Chapter 36 Section ten

Back at the criminal police office, Yoshishiki Takeshi immediately called the Niigata Prefectural Hospital and asked if the Togoshi couple were there.The hospital said that Mrs. Torikoshi had arrived, and Yoshishiki Takeshi asked Mrs. Torigoshi to answer the phone. Yoshifu Takeshi said that Yukari was at the Morioka Police Station, please rest assured.Mrs. Torigoshi said that Yukari's adoptive father did not go to Niigata, but was still looking for Yukari everywhere in Morioka.Yoshishiki Takeshi asked how to contact him, and Mrs. Torigoshi said that her husband would call her, and then just tell him that Yukari was fine.

Yoshishiki Takeshi asked Kiyama Noriko again, and Mrs. Torigoshi said that the situation was very bad and she was still in a deep coma.Yoshifu Takeshi explained that he would take Yukari there early in the morning, and then hung up the phone. Looking back, Juchi has already built two beds with chairs, one big and one small.The small one should be given to Yukari to sleep with. "I'm going to get the blankets now!" Ju Chi trotted out with a busy look, and brought back two blankets in a blink of an eye. "Just sleep here?" "Ah, I don't want to be too far away from the phone." Kikuchi said as he began to spread the blanket, "Yukari, you sleep here. Let's just sleep for a while, and it will be dawn soon."

Yoshifu Takeshi came over to help Kikuchi spread the blanket. "Mr. Takeshi Yoshishiki, you can sleep here." "What about you?" Takeshi Yoshifuki saw that the chairs were all used up, and there was no place for Kikuchi to sleep. "Me, sleep next door." Juchi realized that this sentence contradicted what he said just now, and said, "Sleeping on this sofa is also fine." The sofa was too small, but Kikuchi insisted on sleeping on the sofa, so Takeshi Yoshishiki stopped arguing with him and lay down on the bed made of chairs.Kikuchi quickly turned off the lights.

Yukari Torikoshi lay down and fell asleep without saying a word.Ah, what an honest boy——Kichishi Takeshi thought. Yoshifu Takeshi looked at the dark ceiling, thinking about the lonely situation of the girl beside him.He couldn't live with his biological mother. His classmate, good friend, and younger brother Kiyama Hideyuki was also killed by Iwata Yuji. Just now, in order to avenge Hideyuki, I personally poisoned Iwata Yuji to death. The biological mother is still struggling on the verge of death... This child's life is really miserable. What Yoshishiki Takeshi felt from Noriko Kiyama's body was also felt in this girl, whose mother's blood was still flowing in her body.

Yoshifu Takeshi was thinking wildly in the dark.Maybe it was because he was too tired, Yoshishiki Takeshi fell asleep without knowing it.I don't know how long he fell asleep, but Takeshi Yoshishiki seemed to hear the phone ringing.He raised his head reflexively, and saw that the east window had been dyed red by the morning glow. Kikuchi was answering the phone, in order not to wake up Takeshi Yoshishiki and Yukari Togoshi, he spoke in such a low voice that Takeshi Yoshishiki couldn't hear what he was saying at all.Kikuchi finished speaking quickly, and slowly put the words back, without even looking at Takeshi Kichishi, stood up slowly, walked to the east window, put his elbows on the window sill, rested his chin in his hands, and quietly looking out the window.

Yoshiki Takeshi took a deep breath.His head was heavy, but he struggled to get up.He wanted to know the content of that call that Kikuchi answered.He raised his wrist and looked at his watch, it was almost five o'clock. In order not to wake Yukari Torikoshi, Yoshishiki Takeshi moved very lightly.Manman put on his shoes and tiptoed towards Kikuchi.Kikuchi's slightly fatter, somewhat hunchbacked back seemed even more curved at the moment, and he stared intently out of the window. Outside the window is the forest of the ruins of Morioka Castle, and the morning sun has already exposed the treetops.Behind the silhouette of the forest, the sky is full of morning glow.

