The Case of the Counter-Offer

Why does every good citizen in Beika City own a gun?

Why do criminal syndicates manufacture bombs so casually?

The secret lurking just beneath the surface is glaringly obvious: it is caused by the arms-smuggling business run by these very criminal organizations!

Fujino had long since recognized this fact.

Organized crime syndicates were a lot like wild grass.

After burning them all to the ground with a single fire, it would not take long for them to sprout up again like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, endless to chop and impossible to eradicate.

What was more, the attitude of the official authorities in Japan said it all; their tolerance of the existence of yakuza organizations was, in itself, a form of connivance at such behavior.

Who would believe there were no shady, collusive backroom deals behind the scenes?

One could only say: Oh Japan, you truly have no conscience!

As an outstanding youth of Beika City (self-proclaimed), an elite external temporary police officer for the Metropolitan Police Department, and one of the most famous contemporary high school detectives.

Fujino made a phone call to his good older brother Juzo Megure the very first time he obtained the evidence.

After briefly introducing the target they were going to raid... arrest this time, good brother Megure was thrilled, his brain automatically generating a calculation formula:

Yakuza gang + smuggled firearms + organized crime = a massive amount of credit + claimable operation funds

He could not help but sigh inwardly with emotion:

As expected of little brother Fujino, he just casually rustled up a rare, once-in-a-lifetime big job for him!

Performance reviews are coming in again, oh yeah!

However, it was obvious that the First Investigation Division definitely could not swallow up all of this kind of organized crime by