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If Teito Shoji's illegal donation come into sight, the DP is really over.

The one who'll be most miserable is PM Ashihara, isn't it?

Could you take Saki with you for a while somewhere?

...There's an article that I must surely published.

It's an alleged illegal donation to the DP.

The one who received the fraudulent donation is not the DP, but PM Ashihara?

You've published a good article.

Thank you so much.

I can't afford to quit just like this yet!

Do you want to protect the Democratic Party?

...It's a fact.

Prime Minister Ashihara! Please tell the truth!

Your father died in a traffic accident.

You may have forgotten about this. His father...

...is being investigated again about Tsutsumi Route's bribe money.

I will reveal everything...

I will post the article.

Did you forget what happened 5 years ago?

Your daughter will just get in danger.

I have moved my family somewhere to ensure their safety.

You know that your opponent is not easy to get beaten.

My father used to be a politician's private secretary,

and apparently worked in the same office as Kondo.

What?

The cluster incident happened.

The Tsutsumi Route's bribe money was moved somewhere.

And then he died from a traffic incident.

What are you saying?

I still don't know totally yet.

But, my mother...

...had never told me about these.

Maybe my father...

...died due to Tsutsumi Route's bribe money.

My fellow colleague, Haibara,

is also being taken over by Kondo and Akutsu.

Unless she'll be getting involved to the concealment of the party,

Kondo will never extended his hands to Haibara.

It's a pity, but it doesn't matter to me anymore.

I know that.

That's why, I'll be doing it.

I don't want to regret it again.

I'm going to find the truth...

...and put this to an end.

How far have you confirmed about it?

The Democratic Party still uses...

...the Tsutsumi Route's bribe money.

That's a great scoop.

But you see,

Kondo, the current secretary-general,

was directly involved with the Tsutsumi Route's bribe money.

Even it's a scoop, it's not that high-scaled one.

It's rigorous to collect evidence,

and it may be probably risky.

Sakai-san had plunged over there but just suffered from an incident.

But still,

I won't overlook what Kondo did.

It's Kondo who's drawing all the pictures from behind right now,

unless we will be able to expose his injustices.

That won't be the fundamental solution for that.

Got it.

We have to go through it completely.

First, let's look at my father's accident.

In any case, we have to drawn him up to the surface.

Sakai-san...

...just stayed still, after all.

Newly appointed Prime Minister Anzai ...

...will visit Washington in June.

With the new administration, the Prime Minister...

As expected, it doesn't make sense.

Was that alleged illegal donation...

...have just really done by Ashihara-san himself?

Well...

Ashihara-san himself had recognized it.

It's a fact.

But Matsuoka-san was the first...

...who tried to publish an article about the DP's wrongdoing on its entirety.

Matsuoka just occasionally commit mistakes though.

That's enough. Let's get back to work.

Regarding Ashihara's case...

There's not enough evidence that he's directly involved with that illegal donation.

So the indictment is likely to be postponed.

It seems like that.

Well, I guess he resigned to spare the party,

and in order to make the damages become minimal.

Say, Matsuoka.

Do you still think that you can be on our side?

Of course.

I did careless things...

...regarding that matter.

I am...

...truly very sorry.

That's a relief.

It's just a matter of time for Matsuoka.

He still thinks that he's on our side.

It's already enough, isn't it?

I think that Matsuoka also knows it.

He had that desperate look on his face.

After all,

Matsuoka-san is similar to his father.

That's why, you should take action as soon as possible.

The Investigations Division One and reporters in weekly publications...

...are just wandering around.

Yes.

Come in.

I understood what you said.

Let me think for a while.

What have you done?

About the published article about Ashihara-san?

I'm going to become a politician.

Kondo-san will recommend as the official candidate of the DP.

You're just going onto Kondo-san's hands.

That's why, he tried to bait you and use you for his convenience.

I know I don't have the right to say this.

I've been compliant with him for 5 years.

But, I don't want the truth to be distorted again.

You can do that on your own.

I said it before.

I want to gain power.

I want to dispel all the regrets my parents had.

This is the best shortcut.

Oh, sorry to keep you waiting.

Certainly on June 22, 1981,

there were records of traffic accidents.

What kind of accident were those?

It's the driver's mistake from driving.

He was 78 years old at that time.

When your dad was trying to cross the pedestrian crossing,

he accidentally hit the brake with the accelerator.

It was an unfortunate incident.

So, there was nothing suspicious about the traffic incident?

The driver is already dead.

Even if it's a deliberate incident,

I can't be able testify with it.

But,

I'm going to talk to the Traffic Section person-in-charge of the incident at that time.

I'm looking up with my contacts now.

I understand what you feel that my mother-in-law...

...was just silent about the incident.

If my father-in-law died due to Tsutsumi Route's bribe money,

she will never tell her children about it.

She didn't want to get involved in that scary thing.

But...

Your mother must have regretted it.

I'll contact you again.

No need to ask Saki to call me.

Have you taken the photos?

I can't shoot from here.

Please see this.

Thank you so much.

Since the general elections is near, that money is surely needed.

That's probably what will happen.

Here it is.

Thank you.

It's this person.

Ueki Masasto.

He's the private secretary of the Arata group from the DP.

The office address is at 4, Shinjuku-ku.

Yes.

Okay. Roger that,

Shibata-san is about to go ahead and join with us near Shibaura area.

Got it.

Hello.

He have taken it.

I see.

You've done well.

Hey, what's wrong!?

Hello.

Can you back out for a bit? We want to see the trunk.

What's going on here?

I don't have any obligations as I didn't violate anything.

You went to Tsutsumi Company earlier, right?

We got information that it manages the bribe money of the party.

Don't you carry the bribe money for general elections too?

What is that?

Wait... Wait a second!

Wait, please stop this! Wait...

Don't do it without my permission. Wait...

This is...

Kondo-san, you're sly too.

Because you have already warned me about it,

so I put a fake one just in case.

The real one... will be transported later

Being the current criminal,

you forcibly let the police move,

and probably made an excuse to put it in Tsutsumi Company.

In order to pull myself out from the interrogation.

Though it was impressive,

have you decided what to do with Matsuoka?

Apparently, Matsuoka's emotions have gush forth,

and it's already too late for him even if he barely managed to reach for it.

His father...

The one who killed him...

Matsuoka and you...

There's no way that you'll cross paths anymore.

We have done it yesterday.

Was that enough?

We've done it quite aggressively.

I'm just fine.

Even if those guys will raise a complaint, we can still defeat them and get consent.

More than that, about the aforementioned,