Chapter 9 chapter 2

After being told by Tadao Hosoya, Fujiko Oda left the room in a daze.Fujiko lives on the third floor of the apartment, while Kiyomi's room is on the fifth floor.If you take the elevator at this time, the situation will be completely different.But at this time she chose to climb the stairs, and she planned to climb to the fifth floor. Having said that, Kusanagi stopped and looked at Yukawa.Yu Chuan sat on a chair and trimmed his nails, with his feet resting on the table. Kusanagi habitually came to the 13th research room of the Faculty of Science and Technology of Imperial University.It's class time and there are no students in the lab.

"Hey, are you listening to me?" "I'm listening carefully. Continue. She chose to climb the stairs. What happened?" "She saw a man going down from the fourth floor to the third floor, and then down from the third floor to the second floor. The man had a crew cut and was wearing a green winter jacket. And Fujiko Oda felt that his profile was familiar, as if he was a regular A customer who went to the Shinbashi store. Maybe she was in a hurry, the man didn't notice her. Fujiko murmured in her heart, and when she came to Qingmei's door, she rang the doorbell, but no one answered. So she tried to turn the doorknob, But the door was not locked."

"Then the body was found?" "Nagai Kiyomi collapsed in the bathroom. Fujiko Origuchi called the police immediately." "Next, our famous criminal police officer—— Sheriff Kusanagi will appear." Yu Chuan smirked. "That's what happened. Unfortunately, we didn't make many appearances, and when we arrived at the scene, we had already found out who the culprit was, and it was only a matter of time before we were arrested." "Is that the man Oda Fujiko saw?" After hearing Yukawa's question, Kusanagi nodded, and his eyes fell on the notepad.

"It's Koichi Kosugi, a sports reporter. As I have just introduced, he is a friend of Hosoya, and he has been pursuing Kiyomi Nagai. When Kosugi's name came into view, the house was driving by. Of course, he must be arrested." It's not difficult, we have already grasped his whereabouts, we just need to arrange search personnel in Osaka." "Has Kosugi confessed to the crime?" "It is said that he initially denied it, and when we suggested that he had witnesses, he came clean." "It doesn't feel like premeditated murder." "That's true. This is a typical impulsive murder."

That night, Kosugi waited for her to come back at the door of Kiyomi Nagai's room.She came back just before 11 o'clock. Xiaoshan proposed to go into the room to have a good talk, but she refused at first.But she may be thinking that this stalemate is not an option.Finally let him into the room. Xiaoshan desperately confessed his love to him, and said frankly that he hoped to have a serious relationship with her instead of playing games, and the purpose was to get married. But Kiyomi Nagai flatly refused, and seemed to say very forcefully, "You don't have any attraction to me at all".

Even so, Xiaoshan still did not give up, and begged her to try to date him for a while, and he would let her feel his charm. At this time, Nagai Kiyomi's attitude changed suddenly.She might have thought before: No matter what, he is a customer in the store, so he has been patient.But at that moment she broke out—"Are you kidding me?! I wouldn't be with a man who has no taste like you! I only greet you with a smile when I treat you as a guest. Don't be ignorant!" She kept saying such words, tearing Xiaoshan's self-esteem to pieces.He also saw a sneer on the corner of her mouth, so a voice sounded in his heart...

"When I woke up, I found that she had been strangled to death by me." "This is really a typical crime, oh, it should be said to be a typical murder case." Tang Chuan's expression was very serious. "Maybe." "Isn't it? Most of the murders in reality are not carried out after repeated consideration and planning like in novels. Most of them are after quarrels. The killing intent is only on impulse. Killing is not a common thing, ordinary people To do this, either out of madness or impulsiveness, in short, abnormal mental excitement is necessary."

"Indeed." Kusanagi rubbed his nose. "Then, what's the purpose of telling me the whole story of the case? I don't think it's anything special." After hearing this, Kusanagi looked back at Yukawa with a calm face in surprise. "Hey, did you listen to me carefully? Didn't you hear that the incident was exposed because Hosoya saw Qingmei's figure at 1 o'clock in the middle of the night, and Qingmei had already been killed by Kosugi at that time. What do you think?" "Do you mean?" "Don't you find it incredible?"

