The Tokyo Police Journey Begins with the Ability to See Evil Thoughts

Chapter 4: When dealing with a suspect, one must harbor the worst possible malice.

Back in his dormitory, Kamiya Gen washed up, changed his clothes, sat down at his desk, and took out paper and pen to prepare to write a report on the case.

But before that, he first opened his own system.

[Name: Gen Kamiya]

[Personal Attributes: Intelligence 91, Strength 83, Stamina 82...]

【当前技能掌握：擒拿术lv1、厨艺技巧lv5、投篮技巧lv4、洞察人心lv2、枪械操控lv3、法务谈判技巧lv8、法律漏洞规避lv9、证据收集lv7、文书撰写lv8……】

[Current number of skill draws available: 3.]

[Note: Due to the elimination of the black evil energy of "Nobuya Oki", this three-pull is guaranteed to yield a high-level skill reward.]

After reading all the information, Kamiya Gen rubbed his hands together and silently recited "Praise the Fool" three times in his mind.

This reward was earned after dealing with a madman for several hours, so it should be something decent, right?

The thought crossed his mind, and the lottery wheel spun rapidly in his head, but the next second, his expression turned strange.

[Skill acquired: Intense Light Resistance Lv2.]

[Skill acquired: Knife Manipulation Lv4.]

[Skill acquired: Charisma Release Lv8.]

"Hiss... How can it be so bad?" Kamiya Gen said speechlessly.

The familiar feeling of instantly grasping the skills came over me, but these three skills were really both laughable and frustrating.

The first one at most allows him to look directly at the sun without sunglasses, which is completely useless; the second one seems to have some meaning, but a policeman can't carry a knife around all the time, so it would be better to have some skills in handling firearms; as for the last one... he's a policeman, not an entertainer, so how can charm be used as evidence?

If I had known it would be this kind of crappy reward, why did I bother interrogating that madman for hours?

"Ultimately, this system is just terrible. It would be much more practical to just give us money directly..."

Kamiya Gen couldn't help but complain.

It's not surprising that he said that. Over the years, the system has given him very few good things—those useful law-related skills are all his old skills from his previous life as a lawyer.

Pulling himself out of his thoughts, Kamiya Gen shut down the system, reluctantly tore open the packaging of the instant noodle cup next to him, added hot water, and picked up a pen and paper to start writing a report.

……

The next morning, light snowflakes began to fall in Shibuya.

Gen Kamiya went to the police station and submitted his report to the inspector.

I was planning to go straight back to my dorm to catch up on sleep during my day off, but I was notified to go to the police chief's office, saying that Saionji Chikawa wanted to "discuss the details of the case" with him.

As for this perverted police chief, Gen Kamiya had nothing to say. He treated all her suggestive remarks as nonsense, mainly because he couldn't understand them.

What does it mean to say, "If there's anything you don't understand in the future, you can always bypass your superiors and come directly to my office to ask me"?

If I really do that... then I'll be violating police regulations and giving her leverage over me. Sooner or later, won't she force me to kneel down and lick her feet?

After playing a fool who "couldn't understand the subtext" for more than half an hour, Kamiya Gen finally dragged his tired steps out of the office.

As soon as I got back to my workstation, I saw Muheyou slumped over the table next to me, her eyes dark and bluish-black, looking like a panda that had been staying up all night.

It seems that when it comes to staying up late and waking up early, some people are even worse off than me.

Thinking this to himself, Kamiya Gen said, "Good morning, Inspector Kihachi, have you figured it out yet?"

"No..." Muheyou looked up, her eyes filled with frustration.

"Then you'd better keep it up."

Kamiya Gen intended to continue the conversation, and after finishing, he packed his things to leave.

He was going to go back to sleep and decide whether to get up based on his mood.

Ke Muheyou immediately followed, and the two walked out of the police station one after the other.

The snow was still falling, and the fine snowflakes landed on her short hair, melting into water droplets in an instant.

"I really can't understand it."

She pressed on, "Oki has been judged to be mentally unstable, so his words are inherently unreliable. How exactly did Kamiya-kun realize there was something wrong with his testimony?"

Seeing that this guy had no intention of letting him go, Kamiya Gen said helplessly:

"It's really just based on intuition. You yourself said that his words are unreliable, so what's wrong with me suspecting that he killed more than one person?"

"But there has to be some indication of suspicion, right?" Muheyou persisted.

"There are so many senior officers in the police department. Have you ever seen anyone solve a case based on logical reasoning? Don't they all just arrest people based on their gut feeling, interrogate them, and then..."

Kamiya Gen couldn't continue, since this Inspector Kihachi didn't seem to have participated in any cases yet, and it was hard to say whether it would be a good thing for her to know about those special 'interrogation' methods.

"Kamiya-kun, you're not that kind of person," Yuzuki suddenly said, her tone very serious and earnest.

"Oh?"

Kamiya Gen became interested and turned to look at her, asking, "What kind of person do you think I am?"

"I've seen Kamiya's information. He's from the Faculty of Law at Tokyo Metropolitan University, and his undergraduate grades were overwhelmingly the best. How could someone as knowledgeable about the law as you do something that violates police regulations?"

Kamiya Gen couldn't accept such high praise and quickly waved his hand:

"That's not right. There are plenty of people who knowingly break the law."

"Kamiya-kun, that's sophistry. Anyway, I think you're a good person... Why that expression?"

Muheyou noticed the strange change in the expression on the person next to her.

Kamiya Gen didn't like being given a "friend card" for no reason, and said, "In short, your understanding of solving cases is too naive."

"What do you mean?"

"The so-called crime-solving does not involve identifying the culprit by following clues. Cases with strong logical reasoning only exist in novels, and their purpose is merely to whet the reader's appetite."

The two had already gone outside. Kamiya Gen rubbed his temples; breathing in the cold air suddenly in this weather always gave him a headache.

He put his hands in his pockets, looked at the snowflakes drifting in the sky, and continued:

"Many criminals have already deviated from the logical line of reasoning in their methods. We, as normal people, are within the line. If we still try to solve cases using normal reasoning, the criminals will not play this cat-and-mouse game with us."

"Then how should we solve the case?" Muheyou asked.

Kamiya Gen cleared his throat, intending to put some pressure on this person of absolute justice:

"When dealing with a suspect, you should have the worst possible intentions. If it's a burglary, suspect that he intends to rob; if it is a robbery, suspect that he intends to kill..."

"Isn't this a frame-up?" Mu Heyou came out without winter clothes, shivering from the cold, her hands clasped to her chest, her nose red.

"I already said it was just a suspicion."

Kamiya Gen rolled his eyes at her, speechless, and said, "For example, in the case of Oki Nobuya, he accidentally killed his own sister, so I suspect it was intentional. And he's also involved in several recent missing persons and murders in Shibuya. Is that alright?"

"Too good, too good to be true..."

Muheyou nodded, then suddenly seemed to remember something, her voice dropping so low it was almost carried away by the wind.

"By the way, Kamiya-kun's report was supposed to be given to the police inspector, but the superintendent called her into his office... Her reputation wasn't good to begin with."

She glanced furtively at Kamiya Gen and continued:

"Then... it's reasonable for me to suspect that Kamiya-kun is being threatened by her into doing something he doesn't want to do, isn't it?"