Chapter 49 Section 49

No matter how you change the way of asking, Chengshi's answer is always the same.That night, she went to an izakaya with her friends.Before leaving the izakaya, she had already learned that Tsukahara's whereabouts were missing.After returning home, she stayed in her room until the next morning.She had no idea that the boiler was malfunctioning. "Then, did you find out about this last night?" Detective Nonogaki asked. "Yes. I've said it many times before." "Hmm—" Nonogaki folded his arms. "There's always something wrong with that. Don't you all live together? Don't you think they look weird at all?"

"But it's true..." Cheng Shi lowered his head. In a room in the Glass Police Station, Chengshi and Nonogaki sat facing each other.This is not an interrogation room, but feels more like a conference room.Both Shigeji and Setsuko must be facing severe interrogation by the police in the small interrogation room at this moment.Thinking of this, Cheng Shi couldn't help but feel a burst of heartache. The scene when Chongzhi told himself everything last night reappeared in front of Chengshi. "I have something to tell you. Something very important." After finishing speaking, Chongzhi paused for a moment, and then continued: "Tomorrow, I am going to surrender myself."

This sentence almost made Shi Shi's heart stop beating.Although Chengshi also suspected that her parents might be involved in the case, she was still shocked when she heard her father confess to her. What's going on—Chengshi felt that the atmosphere was so heavy that she couldn't breathe.With a look of giving up, Shigeji answered Chengshi's question. It was an accident.Mr. Tsukahara's death was actually an accident.However, the person who caused the accident was me.Although I also knew that I should go to the police immediately, but I always had a little chance in my heart, so I managed to hide the whole thing.I threw the body out of the hotel.I did something stupid...

What Shigeji said later was the same as what the police had just said when they went to "Green Rock Village".When facing Nishiguchi, Shigeharu also said the same thing. "Paper can't hold fire. Sooner or later, the police will find out the truth. Moreover, if I keep concealing it like this, I will feel guilty. Although I can't bear to watch the police take Setsuko away, as long as I If you tell the police that Setsuko is just doing what I say, they will probably reduce her sentence as appropriate." Cheng Shi was shocked, but at the same time felt a little overwhelmed.In order to conceal this fatal accident, the body was thrown out. What a terrible thing.Cheng Shi felt that this was simply a nightmare.

Although feeling hopeless, Chengshi couldn't deny that after hearing what Chongzhi said, the corner of her heart also felt a little relieved.Just a simple accident?Tsukahara's death was actually not as complicated as he imagined, it was just caused by the outdated equipment.If this is the case, then it can be said to be the last trace of luck in misfortune. Of course, Chengshi couldn't stop himself from making another guess.Is all this true?Was it really just an accident?Are these words just a cover-up of the truth?However, Cheng Shi couldn't ask.It was hard for Chengshi to accept Shigeharu's confession.Moreover, she also hoped that what Chongzhi said was really the truth of the matter.

Meanwhile, Setsuko remained silent.Cheng Shi always feels that this is not because of the fact that Shigeji said "shut up" at the beginning.Perhaps, Setsuko actually had her own ideas, but she changed her mind and thought that she should follow her husband's decision now. After listening to Shigeji's narration, Chengshi didn't ask too much.What Cheng Shi asked was just trivial things like "what about the hotel" and "what about Gongping".Naturally, Chongzhi had already arranged these matters.He smiled and said to Cheng Shi with a lonely face: How can people continue to operate this kind of hotel that can cause accidents?

Last night, Cheng Shi couldn't sleep all night.Thinking that his parents would be arrested by the police tomorrow, Cheng Shi wished that the dawn would never come.But on the other hand, another trace of uneasiness sprouted in her heart.Will all this really end here?The phone call from Reiko Koguan kept Chengshi uneasy.The Metropolitan Police Department may have been investigating the situation of his family—— "...Did you do anything?" Nonogaki's voice brought Chengshi back to his senses. "Huh? What?" "Let me ask you, have you ever done any exercise?"

