[Tatsuo actually feels a small flash of defensiveness at the suggestion Ryuuzaki isn't a competent cop.]

Excuse you, he's actually quite competent. He has the highest arrest rate in his division. If it hadn't been for him, Nishida's murder would have been written off as a suicide, even by his own partner. He even figured out that Ishimori was a dirty cop on his own. Smelled the drugs on him like a bloodhound.

[He takes a long sip from his drink. And kind of skips over the question of what Ryuuzaki's partner thinks. Besides, it's a vague question anyway.]

And not everyone dies. Nishida's daughter, Yikina, she survives.