I became Hokage in Tokyo

Chapters 225 and 226: My brother-in-law is an elite member of the Metropolitan Police Department!

"Ugh, my head hurts... I drank a bit too much."

The following morning, Shimazaki Daiki, still feeling unsteady from a hangover, hurried to the Kohama City Police Station, which was not far from his home.

Along the way, many tourists pointed at Shimazaki Daiki and covered their mouths to chuckle.

Is something wrong?

Following the gaze of passersby, Shimazaki Daiki took off his police hat.

Only then did we realize that in his haste to leave, he had grabbed the wrong hat; what he was holding was a bright green mermaid festival souvenir hat.

"cut."

Shimazaki Daiki raised his arm as if to throw the green hat on the ground, but then he thought that someone was watching him and it would be inappropriate to litter, so he crumpled it up and stuffed it into his pocket.

Thanks to his father's connections as the police chief, Daiki Shimazaki found a job at the Kohama City Police Department.

Normally, Shimazaki's father could turn a blind eye to his son's slacking off, but he would get angry if he continued to slack off during the Mermaid Festival when police resources were scarce.

Just this morning at eight o'clock, Shimazaki Daiki impatiently turned off his phone alarm, opened his sleepy eyes, and realized that he was already more than ten minutes late.

Without even washing up, Shimazaki Daiki pulled out his police uniform from the closet, put it on, grabbed a hat and put it on his head, and rushed out.

Unexpectedly, I picked up the wrong green hat.

This is not a good sign.

After arriving at the Kohama City Police Station with a heavy heart, Shimazaki Daiki was surprised to find that there were surprisingly few people inside.

Is it because there are more tourists this year than in previous years that police were deployed in advance to maintain order at the festival?

As Shimazaki Daiki entered the police station with a puzzled look on his face, the officers and clerks who saw him all looked at him with strange expressions.

Do I have any more questions? The green hat has clearly been taken off, hasn't it?

Daiki Shimazaki scratched his head, completely bewildered.

"Shimazaki, what are you still doing here?" a police officer who was on good terms with Shimazaki Daiki asked with a subtle expression.

"I'm here to work." Shimazaki Daiki was completely baffled.

"That's right, you didn't know that yet." The police officer patted Shimazaki Daiki on the shoulder with a sympathetic look.

"Your girlfriend, Yu Jiazi, committed suicide by jumping into the sea with someone else!"

Shimazaki Daiki's face turned green instantly.

Based on the information given by the police officers, Shimazaki rushed to the scene in a great hurry.

Although it was still early and the beach where the two bodies were recovered was relatively remote, some tourists still gathered outside the cordon to watch curiously.

Fortunately, the police officers on the perimeter recognized Shimazaki Daiki's face. Although it was unclear whether he was still considered the "boyfriend" after his ex-girlfriend's suicide pact with another man, they still let him into the cordon.

"what!"

On the beach, a pair of male and female corpses were tightly embracing. Although their faces were swollen and deformed after being soaked in seawater, Shimazaki Daiki recognized them at a glance as Yukako and Yamamoto, who both belonged to the yacht club!

His face turned pale, and he was so frightened that his legs went weak and he collapsed to the ground.

The crumpled green hat slipped out of his pocket.

"No, impossible! How could Yukako possibly commit suicide?"

"Shimazaki, please accept my condolences."

An older police officer in his forties sighed and helped Shimazaki Daiki, who had collapsed to the ground, to his feet.

"According to the emergency call we received, your girlfriend, Yu Jiazi, and her childhood sweetheart committed suicide together at 10:05 p.m. in the waters near Hailuo Beach... no, it was an accident."

The older police officer had already conducted a brief autopsy. Both men had drowned, and their hands and feet were so tightly intertwined that they were practically conjoined twins, impossible to separate.

According to eyewitnesses, it was Yu Jiazi who initiated the hug with the man, and they fell into the sea together.

The elderly police officer, with his weathered face, couldn't help but imagine a poignant and tragic love story.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible! I don't believe it!" Shimazaki Daiki shook off the police officer's hand, knelt on the beach, and screamed in anguish.

The older police officer assumed that Shimazaki Daiki was overwhelmed with grief and unable to accept it immediately, and therefore disregarded his offense.

He was also somewhat moved, as the director's son had a rather poor reputation in Xiaobin City, being described as a frivolous playboy, but he hadn't expected him to be so deeply in love, which was quite touching.

