Chapter 21 Section five

the next day. Hamamura Chiaki visited the villages at the foot of Onishi Mountain.Mainly visit food stores and police stations. Ask if there have been any strangers in the past few years, or if there have been any thefts.Introduce to the villagers the appearance of the ghost girl, the appearance of the dwarf, and the appearance of the fairy depicted according to his own imagination.Because Bangcun believes that the immortal must have bought grain or food somewhere. Moreover, to buy food, the immortal must raise money.He doesn't think Xianren has the funds to support four people for more than ten years.If there is no funds, the immortals will inevitably steal.

It's New Years in two days and people are busy.Even so, he responded quite readily to Hamamura's visit. By evening, four villages and towns had been visited. In the last town visited, Hamamura got the information. The police officers at the police station remembered Hamamura's appearance from newspapers and weekly magazines.This is a curious young police officer who recounts a robbery incident that occurred several years ago.It's an incident that hasn't been solved yet. Among the powerful figures in the town, there is a man named Fumio Suzue. The Suzue family is an aristocratic family, and it is also one of the few forest owners in the vicinity, and also operates a timber factory.

It was this Suzue family that was robbed.It was in the middle of a summer night. Suzue Fumio and his wife Etsuko were sleeping in a newly built house. In the middle of the night, Suzue was kicked off the pillow by someone.When he hurriedly got up, the thief had already pressed the pointed kitchen knife to his chest.His wife, Etsuko, was also sleeping in the same bed, and they both raised their hands.There is no room for resistance. The thieves gagged the couple, tied their hands and feet with wire, and then asked where the money was. Sales that day were around 600,000. It was all taken away by the thief.

The thief was a short man with a veil on his face, and an old man. Suzue saw that he was in his early fifties, he had a dirty feeling, and his body smelled of dirt. After the man snatched the money, he dragged Etsuko to the floor and slashed open Etsuko's pajamas with a knife.With his hands tied behind his back and his mouth gagged, Suzue was helpless.Parents and servants lived in the main room.Suzue had hoped that they would notice, but the hope was in vain.The guard dog at home didn't bark either. Etsuko was stripped clean.She was only in her early thirties, with plump limbs, and was stripped and rolled, and Etsuko stared in horror.

The man put a knife on Etsuko's chest and said in a low voice, "If you are not honest, I will kill you", speaking in Osaka dialect. Suzue watched anxiously with blood in his eyes, and shouted "Stop!" in his chest, but nothing helped. The wife groaned. The robber who broke into Suzue's house was never caught. The thief didn't leave a single fingerprint, only the semen left on Suzue's wife.It is a non-secreting type, type B. Aged fifty-four or five years old.He is about 1.6 meters long.The appearance of a worker.Kansai dialect.Blood type B. only these.

Police believe it was a fugitive. There is only one strange phenomenon: Suzue's family has a guard dog, but why doesn't the guard dog bark?This is a question that has always been puzzling. The guard dog was tied at the entrance of the house where the Suzue couple slept. It was a young dog that could bark very well.Although they are all guard dogs, the old dogs are useless and want to sleep.Sometimes the thieves can't wake up even if they step over them.Not so with young dogs. But, in fact, the watchdog didn't bark. The next day, the thirty-first day. Hamura Chiaki came to the Nagano Police Headquarters.

Today is New Year's Eve.The police also have New Year's Eve and New Year's Eve.Every department has a lively atmosphere. Bangcun is in the reference room.This is a rather dark room.It's not much different from a prison cell.Here, Hamamura began to search for information about this unsolved case. There are piles of information. Six of them were picked out. All robbery incidents.Hamamura targeted specific inmate characteristics and extracted several from the robbery incident reports. In the selected case, the characteristics of the prisoners are all the same.The crimes committed from ten years ago to the most recent.Although the age recorded each time is different, the prisoner can be considered to be the same person.

The crimes took place throughout Nagano Prefecture. At dusk, Bangcun walked out of the police headquarters. Hamamura walked straight to the station to go back to Tokyo. Pine branches are decorated in front of every house.Most of the young women wore their hair in a bun.There is a festive and lively atmosphere everywhere. All of this has nothing to do with Bangcun. Time goes on forever.But people celebrate this transitional line from today to tomorrow.Maybe there are those who cry, and there are also those who cannot cross the boundary between today and tomorrow, but are buried in infinite time.

Hamamura has none of these.Time becomes a straight line that stretches as far as the eye can't see. is a gray line. — Immortal! As he walked, he was muttering in his heart. Hamamura has sorted out the clues proving that the criminal in the robber case is a fairy. Except for the Suzue family, there is no other crime of rape.Possibly women who were robbed of cash and then raped.Just didn't report it. The celestial beings abduct the mentally handicapped ten daughters of Ino and bring them into Mount Diyue. Let these ten girls raise the two stolen children.The living expenses were raised by the immortals.

I am afraid that the unresolved robbery incident is not limited to Nagano Prefecture, but will definitely spread to the wider areas of Yamanashi and Shizuoka Prefectures. Regarding the past of Otake Ryohei and Akiko who were murdered, although a large number of investigators were invested in the investigation, it is said that it is still unclear.Although unclear, it is clear that there is a sage hidden in Dazhu's past life. Type B blood. Whether this counts as evidence or not, even Bangcun doesn't know. During the first three days of the new year, Hamamura stayed at home. On the evening of the third day, Tomoyuki Hiroka came to the door.

He had whiskey in his hand. "I want to have a drink with you." Hiroka's expression showed fatigue. "It's a great honor." Please come into the living room and start drinking. There is a palm-sized yard.The dry weeds exude a desolate atmosphere in the winter wind. "The information entrusted to the police agency to investigate has been obtained." Hiroka pinched a piece of dried fish. "In the three prefectures of Nagano, Shizuoka, and Yamanashi, there were 16 unsolved robbery incidents, with a total of 26 million robbed. This is a record in the past 15 years." "Oh." "The police in each county do not believe that the same person committed the crime. The location of the crime is too far apart, which is one of the reasons for this judgment. Among these sixteen cases, there are two cases of rape victims. One is the foothills of Ghost Stone Mountain that you investigated. The Suzue family. The other happened in the summer of seven years ago at the seaside in Shizuoka Prefecture. A couple living in a villa was raped." "So, the penis is..." Hamamura rattled and shook the ice cubes in the glass and asked. "There is no confession in this regard. Anyway, I heard it was miserable." "It's miserable?" "It's as if the husband beat the raped wife half to death." Hiroka grinned slightly. "yes." Hamasai turned his gaze to the courtyard. "But the penis?" After a short pause, Hiroka spoke. "According to experts in that area, it seems to have been popular in prisons for a while. I heard that prisoners in single cells started doing it because they had nothing else to do. Just break the handle of the toothbrush, that's it... ..." Hiroka rubbed the plastic handle on the concrete floor. "I heard that it needs to be carefully ground into a round shape. The final polishing is done on a cloth to make it smooth, that is, it is processed into a pearl shape. Then it is buried under the skin of the glans. I heard that there are four or five of them. Well. Then the skin was sewn up, saying that the skin would heal. Although I don’t know who started it, but I heard that there was a pandemic for a while.” Hiroka refills a glass of whiskey himself. Silence came. Hamamura saw the distress hidden in the expression of Hiroka who drank silently.The chief of the first search section, who is serving, visits the home of the retired searcher: it shows that he has reached a dilemma. "Otake Ryohei's past, haven't you found out yet?" "Well. Dazhu himself erased the history that affected his bad reputation. It's not easy." "Is it." "How about visiting the woman who was raped in the villa?" There was a look of dependence in Hiroka's eyes.