Chapter 27 Section 26

Matsuura put the wine glass on the table rudely and snorted. "It's touching, you still remember me so clearly, and you invite me to drink like this." "Do you remember anything? It's only been two weeks." I blinked and said so. "Mr. Tatsumi, you really touched me when you said that. The other teachers must have forgotten me a long time ago. Ah. Speaking of my current position, in the eyes of the editor, it has completely become a cemetery, a cemetery. No, this is also Very important, necessary work. I understand, but it is clearly a leftward shift of punishment."

"punish?" Tendo asked sharply. "Well, yes. After all, this is not the time for job transfers. After that incident happened first, and then I suddenly received a transfer order, 'From tomorrow you will be transferred to work in the dictionary editorial department'. Dictionary editorial department, what is that place? ? I was petrified." As he spoke, he loosened his tie and opened the collar of his shirt.Although I had drank with Matsuura several times before, it was the first time I saw him behave so rudely. Tendo asked again. "Why are you being punished?"

"Because I was also at the scene of the accident... I was implicated by Kaori—" "If this is the reason, Sanjo and Nishino are also the same, right? But they have not been transferred to work." "They are the subordinates of Chief Shihe, and they have been protected. Speaking of which, wasn't Tendo also excluded from that plan?" "No, that's another matter." "Matsuura, by the way, is the injury on your hand healed?" I suddenly thought of this and interrupted. "Well, thanks to everyone." He said and held out his left hand to show us.Although he himself said that he was fine, it was obvious that the edematous skin had a different color and texture from other parts. Through the wrinkled surface, it seemed that the healing flesh seemed to be soaked and wrinkled.

The ugly look made my spine shudder, and I quickly calmed down. "Kaori put a bandage on your hand that day." Hearing my memories, Matsuura responded with deep emotion while staring at his hand. "Speaking of which, there are a few things I want to ask you, Matsuura, about what happened that day." "Okay, what are you asking?" He looked at me with the same smile on his face. "After we arrived at the villa, you first received treatment for your hand, and then went upstairs and returned to your room?" "Well, I changed my clothes. After all, my body was stained with oil... Ah, Tatsumi, didn't you see it too?"

"What about the luggage? After we got off the car, we only took the luggage to the villa." "Oh, I'm sorry. Afterwards, Sanjo accompanied me up with my luggage, and Nishino." "Speaking of which, you changed your clothes yourself?" "Well, a hand." "And then? Come down from the room..." "I washed my face in the bathroom, went back to the room before going down, and then started grilling and toasting." "Your room is on the south side of the second floor?" "South...? Think about it, it should be the left-hand side facing the inside of the corridor, the second room in front—that is, the one in the middle."

"Do you know who lived in which room that day?" "Ah... Let me think about it. The room on the innermost side of the corridor, that is, next to me, should belong to Daiso. There is a constant snoring sound from the next door at night. It must be that person who is snoring because the sound is very loud. Then... the three are The inner room on the right hand side, because it happens to come across when I brush my teeth in the morning. Others don’t know.” I took a breath.The inner room on the right belongs to Natsuko Nishino.Sanjo's room is next to it.But what happened when Sanjo appeared from the inner room on the morning of the incident...?

I looked at Tiantong, his expression was as serious as ever, and he kept silent. "Why do you inquire about these things?" Matsuura asked, although his face was still full of smiles, his eyes became serious. "Ugh?" "Actually—" Tiantong rescued me. "The incident with Kaori happened that day, and the time passed in a daze. But when Tatsumi returned to Tokyo, he looked at the word processor he carried with him, and it seemed that the data had been peeped by others. He was very concerned, So let me help to investigate who peeped." Tiantong used his brain in an instant, and cleverly made up an excuse that he hadn't prepared before.He is a man who can even tell lies.

"Ju, such a thing happened! Teacher Tatsumi, is the original manuscript still alive?" "Well, just being peeped at. But it annoys me." "Matsuura, Tatsumi is not suspicious of you, but just wants to confirm everyone's actions that day." "It's reasonable to do so. But with my position, I don't need to be sneaky at all. I can ask the teacher for the original manuscript in a dignified manner." Matsuura smiled and puffed up his chest. "Of course, things are different now." The shoulders sank again. "I still want to ask a few more questions—"

Tendo took the initiative to play the role of questioning. "You must be one of the people who went up to drink at the tower that day. Who else went up the tower?" "I think Mr. Toka, Kaori, and Oiso...ah, Tatsumi-sensei also came up at first. And Sanjo and Nishino also came at the beginning...In the end, the only one who didn't come is Tendo." "Ah. I didn't go, I went back to rest first... and then? In what order did you leave?" "I think about it, it seems that Teacher Tatsumi was the first to leave?" He confirmed to me, I nodded and explained the situation to Tendo.

"There is no toilet there, so I went down to use the toilet, and went back to the room by the way. I only planned to take a nap, but fell asleep as soon as I lay down on the bed. Originally, I accompanied everyone up to the tower just to see the cabin on the top of the tower, so I also It’s a wish come true.” "What about the back?" "Ah, next is Nishino, who probably went to the toilet like Mr. Tatsumi, and then went to the same behavior pattern. Sanjo said that the two people didn't come up after going down, so they went down to look for them. But he didn't come back, everyone I lamented that the people who went to recall them did not come back in the end.”

