Chapter 14 Chapter Fourteen

Kazumi Soda came back angrily.Although Yuanshang's inspection was gentle, he held her hand tightly, and she seemed to be resisting. "Are you okay?" Chikako immediately approached her. "I want to go home." Kazumi didn't want to look at Chikako. "I said I wanted to go home, but Miss Yuanshang ignored me." Chikako put her arms around Kazumi and tried to make her sit down.Kazumi stood up straight with both feet, struggling to resist. "I've had enough, enough!" "What's wrong?" Zhijiazi looked directly at her. "Why did you become so flustered all of a sudden?"

Chikako's tone was steady, but a little suspicious.Kazumi finally listened to it, and immediately relaxed her whole body. "I'm so nauseous, let me go back." Her brow was sweating and her hands were shaking. "Just thinking about the blood-stained hooded jacket makes me sick. I can't breathe. I don't want to be here." "Then ask your mother to pick you up, and you can go home together." "Don't call her!" "I'll go find her right away." Inspector Yuan Shang quickly left the room, and her unbearable emotion towards Kazumi showed in her actions.This is helpless.Zhijiazi thought to herself, she has worked hard for her patiently accompanying Kazumi all the way.

"I'll call a car and take you home first, please wait a little longer." Mita Jiahui's voice in the interrogation room at the other end came in through the microphone.Kazumi wrapped her arms around her body and stood in the corner of the room. Chikako looked at the other side of the double-sided mirror. "No one confessed." Jiahui lowered her head and muttered. "Do you still doubt us?" "If you wait for thirty minutes, three hours, or three days, the result will be the same." Min started stomping his feet again. "I don't know about the hoodie, I don't know anything."

"Me too." Ritsuko agreed. "If you're looking for someone with a motive, there should be others. Mr. Soda has a problem with his family." Jiahui sighed after finishing speaking. "He said the atmosphere at home was extremely cold." "So you thought he would divorce and marry you Luo." Ren laughed sarcastically. "You're so stupid, that's the basic tactic of cheating men, you're a lot older, and you don't even understand that?" Jiahui stared at Ren. "Mr. Soda didn't just complain to me about this, you've heard him say it too, didn't he talk a lot during that online gathering!"

"Really? I just seem to remember you saying how lonely you are and how boring life is." "Are you finished!" "Wow! It's scary." Wu Shang picked up the materials, knocked on the table and collected them all.Ren shrank his neck and said, "Look, even Mr. Criminal Police is afraid of you." "I hope you can understand what I mean." Mita Jiahui clasped his hands on the table, approached Takegami and said, "Mr. Soda Ryosuke is a lonely person, and I can empathize because I am also lonely. Our 'family game' It has meaning and value, it does exist."

Ren shook his head. "Mr. Sorada's real life is very unfortunate. He doesn't get along well with his wife and daughter. He feels that his life is empty and life has no purpose." Wu Shang asked quietly. "That's why I dated Naoko Imai, did he say that?" Jiahui was unmoved. "It's true that he's weak towards women. I feel like the woman is obsessed with Mr. Soda. He also had emotional disputes within the company..." "You know a lot." "Didn't you check it?" "We don't know anything. Don't underestimate that company. The employees of Orion Foods are tight-lipped, and they can't ask no matter how they ask."

"No brain, big mouth." Ritsuko scolded Jiahui. "Since you broke in, our relationship has become so strange, don't you feel it?" "Why do you always think of me as a bad guy?" "It's your fault." "Where? What's wrong with me? Tell me, give me a specific example." Ritsuko snorted and sneered. "You can't tell. I think you're just jealous and unbalanced." Ritsuko opened his eyes wide. "Jealous? Who am I jealous of?" "Mr. Soda treats me like a 'mother' and treats me sincerely. You just can't understand him doing this, because you are no longer the most important, so you are angry with me, right?"

