Chapter 7 Chapter 7 "The Harem"

A few minutes later, Totsukawa came out of the bookstore and handed one of the two books to Kamei.Because the cover of the book was covered, Kamei couldn't see the title, so he asked Totsukawa: "What book is this?" "Open it and see." Totsukawa said with a smile. Kamei Nobuyuki turned over in his hands, and couldn't help crying out "Ah!" It turned out to be a photoshoot of young actresses in swimwear. There are mostly bikini photos in the album, and there are also nude photos of some actors. The pictures were probably taken in Guam or Saipan, where the blue sea contrasts beautifully with their tanned skin.If they take off their swimsuits, there will be a stark white swimsuit mark.

"It's a treat for middle-aged people like us, but it's of no practical significance after all." Kamei said puzzledly. "Not only is it a feast for your eyes, this is the 'harem'!" "what?" Kamei let out a cry of surprise. "If a young man buys this photo book, every time he turns a page, there are beautiful and attractive girls smiling at him, these girls are wearing bikinis or naked. Show him your skin and body, let him appreciate your graceful figure, elegant demeanor, healthy complexion and beautiful swimsuit... In short, the album is his 'harem'!"

"It turned out to be this." Kamei seemed to understand. "So, this kind of photo album is mostly bought by young people. For example, this photo album publishes photos of 12 young actresses. After reading this photo album, young people can know the face shape, skin, swimsuit style and style of these 12 women. The degree of tanning of the skin. Moreover, the album also indicates the height, bust, waist, and hip size of the actress, and even writes the mailing address of the admirer, which means that the address of the actress is included.” "You mean that Friday's murderer knew everything by this means?"

"Is such that." "However, the girls killed by Friday's killer are not actors or models in this album. They are all non-professional women, and there is nowhere to buy a book with their nude photos and swimsuits!" "Is that true?" "yes." "Then look at this." Totsukawa handed another publication to Kamei. "It's a well-known weekly magazine for men." Opening the title page is a nude photo of a young girl.This is a nude photo of a non-professional girl, with the following sentence written next to the photo: "How is it? Kamei." Totsukawa looked at him and said, "Nowadays, non-professional girls are willing to publish their nude photos in the photography column of magazines. The women who were killed before were all young and beautiful, with a slender figure. Perhaps nude photos were also published in weekly magazines, induced by photographers. If so, Friday's murderer may have collected such photographic columns to create his 'harem'."

"The judgment is correct, it is entirely possible!" Kamei said with sparkling eyes. In order to find out whether these victims had posted such nude photos in magazines, Totsukawa and Kamei visited Nagiko again.Noriko once said that she traveled to several southern islands with modeling girls and photographers for magazine photography.For this reason, Totsukawa and Kamei have certain hopes for this trip. After seeing Noriko, Totsukawa said: "Your figure is so beautiful." Kiko smiled and said: "Thank you very much. Does this have anything to do with the case?"

"Just now we were checking whether your photos in swimsuits were published in any magazines. We just saw that weekly magazines also published photos of non-professional women in swimsuits, as well as nude photos." "You're saying that the attacker attacked me because he saw my swimming photos and aroused evil thoughts, didn't you?" "Yes. That's true. It's not surprising that the murderer knows the pattern of your swimsuit." "Your reasoning is indeed good." Kiko nodded and said: "But...it's a pity that my swimsuit photos have never been published in any magazines. To be honest, it's my boyfriend who disagrees." Noriko shrank her neck.

"Has anyone secretly photographed it and published it in a magazine?" Totsukawa asked again. "Will not." "real?" "I really can't satisfy you, I'm sorry." "No. In short, whether there is or not, it is a good thing to find out." Totsukawa smiled at Kiko, and Kamei got up to say goodbye. On the way home, Totsukawa and Kamei walked side by side. "It hit a wall at the beginning." Kamei said regretfully. "No." Totsukawa immediately objected. "But she said that neither her swimsuit photos nor nude photos were published in the magazine."

"Then I know, but she herself has no objection to publishing it in a magazine, she didn't publish it only because her boyfriend disagreed." "It's also possible that she had published the photo in a publication, but later denied it because her boyfriend was unhappy." "That makes sense. Her boyfriend would think she was assaulted because of the swim pics if she admitted to doing so." "This reasoning also applies to the other four victims." "But those four were all killed." "According to our reasoning, the murderer decided to attack them after seeing their swimsuits or nude photos. The serial rape and murder on Friday started in September this year. We can check the magazines of the past two years."

