Chapter 6 Section VI

Looking at Kashiwahara who was on the phone, Hagi village lit a cigarette.Looking at the back of the senior, he thought to himself: this time the senior is very serious.Probably because of exposure to the children of the victims.Bai Yuan is single now, but had a wife and children at home a few years ago.The son was adopted by his mother, and he should be in elementary school now. "I've never been a good dad. He was three years old when I last saw him, and maybe he's forgotten what I look like now. Well, maybe it's better for him." Before, Bai Yuan once said these with a wry smile.

Perhaps Kashiwahara superimposed the figures of the three brothers and sisters of the Ming family and the figure of his son.Hagimura imagined. Walking out of the phone booth, Bai Yuan's face was a little more serious than before. "Hail a taxi and go to Shioiri's hotel." "Hotel? What's up with the kids?" "The second son seemed to speak, and said something quite remarkable. He saw the murderer." "Eh?" "The head teacher of the eldest man called the police station. He said that it would be better to ask a more familiar criminal policeman for questioning. The eldest man asked me to go there by name. Thank God."

There was an empty car approaching in the distance, Hagi Village and Kashiwahara waved at the same time. "The nose is higher. However, I can't see it clearly, and I might say something wrong..." Taifu's voice became smaller and smaller, and finally he lowered his head and looked at Gongichi with eyes asking for help. "Come on." Gong encouraged in a small voice. "What's the size of the face? Is it big?" The man in a suit asked with a sketchbook in his hand. He looked more like a serious company employee than a policeman. Taifu thought hard and said, "It's not so big, just be thinner."

The man in the suit nodded, and the end of the pen made a rustling sound. Gongyi looked at the table, there were a dozen thousand origami cranes placed on it, all made by Jing Nai.She is now lying next door.The crying stopped, probably fell asleep from crying tired. During the day, after hearing the news of her parents' death, Jing Nai, who was frightened, started crying, and Taifu also cried loudly with her companions.Even though several hours had passed, the sound of two people crying still lingered in Koichi's ears.Maybe it was a psychological effect, he felt that his body was extremely hot.

Although the adults accused Koichi of telling Shizuna this, he didn't regret it.He intends to make their own decisions from now on, because only the three of them are left to depend on each other. Taifu spoke after crying loudly.After venting his intense hatred for the murderer who took the lives of his parents, he suddenly stared at Koichi and said this. "Brother, I saw it. I saw the guy who killed Dad and the others." According to Taifu, when Koichi entered the store with Jing Nai on his back last night, a man came out from the back door. Koichi was taken aback and told Mr. Noguchi.The teacher immediately contacted the criminal police, and soon after, Bai Yuan and the others arrived.The man sitting in front of Taifu is also one of them, and he said that he wants to paint the portrait as soon as possible.

Kashiwahara and the others were waiting outside the door, worried that too many people would make Taifu too nervous to speak.At the same time, they asked Gong Yi to accompany him. "Does it look like this?" The man in the suit handed the sketchbook to Taifu to read. The painting shows a man with a slender jaw and a high nose.Gong Yi had never seen this person before. "This one should be wider." Taifu pointed to his forehead and said, "Also, um...it feels very tough." "Tough?" Yes, Taifu nodded slightly. "Who would understand that?" Gong Yi blurted out, "How can you be tough?"

"But..." Taifu lowered his head and muttered. "It's okay. Say what you think." The man in the suit smiled, and the tip of the pen swished again.Then he turned the sketchbook to Tai Fu and asked, "How about this?" The face painted on it is indeed a bit harsher than before.I don't know where and how he changed it. Taifu nodded: "Well, it's quite similar...it's this feeling." "That's it, thank you." The man in the suit narrowed his eyes happily, "We will use this as a reference immediately. If you remember anything else, please let us know."

The man walked out of the room with a sketchbook in hand, and Kashiwahara and the others walked in.A young detective named Hagi Village and a white-haired detective also entered the house together.Hagi Village and Kashiwahara visited together, and Kouichi remembered this face, but he had just heard the name.At that time, I also knew that the white-haired man was called Yokoyama. "I'm really sorry for being in such a hurry. Can you tell us as much as possible about what you looked like when you saw that man?" Bai Yuan said straightforwardly. Taifu stammered and began to describe the situation at the time of the sighting.Even so, Gong Yi, who sat by and listened, didn't know how much these could do.A man in black with an ordinary build suddenly rushed out from the back door and fled.His age is unknown, and his voice has not been heard.

The detectives present left the room slightly disappointed. "Brother, I wish I could have a better look..." After the criminal policeman left, Taifu said in a low voice. "It doesn't matter. With the portrait, the prisoner will be caught quickly. There is also the umbrella left behind." "umbrella?" "The umbrella dropped by the prisoner. There must be some evidence." While speaking, the partition door was suddenly pushed open, and Jing Nai stood there. "Are you up?" Gong Yi asked. He hugged Jing Nai who was stained with tears. "Jinglai catch him, the guy who killed his parents, Jinglai kill him."

Gong Yi stroked his sister's thin back. "That's right. After finding the murderer, the three of us killed him together." As soon as Hagimura came in through the automatic door, the manager of the convenience store put on an impatient look. Hagimura could only smile wryly. "It doesn't matter how many times you come, it's the same. Didn't I say it before? I'm troubled when you keep asking me." "Just for the sake of caution, don't put too much pressure on it." "Even so, I'm embarrassed that you keep coming here." The store manager opened the drawer and took out a piece of copy paper with a portrait on it, which Hagi Village brought a few days ago.