Detective Kikuchi didn't seem to hear Takeshi Yoshifuki's footsteps, he didn't turn his head, he was still staring out the window, looking at the morning sun peeking out of the treetops. "Didn't sleep well?" Yoshishiki Takeshi suddenly greeted Kikuchi, his voice was hoarse because he just woke up. However, Kikuchi still didn't look back. Yoshifu Takeshi felt a little strange, walked up to Kikuchi, looked at his profile, and asked, "Mr. Kikuchi, the call just now was..." Detective Kikuchi suddenly shook his head vigorously. After shaking for a while, he suddenly shouted, "Mr. Takeshi Yoshifuki, I..."

Yoshifu Takeshi was taken aback, only then did he realize that Kikuchi's shoulders were shaking unceasingly. "Ah...I..." Kikuchi lowered his voice and continued, the voice was desperate and painful, "I'm really useless...I...I can't do anything for her, I can do it Yes, I just sit here like a fool, I... I feel bad. I can't do anything for her, I can only sit like this, waiting for the sun to rise from the east, maybe only in this way, I can feel good in my heart some……" Juchi covered his face with both hands, sobbing silently, his whole body trembling: "Look, it's strange that I look like this? It's strange... isn't it?" Juchi said with a sob, "In In the criminal police office, watching the rising sun, weeping, it’s ridiculous, isn’t it?” Kikuchi sobbed again when he said this.

Yoshifu Takeshi didn't say a word, silently waiting for Kikuchi to finish speaking.He who fell asleep drowsily woke up gradually in the cool air of the late summer morning.Outside the window, the heavy fog last night seemed to have not completely dissipated, but the weather was clear, and the heavy fog last night was like a dream. Kikuchi took a deep breath or two, trying to calm himself down. "Mr. Takeshi Yoshishiki, don't you understand me? You don't understand the feelings of a person like me, do you?" "No! I can understand you..." Yoshifu Takeshi wanted to tell Kikuchi right away, but for some reason, he never said it.

"Mr. Takeshi Yoshishiki, as handsome as you, as smart as you, women must like you very much, right?" Jifu Takeshi couldn't help but smiled wryly.The incident ended up like this, can I still be said to be smart?Kikuchi's words, Yoshishiki Takeshi sounded like he was mocking himself. "I'm afraid no one can understand my feelings. Norko Togoshi has long been someone else's woman. Why am I still so infatuated with her? There is something wrong with her, right?... I started liking her when I was in middle school, Now I am thirty-six years old, more than twenty years, I have always liked her, only her! She is the spiritual pillar of my life! Even I find it strange that I don’t like anyone except her. Other women. I'm tired, so tired, but... I can't help but like her, she's the only woman I have..."

Policeman Kikuchi said blankly, feeling this pocket and then that pocket, as if he was looking for a handkerchief, but he couldn't find it after searching for a long time.Yoshifu Takeshi took out his handkerchief and handed it to him. Detective Kikuchi was taken aback, he didn't expect Takeshi Yoshifu to understand his feelings.He bowed several times to Takeshi Kishifu in fear and trepidation, took the handkerchief, quickly wiped away his tears, returned it to Takeshi Kishifu, and continued to grope for the handkerchief here and there. "What happened to the phone call just now?" Yoshishiki Takeshi asked. Juchi let out a long sigh: "Niaoyue can't help her..." Juchi's head drooped heavily, tears welling up like springs. After crying for a while, Kikuchi wiped his nose and continued, "Just now, Togoshi...no, Noriko Kiyama, she...is dead!..." Yoshiki Takeshi bit his lip tightly and did not speak.Kikuchi wiped his tears with his right hand. The two turned their heads at the same time and looked at Yukari Torikoshi lying on the chair.The little girl was lying quietly, motionless, but both Yoshashiki Takeshi and Kikuchi wondered if she was really awake. Kikuchi said in a trembling voice: "Hey!... There is... no need to go to Niigata anymore..."