After the Undercover System Went Haywire, I Switched to Grinding Suspicion Points Chapter 182

On this day, at the tropolitan Police Criminal Investigation Division, Shiratori Ninzaburo suddenly ca to find Inspector gure.

"Inspector gure! The fax machine received a strange docunt... it seems to be accusing Samukawa-kun..."

Inspector gure didn't even look up: "Soone else reporting that Samukawa-kun is a corrupt cop, right? What's strange about that? Isn't this perfectly normal?"

Shiratori Ninzaburo: "...Having a police officer constantly reported as a corrupt cop is already very abnormal... No! Inspector gure, that's not what this is about at all. Look!"

Saying this, Shiratori Ninzaburo forcibly placed the paper in his hand on Inspector gure's desk.

Inspector gure took it with confusion and fell silent.

Hagiwara Kenji, who heard the commotion, also curiously ca over to look: "What happened to Little Shinryu?... Uh."

The fax painfully accused Samukawa Shinryu of being irresponsible, not knowing what he was doing after work every day, never going ho, suspected of doing sothing unspeakable, and recomnded police investigate thoroughly.

The three people gathered around this paper and fell into silence.

Inspector gure spoke first, sowhat restlessly: "What is this person's demand?"

"That's not the point, Inspector gure." Shiratori Ninzaburo said speechlessly. "This is different from previous complaints about Samukawa-kun. This person is practically a stalker, even monitoring Samukawa-kun's front door daily..."

Hagiwara Kenji frowned: "This person seems to really want Little Shinryu to go ho, so discovering Little Shinryu doesn't go ho made him this angry because his plan was disrupted... I suggest investigating his ho situation—there might be so problem."

"Mm, Hagiwara-kun makes sense." Inspector gure's expression also beca serious. "Samukawa-kun easily offends people. Maybe he provoked so bad guy. You should accompany him ho once."

"Alright."

Hagiwara Kenji agreed, then called Usuha Izuki to go ho.

Usuha Izuki was initially confused, but after getting in the car and hearing Hagiwara Kenji's explanation, he suddenly understood and said sowhat speechlessly: "...How idle."

"So you haven't been going ho these past few days?" Hagiwara Kenji asked while driving. "Where did you go?"

"Sowhere else."

Hearing this halfhearted excuse, Hagiwara Kenji had black lines on his forehead: "Can you co up with a better reason? What will you tell Inspector gure when he asks later?"

Usuha Izuki readily accepted the suggestion: "Then I'll say I was staying at your apartnt."

Hagiwara Kenji: "..........."

Making him an excuse and fabricating lies to fool their superior right in front of him...

Hagiwara Kenji took a deep breath: "What exactly were you doing? Can't you even tell ?"

"...It would sowhat affect my image in your mind."

Hagiwara Kenji imdiately beca alert.

Over these years, although Samukawa Shinryu seed fine on the surface, because he knew so illegal organization had definitely contacted Samukawa Shinryu, Hagiwara Kenji had always worried that organization would make Samukawa Shinryu do bad things.

But although Samukawa Shinryu had been promoted, he wasn't really a high official. This position didn't know any important secrets. The cases he handled were solved when they should be solved, with no covering up or concealnt. He even improved the Criminal Investigation Division's work efficiency and case-solving rate... Except for being sowhat unfriendly to criminals, constantly getting complaints, and never writing his own self-criticism reports, he looked like a qualified police officer in every way.

Plus, Hagiwara Kenji felt that with Samukawa Shinryu's intelligence, he couldn't possibly let that organization manipulate him. Maybe he'd long ago found ways to escape their influence, so Hagiwara Kenji had gradually relaxed.

...But this consecutive nights of not going ho imdiately made him feel sothing was wrong.

Yet Samukawa Shinryu wasn't being evasive—he directly said it would affect his image, which made Hagiwara Kenji think maybe things weren't so bad.

So Hagiwara Kenji thought for a mont and asked: "Are you dating soone?"

Usuha Izuki: "...........Ah?"

Hagiwara Kenji felt his guess was quite reasonable.

After work hours, staying out all night, seemingly not worried about others knowing but just concerned about affecting his image... Dating really seed quite possible!

After all, with Samukawa Shinryu's image, everyone thought he'd definitely be single for life. But suddenly being exposed as actively leaving work every day to date his girlfriend, tough guy's tender side... that image would indeed be quite devastating.

Just imagining a girl standing intimately within one ter of Samukawa Shinryu made Hagiwara Kenji feel his worldview would shatter.

"No wonder you didn't care when I organized group dates without bringing you. You really have a girlfriend, don't you?"

Usuha Izuki held his forehead: "No, you're thinking too far."

"Then what is it?" Hagiwara Kenji rarely pressed for answers. "If it's just affecting your image, then it's not sothing completely unspeakable, right? Really can't tell ? Am I your friend or not?"

Usuha Izuki was silent for a long ti, looking out the window: "I went to play gas."

Hagiwara Kenji: "...Gas?"

"Mm."

Hagiwara Kenji was speechless: "Is this worth hiding?"

Just playing gas—this was much more normal than dating!

Although their colleagues at the tropolitan Police might be sowhat surprised to know, having known Samukawa Shinryu for so many years, how could he not have noticed this guy liked playing gas?

He and Matsuda Jinpei also liked playing gas during breaks—board gas, console gas, everything. They'd occasionally invite Samukawa Shinryu to join them.

Although Samukawa Shinryu looked very aloof and played gas without expression, seeming like he was just giving them face to make up numbers and wasn't interested in gas, with Hagiwara Kenji and Matsuda Jinpei's observational skills, seeing through this guy's actual enjoynt was too simple. After all, ga addiction was hard to hide—even hesitating a few seconds when putting down the controller was crystal clear. Data didn't lie.

