Chapter 16 chapter Five
The customers in the cafe had changed several times, and Yamamoto didn't realize it at all.
Yamamoto's memory jumped from the woman's eyes to the police interrogation room.
"The girl is dead!" shouted the policeman.
Yamamoto felt that the voice of the police came from a very distant place.My heart hurts like a knife.I want to cry, but the tears don't come out.Faced with the interrogation by the police, regardless of whether it was beneficial or unfavorable to him, he poured out the beans in a bamboo tube and confessed everything about himself and the female high school student from the time he realized to the murder.
In the middle of the night, the police announced to the reporters: "The criminal suspect, Yoji Yamamoto, had a lust for the female high school student who was kind enough to hold an umbrella for him. He used a borrowed Mercedes-Benz to forcibly drag her to a lover's hotel. After having sex, the female high school student Threatened to tell Yamamoto's company and his wife that in order to preserve his reputation and family, Yamamoto was determined to kill the female high school student. He first stabbed her with the metal point of an umbrella, and then brutally strangled her to death..."
Reporters embellished the killing. "Eagle ghosts", "beasts", "beasts are not as good as"...Angrily condemned Yoji Yamamoto for killing a 16-year-old young girl.
As for female high school students seducing men for the purpose of prostitution, none of the reporters mentioned it.
The police only recorded this point in Yamamoto’s confession, and did not tell the reporter that the victim, and the misdeeds of a 16-year-old female high school student, were definitely not wanted by the police.
That was 13 years ago, and it's not the same as it is now.At that time, the term "assisting communication" did not exist, and female high school students had not yet been included in the ranks of prostitutes in society, although this was just wishful thinking.
Prosecutors and judges also tried Yamamoto's case with such good intentions.
Prosecutors did not include the female high school student's prostitution in the indictment, and the matter of asking for money from Yamamoto was also mentioned briefly, and only quoted Yamamoto's confession that he wanted to raise money for a friend's abortion.
Court-appointed lawyers appear powerless.The lawyer knew that if he accused the female high school student of prostitution, he would only get the judge's disgust, so he emphasized that Yamamoto committed the crime accidentally, and used this as an excuse to fight for a lighter sentence.
The lawyer said the accused initially had no intent to kill.As far as common sense is concerned, no one would think of stabbing someone to death with the tip of an umbrella.The defendant didn't realize that the umbrella could be used as a murder weapon at the beginning. I'm afraid the defendant didn't even realize that he was holding an umbrella at that time.The defendant reached out to grab the victim, but the tip of the umbrella sank into the victim's body.In other words, the umbrella tip was nothing more than an extension of the arm, and the accused did not plan to stab the victim with the umbrella tip.As for the defendant strangling the victim to death, it was because he panicked after seeing the blood and was eager to stop the victim from shouting that he resorted to such violence.All this shows that the victim has neither the ability to judge right from wrong nor the ability to control himself...
The lawyer's botched defense didn't work.The collegiate panel unanimously held that: In order to satisfy his animal desires, the defendant forcibly had sex with the victim, fearing that the incident would ruin his career and family, and brutally killed the victim.The court also invited the victim's father to testify in court.
The high school girl's father stood on the witness stand, looking haggard.He wept bitterly describing how cute his daughter was before she was alive, how she was obedient, how she made progress, and was preparing to go to the United States to study after graduating from high school. That was his only treasure... Finally, he pointed at Yamamoto and shouted: "Kill him! Kill this beast!" The miserable cry resounded through the court.Under such circumstances, lawyers' efforts to obtain a lighter sentence can be said to be in vain.
The first-instance judgment was fixed-term imprisonment of 12 years, and the court pronounced the sentence in full accordance with the intention of the procuratorate, and the sentence was not reduced for one year.The defense lawyer urged Yamamoto to appeal again and again, but Yamamoto never nodded.
Desperate, regretful.Thinking that he had killed someone with his own hands, Yamamoto seemed to go crazy. He really imagined that he would be sentenced to death as the female high school student's father hoped. How easy it would be!
Did Yamamoto really repent?
He lit a cigarette and turned his gaze to the street at dusk
No!He hated that woman and wished he could kill her a thousand times again!
"I'm not at fault. If the woman didn't take the initiative to say hello to me, if she took the 20,000 yen I gave her and walked away, there would be no such result. I was buried by this society, and my family was also buried." No more. That woman ruined my life, and I am the victim!" Of course, these thoughts were deeply buried in his heart.
The judgments of the news media and the court completely negated his personality, and he even lost the courage to face himself squarely.However, there have always been deep thoughts.It happened after the case happened, during the trial process, and during the whole process of serving the sentence, but the old man's phone call from last night was always in his heart, and the thoughts that had been sinking in his heart for many years surfaced.
Yamamoto came out of the cafe, bought lunch and cigarettes at the convenience store, returned to the dormitory, and sat in front of the phone.He still wanted to listen to the old man's phone call yesterday night: "Does he really understand my feelings?"
However, the phone never rang.
"It really was a prank... No, maybe it was because I hung up the phone unceremoniously. The old man felt that he couldn't blame me, so he asked someone else to go. Didn't he mean to find someone who could understand his feelings? Is it a person? A person like this in society is a dustpan if he sweeps it with a broom."
Thinking of this, Yamamoto was suddenly discouraged.Even if the old man had delivered some satisfying lines, what was the point?Can you erase my murder record?Can you dispel the suffocating atmosphere in the company that you will face again from tomorrow?
At around 10 o'clock, when Yamamoto was about to fall asleep, the phone rang.It was the gentle and hoarse voice of the guardian, Mr. Oikawa, who made Yamamoto take time to visit his house and tell him that it was not urgent, and he could come any day.
From Mr. Oikawa's tone, it can be heard that the matter must have something to do with his ex-wife Jingjiang.
The old man never called.
Yamamoto didn't need the old man's phone call anymore, his mind had completely turned to Jing Jiang and his son whom he had neither met nor knew his name.
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