Chapter 2 chapter 2

It was past two o'clock in the morning when Kaga returned to the apartment in Ogikubo, and he came back immediately after seeing off Mio Asaoka. The apartment is a panel-style two-story building, with 4 families living on the upper and lower floors. The first room that comes up from the stairs is Kaga's room.I went back here once today, and when I was about to take a breath, the phone rang. After opening the door and turning on the light, a boring one-bedroom room appeared in front of me.There are few furniture and electrical appliances in the room, and they are kept spotlessly clean, which makes people have a more forlorn impression.

He picked up the evening papers and mails that had been randomly stuffed in through the door opening, grabbed them under his arm, walked to the bathroom, and started to boil the bath water.The bathtub is usually washed once every two days, and today I just don't need to wash it. Kaga untied his tie, sat cross-legged on the ground, threw the evening paper aside, and began to check the mail first.One is a real estate advertisement, one is an invitation to a party from the University Kendo Department, and the other is an airmail. The real estate advertisement was immediately thrown into the trash can, and then he looked at the words written on the airmail. Kaga was shocked, because he still clearly remembered the smooth italic characters. After seeing the sender's name written in Roman characters, he did not leave the house. The information was sent by my lover in college.

There were two blue notes in the envelope, with the word "Bai Kai" written at the beginning. The content of the letter was roughly that I went to Australia for work reasons, nothing more.Although she will send one or two letters a year, they are always so concise, and the ending is always the same, "No matter what happens, please put your body first." The blank line is her name, Then it was written respectfully below: "Accepted by Mr. Kyoichiro Kaga". Kaga put the party invitation and this airmail away in a drawer.Both are past tense for him. After putting in the letter, I opened the lower drawer and took out a notebook I used in college, turned to a new page, and started to record the following content with a ballpoint pen:

"On Sunday, April 14, a murder occurred in the Takayanagi Ballet in Higashioizumi, Nerima. I went there with my own car and arrived at the scene at 23:25. The identity of the victim is unknown. The suspect is the ballet Saitoha Ryuko (22 years old), a member of the office and a staff member of the secretariat." Thinking of Ye Liuzi's clear eyes, Kaga recalled today's case. Ota is an old detective in Kaga's team.When Kaga rushed over, this senior had already arrived. When I received the contact, I felt that the atmosphere was relatively more relaxed than the murder case.The prisoner has already understood that as long as this case is found out whether it is self-defense, it can be solved immediately.Ota and Kaga were sent to support the first search section of the main office, but the search headquarters should not have been established.

"It would be nice if the case could be closed simply." Arranging his barely brushed hair, Ota muttered.It is the consistent style of this senior to be cautious. On the right hand side of the entrance corridor, it is the entrance of the office as the first scene.In the center of the 10-story floor, six iron desks are placed facing each other in two rows.There are shutters on the wall opposite the entrance. The man fell almost exactly between the door and the window, with his head facing the door, his face down, and his feet spread out in a "big" shape. That evening, Associate Professor Ando from the Forensic Medicine Laboratory of Toto University also came to the scene, and we mainly took the opinion of the Associate Professor as the basis for the on-site investigation.

The man is approximately 175cm tall, of medium build, with a depression on the side of his head.The vase that Ye Liuzi picked up was made of bronze, with a neck diameter of about 2 cm and a bottom of 8 cm.Comparing it with the wound, it is consistent with the shape of the bottom. It seems that the murder weapon is this vase beyond doubt. "The number of hits is one." Hearing the associate professor's analysis, the investigators who took notes couldn't stop nodding.If it is more than 2 times, then there is a possibility of excessive defense. The man was wearing a dark gray jacket with black trousers and tan leather shoes with rubber soles.After investigation, the items on his body were: a checkered handkerchief in the left pocket of his trousers, some change in the right pocket, and nothing that could prove his identity.

Next is the man's means of entering the house. There is a window in the office that is open, and the groove of the window frame is stained with some soil.As for how the window was opened, it has not been ascertained at this stage. There were also several footprints found on the soft ground below the window, consistent with the soles of the brown leather shoes worn by the man.From these footprints, it can be deduced that the man detoured from the gate to the side of the building and reached the side of the office. The actions after entering the room are still unclear, and there are no traces of turning over the desk drawers, cabinets and the like.

