I am a literary giant in Japan

Chapter 163 No One Wants a Hot Potato

Nako Hikigaya, who had just wiped her body and blow-dried her hair, never dreamed that one day she would really receive a call from Mr. Kitagawa!
Exchanging business cards is an essential part of Japanese daily communication.

But most people will throw unimportant business cards into the trash as soon as they turn around.

She felt that a business card of a little policewoman must be unimportant to Teacher Beichuan.

did not expect!
Teacher Beichuan actually kept his business card!
He actually called me!

Nako Hikigaya tilted her head and held her newly bought mobile phone while she put on her underwear and stockings swiftly, and then listened carefully to what Mr. Kitagawa said.

".Anyway, this is what happened. If it's convenient, you can try to investigate that online account. Maybe you can catch this guy successfully!"

Teacher Beichuan's magnetic voice continued to come through the microphone.

Hikigaya Nako originally wanted to find a topic to chat for a while, and then find an excuse to ask Kitagawa-sensei out for dinner or something, but when she heard that it was information related to the case, she immediately put away her smile, and while saying "hmm", she quickly took out her notebook and wrote down all the key points.

"Okay, I understand. Thank you for your help, Mr. Beichuan! I will definitely report the matter to the director! Don't worry!"

After hanging up the phone, Hikigaya Nako quickly put on her police uniform and hakama, ran out of the house as fast as she could, and headed towards the subway station!

As soon as she arrived at the police station at 8 o'clock in the morning, she tidied up the pile of files left over from yesterday on the table, and then knocked on the door of Section Chief Fujiwara Kei's office with her notebook.

"Please come in."

Without even raising his head, Fujiwara Kei continued to review the pile of case feedback forms on his desk.

Many laymen think that criminal police like him are either handling cases or on their way to handle cases.

In fact, Japanese police officers working in local police stations are more like civil servants who just eat and wait to die.

Except for the grassroots police officers who have to go out on field duty at the police stations and garrisons (similar to the police station next door), the daily work of these police officers who sit in the police station all day is basically writing reports, approving documents, organizing activities and receiving miscellaneous petitioners.

When he first entered the police force, Fujiwara Keiya was ambitious and had long-term aspirations and ideals, but soon, the cruel and realistic promotion system gave him a solid blow.

For a guy like him who graduated from an ordinary police academy and was just a patrolman when he first entered the police academy, his career ceiling is basically the level of inspector. If he can become the deputy chief of the Kokubunji City Police Station with all his efforts in this life, he will have to run to temples and shrines to burn incense and worship Buddha to fulfill his vows.

The professional team that graduated from prestigious universities such as the University of Tokyo and Kyoto University started out as police lieutenants when they entered the police force.

The end of your life is just the starting point for others. How can you have fun like this?
After the passion in his heart died, Fujiwara Kei became a Buddhist. He would usually only get up and do things personally when he couldn't get rid of the emotional issues, such as the last time he was entrusted by Kawaide Shizuko to hand over the ashes of Takuya Takeuchi's daughter to Kitagawa Hide.

Seeing that the person who came was Nako Hikigaya, the most popular person in the police station, Fujiwara Kei forced a smile on his serious face: "Inspector Hikigaya, what can I do for you?"

Nako Hikigaya is affiliated with the Life Safety Section, which is responsible for cracking down on illegal parking and educating bad boys, and generally has little business overlap with his Criminal Investigation Section.

"Section Chief Fujiwara, please look at this." Hikigaya Nako handed him the pile of information recorded in the notebook, and then repeated everything Kitagawa Hide said.

When he heard that it was a case related to juvenile offenders, Fujiwara Kei suddenly felt overwhelmed, but when he heard that the person who provided the clues was Mr. Kitagawa Hide, he immediately became serious.

The reason why juvenile cases give him such a headache is that since the 50s, Japan has introduced the Juvenile Law and the Minor Protection Law, which clearly stipulate that children under the age of 12 will not be held civilly liable, and children under the age of 14 will not be held criminally liable; there is no death penalty for minors under the age of 18, and the maximum penalty is life imprisonment.

In other words, as long as the other person is 14 years old or younger, even if he comes to the police station to surrender himself after committing murder or arson, you have to transfer him to a juvenile education center in accordance with the law, and you cannot use the same methods as you do with other murderers.

