Chapter 15 Chapter Fifteen Sad Thoughts

That night, Ayuko and Okamoto stayed at a hotel in Kumagai City.The hotel cleverly provided a double room, and the two changed the room into two single rooms.Although Ayuko was somewhat looking forward to Okamoto knocking on the door of her room at night, she was glad he didn't.Because Ayuko is not yet fully mentally prepared to accept Okamoto.She is very clear about Okamoto's feelings for her, who has been accompanying her during the investigation.If he made that kind of request, Ayuko didn't have enough confidence to be sure that she could refuse him. Before going to the restaurant, Ayuko glanced at the newspaper in the room, but did not see any continuous reports related to the incident.In fact, Ayuko didn't know it. At this time, Sayama had already confessed that the police were searching for relevant evidence.

Ayuko, who was sitting face to face with Okamoto in the restaurant, felt that Okamoto's face made her look forward to it very much, but she felt fortunate that nothing happened.Although, because of her husband's sudden disappearance, Ayuko is very eager for a new object to rely on, but deep down in her heart, there is always something that cannot be completely relied on by Okamoto. "Did you sleep well?" Okamoto asked as soon as he saw Ayuko. "Well, I slept soundly." This sentence was half truth and half lie.After Ayuko went to bed, she was always nervous about whether Okamoto would knock on the door in a while, so she couldn't fall asleep anyway.But when the deep drowsiness hit, Ayuko slept until dawn.

"It's a nice day," Okamoto said, looking out from the restaurant window.Although the scenery here is not much different from the restaurants in the city center, there are not many high-rise buildings, so the sky is even more endless.This can be said to be the characteristic of local cities. "It's too early to go to the police station. I heard that Mr. Fukuyama just came back today. Before he comes back, let's go to Onuma." Okamoto said in an inviting tone. "To Onuma?" "I also want to take a good look at the scene where Teruko Isukino was murdered. According to news reports, Isukino killed Furusawa and Shengchuan in order to avenge his daughter. The name of the third murderer in the three-person criminal gang is still unknown. I want to report that it is because Fifty Kono only asked the name of the third murderer from Gu Ze, and the search team has not yet obtained conclusive evidence. The report did not mention the reason why he wanted to kill Sayama. So it is obvious that Isukino attacked Sayama without sufficient evidence, and he was in the process of killing Gu Ze and Sheng Chuan On the extension line, I found that Sayama was also the murderer who killed Teruko Hikone. I want to go to the crime scene to see, or I can stand there and think about who the third murderer is." Ayuko nodded in agreement.

When the car approached the front of the Arakawa Bridge, the cherry trees lined up along the Arakawa embankment formed a luxurious cherry blossom passage, which extended to both sides of the bridge.I was traveling in the opposite direction yesterday and today, and I passed the bridge when I was heading towards Kumagai City, but the flower path was hidden in the shadow of the embankment, so I didn't see it.Maybe it's not that I didn't see it, but I was in a hurry to reach the destination, so I didn't have time to see the flower arrangement.The blooming cherry blossoms fully absorb the spring light. Due to the weight of the petals, the flower branches bend down. What a gorgeous bloom.Because it is not a holiday, there are no people who enjoy the flowers.Ayuko couldn't help admiring. Hearing Ayuko's admiration, Okamoto also turned his gaze to the cherry tree.

"Ah, it's so beautiful. Let's go to enjoy the flowers." Okamoto said, turning the car from the side of the bridge to the direction of Ti'an.At that turn, there is a stele that may be inscribed with a local singer and song. On the stele, you can see the words "drunk lying in the flowers, waking up from the spring wind and cold".On the right is a river shining with sunlight, and hazy green hills meander; on the left is a flower path with flying flowers.The scenery that looks ordinary on weekdays is full of spring because of the rendering of the seasons, and people can't help but want to take a look at the beautiful scenery in front of them.

