Chapter 13 Section 13

A TV in the corner of the store was showing a talk show on the midday news.After eating the tempura bowl, Oribe reached out to pick up the teacup, and was about to drink tea when he saw the big marquee subtitles on the TV screen, he stopped his hands. "Is the boy who was killed related to the case of the girl who abandoned the body in Kawaguchi City?" "The case is on TV." Oribe whispered to Mano who was sitting opposite. Mano nodded while eating cold barley noodles, but did not watch TV. The good-looking female anchor said in a heavy tone: "It was previously reported on this program that the victim of the tragedy in Adachi District was suspected of frequently sexually assaulting women, that is, the so-called recidivist rape. It is understood that this case may be related to the Changfeng Ema Arakawa corpse case. We are now in contact with people Mr. Sakamoto, who was interviewed at the Nishiarai branch, is online."

The screen switches to the front gate of the Nishiarai Sub-bureau.A man in a short-sleeved shirt stands with a microphone in hand. "I'm at the entrance of the Nishiarai Sub-bureau. As we said before, the police found a large number of videotapes of rape in the room of the problem boy. The latest news confirms that the body of the girl in one of the videotapes was found in Arakawa Nagamine Ema. This discovery made the investigation headquarters believe that there should be some connection between the two cases." The scene then switches back to the studio.The male host said solemnly:

"What's going on? For follow-up reports, the staff of this program once contacted Ms. Nagamine Ema's father and wanted to ask about Ms. Ema, but he was not at home and did not go to the company. In this regard, if We will report any new discoveries to you immediately. The development of the case is really unexpected-" The host asked for the opinions of several critics around him.It may be because the development of the case is too bizarre. The critics seem to be afraid that if they make a slip of the tongue, they may lose face in the future. They speak ambiguously, like some kind of social disease. Abstract ideas are flying around.

Yesterday's evening news was the first report of these contents, but at that time there was no mention of Changfeng Shigeki's disappearance. "The media probably don't know that Mr. Nagamine is the murderer who killed Banzaki?" Oribe asked Mano. After eating the Hengmai noodles, Mano picked his teeth with a toothpick. "How is it possible? Just look at the actions of the police. It's just because the police haven't announced the news of the fingerprint match, so they can't make any inferences without authorization." "Why didn't you announce the fingerprints?"

"Maybe it's because I don't want to push Changfeng into a desperate situation. If you are pushed into a hurry, you don't know what will happen. What's more, that guy is carrying a terrible thing." "It's a shotgun after all." Mano frowned at Oribe's answer and made a gesture of zipping his mouth shut, as if he was saying not to talk about it in this kind of place.Oribe lowered his head. The two walked out of the fast food restaurant.The store was located next to the Funabashi Racecourse. They walked along the wide road for about five minutes, and came to a road lined with small shops along the road.There they turned a corner and walked on for a while.A signboard with the words "Banzaki Rice Shop" appeared diagonally in front of them on the right.Judging from the dirty signboard, this store should have been out of business for a long time.

"It seems to be there." "It looks like no one lives there." "That's good. So the neighbors don't gossip and the media doesn't flock to it." The iron rolling door has been rusted, and it can be seen that it has been out of use for a while.The two of them went around from the side alley to the back.In the back is the house, with a small window facing the alley, and a button next to the door. "Will this ring?" "If you don't press and see, how do you know if it will ring!" Zhen pressed the button before finishing his wild words.Pressing it once did nothing, so he pressed it again.

Just when Oribe was about to say that it was indeed broken, he heard the sound of the door lock opening.The door opened about twenty centimeters, and a woman in her fifties poked her head out, her eyes sunken. "We called this morning." Mano had a friendly smile on his face. The woman bluntly said please and opened the door. Oribe followed Mano and also entered the house.The room was a bit dark, and the cloudy and humid air was mixed with the smell of incense sticks and dust. It was a Japanese room about six folds in size, with only a small tea cabinet and a low table in it, and no other furniture.The paper door is closed tightly, and the next room cannot be seen, but the smell of incense seems to be wafting from there.

Mano introduced himself first, and Oribe followed suit.But she didn't seem to be interested in the policeman's name at all, and kept looking at the old tatami. She - Yukiyo Banzaki is the mother of Atsuya Banzaki who was murdered.I heard she moved here last night.This seems to be the hometown of her husband Yuxiong. "Is there no one living here now?" Mano asked. "Does it matter?" To Banzaki Yukiyo's question, Mano quickly shook his hand. "No, it doesn't matter." Koichi let out a long sigh. "My uncle lives nearby, and he uses it as a warehouse. My husband asked him to let us live here for a while." Her tone didn't fluctuate.

