Tokyo Unnatural Forensics

Chapter 12: Shocking the Police Station for a Whole Year (Part )

April has passed and May has arrived. Tokyo has completely gotten rid of the bleak winter and cherry blossom season, and is now bright and beautiful in spring.

After solving the last case of the Ishizaka couple committing suicide, Uesugi Sosetsu had a lot more free time. After all, the police station doesn't have cases and corpses to help with every day. During this period, Uesugi Sosetsu has been focusing on his professional knowledge of forensic medicine.

After experiencing this series of events, Uesugi Sosetsu gradually realized that although he could rely on his psychic ability to solve the autopsy, his lack of expertise in medicine would be exposed when it came to a real autopsy. If it was just an autopsy, Uesugi Sosetsu could rely on rote memorization and the words of the dead soul to restore a perfect course of events and theoretical basis. However, if Uesugi Sosetsu really had to go on the dissection table, he would be a wimp.

Fortunately, Professor Ohkouchi and his small team are still doing the dissection work, either because he thinks that Uesugi Sosetsu does not have strong professional knowledge and is only good at "autopsies", either because he thinks that he is too young and unreliable or because he thinks it is not in accordance with the procedures to let a novice directly participate in the dissection at the moment. This also largely avoids the problem that Uesugi Sosetsu himself does not have strong professional knowledge and is only good at "autopsies".

The arrival of a new month also means a good thing.

That means paying wages!
The Japanese have an inexplicable obsession in this regard. Although wages can be paid directly through bank transfers, people still prefer to pay them directly. The salary is sealed in a thick envelope, and the solid feeling in the hand is enough to make every worker excited, especially low-level workers like Uesugi Sosetsu. The few days when salary is paid every month are the most exciting time for these medical interns.

Uesugi Sosetsu also received his salary. He gently squeezed it with his hands, and the heaviness of the banknotes brought a smile to his face.

This is Tokyo. If you want to live here, you need money!

Especially since he was still living in the apartment arranged by his family, he didn't want to think about anything else. He planned to at least find a way to live a well-off life in Tokyo through his own efforts. He didn't ask for great wealth, but at least he wouldn't eat half-price bento all day long, and wait for the supermarket to put half-price, 40%, 30% or 20% discount labels on fresh food every night before checking out.

At least I should be able to eat Makunouchi bento every day, and go to Xuxuen for barbecue on weekends, right?

However, now that his abilities have been awakened, Uesugi Sosetsu's goal has changed.

The right way is to cover yourself with a monk's robe.

After receiving their pay packets, several full-time doctors nearby were already discussing where to go for fun tonight. On the other hand, the nurses, care workers, and those dispatched members were in a much lower mood.

In Japan, wages are divided into three components: job title salary + seniority salary + bonus. Among them, job title salary and bonus are easy to understand, but seniority salary requires a little explanation.

Seniority wages can be simply understood as additional wages based on the number of years of employment, and this salary will gradually increase with working time.

A typical example is Tanaka Laoto. He and Uesugi Muneyuki said that the monthly salary of the inspector general is about 32 yen. Then according to the 540th salary of police officers, he should get about 700 million yen a year (actually including taxes and employee pensions, about 400 million yen). However, many professional police inspectors in their twenties in the Metropolitan Police Department, who are one level higher in rank, cannot get as high a salary as Tanaka Laoto (generally they get more than million yen). This is because Laoto has a long period of service and his seniority salary is high.

In his previous life, Uesugi Sosetsu was the first to hold a negative attitude towards seniority-based wages. He felt that although it would make employees feel a sense of belonging to the company, it would also lead to a large amount of wages being used to support lazy people and goofballs, while all the money would be given to senior management, which would make young people lack the ambition to make progress.

日本有个66定律，就是60%的财富集中在60岁的老人手上，60%的高级管理岗位都是60岁以上老人担任。

But now he has a neutral attitude towards the seniority system, because it will only hurt if the whip hits oneself. This system can well guarantee the employees' expectations and sense of belonging for the future. No one will be afraid of being optimized by the company at the age of 35. Only when they have a stable future and hope can they focus on their work.

