Chapter 2 Chapter Two

It was already half past nine in the evening when Etsuko Yamana came out of the office building of the R prefectural police headquarters. The warm air in the car, for a long time, could not warm up the car, and the hand holding the steering wheel was so cold.Yamana Etsuko's destination is Kondo Miyao's home. The woman who answered the phone just now was Kondo Miyao's wife Yukiko.Yukiko said that Miyao Kondo wasn't at home, and he didn't bring a portable call transfer communicator with him, but he will be back soon, please come and wait for him at home.Etsuko is infected by Yukiko's straightforward personality, and decides to visit Kondo Miyao's house.

Now, the New Year's party has reached its climax, right?The head of the Liberation Department told Yamana Etsuko that he must attend the New Year's party, it doesn't matter how late it is.Etsuko knew that, among the group of boring men in the parenting class, anyway, if she went by herself, she would also play the role of a waitress, and would not have a trace of happiness, so she might as well go to Kondo Miyao's house to have a look. Etsuko Yamana thought so, and stepped on the accelerator hard. Etsuko Yamana hoped that she would be able to find Miyao Kondo tonight and implement his manuscript.Did Yasue Kubota forget to notify Miyao Kondo, or did Kubota lose Miyao Kondo's manuscript, or did Miyao Kondo have time to write it? ...

wrong…… Yamana Etsuko suspected: Kondo Miyao didn't intend to write the manuscript at all.Because, even Yukiko didn't know that someone entrusted her husband to write a manuscript.A photo of Kondo flashed in Etsuko's mind.Those dull eyes made one think that he was a difficult, if not sinister, character. "Why did this trouble happen?" Etsuko Yamana asked herself painfully. Among the forty-seven retirees, only one manuscript was missing.In the February issue of "R Policeman", no matter what, the photos of these forty-seven people had to be published at the same time, and the articles written by themselves, even if there was only one person missing.In the police organization, retirement is a solemn ceremony, which even Etsuko Yamana, who has not been in the organization for too long, knows.It is necessary to hold the retirees high, praise and commend them, send them off with the most passionate language and the warmest applause, and congratulate them on successfully completing their mission.

This is not so much a ceremony for the sent-offs, as it is a ceremony held to boost the morale of the send-offs.Those who remain must follow the example of their predecessors, dedicate themselves to the noble profession of the police, and continue to work hard for the organization of the police.The ceremony was like a funeral.In fact, the funeral is not held for the dead, but for the family members who are still alive. When the car finally warmed up, Etsuko Yamana arrived at her destination at the same time.After Kondo Miyao started his long vacation before retirement, he immediately moved out of the family dormitory of the F police station and rented a beautiful two-story building.

"Come on? Come in, come in!..." Kondo Miyao's wife Yukiko responded, "I'm sorry, we just moved, and we haven't packed it yet." Her tone of voice sounded similar to that of someone on the phone. Just as refreshing. Etsuko Yamana walked in and took a look, and sure enough it hadn't been cleaned up yet.There are piles of cardboard boxes with prominent moving company logos on them, none of which have been opened yet. "I'll make you some tea." Yukiko said as she walked into the kitchen.Although the person is invisible, there is no delay in speaking.While making tea, Yukiko chatted loudly with Etsuko who was sitting in the living room.

Kondo Miyao and his wife have two sons, both of whom have been admitted to universities in Tokyo, and they have to send them 160,000 yen for living expenses every month... By the time Yukiko returned to the living room with tea, Etsuko Yamana had basically grasped Kondo Miyao's family situation. "My guy should be back soon. Put your feet in the kotatsu quickly!..." Yukiko persuaded with a laugh. "Thank you! Where did Mr. Kondo go?" Yamana Etsuko asked impatiently. Yukiko's wrinkled round face showed a girlish smile, and she laughed loudly: "Who knows where he went, my husband, he is a criminal policeman!"

Interpol?Isn't Kondo the guard of the detention center?How did you become a police officer? ... Yamana Etsuko was as confused as Monk Joji. "I call him the cellar detective." "What? The cellar?..." Yamana Etsuko looked at Yukiko in surprise. "Hehe, I used to call him the Count of Monte Cristo." Yukiko smiled brightly, and told Etsuko the story of Miyao Kondo.In Etsuko's view, Kondo's story is not something to be happy about. Kondo Miyao has been a policeman for thirty-eight years, and twenty-nine of them have been guards in the detention center.From the day he became a policeman, he wanted to be a criminal policeman, but his wish was not realized until he retired.

The duty of the guards is to monitor the detained criminal suspects. From morning to night, they can contact all kinds of criminals, and they can develop a pair of "criminal police eyes" without knowing it.Therefore, the R County Police Headquarters has an unwritten rule that all young people who wish to become criminal police officers must spend one or two years in the detention center as a guard, which is the so-called "criminal police trainee system". After Kondo Miyao knew about this unwritten rule, no matter which police station he was transferred to, he actively asked to be a guard in the detention center.He firmly believed that one day, the superiors would transfer him to the criminal department and make him a criminal police officer.However, he never expected...

Etsuko Yamana felt pity in her heart: "Since Mr. Kondo wanted to be a criminal policeman so much, why didn't he become a criminal policeman until the end?" "Ah, well, it's probably because his grades in the police academy were not good." Yukiko said casually. "What?..." Yamana Etsuko stared at Yukiko with wide eyes in surprise. "Don't you know?..." Yukiko said with a smile, "The grades of the police school will affect the students' future. Only those graduates with excellent grades can become criminal police officers. Even if you want to be it, you can't be it!"