"Understood, I'll immediately look up magazines with swimsuit or nude pictures." "Sometimes it may be published under a pseudonym, and it must be carefully compared with their bust photos." According to Totsukawa's opinion, Kamei and seven detectives went to various publishing houses to conduct investigations.They investigated the photography column in the magazines published in the last two years in various publishing houses, and also investigated the magazines that had ceased publication. However, it is very difficult to investigate.It took a long time to find Kiyomi Tanimoto's swimsuit photos in the photography section of last summer's issue of Carl Hebdo.The title of the photo is:

It took three days to find only this one.None of the swimsuit photos of the other three appeared in any magazines. To be on the safe side, Totsukawa also personally visited the photographers who took swimming and nude photos.He showed the photos of Jijiu Kiko and the other three to the photographers. Every photographer shook his head and said that he didn't remember taking photos of these people. One of the photographers who went overseas with Noriko Toji said: "She has better looks than a half-baked model. A weekly magazine once asked me to take a nude photo of her. I spent a lot of time talking about it, but she still refused. Not to mention nude photos, even swimsuit photos. In a magazine. Seems like her boyfriend said no."

Totsukawa hit a wall again.As Friday approached, his expression grew more and more agitated.So far, the real murderer has not been caught, but Totsukawa is very clear that the murderer is definitely not a girl he randomly chooses to rape and kill.He just decides the target of the attack first, and then either tails or ambush at night to achieve the purpose of the attack. How can we learn the clues of the real murderer hunting the woman?How can we understand why the real murderer can know many secrets of the victim?Totsukawa still firmly believes that all this about the murderer lies in his own "harem".The actions of the murderer cannot be explained otherwise. "The current killer of Friday may be choosing his next victim." Totsukawa muttered to himself worriedly.The reason why he was worried was that he still couldn't figure out what the murderer's "harem" looked like, so he couldn't take effective preventive measures. "How about setting a trap to catch the murderer?" Kamei suggested. "Arranging a trap?" Totsukawa was taken aback. "Yes. Among the young female detectives, if you use someone who went to the beach to tan this summer as bait, the murderer may also be baited." "Is this your idea?" "No, it's Chief Bendo's opinion. He said that he has found several female detectives as candidates." "It's the section chief's hint, we should adopt it. At present, there are no better preventive measures, so we should do something." "Do you think trapping works?" "It's hard to say." Totsukawa showed a difficult expression. If Friday's killer had committed a rape and homicide without purpose, this approach might have worked.But in Totsukawa's view, the perpetrator committed the crime on the premise of selecting the target and fully knowing the victim's address and name. Whether this method is effective is hard to say.But since Honda suggested it, he decided to give it a try. Totsukawa went to Section Chief Honda, who introduced three young female detectives.These three people are young people aged 23-25, healthy and beautiful. They have received two weeks of swimming training in a swimming pool in Tokyo this summer, and their skin is very tanned. "Today is Wednesday, October 15th. Should they be allowed to walk the streets from now on?" Chief Honda asked Totsukawa. "I'm afraid it doesn't mean much. You know, Friday's murderer was a woman who was tanned all over, not just her face!" "That doesn't allow our policewoman to walk naked on the street." Honda said with a smile. "I don't think so," Totsukawa said. "Let them swim in the indoor pool in Tokyo from today. The outdoor pool is closed, but the heated indoor pool is still open. Maybe the murderer is looking for victims in the pool." "Alright, just let them do what you tell them to do." Honda said. "If possible, it's best to have them in fancy bikinis. Friday's killers seem to be paying attention to women in bikinis." "I really don't understand why the murderer admires women with tanned skin? Middle-aged men like me always find fair-skinned women attractive." Honda tilted his head and said in thought. "The murderer may find young women more attractive as they get more tanned, or it may be out of hatred. I think he was motivated by hatred." "What kind of mentality is it to hate women with tanned skin?" Honda asked. "I have a thought that the murderer may have been working out of sight of the sun." "Can you give me an example?" "For example, the prisoners in the prison, they can't see the sun all day long!" "But prisoners are not allowed to go out even on Sundays. How can they come out to commit crimes every Friday!" Honda