Ritsuko poked Minoru's elbow. "Hey, did you hear that? This lady seems to have misunderstood a lot." "What do you mean by that!" Jiahui rushed towards Ritsuko, Ren stood up, and Wushang gave a loud shout. "stop!" The three of them were startled and stopped one after another.The room was silent. After a beat, something fell on the ground, it was Tokunaga's stationery.He looked at everyone, and slowly squatted down to pick it up. Then he said, "Sorry." The current atmosphere is very strange.Ritsuko Kahara let out a childlike giggle. "Look at Mr. Criminal Police who recorded the record, it's very interesting." She said to Ren, "What do you mean by disrespect?"

"It means being rude." Wu Shang explained with displeasure. "It's not a word you would use in normal conversation." Silence struck again. A faint siren sounded from a distance, slipping into the silence, from outside the window, through the streets of Shibuya, and gradually approaching here. "What's the matter again?" Ritsuko whispered. "The police are really busy, don't you need to accompany us anymore?" "That's right, I've found the hooded jacket, that's enough." Ren chimed in. "From this clue, we should be able to catch the murderer, right?"

Tokunaga picked up the phone, and someone picked it up immediately.He asked into the microphone: "What's the matter with that siren?" Then he said in a serious tone: "Even our side can hear it clearly." The other party didn't know what he was explaining. "I understand." After Deyong hung up the phone, he said to Wu Shang, "Here we are." "Who are you talking about?" Ritsuko chased after him. "Hey, Mr. Criminal Police. What's the matter with that siren? Is it also a murder case?" "It has nothing to do with you." Takeshang said, "If it's a murder case, it's enough for you to deal with one Ryosuke Soda. We also want to concentrate on arresting the murderer."

