Chapter 55 Chapter Thirteen

After about an hour and a half, I finally saw a road sign marking the entrance of Towada.The map said to turn right here, so I drove on National Highway No. 103 as told.The mountain road fluctuated from left to right, and I kept turning the steering wheel. "Turn, turn, turn, turn, I'm really in a hurry." Morioka woke up, put his feet down, and moved his face forward.The sky was still gray, but the rain seemed to be about to stop. "I said, it's almost there?" "That's what it says on the map." I stretched out my left hand and picked up the paper map and put it in front of my eyes.After driving through this mountain road, Lake Towada should greet us.

"Ah!" After a few minutes, Morioka exclaimed. A large lake appeared in front of it. Although it was foggy due to the cloudy sky, it could still be seen as a huge circle full of water.At the moment we are at a height overlooking a circle. "Is it there?" "It's great!" Morioka exclaimed, "It's so big!" I continued to drive along the road, and gradually approached the lake after descending the mountain.Surrounding the lake are what appear to be beech trees.We walked clockwise along the lake, drawing circles along the shore.Morioka in the passenger seat pressed his face against the glass blankly: "If it's sunny, it should be more beautiful here."

I thought to myself, the reason why the heaven is not beautiful is because of me. "It's so nice." After a while, Morioka sighed deeply, "It's spacious and quiet." The Oirase Stream seems to run northeast from Lake Towada at a place called "Ko no Kouchi". "Zizhikou" is not only a pier for sightseeing boats, but also has rows of small shops and parking lots. After getting out of the car, Morioka immediately stretched his body. He twisted his body from side to side vigorously as if to make sure that his upper body and lower body were still connected.Then, he turned again to Lake Towada, looking out at the scenery with his slender eyes.He stared at it obsessively, as if he had written an article about the scenery of the lake and then read it facing it.

The dark clouds are still boundless, and the sky is covered with gray.The rain has almost stopped.Perhaps because it was a working day, there were basically no cars in the parking lot, and the shop assistants and taxi drivers in front of the small shop seemed to be very idle. I stood in front of the guide map by the lake and carefully watched the panorama of the Oirase Stream. "Is Fukatsu here?" I asked him, his eyebrows moved, and his lips and cheeks began to twitch. "I haven't gone yet." "If your mother really had an affair with Shenjin..." "No mistake, they knew each other before."

"Then will your mother call him and tell him that you might come here?" Even if you get stabbed, it's okay to make a phone call. "Ah——" Morioka pulled out a long drag, "It's very possible." "You are really walking—one step at a time." I expressed my admiration, "So are you going to kill him?" "That's why I'm here." "Your knife has been thrown away." "It doesn't matter what you use to do it." Morioka said as he took out a fork that he didn't know where he hid. It seems that he stole it from the restaurant he went to yesterday.

"Can you kill people with that thing?" "I could poke him in the eye." Morioka said it without the slightest hint of a joke. "How do you plan to escape after stabbing him?" "I won't run away. Didn't I say that I'm going to the police station to surrender myself." "Well, you go to the little shop," I said.Morioka seemed dissatisfied with my attitude, and threw out his mantra with a sullen face: "Who are you? Even if you don't tell me, I will go." After finishing speaking, he turned his back to me and went go forward.

I watched his every move carefully.In front of a small shop on the opposite side of the parking lot, a man was grilling something.Morioka approached the man, and started talking with a straight face; the mask was also thrown away early in the morning. Unlike what I expected, Morioka walked back to me again, with his hands in his trouser pockets, his shoulders drooping, and his body leaning forward slightly. "Is Fukatsu not here?" "No, he does work in that shop, but it is said that he is off today. It's really unlucky. But it is said that he will show up around three o'clock and return the car he borrowed."

I glanced at the clock at the bus stop next to the store: "Do you have to wait more than 2 hours?" "yes." "So," I tentatively said, "do you want to go sightseeing?" I pointed my thumb at the sign for the Oirase Stream.To travel is to see. This is what Morioka himself said.