The car was slowly moving forward on the embankment. Suddenly, Ayuko shouted hurriedly: "Senior, please stop the car." So the car stopped near the place where the photo was taken. "What's wrong?" Okamoto asked. "Can I stop here for a while?" "Of course, I'll get off too." "No need, I'll be right back, the senior just wait for me in the car." Ayuko said. "Then I'll turn the car in front and come over." Okamoto let Ayuko get out of the car and continued driving along the embankment.Ayuko looked towards the direction of the mountains standing on the other side of the embankment.There are lights shining on the river.In the distant spring glow, faint mist swayed gently on the hazy horizon.The blue mountains are also hazy.At the end of the field of view stands a convex mirror, which is the one in that photo.The vehicle reflected in the convex mirror seemed to be Okamoto's car that had just turned back.The car seems to have turned around at the intersection of the Tian road where the convex mirror is erected and the flower path under the embankment.Ayuko casually looked at the image of Okamoto's car reflected in the convex mirror, and suddenly thought of something.Ayuko seemed to feel that the black curtain covering her eyes was suddenly removed.After removing the black curtain, there is a terrifying vision in front of you.

"How come?" Ayuko stood there dumbfounded and moaned. Atsushi Ochiai's whereabouts are still unknown.Even if it is speculated that her disappearance is related to the murder of Teruko Hikone, why three years later?This is really inexplicable.But now, Ayuko thinks that using this convex mirror can solve this difficult problem.Ayuko discovers photos from her husband's belongings, photos taken at the spot where she currently stands.The only people who have seen that photo are Ochiai, Isukino, the criminal police from the Shinjuku Bureau, and Okamoto.Although it was also shown to several friends, they had nothing to do with it after the husband disappeared.Moreover, after showing that photo to Okamoto, Zhu Shi disappeared.In the background of Zhu Shi's photo, there is a convex mirror, and the image of a vehicle is reflected on the mirror.The license plate number can also be seen through the mirror.At that time, Okamoto asked Ayuko to copy a photo for him.If you magnify the number in the convex mirror on the photo, you may know who the owner of the car is.In other words, Okamoto is someone who may know the owner of the car.If the owner of the car is Akimi Ochiai, that is, Akimi Nakahashi back then, there will be a relationship between Okamoto and Atsushi.Could it be that Okamoto contacted the owner of the vehicle reflected in the mirror after Ayuko showed him the photo?If the owner of the car is Zhu Shi...

"What's the matter? I'm lost in thought here." Suddenly, Okamoto's voice came from her ear, and Ayuko was taken aback.I've been thinking about it just now, but I didn't realize that Okamoto's car had arrived by my side at some point. "I'm sorry, the weather is so good, it's really like a dream." Ayuko hurriedly concealed her flustered expression.The two got into the car again and drove towards the marsh. "What were you thinking just now?" Okamoto asked nonchalantly, looking over the windshield of the car. "Nothing. I'm just in a daze."

"Really? You seem to be staring into a convex mirror." "Do I have that?" "I also saw your image in the convex mirror when I drove back." "Senior, have you seen Iakata?" Ayuko didn't answer Okamoto's question, but asked instead. "No, I haven't seen it. Why do you ask?" "Because Kagata said that he wanted to become a lawyer, I think you may meet at the judicial examination venue." "There are a lot of people taking the exam. Even if we are in the same exam room, we don't know each other. Did your husband say anything about meeting me?"

"No, he didn't say anything." "Why do you ask that?" "I just remembered it suddenly. Has Senpai been to Kumagai City before?" "No, this is the first time." "Why do I think the senior is very familiar with this place?" "Isn't this what we walked through yesterday?" "I couldn't tell the direction yesterday when I went from Dongsong Mountain to Mr. Wu Gongye's house." "Just go straight. Just look at the map." "That's right. I'm blind, and I can't remember the way once or twice."

