"Director, you were looking for ."
Aoyama Xiu Xin pushed open the door and observed Fujimoto Takayoshi’s complexion, deducing that the latter was in a particularly foul mood, and pondered what had happened this ti.
"Mr. Aoyama, Police Chief Mikuriya Shouta is one of your n, right?" Fujimoto Takayoshi got straight to the point.
Aoyama Xiu Xin quickly bowed his head and replied, "Director, that statent is not quite right; we are all your n."
"Listen to this." Fujimoto Takayoshi did not affirm or deny that response and played the wiretap recording.
As the recording played, the conversation between Hirano Hidekazu and Gu Tian Chong ca through clearly, and Aoyama Xiu Xin’s expression turned serious, grim, and dark.
A torrent of curses raced through his mind.
Mrs. Abe asking the investigation team for help to save her husband had surprised him, but he could accept it, thinking a couple owes a lifeti of gratitude even for a single day of marriage. And based on her statent alone, it would have been difficult for the investigation team to find concrete evidence.
But Miyashita Naoyuki, having just put soone’s husband behind bars, then naively admitted on the phone to wanting the man dead, which practically handed the most substantial evidence to the investigation team. Even if that alone was not enough for a conviction, releasing the recording would cause an uproar and involve Mayor Miyashita Hidekatsu.
Did he have nothing but excrent in his head?
No sense of guard against won at all!
Aoyama Xiu Xin took a deep breath, suppressed the annoyance and agitation in his heart, and said, "Director, this matter was at Miyashita Naoyuki’s request and carried out by Police Chief Mikuriya Shouta on my orders; it has nothing to do with him. I should take full responsibility."
"Never mind, I’m also responsible since I was the one who introduced him to you." Upon hearing that Aoyama Xiu Xin was the instigator, Fujimoto Takayoshi was stunned for a mont, then the anger quickly subsided, he shook his head and recomposed himself, "The urgent matter now is to find a solution and avoid implicating Mayor Miyashita."
"We need to retrieve the recording first, second, convince the Abe couple to drop the charges, third, remind Miyashita Naoyuki, and fourth, inform Mayor Miyashita about this issue," Aoyama Xiu Xin blurted out four suggestions and, without waiting for a response from Fujimoto Takayoshi, declared, "I should bear the main responsibility for this matter. Give so ti, and I will resolve it."
Miyashita Naoyuki must pay extra for this!
"Fine, Mr. Aoyama, I trust you to handle this," Fujimoto Takayoshi stared at him for a while and then nodded.
Aoyama Xiu Xin bowed and turned to leave.
He already had a series of plans in mind.
Not only to resolve this trouble but also to use this opportunity to counter-strike the investigation team!
After leaving Fujimoto Takayoshi’s office, he first went to his imdiate superior, Oda Take’s office, and asked him to arrange a personal eting with Miyake Jiro from the investigation team.
Then he returned to his own office, called in Mikuriya Shouta, inford him of the situation, and instructed him to interrogate Abe Ye Cheng and to use Mrs. Abe to handle Abe Ye Cheng, and then use Abe Ye Cheng to handle Mrs. Abe.
Finally, he made a call to Miyashita Naoyuki.
"Mr. Miyashita, this is Aoyama Xiu Xin."
"Mr. Aoyama, don’t worry, I’ve already spoken to my father, and I’ll arrange a dinner for you two tonight," Miyashita Naoyuki, who was playing pool with his cronies, thought Aoyama Xiu Xin was calling to urge this matter and proactively reported his progress.
"What I’m talking about isn’t this matter," Aoyama Xiu Xin said with an icy and harsh tone, "Do you know that last night Mrs. Abe wrote a denunciation letter to the investigation team exposing your sche against Abe Ye Cheng? When she called you just now, the investigators were alongside her the whole ti, and it was all recorded. Do you understand what that ans?"
"What! Idiot! How could she do such a thing!" Miyashita Naoyuki, both shocked and enraged upon hearing this, smashed his cue, and stord out under the bewildered gazes of his friends, and once he was alone, further asked, "Is this true?"
