Tokyo: From Lawless Madpolice to Minister
Chapter 369 - 333: Standoff in the Building, A Critical Moment, Stepping Forward to Take Charge

Chapter 369: Chapter 333: Standoff in the Building, A Critical Moment, Stepping Forward to Take Charge

Following Aoyama Xiu Xin’s orders, we had already been investigating Zutada Yu’s tenant information and simultaneously surveilling him since this morning, so Chi Ben Xinzhang was certain that he had been at home all day, without ever stepping out.

Consequently, he led a team to arrest him directly.

"Bang, bang, bang! Bang, bang, bang!"

Chi Ben Xinzhang forcefully knocked on the door.

"Who’s there?" The old-style door wasn’t fitted with a peephole, so Zutada Yu, already feeling guilty, didn’t dare open it not knowing who was on the other side.

Chi Ben Xinzhang spoke in a calm voice filled with misleading tranquility, "Mr. Tsumada, I’m Chi Ben Xinzhang from Police Headquarters, I just saw you this morning to talk about Miyake. Now we have new developments and need to ask you about some matters relevant to that, please open the door."

Zutada Yu instantly sensed something was wrong.

This morning, the police had already asked him everything in detail about Miyake; even he had nothing left to say.

Moreover, now that Miyake was dead and his home wasn’t in Tokyo, how could Police Headquarters have come up with new findings related to him so quickly?

"Oh, it’s Aka Hon Police Chief, I’m really sorry, but I’m not dressed at the moment and it wouldn’t be appropriate to open the door, why don’t you just ask your questions through the door? I’ll definitely answer whatever I know," Zutada Yu said, simultaneously cautious and hesitant to open the door, pulling his hand back from the doorknob.

Idiot! That cunning guy.

Chi Ben Xinzhang cursed inwardly, having thought that revealing his police identity outright would lower the other’s guard, especially since he had just visited this morning.

But he hadn’t expected Zutada Yu to be so wary.

Revealing his identity had simply startled the suspect.

He tried one last time, speaking in an annoyed tone, "Mr. Tsumada, we need to search Miyake’s apartment, hurry up and get dressed."

"Didn’t you already search Miyake’s apartment this morning? I’ve just thrown his stuff into the garbage bin downstairs," Zutada Yu replied while quietly moving things to barricade the door.

Chi Ben Xinzhang now confirmed that Zutada Yu had been alarmed, realizing he couldn’t coax him to open the door, he stopped pretending and started preparing to break down the door with his subordinates, while loudly issuing a warning, "Zutada Yu! We suspect you’re involved in multiple criminal cases, surrender immediately and come with us for the investigation!"

Even then, he still used ’please.’

Japanese, while never really doing polite deeds, are exceedingly polite verbally.

"Idiot!" Zutada Yu now also realized he was truly exposed. After muttering a curse under his breath, he didn’t hesitate to run into his bedroom, slam the door shut with a clang, and began to pry open the floorboard after moving the wardrobe.

"Bang!"

Meanwhile, the police outside had started using a battering ram to force the door open, but because it was blocked by a table, they had to ram several times before bursting into the living room.

Seeing no one in the living room and the bedroom door tightly shut, they realized he was hiding inside and proceeded to break down the second door.

"Bang!"

After the bedroom door was broken open, Chi Ben Xinzhang and his team saw the wardrobe placed askew and a hole in the floor leading to the floor below; Zutada Yu, holding a bomb, looked up through the hole and yelled hoarsely, "I’ve got plenty of bombs here, if you dare come down, I’ll set them off immediately, and send this whole building sky-high!"

He didn’t attempt to escape through the rooms downstairs because he knew the police had surely secured all the exits of the building; he only had these bombs to negotiate with them.

"Idiot!" Chi Ben Xinzhang cursed loudly and shouted down the hole, "Zutada Yu! You have nowhere to run, stop resisting, put down the bomb and surrender, that’s the only way out for you!"

While talking, he gestured to his subordinates to urgently request backup.

One subordinate immediately turned and ran outside.

"Go to hell! Whether I have a way out is not for you to decide!" Zutada Yu had completely cast aside his former cowardly image, his chubby face now full of ferociousness and malice, he yelled, "Anyone who dares to come down, I’ll detonate the bombs! You have half an hour, get me a car filled with gas, one million US dollars, and arrange for a driver to take me away, or I’ll bring down this building and everyone will be buried with me!"

He had directly killed six people and indirectly killed several others with the bombs he made; being caught meant certain death, so there was no way he would surrender.

Making a stand was his only choice.

Both parties stood in a standoff, separated by the hole.

.........

Aoyama Xiu Xin immediately arranged for support upon receiving the news and personally arrived on the scene to take command.

A large number of police officers reached the scene, pulled up the cordon as commanded, and started evacuating the interior of the apartment building and the nearby area, knocking from door to door.

"Police Chief!"

Chi Ben Xinzhang came out of the apartment building to meet Aoyama Xiu Xin, saluted, and reported, "The suspect Zutada Yu has a large number of bombs. If they explode, the consequences are unthinkable. He has demanded we meet all his requirements within half an hour, and now there are thirteen minutes left."

"How long will evacuating everyone take?" Aoyama Xiu Xin asked calmly, looking at the apartment building in front of him.

Asai Ayumi, in charge of the evacuation operation, immediately replied, "Since it’s during working hours, there aren’t many people inside the building; we can evacuate them within ten minutes. But even if the crowd is evacuated, we can’t risk a direct assault, or if Zutada Yu detonates the bombs, the assault team would be wiped out, and the entire building would collapse, leading to extensive consequences."