"What did you call that bank employee?"
Uehara Katsuki, who threw the documents in his hand back on the desk, raised his eyebrows and turned to look at Takagi Wataru.
"Hirota Masami, what's wrong? Uehara Criminal, do you know her?"
"No, I don't know. I heard wrong."
Amid the puzzled looks of several people, Katsuki Uehara shook his head: "Check again the whereabouts of Dr. Ohga before his death, and check if there is any direct or indirect connection between him and Jiro Saai.
"Tomorrow morning, I will ask Dr. Dahe's family members, friends, and even the relevant nurses in the hospital to see if they have any impressions of Saai Jiro."
"learn."
After receiving the new order, Takagi Wataru and Chiba Kazushi nodded, turned and left.
"Your ex-girlfriend?"
After the two left, Sato Miwako glanced at her partner with a strange look.
"Are you crazy or am I crazy?" Uehara Katsumi responded with a rhetorical question.
Sato, who didn't know why, couldn't help but type a question mark, but he was quickly attracted by a line of information in the document in his hand: "Wait a minute Uehara, come and take a look at this."
"What's wrong?"
Uehara Katsumi approached Sato Miwako, put one hand on the desk and came forward——
"I was involved in an armed fight five years ago. As a witness, I assisted the police in arresting the criminal...?"
Whispering the statement in the document, Katsuki Uehara frowned and turned to look at Miwako Sato, who was close at hand: "Keiichi Kirino?"
"But he is Kirino Keiichi's good friend."
"Would you remain friends with someone you personally sent to prison?"
Sato Miwako turned around and focused on the information on the blackboard: "Not necessarily, it depends on what crime was committed and whether he has reformed."
"How is Kirino Keiichi doing now?"
"Still in the lounge, according to Takagi, he clearly suffered a mental breakdown after seeing the bodies of his wife and daughter."
"Ask him, I'm going to interrogate Xia Muchuan Zhiye."
Putting down the marker, Katsuki Uehara made the final decision.
As a woman, Sato Miwako has a unique advantage over him in terms of affinity.
"good."
The two people who reached an agreement each brought notebooks and pens. One opened the door to the lounge, and the other opened the door to the interrogation room.
In the interrogation room, Natsuki Kawazuya, who was wearing a navy blue plaid suit, saw Katsuki Uehara alone pushing in the door. His right eyebrow couldn't help but raise: "Where is the heroic Officer Sato?"
"Thanks to that prisoner, I have to work overtime."
Without his singing partner, Katsumi Uehara pulled up his chair and sat down alone, throwing all his pens and notebooks on the table: "There are only two of us here now, Mr. Xia Muchuan, and there is no one behind the glass."
"That's such a pity. I still prefer to be alone in a room with beautiful women." Xia Muchuan Zhiye chuckled and pushed the frame on the bridge of his nose.
"I like it too, but it's a pity that things don't go as everyone wishes." Katsuki Uehara took out a box of chewing gum from the inner pocket of his suit, opened the lid of the iron box, picked two pieces and flew them into his mouth, and then flashed it at him: " Do you want it?"
Xia Muchuan Zhiya smiled and waved his hands. When he lowered his head, the light reflected on the thin-framed lenses: "I don't need it. I don't need this."
"Why kill?"
"I didn't kill anyone."
"Then why do you order others to kill people?"
"I don't know what you're talking about, Officer Uehara. Did you bring me back from the hospital just to ask such silly questions?"
Xia Muchuanzhi also shook his head repeatedly: "If that's the case, please drive me back to the hospital now. I have many patients who need to follow up tonight."
"You can't leave tonight, and you won't be able to leave tomorrow night. If I'm cruel enough, you won't be able to leave for the next week."
"Officer Uehara, you are looking down on human life. I am responsible for many patients in the hospital."
"Do you know Kirino Keiichi's wife and daughter?"
"Of course, I also had dinner with them several times."
Natsuki Chuanzhi also answered the question of perfect connection without any sign of getting stuck.
Uehara Katsumi didn't care, continued chewing gum, opened the notebook and recorded: "What's your impression of the two of them?"
"Mrs. Kirino is very virtuous and dotes on her children. As for Sakurako, she is so naughty. Kirino often told me in the gym that Sakurako came home and asked him to take money to go out for fun. He said that a high school sophomore spent so much money Higher than college students and graduate students.”
"So what did you use to kill them both?"
"Ideology." Xia Muchuan Zhiya sighed: "This trick is of no use to me, Officer Uehara. If you must identify me as the murderer, then I can only tell you that I am killing people with my thoughts."
