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Chapter 52 Section 3

Magic Night 东野圭吾 2602Words 2018-03-22
"...Regarding patents, if you have any objections, please go through specific procedures at the patent office. Also, if you have come up with similar designs in the past, please show evidence. Of course..." Hearing this, Kato turned off the tape recorder.He scratched his bearded chin, sighed, and pulled out a cigarette. "How is it?" Bangzhong asked. Kato didn't answer right away.He puffed out a cigarette and looked at the ornamental plants that adorned the store.The two were sitting in the corner of a coffee shop in Kasumigaseki, and it was Hamaka who invited Kato out.

"Hey, Kato, talk quickly." Kato looked listlessly at Hamaka: "What should I say?" "I asked what you were thinking. Should you know I'm not lying this time?" "I don't think you lied, and it was the same three years ago." Kato flicked the cigarette ash, "But such a tape is useless." "Why? I've protested to her." "You did protest, but the woman didn't admit it. The tapes are inherently poor evidence, let alone that." "Meifuyu did deny it, but... But, if I was making up things, I wouldn't be able to go to her to reason so confidently. The same goes for the things I've been in a relationship with. If there is really no relationship, I can't question her Why hide your relationship with me, otherwise you will become a person with an abnormal mind."

Kato looked coldly at Hamaka who was desperately trying to explain, shook his shoulders slightly, and squeezed out a smile from the corner of his mouth. "That's right, you're a crazy person." "what……" Kato spit out the smoke into Hamanaka who was tongue-tied. "If you just listen to this tape, you can only judge in this way. Hey, Hamaka, suppose you have a tape recorder in your pocket and really recorded what Mifuyu Shinkai said, what are you going to do?" "I want to be evidence... Maybe I don't have the ability to use it as evidence... If I confront it in court, I may lose, but if the media finds out, it will definitely become a topic..."

"Aha, you want to use this to blackmail Meifuyu." Kato smiled slightly. "How can it be called extortion... I just..." "Okay, it doesn't matter." Kato waved his hand impatiently, "Do you think she didn't expect these things at all?" "What..." Bangzhong blinked. "What did you dress up to find her? Did you bring a bag?" "Bag? No, I went empty-handed, shirt, tie, and suit..." "I don't want her to see you looking down." "It's not that..." Bang Zhong lowered his head and stammered—it was hit.

"This is absolutely not possible." Kato said, "She knows that you have hidden a tape recorder on your body, or in other words, she is afraid that if you do that, she is very careful in every word she speaks to you." Hamaka put his hands on his chest, and put the tape recorder in the inner pocket of his suit at that time.He remembered how it felt then. "No way……" "I believe what you said. I only listened to the recording and realized that the woman was acting from the beginning to the end without any loopholes. As you repeatedly said, the conversation at that time would not be heard by others, that is to say, the woman Even the possibility of his own words being recorded is counted."

Hamanaka stared dumbfounded at the black liquid in the coffee cup. "Hey, Hamaka, you better stop." Kato said calmly. Hamaka raised his head. "Stop it? What do you mean?" "I mean you are no match for this woman. If you continue to entangle, you will be the one who will be unlucky." "I won't let it go. I lost everything. In the final analysis, it was because of her. Even the ring plan I designed was stolen... It is absolutely impossible to just swallow my anger like this. No matter how I want to take revenge, I can't swallow this breath."

"Then you leave it all to me. Bangzhong, you just need to provide me with information, like today. I will follow this pattern in the future, please." Kato's tone seemed to be bewitching Bangzhong, and also seemed to be flattering He, at the same time, seemed to regard him as a fool. Hamaka put his hands on the table, clenched his fists, and knocked hard. "I can't take it." "Why don't you understand?" Kato said impatiently, "A layman like you, wandering around all day is a kind of disturbance to us. That woman is already very well protected. If you disturb her again, not only will she not leak The tail will also hide in the cave, which may make it impossible for us to start."

