Chapter 7 Chapter 6 Death of a Pop Star

It's been a while since I've worked with Master Yuri on a case, and this is the first time I've heard his voice so excited.Every word the master said sounded like a kind of abnormal fear, which vibrated the microphone in my hand and pounded my heart. "Shimadzu, Master said he will be at Akebono's apartment in Fukushima soon!" "Oh, that's it, then go quickly." Perhaps because of my nervousness, Shimadzu forgot to use the Osaka dialect that he only learned in Osaka at that moment. "And you?" "I won't go, please do everything! I have other things to do, maybe I will go out to interview. But I will call back to the agency at any time, so if there is something, we can still contact each other through the agency. Would you like me to call for you?" car?"

I took the car that Shimadzu called for me and left the branch office in Sakurabashi.Because of my anticipation and nervousness, my heart was still beating wildly even though I had hung up the phone for a long time.After that, my excitement continued for a whole day. In retrospect, this day was the first climax we encountered in the process of investigating the butterfly murder case.Then came a barrage of new clues, one after another, and all of us who worked on the investigation were on a high note. "Mitsuki, this is not an ordinary murder case! This is really, really a murder case carefully planned by the criminals. Really, really..."

Master Yuri's voice vibrated the microphone in my hand. What he said was by no means nonsense, and it was not exaggerated at all.In my long career as a journalist, there have been few experiences that have made my heart skip a beat. But before I write about the clues that will be uncovered later in the day, I want to briefly address the current problem, namely the murder of Shoji Fujimoto.The murder of a pop singer that happened a few months ago is almost like a prelude to this butterfly murder. According to the basic information I collected in the investigation department of the agency yesterday, Fujimoto Shoji was killed on the night of May 27 this year.This murder case was once a big buzz in the society, but unfortunately I have nothing to do with it.Because I was in charge of interviewing another attempted assassination of an official that happened almost at the same time, when I turned my attention to the Fujimoto murder case, the public was no longer as interested in this murder case as it was when it first happened, and the police did not find out. New clues that can stimulate journalists to investigate.This murder case was like a rain in the evening, procrastinatingly unresolved, and it was not brought up again until after the butterfly killing incident.The Fujimoto murder case really shocked the whole society at the time, because there are too many elements in the character of Fujimoto Shoji that may have a negative impact on the social atmosphere.He made his debut two years before his death, that is, in the 10th year of the Showa era (1935). The first song "My Heart Is Like Rain" laid the foundation for his popularity.

This song combines the famous poem with a sweet Japanese arrangement. Through Fujimoto's soft voice and whispering singing, it has injected a new breath into the Japanese record industry, and has captured the hearts of Japanese girls. Heart.This song not only rewrites the lyrics well, but also the melody is excellent.Even so, it is thanks to Fujimoto's unique vocals that he can get such a big response.The evidence is that this song was sung several times after the war, but none of them could achieve the sensation caused by Fujimoto. Let's not talk about the cover of later generations. In short, this song made Fujimoto a hit and became the darling of the pop music world.He is therefore called Japanese, which is tantamount to a guarantee of the best quality.He was twenty-six years old.Afterwards, he released one album after another, and the lyrics and music of each song were tailored for his soft and soft voice and whispering singing.

As men, we really don't understand his charm, but for girls, his singing voice has incredible charm.A female writer who has always been elegant once said boldly, "When you hear Fujimoto's singing, you will feel sexually excited." In contrast, some critics dismissed his singing, thinking that he was a "erotic singer", saying that his whisper-sweet singing was nothing more than the obscene moans of a man caught in the quagmire of lust in his bedroom.However, this kind of vicious comment made Fujimoto's popularity even higher, and it did not form a topic that was unfavorable to him at all.

