My Style!

Thud, thud, thud—

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—

Creak, creak—

At that moment, Shiraishi felt as if he could hear his own body "roaring"!

If Lv10 was the limit of humanity, then...

Lv11 was undoubtedly beyond that limit!

At that moment, Shiraishi felt his heartbeat tolling like a bell, his blood surging like a great river, his muscles and bones creaking...

Of course, that was only a "feeling." Otherwise, with his injuries, one surge of blood would have caused him to bleed out...

Yet the opposite was happening. As his muscles tensed, the bullet hole in Shiraishi's thigh contracted, squeezing out a bullet before sealing shut completely!

The bullet in his shoulder remained, but the bleeding had already stopped...

At the same time...

"Base attributes have met new conditions. New skill unlocked: [My Style Combat Arts]."

Shiraishi Kuro: ???

Only then did Shiraishi Kuro discover that some "skills" required base attributes at Lv11 before he could even start investing points in them!

However...

Unfortunately, Shiraishi Kuro only had a little over four thousand points left.

And as a "skill," [My Style Combat Arts] required an entire tier more points than "base attributes." Lv1 alone required 10 points, while Lv6 already required 3,000 points...

After investing all his points, Shiraishi Kuro had only raised it to Lv6!

"He's hiding here!"

Someone spotted Shiraishi Kuro's position, but just then...

Clang!

The car in front of Shiraishi Kuro was flipped onto its side, creating a far wider shield. The bullets that had been meant to pierce the windows and injure him were all perfectly blocked.

At the same time, the machete-wielding thug who had just spotted Shiraishi from the side saw two crimson streaks flash past, and then his vision suddenly went black...

Before Shiraishi Kuro struck him down, the last crimson streaks he saw...

Were Shiraishi Kuro's eyes!

It was not real "red light." Rather, Shiraishi Kuro's body, having surpassed its limits, was already exerting pressure on their minds...

It made them instinctively feel that he was "glowing." This, too, was a manifestation of a body that had "surpassed its limits"!

(It was like Kyogoku Makoto's protect-the-wife mode in the movie.)

Bang, bang, bang—

A hail of bullets came flying in, bursting bloody blossoms across Shiraishi Kuro's body!

Yet facing the barrage, Shiraishi Kuro, whose entire body seemed to be glowing, actually dropped into a horse stance?

Blood sprayed everywhere, but Shiraishi Kuro did not so much as budge when the bullets hit him.

The next moment, he moved with the swiftness of a rabbit, charging straight at them...

As for what Shiraishi Kuro was thinking?

Even Shiraishi Kuro could not answer that...

After comprehending "My Style," the moment the urge to fight arose, Shiraishi Kuro felt every thought vanish completely.

At that point, he could not even form a single sentence of human language in his mind.

The gunfire and curses around him seemed to have lost their original meaning...

He simply acted on instinct!

Another round of mowing through them like grass...

Ring, ring—

Police sirens approached...

Rather than panicking further when they heard the sound, the members of the violent organization found it strangely comforting, wailing for their mothers and fathers one after another!

Officers from the prefectural police and the local precinct arrived almost at the same time...

When Jugo Yokomizo got out of the prefectural police vehicle, he immediately glared at the person leading the team opposite him. After receiving Shiraishi's message, he had rushed over at once from the Kanagawa Prefectural Police Headquarters in Yokohama's city center. He had already come at full speed, considering there was still some distance between the airport hotel and downtown.

But...

The local precinct within the jurisdiction had actually arrived at the same time as him?

There was clearly something wrong with their response time. Especially since... their deputy chief was leading the team, moving at such an unhurried pace that it looked anything but normal.

But soon...

The sight before them left them dumbfounded!

Had there been... a large-scale shootout?

Or did Shiraishi Kuro truly have "forces behind him" helping with his investigation?

"Shiraishi!" The moment Jugo Yokomizo saw Shiraishi lying on the ground, he rushed over, no longer caring to berate the local precinct officers.

Shiraishi Kuro was covered in blood, but... he was still breathing!

"Ambulance! Get an ambulance! Treat this one first!" Yokomizo immediately shouted.

At the same time...

