Chapter 18 Section VI

In the morning, the rain stopped completely. Near Kaji Satoshiro's house.There was silence all around.The cordon prohibiting entry has long since been dismantled. Sase peeped into the mailbox outside the wall.It's empty.Looking up, an inconspicuous two-story building came into view.Look at the watch again.The hour hand points to ten o'clock in the morning. Early in the morning, I asked the witness Mitsuo Tanuma at station K, but it was still a step too late.Although they are also threatening with stern words, one can imagine the methods the county police will use to block Tanuma's mouth.The report of the Times used to be "Sato Ichiro Kaji at the platform of the Shinkansen ascending line", but it was also revised to "A man similar to Ichiro Kaji was looking in the direction of the ascending line in front of the canteen."It didn't look like it was real that I got on the train.Only when Tanuma said this did he not take his eyes off Sase's face.

--never mind.There is no doubt about having been to Tokyo. Look at the watch again. so late!Within a few seconds of thinking this way, the familiar dark blue commercial vehicle turned from the intersection ahead.Officer Suzuki, who was holding the steering wheel, lowered his head and drove the car this way.There are people in the back seat of the car. Perhaps because the funeral is over and things are finally settled, Yasuko Shimamura seems a few years older than yesterday.His expressions and responses seemed a little dazed.In fact, she was only fifty-six years old, and her hair was obviously graying.

"I'm sorry to invite you here." Sase spoke routinely and showed the search warrant. Suzuki looked around with a stiff expression.Search without police sanction.Definitely a first experience for Suzuki.Sase called Suzuki and gave him an order.Suzuki nodded, and got into the commercial vehicle while taking out his mobile phone from his pocket. Sase put on white gloves, opened the door with the key borrowed from Yasuko, and entered Kaji Satoshiro's house.Look at each room in order.What I'm looking for is very simple, that is, "something with words written on it".Sase and Suzuki, who came in later, searched the drawers and closets together, but they didn't find anything they were looking for.A picture of writing on the table in the study is the first "thing with writing" that I saw:

fifty years Suzuki tilted his head. "what is this?" "Lucky Ruowu's "Dun Sheng"." Sase took the word in her hand and replied. "One day in the Buddha's world, fifty years in the human world. Comparing and comparing, it is just like a dream. Once you are alive, how can you live forever?" After reciting, I felt the emotion that I never had when I was studying this poem in my student days.Perhaps, it is the years that make me feel like this.Now it seems that Sase, who thought she was young and energetic at the time and hoped to gain a sense of the impermanence of life, was actually yearning for maturity.

——When was this written? People live fifty years.Kaji Satoshiro was forty-nine years old.Being so close in age makes it seem like there must be some metaphor.Besides, there must be something else to look for, right? Notepads, mailing addresses, exchanged business cards, letters... Sase and Suzuki searched the house almost all over, but there wasn't a single thing that a normal family should have. "It's late again." "You mean...the county police did it?" "Who else?" "But nothing was written on the confiscation list." "Occasionally learn to doubt!"

It seems that the police must be secretly checking the confiscated notebooks at this time to find out the purpose of Satoshi Kaji's trip to Tokyo. Sase began to feel a little anxious. The longer the delay, the worse it is.After that, I planned to question Shimamura Yasuko. During this period, the county police will definitely build layers of defense walls. Sase decided to attack from the fort first. Although the search here failed to obtain materials that could attack the county police, the search itself was enough to pose a threat to the police station. "The inquiry is proceeding slowly."

After whispering to Suzuki, Sase remembered that he should confirm with Yasuko as soon as possible, so he turned to Yasuko and asked, "Have you gone through the formalities of forwarding the mail to your home?" "Oh yes." "Are you saying that Satoshi Kaji wanted to do that?" "Yes, he called before he surrendered himself." "understood." For Yasuko, Kaji Congichiro is the murderer who killed his own sister. "I don't hate Kaji Satoshiro... Of course Keiko is very pitiful. But if she lives like that, she will be even more pitiful..."

"I can understand your feelings." After Yasuko finished wiping her tears with a handkerchief, Sase asked the following question: "Who is Satoshi Kaji waiting for a letter from?" Kang Zi's face changed suddenly. "He must have told you his name, and expected you to tell him when you saw the man's letter, didn't he?" Sase's guess is probably not too far-fetched.Because Yasuko's voice was trembling when he denied it, the volume was too low to be heard. ——I will ask slowly later. Sase saluted Yasuko, turned around and left Kaji Soichiro's house with Suzuki.

As soon as he went out, he found a black commercial vehicle parked in front of Kaji Satoshiro's house.There are also a few antennas on the top of the car... The rear window is slowly opened. "Hey, did you find anything?" It was Kazumasa Shiki, the instructor of the First Investigation Division. Suzuki couldn't help but let out an "ah".An embarrassing look of wanting to escape. "Surveillance?" Sase said in a low voice. "Just passing by." Zhimu sneered. Sase also sneered back.Although he has been transferred from the case, the case can never be erased from his mind.The Shiki that Sase knew was such a man.

"The Criminal Department is like a box for runes." "You can say what you want." Shiki didn't intend to get out of the car, he sat in the dim car and kept watching this side. "I heard you looked for me everywhere yesterday?" "I want to ask something." "Don't be naive. I'm a policeman." "The relationship between biting and being bitten?" "Who knows. Don't talk about that, you went to bed really early last night." Hearing what he said, Sase remembered.I heard someone ring the doorbell last night, I thought it was a reporter so I ignored it.Ah, it turned out to be the boy Shiki.

Sase looked into Shiki's eyes to ascertain the purpose of the visit. Shiki's eyes did not avoid. "Have you read the writing in the study?" "Yes, I read it." "It doesn't matter if you want to make things big, but don't forget the case itself." There seemed to be a hot current rolling in Sase's heart, which coexisted with something completely silent, without interfering with each other.