Congratulations on Your Arrest

  Chapter 33 The strongest swordsman in the East China Sea!

On this late autumn night, a report on "Sigmund Tokyo Trading Company Sinner K's Trafficking and Forbidden Fruit Experiments" was published in an unremarkable section of the Evening Daily of the Asahi Shimbun Online Edition, and faintly He pointed the finger at a celestial member of the upper house of the world government.

  Sharp and objective brushwork, informative and simple narration, told everything that happened that night [exhibition].

  Although the signature at the end of the article is "a journalist motivated by interest" and has no real name, it still caused a thousand waves with one stone.

  You should know that the Asahi Shimbun is not an ordinary third-rate tabloid, but one of the representative newspapers and periodicals of Wano Country, which is mainly aimed at the intellectual class, and its style is full of liberalism and professionalism.

In addition, the recent frequent disappearance of people in New Tokyo has already caused some panic. In the early days, the family members of the missing people even went to the police station to sit in protest and demand that they solve the case as soon as possible. This report immediately ignited the family members Emotions also plunged ordinary people into shock and anger.

When the heavenly beings enjoyed various privileges in this world, they endured them; when the heavenly beings were above the law and lord it over, they also endured it; It's selling!

   This time the people couldn't sit still!

   also unable to sit still

   And those angry moguls.

In the evening, Keita Fumori, who had just poured a cup of coffee at the Asahi News Office, made a cup of coffee and enjoyed a short break during overtime. He is 34 years old and has been divorced for two and a half years. Ordinary workers.

Jingle Bell-!

  The phone call from the office pierced the tranquility of the night!

   "Fusen! Are you crazy! That report...you...you don't know what you're doing?" As soon as the call was connected, there was a snarl from the editor-in-chief of Asahi Shimbun with trembling lips.

   Keita Fumori was stunned for a moment, took a sip of his coffee, and smiled on his face, "Of course I know, did you see it was me?"

"Nonsense! That sharp and distinctive style! I'm not the only one who can see it." The editor-in-chief on the other end of the phone gasped in a low voice, "Listen to my advice to Fusen, it's too late to stop now, you don't have to bet For your own future and life, after being found out to be you, those guys may send you to prison for any unsubstantiated slander."

   "I'm sorry, there might be something unclear to you."

Keita Fumori stood by the window of the high-rise office building, looking out at the brightly lit city night outside, took a deep breath and said, "I am a single father, but my daughter disappeared last month, and I still hope She just traveled far away, but the Police Department called me today to inform the families of the victims, hehehe"

  Hearing the news, the other end of the phone fell silent.

   "Don't worry, I'm fine now." Fumori Keita smiled and continued, "Slander without evidence? Then let them come anyway."

  Recalling the two video recordings that the man sent to his mailbox tonight, Keita Fumori showed a pale and cold smile on his face.

   "And who says I have no proof?"

  Edogawa Ward.

  In a brightly lit convenience store.

   Higashinohara and the previous irascible brother counted the goods and money after changing shifts, then changed into the uniform of the convenience store and came to the bar. At this time, no one came in, and he swiped his phone when he was free.

  Captain Dragonfly?

  Did the irascible brother just say it happened last night?

Higashinohara opened several portals, and his face was slightly taken aback when he saw the hot search list. After he saw the horse racing video with the most views on the whole site today, he clicked in, and his face became a little weird. Below the video In just ten minutes, it was full of comments from various netizens.

   "Unbelievable! Such a thing actually happened in Wano Country New Tokyo?!"

   "Are those young people locked in iron cages ready to sell? Bastards! It's disgusting!"

   "I seem to have heard of the Sigmund International Trading Company. The office building of the New Tokyo Branch is in the outskirts of Ota District in the south! I have a cousin who went for an interview. I didn't expect it to be such a magic cave!"

   "Strongly urge Sigmund to get out of the Wano country! Severely punish the mastermind behind the scenes!"

  “.”

   "Is that guy wearing the dark gold dragonfly mask the 'Captain Dragonfly' in the news? So strong! Pirates and Smiling Tigers are no match for him!"

   "He said justice out of interest? Haha! I like it! Is this satirizing those high-level officials in Wano Country?"!

   "The Metropolitan Police Department came out and was beaten! Could it be that the 'justice without haze' you advertised is not as crisp and sharp as the 'justice driven by interest' in the face of crime?"

  “.”

  The comment area is still being flooded with new comments, and there is a tendency to form a storm of public opinion.

   Higashinohara looked at the figure wearing the dark gold dragonfly mask in the video, and he didn't think there was anything wrong with that situation.

  At this time, when I look at it from the third perspective, I feel a little awkward in my heart, especially the sentence "justice based on interest" that has caused countless discussions in the comment area.

  But what does "Captain Dragonfly" say have anything to do with me, Higashinohara?

