Chapter 3 2

The tinnitus, like the fluttering of flies, persisted for a long time.A white stick floats in the blurry field of vision.After a while, his eyes gradually focused, and he realized that the white stick turned out to be a fluorescent lamp on the ceiling. Someone is holding his right hand.Then, a fair face appeared before his eyes.It was a woman wearing glasses.But the woman's face immediately disappeared from his sight. Amamura Shinsuke thought to himself, where is this?What are you doing? This time, several faces appeared in front of him.Everyone was looking down at him, and he finally noticed that he was lying down.The pungent smell of disinfectant entered his nostrils.

The tinnitus still hasn't improved.He tried turning his neck, only to have a severe headache.The blood in the whole body flowed to the head, and the pain came like a beat. As if having had countless nightmares, I felt quite unhappy.But he couldn't remember the content of any of the dreams. "Are you awake?" asked one of the faces staring at Shinsuke in horror.It was a middle-aged man with a thin face. Shinsuke nodded slightly.That alone gave him a splitting headache.He frowned and asked, "Where is it?" "Hospital." "Hospital?" "You'd better not talk too much," said the man.At this time, Shinsuke noticed that the other party was wearing a white shirt.So did everyone else present.Women are wearing nurse uniforms.

After that, time passed between Shinsuke's half asleep and half awake.The doctors and nurses were busy doing things, but Shinsuke didn't understand what they were doing at all. Shinsuke tried to recall why he was sent here.However, he has no memory of being sent here and has no memory of any treatment he received.Only, now he sees himself on an IV, with what appears to be a bandage around his head.Judging from these things, I should have suffered some serious injuries, or had some serious illnesses. "Mr. Amamura, Mr. Amamura." Hearing someone calling him, Shinsuke opened his eyes.

"How are you feeling now?" The doctor looked down at him. "My head hurts," Shinsuke said. "Is there anything else? Do you feel like vomiting?" "It should be fine. It's more comfortable now." The doctor nodded and whispered to the nurse beside him. "That," Shinsuke said. "What the hell happened?" "You don't remember at all?" asked the doctor. "I don't remember, I always feel a little inexplicable." The doctor nodded again.His expression seemed to express that Shinsuke would of course be puzzled.

"A lot has happened," said the doctor.This statement clearly shows that he is an outsider. "But for the general situation, it's better to ask your family." "Family?" Shinsuke asked again.His family consists of only his parents and elder brother who live in Ishikawa Prefecture.Did they come to Tokyo? The doctor then noticed that he had made a small mistake. "Should you have a wife?" "Wife?" Shinsuke doesn't have a wife.But he figured out who the doctor was referring to. "Is Cheng Mei here?" "She's been waiting for you to wake up." After the doctor winked at the nurse, the nurse left the room.

There was a knock on the door.After the doctor answered the door, the door opened, and Narumi Murakami walked in after the nurse just now.Cheng Mei was wearing a blue T-shirt with a white fur cap over it.She often dresses like this when she goes shopping in the neighborhood. He and Chengmei have been living together since about two years ago.When Shinsuke was working at a bar in Ginza, Narumi was one of the hotel girls brought in by bar guests.She was a former vocational school student with the goal of becoming a designer.She is also twenty-nine years old this year.But she has been working in the hotel since she was twenty-four years old.

"Xiao Shen!" Cheng Mei ran close to the bed. "are you OK?" Shinsuke shook his head slightly. "I have absolutely no recollection of what happened." "Mr. Amamura seems to have no memory of that accident." The nurse said. "Ah, so..." Chengmei frowned and looked at Shinsuke. The doctor and nurse probably wanted them to be alone, so they left the room.Before closing the door, the nurse also warned: "Please don't get up from the hospital bed suddenly!" When there were only two people left, Narumi stared at Shinsuke again.Her eyes were as moist as the surface of water blown by the wind.

"Great." Cheng Mei blurted out.She wasn't wearing lipstick, so the lip color didn't feel very healthy. "I'm worried that Xiao Shen will just fall asleep like this." "Hello." Shinsuke said, looking at Cheng Mei's face that was close to plain makeup. "What happened. What was the accident that the nurse said just now? Why am I in the hospital?" Cheng Mei frowned again.Those eyebrows are the only cosmetic result.If she had no makeup at all, she could hardly see her eyebrows. "You really don't remember anything?" "Well, I don't remember."

"Xiao Shen, you..." Cheng Mei swallowed, moistened her lips and continued. "...almost killed." "what……" Shinsuke couldn't help but hold his breath.He also felt a throbbing pain in the back of his head. "Two days ago, when you were coming home from the store..." "shop?" "It's 'Minghe'. Isn't there an elevator outside that store? People from another store found you collapsed beside the elevator." "elevator……" A blurry image appeared in his mind, but the image could not become clear, as if wearing a pair of glasses with wrong prescription.

"I heard that if you find out thirty minutes later, your life will be in danger! Fortunately, you are lucky." "My head... was hit?" "It seems to be hit by some very hard object. Don't you remember? The person who found it said that you bled a lot, and it flowed to the stairs. It's like tomato juice." Shinsuke imagined that scene.But he still couldn't immediately believe that this kind of thing would happen to him. However, Shinsuke vaguely felt that the beating on the head with a hard object was a fragment of his memory.He vaguely remembered a black shadow attacking from behind him.correct!It is indeed in front of the elevator.Who is that dark shadow?

