Chapter 7 red spider

Haruno looked back at Judge Takaido in surprise, it was difficult for him to judge the true meaning of Takaido's words. This is the judge's office at N District Court.The nameplates of Judge Takaido and Judge Tsukioka hang on the door.However, Magistrate Tsukioka happened to be "investigating at home" that day and would go to work in the future. Haruno came to see Judge Tsukioka. Usually, judges don't want to see journalists, unlike prosecutors who are more than happy to chat with reporters whenever they have time!However, only Magistrate Tsukioka doesn't hate talking to journalists.Maybe it's because his younger brother works as a journalist in Tokyo, so he has a better understanding of the life of a journalist.

However, Haruno came to see Tsukioka this day, not for any special purpose of interviewing, and the court session he was scheduled to attend was cancelled, so he didn't know how to pass the time, so he thought of talking to Magistrate Tsukioka. It had been less than half a year since he entered the newspaper office and was immediately assigned to the branch office in N City. Haruno was unable to discuss specific topics with Tsukioka. Most of the time he asked preliminary questions related to the law, and Tsukioka answered them.However, for Haruno's childish question, Tsukioka never showed disgust.

But now, Judge Tsukioka's nameplate hanging on the door is red, which means Tsukioka is not there. As a last resort, Haruno turned around and wanted to leave, but met Judge Takaido who was about to go back to the office. "Is something wrong?" Takaito asked. Since Haruno had approached Tsukioka several times, Takaido also recognized him. "No...just want to meet Magistrate Tsukioka..." "Yuegang will stay at home today to investigate. If there is something urgent, you can go to the dormitory to find him." The so-called "home investigation" means that the judge reads the documents at home, which is not considered absenteeism.Of course, the dormitory is less than a ten-minute walk from the court. If there is something important, the clerk will rush to contact you.

"No, it's not urgent..." "So, how about we chat?" Takaido said as he opened the door. What a complete surprise for Haruno!Takaido and Tsukioka, on the other hand, are hard-to-approach judges.He is about 50 years old, but his eyebrows are often deeply furrowed, and his lips are always pursed into a figure-eight shape. He seems to be a very serious judge.Even though Tsukioka is usually chatting with the journalists, he is still sitting at the desk reading documents, and it looks like he is expressing silent protest to Tsukioka chatting with the journalists!But now Takaido took the initiative to invite himself to chat! "Okay, but, is it okay?" Haruno asked in doubt.After all, Takaido gave him the impression of a serious judge, which made him unable to judge what kind of topic was more appropriate.

In this regard, Takaido seems to agree.Although he asked about Haruno's education or experience as a reporter, etc., the way he talked was very similar to an interrogation in court. Afterwards, Takaido suddenly asked: "Although it's presumptuous, Mr. Haruno, have you ever had any experience with women?" "Experience? This..." Haruno mumbled. "Ah, sorry! Are you married?" Takaido didn't know how to explain Haruno's answer, so he changed the way of questioning. "No, not married yet..." Haruno was troubled by Takaido's still serious expression.It didn't look like he felt the need to talk about lighter topics and forced the question.

"So, is there a fiancee?" "No, it's in the entertainment venue..." "Huh? For fun? For fun..." Takaido raised his eyebrows in disbelief. "Yes, there are many kinds of entertainment. Did you know that?" Haruno said half-heartedly. "No, I have no common sense in this area. According to your opinion, what is the situation of a woman in a party?" "This..." Haruno hesitated.He didn't know how far to answer this question. "Frankly speaking," Takaido turned the swivel chair left and right, as if thinking about his tone of voice, "People often say that so-called judges are ignorant. What I want to ask you is, is this true?"

"This... I am still young, and I feel that I am not qualified to answer such things." "However, if you don't know all kinds of things, you can't be a journalist! Because the newspaper's recruitment test seems to be jointly prepared by various departments..." "That's true, but often it's broad but not deep, so you still have to consult a variety of different experts on the specific side." "Hmm..." Takaito turned to look at the window, his eyes seemed to be in deep thought. "And," Haruno continued, "no matter how ignorant and ignorant you are, compared with a newcomer like me, at least you have a lot more experience in life..."