After the investigators learned the general situation, they summoned Saito Ye Ryuko, who was instructed to wait in another room, and asked her again about the situation when she killed the man. Looking at Ye Liuzi who was brought into the house, Kaga thought she was so beautiful, and probably all the investigators present would think so.The delicate skin like pottery, the bright eyebrows and a pair of big and delicate eyes complement each other, and the eyelashes will tremble together when you blink, but maybe because of restlessness or nervousness, your face is a little abnormally white, and your eyes are tightly closed. The color of the lips is very light, combined with the black hair in the shawl, Kaga thinks of the stunning beauty in the ink painting.

"Please explain again." said the investigator who brought her in. Ye Liuzi covered her mouth with the handkerchief she was holding, closed her eyes and took a deep breath slowly. "Tonight, I met with the person in charge of the Central Theater at the coffee shop in Ikebukuro with Shizuko and Oda-sensei. I came back alone before 10 o'clock." "why?" "Because there is still data that needs to be sorted out before tomorrow, so I will leave first." "What kind of data?" "Some of the dancers are still high school students. When taking those children to a local performance, they must ask for leave from the school. However, if we issue relevant certificates of extracurricular learning, the school will not count them as absent. So I must be there Complete these proofs within today."

The voice in his ears was soft and somewhat mature.The order is clear and the language is fluent, making Kaga feel that she is very calm. "So that's it, what's next?" Deputy police officer Kobayashi, the chief search officer under his jurisdiction, urged, he is a romantic man. "Afterwards, I took the tram and went back. The time I arrived was between 10:15 and 20. I opened the door and walked in. The key was left by Mr. Gao Liu." Ye Liuzi stated that when she turned on the lights in the office, she immediately realized that something was wrong, and the table and bookshelf looked a little different from usual.

She walked inside timidly. When I got to the window, a man came out of the dark unexpectedly. I was too frightened to scream.The man picked up the scissors on the table next to him, and the tip of the knife rushed straight at me. "Barely avoiding my body, I picked up a nearby vase and swung it desperately." "Do you feel you hit him?" She shook her head slightly. "I don't remember. When I opened my eyes, the man fell there. So I went over to look anxiously, it seemed that the head was broken... After that, I didn't remember it at all. It seemed that I just passed out like this. " After that, she clenched the handkerchief in her hand tightly and lowered her eyes. "Where were the scissors that the man was holding?" Ota asked. "Looks like it was on that table where he hid." "Where's the vase you picked up?" "It's on top of this." She pointed to the top of the cupboard. Afterwards, the investigators followed her description and found that there was indeed nothing unreasonable, and the location of the vase was indeed within easy reach. "Just burglars?" After she walked out, Kaga asked the slightly older detective. "No, it shouldn't be like this." Ota disagrees, "It's hard to imagine that this man would sneak in for the property of the ballet company, and his attire is casual but not cheap, it's not like he's doing it for a little money people." "Then why did he infiltrate?" asked the search director. "Is that so?" Ota tilted his head, "I'm not sure." "In short, the first step is to find out the identity of this man, and then we will officially start to go around to gather information tomorrow morning." Kobayashi summarizes everyone's opinions. After that, Kaga and Ota questioned the relevant personnel in other rooms together.The one who is interested in Kaga is the woman named Mio Asaoka, who is said to be a good friend of Saito Ye Ryuko.Although she is not as beautiful as Ye Liuzi, she has a very cute appearance.Said they were the same age, but she looked two or three years younger than Ye Liuzi.She was very worried that her good friend would be accused of homicide, so she kept looking at Kaga and them for help. About three months ago, Kaga went to see a ballet with a blind date introduced by his boss, which was "Swan Lake" performed by Takayanagi Ballet.He watched the first act with relish because of the rarity of brilliant colors, but in the second act, with the melancholy tone and the calm and sad melody, he fell asleep unknowingly.When it was time for the intermission, the blind date was very unpleasant. I guess it must be because I slept in a rather unseemly way.But Kaga felt that it would suit him if she rejected him like this, since he wasn't interested in her anyway. In the third act, I continued to sleep, but found that the atmosphere on the stage suddenly changed. Before, actors dressed as white swans in white clothes were dancing, but now a dancer in black appeared.From the perspective of the plot, this should be a villain who intends to win love from the white swan.The villain, the black swan, dances non-stop with the prince on a small stage.In the meantime, there was a movement of spinning more than ten times in a row. Seeing this, the audience burst into warm applause, as if they had reached a climax.What a masterpiece, Kaga clapped his hands in admiration and watched intently. The leading lady of the Takayanagi Ballet is this Takayanagi Akiko who plays the white swan, but Kaga has a soft spot for this dancer who plays the black swan, and he has a feeling of being touched in his heart. That dancer is Mio Asaoka. If it could help her... he thought. "starting from tomorrow." Taking off his tie, Kaga muttered to himself.