Chapter 17 Chapter Six

The results of the autopsy came out. Mino Hamasaki and Kyoko Adachi both died of potassium cyanide poisoning two days ago.So far, it is almost the same as Tajima imagined, and there is nothing special about it. The problem is in the things found below. According to the autopsy report of the forensic doctor: Adachi Kyoko is a drug addict. — is a female drug addict. Tajima's expression couldn't help but become serious. Although the case was basically determined to be a simple death for love, he always felt something strange about it for some reason. Director Yabe also felt the same, he said to Tajima:

"I think it's necessary to investigate further." Tajima decided to thoroughly investigate Adachi Kyoko's experience.He thought that something of value must be found. He went to see Adachi again, but Adachi did not provide any more detailed information about his wife's past, only knowing that she had worked in a bar in Shinjuku. Tajima immediately rushed to this bar called "Columbus".The store is small, with the words "Columbus" written on the dark door. Tajima went in and took a look, but there was nothing related to the nautical expedition. There were only two customers in the store, probably drunk, and one of them sang pop songs that young people love to sing loudly indistinctly.

Tajima asked a proprietress in a kimono standing behind the counter: "I want to find out about the woman who worked here before." He handed over his police ID card for her to look at, "It's a woman named Anda Jingzi, and her name was probably Ah Shi when she worked here." "Oh, Miss Ah Shi! I know." The proprietress seemed to know her very well. "Five years ago, she got married, and her husband was a small head of some company. What's the matter with her?" "Have you not read the newspaper?" "I don't have time to read newspapers!"

"She's dead!" "what?……" "Die in love with a cosmetics salesman!" "Ah..." The proprietress looked at Tajima in surprise. "It means that the woman cheated on her husband. And this young salesman is a handsome man." Tajima smiled wryly again and asked: "I want to know about this woman. Did she take morphia while she was working here?" "..." The landlady's expression suddenly became timid. "What's the matter with you?" "She quit. The girl." "Quit?" "Looks like she was a drug addict before she came here, but she hasn't done it since. Really, why else would I agree to let her marry? Why, she's on drugs again?"

"Yes." Tajima nodded. He seemed to understand more or less.This case is not a simple death for love, it must be closely related to this woman's past.