This is the first time Yamana Etsuko heard of it. "The guard who always wanted to be a criminal police officer, isn't he just a cellar criminal police officer?... So, I call him a cellar criminal police officer!..." Yukiko still laughed and said. Yamana Etsuko wanted to laugh, but didn't.Her face contorted.When Etsuko first started working, she visited the detention center during her training and training.It was an "old" detention center. For the overhaul, all the detained criminal suspects were temporarily transferred to other detention centers. Therefore, when Etsuko and the others visited, there were no prisoners inside.Knowing that there were no prisoners inside, Etsuko was still so frightened that her legs trembled.

From the criminal department to the detention center, you need to pass through a long and thin corridor. At the end of the corridor is a large rusty iron gate.The head of the section who showed them around pressed a black button next to the iron gate. After a while, a small door on the big iron gate was opened from the inside.The head of the section told everyone that the guards inside had to pass through the door mirrors to confirm who was coming before opening the door. In the detention center, it is simply another world.The stale air and the dim electric light made people feel depressed.They visited the facilities of the detention center in turn.In the center is a guard tower. Standing on the tower, you can have a panoramic view of the nine cells arranged in a fan shape.The cold iron fence, the sour smell, and the harsh metal sound of opening and closing the iron fence... It is said that the newly built detention center is relatively bright, and the guards don't have to sit on the guard's platform, but can monitor criminals through monitors.However, Etsuko has never seen the newly built detention center, so her impression of the detention center has not changed. "Why is it so late, why hasn't he come back?" Yukiko said to herself. Yamana Etsuko came back to her senses and looked at her watch, it was already half past ten in the evening. "Kondo-san... where did he go?" "It must have been an investigation." "Investigation?..." "Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!..." Yukiko laughed, "It doesn't matter if he retires, this cellar detective came out of the cellar!" Yamana Etsuko was stunned, she couldn't understand what Kondo Noriko meant. Yukiko smiled, and patted a cardboard box beside her: "Here, there are all materials about that incident. They are said to be materials, but in fact, they are just clippings from newspapers, reports about that incident. " Etsuko Yamana didn't understand what was going on, so she asked in surprise, "Which event is it?" "That's the incident. It happened a year ago. The so-called murder where the body can't be found!" Etsuko Yamana held her breath—Yukiko was referring to the "disappearance of housewives in Yamanote". When Etsuko Yamana was in the corrections department office just now, when she saw "F County Police Department" written on the back of Kondo Miyao's photo, her mind flashed a case of a housewife's disappearance that happened in the district of the F County Police Department last year.It was an incident that had attracted a lot of attention in society, it was a vicious incident, and it was also a very mysterious incident.There were numerous reports on TV, and as a reasoning fan, Yamana Etsuko was also very concerned.result?In the end, the police department failed to solve the case smoothly, and it was a shame. Although they gathered all the police forces and found out the man who had an improper relationship with the missing housewife, but because no direct evidence could be found, after several days of interrogation, the man refused to admit it, so he had to be released.The case is still unsolved. Could it be that Miyao Kondo is investigating this case?How is this possible? ... Etsuko Yamana couldn't help asking: "But, Mr. Kondo is not a criminal police officer, how could..." "Don't you remember? That man was arrested for other crimes. My husband was his guard at that time." "So, at that time, Mr. Kondo had some clues?" Yukiko frowned suddenly, and her voice changed into a different tone: "Saburo Yamanoi, his eyes are shining fiercely, and his eyes are getting brighter every day!..." Yukiko was imitating her husband's tone of voice , clapped his hands and laughed. "So... what does this mean?" "Well..." Yukiko was like a deflated ball, suddenly lost her energy.It seems that she doesn't know what her husband's words mean. Yamana Etsuko's curiosity shrank like a deflated ball.Although I can't say that I have no interest in the disappearance of the housewife, but it was a case that hundreds of criminal police officers searched and investigated for many days without being solved.A year has passed, Kondo Miyao is just a prison guard, can he solve the case?Besides, I didn't come here to pursue Kondo Miyao's actions. I came here just to ask for his manuscript. It's almost eleven o'clock.No matter how enthusiastic Yukiko was, she was too embarrassed to stay any longer. Etsuko Yamana thought: If Miyao Kondo just came back now and saw a woman he didn't know at all, who was still at home so late, what would he think?I'm sure I won't be happy, and I might even lose my temper and throw me out.Although after hearing Yukiko's words, Yamana Etsuko's view of Kondo Miyao has changed a lot, but the sinister face in the photo has not completely disappeared from Etsuko's mind. "Let's talk about it later." Thinking so, Etsuko Yamana tore off a page from the notepad and wrote a message to Miyao Kondo, explaining the purpose of the visit, leaving behind her mobile phone and landline phone number, and add a sentence: call as soon as you get home, it doesn't matter what time it is.After writing the message, Etsuko Yamana got up to leave. While putting on shoes at the door, my body, which had been warmed by the kotatsu just now, suddenly became cold again. "I'm really sorry to disturb you so late." Yamana Etsuko apologized to the hostess Yukiko. "Where is that? I should be the one who said I'm sorry. Our family didn't know where he went, and he hasn't come back so late, really." Yukiko chuckled, "He can do whatever he wants, and I don't care. He. If you want to be a criminal policeman then, let him be one time, so you won't be punished for this."