Chapter 8 Chapter 8: The Decisive Battle

Friday, October 24. This day is a critical moment for the criminal police to catch the murderer.But no one knows whether the murderer will be able to take the bait. According to Totsukawa's judgment: Friday's murderer should have attacked Chieko Ishiyama.Moreover, the murderer would sneak into "East Nakano Village" according to Chieko's address, or ambush near the apartment. To this end, Totsukawa carefully designed such a dramatic plot: Nishimoto, who plays the role of a lover, asks Chieko to go to the movies.Then send her back around 11 o'clock.The two broke up in front of the apartment, and then let Chieko walk into the apartment room alone.Judging from the experience of the previous cases, the murderer mostly committed the crime in the middle of the night while waiting for the target to return.Therefore, Totsukawa specially arranged for Sakurai detective to hide in Chieko's room.In addition, there were several criminal police ambushing around the apartment.

The net to catch the murderer was thus opened. In order to further paralyze "Friday's Murderer" and prevent any omissions, people will think that Nishimoto and Chieko are a couple at a glance. Nishimoto and Chieko had dinner in Shinjuku, and went to Kabukicho to watch a love movie together after dinner... … After the movie ended, it was past 10 o'clock. The two walked out of the cinema, Chieko Ishiyama looked at Nishimoto calmly and said: "I'm so happy today!" "I don't even remember the plot of the film, and I'm so nervous." Siben said softly.

"Then maybe a Superman movie would be better!" Chieko said with a "giggle" smile. "I didn't expect you to be so calm. It really impressed me." "Afraid? It's true that I'm afraid too. But I believe that everyone will save me in times of crisis, right?" "Of course, we will never let the murderer kill you, our purpose is to catch the murderer!" The two of them talked and hailed a taxi when they reached Meiji Street. Nishimoto asked the taxi to stop in front of Chieko's apartment, and Chieko got out of the car. "Good night," said Nishimoto.

"Good night." Qian Huizi smiled slightly, "I'm happy today!" Nishimoto left in a taxi. Chieko walked into the apartment.The administrator's office at the door was closed and the curtains were drawn.The whole apartment was quiet, as if he had fallen asleep. Chieko walked up the stairs and walked to her room at the corner of the second floor.She took the key out of her handbag and opened the lock.With the alertness of a police officer, she scanned the hallway carefully, not seeing her attacker from behind.She opened the door calmly, entered the room, and turned on the light.

"Friday's murderer obviously didn't come." Qian Huizi thought to himself, "If it's about attacking yourself, it's time to start." She went to the kitchen to boil water.She is very thirsty and wants to drink tea. After boiling the water, she thought of Sakurai who was hiding in the closet and called out: "Sakurai." Sakurai didn't answer. "I've made tea, do you want to drink? It seems that the murderer didn't fall into the trap." Chieko said something again. Sakurai still didn't answer, and showed no sign of coming out of the closet.Chieko suddenly became nervous.

"Sakurai. Sakurai!" She yelled and slapped the closet. At this moment, Sakurai who was wearing a jacket, his face covered with blood, suddenly fell out of the closet and fell on the straw mat. "what!" Chieko let out a cry, and immediately pressed her mouth with her hand desperately.Seeing Sakurai's body lying motionless on the mat, she immediately realized that the murderer might also be hiding in the house, so she quickly took out a 32-caliber pistol from her handbag, opened the safety, and looked around the room nervously.Then she held the pistol in one hand, pulled the phone over with the other, and dialed the number agreed in advance.

"I'm Ishiyama. Something happened to Sakurai!" "Where's the murderer?" "I don't know whether to escape or hide in the room." "We'll go right away." The phone hangs up. Chieko held the gun vigilantly, and if the murderer came out of the toilet or bathroom, she would shoot immediately.But the house was quiet, and there was no sound. The Totsugawa Police Department and Kamei rushed to the house. Chieko opened the door, and the two entered the toilet and bathroom to check.There was no trace of the murderer at either location. The ambulance buzzed and drove to the door of the apartment, pulling Sakurai away.