"Is this your second time here?" "Even if it's the second time, it's the same as the first time." The two fell into silence.The sound of the car engine was unusually noisy to Ayuko.Ayuko seems to have clearly seen the dangerous vision she just peeped through the convex mirror.Is there any connection between Okamoto and Kumagai City?Then, Okamoto may be the passenger of the fifty-kilometer No Teruko car.Ayuko is confused by her own thought, is Okamoto the passenger of Teruko's car? ! When the incident happened, Okamoto also wanted to pass the bar exam just like Kagata.Kagata witnessed Teruko's murder, but turned a blind eye to it. He could not escape the condemnation of his conscience, and finally gave up his ambition to be a lawyer.If Okamoto took Teruko's car and fled ignoring her danger at her critical moment, from now on, he should be condemned by conscience more than Iakata.Suppose Okamoto meets Iagata again after passing the judicial examination, and Okamoto is questioned by Kagata.It is said that judicial trainees will be disqualified if they commit misconduct. If the fact that he ignored the danger of the woman in the car and escaped alone is revealed, he will not only lose his qualifications as a judicial trainee, but may also lose his qualifications to become a lawyer.If Okamoto is really the passenger in that Teruko's vehicle, it is very likely that Kagata will remember his appearance.Okamoto passed the bar exam three years after the incident, and his photo was featured in the magazine.Therefore, Iakata may have seen his photo.If Kagata goes to question Okamoto, saying that he is not qualified to be in the legal profession, it may become Okamoto's motive for killing.Because, after Okamoto's long-term examination hell, the path of the judicial trainee, which he finally obtained, will be blocked by Kagata. After killing his family, Zhu Shi appeared.Okamoto can know Zhu Shi's identity and residence through the photos that Ayuko showed him.From the fact that Zhu Shi and Igata had the same photos taken at the same location because of the same opportunity, and that she also cared about the case of the killing of Teruko Hikata, Okamoto deduced that Jiaxing and Zhu Shi were together at the time, and then he thought of own safety, so she must be killed.But all this is Ayuko's speculation, and there is no real evidence. However, like Kagata, he also wanted to enter the legal profession. He passed the judicial examination three years after the incident happened. According to the photo of Zhu Shi obtained from Ayuko, he can know Zhu Shi's identity and residence, and he is familiar with the geography of Kumagai City. Combined with the fact that he has been paying attention to Ayuko's movements after Kagata disappeared, Ayuko's suspicion of Okamoto is even stronger. These circumstances, as evidence of doubt, also seem somewhat pale.Okamoto was not the only one who passed the judicial examination in the third year after the incident.The reunion of Kagata and Okamoto is just Ayuko's guess.And the argument that is the basis of the inference—the fact that Okamoto is the person who took Teruko’s car has no evidence to prove it at all.Okamoto got Zhu Shi's photo only because Ayuko got close to Okamoto by chance.Moreover, Okamoto is very familiar with the terrain of Kumagai City, which is also Ayuko's feeling.Even if all these inferences are true, it cannot be doubted that he indirectly killed Teruko Fifty Kono. The car of the two arrived in Onuma soon.The wild cherry trees beside the mud pond continuously sprinkle their petals into the mud pond.The petals that have been thanked by no one are spread weakly on the water surface of the mud pond, adding a touch of color to the mud pond.The mud pond I saw yesterday seemed to have lost its original color, perhaps because of these falling petals.If this is a river, there will definitely be liuying (ribbons of flowers floating in the water). Okamoto parked his car near a mud pond.There was silence all around.The crowing of the oriole came from a distance, and it sounded clearer just because it was too quiet. In the quiet bottom, it seemed to be wafting the atmosphere of the nearby streets and villages.This is the frozen natural scenery of Musashino, but there is no foundation.A little further on, there are some families.In this pleasant natural scenery, she seemed to hear the victim desperately calling for help, but no one answered her, and she could only be sunk alive in the mud.She must be very resentful of the murderer. A figure appeared on the forest path near the mud pond.It seems to be locals who came to carry out logging operations.He walked over to the car the two of them were riding in.He glanced at the two people sitting in the car, and casually planned to walk over.But just as he was about to walk over, he fixed his gaze on Oka itself. "Aren't you Xiaohong? Mr. Okamoto Shunichi's grandson Xiaohong?" he asked. Okamoto's face suddenly appeared panicked. "It's Xiaohong! I heard that he passed the bar exam, that's amazing!" the man said kindly. "No, I'm not Xiaohong, did you recognize the wrong person?" Okamoto was a little incoherent. "Admit it wrong? How is it possible? Take a good look, I am Ishino near your house! We