Jiahui suddenly stretched out her legs lazily, and said, "It must be his wife." It was as if malice was dripping from the corner of her mouth. "His wife is the murderer, it's unmistakable. Didn't you hear a woman screaming at the scene of the murder?" Wu Shang asked, "Is this your inference?" "That's right." Jiahui concluded immediately, raised her head and said, "Except for his wife, there is no one else who hates Mr. Sokada and Naoko Imai so much, and wants to put them to death." "Is that right?" "Mr. Criminal Police is very sympathetic to his wife. If you only look at the appearance, everyone will think that the husband who is having an affair is at fault. But the estrangement between husband and wife does not necessarily have to be unilateral fault, right?" "I don't think so." Minoru said, "This matter is definitely Mr. Sorada's fault." Jiahui seemed to ignore Ritsuko or Minoru, she looked directly at Takegami and continued talking. "The murderer is his wife. She killed Naoko Imai first, and then Mr. Soda. It was because she was too emotional that she stabbed Soda several times." "If Mrs. Sorada is the murderer, the murder should have happened at home, right?" "That's not necessarily the case. She knew that Mr. Soda would go to see the house after get off work, so she might have waited there, and fled home in a hurry after the strike. Isn't her house nearby? There is plenty of time." "I understand. However, your inference is only based on their emotional disputes." "No, I have other grounds." She changed Wen Jing's soft and weak expression to reveal a strong side. "I heard about this at an online gathering, and these people also know about it." She glanced at Ritsuko and Minoru, "Mr. Soda once mentioned that someone was watching him." "Surveillance?" Wu Shang frowned. "Yes. He also said that he always felt that someone was following him when he went out. It is said that it seems to be his daughter." "Is it Ms. Kazumi Soda?" "Yeah, actually, the online meeting was held at two o'clock in the afternoon, because there was an exam in Miss Yimei's cram school on April 3rd. This exam was very important, so he thought his daughter Definitely not following him." Ritsuko and Minoru looked at each other. "Is this true?" Wu Shang asked them both. "Oh, yes." "He said that." "When we met at the station, I also noticed that he was nervous. He was very worried that his daughter would follow him." Ritsuko said looking at her nails. "I thought to myself, what a pair of unfortunate father and daughter. Is Kazumi, Mr. Sorada's daughter, really so bad?" Wu Shang did not answer Ritsuko's question, but continued to ask Jiahui. "If his daughter cares about her father's movements, that's also his daughter's problem. I don't think this will constitute a basis for doubting his wife." Jiahui looked impatient, and said in a bad tone: "So I guess his wife used his daughter to investigate him." "It's a leap of faith." "But that's what women do. Doesn't his wife know that Mr. Soda likes to flirt? She is full of hatred, but she still pretends to forgive him. Because of the concern for face, there is no way to personally investigate the details of her husband, right?" Jiahui was full of confidence, pouted and said, "I guess my daughter will cooperate with all her strength. My daughter will always be on her mother's side. It is said that Kazumi even peeked at Mr. Sorada's computer. Mr. Sorada discovered it a long time ago, but He wanted to see his daughter's reaction, so he pretended not to know and let his daughter peep." "You mean, Miss Kazumi Sorada already knows that father is playing 'family games' with you?" Jiahui raised her chin triumphantly and said: "Yes, that's why he was so careful on the day of the online gathering. He was afraid that his wife and daughter would come to the door. Ms. Kazumi Soda knew about it a long time ago. Now that she knows, I don't think she will Be comfortable." "Liar." Zhijiazi looked at Kazumi, she was already facing the double-sided mirror, her hands hugged her body tightly, and blood vessels even appeared between her neck. "She lied." She repeated, shaking her head.The messy hair formed a torrent of brown that fell over the shoulders, slapped the cheeks, and swayed on the back. "Everything is a lie." "Miss Yimei." "I don't know, I don't know anything! She lied, lied, lied, lied!" "I want to ask you one thing." Wu Shang slowly adjusted his sitting posture and leaned his whole body on the back of the chair. He looked at the expressions of the three people. "Mr. Ryosuke Soda has an only daughter named Kazumi, who is his biological daughter and his real child." Minoru stared at the table, pursed his lips so tightly that his lower lip was almost invisible, Ritsuko looked at Wu Shang, Jiahui turned his attention to the window. "Miss Kazumi is observing the virtual 'family' that Mr. Sorada built with you, and Mr. Sorada also noticed her behavior. You did hear him say that, didn't you?" Ritsuko nodded. "He knew that he had been discovered by his daughter, but because he wanted to know her reaction, he deliberately pretended not to know." Ritsuko nodded again and closed her eyes. "He also revealed to you that his family life is not satisfactory. He said that his relationship with his wife and daughter has dropped to freezing point, so he is very lonely." After a pause, Wu Shang spoke again. "It sounds to me like an extremely selfish excuse." Jiahui finally blinked, but still stubbornly looked away. "Of course, it's a chicken-and-egg problem." Wu Shang continued, "Maybe it's because the family is not warm that he would