Chapter 521 – Episode 56. Preparation for the Sports Day and the Second Request From the Student Council.
After work, I had dinner and was roughly studying for my certification when I received a line from Tsubaki Shido.
– Tsubaki Shido: The investigation was completed sooner than expected, so I am sending you a list of faculty and staff members from the Self-Defense Forces and PMC who have been in office for more than 7 years.
The investigation will be over either tonight or tomorrow morning, so it’s over sooner than I thought. I downloaded and opened the list sent by Tsubaki Shido.
Since the World War had started just eight years ago, there were quite a few former soldiers at the academy. After the war, due to the burden of labor costs, many former members of the Self-Defense Forces and PMC poured into society, making it easy to see former soldiers. In fact, if you are a teacher at St. Francis Girls’ Academy, you can’t really call yourself a soldier. Most of them only belonged to the Self-Defense Forces and the public enterprise PMC, and many of them were conscripted in the second half of the war and were in charge of supplying rear lines.
Oh, there is also a former non-commissioned officer… ? If you were a non-commissioned officer, you would have been a solid soldier who also participated in the war. My name is Asada Fukushi. You’re the management team leader, right? It only said that the sergeant was discharged and there was no other information. There’s something suspicious…
-Yamashiro Ryuta: Do you have any detailed information about the management team leader?
– Tsubaki Shido: The reporter who investigated it said he was probably from the intelligence unit. It takes a long time to investigate…
I see. It’s an intelligence unit… If so, it fits perfectly with the third condition of a criminal mentioned in the clubroom: being good at information management. Since he looked old, I thought he might be a bit of an idiot, but I was surprised.
In fact, if you think about it, the management team within the academy was treated as almost invisible. If you walked around wearing blue work clothes, no one would pay attention unless you just entered the classroom during class.
If some of them were involved in drug crimes, it was natural that they would be difficult to find. This is because he knew the academy site better than anyone else, and there were temporary buildings for rest here and there outside the academy.
A few days ago, when I was going to the Daigo family residence, I recognized the old building I saw from the helicopter, and it turned out to be a warehouse and resting place for the forest management team’s tools. It was clear that if we decided to hide the drugs in a place like that, our Dating Experience Club students, who were ordinary people called the reconnaissance team, would never find it.
You may wonder why you didn’t know this now, but students and teachers don’t even care that the administration team is walking around. Even though I could see it, I just wondered what it was doing.
Still, since the management team leader Fukushi Asada was said to be suspicious and not confirmed to be the culprit, it was necessary to look at it a little more calmly. Let’s ask Tsubaki Shido some questions.
-Ryuta Yamashiro: I have a few things to ask you. Can you find out if anyone on the management team other than the management team leader had a military background? And please find out the family relationship of the management team leader.
-Tsubaki Shido: It’s not a very difficult investigation. Please wait a moment.
Tsubaki Shido must have realized who I was suspicious of. When I saw the reply coming right away, it seemed like my journalistic instincts were alive and kicking.
As I continued to think about the management team leader Fukushi Asada, I suddenly remembered something that had passed by before. I remember passing her in front of the academy’s director’s office and being surprised at how large the budget for tax was. The budget was allocated more than expected.
I wondered if the ingredients in detergent were ingredients for drugs, but not many people I knew much about chemistry. Then we will have no choice but to ask Eve, not a person.
I opened the Dark App and asked Eve if any of the ingredients in the detergent were ingredients for drugs.
-竜太: Eve, can you make drugs using detergent?
-EVE: Of course! Of course, not all detergents can make drugs, but the ingredients contained in professional products from companies A and D…
As expected, Eve is also Ai, so like Chet GPT, I received an answer that could fit one A4 sheet of paper at a time. After hearing this, I heard that the ingredients are different because it is not a regular detergent, but a product used by professional cleaning companies. And although it is possible to make drugs using those other ingredients, it is said that such detergents are kept on the government’s radar, so bulk purchases are always checked.
No matter how much surveillance is done, I think that if it were St. Francis Girls’ Academy, which is itself a collusion with power, it would be possible to purchase it without the government’s suspicion…
Then all that remains is to confirm with Terue Daigo. I called Terue Daigo without delay. Daigo Terue is probably still an academy because the former temporary academy director, Kosuke Ishidera, was busy correcting the mess he had made.
-Mr. Yamashiro?
“I’m calling you because I have something to ask the academy director. “Are you an academy?”