"Can Sakurai be saved?" Chieko asked with a pale face. "He was beaten very badly," Totsukawa said. "Sakurai is young, cautious, and has a second-dan judo skill, and he was beaten like this. It seems that he must have been attacked by surprise." "Where did the murderer come in, and where did he go?" Chieko asked. "Was the door locked when you came back?" "It's locked. I opened the lock with a key, and even the windows are locked." "All that's left is the ceiling." After speaking, Totsukawa opened the closet and shone the flashlight on the ceiling.A ceiling plank was slightly shifted, and dust was scattered on the floor below.

"It's here." Totsukawa said. Kamei immediately removed the wooden boards on the ceiling and got in alone.Immediately, there was the sound of "cracking, clicking" footsteps above.A few minutes later, Kamei came back covered in dust and reported to Totsukawa: "It seems to come in from the ceiling of Room 203 in front." "That room is empty. The previous occupant moved out last month." Chieko said. "So, the murderer must have known that the room was empty, and climbed from there along the ceiling to here. The strange thing is that Sakurai is hidden in the closet. Couldn't he hear the murderer walking over his head?"

Kamei said angrily. I saw blood splatters in the closet, which had dried into purple-black.Judging from this situation, the murderer probably used a hammer or pliers to slam Sakurai on the head, causing him to lose consciousness. "The question is, did the murderer know that Sakurai was a criminal policeman and did such a murderous act?" Totsukawa said. "I don't think he'll know." Kamei said decisively. "why?" Totsukawa asked. "Sakurai hid a pistol in his jacket, but the murderer didn't take it away. Could it be this possibility: the murderer mistakenly thought that Sakurai was like himself, and hid it in the closet in order to sneak attack women. If he knew that Sakurai was, when After he knocked Sakurai unconscious, he would definitely search the body and take the gun away. For that type of criminal, a pistol must be attractive."

Kamei said eloquently. "As you said, the murderer didn't discover Sakurai's identity as a detective. I think this kind of trap can be repeated." Totsukawa looked at Chieko and said. "Again?" Chieko asked in surprise. "Scared?" "No. I want to avenge Sakurai! I can do it again. Just worried that the killer will attack me again?" "If Kamei's analysis is true, the murderer is likely to attack you again. Judging from past cases, the murderer is very confident and stubborn. Even if he fails once, he will do it again." "As soon as I read about Sakurai in the newspaper, the murderer will stop doing it." "I will try to suppress the news and stop the spread of the news in the press." Totsukawa said. Then Totsukawa picked up the phone in the house and dialed directly to the hospital where Sakurai lived.The doctor who answered the phone said that although Sakurai was seriously injured, his life was not in danger.But he couldn't wake up for a while, let alone allow the meeting. "Anyway, please save him, please." Totsukawa put the phone down after saying something polite. It was midnight when Totsukawa and Kamei walked out of the apartment. "Are you going to use Chieko as bait next Friday?" Kamei asked as he walked towards the car parked in front of the apartment. "No. We must arrest the murderer by next Friday. The person who broke into Chieko Ishiyama's room today must be the 'Friday's murderer'. This person must also be a staff member of the Shinjuku Laboratory of the Central Film Processing Company." Totsukawa said. "Then we have to thoroughly investigate the male employees who work in printing." "That's right. But try not to suspect the murderer." "understood." "In addition, tonight's case must be investigated immediately. We did not find the murderer escaping from the apartment. Maybe someone will see this suspicious figure." In the early morning of the next day, the criminal police began to investigate from the apartment and surrounding residents.Due to Totsukawa's arrangement, the news of Sakurai's serious injury was neither published in the newspapers nor on TV.Residents of the apartment found no suspicious-looking characters.But in the survey of residents around the apartment, a company employee once saw a person and a car on his way home, only 30 meters away from the apartment.Around 8:40 last night, a man came running from the "East Nakano Village" apartment, got into a car parked on the side of the road, and drove away in a panic. Totsukawa attached great importance to this situation and immediately summoned this person for questioning. "That man looked so fierce, I was afraid of being hit by him, so I ran away in a hurry." The middle-aged company employee said nervously. "Did you see the other person's face clearly?" Totsukawa asked. "I seem to have seen it, but I can't tell the characteristics." He looked troubled. "Since you said that he looks very ferocious and frightening, don't you mean that you have seen his face clearly?" "Yes. But