Chapter 14 Section 14

When Cheng was lying on the bed reading manga, someone said, "I'm coming in." Then the sliding door was opened.The person who entered was his father Taizo.He was wearing a short-sleeved cardigan shirt and trousers, as if he had just returned from work. Ah Cheng closed the comic book and turned his body to his father. "Why?" Taizo sat down in his son's chair, and put his elbows on the back of the chair.He looked around with a displeased expression. "This room is really dirty, you should clean it once in a while." "Did you come here specifically to talk about this?"

"How long are you going to hang around?" "It's annoying, leave me alone." Ah Cheng turned around and opened the comic book again.He thought to himself that if his father said any more, he would yell back. "You have nothing to do with that matter, right?" Taizo asked in a low voice. "What does that matter mean?" Ah Cheng continued to pose as if he was reading a comic book, but he was shocked. "The case of that guy Banzaki, nonsense. How is it? Is it related to you?" Ah Cheng swallowed a mouthful of saliva, thinking that Juefeng couldn't let his father see his uneasiness.

"it's okay!" "real?" "Really! You're dead." Father seemed to stand up.Ah Cheng originally thought that he was going to leave, but it was not the case.Ah Cheng's shoulder was grabbed with great force. "Look at me and explain it to me. This is a serious matter." The father's voice was impatient. Ah Cheng reluctantly got up and sat cross-legged on the bed.He glanced up, and Taizo was staring at his son.However, there was no anger in his eyes, only anxiety. "When the detective came, you said you hadn't seen Banzaki recently. Is that true?"

"Really." A Cheng answered with a bow. "So, what happened on that day? On the day when the fireworks display was held in Kawaguchi, you drove our car out, right? You said you were at a friend's house, wasn't that friend Banzaki?" Ash couldn't answer.Indeed, he said this to his father on the phone at that time, and it would be meaningless to lie about being another friend now.He'll know just by looking it up. Seeing Ah Cheng's silence, Tai Zao seemed to understand.He clicked his tongue hard. "Just doing something stupid for me! I was wondering if it would be like this... When Banzaki was killed, I had a bad feeling." Taizo sat down again.Iron chairs creaked.

Ah Cheng looked at his father. "It's nothing to do with me." Looking at Taizo on the ground, he raised his anxious face. "What doesn't matter? When Banzaki and the others are doing bad things, you are also with them?" Ash shook his hand. "I'm gone. Didn't I come back to return the car at that time? Didn't you tell me to drive the car back?" "You were with him before that, right?" "Yeah, but we didn't do anything before that, we just drove around together. So I didn't know that those two guys killed the girl. It happened after I left Yes, really."

Taizo kept staring at Cheng's face.His eyes seemed to see through whether his son was lying. "What about when the girls were kidnapped? Were you not there? It was said on TV that someone saw a suspicious car at the scene. Isn't that our car? They said it was an old car." Ah Cheng looked away, he knew it was impossible to evade any more. "Is it really our car?" Taizo asked again. Ah Cheng had no choice but to nod slightly.Taizo clicked his tongue again. "When I watched TV before, I thought it had nothing to do with me, but I didn't expect it to be our car."

"But, it has nothing to do with me." "Why is it okay? You drove the car, right? You were there when the girl was kidnapped, right?" Taizo's voice was trembling because of anger. "That's right, but I wasn't the one who took the girl away. It was Atsuya and Kuaier who took the girl to the car on their own initiative. I didn't expect them to do such a thing." "Then why didn't you stop them? Didn't you tell them not to get in the car?" "How dare I say that kind of thing! If I say it, I don't know what will happen to them later? I will die a miserable death..."

Taizo twisted his face in annoyance at his son's words. "Your world is no different from the underworld. I really don't know what's going on in your head. What happened after that?" "I drove the girl to Atsuya's apartment... Then you called, Dad. So I separated from the two of them and came home." "real?" "It's true, trust me." "Didn't you do something to that girl? It's not a joke, is it?" "No, I just drive." Taizo nodded, stroking his chin while lost in thought.He had grown a lot of stubble on his chin.

"Anyway, the police may come again. They should come to ask you what happened on the day of the fireworks display. If this is the case, how do you plan to answer?" "How to answer... can't you just tell the truth?" "Can you tell me you're not in the car?" Ah Cheng's eyes widened at his father's question. "Huh? What does that mean?" "That is to say, you lend the car to Banzaki, and make an appointment to wait for him somewhere. No, then you have to explain where you are waiting for him. Okay, then wait for him at Banzaki's apartment. Then After Banzaki brought the girl back, you and he took the car and went straight home."

Ah Cheng finally understood his father's intentions.Taizao wanted to protect his son, so he made up this lie. "It won't work." Ah Cheng said. "why?" "Because Kuaier is still there. If Kuaier is caught by the police and they all confess, the police will know that it was me who drove the car." "Really?" Taizo bit his lip and frowned. "Or just tell the truth?" "Yeah..." Taizo hit his thigh with his fist and looked at Cheng, "It's worse to lie than to tell a lie... Then tell the truth. But you have to say clearly what you're threatened with."

