Takayuki Yagami

Jiang Hang also stayed at the other party's office to find out some gossip, after all, as a detective, he needed to know a little bit about all kinds of information.

Although he probably couldn't be like Conan, who not only learned various driving and firearms skills in Hawaii, but also probably memorized dozens of encyclopedias, allowing him to retrieve relevant information from even the most obscure knowledge.

"That lawyer from three years ago, I think it was Yagami Lawyer, was indeed quite capable. He was riding high after Auntie's case. If it weren't for the fact that the defendant committed murder later, he would probably be the top lawyer in Kamurocho by now."

Chihiro Ayasato clearly remembered these things.

She can name most of the well-known lawyers in the market, and she has also been to the courtrooms of the opposing party to some extent.

Compared to the sensational content deliberately written in the news to attract attention, Chihiro Ayasato's side undoubtedly has a lot of real information.

The situation back then was that a cleaner at a medical center killed a patient suffering from Alzheimer's disease and disposed of the body.

After being arrested by the police, the man insisted that he had only discovered the deceased's body among the dirty sheets while transporting them.

Then, because of his prior criminal record, the defendant abandoned the body in the wilderness to avoid being fired from the hospital.

Ultimately, with the Yagami Lawyer unable to confirm the exact time of the deceased's death and the hospital's fabricated evidence being exposed, the defendant was acquitted.

"However, there were still many doubts in that case back then, and in the end, it was never clear how the old man died. Later, the defendant killed his girlfriend after another bout of drunkenness, which led to her being arrested again and entering prison with almost no interrogation."

Chihiro Ayasato even took out the newspaper from that year and compared it with her records.

"At the time, I actually felt that there might be some problems with this case, but since I was not in charge of the case, I couldn't conduct any investigation."

At this point, Chihiro Ayasato smiled and looked at Jiang Hang: "But regarding yesterday's trial where the defendant was also acquitted, I actually have another piece of inside information."

As she said this, Chihiro Ayasato called out to Ryūichi Naruhodō, who was idly organizing files.

As the other person's familiar spiky hair lifted his head from the pile of files on the desk, Chihiro Ayasato patted him on the shoulder. "Naruhodo-kun, didn't you go to the courtroom to watch yesterday? Tell me what you saw."

Because Chihiro Ayasato did not die, the agency has not become Phoenix Wright's Agency. Ryūichi Naruhodō is still just a standard rookie.

Even though he had won several criminal cases, he still had to go to various courtrooms to learn from their experiences under Chihiro Ayasato's instructions.

Yesterday's trial of the serial murder and eye-gouging case was indeed a very popular case, so Ryūichi Naruhodō naturally went to watch it.

Ryūichi Naruhodō and Jiang Hang had always had a good relationship. After exchanging greetings, he began to talk about what he had seen at the court hearing the day before.

"So, the witness seemed hesitant to testify for the defendant at first, but finally agreed to do so after a recess?"

There's not much to say about the process of proving innocence, because according to the autopsy results, the deceased died between 1 a. m. and 3 a. m., after midnight.

The defendant Kyohei Hamura, was found to have left the club where the victim was beaten before midnight, and during that time he had a conflict with a male host and beat him up.

That male prostitute is now the witness.

The scene was even captured by a nearby security camera, but Kyohei Hamura's face wasn't very clear, which is why the male escort who was beaten needed to come forward and testify whether Kyohei Hamura had hit him that night.

"That male escort was really unlucky. He was beaten up and still had to stand up and testify for others. I wonder if there are any other gangs threatening him later," Ryūichi Naruhodō didn't seem to have any sympathy for Kyohei Hamura.

The arrogant attitude the other party displayed during the trial was very off-putting.

In Ryūichi Naruhodō's words, this Mafia boss must have more than one life on his hands, and this case must be related to him, otherwise why would the victim have died in the back alley of that club?

There are clearly many questions that could be studied, yet some were hastily declared innocent.

"Those prosecutors must have gone easy on them. Even if they had sent that bald Prosecutor Auchi, they wouldn't have given up on questioning them so easily, let alone send Yujian over!"

Ryūichi Naruhodō's sense of justice and intuition about the truth made him sense that there was something fishy about this case.

"There are indeed many doubts in this case, so the police also want me to investigate the issues here." Jiang Hang did not reveal the behind-the-scenes bosses of the two gangs.

It would be fine to tell Chihiro Ayasato these things, as she already knew what was going on, but it would be better to Ryūichi Naruhodō Chihiro Ayasato.

However, besides what happened in court, Jiang Hang also obtained some important information.