rejected Totsukawa's idea. According to Totsukawa's instructions, the three selected policewomen went to various swimming pools in the city with bikini swimsuits every day.Three male detectives pretended to be idlers, and entered their swimming pool, vigilantly searching for suspicious persons.If anyone casts a strange look at the three female policemen, the male policemen will immediately focus on him. On Thursday, October 16, the day after the three policewomen went swimming, a man in his mid-thirties invited one of the three policewomen to drink tea in the swimming pool of the Shinjuku Health Club.Surprisingly, men who exercise in heated swimming pools for their health seem to be very serious.The man who invited the policewoman to drink tea turned out to be a "cowardly" company employee.He was investigated carefully and was assured that he had a definite alibi at the time of past incidents. Friday arrived without any gains. Almost one and a half months have passed since the first victim, Yumiko Hashida, was killed on Friday, September 5.Only Tomoko Yoshikawa, who was victimized on Friday, September 26, was not a crime committed by Friday's murderer.Totsukawa thought that besides this person, five girls had been attacked so far, and four of them died.For the sake of the innocent women killed, every effort must be made to arrest Friday's killer as soon as possible. After mid-October, the nighttime is relatively cool.The three policewomen left to search the headquarters at 9:00 p.m. because the dangerous hours were between 10:00 and 11:00 p.m.During this time, they split up and walked the streets of Tokyo, where the previous girls were killed.They all carried miniature wireless telegraphs on their bodies, and there were also male policemen nearby to covertly protect them.Totsukawa waited for news in the search headquarters office. A map of Tokyo was hung in the search headquarters office, and the directions of action of the three police officers were marked with red arrows.After 11 o'clock in the evening, the phone next to Totsukawa was still silent.Obviously, this means that the three policewomen were not attacked. At 11:40 a.m., a young woman rushed into the police station on Hatsutai Kasun Street in Shibuya Ward.Her face was pale, trembling all over, as if being surprised and stimulated by surprise, she repeated indistinctly: "Over there!" The young policeman at the police station asked: "Where do you say 'over there'?" "there!" As she spoke, she pointed to the end of the alley. "Please take me there." said the policeman. The woman led the police to a house and said: "That's where the cry comes from!" The policeman took a deep breath, and with a baton in his right hand and a pistol in his left, he entered through the half-open door.The ground floor is narrow, with only the dining room and a carpeted western-style room.When the policeman lit the carpeted room with a flashlight, he couldn't help saying "ah!"It turned out to be a naked woman lying on her back on the carpet. Be calm, the young policeman is silently emboldening himself.Because he was young and had never been to a murder scene, he was very nervous.But he is a policeman after all, and he said to the woman calling the police behind him: "Calm down!" Then he crouched down next to the victim's naked body to inspect the body.Suddenly the woman groaned in pain. "She's not dead!" The young policeman exclaimed excitedly. He immediately called an ambulance. After a while the ambulance came roaring.The young policeman wrapped the naked woman's body in a blanket while the emergency doctor gave her constant oxygen.She was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment. Fifteen minutes later, Totsukawa received a report on the case. "The murderer slapped us again!" Totsukawa said calmly to Kamei, "The murderer didn't take the bait. Call the three policewomen back." "I'll do it right away." Kamei grabbed the phone. "Trap Reconnaissance" failed. Totsukawa led Kamei, who finished the phone call, to the scene at Hatsudai, Shibuya Ward. Investigation is underway at the scene.Totsukawa called the woman who called the police.The woman's name is Ishida Yuriko, 20 years old this year, working in a bar in Shinjuku. Ishida Yuriko was quite calm, and the horror at that time was swept away.She said energetically: "My family lived right up front. I was passing here on my way home and heard shouting from this house." "and after?" Totsukawa asked. "I stopped and looked towards where the cry came from. Suddenly a man came running out." "See that man's face?" "He must have seen me. But I was so frightened that I ran away, so I didn't see his face." "See how big he looks?" "A young man." "How tall are you?" "Medium stature." "About 1.70 meters?" "almost." "What kind of clothes are you wearing? Is it a suit or a jacket?" "The clothes are black, but not suits." "Do you have anything in your hand?" "No. Nothing." After talking to witnesses, Totsukawa looked at the victim's torn clothes and tossed handbag. "The victim is a