The sea bream at this time of year is still before spawning and is rich in fat, making it a great time to enjoy it. Since this is also the season when cherry blossoms are in full bloom, the pink sea bream is also called cherry blossom sea bream because of its color similar to that of cherry blossoms.
The fisherman and the bald uncle were both stunned at the sight of the cherry-colored sashimi beautifully arranged on the plate, with circles and circles of it and fat lines shaped like marble.
Although the boss of Takasaki is also skilled in sashimi, he is only a skilled worker and is still a long way from being a sashimi celebrity, otherwise he would not condescend to open a small shop like this one in the Kita Ward.
But the knife skills displayed by this young boy in front of him are far superior to those of Mr. Takasaki's boss. Even the master chefs of the most famous sashimi restaurants are no better than him.
"I didn't expect the master to have such skills. It was wrong of me to judge people by their appearance before. Now I won't be polite!"
The fisherman picked up the chopsticks with a solemn expression, picked up a piece of fish meat that was so thin that it was translucent, and put it into his mouth. The most original sweetness and beauty of the sea bream spread on his tongue little by little. He chewed it gently, and the elastic fish meat melted in his mouth without any effort.
good to eat!
To use a cliché metaphor, it was as if you felt a live sea bream jumping between your tongue and teeth, and finally jumping into your stomach.
"I'll try too!"
Seeing the satisfied and intoxicated expression on the fisherman's face, the bald uncle who likes to eat sashimi also got excited and picked up the chopsticks to start eating.
The fisherman, who was still immersed in the emotion of the sea bream sashimi, suddenly became alert:
"I caught this sea bream, and this whole plate of sashimi is mine. You bald man Hasegawa, don't even think about touching it!"
The friendship was about to capsize because of a plate of sashimi.
Chapter 33 Kanhara Yuji gets a promotion and a pay raise
Monday, 7pm.
Although it was already night, the Metropolitan Police Department headquarters in Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku was still brightly lit.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department is undoubtedly a behemoth organization that has jurisdiction over more than 100 police stations in Tokyo and has more than 40,000 direct personnel.
"I didn't expect that I would have to work overtime on my first day at this office. If I had known this, I would have stayed at the Nakano Police Station."
In an office on the second floor of the Metropolitan Police Department's main building, a middle-aged uncle named Kanhara Yuji with a depressed look on his face was looking at the pork chop rice served on the table without any appetite.
This week, he has been eating so much pork chop rice that he is almost vomiting.
Ever since that thrilling day, Kanhara Yuji, out of his sense of responsibility as a public official, truthfully wrote down his encounters with evil spirits and contacts with supernatural beings in a report and submitted it.
I thought that such an absurd third-category contact report, which was almost equivalent to meeting aliens, would be rejected and even criticized by the director. However, I didn't expect that as soon as Kanhara Yuji submitted his report in the evening of the same day, he was controlled when he went to work the next day.
He was then escorted to the Metropolitan Police Department headquarters, where he was interrogated day and night, and even had several waves of psychiatrists come to assess his mental state.
After he explained everything that happened that day in detail, the interrogators still did not let him go and repeatedly questioned him about various details. Although they did not resort to torture, the various surprise interrogations still made the elderly Kanhara Yuji a little exhausted. Most of his energy was exhausted and he looked like he was about to die suddenly.
After being detained for an unknown number of days and signing several confidentiality documents, Kanhara Yuji was finally released.
Before he even left the Metropolitan Police Department, he received a transfer order transferring him directly from the Nakano Police Station to the Criminal Investigation Division 4 of the headquarters.
Of course, there are also good things. Kanhara Yuji's police rank was directly promoted from patrol chief to inspector general, and his salary was also increased by one level. For a police officer like him who came from a non-professional group, this is a crucial step.
"Inspector Kanhara, you should eat something. We have a very important meeting coming up. All investigators from the Criminal Investigation Division's Fourth Section and the Public Security Division's Fifth Section who are not on a mission have been summoned. I heard that the Superintendent will also be in attendance! As the first police officer to come into contact with a superhuman, you will inevitably be questioned."
A male police officer wearing glasses and with slightly long black hair tied in a simple ponytail hanging in front of his chest, was holding a bag of bread, energy bars, and instant ramen noodles and placing them in front of Kanhara Yuji.
"Uh, thank you, Inspector Uchiha."
