Chapter 9 Chapter of the Truth Kaga Kyouichiro's Explanation

How is your body?I've just spoken to the attending doctor and I'm relieved to hear that you've decided to have surgery. You should be optimistic.No, the doctor said that the success rate of the operation is very high and nothing will happen, it is true. I wanted to ask you before, when did you discover your condition?This winter?Did it just start this year? Shouldn't it be?I think you noticed a relapse of your old disease by the end of last year at the latest.At the same time, you probably think that this time is a disaster, that's why you didn't even go to the hospital, don't you?

There is only one reason why I think so, because I guess you have been planning this time since then at the latest.What about this time?I am referring, of course, to the killing of Hidaka. You seem a little surprised?However, what I am talking about is not some fantasy.Well, I have a basis for saying this, and I even have evidence.I will explain this to you later.I thought it would take a lot of time, but the doctor gave me permission to do so. First, please take a look at this.Well, it's a photo.Do you have any impression?It's the picture you were photographed when you sneaked into Hidaka's house.Hidaka Kunihiko set up a camera in the courtyard and secretly photographed this volume, you said so.

I transferred one of the images from that roll of tape into this photo.If you want, I can get the screen and replay it for you.However, I don't think it is necessary, as long as this photo is enough.Besides, as far as you are concerned, you are tired of watching those images, right? Because you made those images yourself, didn't you?You perform and shoot yourself—the so-called self-directed and self-acted.It's only natural that you will see it and don't want to watch it anymore, right? That's right, I said that the tape was fake, and the contents of the tape were all fake.

Well, I'm about to prove it to you with this picture.After all, there is not much difficulty in proving it.There is only one thing I want to say about this photo.This image was not taken seven years ago as the corner date indicates. Let me explain to you why I'm so sure, it's actually very simple.In the picture is the courtyard of the Hidaka family. There are some flowers and trees planted in the courtyard. Of course, there are no special plants in this photo. The cherry blossoms that the Hidaka family is proud of are not in it, and the turf is all withered.You can tell it's a winter landscape at a glance, but it's hard to tell which winter it is.

In addition, it was shot in the middle of the night, under the darkness, it was difficult to see even the details clearly.However, it is precisely because of this that you think this tape can fool us, right? But Mr. Nonoguchi, you made a big mistake. I'm not trying to scare you, you've really gone wrong. However, this also requires the key of Hidaka's house.Because in order to shoot the scene of sneaking into Hidaka's studio from the courtyard, the windows of the studio must be opened first. According to Ms. Rie, it shouldn't be a problem to overcome this.how to say?When Ridaka went out to drink, he didn't take the key with him. He always hid it under the umbrella stand in the entrance.He seems to have been doing this since he lost his keys outside twice.If you know this, you don't have to worry about doors and windows.You should know, right?Rie confirmed that.

But, Mr. Nonoguchi, I will find out that the video tape is fake, not because of Yae Sakura's shadow.In fact, just the opposite.After I was sure that the tape was fake, I replayed the footage again and again and compared it with a few photos of the old courtyard of the Hidaka family, and then discovered this contradiction.So why am I so sure the strap is fake?That's because I'm suspicious of other evidence. What are the so-called other evidence?Mr. Nonoguchi, you should already know that.That's right, the mass of manuscripts, the mountains of manuscripts I've found that I've always believed to be related to the motive for killing Hidaka.

Because of this incident, I arrested you. After reading your confession, I still don't understand many things. Of course, each of these questions can be explained, but being able to explain and being 100% convinced are two different things.Mr. Nonoguchi, in your confession, I always feel that there is something weird, because of this weird feeling, I can't accept that the content of your confession is true. Then, one time, I suddenly found a big clue.After the incident, I have met you countless times, but why didn't I pay attention to it?It's incredible.At such a close distance, there is such an obvious hint.

Mr. Nonoguchi, please extend your right hand. what happened?I want the right hand.If that doesn't work, just the middle finger of the right hand will do. The cocoon on the middle finger is caused by holding a pen, right?It's really big. Is there no way to tell the truth from the fake?After many investigations, I finally found decisive evidence. Mr. Nonoguchi, do you know Heiyoshi Tsujimura?Don't you know?That's it, sure enough... According to your confession, when you and Hidaka Kunihiko were young, you often went to see the work of the neighbor’s pyrotechnic master, and based on this memory, you wrote the novel "Circle Fire", and then Hidaka used your "Circle Fire" " as a draft, and then published "Deadfire".

