Back at the Crime Museum, Satoshi Terada knocked on the door leading to the curator's room from his assistant room. As usual, there was no response from inside, so he pushed the door and went inside.
There was no figure of a crimson man inside, and nine times out of ten he went to the bathroom.
There are some search documents on the table, what kind of case information is it? Satoshi Terada suddenly became interested and glanced close to the table, which recorded the beginning and end of the "Musashi Murayama City Miki Hit-and-Run Fatal Case." The case occurred at 6 p.m. on February 12, 1998, when a seventy-eight-year-old man named Kensaku Shimada died as a result of a hit-and-run.
Why would Crimson Read the Search Materials of this Case? Satoshi Terada was puzzled. In the Criminal Information Library, in order to facilitate the management of physical evidence, a two-dimensional code label is attached to the bag containing the evidence, and then the basic information such as the evidence is entered into the computer information system in the form of pictures by scanning the code.
In order to correspond to the information on the QR code label, it is also necessary to sort out the summary of the case, so the crimson person will read the search information of the relevant case. Currently, they are working on the AD code label pasting for the 1993 case. The search documents that Crimson Tsukiko is reading are either the 1993 case, the murder of president of the Nakajima Bread Company intimidation, or a batch of statute-of-limitation evidence and search documents that have just been transferred to the Criminal Archive.
However, the "Musashi-Murayama Miki Hit-and-Run Fatality Case" occurred in 1998, and the labeling work has long been completed. According to the regulations at that time, the statute of limitations for the crime of death and injury caused by negligence caused by hit-and-run was five years, and even if it became a pending case at that time, it should have been transferred to the Criminal Library for safekeeping in 2003. It's unbelievable. Ah, what's going on today? How could I be so concerned about such a thing?
Just then, the door on the side of the corridor opened and Crimson returned to the office. Because he was casually flipping through the documents, Satoshi Terada instinctively startled.
"--I went to see Torii Police Andu and Yusuke Takagi to report to you."
"It's hard, sit down and talk."
Crimson pointed to the worn-out sofa in the corner of the curator's room. As soon as Satoshi Terada took his seat, the sofa made a strange sound of discouragement, which was incomparable with the sofa in the president's room of Nakajima Bakery.
Satoshi Terada told Terada the contents of his conversation with Torii Police Andu and Yusuke Takagi. Crimson just listened quietly, her pale cheeks remained expressionless, and Terada didn't know if her report was satisfactory to her. After hearing this, Crimson Wassho fell into contemplation. Terada didn't know whether it was better to stay or go out, so he glanced at the search materials on the table.
"Are you thinking about this search?"
"Well, yes. How did you read this search material? ”
"I'm afraid that's why President Nakajima Bakery was killed in the intimidation case."
"Huh?"
Satoshi Terada suspected that she had heard wrongly, how could she have come to such a conclusion? The hit-and-run fatality occurred on February 12, but by then the first threatening letter had already been sent to Nakajima Bread Company, so how could this be the trigger for the case?
"It seems that the curator knows the truth about the Nakajima Bakery case?"
"I think so."
"Can you tell me about it?"
What other ideas could this "senior civil servant" who knew nothing about the situation on the ground come up with? Satoshi Terada was a little interested.
"One of the things that Caught my attention most in this case was the 100 million yen in cash that was left in an abandoned villa. Could it be that the prisoner left a message asking the president to go to the bomb shelter alone, and at the same time reminded him to leave the money there? Or is it that the prisoner has been waiting for the president in the abandoned villa for a long time, and when he sees him, he will be abducted and walked through the bomb shelter together, and deliberately leave the money there? But in any case, the prisoners did not have to do this. That's incredible to me. ”
"That's why I said, extorting 100 million yen is just a disguise for corporate intimidation, what's so strange?"
"Even so, why not do it thoroughly?"
"Huh?"
"If you really want to use this hundred million yen as a cover, you should take it away." Leaving it there would be a cover-up. If the prisoner took the cash away, I am afraid that no one would notice that it was a cover, which would expose it. Taking a step back, even if this is really a pretense, do you think the prisoners will watch the 100 million yen in hand? But if the prisoner is not a fool, he will take the money with him. ”
"It seems like that's the case..."
"That's why I guessed that the reason the prisoner didn't get the 100 million yen away was because the conditions at the time made it impossible for him to take it away."
"Can't take it away? What do you mean? Is the money too heavy for the prisoner to carry? ”
"Of course not. Even if the prisoner does not have the strength to bind the chicken, he can only let the president carry it. ”
"It is."
