Hello everyone, I am wontons, and today I want to tell you about Kei Higashino's "When the Prayer Ends", which tells the story of the unspeakable father-daughter relationship behind a serial murder case.
A putrid corpse appeared in an apartment in Tokyo, forensically identified as a woman, who died between the afternoon of May 14 and the morning of May 15.
Dna checks confirmed that the woman, Oshiya, came to Tokyo from Lake Biwa on May 13, while the owner of the apartment, Echikawa, disappeared on the 15th.
Police Matsugu found that the case seemed to be related to the homeless man burning case that occurred on May 16.
Because the time and place of the two cases are very close, and the apartment furnishings of Yuechuan are very simple, just like the homeless man built a nest, will Yuechuan and the homeless man who was burned to death be the same person?
In addition, what is the relationship between the female deceased Oshitani and Koshikawa? Why did he die in Etsukawa's apartment?
All this may need to be found out from why the female deceased came to Tokyo, and it is necessary to return to the place where the female deceased lived, Lake Biwa.
The caregiver at the Biwako Nursing Home told the police that the deceased met his junior high school classmate, Asai's mother, at the nursing home before going to Tokyo.
Asai is a well-known stage director, the female deceased liked drama before she died, saying that she was looking for Asaju and taking Asaju's difficult mother away from the nursing home, in fact, she may have wanted to go and be close to Asaju.
Shallow residence
Asaka seemed to anticipate the arrival of the police and calmly told the police that she had seen the female deceased on the evening of May 13, the day before the premiere of the stage play.
But Asaka refused to take back her mother, she hated her mother, more than twenty years ago, it was her mother who stole her father's seal and borrowed a huge usurious loan to raise Xiao San, which caused her father to be cornered and jumped off the building to commit suicide.
It seems that there is nothing to do with Asaku and the female death, and the theater staff also confirmed that Asaku was working in the theater at the time of the crime.
Coincidentally, Matsumiya found a familiar person on the photo wall of Asato, his cousin Kaga.
Asaka and Kaga
Kaga told Matsumiya that five years ago Asabi contacted Kaga, a former Japanese kendo champion, and hoped he would give a simple training to the children of the troupe.
Kaga still remembers the beautiful female director Asaka and the inexplicable words she said, saying that she had abortions and killed people.
This made Matsumiya feel that Asaka was not simple, but there was no evidence that Asaku had any connection with the case.
At this time, DNA identification confirmed that the missing Yuechuan and the homeless man who was burned to death were indeed the same person, so what is the relationship between Yuechuan and the female deceased?
A relic of Echikawa gives Matsugu a new clue, it is an ordinary monthly calendar, but every page is written with the name of a bridge, and the names of these 12 bridges correspond to 12 months, what does it mean?
Matsumiya decided to start with nihonbashi in the middle of the 7th month, who knew that when he arrived at Nihonbashi, he actually met Kaga.
Kaga was very excited when he heard about the calendar, because he also had such a calendar, and after the two of them compared, they found that the handwriting was the same. Why does Kaga also have this calendar?
This also begins with Gach's childhood, Gach's mother was a bartender before marriage, and after marriage, she was often bullied by relatives, while her father was busy with work and could not go home.
Over time, the mother's mood became worse and worse, and finally she was overwhelmed, and one day when jiahe was 10 years old, she left a letter and ran away from home.
Until a few years ago, Kaga suddenly received news that his mother had died in Sendai.
Kaga hurried to Sendai to learn that she had been working in a tavern since her mother left home.
The mother's affairs were taken care of by the tavern owner, and the mailing address of the family was told to the tavern owner by the mother's lover after she left home.
It is said that cotton cloth is engaged in electricity work, running all over the country, changing mobile phones frequently, and even the owner of the tavern cannot be contacted.
Kaga found only what was left behind in The Manbe that he found this monthly calendar with the names of the 12 bridges written on it.
Kaga knew that to find out what happened to his mother after she left home, she had to find Minabe, and this calendar was the only clue to finding Herabbe.
But for sixteen years, Kaga had not been able to uncover the secrets of this calendar, and now the same handwritten calendar appeared again.
According to the descriptions of passers-by who had met the tramp, the portrait painted was confirmed by the tavern owner, which was exactly the sponge.
Unexpectedly, the cotton cloth that Kaga had been looking for for sixteen years turned out to be the homeless man Koshikawa who had recently been burned to death.
The mysteries on Yuechuan's body are growing, and for 70 years, not only has not left a single photo. And with more than one name, what is he hiding from?
Now the only clue is the 12 bridges, and in order to find out the truth behind this, Kaga joined Matsumiya's task force.
They decided to start with the bridge, which corresponds to the Nihonbashi in July, and the bridge washing event in July, which is a major event every year, and Kaga realizes that this may be a great opportunity to hide one's eyes.
Sure enough, in the photos of the bridge washed over the years, he found Asaju and Asaju again, which is no accident, and Kaga decided to investigate Asaku's past.
When Asabi was transferring to junior high school, Naemura,who was particularly concerned about Asabi at the time, announced to the public that Asabi's father had committed suicide by jumping off a building because of debt.
Naemura's ex-wife told Kaga that Naemura had left home for cheating and was found to have spent 500,000 yen on a cross-shaped ruby necklace.
Kaga remembers that Asaku wore such a necklace around his neck, could it be that Narima's cheating object was Asahi?
Things seem to be a bit eyebrow-raising, so will Mianbu be Miao village? Is it because the female deceased found that the teachers and students were not in love and killed people?
But the tavern owner denied that the Miao Village in the photo was Mianbu, and all clues were broken.
Kaga begins to re-examine all the people involved, who are either dead or have perfect alibi.
No, there is one other person who has not been counted, and that is Kaga himself.
Kaga thought for a moment, he was looking for his mother's lover, Nagisa, so 5 years ago, he and Asakai Sumi were alive, why did Asakai look for him? Could it be that what Asaka is looking for is actually Kaga's mother? According to this logic, is Asaka the daughter of cotton cloth?
If Asaku is the daughter of cotton, it makes sense why Asaju has a perfect alibi but has been repeatedly associated with the case.
According to Kaga's logic, Mianbe is Asabi's father, Asakai Tadao, but didn't Asakai Tadao commit suicide by jumping off a building?
In fact, an investigation found that no one had seen Asato jump off the building, nor had there been an official record of Asato's suicide by jumping off the building.
To Kaga's surprise, the official record of Tadao Asami's suicide site was a cliff.
So did Asakai Tadao die that year? If he died, then he could not be Mianbu; if he did not, who was the one who died in the name of Tadao Asami?
Kaga decides to cut through the mess quickly, and he takes a female friend to visit Asaku.
In the living room painted with hellfire on the wall, Asakai calmly responds to Kaga's questions, until Kaga talks about her father, and Asakai's perfect mood begins to break.
Shallow living room
The focus of this visit was not on asking questions, but on the fact that Kaga's female friends had collected Asaju's hair on the grounds that they had gone to the bathroom.
By the time Asaju reacted, it was too late, and DNA confirmed that the homeless man who was burned to death was Asaju's father, Tadao Asakai.
At this time, Matsumiya also found that There was another name in Mianbu - Yokogawa, and Kaga's hypothesis was confirmed, Yokogawa, Mianbu, Echikawa, and the homeless man who was burned to death, behind which was the same name - Asakai Tadao.
After confirming this, the story in Kaga's mind came to an end.
At this time, Asaka's painful memories were also torn apart, and she finally got on the train to the Lake Biwa Nursing Home, where she was going to meet the mother she hated the most in her life.
The curtain of the story slowly opened, and it turned out that Asakai's mother had stolen her father's seal and borrowed a loan shark and fled.
The father, Asakai Tadao, was unable to repay the loan, so he had to run away with his daughter overnight, and the father was so desperate that he wanted to commit suicide, and if his father died, his daughter would be sent to a welfare home, at least there was still a way to live.
On the last night, Asakai Tadao did not want to escape anymore, and used the only money he had to let his daughter Asa live in the hotel.
Here they meet Yokokawa, a nuclear power plant worker, and Asakai realizes that his father has made up his mind and decides to go along with Yokogawa's ill intentions and sell his flesh to Yokogawa.
The young Asaka thought that if he could make money, his father would not have to die. Who knew that Yokokawa was just deceiving Asaju, and in the rebellion, Asakawa stabbed Yokokawa to death with his backhand.
Yokokawa's death changed Asakai Tadao's fate, and as a father, Asakai Tadao would never allow Asakai to live in the name of murder.
Young Asaka with his father
He swapped clothes with Yokogawa and smashed Yokogawa's face and pushed him off a cliff to make the body think it was Tadao Asakai.
The real Tadao Asakai began to change his name and surname as Yokogawa and start a new life in the welfare home, and their father and daughter will never recognize each other.
The father, who was supposed to commit suicide, survived and spent the rest of his life guarding his daughter.
Tadao Asami
Later, Asakai went to Tokyo to pursue her dream, and she became a stage actor and director. His father, on the other hand, became acquainted with Kaga's mother.
The father and daughter can only meet occasionally, and only the cohabitants of the shallow drama, The Temple Village Teacher, and the junior high school classmate Oshiya discover the truth and are secretly killed by their father.
When he killed the teacher in Miao village, his father did not dare to tell Asaju. When it came time to kill Oshiya, the father could no longer hold back, knowing that his existence was like a time bomb that could destroy his daughter at any time.
In order not to burden his daughter and not to commit any more sins, the father decided to end his life. He had been in hiding for twenty-six years, living with sin on his back, tired.
Now that he wanted to be relieved, he decided to end it all with fire, which would devour his face and fingerprints, and from then on nothing would threaten his daughter.
Asabi suddenly remembered that when he fled, his father said that the former monk had set fire to the main hall to commit suicide in order to fight against the shogun, and if it were him, he would not have chosen such a cruel way to self-immolate.
Asaka couldn't let her father die in such a cruel way, so she ended the person she loved the most with her own hands.
His father once told Asaju that after his death, his soul would be possessed in Meijiza (theater), where he could enjoy watching Asakai's stage plays.
And now the tragedy on the stage is coming to an end, and the tragedy offstage is finally coming to an end.
Kaga tells Asaka that if she hadn't come to her 5 years ago, he wouldn't have figured it out.
However, Asakai said that he did not regret it, and when he first met him, he felt that Kaga's mother, whom his father fell in love with, must be very good.
Before being taken away by the police, Asakai handed him a letter from his father to Kaga on his deathbed.
At that time, Kaga's mother suffered from depression because of her long-term repression of a painful life, and she wanted to die but could not give up her son.
Until one night, she found herself holding a kitchen knife, but she couldn't remember what she was going to do.
She couldn't hurt her son, so the mother decided to leave the house.
Later, the mother cried after seeing the magazine where her son had won the kendo championship, saying that she was not a qualified mother.
Kaga's mother, like Tadao Asaka, chose to protect her children, two cowardly and good people in life, but the yin and yang went to the most desperate point.
A heart failure, depression ending; a person who erases his own existence and becomes an executioner with blood-stained hands.
When the tragedy ends and the audience sighs, will anyone remember the beginning of evil, the seemingly unsurprising malice and greed?
Then today's story is here, what ideas do you have to leave a comment.
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