I really can't tell you exactly what the face, eyes, and mouth look like. I'm sorry." "Maybe so. Do you see what he's holding in his right hand?" "Holding a long, thin shiny thing, I thought it was a dagger at first, but on closer inspection, it was pincers. Pliers, yes, that's right!" "Did he drive away?" "Well, I ran a few steps, and when I looked back at him, he was sitting in the car." "Do you remember what car it was?" "The body of the car is white, so it must be a medium-sized car." "Do you know what brand of car it is?" "I can't drive, so I can't tell the name of the car. It's a medium-sized car that's not too small or too big, but it's correct, and it's white." "Do you remember the license plate number?" "The license plate number was dirty and covered in mud, probably from the rain the day before." "I see." Totsukawa smiled slightly. The employee froze for a moment, frowned and asked: "Am I wrong?" "No. You misunderstood me. I really benefited from it." Totsukawa said thanks. After sending this person away, Totsukawa and Kamei started discussing this clue again. "That guy could be 'Murderer Friday.'" Kamei said. "He said he couldn't remember the murderer's face, probably because of fear and nervousness; when he saw the pliers in the man's hand, his face changed, which was because he ran away." Totsukawa said. "And when you are nervous, your impression of people is not reliable. You will see short people as big men, and beautiful women as monsters." "The white car is probably not wrong, because the murderer has already got into the car, and he remembered it without danger. He even remembers the mud on the license plate number, which shows that he has regained his composure." "White medium-sized car? Probably Corona or Sanik's car. The employees of the Shinjuku printing office probably have the most people with this kind of car." Kamei guessed right.Under the extremely secret investigation, there are 12 male employees in the Shinjuku Printing Office in their 20s and 30s who own this kind of car. "Let's find out from these 12 people." Totsukawa said. In order not to alert the murderer, no blood type test was performed on the male employees of the company. How to search from these 12 people, how to narrow down the range of these 12 people?At least not narrowing it down to having a family or being single.Most recent sex offenders are family members. In order to study the 12 suspects in detail, Totsukawa called his subordinates together.He said: "Let's study whether we can get some inspiration from the following situations. One is Friday, September 26. On this day, Yuichiro Saeki raped Tomoko Yoshikawa, whom he met in a bar in Shinjuku, in a love hotel, so he was identified as 'Friday's murderer' This belief has been proven wrong. However, there were no other cases of rape and murder of young women on this day. That is to say, the murderer on Friday stopped 'working' this day. But he is a man who absolutely rapes and kills every Friday. Man!" "Are you saying that there is a reason why the murderer didn't commit the crime on September 26?" "Exactly. Because there is no attempted attack, it's not that the murderer failed the attack. I think either the company has a temporary incident, or the murderer is lying in bed due to illness. Please investigate this first." "Are there any conditions to narrow down the scope of the murderer?" "Yes! Aren't the victims all tanned?" "This is due to the nature of the murderer's job. He can't see the sun, so he naturally yearns for women with tanned skin. This is the same for all male employees." "No, you can't say that. Of those 12, only one is 'Friday's Killer.'" "I don't understand what the police department means." "I think this way, even if you work in the darkroom, as long as you have the conditions to vent, it will not develop into rape and murder. At present, the people working in the central printing company's printing office have done nothing except the murderer. Therefore, the murderer should Unlike the rest of the staff, there must be a reason why he prefers to tan more than others." "What is the reason?" "Printing, developing, and enlarging all require special skills, and the salary they get must be higher than that of ordinary employees." "Yes. In the central film processing company, each person can get an average monthly salary of 300,000 to 500,000 yuan, and the bonus seems to be quite a lot." "That would give him money to travel to Guam and Hawaii." "Yes, that's right." "Although working in a place where the sun doesn't shine, if you can travel two or three times a year, the nervous work mood will be relieved. Even if you don't go to Guam or Hawaii, just go to Ryukyu and bask in the sun by the sea, there will be no adverse effects. The abnormal yearning of dark skin." "Are you saying that the untanned member of the staff is the suspect?" Kamei asked bluntly. Totsukawa smiled and said: "Don't be so extreme, there are people who don't like tanned skin! I personally think that fair-skinned women are better than red-tanned women. People who work in