Chapter 3 Chapter Three

Etsuko Yamana returned to her apartment, and the room was also freezing cold.The red light on the dictaphone was blinking. Could it be Kondo?Etsuko pressed the play button with some anticipation. It's not Kondo, it's Toshiwa. "You are really busy!..." A sarcastic voice sounded in the cold room. "I hate it!... If there is something to do, call the transfer communicator by radio!" Etsuko Yamana pressed the delete button hard, and deleted Toshika's message. Yamana Etsuko and Toshiwa are in a long-distance relationship, but that kind of relationship is no longer there, and they haven't seen each other for more than three months.One night more than three months ago, in Hakata, Junhe suddenly proposed to Etsuko, which Etsuko did not expect.

In terms of mood, Yamana Etsuko originally wanted to agree to Junhe, but she didn't say it right away.She was uneasy about being with Junhe for a lifetime, or in other words, she was not ready for that kind of mental preparation.From time to time, the image of her parents appeared in her mind.Marriage equals life, Etsuko felt uncomfortable when thinking of this formula. Toshiwa believed that Etsuko Yamana would agree, that confident expression made Etsuko feel even more uneasy.Etsuko felt that Junhe had become smaller. They graduated from the same high school, and Toshiwa was one year ahead of Etsuko. He was twenty-seven years old, and he often changed jobs.When Toshiwa proposed to Etsuko, Etsuko was terrified by the night view of Hakata, and she stammered, "I...don't want to quit my job just yet..."

Yamana Etsuko did not intend to refuse.Toshiwa and Yamana Etsuko were born in the same city, and as the eldest son, he would have to return to his parents sooner or later——Yamana Etsuko had always considered this way.Unexpectedly, after listening to Etsuko's words, Junhe's expression became particularly ugly.Junhe didn't say anything after that.Junhe is afraid, afraid that Etsuko will break up with him. Etsuko knew what to do to calm Junhe down, so she followed Junhe into his dormitory that night.Etsuko didn't want to recall what happened in the future.Junhe possesses her crazily.It was rape, and every time I think about it in the future, I think it is rape more and more.

so cold!Like staying in the fridge. The air conditioner didn't work at all.Etsuko turned on the electric heater again, got into bed, and covered her head with a blanket. There was no call from Kondo Miyao, neither the landline nor the cell phone rang.Etsuko felt more and more that Miyao Kondo's actions were suspicious. It's so late, and he hasn't come home yet, what's the important thing?scouting?It's just being silly! ... Kondo Miyao is not a criminal policeman, and he is still a person who is about to retire and is enjoying a long vacation before retirement.In front of Yukiko, Etsuko pretended to be concerned, but she didn't believe it at all.

It's too childish for someone who is already sixty years old to want to solve an unsolved case that happened a year ago. Could it be that he tricked the talkative Yukiko, went somewhere to play, drink, gamble, find women, go to adult movie clubs to watch pornographic videos, help socialize, pimp websites, as long as If you are willing to spend money, a man can be satisfied... Yamana Etsuko tried her best to belittle Kondo, but she couldn't go on belittling her.In order to be able to become a criminal policeman, Kondo Miyao actually sat on the guard stand for twenty-nine years without any complaints or regrets! ...

Twenty-nine years, bastard! ...It is simply more years than Etsuko Yamana lived. What is Kondo Miyao thinking about at the end of this almost unique police career? ...Yamana Etsuko didn't understand, it was impossible to imagine.However, it was precisely because she couldn't imagine that she touched Etsuko Yamana and made her suddenly think of doing something. Etsuko Yamana looked at the bookshelf leaning against the wall, then walked over with a blanket on, and rummaged through the bookshelf.The bookshelves are full of materials collected for editing "R Policeman", and there are also clippings made by the advertising class.

found it! ...Etsuko Yamana pulled a thick newspaper clipping from the bookshelf, carried it to the electric heater and sat down.Opening the newspaper clippings, I immediately saw a report on the "Disappearance of Housewives in Yamate Town".There was an astonishing amount of coverage, all clipped from newspapers a year earlier. ah? ... Yamana Etsuko suddenly had a strange feeling.She looked up and looked at the calendar on the wall. January thirteenth. The day when the housewife in Yamanote disappeared was January 13 last year, a whole year ago. Yamana Etsuko was suddenly upset.

Undoubtedly, Miyao Kondo also knew that today is January 13th, and the incident happened a year ago today, so... Etsuko Yamana looked at the sky, blinking constantly.She couldn't find an answer. However, Yamana Etsuko suddenly became very interested in this matter.Originally, she was very concerned about this incident, but Kondo Miyao's incredible actions aroused Yamana Etsuko's interest again.She flipped through the newspaper clippings, and the incident that happened a year ago suddenly revived in her memory. The beginning of the incident was the mysterious disappearance of the housewife.The missing housewife lived in Yamanote Town, her name was Emiko Hisaya, and she was twenty-seven years old at the time.I went shopping on January 13th last year, and suddenly disappeared.