"So why did the prisoner leave this hundred million yen?" After thinking about it, there is only one possibility. That is, no one left the abandoned villa through the bomb shelter at that time. That's why the money stays there. ”
"Wait, wait, what does it mean to 'no one leaves the abandoned villa through the bomb shelter'?" Didn't the president leave through the bomb shelter? ”
"As I said earlier, if that were the case, one hundred million yen would not have been left in the villa. Therefore, the president never left the villa at all. ”
"If he hadn't left the villa, where had he gone?" Is it difficult to hide in the house and hide? Don't forget, the three searchers in charge of monitoring the scene searched the villa to the sky. If the president had been hiding inside, he would have been discovered long ago. ”
"That's right, it will be discovered, but there is one exception."
"Exceptions?"
"That is, the president himself transformed into a searcher in charge of monitoring the scene."
Satoshi Terada felt that Crimson Must have gone crazy.
"—The president became a searcher who monitored the scene? You dare to think about it! Did you eat rice when you were the other two searchers? Besides, where did the searcher who had been dropped go? ”
"Then I'll be clearer – one of the searchers who monitored the scene was a man who was disguised as the president and entered the villa, and then disguised himself and appeared as a searcher."
"One person plays two roles?"
"Don't forget, the time the president entered the abandoned villa was 8:30 p.m., and the surrounding area was already dark. Moreover, the president is also wearing glasses and a three-dimensional mask to prevent pollen allergies, so it should be entirely possible to disguise himself as him. ”
"You mean the president who got out of the Celsior car and then into the abandoned villa was a fake?"
"That's right. Moreover, the only person who could disguise himself as president in that case was the Torii Police Department, who was in the same car as him. ”
"Torii Police Department Supplement?"
The Celsior car left the president's house at 7 p.m. and has been followed by the tracking team's vehicle ever since. Therefore, after leaving the president's house, it is impossible to stop and change people under the eyes of the tracking team. In other words, from the moment The cell car pulled out of the president's house, the president was no longer in the car, and the person sitting in the driver's seat was the person disguised as the president. ”
"When you leave the president's house, is the president already out of his bag?" When to change people? ”
According to what the Torii Police Supplement said, at 7 o'clock, the president walked into the garage with a suitcase containing 100 million yen and the police department supplement. At this time, only the two of them were present in the garage. It was also at this time that the Torii Police Department quickly put on a wig, glasses, and mask and disguised himself as president. Do you think about the president's dress at the time, was he wearing a green camouflage jacket with a black inside, which looked like he could wear it on both sides? I'm afraid that the police department also put on an identical jacket at that time, but only wore the black side on the outside. In this way, as long as the police department turns the jacket upside down, it can disguise itself as the president. Torii Police Department Supplement, then the head of the Search Department of Special Offenders of the First Class, was always given the responsibility of transporting cash and relaying information on the spot when he was in charge of kidnapping cases and corporate intimidation cases. So, at the time of this case, he should have expected that he would be arranged to hide in the president's Celsior car.
Next, the Celsior car pulled out of the president's house, followed by the tracking team's vehicle. At night, the lights in the car are foggy, and the driver is wearing a mask, so other searchers could not have dreamed that the 'president' driving the car at this moment would be the Torii Police Department. Besides, who would have guessed that they would be playing the 'cross-dressing' trick in the garage? In addition, the prisoner instructed the president to leave the house at 7 p.m. in order to make it easier to hide his eyes and ears during the disguise.
On the other hand, the president quietly left the house after watching the vehicle leave in the garage. After the Celsior drove away, the police's attention was all diverted to the tracking vehicle, so no one noticed the president leaving. ”
"Thinking about it carefully, President Nakajima, who was the victim, seemed to have consulted with one of the searchers in advance before he directed himself to perform the previous scene."
"It's true." The Snow Maiden nodded expressionlessly.
"Anyway, it's not realistic either."
"If you want to explain why the 100 million yen was abandoned in the villa, you can only assume this."
Satoshi Terada fell silent. Although Crimson's reasoning is too bold, it is also reasonable. Maybe this is nothing more than the delusion of a senior civil servant who doesn't understand the reality of the situation, but there is also the value of trying to explore it again.
