Chapter 13 Chapter Twelve Before and After Continuous Deaths

Hiroko Takaoka finally felt that the sword was over, and he was discouraged.She was very satisfied with her place of residence and made up her mind that she would never move again, but when the life of her child was threatened, she couldn't go on. She has been living in an apartment in Minami-Aoyama 1-chome.It is very close to Aoyama, Akasaka, and Roppongi. It is very convenient to do everything, and even the air is very fresh.There is a sweet fragrance in the breeze. Good during the day and even better at night.In the middle of a brightly lit city, at the bottom of dim indirect lighting.She lives here, and the night she sees is purple.

Although located in the center of the city, it is not noisy.Like the tranquility in the center of a typhoon.Although it is located in the most concentrated area of ​​Japan's capital, the atmosphere is very elegant and quiet. Hiroko likes this atmosphere and environment very much.In a short distance, there are beautiful restaurants, boutiques, restaurants, cafes, etc.There are not only comfortable houses here, but also neat and beautiful streets and lovely neighbors. It is indeed an ideal place to live.Hiroko regards this place as a permanent residence, and has no intention of moving at all.

Bad real estate owners have taken a fancy to this place.They first bought them with a lot of money, and if they failed to buy them, they used various methods to intimidate them. First, based on the room they got, they gathered a group of bad guys to harass the residents day and night.Dirty remarks to girls, and night-long quarrels, made the young women timid and intimidated, and eighty per cent of the tenants gave in. For the last remaining tenants, either call to make trouble, or send you razor blades, or leave the carcass of a pet animal at your door, or send you fifty servings of sushi or noodles without ordering, or put Put on low heat.

As a result, the households who stubbornly resisted also moved away, and finally there were only two households left, one of which was Takaoka Hiroko.She was determined to resist until the end, when her five-year-old only son, Zhen, was hit by a bicycle and injured.The real estate owner also said, "Fortunately, it was hit by a bicycle, be careful not to let a dump truck run over it next time."It's creepy to hear. For Hiroko, whose husband died of illness and a woman supports the whole family, Ah Zhen is her only hope.In case Ah Zhen has something good or bad, no matter how good the house is, it doesn't mean anything to her.The other party knew her weakness.

Finally, she finally moved to Shinjuku.Compared with the residence of Qingshan in the past, the residence here is very different. She wants to live here temporarily for a transition, and then move out after finding a good place.The place was dusty and the streets were full of noise and din.The people here are rough and uneducated. The people in Qingshan are very educated, even strangers are very polite to each other.And the residents here are vulgar.People here gather from all directions, without the slightest neighborhood intimacy among each other. This newly built apartment looks luxurious, but there are many small defects.Because the tiles pasted on the outer wall continued to peel off, a protective net was hung above the entrance and exit.Water may leak into the room from somewhere at any time; the footsteps of the residents upstairs are as loud as a big drum; the indoor space always seems to be reverberating.

I don't know if there is radio interference nearby, and the image on the TV screen is always unclear.The air in Qingshan is scented with flowers, but here the air is filled with the stench of car exhaust. The biggest deception is to say a house faces due south when it is actually quite west.In summer, the house is full of western sun. In Qingshan, the beautiful scenery of the sunset slowly setting down from the dense forest of the Jingu Temple is so charming; but here, the sunset shining on the towering buildings is annoying.Compared with Qingshan, everything here makes Hiroko feel dull.

What's particularly boring is that the residents of the new apartment rarely greet each other when they walk face to face, but they are very interested in other people's private lives. Let’s just talk about Hiroko who is a woman and a child, someone will always stick their noses to see if there is a man behind her life. But when it comes to cleaning public stairs and being on duty arranged by the self-government association, they always find various excuses to evade, putting on an egoistic and individualistic face. Many residents swept the rubbish in front of their own house to the door of their neighbors, and pretended to be nonchalant.

The resident above Hiroko is a person of bad character.Turning the stereo to the maximum volume late at night, without any consideration for the peace of the neighbors.The creaking footsteps upstairs seemed to be stepping on the ceiling downstairs.Water was poured downstairs from the balcony, and spitting on the ground was spitting.His life is very irregular, and he is bored in the house all day.But recently, there has been no sound at all. This man lived upstairs from Hongzi, but Hongzi didn't know him very well. Once Hiroko passed him by, and he wore dark sunglasses and turned his face away.Of course they didn't say hello.He looks like he is in his 20s, I don't know what kind of work he does.Heard he was a hooligan.