However, not everyone can enjoy the seniority system. In the hospital, employees are divided into "regular members" and "dispatched members". The former are full-time employees who have signed formal work contracts with the hospital, and the latter are only dispatched employees of the labor dispatch company. Not only can they not enjoy the seniority system, but they may also be optimized. Generally speaking, such dispatched members sign a contract for four to five years. If they sign it twice in a row, they will be regarded as regular employees. Therefore, the hospital has always replaced dispatched employees for one term and never gives them the opportunity to become regular employees.

Even if dispatched workers do exactly the same work, they cannot hold their heads up in front of regular employees, and they can only get 65%-70% of the salary of regular employees.

Whether or not the person is a regular employee is also one of the core competitive advantages in the Japanese blind date market (whether he or she is the eldest son, whether he or she is a regular employee, whether he or she is tall, etc.).

Uesugi Muneyuki himself is a full member. Although his seniority-based salary is 0, he gets more than those dispatched members and his status is higher.

The reason why his family didn't have much objection to him working as a forensic scientist was because he was a full member of the society. As the second son, he didn't have to inherit the family business. Being able to be a full member safely and securely was seen by his family as having fulfilled his life mission.

After opening the envelope, Uesugi Sosetsu tapped the banknotes lightly and raised his eyebrows.

Why is there thirty thousand more?

Before I could ask, a staff member came running over and said, "Dr. Uesugi, Director Ukai wants you to go to his place."

Dean Ukai, currently serving as the director of the School of Medicine at Tokyo Medical and Dental University Hospital, is a middle-aged man with a round head and a permanent smile on his face. His slightly squinting triangular eyes are cloudy but occasionally reveal a hint of shrewdness. He has a slightly hunched back and broad shoulders.

When Uesugi Sosetsu knocked on the door of the minister's office, Minister Ukai, who was standing behind his desk with his back to the door and his hands behind his back, turned around and looked at the two rows of award and trophy display cabinets around him: "Come in."

"Minister!" Uesugi Sosetsu bowed slightly and saluted: "What do you want to talk to me about?"

"Oh! Uesugi, long time no see!" As soon as Director Ukai saw Uesugi Muneyuki, his face was immediately filled with smiles, and his wrinkles deepened: "How are you, are you used to being transferred to the Forensic Pathology Department?"

Only one month after being transferred, Uesugi Sosetsu's mental state has changed a lot. His appearance has become more upright. Although his facial features have not changed much, after a few subtle adjustments to his expression, Uesugi Sosetsu's appearance has become more cold and handsome, and even gives people a sense of sacred majesty. His eyes are like a scalpel on an operating table, so precise and sharp that they seem to be able to see through people's hearts.

Uesugi Sosetsu's tone and way of speaking were also slightly different, and he now exuded a strong sense of confidence.

How can an autopsy give this guy confidence?

Minister Ukai was puzzled in his heart, but it did not show on his face.

"I'm used to it. Professor Okochi takes good care of me. Changing to a new environment also allows me to find new goals." Uesugi Sosetsu paused for a moment before slowly saying, "For now, I'm very satisfied."

"That's good, that's good." Director Ukai clapped his hands with a smile. "You have done a great job. The Otsuka Police Department is full of praise for you... But you are not used to frequent contact with corpses, right? So I have allocated an additional 30,000 special funds to you from my special medical fund. Everyone gets one, you get one, and Professor Okochi gets one too."

"Thank you very much!" Uesugi Sosetsu understood and knew that his father had talked to Minister Ukai.

Normally, it would be impossible for the Director of the Medical Department to communicate directly with an intern like himself, unless his father, Hironori Uesugi, took the initiative to greet Director Ukai.

"Since you're going to do it, then do it to the best of your ability. Come on, Uesugi-kun, I'm rooting for you!" Minister Ukai patted Uesugi Souyuki on the shoulder, signaling that he could leave.

After Uesugi Sosetsu left, Minister Ukai stood at the window and looked for a long time before slowly picking up the autopsy report again.

"A genius, or a tengu? A reckless man who likes to guess blindly, or an ambitious man full of hot-bloodedness?" Minister Ukai narrowed his eyes slightly: "Just spend some more time and wait and see!"

