Chapter 11 Chapter Eleven

Yaeko stood in the kitchen and started to make coffee. She must have had a hard time doing nothing.Akio thought, at this kind of stall, people like himself can't do anything.The big and small affairs of the family have always been handed over to Yaeko, so he really can't think of anything that he can do by himself.He had never cooked or cleaned a house, so he had no idea where anything was.In the past, when Yaeko was not at home, he went to watch for his father and couldn't even find a black tie. Just as he was about to get the newspaper and stood up, he heard the siren of a police car in the distance.Akio looked at his wife motionless, and Yaeko froze in place holding the coffee cup.

"Here we come." He said to himself. "It's really fast..." Yaeko's voice was trembling. "What is Naomi doing?" "have no idea." "sleeping?" "I've said it all, and I don't know, why don't you just go and have a look?" "No, not now." Akio drank the black coffee directly, because he thought that since he couldn't fall asleep, he might as well calm his mind down.However, when he thought about how long he would have to endure this situation, he felt his eyes darken for a while.Even if there are no clues left on the body, the police should not give up the investigation easily.Although the detection rate of vicious crimes has declined recently, it is not due to the decline in police combat effectiveness.

"You'd better go to sleep first?" "Aren't you going to sleep? Do you want to go to the park?" "Then what should I do if I startle the snake?" "That……" "I'll stay here for a while, and I'll sleep if I'm sleepy." "Oh, I really can't sleep either." Saying that, Yaeko stood up and opened the door.But before she went out, she looked back at her husband, "Aren't you playing any tricks?" "Crazy mind?" "For example, I still want to call the police or something..." "Yeah," Akio nodded.

"I don't intend to." "Really? You're not lying to me?" "What else can I say to the police now?" "Right……" Yaeko sighed, greeted Akio, and left the room. In the taxi bound for the scene, Matsunomiya felt a little nervous.This is the second homicide case that he came into contact with after being assigned to the No. 1 investigation department. In the case of the murder of a housewife last time, he just ran around with the senior police detectives, and did not leave behind the actual feeling of participating in the investigation and the satisfaction after solving the case. .In order to work more productively this time, he held back his energy at the beginning.

"It's unbearable that the victim is a child." Sakagami, who was sitting on the side, said in an irritable tone. "It's really unbearable to watch, and the parents of the children must have been hit hard." "Of course, but I'm talking about work. It's difficult to investigate this kind of situation. If the person who was killed was an adult, the motive and suspect will often emerge in the process of sorting out the victim's interpersonal relationship, right? However, Xiao It’s basically impossible to expect this when a child is victimized. But if the prisoner is a well-known pervert who lives nearby, things will be easy to handle.”

"That is to say, it was a crime on a whim?" "It's hard to say, and it may have been premeditated. In short, that guy's head is definitely not normal. The problem is that it is difficult for people to judge who is a pervert when and where they meet. But if adults are targeted by such people, there will always be something I have noticed that children are not good, as long as they pretend to be kind and get close, it is easy to be deceived to gain trust." Sakagami was about thirty-five or six years old, but he had been assigned to the first investigation department for more than ten years, and he had probably handled similar cases.

"It's under the jurisdiction of the Training Department..." Sakagami said to himself, "They just changed the director recently, so they must be very motivated." He snorted contemptuously. Hearing the words "Training Department", Song Gong secretly took a deep breath.What made him so nervous was not just the pressure of facing the case. In fact, the fact that the murder occurred within the jurisdiction of the Nerima Bureau also made him quite concerned, because there was a person in the Criminal Investigation Department of the Nerima Bureau who was very close to him. people of origin.

Long Zheng's yellowed face came to his mind, Song Gong had visited him a few days ago.Even so, one has to feel that some unseen force is at work for this to happen. The taxi drove into the residential area, along the carefully arranged and planned straight road, with similar-looking houses standing on both sides, giving Song Gong the impression that the living standard here is above-average. A lot of people gathered in front, and there were still a number of police cars parked. Farther away, there were policemen directing the passing vehicles to detour. Sakagami told the driver to stop.

After getting out of the taxi, Matsumiya and Sakagami moved forward while pushing aside the crowd of onlookers, greeted the police officer in charge of guarding the scene, and walked into the area where ordinary people are forbidden to enter. Song Gong has already heard that the scene is a public toilet in Ginkgo Park, but it is not clear whether this is the first scene of the murder. He only knows that the body was found here, which means it was just a case of abandoning the body at first.However, there were obvious signs of homicide on the body, so the police judged that it was probably a homicide.

The road connected to Ginkgo Park has been set as an area prohibited by the police for ordinary people. When they approached the park, they saw a familiar face. It was their senior director Kobayashi, but they did not find the figure of the chief Ishigaki. . "It's really early." Sakagami said to Kobayashi. "I just came here too. I haven't gone inside to see it yet. I just heard the general situation from the people in the jurisdiction." Xiao Lin held a cigarette in his right hand and a portable ashtray in his left.Several people in the search five units that Songgong belongs to have quit smoking recently, but Xiaolin is a "happy smoker" who is very disgusted with the topic of smoking cessation.