"No, that kind of life experience is useless. Mr. Haruno, you have experience with women, so I ask you, do women make noise?" "Huh?" Haruno said.He didn't pretend to be confused on purpose, but he really didn't understand the meaning of Takaido's words. "That is to say, when a man and a woman are in bed, I have heard people say, and I have read in novels, that women will make noises. But would ordinary women also do this? Moreover, those who can scream and those who can't women, which one is more?" "This..." Haruno was both confused and inexplicable, and thought that Takaido might be mocking himself.

That is to say, although I am a journalist, I am young and inexperienced, so I ask such questions. "...Mr. Haruno, what about your experience?" Takaido asked without a smile. "I... said just now, it's the experience in the entertainment field... of course the other party is deliberately acting..." "Ha, ha, are you deliberately acting like a bed?" "I can't judge whether it is deliberate, but...why do you ask this kind of question? Is there any event that focuses on this?" "No, it has nothing to do with the incident, it's my personal question." Takaido took out a handkerchief from his pocket and wiped his forehead.

But it doesn't look like he's sweating. "Personal question?" Haruno asked back while thinking, unable to figure out what to think. "I came to N City alone." Takaido suddenly changed the subject. "So, your family is..." Haruno asked suspiciously. He thought to himself that Takaido might ask such a question because he has no marriage experience. "I have a daughter who is studying at a university in Tokyo..." "The lady lives with the young lady too?" "No, I passed away the year before last. So, the dormitory is obviously too spacious for me to live alone, right? So I sublet it to a young couple who are distant relatives. However, I didn't collect the rent, only the young wife was in charge. Take care of my three meals..."

"I see. But it's nice not to have to pay rent," Haruno said. He is also renting an apartment, and part of his salary has to be used to pay the rent. "The couple also said that it's good for life...but..." Takaido's voice broke, and he looked towards the door.Probably because they are afraid that if someone enters suddenly, the scene will be very embarrassing!Haruno took out a cigarette packet from his pocket, lit one, and was looking for where the matchstick was lost when Takaido stood up and brought an ashtray from Judge Tsukioka's desk. "Oh, I'm so sorry. Takaido-san, don't you smoke?" "Yes, when I was young, I heard that smoking is harmful but not beneficial, so... However, I drank a few glasses of wine with dinner, because I heard that drinking a small amount of alcohol is good for the body... Yes, the young couple has a little trouble……" "Oh..." Haruno became interested in Takaido's words. After all, for him who is single, the words "young couple" are quite exciting enough! "Maybe it's related to age? Recently, I occasionally wake up in the middle of the night, and once I wake up, I can't sleep anymore... tossing and turning on the bed. But at this moment, I heard a woman sobbing, and It was a serious voice. I thought to myself, maybe the wife was crying after being scolded by her husband!" Takaido wiped his forehead with a handkerchief again. That night, Haruno told what Takaido said to Miyagawa, who had joined the press two years before him. The place was at the bar counter where Miyagawa took him. This seems to be a store that Miyagawa often visits, storing whiskey with his name on it.There is a sofa in the corner, but no one sits there.Haruno and the others were also sitting at the counter. There is a man in his 30s called the boss at the counter.According to the man, tonight is much freer than usual.Apart from Haruno and Miyagawa, there were only three men who looked like office workers sitting not far away. Miyagawa also knew Takaido, but had never talked to him. "You must also find it difficult to get along with, right? Besides, it is impossible for the judge to tell you something that is enough to be a subject, so I don't want to go to him..." But Miyagawa seemed to be interested in Takaido's words.Just because he had the impression that it was difficult to get along with, Takaido took the initiative to tell this matter, but he couldn't believe it at first. "So..." Haruno continued to explain while recalling Takaido's expression, "The next morning, when we met, Takaido seemed to ask the young wife directly: 'Madam, did you quarrel with your husband in the middle of the night?' Unbelievably asked back: "No! What's going on?" "No, because I heard your cry last night, so..." At that moment, the other party blushed, turned and ran away." "Of course." Miyagawa said dissatisfied. "No matter how ignorant and ignorant you are, it's too much to ask such a question." "However, Mr. Takaido's deep expression makes people feel pitiful. After he did this, when the other party blushed and ran away, he still couldn't immediately understand why the other party blushed. Soon, thinking of the content described in the novel, he guessed that it might be like that. What happened... Even so, he still couldn't believe it, so he asked me." "Then how do you answer?" "I said, frankly, I don't know too well, but... there are all kinds of women in the