Heiyoshi Tsujimura was the pyrotechnic master at that time. Well, I know that, remembering the name or not is not a problem.I'm afraid if I ask Kunihiko Hidaka like this, he will say he forgot, right? With the testimony of Mr. Tsujimura, I am convinced that Hidaka's plagiarism of your novel is nonsense.Those works written on old college notes and manuscript paper are just copied from his books. In this way, what should you say about being threatened by Hidaka with attempted murder? Now you know?Pushing it to the end like this, it is natural to suspect that roll of tape.The only thing that can truly prove that you have attempted murder is the video tape.The knife you used to commit the crime at that time can't prove anything at all, because it only has your fingerprints on it.

And as I have just stated, I thus discovered that the straps were forged.In turn, this means that the assumptions I have made so far are correct.In other words, there is no attempted murder case at all, so it is impossible for Hidaka to threaten you. I am afraid that even the plagiarism of the work is fictional. Then, you yourself admitted that the attempted murder was caused by your relationship with Hidaka Hatsumi, how can this be explained?Did the affair you're talking about really exist? So let's review, what hints at your relationship with Hatsumi Hidaka? First, the apron, necklace, travel application form found in your house.Next, it was discovered later that it is believed to be a photo of Hatsumi taken at the Fujikawa rest station, and then there is a photo of a landscape that seems to be at the same location.

