Chapter 12 Chapter 12 Notes on Photos

After hearing from the police that the Yamahara couple had not been subdued and that the investigation had stalled, Secun felt discouraged.The fourth traveler who was easily dug out with Sundaihashi Yuko did not pose any threat to Yamahara, so what exactly did Kiyohara find in the message book? Semura makes an appointment with Yuko to meet her at a coffee shop in Ginza after get off work.Originally, Shicun told Yuko that he could go to their store, but Yuko said: "The price here is expensive. In fact, there is nothing special. It is better to make an appointment outside." It was said before that he should come, but now he said so, it seems to be very considerate of Shicun's economic situation.Could it be understood that her kindness towards herself has deepened?

Waiting in the designated store, Yuko came a little later than the agreed time.He seemed to be walking in a hurry, panting slightly.From Semura's point of view, Yuko was so excited because of the joy of seeing him, and he couldn't help but feel secretly happy.Yuko seems to be wearing the clothes she wears in the store. She is dressed in a gorgeous evening gown, which shows her exquisite figure and the temperament of an urban woman with various manners.Not only is it mature, but it also adds a charming and sexy look at night in the city.Shi Cun looked a little dumbfounded. "I hate it. You must think that I look very dusty." Yuko put her hands on her cheeks and looked shy.

"Is this called Fengchen? I just think it's so beautiful, it makes me look stupid." "Don't keep praising me. You should be disappointed when you look in the mirror afterwards. Let's have dinner together. There was a guest who wanted to invite me to dinner, but I wanted to eat with you, so I finally pushed him away." "I'm so honored. If you want to eat something, just tell me. But I don't know Ginza very well." "Would you like to go to the place I often go to?" "It's all up to you." Yuko often goes to a sushi restaurant in Rokumoto.The atmosphere in the store is warm and business is booming.

"This store is only for women who work at night and bring companions who don't want him to spend money." The two sat in front of the counter, Yuko whispered in Shicun's ear. "I don't want him to spend money, which means..." "That means it's cheap." "What kind of person is the person who doesn't want him to spend money?" "Well, you're really slow. It's someone who has a crush on him like a lover." "Huh? So, could it be said that I'm also honored to be..." "Don't be so loud, okay. Everyone is watching." Yuko reprimanded Shimura in a helpless tone, and then said, "Including the fact that the other party is unemployed."

Shicun, who was overjoyed, was thrown a basin of cold water. Yuko ordered the sweet shrimp sushi first, and Shicun ordered the tuna mid-section sushi, and the two started eating.Shi Cun told Yuko what he thought. "So what do you think brother-in-law found?" Yuko said after taking a plate of sea urchin sushi. "I think your brother-in-law found something else." "Anything else that's deadly to the prisoner. I've thought about it, too." "That is to say, it is fatal to Yamahara." "Yes. If it weren't for the fatal discovery, there would be no need to kill brother-in-law."

"But I've thought about it, can we think about it from another angle." "Another angle?" "We chased from Cape Irako to Kanzanji Temple, and then from the message board to Yanbalu, Yamahara, and the fourth companion. I think we were too persistent in identifying the culprit as Yamahara." "Are you saying that the criminal is not Yamahara?" Yuko was stunned, and stopped holding the sushi hand. "It is true that Yamahara had sufficient motives to kill the Takasaka couple. But if we re-examine the whole incident, we can see that Yamahara was not the only one who committed illegal acts. Telling the wife of a subordinate who knows the truth, what does it mean from the perspective of an office worker's psychology?"

"But if Kosaka tells the truth, a large number of cadres will be unlucky, and they will do anything out of self-defense." "Office workers will do a good job of calculating the stakes. Their thinking will always be within the framework of the company. A large number of people are involved in the crime, which means that there are many accomplices. It should be understood how dangerous it is to kill people. I think office workers don’t have the psychological quality to kill people to conceal their illegal behavior. People who participate in crimes do it on the basis of precise calculations. Doesn’t it seem contradictory to ask him to take risks and kill people?”

