Chapter 16 Section fifteen

When Hirasawa Sadamichi was first escorted to Tokyo, neither Prosecutor Takagi nor Minister Fujita was sure that Hirasawa was the real culprit.Due to the extremely cruel escorting conditions along the way, the society aroused protests on human rights issues, and the prosecutor even stated that "they will be released immediately after the preliminary investigation."Unexpectedly, once the check fraud case committed by the defendant Hirasawa in Nihondo in the past was revealed, public opinion began to believe that Hirasawa might be the real culprit in this case.The Metropolitan Police Department also suddenly turned around and said Ping Ze was the real culprit.For defendant Hirasawa, the "Nippondo Incident" was indeed the key to his fate.

In fact, the "Nippondo incident" was nothing more than a check fraud case.Fraud and mass murder are very different in nature.But this gave ordinary people the impression that since he had done such a bad thing, maybe he could do something that poisoned many people.However, skilled investigators should know better than anyone else that those who can do fraudulent deeds may not necessarily be able to kill people.Fraudsters and murderers are fundamentally different in nature, but society doesn't see them that way.Here, the prosecutor has a clever way of inferring the criminal situation of Pyeongtaek.

Besides, the poison used in the "Reichsbank Incident" was not potassium cyanide as the Inquisition said.Prosecutor Takagi used the term "cyanic acid compound" at the beginning of the trial, but at some point it was changed to "potassium cyanide".In the "Imperial Bank incident", what was used in the incident was indeed not pure potassium cyanide, but a special compound.Whether it's called "acetone cyanide" or "nitroxyl" or not, it's not pure potassium cyanide anyway.Judging from the characteristics of the slow onset of toxic effects, it can also be known that a special compound operation has been carried out on potassium cyanide. It's just ridiculous.

Therefore, it can be said instead: If the poison used in the "Imperial Bank Incident" was pure potassium cyanide, Hirasawa might be the culprit, but if it was a special compound, the culprit could never be Hirasawa. So, if Hirasawa is not the murderer, who is the real murderer?In the following, some conjectures will be made in this regard.