Chapter 30 Section 30

The family was not far from Togoshi Ginza. It was a wooden house with a narrow front. It seemed that the house should be more than thirty years old. It had the door plate of "Mochizuki". Nanao pressed the intercom on the door. "Hello." A male voice came from the intercom. "I'm the one who called just now." Nanao said. "Ah, yes." Soon, the porch door opened, and a man in his seventies, wearing a cardigan sweater, appeared, with thinning white hair and a thin build. Perhaps his actual age was not as old as his appearance. "You are Mr. Mochizuki. I'm sorry to interrupt you suddenly."

Nanao took out his business card, but the other party just glanced at it and didn't intend to take it. "Could you please show me the manual?" Mochizuki said. "Ah, okay." Nanao took out the police manual from her arms, and showed the other party the page of identification.Mochizuki removed his presbyopic glasses, looked carefully, and nodded. "I'm sorry, sometimes people come and claim to be the police or people from the district office, and they come to sell some weird things. There are only two old people in the family, and they seem to be treated as fat sheep."

"It's always better to be careful." "Mr. Nanao, right? Are you from Wajima?" "No, but my grandfather is said to have been born there." "That's right, sure enough." Mochizuki nodded. "Come on, please come in, but the place is very small." "Excuse me." Nanao walked into the room from the entrance, and was immediately taken to the Japanese room on the right.It was a modest room, consisting only of a low table and a cupboard, and it was kept clean. Nanao knelt on the cushion and waited, Mochizuki appeared with tea on a tray.

"You're welcome, I'll be leaving right away." "My wife goes out to work and will come back in the evening. There should be refreshments at home, but I don't know where to keep them." "You're really welcome." Nanao said modestly, thinking, maybe he guessed wrong.This man is just a lonely old man, because his wife is away during the day and has no one to talk to.At least, not the kind of person who wants to avenge his daughter. "It's just you and your wife here?" "Yes. Not long after my daughter started working, she moved out. She said it was annoying for me to stay at home after retirement."

"Do you have any other children?" Mochizuki shook her head. "No, just Aki." "That's it." Mochizuki must have thought that after retirement, she would finally have time to have a good chat with her daughter, but she didn't expect her daughter to move out and never come back. "Uh, you want to ask about Aki?" "I want to ask you about the car accident, and of course about Ling Qianjin." "It's okay to ask, but why are you asking now?" "Actually, it's because we're investigating other cases and wondering if there might be a connection."

"What case?" "Ah, about this, we can't disclose it to the public now, because we must fulfill our obligation of confidentiality." "Really? The police always say that." Mochizuki twitched her lips slightly. "Yaji was like that at the time. We only wanted to know the results of the investigation of the car accident, but the police said they couldn't say anything. As a result, they didn't tell us anything. We didn't know the details until the lawyer came." "I see. I'm so sorry." "No need to apologize, you probably have such a rule. I thought at the time that the police are the same as the district office."

Nanao reached for the teacup.Protests of this kind are irrefutable. "Then, what do you want to know?" "Mr. Mochizuki, you have served as the victim's representative." "I'm just doing what my lawyer tells me. The lawyer says it's more effective to have the person who suffers the most come forward." "Oh, because only Ling Qianjin unfortunately died." "Yeah, how pitiful." Mochizuki lowered his eyes. "Ya Ji was hitchhiking with a friend. While waiting to turn right, he was hit by an oncoming car. The car was also about to turn right, but the car suddenly lost control and had no time to turn the steering wheel. It was originally handled according to ordinary traffic accidents, but the result The insurance company found the defect in the Arima car, and the whole thing went in a completely different direction. I hated driving into people with all my heart, and they told me that it was not the case, and I couldn't turn my head around. do not know what to do."

"The driver is..." "An office worker said that he drove his own car to visit clients. He was also injured, but he was very conscious. He insisted in the hospital that the car's engine accelerated suddenly, and it was only discovered later." Nanao also learned about this passage from the information given by Kosaka. Mochizuki took a sip of tea and sighed. "I saw that person for the first time during the compensation negotiation. Although I greeted him, I still felt very complicated. It was supposed to be the perpetrator and the victim, but it turned out that both parties were victims. He fought against what I said At that time, I was really angry, and I knew that what the other party said was reasonable, but after all... I sympathized with the people who bought the problem car, but it was what they wanted to buy, and there are some things that can’t be blamed on others. We are not the same, we She is innocent at all, and has nothing to do with Arima. However, my daughter lost her life in vain. How can I explain my bad luck?"

Nanao nodded.Just looking at the information, you may think that the matter is not complicated, but the people involved in it have mixed feelings in their hearts. This cannot be solved by blaming the company that sold the problem car. "The negotiation with Arima is over, right?" Nanao confirmed. "In terms of money, yes, we don't blame Arima for wanting money, but when asked what else to do, we can only say that we should not let this kind of thing happen again..." "So it's barely acceptable at the moment?" "Accept?" Mochizuki smiled, with a masochistic expression on his face. "I see, I can't accept it until I die, helpless!"

"What do you think of the president?" "President?" "President Shimabara. What do you think of him not stepping down?" "Get off stage, he's off stage, and my daughter can't come back, it doesn't matter if he steps down or not." From Nanao's point of view, Mochizuki doesn't look like he's acting. "Ling Qianjin was twenty-five years old at the time, did she have a boyfriend?" "I don't know, I haven't heard of it." "Are you still in touch with the other victims?" "I used to contact them occasionally, but I didn't take the initiative to contact them. It was the lawyer who asked us to contact them before we got together."

"Based on your feeling, does everyone still accept the result of the negotiation?" "I don't know. The amount of compensation is different for everyone, and the situation is different." "Is there anyone who expresses unacceptable, especially hating Arima Motors or President Shimabara?" "Hate... Well, when it comes to hate, I hate it too." "I mean, is anyone going to take drastic action." "Extreme?" Mochizuki frowned, staring at Nanao. "How do you say it? From your question, it seems that some of the victims have some bad intentions. What happened? Can you tell me?" Nanao hesitated, of course, he couldn't tell the truth. "Actually," he licked his lips, "the employees of Arima Motors often receive harassing calls, and there is no obvious victim at present, but we still decided to investigate." This is not a lie.There is indeed this paragraph in the information that Kosaka gave him.However, it doesn't seem to be happening anymore. "I've heard of this too, but I don't think it has anything to do with our victims' group. Sometimes we can't help being impulsive. We don't want revenge, but what we ask for is a sincere response. Those who make that kind of call must follow the We have nothing to do, we just want to show off." "Maybe." "However, it's really strange. It's rare to hear that the police will be dispatched in this way. Sure enough, if a big company is involved, the police will have to follow orders!" Mochizuki's tone was a bit teasing, obviously unhappy to learn that he was under suspicion. "Sorry to bother you in your busy schedule." Nanao smiled noncommittally and stood up.