Five days later, a man named Kazuma Yamanoi, who also lived in Yamanote, was arrested by the F City Police Department.Yamanoi Saburo was thirty years old at the time and claimed to be a businessman selling gems. Yamanoi Saburo was arrested for theft and had nothing to do with Emiko's disappearance.However, the bachelor Yamanoi Saburo and Emiko had an improper relationship between men and women. The police believed that after the relationship between the two broke down, Yamanoi Saburo killed Hisaya Emiko in a fit of anger. Yamanoi Saburo was honest and accepted the police interrogation - he had an improper relationship with Emiko Kutani; He admitted it, but that was all. Not only did he not follow up, but he insisted that the two of them "went away after five minutes of talking."

"The murder where the body was not found" - this is the name given to this event by the media.There is a reason for choosing this name, because after investigations one after another, it was clearly proved that Saburo Yamanoi was the murderer.Needless to say, newspapers and magazines, even television has done a lot of reports, like a flood. Why is the media so interested in this event?Because this event can satisfy the curiosity of newspaper readers and TV viewers too much. Let me talk about Emiko Kutani first.This is a woman who is more beautiful than a fashion model, but she is able to stay at home and take good care of her father-in-law who is sick in bed due to cerebral hemorrhage. She is a very filial daughter-in-law.Her husband, Ichiro Kutani, is short, with a high nose bridge and deep eye sockets. He looks like a mixed race. He works as the head of the financing department of a local bank.

