"I understand... I understand." Fujiwara Daichi sighed, "Well, I can finally take Chika and the others on a trip this summer."
Fukuda Akira smiled and nodded: "Minister, I'm glad you understand."
Hearing this, Fujiwara Daichi couldn't help but complain:
"So Fukuda, you are about to welcome the thirteenth minister in your career. Really, after all this time, you vice ministers are the real department heads."
"You're right...you're joking." Fukuda Akira's expression changed, he quickly stopped what he had said, and nodded with a smile.
The elevator door opens.
Fujiwara Daichi turned around and left the elevator first, followed by Fukuda Akira, and then a group of staff from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Industry who were in charge of meeting matters.
After going out, Fujiwara Daichi's face suddenly showed a harmless smile.
Then, he immediately saw Luo Shu and others who were closest to the elevator.
"Ah, isn't this Director Tachibana? Nice to meet you." Fujiwara Daichi greeted with a smile on his face.
"It's you, Jiro from the Fujiwara family." Tachibana Kirika looked at Fujiwara Daichi suspiciously, not understanding what this guy was selling.
The Fujiwara family is a political family with both men and women being insidious and cunning.
This sudden greeting really made Ju Wuxiang a little confused.
Could it be that this kid knew that I was hinting to his father that he could use his position as a minister to exchange his brother out?
That's not right. How can he be so happy when he can't be a minister anymore? Are the Fujiwara brothers so close?
Fujiwara Daichi was not surprised to see that Tachibana Kirika had no reaction. After all, his brother had previously been at odds with SDS, so it was normal for him to be disliked.
537 He immediately changed his target and greeted Luo Shu with a smile:
"Is this Director Luo from SDS? He is really young and promising!"
"Nice to meet you, Minister Fujiwara." Luo Shu extended his hand politely and said with a smile.
Fujiwara Daichi was somewhat surprised to see Luo Shu actually take the initiative to shake hands.
What's going on? Is SDS planning to ease the conflict caused by his elder brother's incident?
"No, no!" Fujiwara Daichi hurriedly and cordially shook hands with Luo Shu, using both hands, which is the kind of handshake etiquette for superiors and VIPs.
However, the reconciliation that Fujiwara Daichi thought of was different. What Luo Shu thought of in his mind was Fujiwara Daichi's daughter Fujiwara Chika.
How did this man raise a daughter like that?
At that time, after shaking hands, Luo Shu watched Fujiwara Daichi politely greet each representative in turn, and then said to Iwanaga Kotoko, who was hiding behind him because of her petite body:
"What are you doing hiding behind me?"
Iwanaga Kotoko pressed down her beret and smiled, "The survival strategy of the little monster is to avoid being discovered, not to express opinions, and to avoid being conscripted."
Having said this, she glanced at Shim and smiled teasingly:
"Of course, my acting skills are a little worse than Shim's."
Luo Shu glanced at Shim when he heard this. Iwanaga Kotoko was right. According to the official records, this man was probably just an intelligence dealer with connections to SDS. No one would have thought that Shim would be the director of the intelligence department.
But then again, except for Welte, the ministers of SDS are generally a bit young.
Just as Luo Shu was thinking, the elevator door opened again, and a group of people in dark blue suits with fierce looks appeared.
Among them, Luo Shu saw the figure of Matsumoto Kiyonaga in the corner.
"The committee members are here too." Iwanaga Kotoko sighed.
The "landlord" of the Metropolitan Police Department, the immediate superior of the military officials, and the Public Security Commission, which reports directly to the Cabinet.
Seeing this, Ju Wuxiang pointed at the door of the conference room and said to Luo Shu:
"The landlord has arrived, and it's time for us to enter as well."
"Hope everything goes well."
Chapter 71 I can’t take the blame for this!
Inside a 50-square-meter conference room at the Metropolitan Police Department headquarters.
A long conference table was placed in the middle of the room, with a row of folding chairs without tables on each side.
People who were not representatives, such as Dairenji Suzuka, Matsumoto Kiyonaga, and the Public Security Bureau Committee, sat on these two rows of folding chairs.
Of course, Shim also quietly mixed in with these people and sat directly behind Luo Shu.
'So the Minister of Intelligence doesn't sit here, but lets me sit here. What the hell is this?'
Luo Shu complained in his mind while looking around at the people who were seated.
At the head of the long table sat the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Fujiwara no Daichi, who was nominally the convener of the meeting, and to his right sat his Vice Minister of Affairs, Fukuda Akira.
Sitting to the left of Fukuda Akira was Tachibana Kirika, and opposite her was Director Ito of the Metropolitan Police Department.
Clearly, judging from her police rank, Tachibana Kirika is Chief Ito's subordinate, but she happened to sit in the first seat on the left. Despite such a subtle thing, the people present did not show any sign of abnormality, and it was obvious that they had already known this would be the case.
Sitting on the right side of Tachibana Kirika was Luo Shu, and opposite him was Takayanagi Michigen, the representative of the Metropolitan Police Department's military officials, an old man with very gloomy eyes.
In addition, Nangong Nayue, the representative of the Onmyoji Bureau, is on the right side of Luo Shu, and opposite her is Nurarihyon.
I don't know who came up with the idea of having Takayanagi Michigen and Nurarihyon, two people who have a grudge against each other, sit next to each other, leaving Luo Shu, who only half understood the situation, extremely speechless.
Compared to the positions of these two people, Iwanaga Kotoko who was sitting at the back and Ichijo Mason, the elder of the Vampire Elders' Council sitting opposite her, both seemed unusually suitable.
The ten of them lined up in a row, occupying most of the long conference table. The rest of the people could only sit on the two rows of folding chairs on the left and right to listen.
Luo Shu was somewhat uncomfortable with such a status.
