Chapter 21 Chapter 19 The Man's Expression

Detectives Totsukawa and Kamei returned to the Shinjuku Police Station where the investigation headquarters was established. Even though he returned to the police station, Totsukawa was still thinking, how come there is not even a photo of Yoshioka in Yoshioka's room?He is a person who sells his appearance for a living, and it is natural to hang his photos in his room. However, even a single photo of him was not found in his room. It can be seen that all of Yoshioka's photos have been taken away. What puzzled Totsukawa was why did the other party take away all his photos? "Are you still thinking about the reason why you can't find the photo?" Kamei Detective asked.

Totsukawa sat down on the chair, lit a cigarette and said, "Because I'm so puzzled!" "Would it be because the murderer was photographed in Yoshioka's photo, after killing Yoshioka, he rushed to his apartment and took away all his photos?" Kamei Detective said. "Is that right?" Totsukawa said with a wry smile, exhaled smoke rings, and asked the other detectives, "Under what circumstances would the murderer take away all the photos of the victim?" "My first thought was that the murderer didn't want others to know the identity of the victim," said Nishimoto detective.

"But, is Yoshioka Masashi famous in the glass circle?" "Could someone hate being photographed and take away all the photos of the victim?" "It seems that there is no such person." Kamei detective said. Conversely, there are a lot of pushy people. After thinking for a while, Totsukawa said: "The murderer took away all of Yoshioka's photos, so we will collect Yoshioka's photos. You can go to the Roppongi Hotel where Yoshioka works and ask someone who is related to Yoshioka, maybe you can get it His picture." Totsukawa instructs his men to collect photos of Yoshioka.

The police immediately left and searched the headquarters. (What can be found out?) Photos of Furuoka Masashi were sent to Totsukawa one after another. Judging from the easily collected photos, Yoshioka is not someone who hates taking pictures.It seems that as Totsukawa thought, Yoshioka is very pushy and likes to take pictures. Totsukawa pasted the thirty or so photos he had collected on the wall. "What do you think of these photos?" Totsukawa asked Kamei and other detectives. All the detectives looked at the photo. "People have all kinds of expressions." Someone said so.

"A handsome guy is a handsome guy, no matter what angle you take a picture from, he is handsome." Some people also said so, but these views were not what he wanted. (I really don't understand.) Totsukawa was puzzled. Because he also holds the same view. There must be a very important reason why the murderer took all his photos from Yoshioka's apartment. If we can know the reason, it may be helpful to solve this incident. "Go and collect photos of Yoshioka." Totsukawa said to his subordinates. Totsukawa and Kamei detectives also went to Roppongi. Because they were going to investigate Yoshioka's affairs.

The hotel where Yoshioka worked seemed to have his mouth clamped, and he couldn't find out anything about Yoshioka. However, I found out about him at the restaurant Yoshioka frequented. It was Naito, the restaurant owner, who told them. The tall Naito, who was also an actor when he was young, is currently a bit rickety. "Yoshioka-kun once told me that he was being targeted by a photography magazine, which made him very troubled." Naito said to Totsukawa. "Is it the Weekly Insider?" "There is nothing wrong with that name." "Did he tell you the details? Only that he was troubled?"

"He said that if the object was an actor, he would not feel troubled. The problem is that this time the object is a politician, so he is very worried that he will get into trouble. He is more afraid than troubled." "Did he mention that politician's name?" Kamei Detective asked. "No, he didn't say anything, but looking at him, he seemed to want to say something but didn't dare to say it. Could it be that he was very afraid of the other party?" Naito said. "So he didn't tell you the details?" When Totsukawa asked, Naito said with a smile: "Although he didn't mention the name of that politician, he mentioned many things about that politician. It seems that he wanted others to know those things."

"Could you please tell me everything Yoshioka said?" Totsukawa asked. "He said that the politician suddenly came to the hotel where he worked, and it was the first time a guest came to the door." Naito said. "So that politician is not Yoshioka's guest?" "No, as soon as the politician entered the store, he looked around the store and asked for Yoshioka by name." "I see." "The politician seems to like Yoshioka very much. He asked him out for dinner that day, and we have been in frequent contact since then." "Was it the guest who told Yoshioka that he was a politician?"

