Chapter 26 chapter Five

Two days later on October 7th. The "Morning No. 3" express train bound for Nagano departed from Ueno Station at 8:00 a.m. as usual.It consists of 11 carriages.One of them is a green soft-seat carriage with a direct-dial telephone. Because this day is not a rest day.So the compartment is not crowded. Seventeen or eighteen minutes after the train passed through Karuizawa, a man sitting in the green soft-seat carriage suddenly stood up and walked towards the telephone. He took off the receiver with difficulty, and when he was about to dial the number, he suddenly let out a painful groan, and fell to the ground with the receiver in his hand.

The passenger next to him was taken aback and asked loudly: "Are you okay?" The man just desperately stroked his neck with his hands, and his whole body began to twitch. "Flight attendant!" Another passenger yelled hastily. The flight attendant at the foot of the mountain ran over immediately when he heard the shout, but at this time the man had already vomited blood and remained motionless. "What's going on?! Sir!" Yamashita yelled several times, but there was no response. Just then, the train arrived at Komoro Station.As soon as the door opened, Yamashita rushed to the platform and asked the station staff for help.

Two staff members quickly came to the carriage, lifted the motionless man to the platform, and immediately went to call an ambulance. Yamashita contacted other flight attendants and decided to stay in Komoro by himself. The "Morning No. 3" express train continued to head towards Nagano. Yamashita explained the situation to the station master on the platform, but he only knew that this person fell to the ground when he was about to make a phone call. An ambulance arrived and immediately took the man to a nearby hospital, and Yamashita went with the same car. When we arrived at the hospital, the doctor quickly checked and said regretfully:

"It's too late, he's dead! He died of poisoning, probably potassium cyanide poisoning." As soon as the ambulance personnel heard it, they immediately called the police. After a while, the patrol car arrived at a fast speed. Two criminal police officers from the Komoro Police Station of the Nagano Prefectural Police Department listened to the doctor's explanation, asked Yamashita again, and then began to confirm the identity of the deceased. He had a driver's license in his suit pocket, which was immediately obvious. Kojiro Kawauchi Room 502, Nakano Apartment, No. XX Nakano, Nakano District, Tokyo.

This is the identity of the deceased. At the same time, business cards were also found. There were 12 business cards with "Kojiro Kawauchi" written on them, and the title was "Travel Writer".There is still 160,000 yen in the wallet. There are also other belongings: Watches (Casio brand) Tickets (soft-seat tickets for the limited express train "Amori No. 3", the journey is "Ueno-Komoro") Cash (1 million yen in a bank-sealed envelope) key chain (with three keys) Sunglasses (one pair) The body was immediately subjected to a forensic autopsy.Because the Nagano Prefectural Police Department believed that the death of Kawauchi Kojiro was murder.

Before the results of the autopsy came out, the Komoro Police Department established a search headquarters and determined that the Miura Police Department was in charge. Miura immediately set out to investigate two things. One is to get in touch with the "Chen No. 3" train arriving in Nagano immediately and listen to the introduction of other crew members.In addition, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department was commissioned to investigate the situation of the deceased who lived in Tokyo. After contacting, Miura ordered the two criminal policemen Nakamura and Asen to rush to Nagano to listen to the testimony of a flight attendant named Aoki.

It was Totsukawa who answered the call from the Metropolitan Police Department, and he was startled when he heard the name of the deceased. "Kousujiro Kawauchi is dead? Really?!" "It is very likely that he killed him." "Is it 'travel writer' Kawauchi Kojiro?" Totsukawa confirmed again. "Yes. You know him?" Miura asked. "I've heard of this person, he was from Xiaozhu earlier!" "A person from Xiaomoro?" Miura had a question this time. "Yes. Eight years ago, a hotel in Komoro City caught fire and killed three people. He is the second son of the hotel owner." Totsukawa said.

"He still has the ticket to Xiaozhu!" "Maybe it has something to do with the fire case eight years ago!" Totsukawa said. Then he told Miura how Kawauchi Kojiro wrote an essay and how he attracted Kakizawa Midori. "Can you bring Ms. Kakizawa Midori over to Komoro?" Miura asked. The autopsy results came out that evening, and the cause of death was potassium cyanide poisoning. A time estimate of death also comes out, but it doesn't make much sense.Because the testimony of the train crew has been very clear. Nakamura and Asen soon returned from Nagano.

"The testimony of the flight attendant Aoki has been retrieved." Nakamura reported to Miura, "Aoki is responsible for the ticketing of the soft-seat carriage, and he remembers the deceased. He said that when the train left Ueno Station to check the ticket for the first time, the deceased must still be there , because he also asked about the time to arrive at Xiaozhu." "Any companions?" Miura asked. "He said he only saw the dead man at that time as a single person." "'Back then'? Besides 'then'?" Miura asked again. "Later he saw that the deceased seemed to be talking to a beautiful woman. The woman was in her thirties and had very fair skin, so she was very impressed."

"Is it his companion?" "We also asked, but Aoki couldn't be sure, saying that maybe we met in the car by chance." "Where did the woman get in the car from?" "Aoki said that the ticket in her hand was to Nagano, but he was not sure." "If it was to Nagano, then maybe it really has nothing to do with the deceased." Miura said. "Anyway, I thought that woman might know something, so I drew a portrait as described by Aoki." As he spoke, Asen opened a portrait and placed it in front of Miura. Miura glanced at it and said:

"Why can't you see your face clearly with a pair of such big sunglasses on?" "Aoki said that this woman wears sunglasses all the time." "Is it intentional?" Miura said to himself. Subsequently, he decided to investigate from the fire incident that Totsukawa said 11 years ago. Since the fire incident occurred in Xiaozhuguan, it didn't take much trouble. He immediately transferred the Allin Interpol who was in charge of the fire case 11 years ago. Allin said with a smile: "The Totsugawa Police Department of the Metropolitan Police Department asked about this the day before yesterday." "Three people died in that fire?" "Yes. The owner of the hotel, Ryutaro Kawauchi, his mother, Fumiko, and a female guest. Ryutaro's younger brother, Kojiro, escaped by luck." Allin said. "At that time he was in the third year of high school?" "yes." "The identity of the female guest who was burned to death has never been clarified?" "yes." "The face is all burned?" "Yes. I only know that she is 1.63 meters tall and weighs 55 kilograms. I don't know her appearance. Maybe the owner of the hotel or the guest Ayako remembers, but Koujiro helps out occasionally and goes to school, so he has an impression of the female guest. Not deep." Allin said. "Have you talked to that Kawauchi Kojiro?" "Yes, 11 years ago." "What about that guy?" Miura asked. Allin recalled while talking: "Because he lost his mother and brother in an instant, he looked very miserable, but not very sad. When talking about the fire incident, he seemed to be talking about other people's affairs." "He didn't have a good relationship with his dead brother?" Miura asked. "There is a big age difference between him and his elder brother Ryutaro, and it is said that they seldom quarrel." "What about his relationship with his mother?" "I heard that the parents of this family dote on the eldest son Ryutaro too much, so I thought this might be the reason why he didn't feel particularly sad about his brother's death." Alin said. "Do you remember other things in Sichuan?" Miura asked again. "I investigated his college classmates and childhood events. He is a very docile child and nothing major happened." Allin said.