March 2nd. The sky is slightly overcast. It has been decided in advance that a meeting will be held at the Southern Kyushu District Prosecutor's Office at 9:00 a.m. on this day.However, Noriyuki Shimada did not come on time.Shimada is the chief prosecutor of the Southern Kyushu District Public Prosecutor's Office (prosecutor: Chief of the District Public Prosecutor's Office). Nagata wants a chief inspector (secondary inspector: deputy to the inspector).He hung up on Shimada's house. No one answered the phone. After waiting for nearly two hours, Shimada still did not come to work, nor did he have any contact.

Nagata began to feel uneasy, Shimada is a meticulous person.It has been a year and two months since he took office in the Southern Kyushu District Prosecutor's Office, and his family has stayed in Tokyo. Prosecutors mostly lead the life of migratory birds.In order to prevent an ambiguous relationship with the local people, they have to change places every two or three years. Moving is a big burden for the family members. Shimada is forty-eight years old, and he is no longer the age at which he must live with his family. As long as he can endure a lot of inconvenience and loneliness, he can make do with it.

Being celibate is not so bad, because there are maids who come to help him take care of life every other day. At noon, Nagata left the office and went to Shimada's residence. Shimada's house is a solitary courtyard, and the outer door is unlocked.When Nagata entered the door, he saw Shimada's shoes at the first sight, which made him shudder. If Shimada was at home, he would definitely answer the phone or make a call himself.If he didn't act like this, it means that he was seriously ill or died suddenly at home. Nagata greeted him, but there was no reply, so he walked into the room.

This is a three-bedroom house. Shimada was in his bedroom. He lay on his back on the quilt, dead. Nagata stood there, dumbstruck. Obviously, this was homicide, with a wire tied around his neck.It is a thin wire with tightly twisted ends. There are scratches in the subjaw and throat area.The scar appeared to have been scratched by a fingernail in an agonizing struggle to pull the wire off. The face was swollen and dark purple. The eyeballs protrude outward, like ghosts. Nagata stared blankly for a long time. After noon, Kiyomura Kazumori came to Shimada's house.He is the criminal chief of the Kagoshima prefectural police.

When Qingcun arrived, the appraisal investigation had already begun. In addition to the search personnel, many prosecutors from the District Attorney's Office as well as journalists and TV workers were crowded here. Qing Cun silently monitored the progress of the appraisal investigation. The press demanded that the matter be publicly reported before the case was closed.Qingcun ordered his subordinates: only allow them to report the facts that have been clarified. The discoverer of the case, the second prosecutor, was on standby in the living room. Nagata's second inspector looked at Kiyomura as if asking for help.

Prosecutors have the power of compulsory searches and can direct the police who have the power of first search.The powers of the Deputy Public Prosecutor and the Chief Criminal Officer are different. However, Nagata now has no power whatsoever.The leader of the District Prosecutor's Office, the prosecutor, is being strangled to death. This kind of thing has never happened before, and it is really panicking.So seeing Qingcun at this moment is like meeting a savior. Kiyomura is forty-seven years old, with the rank of police inspector, and a favorite among the Kagoshima prefectural police.His appearance is calm and stable, although he is a bit fat, but his tall body makes up for this shortcoming.

"Can you explain the situation?" Kiyomura sat down opposite Nagata, and looked at the pale Nagata. After identification, Noriyuki Shimada was killed between 1 am and 2 am on March 2.This is the conclusion drawn by forensic autopsy. On March 5th, Qingcunyi guarded the county police headquarters. There are various reports on the table, including anatomical impressions, identification reports, search reports, etc. They searched for fingerprints, footprints, etc. that might belong to the criminal, but found nothing, and there was nothing left behind. Generally speaking, even if there was a slight fight, the criminal should drop hair or something like that.If there is hair, blood type and/or other conditions can be checked, and the image of the prisoner can be deduced.

The prisoner sneaked in after midnight.Shimada is usually meticulous, and sleeping with the outer door unlocked is unbelievable.He worked overtime in the first half of the night until after 8 o'clock and went straight back to his residence.Shimada's driver confirmed all this. Dinner was eaten at the District Attorney's Office.There are indications that, upon returning to the residence, he drank whiskey, presumably for hypnosis. Some people believe that the prisoner broke the lock of the outer door to enter from the outside, woke up the sleeping Shimada after entering, and strangled him to death in a short while.The murder weapon was twenty-gauge wire, three strands twisted together.A fracture of the verticillary cartilage was found on the body.

When constricted, the veins are completely flattened, but the carotid arteries do not stop blood flow completely, nor do the vertebral arteries, so the face is swollen and dark purple. Protrusion of the eyeballs with spasms, leading to incontinence of bowel movements and semen.The iron wire is evenly cut into the skin, and the murderous intent of the criminal can be seen from its strength.It was premeditated murder and the offender was presumably male. motive for killing. What matters is the motive for the murder. It was not a stolen item, and there was no sign of a search in the room.After the prisoner entered the room, he killed the person and left immediately. He was clean and calm, which also showed the coldness of the criminal.

Obviously, this is a vendetta. Investigators delved into Shimada's past. Shimada's past is straightforward.After passing the judicial examination, he was assigned to the Kanto District Prosecutor's Office after two years of advanced training, and worked as a second-level prosecutor in the search department.Six years later, he served as a prosecutor in the Public Prosecution Division of the Miyagi District Public Prosecutor's Office.After two years, he was promoted to a first-level prosecutor.Twelve years later, he was appointed procurator. He was able to flourish in a short period of time because he was a graduate of the University of Tokyo.

As soon as prosecutors start working, there is no distinction between working time and rest time. In principle, 24 hours are working time. Looking at the employment situation of judicial graduates, we can see that the number of prosecutors is very small, and the most are lawyers, followed by judges, and then prosecutors. Due to the shortage of manpower, I had to work overtime. Although the salary was twice as high as that of other civil servants, there was no overtime pay.And because of frequent job transfers, it was very expensive, and the housing was very simple, and there was no economic benefit. Prosecutors have neither leisure and entertainment nor money to save, and they are more discreet in their private life.In other words, it is unlikely that the murderer's murder was caused by his private life. Judging from this, the murderer may be in the case that Shimada is in charge of prosecuting. Shimada's eloquence is sharp, his personality is aloof and arrogant, and he never shows favoritism to criminals.At this point, almost all prosecutors have something in common, but Shimada's hatred of criminals seems to be innate.Therefore, it is not surprising that some people want to kill him. Investigators turned their attention to this aspect. The Southern Kyushu District Prosecutor's Office also announced by the second prosecutor that this was a vendetta case.If the results of the investigation show that the prosecutor was killed because of his private life, it will lead to distrust of the prosecutor.