It was difficult for Kanhara Yuji to refuse the kindness from his immediate superior. He took out a fried noodle bread from the bag and started to nibble on it.
Uchiha Senmon smiled, went back to his desk, picked up a document and started reading it.
Looking at the Uchiha Inspector, who appeared to be nearly twenty years younger than him but was actually only less than ten years younger, Kanhara Yuji touched his stubbled chin, feeling mixed emotions at the thought that he would be this man's subordinate in the future.
After swallowing the bread in a few bites, Kanhara Yuji opened a bottle of mineral water and took a sip before hesitatingly asking:
"Inspector Uchiha, do you know why we have a meeting tonight?"
Uchiha Xianmen put down the documents in his hand, pushed his glasses, thought for a while and said:
"Last week, not only did you come into contact with a human supernatural being, but Officer Odagiri of the Public Security Department and a group of his colleagues also witnessed another human supernatural being, and even had a conflict. The appearance of a human supernatural being is an unprecedented event for the Metropolitan Police Department! The reason for holding a meeting at this time must be because of those two human supernatural beings."
"Is it that exaggerated?"
"Inspector Kanhara, after you joined the Criminal Investigation Division 4, the corresponding confidential files were also opened to you. You should know the original intention of the Metropolitan Police Department to establish the Criminal Investigation Division 4."
Kanhara Yuji couldn't help but recall the origin of the Criminal Department's Investigation Section 4.
The Criminal Investigation Division's Fourth Division was originally responsible for investigating cases involving violent groups and organized crime, but after 03 it was integrated into the Organized Crime Countermeasures Division.
Ten years later, Investigation Section 4 was re-established, and its scope of functions was completely different from before. It became a special department to deal with supernatural events.
"In order to deal with the increasingly frequent supernatural incidents in recent years, we are investigating and arresting Unidents... What Object?"
"Unidentified Supernatural Object." Uchiha Senkou uttered three words clearly.
"This is the official name given by the official internal documents to the supernatural beings that appear in this country. They are divided into two categories, the physical type A and the intangible type B. But privately, we investigative police officers are more accustomed to calling type A monsters and type B evil spirits."
"Yes, yes, yes! That's what we should call you." Kanhara Yuji, who is not good at English, nodded repeatedly.
"I never thought there were really evil spirits and monsters in this world. I thought the story about Kappa stealing the buttocks jade that my grandma told me when I was a child was just a scare tactic."
"As for Kappa, that's really just a story. So far, no monsters such as Kappa, Zashiki-warashi, and Tsukumogami have been found in folklore."
Uchiha Senmon said with a hearty smile:
"Inspector Kanhara, although your confidentiality level is only level 1, the most basic information is still available to you. If you have time, you should read more. Although Type A is called a monster, it is slightly different from the traditional monster."
"Not only are their appearances completely different from the monsters in myths and legends, but the Type A that we have discovered now also has some supernatural abilities, but they are not like the monsters in folk legends that can hide and escape, are immune to physical attacks, and are also ineffective against thermal weapons. In the eyes of some researchers, Type A is just a beast that has mutated for some unknown reason and can use special abilities. It should not even be called a monster but a mutant beast or a supernatural beast."
"Is that so? Haha... I'm already this old and I still have to do on-the-job training. It's really a headache."
Kanhara Yuji was a little embarrassed. Although the information room was now open to him, he was exhausted recently and just casually flipped through the beginning and didn't read any further.
"Inspector Kanhara is only a few years older than me, he's still very young."
Kanhara Yuji racked his brains to recall the files he had read, and asked in confusion:
"According to the information, we humans don't have any extraordinary people. Master Di Lu is the first confirmed human extraordinary person, and he also helped to eliminate the evil spirits. If that's the case, why is Master Di Lu included in the wanted list?"
"I am against the arrest warrant for the monk named Dilu. We should not use this attitude towards extraordinary people. We should contact them in a more appropriate way. But the Fifth Section of the Ministry of Public Security insists on doing so, and I can't do anything about it." Uchiha Xianmen said helplessly with a hint of gloom in his eyes.
At this time, a female civil servant appeared at the door:
"Inspector Uchiha, Section Chief Akagi has notified you to go to the conference room for a meeting."
"Okay, Inspector Kanhara, you have to attend this meeting as well. Let's go together."