That's all, and no one can prove the relationship between you two. The travel application form in the evidence, you can write whatever you like, so it's not proof at all.As for the necklace, you said it was a gift for Hatsumi, but that's just your one-sided statement.What about the apron?Either way it's definitely Hatsumi's stuff.As I told you earlier, Hatsumi has worn that apron for other photos. However, it is not impossible for you to take Hidaka Hatsumi's apron from the Hidaka family.Before Kunihiko Hidaka and Ms. Rie got married, they sorted out the belongings of their ex-wife Hatsumi, and you went to help at that time.It should be quite simple to steal an apron without anyone noticing. On the day you went to help tidy up, you probably stole something else, namely photos.I am afraid that the stolen photos must meet these conditions?Firstly, it must be a solo photo of Hatsumi; secondly, there are no other photos that can show that Hidaka was taken in the same scene; finally, at the same location, it is best to have several purely landscape photos for comparison.The one that meets all these conditions is the photo taken at the Fujikawa rest stop.You secretly put Hatsumi's solo and landscape photos in your pocket. Well, of course, I have no proof that you stole it, but it is possible that you did.Since there is this possibility, then what you confessed about your unethical relationship with Hatsumi is not credible. If the attempted murder incident, the threat of you being threatened by Hidaka, and the plagiarism of your work did not exist, then based on this premise, it should not be too much to assume that your affair relationship is also non-existent, right? That's right, from this point of view, of course there is only one explanation for Hatsumi's accident.That must have been a traffic accident, not a suicide.Since there was no motive, there was no reason to suspect that she committed suicide. Let's sort it out first, what exactly have you been up to since last fall?Let's do a review in chronological order. First you have to prepare your unused old college notes.As long as you look for it in the school, you should be able to get that kind of thing quickly, right?Then you copy the works that Hidaka Kunihiko published earlier, but you can't copy them completely, the grammar and the names of the characters must be changed, and the plot of the story must be slightly rearranged. You try your best to make these notes resemble those works Prototype.Even if you only copy one copy, it will probably take a month, right?I can imagine it was a very difficult and big project.As for Hidaka's recently published works, you typed them instead: the novels you found with your college notes and written on manuscript paper are your previous works, right?Because from Hidaka's novels, I can't find any content that matches these works. Secondly, regarding the book "The Door of Ice", you must also think about the follow-up development.Not only do you have to let the police see the cheat sheet that conceived the plot, but you also have to hand-write the original manuscript as an alibi. Then there is the making of the videotape.I have just mentioned this, I am afraid that you will be able to shoot by the end of last year, right? Then, this year, you got Hatsumi Hidaka's apron and photo.In addition, you should also prepare travel application forms, necklaces and other small props.You want to say that the application form is old, right?That kind of thing might be left over from before at the school.Also, you said that the paisley tweed tie in the closet was a gift from Hatsumi, and the coffee cup on the sideboard was bought by the two of you together. You probably prepared these things recently, right? Then there is one more important thing.I heard that Hidaka and his wife spent a week packing their luggage for Canada, during which time you seem to have visited his house once.The purpose of your going to his house, of course, is to hide two things in his luggage, and those two things are a knife and a video tape.You even took the trouble to put the videotape in the hollowed-out book, so it really looks like Kunihiko Hidaka deliberately hid it. After the above preparations are made, the next thing is to wait for April 16th.That's right, the day of the incident. No, no, this case is definitely not a temporary one. It is a long-term arranged and horrific planned crime. Usually, in the so-called planned crimes, the most common practice for prisoners is how to avoid being arrested, how to do the crime without being discovered, and even if they are discovered, how to get rid of their suspicions - what the prisoner racked his brains should be These. However, the purpose of your criminal plan is completely different.You are not shy about being arrested at all. No, it should be said that all these plans were drawn up on the premise of being arrested. In short, Mr. Nonoguchi, what you have spent so long and so much effort on is the motive, the proper motive for killing Kunihiko Hidaka. It's an amazing idea.Before killing someone, think about the motive for killing. I'm afraid this is something unheard of, right?It is only now that I dare to say this, how troubled I was before that.How could such a thing happen?This is the portrayal of my mood. Speaking of the tape, if the police had suspected it from the beginning, they might have recognized it as a forgery earlier. However, the search team did not become suspicious, of course.That roll of tape is an important piece of evidence proving the motive of the crime, and who would have thought that it was made by you, the prisoner, yourself? The same is true for works written in college notes and manuscript paper, and even more so for small props that hint at your relationship with Hatsumi.If those things are enough to prove that you have not committed a crime, the search team will definitely adjust their eyes to confirm the authenticity of the items. However, this is not the case. These are all evidences that support your criminal motives.It is a pity that the current police will be more rigorous in dealing with evidence in favor of the accused, and tend to be looser in dealing with evidence against the accused.It's amazing that you see through the police's weakness. And what makes you so good is that you didn't reveal the motive of this forgery yourself, but only found out after the police searched here and there.If you spout out your motives from the start, then no matter how stupid a policeman is, he will feel that something is wrong. You