Chapter 30 Section 6

After saying this as if to shout, Fumiko lowered her head and bit her lip. After a moment of silence, Officer Komura said: "Madam, please calm down. I'm going to ask you some questions, please answer me after careful consideration." Fumiko looked a little nervous, Komura consciously slowed down her tone. "Why do you say Akiko Manabe is the murderer?" Fumiko's lips moved slightly, but she didn't make a sound, she swallowed first. "So... it's because she's the only one alive... Could it be someone else if the criminal isn't her?" Komura stared intently at her face.Fumiko avoided his sight nervously.Intuition told him that the other party was hiding something.

"Let's talk about that again, why didn't your wife go with you on this trip?" "This... that's because my husband said he was going with Mr. Manabe." "Mr. Manabe? Do you mean the Manabe couple?" "No, it's Mr. Manabe. My husband said Mr. Manabe invited him to play golf, and he left this morning." "Please wait a moment." Komura stretched out his right hand to stop her, "According to what you mean, is this trip just for the two gentlemen?" "That's right. So, now I find it very strange to see Qiuzi here too."

"But Mrs. Akiko said that it was only Manabe and his wife who came to travel, and it was only yesterday that they hurriedly invited the Abe family." "That's not the case at all." Fumiko raised her head, "My husband was invited to play golf a week ago. It's true." Komura looked at his wife's face again, it was difficult to judge whether she was telling the truth or lying.But if she is lying, then what is her purpose? Komura thought of the golf clubs in the trunk of Sachio's car, but there was nothing in Manabe's car. "Understood. But Manabe-kun told her wife Akiko that's not the case. He always said that the couple went on a trip together."

At this time, Fumiko began to shake her head: "It can't be like that." Komura nodded.This nod is not so much that he agrees with the other party's statement, but rather that there are more and more incomprehensible places, and these incomprehensible places are the key to solving the case.A hope flashed through his mind: maybe he would get clues to solve the case. "Let's go back to the topic just now." Komura looked at Mimiko and said, "After you learned about the accident, did you immediately think that the criminal was Akiko Manabe?" "Well, this is..."

She made another swallowing motion. "I guess it's a gut feeling." "Do you still think so now?" "Yes." Fumiko raised her voice slightly, "After all, only Akiko is alive." It is still the point of view just now. "If the truth of the case is as Madam said, then what is the motive? In other words, why did Madam Qiuzi kill these two men? Is it necessary?" "this is……" Fumiko's eyes wandered erratically.There is still nothing to say.Officer Komura thought to himself. "Madam and Madam Qiuzi were good friends when they were in college, right?"

"Ok……" "It's incomprehensible. There's no good reason to doubt such a close friend." Now she closed her eyes tightly, making people feel that she was hesitating for something.Officer Komura decided to endure and wait for her to speak, but she didn't expect her to open her eyes soon. "My husband...he's having an affair." As if a different person, Fumiko said in a very clear tone.So much so that Police Officer Komura wondered if he heard it wrong: "Ah, what did you say?" "I mean he's having an affair." She repeated it again. "Besides, that woman... is Qiuzi. So, we are not good friends now."

Komura held his breath for a moment, and then exhaled slowly.Well, sure enough.he thinks.Suddenly he seemed to understand Fumiko's state of mind when she insisted that Akiko was the murderer just now. "You mean Mr. Abe Satoshio and Mrs. Manabe Akiko have an extramarital affair?" Komura asked again as if to remind the other party.She pursed her lips tightly and nodded her jaw. "Does your husband know that you have found out about them?" "No, I don't think they know it yet." "Do you think their affair has something to do with this case?"

"Akiko--" Fumiko took a deep breath as she said, "It must be that her husband found out about her affair, that's why she killed Mr. Koichi. Killed my husband too Maybe it's because she wants to settle the past grievances with him." "Is it because Mr. Gongyi knows? Does Mr. Gongyi know that Mrs. Qiuzi is having an affair?" "Yes, I told him." "Oh?" Komura re-examined the lady in front of him.After she found out that her husband was having an affair, the first thing she did was not to settle accounts with her husband but to notify the woman's husband.

"How did Madam know about this?" "I think he's been acting a little weird lately, so I'll ask the detective...ah, I'll ask Xingxin to investigate my husband's actions." "What is Xingxin?" "That is……" Fumiko became hesitant. "We need to confirm." Komura said, "It's not that I don't believe you, but you can't draw a conclusion without clarifying all the problems." Then she whispered "Detective Club." "The Detective Club? Ah, that's right. Did you entrust them?" Komura has also heard of this organization, which is an organization that recruits rich people as members, but the Abe and his wife don't seem to be that kind of rich people.Maybe now they've democratized their members too.

"In that case, you should have captured the photos of their secret date in your hand, right?" "No, I gave it all to Manabe-san." "To Mr. Manabe Koichi? When did this happen?" "Last Friday. I went to Mr. Manabe's company to tell him about Akiko and my husband. I brought photos with me. At that time, he said that he would use his own method to solve the problem, so he took all the photos." "Did Manabe-san not know about this before you told him?" "Yes. Don't know." "He was very angry at the time, wasn't he?"

"This... probably he is a person who doesn't show his emotions easily." What does Manabe Kōichi want to do after knowing the truth?Komura clasped his hands together, talking to himself, judging from what Qiuzi said, it seemed that he hadn't questioned his wife yet. "From knowing that your husband is having an affair to now, what have you done, madam?" "No, I think Mr. Manabe will handle it." "In this case he invites your husband to play golf—didn't you expect something to happen?" "Think about it." Fumiko said with certainty. "I think it's just the two of them when they're playing, and they should ask him about that." Komura felt that this explanation was reasonable, but he should have more ideas. Afterwards, Komura asked some more about Abe Satomo's recent abnormalities. Fumiko said that he didn't seem to notice that his wife had found out that he was having an affair, so it was no different from usual.