Chapter 4 fourth quarter

April twenty-fifth. The early summer sun shines on Fukuoka City, which is far away from Hakata Bay. The composition of the Kitakyushu District Prosecutor's Office includes: three deputy prosecutors, five prosecutors, plus ten second prosecutors and chief prosecutors. Ten fifty in the morning. Second Prosecutor Yanagawa Keiki looked at the clock with a blank expression.Prosecutor Zheng Hiraizumi Kohide has not come to work yet.It had been agreed that Yanagawa and Hiraizumi would meet at ten o'clock this morning to discuss matters related to the public trial. This is an important public trial.The homicide case caused by labor disputes, which Kitakyushu prefectural prosecutors are going all out to handle, is about to go to the seventh round of public trial.

Fifty minutes past the scheduled time. Hiraizumi is a person who has always kept time.This person not only has a strong sense of time, but is also serious about other things, and has the same demands on himself and others.Even the cleaning of the room is so meticulous, a little dust will make the face stiff, and the table must be polished. He has an unusual cleanliness. Liu Chuan looked at the clock again, he did not know how many times he had seen it. Finally, he grabbed the phone. The moment he picked up the microphone, the fact that Inspector Shimada of the Southern Kyushu District Prosecutor's Office was being killed flashed through his mind.The Shimada inspection incident had a similar process, and it was discovered by the second prosecutor.The incident happened on March 2, and no clues have been found so far.It is said that the interior of the Prosecutor's Office is about to fall into obsession.This is a case that concerns the reputation of the prosecutor's office and the police, but even the motive for the murder has not been found out.

Almost two months have passed. Liu Chuan smiled wryly while dialing the phone. How is this possible? Inspector Hiraizumi will not be killed. No one answered the phone.No surprise no one answered the phone.Like Shimada, Hiraizumi went to work alone and lived in a house by himself.If Hiraizumi had already come out, of course no one would answer the phone. However, when Liu Chuan put down the microphone, his expression was a bit special, a half-smile but a complicated one. Hiraizumi and Inspector Shimada of the Southern Kyushu District Attorney studied at the same time.After passing the judicial examination, they spent two years studying together.Friendships formed during this period can last a long time, and this is a strong friendship unlike any other.

Among their contemporaries, some were prosecutors, some were assistant judges, and some were lawyers.Marriage was also largely settled during that period.The seniors give various help in order to select them into their own system, in order to cultivate talents.This is a solid and smooth path to a legal career. Those who become prosecutors and those who become lawyers are allies.If the lawyers involved request that a case not be prosecuted, the prosecutor will consider it at his discretion.Because the decision to prosecute or not rests with the procuratorate. It can be said that this relationship can last a lifetime.

Yanagawa thought of the scene where Hiraizumi got angry when Shimada was killed.At that time, he said angrily that this was a major issue related to the reputation of the prosecutor's office and a severe challenge to the prosecutor's office. A few days later, however, Hiraizumi fell silent.He didn't say a word about Shimada's murder, and kept it secret. When others mentioned it, he immediately changed the subject. Yanagawa didn't understand whether it was because of the sadness of a friend's unexplained death, or some other reason. But since then, Hiraizumi has undergone obvious changes. The original calmness and meticulousness are mixed with a bit of melancholy, and sometimes he even becomes dazed. He doesn’t know when the cigarette ash falls on the table several times, and he often looks listless. look.

Yanagawa remembered these things. --probably is…… He suddenly murmured.Could it be... He couldn't get rid of the idea that came up stubbornly. Yanagawa stood up. Kanjimasa Hiraizumi's house is located in the downtown area of ​​Fukuoka. The second prosecutor Yanagawa arrived after 11:30.He used a nearby public phone to contact the local police, and learned that Hiraizumi was not at work yet and had no contact. His heart immediately jumped wildly. Things like this don't happen for no reason.He denied his guess.But when I think of Hiraizumi's abnormality after Shimada was murdered, I feel the seriousness of the problem.

He rang the doorbell. After waiting for a while, no one came out. The door is locked. Yanagawa looked around the house. The locked part of the aluminum-framed glass door of the living room was cut open, and the door was opened a crack, allowing only one person to enter and exit. Liu Chuan stood there dumbfounded, the blood-stained scene flashed through his mind. Yanagawa entered the bedroom.Inspector Hiraizumi was lying quietly, with a three-strand iron wire tied around his neck. His face was dark purple, swollen, and his eyeballs protruded. Yanagawa let out a short exclamation.Yanagawa, who was used to looking at corpses, also felt strangely eerie when faced with the deformed face of Inspector Hiraizumi.Hiraizumi's hands were clenched tightly, as if he was about to grab something at his deathbed.I don't know whether the protruding eyeballs are glaring at the murderer, or they are surprised at the end of their own life.

After twelve o'clock, the Fukuoka Prefectural Police and Fukuoka Police Station's Search Section Chief Akino Yosuke came to the scene of the accident.The search team and identification team also arrived at the same time. At the Criminal Division of the Kagoshima Prefectural Police, Kiyomura got the news that Hiraizumi had been killed shortly before one o'clock that afternoon.He was notified by the Fukuoka prefectural police. Kiyomura leaves the prefectural police headquarters for Fukuoka. While driving north on the Kagoshima Main Line, Kiyomura felt that the case was bizarre.

The Fukuoka side informed that Prosecutor Hiraizumi was strangled to death with three strands of wire twisted together, which is exactly the same as the method used to kill Prosecutor Shimada.Bizarre is bizarre here.This is equivalent to the murderer declaring to people that the killing of the two people was done by the same person. If the three strands of iron wire were not twisted together, but some other murder weapon, it would not be easy to determine that the same person did it. ——Is this a challenge? Qingcun muttered in his heart. However, this challenge is neither to the prosecutor's office nor to the police, but to a personal challenge.The first murder is a foreshadowing to the second person, the second murder is a demonstration to the third person.

This is the purpose of using the same murder weapon. Things get complicated. There is likely to be a third victim.After killing a second person, if the murderer wants to cover up his crime, he may use another weapon to commit another crime. In this way, it is difficult to determine whether the same person did it, and the criminal motive is even more difficult to detect. Assuming there is a third victim, will it still be the prosecutor?If so, this will be the darkest period since the establishment of the prosecutor's office. Some people worry that the case will develop into an unimaginable event.

Kiyomura folded his arms tightly, watching the scenery flash by outside the car window.In the background of the scene, he once again saw the murderer, whose face was not clear. The investigation of the Kagoshima murder case seems to end in failure.Of course, if the murderer cannot be found after two or three months, it cannot be regarded as a failure.The statute of limitations for hunting down murderers is 15 years, and even if the search headquarters is disbanded, the investigation must continue until the statute of limitations is lifted. However, the further the investigation is delayed, the more difficult it is to handle the case.It can be said that the Shimada murder case whose motive for the murder is unknown may be dragged on indefinitely. County police are racking their brains to find countermeasures. —However, the situation is different now. Qingcun is full of confidence.It is not too long before the motive for the killing of Procurator is revealed. The time of Hiraizumi's death was around 2 am on the 25th, with a time difference of about one hour.This is the conclusion of the autopsy examination. There were no signs of rummaging at the murder scene. After the murderer sneaked into the bedroom quietly, he killed the man in a short time, and then slipped away.No fingerprints, no footprints, not a single hair lost. The murder weapon was three strands of twenty-gauge wire twisted together. All of this is exactly the same as Shimada's murder.