————I am the dividing line for waiting and watching————

"So, I drove to work this morning, and I saw a Corolla on the road!"

“Oh hahahaha~”

“Then I stopped and bought a Costa coffee!”

"Ahehehehehehe~"

“I found Starbucks is better~”

"Ohhhhhhhhhhh~"

In the evening, when Uesugi Sosetsu was getting ready to get off work, several female nurses who were getting off work walked past him giggling, talking about inexplicable topics and laughing inexplicably.

That's why I don't plan to find a girlfriend here. Uesugi Muneyuki himself was speechless about the strange and awkward chats of the Sakura girls and the collective laughter that forced them to fit in. However, in Japanese campuses and workplaces, you must join such small groups, otherwise you will be isolated and bullied. The most terrifying thing for Japanese people is that you can't find anyone to form a team with in class activities. This is tantamount to telling everyone that you have no friends and can go as hard as you want.

For example, Haibara Ai in Detective Conan actually doesn't fit in among the elementary school students. She is pretty and has excellent grades, making her the most likely target of bullying and isolation. However, because the guys in the Junior Detective League directly pulled her into their small group and admired her very much, Haibara is actually the least likely to be bullied.

"Look, it's Uesugi! Wow, so handsome!"

"Why do I feel like Uesugi-kun has become more handsome since he joined the Forensic Medicine Department?"

"What a pity. If you go to a place like the Forensic Medicine Department, Uesugi-kun will be down! I won't consider it. I think it's better to go to Johnny's for an audition instead of working as a forensic doctor! Am I right?"

"That's right~~~"

After a long pause, several female nurses left happily. Today was payday, and they were going to the gigolo club in Kabukicho, Shinjuku to have some fun.

And Uesugi Sosetsu also planned to go out and have some fun in the evening.

What kind of Chinese are you if you haven’t been to Yoshiwara?
Ever since he awakened his new ability, he would think of Princess Connect every time he finished an autopsy. It had almost become a habit.

Is it time to find a permanent girlfriend?

The sex partners that Uesugi Sosetsu has always chosen are young women who come to Tokyo alone from other places. He believes in a mutual benefit and is only interested in the body rather than the feelings. Generally speaking, he pays for meals, hotel rooms and gifts.

He is young, good-looking, well-spoken, and gentle in character. Many women hint that he is willing to take a further step. However, perhaps because Uesugi Sosetsu lacks a sense of involvement in this world, his understanding of relationships between men and women remains superficial.

But the situation is different now. First, there is the strong need for connection brought by the contract, and second, he begins to feel involved in this world.

Who to choose?
Uesugi Sosetsu thought that he should first eliminate the women from the countryside who came to the capital alone.

Unless it's his senior sister Mai, he would still consider it.

Well, you must choose someone who likes to wear stockings, and arrange all the black, white, flesh-colored, gray, and long suspender jumpsuits. The funds will be paid from the extra 30,000 special fees given by Dean Ukai!

While still looking through the address book to select someone, he immediately saw Tanaka Laodeng and Patrol Chief Kuwahara standing in front of the police car in suit jackets in the sunset.

Seeing Uesugi Sosetsu coming out, Tanaka Laodeng showed an awkward but polite smile: "Brother Uesugi, we were just looking for you."

"Come on, Tanaka-san, Kuwahara-san, today is payday!" Uesugi Sosetsu didn't know whether to cry or laugh: "You guys are not here to look for me to go to the pub to eat skewers, are you?"

Japanese people have the tradition of having dinner at pubs on payday, and many working men will go home drunk on this day because this is the only day in the month when they can control their own salary, after which they have to hand it over to their wives for household expenses.

It is a tradition in this country that men work outside and women work inside, and that women have to hand over their salaries to their husbands. However, with the advent of the Internet age, this tradition has changed. Some men are no longer willing to be providers and choose to manage their own money. After the bubble burst, sometimes the man's salary is not enough, which forces the woman to go out to work.

"Something's happening, little brother Uesugi. We're going to trouble you and Professor Okouchi again." Inspector Tanaka signaled Uesugi Sosetsu to get in the car quickly.