female employee." Kamei checked the handbag and said to Totsukawa, "There is an ID card in the commuter ticket holder, and the workplace is the Human Resources Department of Tokyo Marunouchi K Steel Company. Her name is Ono Midori, she is 24 years old, and her address is Near here." Sure enough, as Kamei said, commuter tickets are the first station from Tokyo Station to the Keio Line. After hearing this, Totsukawa thought in his heart, it would be great if Ono Midori could recognize the murderer after being rescued. After Totsukawa and Kamei left the scene, they rushed to the hospital where the victim was staying. "She is awake. Although she is not life-threatening, she is extremely hyperactive. I think she should be allowed to sleep for a while." After introducing the situation of the victim, the doctor said to Totsukawa still nervously. "I understand what you mean, let's wait for her to wake up." Totsukawa said. Totsukawa stopped for a while and asked the doctor again: "We want to know, was the first victim raped? I want you to answer that question, it's better than asking the victim herself." "Yes, she was raped. Maybe the victim resisted, and she still has two wounds from the beating." "Is she very tanned?" "Yes, very dark." "Let me ask you again, have you found the man's semen?" "Because it was rape, the vagina had to be washed. We did find the man's semen." "Then you must know what blood type it is?" "It's Type B." ... Nearly dawn, Ono Midori finally woke up. Totsukawa and Kamei waited on the bench in the waiting room of the hospital for more than five hours.But the doctor still did not allow Totsukawa to inquire. "The patient said that she doesn't want to see anyone." "Then when can I ask?" Totsukawa asked a little anxiously. "Can't be sure. Because the patient's mental state is very unstable." "What else did she say?" "She said she wanted to see Mr. Yoshida, maybe her boyfriend. She gave me the phone number." "I'll fight for you." As he spoke, Totsukawa took a note with a phone number from the doctor, and started calling with the red telephone in the waiting room. The phone went through.A man's impatient voice came from the microphone.Totsukawa said into the microphone: "I'm Totsukawa from the First Investigation Division." The other party immediately cheered up: "What's the job, Mr. Police?" "Do you know Miss Ono Midori?" "What's up with her!" The other party's voice was loud. They are couples after all!Totsukawa thought while saying: "She was injured and is now at S Hospital in Shinjuku." "Injured? What injury?" "A minor injury. She said she wanted to see you." "Okay, I'll go right away. Is it S Hospital?" "Yes. Come quickly." "But, I don't understand, why did she ask the police to call?" "You'll understand after this." Totsukawa told him vaguely. Twenty minutes later, with the sound of a car stopping, a young man in his mid-twenties rushed in. "Mr. Yoshida?" Totsukawa asked a question.The man nodded slightly: "What's up with her?" "It's all right, she's sleeping." "You said you were injured, but who beat you?" After Yoshida asked, his face changed suddenly: "Could it be that she..." "You better think she was bitten by a mad dog!" "Is it badly hurt?" "The mental wound is deeper than the physical wound. We wanted to see Miss Ono Midori and asked her about the murderer. But she said that she didn't want to see anyone, but only wanted to see you." "I'll go right away, where is the ward?" "Second floor. I have one more thing to ask you." "What's up?" "We are going to catch the murderer, and I think you are too. So, I have something to ask Miss Ono Midori." "Ask her what?" "I think the murderer must know Miss Onolu." "A man who knew her attacked her?" "That's not what we mean. Ms. Ono Midori doesn't know the murderer, but the murderer may know her. I think it's this kind of relationship. May I ask Miss, did the murderer say something similar?" "Would knowing this help in apprehending the murderer?" "helpful." "it is good." Yoshida nodded and walked upstairs. Totsukawa and Kamei continued to wait in the waiting room. Kamei looked at his watch, lit a cigarette, and asked: "Police, do you also think that the murderer in this case knew the victim?" "Even if they knew each other, the victim himself didn't know it." Totsukawa replied. "How could the murderer know the victim, but the victim didn't know?" Kamei said, "Yes, you mentioned the murderer's 'harem', but where is the harem? Could it be a tram?" "tram?" "I think it's more accurate to say 'prey' than 'harem' in the current situation. Assume that the murderer is a company employee and goes to work on the Yamanote Line, Chuo Line or subway. The murderer can find his next prey in the car, After you find it, follow her until you know her home address, and then do it on Friday night. There are many female staff and college students on the bus, so it is easy for the murderer to choose the target. Even if he takes the last bus, he will meet her Waitresses at clubs and bars. Wasn't the third victim, Kuniko Kimihara, a