Chapter 29 Chapter Twenty Nine

When two detectives from the Paris Police Department arrived at the apartment, there was not even a handbag left in the room Yayoi Shimazaki had used.Shimazaki is no longer as good as a yellow crane. Da Yue seemed to be a little frightened by the harassment from the firecrackers.He took the portrait he had just begun to paint, and returned to the car with Miura. I originally planned to take the subway, but this time I went directly back to the hotel. Aoki was arrested by the Paris police station and interrogated by Pierre.With permission, Totsukawa also attended the interrogation. Aoki confessed that he came to Paris two years ago to learn cooking skills.Later, he gave up halfway because he couldn't stand the strict training.Then, he made a living by working as an interpreter for Japanese tour groups.

During this period, he seems to have lived with a French woman. "How did she introduce herself?" Pierre showed Aoki a photo of Yayoi Shimazaki and asked. "She said she came to study fashion design. I don't believe it." Aoki shrugged his shoulders. "What do you think she does?" "I think she came to Paris to play." "What did she say her name was?" "It seems to be Yuko Tachibana. She still has a passport with that name. Forged? I don't know about such things." "It's been five days since we met on the 20th. What have you guys said during this time?"

"There's a lot to talk about. Walk around the city and talk." "Did you talk about the pistol?" asked Pierre.Aoki smiled bitterly and said: "It seems like the day before yesterday. I asked her if she was a little scared alone? She said, I have a pistol, and nothing is a problem. I asked, do you really have it? She said, of course." "You didn't see the real guy, did you?" "Although I didn't see it, she was very serious when she said it. Maybe she really has it." "You just said that you led her around the city, where did she go?"

"There are so many places. I took her to the places she wanted to see." "Where did it all go?" "There was Montmartre just now. She said she wanted to take the Paris Metro, so I took her there and taught her how to buy a ticket. Then, I took a cruise on the Seine, visited the Louvre, and visited Bois de Boulogne. Oh, and the Canal Saint-Martin." "What was her expression at that time?" "Looks very happy." "Only this?" "That's all. Oh, I think she's a very cautious woman. Wherever she goes, she doesn't tire of asking where the exits are, and checking the passages."

Aoki said. Totsukawa also asked a question. "Does she have no friends?" Aoki thought for a moment and replied: "So, she often uses the public phone to make calls. I was surprised at the time, didn't she say that she came to Paris alone?" "Did you ask who she called?" "I asked. She said to my home in Japan. Because the public phone can also make calls abroad." "Do you think it's believable?" Totsukawa asked.Aoki smiled wryly again. "No. I know she's lying." "why?" "It costs 20 francs a minute to call Japan, but I saw that she only spent 1 franc."

Aoki said. Pierre asked Aoki to write down all the places Yayoi Shimazaki had been to, then copied them, and handed a copy to Totsukawa and Bart.