Chapter 30 Section 30

Among the two detectives who came here, the older-looking one was Kawasaki.His eyebrows were sparse, his eyes were piercing, and his expression was impassive. Kawasaki, who walked into Cheng's room, looked around the room and murmured to himself: "It's really messy." His voice was very low and frightening. Ah Cheng's father was not at home, and his mother came out to receive him.She wanted the detectives to sit in the living room, but the detectives said they wanted to go to Ah Cheng's room to talk. "Because there are some things we don't want to say in front of your mother." Kawasaki said the reason.It sounded like there was something troublesome to ask him again, Ah Cheng felt uneasy.

"Didn't you go to school? I heard that you don't have a part-time job now, so what do you do every day?" Kawasaki asked while sitting on the chair in front of the desk.The other detective was still standing, watching the room from time to time.Ah Cheng decided to sit on the bed. "I didn't do anything...just watch TV or play video games..." Ah Cheng stammered.Even with the police, he hated being asked what he was doing every day.He himself felt that it was hard to do nothing every day. Kawasaki raised the corner of his mouth. "Well, you're still so young, aren't you?"

Ash lowered his head.He felt as if he was going to be said to be worthless waste again. "Are you meeting up with friends?" Ash shook his head silently. "Why? Shouldn't there be no friends? Or are there only two friends, Banzaki and Kanno?" Kawasaki asked him sarcastically. Ah Cheng still lowered his head and answered. "Because if I go out too often, my parents will read it, and my friends are shy away from contacting me..." "Taboo? Why do you want to avoid it?" "Because... I am like this now, and Atsuya has encountered that kind of thing again, so..."

"That is to say, I don't want to cause trouble." Kawasaki said decisively, "The relationship between buddies you people talk about is at most like this? People who will help you in times of trouble are true friends, but they run away. .It's just some phony guys." Regarding Kawasaki's provocative remarks, Ah Cheng couldn't help but raised his head and stared at him.But the criminal policeman was not afraid of the boy's gaze at all, instead he stared back with "Are you dissatisfied?"Ah Cheng didn't say a word, but lowered his head again.

"That is to say, you haven't contacted your friends at all? For example, have you talked to anyone about Kanno?" "I haven't talked to anyone recently, and I haven't contacted..." Ah Cheng asked and answered in a low voice. "Oh, can you show me your phone?" "cell phone?" "I just had a look." Kawasaki smiled at him. Ah Cheng picked up the mobile phone that was charging on the plug next to the bed and handed it to the criminal police. After Kawasaki smiled wryly at the standby screen of the cartoon character, he handed over the phone to another detective.The detective immediately began to operate.

"What are you doing?" Ah Cheng said in a protesting tone. "I want to see the list of calls made and received," Kawasaki said. "It should be okay." "Isn't this a violation of privacy?" With a sneer on Kawasaki's face, he stared at Cheng with triangular eyes. "This is required for the investigation. You should know what we are investigating, right? If you didn't violate Nagamine Ema in the first place, we wouldn't have to do these things now. You are also an accomplice in kidnapping her? Shouldn't that be Help us handle the case?"

Ah Cheng looked away from the criminal policeman and held the end of the bed tightly. The detective who checked the mobile phone showed Kawasaki the mobile phone and whispered in his ear.Kawasaki's expression became serious. "Did someone call you from a public phone yesterday? Who is this?" Ah Cheng's heart skipped a beat, and his whole body began to break out in cold sweat. "That's...that's buddies." "Boys? Is it a friend? Didn't you say that you haven't contacted your friend at all? Forget it, can you tell me his name?" Ah Cheng couldn't answer, he wanted to change his name casually, but he gave up.Because as long as the police go to investigate, they will be exposed.

"What's the matter? Can't you say it? But, in your era, is there anyone who doesn't have a mobile phone? Or are they suspended because they didn't pay the phone bill?" For the successive questions, Ah Cheng could only keep silent, and his mouth became more and more dry. "Hey! Answer!" Another detective yelled at Cheng, Kawasaki stopped him, "It's okay." "Could it be Kanno Kaiji?" Kawasaki asked in a gentle tone. It's useless to cover up any more, Ah Cheng thought to himself, there is no way to hide it anymore.Although Kuai'er said that if he told others that he called, he would never let him go, but facing this situation, Ah Cheng was helpless.

He nodded slightly.The other detective seemed shocked. "Why did he call you?" Kawasaki asked. "I think... to understand the situation here." "What did you say to him?" "I just said...the police know about you, it's better to surrender yourself..." Ah Cheng told the police everything he could think of about the closed conversations with Kuai Er.Kawasaki listened gravely while another policeman took notes. "Do you know where he is?" Kawasaki asked. Ah Cheng shook his head, "I didn't hear what he said." After thinking for a while, Kawasaki whispered something to another detective.The detective nodded and walked out of the room.