waitress at a night club?" "It makes sense. Identify the murderer's prey on the tram!" "For example, if the murderer commutes to get off work on the Chuo Line. He wants to find another partner on the train, but he doesn't find a satisfactory one. So he can get up early the next day and take the Yamanote Line and private railways, so that he can find a different person who lives in Tokyo. Address female." "Yes." Totsukawa nodded in satisfaction. "In addition, none of the victims lived in Ueno, Asakusa, or the Sumida River, which further shows that those areas are far from the murderer's commuting circle." "These opinions are very insightful." Totsukawa said, "It's just that there is a little flaw. The murderer can't identify whether the woman's body is tanned in the tram. At best, he can only observe the face." "That's a real shortcoming." Kamei sighed. An hour passed.Yoshida finally came out of Onomidori's ward. "How's it going?" Totsukawa went up to him and asked. Yoshida endured the extreme pain, bit his lips tightly, and said in a heavy voice: "I've already asked about what you said." "I'm sorry for asking you to ask yourself. But in order to arrest the murderer, you have to do it." "She told me that the murderer attacked from behind, so he couldn't see his face clearly. The murderer also said some ugly things, saying that he knew her very well and knew everything, even the red mole under her right breast. gone." "Is there really that mole?" Totsukawa asked. "Yes, there are." "Would she be able to see it if she was in a bikini?" "You can still see it if you look closely." "But Miss Onolu said she didn't know the murderer, did she?" "Yes. She said she didn't know her at all, and it was the first time she heard the murderer's voice." "real?" "Is that all right?" After Yoshida finished speaking, he ran back to the second floor. "The murderer really knows Ono Lu." Kamei said. "The question is how did he know?" Totsukawa said. "If you solve this mystery, maybe you can find the murderer." "The murderer must have seen Midori Ono nude or in a bikini somewhere. Otherwise, he wouldn't even know about the red mole under his breast. From Yoshida's face, it can be concluded that the two of them went to the beach this summer. " "You said that the murderer saw them while swimming? No, it's already October. It's too unreliable to rely on the memory of summer to attack women." "Then I have to ask Xiao Yelu again." Kamei said in frustration. After Ono Midori fell asleep, Yoshida came to the waiting room again. "She fell asleep with difficulty." Yoshida said to Totsukawa with confidence. Totsukawa took out a cigarette, handed Yoshida one, and both of them lit up and smoked. "Are you going to marry Miss Ono Midori?" "There is such a plan, but it's just a short relationship." "Your face is so tanned, have you been to the beach this summer?" "I went to Ryukyu for five days." "Did Miss Ono Midori go with you?" "We went together." "What month did you go?" "I went there in early September, and there were still so many people." "Ms. Ono Midori is very beautiful and has a slender figure. Have you ever been a swimsuit model for any magazine?" "No." "Won't she do it behind your back?" Totsukawa asked. "No, absolutely not." Yoshida shook his head confidently. "Why are you so sure? Even if you don't agree, she might go quietly. There are some girls who work in bars without telling their lovers!" "I didn't say I didn't agree. If she really wanted to be a model, I would say yes, so she wouldn't hide it from me." "Did you take pictures at the beach?" "It was taken. We brought our own cameras." "Did you take a swimsuit photo of Ms. Midori Ono?" "Of course I did. I went swimming in Ryukyu." "Has the photo been developed?" "After washing, two pictures were specially enlarged and put on the photo album of me and her." "Have you shown it to others?" "Saw it. Showed it to our mutual friends." "Did those friends know that you were in love?" "Of course I know. They are all close friends." Totsukawa and Kamei fell into deep thought again.Was the murderer a friend of the victim?Except for Tomoko Yoshikawa, the other six had tanned skin.Go to sea with your lover or friends, of course you will take pictures.The killer may be among those who have seen the pictures.Suppose there is a friend or acquaintance who is a common friend or acquaintance of the six victims, then this person may have seen the photos of the six people and thus metamorphosed into Friday's murderer. After the discussion, Kamei asked Totsukawa: "Do you want to check it?" "We need to check." Totsukawa said, "However, the rescued permanent Noriko testified that he didn't know the murderer at all. The murderer attacked her from behind. She didn't see the murderer's face, but heard his voice. Xiao Yelu also said I didn’t hear the murderer’s voice. I think if people were to see pictures of themselves in swimsuits, they would be able to hear the voice too.” "Maybe it's the man's friend, the victim's lover or friend showing their photos to others. It's