Chapter 5 Section 5

"Ms. Jiang Dao has almost never asked me this kind of question. Other detectives have asked me before, but I can only answer you like this." Noriko Maeda lowered her head in deep apology.She was wearing a white shirt over a blue waistcoat, which appeared to be the bank's uniform. Kaoru came to Jiangdao Qianxia's workplace, a branch in Kodenmacho, Nihombashi.She borrowed a reception room on their second floor to question Maeda Noriko, who was said to be the closest colleague of Jiang Dao Chika during her lifetime. The "problems of this kind" she refers to is the male relationship of Enoshima Chinatsu.According to Maeda Noriko, Jiang Dao Qianxia has always held a negative attitude towards marriage, and said that it does not matter even if she is single for the rest of her life.

"That is to say, she hasn't acted abnormally recently, has she?" "Probably not, at least I didn't feel it." "So, have you seen this gentleman before?" Kaoru said, showing her a photo. But Noriko Maeda's reaction was not ideal: "I haven't seen it." Kaoru sighed softly. "Understood. I'm really sorry to disturb you during your busy schedule. Finally, I want to see the desk that Ms. Ejima used before her death, is that okay?" "desk?" "Yes, I want to see with my own eyes the working environment in which she lived."

Noriko Maeda nodded a little at a loss: "Then I'll ask my boss for instructions." A few minutes later, Noriko Maeda came back and said that she had obtained permission. Jiang Dao Chinatsu's seat was near the financing consultation window on the second floor, and the office was tidy.Kaoru sat down on the chair and opened the drawer, only to see stationery, documents of various sizes and seals neatly placed inside.Kaoru thought, this feeling is the same as her home.The only difference was that there was no trace of her boyfriend left on the desk. A short, middle-aged man walked over.

"When will this table be here?" "Ah... well..." Kaoru didn't know how to answer. "The criminal police who came before said that our best grades will remain intact for a while, but after all, we have to hire someone again, and hope to clean them up as soon as possible!" "Understood, I will ask my boss to confirm." The man turned and left after saying, "That's all I need to do." Just when Kaoru was about to give up and close the drawer, a document came into her sight. "What is this?" She asked Maeda Dianzi. "Application form for password change." Noriko Maeda glanced at the document and replied.

"Is it the client's?" "No, it seems that she wants to change the password of the cash card. Here is her name." "Why did she change the password?" "I don't know..." Maeda Noriko tilted her head and said, "Maybe it's because of something wrong." A thought flashed through Kaoru's mind. "Sorry, I have another request, I wonder if it's convenient for you." She couldn't help but said loudly.Hearing Kaoru's yelling, everyone around turned to look at her. That night, Kaoru stayed in the small conference room of the Fukagawa Department.In the cardboard box inside her were the letters found from Eshima Chinatsu's house.Although she had examined them carefully, she did not find what she expected.

Kaoru sighed, and at this moment, the sound of the door opening came into his ears. It was Kusanagi who walked into the room, and he looked at Kaoru with a wry smile: "Did you find anything interesting?" "I didn't expect to find it easily." "What are you looking for? If you want to impress the public, you should practice for another hundred years." "I don't think I'm grandstanding. I just investigated Ejima Chinatsu's relationship because I was instructed to investigate her boyfriend." "I remember that the chief should have asked you to investigate whether there are any residents who are close to her in the apartment where Enoshima Chika lives?"

Kaoru took a deep breath and shook his head: "Enoshima Chinatsu's date doesn't live in that apartment." "How do you decide?" "First of all, the call log on her mobile phone does not have the number of the person in the same apartment, and the email address is the same." "Or just living in the same apartment makes calling and texting unnecessary." Kaoru shook his head: "It's impossible." "why?" "Because I'm by my side, I want to call more and more. That's how women are." Kusanagi kept silent with a displeased expression on his face.It is estimated that when she said "that's how women are", he was speechless.

"One more thing. According to the results of my investigation, the men living in that apartment are all married men, or boys under the age of eighteen." "so what?" "They cannot be married to the victim." Cao Sha shrugged: "The relationship between men and women may not necessarily involve marriage." "I know this, but the situation of Ms. Jiangdao Qianxia is different. She is dating the other party on the premise of getting married." "Why do you say that?" "Do you remember that she had a newspaper shelf next to her living room closet? It had some wedding magazines on it, and it was only released last month."

After hearing what Kaoru said, Kusanagi kept silent, and then licked her lips again. "Couldn't it be simply a yearning for marriage? Ejima Chinatsu is already thirty years old, even if she is a little anxious, it's not surprising." "No woman would go to buy a wedding magazine just because of pure longing." "Who knows, there are so many men who have no plans to buy a car but buy famous car magazines." "Please don't confuse marriage with buying a car. I think Enoshima Chinatsu was dating someone with a specific intention to marry before."