"Let's move the two bodies away first. The chief has already said that this incident shouldn't affect today's mermaid festival."

The senior officer decided to let Shimazaki Daiki calm down on his own, and began to direct the other officers in handling the body.

Shimazaki Daiki knelt on the ground, still shaken. His back was soaked with cold sweat. The sea breeze was icy cold, which jolted him awake and brought him back to his senses.

He simply couldn't believe that a gold-digging woman like Yukako, who was so persistent in pursuing him, would commit suicide with a poor guy like Yamamoto.

The two people's mysterious deaths reminded Shimazaki Daiki of the mermaid curse that Yukako had been constantly talking about before her death.

Could it be...?

impossible!

"Beep beep beep..."

Shimazaki Daiki shakily took out his phone and called Haga Ryuji, but no matter what he did, the call didn't go through.

"Damn it, why isn't he answering the phone?" Shimazaki Daiki couldn't help but curse in frustration.

He thought for a moment and quickly opened the group chat created by the yacht club on LINE.

Because Shimazaki Daiki was usually annoyed by Yukako's constant chatter, he added her to his blacklist, and only now has he seen the last message on her account:

"The mermaid's judgment will soon arrive!"

The phone slipped from his palm and fell straight onto the sand. Shimazaki Daiki felt as if something had seized his heart, making it difficult to breathe, and his face turned as pale as a dead man.

"Haga Takaji, could it be that he also...?"

…………

Despite it being the most important annual mermaid festival in Obama City, and the police being short-handed to maintain order, a group of officers remained silent in the meeting room inside the Obama City Police Station.

"In addition to Yukako and Yamamoto, who drowned at Conch Beach, Ryuji Haga and another yacht club member, Aki, were also found drowned at home."

After listening to the police officer's report, Chief Shimazaki of the Kohama City Police Station's eyelids twitched.

The officers below also looked grim. Four people had inexplicably drowned in one day, which was by no means a small matter.

Moreover, if this news gets out during the Mermaid Festival, it will be a devastating blow to the tourism industry in Obama City!

"Haga Ryuji drowned in the bathtub in the bathroom, and the other person drowned on the sink in the toilet. There are very clear signs of homicide, basically ruling out the possibility of accident."

According to population statistics from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, 5398 people drowned while taking a bath in 30.

Because of the large temperature difference between room temperature and hot water in the bathtub, blood pressure can change drastically, leading to heat shock reactions such as myocardial infarction, which can cause people to fall into the bathtub and drown when getting in or out of the bath.

Unlike those who drowned accidentally while their entire bodies were submerged in the bathtub, Haga Ryuji was found lying on the edge of the bathtub with only his head submerged in the water, and there were obvious signs of struggle on his hands and feet.

"Leaving aside the other woman who drowned in the sink, drowning a grown man like Haga Ryuji in the bathtub is no simple matter. There were no signs of binding on Haga Ryuji's body, and no residue was found under his fingernails. Based on our judgment, it should be a crime committed by two or three adult men working together."

"Any other discoveries?" Director Shimazaki asked with a grim face.

"There were signs of a prolonged struggle outside the bathtub before Haga Ryuji's death, indicating that he was conscious. Of course, this is only a preliminary assessment, and the specific results will depend on the autopsy."

In a small town like Obama, there are naturally no forensic doctors in the police station. If a forensic autopsy is to be performed, the body must be sent to the Fukui Prefectural Police Headquarters.

The reporting officer spoke rapidly, introducing the details of the case, including that these individuals were survivors of the yacht disaster years ago, and also revealing the last piece of information.

"The mermaid's judgment will soon arrive!"

Upon hearing words like "mermaid," the expressions of several older police officers, including Chief Shimazaki, changed.

The young police officer ignored this and gave a passionate report:

"There is no doubt that this is a serial murder case! It is related to the yacht disaster five years ago. Someone is using the guise of mermaid revenge to create an atmosphere of terror and slaughter the survivors from that year."

"Inspector Shimazaki, who belonged to the same yacht club as these four drowned people, is undoubtedly the next target!"

All the police officers present couldn't help but look at Chief Shimazaki with strange expressions.

Everyone knows that Shimazaki Daiki is the director's son.

Director Shimazaki's eyes flickered, his expression shifting between light and dark.