"As I said before, the customer who came to buy the umbrella that night didn't seem to look like this, he was younger than him. But I can't remember the specifics. It's been more than ten days anyway." "It's not limited to customers who buy umbrellas, please let me know if you see other similar people." At this time, a couple walked in.Seeing the store manager's attitude of not having time to accompany him, Hagi Village said: "It's troublesome" and left the store. I looked at the time, it was just after 22 o'clock.Let's call it a day.Hagimura hailed a taxi, sat down, and rubbed his calf.He estimated the distance he had traveled in the past few days and sighed. When we returned to the Yokosuka Police Station, our colleagues packed up their things and prepared to go home.Not seeing Kashiwahara, Hagi Village asked Senior Yamabe. "He said he went to Kinugasa's." Yamabe replied. "Kihasa?" "There is a man who goes to 'Ariake' for lunch every week. I should have gone to him. He is a clerk at a branch of a bank in Kinugasa. Although I don't know the name, there may be a clue." "The man and the portrait?" Yamabe shook his head. "He's short and chubby, and he doesn't look like a painting at all. But Kashiwahara wanted to ask him if he had seen anyone who looked like him." Hagi Village nodded in understanding, "I see." It should have been a great help for Arima Taisuke to witness the suspect.The investigators took the portraits and questioned everywhere, especially the friends of the Ariake couple and the regular customers of "Ariake".But after more than ten days, the search team did not find anyone particularly suspicious. "Maybe we are all looking in the wrong direction." Yamabe said, "Maybe the portrait doesn't look like it, or maybe the prisoner doesn't know the Ariakes. The search section didn't find any useful information. This case will be dragged on." The police have no clue about the fact that Ariake and his wife are burdened with huge debts.The First Search Section seems to have temporarily put this clue aside. Judging from the movements in the past two or three days, they seem to have shifted their focus to investigating and questioning nearby. "How's the clue in the library going?" Hagimura asked. "Someone witnessed the madam there? I don't know how it's going, and it has nothing to do with me." Yamabe replied weakly, and began to put on his coat, as if he was planning to go home. During the day before the incident, someone saw Toko Ariake in front of a nearby library.Witnesses saw her while carrying vegetables in a vegetable store they knew well.He said she was walking into the library at the time. But the library staff didn't remember her, and they didn't find any record of her borrowing books.Weekly magazines and newspapers can be read in the library, and it is generally believed that she should come to see these in the police station. "I'm going first." Yamabe said and left.Not long after, Kashiwahara came back with his coat slung over his shoulders. Kashiwahara saw Hagi village wave his hand, and sat heavily on his seat.He took a cigarette out of his shirt pocket, put it in his mouth, and lit it.Take a deep breath and exhale the smoke ring.He doesn't seem to be enjoying it, though.In the past few days, Bo Yuan has lost a lot of weight, and his complexion is not good, only his eyes are still shining. "I heard you went to Kinugasa." Hagimura spoke up. Bai Yuan nodded and flicked the cigarette ash. "Meet with the manager of the Shinkin Bank's sales department. People say he is a regular customer of 'Ariake', but he himself said that he has only been there three times. Rumors." "Did you show him the portrait?" "I saw it, but he said he had no impression." Bai Yuan relaxed his muscles and bones, and Hagi Village could clearly hear the sound of joints. "How are you doing?" "Nothing. I went to the supermarket and convenience store as usual." "Maybe he's not a local." Kashiwahara, smoking a cigarette, spread out the map of Yokosuka on the table. "If you come from other places, considering the time of the incident, the prisoner probably drove. The parking place..." "Search Section 1 has confirmed the video of the nearby parking lot. Unfortunately, no suspicious person was found." "If I were a murderer, I would not park in a nearby parking lot, let alone on the side of the road. It would be bad if someone nearby called the police. It doesn't matter if it is farther away, I will choose a safer parking lot. There are thousands of parking lots every day. A parking lot where hundreds of cars come and go, even in the middle of the night." Bai Yuan scanned the map back and forth, his eyes stopped at a certain point, he pointed and said, "For example here." Hagi Village leaned forward and looked at the map. The place Kashiwahara pointed to was a large supermarket in Shioiri, where there were several restaurants, a movie theater, and an amusement park.Needless to say, the parking lot is huge. "It's a bit far from the scene here, and it's quite strenuous to walk." "But it's not impossible. There is another place, here." Bai Yuan pointed to the hotel across the road, "The parking lot here is also quite large." "The three basement floors are all parking lots." "Is the parking fee calculated by a machine?" "Yes, but there are staff at the exit." "It's him, show him the portrait." Bai Yuan put out the second cigarette he just lit, picked up his coat and stood up. "In the past?" "It's okay to go home anyway." Bai Yuan threw his coat over his shoulders and walked towards the door. "Wait a minute, I'm going too." Hagi Village chased after him. They hailed a taxi in front of the police station and rushed to the hotel.Bai Yuan crossed his legs, tapped his knees, and looked out the window, looking anxious. "Those children," Bai Yuan said when he was about to arrive at the hotel, "it seems that they are about to be sent to an orphanage." "A facility for adopted children?" Faced with Hagimura's question, Kashiwahara nodded slightly. "The relatives don't seem to be able to adopt them. Not only are they not related by blood, but they don't have any contact with them at ordinary times. Children who are fostered in this kind of place probably feel ashamed." "What about the store?" "Because of the bank loan, the store will be repossessed." "It's a pity……" Hagimura thought that he would never eat that beef diced rice bowl again.