After the two girls finished telling their stories, they pestered the shop owner to make love in the next life.
"Auntie, Oda's grandfather is in very bad condition right now. He may not live long. His biggest wish before his death is to get back his ancestral Ukiyo-e paintings. Can you bear to let a kind old man die like this?"
"Auntie, didn't you tell us that Maoyan is a righteous thief? Now that we know this kind of thing, can you just ignore it!"
The two little girls sang and harmonized, making the love in the next life extremely difficult to get out of.
Uh, justice... Back then, my sisters and I just wanted to get back our father's collection. This kind of behavior was definitely not evil, but it probably couldn't be considered justice. It also caused a lot of trouble to the Metropolitan Police and Brother Toshio... Hey, if I had known better, I shouldn’t have sugarcoated my behavior just to save face!
Secretly regretting love in the next life.
But the braggadocio had to kneel down and buy the order. There was no other way. In the next life, Ai could only say sternly to his two nieces: "Okay, I will investigate first. Before I investigate clearly, you guys Two of you must not act alone!"
The implication was that he promised the two of them that he would help Oda's grandfather get back the ukiyo-e. As for the method... of course it could only be the same old way back then.
However, love in the next life has passed the age of being impulsive. Although she believes that the two nieces will not lie to her, the sources of information about the two are too one-sided. What exactly the matter is like, who is right and who is right, these all need her to investigate. Only a few times will do.
Hey, she has been retired from the world for fifteen years. She never imagined that she would have to come back to the world for the sake of two kittens at home after turning 30. I don’t know if the shirt from back then can still be worn. In other words, she should wear the clothes she used to wear when she was a cat’s eye. They were all burned, otherwise they wouldn’t have been dug out by those two curious kittens, which eventually led to the current situation...
"I know auntie, auntie is the best!"
The two girls rushed forward at the same time, one hugging Ai in the next life.
"You two bad cats..."
Two heavy objects weighing more than a hundred kilograms were suddenly placed on my body. I wanted to be angry in the next life, but I laughed out loud in the end.
Damn it, these two little devils were simply sent down by God to torture me, but why can’t I hate this kind of torture!
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In recent days, Yan Kai's main job has been to teach Kasumigaoka Shiu and Natsukawa Masuo to dance. Although it feels a bit weird for a grown man to teach two girls to dance, no one except Yan Kai is qualified for this job. .
Because she was progressing so fast, she was no longer in such a hurry. Kasumigaoka Shiu didn't have to spend the entire club activity practicing dancing. She could have intermission time. After half an hour of practice with Natsukawa Masuo, she was able to With Yan Kai's agreement, he sat down and rested for a while.
After the break, when Yan Kai urged her to get up and continue practicing dance, Kasumigaoka Shiyu seemed to suddenly remember something: "Junior, have you read the latest news?"
"No, I don't watch the news."
Yan Kai was very straightforward.
Kasumigaoka Shiyu: "..."
Well, she shouldn't ask this question. After all, Yan Kai is notoriously indifferent to things outside her immediate surroundings, and the news in Japan is indeed... How should I put it? There are too many weird things. Sometimes I watch them. She doesn't care about blood pressure, so Kasumigaoka Shiyu doesn't like to read it. It's just because literary creators need to keep abreast of current events that she has the patience to read it.
What’s more, this newspaper costs money. My father is away on business for a long time and is away from home for more than half of the time. My mother doesn’t have the habit of reading newspapers. If I don’t even read it, wouldn’t it be such a waste!
Newspapers in Japan are quite expensive. One copy costs 3,000 to 4,000 yen per month. A watermelon in the Central Plains is less than 200 yen. Reading a newspaper is equivalent to eating more than half a watermelon. All in all, Kasumigaoka Shiyu has since (forced) developed the habit of reading newspapers every day, even if a lot of the news on them is very unpleasant.
For example, yesterday, Kasumigaoka Shiha read a piece of news in the newspaper that made her blood pressure rise. It was said that a company engaged in wholesale of fresh food admitted that they had begun to mix some eels in the eels they sold since four years ago. Eels from Nakahara are passed off as eels from Aichi Prefecture.
The reason for the admission this time was not due to the company’s conscience, nor was it reported by a gourmet after eating the difference between domestically produced eels and imported eels, but because the local quality inspection department accidentally discovered it during a routine inspection. It makes people very angry.
Four years have passed, and it is only now that it has been discovered. To say that there is nothing fishy in this, Kasumigaoka Shiyu dared to eat the newspaper she was reading as sashimi without dipping it in dipping sauce!