played together in Onuma when we were young." "No, you mistook the person. Maybe I look like the person you said." Okamoto insisted. "Really? They look really similar." The man named Ishino left feeling a bit puzzled.The surroundings returned to silence.There was an oppressive silence between the two.Both were afraid to speak.Ishino did say just now that Okamoto is the grandson of Okamoto Shunichi, but Okamoto flatly denied it by saying that he might look like someone else.Could it be that Okamoto is not only similar to others, but also has the same name and surname as others? "Ayuko, are you not thinking wildly?" It was Okamoto who broke the silence first. "No." Ayuko answered with the fewest words possible, her tone sounded calm.Okamoto started the car again.There was something rough about the way he pushed the gear lever.This time, he headed in the opposite direction from Kumagai City.Ayuko thought he would turn back halfway, but he couldn't see that he meant it, the car was getting farther and farther away from Kumagai City.Ayuko felt uneasy. "I think it's time for Mr. Fukuyama to arrive at the Kumagai Office." Ayuko tactfully urged Okamoto to turn around and return to Kumagai City.However, Okamoto stared ahead, still heading in the opposite direction from Kumagai City. "Senior, it's time to go back to Kumagai City." Ayuko couldn't bear the uneasy suffering, and urged clearly.However, Okamoto continued to drive in silence. "Senior, where are you going?" The uneasiness in Aizi's heart seemed to freeze. "You don't have to worry. We're going for a drive around here," Okamoto said. "I'm not in the mood for a ride. Hurry back to Kumagai City." "Why are you in such a hurry to go back? There is still plenty of time!" "Please, hurry back to Kumagai City!" "What's the matter with you? Why are you so pale?" "nothing." "You are trembling. What makes you so frightened?" "Nothing scares me." "You're really scared." "I'm not afraid." "Really?" Okamoto nodded, and parked the car deep in the forest that he just passed by. "What's wrong?" "I want to see if you are really afraid." Okamoto said while pressing on Ayuko who was sitting in the passenger seat. "Senior, what do you want to do!" Ayuko was taken aback and wanted to push Okamoto away.And Okamoto, who attacked Ayuko, tried to subdue Ayuko with the brute force of a man. "Stop, please stop!" Ayuko desperately wanted to push Okamoto away, but she couldn't resist being squeezed into the narrow seat. "I've always liked you! I want you! You should know my heart." Okamoto wanted to kiss Ayuko's mouth where he was going to call for help. "Let me go! Senpai, I have a husband!" Ayuko said while desperately dodging Okamoto's lips. "Kagata is dead. He's never coming back." "Why do you know?!" Okamoto panicked when asked suddenly. "Abandoned his newly married wife for months. He will definitely not come back." "Senior, do you know the whereabouts of Jiaxing?" "I tell you I know, so what?" "Sure enough, it's the senior, you killed Jiaxing!" "You're too smart. So, just stop thinking about it. Forget about your family, I want you very much." "You knew my husband before, didn't you?" "do not know." "Didn't I know you when Ishiko No Teruko was killed?" "That's just your wild guess." "Let's stop driving, go to the police station in Kumagai City now, and you'll know if I'm guessing." "You agreed to my request, and we will go to Kumagai City." "That's impossible. I'm Kagata's wife!" "Then let me help you get rid of the ghost of Kagata who is bewitching your body and mind!" Okamoto began to tear Ayuko's clothes. "Kaigata is not a ghost! To me, he is still alive." "Kagata is dead. Forget about Kagata and promise me." Okamoto showed his fierce face, and the tearing became even wilder. "It was you who killed Iakata, and Ochiai Atsushi was also killed by you!" "If you didn't have those wild thoughts...we would be a perfect couple, what a pity!" The violence that ignores women's resistance and satisfies man's bestial desires has a vicious taste. "Don't aggravate your crime!" Ayuko tried desperately to dissuade her.But now, Okamoto's ferocity is clearly murderous.Ayuko instinctively felt the fear of death. "If possible, I don't want to aggravate my crime. But if I let you live, Jiaxing and Zhu Shi will die in vain." "It really was you! You killed Jiaxing and Zhu Shi!" "I had no choice but to kill them! As you guessed, Kagata came to me after seeing my photo in a magazine with photos of passers of the bar exam. He asked me to resign as a judicial trainee. Do you know? How did I get here! I hold the Six Laws Book in my hand for eight hours a day, every day, and I have accumulated two and a half years of study to reach the level of passing the exam. Not passing the exam, but just reaching the level of passing the exam The level of the test. The memory cannot keep up with the level of forgetting, and what I remember is forgotten. That kind of test is not set up to let you pass, but to prevent you from passing. To pass that kind of test, compared with strength , Luck is more important. If you tell the person who passed the exam, repeat the hellish exam-taking study you have experienced, that person will definitely go crazy! The identity that has