normal for the victim not to know each other." "Your statement is also correct, especially men who are not popular with women will be more disgusted. Then first investigate the six victims' lovers or friends around men who have seen photos of swimsuits." Totsukawa decided so. However, despite Kamei's and other criminal police's efforts, the results of this investigation are only disappointing. The six victims were not related in any way, nor were their lovers or friends linked to each other.Therefore, the people who have seen the swimsuit photos have nothing to do with each other, and no one has seen all the swimsuit photos. "It still doesn't work!" Totsukawa said disappointedly. Totsukawa seemed to remember something, suddenly took out a 35cm camera from the drawer and put it on the table, then greeted Kamei: "Hello, Kamei." "What are you doing with the camera?" Kamei asked puzzled. "My camera, take a picture for you." "Take a picture of me?" "Yes, let's go outside, the light in the room is too dark." Kamei and Totsukawa came outside in a daze, and after a while, they finished shooting all the film in the camera. "After taking the photo, I will leave the rest to you. How should I deal with it?" Totsukawa asked Kamei like this. "Of course I have to take it to someone to wash it!" "That's right, it's going to be sent to the laundromat, isn't it?" "What does that have to do with the case?" Kamei still didn't understand Totsukawa's intention so far, he asked inexplicably. "The murderer has seen the victim's swimsuit photo, I think it can't be wrong. Besides, the murderer could not have known in advance that the victim's body was tanned, and even the pattern of the swimsuit. The victim did not publish the photo in the magazine photography column, Note that it can only be a swimsuit photo taken privately." "So what?" "I still haven't given up on the investigation, and I still started to follow up by taking pictures. You know, everyone takes pictures with color film these days, so it is very difficult to develop or enlarge by yourself. I think the victim or her lover must have taken the pictures. to the laundromat down the street." "right." "If this is true, wouldn't it be possible for people who have nothing to do with the victims to see their swimsuit photos?" "Ah!" Kamei immediately understood what Totsukawa meant, and exclaimed in a low voice, "It's the owner of the printing shop!" "Yes. If a photoshop accepts a film of a young woman in a swimsuit, and after it's developed, the store owner secretly pastes the swimsuit photo he likes on the photo album. That's..." "This is his 'harem'!" "Yes. People who come to the developing shop to deliver negatives must leave their addresses and names. This way, the swimsuit woman's address and name will be known. Sometimes it is a woman's lover or boyfriend. As long as the store owner is interested in swimsuit women, he can By investigating the man or following him, we can naturally get all the information about the woman." "But in the police department, the addresses of the victims are scattered all over Tokyo, as are the addresses of their lovers or boyfriends. Therefore, I don't think there will be a single store developing film." "Kamei, I think it's normal for you to ask questions. I have thought about this question before, so I conducted an investigation. In the past, photos were developed and printed by photo studios. But recently, supermarkets, cigarette shops, laundromats, and pharmacies They have all set up windows for receiving negatives and entrusted printing. According to investigations, there are as many as 140,000 to 50,000 such windows nationwide. In contrast, there are only about 10,000 photo studios. And the price of entrusted printing is lower than that of photo studios. 20% to 30% lower. Of course, places with this kind of window do not print by themselves, but send it to a large printing shop. Therefore, no matter how scattered the victims live, they can commission printing near their residence. You see ?" "The police department thought so carefully, I was very inspired and fully understood!" "Well, let's investigate as soon as possible to see where the photos of the six victims' swimsuits were printed." In order to find a new breakthrough in the case, the criminal police conducted investigations according to Totsukawa's deployment, exhausted.After two days of intense work, Kamei happily ran over to report to Totsukawa, "The police department's prediction was right." "Is the photograph developed by the same company?" Totsukawa asked. "Yes, it's the Central Film Processing Company. This company has two major printing offices in Tokyo, and has nearly a hundred windows in supermarkets, pharmacies, tobacco shops, etc. in Tokyo. The six victims were all entrusted to supermarkets or The photo-finishing window of the drug store, which in turn is the window of the central film processing company." "Sure enough, Central Negative Labs is closed on Fridays, isn't it?" "Yes, it's Friday off. I asked them why it was