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Chapter 47 Section 13

heart of brutus 东野圭吾 4580Words 2018-03-22
When Takuya parked the Porsche in front of the apartment, Hoshiko exclaimed "Oops" and touched his right ear.As he let go of the brake pedal, he asked her, "What's wrong?" "There are scars in places like yours, I didn't even notice." "Oh," he covered with his hair. "I usually cover it with my hair, but when I cut my hair, it will be exposed." "How did that happen? A medal from being a bad boy?" "Well, so to speak." Takuya recalled what happened when he was injured.The dark, cramped home, the filthy clothes—these were the wounds of being knocked down by a drunken father and crashing into a pillar.Everyone is not created equal, there are classes from birth, and I am at the bottom, and a lowly person like me wants to climb to the top.

In order to achieve this goal, I did not hesitate to kill—Takuya kissed Hoshiko on the lips and got out of the Porsche.Hoshiko moved to the driver's seat and waved goodbye to him.He also waved his hand and stood there until he could no longer see the car.But then instead of going home, he headed to his car park and got into the MR II.He started the engine and drove on the road where the Porsche disappeared just now. Yumi wakes up and finds that there is no one next to the bed.She sat up and called out, "Goro." But no one answered.She got out of bed naked.There was a white envelope on the coffee table beside it; the front said: "Sorry, Goro." Yumi opened the envelope nervously, and there were three letters full of words inside.Not long after she saw the first one, she started crying with excitement.

This night, in the experimental building of MM Heavy Industry, no one else was working.Of course, Taku also knew this and chose this location.The third floor is a laboratory dedicated to robots, and Takuya took the key here in advance during the day.He went inside and turned on the main power, and when the fluorescent lights came on, they started to chime.Takuya walked up to Brutus, switched on the loyal retainer's power, and tried to move its arm, which was as quick as a whip.Footsteps sounded beside him, and Takuya held Brutus' controller and looked aside.Goro Sakai stood in front of him.

"Hi," Takuya said loudly, "You came just in time." Goro remained silent, motionless, staring fixedly at Takuya's face. "Would you like to come and sit here?" Takuya pointed to the chair beside him. But Goro didn't seem to want to get close to him, so he said, "What do you want me to do?" "What's the matter?" Takuya finished speaking and put down the controller. "First of all, I want to confirm the facts with you. If I'm wrong, I hope you can correct me." Goro retracted his chin slightly, as if saying: Please speak.

"Let's get started, then. First, let's start with the first crime you committed. You killed Yuji Takashima. Right?" Goro lowered his gaze for a moment.But maybe he was determined not to do that, and immediately turned to Takuya and said, "Well, that's right." Yumi quickly put on her clothes.Tears welled up in my eyes as I was getting dressed.But she thought, hurry up.She didn't want it all to end like this. "I killed Yuuji—" She remembered a sentence in Goro's letter.With these words, Yumi's heart completely collapsed. ...I have always liked you very much.I fell in love with you a long time ago.But when I entered the company and met Yuji, after taking him back to his hometown in Gunma, my dreams were gradually disillusioned.Because you fell in love with him.The reason why you joined this company is also because you want to stay by his side.But foolishly I didn't find out about it, and rejoiced all by myself.I'm stupid enough to ask you out.It wasn't long before I understood everything.I heard from Yong Er himself that he said he planned to marry you.

Yumi still remembers that time clearly now.It was the happiest time of her life.Because of this, Yuuji's death was a tragic experience she had never experienced before that. I hate Yuuji for another reason.As you know, he and I shift shifts day and night to check the work of the fully automatic factory.Only face robots every day.The job is simply not human.Of course, both he and I hope to transfer departments.But according to the information I got, the superior only accepted his application.The reason is that Takashima is about to get married recently.Needless to say, Yonger has got you as an angel, and he is sure to be able to live a life like a human.And I get nothing, doomed to continue living with robots who don't know when they will die.So I began to think to myself: It would be best if Yong Er died.

Yumi left the hotel, hailed a taxi, and told the driver: Go to MM Heavy Industry.The taxi driver didn't respond and drove on. She prayed: must catch up. But maybe I killed him not just because of this jealousy.Frankly, I wasn't confident that I was in my right mind at the time.Who is the man who only faces robots every day?And I was like a sleepwalker, killing Yuuji. "When Yuji Takashima was patrolling, you sneaked up to stop the robot. And when Takashima wanted to replenish parts, you activated the robot again and killed him—is that right?" Goro remained silent, and Takuya interpreted this as his acquiescence.