world, maybe there is such a situation." "Is Takaido satisfied with your answer?" "He said that if ordinary women would have such a reaction, then he was too sorry for his dead wife. Because the wife had never made that sound..." "Ha, ha, ha..." Miyagawa played with the whiskey glass, "For Takaido, this is indeed a deep problem! If you have never had such an experience in your fifty years of life, no matter what Anyone will be embarrassed..." "But..." Haruno mustered up the courage to ask, "What is the truth? Do women really make that kind of voice?" "Huh?" Miyagawa forcefully placed the wine glass on the counter, made a sound, turned to face Haruno, and stared. "Are you really asking about this?" "Yes, I only have experience in the entertainment scene. But in that kind of place, although hearing a woman moan, it is different from crying after all, not to mention that moaning feels like a performance." "Oh? This may or may not be the case for the women in the entertainment venue." Miyagawa said sympathetically. "This kind of thing is often described in depth in novels, and there are also pornographic movies, but after talking with Takaido today, I suddenly feel that all these seem to be exaggerated..." "Porn movies? What kind have you seen?" "It's just an R-rated movie that you can see in the movie theater." While talking, Haruno felt that his mind was getting hazy, as if countless little red spiders were squirming in his brain cells. Haruno thought: Maybe it's been too long since I went to the entertainment venue to seek liberation! "Okay, then..." Miyagawa suddenly lowered his voice, "Stay with me tonight." "Your side? Why?" "My apartment has thin cubicle walls and the couple next door can be heard in the closet." "But they don't necessarily know how to do things, do they?" Haruno felt that this matter was very attractive to him, and thought, no matter what, having experience is not a bad thing! "No problem! It's young couples who don't have children. It's usually done every night. If not, I'll play the tape for you. Once you listen to it, you won't ask such silly questions again." "Tape? What's going on?" "I put the tape recorder in the closet and recorded everything about the couple in the next room. It's a live performance, so it's quite tempting!" Miyagawa drank the whiskey in the glass in one gulp. Haruno also bowed his head. The Starscream in my mind is growing day by day.The little spiders merged into one and became a big spider with long legs, which continued to wreak havoc in Haruno's mind. That night when Haruno slept at Miyagawa's house, the couple next door fell asleep quietly.Maybe the two hid in the closet and squirmed, making too much noise and being noticed by the other party is unknown!However, after listening to Miyagawa's tapes, the spider in Haru's mind expanded even more. The inaudible voice at first turned into a suppressed moan, and gradually became uncontrollable, and the tone of the voice increased... Finally, it finally turned into a cry that could only be expressed as a "sob"! "It's so exciting..." Haruno said while shaking his head, "How old are you?" "The girl may be in her mid-twenties! Seeing her face without makeup during the day, she looks a bit like a little girl. It's hard to believe that she can really make that kind of voice." Miyagawa said one-sidedly. Put the beer into the glass and say proudly. Miyagawa came here two years earlier than Haruno, and the apartment he lived in was fully equipped. Although it was not big, it had a refrigerator with beer and ham in it. "Have you talked to the lady?" "We are neighbors, of course we have... I remember one time, she made red bean rice cakes and said she made too many, so she gave me some." "The next time she sees you, you can tell her that there is something good for her to listen to, and then play this tape for her to listen to. What do you think?" Haruno drank whiskey and beer in the bar, and listened to that tape, and his nerves were a little bit off. Even he could feel that his thinking was freer and bolder than usual. "Just kidding! How can you do such a thing?" "Why not? She might get excited after listening to that tape and it's up to you..." "..." Miyagawa stared blankly at Haruno.Normally, Haruno would never say such evil words! "How about it? Why don't you try it?" Haruno continued, "It won't be a problem. If you know that your voice has been recorded, you will be ashamed, so I will definitely ask you to erase the voice. At that time, you can just say erase the voice OK, but..." "Really?" Miyagawa smiled, "I can't do something like a violent organization." "Why? The other party will definitely not call the police, because you are responsible for recording that voice... Besides, even if she calls the police, I have a solution." Haruno's voice grew louder.The spider in his head whispered to him that he was just repeating mechanically...he did feel that way.It is not that there is no reflection on "why do you say such things" in the corner of your mind, but in a sense, maybe it is by speaking out to barely restrain the spider from jumping out! "Your voice is too loud." Miyagawa said reproachfully. "I see you...you seem to be drunk." "Not as drunk as you imagined. If you don't believe me, lend me that tape, and I will prove that what I just said is not a lie..." "Lend you the