Because Hiroko has suffered from real estate owners, even though she feels a little bit annoyed now, she has no choice but to endure it. Anyway, she doesn't want to live here for a long time. The person living upstairs has not moved for a long time.Two months passed in a flash, and there was no sound at all. "Has the man upstairs moved away?" Hiroko said to her brother.Her younger brother was afraid that it would be unsafe here, so he lived here to keep his sister company. "It doesn't look like they've moved away." "It would take too long to travel. Did you go abroad?"

"He's a rogue. Maybe he was killed outside. Or..." The younger brother just said this, but he looked a little scared and didn't say any more. "Or what?" Seeing that he stopped talking halfway through, Hiroko asked. "No, nothing." "Well, I want to know." "I told you, don't worry about it!" "Don't care, don't care." "Since he is a hooligan, he might be killed by someone at some point." "Killed, where is it?" "At home, of course." "At home? Upstairs?" Hiroko could not help but look at the ceiling.

"If he was killed outside, it would have caused commotion." "You say his body is upstairs, how disgusting!" "Look, pay attention!" At that time, the dialogue between the siblings talked about these.But as time went by, her brother's words made her worried, and she became more and more worried, and her eyes were always looking at the ceiling. At first, I just wondered if the dead body was on top of my head, but then I gradually felt that it was true.Even if you travel abroad, you won't go there for two months.Moreover, from the outside, there are sporadic objects on the balcony.If you go on a long-term trip, you should also put it away. One night, Hiroko woke up and stared at the ceiling, but couldn't fall back asleep. After a while, she found a wet spot in one corner of the ceiling, which looked a bit like a pattern.But when I first moved here, there didn't seem to be such patterns there. Since then, the smudge has expanded day by day.Hiroko thought, there must be another leak somewhere.The quality of construction in this apartment is really poor.However, the color of the smudge doesn't look like a water bleed.It's purple and black, like waste oil... no, it's almost the same color as blood. At this time, she remembered her brother's words again.The connection between the two made her hair stand on end. But she thought it might not be the case.Sometimes it's scary to imagine, but it's not reality after all.How could blood stain a reinforced concrete building?It must be a hallucination caused by watching too many corpses on TV. Hiroko convinced herself in this way, but soon felt a strange smell filled the room, and it seemed to be coming from the wet part of the ceiling. Hiroko finally couldn't bear it any longer, and asked his younger brother: "Haven't you smelled a strange smell recently?" "I didn't smell anything strange." The younger brother acted as if nothing had happened. "Your senses are dull." When Hiroko said this, Ah Zhen also said: "It stinks, I hate the smell." "Ah Zhen, you can smell it too, it's not my nose that's causing the trouble?" "Hearing you say that, it really has a strange smell." The younger brother also echoed. "You're really good, don't take anything seriously. You bring the step stool and smell the smell from the stain." "Ah, why is there a stain there?" The younger brother seemed to be seeing stains on the ceiling for the first time. "Say you're insensitive." Hiroko urged his younger brother to go quickly.The younger brother pulled the step stool out of the storage room and stood up.Then climbed up the step stool under the care of my sister and Ah Zhen. "Hey, do you smell something strange?" Hiroko said. The younger brother stood on the step stool and put his nose close to the smudge.At this time, he frowned. Seeing his younger brother's expression, Hiroko immediately said: "The strange smell really comes from the stain!" There was no color on her face.Stains are the source of the smell.This shows that the ominous imagination has become a reality. "The rat must have died there." The younger brother's voice was still calm. Hiroko dialed number 110 immediately.If this happened in Qingshan, she would definitely call the people nearby to take a look. On September 15, after the police station received a report from the apartment residents of Okubo 2-chome in Shinjuku Ward that there were blood stains on the ceiling and a strange smell, they first sent a police car from the district authority to the scene to check the situation. The person who called the police lived in a newly built apartment on a slightly northerly turn of Okubo Road in Okubo 2-chome.It looks like a very luxurious seven-story building.The outer wall is pasted with Indian red polished bricks, which is very beautiful in appearance. The room where the problem occurred was Room 407 on the fourth floor, and the caller was a resident of Room 307 below it.The officer knocked on the door of Room 407, but no one answered, as if no one was home.But the person who called the police said there was a strange smell and blood stains, so they couldn't ignore it.So the manager was called and opened the door. As soon as the door was opened, there was a distinct smell. The body fell on the floor of an eight-seat Western-style room that connected to the balcony.It seems to have been dead for a long time, and