Chapter 34 Internal fighting is a feature that must be tried
When Uchiha Senmon and Kanhara Yuji arrived at the conference room, the conference room was already full of people.
The conference room seemed to be full, but it was clearly divided into two groups according to the left and right order.
When the police officers on the left saw Uchiha Senmon coming in, they greeted him enthusiastically, while the police officers sitting on the right seemed to be watching with a cold eye. He didn't know if it was Kanhara Yuji's illusion, but he felt that the gazes coming from the right contained a hint of hostility.
"Uchiha, here, come here!"
In the front row on the left, there was a kind-hearted, fat man as burly as a bear. He waved his fat arms and greeted loudly.
"This is the Chief of Investigation Section 4, Inspector Akagi."
Uchiha Senmon pulled Kanhara Yuji to sit in the front row and gave a brief introduction.
"Hello, Akagi Police Officer Shimazu!" Kanhara Yuji stood up and bowed.
"Inspector Kanhara, you are the first one to come into contact with a supernatural being, right? Your name has become well-known in our Investigation Section 4 these days."
Section Chief Akagi stretched out a greasy fat hand, and Kanhara Yuji quickly extended both hands to shake it.
Superintendent Masaru is considered a senior official even in the Metropolitan Police Department headquarters, not to mention that he is the boss of his boss.
"Inspector Uchiha is our ace investigator of Investigation Section 4. You must learn well from him and don't be like the previous deputy who was careless and died in the line of duty."
Kanhara Yuji held Section Chief Akagi's hand and felt a little embarrassed for a moment. How could he say such things when meeting for the first time? It was too unlucky.
At this time, Section Chief Akagi had already pulled his hand back and looked at a middle-aged police officer with slightly dark bronze skin sitting in the front row opposite him, and smiled at Uchiha Senmon:
"Uchiha, have you read the internal report on what happened on Saturday? The Fifth Class really lost face this time."
"Hey, Section Chief Akagi, we are not searching Section 4's office right now. If Section 5 hears us..."
Uchiha Senmon coughed lightly and pretended not to hear the gloating in Section Chief Akagi's tone.
"Who told them that the Fifth Section of the Ministry of Public Security wanted to have the spoils all by themselves? They found clues about the extraordinary person during the live broadcast on Saturday and ran over on their own. Not only did they not notify us to search the Fourth Section, they also did not act with the special assault team as required by the regulations, and let the big fish get away. The higher-ups were furious..."
Kanhara Yuji was confused. Although he didn't quite understand, he could tell that the Criminal Investigation Section 4 and the Public Security Section 5 were not getting along.
Uchiha Senmon looked at Kanhara Yuji who had a puzzled look on his face and sighed.
Although the Ministry of Public Security is nominally under the Metropolitan Police Department, it actually has a strong degree of autonomy.
Regarding supernatural incidents, the Metropolitan Police Department restored the Criminal Investigation Section 4 to be responsible for investigations, and the Public Security Department established the Fifth Section. The two departments have very overlapping functions, so naturally the relationship between them is not very good.
This can be considered a historical problem. Originally, the Ministry of Public Security and the Criminal Department had a large degree of overlap in their businesses. Although the relationship between the two was not as hostile as that between the navy and the army before the war, which regarded each other as enemies, there were also constant contradictions and conflicts.
In the past, after many serious cases occurred, the Criminal Division and the Public Security Division did not cooperate with each other and each investigated their own cases. Occasionally, a special investigation headquarters was formed to conduct joint investigations, but they also hindered each other and acted on their own due to disputes over credit, old grudges, etc., causing many jokes.
The conflict between the fourth and fifth sections of the investigation is not only a historical legacy, but more importantly...
This involves the conflict between the local faction and the American faction.
Looking at the several faces with obvious mixed-race features in the fifth lesson opposite, Uchiha Senmon also felt a headache.
"Unlike our Investigation Section 4, Section 5 has a tougher style, and there are often frictions between our two departments." Looking at Kanhara Yuji who was still a little confused, Uchiha Senmon explained in a low voice.
As for the second half of the sentence "Investigation Section 4 has always been at a disadvantage, but Section 5 is different because it has the support of the Americans", there is no need to say more.
Of course, it is not easy to discuss these complicated internal conflicts in depth with a newcomer like Kanhara Yuji. Anyway, he will understand them in future work.
“Kuh!”
The front of the conference room was opened, and the Minister of Criminal Investigation, the Minister of Public Security, the Superintendent of Police, his secretary and a group of others walked in together, followed by a blond-haired, blue-eyed foreign man in a suit.
The entire conference room suddenly fell silent, and everyone stood up to salute.
"You should have all heard about the two supernatural incidents that occurred last week. This is the first time that the existence of human supernatural beings has been confirmed in fifteen years since the first supernatural incident in the 19th year of Heisei! The purpose of this meeting is to discuss the next countermeasures." The superintendent of police with silver hair on his temples said with dignity.
"Regarding the monk who appeared in the Shimonakano haunted house last Monday, April 4, we only have the confession and the traces of explosion left at the crime scene as indirect evidence. However, last Saturday, April 4, the ghost hunting live broadcast incident occurred in the abandoned mall in Adachi District. It was the first time that a supernatural being was clearly captured! Therefore, the focus of this meeting will still be on the latter supernatural person incident."
After distributing the information, the Superintendent's secretary turned on the projector and played video clips one after another:
Under the moonlight, a young man in a black robe with red clouds swung out a stern sword. With a flash of sword light, a crescent-shaped sword energy cut the mannequin several meters away in half.
……
The young man in a black robe with red clouds stood on the archway and sprayed a huge fireball with a diameter of two meters into the air, which exploded in the air. Finally, he made a strange gesture with one hand and disappeared on the spot like a puff of smoke.
The first video was taken directly from the live broadcast room. It was shot very clearly and looked like some special effects swordplay blockbuster.
The last video should have been taken by a law enforcement recorder, but because of the long distance and it was at night, the video is very blurry and the camera keeps shaking. However, we can confirm that it is the same person based on the unique clothes and posture.
"Dear police officers, please do not doubt the authenticity of the video. It has been authenticated by the technical department and is authentic. Regarding the ghost hunting live broadcast incident, based on the traces at the scene and the analysis of the live broadcast content, the live broadcast personnel encountered a Type A attack and were then rescued by the mysterious young man in the video. In the end, two people survived." The secretary read out the manuscript.
"Officer Odagiri of Section 5 noticed the abnormality immediately, blocked the live broadcast room, and rushed to the scene to negotiate with the young man, but the negotiation failed and he was attacked. Finally, he disappeared under the siege of Section 5 police officers. Officer Odagiri's reconnection operation was successfully completed and his life is not in danger. He is still in the hospital."
Seeing the mysterious young man's miraculous swordplay in the video, even the well-informed police investigators were dumbfounded. They flipped through the information sent to them and whispered to each other.
"Is this the legendary sword energy?!"
"It's a pity that Officer Odagiri grew up in the United States and only learned American Iai, not Kendo. Otherwise, as a direct contact, he might be able to determine what style of swordsmanship the young man used."
"What a joke! Which sword style can produce sword energy and cut off bullets from a semi-automatic pistol? Flying Sword Style? Even if Miyamoto Musashi were resurrected, he would be shot into a sieve!"
Chapter 35 Endless Argument
"Could that red-eyed man whose eyes turn red be a monster?"
"So far, no monsters that can transform into humans have been found. Monsters are mostly bizarre in shape, and even human-shaped ones are rare. Humans cannot transform into monsters, and monsters cannot transform into humans. The current evidence is not enough to overturn these two iron rules."
"Could it be that their extraordinary abilities are also like those of a monster, which are suddenly awakened?"
As for the origins of the extraordinary people, the police officers from the Fourth Investigation Section and the Fifth Section also had their imaginations run wild, and they were speculating and discussing it.
There are three hypotheses within the Metropolitan Police Department about the origins of supernatural beings. The ancient theory is that supernatural beings have existed since ancient times and have been hiding in the dark for thousands of years. They were only discovered by humans after 2007. Of course, this hypothesis was quickly overturned.
Another is the theory of another world, that is, it came from another world or a parallel world, but this hypothesis has also declined.
The mainstream view now is the awakening theory, because various evidences show that monsters and evil spirits were born in this country after 1900 for some unknown reason, and awakened supernatural powers. This is a major change that has not happened in two thousand years.
But the ages of these two extraordinary humans are obviously that they were born before the 19th year of the Heisei era. The red-eyed man looks to be around 20 years old, not to mention the monk named Ji Lu. Even though he looks a little older and more mature, his age is at least 30 years old and above.
