Chapter 19 Section 7

Although Yasuko Mori's body was sent for a forensic autopsy, there should be no doubt that she died from taking a large amount of sleeping pills.There was no sign of a fight in the room, and the doors and windows were locked.There was no doubt that he was determined to kill himself. Kaga and the others searched the room to confirm whether it was related to the previous series of cases.They had expected to leave a suicide note, but they did not find it. "Look, Kaga." Ota, who was checking the bookshelf, pointed to the books lined up on it and said, this bookshelf is about the same height as Kaga, but more than half of the books on it are ballet-related books.

"I feel really dedicated to ballet." Ota said. "Those actors are basically like that." The same goes for Mio Asaoka. "But I didn't expect to reach this level. It seems that I have no other interests." "Ballet is enough." Kaga glanced at other books, some related to music and kabuki.It is estimated that even these books are also used by the bank. The next thing that attracted attention was that there were a lot of books on slimming, beauty and weight loss methods. In addition to a few newly released "HOW TO", there were also several professional books.

Yasuko Mori was also a member deeply influenced by Oda, Kaga thought. The Japanese-style room was reserved for Ota, and Kaga was about to inspect the kitchen.In the middle of the wooden boards on the third floor, facing the window is a sink, and a double-door white refrigerator is placed in the corner. Also living alone, men and women are completely different.Although the tableware and cooking utensils here are much more than the Kaga's, they are very neatly arranged and very clean.Although Kaga is confident in tidying up the house, he has no experience in cleaning ventilation fans and gas stoves.

After checking the cupboards, he started checking the cabinets under the sink.There are soy sauce and salt in it, and there is a bottle that I have never seen before. The label on it says it is a low-calorie sweetener.From here, we can feel the great influence of Oda. "Did you find anything?" Kaga was about to put his hand into the rice vat when Tomii walked in with an extremely unhappy expression.Not yet, Kaga replied. "Please, find something quickly, Yasuko can't confess to us anymore." "If there is something in this room, I will definitely find it and show it to you."

"It's okay, there must be." While talking, Fu Jing looked around the room, "I heard from the student living next door that no one came to this room yesterday and today. She is a repeat student, and she seems to be in the room most of the time." "Didn't you hear anything?" "No, if you can't hear anything through this wall, there may really be no sound." Tomii tapped lightly on the wall.There was a very soft sound. "Speaking of which, this house is really old. It feels like seeing another side of the gorgeous ballet world." "Yasuko Mori was born in Iwate, and she may still be living on her parents' subsidies. If so, it's really not a luxury."

"Ballerinas don't seem to make much money." "The members of the dance troupe not only have no salary, but also have to pay the troupe fee to the dance troupe. Although there is an appearance fee during the performance, they are used up as soon as they buy high heels. It is impossible for ordinary dancers to rely on ballet for a living Yes, of course, let’s not talk about first-class actors. And you have to be restricted by training, so you can’t do odd jobs, and then you can only rely on your parents’ subsidies to live frugally. Look, Yasuko Mori is so poor that he can only eat this. .”

Kaga took out his hand from the rice vat and spread it out in front of Tomi.Several grains of brown rice rest on the palm. Fu Jing was dumbfounded when he saw it, "Really?" "Just kidding." As Kaga put the brown rice back, "Brown rice is also very expensive now, I guess she eats it all the time to lose weight." Yasuko's diet was influenced by Oda, Kaga repeated. "Then why did she kill Oda, whom she loved so much? Of course, she needs to find solid evidence before saying this." Let's look for it carefully, Tomii said and walked towards the room.

After checking the rice tank, only the refrigerator is left.Kaga opened the door below, and there were a lot of things inside.Lemons halved, konjac leftovers from cooking, chopped onions, omelets, ham, raw buckwheat, margarine, chicken, jelly, and more.Kaga took them out and checked them one by one.Gradually, Kaga began to understand what Yasuko was thinking about and what kind of life he was living in this small room. However, there is nothing hidden in these things. After thinking about it, neither chopped onions nor chicken are items that can hide things. After closing the refrigerator door, he then opened the top one.Immediately, Kaga was a little dumbfounded. The freezer was full of frozen food, cooked vegetables, curry and raw fish, and everything else was frozen food.Kaga carefully checked each item, but there was nothing that attracted attention.

Pulled out the ice tray and found no problem. However, when he was about to push back, Kaga noticed that there seemed to be something in the ice room.I wanted to reach for it, but found that it was frozen and couldn't be taken out.Taking a blade from the bowl holder, I carefully cut off the frozen part, and then put my hand in. It looks like there is something in the plastic bag. "team leader!" Kaga called Tomi, took out the wrapped things from the plastic bag under his watchful eyes, and handed them to Tomi after observing for a while. "So that's how it is." He sighed with emotion, "So that's how it was done. Sure enough, women's thinking is different."