After waiting for a while, Inspector Kuwahara came out with Professor Okouchi, and the group drove away into the distance under the golden sunset.

In the car, Professor Ohkouchi was resting with his eyes closed, and Uesugi Munen asked, "What is the case this time?"

"The renovation and repainting of the Eihei Bridge in Bunkyo District was halfway through when workers found a body under the bridge!" Inspector Tanaka said seriously, "The body has been completely dehydrated and the deceased looked very painful. We suspect this is a case, so we hope you can come and take a look."

"A body was found under the bridge?" Uesugi Munen thought for a moment and asked, "Is it an old man or..."

"It's a middle-aged man."

Uesugi Sosetsu frowned. If it was the body of an old man, the scope of the investigation would be greatly reduced, but if it was the body of a middle-aged man, then the possibility would be much greater.

The golden sunset outside the window gradually set, and smoke rose from the residential areas on both sides of the road. Uesugi Sosetsu could vaguely smell the aroma of cooked rice mixed with exhaust fumes, which passed over the eaves until the sun completely sank under the eaves. For a moment, darkness fell here, representing the arrival of night.

Before Uesugi Sosetsu could enjoy a moment of tranquility, the street lights came on and Tokyo under the sunset immediately turned into a colorful neon world. It seemed that in the span of a heartbeat, the city revived again, with bright lights and revelry, and all the beauties sharing the same sorrow. The beauty of the sunset had faded, and the brilliant and flashy world became even more desirable. The shops, archways, and the halos of the skyscrapers on the street were even more eye-catching, as if the heart of the entire country was beating there.

What a charming city! Half of it is a paradise for hedonists and half of it is a hell for workers. But no matter what, it is madly sucking the souls and flesh and blood of young people all over Japan, nourishing the soil here and allowing it to continue to grow.

interesting.

Soon, we arrived at the place.

The arched bridge pier was surrounded by police cars. At least ten police officers were lined up in two rows to protect the scene. Yellow lines were drawn around it, sirens were blaring, and the crowd was discussing what had happened. Several workers at the construction site were being questioned.

"Thank you for your hard work!" Inspector Tanaka was the first to get out of the car. He shook his suit with both hands and said to the police officers who were maintaining order at the scene in a threatening manner, "I've brought the people here."

"Thank you for your hard work!" A group of patrolmen around immediately bent down, and the scene was very grand for a while.

Doesn't this old man think he's handsome? Uesugi Sosetsu thought to himself in the back.

What kind of position is this police inspector? There are fewer fish in Tokyo Bay than those at this level.

Carrying the box, Uesugi Sosetsu saw a corpse under the bridge pier.

The body was about 170cm long and covered with a thick layer of yellow-brown. There were many dark brown wounds on the surface of the body. The whole body was dehydrated, but even so, the face of a middle-aged man was still vaguely visible.

Uesugi Sosetsu began the autopsy. Tanaka Rondo and Inspector General Kuwahara looked at each other and felt a little relieved.

It's not a good idea to ask people to work overtime on payday, but your own KPI is definitely more important! I'll give a lot to Uesugi... and they should report more overtime pay themselves.

"I'm sorry to trouble you again this time, little brother Uesugi. Do you think this is suicide or murder? Is it possible that it was an accident..." Before Tanaka Ryouto could finish his words, Uesugi Sosetsu had already spoken.

His voice was fierce and fast, with an unquestionable certainty.

"This isn't a recent body, this person has been dead for years!"

"Immediately investigate the meteorological history here. Check the period from the last time the bridge piers were repaired to now to see which years had particularly little rainfall in winter! Especially years with strong winds."

"Then, immediately investigate the surrounding communities to see if there are any family members who have gone missing in the past few years, who are 30-35 years old, male, have intellectual disabilities, prefer small, dark places, and disappeared in the winter! And they are still wearing pajamas!"

"Going right now!"

　Some people asked why there is no interaction with the beautiful girl. I can only say that it is impossible to just start with daily life. There must be some foreshadowing and content, and there needs to be a reasonable reason for the protagonist to be liked.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)