cleverly led the police into the wrong direction of investigation, no, it should be said that it was a trap set by you.The large amount of notes and manuscript paper that people think is the source of Hidaka's works belong to you. This is the first trap.Then, the second trap is the apron, the necklace, the travel application form, and the photo of Hatsumi Hidaka.Thinking about it now, we were unable to find a photo of Hatsumi at that time, and I am afraid it made you very anxious.I remember you said to me at that time: "Please don't rummage in my room. There are important books left by me in it." Because of this reminder, we found Hidaka Hatsumi's book in "Kōjien" photo.You guide so beautifully!You must have breathed a sigh of relief, right? Even the third trap is thanks to your tip.After the incident, you asked Rie Hidaka, "Where is the video tape of Kunihiko Hidaka?" Rie replied that it was sent to Canada.In the end, you asked her to notify you as soon as her luggage was delivered, is that true? Because of these words, I thought that there might be some secret hidden in Hidaka Kunihiko's video tape.That's why I discovered the tape taken on the night of the attempted murder.What is even more astonishing is that this tape is still hidden in Hidaka's book.As long as you have read it, anyone will think that the description in the book matches the picture in the video, and even this you guide without any trace. Speaking of this, I remembered that on the night of the incident, we met again after ten years. I asked you about Hidaka Kunihiko's works, and this was the first book you recommended at that time.You even calculated this in advance, which really taught me to be in awe. Let's go back in time a little bit and look back at the events of that day.The day I mentioned, needless to say, was of course the day you killed Hidaka Kunihiko. From the above reasoning, you should also be able to understand that this murder was definitely planned.However, in your position, you don't want anyone to notice this, you must let it be treated as an impromptu crime, because if it is not, the fake motive is useless. For the method of murder, you have exhausted your brains.The use of knives or poison was not permitted, as it would be tantamount to a public acknowledgment that the fight had been murderous in the first place.So how about strangulation?However, considering the difference in physical strength between the two, it seems a bit difficult to strangle each other to death with just one's own strength. So you decide to take the assault approach.Attack from behind with a blunt weapon, wait until the opponent is down, and then tighten his neck to deliver a fatal blow. However, this method also requires a weapon, and it is best to directly apply what the Hidaka family has.So, you thought of the paperweight that Hidaka usually used. It should be no problem to use that to strike, right?So what to use to strangle the neck?correct!A telephone line would come in handy - I imagine you were asking yourself that question. However, at this time, there is uneasiness in your heart.On the day of the crime, the luggage of the Hidaka family should have been sorted out.In this way, it is possible that the pre-conceived murder weapon will no longer be there by then. The phone line should be fine.Rigao still has work to do, and the written manuscript has to be sent out, so he won't put away the phone first. The problem was with the paperweights.It's not essential to writing, and it's likely to have been put in the box early on—you've even considered that. What would you do if you didn't have paperweights?In order to avoid this situation, you still have to prepare the murder weapon yourself. You have Don Bellinho's rosé champagne.If anything, you plan to use the wine bottle as the murder weapon. When you first arrived at Hidaka's house, you didn't give away that bottle of champagne right away.Because once it is handed over to the other party, I am afraid that it cannot be used as a murder weapon. You first enter the studio with Hidaka Kunihiko to check whether the paperweight is still there.You must have breathed a sigh of relief when you saw it, right? Then Miyako Fujio came, and after you went in and out, you handed the champagne to Rie.If the paperweights weren't there, I think you wouldn't hand over the wine, but turn it into a murder weapon.Champagne celebrating a housewarming is suddenly turned into an instrument of murder, which still gives the impression of impulsive crime.However, from your point of view, if possible, do you think it would be more practical to use Hidaka's property—the paperweight—to kill people? You didn't mention the champagne in your notes because you were afraid that the police would pursue it?When I first heard about it, I wondered if there was poison in the champagne.I even asked the restaurant clerk who drank it how it tasted.He replied that it was delicious, so I ruled out the possibility of poisoning.But if you think about it carefully, you will never use poison. Having said that, the way you used the computer and the phone to create an alibi was really good.My superiors and colleagues still don't quite understand the mechanism. I have a question, what are you going to do if we don't see through your tactics?Assuming you are neither suspected nor arrested... You don't seem to want to answer. Forget it, it doesn't make sense to ask this now.Because, in real life, we did see through your plot and arrested you. are you tired?The story is a bit long.However, please bear with me a little longer.Thanks to you, I'm exhausted too. The question is, why are you doing this?On the premise of being arrested, fabricating false criminal motives makes people unable to figure out how to think about it. I made a bold guess and came to this conclusion.Something happened that made you decide to kill Kunihiko Hidaka.And the result of killing is being arrested, you have already realized something.I'm thinking, all this should have something to do with your cancer recurrence.That said, if you do get caught, you won't be in prison for very long. However, even if you do get arrested, you must conceal your true motive.To you, having that real motive revealed to the world is a thousand times more terrifying than being arrested for murder. As for the real motive, I'd love to hear it from you. How about it?It's already reached this point, and it doesn't make sense for you to keep your mouth shut. ……yes? Are you refusing to tell the truth?Then I can't help it, let me talk about my