have an affair, and he would look for his ideal partner on the Internet and play the game of pretending to be a housewife." .Maybe he made such a selfish move that made the family lose warmth. We don’t know which problem happened first, maybe it’s just a difference in perspective, but the two problems happened at the same time.” "I..." Ritsuko's voice was weak, he hesitated to speak. "Sorada-san probably didn't realize how selfish and cruel he did to his wife and daughter. Everyone involved is like this." "Is it so selfish and cruel to pretend to be a housewife in the online world?" Jiahui retorted angrily. "We and Mr. Sorada are not becoming a real family, we are just acting. Also, this is only happening on the Internet, everyone enjoys a virtual ideal family and appreciates each other's roles. Is this really that serious? ?” Wu Shang shook his head slowly. "This matter itself is neither selfish nor cruel. Anyone needs room for fantasy." "That's all right." "However, if it affects real life, that's a different story." Jiahui looked impatient, while Ritsuko lowered her head even lower. "When Ms. Kazumi found out, Mr. Sorada should have stopped, but he didn't. Later, he had another chance to step on the brakes. This chance was nothing more than that day's online gathering. He complained to you about his life , the moment when I told you about my daughter peeking at his computer." Miss Kahara!Wu Shang asked Ritsuko. "Miss Kazumi Soda is about the same age as you, do you know about this?" Ritsuko didn't answer. "When you saw Mr. Sokada and heard what he said, didn't you feel anything? Even if you were just playing the fake 'ideal family game', don't you think he shouldn't be seen by Miss Kazumi? Can't you stand in Miss Kazumi's shoes and imagine how she feels?" "But I..." "Your parents don't care about you, and you are dissatisfied with them. Have you ever said this?" Wu Shang continued: "If your parents don't care about you, but you find out that they hired a strange girl to act as a good daughter, you How would it feel? Won't you be sad? Won't you be angry? What would you think?" Ren moved his body and said, "It's because of this that I don't want to play anymore." Wu Shang looked at Ren silently, and Ren also looked at Wu Shang, but it didn't last long, and Ren couldn't take it anymore, so he turned his eyes away. "I don't think this kind of thing...is very good," Ren said. "Did you tell Mr. Morita what you think?" "No." "why?" "Our relationship is not that close." "Aren't you a family?" Ren moved the corner of his mouth and said with a smile, "That's weird!" His tone is full of dissatisfaction. "After all, it's just a game to enjoy the benefits." "Enjoy all the benefits?" "Everyone just wants to have a good time online. I just want an older sister or younger sister, and a dad to talk to." It's that simple... Minoru's voice became smaller and smaller. "But in the end it didn't work out and the situation became troublesome, so I'm going to leave." The rhetoric is full of excuses, and the end of the sentence can hardly be heard. "What about you?" Wu Shang asked Ritsuko. "You haven't changed anything after the meetup, you're still on your 'family game', right?" "Because... it's very important." "Important to you." "Because that's a relationship that can't be found in real life, and I don't get along well with my parents, it's true." "So I don't have time to think about Miss Kazumi's feelings." Ritsuko brushed her hair and nodded. "She wasn't there. I couldn't see her in person, and I didn't know her. To be honest, we couldn't be sure if there was really a girl named Yimei." "But, didn't Mr. Sorada already tell you?" "How do we know if it's true? It's hard to tell the truth from the truth on the Internet. Even if we meet at an online gathering, we still can't fully understand each other's details." "So you suspect that Mr. Sorada is lying." "Yeah..., I also think it's easier to think that way." "It's enough for you 'family' to think about it lightly, and you can keep a certain distance. This is the benefit of the Internet world, right?" "Mr. Criminal Police, you seem to be prejudiced against the Internet." Jiahui spoke suddenly. "Interpersonal relationships in the virtual world still have the value and warmth equivalent to the real society. It is not just a place where falsehoods and lies run rampant. Sometimes it is because you can't see each other that you can put aside your appearance or standpoint. Reveal true temperament and cultivate true family affection." Ren said as if spitting, "You still have the guts to say such things, old woman." "Shut up! Maybe the Internet is just a place to make trouble for you, but it's different for me!" "I'm not making trouble. Let me return this sentence to you as it is. I want to tell you that you are not qualified to talk about such a big truth. Do you understand? Old woman!" Jiahui slapped the table. "Don't talk about old women, old women, I have a name!" "You are an old woman, so I call you that. Am I wrong? Ah, by the way, you are not an ordinary old woman. You are an old woman who wants to be dissatisfied. You are just looking for places to vent your dissatisfaction." "What is dissatisfaction with desire!" Jia Hui growled like a vicious dog. "Have you ever thought that there are people like you who discriminate against women and how much wronged we suffer! Just because we are no longer young, have no husbands or children, we are treated as monsters and ghosts, can you imagine our feelings? " Jiahui's saliva even splashed over to Wushang. "I am tired of this society from the