Tokyo people don't talk about Wude

Chapter 338 335. Avenger and Judge

Seeing Xi Shenjian so angry, Hijikata Hitoshi patted the dust off his body and asked curiously:

"You recognized me right away. Are you someone I used to know? And it looks like you have a grudge against me. No wonder I always felt like I was being chased by someone these past few days. Sure enough, someone familiar with me is tracking me."

"Hijikata Hitoshi, did you plant this bomb?" Yushin Ken put Officer Takagi aside and pulled out the baton from his waist with his right hand, as if he was going to fight to the death.

"Of course~ As I said, I always feel that I am about to be caught by someone these days, which will hinder my [Judgment]. So I suddenly decided to use a bomb to catch you all in one fell swoop." Hijikata Hitoshi admitted it very straightforwardly:

"By the way, I never intended to hide my [Judgment] from anyone. I also killed Yoneji Shizuta and Ushimura Reikichi. I think you should have investigated it. They deserved it."

"So many years have passed, why did you suddenly show up again?" Xi Shenjian asked sternly, "Why did you start killing people again? What is your purpose?!"

"My purpose? Of course it is to punish those demons who cannot be judged by the law. You know, there are always endless demons in this world." Hijikata Hitoshi shook his head in confusion and took out a large screwdriver from his pocket, as if responding to the provocation:

"Who are you, and why do you seem to know so much about me? Answer me!"

"Me?" Xi Shenjian said angrily, "You bastard, have you forgotten me? I am Ida Yuma! The lawyer who wanted to prove your innocence but was deceived by you into a dead end!"

"You are Mr. Youma?" A look of surprise suddenly flashed across Hijikata Hitoshi's cold eyes, and the fingers holding the screwdriver couldn't help but loosen: "How did you become like this? Did you have plastic surgery?"

"Of course it's all thanks to you, Hijikata Hitoshi!" The hatred in Xi Shenjian's eyes became stronger and stronger: "Don't call me Brother Youma, you don't deserve it!"

"Well~haha, I was wondering how the police could catch up with me so quickly this time. It turns out you were the one helping them behind the scenes. That's not surprising." Hijikata Hitoshi shrugged, looking like he had figured something out:
"After all these years, you still haven't let it go. Are you really that obsessed with that thing?"

"Don't act like you don't care!" Xi Shenjian swung his stick, his face burning with anger: "I was helping you out of kindness, but you took advantage of me! Now that things have come to this, you have the nerve to ask me to let it go?"

"Over the years, I have never stopped pursuing you! Everyone calls me a 'murder lawyer'. I have endured this humiliation for countless years. I just want to settle the score with you!"

Hearing this, the originally indifferent Hijikata Hitoshi slowly turned his face away, looking a little guilty.

"That's right. If I were to say who I feel most sorry for all these years, it would definitely be you, brother Youma." Hijikata Hitoshi's tone was somewhat vicissitudes, and he suddenly bowed to Xi Shenjian:
"I'm really sorry, Youma. I know this apology won't help you, but I still want to express my apologies. It was me who betrayed your trust. You're the best lawyer I've ever met, but I had to sacrifice you for my plan."

Hijikata Hitoshi's attitude of admitting his fault was very sincere, and it didn't seem like a show at all. If a criminal apologized like this in court, I'm afraid even the judge would be moved by him and give him a lighter sentence out of mercy.

However, these words of apology could not extinguish Xi Shenjian's anger in the slightest.

"Stop joking. Do you think I will accept your hypocritical apology after all this?!" Xi Shenjian didn't appreciate it and glared at her angrily:

"If you really feel sorry for me, then just obey me!"

"I'm sorry, brother Youma, but this is the only thing I can't do." Hijikata Hitoshi took a step back and shook his head.
"For so many years, I have always felt guilty for you, but I never thought I did anything wrong."

"You really haven't changed your bad habits." Xi Shenjian took two steps closer with a baton in hand: "That's right, otherwise you wouldn't have become a serial killer."

"Whatever you say, but brother Youma, you know what?" Hijikata Hitoshi returned to his original indifferent tone, but a hint of fanaticism appeared in his eyes:
"Just one year after the sensational trial, the governor of Tokyo took the lead in drafting a new version of the Anti-School Bullying Countermeasures Act, and the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare also set up a special investigation department for school bullying incidents."

"After that, the whole country began to pay more and more attention to school bullying. According to official and private statistics, at least the number of school bullying cases in Tokyo has decreased by 40% in the past five years. I have been paying close attention to these news. Brother Youma, all this is thanks to the trial at the beginning. It's all thanks to you and me!"