printing will also have this idea." "Then what exactly do you mean?" "As I said just now, the murderer may be a person who is depressed and has nowhere to vent his emotions." "The kind that pays well, but for some reason is in debt, so that he can't enjoy his summer vacation?" "Yes, then you go and investigate people who are in financial difficulties." As a result of the investigation, three individuals were identified as prime suspects. Hiroshi Sato, 29, has a wife and a 3-year-old child. Sugimoto Kazuo, 26 years old, single. Furui Tetsuro, 25 years old, single. Sato bought a new house in Chofu District on the Keio Line, so he had a loan of 20 million yen and had to repay a usury loan of 150,000 yen per month, making life difficult.His pocket money is 30,000 yen a month, including lunch and cigarette money.His wife, Junzi, is 27 years old and is currently pregnant with her second child. She has been pregnant for 7 months, so the sexual relationship has to be suppressed. Sugimoto likes to gamble.Mahjong, horse racing, and recently became obsessed with boat racing, so he borrowed 1 million yen from the company's mutual aid association. This was not enough, and he borrowed nearly 2 million yen from loan sharks. Gu Jing borrowed money from others because of a car accident.He ran into an old man on a bicycle with his car and injured him.Because he was the only son, he was exempted from imprisonment, so he had to borrow 5 million yen to pay the hospitalization fee and compensation for the elderly. "All three are 1.70 meters tall." Kamei told Totsukawa after describing the general situation. "It would be easier if we knew the blood types of the three of them." The young Aoki said angrily. "Suddenly checking the blood type will definitely arouse the other party's suspicion." Totsukawa continued to ask, "Do these three people have any criminal records?" "A history of raping a woman?" Aoki asked. "None of them have ever been arrested." Kamei replied. "What are their personalities?" Totsukawa asked again. "Sato and Furui are introverted, while Sugimoto is extroverted. We asked friends of these three people, and according to reports, they don't look like rapists and murderers." Kamei replied. "It's so boring to say, the murderer doesn't even have writing on his head." Totsukawa said dissatisfied. "so what should I do now?" "On Friday, September 26, the murderer did not commit a crime, so first check what these three people did on that day. The company is a day off, and the murderer must have been unable to go out that night for some reason. If the investigation does not go well, we have to These three people were followed and monitored." Totsukawa made such a decision. The investigation on September 26 did not go well.Especially for the two bachelors, Holiday's actions are hard to keep track of.The two men lived in an apartment in Tokyo, but the neighbors were indifferent to them, so the focus had to be on tracking.The detectives in teams of two tracked the three separately.Start from their residence, track to work, start tracking after get off work, until they go home. Sato has a family, and most of them go straight back to the newly built home after get off work. Sugimoto still mostly plays mahjong with his friends.When he played at the Mahjong shop in Shinjuku until nearly 12 o'clock, the criminal police who followed him had to wait outside. Gu Jing's actions can be said to be the weirdest among the three.After get off work, he just wandered around the night streets of Shinjuku, walking all the bustling areas, like a very boring bum, looking at the advertising billboards of movie theaters for a while, and looking at slot machine shops for a while, and then stood there blankly. In front of the camera shop window... "Looking at his poor appearance, maybe he doesn't have a penny in his pocket, so I can only stare." Aoki and Shiraishi, who were in charge of tracking, reported to Totsukawa. "It's just too much to wish for." "If you don't have money, you can't go to the hammam." Young Aoki said. "Does Gujing have a lover?" "If there was, he wouldn't go to the movies alone." "correct." "I see him like 'Friday's Killer.'" Aoki said with certainty. Totsukawa was still so cautious: "It's too early to draw conclusions." "But the police department, Sato Hiroshi has a child, even if he has a bad relationship with his wife and has a cute child, he can't be a murderer, right?" "How is Kazuo Sugimoto?" "He has an addiction to playing mahjong, and I often play mahjong too. This can be a way of excreting dissatisfaction. So far, only Gujing is suspicious." "Then keep following him." Totsukawa said. On Friday, October 27th, Furui left the company again to go to the bustling area of ​​Shinjuku.He might have some money in his pocket tonight, so he went into the slot machine shop, bought two packs of cigarettes for 500 yen, and then walked towards the small theater. Aoki and Shiraishi followed closely behind. The Kabukicho area in Shinjuku is bustling with people and cars as usual.This is indeed a paradise for young people, the