Chapter 9 Chapter nine

For a moment, there was no sound. "I just wanted to piss you off." Hojo Minoru said in a low voice.He shrugged his thin shoulders, crossed his hands on his chest, and shook his legs frequently. "These two are playing nasty family games and talking shitty things, so I wanted to tease them." Ritsuko smiled and said, "Stop coming. Are you envious of us?" "Who envies you!" Ren made a gesture to stand up, but Wu Shang quickly raised his hand to stop him. "No yelling." Ren looked at Wu Shang's palm, then at his face, calmed down immediately, and sat back in the chair. "Feel sorry."

"There is no need to apologize, as long as you are calm and talk. Miss Kahara is too." Ritsuko put away her smile.She stood up and deliberately moved the chair to increase the distance between her and Ren. "You call yourself 'brother: Ren', is that true?" Facing Wu Shang's question, Ren nodded after a while. "Is it claimed on the Movieland website?" "yes……" "You put those words on the message board?" "Ok." "How to write it?" Ritsuko wanted to speak, but Takegami raised his hand to stop her this time.Minoru's smooth forehead wrinkled slightly, staring at the table.

"Film," he murmured. "They said they went to the movies together." "Did you mean 'Kazumi' and 'Daddy'?" "Yeah! Which movie is it? It seems to be Robert De Niro's new movie. I can't remember the title." "It's okay, then what?" Ren shrugged. "I remember writing like, 'Father and daughter became so close, but you have other family members, don't forget my brother!'" "How did 'Kazumi' and 'Daddy' answer you?" "They said: 'Hey! Min, you're here.'"

Ritsuko replied: "I said: 'We want you to watch it together, but you don't want to come.' 'Father' said: 'So Minoru is also up there.' Then, the three of us moved to the chat room to chat, At that time, many netizens came.” Other netizens are also very curious about this new "brother". Wu Shang asked Ritsuko. "Is he right?" "That's right. But the movie is wrong, it's not Robert De Niro's new movie, it's the one Kevin Spacey won." Tokunaga said, "Let's go to "American Heart: Love of Roses."

"That's right. Does the detective who is doing the recording like watching movies too?" Tokunaga didn't answer, just said: "That movie is describing a family crisis." "Did 'Kazumi' and 'Daddy' really watch 'American Heart: A Rose' together?" "No. Mr. Interpol, you haven't entered the situation yet, have you? We didn't know who 'father' was at that time!" "If that's the case, why are you making up the movie-watching situation together?" "How should I put it, it's because of Machiro. At that time, I remember it was the day before, 'Dad' sent me a letter saying that he had watched "American Heart·Rosy Love". I haven't seen that film, but in the magazine I read the content on the Internet. So I cooperated with him to continue the topic. As a result, 'Dad' wrote on the message board of the movie park, saying, 'I went to the movies with my daughter'. It was as simple as that."

Ritsuko's expressionless face showed a slight smile at the corner of her mouth and said, "It's not difficult." Wu Shang thought, it's not difficult, but it's hard to understand. "So you and 'Dad' weren't surprised when someone who claimed to be your younger brother showed up?" "I was kind of intimidated, but 'Dad' wasn't." "how do you know?" "I didn't know it at the time, but I only asked Mr. Soda at an online gathering later." "You mean your 'family meeting' Luo?" "Well, Mr. Sorada said that he started playing family games with me. Maybe other people would join in. He thought it would be very interesting. He also said that the more family members the better."

Ritsuko looked at Minoru Hojo. "You were also there, you should know, don't you remember that Mr. Soda said this?" Ren didn't answer.Finally, he finally said in a low voice: "I was just teasing you, I didn't expect to be involved in this kind of trouble, I'm really stupid." "Noro is not stupid." Ritsuko's tone suddenly became gentle. "You're just lonely." Hojo Minoru snorted and turned his head away. Takeshang heard it, but Ritsuko didn't hear it. She continued in an emotional tone: "We are all lonely. In real life, we can't let others understand us, and we don't know who we really are, so we are lonely. Longing for spiritual communication. Therefore, you will approach 'Daddy' and seek what your real father can't give you. Say what you want to tease us, don't be brave anymore."

Kitasa Minoru raised his head and turned to stare at Ritsuko.The light-colored eyes shone with a ray of light under the sunlight coming in from the window. "I, most, pain, hate, you, this, kind, thought, law." Ren emphasized every word he said. "What's 'real me'? That's not what I'm on the internet for. You're awake, idiot!" Ritsuko was unmoved, with a pitiful expression on his face. "I don't hate your personality that loves to be brave. If you don't be brave, you will not be able to bear the loneliness in your heart. I know you very well, so after we met on the Internet, knowing that you are the same age as me, I still Treat you like a brother."