"I'm sorry, I used you and pushed you into the fire pit. But all this is for the seedlings of this country. Just sacrificing you and me can change so much. Isn't it worth it?"

Xi Shenjian retorted: "Stop quibbling, that's not the same thing! What gives you the right to treat me as a victim of your plan?!"

"Brother Youma, I know you feel wronged. After learning that you have been tracking me, I feel even more guilty. However, this is my last resort. I do all this for the sake of my children and for justice." Hijikata Hitoshi sighed and said helplessly:
"Have you ever heard of the Don Quixote game, Mr. Youma? Ms. Baichuan should have told you about it, right?"

"Of course I know this! That inhumane bullying game." Xi Shenjian took a deep breath.

"A child pretending to be a knight uses an umbrella to knock another child pretending to be a windmill away while riding a bicycle. This kind of bullying game may directly cause the child to die from severe internal injuries." Hijikata Hitoshi shook his head, his words heartbreaking:
"Children's imagination is very rich, but some devilish children can use their terrible imagination to create many cruel acts that adults can't bear to watch."

"If this kind of child continues to stay in the world, he will only continue to cause harm to other innocent people. He bullies other children in school, and he is destined to continue bullying other innocent people in society, becoming a cancer for the entire society."

“These cancers are protected and condoned by the law under the guise of [minors]. On the contrary, the victims are asked to ‘forgive’ and ‘pardon’, silently swallowing all the harm they have suffered.”

"Haha, what a irony. The law that is supposed to punish evildoers and protect victims performs the opposite duty when faced with such incidents! Isn't this ridiculous, brother Youma? Don't you think so?!"

"Of course I know about this kind of thing." Xi Shenjian asked in a deep voice: "So you trample on the law like this and drag me into it?"

"Brother Yuma, the reason why I chose you to defend me and made you part of my plan is because you are different from other lawyers." Hijikata Hitoshi shook his head regretfully:
"You are not a cold-blooded lawyer who uses the law as a tool for profit. Instead, you are a hero with justice in your heart. So I thought you would understand my plan and support me!"

"I support your mother! Stop praising me at a time like this!" Xi Shenjian cursed, "How can you, a bastard who dragged me down without saying a word and put me in the gutter, be qualified to talk to me about [justice] here?"

"Brother Yuma, there are too many absurdities in the laws of Wano Country, but people turn a blind eye to its problems." Hijikata Hitoshi's eyes became helpless, and he sighed again: "So someone must use radical methods to break it, and I just chose to be the one who broke it."

"So murder, kidnapping, fraud, perjury... no matter what you do, you think you are right?" Xi Shenjian asked back: "You are right, the law does have many problems, but this is not a reason for you to use crime to correct it!"

"Also, you wanted to blow us all up just now! Do you have the right to ask me to forgive you?!"

Yushin Ken began to pant due to his excitement. He looked at the ruined room and the big hole on the ground, the unconscious Officer Takagi, and Qingchuan Xiangzi who was probably blown to pieces. Even he himself almost became the victim of this killer again. Originally, Yushin Ken might have been able to hold a little bit of the mentality of "old friends meeting" and confront Hijikata Hitoshi calmly.

However, even this last bit of calmness was completely dissipated in the explosion just now.

"You, you, you keep saying what you are like. You are so selfish, can't you think about the overall situation and the children?! Then what do you think we should do? I have no other choice!" Hijikata Hitoshi bulged his eyes and looked anxious:

"You don't mean to say that the law will become more and more perfect in the future, so we just have to wait with anticipation?!"

"So what do you want?" Xi Shenjian gritted his teeth.

"Maybe you're right, but how long do we have to wait? Five years? Ten years? Twenty years? Wait until the victims die with regrets, and wait until the perpetrators live out their days?!" Hijikata Hitoshi's voice got much louder, and there was a hint of grievance in his tone:

"Don't be ridiculous! I can't wait until this moment. My nephew Izumi couldn't wait until that moment either! He was so young, so kind, and so promising. But his life was ruined by those scumbag kids."

"Why? Why is it that a sound, democratic, and fair legal system is desperately protecting the perpetrators, while the victims' desire to make them pay the due punishment becomes a crime?"

"Brother Youma, tell me, as a lawyer, is the law really worth upholding? Is the law always right?"