"I feel a little tired." Shinsuke frowned. "It's better not to push yourself too hard." Narumi pulled the blanket covering Shinsuke's body. The next day, two men came to Shinsuke's ward.The two are detectives from the Nishi Azabu Police Station of the Metropolitan Police Department.They said they wanted to ask Shinsuke about something, and it only took ten minutes.Cheng Mei happened to come in with fruit, and the detectives didn't ask Cheng Mei to avoid it. "How is your physical condition?" the detective surnamed Xiaozuka asked.Detective Kotsuka had a thin face, but the broad-shouldered shirt fit him perfectly, exuding the refined and capable atmosphere of a small and medium-sized company section chief.Another young detective, Enoki, looks like a serious person regardless of his serious expression and short shaved hair. "My head still hurts a bit. But generally it's much better." Shinsuke replied lying on the bed. "You are really hurt badly." Kozuka frowned, shaking his head slowly and said.He might want to show sympathy, but in Shinsuke's eyes, he just feels like he's acting. "It looks like a major operation." Otsuka asked, looking at Shinsuke and Narumi in turn. "It seems so." Shinsuke said. "His skull is broken." Cheng Mei replied.She put the chair a little distance away from the detectives and sat down. "A blood clot is said to have compressed the brain." "It's so serious." The corner of the detective's mouth twisted, "You saved your life." "But I don't remember what happened at all, so I don't have the actual feeling of saving a life." "You mean, you don't remember the circumstances of the attack?" "yes." "Then, of course you didn't see who the person who attacked you was!" "It's not very clear..." Shinsuke's ambiguous statement makes the detective interested. "You said you didn't see it very clearly, so does that mean you saw something?" "Maybe I was wrong, or maybe it was just my illusion." "It's all up to us to judge. You just need to express your subjective thoughts. Once you confirm that it's your illusion, or you just misunderstood, we will stop asking about it immediately." Detective Kotsuka spoke, The mouth is very gentle. Shenjue said that a strange guest came to "Minghe" that night.The guest came to "Myoga" for the first time, ordered a strange Irish cream whiskey and so on.Finally, Shinsuke added: "I think the person who attacked me was probably that guest." The criminal policeman's face changed drastically when he heard this. "You said he is the first time visitor? Have you never seen this person?" Otsuka confirmed to Shinsuke. Shinsuke nodded in agreement.In fact, I felt that I had seen this person somewhere before, but I was afraid of making a mistake, so I didn't say it. "Can you tell me the characteristics of that guest again? In as much detail as possible." "Features..." There was nothing particularly conspicuous about that man.Not only is the dress broken and ordinary, but even the tone of speech lacks cadence.The only thing that can be called a feature is probably the fact that he wears round-rimmed glasses. "Round glasses...?" After roughly listening to Shinsuke's words, Kozuka scratched the side of his nose with his little finger. "If you see that man again, are you sure you'll recognize him?" "I think I should be able to." The detective nodded in satisfaction at Shinsuke's answer. "Actually, when we received the notification, in order to confirm your identity, we investigated what you were carrying...well, what is there?" "Wallet and a key, and..." Enoki said, looking at the notebook. "A checked handkerchief, a pack of used tissues, that's all." "What's in the wallet?" Otsuka asked. "Thirty-two thousand nine hundred and thirteen in cash. Two credit cards, one cash card, driver's license, membership card from a video rental store, receipts from a soba noodle shop and a convenience store, and three business cards." Otsuka turned to Shinsuke. "Did you have anything with you that night besides what you just heard?" This sentence is equivalent to asking Shinsuke if something has been stolen. "I don't think so. I don't remember exactly the amount of cash, but I think it was about that much." Kotsuka nodded, as if to indicate that such an answer was fine, then he raised his feet again. "Then why did the prisoner attack you? If he wasn't passing by by chance, but was aiming at stealing money." "Then he probably wants to steal the money from the store." Shinsuke said, "Use the key I'm carrying to open the store door... something like that." "We have also investigated the situation in your store, but nothing unusual happened. What's more, you didn't put so much cash in your store." Most of the customers who come in and out of "Minghe" are regular customers, and they usually pay on credit first. "If it wasn't for stealing money from the store," Shinsuke shook his head, "then I don't know. After all, it's the first time the customer came." "Have any strange things happened to you recently? For example, you have received any strange calls, or received any suspicious packages or letters." "I don't think so." Shinsuke turned his head and asked Chengmei, who was listening to the conversation, "Is there?" Cheng Mei shook her head silently. "That night, Mr. Amamura was the only one left in the store. Does this happen often?" Kotsuka asked. "Occasionally. If Mama-san goes drinking with guests, I will clean up. That night, Mama-san had a rest because of a cold." "From outside your store, can you see that you are the only one there?" "Well, if you keep watching me, maybe you can see it." After Shinsuke finished speaking, even he himself felt a little scared.Where did the man stay to monitor himself? Then Otsuka asked two or three more questions, all of which were related to the disputes that had occurred in "Ming He" in the past.Then he got up from the chair. "I will send someone in charge of portrait painting later, can I ask for your assistance?" "OK." After Kotsuka said please take care, the two detectives left. "I hope the prisoner can be caught soon." Cheng Mei said. "Yes, but this kind of case usually does not catch the prisoner." "Do you have any impression of whom you might be resented by?" "no." Probably not, Shinsuke confirmed it himself.