"Yoshioka felt that the guest was very familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere, but he couldn't remember it for a while. He asked the guest for his name, and the guest didn't say anything. Later he remembered that he saw it during the election. At this time Know that the man is a politician." "Is that politician gay?" "That's what Yoshioka said, and the two of them will go to the hotel, but that politician made strange demands of Yoshioka." "any request?" "Yoshioka said he thought the politician was a sadist, but he asked Yoshioka to make various expressions. Isn't that weird?" Naito said.

"Why did that politician make such a request to Yoshioka?" Kamei Detective asked with great interest. "I don't know. Yoshioka also said that he was very troubled. The politician asked him to put on a smiling face and a crying face, and the price was 500,000 yen." Naito said. Why did Master Horie make such a request to Yoshioka?Does the stolen photo have anything to do with it? Do gay people make that kind of demand on each other? Totsukawa doesn't understand the mood of homosexuals. If it is the same as the general love emotion, he can understand the joy of the other party enjoying various expressions.

However, no matter how cute the other person’s smile is, spending 500,000 won to make the other person smile and make the other person angry, even if it’s a homosexual relationship, isn’t it strange? Totsukawa returned to the search headquarters and looked again at the two photos published in the unpublished "Big Inside Story". I can't feel that Master Horie paid for Yoshioka's smile at all, because in the photo, Master Horie's smile looks like it comes from the heart, not a fake. It seems that Master Horie is very happy to meet Yoshioka.Naito said that the two of them would go to the hotel, and the expression in the photo seemed to confirm this sentence. "I really don't understand." Just as Totsukawa sighed, Detective Nishimoto said, "We have collected another photo of Yoshioka." This time, Yoshioka's friend took the photos secretly, so there are many photos of yawning and sleeping. Whether it's yawning or sleeping, it looks natural, not fake. "It's interesting." Totsukawa looked at the fourteen photos taped to the wall. According to Naito's conversation, Master Horie asked Yoshioka to make various expressions. However, the expressions in these fourteen photos didn't look like they were put on by Master Horie's request. "However, the police department, I don't think these photos will help solve the incident." Kamei Detective said. "Maybe--" After Totsukawa muttered to himself, he suddenly said with a serious expression, "Kamero, who do you think Yoshioka's face looks like?" "Like who?" "It doesn't look like a person when it's not smiling, but when it smiles, it looks like a person." "Who do you look like?" "Ishizaki who died twenty years ago." "Ishizaki? Ishizaki who committed suicide?" "Yes. Ishizaki, who was cornered by the Kosakai Police Department and others and committed suicide 20 years ago, is the secretary of the old Horie Diet member." Totsukawa raised his voice. "Please wait a moment." Detective Kamei hurried to get the investigation report of the incident twenty years ago. Detective Kamei put the thick investigation report on the table and flipped through it. There are not only investigation reports about Ishizaki, but also photos of Ishizaki. Detective Kamei put the photo in front of Totsukawa. Totsukawa tore out a photo of Yoshioka smiling and placed it next to that photo. Detective Kamei blushed and shouted, "It's very similar! Police department." Totsukawa smiled and said, "It's really similar." "What the hell is going on here?—" "As long as you think about it with your heart, it's not hard to know what's going on," said Totsukawa. "Could it be that Master Horie doesn't like Yoshioka himself, but wants to find the shadow of the dead Ishizaki in him?" "yes." "But, in this way, Master Horie is not having sex with Yoshioka." "Yes. From this point of view, twenty years ago, Master Horie probably had an unusual relationship with Ishizaki." Totsukawa said. "Ishizaki and Master Horie?" "From this point of view, Ishizaki is also a handsome man. Although he had a blind date, it was unsuccessful. If Ishizaki was gay, wouldn't it be natural for him to have a blind date?" Totsukawa remembered what the dead Kosakai and Sasaki had said. The two of them couldn't solve that incident, probably because they didn't find out that Ishizaki had a homosexual habit, right? "But, Police Department." Detective Kamei shook his head puzzled. "Twenty years ago, Ishizaki had a homosexual relationship with Master Horie, but wasn't Master Horie in America at that time?" "Yes, he was in America then." "Ishizaki is in Japan, so far away, will there be any special feelings?" "However, Master Horie met Yoshioka, who is famous for his homosexuality, and it is also true to find the shadow of Ishizaki who committed suicide 20 years ago from his expression!" Totsukawa said. "Twenty years ago, Master Horie was only in his early twenties." Detective