the body has changed a lot.The officer issued the first report and stayed behind to secure the scene himself. After the first report on the discovery of the dead body that was likely to be a homicide was issued, personnel from the mobile search team, the Criminal Division of the Administration, and the First Search Section came to the scene one after another. Everyone cooperates to start the scene investigation and autopsy.It turned out that there was a laceration on the right side of the head, deeply affecting the inside of the skull, resulting in death. There was no sign of fighting or resistance in the room, as if the victim welcomed the murderer into the room.During the conversation, taking advantage of the victim's unpreparedness, he was beaten to death with a murder weapon. The slurry flowing from the inside of the victim's body dripped down the floor and onto the ceiling of Room 307 downstairs, staining it and was discovered. The victim is said to be a resident of the room.But management said the room's owner is now in the United States.While he was abroad, he lent the victim a room to live in.The administrators also did not know the victim's name. After an autopsy, it was inferred that the time of death was about 40 to 60 days.This is consistent with the testimony provided by the person who called the police in Room 307, that he could not hear the movement from above about two months ago. There are three door keys.One is kept by the management personnel, and the other two are used by the residents.However, after a careful inspection of the room, the resident's key was not found.It is inferred that the murderer took the key after committing the crime, locked the door and fled. The age and physical characteristics of the victim were consistent with those of Hiroshi Amada, who was under the jurisdiction of the Akasaka Bureau and was named and wanted for being involved in the murder and abandonment case of the original New Oriental Hotel, which immediately aroused high tension. "Look at this." Investigator Kashi Lara of Nasu Division 1 took the hand of his colleague Kuasaba, and then he pointed to the yellow-green carpet under the corpse and said: "Look at the carpet in this room." "What's the matter with the carpet?" Meadows said. "I heard from the criminal police who participated in the search of the New Oriental Hotel that yellow-green synthetic fibers that were not found at the scene were found on the victim's body there." "Yellow-green... fibers?" Hayfield looked at the carpet again.Amada Hiroshi is wanted in connection with the New Oriental Hotel murder case.If Hiroshi Amada was killed, he would naturally link the two incidents together.If the fibers from the carpet at the scene where Tiantian was killed and the fibers from the body of the New Oriental Hotel are determined to be the same substance, the two victims may have been killed by the same person. "But, if the murderer is the same person, who is the murderer? Why did he kill these two people?" Hexi said and shook his head.In the past, it was always believed that Hiroshi Amada, the murderer of Nami Shimura, killed Kumasawa in order to put the blame on Kumasawa.But now Amada Hiroshi was also killed.And who killed Kumazawa and Amada at the same time? Following the autopsy, further autopsies will be performed on the body.On this day, the Shinjuku Bureau set up a search headquarters for the murder and abandoned corpse case in the apartment.At this time, the victim has been identified as Hiroshi Amada. An autopsy was performed the next day, and it was determined that the back of the head was beaten with a mallet-shaped blunt instrument, and the brain was contused to death.The date of death is estimated to be 50 to 60 days. In addition, the carpet fibers taken from the scene were determined to be polyester synthetic fibers, which were the same substance as the fibers on the murdered body of the original New Oriental Hotel. So far, the connection between the two cases has become clear.It is presumed that the murderer killed Amada first, and then Kumazawa.After analysis, the fibers in Amada's room were brought to the New Oriental Hotel by the murderer's body and attached to Xiong Ze's body.If Kumazawa had been killed first and Amada had been killed, the fibers from Amada's room would not have been brought to the New Oriental Hotel. The estimated time of death of the victim also shows that this is the order. At this time, a joint search meeting was held at the Shinjuku Bureau with the participation of the investigation headquarters of the Akasaka Bureau and the Shinjuku Bureau, as well as the Shimura Nami Murder Investigation Headquarters. The first question asked was: "How did the murderer know about Tian Tian's existence?" The core of this issue is that the murders of Amada and Kumazawa both originated from Shimura Nami's murder.Because Nami Shimura was killed and both Amada and Kumazawa were involved. According to this opinion, it can be considered that the murderer has a relationship with Nami Shimura in some way.But when the murderer killed Tiantian, Tiantian had not been named and wanted. That is to say, it was impossible for the murderer to know the existence of Amada through the mass media at that time.Xiong Ze was first arrested as a suspect in the murder of Shimura Nami, escaped during the escort, and was later killed.At this time, Amada was named and wanted