Disguised as president, Torii Police Department made a car while communicating wirelessly with the search headquarters as a search officer. From time to time, he said lines like 'you're all right' and 'Calm down', which sounded like the liaison officer hiding under the back seat as planned, but was actually a fake president in the driver's seat disguised. ”
"But is this really possible?" If you use a walkie-talkie to contact the search headquarters while driving, you have to hold the steering wheel in one hand and the walkie-talkie in the other. Wouldn't it be strange to see the president make such a move, the searchers in the tracking team who followed him? ”
"You should still have the impression that the 'president' is wearing a three-dimensional mask." The Torii Police Department took off the handheld microphone of the wireless walkie-talkie and hid it inside the bulge of the three-dimensional mask, while the host computer was hidden under the jacket. This allows you to communicate with the search headquarters while holding the steering wheel in both hands. After all, the size of the microphone can be tucked into the mask, coupled with the darkness in the car, from the outside is not visible between the microphone and the walkie-talkie host. When I saw the evidence, I had already noticed the cleverness of this mask. ”
Satoshi Terada recalled that when she moved the evidence of the case to the assistant room, Tsubasa kept staring at the evidence intently. At that time, what attracted her should be this three-dimensional mask.
"Don't say, then you can really talk on the walkie-talkie while holding the steering wheel in both hands."
"After the prisoner called, the 'president' took his mobile phone and communicated with him. At this time, the Torii Police Department temporarily turned off the switch of the wireless walkie-talkie. If the switch is not turned off, his conversation with the prisoner will be transmitted to the search headquarters through the microphone hidden in the three-dimensional mask, which also exposes the fact that the "president" is the police department's disguise. In addition, the voice received by the 'president' during the phone call will also be transmitted back to the search headquarters through the microphone under the three-dimensional mask, don't forget, this is the walkie-talkie supplemented by the Torii Police Department, but at this moment it has received the voice of the prisoner, which will also expose the fact that the Torii Police Department is disguised as the president. So I speculate that the switch on the wireless walkie-talkie should have been turned off temporarily. Of course, there is another possibility, that is, the police department does not turn off the switch of the wireless walkie-talkie, but after the police department and the prisoner answer the phone, they just let the mobile phone remain on the call and did not speak. However, in the second case, the same problem would be exposed once the ambient noise of the prisoner was transmitted to the search headquarters through the intercom. Therefore, it is safer to turn off the switch.
"At that time, even if the search headquarters noticed that the intercom was on the switch, the Torii Police Department could explain that 'if a prisoner hears the sound of the radio walkie-talkie through the president's mobile phone when he is talking to the president, he will find that the police have intervened, so I will turn off the switch when the president is talking.'"
"After the call between the 'president' and the prisoner, he turned the switch of the wireless walkie-talkie back on and continued on the road. Then, as a supplement to the Torii Police Department, he used a wireless walkie-talkie to contact the search headquarters while driving and reporting the contents of the prisoner's call. For this, the searchers of the trailing team who followed it could not detect it at all.
In this way, the Torii Police Department created the illusion that the president was still in the car through the blindfold method of one person decorating two corners (the appearance is the president, and the voice is himself). During this time, the real president went elsewhere. ”
So, is the Torii Police Department's previous statement about the president's situation in the car all lies? Satoshi Terada remembered the testimony he had heard in the reception room of the Shinagawa Police Station, and he couldn't believe that it was actually performed.
"Then, the prisoner who called the 'president' who drove the car was naturally the president himself who watched the vehicle leave and made other arrangements. I also considered whether there was a third prisoner in charge of calling the phone in addition to the tori and president of the Torii Police Department. But then I thought about it again, and it was so stupid to add an accomplice for such a trivial matter as a phone call, after all, the fewer people in the know, the better. In this way, I think it is more reliable for the president to play the role of the phone caller.
Until 7:10 p.m. on February 21, the prisoner did not get in touch with the president. At first, we thought it was the prisoner who was worried that the sound of his phone call would be recorded by the recording device, but this may not be the case. Before the car left the president's house, the only person who could call the president as a prisoner was the Torii Police Department. But he was stationed at the president's house, and it was impossible to call the president under the eyes of other searchers. Once the car leaves the president's house, the police department can sit back and relax as the president, and the real president has the opportunity to call the 'president'.
"If there is a third prisoner, there is no need to go to such trouble." He could have made this call at the time when the Torii Police Department was at the president's house. From this point of view, it can also be inferred that the only prisoners are the president and the police department. ”
"But the president and the Torii police department added, why on earth would they do this?"
