Chapter 520
Although Kenji Hagiwara and Jinpei Matsuda were somewhat surprised to hear Shinryu Suzumikawa suddenly admit that his file had problems, they were more surprised than anything else—
Just as I thought!
It would be strange if something didn't go wrong with Hanchuan Shenliu!
To be honest, I now feel a strange sense of relief, like a stone that has been hanging in the air for a long time has suddenly been lifted off my feet...
Of course, since they didn't know which part of the file was problematic, they weren't completely at ease. However, seeing how nonchalant Han Chuan Shenliu was, they couldn't muster any more tension.
It wasn't the right time to talk about this, so Kenji Hagiwara glanced at Maki Nagamitsu, who was banging her head against the wall, and took a deep breath: "There's probably nothing more for us to do here, let's leave."
Hanakawa Shinryu also sent another email to Inspector Megure, and put away his phone after hearing Hagiwara Kenji's words: "Okay."
Kenji Hagiwara no longer cared about being a gentleman or showing tenderness to the woman. The female doctor, having recovered from the PUA, seemed to have unlocked her full potential and started PUAing Miku Miku in return, her words becoming increasingly barbed. Even as an outsider, he found it unbearable to listen to, so he decided to leave as soon as possible.
After the three of them got into the car, Matsuda Jinpei finally breathed a sigh of relief: "What the hell is the head of the personnel department thinking? Is our Metropolitan Police Department really that short-staffed?"
"...It seems we are indeed quite short-staffed," Kenji Hagiwara said with a headache. "Especially the Organized Crime Countermeasures Department. Originally, yakuza were legal, but with the implementation of the 'Organized Crime Exclusion Ordinance,' it's been very troublesome to manage them from scratch. We've had to borrow a lot of people from various departments, and it's only in the last two years that things have started to recover..."
Hankawa Shinryu commented: "Luckily, I resigned early."
"No, I don't think they'll borrow you..."
Before Ken Hagiwara could finish speaking, Shinryu Hakkawa's phone rang.
Upon answering, Inspector Megure's voice, noticeably weaker than before, rang out: "Kanakawa-kun, didn't you already ask for the personnel section chief's contact information? Why are you suddenly asking for the police chief's? Isn't the section chief enough? What exactly do you want?"
"It's nothing, better safe than sorry."
Inspector Megure: "...Kanakawa-kun, you can't just act recklessly because you've already resigned!"
Han Chuan Shenliu expressed his doubt: "If I can't do whatever I want after resigning, then what's the point of me resigning?"
Mumu Police Department: "..."
Did you resign just to mess around?! How can you be so self-righteous about it?
Kenji Hagiwara sighed and leaned over to interject, "Inspector Megure, I'll tell you the details when I get back. This time it really... wasn't just about Fuka no Nagare."
Inspector Megure believed in Samikawa Shinryu's abilities but not his sense of propriety. Now that Kenji Hagiwara had given his endorsement, he was finally somewhat at ease. He gave him a few more instructions and then hung up the phone, without giving Samikawa Shinryu the contact information for the police chief.
Kenji Hagiwara comforted him, "If you really want to know..."
"It's alright," Han Chuan Shenliu said sensibly. "If there are too many people reporting it, it's actually unnecessary. I said it's just better to be prepared."
Matsuda Jinpei: "...Never mind! Let's talk about what's wrong with your file first!"
Kenji Hagiwara's expression also turned serious. He didn't even have the patience to go home and planned to start discussing it in the parking lot: "Yes, this is very important. Can you tell me?"
"There's nothing wrong with telling you this."
Han Chuan Shenliu remained as nonchalant as ever: "For example, there was a problem with my age in my file. I wanted to start school and find a job earlier, so I changed it to be a little older."
Matsuda Jinpei and Hagiwara Kenji both breathed a sigh of relief.
Oh, that's it.
This is nothing unusual. It's normal for people from welfare homes to have such thoughts. Besides, let alone falsifying their age, there are many cases where people don't intend to falsify their age but make mistakes in registration...etc.
Kenji Hagiwara and Jinpei Matsuda suddenly realized something.
After spending more time with Han Chuan Shenliu, the inexplicable gloomy filter they had at their first meeting gradually disappeared. They had long since realized that Han Chuan Shenliu looked surprisingly young, like a college student even after working for so many years.
However, because they have a friend named Rei Furuya who has a baby face, and even though he's 29, he can still call himself a college student without looking out of place. Plus, some Asians naturally have a younger appearance, so they didn't think much of it. After all, people can't decide what they look like.
Han Chuan Shenliu's powerful aura made up for this deficiency, and few people dared to look at Han Chuan Shenliu's face seriously, so no one else raised any questions.
But now, upon hearing that he had falsified his age, Kenji Hagiwara and Jinpei Matsuda recalled some details of their time together and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.
"Uh... Fukami-ryu," Hagiwara Kenji's smile became much more strained, "How old are you really this year?"
"Twenty-four."
Matsuda Jinpei: "...Twenty-four."
Kenji Hagiwara: "Twenty-four..."
The two were silent for a moment, their brains simultaneously starting to calculate—they had never realized that simple addition and subtraction could be so difficult!
"So that means..." Kenji Hagiwara's voice became very weak, "...when you took the police academy entrance exam, you were actually only 17?"
Hanchuan Shenliu nodded honestly: "Yes."
"Why are you taking the police academy entrance exam at this age?! Shouldn't you be in high school?! Normal people go to police academy after graduating from university!!!" Matsuda Jinpei was starting to lose his composure.