reasoning. Mr. Nonoguchi, guess what this is?Well, yes, it's a CD.However, this is not for listening to music. To be more precise, this CD contains computer data. Most of the software used in today's computers is stored and sold in this way, and games and dictionaries are often sold in this way. However, this is not a commercially available CD, but something that Hidaka specially commissioned the industry to produce. Are you curious what information will be inside?In fact, this might have what you've been looking for. Do you understand?That's right, there are photos stored here, and its nature is similar to a video disc. It seems that Hidaka is not used to putting the profile photos used in novels in the photo album.In the literary world, Hidaka, who used computer equipment very early, seems to have taken the pleasure of compressing all the photos used for materials into this kind of CD-ROM for storage several years ago, and recently he has even used a digital camera. You want to ask me why I noticed this disc, right?I thoroughly researched your past with Hidaka and found out about a photo.If the content of that photo shoot is what I imagined, then things that have been ignored until now suddenly have meaning, and they all have a context to follow. Regarding your junior high school days, I did some research.Many people talked about many things, including school violence. Some people said that Nonoguchi was bullied; others said, no, no, that guy was bullied for a short time, and then he joined the ranks of bullies instead.In fact, these two statements are the same, you are being bullied from the beginning to the end, but the form of bullying is different. Nonoguchi-sensei, are you finally willing to speak?You have also experienced this kind of thing when you were teaching. It is really painful. me too.School violence incidents will never disappear. As long as the parties involved are still in school, they will continue. When the teacher said "there is no such incident anymore", it was only his own fantasy. It is not difficult to imagine that the rape case became an incurable pain in your heart.You don't do things like that because you like them, do you?You know very well in your heart that as long as you disobey Fujio Masaya, you will live a miserable life of being abused again.For fear of this, you allow your hands to be so dirty, despite all your reluctance.It hurts even me, an outsider, to think about the guilt and self-loathing that was put on you at that time.When you think about it carefully, the greatest violence you endured at that time was being forced to be an accomplice to that atrocity. In exchange for this damning record, even at the expense of life - I thought to myself, could this constitute the motive for this murder? But…… Why are you suddenly nervous about this secret?Whether it was before Hidaka obtained the photo to write "The Sanctuary", or after the publication of the new book, there is no indication that he ever mentioned the photo to a third person.So, don't you think the secret will always be kept? Please don't still want to make up lies about Hidaka threatening you with photos.This impromptu lie will soon be exposed.If nothing else, it doesn't look like something you would do if you were wily. I'm guessing it has something to do with Miyako Fujio, whose presence messed everything up. Because of the "No Hunting Ground" case, she planned to go to court with Rigao, and Rigao had no choice but to take this step, so you suddenly became uneasy.Will that one day, that annoying photo be brought into court as evidence in court? This is my own thought, I think since Hidaka started writing that novel, you have been holding a bad premonition all the time, right?The appearance of Fujio Miyako made your fear reach its peak, and you finally made up your mind to kill—this is my guess. But that alone doesn't explain everything.No, in fact, one of the most important things is missing from this reasoning. That is, what is the relationship between you and Hidaka Kunihiko? It is understandable to kill those who have evidence because they don't want the terrible past to be made public.It's just that this person who knows the secret is usually very kind to him.Don't you think that even if Hidaka's lawsuit with Miyako Fujio gets stuck, he will continue to keep your secret? In your confession, you write at length about your hateful relationship.However, now that those lies have been exposed, this premise must be abandoned. We only examine how Rigao treats you based on the facts we have so far.The conclusion is as follows: Although you have not met since junior high school, Hidaka still generously accepted you who hated him during junior high school, and restored the friendship between the two.Not only that, he also introduces publishing houses for you, so that you can gain a foothold in the children's literature field.In the repeated negotiations with Miyako Fujio, he has never confessed to you who is closely related to the book "The Hunting Ground". The image of Hidaka presented by combining these facts is very consistent with the story of his youth.For example, someone once told me, "He's always very kind to whomever he is." I think, at least Hidaka himself really regards you as a good friend.Thinking about it this way, everything will work out. However, it took me a while before I came to this conclusion.how to say?This is far from the Hidaka I preconceived.In fact, in the process of interviewing Hidaka Boyhood, this concept has been holding me back. So I thought to myself, why is there such a contradiction?Is it because I read your fake confession?No, as early as earlier, I held a certain fixed view on Hidaka.Where does this view come from?Finally I thought of one thing. I remembered what you wrote at the beginning, the record on the day of the incident. In that record, I only paid attention to the part directly related to the case.However, in fact, there is a profound clue hidden in a very inconspicuous place. Judging by the look on your face, you should have guessed what I'm going to say, right?Well, yes, I'm talking about killing the cat. You killed the cat, didn't you? I found pesticides.There are two potted plants on the balcony outside your house, and the ingredients of pesticides were detected on the inside.After you make the poison pill, you don't know what to do with the rest, so you mix it with the dirt, don't you? The pesticide found was the same as the one tested on the cat's carcass.Well, the body hasn't completely melted down yet, the owner put it in a