"Do you think I’d joke about sothing like this? Mr. Miyashita, because of your indiscretion, you’ve brought big trouble upon us, upon yourself, and upon your father," Aoyama Xiu Xin scoffed.
"Damn it! Sorry, I didn’t expect that she would... after all, she’s already pregnant with my child!" Miyashita Naoyuki was both angry and sowhat bewildered, as well as feeling trepidatious, his mind a complete whirlwind, "So... what do we do now?"
People like him only cause problems, never solve them.
Because whenever they stir up trouble, soone else always cleans up after them.
"Keep your mouth shut, pretend nothing has happened, and don’t go out until I figure out a solution. Also, how do you think we should settle this, for saving your neck this ti?" Aoyama Xiu Xin said indifferently.
With soone taking the heat and apparently already having a solution, Miyashita Naoyuki breathed a sigh of relief and quickly said, "Mr. Aoyama, I can’t thank you enough; just give three points, and I promise, even if it costs my life, I’ll get you as many Hokkaido governnt construction projects as possible. From now on, you’re my real big brother!"
This ti his fear and gratitude were genuine.
"Money or no money is irrelevant; what really counts is your attitude, Mr. Miyashita," Aoyama Xiu Xin’s tone softened, then he added a word of caution, "I will inform the mayor about this."
"This..." At a loss for words, Miyashita Naoyuki’s face showed fluctuating shades of apprehension. He understood that it was impossible not to tell his father, and finally, with gritted teeth, said, "I’ll go and tell him right now."
It would be better to face whatever beating was coming by telling his father himself, rather than waiting for the mayor to hear it from Aoyama Xiu Xin.
"That’s best. Please convey to the mayor that I’m looking forward to our eting tonight," Aoyama Xiu Xin said before hanging up, securing a position of absolute dominance in their future interactions.
After making a series of arrangents, his irritation eased sowhat. He paused, hands propped against the desk, exhaling sharply.
He would never confront the investigation team directly, always staying behind the scenes; even when the team returned to Tokyo, defeated, they’d never know what role he truly played.
Elsewhere, in the interrogation room, Mikuriya Shouta waited a few minutes, then Abe Ye Cheng was brought in.
Although he had only been detained for one night, he looked haggard and pale, his eyes eting Mikuriya Shouta’s with a mix of fear and resentnt.
"Sit," Mikuriya Shouta said expressionlessly.
Abe Ye Cheng stumbled into the seat, his voice hoarse as he asked, "What more do you want from ?"
"Abe’s Secretary, you have a good wife. To save you, she threw a report at the investigation team, accusing us of framing and entrapnt. She really brought us a lot of trouble. Tell , how should I repay her?" Mikuriya Shouta said with an unfriendly tone.
Abe Ye Cheng was surprised by this, touched but also confused. However, his thoughts were soon replaced by nervousness and worry, and he shouted agitatedly, "Have it out with ! Don’t touch my wife! The child in her belly is Miyashita Naoyuki’s. If you lay a hand on her, not even your boss will let you off!"
Trying to protect one’s wife and child by using the na of an adulterer was indeed a sorrowful thing.
"Is that so? Is your wife really carrying Miyashita Naoyuki’s child?" Mikuriya Shouta asked with a smirk.
A shiver went down Abe Ye Cheng’s spine. With not enough confidence, he could only pretend to be calm and ask, "What do you an?"
"You really don’t understand what I an?" Mikuriya Shouta stood up, put his hands on the edge of the table, and stared down at Abe Ye Cheng. "The child your wife is carrying is not Miyashita Naoyuki’s seed at all! You and your wife set up a trap for Miyashita Naoyuki! What do you think he’ll do to your wife if he finds out the truth? I guess her baby is definitely not going to be safe."
Abe Ye Cheng’s face turned even three shades paler.
"You... You’re talking nonsense! The child my wife is carrying is Miyashita Naoyuki’s! It is!"