  Thinking about it this way,

  He was relieved again immediately.

  Young teenager is reflecting.

  At the same time, the "big shots" who saw this video on the Internet fell into deep thought.

   Wano Country is separated by more than a dozen countries to the west, and is located at the junction of the northern and southern continental plates of the Eastern Hemisphere—this is the capital circle of the capital of the world government, that is, the giant metropolitan area centered on Shangjing.

It is said to be a metropolitan area, but the actual area covers three small countries with a land area of ​​100,000 square kilometers. There are ten large and small airports in the metropolitan area. The headquarters buildings of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and countless world oligarchs Located in this huge metropolitan area, whether it is transportation or economy, the prosperity and convenience are second to none in the world.

  Shangjing Tianren Special Zone, the top floor of the Sigmund International Trading Company Building.

Councilor Hope, who just got off work from the congress building called the "Blue Palace" in the city center, turned off the ultra-thin light screen on the wall, held a glass of scarlet wine, stood up and walked to the floor-to-ceiling windows to look at the foot of the transparent curtain wall All living beings.

  What he was thinking about was that in Shangjing District, there must be many heavenly beings and human beings like him in more than 300 countries in the world, who saw the video that his subordinates just transferred to him.

   Wano Country?

  Humans are really troublesome and dirty bugs.

  The "Captain Dragonfly"?

   What **** RPG?

  He took a sip of the wine lightly, trying to convince himself to remain calm, not letting the anger in his heart dominate his brain.

  Because Mr. Hope knows that, as the latest member of the House of Lords of today's aristocrats.

  His enemies are not only those human beings who regard themselves as cruel and alien, but also those celestial and human families who are watching all this in the dark.

For example, the World Bank headquarters, a towering building more than ten kilometers south of the Sigmund Trading Company building, which is closer to the center of Shanghai, and the old fox of the Bart family on the top floor of the bank building, and the old fox who planted beside him a few years ago chess pieces.

He is very clear about these things, but the chess game of the big shots obviously cannot turn the table. As a rookie, he can only try to keep up with the "steps" of the big shots, and then insert that chess piece into the Wano country, but he didn't expect it to happen. Lead to such "operational accidents."

  Member Hope took a sip of his drink, his face lost in thought.

  The "Nine Great Masters of Heaven and Man" withdrew from the world stage in the human revolution a hundred years ago—although Hope has always felt that there are some unknown tricks behind "that revolution forced the Nine Great Masters to withdraw from the stage of history".

But it is undeniable that since then, the Celestials have made a certain degree of concessions in various matters facing human beings in the past hundred years, trying not to cause pressure from world public opinion on the Celestials. There is a certain consensus at the top of the heavenly and human aristocrats.

   Then myself

   Do you want to give in once?

  Rep. Hope's amber vertical pupils flashed with unusual brilliance. After a moment of contemplation, he walked to his desk and called a certain minister of the Wano cabinet.

   It is okay to back down.

  But as a successful businessman, the superficial concession is sometimes to clear more obstacles.

  Including the guy under the dark golden dragonfly mask, who dared to try to provoke the majesty of this new congressman.

  There is only one dead end!

  After hanging up the phone, Councilor Hope swiped the drink in the glass.

  The next day, November 22.

   Wano Country Labor Thanksgiving Day.

  Early this morning, the entrance of the Metropolitan Police Department was surrounded by a large group of reporters. Every person who walked out would be chased by countless media reporters like bees and butterflies.

In the meeting room on the top of the Metropolitan Police Department building, the ministers of the security department, the transportation department, the criminal department, and the organized crime countermeasure department sat around the conference table with tense faces on this rare national rest day. Outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, the noise of reporters outside could be faintly heard.

  The head of the meeting table, the only head of the Metropolitan Police Department, Shin Takagi, who was wearing a badge, glanced at Tsukada Masa, the acting leader of the first division of the third investigation team sitting in the corner of the meeting table, and slowly said:

"Who disclosed those two videos to the media, now it is meaningless to pursue it. What we have to do now is how to deal with the mess in front of us. The good news is that the foreign minister called today to express his determination and agreed to deal with it. Sigmund's Tianren staff in Wano country and seized the office building of Sigmund's New Tokyo Branch in Ota District and all other properties."

   Having said that, Takagi Shin paused and continued:

   "However, Ryunosuke Kamiya, the captain of the second unit of the Dragon Pirates of Sakamoto, who was captured together, will also publicly execute the death trial on the Rising Sun Artificial Island in the East China Sea to the world, as an example to others."

  Public death penalty?

  The faces of the ministers of various departments present became a little subtle.