-Yes. I think I’ll be busy until next week because Kosuke Isidera messed up something and the sports day overlapped. I heard it from the student council president. That… Are you helping me with a drug case? Thank you, Mr. Yamashiro
“Yes, I would like to ask you something related to that. Can I know what cleaning detergent is currently used at the academy?”
– Could you please wait a moment? I left the receipt here somewhere. I need to look it up, so please wait a moment.
He is an amazing academy director who even collects every single receipt. Almost every time I had to go to the academy director’s office, there was someone waiting at the door to collect payment, and I wondered if there was an academy director who worked so hard.
I heard the sound of putting down the phone, then the sound of pages turning for a moment, and then I heard Daigo Terue’s voice again.
-I found it. I am using company D’s product. I believe our academy always uses this product. While Kosuke Isidera was the academy director, he ordered almost double the amount, probably by mistake. But what does this have to do with drugs?
If it was a product from Company D, it was the detergent that Eve had mentioned that could be used as a drug ingredient. Terue Daigo, who asked what this had to do with drugs, did not say that Fukushi Asada, the head of the management team, was the culprit, but only told him that detergent could be a raw material for drugs. Since we cannot yet completely conclude that the management team leader is the culprit, we are only stating certain facts. Of course, it was inevitable that Daigo Terue, who heard the story, would think that the management team leader was the culprit.
While I hung up the phone and waited to hear from Tsubaki Shido, I remembered what Taira Kanna had told me about her mission. Apparently, there was talk that production had increased explosively in the past week and that the police, who had been ignoring it for so long, had begun an investigation.
Unlike the strict Daigo Terue, Kosuke Ishidera, who had no interest in running the academy, took office as the temporary academy director, and the tax budget was greatly increased, which had not been done before. As Daigo Terue just confirmed, the amount has almost doubled.
Now I am starting to understand more and more. This is why Z-MAX could not enter Tokyo, where it has a large population and can be purchased at a high price, and was distributed only to cities near Mount Fuji.
Because there was a limit to the amount of raw materials, it had no choice but to enter Tokyo. This is because it was a detergent that could only be ordered in bulk under the name of St. Francis Girls’ Academy. We gradually increased the amount, but at some point, Terue Daigo must have stopped us from increasing the amount.
This time, Tsubaki Shido received a phone call instead of a line. I answered the phone right away.
-As you said, many of the management team are former members of the Self-Defense Forces. I think I came to St. Francis Girls’ Academy as a custodian through the recommendation of the management team leader. And…
It was becoming increasingly clear that management team leader Fukushi Asada was a drug culprit. If the raw materials were procured from the academy and the drugs were made somewhere, managers from the Self-Defense Forces under the management team would transport them or sell them. It would have been handed over to an intermediary outside the academy, and the intermediary would have sold it to a nearby city or passed it back on to drug retailers. All traces of that contact would have been erased as much as possible using an overseas chat program.
“And?”
-It seems that the management team leader’s daughter is suffering from a rare disease of unknown cause. So, her hospital bills alone cost tens of millions of yen a year…
Listening to the tone of the conversation, it seemed like Tsubaki Shido completely thought that the management team leader was the culprit. She seemed to have come to the very natural inference that no matter how much he was the head of the management team, he couldn’t pay tens of millions of yen in annual hospital bills, so he must have turned to drug crime.
“The management team leader and most of the management team are former members of the Self-Defense Forces, the detergent used by the management team can be the main ingredient for drugs, and even if the management team leader’s daughter’s treatment costs are tens of millions of yen a year, it does not mean that the management team leader is a drug criminal. It’s all circumstantial evidence. There must be solid physical evidence.”
-In the end, we have no choice but to search the warehouses used by the management team. Are you going now?
“Yeah, I’ll go and take a look.”
Whether she is Rena Sakagami, who is good at stealth, or Yuka Otagi, who is a vampire and knows how to penetrate the darkness of the night, she will be great at finding drugs. If I were to use Abyss and Shadow Control, infiltration would be a piece of cake. As I was thinking about a plan to infiltrate the various management team warehouses, I heard Tsubaki Shido’s voice.
-I want to go with you too.
Things get complicated here when Shido Tsubaki gets involved…
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A review of the new model that I touched yesterday
It’s gotten better, but it doesn’t feel like Yukiko haha. I’ll have to use what I originally used for Awakened Yukiko.