"It's really different." Kaga also agreed. What was wrapped in the plastic bag was undoubtedly the device containing the poisonous needle, but the concept was much simpler than what the appraisers deduced.A small hole was opened in the flat circular plastic container, and an injection needle about five millimeters was inserted into it.This container is probably a soy sauce bottle used in lunch boxes, and the white adhesive used to fix the needle is silicone. There was still a small amount of tea-brown liquid remaining in the container, and a black substance was also attached to the tip of the needle.Fu Jing ordered the other police officers to send this to be appraised, then took a deep breath and muttered, "It shouldn't be wrong."

In the evening, Kaga and Ota came to the ballet troupe.The news about Jingzi's death had been communicated to them, and they planned to keep a few people who were usually close to Jingzi and ask them something. It was already past six o'clock when we arrived at the dance troupe, and just in time for the ballet school, several girls younger than the members of the dance troupe walked into the building one after another. smile. After Kaga and the others went in, Shizuko Takayanagi might have seen them, and immediately walked over and took them to the reception room.Akiko Takayanagi, Takehiko Konno, Kosuke Yagyu, and Mio Asaoka were already waiting nervously inside. "do you feel better now?" Ota spoke to Yagyu, but he just nodded with a stiff expression. Kaga cast his eyes on Wei Xu who was sitting in the back.However, she kept her head down, showing no sign of raising her head. After sitting face to face with several people, Ota first announced to them that Yasuko probably committed suicide.But the expressions of these five people didn't change much, Kaga saw Wei Xu's head bent even lower from the corner of his eye. "And," Ota said, Kaga heard him swallow, "and according to our investigation, we can conclude that Yasuko Mori is the murderer of Oda Yasunari." When he was halfway through, several people's faces changed, "Nonsense," Liu Sheng said, "It's impossible." "Yeah, I must have made a mistake." Akiko also agreed. "It's true," Kaga said for Ota, and then told them the ironclad evidence that Yasuko was the criminal.After listening to Shizuko Takayanagi and the four actors, they all showed a painful expression and remained silent.Only Konno muttered, "It's unbelievable." Ota said to them in a calm tone, "Actually, we don't know the truth of the matter." "Besides, none of this series of cases has been resolved. Why did Jingzi have to do that? What is the connection with the previous self-defense case? There are still a lot of things waiting for us to find out. Among them, yours is indispensable. Assist." There seemed to be some instruction in his tone. "Didn't you leave a suicide note?" Shizuko Takayanagi was the first to speak, and Kaga replied no. "Should we be the last to see her?" Konno spoke representatively, "We went to visit Yagyu together the night before yesterday, and Yasuko also went with us, but she didn't look like a person who intended to commit suicide at all." The other dancers nodded in agreement. "Can you tell me more about the situation at that time?" Regarding Ota's request, the four of them were a little bit embarrassed, and described what topics they talked about and what conversations they had at that time.However, Kaga found nothing in these conversations that could be related to suicide. "Who was the last person who was with her?" Kaga asked, Wei Xu, who had been lowering her head, finally raised her face, her red eye sockets were already wet. "Where have you two been?" "No, the two of us went home together after visiting Yagyu. We parted ways after I got down from Fujimidai Station." Yasuko's apartment is near Nakamurabashi Station, the next stop at Fujimidai. "What about the rest?" Kaga looked at Konno and Akiko. "We went to a bar together, it was called 'Net Bar'." Konno's eyes seemed to say 'you should know'. Kaga turned back to Wei Xu, "How did she look when you two separated?" "I don't seem to see anything special...Maybe I'm dull." "For example, you might not be able to come to tomorrow's training, didn't you say that?" No, Wei Xu softly denied. Then Ota asked everyone if Yasuko Mori had said anything about this series of cases. "She has been echoing our words, as if she doesn't remember what she said about her own thoughts." Yagyu said that everyone agreed. Finally, when asked about Yasuko's guess about killing Oda, "It's unimaginable." Konno said, "There are many dancers who adore Oda-sensei, and among them, Yasuko is the most advanced one." Heh, Ota said with interest, "Then she only regards Oda as a teacher from the beginning to the end?" "What do you mean?" Liu Sheng glared at him. "Will she love Oda as a man?" Ota hit the nail on the head, Konno pursed his lips, and asserted: "She worships the teacher as an artist. I don't see her meaning otherwise." Liu Sheng also said, isn't this obvious? After that, they didn't ask any more useful testimony from them. Kaga couldn't tell whether they really didn't have a clue, or because they still wanted to protect Yasuko after knowing that Yasuko was a prisoner. The two Kaga thanked the actors and walked out of the reception room, and then came to the office under the leadership of Shizuko Takayanagi.A young clerk named Sakagi was waiting, and she seemed to have answered Yasuko's call. According to her, Jingzi called at around nine o'clock yesterday morning, saying that she had a cold and a high fever and couldn't get rid of it no matter what, and wanted to ask for a day off today.Sakagi was a little surprised because he had never experienced anything like this before.Other than that, Yasuko didn't say anything. "Ah, by the way," the female clerk seemed to remember something, and said, "the last sentence she said was 'help me apologize to everyone'. I thought she wanted to complain about the impact of her vacation on training. Apologize." Kaga nodded silently, the