streets are full of young couples. "Why does this guy hang out in this place?" Aoki whispered to Shiraishi while following him. "I don't know. According to the police department, the murderer should have a 'harem', so I don't think he will come here to find someone to rape." Baishi said. At this moment, there was a sudden commotion in front.The crowd suddenly parted, and the road and street formed an open space, where Gu Jing and two rogue-looking people were seen arguing.The cries of commotion just now came from a young girl next to the ancient well, because she saw a hooligan holding a dagger in his hand.Just as Aoki and Shiraishi approached them, the hooligan with the knife stabbed Gu Jing, and Gu Jing crouched down on his side. Aoki rushed towards the hooligan. Baishi picked up Gujing and roared: "Call an ambulance!" The gangster who stabbed Gu Jing was caught by Aoki, and another gangster escaped; Shiraishi escorted Gu Jing to the hospital.At that time, the two hooligans challenged Gu Jing because Gu Jing touched one of them on the shoulder.Gujing was severely stabbed and needed 12 stitches, but fortunately he survived. After the operation, Shiraishi said to the doctor: "I have something to ask the doctor." After speaking, he showed his criminal police ID card. The little doctor smiled and said: "The patient was saved, I can assure you of that. Because it didn't hurt." "The patient has a lot of blood, please check his blood type?" "The patient does not need a blood transfusion, and there is no need to check the blood type." "Not for blood transfusion, just need to know his blood type." "Is he connected with some case?" "No, it's not. We just want to know his blood type." "Okay, let's check." The doctor finally agreed. After Shiraishi reported to Totsukawa, he waited alone in the waiting room for the results of Furui's blood type.Baishi waited for two hours before the doctor came out and said: "That person's blood type is type A." "Type A?" Shiraishi asked suspiciously. "Is there anything wrong?" "Ah, no, I thought it was a Type B." "Not a B. It's an A." The doctor's affirmative answer made Gujing Zhelang removed from the suspects. The detectives continued to work hard on Sato Hiroshi and Sugimoto Kazuo. According to people around Sato, he is often haunted by children, and he takes his 3-year-old son to the park during his breaks; others say that he is capricious, and when he greets him on the street, he pretends not to know him baffling. Although Sugimoto was heavily in debt, he was still addicted to gambling.In order to gamble, he often voluntarily asks to work night shifts, but the debts are always paid off. These two people are indeed enough suspects.But the murderer can only be one person. "Is it Sato or Sugimoto? Shall we deliberately fall out with one person?" Young Aoki put forward a bold idea. "What's the use of falling out?" Kamei asked with a smile. "If you hit him with a bruised nose and a swollen face, his nose will bleed, so we can find out his blood type." "It's okay if the blood type is B, but if it's not, what should I do? People will accuse the police of picking fights." "Even something like this with type B blood is problematic." Totsukawa said. "Why? If the murderer can be identified, it is worth accusing us." "It is not certain that he is the murderer even if his blood type is B. Another person may also be type B. If one of the two people is known to be not type B, the other person can be suspected. If both are type B, it will be even worse. From this point of view, picking a fight with one of them will not solve the problem at all. If you use this method to confirm the blood type and then sue based on the blood type, the court will not allow it." "Is it okay to search their rooms?" Yasui asked Totsukawa. "Will the rooms of both be searched?" "No, only Kazuo Sugimoto's is searched. Sato has a family living with him, so it's more difficult. Sugimoto lives alone in an apartment, and we can conduct a search calmly after he goes to work." "What should I do after the search is over?" "As the police department said, I think there must be swimsuit photos of the victims or people who were not killed in his house. Because that is the murderer's 'harem'! If Sugimoto's room has their swimsuit photos, then he is undoubtedly 'Friday's murderer'. Otherwise we can think Hiroshi Sato is the murderer." "I agree with that, if he's the killer, he's got a swimsuit photo of them." Totsukawa said. "Then try it?" Anjing said excitedly. "But we still don't know which one is the murderer; if Sugimoto is not the murderer, we will be illegally searching the house." "Police, please think about it. Four girls have already been raped and killed, and three more girls were almost killed. If Sugimoto is the murderer, how hateful it is to do this kind of thing next Friday! Please let me go Search it, I'd rather be responsible for it." After careful consideration, Totsukawa finally made up his mind. "Okay, let's search for Kazuo Sugimoto who is single first." To be on the safe side, Totsukawa arranged for two