"Is that so? Oh, but staying in the original place is indeed noisy." "It's not noisy or not." Xingshiro frowned, "People around us look at us strangely, and some weird media will come to invite us to be interviewed." She shook her head, " I'm going crazy." For sure, Oribe thought, she might be the most watched person in Japan now.After all, she was the mother of a bizarre murder victim and rapist.Moreover, her son is also a suspect in the corpse abandonment case. "Sorry to bother you at this time. But I want to ask you two or three questions." Mano said shyly.

Koshiro's eyes hung upward. "There's nothing to say. Haven't I already told you a lot? Please don't take it too far." "Have you and your son talked to each other in the last month?" Mano asked the question despite her anger. "No conversation. So I have no idea what that kid was doing." "Since when did your son live alone?" "Last November. Because he said he was going to take the college entrance examination, I wanted to let him concentrate on studying in a quiet environment... Our family is in the transportation industry, and the house and the company are together, so it is very noisy. In and out, it's hard to calm down..."

"Someone said," Mano interrupted her reply. "Tun also seems to be violent with his parents. They're wondering if that's the real reason you're letting him live elsewhere." A look of panic appeared on Yukiyo's face. "Who said that?" "Just what other people said. We went around and asked a lot of people." Kouyo lowered his head, his eyes flickering.Possibly guessing who the people who told the police about these 543s were. "What's the matter?" Mano urged her to answer. Koshiro looked up, but didn't look at Mano's face. "Boys of that age are somewhat rude. It can be said that they feel like emotional instability. That's why I rented an apartment for him so that he can calm down and study. That's all." When listening to Yukiyo's answer, Oribe felt that being a mother is really great.It has reached the point of renting another house, which means that Atsushi Banzaki is not usually violent to his mother.In fact, many people have seen her get hurt.Even so, she still had to protect her son. "Then do you know why he is emotionally unstable?" Mano asked. "So I said that we were wrong. We didn't take good care of him when we were young. It would be nice if we cared more about his troubles." Mano shook his head. "I don't mean that, but a more immediate reason." "direct……" "Atsuya once received counseling for smoking pine perfume. When he was in junior high school, he also took magic mushrooms later." Xingshiro's face changed drastically, his eyes widened and he shook his head. "Only once, and it was a long time ago." "I don't want to say that, but just receiving counseling once doesn't mean he hasn't smoked anymore. There are many cases of hiding and smoking." "No, that kid—" "Maybe he doesn't smoke pine perfume now." Mano stopped his mother's speech, "because no one who played with him mentioned it. But ma'am, he is very likely to use other drugs. Atsushi also No signs of taking medication?" Yukiyo's face twisted.For the first time, she looked directly at Mano's face. "How could that child do such a thing! He is actually a very good boy. It was all because of bad friends who instigated him to go astray. He is a kind-hearted child, and the bad one is that Kanno. Auntie clearly wants to live a serious life, but he always gets in the way." "The Kanno you're talking about is Kaiji Kanno?" Kouyo nodded in affirmation. "That kid has been bad since he was in middle school. He's been labeled a guy for a long time. Whether it's pine perfume or cigarettes, he taught Atsuya. If Atsushi doesn't play with him, he still Even if he threatens Tun, he should also look good to him. Tun has no choice but to associate with him." "That is to say, Kanno has only taken drugs?" "That child must have done such a bad thing." "Have you ever heard Tonya say such a thing?" "Well... I didn't really hear it, but Atsushi often said that that guy was very powerful, or that he did all kinds of bad things." "Oh? Does he do all kinds of bad things?" "Yes. If I hadn't been in contact with that child, I wouldn't have encountered such a thing..." Koshiro gritted her teeth and closed her eyes forcefully, then she picked up the towel beside her and pressed the corners of her eyes. "It's the same thing this time, right? Although it was reported on TV that he raped many girls and offended him, but it was definitely the envoy of Kanno, and Atsushi was just forced to accompany him. However, it was only us The children of the family are treated as bad guys... Don’t you find it strange? Why is no one mentioning Kanno? Atsushi has already been killed! He is obviously the victim, so why should he be blamed by the world?” Koshiro covered his face with a towel and burst into tears.Her voice was hoarse. Mano looked at Oribe with a troubled expression, then looked at Xingyo again, then leaned into Xingyo's ear and said: "Don can drive too?" "So what? Kanno should do the same!" "What kind of car do they usually drive? No, I know Dun doesn't have a car, so I probably borrowed it from a friend..." "I don't know what that kid was doing." What a mess, Oribe thought.She didn't know what her son was doing, but she believed that there was nothing wrong with him. Suddenly Kouyo raised his head and removed the towel.Her eyes were red and swollen. "That matter has nothing to do with Tun." "What does that mean?" Mano asked. "It's the case where the girl's body was thrown in Arakawa. Just because Atsushi also appeared in the video, can he be said to be the murderer? Isn't it unreasonable? Please investigate carefully. That child should be innocent. " Looking at this screaming mother, Oribe was thinking—after seeing the picture of Nagamine Ema being bullied, can this woman still say the same thing?