Hamaka rolled his eyes and stared at Kato, and Kato also stared back unceremoniously. "You can't understand my mood." Hamaka took out his coffee money from his wallet, put it on the table, picked up the tape recorder, and stood up. "Hey, Hamaka, what's the use of getting angry?" Kato grabbed his arm, "Didn't I tell you to leave it to me? Sit down first." After Hamaka sat down, Kato nodded with satisfaction. "When did you tell Xin Haimeifu about designing the ring? After dating or before dating?" "Told you before." "I want to confirm it again." Kato smiled.

Bangzhong sighed: "After dating." "Sure?" "That's right. I haven't even told the people closest to me about designing the ring." "Oh." "Mr. Police, you just told me to leave this matter to you. Can you really take revenge on that woman?" Kato shook his shoulders and said with a wry smile: "I don't hate Xin Hai Mifuyu, not to mention revenge, it can be said that I want to strip her of her disguise." "But you can't arrest her either. She hasn't committed any crime." Kato didn't answer, just grinned.

"Last time you said that you went to Kobe to investigate Shinkai Mifuyu, right?" "It's not Kobe, it's the Nishinomiya area." "None of this matters. What did you find out?" "I told you last time that I found her parents' house that collapsed in the earthquake and walked around there." "What else?" "That's what I saw in the West Palace. I wanted to go to Kyoto to see it, but I didn't have time, so I had to give up." "Kyoto?" "I heard that her parents used to live in Kyoto, and she went to elementary school and middle school in Kyoto. I also want to know what happened at that time."

Kato looked at him seriously. "Do you know her address when she lived in Kyoto?" "I don't know, but I know the school. It's written in my resume." "You peeked at her resume?" Bangzhong pouted.Kato didn't care about this, and continued to ask: "Is there still her resume?" "How is it possible? Throw it away." "At least remember which school she graduated from? You are so obsessed with her." "So what if I remember?" "Tell me." Kato said, taking out the notebook from his inner pocket. After breaking up with Kato, Hamanaka returned to the store and found the shutter door half open.He was taken aback, he should have closed the door tightly before going out.Hamaka ran forward and pushed up the shutter door.There are people in the shop.Seeing that it was Koizumi, he felt relieved.Koizumi is his employer.In addition to this store, there are three others in operation. Koizumi seemed to be checking the bill. Seeing Hamaka, he asked unhappily, "Are you going out?" He was wearing a faded torn shirt and a crumpled coat.Bangzhong always thought that the boss should pay attention to his clothes, but the miser Koizumi never listened to him. "Go shopping for something..." "Oh." Koizumi was still sullen, "I heard that you went to Huawu to find fault with other people's products?" Bangzhong was stunned: "How do you know?" "Sure enough." Koizumi put down the account book, "What do you think? Didn't you agree not to have trouble with Huawu? Because of your promise, I agreed to entrust this store to you." Bangzhong understands.It must be Meifuyu who told her husband Ryuji Akimura about what happened in Bangzhong, and it is estimated that he went to mess around. "I didn't go to Huawu Theory, but to the so-called cooperative company that develops new products—" Koizumi shook his head and stopped him: "It doesn't matter. You said that your design was plagiarized, so it's true to find fault?" "It's not about finding fault," Hamaka licked his lips, "Listen to me, Koizumi. I originally came up with those new products, but the president of BLUE SNOW plagiarized them without authorization." Koizumi started shaking his hands. "I don't want to hear this kind of talk. Listen to me, if it goes against Huaya, can a small gem like us survive? If it is squeezed out by all the wholesalers, it will have to close immediately." "What did they... say?" "It's very tactful. I said I'll forgive you this time. I'll just turn a blind eye this time. If there's a second time, don't blame me for being rude." Koizumi chattered on and on and on. He pointed at Hamaka's face with his finger. Looking at Koizumi's nails full of dirt, Hamaka remembered what Kato said to him just now: "If you continue to entangle, you must be the unlucky one."
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