veteran criminal police officers, Kamei and Yasui, to conduct the search of Kazuo Sugimoto's house in person. When the incident happened, it was midsummer in Tokyo.From the beginning of September to the end of October, the time is nearly two months.It's autumn season in Tokyo now. The two veteran criminal policemen arrived at Sugimoto's apartment at 10:00 am with serious expressions.They found the administrator, showed their credentials and said to him: "We were ordered to search Kazuo Sugimoto's house. The search order is here. But we have a request that this matter should not be told to anyone except you." "Is something wrong, Sugimoto-san?" the administrator asked.He looked to be in his early fifties, thin and thin, and his face was very pale due to nervousness. Kamei smiled modestly, and said in a calm tone: "It is not possible to say what happened to him at the moment, but he is involved in a major case. In order to find out the truth, we have taken this necessary measure to determine whether Sugimoto is innocent. So please be present during the entire search process." "Do I need to be there?" "Yes. It will be troublesome if you find out that something is missing afterward." "Please open the room." Yasui hurriedly hurried. The administrator obediently led the two criminal policemen to the second floor and opened Kazuo Sugimoto's room. This is a typical apartment house, with two bedrooms and one living room, a small kitchen and toilet, but no bathroom.The smaller one of the two rooms has a carpet on straw mats and a single bed, which is used as a bedroom.In the larger room, there are desks, bookshelves, suit wardrobes, and a compact set of TV sets and small stereo systems. "He borrowed more than 2 million yen from loan sharks, and he is still living a very elegant life!" Anjing said softly. After the administrator opened the door, he stood at the door, staring blankly at the two criminal policemen. Dozens of books jumbled across the shelves.There are "How to Make Money in Stocks", "Winning a Horse Race", and "24 Chapters of Women", etc.Many periodicals and magazines are scattered in the corner of the room.Among them is a set of "Friendship" magazines, which introduce the communication activities between men and women. It seems that Sugimoto subscribes to this magazine. Kamei picked up a book and read it.Published here are letters from men and women looking for friends, some with photos, and some with swimsuit photos.It is not surprising that young men and women subscribe to such magazines.But if Sugimoto is the murderer, he may also find his prey from such magazines.Because a few days ago the newspaper had published such news: a man and a woman wrote a book to a dating magazine and became pen pals. Later, the man asked the woman out for a trip, raped her and killed her. Kamei searched the desk drawer last after searching the books.The drawer was even more messy, with broken watches, ballpoint pens, expired lottery tickets and lottery tickets, etc., all stuffed in the drawer.The bottom drawer held the weekly magazine, with a large envelope beneath it.A thick kraft paper envelope, sealed with scotch tape. Kamei, wearing gloves, carefully tore off the scotch tape. "found it!" Kamei looked at the photo in the envelope and said in a low voice excitedly. There are more than 30 enlarged color photos in the envelope, each of which is a photo of a young woman in a swimsuit.There are three photos of the first victim, Yumiko Hashida, all of which are bikini photos.The name and address are written on the back of the photo; the second is Kiyomi Tanimoto, a student of S University, and there are 4 photos in total; each is in a tanned bikini outfit; there is also a photo of the third victim, Kunihara Kuniko, she Already 30 years old and working as a waitress, her body is a bit fat, so her bikini swimsuit is more voluptuous. "It's all there." Anjing said with emotion after watching. Even the swimsuit photo of Chieko Ishiyama, the policewoman who was used by the police as a booby trap, was collected by him. "It can be judged completely." Yasui said softly while suppressing his excitement. "If the Stone Mountain policewoman is still his final hunter, she may be attacked again next Friday." Kamei said. "Then we must arrest him by next Friday!" Anjing said. The two detectives, Kamei and Yasui, repeatedly emphasized that the administrators are not allowed to publicize the search, and then returned to the Metropolitan Police Department with a kraft paper envelope containing a color photo. On the desk at the search headquarters were more than 30 color photos that Kamei and the others had brought back.The swimsuit photos of these young girls were all taken by laymen. Although they are inferior from the perspective of artistic appreciation, they are more realistic. "It's so spectacular to put it up like this!" Totsukawa said. "Maybe the murderer appreciates them one by one after get off work every day!" Kamei echoed, and went further, "Yes, as the police department said, this is indeed his 'harem'." "I don't know how