"It seems that the statue of Guan Gong in the section chief's house is not hungry."
Miwako Sato, who was looking along the man's line of sight, tilted her head slightly and joked with a smile.
She had been to Uehara's house, so she naturally knew how the statues in this man's house were treated. If there really is such a thing as "spirits in the sky" in this world, then Katsumi Uehara's culpability is probably too numerous to list.
Even if you let the lazy donkey grind, you have to dangle a carrot from its mouth.
"Generally speaking, gods don't eat these things. What's more, our section chief is obviously the kind of person who can't even do a superficial job. He hasn't even wiped off the dust on the statue."
After putting on the gloves, the man pushed away the incense altar and the offering plate. As he spoke, he reached out to lift the gray-stained statue of Guan Gong and put it aside, carefully checking whether there was anything hidden inside the shrine.
Regrettably, after groping for a long time, Katsumi Uehara did not gain anything other than being disappointed.
"Uehara Police Department, something has been discovered."
Just as he was returning the statue to its place, a police officer's greeting immediately attracted his attention——
"We found a secret secret compartment in the wardrobe of the section chief's son's bedroom. This is what was placed in the secret compartment. Judging from the records on it, it should be a ledger."
"His son's wardrobe?"
Katsuki Uehara raised his eyebrows in surprise, took the account book and opened it. The records, line by line, fully explained how much money the old section chief, who was about to retire, had made through the power he held over the years -
In other words, power-for-money transactions.
"No, no, this account book only seems to be from the last five years." Miwako Sato, who came closer, had her nose just one step away from her partner's ear, but she didn't realize it. She quickly reached out and flipped to the recorded time on the last page of the account book. This was the only one. The amount of money and various assets recorded by our firm shocked her——
"Huh? Wait a minute, if I remember correctly, the actual controller of these companies is also Masuyama Kenzo?"
After turning the pages and seeing a few impressive company names on the way back, Miwako frowned: "Isn't the acquaintance between the section chief and Kenzo Magoyama because of the matchmaking by Counselor Uno? From what is recorded above Judging from the time, the correspondence between them is earlier than what we found."
"A blindfold."
Uehara Katsuki narrowed his eyes and subconsciously figured out the answer: "The arrest of Gin and his team was an accident. If it hadn't been for this accident, our attention would have been focused on discovering clues one after another and completely ignored Saburo Wada. , and instead devoted himself wholeheartedly to the operation to capture Counselor Uno. In this way, Saburo Wada would naturally not have to commit suicide by being exposed."
"That's not the right question. Why did he commit suicide? We've come to this point, isn't it good to be alive? If we are alive, there is still hope of escaping even if we are caught."
Chiba Kazushi, who followed closely behind, also looked through the account book and was a little confused.
"No, on the contrary, his death would be the best outcome."
Hearing this, Katsuki Uehara shook his head: "If he hadn't died, this brewery would have tried every means to kill him, even if he was exposed for rescuing Gin and others, and he might even be implicated. His family. He died so simply now, most likely he died voluntarily in exchange for the safety of his family."
"Is this criminal organization you're talking about so honest and trustworthy?"
Sato Miwako is obviously skeptical about this: "If I were a senior executive of this organization, I might be more aggressive as long as the section chief is still alive, but he is already dead. I can just kill his family just in case. , there is no obstacle at all.”
"Good question, where are the section chief's family members now?"
"Don't you know? He was taken to the Metropolitan Police Department by Takagi and interrogated by Chief Odagiri himself——"
Before she finished speaking, Miwako Sato's tone was stagnant, and she understood the key in an instant.
Seeing her like this, Katsuki Uehara bit his lip with some reluctance and sighed: "The winery must have been sure that Saburo Wada's family didn't know about the organization or didn't know much about the organization, so they abandoned the car like this. Handsome
Decide. "
Is Saburo Wada important?
Of course it's important.
Searching the head of the first class, even if he is approaching retirement, he is still the head of the first class. But compared with Gin and others, this section chief hiding in the shadow of the Metropolitan Police Department doesn't seem so important.
"Saburo Wada knew that the Metropolitan Police Department had been searching for the identity of the mole, so he started making arrangements very early to have Counselor Uno Tadayoshi of the Criminal Division be his scapegoat.
"For this reason, he contacted Masuyama Kenzo and played a double act with him."
After taking back the account book from Chiba and looking at the transactions between Saburo Wada and Kenzo Masuyama's actual holding company, Katsuki Uehara continued to combine all the information he had obtained so far:
"First of all, Masayama Kenzo first became friends with Uno Tadayoshi. After gaining trust, Uno Tadayoshi, who was always willing to connect old subordinates, introduced Wada Saburo, who was about to retire, and Masayama Kenzo to get to know each other, thus forming the first person who could sit down. The logical chain of Uno Tadayoshi’s suspicion;
"Secondly, to create further evidence for Uno Tadayoshi's undercover identity, we have worked hard to find out the money transactions;
"In the end, although all those financial transactions had nothing to do with Uno Tadayoshi himself, it was his wife who was implicated. Husband and wife are natural interest groups that are difficult to separate.
"At this point, Uno Tadayoshi can no longer clear his mind. As a police chief, his butt is really dirty. If the facts of his crime are revealed together, it is very likely that the consortium behind him will be implicated. Together with the rest of the family, in the end, in order to save their families, they could only suffer the loss of being dumb in secret.
"Even more, I suspect that Saburo Wada has arranged some conclusive evidence that Tadayoshi Uno is a mole for our police to discover.
"The interest group behind Uno Tadayoshi, in order to prevent their own chain of interests from being exposed, is very likely to have him shot eight times in the body under the guard of the police and determined to have committed suicide.
"With this, the suspicion of Wada Saburo being a traitor will be completely eliminated, and Uno Tadayoshi will become his scapegoat..."
With the gears in his mind turning slowly, Uehara Katsumi explained the speculations he had linked to, making Sato Miwako and Chiba Kazushi stunned.
"That's indeed the truth, but if that's the case, why did Gin kill that Masayama Kenzo? If it was just a frame-up, there would be no need to kill him at all——"
Wait a moment? !
Miwako's words suddenly stopped, and her pupils suddenly shrank: "Unless Kenzo Masayama is not dead!"
If Kenzo Masuyama's death was just to place the blame, just to let the police trace him to Uno Tadayoshi, the scapegoat, then there was no need for him to die.
Katsuki Uehara nodded: "That's right, we never found Kenzo Masayama's body from the beginning to the end. What we found in his villa was just a pile of bones that were burned to the point where it was difficult to even test.
"We have no conclusive evidence regarding the death of Kenzo Masan. We have only two indirect clues: the bones were found in the fireplace in the basement of Masan Villa and the side testimony of vodka."