After reading the information and listening to Nako Hikigaya's retelling, the experienced Fujiwara Kei immediately realized that the guy who was jumping around on the Internet and constantly looking for a sense of existence was most likely the escaped boy A. But so what?
With the Juvenile Law and the Law on Protection of Minors in place, he can be so lawless.

If he rashly arrested a minor without sufficient evidence, once things turned out to be wrong, Fujiwara Kei's career would be completely ruined.

However, the person who provided the clue was Mr. Beichuan. By borrowing his name, perhaps I could convince the director.

Although Fujiwara Kei is a Buddhist, he cannot stand seeing scumbags doing whatever they want in society.

He picked up the notebook, stood up, patted Hikigayako on the shoulder, and motioned for her to go with him to meet the director.

Hikigaya Nako followed him with a smile, and when she looked back and saw the Nikkan Sports News on the table, she couldn't help but ask, "Section Chief Fujiwara, are you also following the update of Paradise Lost?"

"Well, this novel is not bad." Fujiwara Kei nodded expressionlessly.

Among the readers of "Paradise Lost", a large number are middle-aged men in the workplace and housewives. After all, their own predicaments and experiences are similar to those of Muramatsu Tomoshi.

But the essence of "Paradise Lost" is about "extramarital affair", and a married man like him cannot show excessive liking for it, so as not to be gossiped about.

Hikigaya Nako didn't notice this, she just simply liked Kitagawa Hide's books and style of doing things.

Despite being rejected by the Akutagawa Prize and the Tanizaki Prize, Kitagawa Hide was not discouraged and instead turned his attention to overseas.

This kind of lone hero character is very popular among young women!

The two men came to the director's office. After hearing about this, the director, who was about to retire, took the notebook calmly, praised the two men enthusiastically, and said that he would give them an answer tomorrow.

However, as soon as Hikigaya Nako and the other person left the office, the elderly director put away the smile on his face and threw the notebook into the trash can.

Are you kidding me?
After this year, he will be able to retire with the rank of superintendent of police, and then find a job as a legal representative of a local peripheral group or private enterprise in Kokubunji City, and then find another job and make money until he dies.

Are you making such a big fuss about investigating a thankless juvenile delinquency case now because you think your life is too easy?

But just now the two subordinates said that the person who provided the clue was Mr. Beichuan
Kitagawa Hide has already become famous in the Japanese literary world, and the director himself is also reading his latest book, Paradise Lost.

As far as he knew, this Mr. Kitagawa had connections in the legal profession, and was the anti-cult public welfare ambassador appointed by the former prime minister. He probably also had connections in the political arena.

This kind of person should not be offended easily.
After thinking about it, he decided to pick up the notebook from the trash can and throw it to the Metropolitan Police Department, letting the professional elites there worry about it!
After this little episode, time passed quickly and it was finally the Friday that readers all over Japan were looking forward to the most.

Wednesday's issue of the Nikkan Sports News had a total circulation of about 370 million copies and was almost sold out.

With the lesson learned from last time, before the printing of this issue on Friday, Matsuyama Ken gave orders to the distribution department, asking them to print 300 million copies first, and then prepare another 100 million copies. If there are signs of out of stock, the workers in the printing factory will immediately work overtime to rush the production!
At 7 o'clock on Friday morning, after taking a shower, Nako Hikigaya immediately put on her police uniform and ran to the newsstand downstairs in the apartment building, without even bothering to blow dry her wet hair. She asked the owner for a copy of the Nikkan Sports News.

When the owner saw the little policewoman running to the newsstand without even drying her hair, he was shocked and thought he had committed some crime.

Hearing that the other party wanted to buy a newspaper, he breathed a sigh of relief, handed one over with a smile, and wanted to chat a few more words, but the customers who came one after another to buy newspapers left him no time to chat. He could only watch the little policewoman leisurely return to the apartment upstairs.

Hikigaya Nako sat down at the dressing table and took out another Wednesday copy of the Nikkan Sports News. Knowing that Paradise Lost would be finished on Friday, she resisted the urge to read more and refused to read Wednesday's copy. She planned to read both copies together!

"Hmmmm~" Nako Hikigaya hummed Izumi Sakai's new song softly while blowing her hair while impatiently spreading out the newspaper to read Wednesday's issue first!
(End of this chapter)