"Oh?" Yu Chuan crossed his arms and put his feet off the table.He was sitting on a swivel chair, turning left and right. "I think it's just an amazing coincidence," he said calmly, stopping to turn. "Coincidence? What kind of coincidence?" "The man Xigu was drunk, and it can be said that he was in a state of half-asleep and half-awake. People in this state are generally in a daze. He dreamed of his lover in a daze. Suddenly, he woke up from the dream, So I called, and it happened that something happened to her room at this time." "Our section chief agrees with you, saying that this may be what Hosoya saw in a dream or hallucination."

"Haha," Tang Chuan laughed loudly, "I always get along better with your section chief." "However, Hosoya concluded that it was definitely not a dream." "Well, do people other than the section chief believe his words? Only by catering to the section chief can there be a future as a policeman." Kusanagi tilted his mouth and scratched his cheek. "This is not a joke. If the current narrative is used, the report will become a mysterious story. It is unbelievable that some of the police officers thought it was a letter from the victim's soul to Hosoya."

"Isn't that fun too? Seems like you need a sense of humor." "You don't really think that, do you? Would you like to challenge this riddle?" "Mystery... Can this be called a mystery?" Yu Chuan stood up and walked to the window.The spring sun shone through the cracks in the curtains, and his white coat shone brightly. "Assuming that Hosoya is not drunk, it is very likely that it is a hallucination. No, it may be a bit too much to say that it is a hallucination. Maybe it should be called vertigo or an illusion." "You mean, he mistook something for Qingmei?" "A long time ago, there was such a thing as seeing a towel swaying in the wind as a ghost. At that time, Hosoya had just dated his girlfriend, and her figure may still remain in his mind. After that, he was in the dark again. After a fall, he must have panicked. At this moment, he suddenly raised his head and looked out the window, and saw something. If he hadn’t panicked, he would have been able to calmly see the true nature of that thing. For example, it might be something The shadow reflected on the glass window. But he was in an abnormal mental state at the time, so the possibility that he mistook the thing reflected on the glass window for the figure of his lover cannot be ruled out." "You mean at the same moment, by chance, his lover was strangled?" "That's why I said, this is a surprising coincidence." Yu Chuan replied. Kusanagi let out a long breath: "Could it be the only way to explain it in the end?" "Aren't you satisfied?" "There is nothing you can do if you are not satisfied. Otherwise, it can only be explained as ghosts." "Well, such accidental events with a very low probability do happen in the world, and there is no need to find out the reason." Tang Chuan strode across the room to the pool, "Would you like some coffee?" "No need." It must be instant coffee again, Kusanagi swallowed the sentence, "But once the media smells this, they will definitely make a big fuss and turn the incident into a supernatural story. Is this okay?" "No way, freedom of belief." "I'm going to report to the section chief." Kusanagi looked at his watch and stood up. "Is there anything else?" Tang Chuan asked as he put the filled kettle on the fire. "Other circumstances?" "Of course it is a suspicious point of the case. Although it seems that this is a very simple case." "Well, speaking of suspicious things, it's just the part about ghosts. Other notable things... Oh, yes, the deceased owed a lot of money during his lifetime." "Debt?" "I don't have the exact figure yet, but it's estimated to be at least four or five million. She seems to be looking for someone to borrow money from everywhere. Looking at the furnishings of her room, it can be seen that she was quite extravagant and a fan of famous brands." "It turns out that the deceased owed money..." After talking to himself for a while, Tang Chuan asked again, "Is there no problem with the cause of death?" "No problem. She has a wound on her wrist, but it's minor. It shouldn't be relevant to this case." "A wound on your wrist?" Tang Chuan stopped the hand that was pouring instant coffee into the cup, turned around and asked, "Which hand? What kind of wound?" "It seems to be the left hand. But it's really not a serious injury, and it still has adhesive plaster on it." Hearing this, Yu Chuan held a coffee spoon, without saying a word, and fell into deep thought for a while.After a while, steam came out from the spout of the kettle, making a sound of "huh". "Hey, the water is boiling." Kusanagi stepped forward to turn off the gas stove. Yu Chuan pointed at Kusanagi with the tip of a coffee spoon: "It's all your bad habit. You always save the most critical part for the end. If you heard this first, you would have thought of another explanation." "What? Is there a problem with the wrist injury?" "It's possible." He waved the spoon up and down, left and right like holding a baton, "Take me there, to the house where the ghost appeared." -------------------------------- Note: