Chapter 28 second quarter

Seeing the corpse, the Tamiya Police Department frowned.No matter who it is, they don't want to see such a scene when they get up early in the morning.Look away, and look up by the way.Gray buildings stretch toward the sky, glass windows reflecting sunlight. "The sixth floor." The young detective walked to Tamiya and pointed to the second window from the top. "It seems to have fallen from there." "How do you know it fell from there?" Tamiya looked up and said. "The deceased was the section chief of the material department of the purchasing department, and behind the window is the room of the material department."

"Well, is that right? People from the forensics department have already gone upstairs?" "It's already gone up." "Then let's go upstairs." Tamiya glanced at the corpse again, frowned and walked towards the building. In the early morning of this day, someone found the body of Kozo Abe, the head of the material department, in the park of A Food Co., Ltd.At seven o'clock, the security guards had just started patrolling the park when they found the body in the passageway behind the main building. The corpse lay in big characters on the cement road, bleeding profusely.

Although investigators from the police station under its jurisdiction arrived later, due to the possibility of homicide, the prefectural police headquarters also sent investigators. "It seems to have fallen from this window." As soon as Tamiya and the others walked into the materials department on the sixth floor, they heard Detective Nishioka pointing to the wide open window. "There are blood and hair suspected to be Abe on the window frame." "Where?" Tamiya went to the window and examined the frame carefully from below. "Did you hit your head on the top when you fell?"

"It seems to be, it should be quite painful." "maybe." Tamiya touched the top of his head with thinning hair. "Was that window open?" "It is said to be open." Nishioka replied. "It is said?" Tamiya frowned, "What's going on?" "The security guards of this company will go to inspect the building at one o'clock in the middle of the night. They also inspected last night. At that time, the room was brightly lit and the windows were wide open." "What did the security guard do after that?" "At that time, they just closed the windows, and then continued to inspect. They probably thought that there were still employees working overtime. I heard that occasionally people would work overtime until then."

Tamiya thought, since this is the case, what's the point of patrolling?But in the end he held back his words. "That is to say, the deceased should have fallen from the building before one o'clock." "Judging from the presumed time of death," Nishioka took out the manual, "it should be between nine o'clock and eleven o'clock last night." "I see." Tamiya was standing by the window, the bottom sash was only slightly higher than his waist.Sticking your head out, you can see the autopsy personnel are packing up the corpse.This height makes the legs feel numb.

"Where is Abe's seat?" "here." Nishioka pointed to one of the two seats next to the window.A plaque with "Abe" was attached to the chair, and "Nakamachi" was written on the adjacent seat. Anbe's desk was neatly tidied up.In addition to the documents and notebooks, which are all erected with bookshelves, there is only an ashtray full of cigarette butts. Tamiya looked at the trash can beside the table.The remnants of last night's work, either crumpled up or ripped to shreds.He picked out the paper balls one by one, spread them out and looked at them.However, it is not something like meeting materials, with big characters written on it with a marker pen.

Tamiya crumpled up the paper again and threw it back into the trash can. Not long after, the employees came to work.People such as the executive director and the minister of security showed up one after another, and Tamiya just greeted them casually.He knew that asking these people was purely vain. All the staff from the materials department went to a nearby meeting room, waiting for inquiries at any time.Tamiya called Sano, the oldest among them, into the house. Sano was short and fat, with a pale complexion, and although he felt a little timid, he still held the position of team leader.According to him, Anbu was scheduled to work overtime until late last night.The purchasing department is going to hold a meeting today and needs to prepare some materials for the report.

"Abe is the only one left?" Tamiya asked. "I don't know, usually several people are left at the same time... You should understand after reading the attendance records." Tamiya gave Nishioka a wink, and Nishioka immediately got up and walked out of the room. "Speaking of which, you're probably quite surprised, aren't you?" While waiting for Nishioka to come back, Tamiya lit a cigarette and asked casually.Sano nodded, and followed suit with a cigarette.After taking a deep breath, his face finally regained some blood color. "Today, there were still two things waiting for the section chief to confirm and sign. On the way to the company, I was full of thoughts about these things. I never even dreamed that such a thing would happen."

With a cigarette in his hand, Sano shook his head slightly. "Is there anything wrong with Anbe's appearance yesterday?" "I don't know... I think he is the same as usual." "You just said that there was going to be a meeting today. Is the meeting important?" "It's not particularly important, it's just a regular meeting." After speaking, Sano hurriedly exhaled again. Not long after, Nishioka brought the time cards of the materials department staff.Judging from the time card, an employee named Morita and another female employee named Yukiko Nakamachi worked overtime last night.Morita and Nakamachi Yukiko clocked in at 9:5 and 10:22.Therefore, the police decided to ask Morita first.

"There was a report that had to be done yesterday, so I stayed." Morita has a naive look on his face, he is the kind of sporty person.Although over thirty years old, but still single.Tamiya felt that he should have many suitors. "What was Anbu doing when you went back?" "It seems to be preparing some materials. Ms. Nakamachi was helping him at that time." "Then how did he look at that time? Did he act anxious or something..." "No, he was laughing instead. When I was around, he kept joking with us." "Oh? Still smiling..."

Judging from Morita's confession, there should be no possibility of suicide. Yukiko Nakamachi is not tall, with a baby face, she looks much younger than her actual twenty-four years old.She seemed tense, with her handkerchief tightly packed.Yukiko's job is mainly the personnel affairs of the material department, so her seat is next to the section chief. "I have been helping the section chief last night. The section chief wrote the draft first, and then I copied it with a typewriter. The work was over at about ten o'clock. The section chief told me that I have worked hard and I can go back. So I left first." "What was Abe doing at that time?" "It should be packing up." Yukiko lowered her head and answered. "Did something happen during overtime? The score said someone called or something." "No." The voice is not loud, but articulate. After Yukiko Nakamachi went out, Tamiya asked Nishioka, "What do you think?" "It's hard to tell now." Nishioka replied, "If what Yukiko Nakamachi said is true, then Abe should have fallen from the building after 10:20. Also, let's take a look at what the two of them said together. If so, suicide seems unlikely." "Yeah. One more thing—" Tamiya looked at the window frame above his head, "Even if someone is about to commit suicide, he probably wouldn't hit his head there." This matter is a bit mysterious, there must be something wrong, Tamiya thought. "It's just... do you know the approximate weight of the deceased?" Nishioka seemed to have understood his thoughts and asked. "I don't know. How many kilograms?" "Eighty to eighty-five kilograms." Hmm, Tamiya pondered for a while.There is no trace of a fight in this room. Judging from the height of the window frame, if someone just pushes it from behind, it probably won't fall down.And if the deceased weighed 80 kilograms—— "It's a little difficult." If someone wants to push him off from behind. "At least it's hard for me to do it," Nishioka said. "If it's a professional wrestler, it's a little bit possible." "So, is it an accident? Did the deceased slip and fall?" Tamiya went to the window again and looked downstairs. "But what went wrong to make him fall from a place like this?"