Akai Shuichi's New Job

Thanks to the legacy left behind by his late friends, Furuya Rei quickly formed bonds in this new environment.

Sato, Takagi, and Officer Shiratori all sincerely accepted this new Management Officer, who had once fought alongside Matsuda Jinpei and Date Wataru.

They warmly gathered around Furuya Rei, explaining the ins and outs of Investigation Division One and helping him familiarize himself with his new post.

"That's roughly the situation in Division One."

"Management Officer Furuya, is there anything else you'd like to know?"

"Mm." After a brief pause, Furuya Rei asked, "What about the Forensics Division?"

Because of the tremendous changes Lin Xinyi had brought to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, the Forensics Division was no longer the inconspicuous "retirement" department it used to be.

Since he would be serving as a Management Officer in Investigation Division One, he would inevitably need to work with the Forensics Division.

"How is the Forensics Division doing now?"

"It hasn't been affected by Mr. Lin's leave, has it?"

"Well..." Sato Miwako thought seriously for a moment. "It's been all right."

"When Management Officer Lin first took his long leave, the Forensics Division's operations were thrown into temporary chaos."

"Even quite a few people in Investigation Division One worried that without Mr. Lin, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department would regress to its former incompetent... uh, much-criticized state."

Lin Xinyi was the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's savior.

Without him, leaving everything else aside, Inspector Megure—the "great detective" who had maintained a one-hundred-percent case clearance rate these past few months—would surely have run into plenty of trouble.

"But through the joint efforts of Section Chief Asai Narumi and Management Officer Lin's two students, both the Forensics Division and Investigation Division One have basically been able to operate steadily."

"And for some reason..."

"Recently, the homicide rate