"Who found the body?" Sakagami asked. "It was an old gentleman nearby. His hobby was to go to the park to smoke a few puffs after getting up early. I really don't know if this is a good habit or a bad habit. Then because the elderly couldn't bear to urinate, he went into the public toilet. The door to the single room was ajar strangely, and I looked inside and found that there was a girl's body abandoned there. This old man really encountered a terrible thing early in the morning, and I hope it will not shorten his life. "Mouth poisoning is the characteristic of Kobayashi's speech. "Has the identity of the corpse been confirmed?" Sakagami continued to ask. "The survivors do have candidates, and the people in the jurisdiction should be confirming with them now. According to the people in the identification department, about ten hours have passed since the death. The mobile search team and the jurisdiction have been dispatched, but it is hard to imagine that the murderer is still hiding. Nearby." Matsunomiya looked into the park while listening to Kobayashi's words.Ordinary amusement facilities such as swings and slides are placed around, and the space in the central area can roughly play a game of dodge ball, and the staff of the identification department can be seen looking for something in the flowers and plants in the corner. "Don't go into the park yet," Xiao Lin said, it seemed that he noticed Song Gong's gaze, "They seem to be looking for something." "Is it the murder weapon?" Song Gong asked. "No, there shouldn't be a murder weapon, that's how it was done." Xiao Lin made a motion of choking his own neck with the hand holding the cigarette. "Then what are they looking for?" "Plastic bags or cardboard boxes, whatever. Dead bodies." "That is to say, the scene is not here, and the corpse was transported here?" To Matsumiya's question, Kobayashi nodded with his expression unchanged. "should be." "Tricking a girl into the toilet in order to molest her, and killing her after the other party called for help... Isn't there such a possibility?" After listening, Sakagami sighed next to him. "Even if you are a pervert, you will hardly consider tricking your partner into a public toilet where you don't know who will come in." "But if it's midnight..." "Would there be such a young child wandering outside in the middle of the night? If they were kidnapped before, they would often be taken elsewhere." Song Gong accepted this statement and said nothing more.It seems that Kobayashi and Sakagami have concluded that this is not the first scene of the murder after knowing the general situation of the case. "Oh, the people from the jurisdiction are here." Xiao Lin puffed out a cigarette, and pointed behind Songgong and the others with his chin. Matsumiya looked back and saw a man in a gray suit walking towards them.Maybe it's because the other party has a clean parted hair, which makes him look more like a serious company employee than a policeman. He claimed to be Mucun, the criminal police of the jurisdiction. "Has the victim's identity been confirmed?" Kobayashi asked him. Makimura frowned. "It seems to be true. The mother of the child is no longer able to answer the questions, but the father said that if he can quickly talk to the police to help solve the case, he will cooperate." "I heard that they made a tracing request last night." "The husband and wife came to the Neima Department after eight o'clock in the evening. They live on the opposite side of the bus road. The man is a company employee." Mucun looked at the notebook, "The girl's name is Kasugai Yuuna." Matsunomiya also took out his own notebook and wrote down the name "Yuna Kasugai". Mucun then provided the names of the child's parents. The father's name is Kasugai Tadahiko, and the mother's name is Nazuko. "The victim is a second-grade elementary school student. The school is about a ten-minute walk away. She went home once at around four o'clock yesterday afternoon, and disappeared after going out without her mother's knowledge. After they reported the case, we sent no task at hand The police officers were responsible for searching from the victim's home and around the school to the nearby station, but found no trace of the victim. However, it was reported that a girl who was the same age as the victim and dressed similarly was buying ice cream at a cold drink shop along the bus road around 5:00 p.m. It’s a pity that the waiter at that store still couldn’t tell if she was the customer after seeing the photos of Xiao Yucai many times.” "Ice cream..." Xiao Lin muttered. "The girl only bought an ice cream and had no companion." "Could it be that he ran out because he wanted to eat ice cream?" Xiao Lin said to himself. "There is a possibility. I heard that she is a lively girl who used to run around talking to herself." Kobayashi nodded, and confirmed to Mucun: "Can you ask her father for some information?" "Now we have borrowed a clubhouse in the street and placed the couple there. I learned some of what I said just now. Are you going to meet them?" "Although the section chief hasn't come yet, I want to ask some questions first. ——You guys should come too." The latter sentence was what Kobayashi said to Matsumiya and Sakagami. After a murder occurs, the criminal police in the jurisdiction and the criminal investigators of the mobile search team will conduct a preliminary investigation first, including asking the survivors about the situation.However, after the first search department took over, they had to ask the same content again.The survivors are repeating what they have already said, so in the last case, Song Gong already felt that they were very pitiful.The thought of carrying out that depressing procedure again made his mood darken. The clubhouse that Mucun led them to was located on the ground floor of a two-story apartment building, and it was said that it was provided cheaply by a landlord who lived nearby.The house seems to be more than twenty years old, and the outer wall has