tape? What are you going to do?" "Because you seem to be very scared, I will go directly to your neighbor housewife, and at the same time subtly...Miyagawa, unfortunately, I have never let a woman make that voice, mainly because of the object. Therefore, I will Asking the neighbor's housewife to make that noise...is it a man's natural desire? Even if it's just once..." "You are hopeless! The gentleman next door looks very strong. I heard that he is working on the site of a construction company. If he finds out, I won't be able to finish eating." "What does that matter?" Haruno had completely lost his self-control, and even felt like he was riding a tiger. "He won't kill us! If he can play such perfect music, it's worth breaking an arm, don't you think so?" "Hmph, is there such a thing?" Miyagawa asked. "That's right. Journalists in the past have done all sorts of so-called bad things, haven't they? During the training period, among the commentators in charge of teaching, some people also talked about how they used to be women when they were young. The city councilors quarreled. Anyway, journalists used to be more free than they are now, but journalists today are too upright and dogmatic..." "Oh? Do you think so?" "Yes, I think so, and it should be the same. It is a very ambiguous behavior to record the voices of the couple next door with a tape, and you also enjoy listening to the recorded voices. In fact, you plan to get together with the neighbor's wife One leg, right? If that's the case, there's no need to eavesdrop or record, just go straight to the person and ask her to let you do what you want! Just listen to this tape, and I'm sure she'd absolutely love doing it. Since you also It should be easy to get together if you want..." "I see... I can understand your mood. Then, I have something to tell you... Stop drinking beer." Miyakawa cleaned up the beer bottles and wine glasses on the table and walked towards the kitchen. The next morning, Haruno woke up in Miyagawa's room.Although he slept all night, the red spider in his mind did not disappear. Although it is no longer as raging as last night, it still strongly controls Haruno. "Hey, how's it going?" Miyagawa asked sarcastically while making coffee and making toast, "Last night you kept going forward, it seems that your wine taste is not very good when you're drunk." "No, I'm not drunk! The proof is that I've been drawing up various battle plans since just now." "Battle plan? Are you really going to carry it out?" Miyagawa asked. "Of course! The perfect plan is just in the head, it has no meaning at all! I want to put it into practice." Haruno let out a deep breath of smoke. "Forget it!" Miyakawa spread cream on the toast and handed it to Haruno. "That's just a joke! It's only because you have a good time talking that I should say a few words." "No, maybe I was thinking of it as a joke, but I think it is worth a try, and this concept has not changed, so it is definitely not a delusion under drunkenness." "But...you can't get your desires, which leads to hyperactivity and foolishness. I think you go to the amusement park and try to clear your mind, then this impulsive thought will disappear..." "You think I'm foolhardy? Impulsive?" Haruno mixed sugar and milk into the coffee, stirred it with a spoon, and said, "Originally, you started this matter first, and I thought it could be done, but It’s not just about doing that with women, it’s also about work.” "But, if you are not careful, you will be accused of rape!" Miyagawa seemed to be desperately dissuading Haruno, but this matter was originally thought of by him... "So I have thought about it a lot. Anyway, as long as it goes smoothly, I don't think it will be accused of rape." Complaints, because the most important thing is at the beginning." Last night, Miyagawa said to Haruno: If you "play" like that, why not target the young housewife at Judge Takaido's house?According to Takaido, the voice of that woman is also quite impressive. Wouldn't it be more in line with your desire to experience it with such a woman? "But, is she pretty?" Haruno was still skeptical. "Of course she must be very beautiful, so people like Takaido who are as solid as wood and stone may be affected. Besides, doing that kind of thing with my wife next door is not helpful for work. If it is that woman, it is likely to be affected by it. Get big coverage topics." "Important report topic? What's going on here?" Although he was a little drunk, Haruno's mental response was not slow. "You know about the work dereliction of duty incident of the county government?" Miyagawa asked in a low voice. "Well, it's an incident that happened before I didn't come to it! Is it the incident that the construction section chief of the county government and the county council took red envelopes from the construction company?" "The presiding judge in charge of this case is Takaido. The trial has now concluded, and the only thing left is to wait for the verdict. The verdict will be delivered in at least two months... However, it is completely unpredictable based on the trial data. What kind of verdict will there be, because how the evidence is used will affect the determination of guilt. Therefore, if the morning newspaper on the day of the verdict can publish the correct verdict, it will definitely be an exclusive