Chapter 32 Section 7

The morning after Amamiya Yasuko's body was discovered, the dispatch office received news of her father's arrival and notified the investigation headquarters of the Komae Department.Yasuko's hometown is in Fukuoka, so she couldn't make it last night. Her father seemed to be on the first plane this morning.Taniguchi ordered Shindo to go and question him. Sayama visited MM Heavy Industries as usual, how many times has he been there?While doing unnecessary calculations, Sayama signed on the visitor list at the company gate.He walks in the reception hall as if in his own kitchen.

The first person I met on this day was a director named Akiyo Nakano; she was in charge of all the female employees in the R&D department.If this middle-aged woman used the previous statement, she belonged to the type of intellectual.The delicate facial lines are quite suitable for wearing gold-rimmed glasses.According to her, Yasuko and the others officially belonged to the Personnel Department and were dispatched to various departments.So Nakano himself is also the director of the personnel department. "She works very seriously and always follows our instructions obediently." Perhaps because he had heard the news of Yasuko's death, Nakano Akiyo said in a calmer tone.

"In other words, she is a serious subordinate, isn't she?" "Yes, but..." Akiyo Nakano hesitated, "This can be said to be a common problem among young people nowadays. I often don't know what is going on in her mind. But that being said, she has never neglected her work. , or take inexplicable actions. However, we have almost no intersection other than business, so I have no idea what kind of private life she usually leads. It should be said that she does not let me see her in private." "In other words, does she separate the company and private life clearly?" Sayama said, which is a characteristic of modern young people.

"Yeah, that's why I," Nakano said after a pause, "frankly, I'm a little out of sorts with her." She straightened her gold-rimmed glasses.Sayama nodded, thinking it was her sincere words. He tentatively asked: "If Kang Zi died by suicide, do you have a bottom line in your heart?" "Not at all," she replied. "At least she's not missing work." "Oh, but," she said, remembering, "she quit her job recently, but she hasn't given her resignation yet." "Resign? Why?" "She said she was going back to her hometown to get married. I haven't heard the detailed reason."

Sayama thought, this is a casually fabricated lie.From her tone, Nakano Akiyo and the others seemed to know nothing about Yasuko's pregnancy.There was probably only so much he could ask from the supervisor, so he gave up asking and asked to meet someone who was close to Yasuko. Akiyo Nakano recommended a female employee named Tomoko Asano who joined the company at the same time as Yasuko.But Sayama did not get useful information from Tomoko. "I can't believe she will die at all. If you have something on your mind, you can discuss it with me. There is no need to die." Tomoko said, pressing a handkerchief to her swollen cheek.

Sayama inquires about Yasuko's relationship with men and women. "She's pretty, and she seems to have been approached by men, but I've never heard of anyone she's actually dating. Male employees often ask us out to play tennis or go skiing, but she seems to hate that kind of activity. Even if you ask her out, She's never been there either." "Maybe her boyfriend is someone outside the company." Sayama said. "I don't think it's possible, because I haven't heard her talk about it at all." Tomoko categorically denied it. No man can conceive.Moreover, it is impossible to want to give birth to a child for a man who has a one-night stand.To put it simply, Tomoko Asano also knew nothing about Yasuko Amamiya.Next, Sayama wants to meet Toshiki Nishina.That's all for Hashimoto, Naoki Nishina and Yasuko Amamiya have only Toshiki in common.

But when Sayama picked up the receiver of the intercom, he changed his mind, thinking that it would be good to call it a day.He believes that it is best to wait until the information is more complete to see Minshu.He switched to a public phone to contact the investigation headquarters, and Taniguchi instructed him to go to Shinjuku now and ask him to meet with the investigators who were scheduled to inquire about Yasuko's women's college friends. "I asked the other party's name from Yasuko's father. They seem to have traveled together. There is the other party's contact information in Yasuko's address book."

Taniguchi finally said: "I'll leave this to you." The meeting place was a coffee shop on the first floor of a hotel in Shinjuku.As soon as Sayama left, a man with a square face raised his hand; it was Naito, one of Taniguchi's team.He was two years older than Sayama, a judo master, and his body was built like a thick wall. "Great," Naito scratched his head and narrowed his eyes. "I'm most afraid of meeting young girls at work, and I'm having a headache." "Is it better to be a hooligan?" "That goes without saying. Hooligans don't have to worry about the other party's feelings. But if it's a young girl, you have to consider the way of questioning. I'll leave this to you." Naito gestured a knife with his right hand.