off on Friday and they explained that the most people go out on Saturday and Sunday, and Monday is the best time for printing, so Friday is off." "Have the areas responsible for the two laboratories been determined?" "It's confirmed. The central film processing company's printing offices are in Shinjuku and Ueno. The Ueno printing office is mainly responsible for Ueno, Asakusa, and Koto." "Therefore, there are no victims in this area. In other words, the murderer is not an employee of the Ueno photo lab, but an employee of the Shinjuku photo lab." "I thought so too, and that's why I went to the printing window of the central printing company at the west exit of Shinjuku." "what's the result?" "This printing office has a total of 165 employees. Among them, 70% are men, 118 people. If the people in the administrative system and management department are removed from it, there are still 86 people. These 86 people are completely engaged in printing work." "86 people?" "Yes. The murderer is among them, isn't it?" "Among these people, do people with type B blood know?" "Unfortunately, this company has not checked the blood types of its employees." "Then try to look it up." "Tomorrow Wednesday, can you ask the company to check everyone's blood type?" "Are you sure you haven't checked it before?" "It's true that I haven't checked." "If the blood type is checked, then the murderer will definitely become suspicious." "Will he escape?" "I'm not afraid of him escaping, because escaping can expose me. What I'm afraid of is that he will become suspicious and destroy the evidence." "What evidence?" "Swimsuit pictures of the six victims. This pervert keeps pictures of the women he raped like a baby." "However, how can we narrow down the scope of these 86 people?" "Ono Midori, who was attacked last, when did she send her photo to be developed?" Totsukawa asked. "Tuesday, October 12." Kamei said, taking out his notebook. "That was three days before the attack!" Totsukawa exclaimed. "Yes, after they took pictures in Ryukyu, they forgot to wash them." "That means the murderer has no 'stock'." "Inventory? What inventory?" "A new attack target! Attacking the person who came to develop the negatives three days ago can only mean that the murderer has no 'stock'!" "What does that have to do with catching the murderer?" "It's a big deal! We can use this to set a trap for the murderer." "What trap are you laying?" "Fewer women will have swimsuit prints now, and the killer's 'harem' will be empty. We..." "We send the negatives of young women in swimsuits to the printing window of the central negative laboratory, and the murderer is bound to come." Kamei followed Totsukawa's words and said with a smile. "Ask the three policewomen who are acting as bait to immediately take a photo of one of them in a swimsuit and print the negatives!" "Is one person enough?" "One person is enough, which is convenient for us to focus on surveillance. In order to appear natural and believable, it is best to take a few more photos with your boyfriend." "Then let young Nishimoto be the model?" "Is he tanned?" "I saw him recently with his upper body naked and quite tanned. It is said that he often runs in a pair of shorts." "Okay." Totsukawa agreed. In this way, Detective Nishimoto and policewoman Chieko Ishiyama were called immediately.The two of them went to the heated swimming pool in Tokyo according to Totsukawa's instructions.Chieko Ishiyama was wearing a three-point bikini, and she took a single photo as well as a double photo of her and Nishimoto standing side by side. When the entire roll of film was shot, they quickly returned to search headquarters. "How was the photo taken?" Totsukawa asked, "You know, if the photo with the wrong focus and wrong aperture doesn't stimulate the murderer's appetite, then he won't take the bait." "Don't worry. It's a great shot, Chieko's swimsuit photo will definitely dazzle the murderer!" The next day, Wednesday the 22nd.Chieko Ishiyama went to the supermarket near her house and sent the film to the printing window of the central film processing company. "I hope it will be printed as soon as possible." Chieko said to the young female staff at the window. "Please leave your address, name, and phone number." The young staff member said, and handed a form to Chieko.Chieko wrote the following name and address. The form is two pages with carbon paper sandwiched between them.The other party handed the copied copy to Chieko, put the negative in his pocket and said: "Come and pick it up on Friday the 25th." Chieko took the copied form back to the search headquarters. Today, Chieko's negatives will probably be transferred to the laboratory of the Shinjuku Central Film Development Company. Tomorrow, Thursday, the murderer will be able to see her bright swimsuit photos. "We'll see if the murderer will take the bait now." Totsukawa said. "I hope he takes the bait." Kamei said excitedly. "Whether the murderer takes the bait or not, Qian Huizi must be protected on Friday." Totsukawa said.