Chapter 17 chapter Ten

Yasuko Kawasaki was lying on the hospital bed, covered with a quilt covered with a snow-white quilt.The blood on her body seemed to have been sucked by the vampire, her skeleton-like face was as pale as paper, and there was a black circle around her eye sockets.It looked like she was five or six years older.When she saw Kosuke Kindaichi walk into the room, she smiled slightly, but there seemed to be infinite sadness hidden in that smile.Sitting next to the bed were Grandma Kido, Mrs. Nakai, and Saburo Yamamoto, a former Navy Lieutenant Commander who personally taught English; they all waited here with stern faces.Seeing this, Police Department Shimada felt a little uneasy.

"Please keep it simple..." Sasaki, the director of Midorigaoka Hospital who was the guide, said in an impatient tone: "It's inconvenient to ask too much at this time..." "No! Doctor, it's all right." Taizi lay still on the pillow, a faint smile appeared on his face: "Mr. Kindaichi, I'm sorry for causing you trouble the day before yesterday. I hate myself for not being stronger then..." From Yasuko's self-deprecating smile, Kosuke Kindaichi felt the mystery of the goblin again. "Everyone..." Police Department Shimada scratched his temple with his little finger of his right hand:

"I would like to ask everyone to leave for a while..." The Shimada police department said complacently.Hearing his words, Grandma Kido and Mrs. Nakai just glanced at each other, but they didn't move at all. Saburo Yamamoto just looked at Yasuko's face from the side as if he didn't hear it. "Hey everyone... I'm really sorry..." "No! I want to stay here!" Grandma Kido quickly interrupted what the police department said: "She needs someone to take care of now. She needs to take care of the dead, but even more so when she is alive."

Hearing Grandma Kido's words, Saburo Yamamoto smiled slightly.Dense crow's feet gather at the corners of the eyes. "Grandma, it doesn't matter to me." "Don't make a sound! Because you are a patient.... For Mr. Shimagawa's questions, you only need to answer yes or no." "Mr. Shimada, it's okay for me to be here! I want to see how you pretend to extract a confession." Mrs. Nakai's harsh sarcasm made the gentle and kind Shimada Police Department red-faced: "Extorted confession?" "Oh! I'm sorry. I made a slip of the tongue just now, so I didn't say it. But I want to stay here, but I just said it."

Mrs. Nakai's heavy body sat there firmly. It seemed that it would be difficult to drive her away from here. The flirtatious Yamamoto Jiro just kept smiling. "Hey - since that's the case, that's fine." Police Department Shimada simply retracted the foreword: "Miss Kawasaki!" "Hey." "I've heard the general situation from Mr. Kindaichi, but why didn't you go back with the wives here the night before?" "This matter is up to me." Grandma Kido took over from the side: "Mr. Fujimoto begged me to keep her."

A look of surprise flashed across Yasuko's face, but he was not greatly shocked, as if to say, there is such a thing, "I hate Fujimoto from the bottom of my heart, he is just arrogant and vain. Besides... ...Begging me to do this in itself disgusts me. However, I believe in Yasuko, although she looks weak and docile on the outside, she is actually very strong in character. I think that if two people quarrel face to face, the one who suffers must be Fujimoto, so I say Granted his request." Grandma Kido's gray hair was combed into a bun, and there were piercing eyes in the deep sunken eye sockets, shining like an eagle.For Shimada Police Department Supplement, this old lady has always been a difficult opponent to deal with.

"Then...?" Police Department Shimada shifted his eyes to the person lying on the bed again: "When you wanted to go home, Fujimoto-kun came out and said he wanted to send you back. Right?" "Hey." "Did he say anything? That is, did he say anything questionable?" Taiko hesitated for a moment, then replied in a low voice: "Hey." "What happened?" Taiko hesitated for a while: "Tell me to remarry him..." "Bigamy?... just asking you to get back together with him?" Shimada Police Department's tone was full of suspicion, and the sensitive Yasuko immediately noticed it:

"Oh. But, such a thing... no matter what I say, it's useless, because the dead can't speak! . . . " At this time, resentment floated in Taizi's eyes, to be precise, a look of despair. "No! In order to provide us with a reference, please go on. How did you answer what he said?" "I didn't answer anything." "Why?" "I'm too lazy to talk to him." "So, didn't you say a word?" "Well, not a word. . . . I'm sick of walking with him." "But, according to legend, when you left with him last year, you pestered him for a long time, is that true?"

Taizi was silent for a while and said: "Do I have to answer such a question? Please try to ask about the incident that night, okay?" A sneer appeared on the corner of Saburo Yamamoto's mouth when he saw Shimada Detective Suzuki's sudden panic.Grandma Kido and Mrs. Nakai also looked at each other and smiled. "Sorry." Police Department Shimada stretched out a baby-like fat hand and wiped his round face: "Later, when you walked to the door of the house at the bottom of the mountain... When you got to the front of the house, Fujimoto-kun suddenly felt pain. Isn't it?"

"Hey." "So, you imitated Mr. Kindaichi's method to make him vomit?" "Hey, I wanted to pinch his nose, but he kept shaking his head and didn't pinch it. Then I thought, instead of messing around here, it's better to go to Mr. Kindaichi..." "Why didn't they yell or knock people who lived nearby?" "I didn't think of that at the time." Yasuko answered innocently and unscrupulously like a child, making the police department impeccable. "One more question from you. According to Mr. Kindaichi, you once said 'only Mary knows'. What does this mean?"

At this time, Yasuko's pale face was covered with red tide, and her big fairy-like eyes turned to Kosuke Kindaichi: "Sir, did I say such a thing?" Kindaichi Kosuke smiled kindly: "I did. What does that mean?" Taizi thought for a while and said: "If I say something like that. It means Mary knows me, and she knows I'm not some kind of bad woman who hurts people. . . . because we're very close. . . . " Yasuko's wide-open eyes had begun to moisten.At this time, Dr. Sasaki hurriedly stood between Suzuki and Yasuko from the Shimada Police Department, and stopped him: "Just come here, please..." After returning to the Green Hill Police Station, Kazuko Kaneda listened to Criminal Arai and talked about what he learned from Mrs. Fujimoto.According to Mrs. Fujimoto, although Tetsuya Fujimoto often took liver health medicines, he was confined to his own home and did not have the habit of carrying medicine bottles when going out. She also said that if Fujimoto showed signs of taking this medicine, he might ask someone for it. of. That night, Kosuke Kindaichi wrote a letter to Robinson in Melbourne, and then his father asked the wealthy businessman from the Qiang Kingdom about Robinson's mailing address, and then sent it by air.