been obtained through so much hard work is forced to be dismissed by the family. It's impossible!" "When Teruko Fifty Kono was killed, you sat back and watched her escape in spite of her danger, didn't you?" "I can't help it. If I resist, I will die with her." "Do you know Ishiko No Teruko?" "One day four years ago, I went to my grandfather's house on the outskirts of Kumagai City to run errands and went to Kumagai City. On the way, I passed by the supermarket where Fifty Kung Ye worked, and went in to buy something. I have forgotten Fifty Kung Ye, but she still remembers the past Met me when I went to my grandpa's house. So she said hello to me, I told her to go to grandpa's house, and she said it was in the same direction anyway, so she invited me to take her car. For me, it was exactly what I wanted, so I took I got into her car. When I was passing by Onuma, I met a car with three people and stopped on the side of the road because it ran out of gasoline. They stopped Teruko’s car and asked her to share some gasoline, and Teruko readily agreed. During the petrol, those people suddenly showed their fierceness. She begged me for help while resisting desperately. However, there were three of them, and there were murder weapons. But if they have to sue them, they might not be killed. At that time, I felt the murderous aura emanating from the leader of the three, and I ran away instinctively. When I ran away, because I was panicked, I was caught in the car door My fingers and nails were also peeled off, but I didn't feel it at the time. I was driven by the fear that they would come after me, and I didn't go to the nearby people for help, and I didn't call the police. I just ran for my life like crazy. The scene at that time was seen by Iakata and Zhu Shi who came for a drive. However, I didn't know at the time that they saw the crime. After the murder case of Wu Gongye Teruko was reported, that incident became a part of my heart. A burden. The family gave up their ambition to be a lawyer, but I didn't. That's why I didn't come forward to testify afterwards. If I showed up, I would be as disregarding the safety of a woman in a car. Such a person is absolutely not qualified to be a lawyer. " "What would you do if you were a judge, a prosecutor, a lawyer! You'd be a criminal! I'm afraid to see that." "You can say whatever you want. If you haven't personally experienced the nightmarish judicial exam study, you won't understand my mood!" "But Jiaxing became a debt in his heart because of this incident, so he gave up his ambition to be a lawyer." "If only I could give up. I won't give up." "You should give up!" "Those who can give up have not yet been infiltrated by the toxins of the judicial examination. I have already been covered with the toxins of the judicial examination, and it has penetrated into my bones." "What invades your body is not the toxin from the judicial examination, but the toxin that already exists in your heart. Even if ordinary people have experienced such painful exams, they will not become like you! Your own The poison has corrupted you and killed Jiaxing and even Zhu Shi!" "If Zhu Shi was alive, Jiaxing might have died in vain. You showed me the photo of Zhu Shi you found among Jiaxing's relics, and I thought that she might have been there when Jiaxing witnessed the incident. Jiaxing Xing may also have told her about me. As long as Zhu Shi is alive, her existence will become a potential threat to me. In order not to let Jia Xing die in vain, Zhu Shi must die too. Moreover, in order not to let the two of them die in vain, You have to die too. In order to make your husband’s death meaningful, you, as his wife, should also be buried for him.” "You're crazy!" "I'm normal. Being normal doesn't keep you alive." "What are you going to do to me?" "I will bury you next to your husband." Okamoto's hand grabbed her neck.Ayuko wanted to break free from his hand, but his hand was like an iron ring, and he couldn't get rid of it no matter what, and the strength in his hand gradually increased.Catfish's trachea was oppressed, and her mind gradually fell into a coma.She tried to cry out for help, but couldn't.It was getting darker and darker in front of my eyes, but all kinds of colorful stars were emitting from my eyelids.In that moment of darkness, Ayuko saw the figure of Iakata.Kagata yelled at her, "You can't come here!" Although Kagata's voice is stopping her, Kagata's figure is getting closer and closer.At this time, Ayuko seemed to hear a shout of "wait a minute" from behind, as if someone was chasing him from behind.That person seems to want to stop Ayuko and Iakata from approaching.Okamoto's hand, which was pinching his throat, relaxed.A ray of light shot into the darkness in front of him, and his eyes suddenly became brighter, and the figure of Jiaxing disappeared. "Now we are going to arrest you for attempted murder!" Ayuko heard such a voice in his ear. "Ma'am, are you alright? Cheer up!" Ayuko heard Ochiai's shout, and suddenly came to her senses, and saw Ochiai's face looking at her with concern.Sandwiched between the oxtail and the green willow, Okamoto hangs his head and wears handcuffs. "It's really dangerous, luckily we caught up." Ochiai said