After that incident, Hisaya Ichiro appeared on TV very actively, sometimes wept bitterly, deeply missing his beloved wife; Saburo Yamanoi killed.Later facts proved that Hisaya Ichiro was not just talking. Let's talk about Saburo Yamanoi.This is also a man with a strong personality.Yamanoi Saburo is 1.8 meters tall, with a face reminiscent of a red-faced ghost.Saburo Yamano's home is a three-story Western-style building on a slope, and he drives a red Porsche made in Germany.His father, Yusei Tanaka, was a major shareholder who had an influence on state affairs, and had passed away.People say that his mother was his father's "country concubine", who was once a famous folk singer. Yamanoi Saburo grew up under the doting of his mother, and now he claims to be a businessman who sells gemstones. In fact, he has no job at all and lives on the huge inheritance left to him by his father.However, since he was in elementary school, his academic performance has been particularly good.At the same time, he spared no expense in extravagance, playing golf and skiing, all at the level of professional players. According to Yamanoi Saburo's confession, he and Emiko met in a cafe in the city a year and a half before the incident.At that time, the two sat together by chance, chatted about folk songs by chance, fell in love with each other, and even had a physical relationship.The two often meet in the small Western-style building where Saburo Yamanoi lives.Yamanoi Saburo's mother suffers from the so-called "human phobia". She has been hiding from the world for a long time, and dare not see people or go out. Therefore, she has not paid attention to the relationship between Yamanoi Saburo and Emiko.A month ago, Emiko began to quarrel with Saburo Yamanoi because Emiko suddenly proposed to sever ties with Saburo Yamanoi. She said that continuing this improper relationship between men and women made her feel terrified. So, Saburo Yamanoi killed Emiko in a fit of anger... Everyone thought so at the time. The evidence is plentiful.The decisive evidence is the testimony of Emiko's friends.One week before the disappearance, Emiko called late at night and said that she wanted to break up with Saburo Yamanoi, but she was very scared, fearing that Saburo Yamanoi would kill her.She was still crying as she said these words. The day before Emiko disappeared, someone saw Saburo Yamanoi punching Emiko in the face on the road near the small western-style building of Yamanoi Saburo's house, and yelled, "Bitch, don't do this to me!" Also, on the day Emiko disappeared after four o'clock in the afternoon, she went to the supermarket to buy things, and several shop assistants saw that her right eye was wearing a blindfold.The female clerk at the cash register also saw that Emiko's wrists and the back of her hands were bruised and purple.This was the last time anyone saw Emiko, and no one had seen her since.Emiko's car was parked in the parking lot of the supermarket, untouched, and she disappeared like a mystery. However, someone saw Yamanoi Saburo's car in the parking lot of this supermarket.His car is too conspicuous.As the investigation deepened, more and more people claimed to have seen Yamano Jingsaburo's car in the supermarket parking lot—three, five, eight, ten... increasing day by day.The police also have evidence that is almost physical evidence: one kilometer to the north of Sanro Yamanoi’s house, there is a house of a craftsman who built a garden. Three shovels were placed in the yard of the house, and one was lost that day.The police found the fingerprints of Yamanoi Saburo on the handle of one of the remaining two shovels.This is one of the evidences of the theft by Saburo Yamanoi, but it can also be believed that Saburo Yamanoi buried Emiko with a shovel. The police's opinion is that Yamano Jingsaburo stole a shovel because he was worried that buying a shovel in a store would show his fault. The police searched the home of Saburo Yamanoi.Although the stolen shovel was not found, a hair of Emiko was found in the large Mercedes-Benz jeep that Yamanoi Saburo went skiing in winter.Moreover, the hair was not found in the passenger seat, but in the back of the car, where the skis were placed.At that time, a TV report even concluded that Saburo Yamano used this car to pull Emiko's body. Newspapers and magazines also agreed that Yamanoi Saburo would soon be re-arrested for homicide.Emiko proposed to break up, and Yamanoi Saburo killed Emiko in a rage. Then, he stuffed Emiko's body into a Mercedes-Benz jeep, took it to a deep mountain, dug a hole with a shovel, and buried the body.Everyone felt that this incident was about to be resolved. Etsuko looked at the newspaper clippings while recalling the situation at that time.Burying a body to hide it is called "preservation" in police lingo.At that time, in the office building of the prefectural police headquarters, the police officers could be heard talking like this all day long: "Where did Yamanoi Saburo keep Emiko? It must be kept deep in the mountains." However, the body of the missing Hisaya Emiko has never been found.If you want to find Emiko's body, you can only rely on the confession of Yamano Jingsaburo.The police interrogated Yamanoi Saburo severely for 20 consecutive days, but Yamanoi Saburo always claimed that he was innocent.In the interrogation room, Yamanoi Saburo sometimes responded calmly, and sometimes a slight smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. The police believed that the fingerprints on the shovel and the hair of Emiko found in the jeep were the key points of Yamanoi Saburo, but Yamanoi Saburo explained: "Maybe, I accidentally touched the handle of the shovel when I was walking over there. The hair on the passenger seat must have been blown back by the wind." The lie detector was also used on Yamano Jingsaburo three times, but there was no response at all.Searches and interrogations were done.The theft case of Yamanoi Saburo was not serious enough to be prosecuted. As soon as the detention period expired, Yamanoi Saburo came out of the detention center of the F Police Station.So far, the first act of the incident is finally over. The completion of the first act does not mean that the play is over.Etsuko Yamana still cannot forget the strong shock she received when she heard the news a year ago. After the case was over, Emiko's husband, Ichiro Kutani, took action.As soon as Yamano Jingsaburo came out of the detention center, Hisaya Ichiro, who was hiding in the dark, rushed out with a sharp knife and attacked Yamano Jingsaburo in full view.In front of many police officers and reporters, the two scuffled.In short, Kutani Ichiro not only failed to kill Yamanoi Saburo, but Yamanoi Saburo took the sharp knife, stabbed him in the abdomen and was seriously injured. He died in the hospital the next day. Saburo Yamanoi was sent to the procuratorate for the crime of causing death by injury. As a result, the procuratorate believed that Saburo Yamanoi belonged to self-defense and was exempted from prosecution.So ironic.The police and reporters who believed that Saburo Yamanoi was the murderer of Emiko, this time became witnesses of Saburo Yamanoi's self-defense. After this incident happened, the news reports on Sannoi Sanro disappeared suddenly. On the contrary, the media actually pursued the arrest of Saburo Yamanoi for the crime of theft, but forced him to admit the responsibility of the police who killed someone.Yamanoi Saburo's defense lawyer is even planning to sue the media for defaming others. R County Police Headquarters suffered a big stumble, not only lost the support of the media, but also was attacked by human rights protection groups. The disappearance of housewives in Yamanote Town gradually became a "pustule" that no one dared to touch. If Saburo Yamanoi is arrested again on the charge of murder, the "Incident" column on "R Police Man" will greatly increase the number of pages. Not even one report of the disappearance.Up to now, this incident has almost become a taboo for the R County Police Organization. "Bastard, is this normal?" Yamana Etsuko couldn't help but screamed. After randomly closing the newspaper clippings, Etsuko Yamana felt annoyed, and even felt annoyed.There is no doubt that it was Yamanoi Saburo who killed Emiko.However, Saburo Yamanoi deceived the police and the society, and is still at large. This guy is simply too cunning! Although Emiko had an improper relationship with Saburo Yamanoi, she is a filial daughter-in-law. For many years, she has been taking good care of her father-in-law who is sick in bed. This is probably one of the reasons why she broke up. However, Saburo Yamano did not agree to break up, not only killed her, but also killed her husband who loved her so much!What self-defense?It's so unreasonable! ...If Yamanoi Saburo hadn't killed Emiko first, the second tragedy would not have happened. The police are too disappointing. If Saburo Yamanoi confessed the crime of killing Emiko early, and Saburo Yamanoi was brought to justice, Hisaya Ichiro would not be able to die. "No one can do anything?" Yamana Etsuko murmured to herself, Kondo Miyao's dark eyes suddenly appeared in Etsuko's mind.The hour hand has pointed to two o'clock, and the phone has not rang. Could it be that Miyao Kondo is still investigating? No, Miyao Kondo may not have returned home yet.It was so late, even if he read the note that Yamana Etsuko left him, he would not call.It's likely that she went home early, but she just didn't want to contact Etsuko. Call him again early tomorrow morning.Etsuko Yamana sighed, getting ready to sleep.Tomorrow is also very busy, so I can't waste too much sleep time for a Kondo Miyao. The bed was very cold, making it difficult to fall asleep for a long time.Etsuko Yamana was worried that she would not be able to get Miyao Kondo's manuscript, no, what was more important was that there was a voice that kept pestering her.This voice was Yukiko's imitation of what Kondo said: "That boy Yamanoi Saburo, his eyes are shining fiercely, and they are getting brighter every day!..."