"." Xi Shenjian felt the pain of Hijikata Hitoshi's words, and also understood that what the other party said was true. Somehow, although he was very angry now, a sense of powerlessness burst out in his heart:

"That's not the reason. That's not the reason for you to trample on the law!"

"Then what else can I do?!" Hijikata Hitoshi asked, almost breaking his defense:
"When the law cannot bring justice to the parties involved, revenge is the most noble act! You are right, I am not a saint and I cannot be perfect in everything, but what I am doing is just revenge!"

"Revenge for my nephew, revenge for the countless children and their families who were bullied but could not get fair treatment, kill those underage scum who deserved death but did not repent, and let the adults who protected the scum also taste the pain of losing their loved ones. What did I do wrong that I became a criminal when I came to my senses?"

"I made the social cancer disappear, I brought justice to this society, and I helped those bullied children get out of the shadows."

"I just wanted revenge, I just wanted to help the kids, what did I do wrong?!"

Amid Hijikata Hitoshi's wailing, Yushin Ken felt dizzy and almost lost the ability to continue arguing.

Over the years, Yugami Ken has investigated Hijikata Hitoshi's background countless times and knows everything about him, including the tragedy of Hijikata Hitoshi's nephew, Hijikata Izuna.

It was a school bullying incident that was so outrageous that even Xi Shenjian, the investigator, wanted to eat the perpetrators alive.

In that school tragedy, Hijikata Izuna was forced to jump off a building after suffering humiliation that ordinary people could not bear. However, the culprits were given lighter punishments because they were all underage students. The main offender who committed the most serious crime was only expelled from school and did not even go to juvenile detention center.

What’s even more hateful is the subsequent reports of the case. All the children who bullied Hijikata Izuna cried bitterly in front of the interview camera, but no one admitted that they had hurt their classmates. Instead, they all said that Hijikata Izuna was "mentally fragile and couldn't take a joke."

Despite this, the school, the courts, and society treated these children leniently, placing most of the blame on the "victim's suicide." Even the compensation received by the Hijikata family was pitifully small, nominally "humanitarian compensation for the child's suicide by jumping off the school building."

Every time Xi Shenjian read the report of this incident, a feeling of powerless despair welled up in his heart. He could understand the despair that the Hijikata family was in at that time. No, it should be said that it was the despair that the Hijikata family was in for the rest of their lives.

Because of this, Xi Shenjian sympathized with Hijikata Hitoshi and wanted to do his best as a lawyer to reduce his sentence. After Xi Shenjian found his alibi, he was even more eager to defend his innocence.

At this point, Yushin Ken is very clear that Hijikata Hitoki's behavior and thoughts are wrong. However, because of Hijikata Izuna's tragedy, Yushin Ken, knowing that he is also a victim, cannot hate Hijikata Hitoki without hesitation.

At this moment, what should Xi Shenjian say to refute him? Should he tell him that "even if your nephew was tortured to death, it cannot be a reason for you to take revenge"? Xi Shenjian couldn't say such words.

Seeing that Xi Shenjian was speechless, Hijikata Hitoshi was already so excited that his face turned red and his brows were raised with anger, and he did not show the slightest joy of winning the argument.

"I know I'm sorry for you, brother Youma." Hijikata Hitoshi took a deep breath and said firmly:
"But no matter now or in the future, I will not stop. I always believe that my revenge is [noble]."

"After Qingchuan Xiangzi died, the children and their parents who were bullied by her to the point of jumping off the building should feel a little relieved." Hijikata Renshu turned his head and looked out the window, sighing softly:

"Really, that child looks a lot like Izuna, so I am willing to carry out this [trial] and judge her in the most cruel way as always!"

"Please understand me a little more. Brother Youma, I am doing the right thing that none of you can do, a noble act called [Revenge]. It's just that this road requires some necessary sacrifices, and I can't do anything about it!"

"But." Xi Shenjian lowered his eyes weakly, the resentment in his heart was eventually blocked.

"You've talked so much nonsense, but aren't you just trying to excuse your own crimes?" Suddenly, a young man's voice came from outside the door, with a very sharp tone.

"Who?" Hijikata Hitoshi looked outside the door alertly.

Xi Shenjian turned his head and saw Jiuzhou Cheng walking in steadily.

"No noble act [necessary sacrifice] does not exist at all. Even if there is, it can only be you, not others." Jiuzhou Cheng stood on the ruins with a long umbrella in his hand. His eyes were sharp:

"Besides, if you think your revenge is so noble, why do you hide like a rat?"

(End of this chapter)