Tokyo: From Lawless Madpolice to Minister Chapter 37 - 36: Young People Are Still Too Young, Back to P

"What? Hey! I got it, hey!"

In the chief’s office, Asai Ayumi, with her slightly disheveled dress and a flirtatious look, hung up the phone and turned to Aoyama Xiu Xin, "The Police Headquarters wants our Shinjuku Police Station and the first investigative team to jointly form an investigative headquarters responsible for arresting Takeda Ichiro. My father will serve as the head of the departnt, and Sato Rich will be the deputy director."

"It seems my brother isn’t so impressive after all?" Aoyama Xiu Xin, dressed neatly in a suit from the waist up, but with his pants dropped to his knees, smirked with a cigarette in his mouth and teased.

"If it were soone else, this case would have already been grabbed by the first investigative unit." Asai Ayumi spoke proudly of her father, then started tidying up her dress, "Mr. Aoyama, hurry up and put on your pants, go and report to my father imdiately, you’ve also been assigned to the investigative headquarters."

"Include Nakamura too," Aoyama Xiu Xin flicked off so ash, stood up and pulled up his pants.

"Okay, I’ll propose it to my father. It’s just adding one more person." Asai Ayumi answered casually.

When the two arrived at the chief’s office, they saw that over ten people were already there, from various departnts of the police station; Takahashi Tomoyuki and Fujimoto Ryosuke were also present.

"Alright, everyone is here." Asai Youki slightly nodded with a grave expression, "The Police Headquarters has ordered the establishnt of an investigative headquarters specifically for arresting Takeda Ichiro. I will serve as the head, and the first investigative unit’s Police Chief Sato will be the deputy director. The departnt is set in Police Headquarters. This is cooperation, but also competition. You all are the elites of the police station, so I have chosen you. Please bring honor to our station!"

"Hey!" Everyone stood at attention and responded in unison.

Asai Youki’s face relaxed a bit, "Alright, go prepare. The headquarters is already setting up office space. We’ll depart in an hour."

"Hey!"

People bowed and then left, all except for Asai Ayumi, who lingered alone for a while before leaving.

Just after sitting down back in the office, Nakamura Shinichi imdiately brought a cup of hot tea for Aoyama Xiu Xin.

"Deputy Director, you’ve worked hard. Please have so tea."

"Put it down."

As Aoyama Xiu Xin spoke, he took off his jacket, and Nakamura Shinichi quickly put down the teacup to take his suit. Noticing lipstick on the collar, he discreetly wiped it off with his sleeve.

"Nakamura." Aoyama Xiu Xin picked up the teacup and took a sip before speaking, "The Police Headquarters has established an investigative headquarters for Takeda. I just proposed to the chief, and you’ve been included as well."

"Hey! Thank you, Deputy Director, for your support!" Nakamura Shinichi imdiately showed excitent and bowed deeply.

Aoyama Xiu Xin smiled and waved his hand.

Nakamura Shinichi turned back to his seat.

Xingzi sneered and turned to Jing Shang to complain, "Senior, doesn’t Nakamura dean himself too much? He doesn’t even see what he gets out of it."

Because Jing Shang, like her, never actively toadied up to their direct superior Aoyama Xiu Xin, she viewed him as soone who respected himself as much as she did.

"Who knows, let’s get back to work," Jing Shang casually responded, not wanting to offer an opinion.

He even felt a bit helpless, wondering why this young girl always liked to interact with him, an "old guy."

Suddenly, he stood up, "Police Chief, good to see you."

"Police Chief!" The others also stood up.

"Hmm." Asai Ayumi just nodded slightly at Aoyama Xiu Xin before entering her private office.

About an hour later, she walked out and clapped her hands to draw everyone’s attention, "Aoyama Deputy Director and I have been pulled into the investigative headquarters for the arrest of Takeda Ichiro. Until the departnt officially disbands, the daily affairs of the divisions will be temporarily overseen by Jing Shang. If there are important matters, report them to or Deputy Director Aoyama."