What’s even more infuriating is that in four years, no one has tasted the difference between eels from the Central Plains and eels from Japan. Isn’t it clear that eels from the Central Plains and eels from Japan are the same!
You know, in Japan, the price of domestically produced eels is several times that of eels imported from other countries such as the Central Plains. Under the ultra-high premium, the texture and taste of domestically produced eels and imported eels are actually almost the same. So what they paid is so high. Where does the premium come from? What kind of eels are there in Japan? Nuclear radiation?
This is the most thought-provoking question behind this news.
As for the fact that after this matter was revealed, apart from bowing and apologizing, the company did not offer any compensation or corresponding measures for this matter. Kasumigaoka Shiyu didn't even bother to care about this kind of thing. After all, is it "the spirit of craftsmanship"? , I have long been used to it. If everyone gets angry, Kasumigaoka Shiyu will not have to eat anything for a day and will be full of gas. More than 99% of the population of Japan will also be angry to death. In addition to being numb, what will the Japanese people do? It can't be done either.
In fact, what makes Kasumigaoka Shiu strange is that such important news only occupies a small "dried tofu" size piece in the newspaper, and the content is very brief. Kasumigaoka Shiu estimates that there will be no follow-up reports. Well, it is completely different from the food problems in Central China that occupied a page at every turn and would continue to be followed up and reported!
And in the end, what made Kasumigaoka Shiyu completely break her guard was that when Kasumigaoka's mother saw that Kasumigaoka Shiyu was very angry about that report, Kasumigaoka's mother said lightly: "Oh, again Some people are using eels from the Central Plains as domestic eels. Some people did this more than ten years ago. Is anyone still doing this now? Hey, the Japanese people nowadays really haven’t improved at all..."
Only then did Kasumigaoka Shiu realize that this kind of behavior was not actually news in Japan. It was just because the media often reported very little on this kind of news, and modern people received so much information every day, so this kind of behavior was not considered news in Japan. Reports are easily forgotten and then no longer paid attention to, that is, people will remember it only after it is re-reported. Wasn’t this kind of thing common in the past?
Forget it, I don't want to worry about these troubles anymore, Kasumigaoka Shiyu said to Yan Kai: "Junior, I was watching the news this morning and saw a piece of news saying that the mysterious thief 'Maoyan' who disappeared fifteen years ago is coming back to the world again. I sent a card to the home of a well-known collector, saying that in three days I would pick up an ukiyo-e painting by Kitagawa Utamaro called "The Wandering Girl" from his house."
"Kitagawa Utamaro? That's really valuable!"
Yan Kai, a native of the Central Plains, also has the famous name of Kitagawa Utamaro in Japan. Regardless of which period of his work "Wandering Girl" is, just having the name "Kitagawa Utamaro" means that the value of this painting will be in the thousands. It's not impossible to earn more than 10,000 yen, but if you work hard, you can earn over 100 million yen.
"That is to say, so the police immediately took action and requested that the collector's home be protected, or that the painting be handed over to the police for safekeeping."
Xia Zhiqiu Shi Yudao.
"Then what?"
Yan Kai asked curiously.
"Of course he was rejected. The collector said that handing his painting over to the police for protection doesn't mean giving it directly to Maoyan!"
Kasumigaoka Shiyu couldn't help laughing.
"Well, this Metropolitan Police Department really has no face at all..."
Yan Kai said helplessly.
Repeated failures have already caused the Metropolitan Police Department's reputation in the hearts of Tokyo people to slip to the bottom. If the major underground organizations had not tacitly agreed to act covertly and did not extend their hands to ordinary Tokyo citizens, Tokyo might have become " Gotham City of the East".
Of course, this does not mean that those underground organizations have high moral standards and will not attack Tokyo citizens who are unable to resist, but it is rare to have an incompetent police organization that just makes a fortune in silence. If it really makes things outrageous and resentful, it will force people to If the Japanese government has to make changes, it will be the underground organizations that are unlucky.
Even if the armed forces of the Japanese national government are weak and cannot help those underground organizations, the muscles of the major martial arts schools supported by the Japanese government are very solid. After all, one of the two largest martial arts circles in the world, the Japanese martial arts community If you can't defeat the martial arts community in the Central Plains, how can you defeat a few shady underground organizations?
The Japanese government is restricted by the "Peace Constitution" and cannot freely develop its army. It has to "hide its troops among the people." Although these "soldiers" have long been unable to command, as long as the Japanese government shows its righteousness, it can still allow them to be used to a limited extent. Helping with something, such as fighting criminal organizations.