Five minutes later, the young girl he feared most appeared.It seems that Naito's appearance is a policeman at a glance, she watched him walking straight.This beauty is inexplicably reminiscent of a cat.She was wearing a plain black blouse.She has a good figure, and some people will believe that she is a model, but maybe she uses clothing design to modify her figure. She said her name was Michiko Sugimura, with a nasal sound in her voice.Sayama knew that although she was nervous, she was looking at the detectives. "Sorry to bother you in your busy schedule." After introducing himself, Sayama apologized.

Because I heard that Michiko works for an insurance company near here. "You know Miss Amamiya Yasuko has passed away, right?" "I heard that just now," Michiko replied. "I was very surprised." She blinked frequently, but she didn't seem to worry that she would cry.Young girls these days are also good at suppressing emotions. Sayama waited for her to order milk tea from the waiter, and first asked how her friendship with Yasuko was.Michiko said lightly: "We were friends when we were students, and we often meet and drink now, but we haven't met in the past two months." After she finished speaking, she asked if she could smoke. Sayama said "please", and moved the glass ashtray to the in front of her.Regardless of his status as a policeman, Naito wanted to smoke to relieve his addiction, so he quickly picked up the matches in the ashtray.However, when he struck a match with his thick fingers, she took out a silver streamlined lighter from her purse and lit a cigarette handsomely.