"Is the girl the motive? Well, she's pretty cute. When I was eyeing you and stalking you, I was taken aback when I saw you dating her. Immediately, I was sure my reasoning was correct It's gone." Even so, Goro didn't say a word.Takuya continued: "But someone knows about this, and that person is Naoki Nishina, has he witnessed it with his own eyes?" "When I was about to leave the factory," Goro said at this moment, "that person happened to come to inspect the operation in the middle of the night." "So that's the case, your luck is really bad!"

Takuya said so at first, and then changed his words: "Oh, maybe it was lucky that he saw it. After all, he gave you completely different instructions. He wanted you to perjury, saying that the robot also did not follow the instructions during the day, You just have to obey him." Takuya thought, I know Naoki's thoughts like the back of my hand.He hated everything about his father.Therefore, he wanted to torture Toshiki Nishina through the fact that the robot did not follow instructions. "Naoki further sacrificed a whip and a carrot to you. The whip is to obey his orders, and the carrot is the tuning department. In order to make it easier for you to control you, Naoki transferred Nakamori Yumi to his side. Having said that, according to her Speaking of which, Naoki seems to feel somewhat guilty towards her. By the way, did Nishina Naoki give you a lot of orders?"

But Goro shook his head. "There is only one result." "He only ordered you to kill Yasuko Amamiya." Takuya said, "But you have to be more cunning. Think about it. About your murder of Takashima, it ended in the form of an accident, you just ignore Nishina Just order." "But if he tells the police..." "You just have to kill him and deny it. He has no evidence. Let me tell you the good news. In fact, Naoki Nishina also found that he had no evidence. That's why he thoroughly investigated the accident. For It is to find evidence, but there should be no such thing.”