"Oh, it's okay, I'll ask you to continue answering."
Katsuki Uehara's pen tip didn't pause at all as he continued to ask: "Where do you dump the body after you kill someone with your mind?"
"I think it should be heaven."
"Did that old guy Jehovah come to you to collect mortuary fees after the body was dumped in heaven?"
"???"
Natsuki Chuanzhiya frowned, his face lost its calmness for the first time, and he looked carefully at Katsuki Uehara, who was calm and composed.
Is this really a question the police can ask?
Why is it getting more and more outrageous?
"Just answer yes or no. Don't worry, I won't ask you the price." Without raising his head, Hara Katsumi noticed the doubt in his heart and said, as if he had a third eye.
"have."
"Is there a parking fee for driving to heaven to dump your body?"
"No, no money."
"Who can prove that what you say is true?"
"...???"
Xia Muchuan Zhiye held back the words that came to his mouth: "Yes, Archangel Michael."
Katsuki Uehara raised his eyelids and glanced at him: "Do you have an alibi when Kirino's wife and daughter were murdered?"
"have--"
"Then please tell me the time when Kirino's wife and daughter were killed so that the police can fill in the death information." Uehara Katsumi stopped writing, and then pushed all the pen and paper in front of Natsukawa Shiya who reacted quickly.
"What's wrong, didn't you have an alibi when Kirino's wife and daughter were murdered?"
"..."
Natsuki Chuanzhi, who was silent for a moment, also took off his glasses, shook his head, and smiled: "No problem, since you want to know so much, Officer Uehara."
The gold-rimmed mirror was placed on the interrogation table, and Xia Muchuan Zhiya, who picked up the pen, quickly wrote down a few dates——
"These are the hours I have worked at the hospital in the past half month, and they match the timetable. All you need to do, Officer Uehara, is confirm it. This is my alibi."
"It rounds quite quickly, not bad."
Katsuki Uehara took back the pen and paper without even looking at it. He closed it and put it aside: "Who is your accomplice?"
"I think your question is too unreasonable and I ask a lawyer to intervene."
"If you don't deny it, then you have it."
Katsuki Uehara raised his eyebrows, and the raised corners of his mouth made the man's face darken somewhat.
"It's so late. The lawyer will come back tomorrow. I wish you a dreamless sleep tonight." Uehara Katsumi stood up, said goodbye with a smile and left the interrogation room.
"How is it going?"
As soon as he returned to the office area, Uehara Katsumi met Sato Miwako who had already finished questioning and was waiting here.
"Something gained. I'll check his social circle tomorrow. What about you?"
"His mood completely collapsed and he was lifeless. After asking him about his basic situation, I asked him to go home and rest." Miwako Sato sighed and handed the notebook in her hand to her partner, along with her. I took his notebook——
"Heaven? Parking fee?? What did you ask about???"
"Something that breaks his threshold."
"You let yourself go again." Sato Miwako stared at the man in front of her speechlessly.
"It's impossible to pry something out of his mouth according to your regular questioning method." Katsuki Uehara raised his eyebrows: "Obviously you have to look at me in the end."
"I said, you should listen to my advice to you sometimes. After all, I was once your senior. Once the case is closed with your unconventional method, if you encounter a lawyer who insists on this, the prosecutor will The official side will be very passive..."
"I'm listening, I'm listening..."
Get out of the elevator and walk out of the Metropolitan Police Department door.
Men and women walked side by side under the moonlit night, making a lot of noise on the way to the parking lot.
"You really can't make sense no matter what you say..."
Miwako Sato, who was shaking her head, walked towards the Mazda her father left for her: "I'm going back first."
"Huh? Are you going back now? Are you missing something?"
"What's missing?"
"Where's my good night?"
"Is there any difference if you say it or not? You never say this."
"See you tomorrow is a higher word than good night."
"When you say this sentence, remember to add a prefix to keep it in your mind."
Sato Miwako shrugged, opened the car door and sat in: "Bye, Uehara."
The bright red Mazda sped away under the moonlit night. Standing in front of the EVO, Uehara Katsumi smiled and shook his head, humming a tune and got into the car.
Okino Yoko's singing voice came out melodiously from the car radio, and the magenta EVO flew away under the lights of the Metropolitan Police Building.
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The next day, the Metropolitan Police Department.
"What did you say?! Matsumoto was in a coma?!"
When Katsuki Uehara, sipping black coffee to refresh himself, arrived at the office area early and yawned, the first thing that entered his ears was the almost hoarse roar of his immediate boss Megure Juzo——
"Suzuki Ayako and Takasugi Toshihiko are also missing?!"
