Chapter 53: Chapter 53: Gathering Manpower
Kotone Asaba silently entered the hidden storeroom. No matter how thick the walls were, they could not stop him at all.
The armed yakuza members guarding the place outside the door did not notice Kotone Asaba at all either.
After entering the storeroom, Kotone Asaba discovered that it was not like a normal vault, with every corner covered by surveillance cameras. It was just a small, empty hidden room.
Aside from the Gun Devil flesh pieces, there was nothing else inside.
The Gun Devil flesh pieces could be seen clumped together densely, with many pieces stuck to one another.
In the original story, the Hamano yakuza had secretly hidden 1.4 kilograms / 3.1 pounds of Gun Devil flesh pieces, but that was four years later in the original story. At the moment, based on a rough estimate, there should be around 1 kilogram / 2.2 pounds of Gun Devil flesh pieces here.
Do not look down on 1 kilogram / 2.2 pounds just because the weight itself was nothing special. This was 1 kilogram / 2.2 pounds made up of many flesh pieces. Taking even a single piece outside at random could create a powerful Devil.
Kotone Asaba took several photos with the camera to use as evidence.
Although the camera made a bit of noise when taking pictures, the soundproofing inside was very good. The people outside could not hear the sound of the camera at all.
He did not plan to touch those Gun Devil flesh pieces. He had not come here for the Gun Devil flesh pieces, but to take down the entire Hamano yakuza.
If he moved those flesh pieces, the yakuza would definitely notice very quickly, then immediately move to a safe place. When that happened, it would be even more troublesome for him and Public Safety to clean up the Hamano yakuza.
After collecting the evidence, Kotone Asaba left directly.
He used the same method as when he came in, leaving without anyone noticing.
After returning to Tokyo Public Safety, Kotone Asaba handed the evidence directly to Yuki Kirisu.
"Wow! There really are Gun Devil flesh pieces. But since you already infiltrated the place, why didn’t you just bring those flesh pieces back directly? Are you an idiot?"
Yuki Kirisu looked at the photos Kotone Asaba had taken while sitting with her legs crossed.
Kotone Asaba immediately rolled his eyes at Yuki Kirisu. "You’re the idiot. If I took the Gun Devil flesh pieces away, once those guys in the Hamano yakuza realized what happened, they’d definitely move somewhere else and hide."
"What? You actually dare call me an idiot? I’m your superior! Don’t you know what it means to respect your superior?"
Yuki Kirisu immediately became unhappy.
"..."
Kotone Asaba could not even be bothered with this girl.
Although Japan did indeed have a very strict hierarchy between superiors and subordinates, he did not care about that.
To him, respect went both ways. Naturally, he would respect people who deserved respect. As for the person in front of him, forget it.
Kotone Asaba ignored Yuki Kirisu, and Yuki Kirisu calmed down on her own. Then she continued with the main topic. "Looks like you have a grudge against those people. Otherwise, your sense of justice is overflowing."
"Just take it as my sense of justice overflowing."
Kotone Asaba said casually.
Yuki Kirisu stared at Kotone Asaba with a faint smile for a while, then said, "Fine. I’ll start gathering people today. The operation should begin tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow at the latest."
Kotone Asaba nodded slightly and did not say anything more.
Gathering manpower required time. There was no way they could start the operation immediately.
Public Safety Devil Hunters usually had to patrol outside, so they needed to be gathered back and briefed on the situation.
Moreover, the people they needed to gather were not only Public Safety Devil Hunters. They also needed police support, otherwise there would not be enough Public Safety Devil Hunters.
After gathering the manpower, they needed to draft an operation plan, because the Hamano yakuza did not have only the yakuza building as a base. The yakuza building was merely the Hamano yakuza’s largest stronghold. When the time came, they would need to raid multiple strongholds simultaneously.
Kotone Asaba was not in a hurry for the time being. In any case, those yakuza bastards had no idea that the secret of their hidden Gun Devil flesh pieces had already been leaked.
At the same time, his opinion of Yuki Kirisu improved slightly. From Yuki Kirisu’s expression and gaze just now, it was obvious she had realized that he wanted to wipe out the Hamano yakuza because of a personal grudge, but she had not opposed him for the sake of opposing him.
Looking at it that way, this girl merely had a sharp tongue. When it was time to be serious, she was still quite serious.
"By the way, those guys have guns. Remember to tell the others to be careful."
Kotone Asaba remembered this and specifically told Yuki Kirisu.
Although this was a normal operation to arrest criminals, it was also somewhat tied to his personal grudge. He did not want his own side to suffer casualties.
In the original story, the reason Public Safety Devil Hunters suffered heavy casualties was because they were ambushed by armed yakuza members, and it happened to be this very Hamano family yakuza group.
Devil Hunters were still human in the end. When caught completely off guard, they could be shot dead before they even had time to use Devil powers.
But the current situation was different from the original story. In the original story, those yakuza members had taken the initiative to launch an armed ambush. In the later yakuza building operation, the yakuza members were also on alert, so everyone was armed.
But now, the yakuza had no idea what was about to happen. Their firearms were all hidden away. They did not usually carry guns. Only the important area where the Gun Devil flesh pieces were stored had armed guards watching it.
As long as the Public Safety Devil Hunters and police officers were reminded, casualties could be avoided to the greatest extent.
As for Daiki Hamano, the Katana weapon human, and the Snake woman Akane Sawatari, Daiki Hamano had not yet become a weapon human at this time, and Akane Sawatari should still be a private Devil Hunter. She might not even have become a Devil Hunter yet.
In the original story, Daiki Hamano had clearly only just become a weapon human. His human form was weak to an absurd degree, and his weapon human form was not that strong either.
After all, the shooting incident had originally been a scheme Makima secretly arranged in order to break the contract between Denji and Pochita. She used the news of the Chainsaw Heart’s appearance in the world to manipulate the Soviet Union, and also controlled Akane Sawatari, who had originally been a private Devil Hunter. Through Akane Sawatari, she made the Soviet military cooperate with the Japanese yakuza.
The Soviet military provided the Katana Devil’s heart and the method to create a weapon human, turning Daiki Hamano into a weapon human. Then they joined forces with the Japanese yakuza to assassinate Makima and secretly seize the Chainsaw Heart.
Later, after both the plan to assassinate Makima and the plan to secretly seize the Chainsaw Heart failed, the Soviet military simply gave up on subtlety and sent out their "guinea pig," Reze.
Reze probably did not know she was a sacrificial pawn being used by the Soviet military, because the Soviet military knew perfectly well that Reze could not take Denji away from under Makima’s nose, but the mission they assigned Reze was still to take Denji away.
That would inevitably trigger a battle, and Reze’s characteristics as a Bomb weapon human could create a huge commotion. The Soviet military’s true goal was to use Reze’s combat characteristics to let every country know that the Chainsaw Heart had appeared in the world, causing them all to fight over it so Makima would not get her way.
Unfortunately, all of this was within Makima’s control. After all, from the very beginning of the original story, everyone had already become one of Makima’s pieces in the game she had set up around Pochita.
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