I still think so—she's still sensual. "it hurts!" Kazumi Soda suddenly screamed, and quickly checked her right hand fingers. "Broken nail." Zhijiazi picked up her hand, the front end of the long nail of the little finger was missing, the shape of the nail was quite beautiful, she should have the habit of applying nail polish, but today it was completely unpainted, and it looked extraordinarily fragile. "It's dangerous, it's better to cut it flat." Inspector Fuchigami tried to get up, but Kazumi shook her head. "I don't want to cut it, just give me a piece of OK stretch, and stick it up."

Fuchigami Xunzhang quickly walked out of the room, Chikako turned to look at the other side of the mirror, Kazumi and Minoru were still bickering, it was Minoru who was talking, and Kazumi looked like a sister preaching to her younger brother. "I just hate your self-righteous attitude." "It's because you love to be brave." Kazumi Soda pressed the little finger with the broken nail to her lips, and stared quietly at their conversation.From Chikako's point of view, the eyes of Kazumi and Minoru fully reveal the emotion of the conversation, but in Kazumi's eyes, this is not the case.Her eyes just reflected the light on the mirror, and she observed the two who played the role of sister and brother without any emotion in her eyes.

"How is it?" Zhijiazi asked softly, "Looking at their expressions and listening to their voices, do you remember anything? Compared with your memories, is there anything that makes you feel strange?" Kazumi didn't look at Chikako, she muttered to herself, not knowing what she was talking about.Chikako couldn't hear clearly, so she moved closer to her. "what?" "Very similar." The voice was still low, and Kazumi pointed at Minor with the index finger of his left hand. "He, like..., like the guy I saw in the supermarket parking lot." Chikako flipped through the documents at hand. "Miss Yimei, you probably didn't hear what they were talking about at the time, right? You two are too far away." "Well! However, I saw his gestures and body postures when he spoke. Didn't he do this kind of movement just now?" Kazumi put her hands on the table and made a gesture of getting up. "Just now when he leaned forward and yelled." That's what Ren did when he yelled at Wu Shang, when he said: "I have no suspicion!" "At that time, I thought it was right. That movement is very similar to the posture when talking through the car window." "yes." "Did I say when did I see my dad with a stranger in the parking lot?" Kazumi tries to spy on Chikako's information again.Chikako politely took it away and asked her back. "Do you care about that time?" "Did this happen before or after their first online gathering? That's the question, right?" "problem lies in……" "That's right, if that sighting happened before their online gathering, that is, before they revealed their identities, wouldn't that Ren be lying? He knew my dad before the online gathering." "Yeah, you're right." Chikako nodded. "From your point of view, your testimony of witnessing your father with a stranger would involve a question of timing. You're absolutely right." Kazumi frowned and said: "Then quickly confirm, you are still there leisurely!" Faced with Kazumi’s boiling tone, Zhijiazi tried to comfort her, and replied calmly: “However, Miss Kazumi, you only remember the scene of the witnessing in the three testimonies, and you are quite vague about the time when it happened. We asked you too many things at once, resulting in You can't remember either." "I said it, and I said the time!" "In about half a year. You only said this vague time." "I said in more detail!" Yuanshang came back from inspection and handed the OK bag to Kazumi.During this conversation, Kazumi's emotions were still agitated, and OK was tightly held in his hand. "Miss Kazumi," Chikako put his hand on her shoulder lightly. "Don't take it too seriously. Our job is to investigate the truth carefully. You just need to confirm whether you have seen the people who came today, observe the appearance and voice of Ms. Kahara and Hojo-san, and see if other memories can be evoked. That's enough. .” Kazumi shook her shoulders, shook off Chikako's hand, then tore off the sticker on OK, and stuck it on the notch of the nail. "I'm sorry." Zhijiazi said, she couldn't help but say this sentence, it was her sincere words. Kazumi looked at Chikako.The OK bandage on the hand is not well applied, and the fingertips are in strange shapes. "Why are you apologizing to me?" "I shouldn't force you to do this." Kazumi suddenly shrank back and closed her eyes. "I can handle it." "I know you can, but it will be painful, of course." On the other side of the mirror, Ritsuko Kahara ignored Minoru Hojo's indifferent attitude, and continued to wave her hands, enthusiastically expressing her opinion to Takegami. "Mr. Criminal Police, we can't see each other's inner world, right? Once human beings face each other, we can only see each other's faces and the appearances that both sides show. However, true spiritual communication goes beyond appearances, whether friends or parents Forget it, when they saw me laughing, they thought