Late at night, Yanagihara Town Police Station inquiry room
"Name?"
"Hayato Yamazaki."
"age?"
"29"
"address?"
The hot incandescent lights in the room made Kuriyama Mai unable to open his eyes. Faced with Yoshida Yuka's cold questions, he spread his hands impatiently:
"Hey, don't you know this..."
Compared with the middle-aged bespectacled policeman next to him who looked irrelevant and yawned profusely, Yuka Yoshida seemed too serious.
He looked like an elementary school teacher who lectured his students with a straight face. Although he was young, he deliberately pretended to have a serious and rigid expression.
"Please cooperate with the normal procedures."
Seeing Yamazaki Hayato's expression of unwillingness to cooperate, Yoshida Yuka did not press any further and filled in the answers on the record sheet before raising her sharp eyes to look at him.
It seemed like...his habit of asking questions according to the format in the transcript made him unhappy?
Yuxiang Yoshida suddenly felt a little nervous in her heart, but her tone still remained serious.
"When was the last time you saw her?"
The mascara she applied too thickly seemed to have fallen off a little, but her eyes were still staring at Hayato Yamazaki meticulously.
"The day before yesterday...no...it was yesterday morning...about five o'clock."
"I broke up with her at the casino and then I went straight home."
Kuriyama Mai guessed how much help it could provide. At least when Toyama Yuko said goodbye to him, except for a little bit of disappointment, there wasn't much abnormality.
"The convenience store owner near my home can prove it." He immediately added.
"What were you doing from 2 to 3 o'clock this morning?"
"I was probably making tomato and egg noodles at home. It was around one o'clock in the morning when I left the casino at night. Jiucheng Zhen and Takagi Kiyoko can both testify, and I also met many people on the way back."
Speaking of this, Kuriyama Mai laughed slightly abruptly.
"I was a little drunk at the time and wanted to chat with someone along the way. This is not difficult to prove."
Yoshida Yuxiang tapped the table with a gel pen, and immediately asked without giving him time to breathe:
"Did you find anything unusual about the deceased at that time?"
"No."
Kuriyama Mai shook his head and hesitated for a while, but decided to complete the situation.
"She wanted to let me sleep that night, but I refused, so she seemed a little unhappy, but nothing else."
Yoshida Yuxiang frowned slightly and stared at him hesitantly, seeming a little confused.
But the eyes of the middle-aged policeman who had been sleeping beside her suddenly lit up, and he asked in a mocking tone:
"Hey, boy, can you bear this Yuko? Her nucleic acid is top-notch!"
"You don't like...men, do you want me to introduce them to you?"
Kuriyama Mai only thought that the look from his small eyes coming out of the round glasses was very lewd, and she didn't want to pay attention to him at all.
Yoshida Yuxiang turned her head and cast a knife-like gaze at this middle-aged film police officer who was a little too casual.
"Senior Shiraki?"
He finally realized that something was wrong with what he just said. He coughed twice and asked in a serious tone:
"Are you sure you didn't have sex with her?"
"Of course not, um... why do you ask this?"
"If you don't believe it, you can ask her colleague named Xiaobi."
Kuriyama Mai always felt that they had some information.
"Jiang Chuanbi will be here soon."
Yuka Yoshida tapped her temple with the tip of a gel pen, "The milk component of more than one man was detected in Yuko Toyama's body. We temporarily suspect that it is related to this."
"What..." Although Kuriyama Mai didn't have a close relationship with Toyama Yuko, he couldn't help but feel a little surprised when he heard this.
"You mean, kill him?"
"We can't draw any conclusions now." Yoshida Yuxiang bit her lips, and even her white front teeth were stained with a wisp of bean paste-colored lipstick.
"The cause of death was sudden cardiac death. A large amount of Ice awakening agent components were detected in the blood. There were many signs of being beaten on her body. We cannot rule out the possibility that she was coerced before her death."
ice skating? Kuriyama Mai immediately recalled the pinhole on Yuko Toyama's wrist. That thing was really going to hit her. Maybe she wouldn't even take a break for several men.
But recalling the scene with her in the casino that night, Kuriyama Mai felt that something was wrong.