with a sigh of relief. "How do you know I'm here?" Ayuko asked.Although the throat is a little tingling, but the body is not serious. "I'll tell you later. Is this man the one who took the fifty-kilometer car?" "Yes. But how do you know?" "Isukino Teruko's father said it. Before we thought she was killed alone." Okamoto was taken to the Shinjuku Bureau through the Kumagai Bureau to search the headquarters. "I just wanted to violate her, and I was resisted, so we wrestled together. It's too unreasonable to talk about attempted murder." Okamoto has been fighting desperately at the beginning.However, after comparing and examining the nails left in the car of Ishikono Teruko and his nails, it was determined that the two nails belonged to the same person.During the interrogation, the police officer asked Okamoto: Why did Okamoto say that he had nothing to do with Kumagai City and Isokono Teruko, but he found his own nails in the car that sank into the mud with Teruko.Unable to quibble, Okamoto confessed to his crime.Probably the situation is the content of those words said to Igata Ayuko. "At that time, on the way to my grandfather's house, if I hadn't bumped into Teruko Ishikono, I wouldn't have taken her car, and I wouldn't have killed Iakata and Zhu Shi. Maybe Igata wouldn't have given up on his dream of becoming a lawyer. At that time, Jiaxing strongly demanded that I resign as a judicial trainee. He said that it would be too dangerous for a person like you to become a lawyer. I pretended to agree to do what he said. On September 25, I was with Jiaxing again. We met each other. At that time, Jiaxing didn’t realize my murderous intent, which gave me an opportunity. I used the excuse that I was sent by Jiaxing to see Zhu Shi, and tricked Zhu Shi out. Although I can’t be sure that Zhu Shi Do you know about the existence of me as a passenger, but as long as there is a possibility, I can't let her live. It seems that she is still thinking about her ex-boyfriend's family shape after she is married, and she was easily deceived by me. I said family Something has happened to Xing, and now it is very secretive, so if you want to see him, you must do it in secret. Zhu Shi followed my instructions. Because she herself has just married not long ago, and she has to do it secretly when you want to see Xing Xing. Zhu Shi There was no reaction when I saw me. It seemed that although she and Igata witnessed the incident that day, she didn't remember my appearance. I resented that I met Fifty Kono Teruko that time. I even prayed to God that there would be no such encounter, That encounter messed up my life, and that encounter also took the lives of Kagata and Zhu Shi." According to Okamoto's confession, the bodies of Igata and Atsushi buried there were found in the mountains of Hachioji City. Okamoto's confession clarified the truth of a series of events.After the incident was resolved, Ochiai and Ayuko met. "After all, we still abandoned the two of us." Ochiai said with a wry smile. "I've only been married for such a short time, and I still can't feel the real feeling of being abandoned." Ayuko replied. "Me too. Our married life is too short." "Maybe this is the best result. If you have been a husband and wife for a long time and have a deep relationship, and you are suddenly abandoned by the other party, you may not be able to bear the blow." "We can start all over again at our age." "It's true that abandoned people can start their lives again, but it's not fair to your wife or my husband." "At least we should think about that when we can start over." "In that case, all I can think of is sad thoughts." "Thinking about it now, the meeting between you and me is really a strange fate!" "I suddenly remembered something." Ayuko said hesitantly. "What do you remember?" "Maybe your wife and my husband have already sworn each other. Maybe it was because of that incident that they separated. Your wife and you, Jiaxing and I, they all want to start over, so they will be with you Someone else got married." "Perhaps as you said, witnessing that incident changed their fate." "Igata is a person with a strong sense of justice. Regardless of the dangers he may encounter, he wants to save Teruko Fifty Kono. However, he was stopped by your wife. Because he sat and watched Teruko Fifty Kono was killed, I couldn't stand it." Conscience is uneasy, and he gave up his ambition to be a lawyer. At the same time, he cannot allow Okamoto, who also sits by and ignores the dangers of others, to become a lawyer. Teruko had the same fate. So Iagata was saved by your wife. But your wife may feel that she should be responsible for changing Iagata's life path. It can be said that both of them are victims of this incident. " "Speaking of victims of the incident, Okamoto was also a victim." "Thinking about it now, on that night four years ago, five of the seven young people who met near Onuma died, and two of them will be held accountable as murderers. What an ominous encounter!" "Their encounter is ominous, but our encounter is based on their encounter. I hope our encounter can be happy. At least this can also compensate for part of their misfortune." Ochiai looked at Ayuko, as if implying something. (full text)