last sentence should be the portrayal of Yasuko's tragic determination in his heart. At the search meeting that night, everyone reported on Yasuko Mori's death.Because it was so difficult to find out who killed Oda, but she committed suicide first, the police officers looked disappointed. First, Kaga reported the results of the discussion on the discovered poisonous needle device: It is reported that the container is indeed a soy sauce bottle sold on the market, and the liquid remaining in it is the concentrated liquid of soaked paper cigarettes.Although the needle has not been confirmed yet, in terms of the shape and thickness of the needle tip, it is very similar to the needle on the soft tennis inflator produced by N Company that Kaga deduced.According to another investigation team, Yasuko Mori's younger sister participated in the soft tennis club in high school, and it seems that she lived at Yasuko's house when she came to Tokyo to compete.It is very likely that Jingzi learned about the air pump from this, but unexpectedly, her sister left one in her room. Second, the cross-section revealed that the needle was sharpened with a file.The file was found under the bed in Yasuko's room, and it was confirmed that it was bought from an amateur carpenter's shop that had been found earlier.Along with the file, I bought a tube of silicone, which was also used to fix the poisonous needle, as Kaga guessed. "Finally, the blood attached to the tip of the needle was found to be consistent with Oda Yasunari's blood type." After the report was over, the police officers returned to their positions, and no one spoke for a while.It seems that everyone is organizing language to express their feelings. "So……" Fu Jing was the first to speak, and then glanced at all the staff, "Since we have obtained so much evidence, it is an undeniable fact that Yasuko is the murderer of Oda. However, the important motive is at a loss. What do you think?" "Judging from the exquisitely crafted device, it shouldn't be a whim of murder." The detective from the Shibuya Police Station spoke, his expression somewhat relaxed because the criminal had been revealed. "There should be some special relationship between Oda and Yasuko. In the end, the motive for the murder is still because of this." The person who expressed this opinion was a veteran criminal police officer of the Tomii team.He is a veteran who has solved countless murder cases. This intuition should come from his experience. "Is there any connection with the previous self-defense case?" Tomi asked the police officers from the Shakujii Police Station again. "Although the investigation on Yasuko Mori has just begun, we already know that she also has the experience of studying in New York. It's just that it was four years ago." Kobayashi stood up and said. "Four years ago? Didn't she go two years ago?" "Only once four years ago, together with Akiko Takayanagi, it seems that I went to a ballet company in New York to study. Of course, we don't know the details yet." "If it was four years ago, it would be impossible to have contact with Toshiyuki Kazama." Tomii scratched his head and turned his neck, making a rattling sound that could be heard even from where Kaga was. "In this way, the connection between the case of self-defense and the Oda murder case becomes complicated and confusing." The detective of Shibuya Police Station wants to get Tomii's approval.He might want to end Oda's case at this point, but Tomii didn't answer, just tilted his head in thought. "There's one thing I can't figure out." Kaga raised his hand and spoke, "What happened to Yasuko's alibi when the crime was committed?" "As I said before, it is practically impossible to prove everyone's alibi, but according to our investigation, it is possible for Yasuko to commit the crime. She only needs to use scotch tape or something like that in the drying coat. Something holds the device in place, so it only takes a few seconds to do it." A detective named Honma who investigated the case replied. "No, what I'm talking about is not the poison needle device, but when the jacket is wet. According to our previous confirmation, only six people have alibi, right, including Yasuko Mori." "Eh? Is that so?" Fu Jing hurriedly opened the notebook, nodded, "Ah, that's true." "That means it wasn't Yasuko Mori who wet his shirt." "Just because she didn't wet her shirt doesn't mean she's not a criminal." Honma said, "When Mori was waiting for an opportunity to hide the poisonous needle device, it happened that Oda's shirt was wet by accident, so she took the plan. .” "I always think it's too coincidental." Ota said, "Is that so?" Honma showed a dissatisfied expression. "I have the feeling that Yasuko has to get Oda's coat, considering that device. And it's too coincidental to have such an opportunity fall from the sky at this time." "Then Mr. Ota thinks that the murderer is not Mori?" Honma said angrily, Ota made a gesture to calm his anger, and then asked Kaga, "What do you think?" "I think," Kaga swallowed, "there should be an accomplice." As soon as this sentence was said, there was a sudden silence in the conference room. Immediately, a criminal police officer retorted, "I don't think there should be any." But he didn't state the reason, probably because he just took it for granted that there was no accomplice, but he didn't have any substantive evidence at hand. "Some people in that ballet troupe couldn't believe everything," Kaga said. "I think they seem to be hiding something. Now that Yasuko Mori has been found out to be the murderer, they still haven't revealed all the facts." "I feel the same way." Ota agreed. After thinking for a while, Tomii tapped the table, "Well, while investigating the motive of the crime, let's think about it along the same lines. However, I am in favor of committing crimes alone. No matter how unnatural the top gets wet, you can't conclude that such an accident cannot happen. " At the words of the commanding team leader, several criminal policemen nodded triumphantly.