"To create an alibi of the president." Isn't it the best alibi to be able to drive around with cash under police surveillance to deal with intimidation threats during periods involving alibi? ”
That is, in order to create an alibi, he designed and intimidated the Nakajima Bakery Company in advance. But isn't it too much to insert steel needles into the goods produced by our own companies? For this reason, Nakajima Bakery had to recycle its merchandise on the market and terminate its sales, suffering huge losses. There's a bit of an imbalance between ends and means, right? ”
"Indeed, I also feel that there is some asymmetry between ends and means. We can put this aside and discuss it later. The first thing we have to do now is figure out what the president wants to do with this alibi. So far, this alibi has been very complicated and huge, so what the president has to do should be a big deal. There is really no more plausible explanation than killing. ”
"--Killing?"
"The president should have planned to sneak home quietly after the killing, then wait for the Torii Police Department to make up for it, then change clothes in the garage, and finally the two appeared in front of the search team in their original identities to create an alibi." The prisoner asked the 'president' of the police department to leave a suitcase containing 100 million yen in cash in the villa, and then the intimidation incident eventually ended with the prisoner not showing up. Ruyi Abacus played well. ”
"But in reality, the president was killed."
"There is only one reason that can be thought of, that is, the president was counter-killed in the process of killing."
"Counter-kill?"
"That's right. Before his death, the president also used his mobile phone to call the Torii Police Department and told him that he had encountered an accident. According to the search records, the last time the prisoner called the president's mobile phone was at 8:20, which should have been the president's call before his death.
"According to the Torii Police Department, the prisoner asked the president in a call at 8:20, 'The 100 million yen in cash, are you sure you brought it?' If you think about it, isn't it strange for the prisoner to ask this question at this time? It had been an hour and 20 minutes since the president had left home, so if the prisoner really wanted to make sure that the president had 100 million yen in cash ready, why didn't he call at 7:10 a.m. when the president had just left? Have been out for 1 hour and 20 minutes before calling specifically to confirm whether there is money, is this necessary? It's inexplicable. It can be inferred from this that the call at 8:20 was completely unplanned, and it was a helpless move by the president who was killed to inform him of the accident. After receiving the call, the Torii Police Department had to report the situation to the search headquarters, and in a hurry, it was only then that such a flawed conversation was made up. ”
Regarding the content of the phone call at 8:20, Satoshi Terada also felt a little strange. Maybe Crimson's reasoning is correct. Satoshi Terada thought to himself.
The Torii Police Department, who learned that the president had been killed by a counter-killing, continued to drive towards the villa while thinking about how to deal with it. By now, he could no longer disguise himself as president, because sooner or later the president's body would be discovered. If you still disguise yourself as president after the president's presumption of death, you are exposing yourself as a fake 'president'. What's worse is that the only person who has the opportunity to disguise himself as the president is in the same car as the 'president'. So, what now is the best?
Desperate, Torii Police Department's mind flashed an extremely bold plan. As soon as the car arrived at the abandoned villa, he put it into practice.
The police department pretended to be the president and entered the villa with a suitcase containing 100 million yen in cash, and then put it in the middle of the hall. Needless to say, he was wearing gloves at that time. Otherwise, when the search team later retrieved the traces left on the suitcase, if they found the fingerprints supplemented by the police department, they would be finished.
Subsequently, the police department made up for the president's disguise and stuffed various props such as masks and glasses into their pockets. Then he flipped over his jacket on both sides and put it on his body, with the black side facing outward.
During this time, the police department has been in proper contact with the search headquarters through the wireless walkie-talkie, acting as if it is really lurking under the back seat of the Celsior car.
Seeing that the president had not come out of the villa for a long time, the search headquarters felt that something was wrong, so he instructed the two searchers of the on-site surveillance team who were ambushed in the field near the villa to go in and search. The police department that received the instruction through the wireless device was already prepared to hide when the door was opened.
The two searchers who entered the villa found the president's suitcase for cash delivering right in the middle of the hall and hurried there. At this moment, the police department who was hiding behind the door quietly moved to the door, pretending that they had just rushed over to check on the situation. The reason why he put his suitcase in the middle of the hall was to attract the attention of the two searchers of the surveillance team and to give himself time to transfer to the main gate.
So the three searchers turned the villa upside down in search of the president, but the results were obvious—certainly not to be found. Soon after, he led the search team to discover the bomb shelter, trying to create the illusion that the president had left through the air raid shelter. This is how the police department responded to the unexpected situation of the president being killed. ”
"If the instructions given at the beginning were for the police department to approach the villa first, rather than two searchers from the surveillance team taking the lead in investigating the situation, what would he have done?"
"It's not impossible. But don't forget, there is a field of about twenty meters between the road and the villa. The car was parked on the highway, and the police department made up for it. Compared with the two searchers of the on-site surveillance team who were ambushed near the villa, the police department was sent to make up for the distance, so it was more likely that the surveillance team would be assigned to enter the investigation first. The police department makes up for this possibility of gambling. ”
"What a dangerous bet."
"Yeah. However, there is no other way for the police department to make up for it. ”
"But who is the person the president wants to kill, the person who eventually killed the president?"
"Think of the prepaid cell phone that the prisoner called the president three times. At 7:10 a.m., it was located near JR Omori Station, at 8:10 a.m. near JR Musashi-kuni Station, and at 8:20 a.m. near Seonami-cho in Musashino City. In other words, the prisoners originally planned to take JR from Omori Station to Musashi-seki Station to change trains, and then proceed to Seonami-cho on the south side of the station.
As mentioned earlier, it was President Nakajima himself who made these three calls. So, that's the president's route. Because Omori Station is the closest station to the president's house, after 7 o'clock, the president sneaked out of his garage and made the first call near Omori Station at 7:10, which was also right in time.
"The reason why the president is going this way is to find his own target. Using the tram as a means of transportation not only avoids the trouble of finding a place to park, but also reduces the risk of witnessing.
At 8:20 a.m., the president called from near Therasumachi in Musashino City and relayed to the Torii Police Department that he had been killed. In other words, the crime scene is near Seonan-cho, which means that the person who killed the president lived near Seonan-cho. Moreover, among the people involved in the case, there happens to be such a person. ”
"Are you talking about Shunichi Yasuda?" Yasuda who drowned in his bathroom after the incident? Did he kill the president? ”
"That's right. As soon as the president entered Yasuda's home, he took out a knife and attacked Shunichi Yasuda, but he was killed in the opposite direction. The president lost his breath after using his prepaid mobile phone to inform the Torii Police Department to make up for his counter-killing. As I said before, this was the last call the prisoner made at 8:20. Not long after, at 8:25, the special manager Yusuke Takagi came to the appointment to play chess. ”
"If the president comes to Yasuda's house later, he may be able to meet his cousin."
"Yes, if the president knew that his cousin would come here every Saturday night to play chess with Yasuda, he probably wouldn't have chosen to do it on this day." Because the relationship between the president and Takagi is not good, Yasuda is also worried that if the boss knows that he will get angry when he plays chess with Takagi every week, he will not speak out.
After the incident, Yasuda pretended to be indifferent and received Takagi and accompanied him down until 11 o'clock. But the president's body lay in his home, so Yasuda must have been very flustered, and Takagi thought he was in good shape that day and won consecutive victories. In fact, I am afraid that Yasuda, who has just killed someone, is confused and has no intention of fighting. However, thanks to Takagi's visit, Yasuda had an alibi. ”
I see! From 8:25 to 11:00, Yusuke Takagi had been playing chess with Yasuda, so that not only Takagi's alibi was established, but even Yasuda had an alibi.
When Terada asked to search again, she specially assigned Satoshi Terada to find Takagi, not because she suspected Takagi, but because she suspected Yasuda, who was playing chess with Takagi! The reason why he asked about the victory or defeat of the two men was also because if Yasuda really killed someone—even if it was only because of excessive defense—then his heart would definitely be shaken, and this would inevitably affect the outcome of the chess game.
When Yusuke Takagi left, Yasuda carried the president's body to the car and threw it into the Ebeibashi green area on the banks of the Arakawa River. Perhaps it was the Torii Police Department that called Yasuda and threatened to know that he had killed the president, and Yasuda had no choice but to make this decision. As far as the police department is concerned, not knowing the whereabouts of the president's body must also be worried. What's more, if the prepaid mobile phone is still on the president, the discovery of the body also means that he is exposed.
"By the way, as for the mystery of why the prisoner took the president's mobile phone away, in fact, the president gave his mobile phone to the Torii police department disguised as himself to supplement it, so when he suffered a counter-killing, the mobile phone was not around at all, and the prisoner could not take it away.
