Chapter 52 Section fifty

The "in room" light was still on. Still clenched his fists, Mikami walked straight to the secretary's seat.The room where the temperature should be kept at normal temperature felt like a sauna, and the heat covering his face almost made him breathless. Section Chief Ishii turned his chair towards the TV and was operating the remote control.An absent-minded look.The evening news is about to start, and Minister Akama's apology press conference will be broadcast. "Huh? What's the matter? Brother Mikami." "Please inform the head of the department for me, saying that I have something urgent to find him."

After Mikami finished speaking, Ishii's eyes widened. "Is there something urgent?" "I want to talk to him directly." "Don't be silly. What is it? Have you told Minister Akama?" "He didn't know where he hid." Before coming here, he had passed the police department. "The minister probably doesn't want to watch the news!" said Section Chief Bai Tian, ​​who was also holding the TV remote control in his hand. "Then tell me first! If necessary, I will tell the minister." Mikami no longer had the patience to continue talking nonsense with Ishii, and after a salute, he went to the head office at the back.

"Hey, hey! Wait a minute..." Ishii shouted at the top of his voice.Mikami didn't bother to pay attention to him, and continued to walk forward, knocking a few times on the door panel with obvious wood grain. "Come in." came a soft voice from inside. "Brother Mikami!" Ishii rushed out from the corner of the table and shouted: "Stop! Mikami..." The arm was seized.Mikami then shook him off and pushed his thin chest at the same time.Ishii staggered, took a step or two back, and fell to the ground.He opened his eyes wide in astonishment, and looked up at Mikami.

Mikami took his eyes off him and pushed the door open. "excuse me." All the students stood up at the same time, but they were still a step behind.Mikami's body had already moved into the room, and he closed the door behind his back.The heavy slam of the door blocked the outside world. In the minister's office, even the air is different from the outside.With soft indirect lighting, the interior is spacious enough to almost party.There are twelve leather sofa sets with handle seats and thick carpets covered with intricate patterns.This is Tokyo in the D prefectural police, and this is the police agency in the D prefectural police.That's why he's coming.

Tsujiuchi sat at his desk. Mikami was scrutinized from head to toe by him with disdainful eyes.He'd only come in twice before, and hadn't had a chance to have a decent conversation with him other than to say hello. "Uh...you are the broadcaster, Mikami, right?" The tone was very gentle, as if he didn't intend to pursue Mikami's rudeness of breaking in without Ishii's notification. "Yes." Just as Mikami finished answering, there was a knock on the door behind him, and then Mikami's body was pushed a few steps by the opened door.I saw Ishii's face was as red as a monkey's butt.

"Minister, I'm really sorry. I'll let him go right away..." Mikami interrupted him: "I'm here for something very important, please let him go." "You!" Ishii lowered his voice angrily. Tsujiuchi looked at the two of them, seeming amused. "Ishii, go down first!" "But the minister..." "It's okay, I also want to hear real voices other than yours occasionally." "But, it's already off-duty time." "I said it's okay, it's okay!" Tsujiuchi stared at him, and Ishii trembled all over his body as if he had been whipped.

"I, I understand, let's take five minutes! I will notify you when the time is up." "I'll ring the bell when we're done talking." At this point, Ishii had nothing to say.He bowed his head comically, cast a beseeching glance at Mikami and closed the door behind him. "Then please sit here!" "thanks." The rushing blood in his body made Mikami move without hesitation. Mikami sat lightly on the sofa, Tsujiuchi's face was within easy reach.The broad forehead gives the impression of intelligence, thick eyebrows, slender and long eyes, looks quite calm...

"What's up?" "There is one thing I must ask you for advice." "It's not that you have something to tell me, but that you have something to ask me?" Eyes full of curiosity shimmered.Are you looking forward to hearing the grievances of the non-special examination group? "But it doesn't matter, you tell me, if I know, I will answer you." "Excuse me." Mikami bowed his head in greeting, and set his eyes on the bridge of Tsujiuchi's nose.Not everything Arakida said was true.Since Akama is not there, the only way to ask is from this man.

"It's about your order to Erdu." "I ordered Erdu? I haven't seen him recently! Did I ask him to do anything?" Want to pack garlic? "The officer is coming to inspect on Thursday." "Ok." "I heard that the chief intends to announce that the local criminal minister will be replaced by the special examination team of this department." "That's right." Mikami's chest tightened, he didn't expect him to cross the first obstacle so easily. "What's wrong with that?" "Can you tell me why?"