hot report..." "That's right, this may be showing your face." Haruno felt a slight shudder. "That's right! If you can settle with the housewife who lives in Takaido's house and continue to maintain a close relationship, you will have a chance." "But is it possible?" "It depends on what you do. Takaido should be writing the verdict at home, and you can try to peek... Or, go to see the woman when Takaido is away during the day, enter Takaido's study, and search the drawers... There should be some There is a way." "Well... yes, it is indeed killing two birds with one stone." "What's more! This has a higher success rate than focusing on my wife next door. Like this kind of apartment house, once there is a quarrel, other people will rush over, and then it will be disgraced. And the judge's dormitory is very big , even if the voice is louder, the neighbors can’t hear it. Besides, even if you go during the daytime when Takaido is not around, as long as you say you are a newspaper reporter, you will not be rejected...Anyway, as long as you can enter the house, everything is simple, and the rest It all depends on your strength." "Really..." Hearing this, Haruno was eager to try, "As long as I want to ask Judge Takaido about her daily life, she will definitely let me in. After all, she may be bored during the day... Yes, that's fine. ..." In this way, Haruno changed the target of attack. But although Miyagawa gave Haruno hints while drinking, Haruno still didn't give up on the plan the next morning, which confused him. Miyagawa kept trying to persuade Haruno during breakfast, but Haruno wouldn't listen!Of course, this is more or less due to the secret joy of seeing the confusion of this senior reporter, but it doesn't stop there, but I feel that the possibility of success is extremely high!The person who found the body was Magistrate Yoshiyuki Takaido, Judge of the Criminal Court of the N District Court!At 5 pm, he walked out of the courthouse, walked back to the dormitory, and rang the doorbell. In the dormitory lived his distant relatives, a bank employee and his wife. However, during the day, his wife was the only one at home. To be careful, the glass door of the entrance was used to be locked, so when Takaido came home, he had to ring the doorbell. However, after ringing the doorbell that day, no one answered at home, and no movement was found.Takaido tried to push the glass door, but the door swung open. This has never been the case before.Takaido entered the house in surprise. "The so-called whim does exist." Takaido told the criminal of the investigation section of the prefectural police station. "It's not because of the smell of blood, nor the smell of corpses, but I always feel that something is wrong. I didn't even take off my shoes, went into the house, and found the living room..." The victim was the second son of Takaido's cousin, the wife Toshiko of Osawa Kiyoji, a staff member in the financing department of the N branch of Y Bank. Death was caused by asphyxiation.She was strangled to death with the belt of her dress, and the dress was lifted up to the chest area, the buttons fell off, and the chest was exposed. In addition, the panties were taken down to the knees, but at first glance there were no signs of rape. The interior does not look like it has been rummaged.No footprints were left on the tatami either. The headquarters of the special case team was set up in the N police station, and many criminals believed that it was a sex maniac. First of all, there is no trace of searching the room, so it is not like theft and murder.Moreover, Judge Takaido and Osawa Seiji both stated that nothing was stolen. In addition, according to the confession of the victim's husband, she is not a person who will be hated. She is from Tokyo, and she came to N city after her husband was transferred, so there are no close friends in the city, and of course there is no possibility of being held hostage. However, there are still some criminal policemen who insist that they should not abandon the line of being killed with hatred. Of course, this kind of hatred is not that the murderer hates the victim, but uses it to vent his hatred for Judge Takaido!Judge Takaido was transferred to the N District Court three years ago, but he has served as a judge for more than 20 years.Among them, he served as a judge in many criminal cases and sentenced hundreds of defendants to prison. Of course, there will be people who are dissatisfied with his sentencing, and there are even people who hate the judge because he was convicted, and the resentment of these people It could be the motivation for this event!So they asked Judge Takaido if he had received threatening letters or phone calls recently, or if any defendant had cursed him when sentencing. "How is it possible! Kill her because you hate me? It's impossible! I have no blood relationship with the victim, she just lives in my dormitory..." Takaido laughed at this. "However, the murderer may not know about your family's situation, and because they lived together, they were mistaken for your daughter." The victim was 26 years old, indeed the age to be Takaido's daughter. "Even so, she shouldn't let that suspicious person into the house." Takaido retorted. "Because Daze and I often tell her that for safety reasons, the entrance door must never