About a month later, Yasuda got drunk and drowned while bathing at home, and it is said that Yasuda had been in a state of neurasthenia and had drunk too much alcohol before the incident. But that's not because he's running around as sales minister to calm the incident, but because of the guilt of killing the president. ”
"But there's one thing I don't quite understand. Why did the president kill Shunichi Yasuda? Why does the Torii Police Department support the president's criminal plan? There shouldn't be much overlap between the president, Yasuda, and torii Police Department, right? ”
"Before the threatening letter arrived, there was really no intersection between the president, Yasuda, and torii Police Department. However, after the threatening letter was delivered, there was contact between the president of the victim's company, the sales director and the searcher. The reason why the president and the Torii police department wanted to kill Yasuda was probably only after receiving the threatening letter. ”
It is not impossible to speculate like this... But even if we know when the killing thoughts occurred, what about the reasons for killing? ”
"On this subject, it is also inferred to some extent. Yasuda's counter-killing may be a legitimate defense, but he did not tell the police the truth of the matter, because even if it was considered excessive defense, his guilt could not be escaped. That's because if the police find out that the president wants to kill Yasuda, they have to give a reason. And the reason why the president wanted to kill himself was that Yasuda didn't want to make it public under any circumstances. ”
"The reason why the president wants to kill Yasuda is related to the black material behind Yasuda, right?"
"That's right. Yasuda's own black material should have been produced after receiving a threatening letter, and it was also inseparable from the president and the Torii Police Department. It is not difficult to speculate that Yasuda, the president, and the police department must have jointly committed the crime of unseemly. At first, the three of them agreed to remain silent, but then Yasuda couldn't resist trying to make the truth public, so the president and the police department decided to kill people. This reminds me of Yasuda, the sales director, who had to drive with the president and the searchers of the Special Crimes Search Division to various supermarkets where steel needle bread was found to conduct routine investigations. On the way back and forth to the scene investigation, it is natural that the president and Yasuda should be in the police car driven by the searcher. And what if the searcher was a supplement to the Torii Police Department? Is it possible that the police car hit-and-run? ”
"Hit-and-run?"
Satoshi Terada turned his gaze to the case file of the "Musashi Murayama Miki Hit-and-Run Fatal case" on the desk of the crimson tsukiko.
"This assumption may be a bit bold, but I decided to investigate whether there were matching hit-and-run cases." The hit-and-run case should meet two conditions at the same time: first, after February 1, when Nakajima Bread's products were inserted into the steel needles, until February 21, when President Nakajima was killed; second, if it was an incident during a routine investigation at the supermarket where the steel needle bread was found, it should have occurred on the way to the supermarket or from the president's house to The Nakajima Bakery Company. So I tried to find hit-and-run cases that could meet both of these conditions through CCRS, and the kung fu paid off, and the truth of the matter finally surfaced. ”
Crimson pointed to the search information on the table.
"Miki has a supermarket called Tanigawa, where bread with steel needles inserted was found. According to a search for the murder of President Nakajima Bakery's corporate intimidation, president Nakajima and Yasuda went to the supermarket at 5 p.m. on February 12 to conduct an on-site investigation. After that, the Torii Police Department sent the two back to the Nakajima Bakery Company headquarters in front of Shinagawa Station. If you consider that there is a hit-and-run fatal case at this time, all aspects can just get stuck. The Torii Police Department requested the president and Yasuda to remain silent about the accident. Although it was not an accident caused by his own car, considering that it was a critical period of intimidation incidents, if such an accident broke out, I was afraid that the social image of Nakajima Bakery Company would be greatly reduced, so the president and Yasuda agreed to the request of the police department. In this way, the two of them became accomplices in the hit-and-run. However, it wasn't long before Yasuda found out that he wanted to turn himself in, so he told the president and the Torii police department that he could no longer remain silent. But then, it's all over. Therefore, the police department consulted with the president and decided to use the corporate intimidation incident to create an alibi, so as to eliminate Yasuda and avoid future troubles. ”
"But how did Torii Police Andu and President Nakajima know about the existence of the abandoned villa at the trading site?"
"Frankly, I don't know. Perhaps, Nakajima Bakery once planned to build a factory in the area including abandoned villas. Don't forget, the reason why Mimura Real Estate will build an outlet discount mall in that area is also because of the geographical advantage of the vast area and the main road a little further ahead. Bakeries, like outlets, value factory layout. President Nakajima also came to inspect the factory when he was planning to build the factory, and perhaps it was at that time that he learned of the existence of the abandoned villa. Unfortunately, the plan to build the factory was shelved for some reason, but the president remembered the villa and used it to carry out the criminal plan. Anyway, the two devised a plan to use the villa as an alibi at the transaction site. This is the first step. The second step is to send a second threatening letter. ”
"The second threatening letter? Wasn't it sent by the person who sent the first letter? ”
"That's right. Didn't you also raise the question that inserting a steel needle into the bread produced by your own company just to create an alibi is an imbalance between means and purposes? Indeed, it's really a bit out of balance. If this is the case, then the prisoner who inserted a steel needle into the bread and sent the first threatening letter was probably not the president. This may be more appropriate. The president of the Torii Police Department simply took advantage of the corporate intimidation incident and sent a second threatening letter.
