Chapter 37 Deep Breath... Dizziness Is Normal (2nd Update)
Inside the interrogation room.
"Dino Cabane, your accomplice has confessed to your criminal acts."
"Lenient treatment for those who confess, severe punishment for those who resist. Voluntarily reveal the hiding place of those maple leaf stolen funds!"
"We will appropriately reduce your sentence!"
"......"
Inspector Megure tirelessly persuaded the other party to reveal the hiding place of the stolen funds.
However, Dino Cabane didn't say a single word from beginning to end.
He was waiting for the embassy people to extradite him back to Italy to serve his sentence.
If he went back to jail, he could still use the hiding place of the maple leaf gold coins as a bargaining chip to have someone break him out of prison and take him away.
If he really confessed, he would have no bargaining chips left, and he would truly be locked up for life.
He knew very well how to choose.
Inside the observation room.
Shiratori Ninzaburo said somewhat wearily, "We've been interrogating him for three hours straight, and he hasn't said anything. He's quite persistent!"
"Isn't that the truth?" Sato Miwako crossed her arms, expressing little hope. "I think we should just give up. Let the embassy people extradite him back tomorrow."
Shiratori said, "I'm just afraid he'll be hijacked again on the way back."
"That's true, it's been so chaotic lately." Sato Miwako nodded in agreement, saying, "That's related to 15,000 maple leaf gold coins, which would sell for a total of six hundred million yen!"
"Many desperate criminals will definitely take risks for this money."
While chatting, the door of the observation room opened.
Sato and Shiratori subconsciously looked over.
"That... you..." Akemi opened the door and came in. She was about to ask, "Do you want some coffee?" but she didn't expect to see Sato Miwako as soon as she entered, and she completely panicked.
Fortunately, Baishi Hui's urging voice sounded in the wireless earpiece, which brought Akemi back to her senses. She quickly said, "Sirs... do you want some coffee?"
"A cup for me, please." Shiratori glanced at Akemi, then paid no further attention, turning his gaze back to the interrogation room.
"A cup for me too..." Sato Miwako paused here, then changed her mind, saying, "Never mind, I'll go to the pantry and make some tea! If I drink more coffee, I probably won't be able to sleep tonight."
Saying that, she voluntarily left the observation room.
Akemi was a bit flustered, but as she left, she still saw Dino Cabane.
He was in that interrogation room!!
However, the problem was... she couldn't leave now, so she had to bite the bullet and go to the pantry with Sato Miwako.
To prevent Sato Miwako from seeing her face, Akemi deliberately lagged a few steps behind, following her.
However, Sato Miwako turned around and slowed down, saying, "Have we met before? Why do I feel like I've seen you somewhere?"
She frowned slightly, trying hard to remember where she had met the other party.
"This..." Akemi was a little flustered, her mind blank, not knowing how to answer, and afraid of saying the wrong thing.
Fortunately, at this moment, Baishi Hui's voice came through the wireless earpiece: "Say you're from the Cyber Crimes Division and that you've delivered documents to Officer Sato before."
As soon as Akemi heard this, she quickly replied, "I... I'm from the Cyber Crimes Division. I've delivered documents to Officer Sato a few times before."
"Ah, ah... I'm sorry, I forgot." Sato Miwako showed an apologetic expression.
She carefully looked at the identification card on the other party's chest and said, "Officer Hirota, right... I'll remember you now!"
Oh, please don't remember me. I really don't want you to remember me... Akemi wailed inwardly.
"How are things over at your Cyber Crimes Division? Is the work tiring?" Seeing that the other party was quite shy, Sato Miwako took the initiative to strike up a conversation.
"Uh... it's quite busy and tiring." Akemi followed Baishi Hui's prompt and said, "Running around every day, working overtime until late at night, not getting enough sleep, I've lost a lot of hair recently."
"Isn't that the truth? Ah, working overtime to the point of mental exhaustion, I feel like my memory has declined quite a bit. Sometimes I can't even remember things that happened half a month ago." Sato Miwako said empathetically, "The longest time I went without going home was a week, I just booked a room at a nearby hotel to sleep."
"I used all my commuting time for sleeping."
After hearing this, Akemi couldn't help but exclaim, "Ah? Police work is that busy?"
After saying that, she realized she might have let something slip and quickly added, "I'm new, I didn't know it was this hard..."
"You'll know eventually." Sato Miwako suddenly thought of something and stopped walking, saying, "Ah! Right, after all this time... has Ms. Fujiwara still not come looking for me?"
She said apologetically to Akemi, "Sorry, Officer Hirota. Could I trouble you to make me a cup of tea? Bring it over to the reception room."
"Okay, I can." Akemi lowered her head guiltily.
"Thank you then." After Sato Miwako thanked her, she headed to the reception room.
After seeing the other party leave, Akemi also quickly sped up and left, heading towards the restroom.
After returning to the restroom to retrieve her bag, she quickly left the Metropolitan Police Department.
After coming out of the Metropolitan Police Department building, Akemi finally let out a sigh of relief.
Only then did she realize her back was soaked and her palms were sweaty.
"Azu-sensei, I'm out now." She quickly replied.
Baishi Hui, at the entrance of the Metropolitan Police Department, saw Akemi's hurried departure and said, "I know... go back to the car first, leave the rest to me."
After saying this, he swaggered towards the entrance of the Metropolitan Police Department.
Baishi Hui was wearing a mask at this moment, so he wasn't worried about being caught on camera.
Upon reaching the entrance, he reached into his pocket and pressed a button.
The remote bomb in the power box was instantly detonated!
Boom!!!
With the sound of the explosion, there was a flash of fire.
The Metropolitan Police Department's power system was destroyed, and the lights instantly went out!
Baishi Hui quickly put on thermal night vision goggles and ran at full speed into the Metropolitan Police Department.
The sudden power outage caused everyone in the Metropolitan Police Department to subconsciously stop and look around blankly.
This provided Baishi Hui with a huge advantage. He easily bypassed everyone, using the footage from the camera glasses Akemi wore to find the route to the interrogation room.
After running for a few minutes, Baishi Hui quickly arrived outside Dino Cabane's interrogation room.
He opened the door with a click and found that Inspector Megure and Takagi Wataru were inside.
Baishi Hui said slightly out of breath, "Inspector Megure, Superintendent Matsumoto wants you to go over."
"He wants me to go over? But didn't Superintendent Matsumoto already get off work?" Inspector Megure was very confused.
Baishi Hui walked behind him, covered his nose with a handkerchief soaked in ether, and held him with his other hand, saying, "He just came back!"
"Mmm mmm mmm!!" Inspector Megure saw his nose being covered and immediately realized something was wrong.
But by the time he reacted, it was already too late.
The moment his nose was covered, he almost subconsciously inhaled a few breaths of ether and fainted in less than three seconds.
"What's that noise?" Takagi Wataru subconsciously turned his head towards Inspector Megure's position, but everything went black, and he couldn't see anything.
"Oh, the Inspector accidentally stubbed his toe when he stood up." Baishi Hui saw that Inspector Megure was no longer struggling and turned to deal with Takagi Wataru.
Just as Takagi Wataru was about to check on Inspector Megure, he suddenly felt his nose and mouth being covered and was instantly startled!
However, a low voice came from beside him: "Deep breath... dizziness is normal."
But after Takagi Wataru inhaled a couple of times, he realized something was wrong.
By then, it was too late to struggle. His head tilted, and he fell unconscious.