Sayama drank the remaining cold coffee in one gulp. "Didn't you talk on the phone in the past two months or so?" So Michiko pressed Marlboro's finger on her temple, and replied: "It was about a month ago, she called me. It seems to be nothing serious. However, she said something strange. She said, I want the next life The only big bet..." "Bet, do you mean gambling?" Naito said excitedly. But Michiko ignored him and continued: "I asked her what that meant, but she refused to answer me carefully. I said: You are drunk. She said, because today is finally the last day. Hey, this is What does that mean?" At the end, Michiko also showed a pensive expression. "More than a month ago? Do you know the correct date?" "Well, when is it? Wednesday... oh, no. It should be Tuesday. So what day is it?" "The thirteenth, right?" Sayama immediately looked at the calendar in the notepad and said. Michiko nodded and said, "I think so." Sayama thought, he has a little clue.The thirteenth was the day when Yasuko went to Yongshan obstetrics and gynecology department to check whether she was pregnant.In other words, what she said to Michiko, "I want to make the only big bet in my life", must mean giving birth to a child. The question is, why is that a bet? At this time, Naito asked: "How is Miss Amamiya's relationship with men?" His tone was harsh, but Sayama wanted to ask too, so the timing was perfect. "I haven't heard her mention this matter recently. But she has been thinking about eating Sanwangong since before, and she may have found a particularly suitable partner." When she said this, she finally relaxed the muscles of her cheeks a little. "Did you date many men when you were a student?" Sayama asked. "Is it Yasuko? Or me?" She glanced at Sayama with her cat-like eyes. "Let's talk about Koko first." "She has a lot, and she has boyfriends almost all the time. I don't have a man at all." "I think you should be very popular... Did she break up with all the boyfriends she was dating at the time?" "It should be. She clearly distinguishes casual play from marriage." "I see." One thing flashed through Sayama's mind. "It may be strange for me to ask this. Did Miss Amamiya accidentally get pregnant when she was a student?" Suddenly, Michiko's expression twisted in displeasure.Even so, Sayama still didn't look away and stared at her lips, so she exhaled white smoke despite showing an impatient expression, and replied, "As far as I know, there have been two times." "Did she take the baby?" "yes." "When did it happen?" "The summer of my sophomore year and the fall of my senior year." "Who is the other party?" "When I was a sophomore, I was a club senior, and when I was a senior, I was a photographer I met at a part-time job." Yasuko's boyfriend type also seems to have changed a lot in two years.But it doesn't matter, Yasuko doesn't seem to resist the matter of abortion itself. "She didn't think about marrying those people, did she?" "I don't think she's ever given it a thought. She says she's going to marry someone who won't worry about money for the rest of her life." "The so-called marrying into a wealthy family?" Naito murmured. Probably because of the contempt in his tone, Michiko glared at him and said, "The only chance for a person born in an ordinary family to squeeze into the upper class is to get married. After all, love alone cannot fill your stomach." "Is this the doctrine that you and Miss Amamiya Yasuko pursue?" Sayama said. She raised her chin slightly and asked, "Can't you?" "No, it's your freedom. How about the situation? Does she have an ideal partner around her?" "This matter was brought up shortly after she joined the company. She sighed and said: Unfortunately, there seems to be no good candidates in the company." "So her wishful thinking was in vain, didn't she? What about you?" "Me?" Michiko extinguished the half-length cigarette in the ashtray. "I'm getting married next year." "That's really congratulations to you. Is the other party an ideal object?" "Yes, he's the banker's second son," she said. "How did you manage to find this rich man?" "Needless to say, we met each other on a blind date." After speaking, she raised her chin slightly. After Sayama and the others returned to the investigation headquarters, Shindo and the others also returned.Xintang and the others were about to report to Taniguchi what they had heard from Yasuko's father, so Sayama stood together and listened. "Yasuko was born in Fukuoka City. Her father's occupation is a high school teacher, who seems to teach society. She has an older brother who works in a cement company in Kagoshima. There is no mother. Her parents seem to have divorced ten years ago." "So her father lived alone?" "No, there is also an eighty-one-year-old grandmother. The two live together." Xintang went on to talk about Yasuko's resume. She went to the local middle and elementary schools, and then went to the city's star high school.After graduation, because of her own strong request, she entered a private women's university in Tokyo. "Because young people yearn for Tokyo." Taniguchi sighed. "According to her father, not to mention the four years she was in college, she didn't even return to her hometown half a time after graduation. It seems that her father mailed her the documents needed to find a job." "It was embarrassing to hear this incident, and I felt that her father was really pitiful. She never went home, but she asked her father for money." "I heard that the living allowance sent to her when she was a student was 120,000 a month. But she still complained that it was not enough." Taniguchi shook his head slowly with a bored expression. "The old father suffered so much, and his daughter died again, so all thoughts are probably lost." "You're absolutely right. He's rather depressed. It's poor." "Did you tell her father about her pregnancy?" "Speaking of which, it feels like a bullet in her father's heart. It's really unpleasant. Of course he didn't know it at all, and it seemed like a big blow. But—" Xintang paused. "What's wrong?" "Well, Yasuko's father asked me what she was going to do, and I replied that she seemed to be planning to give birth to the child. So her father showed an expression of thinking about something. This made me a little concerned. No, maybe it's not a big deal." Xintang felt like There is something unacceptable. Soon after, the investigators who went to inquire about the news in multiple ways came back one after another.But no particularly significant gains.Only the investigators investigating Yasuko's bank deposits brought back something slightly interesting. "I found out the secret of Yasuko's squandering money," said the investigator. "It was all on loans. She would use credit cards to make purchases, and then pay with year-end bonuses, or installments over several months. A few percent of her salary was just Paying the monthly installment payment should be gone, alas, in simple words, it is living without money. I don’t know if she has this self-consciousness.” Sayama imagined that every time she looked at the passbook, she would feel a sense of crisis in her heart, but she would lose consciousness when shopping.Credit cards have this trap. "In short, purely from the calculation point of view, her financial bankruptcy is only a matter of time. However, in the past two months or so, she has been a little more restrained in the way she spends money. Maybe the mother is starting to get nervous." "Oh my god, how could anyone want to collect famous brand clothing and jewelry to such an extent." Naito, a sixth-dan judo player, completely understood the psychology of young girls, and raised his hands in surrender. "By the way, here comes the report of the scientific investigation and research team." Taniguchi took out the document, "There are paper burnt residues in the ashtray of Nishina Naoki's home, and the contents are almost unrecognizable." "You can only recognize the marks of A or B, right?" Xintang said. "To be precise, only the three English letters ABC could be recognized at that time. According to the report of the scientific investigation and research team, after analysis, they could only barely decipher the other three characters." Taniguchi put the document in front of everyone, and everyone focused on the document.However, everyone immediately expressed disappointment. "Just these few words are really not helpful to the progress of the case." Naito said. "But it's a big clue." "Then what should we do? Try to investigate whether the relevant people have a bottom line on this?" "That's okay, but it's also a way to make the matter public and wait for information to come in. We need the assistance of MM Heavy Industries, and they probably won't refuse." Although it was a big clue, Taniguchi's tone didn't sound like he expected to help the case. That night, Yasuko's autopsy results came out. Investigators assembled. "The cause of death was poisoning by ingestion of potassium hydroxide. The time of death should have been Saturday night, the 21st." In addition, Taniguchi glanced at the faces of the investigators present, "She is three months pregnant, and the fetus is developing well." "What is the child's blood type?" Sayama asked. "The test came out. As far as the conclusion is concerned, neither Naoki Nishina nor Atsushi Hashimoto is the father of the child."