The Yagami Lawyer, who gave up his legal career three years ago because of that case, also appeared in court and seemed to have a significant connection to the case.

During the recess, Ryūichi Naruhodō noticed that the other party was leaving in a rather strange and anxious manner, wondering what he was going to deal with.

After he finished dealing with the matter and returned, the witness honestly explained the situation.

"I think there should be some connection between them. After I came back, I learned about the experience of that Yagami Lawyer. It seems that after leaving the law firm, he opened a detective agency and is now working as a detective in Kamurocho."

Ryūichi Naruhodō continued, "I always felt that the reason this case was acquitted was also inseparable from this Yagami Lawyer."

That Shintani Lawyer, is probably just someone who sucks up to powerful figures; otherwise, given his skill level, it's unlikely he could suddenly evolve to the point where he can win criminal cases.

"A detective, huh?" Jiang Hang blinked.

In a world where cases are everywhere, lawyers and detectives are indeed quite common professions.

Actually, forensic doctors should also be included, but Japan only has a little over a hundred forensic doctors to begin with.

Among them are a bunch of incompetent slackers who hold positions without doing any work.

Many of those who had mastered forensic skills chose to become detectives.

She resembles Sakurako Kujo and Ikumi Soda.

The reason UDI was established is that Japan not only lacks forensic pathologists, but also lacks truly responsible and capable ones.

Jiang Hang had dealt with many detectives in the past few months, so he wasn't surprised to learn that he would encounter another detective in this case.

I wonder what stance this former disgraced lawyer, now a detective, currently holds.

After thanking the two for the clues they had provided, Jiang Hang expressed his gratitude and then got up to leave.

Before leaving, Chihiro Ayasato seemed to have guessed something, so she pulled Jiang Hang aside at the entrance of the agency and gave him a few reminders.

"This case may have an impact no less than the small, Xiao Zhongda case back then. Jiang Hang, you'd better pay more attention."

In terms of the people involved, this case, involving Xiao Zhongda, is indeed the most extensive among all the cases Jiang Hang has ever handled.

After all, Xiao Zhongda has been in the intelligence industry for over twenty years, selling private information since the time of Chihiro Ayasato's mother. He has offended many important figures through coercion, but those figures could only suffer in silence.

Seeing how Xiao Zhongda were extorting others on equal footing, they would occasionally deliberately send them information about their competitors to control them.

If Chihiro Ayasato hadn't initially wanted to launch a massive self-destruction, Xiao Zhongda might not have taken such an extreme approach.

After nearly dying once, Chihiro Ayasato began to think things through. She realized that she couldn't fight against so many powerful figures, and if she continued to persist, not only she but everyone around her would be implicated.

Therefore, she only chose to send Xiao Zhongda had confessed to the crime, to prison, thus ending the case.

It can be said that although Xiao Zhongda himself was involved in a wide range of matters, due to the control exerted by both sides, the situation did not really escalate in the end, and those big shots had no intention of getting involved.

Therefore, that commission at that time could not be considered a five-star commission.

Hearing yet another person express their concerns, Jiang Hang felt that the Pioneer Foundation, which served as his background, was indeed being a bit too low-key.

It's one thing for ordinary people to have never heard of it, but even those who know the name of the Foundation always think of Foundation as just an ordinary commercial investment organization that seems harmless except for being rich.

So much so that apart from the original Kaito Kid, who has been in the Foundation for ten years, only the old Silver Coin BOSS in the Black Organization has been severely beaten once. So they know a little bit about the Foundation. Perhaps James from the FBI, who is neither good nor evil, may also have some understanding of the Foundation's strength.

"So, system, you see, the background title you gave me is still not enough. So many people actually think I will be affected by those insects."

Jiang Hang asked his system brother in a sarcastic tone, "So, system brother, if those guys want to use low-level methods like assassination or framing me, that's fine. But what if I make those insects suffer too much and force me to leave the country? Can the background you created protect me?"

In response, the Assassin System, which had been silent for a long time, finally made a statement after a period of silence.

"Please rest assured to complete the commission. As long as you are accepting and completing the commission normally, the system will handle any other matters that may affect your completion of the commission."

Chapter 609: Takayuki Yagami

The system's response was quite forceful.

Although Jiang Hang hadn't actually been worried about that kind of thing.

There's not much to worry about in terms of sneak attacks and assassinations. If an assassin could be so easily ambushed and assassinated, he might as well quit the game.

If he really encounters those people who can't take a joke and try to force Jiang Hang to leave the country, then he, who can't be a detective, will have to put on his armor and become an assassin in the night to cause trouble.