Therefore, the major underground organizations entrenched in Tokyo are unwilling to confront the Metropolitan Police Department when it is not necessary. They are so stubborn that the grass on the graves is already two feet high, and the remaining underground organizations are quite good at conducting themselves. .
But even if those big organizations don't cause trouble, various unresolved ordinary criminal cases have still dealt a huge blow to the prestige of the Metropolitan Police Department. Whether it is "Maoyan" who disappeared fifteen years ago or "Kidd" who disappeared seven years ago, The final disappearance of these strange thieves who committed numerous major crimes was not due to the police. It was more like they were tired and retired on their own.
Although "Maoyan" and "Kid" did not cause any casualties during the crime, the economic losses caused by the property stolen by these two strange thieves were immeasurable, and the social impact was extremely huge. , it seems that after experiencing these two monster thieves, the reputation of the Metropolitan Police Department began to decline uncontrollably.
To be fair, although the strength of the Metropolitan Police Department has indeed declined sharply after Director Hakuba slowly began to "go to Muromachi", the foundation is still there, and it is definitely not impossible to take down the two little Phantom Thieves.
However, there is another institutional problem involved here, that is, the "phantom thief" is the target of the Third Investigation Section (responsible for burglary, bag snatching, pickpocketing, bicycle thieves, etc.) in terms of criminal nature, and other departments have no right to interfere. , the other elites of the Metropolitan Police Department could not intervene, but the Metropolitan Police Department at that time actually did not have the strength to deal with international-level monster thieves like "Maoyan" and "Kid". In addition to the large number of people, equipment and logistics are at a disadvantage. In the process of hunting down the Phantom Thief, sometimes having more people is not an advantage. On the contrary, it can easily create more loopholes that can be exploited by the Phantom Thief.
The Metropolitan Police Department thought about inviting martial arts masters to catch the Phantom Thieves, but according to the determination of the "Martial Arts Division", "Maoyan" and "Kid" are essentially just ordinary people with agility who make good use of various high-tech props. In this way , so he couldn't ask for help from the martial arts school, but he had a certain degree of business overlap with the intelligent criminal investigation department of the Second Investigation Division, and the Second Investigation Division had the power to intervene in the investigation.
But instead of cooperating sincerely, these two groups of people were at odds with each other, and they kept arguing about who was responsible for the "phantom thief".
The first battle for the power to handle the case of "Kidd" was won by the Second Search Section. The result was that from seventeen years ago to seven years ago, it lasted ten years and not even a hair of "Kidd" was caught. This made the Metropolitan Police Department the laughing stock of the Japanese police organization, and the Investigation Section 2 became "the shame of the Metropolitan Police Department."
The second battle for the power to handle the "cat's eye" case was won by the third search section. In order to show solemnity and different from the casual attitude of the second section, the third section also set up a special "cat's eye special search team", and then "Maoyan" has been at large for fifteen years, and now he has come out to stir up trouble. The third search section has also become "the shame of the Metropolitan Police Department."
In view of the fact that the Investigation Class 1 has recently been reduced to relying on high school detectives to solve cases, the Search Class 1 has become the "shame of the Metropolitan Police Department", and the Search Class 4, which has always only served as a backdrop for major crimes, is the earliest " The Criminal Division of the Metropolitan Police Department has almost completed the grand slam of "The Shame of the Metropolitan Police Department" and can almost be renamed the "Shame Department".
This is not just a joke, but the Criminal Department, which has been pulling its hips for years, has really become the "Department of Shame". Why did Director Hakuba decide to sacrifice his old friend and partner, and Deputy Director Morohoshi also summoned Akechi Kengo to confront the police? Will the TVB be reformed? In fact, the Metropolitan Police Department has reached a point where it has to reform. Otherwise, according to the Japanese workplace practice, he will definitely "pass the flowers by beating the drum" and hand this untimed bomb to the next person.
But the problem now is that he himself is the person sitting in the crater of the volcano that can erupt at any time. If he does not reform, he will bear the brunt of the collapse of the Metropolitan Police Department. If he reforms, to put it harshly, he can be blamed for everything that goes wrong. With wise knowledge, he can escape unscathed.
This is the Japanese workplace.
Of course, Akechi and Kanwu are well aware of this, but as long as he can reform the Metropolitan Police Department and only lose his official position and be held accountable, how can such a small price curb his sense of responsibility and honor as a police officer?