Sakurai is doing? I haven't bothered to see him for a few days." Yasui asked Totsukawa. "He was not life-threatening, he just suffered a concussion and remains delirious to this day." Totsukawa replied. "For Sakurai, we should also arrest Sugimoto as soon as possible!" Anjing said viciously. "Need to be. The arrest warrant will be issued shortly." Totsukawa said. ... The arrest warrant for Kazuo Sugimoto was issued at 2 p.m. Should Sugimoto be arrested at the Shinjuku printing office of the central film processing company, or should he be arrested after he returns to his apartment after get off work?A thorough discussion took place in the search of the headquarters.Everyone thinks that Sugimoto is a murderer, and should be arrested as soon as possible, and a delay of one minute is a crime.To this end, Totsukawa ordered: "Arrest Sugimoto at the Shinjuku printing office immediately!" Totsukawa and Kamei were in a group, Yasui and Tajima were in a group, and the four of them drove straight to Shinjuku.When they got near the printing office, the four of them got off the car separately.Totsukawa ordered Yasui and Tajima to guard the front and back doors of the printing office, and he and Kamei walked into the office.They met the director of the printing office and explained that Kazuo Sugimoto would be arrested. The director immediately informed Totsukawa: "Kazo Sugimoto has left the institute and returned home." "Go back? When did you go back?" Totsukawa's complexion changed drastically, and he asked anxiously. "At noon, he said he was not feeling well and asked for leave to go back." "We're late!" Totsukawa blurted out something. In order to hurry up, Totsukawa immediately ran out of the printing office, asked Yasui to call Tajima, and hurriedly got into the car and drove towards Sugimoto's apartment. The four criminal policemen went straight to Sugimoto's room, and the door was tightly locked.The apartment manager stared at them blankly. "Where did Sugimoto go?" Yasui yelled at the administrator. "have no idea." The administrator replied timidly. "Did you see him come back?" "No." "Do you know where he might be going?" "I don't know. Seems like he used to go to the slot machine shop down the street." "Where else is there?" "I don't know. I'm not in charge of monitoring the residents of the apartment, sorry." "Does Sugimoto have a car?" "Yes. There is a parking lot nearby, and he often parks there." "What kind of car is he?" "I don't know that." "You take us to the parking lot." The administrator nodded silently and led them away. An open space more than 100 meters away from the apartment is now a parking lot.There are more than a dozen cars parked there, with the names of their owners written on the walls.Kazuo Sugimoto's name is also in it, but the car is gone. "He probably got off in a car." Kamei said. "It's possible." Totsukawa nodded. "If this is the case, we must first investigate the car number and model, and then issue an arrest warrant." Anjing added. Totsukawa immediately called the Tokyo Land Transportation Bureau, told them the name of Kazuo Sugimoto, and asked them to find out the type and name of Kazuo Sugimoto's car as soon as possible. The Land Transportation Bureau identified Kazuo Sugimoto's private car as "Nissan Blue Sky GT" within one minute at the fastest speed, and told him the license plate number.Based on these circumstances, Totsukawa issued a wanted warrant to the whole country.Wanted for rape and murder.But after nightfall, the wanted Sugimoto Kazuo and his vehicle were not found. "Sugimoto returned to the apartment at noon and found that the envelope with the photo of the woman in the swimsuit was missing. He guessed that the police were after him, so he drove away." Totsukawa said while looking at the Tokyo map hanging in the search headquarters office. The detectives looked at each other in blank dismay. Is Sugimoto still in Tokyo?People are drawing question marks in their hearts. All the highways in Tokyo have been investigated, and Sugimoto only has two and a half hours before the arrest is issued.He returned home around 12:00 noon. Where could he escape for the next two hours? Seeing that the detectives were silent, Totsukawa knew the pressure in their hearts, so he immediately called Sugimoto's hometown, acquaintances and friends to announce his arrest order. ... There was no reply from Sugimoto's hometown; there was no trace of any of his friends in Tokyo.By the evening of the 30th, the news of the arrest had become social news, and reporters flocked to demand a press conference. "How do you see the press conference going well?" Chief Honda of the First Search Division asked Totsukawa. "The question is whether or not we're going to publicize Kazuo Sugimoto as 'Friday's Killer'." Totsukawa said. "To admit that Sugimoto was 'Friday's killer' would be to admit that we mistakenly caught Yuichiro Saeki." Honda said. "I see the time has come for admission." Totsukawa said. Just then, the phone rang. Reported on the phone that Sugimoto's white and blue empty car was found.