Especially, Matsumoto Kiyonaga, whom he had met once before, was looking at him with a very strange look.
That look was like discovering that a classmate was the principal's son.
"Is the position of the SDS minister so high?"
Just as Luo Shu was muttering to himself, Fujiwara Daichi, who was sitting at the top, looked at the documents distributed by Fukuda Akira, straightened his glasses, and said:
"Okay, let's get started~々."
"Everyone here is a relevant person, so I don't think there is any need to explain the various terms."
"There are many people here who know more about the United Nations' 'Demon Slaying Order' than I do."
Nurarihyon and Ichimochi's eyebrows twitched slightly.
How could they not understand this? They were almost on that list, okay?
No, the non-human races that can participate in this meeting have actually been on the list for a long time, but they are only the lowest E-level.
Class E means that the danger to the human race is not high, it can be controlled to a limited extent, and is supervised by the country where the ethnic group is located or the major power in the region.
The monsters and vampires in the island country are exactly E-level. They are nominally monitored by official organizations, but they must also cooperate with official actions when necessary.
To some extent, they can be regarded as a vassal race of humans.
"Based on the current situation, ghouls have been classified as a Class B dangerous race, so the purpose of this meeting is to discuss how to effectively annihilate them."
“That’s what this meeting is about.”
After saying this, Fujiwara Daishi glanced at Fukuda Akira from time to time.
The latter meeting, immediately smiled and interrupted:
"Minister, leave the rest to me."
Fujiwara Daichi took a breath and coughed after hearing this, then said:
"Okay, I just happen to have a cold today, cough cough."
Fukuda Akira nodded upon hearing this, and immediately asked Tachibana Kirika:
"Director Tachibana, I heard that your department is solely responsible for the ghoul investigation report. So could you please make public the report on ghouls within SDS?"
Hearing this, Tachibana Kirika raised her eyebrows, but did not answer directly as Fukuda Akira expected. Instead, she glanced at Luo Shu.
"What are you looking at me doing?"
Luo Shu was a little speechless after seeing what Ju Kirika did. What's the difference between your action and clearly saying that I was the one who investigated the intelligence?
"Vice-Minister Fukuda wants intelligence support, why don't you give it to him?"
Hearing this, Ju Wuxiang said nothing, but just raised her hands and clapped twice.
Shim at the back immediately called the meeting, took out a stack of paper documents from the box at his feet, and quickly handed them to the other party like a secretary.
"Thank you." Fukuda Akira took the document, thanked Shim politely, and began to read it. Soon he frowned.
"2 in total?!!"
Fujiwara Daichi was shocked when he saw the exact number for the first time:
"I remember that the population of Tokyo last year was 1400 million. The number of ghouls is close to one in 700?"
Because members of parliament need the votes of the people, basically every minister knows the total population, especially the voting population.
Therefore, Fujiwara Daichi's subconscious reaction was how many votes 2 ghouls could get.
Bah, that's not right. Why does he need the ghouls' votes? These guys eat up one of his votes a month, which means 24 votes a year. It's so damn terrible. How can there be such a horrible race?
At this time, Nurarihyon was also surprised when he saw the contents of the file:
"Hohoho, do we have to eat at least one adult every month?"
"Twenty thousand people are missing this month, 2 a year. In fifty or sixty years, Tokyo will be wiped out. No wonder it is rated as a Class B danger level."
Nurarihyon made an estimate in his mind. He knew of many man-eating monsters, but most of them still hoped to gain the "fear" of humans and feed on the mental power that humans dissipated in fear.
Similarly, the vampires that Ichijo Ma Yuan is with also feed on the power in human blood.
Therefore, the Nura Group, to which Nura Nagisa belongs, basically controls Tokyo's amusement parks, entertainment clubs and other entertainment industries.
And Ichijo Mayuan utilized various secret techniques of vampires and focused on developing in the medical field.
Although there are "individuals" who commit mass murders within both races, most of them depend on humans for survival.
Ghouls are a race that must eat humans purely for food and survival. They are indeed quite rare and terrifying.
"｀￠?
Director Ito looked at the contents of the document with embarrassment, and the senior officials of the Metropolitan Police Department and the Public Security Commission behind him also had heavy expressions after receiving the document report.
2 murders in a month, that's no joke.
As the highest-ranking official in the Metropolitan Police Department, it is impossible for Director Ito to be unaware of the internal statistics.
According to official internal reports, the death toll in Tokyo's 23 wards last year was 11.
(Deno's)
This number includes natural deaths, accidental deaths, and homicides.
There are very few real murder cases. Except for the evil place of Beika Town, there are only 23 cases identified as homicides in the other 307 districts and even in the whole country.
Now it is going to soar to 24 a year.
With an increase of 800 times, how much additional police force and financial investment are needed to maintain the current public security?
Director Ito felt terrified just thinking about that number.
Realizing the same thing, the Metropolitan Police Department personnel sitting in the back row began to whisper.
Rumors such as "The Investigation Division must be expanded at least 1000 times to be able to cope with it", "Funding is seriously insufficient", and "Once a ghoul takes action, the news cannot be blocked from the public." were heard by Luo Shu and others from time to time.
For a moment, the official staff's scalps went numb.
Especially Fujiwara Daichi, who knew he had to take the blame, muttered to himself:
"This responsibility is too great, I can't bear it."
Chapter 72 The Fujiwara Family's 'Problem'
With a minimum of 24 deaths per year, would this directly push the Tokyo death figure of 11 to 35?
Fujiwara no Daichi cannot shoulder this responsibility, nor can the cabinet, and even less can the prime minister.
Furthermore, if ghouls are left alone, their existence will inevitably be revealed to the world, and that will result in the mysterious side being exposed to the public.