box and buried it in the yard. The neighbor's cat is annoying, have you ever heard Hidaka mention it?Or have you read that short article called "The Limits of Patience"?No, the relationship between the two of you is so good, you should just listen to what he said. You made a poison pill and secretly put it in the yard of the Hidaka couple when they were not at home, so the cat was killed.Why are you doing this?There is only one reason, which is what I have been talking about since just now, in order to create the image of Hidaka. Because of this incident, I have a little understanding of the art and literature world.I remember often using the phrase "character description" when doing work reviews.When the author wants readers to understand a certain character, it is far better to directly explain the statement than to match appropriate actions and lines, and let the readers construct the image of the character by themselves.This is the "personality description". When you wrote that fake note, you had already thought that you must let Hidaka’s cruel image be rooted in the readers—that is, the hearts of the police—from the very beginning, and the plot you imagined was the incident of the cat being poisoned. On the day of the incident, it should be considered an accident that you met Mrs. Xinjian, the owner of the cat, in the courtyard of Hidaka’s house.However, this is just fine for you.With this chance encounter as the beginning of the note, the story of Hidaka killing the cat becomes more real. Ashamed to say, I was completely misled by your tricks.I arrested you. I knew that the first note you wrote could not be trusted, but I didn't expect that even the part about killing the cat was fake. I have never corrected my impression of Hidaka. All I can say is, you are amazing.I think this is the most brilliant of all the traps you have set this time. And when I discovered this cat-killing trap, a thought suddenly flashed in my mind.Maybe, your purpose of creating this trap is also your purpose of committing this crime—that is to say, your ultimate purpose is to belittle Rigao's personality.Thinking about it this way, the truth of this case finally came to light. When I stated your criminal motive just now, I said that you killed Hidaka to cover up the hateful past of your junior high school days.You do not deny this, and I have always believed it to be so. However, I think so, this is just the fuse that makes you decide to kill. I tried to imagine, from the moment you had the intention to kill Rigao to the time when you realized your plan, what kind of turning point there was in your mental journey.For the reasons above, you must create an appropriate motive for killing Hidaka.However, you have to come up with a motive that when it is announced, the world's sympathetic eyes will focus on you, but the victim Rigao is spurned by others. Under this consideration, you fabricated the unethical relationship with Hidaka Hatsumi, and then came up with the story of being forced to be a shadow writer.If it goes well, you can even get the reputation of the authentic author of Hidaka's works. It is precisely because of this purpose that you will copy a large number of manuscripts, get calluses on your fingers, and even go to such lengths to make a fake videotape in the cold night.How many months would it take you to make such thorough preparations?Wouldn't it be nice to have an easier-to-understand motive just to conceal the past? You've worked so hard to come up with plans to destroy everything Hidaka has worked so hard to build.And the murder was only a small part of the plan. Even if you are arrested, you are not afraid, even if you gamble what little life you have left, you have to belittle the other party's personality.What kind of mentality is this? To be honest, I really can't find any logical reason for it.But, Mr. Nonoguchi, you are the same, right?Maybe even you can't figure it out? I am reminded of something I personally experienced ten years ago.Do you remember?A child in our class stabbed a student who had been bullying him with a knife after the graduation ceremony.At that time, the mastermind of the bully once said such a classic line: "In short, I just see him unhappy." Mr. Nonoguchi, your mood should be the same as him at that time, right?There is a deep hatred towards Hidaka in your heart, this hatred is so deep that even you can't explain it, and it is the cause of this incident. Where did this hatred come from?I investigated the past of both of you very carefully, but I found that there is no reason for you to resent Hidaka.He is a very good boy and your benefactor.You and Fujio Masaya once teamed up to bully him, but he saved you in turn. However, I know that such kindness has led to resentment.Because in front of him, it is impossible for you not to feel inferior. Then you grow up, and you have to sink into the mire of jealousy.The person you least want to lose to in this world is actually the first to become a writer.I tried to imagine your state of mind when you learned that he won the Newcomer Award, and the hairs all over your body stood on end. Even so, you visited Hidaka because you wanted to be a writer from the bottom of your heart.You believe that keeping in touch with Rigao will help you realize your dream as soon as possible, so you temporarily suppress the hidden hatred in your heart. However, your life is so rough.Is it bad luck, or lack of talent?I don't know.In short, not only did you fail, you also got cancer. I believe that the seal in your heart was released at the moment of death awareness, you can't bear to leave this world with hatred for Hidaka like this.And fueling this hatred is the fact that Hidaka holds a secret from your past. The above is the truth of my thoughts, do you have anything to say? Since you are silent, can I interpret it as default? It seems that I have talked for too long, and even my mouth is dry. Ah, yes, let me add one more thing. From the past words and actions of you and your mother, I feel that you seem to have some kind of prejudice against Hidaka and the people who live nearby. However, I dare say that no matter how ugly prejudice, it is absolutely not the fault of history or place. When you were a teenager, one of the reasons why you hated Hidaka was probably because of the contempt that your mother showed unconsciously. I think it is necessary to clarify this. Finally, I wish you a successful operation from the bottom of my heart.No matter what, I hope you survive. Because the court is waiting for you.