as a suspect in killing Xiong Ze, and his name was made public for the first time. In this way, after the murderer killed Xiong Ze, he attacked Tiantian again, although the murderer's motive has not yet been clarified.Then came the following comments: "Perhaps the murderer knew about Amada's existence in some way before the police." "You said using a certain method, what kind of method?" Someone raised such a question. "We started to pay attention to Amada Hiroshi based on the reminder of Kiryu's inspection related to Shimura Nami's murder. Kiryu was the first to put forward the theory of bicycle relay, so he dug out Amada. People who knew about Amada's existence before the police, It was Kiryu who inspected. Kiryu also had the motive of killing Amada to avenge Shimura Nami." There was an uproar in the venue because an unexpected character was brought up.Kiryu did not lose his status as a police officer, as his resignation letter remained with his superiors. "Kiryu did know about Amada's existence before us. But if he is a murderer, he just kills the other party. There is no need to report to us. On the other hand, Kiryu himself came up with reasons to prove that Kumazawa is not the murderer, and he has no The motive for killing Kumazawa." Someone immediately defended Kiryu.At this time, new opinions emerged. "Can it be considered that the case of killing Kumazawa and Amada has nothing to do with the Nami Shimura case?" "That is to say, the murderer has both the motive of killing Kumazawa and the motive of killing Amada." The person who put forward a new opinion made a supplementary explanation. "Apart from the case of Shimura Nami's murder, I am afraid that no one has the motive to kill Kumazawa and Amada at the same time." "Have." "Is there a common problem with both Kumazawa and Amada?" Everyone in the Tai family was interested in this opinion. "Amada's mistress, didn't she receive Kumazawa?" "Is that Mayumi Hibino?" "Mayumi Hibino is now living with a photographer named Yamagata, and the room she lives in is the one Amada used to live in." The police estimated that Amada would definitely come to find Mayumi, so they set up a surveillance post at Mayumi's residence.During this time, Amada's murdered body was discovered. "Yamagata, who claims to be a photographer, is acting a bit suspicious. If you tap him, you will definitely find the problem." The person who put forward a new opinion looked around at everyone as if solving a riddle. "So, Yamagata..." "It's not surprising that Mayumi's new man is hostile to her past man?" "Maybe Amada can be said to be Mayumi's past man, but what about Kumazawa?" "For a woman who has worked as a prostitute in an apartment, is it over to pursue her past lovers or clients one by one?" Objections emerged. "Kumazawa is not her usual client. Kumazawa was arrested on suspicion of Nami Shimura's murder. Mayumi is the only one who can prove his alibi." "However, this cannot be a reason for Yamagata to kill Kumazawa." "Could it be that Yamagata mistook Kumazawa for Mayumi's past man?" "How did you misunderstand it?" "Before the existence of Amada was discovered, Kumazawa was the only person involved. Mayumi refused to testify that Kumazawa was not at the scene of the crime, which made Yamagata mistakenly believe that Mayumi and Kumazawa had an affair." "It's too complicated. In that case, Xiong Ze should be killed first." "Did you kill two people at the same time?" Again there were differences of opinion. "Simultaneously?" "The death time of the two people overlapped for a while. After killing two people at the same time, in order to disguise as two unrelated incidents, the body of Xiong Ze was transported away. The fiber was attached to Xiong Ze's body at that time. .” "Kill two people at the same time. One with a pistol and the other with a hammer. This murderer is more capable than Miyamoto Musashi." Someone said it humorously. In the end, both arguments have shortcomings and loopholes, and neither has the persuasiveness to become the majority opinion. In summary, there are several statements: 1. Kiryu is the murderer.The disadvantage is: Kiryu has a motive to kill Amada, but not Kumazawa.In addition, reporting the existence of Amada to the search headquarters, and killing Amada, there is a contradiction. Second, Yamagata is the murderer.The disadvantage is: Yamagata's motive for killing Kumazawa is not sufficient. 3. Statements that have nothing to do with the murder of Shimura Nami, including the second statement.The disadvantage is: the motive is unknown. 4. The statement of killing at the same time, including the first, second, and third statements.The disadvantage is: there are contradictions in the means of committing the crime. The news of Amada Hiroshi's murder was a blow to Kiryu.Nami was killed, and Kiryu felt responsible, so he submitted his resignation.If the murderer is not caught, he will feel that his physical and mental debts have not been paid off. Kiryu dug out the character Hiroshi Amada based on his own reasoning and investigations different from those of the search headquarters.But now that Amada has been killed, Kiryu's debt will never be repaid. Who killed Amada?What was the motive for killing him?He still doesn't know anything about it.It seems that the murderer punished Amada instead of Kiryu, but Kiryu didn't thank him at all.It was the murderer who took Amada away from Kiryu.