Chapter 125 The Ooka Family

Day 10 of the road survival game!

"There are many things mentioned in the short videos, but I don't understand Japanese law. Even if some bloggers explain it, I still don't understand which aspect of the power was abused. The only thing I can understand and that impressed me the most is that a reporter once investigated and found that the Self-Defense Forces had many records of unexplained consumption of weapons and ammunition."

The investigation revealed that the Ooka family butler and the person in charge of managing the weapons had close ties. Until the side effects of the silver bullets appeared, there were no records of their return, clear consumption records, or reports on the whereabouts of the related firearms and ammunition.

Later, a high school classmate of the Ooka family's daughter revealed that during high school, in order to pursue boys or for other reasons, she had witnessed the butler around her using some non-lethal weapons under her orders on several occasions.

However, there are bullets and medicines that are not available to civilians, such as tear gas, tinnitus-inducing drugs, or smoke bombs, which hinder the students. It is suspected that they have misappropriated bullets and medicines from the Self-Defense Forces. Also, the Ooka family members seem to be low-key when they go out, but they are actually high-profile.

Although they don't put on a show that disturbs the peace, the Ooka family is quite wealthy, so it's not surprising that they spend a lot of money on transportation, as they are always seen getting in and out in high-end imported cars, helicopters, luxury cruise ships, etc.

However, the reporter's investigation revealed evidence that all these transportation expenses were actually paid by Japanese government agencies. Furthermore, the Ooka family's helicopters and cruise ships were converted from military to civilian use, suggesting illegal transactions involving military equipment.

It is speculated that the Ooka family's ability to freely consume the Self-Defense Forces' ammunition, weaponry, and military equipment could only be achieved with the help of Prime Minister Tsuchimon, whose father was a former Self-Defense Force officer and who held immense power within the Self-Defense Forces.

Then, the Japanese people, who were suffering from the side effects of silver bullets, were outraged by these investigative reports. They expressed in interviews that even their daughters could use ammunition and weapons meant to protect Japan at will when pursuing boys.

It is evident that the Ooka family has misused countless ammunition and equipment in other matters. Those military-to-civilian helicopters, cruise ships, etc., must have been seized by the Ooka family by abusing the authority of the Tsuchimon family. Furthermore, a large number of people disregarded the threat of the virus and gathered around the Ooka family to protest.

Faced with boiling public resentment and an ever-growing body of irrefutable evidence, it took many days before the daughter of the Ooka family finally held a press conference. At the conference, she apologized to everyone, claiming that she was immature and naive in high school and had sent her future husband to the emperor without her consent.

At the time, her personal housekeeper transferred a batch of non-lethal ammunition, such as bullets and fog bullets, from the Self-Defense Forces. These were not meant to actually harm anyone and were only used for pranks with classmates. Her husband's ability to mobilize that amount of ammunition had nothing to do with her grandfather, former Prime Minister Ooka.

It's because her husband originally worked within the Japanese official system and had connections in the Self-Defense Forces' equipment sector. Moreover, he only misappropriated equipment that one time, and the problems with other Self-Defense Forces equipment and weapons had nothing to do with the Ooka or Tsuchimon families...

In addition to these, when the daughter of the Ooka family apologized in public and made her first public appearance in Japan and identified herself, Japanese reporters noticed that her features clearly showed Western female characteristics, since the wife of the current head of the Ooka family is a traditional Japanese woman.

Therefore, they suspected that the other party was not the true legitimate daughter of the Ooka family head, and believed that the other party was likely the illegitimate daughter of the Ooka family head's extramarital affair with a Western woman. Soon after, someone who had suffered from the side effects of the silver bullet, lost family members, and knew the Ooka family's daughter expressed this opinion.

The Ooka family heiress they knew had always been blonde with yellow eyes, and it was confirmed that her hair and eyes were natural at the time, which did not match her black hair and brown eyes at the apology scene. They suspected that she had dyed her hair and wore colored contact lenses before making a public appearance.

Some people even produced graduation photos and school trip photos with the other party to prove their claims. However, after the incident was exposed, Mrs. Ooka came forward to clarify that her family had a history of intermarriage with people of Western descent, and that their daughter had simply reverted to her ancestral origins.

"Their daughter's style is just something she's recently taken a liking to; it's not a deliberate disguise..." Feng Xingshou recalled what those bloggers had mentioned during their analysis and shared what he still remembered.

Until this point in the story, he couldn't help but show a speechless expression and complained, "This kind of statement is just like protesting too much. Even I, who don't know much about Japan, know that although they seem open-minded, they are actually very conservative."

In a social system where a son is bound to go into politics if his father is an official, or to follow in his father's footsteps if his father is a banker, those real Japanese gentlemen would never agree to their sons marrying foreigners.

After all, once the head of a political family marries a foreigner, their children will inevitably be marginalized in Japanese politics, no matter how hard their parents or relatives in government try to support them.

I'm not the only one who thinks this way; those bloggers have also explained in their short videos that Japanese royal and noble families like the Ooka family, which have intermarried with the Imperial Family for generations, value bloodlines the most and would almost never intermarry with foreign bloodlines unless absolutely necessary.