be opened casually..." This is confirmed by the confession of the victim's husband, Seiji Osawa. However, the criminal police believe that it is impossible to say that the victim will never open the door under any circumstances. Right now, the victim was killed at home.Besides investigating the glass door of the entrance, there was no sign of the key being pried open.That is to say, the murderer used some method to subtly dispel the vigilance of the victim and let her open the door... The results of the autopsy also cast doubt on the argument that the erotic maniac was acting violently. First of all, although there were traces of sexual intercourse on the victim's body, judging from the situation in the room, at least ten hours had passed, which meant that the murderer hadn't succeeded!Also, when the murderer took off the victim's underwear, he was extremely careful.If the victim wanted to take off his underwear while he was alive, the victim's skin should have been injured under the scramble, but no scars showing a fighting reaction were found. No, not only was there no battle reaction scars, but the victim's lower abdomen also had no battle reaction scars, that is, after the murderer strangled the victim, although he obviously wanted to take off his underwear, it was as if he was facing a fragile object. Carefully pull down the underwear... The detectives were puzzled. According to the initial inference, the murderer "attempted to rape the victim, but was strangled to death due to resistance, and then tried to rape the corpse, felt scared on the way, and fled in a hurry." However, it is impossible for the murderer who intends to rape the corpse to take off his underwear so carefully. After all, the situation happened under an abnormal psychology, and the action of taking off his underwear should be very rough. In this case, the murderer did not intend to rape the corpse but wanted to take off the victim's underwear. A week after the incident, when the investigators became anxious, they received whistleblower calls. This day's report published an article titled "Investigation is at a stalemate, will it run aground?" According to the report of a certain bar, after seeing it, the operator of a certain bar thought that there might be some kind of connection between them, so he provided information to the police. According to the bar operator, the night before the murder, two journalists were drinking and talking about Judge Takaido and the young housewife who rented his dormitory. "I haven't been near those two people all the time, so I don't know the details, but what they talked about seemed to be that the housewife would make very tempting noises... Since it was the night before the incident, the newspaper said it was very Maybe it was a sex maniac, so..." The bar owner also said that the two reporters seemed to be reporters from the N branch of the Central Daily News, and one of them was surnamed Miyakawa. It was immediately known who the other reporter was.When a banquet was held at the Judicial Reporters Club a few months ago, a commemorative photo was taken. The criminal police got the photo and showed it to the bar owner. They immediately pointed out one of them, whose name was Haruno Densuke. However, the task force headquarters did not immediately summon the two.On the one hand, it is because the other party is a journalist, so he must be cautious; on the other hand, just relying on the bar owner's words cannot be used as a reason for subpoenaing. Soon, strange information came from the branch of Bank Y where the victim's husband worked. The criminal police went to Bank Y to investigate, thinking that the murderer might also be someone inside the bank.As mentioned above, the victim usually does not open the door casually, but this time the murderer opened the door, so the murderer is likely to be someone known to the victim. In this way, there is a relationship with the bank. If the victim's husband's colleagues in Bank Y came to Takaido's dormitory under the pretext of some reason, the victim would probably open the door.Of course, the criminal police did not suspect the staff of the bank, because since such a possibility existed, they had to investigate. A detective checks with a switchboard operator, an action based on the belief that the victim had an intimate relationship with someone other than her husband.That is, to find out whether the victim often calls a particular person. Needless to say, women may not name names in such cases.Or use a fake name, but the switchboard operator's hearing is usually very keen, and it is very likely that she is Osawa's wife!But the three switchboard operators all denied this fact. Moreover, one of them also said: "Actually, on the day the incident happened, the newspaper office also called to inquire about Mr. Osawa. The next day, when I learned about the incident from the newspaper, I thought the reporter might have known that the incident had happened. , I wanted to ask Mr. Osawa something, but after thinking about it carefully, I felt that something was wrong, and I still can't feel relieved..." "Can't be relieved? Why?" the criminal policeman asked. "The other party called at around 2 p.m., but the newspaper said the body was found after 5 p.m. After all, the other party should not have known about the incident!" "It