As a member of the search headquarters, the Torii Police Department naturally knew the type of paper, envelope and printer used in the first threatening letter, and even knew the font and typography. For him, it was natural to imitate a second flawless threatening letter.
Although the first threatening letter stated that it cost 100 million yen, it did not mention the specific delivery method, and it was not until the second threatening letter that specific instructions were given. If two threatening letters were from the same prisoner, there was no need to send them in two, just write them clearly on the first letter? From this point of view, the prisoner who sent the first and second letters was not the same person - the person who sent the second letter simply wanted to take advantage of the incident. However, the genre of the second letter and the first letter are exactly the same, which shows that the sender must have come from within the search headquarters. ”
"It is so..."
"The prisoner who wrote the first threatening letter only said that he wanted money, but did not mention the specific way to pay it, probably because he did not want money at all, but simply wanted to scare and frighten nakajima bread company. But he never expected that a second threatening letter would appear. Three days later, the tragic murder of the president broke out, and the mass media believed that the intimidator was the murderer, so he was frightened and did not dare to speak up. Unfortunately, now that I want to track down the prisoners who inserted steel needles into the goods, there should be no hope..."
Kirito looked at Satoshi Terada and asked, "That's my reasoning." What do you think? ”
"Taught."
Her reasoning is enough to explain all the elements and contradictions of the case seamlessly. Previously, Satoshi Terada had doubts about the ability of the Crimson Tsurugi, but now he was completely impressed. If she is now in a search lesson, she must be the best search officer, and it is not an exaggeration to call her a "genius". It's just that her communication skills are really lacking, and she is not suitable for inquiry and other jobs...
"What are you going to do next, Curator?"
"Notify the Supervision Office and dismiss the Torii Police Department to make up for it."
"It is. It is better not to let the people who continue to search the torii police department know about this matter. After all, they were colleagues, and it was difficult to accept the reality that Torii was the culprit. But will the people in the monitoring room be able to listen to your reasoning? ”
"I have acquaintances in the inspection room."
Does the Snow Girl actually have acquaintances? Satoshi Terada was taken aback.
Torii Police Department Once Said that the reason why he voluntarily joined the Continuing Search Division and was transferred from search class to Shinagawa Police Station was because he regretted the murder of the president. In reality, however, he did this only for the sake of not wanting to expose the truth and wanting to spy on it. Satoshi Terada said.
"That's right." Crimson nodded.
"Over the years, however, it has been painful to mediate among colleagues who share the same hatred for the prisoners and vow to let the truth come to light, and to live with secret worries and anxiety. Perhaps more than anyone else wants to end this dark state, it is the Torii Police Department that makes up for itself. ”
At this moment, Terada recalled that when he learned that he was the inspector general who left the search documents at the scene of the crime, he had said comforting words such as "everyone has a time of failure." At that time, he may have been recalling the failure of his own hit-and-run case of driving a police car to cause death?
Two days later.
As usual, Satoshi Terada labeled and recorded data in his assistant room. Suddenly, the phone rang. Looking at the screen, the caller shown was actually Masayuki Imao, the head of the third forcible search of the eighth series, and also the former boss of Satoshi Terada. What can he do with me? Satoshi Terada thought so, a little nervous, but still answered the phone.
"Hello, I'm Terada."
"This morning, the Torii Police Department submitted a resignation and turned itself in at the same time."
Imao said straight to the point.
"Huh?"
"Last night, Torii came to my house. He told me that he was involved in the murder of president of Nakajima Bread Company fifteen years ago. ”
Satoshi Terada then recalled that Torii Police Department Supplement had said that he and Imio were classmates of the police academy and had a very strong relationship.
"Isn't this the case that Torii was responsible for back then?" I didn't know, so I asked a few more questions. Then the guy told me everything that had happened fifteen years ago. I asked him why he hadn't remembered until now that he had been silent and let it sink into the sea. He told me that it was your curator who called him and perfectly restored the truth of the crime. Your curator also made a cruel remark, asking him to turn himself in within two days, so that the supervision room can also be sentenced to a lighter sentence, otherwise... I hung up the phone when I finished. So he told me that he had decided to submit his resignation and then turn himself in so as not to be arrested too ugly. ”
Terada clutched his phone in a daze, not knowing what to say.