Goro showed a remorseful expression, but immediately returned to his original expressionless expression. Seeing this, Takuya said, "I want to know the details of Nishina Naoki's order to you." "Details?" Goro frowned. "That's right, I saw your time card. You left work early that day and finished work after noon. PeopleSoft probably also considered this, and chose that day as the day to implement the plan. You will go to Osaka as soon as you leave the company. Right?" Goro nodded. "In the parking lot in front of Shin-Osaka Station, there is a van painted with Yamanaka wood processing. The car key is screwed to the rear bumper. Naoki Nishina instructed me—after you confirm this, in the Head to the coffee shop in the basement before five. Yasuko is waiting for me there, so you pretend to be my errand runner, put her in the van, drive her where no one will see and kill her. Then drive the Meishin On the expressway, the van was dumped in an open space near the Nagoya Interchange." "Empty lot?" Takuya asked, "Instead of a parking lot?" "Yes." Goro replied. Takuya thought to himself, what's going on here?This is not the same as the agreed middle point.He felt incredible, and said: "But you didn't do what he said. Do you think that since you want to kill people, why not kill Nishina who has a handle on you?" Goro nodded silently. "Where did you start?" "He showed me where to dump the van. He came while I was waiting for him under the blue blanket. He seemed to think I was a dead body. I waited for him to sit in the driver's seat and attacked him from behind, using The nylon rope in his hand strangled him." It turned out that this was the case, Taku also figured it out.Naoki planned to ask Goro to carry Yasuko's body to the vicinity of the Nagoya Interchange, and then he would take the Shinkansen to go there leisurely, and then drive the van to the location agreed with Takuya.In fact, he probably wanted Goro to carry the body directly to the halfway point that he had agreed with Takuya, but maybe he was afraid that something would happen when the two met. Naoki probably planned to take the Shinkansen back to Osaka, and make his own alibi in advance around ten o'clock.According to the plan that Naoki told Takuya and theirs, his blank time was from six to eleven, but in fact it was shortened to six to ten.In this way, in case Takuya or Hashimoto is arrested by the police and confesses the plan, Naoki can claim that this matter has nothing to do with him.In order to create this situation, Naoki probably used playing card magic at that time. "Then, after you killed Nishina Naoki, did you discover our joint letter?" "In addition to that, there was a map of where he and you handed over the van. Frankly, I was taken aback. I didn't expect that there were two other accomplices in the murder plan." "So you just drove the van to the location on the map?" "Because I can't think of any other way." "You have hurt me so badly." Takuya stood up slowly.The facts did not differ much from his reasoning, and after hearing so much, the rest was fine. "Of course you were the one who killed Hashimoto. After reading the joint letter, you think we also know your secret." "I did something that I'm sorry to Hashimoto-san," Goro said, "but he also wanted to kill someone, it's also predestined." "Maybe." When Takuya finished speaking, Goro raised the angle steel. Yumi got out of the taxi and rushed through the gate.It is impossible for a female employee to come at this time, but the guard did not stop her.The laboratory...he said he was going to the laboratory——Yumie was only in charge of administrative affairs, and had never been to the laboratory building.She was running around like a headless chicken. At the time, I lost my mind.What makes me lose my mind is the group of people who are occasionally complacent about making robots on the upper floors of buildings.Yumi, you are right.Those people are crazy.I saw that researcher named Sueyong rubbing his cheek against the robot.Being implicated by these lunatics has ruined my life. To find him here and take the opportunity to kill him with Brutus—this was Takuya's plan.Then Tuo would perjure himself—I asked him to help me with the experiment, and he messed with the robot while I wasn't paying attention.But now is not the time for such talk.Goro swung the angle steel and hit Takuya's thigh, making him unable to stand up in pain.Goro aimed at Takuya's head again, and chopped down the iron bar.Takuya managed to dodge, the angle steel hit some kind of measuring instrument, and with a muffled sound, many parts flew all over the place. "If you kill me, you won't be able to escape again!" Takuya said out of breath, feeling the sharp pain in his right foot, he escaped with only his arms and left leg. "I know." Wu Lang said, "I have no intention of running away, I just want to kill you." Goro continued to attack.However, Takuya was lucky this time.The angle steel that Goro swung hit the robot body beside him before hitting Takuya. With a "bang", the angle steel flew in the opposite direction.Then Goro seemed to feel a sharp pain in his shoulder and knelt down on one knee on the spot. Takuya saw the opportunity and jumped up, strangling his neck with both hands.But Goro squeezed out the strength to feed, and kicked Takuya's abdomen with his right leg.Takuya couldn't bear the blow and was kicked backwards.At that moment, a large wrench came into view.Takuya grabbed it without saying a word, almost at the same time as Goro attacked. Takuya swung the wrench ecstatically, and the tip hit Gorou's forehead precisely, leaving a big hole between his brows.He smashed his face with his hands, and the bright red blood dripped from between his fingers, and then squatted down on the spot. Takuya touched the back of his head again, and Goro let out a beastly wail. It took Yumi a lot of effort to find the door of the laboratory building.Everywhere is locked and cannot be entered.Finally finding the gate, Yumi went to the elevator first.But she didn't know which floor Goro was on.She rushed up the stairs calling his name.He is not on the second floor. The second floor was pitch black.So she climbed up to the third floor.She saw bright lights in the laboratory.Before entering the lab, she called Goro's name.Feeling a voice, Yumi moved forward.The robots lined up like a huge cemetery.She was so petite that she couldn't fully see ahead.As she continued to walk inward, she gasped in horror.She saw someone collapsed there, and it took two or three seconds before she realized it was Goro.Blood splattered everywhere, and he lay prone in a pool of blood. "Goro!" Yumi rushed over. But at the same time, another man appeared from behind the robot.While she screamed, the man grabbed her wrist hard.She glanced at the man in horror.He was a strange man with a distorted expression.No, where have I seen him.Recently, I saw a man who looked like this man—the man put his hand on her neck.Yumi thought to herself that she was going to be killed. Takuya pinched the woman's slender neck, thinking, what the hell am I doing?Obviously everything went smoothly according to plan, but now I am doing something irreversible.After killing Sakai Goro, he still wants to kill this woman. Takuya murmured in his heart that something must have gone wrong.I must be having a nightmare.Tomorrow it will be business as usual, the future awaits me.I'll be able to reach that sunny world who said so. Who is this woman?What am I doing?Why am I choking her neck? In the next second, Takuya's neck was hit violently.The force caused him to let go of Yuki's neck.Yue, who gained freedom, hunched over and coughed hard. Takuya looked back.At the same time, I felt a cold thrill on my neck.It was Brutus, and Brutus' hand was on his neck.He saw Goro lying on the ground operating the controller. "Brutus, what are you doing..." As he murmured, his black metal fingers moved silently.Feeling the pressure on the neck is only a momentary matter. A light flashed before his eyes, and then disappeared.
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