I was smiling because I was happy. In fact, I hid my true self, followed everyone's steps, pretended to think the same thing as everyone, pretended to have the same feeling, and no one noticed that I was forcing myself Myself, no one knows that I am a flesh and blood person, I am just a landscape. However, I can open my heart in the online world and let everyone know the real me..." Wu Shang hung his presbyopic glasses on the bridge of his nose and listened silently to her long speech. "I hate this kind of person the most." Kazumi said. "What kind of person?" Kazumi pointed to Kazumi and said: "If you say a few words, you will mention spiritual communication and find your true self. I hate this kind of person the most." Chikako smiled at her.Although Kazumi didn't smile, she seemed to feel Chikako's approval, and her profile softened one by one. "This 'Kazumi' is the same kind of person as my dad, and of course they are a good fit. She must be more to my dad's liking than me. I'm getting to know their relationship better." "I remember you were very angry with your father, and you were angry with him for forming a virtual family on the Internet." "Anyone would be angry, wouldn't they? Am I being too weird?" Zhijiazi thinks this is the most honest sentence Kazumi said today. "My mother is not angry, she is just like that. We later found out that my father was playing virtual games, and she said to me: 'Your father must be too lonely, does he have a lot of things on his mind that he dare not tell us? And I But can't share it for him.'" Daughter Kazumi is good at imitating the voice of her mother Haruki, even the expression is exactly the same. "I thought to myself, is she an idiot? Why is she so stupid? Am I weird? Is my reaction weird? Ms. Ishizu, am I a cold-blooded animal?" "Kazumi" on the other side of the mirror is talking and laughing at the moment, while Kazumi on the other side is looking at the scene with pure eyes.She never relaxes her cheek muscles to smile. "I knew early on that if my dad was alive, sooner or later we would find out he was playing virtual games. Because he wanted to tell us: 'I'm actually doing this because I'm so lonely and my wife and daughter don't care. Me.' What about the Internet, email, new tools, but the same old tricks!" Zhijiazi asked quietly: "How can you describe what your father did as a 'trick'?" Without the slightest hesitation, Yimei replied immediately: "In the first place, I know him too well, and it's hard not to know." Is there a way for a sixteen-year-old daughter to understand? "He likes young girls and he's always been a flirt, all for the same reason. Without the drama, he can't live. If he doesn't play around like this, he won't feel himself. "Ms. Shi Jin, when I was young, my dad really loved me. He always pleased me and treated me like a baby. At that time, I really liked my dad. To my dad, I was also his favorite. Proud daughter. Don't you think this relationship is beautiful? My dad loves not me as a daughter, but this wonderful relationship. When I was young and had no mind of my own, my dad's cute doll, he Willing to give all my love for me. "Didn't my mother tell you? When I was a cute little girl, my father temporarily got rid of the bad habit of being romantic. My mother should have noticed it. But later, my mother was still the same and refused to learn from it. .Did my dad deliberately choose such a woman? Or was she originally a quiet but thoughtful person, and my dad tamed her into what she is now? I don't know." Kazumi looked at the ceiling and clenched her fists impetuously. "But I'm different. When I grow up, of course I will have my own opinions. I can't play some self-indulgent games with my dad forever, right? But my dad doesn't like me like this. He hopes that I will always be his cute pet. He just wants me to obey him and become his ideal daughter." "What kind of daughter does Mr. Ryosuke Soda want you to be?" Facing Chikako's question, Kazumi immediately pointed to the double-sided mirror, and the target she pointed at was Ritsuko Kahara who was repeating the same speech. "That kind of daughter always wants to find her true self, yearn for others' love, yearn for others' understanding, and yearn for a sense of belonging. He wants this kind of daughter. If she has no one to rely on, she will be very disturbed and want to find someone to rely on all day long. But I'm sorry, I'm not that cowardly, I'm indeed his daughter, but I can't be made into an ornament in his life just because of this. I absolutely can't stand this kind of thing!" Ishizu Chikako's voice came from Takeshi's earphones. "Can you take a break? Miss Yimei seems a little tired." Takegami raised his hand to the eloquent Ritsuko. "I understand your opinion, can we get back to the topic now?" "What do you mean?" Ritsuko pouted. "I've been talking about the topic, our 'family' relationship..." "I understand, I understand. Then let's take a break first. Although the police station is a tough public institution, it's not a problem to deliver coffee. Are you thirsty?" Kazumi didn't use the handkerchief handed over by Sensei Fuchigami, she dug out the tissue in her bag.This