Kamei said. "Yes. Ishizaki and Master Horie are both young people in their early twenties." "If it's what the police department said, what does it have to do with the incident?" Kamei detective said with a puzzled expression. Of course Totsukawa also thought of this question. Even if Ishizaki, who committed suicide 20 years ago, was gay with Mr. Horie, if it had nothing to do with the murder, this clue would be meaningless. "These two people need to be investigated." Ten Tsukawa said. "But it's very difficult! Once people know that we are investigating Master Horie, there will be pressure from above, and Ishizaki also died 20 years ago." Detective Kamei said. "It is indeed difficult. But if these two people have a special relationship, if you only investigate one person, the other person will naturally emerge." "Exactly. Well, we shall decide." Detective Kamei finally smiled. "Old Turtle finally smiled." "Which one should we investigate first?" "Ishizaki." Totsukawa said. "why?" "It is difficult to learn from the past with the present, but it is much easier to learn from the past with the present." Totsukawa said.However, this kind of work is not easy. Because, as Detective Kamei said, Ishizaki died twenty years ago. If Detective Kosakai and Detective Sasaki, who drove Ishizaki to a dead end, were still alive, they could still ask about Ishizaki's affairs, but both of them have passed away. (But--) Totsukawa pondered. Maybe Detective Sasaki left a record of investigating Ishizaki. "Go to meet Sasaki's daughter, maybe we can find some clues from her." Totsukawa said. The two went to visit Kitiko Sasaki's home along the Chuo Line. The entrance of the second-floor hut is still hung with the name plate "Sasaki Wanji". It seems that Ji Jianzi still doesn't believe that her father is really dead. As soon as Totsukawa pressed the electric bell at the entrance, the door was opened immediately, and a tall young man came out. "Don't you stop thinking about it?" The young man said so to the inside, and walked towards the station as if he didn't see Totsukawa and Kamei detective. Totsukawa rang the bell again. This time it was Ji Jianzi, her eyes were swollen. "Can I go in?" When Ten Jinchuan asked, Ji Jianzi quickly said, "Please, please." After being brought into the living room, Totsukawa asked Ji Jianzi, "Is that young man who just went out Harada?" "what?" "Actually, I know you have a boyfriend named Harada, the one who went out just now is Harada, right?" "I don't want to get married for the time being." Ji Jianzi said with a firm expression. "That's not good!" Detective Kamei said to Ji Jianzi with a serious expression. Ji Jianzi looked at Detective Kamei silently, and Detective Kamei still said to Ji Jianzi with a serious expression: "Please get married! Your dead father must want to see you get married." "I won't think about it until the father killer is caught." "It is our police's responsibility to find the real culprit who killed the father, and we will investigate it. Please marry that young man just now." Kamei detective still said so. Tojin Chuan said to Ji Jianzi as if trying to smooth things over: "I think you should think about the matter of marriage. We came to visit you today to read your father's diary. Did your father leave any documents? Record the Documentation of the incident?" "My father's documents are all placed in the study on the second floor." Ji Jianzi said. Totsukawa and Kamei detectives were taken up to the second floor by Ji Jianzi. On the second floor there is a six-square-meter room, which Sasaki used as a study. A room with old desks and bookshelves, darkened by the death of the owner. After Totsukawa and Kamei detectives opened the window, they began to search. They searched the desk drawers, the closets, and the bookshelves, but they couldn't find the papers and diaries they wanted. There was a thief who broke into Ji Jianzi's house before, but fortunately, the criminal police in the sun gave a helping hand in time, and the thief escaped in despair.Could it be that the papers and journals they both wanted had already been stolen by thieves? However, Totsukawa thought it was impossible. Before Sasaki was killed, he must have felt that he was in danger of being killed, so he would definitely write the results of the investigation in a diary or document. "Will your father entrust others to keep the documents?" Totsukawa asked Ji Jianzi. "No, because my father doesn't have many friends." After Ji Jianzi said so, he added this sentence: "Not long before my father was killed, I seem to have rented a safe at a nearby bank." "Then there should be a key." Totsukawa and Kamei detectives searched in the house again, but they couldn't find it. Totsukawa and others went to the nearby branch of S Bank to inquire about the safe. "Sasaki did come to rent a safe. Now that he has been killed, we are considering how to deal with it," said the branch manager. "Please show us that safe." Totsukawa asked. The two of them were taken to the underground safe room, where there were several safes, and Sasaki rented