Chapter 17 Greetings from Mitarai: Digital Lock Chapter 4

【Greetings from Mitarai: Digital Lock】 Boarding the Chuo Line, we had a lively discussion about which sandwich was the best.The tram door opened, and Mitarai got off without saying a word, and I followed without thinking.When I noticed that the place where we got off was still one stop away from our destination, the tram door was already closed. "Mitarai-kun, you just arrived at Ogiki Station!" I said. Oh, that's right, Mitarai seemed to be indifferent: "This is also a kind of fate, I just got off the bus here, let's go shopping on the street." "why?"

"Let's go to Suita Denshi's bachelor apartment." Mitarai remembers the address of 2-41-X, Amuma, Suginami-ku.He is a person who can't remember the names of people no matter how big they are, but he is very good at memorizing numbers—by the way, he can memorize pi to three hundred decimal places.It's no good to memorize this, but if he said it, it's just an easy way to remember it. This is what Mitarai once told me with great interest.He said that each number has a strong personality, and that "one" and "two" have completely different personalities.In his opinion, "one" is as lofty as the president of the United States, while "two" is a soft-legged shrimp with no independent opinions.This difference in personality is better than the difference in appearance, and it is very easy to identify.Once this is mastered, numbers are very easy to imprint in the mind.

Anyway, it was already dark when we arrived at Ogiki's Suita apartment.We quickly found the house of the brother-in-law of the slain Suita Hisuro, which was the residence of the four young men.The entrance of every apartment is very grand, only the one of Suita's house is different. Parked in front of the entrance is a truck with the words "Suita Denshi" written on it.The trucks were fairly large, the ones that didn't have a roof or a shed over the cargo bed.It is estimated that all four employees are at home, and the president was killed, so naturally they don't have to go to work.

After pressing the doorbell at the entrance, a female voice answered, and the metal-decorated door opened quickly. My eyes widened in surprise—the person who came to open the door was a beautiful woman in her twenties, with fair skin and a little short stature, but with a straight nose and beautiful eyes, she was really beautiful. "We came to visit rashly. We were commissioned by Police Officer Takegoshi of the First Search Section to investigate the case. We wanted to meet and talk with the four staff members of Suita Denshi." "Ah... what's your last name?" "My surname is Mitarai."

"Wait a moment, I will speak to my father." She hesitated a little.It's also a matter of course, just listening to such an inexplicable introduction, I don't even know our names, so I'm naturally a little worried. After a while, the sound of heavy footsteps came from inside, and a sturdy man appeared at the door.He looked to be in his fifties. "I'm Suita." The big man said, "What's the matter?" Mitarai repeated the inexplicable self-introduction again. "Please let me see your business card." Suita said bluntly.I panicked beside me: where did we get the business card? ※Bandhammer Academy's E-Book※

At least it is impossible for Mitarai to have a business card that can be handed out on such an occasion. Unexpectedly, Mitarai immediately took out a piece of white paper from the inner pocket of the jacket and handed it to the other party, which shocked me.The big man seemed to be presbyopic, his eyes were squinted, and the corners of his eyes were full of wrinkles.After reading the business card, he asked, "Are you a private investigator?" "Yes." Mitarai replied calmly. "Oh, I didn't even know there was such a person. Where is that person?" "It's my assistant." Mitarai said, "He just joined the company today and doesn't have a business card yet."

"Okay then, please come in first. Hey, Yasuko, make some tea!" "Excuse me." Mitarai said while taking off her shoes. We came to the living room inside the entrance. "Your name is really strange." Suita Hisakuro's strong body leaned on the chair as if he was wronged, and sighed. "yes……" "Mr. 'toilet'?" "No, read it as mitarai..." Mitarai hurriedly said as if to stop the other party's words. People who meet him for the first time almost always have this kind of dialogue with him, it is really his destiny.Every time I observe from the side, I can't help but count the probability of such a scene for him.

"Your office is in Yokohama Bashamichi?" "Exactly." It seems that Mitarai has already printed the address of Bashamichi on the business card. "However, there are many private detectives like you in Japan." "There are many, there are several in Yokohama alone. But most of them specialize in investigating affairs." "Are you any different?" "I only take on cases where the police are helpless. But, you are the older brother of the deceased Suita Hisuro, right? What is your name?" "My name is Ji Wen." "Mr. Suita Yoshifumi, your apartment is used as a single dormitory for Suita Denko, right?"

"yes." "So your career is running rental apartments?" "No, that's not the case. I work at Shinjuku P Supermarket. I just got off work early today. I get off work as a department manager there." "The four of Suita Denko, do you drive a truck from here to work every morning?" "yes." "But the traffic jam on this road is quite severe." "Ah, it's not very congested. After all, from here to Yotsuya, you can only go straight along the road from Ome Street to Shinjuku Passage. This is the shortest distance. Ogiki and Yotsuya are on this line."

"In addition, walk a little in the opposite direction from Ome Street to Shinjuku, and enter the Ring Eighth Line through Simiandao. You can enter the Metropolitan Expressway at Takaido. This will take a long detour, and it will not save much time. Even if you take the expressway, the morning rush hour During the period, the traffic jam was severe, it would be better to save the highway toll—so they always go straight along Ome Street.” "How long will it take?" "Well, it's going to be two hours faster, right? We usually leave at eight o'clock, and it's half past nine at the earliest when we arrive at the company."