seems to be Haruno from the Central Daily News..." "What is the content of the call?" "At first, I asked if there was a staff member named Osawa Seiji in our bank. After I replied that there was, the other party asked whether it was a field staff or a back office staff. I said it was in the financing department, which should be a back office staff. But the other party hung up the phone immediately. " "So you're looking for Daze for something?" The criminal policeman asked while looking at what was written in the notepad. "I don't think so, because I asked the other party if they wanted to transfer Mr. Osawa, and the other party said it was unnecessary..." "Have you told Daze about this?" "Not yet. After the other party hung up the phone, I wanted to talk to Mr. Osawa, but Mr. Osawa was not there at the time, so..." "..." The detective silently nodded. After the incident, the criminal police interrogated Ozawa many times, saying that if you think of anything, no matter how big or small, please tell the police.But Osawa did not say anything about the news reporter, and the criminal police felt suspicious about it.However, if Osawa didn't know about the news reporter's phone call, of course he couldn't tell... Haruno was summoned by the task force headquarters.Because both the bar and the bank mentioned his name, the police suspected that he might know something special about the victim. After listening to Haruno's explanation, the detectives were all stunned—a journalist would come up with such an absurd idea and plan to put it into practice... However, another reporter, Miyagawa, also confirmed Haruno's words Confession, so it is impossible to be a fabricated word. "But I didn't kill anyone," Haruno said. "Frankly, that day is still in the preparatory stages." "Preparation stage?" Interpol asked. "That is to say, in the plan I just mentioned, it must first be determined whether the housewife is absolutely alone at home during the day." Perhaps because he was desperately trying to clear himself of suspicion, Haruno's tone was quite excited. "Not bad, so..." "So it was necessary to find out whether her husband's occupation might suddenly come home during working hours. Therefore, I first called Mr. Takaido's dormitory and asked the wife her husband's name and place of work. She had no doubts. Tell me that I am working at the N branch of Bank Y, and the name of the husband. After that, I called the N branch of Bank Y to confirm, because if he is a field employee, I will be in danger if I take action..." "So that's the case. But you must know that there is no danger, so you put it into practice immediately, right?" The criminal policeman stared at Haruno. If the attitude during the interrogation is bad, once the other party proves that he is not the murderer in the future, he may get into a lot of trouble, so the tone of the criminal police is quite gentle. "No, although I really hope to implement this plan immediately, but I stayed in the branch that day. Because an internal staff member had a cold and asked for leave, I was assigned to answer the phone." "answer the phone?" "Yes, reporters who go out for news or the county's communications department often call back to the branch, and there must be someone to answer the call, so the branch manager told me to go back to the branch to answer the phone if there is nothing important. You just need to ask the manager. .” Haruno's alibi was quickly confirmed. Miyagawa also had an alibi.He wrote articles and played mahjong in the county government's press club. In this way, the important information that was finally obtained was wasted. Soon, the criminal police who visited the switchboard operator of Bank Y suddenly noticed a strange thing while looking at the notepad. After getting permission from his superior, he went to Bank Y to see Daze and asked him where he was at around 2:00 p.m. on the day of the murder. "Around 2 o'clock?" Osawa asked back. But the criminal police didn't ignore the momentary embarrassment on the opponent's expression! "That's right, around 2 o'clock." The policeman said nervously. "I should be in the bank..." "But you weren't there when the switchboard operator answered the phone." "Then it's probably in the bathroom..." "Sorry, please go to the task force." "Yes..." Daze's voice trembled. It seemed that he had given up his mind at this time!When he arrived at the task force, he immediately confessed to strangling his wife. According to his own confession - the night before, he and two friends went to a certain bar to drink.It was a bar that friends frequented, and it was his first time there. Apart from the three of them, there were only two young men sitting farther away. Soon, he heard the voice of a young man talking, and he paid special attention to it because the name of Judge Takaido was mentioned. The other seemed to be talking about his wife, who would sob loudly during boudoir fun. "However, I don't have that kind of experience myself. I am trying my best to develop my wife's body, but I still only make vague moans." "But... is that true?" “我是她丈夫，当然是事实了。那天晚上我们也同床，可是情况仍旧相同。到了第二天，我发现一件事，亦即，我曾随分行经理前往东京出差，当时妻子独自在家，高井户先生听到的也许就是妻子所发出的声音，也就是说她带别的男人回家，对方是调情高手……想到这儿，我认为必须设法解开疑问，就不管是否上班时间，偷偷溜回家求证。但妻子却笑着说我会如此怀疑是对自己没自信，所以，我一时激怒之下……” 高井户对刑事的疑问回答说：“那是我故意讽刺那位年轻新闻记者。由于他认定法官孤陋寡闻，不懂闺房情趣，才故意提及这种话题……”