The reason for assigning this task to Jing Shang was that he was the most senior officer in the division, not only experienced but also composed, capable of managing others.

"Hey!" Jing Shang stood up and answered.

Asai Ayumi nodded and walked outside.

Aoyama Xiu Xin stood up, and Nakamura Shinichi quickly approached to hand him his jacket, then silently followed him out of the office.

"No way, Nakamura, how could he..." Xingzi was stunned by the scene, vaguely guessing sothing she didn’t want to admit, feeling bewildered.

Jing Shang glanced at the unfortunate kid and said softly, "He must have also been included in the investigative headquarters."

"This... Why though!" Xingzi could no longer contain herself, even though she and Nakamura had both joined the force as newcors, "He has only been a police officer for a few days..."

"He hasn’t been a police officer for long, but the Deputy Director values him," Jing Shang cut her off, sighed, pulled Xingzi to sit down, and spoke in a low voice, "Actually, I have wanted to tell you sothing for a while but feared it might hurt you. If you want to advance in your career, don’t follow my example. You should learn more from Mr. Nakamura."

"You’re learning from ? At my age, I have no room for advancent, naturally, I don’t need to serve a superior like Nakamura does."

He paused, then gave a bitter smile and pointed at himself, "Xingzi, why do you think I’ve been a police officer for twenty years and still on the front lines? Because when I was young, I was just like you!"

Under Japanese regulations, police officers who prefer working on the front lines can choose not to be promoted, but how many are genuinely willing to give up a promotion for that?

Most experienced officers don’t get promotions due to various reasons.

Struck by a heavy blow, Xingzi sat in the chair staring at Jing Shang with a sowhat vacant look, appearing even more bewildered.

"Think about it." Jing Shang patted her shoulder and turned back to his work.

It’s just that young people are too young.

.........

About twenty minutes later, Asai Youki, leading Aoyama Xiu Xin and others, arrived at the Tokyo tropolitan Police Departnt located at Chiyoda-ku Kasumigaseki Nishido 1-1.

"Mr. Aoyama, returning here again, must your feelings be quite mixed?" Asai Youki looked back.

"Hey!" Aoyama Xiu Xin acknowledged, speaking sowhat lancholically, "Indeed, there are indescribable emotions."

In fact, he felt no turmoil inside.

"Keep it up, and aim that the next ti you return, you won’t have to leave." Asai Youki encouraged him, then smiling, walked towards the welcoming Sato.

Sato Police Chief had already extended his hand from afar, rapidly approaching with a greeting, "Police Chief Asai, welco, welco."

"Police Chief Sato, it’s been a long ti, I’m on your turf now, please take good care of ." Asai Youki clasped his hand, speaking amiably.

"What turf of mine?" Sato chuckled, shaking his head to correct him, "This belongs to all police in Japan. Police Chief Asai and colleagues should feel like they’re returning to their own ho, please feel at ease."

"Hahahaha, Police Chief Sato, you’re still so eloquent," Asai Youki laughed heartily, letting go of his hand and turning to look at Aoyama Xiu Xin, "Xiu Xin, you used to work under Police Chief Sato, right?"

"Hi!" Aoyama Xiu Xin stepped forward, looking at Sato Rich, "Police Chief Sato, long ti no see."

"Mr. Aoyama, welco back," Sato grinned broadly as he extended his hand while turning his head to speak to Asai Youki, "Criminal Aoyama was a junior I highly favored, unfortunately fate had other plans. Police Chief Asai, you must make full use of him, do not waste his talents."

Suddenly, his facial expression changed drastically as he whipped his head to look at Aoyama Xiu Xin, gritting his teeth so tight it felt like his hand was about to be crushed, but he dared not cry out.

"Police Chief Sato, are you alright? Why is your face so red?" Aoyama Xiu Xin asked with concern.

Sato endured the pain, squeezing out a sentence from between his teeth, "I’m just too excited to see you return."

"I’m excited too. I vividly rember the lecture you gave when I first joined," Aoyama Xiu Xin, still holding his hand, began reminiscing about the past.