"What time?" "Let's think about it, when we got to the top of the tower... it was about ten o'clock, right? Then it should have only been thirty minutes." "At ten-thirty there were only four left." "Yes. Then I drank for another hour and a half, so it happened to be midnight. The head of the office and Kaori and the two brothers and sisters suggested that it was time to go back. I followed behind. When we reached the corridor on the second floor, we waved good night over the handrail ...It turned out to be a farewell to Kaori. She still looked at me, smiled and waved..." When Matsuura said this, he sighed deeply and wiped his face with his hands. "Where's Oiso?" "Oh? Ah, do you mean after? I don't know either. After all, I don't want to be alone with that person, so I ran away in a panic. "By the way... when I said goodbye and was about to leave the hut, the moon he had been looking forward to finally came out. It suddenly lit up outside the window. When the man opened the curtains, he said, "The moon is coming out. Do you want Xiaosong to admire the moon?" Accompanying me to have another drink... So, probably he drank again by himself." "He called me Xiaosongyou." Matsuura opened his small eyes, picked up the fried food, and took a sip from his glass. "And you went back to your room?" "Yes. To be precise, I went to the toilet first before returning to the room." "What time did you go to sleep? Just now you said that you heard the snoring next door... Don't your hands hurt anymore?" "Well, it actually hurts. I thought I would suffer from insomnia all night, but I drank a lot of alcohol that day. I staggered into bed and fell asleep right away. But after sleeping for a while, I woke up suddenly in the middle of the night... …At this time, I will definitely check the time subconsciously, right? So I glanced at my watch, and it was only one o’clock in the morning, and there was already snoring from the next door. So Daji had already come down by then. I went to the toilet again, and I always felt that At that time, my eyes could see very clearly, and my hands were tingling again...the moon came out." "moon?" "Well. You don't have to climb to such a high tower, you can see it from the room as long as you open the curtains. The round moon floated above the woods, then gradually sank into the woods, the sky turned blue, and then... …I don’t know what time it was, I took another nap at dawn and woke up in the morning. Footsteps from the corridor woke me up.” A small group of employees stood up next to them, making the sound of chairs rubbing against the floor.The clerk thanked them. "...Then, you didn't hear the most critical voice." Tiantong said word by word.After Matsuura finished what he said just now, he took a sip of wine to moisten his throat, and ate some food with chopsticks. "What?" Tiantong's words attracted him to look over. "...the sound of Kaori falling to the ground." Hearing Tendo's direct description, Matsuura made a sad face. "It's also possible that this noise woke you up at one o'clock in the morning...don't you think so?" "Stop talking. I don't want to... think about it." "Why? Why are you so refusing to think about her death?" "after all--" Matsuura seemed to be about to cry, and his natural smiling face revealed a half-crying, half-smiling expression. "Don't you like her? Right? Don't laugh, answer me clearly!" "……um, yes." He answered in a voice as small as a mosquito's cry. "Why? I can't hear, say it out loud!" "Because I like her!" He roared, his face suddenly filled with strength.He knocked on the table with a bang, and clenched his hands tightly. "I like her. But not just me...and you...by the way, but also Hirata, Sanjo, and the one called Oiso...right? Everyone should be the same, and they all like her. Right?" "Don't mind the others. I'm asking only you." "Well, yes, I like Kaori." "--Really?" This confirmation made Matsuura's heart thump, and I also held my breath. "—Why do you ask such a thing!" "No, you don't like her that much, you just think so—right?" "how come--" "Then why did you run away that morning?" Hearing this question, Matsuura took a deep breath. "that is because--" "Why did you turn your head away as if you saw an ugly monster? Why didn't you confirm her safety like Shihe did?" "You don't have the right to say such things either. You were clearly sleeping peacefully at that time—" "What you like is not Kaori Tokawa, but the identity of the president's daughter she possesses. Admit it. "As we all know, the head of the First Publishing Department is a member of the vice president's faction. You should have also received an order from the head. You should use this game adaptation plan to deepen your relationship with the people in the multimedia planning department. You can observe Shihe's movements. , and after Kaori participated in this plan, your work becomes more important. If you can pull her to your side, you can transfer all the Shihe shares she inherited to the vice president's faction. Do you like It's not because of her own feelings or anything else, but because of an order from the top to you for this kind of internal struggle in the company!" "That's not the case—" "Don't you understand? You were moved to another place by the left. Now, do you still have to make tents for the tiger?... Then it's up to you." "……I just." Matsuura didn't finish his sentence. He leaned on the table with his elbows, and planned to cover his face with both hands, but suddenly moved his left hand to the base of his neck, and only covered his face with his right hand, probably because the burn on his palm still hurts. "...I'm just for Kaori..." "—I understand. You like Kaori." Tendo glanced at me, his eyes seemed to express regret, not this guy.