Fujimoto's second best-selling work should be "Mother's Appearance" released before he was killed.The reason why this record is so popular is that apart from being a good song itself, Fujimoto's bizarre life experience was already well known at that time, and the public's curiosity about it was also the main reason for the record's best-selling. According to reports in women's magazines and popular magazines at the time, Fujimoto was an orphan who didn't even know who his parents were.Since he was sensible, he was adopted by a couple who lived in the suburbs of Yokohama and managed a small ranch until he was nine years old.At first he thought the caretaker couple were his biological parents, but he soon learned that was not the case.He was adopted by the couple less than a month after his birth, but the couple died together in an unfortunate disaster when he was nine years old.Their deaths were so sudden that there was no time to say the names of his biological parents.Not only that, but the couple did not leave any supporting documents mentioning Fujimoto Shoji's life experience, and none of their relatives knew who his biological parents were.

A few years later, a well-known composer took Fujimoto as a student.After signing with the record label, Fujimoto became the darling of the pop music world.In the past few years, he has lived a strange and unrestrained life. "So I don't know what kind of people my biological parents are. But in my impression, I vaguely remember a woman like my mother. Before I was six or seven years old, there was a woman who probably She visits me once or twice a year. The woman always comes to see me with candy or toys that children like, and occasionally brings me clothes. She will play with me for an hour or two in the corner of the ranch , talking to me patiently. At that time, I was always looking forward to her arrival. Until now, as long as I close my eyes, her figure will appear in front of my eyes. Of course, after so long, her The figure may have been beautified by me again and again, and it may be far from her original appearance. But that doesn't matter, anyway, I will regard her appearance as my mother's appearance, and I will always remember her in my heart."

Fujimoto's second best-selling album "Mother's Appearance" was recorded after he wrote his own mood into lyrics and composed music.At that time, Fujimoto was surrounded by many young female fans, and his life was extremely obscene. His residence in Shibuya was even compared to a prostitution cave by his neighbors.Even so, his admiration for his mother was profound.The singing that slowly leaks out from the record hides the helplessness of meeting each other, and the pure heart of a child like a child, making people can't help but see the appearance of a mother in front of them.In his mournful, lamenting, weeping and complaining singing voice, he conveyed an unspeakable, clear and innocent nostalgia emotion.

Just as the album was selling well and the singing was spreading in every street, Shoji Fujimoto was killed. As I have said before, this murder took place on the night of May 27th.At that time, he was living in Daikanyama in Shibuya with a deaf nun.That night he gave Mammy a rest for the night and asked her to spend the night at a relative's house.It is said that this kind of thing is very common, which means that he has a visitor who does not want to be seen by others. The next morning, when Mammy returned home, she saw Teng himself in pajamas, dead beside the piano in the living room.There was a wound in his heart that seemed to be stabbed by a sharp knife, and the blood from his chest dyed the white keys bright red.

As Mr. Kyozo Tsuchiya mentioned in his notes, this murder has caused so much trouble to the entire music industry, and the impact is hard to estimate.The peachy scandals related to the deceased are not a problem, and even the private intrigues in the music industry have surfaced one by one.The ugliness of people in the music industry has become the laughing stock of the world. This murder case caused an uproar in the music industry, but the murder case itself has become an unsolved case. Not only did the police not find the murder weapon, even the criminal's whereabouts could not be found.Although someone claimed that he saw the back of a woman who went to Fujimoto's house that night, it is unclear how credible this testimony is.The whole case seemed to be in a fog, and the only physical evidence found was a piece of music clenched in the right hand of the corpse.The sheet of music seemed to be torn away by the murderer with brute force, and the part that Fujimoto was holding was not only crumpled, but only a few bars remained.

However, this piece of music has attracted great attention from the police, because this mysterious music inevitably reminds people that it may hide a secret code.For a person like Fujimoto whose life is full of secrets, it is not surprising that he uses secret codes in private communications that he does not want to be known, and the choice of musical scores as a way to design secret codes is even more natural.The problem is how to unravel the code and find out who is communicating with Fujimoto.It's a pity that these two things ended without a problem. After all, there were only a few bars left on the sheet music. With these few bars alone, no matter how powerful the code deciphering master was, it was impossible to find the key. From this clue, the police only knew one thing, that the music score might be a code.It is this that makes the Fujimoto murder case and the butterfly murder case related. So the Fujimoto murder case is explained here, let us go back to what happened on October 22nd.

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