Chapter 28 Chapter VII

Back in Tokyo, Kamei and Nishimoto continued to investigate the situation around Kawauchi. They first met with the editor-in-chief of that magazine. The editor-in-chief is Tamura, and he said that he and Kawauchi have been friends for several years. "At that time, he was an employee of the company. He didn't want to be an employee for the rest of his life. He told me that he wanted to write about events during his travels. So his manuscripts were written very carefully and were often published." "Are you his senior who went to college?" "Yes, I am three years older than him!"

"How was Mr. Kawauchi in college?" "I often participate in the activities of the travel club. The people are nice and generous." "Quite generous?" "Yes. He never worried about money." "Why? Didn't his mother and brother die in the fire?" "But he said he had the money to sell the land! I heard that his family opened a hotel in Xiaozhu and sold it after the fire. They made a lot of money." "That's right, so does he have a lover?" "Yes, but he didn't introduce it to me." Tamura said. "How do you feel after reading that essay?" Kamei asked.

"I was taken aback, frankly. I had heard about the fire 11 years ago, but it was still a surprise." "Is that true? Did he make it up to attract readers?" "Edit?" "right." "Eleven years have passed, why did he make up this?" Tamura said puzzled. "Mr. Kawauchi was poisoned to death on the train bound for Komoro. Do you know that he went to Komoro?" "No, I don't know. His plan that day was to go for an interview. He should be back at 3 pm. I waited for a long time, and I don't know why he didn't come back. I was really shocked when I heard the news of his death. "Tamura said.

"Does he often not be on time?" "No, never." "But he went to Xiaozhu that day." "Yeah! That's why I don't understand." Tamura tilted his head and said. Kamei and Nishimoto went to Kawauchi's apartment again. This is a two-bedroom house located in Nakano Ward.They asked the administrator to open Kawauchi's room. "Is this rented?" Kamei asked as he walked in. "yes." "How much is the monthly rent?" "300,000..." the administrator replied straightforwardly. Kamei and Nishimoto glanced at each other.

"I can't afford it." Nishimoto clicked his tongue. "me too." "Does Chuannei want to sublet?" "This... I don't know." The administrator replied. They started searching the room.Kawauchi lives here alone, but there are quite a lot of daily necessities.The living room of this house is small, but it also has a bar with a lot of expensive imported wine. Kamei opened the drawer of the cabinet in the bedroom and found a booklet of deposits.It records the income from royalties and tax deductions. There are a few numbers in it. The average monthly deposit is 300,000 yen, but the depositor is not the publishing house.

Kamei let Nishimoto take a look. "what you think?" "Is someone sponsoring him?" "A woman?" "right." "I can't see it." "Save him 300,000 yen every month!" "But it hasn't been saved since July this year." "Yes, it broke suddenly." "Where can I check?" Kamei asked. They decided to go to the bank that issued the passbook, the M Bank branch in Yotsuya 3-chome. After Kamei asked the branch manager to see the police ID, he asked the branch manager straight to the point. The branch manager hurriedly called the specific staff to check for a while.

"They were all deposited from the Shinjuku branch of our same bank. The name of the depositor is Michiko Yamada." "Is it a woman?" "Yes. And it seems to be deposited in cash every time." The branch manager replied. So Kamei and Nishimoto rushed to the Shinjuku branch immediately. Although it was already past 3 pm, because they had contacted in advance, the people from the bank had already waited at the door and brought Kamei and the others inside. The bank's staff explained to Kamei: "It was deposited by a woman in her thirties. And often wearing a pair of big sunglasses to check in."

"Wear sunglasses?" Kamei asked back, and then quickly took out the portrait for the other party to look at. "Does it look like her?" "Ah, it's very similar!" The employee said with his eyes widened. "Let me take a look at the deposit slip she filled out," Kamei said. So the employee quickly found a deposit slip that she filled out when she made a deposit on June 1. As expected, the name is "Yamada Michiko". "I want to borrow it." Kamei said. Nishimoto asked from the side: "When did the deposit start?" "Ah...our branch was opened four years ago. I remember she has been coming to make deposits since then."