The reason he didn't expose so much dirt on Japan and cause trouble is because he had nothing to do with Japan politics anyway.

He didn't want to encounter these disgusting things.

He really didn't intend to take action against them as long as those guys didn't bring their disgusting things to his attention.

Now that the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department had asked him to help with the investigation, and this case had become such a big commotion, he was finally ready to see what was going on.

What do those so-called "big shots" do? They gouge out eyes and dispose of corpses.

Even if the victims were just gang members who wouldn't elicit much sympathy, such a cruel method of killing was still too much.

Even if we follow the ancestral methods and sink it in Tokyo Bay?

So these guys really don't care about public opinion at all?

Jiang Hang thought with a hint of sarcasm, then bid farewell to Chihiro Ayasato and re-entered Kamurocho's territory.

He usually comes here at night to do a few jobs and catch some petty thugs; he rarely comes to this place during the day.

During the day, Kamurocho looks like a fairly normal, bustling street.

But when I walk down the street, I always see those thugs with fierce eyes and covered in tattoos.

However, as long as you don't provoke them, they generally won't bother you in broad daylight for no reason.

"Shintani Lawyer and that Yagami Detective?" Jiang Hang thought for a moment. Since Shintani Lawyer was a good-for-nothing, he decided to let him go and see what Shintani was up to.

Even if he's an incompetent lawyer, as the lawyer who nominally won the case, he should at least know some inside information that is unknown to others.

This guy is really unreliable.

Jiang Hang stood on the rooftop of the high-rise building opposite the law firm, watching the smug middle-aged man from afar with Eagle Eye.

To be honest, Jiang Hang's first reaction was that this guy really didn't have any skills.

My second reaction was that I figured this man was probably not a bad person.

Then Jiang Hang simply used a spam email and a junk message. After the other party opened these virus-infected messages, he easily took over the permissions of the other party's laptop and mobile phone.

And so he did investigate, and he actually found quite a lot of things.

First, he confirmed that Genda Law Office was not a shady law firm that colluded with the Mafia. At least, apart from the recent case related to Kyohei Hamura, neither Shintani Lawyer nor the other lawyers in the firm had taken on many cases representing the Mafia.

Secondly, the other party made a rather abrupt call to an unfamiliar number today.

The other party's search history was also completely preserved on their laptop, with no attempt to conceal it.

It gives the impression that after finishing the lawsuit, they want to secretly investigate other aspects of the case, but without any precautions.

"They were really not vigilant enough. They helped Mafia member win a case and left so many traces of the investigation. In a movie, they would look like the next victim."

Working for Mafia is inherently dangerous, and this case involves many powerful figures. For an ordinary lawyer with no connections to do this is simply asking for trouble.

Jiang Hang made this comment, and then, following the clues, began to investigate the source of the phone call using the information on his laptop.

Jiang Hang quickly discovered that the phone number belonged to an official phone number of a Cutting-Edge New Drug Development Center that the other party had found online.

However, the other party did not have the call recording function enabled, so Jiang Hang did not know why he contacted the research center.

It can't be that the other party or their family has some kind of shady disease, so they only contacted the research center to inquire about the situation after winning the lawsuit and making money, right?

Of course, the possibility of illness cannot be ruled out at present, but Jiang Hang still made a note of the research center and searched for it online.

Then his eyes suddenly sharpened.

"Did the case from three years ago actually happen in this very place?"

Jiang Hang was referring to the case that Yagami Lawyer won three years ago.

It was only because the defendant committed another crime that the perpetrator of the murder case was once again implicitly identified as that defendant.

"But why would this Shintani Lawyer, contact this center?" Jiang Hang pondered for a moment.

Or is there some connection between these two cases?

It seems I still have to go and meet with that Yagami.

Now that it has been confirmed that this law firm is not controlled by the Mafia, the detective named Takayuki Yagami, who is still able to maintain a long-term cooperative relationship with this firm, is probably not a shady detective.

Thinking this through, Jiang Hang glanced at Masamichi Shintani from afar, placed the Eagle Eye mark on him, and had Altair hover above him for the time being, to notify him if he noticed anything unusual.

With Altair's help, Jiang Hang located the Yagami Detective Agency and headed there.

Unfortunately, his luck wasn't so good this time. The other party wasn't at his firm, although their contact information was posted on the firm's door.

Jiang Hang scanned the area with the Eagle Eye device.

It was just a single room with no decorations, which showed that the other party's financial situation was not very good.

However, when Jiang Hang made a call, the other party did not answer directly.

I have no idea what the other person is busy with right now.

Jiang Hang briefly explained that he had something he wanted to consult the other party about and hoped that the other party would call him back.