"Threatened?" "They should have threatened you to drive, right? And when they took the girl away, they also told you that if you don't help, they will show you, right?" "The two of them didn't really say that. It was because I felt that I would be abused by them in the future, so I didn't dare to disobey." Taizo shook his head angrily. "You tell the police that they said it themselves. Then you have to help them drive because you're scared. If you don't emphasize that, it's going to be a lot of trouble later." "But Quickie will say he didn't threaten me." "So it depends on who the police will believe. No problem. If there is any dispute, I will help you hire a lawyer." Ah Cheng nodded.His father, who has always been disgusting to him, now makes him feel very reliable. "Also, you have to say that you didn't expect Banzaki and the others to really rape that girl." Ah Cheng didn't quite understand what Taizao meant, so he tilted his head. "If you go home silently knowing that those people want to molest girls, you are still an accomplice. It would be nice if you called the police afterwards...you didn't?" "Ok……" "Knowing that someone will commit a crime but ignoring it is also a crime. So you have to say that you thought they would just touch the girl's body and then let her go. You have to tell the police Banzaki that's what they said. " "Will they believe it?" "Even if you don't believe it, you have to persist. As for the reason why you didn't call the police, you just need to say that you didn't expect it to turn into such a serious case, and you are also afraid that Banzaki and the others will retaliate against you in the future, and that's fine." This is indeed true, and Ah Cheng replied: "Yes." "You also have to say that even though you learned about the disappearance of the girl and the discovery of the body by the police from TV or somewhere else, you never thought it was done by Banzaki and the others. This is the most important point, you absolutely must not Can forget." "Well, I see." "Just emphasize that you didn't expect to be related to that case, and if the two of them threaten you, you should not be sentenced to any severe punishment. I will ask a lawyer to help you defend your innocence." Taizo crossed his arms and closed his eyes.His expression was to confirm if there was anything he hadn't noticed. "You probably didn't meet Banzaki and the others after that?" Taizo asked, staring at Ah Cheng. Ah Cheng didn't say a word, but shook his head. "What? Isn't it?" "I was called out again after that. They told me to drive over..." "when?" "It should be two days after the fireworks display." "Did you lend them the car?" Tai Zao's expression became ugly. Ah Cheng didn't speak, but nodded slightly.Taizao scolded: "Idiot!" "Why are you so obedient? It's because of this that you can't do anything well." Ah Cheng, who was so straightforwardly poked at the sore spot, felt hurt and angry at the same time.He looks away. "Then?" "what?" "Are you still asking me? If you borrowed their car, don't you have to meet them again when you return the car?" "Yes, I have." "when?" "The next morning. He called the night before and asked me to go to his apartment to pick up the car. So I went." Ah Cheng replied in a slightly angry tone. "Did they say anything when they borrowed the car and returned it? Did those two guys say they killed the girl? Did they say they were going to use the car to carry the body?" "They didn't say it so plainly, but I always feel like they said something similar." "Similar words? What do you mean? Make it clear." "I don't remember this kind of thing! It's just words like 'it's not our fault', 'it was an accident'." Ah Cheng pulled his hair and made an impatient expression. Taizo stood up from the chair and sat next to Cheng. The bed sags. "Then you didn't go to help carry the corpse, did you? You just lent them a car?" "Right, isn't this nonsense?" "Okay. Then you have to tell the police about this part. You just say that you lent them the car, but you have no idea what they are doing with it. When they return your car the next day, they have nothing to say." You say. You tell the police like that, you know?" "I see, but..." "What?" Taizao looked at Ah Cheng's face. The fact that Atsuya and Kuaier asked him to make an alibi came to Ah Cheng's mind.In fact, Ah Cheng actually went to karaoke, creating an alibi for the two of them.He hesitated to speak about it. "What? Don't you have anything to say?" Taizo said in a threatening tone. "No, no." Ash replied. He felt that if he told about making an alibi, his father would definitely scold him again. "Is this really okay?" Ah Cheng asked his father tremblingly. "what?" "Because, I think what I said to Kuaier may be different. That guy will probably insist that I am also an accomplice." "So like I said just now, it depends on who the police believe. What matters is whether there is evidence. You are just being used without knowing it. There is no evidence that you are actively helping? As long as we Grasp this point, even if you have to go to court, there is no problem. In short, those two guys are the murderers, and the police probably won't believe what they say, so you don't have to worry. " Although he didn't know if things would really go so smoothly, Ah Cheng nodded.Let's do what his father says now, he thought, for he was completely at a loss when it came to difficult subjects like lawsuits. "Now you know." Taizao put his hand on Ah Cheng's shoulder, "From now on, let's make more serious friends." "Ok." "What's the name of Banzaki's buddy?" "Hurry up, Kanno, hurry up." "Kano." Taizo twitched his lips and muttered to himself. "If this guy is killed like Banzaki, things will be easier." Ah Cheng looked at his father in surprise.Not knowing how Taizo interpreted Cheng's reaction, he nodded vigorously