"It opened four years ago?" "right." In this way, it is very likely that this "Yamada Mitsuko" had deposited money in other banks before that. "Has this woman ever come with her companions?" Kamei asked again. "Let me see... a man came with her once." "what kind of person?" "Middle-aged man. He looks about 1.75 meters tall. I can't remember the other characteristics clearly, because I have only been here once." The staff member said apologetically. This is also a very big gain! That night, Kamei reported this new discovery to Totsukawa in Komoro by telephone.

"I think it must be the woman who was riding with Kawauchi!" Kamei said. "It can't be ruled out that we met by chance." "But we know that at least four years ago, this woman had deposited 300,000 yen a month for Chuan Chuan." "Yeah, maybe earlier." "Could it be from 11 years ago?" Totsukawa asked on the phone. "Yes. Didn't your investigation prove that the 'Chen' Hotel had a lot of debts at that time? You also said that they sold the land and paid it off!" "We believe that Kawauchi's statement that he completed his studies with the money from the land sale is nonsense."

"right." "In this way, the money Kawauchi spent on college...?" "Someone put him through college!" "It's the woman who deposits 300,000 yen a month for him!" "Yes. We don't know if we have deposited 300,000 yen a month since 11 years ago. I am afraid it has been increasing." Totsukawa said. "Is it an inheritance?" Kamei suddenly asked. "right!" "At that time, Kawauchi was a third-year student in high school, so he was a big boy!" Totsukawa said. "If what Kawauchi got was an inheritance, then the cause of the fire 11 years ago may have been pondered." Kamei asked. "Maybe the essay written by Kawauchi is true?" Totsukawa said. "But didn't he say he made it up?" "Yes. But the fire killed three people! What property can he inherit from that alone?" "That's true." "Also...the strange lovers disappeared during the fire." Totsukawa went on to say, "He wrote it like this: They were a man and a woman who lived together illegally, and they stole a large amount of ill-gotten wealth from somewhere." Escaped here. The point is 'a lot of money', maybe 100 million, 200 million, or more. The two escaped from Tokyo to Komoro and hid in the 'Chen' hotel. Occasionally, another A beautiful woman who looks like the movie star Edo Kawako, this man has his eye on her again. So the woman who came with him is jealous, and she sets a fire. The woman was burned to death, Kawauchi's mother He and his elder brother were also burned to death. Those couple should be the ones who give Chuanuchi money every month!" "So, the one burned to death was Kakizawa Midoriko's sister Da?" "I guess so." "But why did Kawauchi suddenly want to write this essay? Wouldn't this cause trouble for the couple?" "You don't remember, the monthly deposit of 300,000 yen will be cut off in July!" "So that's the case." "That is to say, the party who fulfilled the right to be inherited finally couldn't bear it anymore, so he stopped paying, and Kawauchi wrote this essay with the purpose of threatening. This implies that if the other party does not continue to pay, he will open the incident more clearly The truth." Totsukawa said. "So the other party quickly gave Kawauchi 1 million yen?" "Yes, it's 1 million yen." "Ah, the one million yen that Kawauchi carried?" "Yes." Totsukawa nodded. "But why is Kawauchi going to Komoro?" Kamei asked. "Sawauchi never explained to the police and fire department what happened to the man and woman when the fire broke out 11 years ago, because he would not be able to get the 'inherited' property. But he wrote the truth 11 years later. If the police in Komoro see this essay, think about the fire 11 years ago, and then re-investigate, the matter will be serious. I think Kawauchi is going to see what will happen." Totsukawa analyzed. "So that couple poisoned Kawauchi on the train?" "Yes. From the point of view of the couple, Kawauchi's life is a threat after all. Whether it's 300,000 yen a month or the truth, it's better to keep your mouth shut. And Kawauchi got 1 million yen at once, so he must be relieved. So tricked him into drinking coffee with potassium cyanide and killed him." Totsukawa continued to analyze. "He died instantly when he got up to make the phone call." "Yes." Totsukawa said. "Look up the man and woman who were in the fire 11 years ago!" Kamei said.