"The reason? Isn't it the kidnapping and murder of a young girl? It's to show that the police will not give up until the end." "So it's just a temporary stopgap?" "What's the meaning?" "Once the investigation of the murder case comes to an end, the position of minister will be returned to the local criminal police. Can I understand this?" "I'm not sure about that. It probably hasn't been decided yet! I'll ask the officer when he comes." "So it may be a permanent measure!" "I said I didn't know. In some places, the minister of criminal affairs is rotated between the department and the local area, so every place is different!"

"Does it mean that talent is the priority?" "That's right, talent is the most important thing. In this regard, the criminal department here seems to have some problems." The more I listened, the more discouraged I became, the imagination that was just a dotted line gradually turned into a solid line.The scope that Arakida revealed has basically been verified. Mikami moved his butt forward a few inches. "The Criminal Department has bounced back really hard." "It seems to be!" Tsujiuchi replied with a few words of money. "Even actions intended to forcibly break through were taken." "That's why Akama went to Tokyo! I heard that the office just received a black letter." Mikami's surprise was no small matter. "It's full of scandals that the D county police have never surfaced. It's not so much a black letter as it is a paper bomb. It probably means telling the chief not to come!" The third arrow has been shot.Was it Maejima's fault?Was he playing the role of stirring up trouble under Arakida's orders? "The focus is on how the bureaucracy responds," said Tsujii without concern for his own affairs. "Isn't there a saying, don't send Kennedy to Dallas?" "Dallas...?" "It means the judgment of cronies! It is the most ideal state for a gentleman not to stand under a dangerous wall, but in fact, there are also many gentlemen who do not enter the tiger's lair to catch the tiger's cubs. The more dangerous the place, the more they want to break into it." One break. At this time, the judgment of the cronies will be tested. In addition to the safety of the boss, taking this incident as an example, the cronies must also have the ability to judge to assess whether the boss’s trip will have the risk of a plummeting reputation.” Tsujiuchi stared at him closely, as if trying to induce him to ask a question. "You mean this is Dallas?" "I pray that things will not turn out like this. If the fire is really difficult to put out for a while, the official cabinet will have another consideration. However, if the press conference is held in Tokyo, both the persuasiveness and the effect of publicity will be greatly reduced. " It seems that this trick is put to death and then reborn. No, wait a minute.There was also no mention of the boycott riots that inspected the press conference.Tsujiuchi hasn't heard of it yet?It may be that Akama thought it was no big deal and didn't report the news because he thought it would be easy to settle.Tsujiuchi... No, what would be the reaction of the agency if it learned of the commotion of the boycott?The officer who bravely rushed to the scene will have no steps to go down.If the result of their analysis is that this series of actions by the Ministry of Criminal Affairs will affect the media, will the Chief Cabinet regard County D as Dallas? "Is there nothing else?" Tsujiuchi said. "I'm going to have dinner with the governor tonight, and I have to get the deleted budget back from that old fox." There was an expression of nothing to say on his face.Anyone could tell at a glance that he had switched his mind to the next question. Anger welled up in my heart.Is he not interested at all?Don't you want to imagine the pain of the local police? "Have you asked the criminal department for advice?" Mikami said. "For any organization, the position is extremely important. If someone wants to rob it, they will defend it to the end. Not to mention the sudden robbing without any prior notice." Tsujiuchi couldn't react immediately. "Why are you so excited? For Guangbao, the criminal department is a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh! That group of people always feel too good about themselves, as long as it is something related to intelligence, they want to hide everything. It’s easier to do things better if you replace them at the top. Once the relationship between the police and the criminal is good, it will be easier to do things with each other!” Mikami really thought that Akama might be better than him.Just knowing that he was deliberately doing this while he was insulting the other party made him a little more human than this man. Why are you excited? "Because I was still in the criminal department until this spring. I have been a criminal police officer for twenty-four years, so..." "Oh I got it." I've known for a long time that you'd be on the side of the criminal department.Mikami thought he would hear him continue saying that, but it turned out to be a hallucination. "Shoes! Your shoes. When you came in, I felt so dirty!" --shoe?dirty? The conversation suddenly