bottom of my heart. I am exhausted, but I still have to live. If I don't work, I will have nothing to eat. I know that even the company despises me. But if I quit my job now, how will I live? I want Where are you going?" Ritsuko was dumbfounded, staring at Jiahui with wide eyes. "I needed a safe haven, so I was really happy for a while, enjoying being a 'mom'. Even if it was just the Internet world, I didn't care, it felt like my life changed, and I was very happy just like that .” Therefore, she didn't have the energy to think about Kazumi Soda's mood, she couldn't imagine it, and even made it worse, planning to escape the Internet world and get closer to Ryosuke Soda in reality... "I'm not familiar with the online world, so I can't have any prejudice against it yet." Wushang spoke quietly to the flushed Jiahui. "But at least I can understand that as long as there is a medium, there will be interpersonal relationships. Reality and falsehood coexist in the real world. I can imagine that the online world is also full of falsehood and truth." Jiahui wiped the corners of her eyes, still stubborn. "Our relationship is real." Ren and Ritsuko were silent. "If..., I mean if," Wu Shang put his index finger on his nose. "Miss Kazumi Soda came to you before this murder happened, what would you do?" A silence fell over them.After a while, Ritsuko finally spoke. "Is there really such a person?" "Of course there is, it exists alive in this world." The three of them fell silent again. Takegami waited for the second hand to circle around, and announced with a sigh in his tone. "Thank you for your cooperation, that's all for today." Kazumi Soda was crying. A line of tears flowed from the right eye, as did the left eye, two lines of tears gushed out suddenly.As she stood still, tears dripped down her cheeks, down her chin, and onto her sandals. She still hugged her body with her hands, maybe she didn't realize that she was crying at all. "Miss Yimei." Chikako put her arms around her shoulders, the corners of her mouth were trembling, what kind of words would she spit out?Hopefully that's the line we're looking forward to, and hopefully that's the end of it.Chikako prayed in her heart. But Kazumi said so. "I want to go home." Zhijiazi felt powerless, and her eyes were dimmed with extreme sadness. "Can you wait a little longer?" "I want to go home." "I want you to see the last witness." She left Kazumi behind and went to the interrogation room, her steps were heavy and her back felt heavy. As soon as Wu Shang saw Chikako open the door, he immediately reached under the table and turned off the microphone.Chikako shook her head and said simply, "Please summon him." Wu Shang winked at Tokunaga. Tokunaga was about to reach out to grab the microphone, but he hesitated a bit.He didn't look at Wu Shang, but hesitated for a while, then immediately lifted his spirits and picked up the microphone. However, the expression was very serious. (It's called "twirling a child's hand," isn't it?) That's right, young man!Wu Shang said to De Yong in his heart.If necessary, we have to tighten even the hands of children, and that is our task. His expression was more tense than expected.He was accompanied by an inspector, and Torii supported his waist with his hands.He is 1.75 cm tall, a head taller than Torii, with similar hair color to Kazumi Soda, and his fluffy hairstyle looks like a child who just woke up.Wearing a pair of sneakers on his feet, his bare toes stuck on the open floor, and his body swayed a bit. Wu Shang stood up to greet him. "Are you Ishiguro-san? Ishiguro-san Tatsuya." The young man nodded several times, his jaw was trembling, his eyes were flushed, and he clenched his fists and beat his sideways. "Thank you for making up your mind and willing to come forward to explain." Shi Heida was also dejected, shaking his head in a trance, not knowing why, is it negative or positive?Confusion or lamentation?No one knows the answer until he speaks. "Let, let me see Kazumi." His voice trembled, full of deep sympathy and grief, a voice he had never heard before. "I want to see Kazumi. She's here..., let me meet her, we've already..." lie. Kazumi Soda said.Is this the first time she has said this?Lie, lie, lie.For Kazumi, everything is false and everyone is lying. Zhijiazi didn't say anything, just stood behind her and stared at her quietly. "why……" Kazumi murmured, putting her hands on the mirror. "Why, why? Didn't you say you won't give in? Didn't you say you would persevere? Why?" She slapped the mirror hard with trembling hands, once, twice, three times.Zhijiazi rushed to pull her away, but she was still struggling, waving her hands, trying to knock on the mirror. Shi Heida on the other side of the mirror also noticed the sound, approached the mirror, stretched out Bi Yimei's thick hands to cling to the mirror. "Yimei..." The sound from the microphone spreads throughout the room. "Yimei, don't hold on anymore." Yimei continued to struggle, the chair overturned, the bag fell, and a patrol opened the door and rushed in.Chikako stopped him with stern eyes and hugged Kazumi alone. "Don't hold on any longer." Shi Heida also cried, still putting his hands on the mirror, bowing his head and crying. "It's over. Yimei, okay? Don't hold on anymore, it's over, let's end it, shall we?" Kazumi gradually became limp in Chikako's arms, she lowered her head, as if trying her best to compress herself, bent her legs and shrunk her shoulders, and curled up into a ball. Chikako hugged her and held her in her arms, like a mother hugging her child at the end of the world.