"You’re quite defiant, but I’m afraid your wife isn’t as strong. She might not endure Miyashita Naoyuki’s tornt and confess everything," Mikuriya Shouta threatened ominously.
"No, please! Please!" Abe Ye Cheng pleaded in panic, tears streaming down his face as he suppressed his sobs, "Don’t tell Miyashita Naoyuki, please I beg you, don’t tell him. My child is innocent, I’ll cooperate with you on anything, I’ll confess, confess!"
"Just your confession isn’t enough. Your wife still wants to bail you out, doesn’t she? Better call her and tell her to stop. Rember not to let her answer in front of anyone from the investigation team," Mikuriya Shouta said, sitting down heavily and crossing his legs, then he slid the handset across to him.
Abe Ye Cheng sniffled, swallowed so spit, and slowly picked up the phone to call his wife.
"Sis, your phone is ringing."
Mrs. Abe was sunbathing on the balcony. The policewoman who was left to protect her brought the phone up.
"Thank you," Mrs. Abe said as she stood up to receive the phone, then she answered the call, "Mosi mosi."
"You’re welco," the policewoman said with a smile, turning to go downstairs.
"Wife, uuu..." Hearing the familiar voice of his wife, Abe Ye Cheng started crying all over again.
Mrs. Abe was both shocked and overjoyed, "Husband, you..."
"Is anyone with you?" Abe Ye Cheng, wary of Mikuriya Shouta’s warning look, hurriedly asked.
Mrs. Abe looked around, saw the policewoman go downstairs, and after closing the balcony sliding door to block the sound, she said anxiously, "No, where are you right now, how could you call ?"
"I’m still being detained. The police made call," Abe Ye Cheng said with a bitter and helpless tone, then he got to the point, "Wife, don’t get involved with the investigation team anymore, and don’t worry about . Otherwise, the police will tell him about us conspiring against Miyashita Naoyuki. For the sake of our child, let’s each make so sacrifices."
"What!" Mrs. Abe felt a chill as if she had fallen into an icy cavern, a frigid air rushing from her soles to the crown of her head. How could the police know about her and her husband’s sche?
And how did they know so quickly that she had sent a report to the investigation team? She felt her scalp tingle and the world went black before her eyes.
Mikuriya Shouta snatched the phone from Abe Ye Cheng’s ear and said, "Mrs. Abe, rember to think before you act. You think the investigation team can do anything to us? Ha, naive. We have our people inside the investigation team too. Right now, you’re just on the verge of losing everything. If you keep playing, your entire family will be wiped out."
"Think about yourself, about the child in your belly, and more so about your husband. You don’t want him to suffer in there, do you?"
Mrs. Abe was pale, shaking like a leaf, and felt the world was bleak, not knowing there were police insiders in the investigation team.
"I... I understand, I won’t cooperate with the investigation team anymore," she promised vacantly.
Both the anti-corruption effort and the corruption itself were in cahoots.
How to fight back?
She was in despair and resigned to her fate.
"Keep it from the investigation team for now. If they ask you to do anything, find a way to let know. That’s all," Mikuriya Shouta said, then hung up the phone.
At the sa ti, at the headquarters of the investigation team.
"Chief Police Miyake, there’s a phone call for you."
"Okay!" Miyake Jiro, who was reading the Abe couple’s files, replied and stood up to take the call.
"Mosi mosi, this is Miyake Jiro."
"I’m Oda Take, Director of the Hokkaido Police Headquarters’ Criminal Affairs Departnt. I hope to have dinner with Chief Police Miyake tonight. Please give us both a chance."
Miyake Jiro was a bit stunned, not expecting Oda Take to invite soone as minor as him, but he accepted the invitation without a mont’s hesitation, "Of course, it would be my honor. What ti tonight? Where?"
Regardless of the reason for the invitation, he felt it was necessary to accept. Only by doing so could he understand the other side’s true intentions.
Maybe he would find a new breakthrough?
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