Perhaps different from other countries' attitudes towards pirates, Wano Country has always been relatively "tolerant" to the "Sakamoto Dragon" pirate group, one of the two major pirate forces in the adjacent sea area of ​​the East China Sea. This is not only because these pirates sometimes or intentionally Maybe they will help some governments unintentionally, and more importantly, the ancestors of these pirates were the "people with lofty ideals" who fought against the invasion of heaven and man thousands of years ago.

  If that war wins, they are undoubtedly the descendants of the heroes of the world, but it is a pity that the winners and losers, the high-level human beings and the heavenly beings finally reached a compromise plan, and they can only live in the sea.

  Perhaps because of this reason, as long as they are not excessive at sea, the Metropolitan Police Department will rarely target members of the Sakamoto Dragon Pirates.

   Yes this time.

   It turned out to be a death trial.

There is no idiot who can sit at this conference table today, and soon some people think of the trading ships of the Sigmund Trading Company that have been frequently robbed in the East China Sea in recent years-the Sakamoto Dragon Pirates are the largest of them. Suddenly, he realized that the so-called "determination of the cabinet and foreign ministers" was just a cover for a secret deal.

   The building of Sigmund's Tokyo branch and all properties of New Tokyo were seized, and all employees of the company were sent to the prosecutor's office for trial, which seemed to calm the surging public anger.

  But how could heaven and man be sentenced to death?

   Maybe it won’t be long before there will be another company under the banner of the "Dongmonde" trading company doing the same thing in Wano Country, and the Sigmund Company will use this to deter the pirates in the East China Sea.

Do not!

   More than awe!

  At the corner of the conference table, Tsukada of the first team quickly smelled something unusual.

   If the death trial is to be carried out, where can't it be carried out in Wano Country? Why did you choose that artificial island in the East China Sea? Donghai is the base camp of the Dragon Pirates of Sakamoto.

  Those pirates, who are the descendants of people who fought against barbarians thousands of years ago, will watch the cadres on their ship be executed? There is also the man on the dragon ship of Sakamoto who is called "the strongest swordsman in the East China Sea" in this era.

   On board his boat, with whom he drank a cup of wine, will he watch the other party be executed in the East China Sea right under his nose?

   Masa Tsukada felt a little uneasy in his heart, and frowned, wanting to say something.

  At this time, there was a sudden noise from downstairs.

Everyone looked out through the floor-to-ceiling windows next to the meeting room, and suddenly found that the street on the west side of the Metropolitan Police Department had been congested by crowds swarming and marching at some point, and at a glance, dense black spots were heading towards the Metropolitan Police Department like waves. The direction of the building rushed over.

  The chief of the conference table, Gao Mushen's face sank, and he spoke very quickly and said:

   "That's the decision! The captured pirates will be executed at the beginning of next month! Now! Everyone! Immediately start to seize all Sigmund's properties in New Tokyo, and we must give an account to the people!"

"Yes!"

  Everyone nodded in agreement.

   Tsukada was startled for a while, and sighed inwardly.

  The Metropolitan Police Department Building Headquarters.

Morita Taku, wearing plain clothes and sunglasses, holding a stack of files and video tapes in his arms, glanced at the reporters surrounded by the main entrance of the Metropolitan Police Department. go out.

   Unexpectedly, just as he was going out, the reporters who were squatting on the marble steps next to him and eating breakfast, like wild dogs seeing a bone, swooped up and stopped him with lightning speed.

   "Mr. Police." A person came up with a microphone.

   "I'm not a policeman" Takuo Morita was startled, and quickly waved his hands and covered his face.

  The reporter immediately laughed when he heard the words, "You really know how to joke, you look like a policeman."

   "Huh?" Morita Taku was stunned.

  Another reporter next to him came up and interjected, "Hey, it's not a shameless policeman, who wears sunglasses so tightly when going out in this weather."

   "." Morita Takumi.

   That makes a lot of sense!

   "Okay, what's your problem."

   "What will the Metropolitan Police Department do to deal with this case of missing persons and human trafficking K?"

   "This... I don't know very well, but I think it will definitely satisfy the public."

   "Really? If the public is still dissatisfied with the protests, will the Metropolitan Police Department continue to pay attention?"

  Taku Morita wondered how I knew what the people above thought, but he laughed dryly, "The New Tokyo Happiness Index ranks among the best in the world, and the law and order has always been good. This shouldn't be the case."

  Before he finished speaking, he realized that the reporters at the door stopped looking at him at some point, but turned their heads one after another, their glowing eyes seemed to see some fresh bones.

  Taku Morita glanced along his line of sight, and couldn't help but sucked in a breath of air.

  Under the dark sky, the streets on the west side of the Metropolitan Police Department did not know when the noise of vehicles' engines and horns were gone, replaced by dense and heavy footsteps.

Countless people held signs and banners such as "Severely Punish the Murderers Behind Heaven and Man", "Human Life is Important", "We are also interested in justice" and other signs and banners poured from the corner of the street, and approached the Metropolitan Police Department In front of the headquarters building.