"The serial killer may be connected to Suzuki Kimie, who died in an accident five years ago. The motive for the killings may be revenge against other yacht club survivors. We can investigate in this direction," the young police officer said excitedly.

"As for the talk of the mermaid's trial, that's just a smokescreen put out by the murderer to confuse the police investigation. Don't take it too seriously," the young officer said confidently.

Based on his experience of watching thousands of episodes of Detective Conan and Kindaichi, this so-called mermaid was nothing more than someone playing tricks behind the scenes.

This bizarre and grotesque serial murder case fascinated him, a mystery enthusiast.

If he can solve the case, it will definitely make him famous, and he might even be hailed as a famous detective in the Reiwa era!

"Ahem, Officer Yamashiro is right. We should start the investigation with Suzuki's network of connections." Someone recalled, "Suzuki, I remember her parents were deceased, and she only had a younger brother or sister? I think they moved away too."

"It's my younger sister, her name is Suzuki Maika. She returned to Kohama City yesterday."

Chief Shimazaki frowned. If it really was a murderer, that would be one thing, but he was afraid it was something like the one that was on the seabed in Wakasa Bay back then...

But now that things have come to this, there's nothing else to do but try anything, since Shimazaki Daiki is his only son, and as his father, he has to take responsibility for the huge mess he's made.

"Suzuki's sister is currently at the 'Hai Lan Wu' fisherman's guesthouse. Yamashiro, take a few people and go invite her over to cooperate with the investigation," Chief Shimazaki said with a long sigh of relief.

"yes!"

Although he didn't know how the chief knew such detailed information, the young officer still straightened his chest and saluted.

Several veteran police officers who had experienced the maritime disaster five years ago had thoughtful expressions on their faces.

The fact that the chief knew Suzuki's sister's whereabouts so well suggests that the rumors from back then weren't unfounded, and that Shimazaki Daiki really...

However, they were all seasoned veterans and wisely kept their suspicions hidden deep in their hearts.

"The mermaid's trial is really interesting. May I hear it too?"

As Chief Shimazaki was assigning tasks to the officers, the conference room door was pushed open, and a blonde, blue-eyed foreign woman in a black fitted suit walked in.

The blonde woman was over 1.7 meters tall with a delicate face. Although her tone was smiling, her bright blue eyes were sharp and she exuded an undeniable aura of power.

"Who are you? How did you get into the police station?"

Before the words were finished, a group of stern-faced men in black suits emerged from behind the blonde woman. Their waists were bulging, and they exuded a sharp and capable aura that was completely different from that of the police officers.

Director Shimazaki's expression changed as he recalled several mysterious people who had come from Tokyo five years ago, and they seemed to have a familiar aura about them.

"mayor?"

Another greasy man in a tie squeezed in from outside and began issuing orders to Chief Shimazaki without any politeness:

"Shimazaki, all investigations are now entrusted to this special envoy from the Metropolitan Police Department's Public Security Bureau! Do you understand?"

"Hey!"

"Investigator Grace, is this alright?" Mayor Xiaobin rubbed his hands together, bowing and scraping to the blonde woman.

The blonde woman nodded calmly.

Half an hour later, Sakaki Namiru, who had been "invited" to the Kohama City Police Station, was throwing a tantrum at the police officers.

"You're saying Wu Xiang is the prime suspect in the murder case? How is that possible? She's been with me since yesterday."

"Ms. Sakaki, you reek of alcohol, and the Sabar employee testified that you were so drunk you had to be helped home. I'm afraid that can't provide an alibi for Ms. Suzuki."

"Well……"

Namiraku Sakaki was speechless.

"In short, Ms. Sakaki, please remain at the police station to cooperate with the investigation."

Sakaki Nami retorted indignantly, "How long will that take? We're here to visit the Mermaid Festival, we don't have that much time to waste in the police station."

"I don't know about that," the officer said with a forced smile.

"Your Ohama City Police Department is so unreasonable, bullying outsiders! My brother-in-law won't stand idly by," Sakaki Nami said angrily. "My brother-in-law, the Uchiha, is an elite member of the Metropolitan Police Department!"

Who are you?

The blonde, blue-eyed foreign woman who was listening in slightly raised her chin, her bright red lips curling into a hint of hostility as she asked:

"What is your relationship with Inspector Uchiha?"

(End of this chapter)