Chapter 24 Chapter Eleven

"Muto, I also know that you have been cheated again." The insider said the words I didn't want to hear very bluntly. The time and place are still in the office in the morning.I explained to the team how I met Zhilang on the weekend, and the contradictions about the statement that his father hates jazz. "Please don't speak so nonsense, okay?" "Am I wrong? The old man in the tracksuit must be uneasy and kind. He may have plans with his son." "What attempt?" "I probably guessed it." The confident attitude in the formation made me very uneasy. "The father and son are probably hiding something, that's why they lied to you."

"But the relationship between the father and son doesn't seem to be good enough to conspire." "Ouch!" the team member said impatiently, "That's what they pretended. They deliberately pretended to be at odds during the interview, but in fact they planned it long ago." After being told by the team, I began to recall the situation during the first interview.The father watching his son with surveillance eyes, and the son who is afraid of that gaze, is that really acting? "I don't think it looks like acting." "You said that when you met the boy at the fast food restaurant, his behavior was completely different from that in the interview?"

"It's totally different." I have to admit. "I see." There was a strange smile in the formation, which gave me an ominous premonition. "His mother isn't home, is she?" "Well, I heard that I'm going on a trip." "He lied." "what?" "The father and son killed her and buried her in the courtyard. They did this unnatural behavior in order to conceal the matter." "Wait...wait a minute." I stood up from the chair. "Where did the murder come from?" "It's as simple as that." He shook his head in satisfaction and said.

"Why do you conclude that they killed someone?" "It must be like this. Although it is not hit, it is not far away." "Okay, even if I give up a hundred steps, it's fine assuming that there is such a thing..." "No mistake, it must be true." "Then why make up the lie that my father hated jazz?" "Well..." The eyes in the formation began to flutter.Anyway, he probably wanted to write bad reasons while speaking to prevaricate me, and he did this every time. "Because corpses stink. They stink even when they're buried in the ground, so they're going to cover it up with jazz."

"Use jazz to cover up the stink?" I sniffed. "It is to dull the sense of smell by stimulating the sense of hearing." What?I feel that the team must not know what he is talking about. "You said you heard Sonny Rollins right? That tune was originally used in an opera featuring criminals, aka. Oh, so she was assassinated, no wonder they put it on This song." "I don't think so." "Then it's just..." the voice in the formation raised his voice and said: "The man regretted killing his wife, and started listening to jazz to atone for his sin. He deliberately turned the volume up to listen to the annoying jazz, and punished himself to atone for his sin."

"Please don't say such nonsense like 'fear of steamed buns'①, okay?" ①Afraid of mantou, mantou is a kind of Japanese dessert with sweet filling inside, and "Afraid of mantou" is a famous Japanese funny story.Roughly speaking, a group of young people got together to discuss what they were afraid of. One of them said that he was afraid of steamed buns, so the others bought a lot of steamed buns and threw them into his room while he was asleep. As a result, he shouted that he was so scared, so scared, While eating up all the steamed buns.Others were very angry when they saw it, and asked him what he was afraid of, and he replied: "I am afraid of stronger tea."

"Music can still save a person sometimes." Jinnai pouted. Colleagues in the entire office know that the group is a member of a certain band.He would sometimes leave work early in a panic under the pretext of participating in band practice; during holidays, he would often pretend that there was a concert and ask him not to arrange work for him. Just imagining Jinnae, who is usually noisy enough, playing the guitar on the stage with an even more arrogant appearance than usual, is enough to make my skin crawl, so I have never seen his performance with my own eyes.Fortunately, so far, the team has never offered me such an invitation to "come and see my concert".

It is said that Mr. Koyamauchi has been to the Live House where Jinnai performed several times.I asked him what he thought, and he replied with a nod and a smile: "Not bad. The guitar played in the group is really good." Hearing him say that made me think that it would be okay to listen to it once in a while.However, the thought of the members of the team always proudly saying "my performance is very cool", made me give up the idea of ​​joining in the show. In addition, he once said in the team: "I was involved in a bank robbery when I was a teenager, and I sang it on the spot at that time." Hearing this kind of exaggerated story that was obviously broken out made me feel very sorry for him. He is wary of playing, and he can't help but wonder how serious he is about music.

Of course, I'm just interested in what kind of music is played in the team and how to play it. "In the formation, what kind of person is your father?" As the working hours approached, the owners of other desks appeared one after another, and the air in the office began to flow. At this moment, I suddenly thought of this question. "Why are you asking this all of a sudden?" A rare look of flinching appeared in the formation. "It doesn't have any special meaning. I just saw Zhilang's father as such a person, and felt that he was very pitiful. He didn't understand him, and he was indifferent. Then I thought I don't know what kind of person your father is..."

"My dad is the worst guy." The team said clearly word by word. Because no matter what things are faced in the formation, he always has an attitude of not admitting defeat, which made me think that he probably had the idea of ​​​​resisting Zhilang, so he said this answer.But judging by his expression, it doesn't seem to be the case.He replied very seriously: "He is just a self-willed and nonsensical person. In fact, he is very ugly inside, and he is the worst person." "Will he be violent to you?" "It would be easier to understand if he was just that, but no. He's a great, serious, good guy in society. But he's the worst guy."

"Worst person?" "Even though we never saw each other after he divorced my mother, he was still the person I looked down on the most." "It's like this..." I didn't expect him to say these words at all, so the answering voice became weak unconsciously. "What about now? Do you still look down on him very much now?" "Now I don't know, and I don't care anymore." There was no reluctance on the face of the team, only a hearty expression as if the matter had been completely resolved. "Because of a small opportunity, I will never care about his affairs again." I heard Mr. Koyamauchi calling me, so I couldn't continue listening to him.