  Taku Morita recovered from the shock, took advantage of a few memories and didn't pay attention, quickly trotted to the side of the street with the files and video tapes in his arms, and got into a gray and silver van.

   "A Tuo! The master really saw you right!"

  As soon as I got into the car and sat in the co-pilot, I heard that annoying voice that made my teeth ache.

   "Last time! I said it! Last time!" Morita Taku stared vigilantly at the bearded Satoru with a pipe in his mouth, and held the files and video tapes tightly when he took them out from his arms.

   "Of course! Next time. Uh, no! I mean I won't bother you next time." Aragaki Satoru raised his hand to assure with a smile, and the latter handed the dossier to the other party feebly.

   But when he turned his head, Taku Morita was taken aback. There were actually two people sitting in the back seat of the van.

  In addition to the high school boy whom Satoru Aragaki called "one of my own" last week, there was also a strange girl with silver short hair wearing a hoodie!

   I am!

  The special sighting is said to be done in secret? !

   Aragaki Satoru glanced at the dossier twice, and sensed that the atmosphere was not right, so he quickly explained, "Don't worry, don't worry! Xia Lichan is also one of my own, a new employee of the detective agency."

   "New employee?" Morita Taku was taken aback.

   As far as your detective agency can still recruit people? He glanced at the silver short-haired girl in the back seat, and Xia Li showed him a straightforward and lovely smile very familiarly.

   don't say,

   It's pretty pretty.

   Doesn’t look blind either.

Higashinohara in the back seat glanced at the demonstrators at the gate of the Police Department. Today was a holiday. When he went upstairs after exercising early in the morning, he was attracted by the part-time job offered by Aragaki Satoru—accompanying him to deal with this commission, once again Half a month's rent will be waived.

   Then it means that counting last week's extramarital affairs investigation, Higashinohara will not have to pay rent at the end of next month, and the money saved may be able to go to the cold weapon store to pick up two handy katanas.

Moreover, Ryoka Kame firmly believes that her mother did not commit suicide, which also makes Higashinohara a little curious. If there is really a problem, if there is any problem, finding the murderer may even increase the crime value—it is difficult for Higashinohara who has tasted the "sweetness" Not excited.

   And in this world with all kinds of hidden dangers, he also urgently needs to improve his strength, so today's rest will follow.

  In the front seat, Aragaki Satoru mocked the Metropolitan Police Department for hiding in the building facing the parade, and put the surveillance video of that intersection into the car video recorder for playback.

  Taku Morita shook his head and said:

"This case is almost closed. If you want to make money, I advise you not to waste your time. I have read the file. The tram crossing in Mubetsu Town is a famous accident-prone place in recent years. There are one or two accidents every year." For the suicide case, I also brought the videos from the past few years, so you can take a look."

   "You are not aware of the suicide siphon effect in our country. It may become a suicide resort in a few years. The municipal department is even planning to re-plan the railway in that area."

  Hearing Morita Taku's nagging, Higashinohara also turned his gaze out of the window, staring at the car video recorder in front of him.

  In the not-so-clear picture, a woman with a vegetable basket was waiting at the intersection with a relieved smile on her face, staring straight ahead and crossing the life-and-death barrier.

  dangdangdangdang—!

   At the next stop, the tram roared past, and there were screams of panic all around.

  No matter how you look at it, this is the most common case among the more than 300 suicide cases in New Tokyo every year, although it does not occur in the "peak period".

In Wano country, around the spring break, winter break, and summer break every year, many students worry that they will be excluded and bullied at school, which will become the "peak suicide period". High-intensity work pressure increases the possibility of office workers jumping track.

  Aragaki Satoru didn't find anything wrong, he pressed down to scroll down, and the video tape quickly played the suicide video at the railway crossing in Mubetsu Town in recent years.

  Suicide time can be in the morning, noon and evening. The people who commit suicide include the elderly, young people, office workers and housewives. When committing suicide, some are smiling, some are sad, and some look crazy

   All in all, it is very consistent with big data suicide statistics, and there is nothing in common.

   "This is where it gets tricky."

  Ten minutes later, Aragaki Satoru couldn't help but sighed, and raised his hand to turn off the car video recorder.

   "Please wait a moment."

  Suddenly, Higashinohara in the back seat of the van spoke.

   Aragaki Satoru and Morita Taku, the co-pilot, turned their heads to look at him at the same time, and the gleam in Higashinohara's pupils flickered away.

  He leaned forward slightly, pointing to the two pedestrians with blurred faces waiting at the intersection when the suicide happened in the car video recorder next to the front rearview mirror.

   "Those two people,

  In the suicide videos of last year and the year before,

   also appeared. "

  (end of this chapter)