"Did he say he would call again? After you investigate whether the police have found any evidence to prove that he is the murderer, right?" "yes." "Hmm—" Kawasaki crossed his arms and leaned against the back of the chair.He kept this posture and stared at Cheng, "Kano seems to be in Nagano." "what?" "Nagano Prefecture. It has been confirmed that Kaiji Kanno is hiding somewhere in Nagano Prefecture." "Nagano Prefecture..." "How? Did you think of anything when you heard the place name? Anything is fine. When you chatted with them, did you ever mention the place name Nagano?"

Ash fell into deep thought.He tried to recall the conversation with Totsuya and Kuaier, but in the end he shook his head. "I don't know, I haven't been to Nagano." "It doesn't matter whether you've been there or not. I'm asking Kaiji Kanno and them." "I have no idea." Kawasaki looked away impatiently, his expression seemed to say "what a useless brat". Another detective came back, and he nodded to Kawasaki. "Okay, let's go." Kawasaki stood up and looked down at Cheng. "Oh? Where are you going...?" "Needless to say! Of course it's the police station! I want to learn more about the phone call between you and Kannotsu. We will keep your cell phone temporarily." Cheng was interrogated like tired insects in the conference room of the Nishiarai branch, but he could only repeat the same words to Kawasaki again and again.The detectives seemed to want to see if they could find clues to Kuai'er's hiding place from his narrative.But in the end, Ah Cheng still couldn't meet their expectations. At night, they finally let Ah Cheng go home and returned the phone to him.But in the car that sent him back, Kawasaki told him this: "Starting tonight, we will have people watching in front of your house. We have also tampered with your mobile phone, so whenever someone calls, we will know. We will eavesdrop on your conversations, so if you want to keep For your own privacy, please use your home phone or public phone. If Kanno Kaiji calls, try to delay talking to him, understand?" "What if you don't call soon?" "But didn't he say he would call again?" "That's true, but..." "If he doesn't call, we'll wait for him to call. It's okay, we're used to waiting. We were going to wait until Kanno Kaiji was arrested. It may be a long time, so it's going to be a lot of trouble You." After saying this, Kawasaki patted Ah Cheng on the shoulder. Kawasaki also said the same thing to Makoto's parents before leaving his house.However, Cheng did not hear the sound of the engine of the car Kawasaki was riding in.It seems that they intend to wait from now on. Taizo, who was very cautious in front of the detective, showed displeasure when Kawasaki walked out.He called Ah Cheng who was about to go upstairs: "Wait a moment!" "What's up?" "What else is there? Anyway, sit there for me." He pointed to the sofa in the living room. Ah Cheng leaned hard on the sofa, sat down, and turned his face to the side.He didn't want to see his father's face.He was already annoyed by being questioned at the police station, and he felt very unhappy when he thought that his father was going to lecture him again. "Why didn't you tell me that Kanno called you?" Taizo said. "No... special reason." "Didn't I tell you to tell me immediately if you have anything?" "Because Kuaier didn't say anything important, so I don't think there's anything to say. I don't know where that guy is now." "The point is not this!" Facing the roaring Taizo's back, the mother called "Dad" as if to blame, but the red-faced father's expression remained unchanged. "Why do you think I told the police that our car might be used to commit a crime? I just don't want them to think you are an accomplice. Didn't you say that when you kidnapped a girl, you thought it was just an ordinary prank, so you went to help? From now on, you must do everything you can to help the police. If you make a bad impression on those people, you will be in trouble in the future. Don't you even understand such things?" Ah Cheng's face twisted.He understood what his father said, and it was indeed the right thing to do, but he couldn't apologize honestly.What he wanted to say was that every time you would only get angry, in this kind of atmosphere, how could it be possible to say anything! "Forget it. What were you asked about at the police station?" "It's about the phone call I made with Kuai'er!" "Didn't I ask you to speak out?" Do you want to say it again?Ah Cheng felt very impatient, but he held back and didn't show it.If he is scolded again, he will collapse. He said again to his father what he had said so many times that he wanted to throw up.The corners of Taizo's mouth curled down. "If that's the case, you can just say that you don't know anything and you should be fine. You can insist that you only helped kidnap the girl, and what happened after that is something you didn't expect at the beginning." "But what if Quick is arrested? The guy will say I'm an accomplice? The police may believe what Quick says." "So haven't I said it many times? The most important thing is to let the police make a good impression on you. This is the case no matter where you are." Ah Cheng didn't understand the meaning of this proverb, but he knew that it seemed to be one of the adult's cunning ways of living. "However, what Kanno will say is really worrying! He vented his hatred for being arrested, and he may insist that you are also an accomplice." Taizo bit his lip, "Do you know everything those guys have done?" "Not all of them, but some of them..." "Do they often rape girls?" "Idiot!" Tai Zao scolded, "Why didn't you draw a line with that kind of person earlier?" What's the use of saying this now!Ah Cheng cursed secretly in his heart. "Listen, if the cops ask you what bad things those two guys have done before, you have to say you don't know anything. You have to say that although you often lend them cars, you don't know what they use them for. .You thought they were just playing some pranks. You didn't expect them to do something so egregious. Got it?" "understood." Ah Cheng replied awkwardly.It doesn't make any sense to do that, does it?he thought.He recalled being questioned at the police station—every cop looked as if he could see right through him. --------------------------------- Notes: