Chapter 41 Section 1

Zhe Lang put the manuscript paper on the dining table, first wrote Saeki Kaori with a ballpoint pen, then wrote Tateishi Taku next to it, and then drew a line to connect the two names. "The two people probably exchanged identities. Xiangli, who wants to live as a man, wants a man's name. On the contrary, Tateishi wants a woman's household registration. So the needs of the two complement each other." Zhe Lang said, pointing to the two names . "If that's the case, the two exchanged names after Miss Kari left the Waseda apartment? Because she called herself Saeki Kaoru in Waseda." Risako replied sitting on the chair opposite Zhelan.

"That's right. The two switched identities after Xiangli moved." "Are they in touch now?" "I think there is. If they don't do that, there will be a lot of inconveniences. Like when they get into a car accident, they have to take countermeasures." "That's true." Risako nodded. If Li Shizhuo was in a car accident, his life was dying and he fell into a coma.Police should try to deduce his identity from items on his body.But the documents on his body all have the name Saeki Kari written on it.Of course, the police will contact Xiangli's family and the people around her.It would be bad if this matter got to the ears of people in Xiangli's hometown.Because what his parents who run the Saeki Knife Shop will see in the ward will be a strange man who has turned into a woman after using a knife.

"What about documents like driver's licenses and health insurance cards?" "I think the health insurance card is applied for with the identity after the exchange. The problem is the photo on the driver's license. If it is a new driver's license, it's fine, but if it's an old license for a new one, you must show the old driver's license. If you get a new license The person and the photo on the old driver's license are obviously different, and the person in charge of reissuing will be suspicious, right?" "Then what do you mean, each of them holds a driver's license with their original names on it?"

"Perhaps so, but there may be some other way." In any case, there should be a lifelong relationship between the two people who exchanged names. "If the two are still in contact now, the missing Kari-san is the former Mr. Tateishi Taku, and the real Kari-san probably knows his whereabouts, right?" Risako frowned and scratched her head with both hands. "It's so complicated, my head is starting to get confused." "We must find the real Saeki Kari. However, we have no clue." "Golden Boy Troupe." That's right, Zhe Lang retracted his jaw. "The head of the group, Saga, definitely knows about Xiangli. It would be great if he could find out something from that guy." Zhe Lang put down the ballpoint pen and crossed his arms.

But as far as I met him before, the impression he gave was not so much tight-lipped, but tight-lipped.They value personal privacy more than the average person. "Saga-san's home also serves as the troupe's office, right?" "Ok." "In this way, there are also a lot of troupe materials there." "There should be information about the troupe. But," Zhe Lang looked at Risako's phoenix eyes, and understood what she wanted to say, but thought she might not be coming for the truth. "We can't steal like thieves." "That's true." Risako turned aside, resting her chin in her hand.

The old apartment where Saga lived appeared in Zhe Lang's mind.It's old and old, but it's not unlocked yet.It's a ridiculous fantasy to use a wire to open a lock as easily as the protagonist of a spy movie. He exhaled softly. "Tomorrow, I'll go to Saga's and try to beg him again." "I'll go too." Risako said immediately, and Zhelang looked at his wife in a daze.She looked him squarely and nodded. "That's good. If the two of us beg him, maybe he will agree." Although he can't have too much hope, Zhe Lang didn't say this.

Risako got up and walked into the kitchen. When he was about to take out the canned beer from the refrigerator, Zhe Lang said, "Can you get me a can too?" She silently handed it across the bar. She opened the tab while standing and sat down on the sofa.She picked up the brochure of the Golden Boy Troupe that had been placed on the TV cabinet, and flipped through the pages. "How could the two exchange names and have something to do with Meiyue?" "This is my inference, or should I say imagination." Zhe Lang also opened the beer. "Why do you think the transcripts of household registration found in Akio Tokura's room were torn?"

Risako lit a cigarette and shook her head as she exhaled.She doesn't seem to know why. "I didn't think about it before, I thought it was probably Togura who tore it up. I don't know why it was in Tokura's hands, but we forgot one important thing, Tokura is a stalker." She tilted her head, as if to say: so what? "Stalkers go through trash bags." Risako didn't seem to understand the meaning of Zeran's words immediately, but after taking a breath, she held the cigarette between her fingers and opened her mouth wide.Smoke came out of her mouth. "The one with the copy of household registration is Ms. Kaori."

"However, his real name is Tateishi Taku. He was the one who tore up the household registration transcript, and Togura brought home the things that were torn up and thrown into the garbage bags. Of course, I think he should have brought a lot of other things back before. " "Why does Miss Xiangli have Mizuki's household registration transcript..." "You should have noticed the reason for this, right?" Zhe Lang drank his beer. "You mean, is Mizuki planning to exchange names with someone?" "Maybe she was preparing. Just when she was about to exchange names with someone, this incident happened, and Xiangli was targeted by the police. That's why she disappeared."

"Mizuki's disappearance is also..." "Probably because she heard that the police found her household registration transcript. There is another point," Zhe Lang raised his index finger. "She thinks she's going to cause us trouble if she stays here any longer." "Then, maybe Mizuki is really with Miss Xiangli?" "They are probably together. But the question is where are they?" Zhelang remembered the conversation with Makiko Nosue.She didn't know the whereabouts of Xiangli and the others, saying that she believed Xiangli's words, and Xiangli would contact her sooner or later.