"Then if it wasn't Yamahara, whose fatal injury was discovered?" "I don't know about this yet. I'm trying to borrow your wisdom." Shi Cun ate red snapper sushi with puffy cheeks. "But the only characters on the guest book are the Yamahara couple and the Takasaka couple. Although they were not married at the time." "There are two ways to change the way of thinking. One is to consider that the things that are fatal to the prisoner may be outside the guest book. The guest book itself may not be a threat to the prisoner." "What about the second method?" Yuko stopped and urged Shimura to continue.

"The second is to think about people other than the four of them on the page that got cut." "Has anyone else written anything besides the four?" "Yes. Several guests who stayed on the same day also wrote messages. This is a copy of the brochure that was mailed from the hotel." Semura spread out the letter on the counter.In addition to Masako, Lakeside girl, SK student, and YANBALU from Nakano Ward (behind), there are two other couples who left messages.The previous pair reads like this: —He who marries is a fool.And the person who wants to marry but does not marry a fool is even a fool. This is a Western adage.But I love that you are smart.It is wiser to marry you.This is my motto.

Yoshihiro Suginami Nagai, Tokyo, May 29 — It is said that lovers are milk, brides are butter, and wives are cheese.I want to be good cheese, but what should I do if you hate cheese?At that point you just ask and I'll turn it into yogurt or cream or whatever you want.Believe in your love and start a new life from a lakeside hotel.From today Mamiko Nagai—— The latter pair reads: --Why are you here Fool, it's not for being with you OKATIMENTAI MENKO—— Judging from the later dates, the Nagai couple stayed on the same day as the foursome. The OKATIMENTAI MENKO group couldn't see it.Judging from the fact that the message was written on the same page, it should have been on the same day or shortly thereafter.