was the first time she cried since she came here. "Sorry, I shouldn't have yelled." "It's okay, don't worry about it." Inspector Yuan Shang faced the mirror and said, "When the situation over there stabilizes, I'll go get some drinks. What do you want to drink? I remember Miss Kazumi likes to drink Diet Coke, right?" Kazumi smiled, "Is there such a thing in the police station?" "At least there are vending machines." Chikako also smiled. Inspector Yuanshang left the room at the right time. At this time, Kazumi's tears dried up, and her eye shadow was a little blurred, but she didn't plan to touch up her makeup. "Miss Yimei, do you have any specific dreams for the future?" "Why do you ask?" "Nothing special, just because you're a girl with ideas, I guess you already have plans." After thinking for a while, Kazumi replied: "In the future..., I just want to be independent." "Work hard?" "Yes! I want to be financially independent." "Young women say that a lot these days." "Isn't this quite rare in Ms. Ishizu's time?" "Because the jobs we could choose were limited at the time. And I just chose this path along with the trend. Unlike you who work for independence, I have family factors and have to work." "It would be great if I could be like you. It should be easier, I'm so envious." Kazumi said to herself, then smiled and said: "My friends often say that I'm too rigid. If I had been born in Ms. Ishizu's time, maybe I wouldn't be like this." What is the so-called "becoming like this"?Chikako didn't ask, and didn't want Kazumi to find out. "Women have ideas and strive for financial independence. This is not rigid. If you were not born in this era, you would not be able to do it." Kazumi shook her head. "No, that's not what I mean. I don't mean independence. There are deeper problems. Basically, you don't need to think so much before, and you don't need to think carefully about how to choose your own life, right? Didn't Ms. Shi Jin say just now? You chose this path out of necessity." Choose your life carefully.Zhijiazi really didn't have the energy to think so much, but she didn't expect to be so envious of a young man who could be her daughter. "I don't want to become like my mother." Kazumi's tone was unmodified and extremely natural. "Depending on a man, it's like a parasite. I live aimlessly and have no idea about my own life. I never want to become like this." "You told your mother this?" Kazumi opened her eyes wide. "How is it possible! No matter how bad I am, I dare not say it in front of her." "Because you're worried about insulting her?" "Well, indeed." "Maybe that's just your unilateral idea. Your mother should have her own opinion?" "How could she have her own opinion?" Kazumi spurned. "If she has any opinions of her own, how can she let her husband keep having affairs, but she doesn't say anything at all." Zhijiazi thought, the key will eventually come down to this point.It was Kazumi's anger, and it was also Kazumi's sorrow. "My dad, he likes to say, I will give you some advice as an adult, as a senior in life. He likes to say such high-sounding words, but he doesn't reflect on the fact that he betrayed his wife. My mother still treats him Everything is submissive. What the hell is this couple doing? I really don't understand." "Actually, sometimes children don't understand things between husband and wife at all." Kazumi's eyes became a little more energetic. "Huh? I remember hearing the same thing once." "Did your mother tell you?" "Well, because my father's affair was too exaggerated, so I told my mother that we should just get a divorce. I remember it was a matter of the second year of junior high school." "Did you find out that your father had an affair at such a young age?" "Of course I will find out. He is too obvious, and women often call home to harass." "What did your mother say?" "As a child, you can't ask your parents to divorce. Your father also has many advantages. Parents are husband and wife. There are some things that only husband and wife can understand." Kazumi bit the finger that was sticking to OK's bandage. "I'm really glad I don't know." Chikako smiled. "At that time, you were too young to understand this truth." "Do you mean that as long as I get married, I can understand my mother's mood?" She closed her eyes impatiently. "I don't understand, I will never understand, and I don't want to understand, I will never marry a man like my father." Of course, this is Yimei's wishful thinking, and it also means that she has a pure and sensitive soul, which leads to her "belief" that she does not know anything. However, excluding Kazumi's innocence, Chikako has to think about one thing, and that is the source of misfortune between Ryosuke Soda, Harue Soda, and Kazumi Soda.We cannot shout this theory out loud, but there seems to be a fact here.There is also the problem of compatibility between parents and children. If personalities do not match, even blood relationship will become a curse. If there is still time, let's overcome this curse together, seek an appropriate distance, and maybe be able to live in harmony without hurting each other.However, the Sorada family has lost this time.