Tokyo Barrister: Start the law firm bankruptcy

Chapter 534 The Whistleblower

At night, at 9:37.

Kyoto, Yamashina District, No. [-] Takena Honcho [-]-dori, Beilin Apartment.

In the small living room, the sound of the heater was humming, and a row of young ladies' fashionable clothes were drying in front of the window, and water dripped faintly on the floor.The incandescent lamp on the ceiling illuminates the shadows of the three people in the living room, casting their shadows on the tatami.

After the trial, Kitahara and Miyagawa came to Mikiko's residence again.While the internal meeting of Kyoto University was held, Bei Yuan also needed to check with his client.He sat on the cushion, held the steaming teacup, and took a sip of tea lightly.

Mikiko was still leaning lazily on the table, flipping through the latest beauty magazines and yawning from time to time.As the instigator of this storm, at this moment, Mikiko seemed to be unaffected, continuing to live quietly.

Looking at the teacup, Bei Yuan was already lost in thought.

In today's trial, he has successfully asked the collegial panel to conduct a substantive review of whether the thesis constitutes plagiarism.Although it's hard to say what impact it will have on the judge's testimony in the end, it can indeed be regarded as a small victory to a certain extent.

However, it is only a "victory".

Because from today onwards, my hole cards have been played out.

This is the end of the material that Professor Ochi can provide himself.

No new, more material.

The hole cards are out, which means that starting today, they will lose the powerful force to fight back.

And after today, the enemy, like a frightened bird, will definitely take various routes to block his own attack.

This feeling is like the landing force has just captured the machine gun position on the beach, but then finds that there are hundreds of bunkers waiting for them behind.The problem is, the sappers have run out of explosives.

Headache.

Beiyuan couldn't help pinching the center of his brows slightly, then he raised his head, looked at the girl in front of him who was concentrating on reading a beauty magazine, and said, "Mikiko. During today's trial, we obtained some important information. Need to check with you. See if you can recall the relevant facts."

"What question do you want to ask?" Mikiko fiddled with her hair with one hand, as if she disliked the fact that her long fluttering hair had split ends at the end, she couldn't help picking up the comb with her other hand, and began to hold her hair , plunged the comb into the hair, and combed vigorously.

"Today, Kyoto University has presented a lot of evidence." Beiyuan said, "Among them, there are letters related to the initial investigation of you by two academic journals at that time. From these letters, we can see why these journals originally Start an investigation into your paper."

Bei Yuan's words seemed to touch a certain corner of the heart of the girl in front of her.

The hand that was combing the hair stopped.Mikiko's casual eyes suddenly became sharp.After a pause of only a few seconds, she suddenly raised her head, looked at the male lawyer, and couldn't help asking: "Why? Why did these journals suddenly investigate my paper?"

Kitahara did not answer Mikiko's question immediately, but opened the briefcase next to him, took out sheets of paper and laid them on the table, and then said: "These materials were displayed by the other party's lawyer in court. These The journal is investigating your paper because—"

"report."

These two words echoed in the living room.

Like a piano that had been silent for a long time, it suddenly hit the keys.

Make a frightening sound.

The moment Mikiko heard the word "report", her eyes widened a little, and her whole body trembled slightly at that second, as if it caused a huge and incomparably turbulent sea in her heart.But immediately, she seemed to have a strong emotional control ability not commensurate with her age, and immediately suppressed this inner shock.

"Your first paper was reported." Bei Yuan flipped the paper on the desktop, "Your second paper was also reported. Especially the second paper. When you were writing, the four The project paper has not yet been published. Therefore, when you submit the manuscript, it is impossible for the journal to find that there is text overlap. If the first paper is reported, it may be because the experiment cannot be repeated. However, the second paper, Although I am not an expert in biology, I can roughly see that the focus of the paper is to propose a mathematical model for predicting protein structure, rather than focusing on experimental results. This kind of article has also been reported.”

"It's definitely not accidental that something with a small probability happens twice." Beiyuan said, "Someone should be eyeing you. So, what I want to confirm with you today is, can you think of who has the most May stare at you and report your paper."

"To be honest, I know that my thesis was investigated because of reporting, and I was very surprised." Mikiko said: "I always thought that the misconduct of my thesis was discovered because of the detection of the paper software. As for who is the most It is possible to stare at me and report papers, I really need to think about this issue."

To be honest, Bei Yuan also felt a little strange.

The strife in academia generally occurs among scholars.

Either young assistant professors vying for tenure or senior faculty vying for administrative positions.

A doctoral student, what kind of interests can be involved.

Why would anyone stare at a PhD student, doing that.

Beiyuan has not yet figured out this problem.

"Think about it carefully." Bei Yuan continued, "When you were in the laboratory, did you offend some people, or have a particularly bad relationship with some people? For example, do you have any special interests among students? The relationship will make the other party a competitor. Do these situations exist?"

Mikiko fell into deep thought after listening to Kitahara's words.

She just kept her head down.

Time seemed to be frozen.

The rotation of the hour hand became silent.

"Tick tock, tick tock".The sound of the clock in the living room became monotonous and boring.

And so the silent silence continued.Kitahara and Miyagawa did not continue to ask further questions, but left the girl enough time to think.I don't know how long it took, the clothes in front of the drying rack no longer dripped, and the heat in the teacup no longer rose slowly.

In an instant, Mikiko moved, and her voice sounded: "Mayu Chida."

This name, which Kitahara had never heard before, came from Mikiko's mouth.

——Mayu Chida.

(End of this chapter)