"What Torii did was naturally unforgivable, but that guy was really a good handle." He and I were the same time and worked together for the cause. Because he was too enthusiastic about work, he could hardly take care of the family's affairs, and later his wife divorced him. At that time, the daughter was still young, and she was sentenced to be raised by her mother, and it was difficult to meet her. That guy can't mention how lost he is. This happened exactly before the case fifteen years ago, and I am afraid that this is one of the reasons why Torii caused such a big disaster..."
Satoshi Terada remained speechless.
"Until now, the guy was alone and couldn't see his adult daughter. The value of his life is all pressed on the job of the criminal police. But even this little bit of value has been stripped away by your curator. The senior civil servant at the tail of the crane had no idea how good Torii was, and it was humiliating to send him to the execution ground just to pass the boredom. And you, of course, are not less helpful. Listen, I will never let you go!"
“...... Black and white!"
"Black and white? Maybe. There is absolutely no way I can forgive you anyway. You're still wondering about the day you're back in search class, right? Rest assured, I won't give you this chance! If you had been willing to stay in the Red Museum, I might have considered getting you back one day. Now you are actually in cahoots with that senior civil servant, which is really self-destructive. As long as I'm still here for a day, you'll die of this heart!"
“...... You shouldn't have that much power. ”
"It's really dog-eyed people low. Anyway, you won't be able to come back until you retire, so you stay in that broken ground until it rots and stinks, and then retire miserably!"
When he finished, the phone hung up.
Satoshi Terada held his phone and was silent for a long time. Looking up, I realized that at some point, the door to the curator's room next door had been opened. The crimson man stared at this side, and his cold and tight face looked more and more pale, even a little blue.
"--I'm sorry."
The red lips twitched slightly. It seemed as if she had heard his conversation with Imao.
"No, you don't have to apologize for it. Regardless of the truth of the incident, it is the mission of the police to make it public. ”
“...... Is it? ”
"Yes."
"So from now on, will you still be willing to work with me?"
"Absolutely."
For the first time, Satoshi Terada saw a smile on the curator's face. It's a bit clumsy, but it's a real smile.
"Thank you." She said.
"What Torii did was naturally unforgivable, but that guy was really a good handle." He and I were the same time and worked together for the cause. Because he was too enthusiastic about work, he could hardly take care of the family's affairs, and later his wife divorced him. At that time, the daughter was still young, and she was sentenced to be raised by her mother, and it was difficult to meet her. That guy can't mention how lost he is. This happened exactly before the case fifteen years ago, and I am afraid that this is one of the reasons why Torii caused such a big disaster..."
Satoshi Terada remained speechless.
"Until now, the guy was alone and couldn't see his adult daughter. The value of his life is all pressed on the job of the criminal police. But even this little bit of value has been stripped away by your curator. The senior civil servant at the tail of the crane had no idea how good Torii was, and it was humiliating to send him to the execution ground just to pass the boredom. And you, of course, are not less helpful. Listen, I will never let you go!"
“...... Black and white!"
"Black and white? Maybe. There is absolutely no way I can forgive you anyway. You're still wondering about the day you're back in search class, right? Rest assured, I won't give you this chance! If you had been willing to stay in the Red Museum, I might have considered getting you back one day. Now you are actually in cahoots with that senior civil servant, which is really self-destructive. As long as I'm still here for a day, you'll die of this heart!"
“...... You shouldn't have that much power. ”
"It's really dog-eyed people low. Anyway, you won't be able to come back until you retire, so you stay in that broken ground until it rots and stinks, and then retire miserably!"
When he finished, the phone hung up.
Satoshi Terada held his phone and was silent for a long time. Looking up, I realized that at some point, the door to the curator's room next door had been opened. The crimson man stared at this side, and his cold and tight face looked more and more pale, even a little blue.
"--I'm sorry."
The red lips twitched slightly. It seemed as if she had heard his conversation with Imao.
"No, you don't have to apologize for it. Regardless of the truth of the incident, it is the mission of the police to make it public. ”
“...... Is it? ”
"Yes."
"So from now on, will you still be willing to work with me?"
"Absolutely."
For the first time, Satoshi Terada saw a smile on the curator's face. It's a bit clumsy, but it's a real smile.
"Thank you." She said.
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