There is another thing of concern.Makiko Nosue said that Kari seemed to indicate that Mizuki was not the perpetrator either.Although she couldn't accept all of what she said, she made such an assertion, and there was definitely some meaning to it. Couldn't it be Mitsuki who killed Tokura...? This question has been circling in Zhe Lang's mind.Zhe Lang was very happy that she was not the murderer, and hoped so from the bottom of his heart.So, why did she tell everyone that she killed people?She even made up her mind to surrender herself. "Maybe Mizuki is planning to exchange names with someone." Risako murmured with a can of beer in one hand. Zhe Lang locked himself in the studio and decided to solve the accumulated several jobs.I have been busy investigating Meiyue's affairs for a while, and there is almost no progress in the manuscript.Although there is no particularly important job, every job cannot cut corners.He suppressed his mood, while inadvertently distracted by thinking about the murder case, typing on the keyboard silently.Even so, he couldn't concentrate, and his writing speed was much slower than usual. In addition, he had to finish reporting on the half marathon held in Osaka.He just writes the title and thinks about the content of the article.He tried to line up notes and photos, but his thoughts were scattered.On that day, what impressed him the most was what Suenaga Mutsumi said. It's surprising that Kari is actually a man, but there's another thing that bothers Zhelang, which is what Kari said to Mutsumi. "He asked me if I would worry about household registration. After all, people will know my gender when they look at the household registration, and many formal procedures also require the name on the user registration, so he asked me if I would worry about it. .” Zhelang is concerned about the fact that Yixiangli locked the content of his troubles on the household registration.Could it be that Xiangli is looking for someone like herself who has exchanged household registration and name?A gender-aware meetup can be an excellent place to recruit this type of swap. However, if this is the case, Saeki Kari and Tateishi Taku are not the only ones who exchanged names.Mizuki wants to join them too... Zhe Lang always felt that if this was the case, what he wanted to expose might be far more serious than he thought. When the work came to an end, Zhe Lang went to the kitchen, put ice cubes in the wine glass, and made water wine with bourbon whiskey.He turned on the TV, sat on the sofa, and sipped water and wine.On TV, a comedian you've never seen before dressed up as a woman to make the audience laugh.His chest was tucked under his clothes, making his breasts look extraordinarily full.His false eyelashes are thick and long, and his lips are painted bright red.In short, he turned the description of women that men like into a funny version.Zhe Lang thinks that the reason why he dresses up like this is based on the mentality that women are like this.That being said, I heard that more and more women want to make their breasts look majestic recently, so underwear and gadgets with such effects are selling well.Now is obviously an era of diversity, but people have wonderful deviations about certain concepts, and have produced wonderful deviations.Zhelang remembered what Aikawa from "BLOO" said.Men and women, she says, live on the Möbius Circle, where there are no gender boundaries.He felt that might be the truth.But are men and women both subject to an unseen force that prevents them from standing in gray areas? When Zhe Lang finished his first glass and was about to make another, the living room door opened quietly.Risako walked in with a sullen face. "About tomorrow..." For some reason, she seemed to be avoiding his gaze. "I still forget it." "Forget it, do you mean not going to Saga's place?" "Yeah," she replied. "Oh, it's okay not to go, but what's the matter with you? Is there a job coming to you suddenly?" "No, it's not because of work." She massaged her right shoulder with her left hand and looked down at Zhe Lang slightly. "I'm just worried, is this okay?" "Do this? What do you mean?" "It's, uh, I don't know much about it, but I think they're desperately trying to figure it out. Whether it's Ms. Saeki Kari or Mr. Tateishi Taku, they both suffer from the gap between their gender consciousness and their physicality. In the end, they find A way to exchange names." "Probably so." "After thinking about this matter carefully, I think they are very hard. After all, they have to abandon all their past, whether it is education or experience. Not only that, including past friends, friends, family members and relatives, They lost everything." "Although they sacrificed so much, they still got what they wanted?" "That's why," she dropped her hands. "Don't you think it would be cruel to lose what they finally got because of us?" "I didn't want them to lose that at all, I just wanted to find Hiura." "But I think the result of your actions will cause their misfortune. In fact, in the process of searching for Mizuki, we learned a lot, right?" "I'm not going to tell the police." "It's fine if you don't tell me it's fine.... The same is true for Mizuki. Is it really better for her to find her? Maybe she wants to start over with another identity and start a new life." "Maybe that's right, but I don't want to leave her alone." "You are just acting out of pure curiosity." "I don't think so." "Anyway, I'm not going anyway. I'm going to quit this thing." She squinted down. "Did you ignore the twitch finger?" "I don't care about it at all. I believe in Mizuki's luck, there is nothing we can do." "Really? Then there is no way." Zhe Lang opened the refrigerator and put three ice cubes into the wine glass. "I think you'd better pull your hands too." "I'm going to do what I want to do." He pours bourbon over the ice. "You remember what Hayata said? Maybe our situation is very dangerous." "Don't worry about what that guy says!" "I can't do it! He's an expert!" "Maybe that's right, but I'm one step ahead of him." "He's going in a completely different way. Maybe he'll confront you in an unexpected place." "Anyway," Zhe Lang held the wine glass and stretched out his hand in front of Risako. "I'm not going to let it go. I'm the one who misses the ball, so I'm definitely going to get it back." Risako glared at him with a slightly puzzled expression on his face, then gave him another roll of the eye, then turned and left the living room. Zhelang returned to the sofa and drank bourbon again.There was another program on TV. Zhe Lang also cared about what Hayata said.However, even if you care about it, you can't be a turtle.He regards Mizuki as a partner, and wants to help her who is hiding in trouble. In contrast, the sudden change of Shasha's attitude is even more unexpected.It was she who offered to say that she would go together tomorrow.Although her argument just now was convincing, was that really the reason for her not going?Even if she simply changed her mind, what made her change? Unable to come up with an answer, he drank his second glass of wine.