changed, causing Mikami to be at a loss.Look at your toes, and focus your attention on the leather shoes on your left and right feet.It's average and clean.Although it is quite worn out, Minazi will wipe it every morning, and the scratches are also treated with shoe polish until they are invisible.And it wasn't dirty at all, at most it was just a thin layer of dust from the whole day today, which made the shoes less shiny.With which eye did he see that the shoe was dirty? "How often do you wear out a pair of shoes?" Tsujiuchi was already in full chat mode. "I, if I see a pair of shoes I like, I'll buy two pairs at once. But because they won't wear out no matter how you wear them, the spare pair I bought will go moldy instead!" Mikami stared at his own toes again, forgetting to blink.It seemed that Minako could be seen bending over in front of her eyes.Whether it was the era when you could only wear synthetic leather shoes rationed by the public, or the era when you were able to buy shoes that fit your feet out of your own pocket, even now that Ayumi ran away from home, Mikami put her feet into the shoes at the entrance When I was in the house, the shoes were always polished black and shiny.Minako always smiled when she finished polishing her shoes and put Mikami's shoes in order by grabbing the heels with her fingers. What the hell did I do... A tremor started deep in his heart, spreading to his limbs like an electric current, as if the magic had been lifted.I was completely in the wrong direction.Jumping over Akama, pushed Ishii aside, knocked on the door of Tokyo, asked him to back away from the left and right, and asked a lot of questions to the head of the special examination team.He is the future chief of the police department, an unattainable figure! My mind was blank and my eyes were dark, but... There is no unpleasant feeling, but it can be described as pleasure. "Current policemen have changed to wearing sneakers, but they wear out several pairs a year." The mouth moved naturally. "Oh! That's how it is!" "Because everyone wants to solve the case. It's not a cliché that a criminal policeman can travel far and wide just by putting his heart into it." Tsuji tilted his head inside and waited for Mikami to continue. "Please be sure to understand that the range of activities of the criminal police often moves from one mountain to another. It is not enough to rely on the local dialect alone." "Crossover from case to case? That's a good point." "And the Minister of Criminal Affairs is the top of the mountain. Once the top of the mountain is taken away, the criminal police will definitely fall into chaos and depression." Tsujiuchi sneered. "Is that insidious man the top of the mountain? And he came up from the guard!" "I'm not referring to a specific individual, but the symbolic meaning. The more local the police, the more symbolic they are." "I see." Tsujiuchi's tone changed, "Do you want to interfere in personnel affairs?" Obviously the body is in a state of paralysis due to fear, but the education of class society has been deeply rooted in the bone marrow. As long as the people above are frightened a little, the body will still freeze reflexively. "I had a great chat today! I will ask you to be more considerate in the future." Tsujiuchi turned around, stretched his hand behind his back, and pressed the button on the desk. "This minister...can you please speak to this hall? This matter should be considered more." Before he could finish his words, Ishii had already rushed in, with the extremely unfriendly expressions of the students behind him... Tsujiuchi showed a painterly smile. Mikami stood at attention and saluted: "Please reconsider!" "Get out!" Under Ishii's order, several hands grabbed his body and pulled him back with astonishing force.In the chaos, Tsujiuchi's voice could still be heard: "Don't let him in again..." Mikami was taken to the "other room" connected to the secretarial class.Perhaps it was because the TV screen on the table was playing the picture of Akama, Ishii was concerned about the eyes around him and lowered his voice to curse: "What the hell are you doing? What did you say to the Minister?" "Let me go!" Mikami shook off the classmate's arm forcefully, his body heated up like wildfire. "Please explain to me clearly! What are you doing to the minister..." "It's useless to tell you!" The TV screen emits blinding light.Akama, who bowed his head in apology, was bathed in the flashlight that was like daylight. "You don't know anything. Because you can only stretch your necks and look up at the faces above, you didn't even notice that the ground under your feet was cracked." "You are the one who doesn't understand! So what if you pissed off the chief? It's D county police who are bothered! Everyone will be implicated!" "Idiot! It's because of this that our county police will be looked down upon. How can these people be allowed to do anything wrong!" Mikami punched the TV screen with a fist.Chima's face contorted for a moment, and then was engulfed in the darkness, turning into countless fragments and flying in the air.

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