

Near the end, Aramaki made a deal with the Prime Minister to "sacrifice"
Section 9 in exchange for the Ministry of Justice taking action against the
Party Secretary-General. What I don't understand is why Section 9 had to be
"sacrificed." The Prime Minister didn't want to disturb the Lower House
elections, and the Ministry of Justice wanted credit for the prosecution, but
all of this could have been achieved if Section 9 simply continued lying low
and handed over their evidence and credit to the Ministry of Justice. What
advantage was there in trying to eliminate Section 9?


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Why did Public Safety Section 9 have to be "sacrificed"?


In episode 24 it is heavily implied that Section 9 (not the members) is formed
by the Prime Minister himself and Section 9 (i.e Aramaki) only reports to or
takes order from either the Home Minister Affairs or directly from the Prime
Minister himself. This is why Aramaki is immediately called in by the Home
Affairs Minister to meet at the Prime Ministers residence in episode 24 when
the leak happens to discuss the situation.

The other thing to realize is that, Section 9 got on to the suspicion
regarding Yakushima involvement pretty late. Yakushima and his cabal were most
definitely keeping tabs on Section 9 from very early on, seeing as to how
quickly the Section 9 secret operation (carried out in episode 23) gets leaked
to the media just before Section 9 tries to make a move on Yakushima.

So if you take these things into consideration it makes sense as to why
Aramaki went to the Prime Minister and why Section 9 ended up being disbanded.
It's basically because Section 9 were not able to verify Yakushima involvement
in the case until almost the end. As a result, Section 9 didn't have enough
time or window to keep tab on Yakushima himself. Therefore they were unable to
prevent or predict the leak. Thereby also catching them by surprise. If they
were able to verify Yakushima's involvement early on and kept tabs on him,
there most likely would not have been the disbanding of Section 9. Or the at
the very least the situation would have gone differently.


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