"Deputy Chief, this... I'm afraid..."

"Arrest them! Arrest them all..."

Although the precinct officers were involved in the incident, still...

They obviously did not believe that the scene before them had been caused by Shiraishi Kuro alone.

When Shiraishi Kuro sent the message, he had deliberately made things mysterious. They therefore suspected that the rumors claiming Shiraishi Kuro was Commissioner General Hakuuma's advance man were probably true, and that there had to be other police officers nearby!

They even wondered whether the Public Security Police had been conducting a secret operation...

So they did not dare openly play favorites, and they cuffed every gang member present—though there were not many left who needed cuffing. Most of them were already lying on the ground...

"Come help!"

As four emergency responders struggled to lift Shiraishi, he regained a little consciousness on the stretcher. After barely raising his hand, Yokomizo immediately leaned close to listen...

Yokomizo froze for a moment, then immediately said, "All right! Don't worry!"

August 26, 2016. Mori Detective Agency, Beika Town, Tokyo.

"Honestly, how could something like that happen? You went on a week-long trip to America alone with that brat while you were still in high school... Hey! Don't tell me you stayed in the same room at night?" Mori Kogoro was throwing a fit.

After all, his daughter had just spent a week traveling with that brat from the Kudo family.

He had agreed to it, but he was still unhappy about it.

"Dad! What are you talking about... At night... what do you mean, at night?! Aunt Yukiko obviously arranged everything!" Ran hurriedly said.

"Hmph, who knows..." Mori still looked deeply displeased.

Trying to change the subject, Ran brought up the murder case in the sky they had encountered just after setting out.

Hearing that the brat had actually solved a case, Mori became even more annoyed. However...

When Mori heard about "the tall Officer Shiraishi," he suddenly froze, then muttered, "So you ran into that incident too..."

"That incident?" Ran was taken aback.

Mori then turned on the television, and sure enough, the news was reporting...

"Regarding the Ryumarukai incident, Minister of Justice Inukai Ichiro has recently submitted his resignation to the Cabinet and held a press conference to apologize... Prosecutors are still investigating his other illegal activities... The officer injured during this police operation is no longer in critical condition..."

On the screen, Inukai Ichiro wore a regretful expression as he bowed ninety degrees toward the cameras.

Over the past week, events had unfolded exactly as Shiraishi Kuro had planned!

The Minister of Justice's cooperation with a large-scale violent organization could no longer be concealed...

On one hand, Shiraishi Kuro's "plan worked," creating such a huge commotion. Combined with the evidence he had left for Yokomizo and Washinuma Noboru's testimony; on the other hand... Commissioner General Hakuuma had indeed played a positive role. Although he had not openly confronted Minister Inukai before, he had not only tacitly approved Shiraishi Kuro's actions, but had also immediately joined in forcing Inukai Ichiro out once things began to gain traction.

Now that their collusion had been conclusively proven, a number of senior officers at the local headquarters—especially at the local precinct—had been suspended and brought down as well...

Public opinion surrounding numerous wrongful cases had also begun to ferment online. The prosecution announced overnight that it would establish a special task force to reinvestigate every case involved.

"No longer in critical condition? Ah! So it was that dangerous... That Minister of Justice is awful. Dad, do you know Officer Shiraishi?" Ran could not help asking after watching the news.

"No... He probably only joined the force five or six years ago, right?" Mori had resigned from criminal investigation ten years earlier.

"As expected of... um... a police officer from the Professional Group! It's good that he's all right. He'll surely rise through the ranks afterward and get rid of even more bad people!" Ran said hopefully.

Mori's expression turned somewhat strange. "Yeah... Let's hope so..."

Mori had spent many years in the police world. Though he was, comparatively speaking, someone who trusted the police organization deeply—especially many of his seniors and superiors, whom he greatly respected—he understood clearly at that moment that once things had reached the Minister of Justice, even if it appeared to be a "complete victory," this Inspector Shiraishi...

Forget rising through the ranks...

He would most likely be promoted in name only and quietly sidelined, never to enter the National Police Agency for the rest of his life. He might not even be able to remain in the Metropolitan Police Department!

Naturally, Mori would not tell his still-young daughter such things...