Kenji Hagiwara was still racking his brains to recall: "Ah, no wonder you don't like drinking, saying you're not used to it... I even tried to persuade you to drink... That's a crime..."
Matsuda Jinpei sneered: "The alcohol isn't the point at all, is it? This guy was defusing bombs at 17 under the pretense that you taught him! He killed Pramia at 20, and then resigned to become a crime consultant... Strictly speaking, these are all things he did when he was a minor!"
Hanchuan Shenliu calmly corrected: "In many countries, the age of majority is 18. And the official story is that Pramiya accidentally killed himself. It's not appropriate for you, as a police officer, to say that."
"Shut up!" Matsuda Jinpei's composure crumbled as he recalled the events. "I actually agreed to teach you how to defuse bombs... and let you help the FBI... How could so many adults ask a minor for help when they couldn't do it themselves..."
Kenji Hagiwara also looked like he was about to break down: "He snatched a gun from a yakuza member and fired it right after starting his internship... He also followed the Mobile Investigation Unit into various illegal places, including but not limited to casinos and red-light districts... After becoming a full-time employee and joining the First Investigation Division, all the cases were murders... This will have a negative impact on the mental state of a minor..."
As he spoke, Kenji Hagiwara even started using formal, written language, as if his brain had crashed and he was reciting information related to criminal psychology from his memory in an energy-saving mode.
Han Chuan Shenliu was baffled: "It's just that I concealed a few years of my age, it's not like I'm a teenager, is it really that big of a deal?"
That's really necessary!
When you think about the fact that there's a minor involved, it completely changes the nature of the situation!
Normally, when they were in high school, Kanakawa Shinryu was still in elementary school...
Just thinking about this generation gap makes me feel weak.
Kenji Hagiwara even felt his tall, strong body flashing with white light, probably indicating a need for oxygen...
Matsuda Jinpei, who is usually very sharp-tongued about the matter of Hanchuan Fukami, was now covering his head with his hands, resting his arms on his knees, staring blankly at the ground.
I can't recall it.
They've known each other for seven years, and the more they think back, the more details they discover.
They were five years older than Hanchuan Shenliu. When socializing and meeting strangers, this five-year age difference wouldn't be a big deal, but when it came to Hanchuan Shenliu, whom they had known for so many years, it felt inexplicably suffocating.
After all, think about what Hanchuan Shenliu did... Is that something someone five years younger than them should do?!
However, this does explain a lot of questions. For example, it's true that Sugikawa Shinryu can be quite childish at times, has a strong sense of wickedness, and is not mature at all...
Kenji Hagiwara barely managed to compose himself: "You... a four-year age gap... your past experiences in your file must be fabricated, right?"
After all, it's easier to talk about when they're older, but it's too obvious when there's a three or four-year age difference between children!
At the very least, one can only falsify their age after entering junior high school, but Japan doesn't have a system for skipping grades; the grade one should be in at a certain age is fixed. However, Shinryu Samakawa's file states that he attended university in Hakata...
Although Hanchuan Shenliu only mentioned age falsification, a year or two is one thing, but such a large age difference indicates that the entire resume is problematic!
As expected, Hanchuan Shenliu calmly replied, "Yes."
Matsuda Jinpei and Hagiwara Kenji fell silent again.
After a long while, Kenji Hagiwara finally breathed a sigh of relief and smiled with relief: "That's great, Fukami has resigned!"
Matsuda Jinpei sympathized: "Yes..."
Since they are no longer police officers, they have no obligation to report, so they can avoid getting caught up in the mess!
If we report it, the HR department might complain that we've done something unnecessary and added to their workload!
Although Hanchuan Shenliu was both faking things and acting mysteriously, the two of them believed that Hanchuan Shenliu wouldn't do anything that would actually cross the line, so they weren't too worried.
They were even reflecting on how readily Han Chuan Shenliu answered, suggesting that he might not have intended to hide anything from them in the first place. They blamed themselves for being too cautious and not asking sooner!
"Now that we've come this far..." Kenji Hagiwara asked, rubbing his temples, "Why did you falsify your records?"
"Because my identity is a bit complicated."
Matsuda Jinpei: "...Thank you, that's really useful nonsense."
"What's complicated about it?" Kenji Hagiwara followed up with a somewhat serious expression. "Wait a minute, speaking of which, is it true that you're an orphan?"
Hanchuan Shenliu nodded: "It's true."
Matsuda Jinpei closed his eyes in anguish: "Everything else is fake, but couldn't this be fake too?!"
Hanchuan Shenliu has made a hellish joke about this so many times!
I was thinking that if this were fake, I could understand... but I still can't understand it!
Han Chuan Shenliu lowered his eyes, and his face, without the dark filter effect, looked refined and delicate.
"I also hoped it was fake, but unfortunately it is true... I could have avoided becoming an orphan. Thinking about it carefully, tracing back to the source, it should be blamed on the Japanese Public Security Bureau."
Hagiwara Kenji: "...???"
Matsuda Jinpei: "...Wait?!"
Why is the Japanese Public Security Bureau involved in this?!
They're going to be sweating buckets again.
Could it be that Shinryu Samakawa's family members had some kind of illegitimate status, resulting in their deaths at the hands of the Japanese Public Security Bureau?!
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I've finally reached this chapter!
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Hagiwara: (Smiles with relief) Thankfully, Fukaru has already resigned.
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The predecessor of the Japanese Public Security Bureau was the Special Higher Police, which wasn't a good organization. Don't apply this to China; even Japanese criminal investigators have prejudices against the Japanese Public Security Bureau.
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