unique features and exclusive techniques;

lv5 is a watershed, basically becoming a Grandmaster with one’s own methodology.

Above that, levels 6, 7, and 8 skills depend solely on destiny. His lv7 Negotiation and Debate skill is at this level. Born with this innate talent, one can reach such heights; without it, training all life yields nothing.

Fushimi Roku realized this system feeds on the blood of the deceased, allowing him to gain the highest-level skill possessed by the deceased in life. For instance, Nagono Kawai’s Lock-opening Skill or Sakurai Chizuru’s Grapple Skill.

"This graduation exam must be annulled! I will have my father complain to the board of trustees about you! As a teacher, you can’t even ensure student safety..."

Yoshimura Yu spat non-stop, feeling a burst of satisfaction.

The students all chimed in, equally fed up with Shirata Masahiro’s ’tyranny’. Every time Yoshimura Yu cursed, they’d hoot along, ignoring the reprimands and suppression from accompanying instructors.

Fushimi Roku had no intention of joining this student uprising, intending to carry on with his original plan of investigating the cave bones with Minamoto Tamako.

Unexpectedly, Yoshimura Yu lost himself in the students’ jeering, spreading his arms to block the two, questioning Fushimi Roku about his return.

Minamoto Tamako quickly explained, "Um, yesterday I found bones in the cave, so I brought Fushimi back to investigate..."

"Isn’t that irrelevant? You’ve trapped us in the mountains! Are a pile of bones more important than us living people? If we die on the snowy mountains, you’ll be the culprits!"

Yoshimura Yu slapped a hefty accusation on her, making Minamoto Tamako’s face flush with anxiety. She stammered, struggling to explain.

Fushimi Roku glanced at Shirata Masahiro; this time, Instructor Shirota remained silent, lighting a cigarette, seemingly shifting the conflict.

Better let the students resolve the issue among themselves rather than pointing fingers at the instructor.

Fushimi Roku sighed, pulling Minamoto Tamako behind him.

A dozen students surrounded him, while others watched with cold eyes. Yoshimura Yu demanded he kneel and apologize to all classmates, or else the situation might escalate into a group scuffle.

Despite being from the same graduating class, they would inevitably cross paths in the police force; with such a bad reputation, Fushimi Roku might never stand out his entire life.

The tension thickened with an intense atmosphere. Miu worriedly hoped Fushimi and Tamako would not hold their ground, urging them to relent, for everyone to take a step back...

"Who wants to apologize to you bunch of losers?" Fushimi Roku declared.

He glanced around, capturing the angry or hostile faces: "Instructor Shirota was right; you are all a bunch of worthless who don’t deserve to be police! Not even qualified to be the lowest patrol cops!"

"You bastard—"

Yoshimura Yu roared, but Fushimi Roku erupted with a more astonishing momentum, shocking him into silence: "Shut up!"

Miu gasped in fright; Instructor Shirota’s lips trembled, his cigarette butt slipping to the ground. At that moment, even the cold wind bypassed them, everyone was awed by an inexplicable majesty.

Minamoto Tamako looked up at Fushimi Roku’s back, suddenly finding him like a stranger.

In the silence of the crowd, just before the storm, Fushimi Roku declared clearly:

"As a police officer, what is the most important trait? Is it ability? Ask yourselves sincerely, has the six months of police academy training made your professional abilities comparable to the elites of East University?"

"Or is it logical reasoning ability? Or crime-solving ability? With you fools graduating as low-status patrol cops, look at yourselves now, who would trust you to solve major cases? Get your position clear; solving cases is the job of criminal police!"

"If you can’t even understand your worth, yet are here making bold claims like ’a teacher can’t protect student safety’, or ’are bones more important than us?’ — that’s right! I’m stating it clearly, those bones are indeed more important than you lot of losers!"

"As police officers, the most important attribute is to listen attentively to the voice of those in pain! For this, every police officer must become the strongest person!"

"If you disagree with this, then go complain! Go call the police, tell the local patrol cops ’we’re trapped in the mountains and it’s really painful’, tell those responsible for rescue ’the teacher didn’t protect me, so I’m scared’ — if you’ve lost every bit of police pride, then complain as much as you want!"

"Listen well, only ordinary people have the right to speak such wayward words! They work diligently, paying taxes, is it to support a bunch of incompetent who can’t stand on their own feet?!"

"Yoshimura Yu is self-indulgent, willing to drop out, to discard his pride as a police officer, just to vent his discontent — fine, he is free. Who wants to be next? Who wants to disgrace the police, disrespect the instructor — stand up now, and I’ll apologize to you!"

Fushimi Roku stood in the snow, like standing in a courtroom, each word powerful enough to stir one’s soul.

...

The snow stopped, the mist gradually dispersed, silence blanketed the cliff foot.

After a while, applause sounded, Shirata Masahiro taking the lead in clapping. Minamoto Tamako came to her senses, clapping her small hands, but with gloves on, the sound was only muffled taps.

This applause fell harshly into the ears of others.

Everyone remembered the name "Fushimi Roku". By his own power, he wrecked the graduation exam, offended all fellow students, so much that even the strictest instructor found no way to handle him. If this were a police-themed TV drama, now would be the moment for a dramatically nerdy deep male voiceover:

On this day, they witnessed the birth of a legend in the police force.

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