"If this is the case, shouldn't it be more appropriate to leave a call record? However, judging from the current situation, no such person has been found. How do you explain this?" "We've found it. I think we've found it, and let him go." Kusanagi put his hands on his hips and looked down at Kaoru: "You mean to say that this person is Mitsuya Okazaki?" Seeing that Xun couldn't deny it, he grabbed his hair anxiously: "I heard that you have been to the place where the victim worked and asked around, right? That's not okay, the guys in charge of investigating the work unit have come complained."

"Sorry." "Well, but those guys saw you as a woman, so they didn't pursue it anymore. But don't you hate people who treat you specially because you are a woman?" "I'll go and apologize to them in a few days." "Forget it, I'm sorry, I've already explained it for you. By the way, I heard that you still show people the photos of Okazaki everywhere, asking if they recognize you?" Kaoru kept silent again, she was already mentally prepared that this matter would be exposed sooner or later. "Are you still doubting Okazaki?" "He's the number one suspect in my mind." "Isn't there already a conclusion about your whimsical speculation? And if that guy is the murderer, how could he send it to the door by himself?" "Really? I think that Okazaki came to us on his own initiative because he thought that once we checked the phone call records, we would find him sooner or later. It would be better to pre-emptively find him." "In this case, isn't there no reason to take the phone away?" "That was him buying time. Okazaki must have been thinking hard about the content of his confession before he took the initiative to come to us." "Okazaki witnessed the moment when Ejima Chika fell from the building, and he had witnesses. Or, do you think the people at the pizzeria are also in collusion with him?" "I didn't say that." "Then tell me, how does a person standing downstairs kill a person on the seventh floor?" "Of course, I think Okazaki was in that room when the murder happened. Can we assume that he used some kind of mechanism later on so that the body didn't fall until after he left the apartment?" "Do you mean to remotely control the corpse to fall from the building?" "It is also possible that a device such as a timer is used..." Kusanagi looked up at the ceiling of the conference room, and made a gesture of surrender: "After the incident, the police rushed to Jiang Dao Qianxia's house immediately. If there was such a device in the house at that time, it must have been discovered long ago. .” "Could it be some undiscoverable device?" "for example?" "Well... I don't know too well, but I still feel a little strange. I heard from the person in the pizzeria that the rain had stopped at that time, but Okazaki was still holding an umbrella, and Okazaki said that he was nearby I've been shopping around. If that's the case, he should have noticed that the rain has stopped." Kusanagi shook his head slowly: "You think too much, although there are indeed many incomprehensible things in this case, but when you can't find other answers, you should accept it. Saki is innocent." After saying that, Kusanagi turned his back to Kaoru. "Senior Kusanagi," Kaoru walked around in front of him, "I have a small request." "What request?" "Could you please introduce that person to me?" "That one?" Kusanagi frowned in confusion, and then curled his lips as if he understood Kaoru's true meaning. "It's that Associate Professor Tang Chuanxue from Imperial University." Cao Sha waved his hands in front of his face: "You should die." "Why? I heard that Kusanagi-senpai had adopted Associate Professor Yukawa's advice many times before and successfully solved the case. If that's the case, can't I also ask him to come forward to assist in the investigation?" "That guy will never assist a police investigation again." "Why?" "Well...it's a long story. And that guy is a scholar, not a detective." "I don't want him to come forward to help us solve the case, but I just want to ask him to help verify whether it is possible to push the corpse from the balcony on the seventh floor from a certain distance." "That guy will definitely say that science is not magic. You should give up on it." Kusanagi pushed Kaoru away and walked to the corridor. "Please wait a moment, please look at this." Saying that, Kaoru took out a document from her handbag. Cao Sha turned his head impatiently: "What is this?" "It's something in Jiangdao Qianxia's desk. It's an application form for changing the password of the cash card. Although it hasn't been submitted yet, she does have plans to change the password." "so what?" "Why do you think she changed the password?" "Probably because the password was known." "No, I don't think that's the reason." "How do you know it's not?" "The PIN for her card is 0829. But she thinks it will be troublesome if she continues to use this PIN." "why?" Kaoru took a deep breath, exhaled slowly and said, "Because Okazaki Mitsuya's birthday is August 29th." "what?" "Of course it's a coincidence, because this card should have been arranged by Jiang Dao Qian Xia long before she started dating Okazaki. But this accidental coincidence makes Jiang Dama Qian Xia feel very dangerous. If she and Okazaki Marriage, then the PIN on this card will match her husband's birthday. She has worked in the bank for many years, so that is the first thing that worries her." Listening to Kaoru's narration, Kusanagi's expression began to change subtly, and there was a serious light in his wide-open eyes. Kaoru lowered her head: "Please, please introduce Mr. Yu Chuan to me." Then she heard Kusanagi's heavy sigh: "I'll write you a letter of introduction. But I think it's probably going to be a waste of time."