If the Ooka family had foreign ancestry, it would have been impossible for her to become Mrs. Ooka. Reporters also found no record of marriage to a foreigner in Mrs. Ooka's family, and the Ooka family's daughter was not an only child.

However, she lived alone in the Ooka family mansion in Osaka for a long time, while her parents and other brothers lived together. Even when she reunited with her family, this Ooka heiress would only stay briefly at the residence of her grandfather, the former Prime Minister of Japan...

In short, the reasoning of those bloggers seems quite reasonable. However, it seems that because the head of the Ooka family did not participate in politics, even if the fact that he had an illegitimate daughter and took her back to raise as a legitimate daughter was exposed, it did not cause a big stir in Japan.

On the contrary, the problems of abuse of power, misappropriation of ammunition, and weapons are what anger the Japanese people the most... But what I find most speechless is their anger and protests.

Once the authorities stopped paying attention, within a month, the public actually calmed down due to the various bad news caused by the side effects of the silver bullet and the daily scandals involving the same Japanese celebrities and voice actors.

Furthermore, despite these investigative findings, and the journalists even printing concrete evidence in newspapers and magazines, I never heard of anyone being held accountable or pursued legal responsibility until I was caught up in this game.

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"You're saying that with such a huge problem with military equipment, no one has been held accountable?" Matsuda couldn't sit still any longer and immediately stood up to ask, "What about the Ooka family's daughter? Didn't she publicly apologize?"

"What about the military equipment and ordnance management officer? Isn't he the person primarily responsible?" Hagiwara also found it hard to believe that this was the outcome.

"The daughter of the Ooka family? I remember she was trending on social media in China. It was said that she instructed her husband to embezzle a very small amount of drugs, and since she was a minor at the time, she was considered to have publicly apologized and admitted to it."

She only needs to accept a warning from the police; there's no need for prosecution or any charges against her. After explaining the outcome of the Ooka family's daughter's case, Kazehoshi-no-Kami thought of the military equipment management officer Hagiwara had asked.

It's impossible to talk about it in a gossipy tone; instead, it's said with a bit of sympathy and pity: "As for the relevant military equipment and ordnance management cadres, three people were found to have actual evidence by reporters. One of them committed suicide by lying on the railway tracks on the same day the evidence in the report was made public."

The other two mysteriously disappeared that day, and were later found by the police a few days later, but both were dead. One committed suicide by burning charcoal in his car somewhere in Hokkaido, and the other committed suicide by shooting himself somewhere in Tokyo Bay. After their deaths, the investigation into the arms issue was dropped.

“Heh…” Hearing Feng Xingshou’s words, Matsuda, who had four years of work experience and knew about the dark rumors surrounding the authorities, couldn’t help but smile bitterly: “I thought that even if they were terrible, there would still be some firefighters among them who deserve our respect and emulation.”

We cannot let disappointment lead us to focus only on the awful and despicable; we must look to those worthy of our respect and emulation. It turns out that even the prime minister, frequently mentioned in textbooks, is only superficially impressive.

Upon hearing Matsuda's words, Hagiwara did not respond this time. Instead, after a few seconds of silence, he looked up at Morofushi Kagemitsu and asked him, "Little Morofushi, although there is no concrete evidence yet..."

However, we should have roughly deduced the cause and effect of your encounter with danger. In this situation, if you go back using your original identity, you will probably encounter a similar situation again very soon.

Therefore, I personally think that you should either use the game's dungeon capabilities to enter different time periods to investigate these matters before going back and taking care of the people who want to harm you, in order to continue living safely without any worries.

Either you go back and change your identity, discreetly investigating the truth while remaining hidden, which do you choose? Or do you have other ideas?

"I do have some thoughts." Seeing his friend recover so quickly and no longer care about those strange and disappointing people and things, Morofushi Kagemitsu couldn't help but glance at him, feeling that Hagiwara's calm and rational state at this moment was very abnormal.

For the first time, I couldn't guess what he was thinking or what he planned to do about those disappointing things. I could only answer him while thinking about what Hagiwara might do or what he might think.

He was watching Hagiwara closely, worried about his mental state, but little did he know that after overhearing their conversation, Matsuda, seeing Hagiwara's face gradually regain its usual calm, was also somewhat worried, unable to discern what he was thinking. Hearing him say this, he couldn't help but ask, "Tell me your plans?"

He hoped that Jing Dan wouldn't be too badly influenced by those rotten people and ruin his bright and promising life... However, when he had this thought, he couldn't help but smile bitterly to himself. What a load of bullshit about a bright and promising life.

Jing Danna's original life had been ruined by those scoundrels. The fact that she was given a second chance was all thanks to Feng Jiang's miraculous abilities. Without Feng Jiang, neither Hagi, herself, nor Jing Danna, nor even the class president would have a future.

Therefore, I feel that if I were to say something to Jing Dan now, advising him not to act recklessly because of personal feelings of disappointment with the Japanese government, the high-ranking officials of the Public Security Bureau, or even those behind the scenes... and the Ooka family, that would be the most disgusting reaction he would get.