"Let’s not stand at the door. Let show you the office first," Sato Rich obviously couldn’t sit through his lengthy monologue and hurriedly blurted out to interrupt.

Aoyama Xiu Xin then had to let go of his hand.

Sato’s fingers twitched with pain as he led the way inside nonchalantly, "Gentlen, this way please."

Damn it, Aoyama Xiu Xin, this bastard!

The investigative headquarters were set up on the sa floor as the first investigative section, and as the group entered, people inside were busy arranging the scene, organizing data related to Ichiro Takeda.

On the first day of the headquarters’ establishnt, more precisely on the first afternoon, they didn’t handle actual cases but just held a eting to divide all personnel into ten groups, three people per group, assigning them various tasks.

Aoyama Xiu Xin, Nakamura Shinichi, and Asai Ayumi ford one group, with Asai Ayumi taking the role of team leader.

Asai Youki analyzed that Takeda Ichiro’s high-profile return might be in preparation for another cri, so the task for Aoyama Xiu Xin and his team was to find out if anyone had recently bought a large number of firearms and ammunition, especially explosives.

After work, Aoyama Xiu Xin drove ho early because his ’big brother’ was coming ho tonight.

"Ding-dong~ Ding-dong~"

Halfway there, his phone suddenly rang.

"Moshi moshi, this is Aoyama Xiu Xin."

"Mr. Aoyama," a soft and faint voice ca through the phone. It was Mrs. Yanahara. She said, "Today, I arranged a eting with heads of several companies that have frequent dealings with our corporation using our big client data to exchange for Sato Rich’s information from two of them. He borrowed 170 million yen from these two companies multiple tis a year ago and repaid it with interest over the first three months of this year."

Using part of Nozawa Financial Corporation’s major client data, obtaining Sato Rich’s loan information from just two companies was obviously a loss, but Aoyama Xiu Xin had requested it.

"Alright, I understand. Continue to collect Sato Rich’s loan information; I’ll cover any losses," Aoyama Xiu Xin spoke nonchalantly.

Yehua Yiren replied, "Mr. Aoyama, you’ve helped a lot already, this is the least I can do."

"Let it be then," Aoyama Xiu Xin hung up the phone.

Including the loans from Nozawa Financial Corporation, Sato Rich had borrowed nearly three hundred million yen recently, all repaid concentratedly this year, indicating he had suddenly beco wealthy at the start of the year.

Moreover, such a large sum of money definitely had a dirty source – either embezzlent or bribery. As long as he gathered enough evidence and reported him, making a big fuss through the dia, and Sato being unable to clarify the source of his repaynts, he would be finished.

Of course, the best thod would still be to find out where exactly that money ca from, ensuring a fail-safe strike against him.

.........

Inside a van parked in a parking lot.

Ichiro Takeda was sitting inside, munching on a sandwich.

There were two phones on the dashboard – one his, and the other belonging to Fumiaki Imamura.

"Ding-dong~ Ding-dong~"

Suddenly, one of the phones started ringing.

Takeda grabbed it and answered, but didn’t speak.

Neither did the person on the other end.

"......"

After a mont of silence, a male voice finally spoke, "Ichiro Takeda has returned."

"I know, I’m Takeda," Takeda Ichiro responded evenly while chewing his sandwich.

The breathing on the other end briefly beca rapid.

But the call was not disconnected.

Takeda Ichiro coldly said, "I’ve only co back to get my money. If I get it, I’ll leave imdiately. Otherwise, if I get caught, I’ll definitely expose you. If I’m not wrong, you must be a police officer. Although I can’t discover your exact identity, you can gamble whether I would tell the police, and if you would be found out."

Only a police officer could silently obtain Fumiaki Imamura’s criminal evidence to threaten him and tip him off about the police coming to arrest him back then.

That’s why Takeda Ichiro deliberately exposed his identity.

Because as long as the police knew he was back.

That person would definitely know as well.

And now, it seed his assumption was correct.

That selfish collaborator was a police officer!