"Ah...well, when I was in junior high school, I used to play soft tennis for a while." "Tennis?" Nonogaki stared at Chengshi's figure for a while, "You should have been an instructor of self-contained oxygen diving for a while, right? As a woman, I feel that your body is quite strong." "I don't know if my body is strong or not." Nonogaki tapped the table with his fingertips slowly. "No matter how you look at it, neither of them should be able to do it. Your father has limited legs and feet, and your mother is short in stature and does not seem to have much strength. Move the body from the fourth floor to the car, and then drag it to the embankment , into the rocky ground. Well, can they both do it? Do you think they can do it?"

"...Since the two of them said they did it, they should be able to do it." "Really?" Nonogaki said suspiciously, "The two of them probably can't do it. No matter who it is, it's obvious that they can't do it." Hearing what the other party said, Cheng Shi had nothing to do. Nonogaki put his elbows on the table, stared at Chengshi's face and said, "Well, I can't understand why parents want to protect their children. It's okay to be arrested, but I don't want my children to suffer too. .” "What do you mean by that?"

"Are you really not understanding or are you pretending not to understand? Do you just have the heart to watch your elderly parents go to prison while you are enjoying yourself outside?" Cheng Shi finally understood the meaning of the policeman's words.She straightened her face immediately. "You mean... I helped them too?" Nonogaki pouted. "Don't take the police as fools either. Just let the two of them actually reproduce the actions at that time, and the truth will be exposed immediately. They are obviously covering someone. So, who is this so-and-so ? This question can probably be figured out with a little finger."

Cheng Shi shook his head.There was heat on her face. "I didn't do anything. I told the truth. If I helped them, I would tell the truth. I won't let my parents take the blame for me. . . I would never do that, absolutely Won't." Nonogaki picked his ears with his little finger with a look of disdain.That meaning seems to be saying: I will not be fooled by your realistic acting skills. At this time, there was a knock on the door suddenly.Immediately afterwards, the door was opened a crack.Someone called outside the door: "Mr. Nonogaki, please excuse me." Nonogaki stood up and walked out of the room with a straight face.When going out, he closed the door heavily. Cheng touched his forehead with his hand.Although she had already guessed that the police would pester her endlessly, she never expected that the police would suspect her.At this moment, those policemen must also be pressing her parents, asking them whether they have helped them by telling the truth. However, Chengshi is not completely unable to understand the thoughts of the criminal police.Indeed, it was really difficult to deal with the corpse based on the words of the parents alone. Nonogaki opened the door and went back inside.His expression has changed slightly.Although his brows were still tightly furrowed, his eyes were a little vacillating. After sitting down on the chair, Nonogaki started to tap the table with his fingers again.However, this time the tempo was obviously much faster than before.After a while, he stopped what he was doing and saw that it was true. "You said that you went to the izakaya around nine o'clock at night?" right.Cheng Shi also looked back at the detective in front of him. "When Mr. Tsukahara passed away, you should have been in the izakaya, right? You said that you entered the izakaya around nine o'clock. You can't be wrong, right?" Nonogaki's tone revealed a trace of anxiety. "Yes, that's right." Although he felt a little puzzled in his heart, Cheng Shi answered the other party immediately.She didn't understand why the conversation between the two returned to this matter. "Afterwards, a man named Sawamura sent your mother home, so when did Sawamura return to the izakaya?" "Are you asking about the time when Sawamura returned to the izakaya? It should be a few minutes to ten. At that time, I also thought he was very slow. I asked him why he had been there for so long, and he told me that he was going to help find the missing customers. Is there... is there a problem?" Nonogaki muttered hesitantly: "That's all. Anyway, the truth will soon come to light." "What happened to my parents?" "No, it's not them. We sent someone to ask Motoya Sawamura about the situation, but Sawamura said that he was the one who helped your parents dispose of the body." "Ah..." Cheng Shi couldn't help straightening his back. "Next, we are going to start a formal interrogation of him. The situation he said is more accurate and credible than what your parents said. It seems that this case has found a breakthrough." Interrogation Chengshi lost interest.