"These two pairs are the only ones outside the group of four." Yuko said, raising her eyes. "The latter couple can't know their real names if they don't check the hotel's accommodation records. If you look at the names, you will immediately understand that it is the Nagai group." "The woman wrote 'from today' Nagai Mamiko, so it should be the man's last name." "Among your brother-in-law's friends or acquaintances, is there anyone named Nagai?" "No. But I don't know that much about my brother-in-law either." "That's right. Anyway, it's necessary to pay attention to Nagai Kihiro." "It's really a different way of thinking. But what if Nagai is wrong again?" "It's what I just said. It may be on another page, or it may have nothing to do with the message book. In this case, it means that this page has nothing to do with the prisoner." "I don't think so at all. A cursory look will reveal that there is no missing page. That's because a sharp object such as a razor has been prepared in advance. From the point of view of the method, this is definitely not the method of the brother-in-law. He has no such method. Something. I still think it was the prisoner’s companion or someone ordered by the prisoner to cut the message.” "I think so too. Then please ask the front desk of the hotel to tell us where Motohiro Nagai lives." "Will you tell us?" "He's been nice to us and will definitely let us know." "No. Didn't he say that the accommodation records are only kept for three years?" "Oh, right." "But if Nagai is the target, my brother-in-law has already found him." "How about the phone book?" Shimura recalled that this method was used to dig out the fourth traveler. "Use the phone book from eight years ago to find Yoshihiro Nagai in Suginami Ward? I have to trouble the Telephone Research Association." Yuko said with a half-sigh.Looking up the huge Tokyo telephone directory from a name, I was intimidated before I even started.The stomachs of the two were easily filled. I borrowed the phone book eight years ago from the research association again, but it was only a waste of effort, and I did not find Yoshihiro Nagai from Suginami Ward.I started looking for Nagai Mamiko again, but there was no result. "Suginami District, if it is a new home, it may not have a telephone yet." "It's also possible to live with your parents." "But the brother-in-law found them." "Perhaps Nagai and the others are not criminals." The new situation opened by changing the way of thinking froze again. Dongju investigates the records of "Ksuya" who was killed in Shibuya Ward in March 12 years ago.It turned out that the victim’s full name was Isamu Kasuya, who was 19 years old at the time, a cram school student, and lived in 1-27-XX, Goppongi, Meguro District.His parents were still alive at the residence at the time. Based on the comprehensive records and parents' words, it is said that after failing to enter the ideal university, Kasuya began to associate with bad people and stopped going to cram schools.If you say a few words to him, he will run away from home and never come back.Occasionally, when I came back, I stole valuables at home behind my parents' backs. After living like this for two years, he was hit by a car and died.The girl who was with him asked her about the accident and she couldn't remember anything.The girl's name was Kosaka Masako. After that, the prisoner was not found, so it just let it go.Dongju thinks that Masako Takasaka must have a deep meaning in letting the child hand over the photo of himself and Isamu Kasuya to Shicun after his death.For some reason, she must have left Semura with the riddle of finding the people around Kasuya during his lifetime. Kasuya must be surrounded by her murderer.This is the spare message she left when she predicted that she would be killed. If it is left too obvious, the prisoner may disappear, so it is left so confusing. Dongju attaches great importance to the fact that Masako Takasaka was present when Kasutani died.Dongju seized this point and asked Kasuya's parents. "Do you two know about your son's relationship with Masako Takasaka?" "Ah Yong seems to have several girlfriends, but we don't know the details. Ask him and he won't say anything. It seems irresponsible for parents to do this, but we really have no other choice but to worry about it." The elderly couple said Completely bowed his head.The criminal police's question reminded the old couple of their unfortunate past. There is also proof of Tomoko Yamahara's relationship between Kasuya and Masako.It can also be seen from the photos taken in the disco that their relationship is very close. If Masako was also at the scene of the accident, it is very likely that he witnessed the prisoner.When questioning Tomoko Yamahara, the Nasu Police Department had hinted.Moreover, Changzi has a deep intention to ask the child to hand over a photo of himself and Kasuya to Shicun, his affair lover, after his death.Dongju thought back and forth in his mind, and his thoughts circulated back and forth in the same circuit. During the circulation, the potential of brain cells gradually increased. In an instant, sparks burst out in my mind.And the sparks that burst out illuminated things that were sunk in the dead corner of thinking.Although it was an image captured in an instant, it remained clearly in Dongju's field of vision. Masako, who was at the scene when Kasuya was hit, was later killed.Changzi witnessed the perpetrator, but kept it secret, and caught the criminal. "So that's what happened!" Dongju murmured to himself unconsciously.If the photo with Kasuya is Masako's spare message, then it probably implies that the criminal who killed her was the one who killed Kasuya. So after the accident, Changzi insisted in the face of the police investigation that he couldn't remember anything and didn't see anything.In Changzi’s testimony, he stated the following about the car involved in the accident: “After Kasutani ran onto the road and was hit by an oncoming car, the car ran away at full speed. Because it happened in an instant, the car number, There is no memory of the car model or anything.” But if Masako witnessed the prisoner, why hide it?Perhaps this can be explained by the words of Tomoko Yamahara. "Masako wants to break up with Kasuya. She said that if things go on like this, not to mention going to college, even her future marriage will be affected. At this time, Kasuya was cut off by a car, and she said that she was so grateful to the prisoner." It is not surprising that such Changzi would say nothing even if he saw the prisoner. It was silent.But after that, Changzi forgot to be grateful to the prisoner, and then blackmailed the prisoner?Or even if there is no extortion, for the prisoner, he will always be worried and lifeless because he doesn't know when Changzi will speak. And there are indeed signs in Changzi's life that she may be extorting.The images illuminated by the sparks that flashed in my mind, through subsequent thinking, make the images more complete and vividly imprinted in my mind. ——It was the prisoner who ran into Kasuya and killed Masako.