"As far as I know, Yuko Toyama should accompany more high-rollers. It is rare or extremely difficult for her to take orders from such a group of people."
"Do other men have clues? I guess..."
Just when Kuriyama Mai put his hand on his chin and was about to start reasoning, the middle-aged glasses policeman yawned inappropriately.
He picked up the empty teacup on the table and stood up and walked out.
"There is a high probability that he went out to take private jobs for money and ended up getting high and died in his bed. Yoshida, I think it should be treated as an accident."
He stretched lazily and walked out of the consultation room.
"On her bed?" Kuriyama Mai immediately discovered the blind spot, "Did the body be found in her own home?"
Yoshida Yuxiang nodded, "Yes, it's at her house, but her house is suspiciously clean. Even the sheets and quilts are folded meticulously."
"Except for her and the reporter, no other person's fingerprints were collected at the scene."
"You mean that wasn't the first scene?"
Kuriyama Mai instantly understood what she wanted to say.
If there really was a party at her house, the scene would definitely be a mess. Those people didn't even clean the milk from the corpse, so how could they clean up the scene.
"It's possible, but we can't make a conclusion yet." Yuka Yoshida opened another notebook on the table. "According to the manager of her apartment and another witness that night, although she staggered a little when she returned to the apartment, she was still conscious. Still awake."
"That's right!" The middle-aged policeman came out from behind Kuriyama Mai and threw the tea cup heavily on the table.
"Since there's nothing wrong with this kid, it's just an accident."
He made a clear and loud sound by tapping his knuckles on the metal table with a sure look on his face.
"This woman must have been unsatisfied when she returned home. She didn't control the amount and died suddenly. A needle was found at her house."
"The case can be closed. This guy doesn't look like he's lying. Of course, if you're worried, Yoshida, you can ask the people he mentioned again."
Yoshida Yuxiang ignored his overly arbitrary judgment and only patiently flipped through the reports in front of her, tilting her head from time to time and falling into thinking. It was obvious that she did not agree with Shiraki's statement.
Kuriyama Mai had a vague feeling that something was wrong in his mind, but he couldn't find a reason to refute it for a while, so he could only sit there quietly, looking around at this inquiry room, which could be called a bare-walled inquiry room.
"But..." Yoshida Yuxiang raised his eyes and met the idle Shiraki, "There are no fingerprints of Yuko Toyama on the syringes at the scene, and this clue may be able to follow them to find the ice sales channel behind them."
But Bai Mu didn't seem to be interested in listening to her talk. He packed up his notebooks on his desk, put on his police hat and looked like he was about to get off work.
"Don't waste your efforts... maybe it's because she was passed over, or because she was very lighthearted. As for the ice channel, that's a matter for the Narcotics Control Bureau of the Metropolitan Police Department. Don't get involved in this muddy water."
"Senior Shiraki..." Yuxiang Yoshida couldn't hide the disappointment on his face, but when he thought that this seemed to be expected, the pronunciation behind it was so weak that he couldn't hear it.
"That's right." As soon as Shiraki walked out halfway, he turned back to take a look at Yuxiang's somewhat rough makeup, and joked half-jokingly:
"I said, Xiao Yoshida, you were originally going on a date today, but it's not a good idea to let the pigeon fly, and if you don't take care of the man, he will run away~"
"No...it's not what senior imagined."
Yuka Yoshida glanced at Hayato Yamazaki unconsciously, but immediately looked away.
Under the pale light, her cheeks were slightly red.
"There are some doubts I want to confirm again."
"Then I'll leave everything to you. But, little girl, life is far more important than work ~ Goodbye."
Bai Mu didn't try to dissuade him any more, waved his hand and left the inquiry room.
Kuriyama Mai, who was sitting where he was, forced his eyebrows and pursed his lips to suppress the smile in his heart.
Although he repeatedly reminded himself to be serious, Yuko Toyama's death was definitely not as light as Shiraki said, but there was still a bit of frivolity in his eyes.
"It seems like the man can't run away. It's just a date in a different place."
He complained in his heart, but the soft sigh of Yoshida Yuka could be heard in his ears.
"Are we the only two left again..."
