Chapter 23 Chapter two

One night in early October, a woman visited the home of the Totsugawa Police Department of the Metropolitan Police Department's First Search Section. This is a beautiful woman in her mid-twenties.Totsukawa asked: "What do you want from me?" "Ah, yes. Please look at this first." As she spoke, she handed over a magazine that was published three months ago.The title of the book is "The Way of Japan".On the page marked in advance, the long article just now written by the travel writer Kojiro Kawauchi was published under the title "My Big Event". Totsukawa quickly scanned the essay.

"The woman in the article is my sister!" said the visitor. "The lady guest who was burned?" "Yes. Her name is Kakizawa Kyoko. I'm her younger sister, Midori." "Do you have evidence?" Totsukawa asked. "She was twenty-five or six years old at the time, and the actress named S.E mentioned in the article was Edo Kawako. My sister looks very similar to her." "Your sister went to Xiaozhu at that time?" "She ran away from home at the time, and we did not find her whereabouts." "Didn't you ask the author, Mr. Kawauchi Kojiro? Ask about the female guest who was burned to death?"

"Ah, I called yesterday." "The results of it?" "He said he couldn't remember clearly." Midori Kakizawa said regretfully. "He can't remember what?" "That female guest registered with my name! So he said he couldn't tell if it was my sister." "Mr. Kawauchi was still a college student 11 years ago, so there is nothing he can do if he can't remember clearly." "That's what he said, but what he wrote is true, right? And my sister lived there at that time, and was killed by that gangster. I hope the police will investigate! Please!"

"Did Mr. Kawauchi say something about the couple?" "He said he couldn't remember either." "So he can't remember anyone?" "Yes. However, my sister must have been killed by those two people 11 years ago!" Midori said firmly. "However, it would be nice to have proof that your sister must have lived there then." "I think it's enough to say that she has the same looks and age as actress Edo Kawako." "It's enough for you, but it's not acceptable from a third party. You just said that she ran away from home 11 years ago?"

"Yes. My sister was a company employee at the time and lived in an apartment alone. She told the company that she took three days off to travel, but she didn't say where she was going. Just like that, she disappeared. My parents searched desperately, but they couldn't find it... ..." "What about you then?" "I'm still a middle school student! Now I'm exactly my sister's age." "Didn't you ask the police in Xiaozhu about the situation?" "Just called this morning." "What do they say?" "They said that the hotel caught fire and the passengers were burned to death. It is true, but if there is no evidence that it is a homicide, it cannot be investigated. And it happened 11 years ago. It would be very difficult to investigate." Midori said dejectedly.

"Hmm..." Totsukawa also felt very embarrassed. After all, it was 11 years ago, and it was under the jurisdiction of Nagano Prefecture. "Please! We must catch the murderer who killed my sister! I think there is no statute of limitations for murder!" Midori said anxiously. "Yeah, you have to help her!" Totsukawa's wife, Naoko, also interjected. "But things are not that simple. There is no evidence to prove that her sister was among the dead; and the place is under the jurisdiction of the Nagano Prefectural Police Department." Totsukawa said cautiously.

But Midori kept bowing her head and saluting, "Please." "Okay, then I'll try it!" Totsukawa finally agreed.