one of them. The branch manager opened the safe and took out the contents. It's two notepads. One records the investigation of the incident when it happened twenty years ago, and the other records the investigation of the incident by him alone twenty years later. These two notebooks are not recorded every day, but only when there is something to record. Detective Totsukawa and Kamei Detective borrowed the two notebooks, left the bank, returned to the search headquarters, and read each notebook carefully. Totsukawa pays special attention to the one recorded twenty years ago. At first, the investigation followed the clue of the sex maniac, and later, the attention was focused on Ishizaki, Horie Masashi's secretary.Totsukawa flipped through the search process recorded in the notebook. Ishizaki's name has appeared since the pursuit of the red Porsche that was seen near the murder scene, and there are several pages of records about Ishizaki. The situation is roughly as follows: Ishizaki is a tall, very handsome man, but I haven't heard that he has a girlfriend. Investigate why the blind date failed.Once met with the woman, the woman said that because Ishizaki often missed appointments, she suspected that he had another woman.On that day, Ishizaki appeared at the scene of the murder. I visited the introducer who introduced them on a blind date, and learned that they were very close at first, but later, the woman refused to go with him. It is said that it was because Ishizaki had another woman. The introducer was surprised to investigate and did not find out that he had another woman There are women. Even though we checked again and again, it was incredible that we never found out that he had another woman. The conclusion is that Ishizaki hated women so much in his heart that he killed women? If so, Ishizaki is the murderer. Ishizaki was arrested and interrogated. Although he vehemently denied it, he could not provide an alibi.After investigating Ishizaki's apartment, he did not find any letters or photos written by the woman to him. This is really incredible. If it is because the woman felt that Ishizaki had murderous intentions and did not dare to approach him, this is evidence that he is the murderer.But if not, how can this be explained?gay? The word "gay" didn't appear until here. However, neither Kosakai nor Sasaki mentioned to Totsukawa whether Ishizaki was gay. In Sasaki's notebook, it was indeed suspected that Ishizaki might be gay. The reason why Sasaki didn't mention this matter to Totsukawa is probably because Ishizaki is already dead, and he is not the murderer, right?Totsukawa continued to read. I went to search Ishizaki's apartment again, thinking that I might be able to find evidence that Ishizaki hated women, but there was still nothing. However, I found a picture of Horie's son. Obviously, it was a group photo taken in the United States. Judging from this photo, Ishizaki went to the United States to meet Horie's son, but it had nothing to do with this incident. (does it really matter?) Release Ishizaki.Since this is an order from above, I have to identify it accordingly.Although the Kosakai police department felt very sorry, there was nothing he could do. This shows how much pressure there is on the top. At this point, not only did the word "regret" appear, but the word "regret" was written black and big as if to emphasize it. It seems that Sasaki also felt wronged at this time, right? Because Sasaki and Kosakai were still convinced that Ishizaki was the murderer. Next came a blank page. After a few blank pages, it suddenly read: Ishizaki commits suicide—— Ishizaki's suicide must have hit him hard. Five days later, the following words appeared again: Ishizaki might be innocent, and Kosakai Police Department thinks so too. If Ishizaki is innocent, then who is the murderer?Why did Ishizaki commit suicide?I don't know at all. It is said that the head of the search department arrested and prosecuted a sex maniac. Could it be that the sex maniac is really the murderer? There is a question sentence here, and it is obvious that Sasaki has doubts about the change of the search policy of the search headquarters. There were several pages after that about who the murderer seemed to be, but no mention of Ishizaki. Maybe it's because of the disbandment of the search headquarters?There are several blank pages below, and then the following sentence suddenly appears: I heard that Ishizaki has the habit of writing a diary. Although Ishizaki is innocent, I still want to read Ishizaki's diary. "Ishizaki's diary?..." Totsukawa thought the same. Because he wanted to know what Ishizaki wrote in his diary. Twenty years ago, when serial killings occurred, Ishizaki's Porsche repeatedly appeared at the murder scene. Even when the incident happened in Jingu Gaien, Ishizaki got out of the Sherry and ran to the side of the murdered woman. If Ishizaki is not the murderer, he must know the details of this incident, Sasaki must think so, right?Totsukawa thought. Therefore, Totsukawa also wanted to read Ishizaki's diary.But where can I see it?