Chapter 29 6. The cat and the girl

This room is the same as the four-and-a-half ping room in front, and the floor is also covered with tatami mats. Kenzo Yajima seems to use this as his studio.There is a carpet on the tatami, and a chair in front of a large table. On the table are a lamp with strong light, a coal gas lamp, small pliers, etc., and a magnifying glass necessary for metalworking, all in a mess. on the table. The Chuanbei criminal police and administrators were not frightened by these debris, but in front of them there was a man lying on the carpet with his face up and his body lying on his stomach. It was a gray-haired old man with a large leather apron hanging around his neck, over his shirt and trousers, because his knees could catch things if they fell while doing small works.

Judging by the fact that he was face down and the carpet under his body was stained with a large bloodstain, he must have been murdered from behind. But what is even more creepy is that a cat is licking the blood on the ground. "Management, administrator..." The North Sichuan Criminal Police said in a trembling voice: "Then... that old man who was killed is the owner of this room——Yajima Kenzo?" "Yes, yes..." the administrator also trembled. "Then... is that cat raised by old man Yajima?" "No... no, that's the cat from the Okumura family next door..."

"Ah! That's it! Hush! Hush! Go over there..." The Chuanbei criminal police waved at Mao'er, but Huamao just stared at him with golden eyes. "Meow meow!" It opened its mouth, and the Chuanbei Criminal Police saw that its mouth was full of blood. "Wow! This, this..." The Chuanbei criminal police couldn't help screaming; the administrator also grabbed the sliding door, shivering all over. At this moment, the little cat in front of them was no different from a demon. Suddenly, a girl's delicate voice came from the entrance outside: "Mimi! Mimi! Grandpa, did Mimi come to your place?"

"It's the daughter of the Okumura family next door." The administrator whispered, and then a ten-year-old girl appeared in the room of four and a half square meters. "Grandpa! Ah..." Seeing the two people in front of her, the little girl said in surprise: "Uncle Administrator, have you seen Mimi?" "Mimi is there. Mimi, Miss is looking for you! Come quickly..." The cat didn't seem to have licked enough blood yet, its golden eyes looked at the two of them with sparkling eyes, and after a while, it slowly came out. Every time it took a step, plum blossom footprints were printed on the tatami, and the administrator's body shook accordingly.

"Hanako, you can't hug that cat! That cat has a lot of blood on it..." "Hush!" The Chuanbei Criminal Police stopped the administrator from continuing. He took out a handkerchief and wiped the cat's heels and body and said: "Little sister, go over there!" "Uncle, thank you. Mimi, don't get lost again! My sister has been looking for you since just now." Hanako seemed to be talking to someone, hugged the cat intimately, and walked out of the room while talking. After watching her leave, the North Sichuan criminal police looked back at the corpse again and said:

"Administrator, does this old man named Yajima have any relatives?" "Yes, I heard that he has a niece in Shinshu, and he once said that he would bring it to Tokyo..." "Have you ever seen a beautiful boy of seventeen or eighteen come here?" "No. As I said, they can go directly to the room without going through the anteroom." "That's it!" The Chuanbei Criminal Police looked at the whole room again, and the alarm clock on the table pointed to nine o'clock. The time when the Chuanbei Criminal Police caught the beautiful boy was around 8:30.

"Admin, do you have the key to this room?" "No, I don't! The key is on that table..." "Ah! Then lock this room first, and I will report back to the police station immediately." The escape of the beautiful boy on the night of fireworks unexpectedly developed into a strange murder.