"I didn't push him or trip him. S fell by himself. He was sitting on that railing, and he disappeared without a trace if I didn't pay attention." "Then, Mr. S was found to be missing, so you went down to look for him?" "Yes, as I said before, you can't see anything from above because of the branches. Although it was eleven years ago, I still remember it." The detective murmured "I see" in a low voice and stared at me, leaning back my upper body.He was wearing a yellowed white shirt, folded his hands in front of his chest, exhaled a big breath like a nose made of three rice bags.

"Then, when it was found, the person died?" It seems that "that," is the mantra of the Fukuroya detective. "That's right." "Then you will bury him?" "yes." "However, you called Mr. S to that kind of place on purpose, isn't it just to push him down?" "No, I just wanted to find a quiet place to talk. I didn't force him, I just asked him if he wanted to come out. S also agreed casually. At that time, we were all worried about the future, so this situation was not unusual. " I am sure that the years have removed all evidence of the murder.The stone that broke S's head was thrown far away from the cave where he was buried, and it is impossible to find it today.Once the blood is washed away, it is just one of many ordinary stones on the ground.The only one who knew about my crime was the bellworm at that time.The bellworm that sang lonely under the fallen tree trunk.

Close your eyes, and the scene in the mountains at sunset eleven years ago will flow through your eyes with the color of old photos. That area is very close to the university we attended, and was designated as a natural park by the county government.I looked down at S directly under the wooden signboard of "Lookout Square".At the bottom of the dark valley, he squirmed slightly like a trampled insect. "The phone...is there a signal..." S who couldn't get up made a sound intermittently. "Call... please, I won't tell... I will never reveal who did it. I will insist that it was an accidental fall. The ambulance may be able to go up the road... If the ambulance enters No, paramedics..."

S' words were interrupted by the sound of his skull breaking.Once, twice.The stone weighing about ten kilograms broke S's head twice. I buried S's body in the hole.You don't need to use a shovel, you can easily dig deep piles of leaf mulch with just your hands. I didn't notice the sound of the bellworm until S's body was completely buried in the soil. The bellworm does not know where to sing.I held up my hands covered in mud, looking for the figure of the bellworm.I don't know why, but instead of confirming whether anyone witnessed the crime just now, I looked left and right to search for the bellworm.Where?Where is the sound coming from?I crouched down and peeped under the fallen logs, and finally found a chirping bellworm rubbing its black, transparent wings like mussels.It swayed and stretched its long tentacles into the air, its small eyes like ornaments stared straight at me, and kept whining.Amidst the breathless smell of earth, I put the bellworm in the center of my field of vision for a long, long time.

"Hey, let me ask again." I opened my eyes. Detective Fukuroya leaned forward with his elbows on the table. "Why did you bury the body? Even if he might die from serious injuries and you didn't call an ambulance or call the police, at least you should have called someone. But why did you just dig a hole and bury Mr. S?" "I said it was for my secret love." I looked straight at the other person and answered. "I've been in love with apricots for a long time." His wife, Kyoko, was dating S at the time. "I like her so much that I can't help myself, so I want to pretend that S is missing. If she learns that S has died, she will definitely be very sad and sad, and she will never forget S in her life. I think so with all my heart. So, I buried S , to prevent anyone from discovering his body. I plan to create the fact that S abandoned Kyoko and left without saying goodbye."

"But have you ever thought that the disappearance of S will make Ms. Kyoko miss him even more?" "No. Because I know that the relationship between the two of them has cracked. Whether death or disappearance, which one can erase the S in Kyoko's heart faster, I am very sure. Of course, I am also very sure now." "Oh……" Detective Fukuroya scratched his slack cheek.The afternoon sun streamed in through the latticed windows behind him, accentuating the bumps on his skin. "So, you buried Mr. S's body?" "yes." "Then, as far as the result is concerned, you have got what you wanted?"

"Yeah, that's how I feel to this day. I made it to Complete Crime." Totally criminal.Detective Fukuroya repeated these four words, stared at me, and then moved his gaze to mid-air. "Could it be, what... do you like reading mystery novels?" I shook my head slowly. "It's not that exaggerated. Mr. detective, think about it. I just hid S's body. If no one finds out, it's a complete crime. No, even if I push S down, as long as the body is not exposed, it is a complete crime. Me, I usually think that the world is full of perfect crimes. If you do something that no one else notices, it is considered a complete crime. You, too, do not know how many complete crimes. People, as long as they live, they are all criminals. A criminal who committed a crime."

The small room was once enveloped in silence. The criminal policeman let out a slight "heh" with his half-opened mouth, and smiled. There was a black thing on the shoulder of the criminal policeman, which turned out to be a bellworm.A small, tiny bellworm climbed onto the policeman's crumpled white shirt and looked at me with two tentacles shaking.