Chapter 803: Dragon-like Reversal
Chapter 803: Dragon-like Reversal (41)
The presiding judge was eager to know the answer.
When Xiang Yuanguang saw the many black chess pieces in front of Utsunomiya Naoji that had already shown cracks, the corners of his mouth curled up slightly. He did not intend to keep the secret, but revealed his thought process.
"The answer is obvious. The answer is right there on the puzzle."
"Shimano Tai would never hire outside members to carry out assassination missions, because there is absolutely no need to let strangers who have no ability to master firearms do it."
"Mr. Judge, Prosecutor Iwai, I believe you can see this too, right?"
"This is an assassination commission with a very low success rate, so low that it is almost impossible to succeed."
The blue lawyer's voice sounded.
The presiding judge and Iwai Sayoko looked at each other and said nothing.
Just as Xiang Yuanguang said.
The success rate of this assassination attempt was ridiculously low.
If the remnants of the Ghost Tiger Group had not had the sudden idea of kidnapping the Saitama Prefecture police officers as accomplices, allowing a group of people who had never touched a gun to use extremely difficult-to-operate sniper rifles to assassinate the passengers on the Mercedes-Benz train.
And there is only one chance——
Frankly speaking, it is almost impossible to achieve this even if it is just an FPS game on a computer, let alone a mission with these restricted conditions happening in reality.
"The strange thing is that the prosecutors had mentioned this before..."
"All the cases in this series were committed by Taiichi Shimano, right?"
He snapped his fingers, flipped his hand, and pointed obliquely at Iwai Sayoko who was sitting in the prosecutor's seat.
Seeing this somewhat rare gesture, Iwai Sayoko was stunned for a moment.
She recalled her previous remarks, thought for a moment, and then answered.
"Indeed...wait, you mean..."
The Chief Prosecutor was stunned.
Finally realized the contradiction in the logical chain————
"Yes, that is the contradiction you are aware of."
Xiang Yuanguang snapped his fingers again.
His eyes narrowed slightly and became sharp.
"If Shimano Tai asked the remnants of the Oni Tiger Group to carry out the nearly impossible task of assassinating Kusakabe Makoto, then there is only one possibility, that is, Shimano Tai had no choice."
"Although the probability of the remnants of the Ghost Tiger Group completing this mission is close to zero, we can only let them try."
"But the facts stated by the prosecutor contradict this."
"Because according to the prosecutors, the night before yesterday, Shimano Tai sent his men to assassinate the fourth-generation president of the Tojo Clan, Sera Masaru. Until now, the location of that man and the gun have not been found."
"Such assassination ability is self-evident—"
The blue lawyer said this quite easily.
"Excuse me, Shimano, why would he leave a subordinate with extremely excellent assassination ability unused, and instead use a group of remnants who had never communicated with him, who were not even from his own peripheral organization, and who had just been released from prison..."
"To carry out an assassination mission that is almost impossible to succeed?"
As soon as these words were spoken, even the blond judge realized that something was wrong.
That’s right, just as Xiang Yuanguang said.
If it is said that all three incidents were committed by Taito Shimano.
That means that Shimano has subordinates who are good at assassination, but he doesn't use them. Instead, he deliberately lets a group of strangers who have nothing to do with him carry out difficult assassinations. This is too unreasonable.
However, the blond judge was about to ask.
Iwai Sayoko, who was sitting at the prosecutor's table, said this with a gloomy face.
"That doesn't mean that the three remaining members of the Ghost Tiger Group are not trading with Shimano Tai."
"Why can it be Shimanota?"
Xiang Yuanguang raised his eyebrows and asked again. "You said that Shimano Tai is a person who pays great attention to his own interests."
"And Shimano Tai is a high-ranking member of the Tojo Clan. The interests of the Tojo Clan are Shimano Tai's interests. What reason does he have to harm his own interests————"
"Prosecutor Iwai, don't you feel the same way?"
"If Shimano Tai really wanted to assassinate Prosecutor Kusakabe, he would never let three remnants of an external organization who had no prior communication do the assassination, because that would be equivalent to asking them to carry out an assassination that would definitely fail."
"Unless these three remnants of the Ghost Tiger Group are shot dead on the spot by the police."
"Otherwise, they will definitely reveal the existence of Shimano Tai in the end, further damaging the interests of the entire Dongcheng Society as they are doing now."
"In other words, unless the prosecutors can prove that Shimano Tai deliberately created a failed assassination attempt to damage the collective interests of the Tojo Clan, and that Shimano Tai was able to gain benefits from it—"
"Otherwise, the defense believes that the trader who met with Utsunomiya Naoji could not have been Shimano Tai."
Many audience members in the gallery were surprised.
They didn't expect that the incident could develop in this direction.
"..."
Utsunomiya Naoji didn't say anything, just remained silent.
However, from his quietly clenched fists and the increasingly unstable black chess piece in front of him, it can be seen that his mood is not as stable as he appears to be.
It is obvious that what Xiang Yuanguang said is obviously true.
Only now did he realize that this assassination attempt was indeed, as Xiang Yuanguang had said, an assassination attempt that was almost impossible to accomplish under normal circumstances.
The three remaining members of the Ghost Tiger Group, including him, were just abandoned pawns sent to die.
The senior executive who was doing business with him might have other intentions.
However, Naoji Utsunomiya is still at a loss.
He knew nothing about the senior executive's name, identity, or purpose.
What kind of impact will his action have on Dongcheng?
“…Even if you say so, does this person have a motive to do this?”
Iwai Sayoko slammed her hands on the table at the prosecutor's table.
Her expression was serious and she pointed at the image projected on the wall.
There is no doubt that she was referring to the photo that she had mentioned to Genmitsu before, which was of the real mastermind behind this incident, Ito Yasuhito.
"If we start from this perspective, then lawyer Xiang Yuan's idea is also untenable."
"Could it be that Attorney Xiang Yuan can produce evidence or witnesses that prove that Ito Yasuhito has done such a thing?"
The voice of the prosecutor in charge gradually rose in pitch.
However, just when it was about to reach its highest pitch, it suddenly lowered its pitch.
The reason was simple. At this moment, Xiang Yuanguang snapped his fingers again.
Then he said calmly.
"As you said."
"The defense believes that the key witness who can prove that Ito Yasuhito is the mastermind behind this incident has arrived at the trial court and will testify soon."
----What?!
The entire courtroom was in an uproar.
Everyone turned to look at the door of the courtroom.
Then, they saw a familiar figure.
It was Kazami Yuya.
He returned with Shimano Tai and the surveillance records copied from the Tojo Clan headquarters.
(End of this chapter)