They just worried that exposing this would make the face-saving guy stop playing, so they'd tacitly pretended not to know.

He'd also discovered that small animals seed different from people—they all liked Samukawa Shinryu. Just waiting for a traffic light outside, stray cats would co over and rub against Samukawa Shinryu's legs...

If he really disliked it, he could just push them away with his foot, but Samukawa Shinryu pretended not to see and let the cats rub around, clearly aning he liked it.

Hagiwara Kenji reasonably suspected Samukawa Shinryu privately fed cats and dogs.

But in front of others, this guy pretended perfectly, very aloof... Hagiwara Kenji even thought this guy did it on purpose to scare others and satisfy his own twisted amusent.

However, out of caution, Hagiwara Kenji still confird: "What gas? Not gas with suspects or criminals or strange people, right?"

"...Ordinary console gas."

Only then did Hagiwara Kenji relax.

He could roughly guess the reason for not buying a console to keep at ho—probably didn't want him and Little Jinpei to see it. Otherwise, Little Jinpei would definitely dig up dirt and list all of Little Shinryu's previous pretenses of disinterest one by one.

Going to shops that provided console gas, these places had private rooms where you could stay overnight, even with showers and laundry facilities. Probably got addicted—not going ho these past few days was normal.

Actually, Usuha Izuki had been staying at his other house these past two days, with dinner and peeled fruit prepared by Miyano Akemi. Much more comfortable than those ga shops...

The car stopped downstairs at Samukawa Shinryu's apartnt building.

The mailbox on the first floor was overflowing with letters and advertisents. Usuha Izuki said he never looked there, just periodically threw everything away in one go. After all, he saw his acquaintances basically every day—if anything ca up, they'd call. There was no one who needed to write letters to contact him.

Hagiwara Kenji had Usuha Izuki take out everything from the mailbox to check.

Walking upstairs while checking, they found it was indeed all advertisents with nothing strange, not even anything that looked like codes.

But when they reached Usuha Izuki's front door, they noticed sothing wrong.

So letter had been stuffed into his door crack, with a corner showing.

Considering the strange fax the Criminal Investigation Division received today, Hagiwara Kenji's expression imdiately beca serious: "This might have been left by the person who sent the fax."

No wonder he knew Little Shinryu wasn't coming ho at night. Coming once and finding the letter still in place ant no one had returned!

However, just a door crack couldn't fit any dangerous items. After checking that the lock hadn't been picked, Usuha Izuki directly opened the door and went inside.

Inside was still the sa as when he left two days ago, but the two still cautiously checked around the entrance and windows, confirming there was just one extra letter.

Hagiwara Kenji complained: "I guess he originally might have wanted to put it in the downstairs mailbox, but discovered you hadn't cleaned your mailbox in ages. Worried you wouldn't see it if he put it there, he could only put it here..."

But since the person didn't co ho, he still didn't see it. Who knew what business the letter-sender had that made him so angry he sent a fax to the Criminal Investigation Division.

"Definitely nothing good." Usuha Izuki said with certainty.

"Not necessarily. Maybe he heard you have high case-solving efficiency and wanted to privately commission you for sothing," Hagiwara Kenji said. "Do you rember that senior we t when skiing? When he was still a police officer, people often heard about his reputation and ca to consult for help. So after he resigned, he thought being a detective was good—he could investigate his friend's case and continue helping others..."

Usuha Izuki looked quietly at Hagiwara Kenji: "...Do you think anyone would willingly be alone with outside the tropolitan Police?"

With the "Black Screen Aura," most people would definitely choose to talk to him with other police around, or in a place with explosive security like the tropolitan Police! Who would seek him out privately!

Hagiwara Kenji: "...You're right."

By this ti, Hagiwara Kenji had finished checking that the envelope was fine—just a sheet of paper inside. So wearing gloves, he opened the envelope and took out the letter.

No toxic powder or anything—just a simple sheet of paper.

The general aning was things like hearing you understand bombs well, even FBI experts co to ask you questions, so do you dare accept my challenge, full of provocative intent. Anyone with a bit of temper would want to teach the letter writer a lesson after seeing such a cheap tone.

And this was exactly the bomber's purpose.

He was trying to provoke Samukawa Shinryu's anger. Every line was full of belittlent and doubt toward Samukawa Shinryu, as if he were a righteous bystander whose only purpose was exposing that Samukawa Shinryu wasn't really a good police officer.

Later, when he sent an open challenge letter to the tropolitan Police naming Samukawa Shinryu specifically, Samukawa Shinryu would rember this letter and definitely want to prove he wasn't a coward.

If Samukawa Shinryu valued his own life more and didn't want to participate knowing it was a trap, then this letter's contents would be simultaneously sent to reporters and TV stations—being insulted like this and still so cowardly, is he even a man?!

It would equally cause Samukawa Shinryu's social death!

As for why he didn't send the fax directly to the tropolitan Police, the bomber actually wanted to scare Samukawa Shinryu, aning to tell Samukawa Shinryu he already knew where his ho was and could easily do anything, making Samukawa Shinryu live in daily paranoia and wearing down his will...

He thought everything through perfectly, except he didn't expect Samukawa Shinryu wouldn't go ho these past few days!!!

The bomber discovered his letter was still in place for several consecutive days, feeling all his effort was wasted. Today he finally broke.

Why! Why don't you, a police officer, go ho at night when you're not even working overti?! He couldn't believe that reporting to your superior wouldn't make you co back!

The bomber was heartbroken. Without Samukawa Shinryu reading the letter, his plan was stuck at the first step...

Sohow felt like a bad start!