People scatter when the great tree falls.
When a person is alive, many revere them for their status and position, but once they're dead, they no longer have any influence among those people; instead, to them, he's just a dead person.
Nothing more!
Just like Old Master Chen in the past, so is Ichiro Sato today.
An act of usurpation occurred within Yamaguchi-gumi; Tatsu Komeina caught the Sato Family Manor by surprise, nearly wiping out the entire Sato family in a bloody purge, successfully seizing power.
This caught everyone off guard.
After the Tokyo police moved in, they didn't forcefully arrest Tatsu Komeina's men but instead negotiated with Komeina's female strategist, Misa.
For the head of the Tokyo police, such negotiations were merely to buy time, waiting for instructions from above.