cracks.Landlords may think that it is more cost-effective to rent to the street than to rent it out and leave it idle. After opening the door, one could smell a faint smell of rust. Not far from the door was a Japanese-style room, where a man in a light blue sweater sat cross-legged.He covered his face with one hand, and lowered his head deeply, he should have noticed that someone came in, but he remained motionless like a stone statue, Song Gong understood that it was because he had more than enough heart but not enough energy. "Mr. Kasugai." Hearing Mucun's greeting, Kasugai Tadahiko finally raised his head.His face was pale, his eyes were deep-set, and his bald forehead was greasy. "These are police detectives from the first investigation department of the Metropolitan Police Department. I'm very sorry. Can you allow them to ask you again?" Kasugai cast empty gazes at Matsumiya and his party, with tears still remaining around his eyes. "That's fine, I can say it as many times as I want..." "Please understand," Xiao Lin bowed his head to the other party and saluted, "In order to arrest the murderer as soon as possible, we think we should ask the child's parents a few questions directly." "Where should I start?" Kasugai tried his best to hold back his sadness, and his voice seemed to be moaning. "The police called the police around eight o'clock last night, so when did you two find out that the child was missing?" "According to my wife, it was around six o'clock in the evening, because she was cooking dinner, so she didn't notice when Yuna left the house. I received a call from her on my mobile phone on the way back from work, and she said The dishes are gone, maybe they went near the station, let me pay attention. The same thing happened last year, and Yuna came to pick me up from get off work alone. Later we told her that it was dangerous to run out alone. , you can’t do this next time, and there will be no similar situation since then…” It takes nearly thirty minutes to walk from here to the station. The young daughter must have taken a small adventure to please her father. Matsumiya thinks this is normal. "Isn't your wife very worried at this time?" Kasugai shook his head at Kobayashi's question. "No, she is naturally worried, and I am also very anxious. It's just that my wife feels that if she also goes to the station to look for her, she will not be able to enter the house if Yuna returns, so she has no choice but to stay at home." From these words, Songgong learned that they were a family of three. "I got home around 6:30, and I was really disturbed when I saw that Yuna hadn't come back. We gave the key to the neighbor, and the two of us went to all the places we could think of to find our daughter, and we even took photos to the station. Inquire. We also went to nearby parks, elementary schools and other places...including the park here, but I really didn't expect it to be in a place like the toilet..." Kasugai's expression was contorted by pain, and he couldn't continue talking for a while. Song Gong couldn't bear to look at him, but just immersed himself in taking notes.However, the words in his hand reminded him once again how tragic this story was. When Song Gong just turned over a page of notes, he suddenly heard a faint sound and raised his head. "Woo, woo", a voice like the wind came from the opposite side of the closed sliding door. The other police officers seemed to have noticed it too, and cast their gazes there like Matsumiya. Then I heard Kasugai mutter: "It's my wife." "Ah?" Song Gong couldn't help but lose his voice. "We let her rest in the back room." Mucun explained in a calm tone. There was another "woo", which was indeed a human voice.Song Gong finally understood that it was actually crying, but it was different from ordinary crying, the person who made the sound had already cracked his throat, and even if he wanted to cry again, he could only let out a whimper. "Woo, woo"... The detectives fell into silence, and Matsunomiya tried his best not to escape on the spot. Just after ten o'clock in the morning, the doorbell of Maehara's house rang.At this time, Akio was going to the bathroom, and he hurriedly washed his hands, when he heard Yaeko answering the phone with the microphone hanging on the wall of the dining room. "...Well, but we don't know anything about it." Then the other party seemed to say something, and Yaeko replied after a while, "...Oh, okay." When Akio walked into the dining room, Yaeko was hanging up the phone. "coming." "What's coming?" "Police," Yaeko said with gloomy eyes, "is there even a need to ask?" Although Akio's heartbeat has not stabilized, but under the influence of his wife's words, the situation has aggravated again.He felt his body temperature rising, but there was a chill behind him. "Why did you come to our house?" "How do I know, anyway, go out quickly, or they will get suspicious." Akio nodded and walked towards the entrance.He took several deep breaths on the way, but his heartbeat never slowed down. It's not that he didn't think about the police coming, he didn't know what Naomi did before killing the girl.Perhaps he was witnessed by others, but Zhaofu decided that even so, he would try to get away with it, and he had no way out. But now when the police actually arrived, he was still trembling with anxiety.He couldn't predict how long a layman's lies would be able to stand up to a professional detective, and in fact he didn't have the slightest confidence in being able to lie to the end. Before opening the door, Akio closed his eyes and tried his best to catch his breath.A rapid heartbeat may not be apparent from the outside, but obvious breathing disturbances are sure to arouse the suspicion of the police. He reassured himself that there was no problem. Although the police came, it didn't necessarily mean that the incident had been exposed. Maybe they were just doing a blanket investigation around the crime scene. Akio licked his lips, coughed dryly and opened the door.